New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-31

daughters support nv totering STEP and by ncessan
care and help make the inrmties Of age 30 hRn' 10
me that am perfectly happy ltkll
After this there was little add to the long and lovely
life save the end Of it, She died in sleep, on the morn
ing Of the 29th November lS72 Life had biessed her
and Death vailed from her the terror OF MS race'
and bore her away gently 10 wake TO the glory vi 'no
eternal day Literally, she fell on sleep-her 4"ee
sumber was bu, prolonged into the deeper sleep Goa
eiveth His beloved. death does not seem 40 much
do,h s,,co oassz "a gone" some said, yesterday
and 20 ma the futur. seems moro real because TINS
strong womans soul which delighted here in searching
ont the secrets of the gone on before eager o
fresh knowledge.
new case OF giving the dell his due Is the printing OF
Mr. C. p Cranch's poem, "satan-a Libretto, py hoo-
erts BROTHERS. al viii only make little DOCK, Mr.
Niles said peuiteny when taken to task for consent
ing TO tell the world about the arch enemy; and no
donbt n "lttle sook will be comparatively harmless
Rnt indeed Mr. ranch makes out very good case Tor
SATAN He read the poem. some weeks snce' at TUG
Radical Club, and last Saturday heard IL at 'no
Wonans Club; and never before was 80 KnuIy as
posed toward ie Prince of the Powers OF the Air. NH
toms Satan is royal presence, Of glory mighty though
obscured GOethes Mephisopheles has lost the glory
and the nobility, and become altogether hateful unre
Ientnp and dangerous; but the Satan TO whom Mr.
Cranch introduces us is still Gods minister with Lis
own appointed work II is noble essay towaru recoh
CLING with Gods love the evil that is in the world
real sensation for the reading public will be short
American novel; by wke Collins, abont TO be Issued by
Shepard Gill; The tale is entitled The Dead AWE :"
and IL has been written by Mr. Collins since his soourn
among u.s. founded fact as the author assures
us-on the printed account of trial which really took
place in the United States early in tho present century
All the improbable things in the story. he says, are
taken from the matter-oact printed narrative 1t Is
the things that look like truth which in this, "a IN most
other cases are the invention of the author This tale
tf.1s. /. .s,rfut fpa nff IN
ter OF pot-making, Wie Collins might have called
IT, n novelette, rather than q novel, though 1t
Will make a book OF good size aud handsome ex-
terror, which Bush has hyishy ILLUSTRATED
Hitherto have been able to resist the tempta-
ton OF reading Collins seriay; and have suffered IN
consequence great deal OF nervous excitement nave
followed his heroes and herones into awful pers and
been obliged to wait n week. or perhaps month, 10
know whether the sword of Damocies FELL or was
averted. With each successive agony have said-"l
never will read Collins novel again I'LL have IL com
plee and with every fresh temptation strength OF
mind failed To read. at last. tale by collins
which could finish at a sitting fresh pleasure
There plenty OF incident and excitement IN THIS enc;
mysterious disappearance, frst-elass murder love,
treachery cowardice, curry TO stimulate the
most faded palate Mr.. Collins has caught some Amer
lean traits very happily but he does not yet know the
American girl. Save III certain unconventional rear
lessness, his heroine il English than American
Our Yankee girls they have crossed the seas do
not speak OF nasty, sly underhand ways" Nasty,
thus used is not an Americanism. Nor do know any
OF my fair country women with whom "oh, my Is as
constant exclamation az is cet!" with French
girl Nor would American country girl speak OF
hotel III NewYOrb The one her cousins are accus-
toned USE" Evidently Mr.. Collins has not yet hon
ored the American young woman with an exhaustive
study. But he nitters rs by making his hero-ln En-
giishman-fall in love with a Yankee maiden; SO We
should be ungraeful to complain. Tie book is not Mr.
Conss best work yet it is thoroughly Interesting ana
has the true Collins flavor Here and there are most
happy touches; when he describes Miss Meadow
croft us "a melancholy, midleaced woman. without
visible attractions OF sort; one OF those persons
who appear TO accept the obligation OF living under
protest, as burden which they would never have con
scented bear if only they had been consulted first
All the characters in this tale seem TO me
weak igDoble dsagrceabe II except the pretty,
truehearted American GIRL and the travel
ing Englishman who fell In love with her But, as 1t Is
IN transplaned Engsh family that the scenes OF the
drama are enacted can forgive Ir. Collins for max
ing them unkabe az he plerses. said the scenes
OF the "the tale Is essentially dramatic; and
any OF play-wrghts who 10 arrange it for the
stage will the materials for effective and stirring
play ready 10 their hands. &c. ".