New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-16
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

DATE-UOWEIiS AS A NtNIil>I-StLt- GOV fNN-
NENT-SPECIE PAYNfENr-SONNET BY ALDRlClI-
POEM By LONGtELIOW.
lFRoM \ REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBuNEJ
BosroN, April 1.-THE atlantic Monthly Tor
May will open with "Thc Two Letters story 10y Lu
erea r. Hale, fresh and fragrant as bunch OF flowers
gathered IN an olGaShioDcd garden. IL seems almost
impossible to believe that the Letters were not really
written in 1856" SO fun are they OF the spirit OF those
by-gone days Of religious herOsm. There was love
making in old times just sincere and just as
ager as nOw-mOre sincere and more eager perhaps
since OF other advertisements there were so few. Dr.
Holmes loves imagine the spirits OF our dead ances
tors possessing us by turns, and accounting for our
inconsistencies think the spirit OF fair and gra
cious Puritan lady, whose kerchef smeed of lavender
aud who had not forgotten 10 bring her silver spoons
over with her on the MayhOwer must have entered lho
Miss HALE and told through her this story SWEEP as an
English violet and delicate as blush rose Cea Ina
ter who has written much and so well OF the Isles
nj shoals vrites now OF "Chd-lfe" there, IL GER
tanly seemed that she must long ago have exhausted
the pictorial resources Of those wonderful SahuSi O
the present paper fresh and spontaneous rs any u
ts predecessors proving thus pleasantly the ineAn""
ible resources of sea and sky and shore. one HA''
fancy the larceeyed dreamy poetic child IN Ile "us'
~ This wild wonderful nature watching the vessels
scpddnr over the intensely dark blue sea- all 1eather
white where the short broke Kissing III lne co,
srfoowng with long range OF vision the
flight One loves TO read how the dreamy giIl anu ueI
hrOrheTg ghlODed ruOe pOdbS iAOA NAAA' -" -
them floating they knew whittier; or launched meets
~ nurnle musselshells the still pools in the rocks
left by the tide laughed to see the hermieraos cha
Ienge each other. and fight deadly battle ul tne
stronger overcame and settled himself riumphanuy III
his weaker opponents conquered cockle-sheH. HOW
well she loved the few flowers which bloomed TOT ner
upon the lonesome rock, growing all the better ae-
onanted with them that their names were not legion
She tells us how she longcd TO speak these Things lhaV
made life so swee-tO speak the wind, the cloud the
birds flight, the seas murmur" VAN lohgms' 'hen'
but how well fulfilled let all her loving readers say
Parton writes with his usual careless brllhancy' OF
.sTbe Presidential Campaign of 1876 the campaign
when Adams and jefferson were rival candidates. ana
on the election Adams according TO the CONSTITUTION
not then amended Mr.. Jefferson, having received next
10 the highest number OF electoral votes was elected
VioePresdent 1t was in the certainty that Mr. Adams
1onld he elected President and that thus the position
Of Vice President would fan TO his share that JEFF
ferson had consented the Of his name rs Presl
Dental candidate. The first Office he honestly dld not
wish while the second offered certain advantages OF IN
come and position which he quite willing to accept
According Mr. Parton his conduct as candidate was
amode that future politicians would do well to study
for, as his biographer says:
His tone. his demeanor his feelings, ais conduct,
were all simply right a9d sace o1e Sl o
stand the bewilderDg relation to the universe
il may be useful TO some Of them to know no" nc com
HIS grand advantage was that he did not want the
not in that of pale and anxious lover who trenbes
with desire and fear 1t is an immense thing II you
in the market not caring whether you sell 1t TINS year
next or never Nor was TINS anything so very ner
who capable Of welding power but there are Rraues
and kinds OF power"
vauing power but not place. he found il easy to al,
or eonversng politics during the contest except
with two or three confidential friends ASe0fdih h
publication Of Jcfersons correspondence with Genet
and Hammond that the movement began when ended
IN his nomination Boston, OF al places 10 tne woiIu
originated 1t Boston, too enjoys the cIedlt OF htlng
the word which describes that method-caucus The
Republican party saya MI. Adams au GuyoS f
the office OF Secretary OF State. that II ne would place
next election ana they organized their party by their
correspondence through the States whatever civil
reply the candidate may have made 70 Ihese cehIeeh
he did not place himself at their head, but remained
passive and silent from that time until the question had
These JeTersonian rules will guide any man with
saety and dignity through the thousand sares OF suCh
C0npcst: DOnt want the once Ctler no y laDe
concerning beyond tho narrowes circle oi tied conn
dants"
During Mr. JeHerson's term Of Office he gradually CON
structed his Manual OF Parliamentary Practice"
which still governs delberative bodies This little
Manual wonderful piece Of work and contains var
GUS suggestions startling TO modern politician Here
Is one instance, which, judging from certain recent
events have been gradually falling into dsuse
when the private interests of member concerned
in bill ar question, he Is to withdraw"
Howes goes on with his fascinating "Chance Acquaint-
ance" Is it his best work is 1t that all he does so
good that we are always tempted TO Dbl" hold the last
fasti" Surely no before so understood the
ius and outs OF wOmanhoot and as for the delicate
shades OF loves beginning" he could write as good
manual Of them jefferson did OF Parliamentary usage
He SHOWS his subtle comprehension Of every mood and
phase Of growing by thousand little hints, as for
instance when he says of Kitty and Mr. Arbuton:
Their hearts we're open every dreamy influence of
the tinc their driver understood hardly any English,
and their talk might safely made up Of those harm
strains of psychological autobiography which mark ad
vaneing intimacy and in which they appear to each
other tie uncommon persons tnat ever hVed ana
their experiences and emotions and ideas are all the
more surprisingly unique because exactly alike"
When read Howells, am always persuaded thai no
man has right be "A novelist who is not also poet.
In his descriptive passages always recognizes the
poets touch Here, instance, when he is describing
the Of Ch1teauBgot what could be more dreamily
delicate than the following:
he pahos long neglect lay upon the scene for here
were evidences OF gardens and bowery aises il other
times ana now for many year, desOatiOn and the
allow return u the wilderness. Inc mountain rising
behind the chateau grounds showed the dying flush Of
me decduOus leaves among dark Of the pines
that clothed 10 the crest cry OF nnumerable crick
cts filed the ear Of the dreaming noon"
To this same forthcoming number Mrs. Elizabeth c.
Agassz contributes pleasant paper entitled Cruise
through the Galapago Mrs AGassiz is the most
gacious and observant Of Travellers the wife OF the
great naturalist naturally should be- Robert Dale owen
devotes his Chapter Of Autobiography 10 Emanuel
Feuenberg aud his Safeguarding College" IL lisa most
interesting account but little tantazing. You think.
as You read that you have found the secret Of the true
Republic-that large community governed IA this
small one was would be the ideal Commonwealth. hold
ing the secret permanent prosperity in the very per
fecfon Of its ORGANIZATIONS; and you disappointed TO
find that after ALL the true life of the establishment was
in The inspiring soul Of Emanuel Won Fcenbergi that
ITS pamy days ceased with the life OF its founder aud