New-York tribune., 1874-06-13
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
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LONDON. May 3O-It is late to say anything about
Prince Florestan and the revelation of it's author
ship, but am in time TO say that the fact HIS ieu
some people to discover that they always liked on
Charles Dixie. To write a book that haH
the world-I mean the London wOrld-should
attribute to Matthew Arnold. book hvey
enough to set everybody reading il, and puz-
cling gh excite curiosity both as to It's author
and its meaning. is not light thing, as things e'
Society is SO much obliged to anybody VINO
will give it new topic to DISCUSS pu'
if Prince Florestan had been published under
Sir Charles Dke's name. it would very likely nave
fallen flat 1t would have been the same DooA Du'
the readers of it would not have been the same
which makes difference. Society snll pears on
Charles grudge for his 'Republcanism, and would
have voted anything known to be his duu-ilke
his speeches as he good-naturedly said of himself
Amused without knowing who amused them, the
few fine people who supply views to the many hne
people in need of them proved not ungrateful ana
now YOU meet swells going about and saying no"
awfully clever of Sir Charles" presently ADDING
with a simper of imbecile satisfaction After al,
| YOU know he is a baronet and quite one OF US
| And, when the time came to tell it, how do you
| suppose the secret was told' By Lady Dixie lone
of the cleverest in London sailing into the
drawing-room of an intimate friend, gTayeiy an
nounced by the footman as the Princess Florestan''
Next day il was in all the papers that Sir Charles
| Dixie wrote the book. The secret had been kept
just long enough.-not too long for the Prince and
his good sayings to be still remembered. fresh
demand sprung up at the circulating Libraries, ana
! we all read the book again to see what We should
have thought of it if we had known who wrote IL
What you can see easily is that much OF It's success
| its lightness of touch and easy tone coli0quai
without being hippalt and some other Oh lts
good qualities due to Sir Chariess frehch
studies and friendships and tastes. His publishers
Messrs. Macmillan & CO., now announce an edition
for the People at a shilling and they wichedy re-
produce the notices of the first edition written Weu
the authorship was such mystery Imagine the
feelings of The Standard the Tory organ, ana IN
tensely partisan even for a Tory organ. at hndIns
that it was the Radical Sir Charles Dixie OF whose
book il said In an age little remarkable for pow
ers of political satire. the sparkle Of these pages
gives them every claim to a welcome More dis
tressing stir must be the reflections of the aristo
cratic Pal Mall Gazette seeing daily reproduced us
declaration that Those who read 1t for other pur-
poses than amusement can hardly miss the soberand
sound political lessons with which its light pages
abound"
Mr.. Winwood Reade's book on Coomassie, which
was ready TO appear this week, has been wlthdrawh
temporarily, by his publisher. Copies had already
been sent to the papers and these the papers were
politely asked to give back and did so or some OF
them did. 1t may be hoped that somebody has been
indiscreet enough to find out why the book was re-
called and what the mischievOus passages were, and
10 get them somehow before the public. The public
derives so much enjoyment from little mischief
and the mischief may be harmless after all. What
hear ia that there were attacks SIT Garnet olse-
lev of kind which gave deep Oense either TO nir Jar
net OF 10 some Of his more sensitive friends 90 essrs
Smith & Elder were privately addressed ana made
TO see how much prudent was 70 suppress the
Objectionable parts Ny bookseller. who knows
great many queer things. tells me that nothing Is
more common with publishers than TO discover MS
takes too late. A book is often followed next
day by a woman with scissors and paste pot. who
goes over all the copies delivered and cuts out some
offending page, and pastes in the expurgated
one in it's place: neither buyer nor reader
being the wiser. nor ever guessing what piquant
improprieties they have missed There Is
| fear glut of Ashantee war literature we
have had MI. Stanley's lively account ana
Mr. Henty's is announced Mr.. Henty was Inc SidHd-
ard correspondent and The Daily Neps correspond
ent who has his reasons for sticking to the anony-
nous has his story in the press and now tine Oh
fetal narrative is be given to the world by capt
Brackenbury, Sir Garnet Wolseleys assistant NIL
itary secretary. This is prepared from official
documents by Sir Garnets permission, and may
be warranted in advance TO contain no indls-
cretions Still another is Mr. Frederick Boyles,
who did Ashantee-Land for The Daily Telegraph
and whose Through Fantee-Land TO Coomassle
will appear in June. When the lapse of time shall
have reduced this particular piece OF Dush-hghthg
70 It's right proportions relatively to the events
of this and other centuries, the antiqnary Oh
those days may mildly wonder that 1t was Thought
nsefn 10 say SO much about it, Let us hope the pub
fishers may find their accounts in it, with balances
on the right side of their respective ledgers
To-day's academy tells Us that Mr.. Brownings
nor noem Is expected to be out in October and that
il will be oa an entirely subject. Some OF MI
Brownings admirers, among whom desire 10 De IN
cluded would admire him even more deyoutly IL ne
would give larger share Of his genius and his In
credible energy to the study OF FORM We might get
fewer new poems, but Mr. Browning wonld surely
have more readers-a matter he may not care Tor,
indeed. am speaking solely in the interest OF the
pubIc Mr.. Browning is taking his share in the
work of the new Shakespeare Society me
has long been known, and SO has hr
Tennvson as a singularly close student OF
sbakespeare) and at the last meeting declared his
belief in the genuineness of the Porters speeches In
Macbeth" adding that he thought their hrlnor
worthy of Shakespeare. COleridge IN his time was
equally clear that they were not and could not De-
Shakspeares. l don't recall the words OF the pas
sage but he speaks Of them with sort OF horror
struck disgust very characteristic OF Colerdges
per-sensitively fastidious nature Mr. bales was
| on Mr. Browning's side, and so were Mr. Iom Taylor
| and Mr Furnival The latter has brought TO the
study of Shakespeare and the direction OF the CO.
| ciety degree of zeal above praise 1t must De
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