New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-03
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
SMEEsoS ~ GERMANY-THB REV. c. T. BROOKS -
JAMES MARTIsEAU-DR. STANLEY.

JAMES MAkIlNtAA--bh. SlANbIi'
Yraaa Occasional Couv.rouisnt - g. ,, ,...
Herman Gdmm's "Nouo Essays aDer Kunst und
Lteaiur" are beginning 10 attract some attention from
scholars although nobody has offered TO translate them
for the British public. Tie most entertaining articles
are those on Emerson, Humboldt and Goethe in Italy.
That on Emerson is fret in quality as it is in its position
in the volume and Is attracting considerable attention IN
Gomany-on which account well as because The many
among your rade who are also iEey 70 De IeaGeis Oh
Emerson will be glad 10 know how the Soge marches on
in the Old World, send you few original TRANSACTIONS
from IL. II opens thus:
volume by Emorson. boxed into d. read page and was
surprised Il having uHiert0od VOu Of IT, though was
olrlr confident of ms Fnrsh asked about the uuhor;
was toll that be The Gt author Of America and great
nj tr c1en hi, own sc1tcrec but TINT no other was 20
regarded whether character or prose wIiter This
Indictment sounded strangely ihg. looked into the book
aim sc srtences dted 80 brilliantly into nv soul that
felt IMPULSE PIT the book uto my pocket and look into
T bcn fo,t n. his dnv so attracts us that We decide
without consraln look into -s this day when, from o
Of instinct 81 scfpcseyaon one has 20 stand on TIE ex
lis time mood and thoughts l took Wctstors Dictionary
aud began 10 read The construction seemed To- pc quito e
r9ornary soon discovered the mystery: here were real
thoughts real speech real man. that Lad before me, not
a. need not carry the antithcs further bought the
book since then have not ceased read these books and
every time seems the hrst time
yTho writer then goes into long metaphysical, artistic
and exceedingly tine analysis II what the JOY That one
may be summed up thus Every man Is born TO the hertz
agc a the past be is az tie end Of long tram OF asso-
Citations, ideas, customs, which be did not make, but
which press upon him on every side aud fetor h VINO
so liberties the from the walls and bars which the
past has slowly prepared for each spirit though 1t be but
Liberation for moment, gives him for that time dlYno
ioy. This liberation some find In gazing on works Of art
others in listening 20 music, but IL is most of oil felt by
those who with great thinker ascend TO tho vault OF
Pure Reason, when the wing ofthoush Is free pass on
TO translate that which relates the writer's experience In
reading Emerson and getting others 20 read ~;
" did not ask whether he was great thinker (goSic)
nv In his SENTENCE this or that reserved thought read
page ae another II possible Tat u was all confused ana
hard 1t appeared not followed the thought word
after word All appeared To me as old aud familiar as II had
thought or had pcsehumcnt OF thousand umes n.I 't
n as new as II IWore for tho first tmc learning t. When
had read the book for time my sense OF independence
reyocd accounted IL impossible that should hayebo given
ceiVeI md drluded sad u myself This must be
man Ike Others has probably their faults and doubtful virtues
likely ~ bo yan smooth ongucd and capriciousaDd then
when read the sentences over again the magic atmosphere
srcamod over my heart and Che Old WORKOUT mechanism
OF tie world refreshed ms II had never tasted sqch pure
air heard lately from American who had attended En-
esOns lectures that there nothing that TOOK ho OF one
Ike hearing this can believe IT, Nothing goes beyond
voice OF who speaks out OF the inmost soul what he
The essayist gives us the following the result of
experience in trying 10 announce his discovery OF his
prophet 10 his literary friends;
1--WE know how tho world necessarily yearns for the true
handed kind Of 10 whom can surrender itself One
feels himself happy in being acquainted Win man who seems
respond 10 that aspirations ard begins hall nom JOY NJ hay
made the discovery and half under the impulse which
companies every lively feeling communicate oneself to set
fob puIcly es trth whnt one must hold such turned
irst 10 such intimately acquainted with OF whom
knew beside that English familiar ia them so that all had
TO do TO lay the book before them and ayeadl Ihe
first result confirmed the utility OF the effort recon-
mended successfully Emorsons works But now Degnn 20
encounter dscOmagng experiences Emerson writes English
Many understand that They read the current writings watch
Tauchnin sends out into the world volume on youmei
Macaulny presents difficulty; Carlyle is ntelgimethey get
through the artificial disorder OF bis periods but with Emerson
the turnpike begins 20 change into considerably sandy road
He writes and thinks Amecanicaly lie writes not for Berlin
but for the people of Massachusetts He takes every word IN
the OF the day there whether The rest Of human.
iy get the meaning out II Is to him indifferent
Emerson has known wbatwos for these writings Of his to
be prescribed az inst unbeieyer mhdman ana lass
teacher he Needed not that Now he comes forward
by wondering listening multitude Can he now care any
more what liz said OF him surely then not what people In
Of hm who with difficulty understand his language,
only read anenty this and that in German transatos
second stumbing block Emerson is cultivated man. ana
speaks the Americans and the English he has cu
tvaed public before HIM that say people who know Pac
teal and have rational idea OF the past and iue oil Their
country With there Is singular contrast to all this We
are extremely learned, but only tOr examiners
In my opinion nowhere Is such partial knowledge with so
much ignorance made into the rule ns with us Ter
Each knows what he must aud knows he must
Men drive through tie sciences rs one nowadn!s shoots
through ufopo in tan we've done the Journey ar
rived where meant TO- but have done nothing tOwardt
heard uUl seen nothing OAy paid Tor oar u0acs ~ Ohs