A new breath blows through this story, the thirteenth of the Eugene Sue series, _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages_. The epoch is the Thirteenth Century. The rudeness and coarseness of the period described in the preceding story--_The Pilgrim's Shell; or, Fergan the Quarryman_--now lies two centuries behind. Religious bigotry still reigns supreme, but it now is no more of the coarse nature typified by a Cuckoo Peter, it now partakes of the flavor of a Duke of Montfort; amours are no longer of the vulgar type of a Duke of Aquitaine, they now partake of the mental refinement of "Courts of Love." Music and poetry chasten the harsh lines of the Thir…
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