Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1880, Page 10

ro THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. mittes of Inquiry was appointed, the Mints- try—one of the strongest ever known—helt defeatedl by no Jess ar majority than 137, ‘The report of that Committee filly sustained the inal wllegations we had mide; while the change of Ministry, ag Mr. Kinglake again has to adinit, stones Jed to an infusion of new cuergy iute the conduct of affaires, Where, we may ask, are, the evidences of an expostre of our weakness having led to nny disadvantage to our force, or of is Raving assisted the Russians in any attack? On the other hand, we hava the broad eyldencn of fact that, from tho thine when the evil was exposed in these columns, tha tide began to turn, and our forces nd- vaneed: steadily to complete sucess, sy no doubt, always n critical and anxious nitt- fer to attack in the midst of a enn paign those who are responsible tor its contuct. But if over there was a time when Bi course was neeessary It was In the winter of INH. It was an fuperativa «uty, aud we do not fect it at all necessary to apologize for not having been mealy-monthed atsuch ntime, At all events, if our con- duet fs to be critleised, It should be at once with amore consistency and with more get erosity than Mr. Kinglake seems capable. o: displaying”? ‘There 1s no question but that the English mode of aymy naduiliistration deserved thé severest censure. Phis Mr Kinglako himself —bestuw is also true that the people at home had no adequate conception of the terrible nuverings of the troops In the Crimen. The only dls- yiutable points as ty whether the enemy rofited by these revelations more than the British public, and whether aptes, deserters, reeonnvitaring parties, cle. ald not Keep them as well posted ns to the actual candle tion of thelr ndversnries ns these roundabout reports from Mr. Russell, Probably only the Russian oMeial aceount of the war van settle this question, Jn any ease Tt dovg not scent that this third of the yolume contributes any- ting of Inportance to the “ Tistory at the Tuvasion of the Crimea,” nor is it caluily or jnpartially written. Its omisston would not Hany way have detracted from, the merits ot tho work, Yet the picture of tho editor: in-ehfef of tho Zinies, If not fintterIng, 1s not ‘wngenerous: “Far from being well fitted by Nature to play the cold part of a censor and defend his country rucninst a inichty torrent of motives tending, all of them, Jn favor of publicly, the great editor—florld, bright-eyed, ln thie prime of keen fife, and benming with zeal—was a mat of warm, swift-eorrsiig blood,—a man of those qtalitles whieh, in speaking of wine, aro eniled * full-bodled? and generous,’—a man of great ardor, great eagerness, and one passtonately hubued with that very spint of Journalism whieh, If he would save his country from being harmed by the Pines, he needs must briile and mod- erate, «4 «| Deriving from Nature large elfts, and by eireunstance clothed with vast incans of acting upon the volitions of me! and sometines even nulla events, Delane, as nay well be supposeds did not show the rea! cagerness of ils nature in the weak, bustling way of yg reckoned for nothing, whose thne ig of searee any worth; and, ine deed, he had the outward composure, the air of power nob yet put furth that beeomes a Strom man of aetion; but it always could by seen that his energies were rather compressed that lilied,—that the furnace, if su one may speak, had {ts tires “banked wp”? {nthe daytiine, vet still was always aglow, always ready to blaze into action an hour or two ‘before intdnight. 2... And. these were the hours of night when often he to decide--ta,decide, of course, with great swiftiess—between two ar more cuttrses of action inomentously different; when, besides, he inust judge tho appeals brought up te the paramount arbiter from all kbids of men, from all sorts of earthly tribunals; when dis- pitches of moment, when telegrams fraught with grave tidings, when notes hastily serih- bled Jn tho Lords or the Commons, were from thne to me coming In to confirm or disturb—perhaps even to anmul—former reckonings; and these, besides, were tho hours when—on questions nawly obtrndiny, yet go closely, so mupornpatel present. that they would have to be met before sunrise: he somehow must cause to springup su den essays, invectives, and argiinents whieh ouly strong power of brain with even juch toil could supply.” ‘Phe adininistrative departments of tho British army could not have been worse than they wero during the Crinean war, That war, however, twght iis awn lessons, and the British nation profited by them, In 1853 the compllented system constituted ono yast clreumlocution office, ‘Tha command- ing oflicer mmdo a requisition for new tents, and it took seven months to get thom: he demanded a bakery and proved ils absalute necessity; and lt took six months to ot that, On die ith of September a, requisition was made tor 2,000 tons of hay “for immediate use,” and on the 8thof November the first shiplond of 160 tons was renily to leave En- gland, and only 270 tons were sent that Rutumn, Everything inoved at a snall’s pace, In October tho Prince Consort sent to his brother ofiicers in the Guards some fur conts for uso that winter; they received them in the spring of the following year. Then, agaln, the War OMce had curlous notions of the needs of n soldier In enmp: “At thaso hours—too rarely — gecurslig—when | tho soldfor-tnight Nedown and seek rest, it often- times happened that he dared not uke of his. boots, because the London office supplyin, hom had willed == that they should = be (ght, aud he feured that, If once removed, they could hardly again bo put on’? So complicated wus the home system that, tor instance, It the Director-General of the Army Medleal Department wished to furnish supplies he had to tirst move the Iorse Guards, and the llorse Guards must move the Orduanee, and the Ordnunce must set going the Admiralty, aud the Admiralty must give orders to Its Vietualing ofice, and its Victualing office must concert mensires with the Transport. office, and the ‘T'rausport oftice (haying only three transports) must appeal’ to private ship-owners, ete, AJL this reads very much lke Mark ‘lwain’s celebrated beof-contract experience, No- wonder Mr Kinglike 1s moved to uxclatu that * The Power which since the penco of 1815 hau waged grentor wars than-ainy other was condenmed to take the fluid asa novice. It is hupasstble not to feel that, however interesting the disgorta. thongs upon the war ayatent of Franco ant that of Engiand In 173 and subsequently muy have been rendered, they night have been much less, elaborate and yet — equally _eifective, Lhe ‘source of tha suffering and troubles of tho English could have been plainly shown in Jess than a hundred pages, ‘Che author has contributed a study of ono fenture of En- glsh Institutions, but it would haye been equally ap roprinte to any other work, As to Ils defense of Lord Raglan: “De gustious non disputandum!” ‘There ty litte question but that he hag adopted him for lis hero, in whom he sees hardly a fauttand to whom he gives undue prominence by pute thig others entirely In shadow, Quite likely Lord Ragian wag to a certain extent made to suffer for the faults of others. But he often shows himself, even in these prejudiced pages, to have been Ineking In fjudament as well as In energy, Ho was tuo rendy to yield to others, and 18 mistaies were serious ones, ie is deseribud naa sort of. victln of every- body, whet, as a matter of fret, it fs reason ably clear that he had been pissed in a poste thon for which he was totally unfitted, He ‘was expected to perform miricles at 6 yours of age, “without ever haying commanded troops and furnished only with -the exe perlunes of oan aldedeeamp’. a3 to duties In the fleld, Jt was unreasonnble to expect Ku much, but it isn futile tasic to ate tempt to Justify the