New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-11

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Phosphorus for the brain should he taken with
food NOT in separate doses Combined with other
substances il is source of health and vgor, but IL
the natural proportions are disturbed, 1t becomes
poisonous and fatal The same rule holds gooo, 10 a
degree Of the nourishment of the mind DOOM au-
p,insterod i'm minute fragments can never nave tne
charm of the original The beauties Oh snake
,peare are very WE'LL said Fox, but where are the
other ten volumes T. Wit apart from lts surrOuho-
ings il like singingbird removed from the forest,
and wisdom, though divided mo golden grams can
never shine with the massive splendor OF the solid
material We soon tire of essences and extracts,
and long for the odorous freshness of the natural
fuit Even Heine and George Eliot lose much of
thor salt and spice when parceed ont in such tiny
porons as those of the present volumes The sayings
whose subtle refinement OF pQuant audacity star
fled us in their original connection become almost
tame and nsipd, when torn into tatters. Even inc
best things need certain diluton TO bring out theH
highest virtues The finest wine is often improved pS
dash of allayng Tiber,' and the jewels OF speech
cannot he torn from their appropriate setting WIN
out loss of brilhancy. STILL taken ht'io az
time with frequent intervals OF repose' anu u"ii'ii'
,as,ed rather than voraciously devoured, the con-
tents of these volumes may be as whoiesonne' d.
thew are suggestive although they lmparV o'' 4"
romparatively faint sense of the peculiar merits OF
the writers.
The nri,peval themes of love and marriage afford
George Eliot one of her most fruitful sources OF re-
aecton. Her thoughts on those subjects are always
happy. usually original and often singularly pro
found For instance q" Among all the many kinds
of first love. that which begins in childish compan-
ionsbip is the strongest and most enduring !; when
rassion comes unite its force to long affection love
Is at ITS sprine-tide' In the love of brave and
= ,lv of maternal
tenderness he gives out again those beams of pro-
teetine fondness which were shed on him as he
Law ON his mothers knee" The delcate-ten-
drilled plant must have something TO cling to-
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feel
ings: il will have the soul all TO ITSELF How is II
that the poets have said so many fine things about
our first love so few about our later lover Are their
FIRST poems their best or are not those the best
which come from their fuller thought, their larger
experience their deeper-TOoted ahectlonsI Inc boys
dute-like voice has its own spring charm but the
man should yield a richer. deeper music Our
love is nwrougbt in our enthusiasm as electricity Is
inwrought IN the air exalting its power by subtle
presence The man who awakes the wondering
tremulons passion of young girl always thinks her
AAectiOnate1 1--WE look at the one little woman's
face We love as we look at the face of our mother
rarth and all sorts of answers TO our own yearn-
ings" Love has way of cheating itself con-
sconsly like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-
seek IL is pleased with that IT all the
while dsbelieves." Here is longer passage IN the
same strain:
That alteration which young man gives TO woman
whom he feels TO he greater and better man mns9m
hardly distnguishable from religious feeling what
or art or music Our earesSes tender words our still
rapture under the influence of Autumn sunsets or Pill
symphonies all bring with them the CONSEQUENCES that
they are and ripples IN an unfathOhaDe
a
passes from expression into silence our oXe az
On the sense Of divine mystery Is II any
weakness. pray, TO be wrought on ny -, eA,
She subiest winding Of your SOUL the delicate nDes or
life where memory can penetrate, and binding To-
Speaka6le vibration: melting you in one moment with
Al the tenderness al the love that has been @
mon of heroic courage or resignation all the
present Joy with past sorrow ana your pre9nI 70
h oil {0 past r55S Sgb upon NOV BY the
Bf woman's cheek and neck and arms, by the l9nid
Sept Of her ips For the beauty of lovely woman is
bike music: what one say moref Beauty has an ex.
preston beyond and far above the one woman sour mat
i clothes the words OF genius have wider meaning
Than the thought that prompted them IL rs more man
a wOman's love that moves US in w0nan's eyes-lt
seems 70 be farof mighty love that has come near to
as made speech for itself there the rounded NECK
The dunpled arm, move us by something more tnah then
prettiness-by their close Elnshp with all we nave
- the most of this impersOnal expression in beauty t
; needless to say that there are gentlemen with
bskers dyed and undyed who OF II Whatever),
and for this the nobet nature is often the most
blinded 70 the character OF the one woman SOU hat
human life is likely 70 continue LOT long tlne 70 come
h spite Of mental philosophers, who are ready with the
eest receipts for avoiding all mistakes Of the kind
Heinrich Heines comments on similar points are
Ia tone of gay persihage, and generally illustrated
by personal examples. Thus, NJ, Berlioz is made to
show the difference between love and marriage.
The great composer seated in q corner of the
srcbestra, beating the kettle-drum, which was his
professional instrument. 40 Do you observe that
stout English woman in the prOscenium box 2 asked
NV neighbOr that is Miss SmithsOn; for the last
Ihree years BeIGoz has been dead in love with that
lady, and we owe the wild symphony which you
hear to-day TO that passion The celebrated actress
from COyent Garden was, indeed, in the prOscenum
box Berioz fixed his eyes upon her constantly, and
whenever his glance met hers he would beat his
kettle-drums as if mad. Since that time Miss Smith
son has become Madame BeIloz and her husband
has had his hair cut When, this Winter, heard
his symphony at the coRserrGtOire, he was again
seated, as usual at the kettledrum in the back part
Of the orchestra the stout English woman was
again seated in the proscenium box, and their
Vlances met too-but this time he did not beat his
kettle-drums 80 furiOusly as of yOre."'
The different ages of life suggest many tender
musings 10 George Eliot which she is wont TO
translate into forcible language Here is some sage
discourse on the griefs Of childhood
These bitter sorrOws Of childhood when is all
new strange when hope has not yet got wings to
6y beyond the day and weeks and the space from sum
uer Summer seems measureless. A. my child, You
Will have real troubles 70 fret about byandby Is the
consolation! have almost all Of us had administered
a. childhood, and have repeated 10 Other chill
dren, since have been grown up we nave al OF rs
sobbed piteOusly standing with tiny pare legs above
our little socks, when lost sight OF our mother or
DuIse IN some strange place Dut We can no longer re-
call pOgnanCY % that moment and weep over II, as
do over the remembered suferiugs of hye or ten
years Every one OF those keen moments mas leIt