New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-10
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NV DAUGHTER Elinorn is rather superior 10
the generality of American novels IL Is sprlshuS -
dialogue, rarely nlgs In interest "'AouPh It's ~ into
a complicated one. and displays cOhsloeIaoo ~ 90
c,a,,,, aud motives Yet after according SO Ihu0n
- - man ever aware OF our poverty IN tha'
d,t,et AZ gc ION winch processes to give US I0.'lo
a, A,cy,, society This book could hardly TAKE PM
hes,dc those current English novels "hich aro
,bfl.rate by people Of taste in inns COUNT -, c.
whit cleyerer or brighter. than Miss bfauuonS -
Ttor Mrs Edwards's Arehie L0peit, or soinc Vi io M
me Th,uss novels and 1t Is not equal 70 any VI
. se, t,,ion of the society II attempts 10 uePict "
40 willie II nrofesses TO be an American novel, u Is
clearly constructed English moaels' All 'No 'l.'
while one is reading it, Washington Is turning INTO Non
don and Congress is constantly transforming 'sell o
enc uouse of Commons Mr. Grey takes snun more WIN
the air OF Premier than OF American Secretary anu
Mr. Rossiter with ms reiterated 80 nice" ana his
anxiety let everything should DO BORE is as lar ~
possible from our rising young POLITICIAN AS io ~
hero Give FanswOrth, he is weak creature "n0
might be the property Of either an English OF American
noyc hut who il is hoped VIII not be found ofteh III
either The female characters are mueh the most ehei
timing Rosa Thornton is very good indeed Both she
and Tom are natural and agreeable. MISS LaluIoy 10
well drawn, although trite exaggerated. Ihere are
certain types often repeated III novels that
we recognize them without remembering whether We
have met with them in real life not, and to these
EInor Grey add Ruth Farnswo.th belong. AS Tor the
idol ana Miss Pinet they should stand as warnings
70 aspiring authors never TO copy the method
of Dickens. lie succeeds In caricature by virtue
OF his rare genius. Imitation OF him Is sure 10 DC
grotegque failure 1t only remains TO be added that
the sketches OF Yankee character in the book-as SHOWN
"a tho rrpgn wi Is
chusets are as much like reality as the traditional
Yankee OF the English play wrGhts, and appear 10 nave
been studied from those models.
There could scarcely be a greater change to the
noyelreader than to take up, after "My Daughter
Einor," Gustav Freytag's Lost Manuscript" 1t Is
like leaving a ballroom TO out under the stars
The society novel naturally has the artificial character
OF tue scenes among which it is laid In the German
novel there is always something natural and homehKe'
whether huger upon the description OF country NE
estate Of the proprietor, or occupy III Fancy ING
cosy apartment at Herr Hummes, where the Professor
leads a serene, scholarly life with his bondehaired Ilse
The characters I'm the two books different as their
surroundings In the American book they talk Wlttly'
they sparkle in Tepartee, and are apt In quotations IN
the German, they often turn conversation into DISCOURSE
aud utter exalted sentiments on ordinary occasions.
One book Is fall OF shrewd worldly observations; the
other overhows with unwordly philosophy. We would
not leave 1t to be inferred that Freytags novel
Is all sermOnizing. On the contrary, 1t Is full
Of incident and rich n varied characters The coun'
try life at Rossau the welded happiness Of Use and the
Professor the idosyncraces Herr Hummeland Profess
sor Rascke and Frau Struyelius, are all delightful IL
Is possible that these are no like real people than
the characters in the American book but they are more
like people as we could wish them to be. II we are to
have ideals books, let them be Of the nobest and
finest.
soim6me" is rather tiresOme autobiography OF an
exceedingly dsagreeable young person who resolved
IN loypD obO6v q everybody
as uncomfortable possible, Having succeeded toera-
bly, well in doing So repents back 10 her fam
iy and writes her life warning to those who are
disposed to be as intOlerable as herself.
A TREATISE On THE MEASURE OF DAMAGES. by
THEODORE sEDGwICK Fifth Edition Syo PIP 49,
Baker, VoOrhis & Co.
quarter of centuTy's constant reference
TO sedgwek Damages has made this commentary per
feey familiar and Indispensable to the profession The
general esteem in which the work is held, declared In
tile demand for five successive editions the best praise
OF its merit and utility. The great change which has
taken place within few years the system Of pleading
in this and several Of the sister States amounts almost to
total subverson Of the common-law procedure; most
Of the distinctions between law and equity particularly
in the state Of EewYork, completely efaoed, and
accordingly while many of the old have ceased to
be as directly applicable formerly very many new ad
publications. have been made which possess almost an
original importance The fourth edition Of the present
teac pepafcu alJer an lntefV OF ten years between
" and the third reduced most of these to scen
title anay and arrangement The fifth edition. before
u.s. prepared by son Of the author member OF
Boston bar. lie has brought the down stin
later and discovers great skin and industry in citing and
arranging them in his notes.
We have received Pant XX. of the American
edition Of Dr. WILLIAM SMITHS Dictionary Of The Btbe
extending TO the word "Olive" QHurd d Houghton)
4 Guide Book Of Florida and he South, by DANIEL G.
BRISToN NJ ID. philadelphia: George MacleanJ; History
Of Tie Kings and queens Of England in doggerel
NewYork: William T. smithson); The American Joe
Miller IT. b. Peterson Brothers.; Ruby GrGys Strategy
the latest novel from the untrng pen of Mrs ANN g.
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AaSsDrGeae elements of English Pronunciation by JOHN
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