expectation, Lord Rage dun was 8 hard worker, und did the best lo know how, He was nelthor Alexander, nor Napolvon, nor Wellington, but was expected to rival their victorivs, ‘The enomy was une derrated, ‘The Englishman's slow was that the mere appearance of the battalions com. posed of the descendants of tha heroes of Waterloo would dufeat the enemy. ‘The Ene #lish really belloved thelr Jegious werd ts Vinelble and the Husslans Wttle better than burharlang, Lut took at the prosaic facts ag they are gathered from the oitichil reports. ‘Che Allies furpished 674,000 men far the Crimenn campaign, and of that number the British turnished 88,000, Reading Kinglake ous would Imaging that the English dk all the work, Jn the battle of the Alia, which England has elalined us her own in prose aul Verse, tho Rushing nimbered 83,000 and and Allies 60,00, dn thea — eampalan the French lost 67,000 men, nearly double the entlre English contingent, Aw ullivd foree of over 300,000 tun, supported by two «reat navies, tuvaded a region without mill- tty defenses, and at the und of two yuure had Diown up and destroyed hulf of 9 single elty on the remote outskirts of an almust boundless empires? ‘Thess are nat alr Kinglake's fucts und fixures, but they ure evidently rellable, and do not bear ont the magnitude liuportance ” of the English share in the Crimean War, to which Mr. Hingiake is duvoting so many thousand Finally, then, Mr, Kinglake's work seems overgrown and to o certain extent based on un unwarranted premise. England had one of her perjodic attacks of Russophoblal Sha hug had others juore recently, England went. into the Crimean War to restrain the aggres- sive and wggrundizing spirit of Russia, and also * to secure the Independence and Intex rity of ‘Turkey ay 4 Mower capable of upholding herself, with tho States of Europe.” Sho attained No very great stiecess In either direction, Twenty-two years after the siantn; the Treaty of Peace, the two Powers—Turkoy: and Russia—were fighting again, And what is ‘Turkey's positon among the Eviropean Powers toalay, ‘Tho Crimean campaign found the English army tn good condition ahen dt ended, but tt made no great revuta- tlon forany man except perhaps for. ‘Todle- ben, the Russlan engineer, tis ditienit to seo where Mr. Kinglake can consistently AOD —alties Distligresstons consume volumes, and there is absolutely no Tinit to the dis curstve toples sugxested by the “Invasion of thy Crhnea.” trented ag he has trented it, Nevertheless, If Mr, Kinglake {8 not the fdeal Mistorinn, he will undoubtedly prove a popular one, Vor this there ary many. good. reasons, some of which wo have already tven. An English eritiespenks of his still un- intshed history “us full of brilliant deserip- tlons and of keen, penetrating thought, .. and it has some of the brightestand bitterest suttrieal paeanees. in the literntire of our thine.” It isa thoroughly readable history, aut those who once begin It will read it to the end. And the motivestin the author's nnd, whieh hus so often led him to wander into branch roads and to discuss s0 many seem Ingly extraneous subjects, ara well and terse ly stated {11 the closing section of the volume: “Nor ought our people to tly trom the memory of this winter's campalzn without bending thelr thoughts to some problems wich tasked me's minds atthe time, and have only in pert found solution, ‘The still unsolved problems nara many, yet fuse well ehough into one: How to make our mixed polity: furnish an 1s which at once on tho call to arms, and with out needing yet further lessons in the cruel school of udversity, may beequal to the busi ness of war.’ Published in New York by Harper & ros, LIFE AND TIMES OF GOETIIE, Dethiing the purpose of the atithor of this hook, the translator says: “These lectures are not intended to give a biography of Goethe, but to show in whint sense he was at once tho most real, as well as the most tdeal, jan and poet that ever lived.” Ina letter to the trausintor Herman Grim says that Fine erson taught iim to regard Goethe as the Brent phenomenon fn the universal develop snent of mankind.” “In thts sense, he adds, “I have sought to represent him Int these lectures.” Prof, Hosmer speaks of Grhum linac! as “the beat living repre- sentative of Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, and Nelne. . A vigorous mau in his best yeurs, with the face nd courteans pollyh of nimanof the highest refinement.” And his Ivetures pen Goethe—dellyered at the Unl- versity of Berlin, and now transinted ant contained in the work before us—he calls “1, portrayal whose constant tone of eulogy is somewhat fatiguing, but a most vivid, and, ‘on the whole, trustworthy ple tre of Germany’s — greatest mind.” ‘The feeling with whieh Herman Grimm re- gnrds Gorthe falls little shortof idolatry. It Is not without reason that he has ranked in With Homer, Dante, and Shakspenre, form- Inga quartet that It would be dificult to mateh tn the history of literature. Tis title to the first place during the past two hundred yeurs ts not disputed, and the history of his Iife, although often told, is singularly Inter- esting and attractive reading. Despite the dental of any sueh intention, Grimm has written a biography of Goethe, and avery fall one. Not as complete as Lewes’, or Viehot’s, or Schiifer's, but as detalled as is necessary tors thorough understanding of the nore marked features of lls marvelous career, ‘Io tho already large library of Gvethe ‘literature, Herman Griinn’s work will constitute an Smportant addition. ‘To allthat he snysns tothe titerary merits of Goetho’s work, it {s not difficult to yleld a considerable assent. Bit many abject- ors to the charactizntion of Goctho as an “ideal” aman will undoubted- ly be found even among those who most admire the wonderful products of his uifted pen. Goethe, assisted;by Herder, ere- ted the German Innguage ‘and literature, And made its Influence world-wide, As Jean Paul says of lim, he was everywhiere recoz- nized as an “Olympian enthroned among men.” But Grimm carries, eulogy too fur when he claims that,“ Goetho’s verses made Sehiller’s flo Ruther, was it not Sehiller’s Jutluence over Goethe that strengthened hin for the production of Iiis bust work? With the exception of * Gatz von Berbingen ” and * Tho Sorrows of Werther,” his ninsterpleces wero produced after his Intimacy with Schiller hid begun. Grhnnv’s lectiires nro confessedly based upon Gocthe’s own nutoblograpliy, his bt Diehtnng, und Wahrheit.” And yet many pages ore dovoted to proving this Journal of the poct’s elther at fnult or misunderstood. Ile strives to make out a ease, and to prove his hero to hays been an “ideal” man in every way but this dally record of the pact’s Iife, kept by Goctho hiinself, shows Min in many respects to have been yery human, aud with many unideat characterlstles, He was, as Lewes puts It, “like o chameleon, taking a hitte “from: every — object under which It Hes.” So hnpreasible f nature could not fail to have its weak points, Werg other evidence wanting, his novel, “Blectlve AMinities,"—which shocked the moral world in 1809, and which was we doubtadly drawn from his own oxperlence,— is evidence of peel ples far from consistent with the character of an “Ideal wan, Hs argument in this work was litended to show that sexual aftnitles follow the same inevita- able iw as chemical wfinittes, and that Itmanity. struggles Impatently. agalust the dictates “of natures doctrine which, fol- lowed to Its logical results, would destroy soclety and turn elvilization Into barbarisni, Thera ure some Inconsistencies in Mr Grimin’s work, not of very great Importance, however, Ag whon he calls Gootha we ‘foremost founder of German freedom, It took the netual presence of French amaraud- ers In his own chamber to arouse his patriotic feeling, und his violent Indlenation softened betore the praise of thy French Emperor Then again he speaks of the Frankfort period, from 1749 to 1770, a3 the tine