New-York tribune., 1871-11-06
BOSTON.
4, ,rppATrrRE AND AMUsEMENTs.


Tnp ON LOVE Observation-Disclosures
posroN Nov 9-Roberts Brothers Is at
any time pleasant OunRng place TOT the Ousy ue u
Il is douliy pleasant when an English ma mas us'
An Mr. Niles who have before told you' Is tne en
,. a, this Temple Of the MUSES., has brother IN Lon
Son-an artist Of performance and yet liner promise
ho "a admitted to the inner circle Of London artlsuo
md bterarv society aud thus knows whatever worm
knowing there sees whatever 1t is desraole 10 SOC
Almost every English mail, therefore, brings ne" DoVAs
for the consideration Of the Boston firm, photograpnso Vi
noted men and gifted women, rumors ana renlhscenee
,+no,t nrnoher Yesterday came q volume which the
HIesr Roberts at once decided to announce for pupc
tion-"A Shadow Of Dante" by MARIA Ffanceec"
Rossett One begins to thinks that to be koesetu III
itsef much the thing as TO he genius we nave
Christina Of the sweet, subtle songs; Dante dapleL
nth noet and painter; william Michael, the editor
~ sheev and the apprecative critic and reviewer OF
everybody else; and Maria Francesca VINO mas
walked with the great poet Of Italy until she nteo por
the Office Of his interpreter Her book Is an essay
toward studying himself, his world, and his Pill
grimace" Dante, she Gays, is name un-
limited in place and period. Not Italy, but the
universe Ia his birthplace not the fourteenth century
but all time is his epoch Any acquaintance WIN "oiA
50 sublime Dantes must be better than none ana III
view Of the difficulties be has presented TO many readers
Niss Rossetu says: "A shadow may win the gaze OF
somc who never looked upon the substance. Ny plan
very simple After in some degree setting forth what
Dantes Universe ia as whole and what autobiography
and history shows his hfe-experence to have been,
proceed to expound in greater detail the physical and
moral theories on which his three worlds are constructed,
and to narrae the Of his stupendous pilgrimage
Very quantity and charminGy she tells the story OF the
poct's life. He only nine Iyears old when ne nrst
met and first loved his Beatrice the sovereign lady who
swayed whole future. She was few months younger
than himself There is reason to think that he ever
sought her in marriage Perhaps when he first saw her
then betrOthed after the Italian custom to
that simon de Bard whose wife at the age OF % she
became. At she died and henceforth the world was
fairer and fuller Dante because she had lived In It,
At that time he resolved to "say no more OF that blessed
one until he could treat her more wOrthiy" and to this
end he says "I study much as can, as she knows
IN truth His whole life passed for her, and In the
thought Of her. though when she had been dead year
he married another His friends persuaded MIN
70 make Gemma Donat his wife, She was the mother OF
his children but the tic between them appears 70
been external and not spiritual and after his exile
nc never saw her again. So much so litte is known
OF his private life; but Miss ROssett enters fully into
his public career. She gives the topography OF MS
Hell clearly that ever enter that awful gate We
shall have no difficulty in finding our way Then she
goes with Dante and Virgil their PlutOnian pill
gnsge and tells the stories Of the sufferers they en-
counered forciby and plainly that ones magna'
ton docs not need DOres help picture the horrors OF
that where hope Is left behind The mder region
O. Purgaory is explored and explained and finally
Paradise Other scholars than Miss ROsse nave douD
less understood Dante and they perhaps do not need
this book but to oil ordinary readers 1t will be treas
urctrOve, indeed. Before taking leave OF the Rosetd
family tempted to glance at the proofsheets OF
Cnrnas Sing Song" which will be in the market be-
fore the first day OF Decembcrthe most charming book
of nursery rhymes since Wee Willie Winkie The Brothers
Dael have engraved their best the 40 Illus
trations which Arthur Hughes drew, aud to each
illustration belongs its little song Sometimes IN
the rhymes ia a hidden pathOs, which one wonders
whether the small people will comprehend In this for
Il dr,snt caught sntns owl,
But you buut for
And not ind such
dresmt set a EunaOWer
And red ~ blood grew
RE, Rsgasa s1S stSsssS sSsaSTfs ne Gss,5 sSS.
How old will the little people grow to be- wonder
before they find out that spend our lives hununH
in vain for the substance Of which our dreams are 'e
shadow-for the blue owl, and the sunnoWer req at
HOOD few things, only DO we know with certainty
and little further on the rhyme-booF Says:
when mountain sEyirh susn
n the uph Summer
GSi on on: sars are seIds Of cOTa.
when nightingale EDs
1l9ou @ we SoI ,IGGer # earth Si| Is @sreT earth
Oaly that Heaven is Heaven
Another new Juvenile, reprinted from the English ed
ton will be second series Of Jean Ingeows Stories
told to a Child" With regard to these the author says
I'm a private letter: In this book is the FIRST story
ever wrote 1t is about American and trea'~ per
severance. Prophetic, It not, that an American
should figure my first story, when 80 little thought
should ever be read on your side the water" Miss
IngelOw is a Protestant saint She lives TO do good
When she sent through her publishers, 800 for Chicago
the wrote "Ths at first. want TO give more II 1t is
needed" She writes without purpose,
and her practice is the unceasing echo
which spends to her preaching Miss AcOtt Is also to
issue a Juvenile for young children, to be called
Aunt JOS scrapbag." Roberts Brothers publish all
Miss Alcott's new books and the connection has been
eminently profitable and agreeable on both Sides DR..
Bartos book about radcasm has changed its title
eral times. 1t was Radical Faith" when last spoke
Of it, Now Radical Problems" Unsympathzing
todox believers will say that 1t is more fitting because
tie Radicals have faith and their Religions profile
matca
Among the English proof-sheets sent for the
sdcration Of Boberts Brothers those Of Lays Of
Frauce" by Arthur OShsughnessy author Of an Epic
Wonen," "Iuez etc. etc. Ellis Green are publish
ing the Lays" in London; 1t remains TO be seen
whether any here viii be immoral as to repubsh
All the pOetca guild Of young England seems to
labor under peculiar dsafectOn toward the seventh
commandment. "Fleshly poetry" as q contemporary
calls it, is in the ascendant. Mr.. OShaugh-
messy has a sid sweet voice Of HIS for singing,
n only he would sing dscreetly What woman could
Gsk 20 hc hctter praised than when he wIites
How shall Eay sbe Was 90 brl
b., truly GOd did her CONFUSE
which of Ill fowers he dOesd declare
Tie flrrsi: this way she vas fa:
-, tI;as Lie Gs :r't '.e's" al thai shows
Tie raSect inner sOoi began
or tiui e on her ehingiDg face.
That And Sat be- e o, s{s' nsS S.s,S 'S' sSgy iSS 'o
Old and Nec is determined not TO be outdone since 1t
consented TO dwell in the tents Of wickednes
Thus early in November proofshees for December
ready The table OF contents s unusually attractive