New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-09

become contributors. Many novels. snd p,t a.
least successful appear first IN periodicals.
30 far rs nOyelists are concerned there sre a,
,br,e courses open to them-tbe lcen,ioasns., :,
the French school. the depicting of human sufsrn,
snd the marvellous. The horrible is thu MAJ
sought for in the market, and Charles Dickens ~.
constituted himself its prophet. If We may BE- ner'
mitied TO form Judgment from the last ettrs
Christmas number of Household Words. "A.
" Wreck of the Golden Mary" which nsrr,,., "a.
louc-drawn starvation OF wrecked crew.
In France and Germany, the psrtIsans of tn
pathetically horrible are now outrun BY the Red.
lists, whose putstiye father was BalIsc. Under ths
pretensc Of depicting real Life, they drsw obscene
pictures aud succeed IN calUmnatips even the cor.
rupt society of the second French Empue. ri.
FAC has found since his death, the most entAu.,.
nc admirers: and, We are sorry 20 SAY, has bean
made the leader Of school His followers have
however. gone so far that the Partisan public begin
10 grow weary NJ. Gustaye kliube't oas q
them is publishing in the RerHe de Pans. 70
nance called Madame bUyary, which Is so real tAa,
honest readers call 1t cynical AL So free that ap
pears brutal. The conductors 81 the review,
although not oycr-scrupulous, have though, lAer
duty 10 alternate aud even 10 suppress completely
certain details Of the novel before which eyen BA.
Yac would have shrunk IN disgust. But now
writer. who, although he has proved but sn indl
terent statesman. is iilustrlous as sentimental
poet and the historian OF the Glrondists, Alphonss
De Iamartine. the seraphlc SWAP, who sang the
NediatioHs and the HaraoRies, declares himself
most ardent admircr Of NJ. Gustave tlaubert. IL
j. certainly = strange feature in the life of Lamar
tine. which has already gone through 80 many NJ.
variable episodes. that he who We'd with Chateau
brand in spiritual idealiSm. should become sec
tary of the most brutal rcrNsm. hut We must not
forget that the romantic and catholic +. W. Schle-
Gel published the obscene romance Of LheiHdc aud
hat the hOIest and clear-hcaded philosopher aud
theolcgian Schleiermacher. the picus translator Of
Plato, wrote a preface to this German fahosas
Nevertheless. the fact is not the less dePOrable on
that account, and it is no great praise for thu 40
cetv we i've in. that in literature, AS Well as IN
female attire So much nakedness IA required.
Ii We consult history, find that high or low
evening dresses generally Indicate high or low
standard of morality. Under the Direct
ory of the French Republic, the ladies'
invented the Greek costume, which was, so 10
say. no costume at All. sO transparent was the
stuff used by the dsessmakers. The indignant
people were one day on the point OF giving cold
bath 10 the fair Madame Fallen, IN the garden OF
the Tuileres and the fear of like fac put
An end 10 that untimely imitation of the Greeks.
NAV another lesson, which the Partisan public has
lust given 70 some frail beauties in theatre, brlos
forth similar results
Ii seems that at one of the representations Of the
new opera, Rene Iopd;e, Young woman Wen
known in a certain part OF the world, appeared IN
a dress Of even unusual scantI ess. She was with
female friend, IN box near the stage, aud her
dress was So low that, as far ~ the
spectators were concerned, II might almost ~
well have been no dress at all. This reused the ia
diguation of the public the pit stood up IN mass
the men threw their handkt rcheis 10 the too charm
ing beauty. and cried with Moere Tartuhe
Cachez ce .,in que je 'aurAi' Vor"
But all was in vain till at last Commssary Of
Police appeared at the door OF the box and desired
the fair "exhbtioners to effect prudent retreat
They boldly and obstnately refused to comply. aud
a. soldiers NEEDLE now, 10 France, with every kind
of business, some Warriors on duty were calleu lp
and had 10 remove the two ladies'.
TartulTe, whom | have just quoted, reminds ma
of the chief editor and manager OF this tnirers
ReLRisur tho ultra Catholic newspaper, whose
law suit against the Able COgnat has been suddenly
brought to all end by tho Interference OF their &C
clesiastic sBperiors The Parisians have thus been
deprived of the speech which NJ. Duaure, tho eel
ebrated barrster and statesman, was about 10 de-
liver against VI. VeuillOt and NJ. Barrier, who are
so well known in the Jesuitica world There was
great eagerness especially the part of pious Ia
dies, TO behold the two advocates Of the Ultramoc-
tame party But, alas their curiosity could not
receive its reward, for both gentlemen are uncom-
monty ugly 1--we take the reverse of Spenser slime,
For al that's good /. beautiful and fair
which John Cordy Jeaffreson has just paraphrased
in bis JesabeI, by depicting "a face endowed with
that peculiar beauty which ia only given to the
good, the editors of the Unirers must be yeU
bad indeed.
But 10 return 10 the dresses: There is not the
least prospect Of ameloratIOn OF the hoop. petit.
coat nuisance, and crnoline will certainly make
"a lady's journey round the world" Ordinary
doors OF drawIng-room are no longer sufficient for
an elegant entrte What great attraction there lies
at the bottom OF that fashion, which gives 10 bloom
ing girls in their teens the outward appearance u
respectable matrons, II IS impossible for me 10 state.
At all events, the question has also serious side
beside the mHliners' and dressmakers' bills. Hgs
bands are expelled from their own carriages in
obedience to the requirements Of crinoline and
there is stop put 10 the invasion, the carriages
hemselyes will get the dimensions Of Noah,
ark. DO you cOnscientiOusly believe that II is still
possible for a husband to put lady dressed in ls
hight, or rather, as Punch has IT, in the breadth
fashion, under his projecting arm And is it nx
10 be- feared that the distance, thus artIhciay ere
ated between many happy couple, will be daily
enlarged and widened q
However that may be- the innovation OF which
complain so bitterly, with all the lords u
creation" Is due 10 the Empress Eugene, aud
uW, therefore, BIZ kept up IL has resisted the
Pi'"0 'Ah"i 'oeA"hs VI thr PuPlb anu INC snai SOS
casms OF the rdaderiii,sts. France is, indeed Mt
much indebted TO her gracious sovereign for iss
fashions she thinks ft 10 introduce. Beside
hoops she owes already TO her the "laEcer,
quadrllle,' perpetual circular ehasst-cro.st,
in which the dancers seem destined mces.antlyt
the figure = This dance was importsd
from England IN the retinue of Queen Vctors
and the Princess Royal; the Empress inaugurssst
1t in the 'candalous Jlts at COmpiegne, Of whiei
the papers spoke 20 much few months ago an
now It has received French letters OF naturalist
ton. After all, it teaches young men entering III