when almost all hig great works wore begun, and farther on speaks of hits Inter works 3 throwlng alt his former productions Into the shade, As Goethe went to Weimar when ho was only 26 years of nyu, It is hardly Uredible that his best work could lave been done before then. Allusion has peen already made to the forelng a construction of tha poet's autabl- ography In-order to magnify the man hh self, So fur does ho carry this that in one place he guys: "Concerning Lessenhelin, Wo may say With safety this muah, that. tho affair nover could hive ended ag Goethe rep- resents.” It 4 also xomowlint exaggerated, to say of tho brilliant men who were conten pemneotts with Goethe that, were It not for His hiituonee, most of these paople would Jorn part of Gint shudowy throng Who have No pretension to any share of earthly immor- tality. A great name ty often Hike the wpas tres to the fanne of others, Herder; Layater, duvobl, Schiller might haye been greater, had Govtho never lived, Goethe was a preeoclous child, Iu one of his shorter poums he sald; Fromyny futhor Lderive my frame and the atendy ealdaneo af my Nfe, and from my dear Hitle mothor my happy disposition and love of story-tell- Sng.” Me mixed in ail ranks of soclety, At ie University ho lived freely and hunyantly, profery iN the sucluty of Javlal compintons, ree-thinkers, and actors to that af nore rep utable people, is firgt Jove for Gretchen began th Mie mldstof forgers and delinquents, [is second love was the daughter of n dan elng-naster, and bls third the daughter of 0 elergyuin, Like Beathoven, he was always in love, although his loves were nat so pure {y platonic, Ho broke his SuuSHany with the cloreyman'a daughter, und hia fourth love wits Charlotte Bult. Gbtz you Barlingon ” Wits his first Important play and {t wits pub: shed tn 1779 when his gents was ne rude us tbat of Gate of the tran ind. This was fale Jowed in 1774 by “The Sorrows af Werther,” Which expressed the sud longings un iis- content which was a chuructyristie of thy une. At this tig ho hud two more love ene Ragements, one with Anna Sibylla Monch and the other with Ante fy BehTnernan, Huebel speaks af hint at Wal war, ts ** risking Uke a star lu te heavens and everybody wor- shtpinus {ithe end espeelally women. Wil holin Meister" followed, dnd his best small poems Wore writton bet 780 wid 175, * Egmont,” another ram publ ished bi 1738," At this tlie he hroko off iis relutions with Frau yon Steln and prays ferred jbs affections to Chrlstlhe Yule plus, a domestic, whom he atterwards married — to legltimate his only son, Je wos a oian of wonderful accompilsh- nents. Asa selentifie writer hy was pene- trathag anid saguclous, and his remarks onthe Inurphglogy of plants are iow eonsidered as among the earier enunelations of the pringi- tes ofevulution. Matthow Arnold sald of inethe, as to his remarkable powers of ob- servation In connection with the political aud sucks) pystem of Europe, that he “struck dls = Se: jo alrunin, wits credit. among { uitive Government | finger upon tho wealc places and sald ‘Thou allest here and there,” Without deflaing it na an actual law, ho had anticipated Buckle {un the thought of tho regulation of the move. ments of history and of haman HMfoshy ted ond tmmutable Inwa, Io enlled, Voltatre “the incarceration of wll the gullies of-the Freneh nation, good and bade? La 17d niet Schiller, In 1805 he produced Faust! His Inst writing was an essay on the disptitet between Gooltroy, Suint-Hilaire, and Cuyior on the question o tie unity of composition Jn the aniial Rlngilom, Carlyle ealled Goethe “the master spirit, the spokesman of lils age; tho artist par ex- cellence of the nineteenth century!” Grint goes beyond this and makes hin an “ideal mai” a “great phenomenon,” a species of demigod. Sueh ustravarant enlogy—ns tt seems to us unwarrantul—becomes tedious, Is this, the character of an ideal” man?" Goetho shows himself on ono side & poets i somnambullst who is not consclous whtls ho writes what flows front his pony adreamer who does not understand Himself, and is In his own eyes a half tte titious crenture,—fs vacillating, confused, and passionate; willenjey the goods of this world, will surrender hiinself to the yagi fustinets of his nature, and remove from his ith abt obstacles which threaten to hinder But, onthe other side, fn opposition to this, stands his unmerelful objectivity and clearness of apprehension. A domon whis pers tu hint Instantly where the weak slits 1s nh men and things... . So we seo hin as naturalist, statesman, historian Ie ls deelded, keen, cold. . 9... With an unre. Tenth; ‘soveriLy foward himself firstot all, he seeks to full hig «uty. (Pago 200.) Hut the strength of Goethe's murvelous ening $4 also admirably set forth te hg “Life and Times of Goethe.” A prolific, yet even writer, [tis something to have hd Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle and Bayard Taylor for translators. Fifty-five voltimes comprise his publishsd works, which have been well analyzed by Mr. Grinim, ‘Two fundaniental facts In Govthe's entire life are mentioned by the latter: the first was that he never expertenced anything which took him wholly out of limseif? and, second ly, that he neves mentions any living mun or. any contemporary book that fully meets the wants oC lis nattre. in carly life a Plotlst, a quast-pellever in what we would call sprit vallstle communications, his final religious convietions were deciled and firm that there was a personal Gol and a person lmmor- tality. Beyond these two points he did not Attempt to go.) Mr. Grinun elahns thet Herder atter Merek was the orlgingl of AMephistopheles—a. novel thought, at any Tic, Jn general, then, this work gives a good dl- gest of the lintnense mass of Goethe's litera- ture, contributes much new Uiht on his life and works and the gradual extension of bis fame, ‘That the work hag been consclentiots- ly done was to have been expected of go eminent a scholar asthenuthor. ‘That his admiration hag curried him to the extreme of horo-worship ig not so much to be won- Iney ft Is aconmmon characteristic mtn nation, “in hin alone Ger- inany was tnited,’” ' Published tn Boston by Little, Brown &Co, MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANY, Miss Amy Fay, 0 planist and teacher of consldernble repute, and a very agreeable writer, has given us the record of her musical study in a neat little volume; which will commend Mself to musical readers by the in- formal and gosslyy imnnner in which it is written. ‘Lhe contents of the book were originally comprised In letters wrilten home during her stay abroad, and the substauce of some of them appeared some time since fn the slUantic Monthly, where they attracted cons siderable attention, The letters have been edited In the main very judlctously, thon: still closer revision would have Improved them. ‘The title Is‘a very comprehensive one, and yet fs warranted by the character of the book, for Miss Fay’s studles may bo called comprehensive, this Iady having had Tausie, Kullak, Liszt, and Deppe for teach- ers, The value of the results obtained by such dlfusive tuition need hardly be dis- cussed here. It ean be estlinated by Miss Fay’s nelilevements a3 a concert-playor and the measnro of success she may reach with pupils, Ibis more to the purpose that sho gives us yery pleasant as weil us enthusiastic sketches of these four artists, who hold front rank among plano virtuosos, Much has been written of all of them, but Miss Fay’s contri- bution is noticeable for {ta freshness, {ts close observation, its freedom in erlticisn, though It is diticuit to agree with ft. all for tho hints It throws out as to their methods of tenehing, and for the Ittle personal detalls Which go to make up 9 pen-picturs of thease musicians In tho routine of their every-lay work, as wellas in thelr appearances before the’ public, Jt is’ an especially pleasant fenture of the book that the writer devotes so-much spice to