New-York tribune., 1867-04-29


aud N,raeli and their p. Il. to themselves I'm fact
tho Reform bin is becoming q considerable bore and
cannot think that John Bull, higging over little
difference OF two pounds in the rental OF a
voter presents q handsome sight just now On the
political side OF his countenance When the tuInor
has gone down little we win photograph him again
but for this time We viii turn to the literary Sdo oi
him. where he is best looking. great thinker h'S'
Try tho by warned Us to make the most OF John IN q
literary point of view at the present time tne
tion being that he has reached ms lh'e1eo'u"
sol,tice and that henceforth the days are 10 Do
shorter and the nights longer. There Is among many
here a suspicion that this may be go anu ~ IeolS
chiefly / believe on the fact that nearly ali OF the
young generation of literary men are running INTO
criticism. which is valuable literary art Mr
DaIIas calls il tho Gay Sciencerbut not the sign
of a growing literature The healthy literature is
unconscious and its heart will not turn to examine
the crimson Of its own currents The Saturday Rcetee
had an article on Originality" lately, in which
it endeayored to lay the suspicion to which
have alluded by suggesting that there
is no such thing as originality" The article really
touches the point. When two people cannot publish
book without appropriatng each others uues
when the magazines at law about the same
when hundred London streets are named King
ST. and nearly as many named Queen, Duke, Prince,
and cyery other funkeysh title when the nOvelsts
'-of which the latest case is Mrs. Henry WOOd-are
reyamping their old wares under new names tor the
public il really becomes question whether there Is
anything new under the English-sun Will hardly DO
Clouds This treading each others toes by liter
airy mems M really becoming IN n9y Evidence M at s Rsw
play Glide and Time is not copied from Mr. Cheit-
mans Ticket -eave-man's Wife" but was IN the
hands of the manager OF the New Surry before
CheItnams drama was produced-the resemblance
consequently being a coincidence. And so we go.
Even Temyson has never originated story. though
he is the finest story-minstrel in the world and
George Eliots plots are the only things IN which one
There is among English women one novelist who
has something of originality at least. aud who II she
ture which Mrs. Browning and George Eliot pos
sesSed would in my belief have been their equal at
least allude TO Mrs. Z. Lynn Linton. There n In
her Lizzie LortOn of Greyrlgg vast deal OF terse
and graphic writing, and strong Apprehension OF
varieties of character. There is, however that NOR
writing of every English. and, measurably, every
American woman of great ability. The new novel OF
Mrs Linton's, Sowing the Wind, which mas Just
been published is in some respects her most marked
production American readers will probably ENJOY 1T
more than Lizzie LOTtOn" because it has none OF
that iaw-breaking Cumbrian dialect, in which the
latter is chiefly written. The story Is tremendous
one for these times, though do not believe lt was
written so much with moral purpose as to utter the
whole heart aud mind of the authOreSs. 1t rs the
story of the inevitable retrbuton which comes OF an
rein on sensitive and noble woman--hs Wife-
whose virtues he is unable TO perceive lie loses the
heart he grasps so blindly anu seishly.
Mr.. Emerson somewhere speaks of the story OF
Beauty and the Beast as being kind of national Ia
BILE with the English. and says there is reason for
his heart1 Nearly every English story-teller who
has touched the principle embodied in that fact has
succeeded Charlotte Brontes heroes are all bears
with soft places their hearts indeed Rochester III
Jane Eyre is the true successor OF Bruln IN the
fairy tale. Then, again, Adam Rede. Sas Warner,
and Felix Holt ali have good deal of the bear about
them. Beauty" is also reproduced IN modern
novels, though her charms have passed inward and
pressivev features The legend has lately been again
reproduced and in a novel considerably above the
average of merit. 1t is entitled The Gives OF Bur
cot" and all we know of the author is that he
or she was the writer. of one of the stories in
the last Christmas Sdro Of Charles indeed Skenf rapR
named after his antitype Bruin. Bruin Chye is de-
cidedly well portrayed prince IN the rough whose
shaggy disguise young girl has the character to
pierce finding in him noble husband. There is IN
the work another of the Brun species Simeon foru'
a miner who is sketched with admirable vigor.
Another novel by Miss Muoch THAT wasi entitled
john HALIFAX, Gentleman" as Rubens was to his
every character from fish-wifo to Madonna. What
toappear The new John II. is Liverpool merchant
named Sir John Bowerbank, who Is married by a
lady who has been sadly disappointed and wishes to
. lead o quiet life with good man whom she can
respect. However she never gets over her hTs love,
which purse7prond parent has disappointed, ana
Sir John perpexed to know whether the thought
was OF him or of the former lover whose name was
young gentleman who loves rustic beauty, who
after marriage shows much rustcity OF speech and
He goes of TO Canada and his father takes the de-
serted wife to his house. He makes money in Can
ada and she makes progress In spelling durng his
absence lie returns TO ma VIE as sensible as sne
is beautiful and falls in love with her over again.
There is considerable force in these new STORIES es
Nina Balatka, the Story of Maiden of Prague"
is the title of novel, i'll which The Spectator
finds internal evidence OF the authorship of Anthony
TrOope, whose name does not appear IN the title:
The critic took an odd way OF proving TO himself
that the work by TToope after the style had sug
the suspicOn he 1.-THE critic of The Spectator
said to himself: " If ii IS written by Mr.. TToOpe,
shall soon meet with the phrase made his way as
applied to walking when there is no physical
difficulty or embarrassment, but only a GER
tain moral hesitation, as 10 the end and
aim of the walking in question: and behold,
within page Of the point at which the remark was
made. he found the phrase In the peculiar sense
indicated IL is singular that HF Troll0pe did not
put his name 20 the work, which is good any he
has written. HithertO he has written exclusively
of English life and manners, and in this speciality"
he has>attained such reputation that be, possibly.
distrusted his ability TO write equally well of the
scenery and life of Prague. His work is, however,
well done. The old religious antagonism In Prague
between Christian and jew survives BOW only as q
social caste difference, whicL however is very rgid
On this point the story turnsa Christian girl having
fallen in love with Jew. The PlSy Of character is
fine and well drayn but the chief interest OF the
own mind, out of the national preiudiees by which
she is surrounded under the q1iekening influences
of her love.
Idaa1 is the title of new romance, yeritable
romance, snch as our gTandmotheFs would have de-
lighted in, but which 10 our Diekenized and Thack-
erayized generation has an old tmey havor about u
which Is novel enough TO be refreshing Phe authoT
ess who gives her name as Ouida" has been before
the public with two other works, "CbandOsP and
Strathmoren both of inferior merit 20 the present
story She has evidently dreamed the novels Of
Buwer aud Disraeli and there are "reminiscences Of
them in plenty yet for all that, the 10 well
written. There are only two OF three characters