New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Holt e. williams have nearly ready Barring
Gould's legends 81 tho Patrtarchs and Prophetic
which have collected by the author from various
Dcauouca sources IL - sad that some Of the stories
are very surprising, many OF them amusing and al In
tCrcsting.
Charles Scribner a. Co. have been compelled
10 postpone the publication Of "Wifrd Cumhermeco"
as large "a that originally intended. We learn that the
orders already received give promise OF an
large sale for this last work OF MacDonald.
Eliza Greatorcx will publish by subscription,
at Easter, a work entitled 1.-THE Homes Of oberamner
gan" O series Of twenty etchings, accompanied by
sketches Of the home life Of the people In preparation
for the work, Mrr. GreatOreK ba. had twelve ~ tho
drawings etched X Albert q Munich: LAr Nc are 10y
ave.
The movement in behalf Of the celebrated
German author Ludwig Fcuerbach TO which reicrezts
has already been nade in OG.2.ns has called forth
an address from several leading Germans Ia this c 10
their oouutrymen in America, of W hch publish the
folowin translation at tho request OF somo OF tho pro
motors Of the proposed charity:
10 TIE OERSiANs OF AMERICA.
rmaonh a sf1cS Ss ifa p ,a r%oss y
ing circumstances Old aud sickly be OccnpIh small
house outside the walls OF NuIembcrg. which although
10 barely offers sufficient room To limsf and his family.
vet an unwelcoine visitor threatens 10 enter namely
wast. Who II Ludwig FeuerbaclIl We should he afraid
OF offending the educated by expecting ms question
from them. For chose, however, who do not
kroY him, and especially for an Germans u
is one of the greatest profoundes thinkers o. cur
whose works nave been translated into most nodefI.
ioty car,cter an ornament and the pride o the Ger
man people. And how does IL happen thai such man
f. Threatened with want Because from the limo Of hrs
yotb he has nsed the OF his powerful iDeeet
not for his Individual benefit, but for that OF
cape the reproseh that ~ Germany snoh man IL IIgcr
ing 10 poverty in his old age Ii "a 'h"rt time since
Of YOU Country mon vino ~ ..os,.--. p -; -
unity OF Germany On rae baltic = y.a
painedi All foreign rati6ss wAre reed that the
principal OF those glorious successes was 10 %
found In German culture and education wc'lL uu'
one man. Ludwig Feuerbsch IL ono OF the MOST disn
eshed representatives of the German intensGs sna
testimony of our Appreciation: Therefore c"Innne IN
he and west Of the Republic pTopo te yos
means to relieve Ludwig Fcuerbach nashn' iOr thIo
"a danger in delay. Hasten! lest crave ~ Gsrmany
viii bear the reproachful inscription: people, one OF
yonr best and greatest men yOu nave IeIt W ~. w PN
Goy r SaIonon Lazarus Hailgarteu, Eugene = BALM,
DR. jacob Dr. Krackowzer, Dr. LnsseT, Dr. ntmss,i@h'
0swaId one nd1rfer f. W. CbT1stern Ota A.slng, Dr.
T. J. Loewenthal, Dr. j. kddch LOUIS hi'n, II, sS ~
ceyed in the following places; hniS[oi ~ No "a
suate No. 2 Bowling green; HaIgsiteh i ~, ~
hpistern No ~ tnyersy-place. For those vDH poier
TO contribute annually. separate Lists VIII Ia Ho'""''
TO me razor Of The Trfoune.
SIR. Tanc. as critic, both Of literatnr" end
~, 3, worthy Of much admiration; but II does rot seem
rossibe for n Frcncmnan, however aenationalIzed or
COSMOPOLITAN, to have thorough nndersr4hou's or
nroner appreciation OF tho Anglossxoh tas u Ia lao
tsh,on IN cali 10 mind character. NoFrcre1man has
vet shown himself able to comprehend Shakespeare
fully 1--WE all remember VOltaites dlctnm OF INC oyts
io1tIest iramas-Ces Jdrces nOnstenses qre US Angds
nnnSsuf fr00idies and Taine appears " e 10 e,cSp
ton You know how he speaks IN eseIa' t.s w S'
orea. dramatisrs extravaganza, gross cA,Ebee.,Vhb
End buYo0neries (namrally enough Tor Sahls al.gi
but Wish TO point out remaik s ,is n,o
encv 10 nav way OF thinking. In Tanes parueu.,am,T1,
ton He says OF Falstaf pp S23 This Dig PStoslS
fellow coward. Jester. brawlef' dtus", ssss
rascal pothouse poet, is one OF shakespeales ,s'S
rites The reason Is that his manners arr uose v
pure nature, and shakespeares mind Is Han 10y,
lis own" Again PIP $40, Tame remarks up.n tian ,
Hamlet IN shakespeare and at the close OF TINS sSleI
Of portTsts which have all some features OF us own:
Shakespeare has painted himself In the most
av In ali the poets wonderful variety OF chsiacnI,
no two are more Numerically opposite IMAM AN 49,
Hamlet. Macbeth and Launceet GObDo' Nd."in a''
CoroIanns Audrey and ImOgen are not NOR dissinsi
How Shakespeare could have resemoed 10" Fal Sht"s
and the pensive Prince of EsDore, ana now ea't 81"
both eloild have been In any manner portraits 81 nun.
self s beyond the utmost range OF my HIhsofhoo' ."
ism comprehend Can yVu, or can ally body c'ji''h
this striking inconsistency = H.
Neu- York, Jan. rs, 1872