Tausl who, 1f he had lived, would wnquestiorl nly have been the foremost pianist of our times, Miss Fay does not confine herself to theso artists, but elves us occiisional glimpses of othor notables in music, anong them Joachin, Scharwenka, Moszkowski, Clara Schumann, Wagner, You Bolow, and Rubinsteln, ‘The prineipal blomish in, tho book Is 0 tendency to wonder of from the subject of inusic-study Into digressions that aro not pertinent ot, cot avo not particularly Interesting to tho genoral reader and not at all to tho musleal readers while porsonalltics, which are entirely pardonuble in letters, seam somewhat ont of place in a work for the public oye, More right pruning would have ellminuted these epliodes, which, though they ure in no sense offensive, mar tho, otherwise attractive character of tho bool. In theso days of plano-playing, when teachers and pupils are ns thick us tho leaves in Vallombrosn, this little book ought to find a wide cirenlution,—not alone for the bright way In which It discusses tho pecullaritics of four of the erences of teachers, but for the prietieal hiuts jt contains ug to technique and general study and the signitlennt warn- ing with which Jt closes, eciilished in Chicago by Janson, MeChurg ee AMERICAN DEOISIONS, Tho twenty-first volume of tila valuable serles has been received from tho Californin publishers, A. L. Bancroft & Co, “The enses re-reported In this volume with be found originally reported In the State Reports of Now Jersoy, Palgu's New York Chancery and Wendutl’s Now York Law Reports, North Carolina, Pennsylyanta, South Carolin, Ver~ mont, Virgtula, Alabama, Commectiant, and Tudiana, ‘The “Lottary Ticket case” of Barnum va, Uarnum, from tho VIIT, Con necticut, Is Interesting: just now, ‘The vol- une isa large one, living over 750 pages, ‘The publishers and compiler aro pusting this work through with remarkable speed, and bid falr to fish the Reparta within. the promised time, No Inwyer's Hbrary cun at ‘ord to bu withouta set of “ American Dev elslong,” POETICAL WORKS, Mr. Swinburna has not permitted the Poct-Lanrenta to be the sola cultivutar of the pootie flekt or to monopolize public attention atthis tine, He, too, has been woolng the Muse, and his “Studies in Song” are his Jove-misslyes, following close upon the de Uvyery of his rlya’s “Ballads and Other Poungs.” Nor is ha a moan competitor, Thore Is arlng and wa thrill in some of his verso which even Tennyson might envy, Ms originality both of thought ant of ox- pression lg at tlmes marveloug, Hoe excites enthusiasm even when ho fails te arouse sympathy, Vis mastery of melodious phrase and verse” as almost equaled tho “musteul softness and richness” of tho nes by the older poot, But he fs wnovenly great, If ho has shown the ability to sour to the grandest hights,—ps in his “Atalanta In Calydon,"—ao has he also at nips fallon balow the Jevel of mediocrity, In the sang senso in which ho speqks af [andor the current number pf the Portnfghtly Replew— us "9 grout dramatic poet,’ byt not a draqiae tet: so Ia ho also “ o grealiwriter of poetry” without helig a wonderful pot, An En- lish eritig says of hin; “The fot fron his povtle source soared higher than that of nny ot his rlyals; but lt was only ona thin, nal row stream, and not a full fountain sending Its spray ong fis watara broadly in the gin”, Ilts_ poetie dens, as well ns his: vocabulary, ore Hmited, He ts o Communist of soul, and his pleg is constantly the same,—" rebellion agalist estgbiished ysage,” and an jiyster- ica appeal to lawlesness jn paysion and In art. ‘ All these qualities qra copspicuous in this last yolume of “Studies,” of which we have recelyed advance sheets. Swinburne js one of whose work it ls almost hinpussible to form a sutlstyctory ‘estimate, ‘Lo different minds it spenks a different language, Some pratse whint others broadly condemn, Jude ing him by his own standards, his last novel is not his, best, and is at thoes obscure and positively weak. But there are opresiges in theso thirteun studs Jes which remind one of his firat volume of short pieces, lis themes nro Iim- Hed, but with) them ho revels in a freedow peenllarly his own. Wa may at thmes ques- on the quality of the bootry, or even dont Whether It Is poetry at all, dt after all it Is apirited, and inthe book before us unod tlonable. THs Inequality and obscurity sven fod marty. adinirers—an admiration with which wenre fot, wholly tn sympathy, In tho wilist of the. dudleatlon these few lines require study to render thon intelligible: And though tho gift be ight Annstes in men's sight Lolt by the flame of uo ethereal fire, Yet, for hia worthier sake Thari words are worthleas, tuko ‘This wrenth of words cre yet their hour expire. The beauty of this word-portralt of Orsin! fs ovident at once? or Steadfast 19 Rorrow, Nery, sad, and sweot With underthoughte of fove ana falth, moro strong Than EN and hate and all it thoughts which neon) Haply, Tid nopo's or fear's world-wandoring ee! ‘That tad no rest fram wandering till thoy mect Death, bearing palms in hand and crowns of son Nis hteo, iho thought to vanquish wrong with: ron Erring, and inake rage and redemption meot, Havoe and (reedom: weaving in une weft Good with hls right hand, evil with his left; Dut all. hero Hved and erred anc dod: Looked thus npon tho Itving world he left ko heel that with pity [eae thin pride Men halt him patrlot and tyrannledde. This first poem was written for the cen= tenary of Walter Savage Landor, It is writ fen Tt n vein of extravagant eulogy, ‘Thon eomes OIF Shore,” written with great power anid skill, moving along in as easy n move- ment as the ocoun of which ft spenks, ero is peculiarly Swinburtieish verse; . Bright bank over bank, Making morious the gloom, Soft rink pon rank, Btrunze bloam after bloom, * They kindle the tad Jow twilight, tho dusk of the dim sea's womb, 4 Anothor stanza shows the easy rhythm and the fmagery so well sustabied: ‘ Through tho furrowless Neld Whore the fonm-tloasoms blow, And the scerota are xented Of thoir harvest below, They tloat th tho path of tho sunbeams, ns flakes or a8 blossoms of snow, Wa “After Ninu Years” fs “to Joseph Mazzlui,” and the praise 1s og extravagant 1s of Orsini or Landor. ‘Yoke a single yerso for exnimple: ‘To know thee~this at least was ours, God, clothed npon with human hours, Q taco Ueloved, O spirit adered, Savior and Lord) ‘hou waa not only for thine own Htedcemer—not of those ntone, Tut all to whom thy word waa known, “dvening on the Bronds” 1s one of the Weakest of the pocins, Jere is a graphic picture of tho [and * By the North Sea”: A land that ig fonelier than ruin; aA neu that id atranger than deaths Fur fields that a rose never blew In, Wan waste whero the whids Jack beeath: Waste endless and bounliess aud tloworless, But of marsh-blossoms fruitless as frooz Where earth les exhausted, ag powerless: ‘Tu strive with the sea. ‘Tho pastures nre herdloes and shoeptess, No pasture or shelter for lerds; ‘Tho wind 1s relenticad anc sleepless, a\nd restless and songless tha birds; ‘Thelr erles from atur fall breathless, ., Thely wings aro us lihtuings that tee: For the land has two lords tht are deathloss: Death's self, nnd the sen, We mnko room for one moro extract, In which this furious individual, who woul gladly commit regiclde and annihilate all momirehs In one grand mortar with the pestle of hiy poetry, curses tho Russian Emperor and hls new yaeht, the Livadia; All curses bo about her, and all tlt Go with her; heayen be dark above her way, ‘Tho gulf beneath ber gied and sure ot press And, wheresug’r her prow be patnied, stilt The winds of Ieaven haye all one evil will Cousplrant even ng hearts of Kings to slay: With mouths of Kings to lo and smile and pTaty"s And dhichioat bia whoso wintrier breath makea rs With incro than wintar's and moro poisonous eold Tho horror of his Higadom townrd tho north, ‘Tho deserts of bls Kfigdom towant tho cast, And though Death bide nat fn ber direfal