New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
BOSTON LITERARY NOTES.

"OID AND NEW" FOR JUNC-MR. HALE on TIE
TINES" The WAY WE LIVE Now A BAD WAY
MY COUSIN TIE INDI,N-wHo PUBLISHES TIE
CHARLES KNIGHT BOoKl
IRON REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrBUSEl
BcsToN, May 81 think cold and New"
must be going back to first principles and resolving to
have no anachronsms its since the proof
sheets have only TO me, when all Its rivals
have been on everybody's book-tabe for days. But,
now that it has come i. is full OF good strong,
able articles. The atmosphere of magazine something
curious You don't look foE the same sort OF thing in
the "Atautic" aud the "Galaxy." "scribuer A"
and Harper" both illustrated, but the articles
in them conld not Change places and
there Is nowhere that you find just such reading
especial audience though it this way slowly
the Spring. usual Mr. Hale discusses political ques-
lions in his inIrJductOn not from the point OF Of
politician bat of that Of weLinformed Christian
gentleman, with keen eyes This time he writes of the
money question. He is that the whole country,
even more unanimously than the press indorses the
Presidents veto of the imitation bill And he comforts
himself with the saying attributed to Mrs Grant that
people will find out, time that when Mr.. Grant
has made up his mind he is a very set man" So he
concludes that the stand which has been thus taken
significant, and not likely to he departed from On the
principle that misery loves company Mr. Hale gives
the following crumb of consolation in our own hard
tines
1t seems to be forgotten in all the public discussions
is shared ali the Of the world. People specu
they please about the cause this Is the trah the
great commercial nations the great manufacturing
tous not dong so much business as in prosperous
years. The great agricultural regions must, whether
they would not, abide the results OF this cncck
business They stand 1t better than the rest can for
they are nearer nrI pan AZ an eten t t s nave
enough TO eat, II they vi" pc content win bread ana
butter enough to drink if they VIII be content with
water Enough TO eat aud drinkthdt is more than the
people can say III regions Where factories are not run
ming at full time, or where little fanny workshops are
shut up Nay il cannot he sad very cheery in coun-
try taxed lie France, whose local affairs have all been
broken up 10y or In country now suffering under
civil war; like Spain And when one comes to such suit
fcung there IN india one feels what II Is to that
people have enough TO eat and drink In such check
dcprcs Of business going To be right by
any act Congress. Hard work. and good deal OF
yet Invented which Will do 1t any easier.
Anthony Trollope continues to tell his tale OF " The
Way We Live Now" and very bad and mean and dis
reputable way is, according to his showing a Leaf
from "a Journal" treats Of days in France In 1884, III
fresh and charming manner. The ignorance OF the
French, OF those old days, concerning America and
Americans. something very funny. The writer OF
the journal seems TO have amused himself infinitely at
their expense one Of the big yarns" lie told them
is thus stated:
Happening to have really distant relative married 10
IuGan chief. mentioned IL The question asked,
In nernarriages with ne Indians do you take their
name or retain your own siid that, as their lands
railing daily 10 by the luck OF the stronger,
thought graceful invariably 10 accept the Indian
nomenclature " Cest dien " exclaimed NY audience
c'osi grdcteur ~" Unfortunately" SAID j, though
do not ike TO mention H. thew were Carlos, you know"
- Indeed, what Is that "
"a tribe that always had bad habit OF eating its
prisoners Though OF this stock invariably refuse the
Of 10 30 Saq % S mgl confess
ben c'cSt bea! ne faui pas manger sembfIbe !"
Turguenie's tale, The Fatast." Is concluded 1t is
not great story, though Turg4nef did write IT, and
though OF his shorter stories are great. it is
proof that sometimes Homer mods. There is
r,nfe ufIstnn llo nd mart l1S
good than the first. Still it has much strength and
shows you one or two characters very clearly.
Our Sketchlng Club" byR. ST. John Tyrwltt, goes
on; aud there is another mastery paper by the Rev.
James Martineau. on The Protestant Theory of Author
n.y. paper too long TO be given in fun in this num-
Der, but which Will be concluded in July. Another CON
clusion promised in July is that OF Mr.. Perkins,
" scrope," long and singular tale which has reached
this present number Its most exciting crisis only
leave month more in suspense, after the wicked
wont OF the novelis,s
The Rev. Leonard Bacon d. ID writes OF Government
by PARTIES which-instead Of Government by the peO
pehe thinks the existing form OF government in the
United States. The Mser OF Marselles," by j. Ii.
Temple Is pathetic little tale quite worth telling
Tue Examiner" discusses criticism and the sphere Of
the critic. He thinks criticism Is in these times too apt
TO degenerate into fautlnding-the critic too apt TO
forget that is az much his duty to direct attention TO
the good points book as 70 point out It's faults and
foes.
Afew days since wrote YOU OF Passages from the
Life OF Charles Knight" the author OF Knights History
OF England. Ispoke OF it, at the time as published by
Estes Lauria but have since learned that the Bos-
ton nrm are ons It's publishers by right purchase for
NewEBgnnd aud that the book issued for the res Of
mankind. III hew-fork. by &. j. Putnams Sons. What
pleasant frnnane this last is, by the vay-at once
tribute " the dead and guarantee Tor the living
Lev.