, 1872-12-16

IHE CHlCAGO Dali
editions. The only authentic edition will be
Darwin is to be candidate for the Lord
Rectorehp Of the Aberdeen University.
the Vienna Exposition by the exhibition Of speci-
iesi ie published in thsp United EStatss
which will be classified under the
heads Of States and cities, and catalogue made
out showing the age, date Of issue, and circu1a-
that our libraries be represented by full set Of
~ printed catalogues and reports OF all tho .,
libraries in the country. This, he says, 1t
made complete, or approximately SO, will be as
well ns to transmit the libraries themselves, Tor
it is the exception, and not the rule, to print
catalogues of libraries in Europe, not one IN ten
Of the great foreign libraries having printed
catalogue.
The following lines aro by Moore, and have
not beon published HERETOFORE:
When Life looks lone and dreary,
What light can disre1 the gloom7 p.
When Times swift wing is weary,
What charm can refresh his plurno7
IT'S Woman, whose sweetness beameth
On all that We feel or see;
And, if man Of Heaven eer dreeIcth,
Tis when he thinks purely OF thee.
Oh, Woman!
William Norris nuthor of 1.-THE Earthly
Paradise" has, in . recent poem,' "Iove ia
Enough revived the allteratiye measure
which marks Icelandic md old Anglo-sa1on
poetry, and Of which VIC have go fine specimen
In ..Ihe Vision OF Piers Ploughman" Tho
xtMeneuns thinks A1r. Morris has done some
fine worl,-eyon improved on the old Bystem,-
and bas shown that hi8 alIteratiye rhythm
is wonderfully fitted to the genius Of our Ian
gunge allowing the poet almost the latitude Of
prose. and Offering more splendid vehicle than
any other measure for an English lind, it any
such is ever to be. THE songs are the crowning
beauty Of this delicious verse;. Here ID ono:
Lore is Enough: though the World be a-wantng,
and tbs woods have 10 voice but the voice Of COM
paining,
Though the aky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The goldcups and daisies fair blooming Hereunder
Though the bills he held shndows and the Sea dark
And tlia day draw veil over all deeds passed over,
Iet their hands shall not trebe their feet ehan not
The void shan not weary, the fear ahan not alter
These lips and hes eyes OF the loved and the lover
Tho Saturday Rerie,o is wonder-stricken by
the speed with which the critics have managed
Froude's 8: History Of Ireland" II has got no
farther than the hy-leaf, but, not to be behind
the others, gives its criticism That. This fly
leaf contains advertisement Of the last edition
Of Mr. Froudes History Of England" which
sets forth with amazing frankness the reasons
which induced Mr. Troudo to write it. He says:
81 The occasion of undertaking the present work
WAS. regards myself, Involuntary leisure,
forced upon me BY my inability. to pursue the
profession had entered, but which was for,
This fastens the Saturday Reuieto in it's oft-ex-
pressed opinion that Mr. Froude wrote
history, not because he knew any
thing about it, or because he had found
some historic thought which parallel with
his own bent, but because he wanted something
to do, and because certain theological contro-
versies we're going about. His lack Of train-
ing is shown BY the superiority Of the later
over the earlier pages Of his work. When he
before those Of which he wrote; but he learned,
in writing, what he needed to know about tho
years preceding those Of which he treated at the
end. Mr. Froude himself found this out. "I
found myself" he said, s:unablo to handle the
late features OF the Revolution without going
back to the beginning of it," He found out no
could not understand tho later stages Of thing
unless he understood the beginning. In this
advertisement, Mr. Froude alludes again to
like, he hides his head when pursued
by the cruel 1Ie1ine and the English critics.
This allusion rekindles in the bosom OF the Sat-
u,ddy Eeoieto. "a certain sense of mistrust."
piece Of English or Latin, say Camden or Sir
Symonds dEwes, his quotations are always so
very unlike what we flud in the printed works
that one is always followed about BY uneasy
script materials which We have no chance of see
ing. AS IN instance, Mr. Froude's text tells of d
ship bearing so queer name as the ':Ark
Ralel9h;" Wo turn to Camden, and find that i'll
his text it is q: Area RECALLS" This error is un-
important, but is also inoonceivable; and We
cannot wholly keep down our doubts as to things
which we are asked to believe on the authority
OF manuscripts which arc SO far OF as simancas.
On the other side,- it ia fair to let llr. Froude
speak for himself Ho says:
ny History Of England has been composed from
perhaps 100000 documents nine-!enths Of them in
difficult MSS, and in half dozen languages. have
hanr7 aT $toHf 1f
tell stories which the printed versions leaye conceaed
I hare been unable to trust copyists. have read
from papers which might never see second time. I
translate, to analyzc, and have had afterwards to
such conditions it is impossible for me
to answer that no reference has been mis-
have done my bssst to be exact, and writer can
undertake more. In passing from my notes to my
from edition to another tic tros: ears Vii not
prevent mistakes It often happens that half letter is
IN one collection and half in another There w be
two letters from the person, and the place.
on the same subject, and on the day. One may
be among the State papsra another IL the British
letters may not at times appear II my text
as if thoy were one. critic looks 1T tie
ret rem s1 hs IA Of ~ what t haye t1 fsd
7 havo invented it. OF course, don't complain Of
faults Of this kind being tointed out obliged to
when doing ny Utmost to tell the truth, should
be charged hastily with fraud 1refcrrcd and re-
sia persons accustomed to deal with historical doc
umenta, who understand the conditions under which
work like mine can be composed, and will know, when
evidence, and where to ind it. More than this will
never coadescend to say the subject Of mp hstor-
thatI have bean convicted, as Father Burke c.ls It,
TILL ! have been properly tried
PERSONAL.