bold Be al Pel adverse toward har that como ON 8 ave a Nightly, by day gil hours tiltall havo censods Tu all have coxeed forever, and the auim Bo suinined of wll the sutnless curaes tald Out on his head by all dark sensons rolled Over its cursed and crowned existence, dumb And blind and sturk ag though tha snows made numb All sense within It, and nil conscience cold, What hings round hearts of jess imperial mold A Adko a snake focding till thelr doomapay come, OU heart Cust bound, of frozen poluon, be Al) nature's ug ull tro mon's hearts to thee, | ~ A two-udyed aword of tap pegs hope be far And four at hand for pilot over soa, ‘With douth for compnes anil deapair for star, And the white foun n shroud for the White Czar, So sings the bard who would Heatroy oll existent, piles and build up n work of his own, 1s “Studies In Song” will not dis- appoint his admlrors, nor win now friends and worslipors by tts murks of genius, Published in New York by 1, Worth- ington, —It fs pleasant to seek rollet from Swin- burne, who 1s somewhat monotanons, In the Fravatl vorso of Willlam Winter, Muoh as he has written he fads not quite sixty pieces that he cares to preserve, and these wre all Iutha volume before us. tt was Mr, Kipley— if memory serves aright—who called Ar, Winter the “pout of feeling nnd of linpilav,? and those are the two charictertstics of his meliitluous verse. Nor ta thought lackiny, or the finish which adds so grent a charm, Ilo writes like aman at pence with all tho world; finding somuathing lovable and lovely In nhmost everything he sees. Allis not Joy- ful but all fs ténder and restful, 10 does not thrill—rathor ha soothos, "Gentloness Is thasoul and simplicity the garment” of this school of lyrle ootty. Listentug to the erlekot In the churghyard, he hoars; A tone that hath no soothing graco, ‘A‘tong that nothing anita, A tone that's Hike th apaluint plage Of meniory, teara, and death — It darkens topo, {t deopens gloom, Black dread, and doubt profound, Turning tho silence of tho tomb Yo more saeco sound, ‘Thera Is n ggocl cteal of denth, and sadness, and dirge, and oblivion, and bane hones, au forgotton yows jn thee yarses, Dut Mr Winter knows how to write sympathiaingly, —to feel what he saya —and this predom- nant quality, alwara harmonious, aon win appreciation, As he says of lis muse; For only in tholr dreams I como to thom, Aud give them titful ain pava of my {1do," And fal thei, siren-}ike, With wards af hone ‘That promise, aousotiine, to thelr rayished oycs Bennty, the sporat of tho universe, Goda thought, thut ylves tho soul cterngl peace. blah Jn Boston by Janes R, Osgood Zu, .—The poem of Mary Magdalene’ ja by Mra. Ktehard reenougly, tha wife of tho sculptor and the author of Meant tt Tt was suggested by hig statue of Maury May. aliene at the Tomb, and forms what on artist would call amass af rich color lavistily Iavld op to conceal the Inck of breadth In tha yb ject of thasketch or palpting. It fy novel x typpgraphite I belng brintud wean Hi glazed parelimen like paper of fing quality and bound inv white with colored Hyedecorp- tlon. Asn sAMplY of poatis fanay Work, as 0, speeliney of tho work of a brifliant. and fer- uy ination it ry Hue fori, ag UN avi dence of poetic talent ota high ordenwe wel. come Ara, [fFeenow hs aalty yeinuy of verso, Jub lt we gre to go hoyant tise ‘anil seqle for poet of the highest order; jf asked to rank © Atary Magdaiong! aga arent eplo poe or to sud init any oxtraardinary ilevel- opipnt pf talent, the evidence 18 Wanting, Tha whole thing ts flatlon=pure poetic Hconse Doth fy plot aah wat The veal value of the parm nop In tha gubfuat, nor juthe story, ‘To usog homely Wustration, Ib ds the tailor making the win, where the eluthes bear nf all so honey, The fresenes are fino, Wik tho hulliling Utselt anatiragtive, Myra, Creanough has bestowed a great deal of Invor on her work, and {tls well sustained throughout, ‘There ayo many passnges of unusual beauty, many yorses worthy of at- tention, ma Yahi Hs bits of Hesprlntin and Orlental wealth of coloring, dit the gubjnct fs tae Heh to ashi oF a Mlaplny of the trugst pogtle spirit, and the ment of the enrefully-elaborated ork ja necessiplly tn palred phd waakened by thly payerly av Iau! bt strength in the foundation. We can only quote a few Wines te gly some len, of Mra, CGreenough's style, and select: for that pur pose Ue desoription of Mury Mlagdalene her sell, Bhe ly jreseaed jo usa yoman of ye: markabls beauty, I og to tl te Ww pt of a yelening sovereign, cant palace In the Clty of Jepusalem. sn ya It wos tho home of Mary. Piaislalenoy, The beduulful and the gnkuly ony, ape Muuduloye, thataginhal city’s baaat; Tho Maydalerjo, What sacred clty's shauje, Abanauet by this stately macblu pile” is the mediunt forIntroducing us to ita mistress, Ter guests aro manyand “high-born.” First, Tho thick-browod Jews with cold and cruol Blanee. ‘Then next to them are sented, ° ie a 4 Pilant Greoks, Vivid and mobilo, panthor-like in grace, And by thelr sido The young patkiclans of Imperial Rome, Anti nt the heail of tho festal table, tho ad- Miration of all her noble guests: High throned upon her cnrven ivory coiteh Bpsetd by Kien tons, sttent lay ‘The Mugiateno, tho Queon of that cholce Court, And listened, Uatless, to tho ablfting flow Of Apnrkling Jest and wit-embroidered speech; Dut when tho singers’ voices thrilled tho alr, Bho raised hor wistful Wide and gazed whe, As though her sul wero stirring In its sleep, Nor know tho life thitt lapped her day by day Mutadiitary dreamed in roalma apart, Mer soft whito limbs revealed hy nivory BARC el Dee thofr lustrous tints Hko moon ight shone, The way ta of rippling gold that crowned her mu And lunguld-teaning head, her violet eyes That dewy swant Cononth tholr decp-fringod ida Now enretess rosting on her gnthored rucets, Now Lent upon tho flowor-seutternd floors Tho rose-biusli of her childtike dimpled mouth, Ita corners drooping with t faint distaste: Tho witching rhythin of hirmonlous price Cantrolling every youthful curve and Wne; in these ontictie charins the torches shed fhetr bright Miuminitions but not thos Alone tholr nidlunce showed, At tils fenat she heart from Probus, one of her ndutrers, of the Nazarene, nud deter tulnes to seek Iintand to learn from Lim the lesson of holiness, Published In Boston by Janes K, Osgood & Co. — "Country Love and City Life, and Other Poems,” would be a much more fitting title Wit were reversed. ‘The “other poems” constitute the lending feature of the bool. Mr. St. John appears to be a nan who hus 0 good deal to say, and prefers poetry to proso as nimediuimn of expression, ‘Phere 1s some quict humor in the shorter poems, mid the yersified stories are Interesting. | Ilis_ rhyin- Ing Is smooth and pleasnnt to the ear, “Be- youd this he offers nothing, wid some of the efforts, 1g On page My, are pointless, It is 2 very ordinary book of poems, a very far away echo of the poctie thunder of the mas- ters of the song-world. Asinglo verse from the sonnct to “'Tho ikea "Is 0 falr samplo of Mr, St. John’s style: Tho Prose, my frienda, the Press,—It speaks sone Uurden Uber suites ‘guntas raly' ugha; perplex’ uldes; Orvexd.ietnunter rolial’ © Then should we gunurd it pure and tree, ‘That Heaven may ever bless Our champion, nvocate, and guide The Press, my friends, the Press! Not at all bad, but nothing remarkable, Pubilshed In Boston py A. Williams & Co, —"Ontl-Ora” is: protessedly o romantic love-story told In verse by Mrs. MB. M, Toland, ~ ‘Tho seene is Init in the Catskill Mountains, for which “Ontl-Ora”? Is the In- dan name. It ts impossibly to prajse any thing In connection with this book except Mr, Sheppard's cuts and the binding of the volume, ‘The versitficution Is very bad aud the story Itself weak, A. romanes of tho Catskills with a here by the name of “Leon de Mary” is bad enough, and “eultured grounds” for cultivated gardens is decided! awkward, but the book Is full of undevel- oped