New-York tribune., 1879-03-15

mean that the story will compare for moment with
Scarlet Letter. but with almost any % %, II
would compare so well that we shoulu hauiy h"'"
where TO rank 1t amongst them'
Writers on Italian art have often hoteo
how the Gothic forms failed to secure footnod I'D na
country. In our times Taino and Ruskin nave muuo
note of it, The important monuments of Gothic ART IN
Italy are the oathedras OF Assist and Milan and one OF
these was built by German and the other is emphau-
caly German in style. Ruskin found IN the puc"
Palace at Venice "the central building OF ihe "o'lu
II contains the three elements-Gothic classical and
Byzantine "in exactly equal proportions lucy
came from the North and from the South the s"o'oi
torrent and the lava stream they met ana cohtehueu
over the wreck Of the Roman empire; ana the very
centre OF the struggle the point Of pause Of boh the
dead waters of the opposite eddIes, charged WIN
the embayed fragments OF the Roman wreck Is Nehi'c
Mr. Symonds in his work Renaissance art, says 'e
Italians never rightly apprehended the specific nature
Sonai lines dat roofs aud blank wals Of the Baslca
Even when they adopted the Gothic style they Iaeu 20
give II true expression. comparison OF thelr pest
work with the Cathedras OF Rheims, SalsDuIh vi
Cologne will show how inferior all IS III structural
excellence. -
Minor items about new publications: The
second volume in the series OF lives OF American authors
which sheldon Il Co. are publishing. will be Life OF
William Cullen Bryant by Professor D. j. Ill., OF Lew
sburg University The book will have $50 pages, ana
steel portrait Of Bryant 1t will be issued immediately
~ Wilkie Collins does not believe the British quar-
tsrly reviews ever get o new subscriber "They IAN
guish he SAYS rather than live on clubs institutions
aud old subscribers" He regards the change OF the
International Reccto TO a monthly great change for
the better"..A school book TO be used IN Southern
schools for exercises In reading and oraorY' Is pun
sned by A. s. Barnes Co. heextracs are from tne
writings of Southern authors, and the DooK Is Saiu
TO be thoroughly sectional Among the writer's repre-
s.nted are Sidney Laner Paul H. Hayne Sam Houston,
ia nfoD IT
and ]. Proctor Knot......A new Bible Cyclopeda'
called "The Engishman Critical and ExpOsitory Bible
CycOpada." edited by the Rev. A r. Tausset, has just
been issued by j. b. Lippincott Co. 1t Is an octave
volume of about 800 pages illustrated with over ooo
wood-cuts from photographs, coins and statuary'-...
An English paper notes remarkable feat In RAPID pup
fishing General Sir Arthur Cuuynghame's My Com
mand in South Africa" small octave of 400 pages.
reached Macmillan Co. in manuscript on a Wcdnes-
day and the printers on Thursday Tnrty copies OF the
the three baaOns winch left ENGLAND for the cape on
the following Tuesday ....A sketch or Paul a. Iayne'
win be given in wide Awake for ApI.. Miss Ionge's
Young Folks History Of England will be ready at d.
English Of the Comte de Parss History of the Civil
War" will be ready time in the Summer; 1t brings
the story down January l. 1864 The fourth and last
volume will beready sometime during the year
Matthew Arnold regards the English a1istoc-
racy wOrthlest certainly has been lie says
the successful artstOcracy OF which history makes
record But he cannot read the history OF lts mower
ing tme" the eighteenth century, without feeling that
there has change. He does not speak OF private
and virtues for in these perhaps, there has
been change for the better, but OF those public and
nspcuOus virtues by which the multitude is capyated
and led-lOfty spirit commanding character and e1-
ouiste culture AstOcraces almost inevitably fail 10
appreciate justly the instinct pushing the masses toward
expansion and fuller life and it is for this reason that
they lose their hold them They can and often do
impart high spirit fine ideal grandeur TO the people.
thus laying the foundations Of great naiOn but they
have an acknowledged incapacy for ideas. and leave
the people stll the form OF multitude or crowd The
time now is when democracy is trying to affirm its
own essence live to enjoy and TO possess the world
as the arstOcracy before 1t has tred ana tried success
fully; SO far that the time has arrived when II j. be-
coming impossible for the ariStOcIacy OF England To
conduct and WELD the English nation any longer" This
ground is taken I'm OF the chapters OF ms Mixed
ESSAYS" the new volume which Macmillan Co. are
now printing here They expect TO have treaty the
middle of the coming week, and viii make II Uniform
with tine well known edition Of Mr. ArnOds Poems"
Essays in Criticism" " Literature aud Dogma and
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