New-York tribune., 1872-09-23
Nrw.yoRK LITERARY NOTES
x,.ppxR FOR oCTOBER-HAWIllOhNS
tAN BILE PROPHECY.
NJ. II Stoddard hl'.s Several nares of the

Mr.. R. Il. stOddard Ms MS several pages of the
Detc1if HorDSr with pleasant sketch OF Na'nan'o'
Hawthorne One cannot read too often OF ,I'"' IN
genius OF that kind melancholy nature anu MI
tard writes with feeling and good taste he Ic'u' -
child Hawthorne lame studious, fond OF romance anu
reader of Rousseau; the boy, now rowing 'nrous" ~
Maine woods now the proud editor Of miniature nS"
ioe f Of the solemn grandoquence OF his age anu vi
the time the young just out OF college, sny' ""aS
reading disling daylight, writing ana "n''
he wrote with impatient dissatisfaction Ineh 0o"'S
,n. story Of that period Of literary production ana
critical neglect which it seems strange enough W i
oy vhen Hawtbornes work is that most eherlsheu III
ar literature II IOt easy for the younger
"a realize that no was for years what he himseH ce"
the obscurestman OF letters in America Inroue" '
dreary Custom-house experience through the "asVcu
months at Brook Farm and those subsequent wondrous
,,s t,at made the modest waysido" home forever
secured in American eyes, Sr. stoddard follows his SUD
tect sympathetcaly and gracefully lie descrDes HiS
nrst sight OF the gentle author;
see him now saw him then strong, s,yS 0rGaa S3t
Kindly face the most wonderful eyes in me world
searchng as lightning and unfathomaDle as night
small personal remembrance gives usa Characteristic
sugeestIon OF the mans life. Says Mr. Stoddard;
Ahont This time or little earlier, sent Hawthorne
story in which had lately wllteh anu viii 80
aare saw nv present readers have never heard OF,
fbouRh was reprinted in England ana Translated lhto
German II Is simple story a9oI @ over his naace Which
he resolved TO ring whenever he was happy aud winch
for
Tung TN he dead Hawthorne acknoWIeaseG 's SIN ri
ceIpt in a Characteristic little note which think; vii
~ Il does 70 himself ana ms phlosophy oi
sincerely thank rou wrote your beautiful which
have aa wb greadea pleasure such the pubic hsa
d 1 SsB 80 sad thst Fs the bell once n
NE lifetime a9d again az ee o1t C' , ey spT one noent
happy oonpng circumstances that could have Ohs
That Hawthorne was wise to the ways OF ofhceseeK-
another letter Mr. stoddard relating to the latter
political appointment shows very amusingy. IL Is lu
of sagaclous advice;
was 10 uile up much Of SNOWFALL as could IN the
way Of political interest as there never %aS 4 ~ ne MI
time before among Ohice-seekeTs ana II W0u1 De WEI
Are Won fond OF brandy 2" he inquired Your strengtl
head (Which you tel me you poast - may S sta & W
mes nvetere guzzlers and love man man tnaI ca
=, It tbem m see Won corned however. But must leave
you TO find your own way among them III you naY'
mem nevV class very unlike poets" He mentions hay
ing finished the TanglewoOd Tales, which he e9nsd
cred as iy equal in their way 10 Mother 0oose a i
adds never dd anything else so weh as those OLE
baby stories" The gist OF the letIeI noweegr, wv we con
fhe postscript which copy for the beneht OF all con
seientiOus Ofliceseckers: ,,,.
sPg9 S oS a qss or 8hSsT ese keep them JoeI
s and et hose laS on. % s State DTatmsnt be S1ere
s esp iy eol So E. Tle' @ nd aa II tR. Important
covered ySa 9.S ,S- be lPsI, somehow and snyRoS
senor CASTELAR, i'm the of his long review OF Re
,unlcapisrn in Russia gives thus his opinion of Com
munsm
No society which springs from the Renaissance in il
criticism OF pure reason in its philosophy, from the
dogma OF responsonty IN iS i cl' "a o Frencb Reyo
lufons In its institutions and which Is moving on 10 the
s"notion of a these forms Of progress by the conse
D nf thc human personality In its iuvOlate essence
and he um total Of its relationsnO such society pro
ney can edopt for its rule OF life its hope of prog
ress and growth, the Asiate communism when was the
BEGINNING Of society, the epoch OF lts CESSATION,
in which the rich variety OF human nature
as yet had not begun IT'S deVelopmea&t NJ any more 5
than the houghs, the leaves, the uOWers, anu
the fruits lind tleir Development in the rough kernel
which nevertheless contains an the plant communism
is the most natural form OF the ancient parlachate OF
me nOmad ana wauderugtribe which bears IN IT'S war
family, property, government laws ana gods, but
as soon M the personality is developed, with II springs
forth the variety, and with the law OF variety the
ties which FORM by their contradictions, the har-
monies OF life Man has nSnt any, 70 & aNS III S0Gey
and growth - ms ndivlduai resPonslPiIy' I' I IOugn
have no night 70. an equal reward for the unequal
employment of his faculties the ploduct OF MS own own
will To attain this end 10 necessary TO create state
which sna ourdg nature ana iot 5nis II ii3 ~ @
force despy the indiyduaiism innate IN the human
<npnnde ma distribute their products with equality
me scissors of gardener at Versailles reduced TO
dcod of different sizes Tor the accOmp hment OF the
laws % and as the gardener reduced TO equal
rnder the woke of ionis XIV An authority as strong
ibnte property equally aud preserve 1t in common And
one Of he eatcst faits OF communism is It's mechan
zeal Gegcr by which IL destroys the sponaneity Of
Inc mind
Col T. B. Thorp contributes an entertaining sketch Of
Secretary Edwin NJ Stanton, wherein we are shown
very clearly that gru conscientious officer who
impatient OF shams he was devoted TO his country
The Ola stager continues his "RecoecOns in the de-
suory way OF his kind. and there is more
Of Charles Reades love-story. There quarrel in
the last chaper-there is consequently, reconciliation
In this wherein Juliet being altogether in the wrong,
Romeo as a matter Of course. abjectly begs pardon
WiIke Counss new serial begun In this number, and
promises all manner dreadful and dramatic elabora-
tiOns
The Harpers have just published The Old Curiosity
Shop" the third volume In their Household Edition OF
Dickenss works. This edition is excellent in size, in
type aud in binding. scribner, Armstrong, & Co. are
about To publish long poem blank verse by j. G.
Holland 1t is practically criticism on the ideas and
modes Of the EOlnsh Church, and is called The Marble
Prophecy" This prophecy is simply the group of the
Laoc6on which the writer turns from religious fete to
contemplate and spostrOphize thus:
IaocOOni thou great embodiment
OF human life and human history
Thou record Of the past, thou prophecy
or the sad future, thou majestic voice,
Pealing along the ages from old time!
Thou wall Of agonized humanity!
There lives no thought in marble like TO thee
chou hast kindred In the Vatican
But standest separate among the dreams
OF old mythOlO gistS-aOne- alone!
The beautiful Apollo at thy side
n
The gods and gOd0esses and faunE and ates
That populate these wOndrOus halls; but thOu,
Standing among them, hftest up thyseh
In majesty OF meaning, till they sink
Far from the sight no more significant
Than the poor toys OF children. For thou art
voice from out the worlds experience,
Speaking OF al the generations past
To all thc generations yet 10 come
o: the long struggle, the sublime despair,
The wild ana weary agony of man!
Ay. Adam and his offspring in the tolls
OF the twin seTpCnts sin and Suffering,
Thou dOst impersOnate; and as gaze