similes and faulty constructions, and is to be classed with the growlng mass of voutle trash, —Mr. Leighton Is the author, of the volume entitled. “Shakspeare’s Dream.” Te has tried to do what he ls not, apparently, capn- dle of doing well, Ilo appears to be oyer- Jonded, Not that his own work Js bad in Itself, butso clearly shows Its authors am- bitlon was beyond his powers. ‘The sentl- iment fell Is well expressed by tlm in the see- ond stanza of the sonnet “To Shakspearo”: Perhnps ‘twere wiser if nll sitently: Thetd each shapo in fond, impassioned thought, Noy vainly breathed tho words that coma to me With luve or pathos, mirth, or grandeur fraught; Tor in their utterance all my power fs naught. Exactly! Not thet Mr. Lolghton cannot court (ha Muse successfully, But he gues to work with too many magniloquent preten- song. Jie drives up with a four-horse ba- youche and outriders and seeks to win favor by the boldness of his claim, We might quote many pleasing pueanes to proye, not that he ls nota poet, but that he ean write renulne poctry, But his theme must be bet- er alu red to his ability to handle it, —" Persephone, and Other Poems,’ by Mrs, Willlug, 1s Issued by the same publish- ing houge that sent “ Ontl-Ora” forth to vex an unolfending publle, Mappily It has a it tle more murtt than the other work, although the ode to Porsephone iy the lent to our Alking of any of the poems Jn the book, Some of the shorter sonnets have a pleasant ring, and show thought and some strength of expression. In others tho poetic vein iy en- tirely wanting, Here in a vorse from the song of the “Departing Soul to tho Body”: Yiold theo to doop, sereno repore: Phy sluay its hour of wiking knows, When thou and I ane voles shall hear From roulins beyond the furthest enbere,— Melodlous, cleur, pervading, grand, A tono of sweet yet dire command,— A triunpet note that Spice shall aul and through tho heart of Foine thrill Tho Archungel’s cry that ‘Time fs o'er And Enrth's dry dust shalt live ance moro} —"Tho ‘Teacher's Dream" ty a simple lit- tlo puem with a very good moral. The ius. trations are superabundant, bub are not badly: dove, Mr. Farny’s designs are in good taste, and tho book hus been neatly gotten up by the publishers, Published in Philadolphia by J. B, Lippincott & Co, . MOLIDAY Kooks, “Gams of Ganius,” by Harry W. French, contains fifty full-pnge engravings of cete- brated pietures by culebrated artists, accom- panied by a descriptive text giving the ful} story of cach pleture. It 1s well printed on tinted pnper, the ents nro of unoaual mort, and the gover rather too gaudy to be In good taste, Still, if 1s an Suteresting book to look over, and ahowg guuyiderablo work in its composition, — English Soglety at Nome” {8 a collec tion of sixty-threa society plettires fram “Puneh,” on whieh journal Mr, du Maurier is the sucocdsor, In a meayure, of Mr, Lovol, Ttisa handsome gift bopk, ‘The cyrtoons have, lowaver, been published bofora, In ite present form Jt is a handsome, square, quarto valine, gilt, and bound In beyel ot boards, ‘The pictures are ay ono page and the legonds on-the opposit ono, It ts wale come addition to the gitt baoks of tho aeason, —A sumptuous {lustrated edition of “Little Women? a bean prepared by tho pu. hors, and eoughtto ba ono of the best selling of tho way, handsome gift. books of the season. Jts-fama fy eternal It isa thiok, square quarto, bbauti{ully printed on fine haner eilt-edged, and aupropriately bound. ‘There jnro’ over. 200 WMustyablan: among others 1 tna portrale of Miss Aleotl herself, No ong cout sat anytl hing nicer, Asoo many will have to be content with 4 great deal Idss, jaa enew ection of * American Pajntors* adds the names of elehtoen painters and on- Jnrges the number of chaea ines from ol ty three to G4, thereby making Te more fully representative than befare af Amurican eon- temporary ipt. | ‘Tho enaravings are very thie, and the Keeani pany ng text bigs In any eases: beon furnislied by the palnters themsulves, Tt ls one of thy fuw realy valuable as well as beautiful books of the hhilday season, and ns such, ny well ag for (ts ine fuiwaril de On anee and typoxraphicak excuslence, deséryes especial commendation. —Tho itstrated papers on " Jeay-Frangols Millut,? wit cy have attracted so wiugh ‘a tun ttn ny the pres af fierihuer, ave been published In book form flustrations and aul, y J. R. Osgoud & Co. Tho hook itself, or rathor tha’ series af articles, [s thy post- Tous worl pAlfred Hensler, ‘Phe hate had) Millet’ otbuty and wag thoroughly familar with his life, work, and struggles, Tle lett hs yore eal ‘and Payl Mantz completed Vt, OL Mitfet hlupaelt It Is wala, “Tle that understands hilm will say: Mere by. a palnter wha his plyen 4 piss ty the hum blest; a pout who has raised to honor those. whom the world ignores, and good man whose work cneatrages ant episales, At tractive by {ty neat her rance, tha boo! should fad 6 urge clrale of readers. safe, Worthington sonila ts a superb, large wine entitled “Examples of Household Taste,” by Walter Smith. ho wark consists of iy clahorate, uesny, nal oT antl rt vi at the Interyintlonal éxhibltion of 137d) with w short poner if the Jessan of the Exhibiiton, and fornudar ipa as Ky hon oF an its: trated entulog-af that Exhjbition, pe sited by Gphbie ds Biarle. tb te richly Hustrates with exhihited specimens of” brass anc brouze, ea | ap eurnteure, carpets, cushinpre fabries, chip And ather elay wares, eccles|- agticnl furnjitye, vessely and oruments, enameled ware, fans, glug, gold and silver, interlor Hesorntlans tron and steel work, Jewetry, lace, leather woods, bougbind ings, inurble, grant, musical Instruments, prt butlerns, stulnedylisy whidows, tapestry and needlework, terra cotin and Ane tissues. A rnning descriptive text accompantes the iNustrations, ‘Tho volume covers n great deal of ground, fs beautifully printed, and tho ents abundant and well executed. It makes a very useful hollday book, + RECENT NOVELS. “So That Witl Not When Ile May,” by Mrs. Ollphant. which has been running through Macmitlan'’s and othor magazines in sertal form, has boon published in the Franklin Squaro Library Series, It this slory the young hero Is helr toa title and an estate. While still at college lie is brought under the Iniinenco of 9 notorious rutical naltator and Communist who works 1 revo- Jution in the young man’a mind, Ho Is almost rendy to give tp ils position and earn his living at manual labor, when, most tn- oxpeetedly, at his father’s death a now helr turns up for the title and estate, proves his right, and the hero Is obliged to carry out his newly nequired notions of equality, ete. ‘The moral of tho story is In the slugular effect the young insn’s real condition had upon bis visionary alns, Tho story ronds much bet- ter Jn Its completed form than It did whon taken pleeement, —Miss Yongo's “Lovo ond Life” is a qualntly told old “story of the eightaonth century.” Tho plot is complleated and some- what tinnatural, but the story Is interesting, ‘The scene is in England during the relgn of George IL, Ledy Betamour ts a beauty, but also a vixen, addicted to all the vices of ax- travagant habits, gambling tnstes, ete, Jor cousin, Maj. Delavie, hing charge of her estates; «= ‘To retrieve = her” fort- unes slic marries = one = WWaylitned, fleanting, her son by her first husband fnects Aurelia Detavie, and falls in love with her, ls mother wishes him to marry a righ youn woman and help her pay olf her gambling debts, which process he de- elines to submit to, Aurelia is then sent away to an old cnatle to take enre of the three Wayland children. In this house Is 9, brother of Lord Belamour's, who, having killed a rival Ina duel, hag shut himself up in adark room in this enstle. sldrella sings and reads to him, aud learns to pity him. Feaely Belamounvevncocts o marrings be- tween Aurelia and tho old man, to whom her son has conilded his troubles, The mar- riage takes place, but tho