New-York tribune., 1872-04-22
NEV- YORK LITERARY NOTES.
HARPER FOR MAY-TRAvELS, POLITICS. AND
PHILANTHROPY - WHAT CURTIS SAYS OF


HARPER FOR MAY-TRAyELS, POLITICS, AND
PHILANTHROPY - WHAT CURTIS SAYS OF
GEORGE ELIOT.
In the May Harper, Mr.. Charles Nordhoh
begins a series of papers on California with peasa.
description OF the way in which the trip across the
.ountrv shoud be made and Of the various beauties
and comforts to be seen and felt during the journey
Mr.. NordhoG Of the most accurate ana eoneiu
crate, IL not the most yivaCious OF guides-a suos''
authority, with nonsense about him. IN ''o
"story OF Tammany" Rufus hOwe Hni0"0'
his history OF that celebrated and unsavory
.or,se with n sketch OF the Clinton and Van
Bnren battles and the subsequent wars OF iac-
tons. Clntons wavcring fortunes MS uh'"in'o'o
political energy Raud impatient IagGressNeness arc ue
ecribed in style serious, careful ana entertaining.
Prof schee de We're has an article on tne or.h anu
growth Of the University OF Virginia, the institution
which Was Jeersons peculiar pride, and which claimed
40 much OF his unsesh judclous and afecuonate care
THAT model English manufacturing village saitare'
the child Of Titus Salts warm heart ana good SENSE 10
p,ctured after fashion that almost makes the reader
forget that misery dirt Iand starvation exist any where
IN the little island that rules the waves PhanthroP
"a indeed something moro than q tiresome name
when it takesl the Eform OF town iui ol
bright, neat stone cottages, set IN frames Vi
grass and flowers of churehes and schools and literary
clubs Of parks and lighthouses wherein the fortunate
n tbe Soaire factories find learning and good
morals and health; ofsth pleasant almshouses where
they arc enderly entreaed in Illness OF inc wise
md generous rule which has built up little Arcadia OF
bapuiness and purity in the country OF the "Honoraoe
Eoards and my Lords and Gentlemen" Modcs OF tDs
SORT cannot bc too much talked and written about ther
exstence and success bring hope for the future OF
workpemen than do all the "Union" speeches ever
made j. W. De Forest induges in a religious
satire which is amusing and not too hreVer
ereut IL is the dreaming OF q fat and coinfortaDle
Irish priest who fancying himself the "bshp av the
Canueba Islands, tgoes through!varous processes OF
converting the heathen which less Christian than
shrewd. Mr.. De Forest shows himself master OF ola-
lectthe Hibernan in quite good as the negro
IN his later sOries.-Miss Thackeray's serial, "Od
begins in this number with the quaint ana
ouety picturesque movement that mace the story VI
Elizabeth so charming Another Enghsh hoVens,
Mr. George william Curtis discusses in the Easy Char
with the warmest appreciation sThis is George Eot OF
whom Mr. Curtis that for all the higher qahtes OF
the storyteer for sustained imagination insight know
edre and exquisite skill OF narration, the woman
who writes under that name is the master of all living
men, OF her last. striking story, Middlemarch, lie
asserts best to describe 1t to say that
meets Miss Austin in her field and beats her Win
her weapons in the innocent strife The pictures OF
character are cabinet portraits, but they are finished
with as much subtety and vigOr delcacy and they
have none Of the wrcgng weakness OF the miniature
The Harpers have III press number OF reprints
among them Rolfes admirable edition OF Julius Caesar
and a new edition of Mrs. MulOck-Cralk's Brave
"Brid9e OF Glass" by f. W. Robinson, and MI farJeons