New-York tribune., 1868-03-24

sketch and not In the faYore realistic VEN OF o "u'
has certain gloomy vigor and many Of its lines most
musical most melancholy" will continue to haunt the
memory OF the reader
The Gdldru for this month not only continues
70 hold m own in the way of pluck and freshness Of mat
ter but announces certain changes in form and conuuet
winch will give II new Of life Its success thus
far warrants an enlargement Of pan and the adoption
OF various improvements, though, as conducted al pres
en It rivaled by few magazines In the interest anu
satisfaction with which It is read by wide circle Sew
era noticeable articles appear in this number among
which stands prominent for its bold critical heresles
Before Genius showing the value TO literature OF the
iterary element the superiority OF manhood 10 genus
and culture The freedom OF the writer from fashion
able man-worship and his independent handling of pop
ular regulations may be in the paragraphs which
we quote as a sample Of the whole paper.
Only those books for the making OF men into which
a man has gone in the making. Mere professional skhI
and seght of hand of themselves are 10 pe apphd
lightly in letters as in war or government or Any M h I W
leadership Strong native qualities only aNI III 1ne uonb
rum and the more these dominate over the nv A.
dowments sloughng or dropping the aer ~ Who has
result, the refreshed and enlaIgeu ~ %
not, al period Of his Ife, been capuvheu py s
rhetoric and ne style OF nearly an ts aRed mn 70 dis
that behind these brilliant names was no strVng'
loving man. bqt only refined taste ere 'en'iO"'
Think of the lather OF the modern novel and the dash
and @ sSss% beat at Of o% earsure and
what hef What noble person has he sketchedi Inc
grand universal human traits in his own character Is
shown in nothing clearly than IN the kd OF inter
the reader takes in his books We are led along solely
by the ingenuity OF the plot and silly desire 10 see now
the affair came out What must be the effect long con
tnued, OF this class Of juggers working upon the sym
pathes and the imagination OF nation OF gestatihg
women 4 o,
hut immense human significance OF Homer's celestial
swineherd entertaining divine Ulysses or even the soil
tary watchman, in .Eschyuss AgamemnOn, crouched'
Ike nght-dOg the roofs Of the Atr-de waiting Tor
the signal fires that should announce the ia Oi Sacreu
lion. -,
But one need not look long, in contemporary Brit
sh literature. To find man. In the author OF Chhrac
eriscs" and SartOr Resartus," we surely encounter
one Of the true heroic We made that here
is something more than tHcrdeu something more lhah
aud strong primary diosyncracics Here the man cutters
into the estimate Of the author There Is no separating
them, as there is in great examples. curious
peryersy through ALL but In way vtiaes the re-
suit In both his moral and intellectual natures Carye
made with sort OF stub and twist ike the pest
grnbarres The motty and corrugated character Of his
sentences suits well the peculiar and intense acuNy OF
his mind. What transition from his terse and sharply
artcuated pages brmmng with character and life, and
"A strange mixture OF rage humor, tenderness poetry,
Of Macaulayl Nothing Carlyle's contributions seems
foruitous IL all flows from good and sufficient cause
in the character OF the man.
The writer tramples on all the perfumed, Vanished
elegances Of literature remorseessly a bear In
flower garden but holds fast 70 the root OF the matter
in his preference for robust manly nature TO the
effemnate devices Of superficial art Some new views OF
the Fight at Fishers Hi" given by James Franklin
Fills who was himself actor in the ARRAY The follow
ing anecdote Will bear repeating:
As evening approached upon the day ~ the fight sher
idan had entirely completed hs dispositions and had ms
army In hand his entire satisfaction. His intention
was not however, TO attack that night probably esteem
ng II best TO await the dawn Of another mornings aud he
had withdrawn little way 10 the rear, where headquar-
had been hastily established intendngto rest niue
when curious coincidence changed his plans and sent
him forward that night TO victory An aide rode up Win
the announcement:
General Crook sends his compliments Sir. and says he
Is in position He'd Ike TO have you know Sir, that lns
Glad OF it, said sheridan. "Tell him to stay where
heis" 90
General Wneht's compliments, general He Is ready
20 attack any minute and the men are rather anxious Tor
it They were never IN better spirits ,.,-
Good. again" responded sheridan. " Tell the gener-
And hardly had ne uttered the words when aide mum
Der three came up at gallop. .- -., -.
told me 10 say you that the enemy has developed moth
ng but weak picket ON bis left The corps s ia excel
"wei, now by George :" exclaimed sheridan. n the
whole army N such good trmand temper f nc WORK
why delay it We won't, my names Phil sh,rl
dan! You, Sir o the last aide, ride back to General
with his whole force Major take the famo order 10
General Wright Captain the same 10 Crook Mount,
gentlemen mount Wen have that hill before another
hour"
"The Slaughtered FreBchnan presents piquant
comparison between certain points In French and Amer
lean social lfea subject Of perpetual interest though
not little hackneyed, and Mr. Grant White treats inc
lovers of verbal disquison TO more than usua eaoor
ate essay on Words and their Uses His suggestions
are always instructive though often Of doubtful authority
hut whether they challenge denial the OF
good English gains by the discussion. The comments In
the " Nebuln on Monsieur Blot and his plans for an
improved cuisine show that cookery must be ranked
among the lost in this country and can never be
revived til i is made branch Of liberal female educa-
cation instead Of being ntrusted to uninstructed IRISH
aud German peasant women"
III f.. a, th ,r1t. .1, fha
Atlantic opens has reference TO Mr. Youngs even
ing Journal but Is rather superfuous appeal in behalf
OF the privileges Of old age. The writer urges the i'm
portance Of multiplying festivities pageants reunions
and goodfellOwship generally for the benefit OF the
ancient fok,"they should be treated with the finest
concerts operas and the best light IN art galleries,
and should 20 TO the theater, II not every night or
every week. least in every two or three months
Not a bad thing would be old mans gymnasium,
TO which nobody was admitted under seyenty-hve,
I'm which they could swing their parallel bars climb
dizzyng ladders and almost stand on their heads and
turn sOmersets they used 10 seventy years ago The
writer adds "and dance Virginia reels" which we fancy
would be an odd caper IN gymnasium, though II
might do well for octogenarian IN an old
fashioned ballroom. Mr. Whipple continues his
admirable critical series OF English literature
with an article spenser whom lac regards as "the
only undramac poet Of his time, who could be placed
above or on level with Wordsworth, Byron Shelley,
COerdge Tennyson" In the great body OF the poetry
OF that day there is that is bad than toerabe,
more that is toerabe than readable, and more that Is
readable than excellent" With scarce exception,
spenser was the only poet who had that perception OF
the loveness OF things and that Joy In the perception,
which make continuous poetic creation necessity OF
existence" The "Faery Queen" however, Is treated
without tho fond idolatry with which 1t has usually
been approached by its modern ecstatc admirers "As
only one half Of the first portion OF this vast
tod hta hal
the longest poems the world and all but the poets
resoue admirers profess their incapacy to read with
out WEAKNESS than the first three books 1t must be
ahted that Snensers pilon Of the abstract capa