New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-29
BOSTON,.
LITERARY NOTES.

ro-sons IN tho world SO am told know who wrote it
the author Scottish publisher for is areprno' ana
the inevitable friend As do not belong to TINS eni
trio have scarcely vcntured TO hazard guess even
rs 10 gender The RAJ Mall GdSetie Cor the quesuoh
sgitating literary curiosity In London as wen as III
Amerca thinks it must be the WORK OF u wo'"""' NC
cause the men are not well understood IL inc winch
But TO me this is not convincing argument ior A
mcn often understand women far more Uuy tnau
women understand each other. IL Is undenaoly uue'
however that the female characters In "Ohlg
Grancer are the most clearly ana Sharply ura"h'
The measure in which the main portion OF inc
work is Written would be very agreeable but Tor sense
M discomfort, cccasioned when the last line OF every
pineped verso forsakes the cchtsy lahled ambic of
the first eight lines, and bounds with anapestic trysl
Liable into departure This ohects NJ hist ho'
quite pleasant but the poem goes on you become &C.
customed TO it. and cease to find fault Org Grange
might have been novel, had not chosen to be poee
dc soce II is story interesting enough To nave Jus'-
hed Is existence, even in prose. One Herman huhs''
pho Ogca professor. appears editor and Is also one
of tie characters in the story. 1t is divided INTO SIX
book aud to each book Herr Knst writes sort OF pro
logue blank explanatory OF the tolo"inG seo
lion. which Of the drdndhs persona u .hc
sneaker brother and sister twins, Thorod and Hester
Ascard b. name are descended from family of Scottish
iairds BOW fallen into decay. They orphans aud
they live in a small trading port. The brother was
student who had travelled many a field
OF ariuous learning, planted venurous foot
On giddy ledge OF speculative thought, , .oo
Ana staFCncl SiOiN' 81" 'NN'
In stone an flower, and every living tlin-
Where he might read tue open secret OF God
Win MS own eyes, ana ponder ont rs i mSi iIn
And hi;h ambition of the scottish mother
There WAS Kind Of pI1cstly lur1ty
. MN ana ne Sep Gy sean a5S his heart
Reached ont with manifold sympathies, and laid
Fast hold On many outcast and alone
OF Gou'S nigh Temple TO Undue himself
With arm,F that he had not proved, to clothe
with articles Of rcadymade Bellet
1i 'S 1t It on and cast it from him;
Thea took it M again. aud found 1t worn
Win ...c. ana rdaled by the MOTH and rotten.
Awhile with only scant fe-lcayes TO clothe
His naked spIt longing after Cod,
But wing more for Knowledge than for faith.
Tho Pn, 5, was left behind; the hope of Glory
Became pursuit OF Fame; aud yet q light
From heaven kept hov ring always over him.
Like twilight from sun that had gone down.
In the first Book" this brother is the speaker. He
tolls his sister Hester of the ambitions which lead
ing him away from her ont into the world. He dwells
With lingering ondness their happy days together
when they gathered wild flowers in the wood, and
wandered miles heath and fern; but the spirit Of
unrest is driving him forth-he must study, and work.
and triumph; and she-is she not woman-she must
wait Herr Knst describes her. in tho introduction 10
tie second book:
"And she was fair, golden hlue-cyed maid.
slight small GIRL with the Morse aspect frank,
And sunny and in elligent ana firm
Knowingly swinging On an anchor held
Fast to a lotion OF ciearest consciousness:
ady practical, Imperative.
win uhuu COMPACT ana tlriI ana NtIi-OOSScSstu,
And reason peTempory ana cOmpctent;
Nicer blinded by the glamor Of loving thought
And yet moi less enainored Win Ler thought,
But loyal. true, and wOmanly."
AZ marIes her faithful Philolous before the story
is finished presume trust him 10 have done her
justice love him. too of which the second book
Is little than her discovery ard confession to
herself goes without saying. In the third book it is
that you begin feel the real dramatic power Of the
writer. The editorial" which prefaces it introduces
you to Lady Anne Dewhursl the mother Of Rose who is
Thorod's love- and the real heroine OF the poem The
mother passed her life luxurious sofa, while beside
Ter
A.. ''Lav rhias scents novel, and Bible,
pilibox and wneglass, aud a book
On the Apocalypse; Tor she was much
Addicted unto physic and religion"
Her daughter was girl longer, but In the glory OF
her womanhoOd "one who might have been noble
woman in a nobler world" The mothers character q
most dramatically presented IN the long address 10 her
daughter which forms the third book She reveals her
superstition, her wordiness her inseoery, her self
righteousness clearly microscope discovers to us
EIe OF leaf. Her purpose is to make Rose
give up TlOrold whom she loves and seek TO win Sir
wnfrid whom she neither csteems or loves. Rose goes
away indignant TO find her father poor old man, sore
pressed his exactng wife and his spendhIlt son,
aevotng himself to science and loving only Rose IN all
his dull world From him she hopes for sympathy in
her love- but, instead he conyinces her of her own
worldliness
1.-THE old story, Rose the silly stuff
fools and beggars supcrnDe!
II
To keep You in gloves and flowers and wine.
You could not dress. you could lot dine,
You could not keep maid or horse
Or drive but in cab, or wOre:-
The mans d fool child OF mine
Could marry a btggar like him. OF course"
He has discovered that she is heroiue-herosm 10
not in their blood He is curse upon them that
their hearts not strong enough 10 dare noble fate
aud cannot find repose in mere how-"can be neither
ANAL nor great" His sad and gentle logic cOnvnces
where her mothers hard wordlness had failed and the
afth book is devoted her farewell TO Thorod. She
gives him UP resOlutey while coniessing her love
Tor him This part of the poem finely wrought You
are feel her passionate despairing cDgng ten
aerness, her selfcontempt, her weakness, and her
strength. She shall marry, she tells him. but it will DO
10 20 out into black night, where hope Is The
xth and last carries Thorod back to his Scottish
home and tender sister TO her his dying words
given-the sad history Of his ambition, his love, his
despair. The faith he had wel-ngh lost comes back 10
hin at the last-and the lights above lfes dim,
,eran 60 one he catches gimpses of the
.earshning of the heavenly day. and knows at last.
that he is going home.
Mrs. A. G. T. Whneys little volume Of pleasant verses
lOsgood Coz, which she has christened "Pansies,"
like Of rejoicing after the profound sadness
pf "Orig Grange" Mrs. Whitney is the very prophet
OF hope Giant Despair and she have surely never
1t any time in Ler healthy, happy life, shaken hands
Illustrate the whole spirit OF her work better
han by giving you little poem. to convince how
pleasant an opiniist she is:
"LARvE.
"My little maiden OF four years old
No myth, but a genuine child Is she, .
with her bronze-brOwn eyes and her curls OF gold
Came quite In disgust, one day, TO me.
Rubbing her shoulder with rosy palm,
A the lOathsOme touch seemed yet TO thrill her,
She cried, o motheri found on my arm