son porsonates the old min, Atter a series of complications Milndy finds out how she has been duped and takes her daughtor-in-Inw away and shuts her up in a enstle; then, when one of her own lovers falls in love with hor, sho hag her dragged and is about to spiri her away out of the land, when the young Lord tums up and reseues hls bride. ‘The sila plots aro innumerable and tha story somewhat foreed, In the lands of a less skilled writer than Miss Yonge it would have become sadly mixed up, It is exciting without. bene sensational, smoothly written, | oO and entitled tion, ~Just at the ending of the year Mr. atari’ ae ett sounds his entl for At- tentlon?! A little village near tho Wessex const, England, about the beginning of this century, Is the scene of thig novel. ‘Cho ebarncters are the widow of 0 Inndscape ainter and her only daughter Anne, the he miller John Loveday, and his two sons Robert sud John, old Squire Derriinan. and his gon, some — quaint — old villare cronies, a traveling actress, ete. zlune Is the central figure. Ench of the three young men being desperately in love with her. Joho Loveday is the trumpet-major of w regiment of dragoons, Robert a mate of Atrading vessel, and young Derriman. a sol- der, 'Fheir hopes -and fears, and clate's feelings and actions toward the three con- stitute the plot, while scenes of yillage life and the pervading fear ot Bonaparte and the Freneh tre graphieally deseribed, Afr. Mira: is a novelist of the school fo which Mr. Black belongs, and of which he Is the recognized hend. 1'The former portrays the scenery and socal ntinosphere of Enigiish counties, ag the lnttor deals alinost exclusively with Scot- tsh character. Joh Loveday Is an ndiuira- bly drawn individual, free from many of the peculinrities which have marred same of the characters in other of this authors. works. Buglish critics have nssigned to Mr, IMnrdy n higher rank nuong novelists than Amerienns will ho willing to concede, and this malniy for the skill and abliity-dls played In his studies of character. Thus.tho “quaint phrasing, turns of thought, and unexpected similes” which the Saturday dicvlew cites na not present in this work, thereby: dnercaring ils value, do not curry the snine conviction to our minds. “Tho ‘Trumpet Major” ts not a remurkahte book, not even unlformly tntoresting,—tueh le so than “Far from the Madding Crowd,” for Iustance.—but it ranks much higher ns, work of art than tha majority of modern fiction, and ity chiof charm Is ‘In its simple directness and easy, unaffected style, —Whint ono critic 1s pleased to call Mr, Tlenry Jumes’ Jatest completed exercises tn his art of definition,” referring by that ox. vesston to lis Iatest novel, Washington Syunre,” ling bean published in book form after rinnlng through tie pages of Harper's Magazine for some months, My. dumes iy notone of our favorit authors, Ho is too superellions, toa dilettante, talks too much and says toollttie, Ie never puts himself to the exertion of fluishing ont a character or roundly doyelophig nplot. fle called * Daisy Miller? 9 “study,” and he might with equal propriety call Washington Sauare”? sketch. ‘The seenes tre Inld_ in Now York City some thirty ar forty yours ngo, and the elptnaturs are ono atrangers to inctro- politan residents to-day. Mr. James lias found a strong wal papular chon apparently in treating of American charactor. And It must be admitted that ho, has depicted cor- iain typos with remarkable necuracy and fidelity, Doctor Sloper ts 0 not exagecrated type of tho fashionable physiclin, as his daughter Is also of a not wnconinon atyle of fumals found oeenslonally in what is called the best society, But that doys not make her any the lesa dull and {iplyterast ine, AS herotno she ts i lamentable tallure, qnd the worthy Dogtor Is a much more pleasing char- neters” He ig a anccesnfal ino without de riylng success Fray his talonta. "Tt wasan elemant in Dactor Sloner’a yeputation that his learning and hls skill were vary evenly bale rieed; he wag phat you mlght cull n schol- arly doctor, aud yot there was aothing ab- stract hy his vemedles,—he always’ ordered you to take something. Though ho was felt to be extremely thoratgh, he was not us comfortably thearatio; and If ho. sume: Umes explained mutters rather more mninute- ly than night seem of usu to the patient, he vever wentso far (ko some practitioners one Hil heard of) a to trust to thea explina- tlon atone, but always left behind hint an in- serutuble prescription, Thery were some doctors that lett the preseription without of- fering any explanation Atal; and he did not Delon to that olass wither, whieh was, after au, the jase yale Thwill bo seep that £ am dexeribine a elever man, and this is really the reason why Doelor Sloper lid became 0 local celebrity,” © Washington Square” (joes notstrike us ‘ts a work of absorbing interest, ‘The substructure fs wenle and wie super- structiire uninviting, ‘The strong paints al the bank Lin in {he sharne er-drawing, whiels fs well done, the Leetor and slunt Pent may batng tho best examples, OF Du Mau- rlor’s jHustrations: tha less gold te hatter. Not only do thoy fall'to Mustrate, but thoy aro Ror At all Ja harmony with the book, hes Ing as thorausly Engtish In construction and design as the Tatter is un-English and Aduerlenn In docato and dn det: —Ourfously enough tha nex recelyed after “ Washington Sauare = waa alse plop Hors (George Hlemlng) ** Hpqd of Muduaa,! in whieh sha gives tho following not unlattorhig Miseness of {epry dames hlm- jails “4 Ho wag notin the habitat manufactur. Ing conversation for the benatlt of ovary girl who was thrown tn iis way. Ile wasaonan consplausly capable af extremply redned pleasures, which heaftorward deserihed with enrious weely af enlihen Wis atid was kept anxtously ay tha flor for the most an propriate curations, IMs eritles neetsed hin sometines at considering extstenva Uke a sored of brilliant magazine artlolis, and cou- tributing bly own share with purhaps too vivid renllzation, at cleqraut: bnpression and eplgran, - But thesa wore prala ly the samy poople who complained that he wrote tke ay ee extinined the passions HTOUEH A PYPR Iss, watts Lit werp {ip partintly international. Ne a4 earefully cuillyateds he had spent all bls die Ingxapining great thiggss ald, in naint ef fact, he was corlahly quite une errlog by ils accurpey as to these diterentlal detills of dress, qird-leaying, and Bpeert witich are the tinal cqusy at Ainerican civil- Tzation. | Ig was tievuriably jusé fy bjs strief- ures, He had a soclal repitation of being very soverp. Ho hard iydved at vagloug thus, We several cutling rawarks pon the Aimezleap Continents out fy equine ting on thls tact the best wwople always added: TBut hho hing beey so much abroad, you know,” Brankly, we Ike this lust: nook less than “ Kismet,” and yet read It with more sotore est. ‘The peeulipr Glyenmnutquices vommegteil with tha author whout the time the novel Was faigted negy dn iy InpasHye account far thhs, ‘The scene [3 laid olutost: entirely aa Rome high rank as 9 work of flce- ok that was The herolne, Barbara Floyd, ts eat girl, the daughter of n Souther pete and aeonfirmed antiquarian tn ae Sho ts driwn into marritge with an Thal Count, Ceaco Lalli, a hiaulsome Mah, rine servative in bollties, poor in purse, and {line oughly selfish bnlsposition, Inn fey toontha ho becomes Indifferent to her, and fon tho rest of his life stands between her an ta bettor love than his. Other characters ar : cynical Englishman who writes for the vlows anda frank, honorable, uprlhit any Ainerlean, who marries Barbarws frley iq and whom Barbara Is Suspeeteit of loving. Ths evitent moral Is that Amerieg, husbands ought to bo good enous, an for American girts, It ia quite possible that the Iending characters are drawn frony lite, Such experlences aro at leastuot uncommon? tiga bool of average ability, Mlsg Fletenes ig at her best in her descriptive writing. sno gives inany