New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-07
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES

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,,,o,, nEsUIAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuNB.l
RosroN. Feb. 5-Little has been doing, OF
late among the Boston publishers II has taken thcm
thus long to recover from the reckless oXravagance
the dstracng literary dissipation OF the holidays ana
10 coant up their winnings. They have now however,
got diligently AZ work again. J. X Osgood Co. nave
ipst issued Charles c. Leands capital translation OF
The Gaudeamus G. Let Is he Jony') OF Joseph Victor
schefe who is at present the most popular poet Oh
Germany; Bits Of Travel" by H. H. opening with a
German Landady," the most charming portrait IN
American ink j know OF anywhere, quaint ana
simpe and earnest as the cofeegirl at Dresdeh ;
and "Can the Old Lover novel by Nus'
2 b. Buddington, Of winch have peIolo
sposen For the 18th Of this month, they promise h"o
Beaumont" Mountaineering in the Sierra NeN"u'' a'u
yesterdays with Authors" three Thoroughly "thsu'
hooks Kate Beaumont" is the best novel or D. W. NC
,,+ or - was received in It's serial passage through
last wears Atlantic with such cOmmendation rom 'he
highest sources as is rarely accorded TO an amen
story Mr. De Forest has the happy art OF cre3S l'o
Deo,lo Give with sorrow and SIM live with pam ana
with passion II may be- but alive at any rate; ana tS
IN es DAYS Of lay figures very evidently played upon by
somobody behind, Ike the honow-Voieed TALKING
machine IS no small merit Kate, herself Is true
woman such as Wordsworth sung; just bright ana Eoou
enough for daily food and Kershaw, her grandfather
AZURE as noble as true and tendery Though more
slightly drawn as Col. NewcOme himself In NOUN
aueerinc Clarence King has proved himself landscape
artist Of the rank Gigantic walls ofthe sierra o
DEPTHS of Wild caIIons; fantastic peaks hitihg SNOW"
crowned SUBMITS TO the 1eecy sky; miles OF orange
colored flowers hecked withswhite ana with reaches OF
violet like the shadow of passing cloud; plains coIored
with the ashen of death, stretching out 10 horizons
faint and remote; stark wndswep floors OF white; ana
hhlranges rigdly formal, monotonously low, all Ping
under an uneeng brilliance Of light which lor all us
strange uncouded cearness has yet vague hali-dark
ness suggestion Of black and shade more truly pathetic
Than fading twilght-ts as II you saw them ALL fon
read through the pages between these green covers and
YOU need not ride through plain and over mountain III
order to know their wild hooks by heart. MI KING
paints portraits also: here Is one Of an Indiah'
who should be cast in bronze, as a coinpan-
ion 10 the strong, bold savagery OF quincy
Wards Indian Hunter. He speIring salmon, Ills
naked form poised upon beam which projected over
the river his eyes ryeted and spear uplited waiting
for the prey Sunlight, streaming down III broken
masses through trees fell brilliantly upon ms muscular
shoulder and tense compact thigh, glaneng now and
then across rigid arms and the polished point OF his
spear The swift dark water rushed beneath him. flash
ing upon its surface shmmering rejection ~ his red
Hgure"-how clearly you see hml There is much
humor in the book there is breatbless excitement as in
Kaweahs Run; and there theityle fresh picturesque
and daring which is piquante for everything.
Mrs. ]. T. Fields's Yesterdays with Authors is ~
charming in another way. 1t is the Ola World versus
the New; Artversus Nature.
peculiar interest attaches to the letters OF Mary Rus
sell Milford to Mr.. Fields, first published IN that
they contain the freest possible expression Of Miss Nit
!ord's opinions contemporary writer's, English aud
American. Writing thus. not for the public but TO
friend she said exactly what she Thoughts hut II was
her nature TO think otherwise than kindly II she
gushed little sometimes we are thankful for the gen
tie aud generous soul which loves to look through rose
coOrod glasses. Tell me- please she says, naively,
about Mr.. Hawthorne, you we're so good AZ 70 do
about that charming person. DIR. Holmes Is lie Young
think he and hope for the sake of books 10 come
At all events he the glOres Of most glori
ous mart OF great America" 90" think she says in the
same letter. that the most distinguished of our own
young writers are, the one dear TREND OF
charity he so near a neghbOT mus
know each other This last is the Rev. Charles Kings
ley. author of Alton Locke and Yeast and 'Th'
saints Tragedy All these books fun of worldwide
truths and yet taken a whole, they unsatis
factory and incoucusive, knocking down Withon
l,1udipgup John Ruskin is az
enthusiast in art. often night, often wrong In the ngh
very stark. in The wrong very sturdy bgoted' per
verse, provoking, ever man was but good and klnd
and charming beyond the common lot of mortdls.' IL
another letter She the pleasant reception
her book. Personal "reminiscences" in America. Som
has sent her TRIBUNE, and THE TRIBUNE has pee
kind mildly cOngratulatory, also over her por
trait John Lucas has painedit and she says quantity
alt is lookng better, suppose, than ever 90 IooR
bu not better than under certain circumstances
ing to favoritc friend. for example, perhaps mGl
look" One little extract more. bit OF English heres
about Margaret FulerMargaret, whose very ghost la
the smiles and wies, roses and rhymes OF any hvin
woman: 81 have been reading the Life of Margdre
Fuller what tragedy from first 10 LAST she mus
have been odious Boston spite of her power an'
her strong of duty, with which always sympa
1bize hut al NewYork where she dwinded from SHY
10 'lonne, begins like her better, and III In
gland and Paris, where she not even that, bette
still so that prepared for the deep interest of IN
last half-volume OF course 1rr example must hay'
done much injury 10 the gTls of her train"
Osccod Co.'S other volumes tor thi- month will b
HawthoInc's French and italian Journals two vol
ume; Tcknor's spanish Literature" three volumes
octave; and brakes Dictionary OF American BiogrI
phy'-all three Of which are promised for Saturday
Feb a. The Biographical Dictionary" will contain
nearly 1000 notices Of remarkable persons, OF both
native foreign birth, who have been prominently
connected with the arts sciences literature, politics. OF
history the American Continent For publication il
March, Mcssrs OscOod Co. lave in hand Sir Charles
Eastlake's two books " Hints Household Taste" and
the History Of the Gothic Revival III England" both
very Handsomely Illustrated ApIOpOs Of ilustrations
the firm are to issue mammoth picturc-bO0k ar
the first fruit OF the International Peace Festival"
be called Boston Illustrated /: will be "a pictorial
guide the Hub and ts spokes. You will in it al
the glories of tie Center OF the Universe 'FaDcl
Hall an 1t please you; and the Old state House tho
Old south Church, Harvard University, Bunker Hill
Monument Kings Chapel the Old Elm, and al the
Of the famous places which Tho efiete aristocracy Of
EuIOpc" come here 20 wonder az and admire.
Roberts Brothers have ready the proof 81 two
quite remarkable books: Radical Problems" by Dr.
C. A. Barto, aud The Tomorrow Of Death: or, The
Lie according to Science" by Louis Figuier the
French sard tram by +. RCrOcker editor of that
and noticeable monthly, IN. Literary Wod. Thi-
'TOMoFTow OF Dcath" could have been written 10y ne
but Frtucbuau. II fascinating & romance
Commencing win protest against matcraiism Il goes
% settle the failure Of literally aud - author
itstively and much more picturesquely than did swe