New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-19
BOSTON.


PLATFORM AND THE THEATERS.
BosroN, Now 17.-Decidedly the most notice
able piece of literary which has como Out within
tho fortnight my last letter. is the announcement
that Mt T. Fields is 20 write his personal remin
ccnoes OF the distinguished people who have been hs
friends There is other Of this generation whose
memories of the great authors Of England and America
would have anything like the variety OF interest "hioi
will attach to the rccocctons OF this genial Boston Pu
Usher His recent paper Dickens is an earnes. " 80.
quality Of what he has to say; and indeed Is '
sure that essay has caused which has induceu M
20 put upon paper the treasures with "lion n IN,
and his conversation arc stored mo i"'' I'm
adopt in Our whispering Gallery is lec"l"i' - -,
take in succession the portraits which hang III S o''
.nddiscolrse OF each in turn, beginning WIN
H. In ,u,erveaye what ne has 10 say WIN eN'fic's
from the letters OF which he has thousands III .'
,osrec rcrhaps what he has 20 say OF haWoThc VIII oo
most interesting OF all for his ASSOCIATION ana CORE
snondence with Hawthorne began in 1850, when "Ihe
scarlet Letter" was writing and continued TIL the week
Of the great romancers death. And during the years
,yhen Uawtlorne was writing his books he kept no
"Note Books" but instead wrote very long ana minute
weekly letters TO Mr. Fields that the OF matter
at command is immense and only the choicest can DC
.elected Mr. Fclds's acquaintance with Miss Milford
was long and intimate from her also he has great
store OF delightful gosSippng letters about men ana
books He has walked all over TIE Lake region with
Worisworth known Landor well at different periods Of
his life; was familiar with De Quincy; ana IL may De
imagined that he has not told all he has to say OF
Dickens to whom he may return later in the Series
have omitted TO say that these papers to appear In
The Atlantic Monthly during 1871 and it seems to me
that none Of the bright promises of many magazine pros
pectuses imply much Of pleasure to the cultivated
public as this.
The new volume Of essays which Mr.. J. r. Lowell is to
give to the public this year viii be of somewhat lighter
complexion than his last Among my Books" owing
nd NJ
TAIN as may be judged from partial list of its contents
There will he My Garden Acquaintance" and A Good
Word for Winter" two charming studies Of nature which
appeared in the Atlantic AlnanOes paper On Certain
Condescenson in Foreigners in which Jonathan speaks
20 John quite as keenly and wttily through the mask
OF Hosea Blow's verse; A Great Public Character"
an essay suggested by the biography Of Mr.. Josiah
Quincy; aud papers Abraham Lincoln" ChauceT,"
James Percival," TAOreau," "Swinburne," and on
Some Ante Eizabethan Authors" do not learn that
title for the volume itself has yet been fixed upon.
Major DE Forest has written capital American novel,
which appear serialy IN The Atlantic Monthly next
year.
Messrs Roberts Brothers have added their announce
ments work by Mr.. Philip G.. Hamerton the English
artist and art crtc"The Unknown River, Etcher's
Voyage of Discovery" with fOrtytwo etchings by the
euthOr They Will also publish Brevia; Short Essays
and Aphorisms," by Arthur Helps; and o aud
greatly cheapencd edition OF Thousand bues III the
Rob Roy Canoe" with all the plates and map.
Students Of American history will remember that the
FIRST The Life OF Nathaniel Greene, Major
General in the Army Of the Revolution" by Mr. George
Washington Greene OF Rhode Island published by
Mr.. Putnam of New York. several years The second
and third volumes, completing the work, are going
through the Riverside Press here, and will bear the n
print Of Messrs. Hmd HoughtOn.
Miss Louisa Alcott is at Vevey in Switzerland and
writes to her friends here in excellent health and spirits
She is not at work.
The soldiers monument project ags account Of
tain protests made by organizations OF surviving soldiers
who think this proper time for urging that money
should be put into practical aid for widows and orphans
rather than into granite memorials Of the dead This
same logic would have prevented the erection OF tho
shaft Bunker Hill, and in fact. have kept the world
clear OF all monuments and works Of art whatever 1t ia
not likely avail against the construction of the
ment on the Common; but the Council has postponed
action for two weeks in respect TO the character and
number Of these inOpportune champions OF practical
charity.
Intelligence has been received that Mr. Thomas Balls
completed statue Of Gov. Andrew is on sbipboaTd at
Leghorn. and 20 sail for Boston. Much is expected
of this since Mr. Balls other statue, his equestrian
Washington in tho Public Garden, IS perhaps the most
successful work OF sculpture IN the outdoor collection of
Boston, and his model of the Andrew won a decided
preference several others which submitted to
the committee in competition with it.
MI William Hunt has had on exhibition here for few
days three portraits in his very best One that
Of child; of x-Attorney g nera Hoar, which be-
Love has gone TO Washington ana the third Of an
old man. relative believe Of Mr. W. NJ Eyarts, which
one OF the strongest and finest pieces Of painting
achieved by the brush of any portrait artist in this
try 1t Of those gray heads which artists know,
with thin r0ngay hair and beard beneath the chin like
"a white mist and gray tnts predominating III the flesh
but with vigorous, rugged features, and lines full OF
GEN. BUTLER.
There Is no little interest TO hear how Gen. But
ier in lecture TO be delivered at the Music
Hall next Wednesday evening, will amplify his
views lately given to the public through THE TRIBUNE,
especiaIy us the somewhat unfavOrable reception
of them by press and the public has already induced
little siding toward retreat his part in the columns
Of the Lowell local paper. There have been many ex-
plantations OF this sudden warwhoop the part of the
hero OF atteras but 1t TO that there is
for new and plausible 1t is not forgotten
that Gen Butler ridiculed by Gen. Grant in
witty military report that Butler made speech or two
indicating desire pursue the successful military
Inander with vengeance TO the bitter cod, and that he
wrote book designed to make Grant suffer he
himself had suffered, but changed his mind and never
printed IT, There those who think that Gen. Butler
experienced change OF heart in this respect-per-
haps about the time he wept touchingy at the Vine
yard campmeetng-and that all his friendship for the
Administration his OstentatiOus defense OF II from the
assaults" Of Mr. Dawes his Wanted intimacy at the
White House have been sincere and earnest manifesto
tons of devotion to the personal and political fortunes
Of the man who exhibited him 10 the world
ly cOrked in bottle But it TO that this i'm
plies radical misconcCpton Of Cen Buffers character
He is not fOrgetful man Truly, he has squat like
the Of the Administration dictated TO
81 many its appointments but they not been its
worst appointments and those most calculated TO bring
il into dsrepute with the pubici This new denonsra-
ton against England of piece with the same charac
meter OF advice Osensiby intended 10 give 10 the Ad