New-York tribune., 1874-10-24
GOSSIP IN LITERA1URE.

-.,rr,xn,s xx,>rrvn nv prss1A-JoHN STUART MILLS
RELIGIOUS FArTH-soME NEW ENGLISH booAe'
ThAonbile Gautier could not by any chance
have written prosaic prose- Inc "oih ho i.'' N"s
warmth and gayety OF garden OF roses' whose eooi
and fragrance even translation cannot OBSCURE. MS
winter in Russia" which Holt Co. are printing h
xogsh Is as little like the ordinary book Of travel as
.,.nser antique vase filed with the perfumed
vine of Horatian banQuets is like the fat com
Portable teacup Of modern breakfast-taoie. no
brings us pictures rich with the grace OF poet ana hhe
with the delicate accuracy OF painter he
q ahesh-colored omnibus at Hamburg interesting; ana
the scheswig chateau he visits his way to Russia
like bit out Of the Middle Ages, with Its moat ana i'S
xbost-story and its picture Of long nosed countess
who responds with nod a " God bless YOU @heh
one sneeses passing before it, He reaches st feters
burg and enters gulf into which the Nevatspreads
out
The weather was magnificent. light, dazzling out
cold fell from the clear sky II was DOreaI aZuie
polar, so 10 speak-with shades OF milk, opal steel OF
which sky gives no idea pure, WHITE slderesi rs
apce which does seem TO emanate from the sun,
which Ia what sees III dreams in some other planet
than our own. Under this milky vault the Immense
vatery level of the gulf stretched out tinted WIN
coors that no pen describe In which the ordinary
tones OF water went for nothing NOW hey shells
now pearly grays of incredible dehcacyI on
blues usteress streaked like Damascus Daue OF eiso
rainbow hued reflections like those OF the peInele Oh
molten tin to a belt smooth as gass, succeeueu !"
broad band waved ike more antique and all this light
soft vague Hmpid clear, TO degree that no pen anu m m
palette render The freshest tint from human
IDEAL and the words that employ to gave an idea OF
marvellous pale spendor seem 10 me nho o.o,s , "a
pen II vessel sailed past US with ITS genuine eodo
is salmon. .eoored masts It's outlines clear anu ~
sharply defined. 1t resemoled, IN the ndst i & VI
this Elysan blue. balloon floating IN ma air; one
could of nothing more like fairy land tnah tns
nhniy In the distance emergea d siowS pv %
the milky water and the opaiine sky p
sbouetie of ST. petersburg, whose of amethyst
line of demarkatiOn between these Two paIe in
and in needles upon this dadem the richest, the most
beautiful that ever city wore upon its brow soon 81.
It's eupOla of gold like a., tiara r1;,ur,h, the
Aa%ay Se Of PM Michael the
its dOmes OF MuscOve curve that OF the Horse UuaTus
lifted sharp pyramids, their tips adorned with crosses
and a crowd Of remote church towers CLEANED
with metallic luster Nothing exists more splendid
than that golden CITY, upon that horizon o 81 sVer h
when tue evening had al INC "A'e i"u'"N'' "a INV
dawn.
This fit introduction to the beauty OF Imagination
and relation, that brings TO ones disk this Russian
Winter with all its cold nghtness and cheerfuness'
Under witching and willful pen OF Gauters the
fantastic fashions of the North glow with light TOO real
for poetry, and too fairy-like for prose.
There comes strange rumor from England as to
John Stuart Ms religious belief. 1t is said that his
posthumous essays, which probably published by
this time, will show that he was more orthodox tnan
supposed since his death. He makes in them,
is declared, profession OF Thesm. This may well
be-Mr. tnlnk, was ecarcely w
be utter Radical We TO have new book from SIT
Arthur Helps-a volume something ike Friends in
Council" holding probably dozen chapters discussing
important questions Of the day. Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
has seems me- drawn American ways after fashion
not particularly dscrminatng but he is about to pub
lisn another story Of combined English and American
lfe perhaps his persistence may some time have
happier result Those who habituay read novels have
found a certain pleasure, believe, in the writings Of
Mrs Ross Church ,Florence Marrya0. But the number
has not been large that Mrs. Church may be said to
do wisely coming give public readings to benighed
Americans This it is said she is going to do There is
very faint hope floating about that foreigners Will
learn some time the dim future that this country Is
not oyster be opened by Of their readings and
Ieeturings whatever pleassnter piece OF English
that Dr. Richard Morris to reedt for English
schools and colleges the comparative part OF Prof.
whitDey's work Language" separately, with an
introduction notes. and comparative tables by himself