The sun., 1873-08-28
SOME NEW BOOKS.
c..,.,or,. Nation. Abou, Italy.

record Of lively emotions awakened by the mar
vellous spectacles Of Italy, and that 1t Is not a
book Of travels. "In these pages saws the au-
thor, there is but little of the present life and
manners Of Italy. With that nation, the longer
IT lives the 1t recollects. We must look at
historically and nsthetically. In Italy we must
before every landscape or every ruin' evoke
tho august shades which realize them, and
gather the living ideas distilled from her fruit
ful bosom" without stopping to consider why
MIR. CASTELAR, should think 1t peculiar to Italy to
recolect more the longer she lives, or to ask how
so immaterial a thing as an august shade can
realize material landscape or ruin, we see at
the outset that we are not to be treated to any
thing SO commonplace as the Italy Of our sxpe-
rience. The workings Of the authors spirit un-
der the influence OF the exhalations from artis-
tic works and cuings from Italian history are
all that we have to expect
In the Grst chapter 1t Is said that Rome =" can
not, notwithstanding much splendor, perpet-
uato enchantment with the philtre OF mystl-
cism." Now, II Mr.. CASTELAR, himself would use
tho philtro OF mysticism less 1t would add
much to the value OF his writings. But let us
come to passage that will give some Idea
Of Mr. Castelar's style: "Our life Is 40
short, our being so little, that to arrive
at an idea Of the INFINITE, to which we are
attached by invisible ties-to comprehend
the Immortality Of which we dream-we
must set behind the limited visible horizon
and tho unlimited rational horizon, behind
every thought of life, interminable perspectiyes,
distant and immense, presentments which over
come us with beauty, glowing colors on magic
pallettes, the inspirations Of celestial poetry the
ideas We have evoked from the dust of ages and
the abvss Of history lhougbt sometimes iurAs
bene"th grnldluse Ihisuafe' ouV slh'eu anu
obscure expressions are more apt 10 uehoto the
absence oil any thought worth perpetu"''oh'
AS proof OF the author assertion that I'D
youth the Latin language was his chief study
we are favored with quotations IKE these
ltmlain' ltaIlam' primus cohciuhat Aehh'es'
"Well did Pliny say laiiiuhdla Italian perdi-
dere;' "Ci'is homanus sum sunt lacrIm@
rerum," and so on.
Tho statement that tine Forum is now a heid
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deal taksn from other books about MIchao,
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more diaphnnous. Perchance, then. his writing
| would he less opnoue and less turrid
The lives Of Slxtus V. and Plus IN. and many