New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
MRs STOVES NEW VOLUME.

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little even for the lesser labor of telling story Her
object was to pant a series of pictures Of homoly
Massachusetts, life in what she calls " the seminal
period7 of New-Engand just after the close Ok the
Revolution while there still strong infusion OF
Toryism mingled with the Tepuhlicauism Of tho
smancipated colonists when titles Of nobility were
not vet quite extinct in Boston, and IN the old
Church of England families his gracious Majesty
King George was commemorated with becoming
feryor in the family prayers. These pictures are
painted with the Einutcness of Dutch artist. The
Old-lashion Yankee kitchen, with its clean white
sanded floor its mOnstrOus fireplace and blazing
hickOry-logs and its dresser respleudent with pol
shed pewter; the farmhouse parlor cold, uninyit-
ing, devoid of human light and warmth furnished
with bright mahogany tea table, and chairs stiff
and slippery that they preached decorum in their
very attitudes; the country Westinghouse and ITS
strange congregation; and the stately elegance OF
Boston gentiliy all placed before us with real
Ism that is quite delicious. Mrs. Stowe KNOWS al
these features thoroughly, and she touches 'hel Oh
with the pen of an artist In the description OF VII
lage character she is still more excellent FOR inc
oddities so common in New-England towns she mas
keen relish and quick eye; and odd as she makes
them nobody who has much or New-England
life will think many Of the portraits oVerdfaWn'
Nothing could be better in its way than this:
Every New England village, If You only think OF il,
must have its do-DOthug regularly as 1t has IT'S school
housa Westinghouse Nature Is always wlue awake
i'm be matter OF compensation Work, thrift. ana hquS
try are such an nCCsSant steampOwer in Yankee HE,
that society would DurG llSe out Win intense IloGo
power Of decided donOthng-a man who won't be hnr-
ned and won't work aud will take his ease in his own
way I'M spite Of the whole protest of his neghborhood to
the contrary And there is on the face Of the whole
napttude to labor and everlasting universal shhess-
ness compare with that Of this worthy found IN
Sam lawson iiiSd this post with ample honor in Old,
town. He fellow dear TO the souls OF all us boys
I'm the village because from the special nature OF ms po
sitOu, he had anything more pressing 10 40 IMAM
in tnkerng boy's knife, mendug his skate. or
start at the smallest notice TO watch at wo0dchuck
paw He always on hand TO 90 nshing WIN Us on
Saturday afternoons and have known nun 70 SIT nO
after hour ON the bank surrounded by troop OF boys
batting our hooks and taking of our fish, lie was SOFT
hearted ola BODY ana l9 s rcose 50 @ If was Tcr
lar part OF IFS work to kin the fish by breaking their
why ioriy mosy, boys" he would say II can't bear
10 see no Kind crtter in torment. These ere pous
amt blame for bein FISH and ye ought to put EN-
out Of their misery Fish hes their rights as well as any
Sam was n respectable family and not destitute Of
education lie expert ~ az least i've or six ar
ferent kinds Of haudicrl i'm all OF which he hed been
pronounced by the knowing ones 10 DO capable work
man. IF only he would stick TO it He mad Dlack,
smiths shop where, when the fit was on HIM he Wonla
shoe horse better than any man IN the county NO one
could supply missing screw, or apply timely Plaoe
as 10 be almost as good he could carpenters
tools as well as born eaIpen5eT ana %99o HOH'oT ia
professional artisans in wood. No could put
that's if you would give him his time to be about 1t.
shall never forget the wrath ana dis,
by the ieisurely way in which, after having
taken our own venerable kitchen clock to pieces, ana
srewn the fragments all over the kitchen he would roost
over II in endless incubation telling stories entering
into lOugWnded theological discussions, smoking pipes,
and giving histories Of all the other clocks IN Oidt0W
with occasional memoirs OF those in Necdmore the North
leys Of and contempt, her singing expOstua-
tions and phihppics as the sailing old moon is 70 the
Why ye sec. Miss Lois he would say, clocks can't
be druY and then agn things can't, and clocks IS
that kind. They's Jest got TO be humOTed Now this
;ere's 'mazn' GOOD clock: give Inc my time on IT, and
IN have ii so u win keep straight on to the Millennium"
Millennium % says Aunt Lois, with sort Of infinite
Eyes, the Millennium" says sam, letting fan his work
in conJcmpauye manner. IAat ere 3 an intereStu'
topic now. Parson Lotrop no don't think the Miller
MUM viii last thousand years WHAT'S your pnion on
that pint, Miss Lolsf
Miss Asphyxia Smith is we trust an exaggeration,
but she steps forth from the canvas with startling
viyidneSs:
Miss Asphyxia was tan and spare. Nature had made
her she often remarked Of herself entirely for use
She had allowed FOR her muscles no cushioned repose OF
fat no redundant SmOOthucSs of outline There
nothing Ter but good strong gold bOuc and tough,
Wiry wellstrung muscle she was past 90 ana her haif
already well streaked with gray and so thin that
when tightly combcd and tied, j. SIN showed bald cracks,
not very slightly 20 the eye. The only Thought that Miss
Asphyxil had in relation to the couture Of her hair
sdertG principally something that might get into pcO
PIES eyes If not properly attended to- aud accordingly
very tight knot and then secured by horn comb on
tne to O I,L heS; 40 i ne LIS No' 5U "Ei{ ,i
only Of the toilet, ana she tried crwO every morn
mS-giass, not unlike that Of uuruly II tins |
process did not start tho horn comb from its moor
sheek5Oues, and watched over By pair OF small gray
oyerhnns them We're gIizzled, like her hair
u TonId not be proper 10 say that Miss A'phyxla
stretch o. imagination be supposed TO wear an expires
gravity, whose lines had become more deeply chanuced
by every wear Of LCr IKE. As related 10 her Fellow.
cTeaturC she neither passionate HOr cruel We have
wound up 10 hghprc-sure wOruugpoini and tins being
the way Of her work. with little CompunCtOn IL
she mad been s,eamcnginc or pOwerlOOm.
1t is in of clerical life, the ways and opn
ions Of ministers, their relations with their locks,
and the OF the earnest theological disputes of
Calyinists, Arminians and High Church Episcopal
laus, which entered 50 deeply at that day into the
life Of the people that Mrs Stowe takes her chief de
light Here she speaks as an acknowledged expert.
She never takes sides, but permits the opposing
creeds 10 have each its accomplished Spokesman and
defenders IL will seem to many that an undue share
Of her book has been sacrificed TO dead discussions
upon free viii and election, total depIayty and pre-
venting grace but how could she faithfully depict
the Puritan life of hundred years ago without Civ
ing to these topics prominence just such as they
really occupied az that time in peoples minds
When the farmers family gathered at night around
the kitchen fire. the talk was more likely to be of
Hopbrsiauism and Amiuiauism, the Cambridge
Platform and the writings Of the Reverend Jonathan
Edwards than Of crops and prices aud the disorders
oi politics. Mrs. Stoves treatment of these sober
topics Is moreover far from dry. The LIGHT of an
Hpigramnatic wit plays over the solemn theme, and
nnecdote humorous ilustration and the sparkle of
good, racy dialogue keep it full of life. Take this