New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-21
BoSr0N LITERARY NOTES.

ROST1N II1ERAhE NO1DS'
- -. .,.p non NAY-Mss EMILY FAITHFUL
oy vScI1sIt IoYALTY-MR. HAIE ON THE hh-
,,s,o,, or THE BIBLE-THR FUNNY MAN IN
-, ,n,.p.c-rRR-GR GRADUAL woRDIINEss or
~oIp. AND NEW"
.w.o,, rreIJ1AR CORRESPONDENT OF THE 1RiboNh'I
RosroN. April 1S.-The proof-sheets OF olu
"a New for May promise to the puolo hun'oi "
,,r,sual interest There are two papers, III esp1o'a'
~.ni.h every one will wish to read. biuer" -
NJ FaRsh Loyalty" by Miss Emily FaitnIuh' "ue |
Ts,,sion OF the Bible" by Rev. f. e. Haze We nsNo
.ned sinful little smiles over English RANK worship
.ou and then but we know genuine thing when VIC
ace n. and with such loyalty as Miss FalIhIun "a
oe.ses I'm her frank aud sensible paper we can all sym
patbise Long before she visited America, she tens No
her faith In the divine right OF kings hau ueSoi'tu
her II they were indeed hedged ABOUT WIN
divinity, she had concluded, from her MS
toroal studies that they had proved themselves
.u,nently eapable OF breaking down the hedge BUT
having been brought into direct contact with the repuo
loan form Of government existing IN the United stas
ahe IA less dsoontented than she fanced sho shoH W
with English institutions. II was doubtless uhoI'un
far any hieb heroic conception she had Iormeu VI '
American Government that she should nave re4onou
thse shores in the midst OF the dosing scenes OF Fes
tsental campap one of the most bitter ana personal
aver known IL was enough, perhaps, to nave turneu
any English liberal into monarcmst M'ss i"' .
indeed s convinced that even the English repuoo"us
uould fer the most part, prefer 10 Dear uio H' ~
which they now grumbe than ny 20 o'nerS
,hot ,hev know not Of. She thinks Sir Charles
pike himself has lately come to the conclusion tna'
the reforms Of which he is SO fearless an "oVooae arc
,,o connatible with monarchy. But the Englsh 10y
sv of the present generation is very different tnng
from the nunkeysm which adored corOnets ana reVeeu
~ public display. Call il loyalty by courtesy-t Is III
truth tender grateful affection for queen VINO mas
deserved TO be loved, and for her children. "hen
English orators say in after dinner speeches, that her
iops Majesty ruled in the hearts of her people, they
Indicate the effect OF her bameless life and wise, that s
~ SAY nonme6dlesOIne reign" Her life has been
pleasant story-a little touching, somewhat romantic
and altogether pure and wOmanly. Her subjects iet
something like protecting tenderness for her when she
was called 70 the throne at an age when most girls
have hardly laid away their dolls and skpping-ropes
They feel again. now when they her. from time TO
tlne a sad-eyed widow in her mourning robes. Be
tween were all the hOnOred, pleasant years OF WIFE,
hood and motherhood II is no wonder that ber people
regard her with "a very different sentiment from any we
are able besOw upon most OF our Presidents WASH
ington indeed, more heroic figure; and doubt
ANY king who died 80 passonately mourned as
ovr own Abraham Lincoln; but usually, the President
~ the man who has won often by ways that are DARK
the highest Office and who has hundreds OF other offices
IN his gift We have had no opportunity to cultivate
Ioyalty-but we yet capable Of admring it, as e1
planned by Miss Faithful.
The text for MI Hae's paper on 1.-THE Revision of the
Bible" Is recently made collection of three treailses on
The subject by DR.. I1ghtfoo DIR. Trench, and Dr. Eli
colt The English Of King Janess Bible is the best En
gllsh we know-strong simple, faultless Saxon-and MI
Hale protests against any change IN that 1t Is pleasant
70 know that the which has decided on
the necessity for revision all similarly minded with
Mr. Hale ON subject Toe grand old words are to be
altered nowhere except where the ripper scholarship OF
the day has decided that they msrepresent the original
thought The gT1ndest thing about the undertaking is
the earnest and impartial desire for truth, pure and
simple which has been its moving spirit And, as MI
Hale eOquently says:
Iu this homage to the truth practically all Christians
srint broa5eSt of the broad Vance smith the Unit
Iian Gedeu the Methodist Davies the BapuSt, ROBERTS
HE Presbyterian with hundred Others OF every name
thai can be named kneeIng together in Westminster
Abbey TO receive the symbols OF the CHRISTIAN COM
LnuniOn before they entered upon this dutythat was
sight which Cranmer Latimer, Tyndal, and Coyerdaie
had Defore-no, not since they were trans
lated 1t may well have gwen new JOY 10 inc heaven
which is their home Behind the camor OF party, be-
hind the method Of administration, behind the incense
the determination that We will come together ana
work together for each other We WIN I'VE as i9r e3on
10 Coo in che discovery OF the truth ana III nom
age 20 the truth"
scrope, or the Lost Library" goes wittly on It's
way displaying tins number some very clever charac-
ter-drawing. The other serial-"My Time, and what
I've done with It." by F. C. Burnand-is perpetual
surprise. Mr.. Burnand is best known as the Happy
Thinker He is characteristcally funny man-we have
a right TO expect laugh when we read him. But in
this serial so far he is as grave George Macdonald
IL is as If you should man, every day in
the week. as Harlequin; and then find him Oh
sunday in bands and surphce, ready to read
yeur liturgy This is grave departure
from the unities; but suppose Mr. Burnand has right
% show sober side, If he please; and he is GER
tanly telling thoroughly interesting tale. Beside
the articles already mentioned and several more grave
and weghty essays, "Old and New INDUCES, by way
Of an unusual frisk poems and short story, the
latter thoroughly charming. william d. OConnor said
once OF Lynn that it fast growing wicked enough
70 be a city-if Old and New" keeps on 1t will soon
be sufficiently volatile and wideawake to take rank
among the secular magazines. L. c. "