fine deseriptions of Roman scene ery and Roman domestic life, palntin with the same skill and ability displayed tn ier Ae Hoyel ie tren fing Egyptian arenes ant fe, Hero is n vivid realistic picture oman marshy torine th viclure ot a *'They were entering the marsli, rond streteties atraluht and white an haved Tho bite-ereen reeds rosostralght anit sharp like an army of spears, us far ng the ae could sec, At the first glance the plaln pte. sented the nspict Of n sold felt ot rushes: looking mare closely, ong was aware at open Ings In’ this greenness,—the sunlight elite tered upon the water, and the mind Tenlized with a shook thnt itl this thickeset show of verdure Is infact the imorest covering fur tho Ingoon, Denuded of vegetation, the Stagno would be desolate: in its Destltentiat hixurianee It becomes terrible. ‘Tho hidden water suggests treachery, In tha milday silence there are inexplicable disturbaners uick, sudden darting and strugeling deep down under tho cover of rusley,—duml Ine dleations of strange and repulsive forins of Hfe,—the Ifo of ‘silma, and obsewrit: And secrecy, ‘Lhe mind follows. these ‘urtive ents with © fascinated dlagust, In. al curious tragedies of lower crea. Wild, erlpplod sea Dirds drageing tenmtioree _baltle. for ‘pelo an Goi fuk y—livrea battle for existence ve snike, and fro, and newt.” between We notice that the sUhenatum s; Her’ tnstes? te. ales Eholehor, Ae hout. as “he it him,” although putting * George Fleming? In quotation marks, sl eae howlng knowledge thatitisa pseudonym! It ig’ ar i tlunal, pure book, Nes NOTES ON NEW nooks, Messrs, Lockwond, Brooks & Co. have published an American Poet's Catentar for 18st, similar in form and design to the Dick ens and Shakspeare calendars, —Gray Heads on’ Green Shoulders, by Jane KE, Zhumerman, ty tho first vobtieation in book form Isstod by the Women’s ‘Tem. perance Publication Association. It Isa ¢reditable production typographically, ‘Tha viee of intemperance Is portrayed inmost vivid colors, and by one who evidently un” derstands tho art of rpeaking plainty ant a the point. ‘Che story is not uninteresting, —" Henry Martyn,” by Charles D, Bell, t the second volume of the series of the " Ile roes ot Christian Itlstory” published siinul+ tancously In London and New York, Dr. Boll is well known as an author by hls work on “Night Scones iu tho Bible.” Martyn's career wasn brict one, but it was a nobly one, well worthy tho pen of so skillful a Writer ag Dr, Bell, ‘The history of ‘his seven years’ sojourn tn Indin sand Persia Is inters esting rending. Itis 2 welcome addition to a valuable series, —Mr, Saintsbury’s “Primer of French Literatura ” Is the latest addition to the thaif. four Series, It ts a short manual for learn ers, teachers, and students of French Hera ture, kiving very coneliolya sketeh of French Iiterature beforo 1200 A. D,, tho decllue of medieval literature; during the renalssance; the relgn of Louis XLV. ant contemporary French Uterature. It only pretends to bo a handbook, and a smatl one at thit—what might be ealled an Index to the subject of which It treats, —"Cortain Men of Mark" cons{sts of a sories of ofght sketches, or “studies,” og Mr. ‘Towle calls tham, of suoh represents five men ns “Gladstone,” Bismarck,” "Game ott,” “ Benconsfield,® “Castetar,” Victor Thiga,.” “John Bright,” and the Urea En perors of Prussia, Germany, and Austria. The Intter ts parently weak, Mr, Towle is on easy, pleasant writer, As hls observa ton and study of the different characters ho skotelies hig boon -somewhat superficial, so Dis articles contain nothing barttonlarly new ororiginal’ He ts warmly eutogistic, and evidently an cuthusingtic admirer of tho ma- Jority o€ his heros, —“‘The Orthooplst” fs 4 pronounelng manual contuluing about 8,900 words, inclu: {ng n considerable’ number of the names of foreign authors, artists, ate, thatare often mispronounced, 1¢ has been prepared with cura by Alfred Ayres, and ought to prove a useful litle handbook, ‘The author's object has bees ag much to awaken an interest In he subjeot-mitter ag to teneh, It is un doubtedly truco that many cultured people would be amazed ff thelr pilspronunclathins were to bo polntad aut to them, wnd itis equully trne that on some points the author VU thtidt inany scholars disagroohig with hin He inyltes suggestiang and criticlsms foi future editions. —" Womanhood” fs x collection of lectured deilvered to young women in the Anthon Memorint Church, Naw Yurk, by tho Rev. Jleher Newtou, In his pretacn he tolls us that fis abject wre to guide the fs plrations of — womanhood ‘for a_ larger nnd worthier Ife-work enuobling tha ideals of the yaoation call upon women’s distinatlye yowe a most excellent spectinen of gon, prac varhestadvicy In boak fonn, ant Js eo qented ta young women far th HI There are seven chapters, or wre! ec one of thom filled with food tor thought aud tha results of the work of a scholarly, intel ligent, and practical man, —It is a matter of romrot that our spaco lr too Ihnitedt (p treatof Me, Chandler's (rien esting “Memoirs of Gov. Andrew" as the @rent, sturdy, noble-hearted War Goyer of Massachusetts deserves. In Mr. Chittke Ter’s own Innguage, he was “tho embodie nent of nquiiiess, shypllelty, rututu ness and Justice” It Naa been iyderstoul th Are EP, Whipple was preparing a mord elaborate blography, fleaywit} oy tity vefured TPE y prepnred far tho Myssiehusctts fstorieat Society, with same personal rele iscences, and two of the hitherto unpublishe addresses of tha Qoyernor’s adiled thereto will serve die buryose of nent Chef of Jolina, Andrew fresh and green before the people, Ho ta ana af the fow. whet name nnd charactor dygerve to lye faruvety And Mr, Chandler evidently knew hin we and hls’ personal reyinisconces are full sprig hitltiness and life, a mt Sugar Muto from Malza and Sorghum {athe title of a bool py 5. Stews claiins to have male a iew discover H prqueus at pradtalpy sugary from th iulea ot ndlan corn, sorgiun, wit Tmnntire See ernenne. Heelalia ia. the Irolivea tht a prvetient qeantion of the truths sob forth tid Uttle work will revalutiontze ao duetion fe this cquntry, ta eyhanee at yond osthnate the vatie of Eidian earn det sorghum, to carry tho Hie of available ata produetng torsllary Trops thy Git Const to te fortyeninth parallel, to save to the gounl y the route An Vs ae tase th duinually expended fay forelgn sugars, in ussist, by the ie of anew and peransnen votld in the wol ‘nick It le tia the Miuhishy ys ui ths Ae ee ree au mt Af voxad question, by giving ren | " one! Me ieeeatieaF tis Vest tan miu yeu, AML hor af aur population now tnemployed. Al this is a good dept to glahu, but tiv subject fg one Worthy of Juvostisation, i ak — Duty! Is tho Inst hank of a series WI ten by Dr. Samuel toa fran LL.D. Thy bes} was “Pale I? thon eye se liarwete 1s then 4 itt and now Duty: Nias. twenty-four years siieo the first value 4s Sut ya published, aint qlthanagh qt firsp refused by Vondon italy has iy uty td elrenit of tha ‘globe, he bovk really series ndurahle of says, with, Alustrations anf miter ab colrage, pattones, and endprarce. re willl deeds aro great Teryeles, which work so) wwondraus ath ‘ iy what quel have dens wo loarn whi due can Hp A great pine Thomah balked of tts ends ds still 0 tt of timan energy, Ito whe anprouder iy higher fi of the supreme quality st sie 3 entitled to rank with to ust, thio Ingulshed of Hie raee,” Suen i oy author's oplgraminatio fext. Ta nnd especlally Written for young peep vig. treats at length of sucli ques| Hans the selence, duty fn nection, truth, fw onside consideration of lying fs taken paren erable langti, gneedotes of men wie tment bo bought, eayrage pul endurance tenn! tho saffor,'tho soldier, hurejsn in wel ssi pullanthironys | heristt ally, te slons, kintiiess to z : sponsibility. dg, bs a work’ ta by eureluiy read aud rempmbored. : LS. VUQOKA FOR BAYS AVD art HAhn! Flroft Sangli fs the {aver «priate aud unsuggestive Ute of 6 buuk