Bulwer Lytton observes of fiction that, when aspiring at something higher than mere romance, it does not pervert, but elucidates the facts of the times in which the scene is placed; hence, that fiction serves to illustrate those truths which history is too often compelled to leave to the tale-teller, the dramatist and the poet. In this story, _The Blacksmith's Hammer; or, The Peasant Code_--the seventeenth of the charming series of Eugene Sue's historic novels, _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages_--the author reaches a height in which are combined all the elements that Bulwer Lytton distributes among history, tale, drama and poetry. The history …
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