VICTOR CHERBULIEZ, famous as a novelist and critic under his own name, earned a second reputation under the name of “G. Valbert.” He was born at Geneva, July 19th, 1829. After completing his studies at the universities of Geneva, Paris, Bonn, and Berlin, he began life as a teacher, but changed his profession to that of literature, and in 1864 became one of the editors of the Revue des Deux Mondes. He published a long list of novels in that magazine, many of them being translated into other languages and widely read in Europe and America. As a novelist he belongs to the school of Walter Scott. His best-known works are “The Romance of a Respectable Woman” and “Samuel Brohl & Co.” Several of his works have been dramatized.