New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-16
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

SORRENTO AND sIRENS-TIIE "ATLANTiC
FOR MAY-THE PRETTY WIDOW NEW
YORK DOGS "sEPTDuUs FELTON, - AN
AMERICAN WOMAN DIR. HOLMES ABOUT
LAWYERS-BRET HARTEs NEW POEM.
IFROM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIlBUSEl
Bosroy, April 13.-If one cannot go to Europe
In ones own propcr person. of the peasanlest ways
can suggest for making the journey by proxy Is 10 rea
saunterings" very charming new book or European
rcmniecences by Charles d. Warner which J. r. ossood
& Co. are aboat to publish Mr.. Warner says, Win tnc
quaint lrocry that characteristic Of him. that ne
shoud not like TO invite on indulgent and Idle pubic 10
sounter about with him under a misapprehension lie
supposes would be agreeable to invite IL 10 go
than somewhere for almost every one mas Dee
somewhere aud has written about It, SO he suggests as
the only compromise that to him, that we shouu
10 somewhere and not anything about It, for the
instinct OF the public against anything like Information
is perfectly jus1abc. Thus pledged against tedious
ness in the beginning author chats always enter
taninGly Il seldom ambitiousy He finds fun where less
congeual tempers find frenzy Even guides entertain
him. or one of the most remarkable he says,
owe encountered him at stratford.on-Ayon: Az ", We
grown boy bearing down upon us In the most most
succeeded by the ST. viuss dance lie came down upon
sideways s legs all in tangle and his right arm,
hent and twisted. going round and round, as IN VAN
efforts 10 get into his pocket his fingers spread out in
inpetent desire to clutch something There was great
danger that he would into US, as he was Ike a
steamer with only ono side-whcel and no rudder. lie
came up pulling and blowing, ani offered to show US
shakespeare's tomb Shade OF tho past t. be accompa-
MED to thy rcstng-pace by such an object But he
fastened Himself u.s. and erked and htched along in
his side-wheel fashion. We declined his help. He pad
did on twsng himself We nf Sa n S fo tn II
said ho wrcnchng himself into new contorton, am
what showed Artcmus ward round stratf0rd' Tll.
information he repeated again and again. as II we could
not resist him after we had comprehended that. we
shook him Off but when We had returned at snndown
Cottage, We met the siJe-wheelcr cheernlly towing
along a large party. upon whom he had fastened"
In Switzerland he tells u.s. the Pretty Girl il yet TO be
born and perhaps this fact suggests the explanation OF
another observation namely, that in all switzerland the
only place where lie found tho slightest recognition OF
woman as the gentler was in church, where tho
women were seated, while the men all stood. In
writing about Munich he gives a good hint to American
picture buyers. No city of its sze he says. more
prolific OF pictures. do not know how all Its artists
manage to live, but many OF them count upon the
American public. hear everywhere that the Ameri-
cans ike this and do not like that; and am sorry to
say that artists who have done better things paint
prossedy TO suit Americans and not to express their
own conceptions Of beauty. There is one who is now
ouite devoted to dashng off rather ampblacky moon
lights because he says the Americans fancy that sort or
thing | see OF his emirchy pictures hanging in
shopwndow awaiting the advent OF the citizen OF the
United States. trust that word Of mine will injure
the sale the mooniehs" Wishing really to know the
modes of living in different places he tried various ex-
periments He describes one in eating true German
cookery.
"a week OF It was quite enough. do not mean
to say that the yands served us were not good 0hy I
we make up minds 10 eat them Tue Germans
eat great deal OF meat; and we were ODHSeo 10 tle
dish Is set yop whe.cn chunks OF pork repOs
ing stcwcd potatoes, and another wherein idthOm
less depth OF sauerkHut supports COILS OF Doleu sasg
which considering tat you are mortar ana fel0hsole
being aud have stomach. will yOu choose HeIc III
nnieh nenry 81 tG DT IS d Sa wI b ae OF w G
bread we nave eaten III Europe ana we usually nave IL
inroads OF the fragrant seeds. Imagine, then, our
dcs pair when day the potato the one vegetable
reared sfewed with caraway-seeds. This was too
much for American human nature, constituted as
to our ordinary and excellent way of living
is one for which nave 1t may have been
tastes dsastes; but there was after all, unity in
1t that marked the composition Of one master artist;
there unspcakabe harmony in all its navOrs and
apparently unuuitabe substances II looked like ter
rapn soup but il was not. Every dive OF the spoon into
pork OF the color OF hare what
that rcsemblcd the rags OF silk dress, glreds OF
ST Of Xstrachan inr II Prof Lebs wishes 10 add to
his reputation he could do 10 by analyziDg this Gs and
publishing the result to the world"
I have seldom seen slrewd, practical common sense
and keen observation nsoparably the companions of
any traveller Mr.. Warner writes pciarcsqueiy often,
POLITICALLY more seldom. No sirens sing to him. calypso
could have beguiled him, Gree iran formed
ing fund OF hulnOr makes all difficulties light to him. and
gives 10 his variations captivating vivacity said
sirens sang to him and yet, at the end OF his
book he cOniesscs his belief in them only lie is
their influence must have been elevang not debasng
Hear what he writes, looking over the sea from far
Sorrento:
1.-THE sirens, indeed, are everywhere; and do not
know that go anywhere that shall escape the
infinite lOngings satisfy them. Here, in the purple
twilight OF history, they offered men the choice Of good
and evil have fancy that. in stepping out OF the
whirl Of modern life upon quiet headand so blessed Of
two powers the air and the we are able 10 come To
perception Of tie DRIFT OF the eternal desires within
us. But cannot cay whether IL subtle fascination
the physical loneliness OF this promontory, that lures
travellers hther, and detains them on fowery meads
The proofshees OF the May Atlantic are at hand. The
opening paper Is the continuation Of Partons Jefferson
The hero this time In the Service of Revolutionary
Virginia" and the narrative is vivid and spirited. a.
usual. Next have the commencement OF q serial
by Will Wallace Harney-"Who Won the Pretty Widowl
Confederate Story Of the C0niederacy" pleasantly
told In this first instalmen and promising well In the
first chapter the pretty widow Ia not wife. but
young girl. living Mississippi plantation, in housc
built may other Southern residences are, apparently
on succession OF afterthoughts. She a very pretty
girl accomplished. too. and could play the piano
great many selections from opera, and almost many
sweet olc-fashoned airs, in which the elder generation
took great delight She knew French as speak
It correctly, and little drawing, and little botany.
and great deal OF school chemistry OF very confusing
nature to the learned and unlearned. She was
a skillful dressmaker, too, and know how TO
adorn that perishable little body Of hers in
a manner perfectly maddenng." She was "A good
housewife moreover skillfu compounder OF daines
amateur physician among her
in short. all the qualities OF generous and sweet South
girl Of the old regime In this number she marries
her husband goes into the Confederate scryice-she
hears of his deathsorrows honestly and earnestly but
lifts up her elastic head after while the harebels
did after the Lady OF the Lake had roden Them and
is already surrounded by many suors as Penelope.