New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-13

loneliness are the object of almost passionate af
lection on the part of the writer. No country. it is
remarked, shows at once so much stability and so
much susceptibility to change. The midland plains
have lost none of their familiar expression and
servative spirit. Yet at almost every mile some
sign of worldwide change has wrought itself into
what one may call the speech of the landscape. in
contrast with the grander regions of the earth
which keep an indifferent aspect in the presence of
mems devices. The English woodlands and pas
lures the hedge parted cornhelds and meadows, the
quiet little rivers here aud there fit To turn mill
wheel the villages along the old cosch-rOads, are
changcable lineaments that seem 10 make the face
of the motherlsnd sympathetic with the laborious
lives of her children
She Goes not take their ploughs and wagons con-
tenptuousy, but rather makes every novel and every
sneepfod. every rallied bridge OF fallen treergIk, an
Rgreeaby noticeable incidents not mere speck In the
midst Of unmeasured vastness, but piece Of social
history IN pictorial writing.
our rural traets-where no BabeLchimney scales the
hcayens-are without mighty objects 10 I'LL the soul
with the Of outer world uncoDquerably aloo
efforts. The wastes are Fairgrounds land Jet
US try 10 keep them such for the cldrens children who
wall inherit other OF demesnel the grasses and
reeds nod to each other over the river but We have cut
canal close by the very heights laugh with corn In
August or lift tue plOugntea against the sky In Sep
tember Then comes crowd OF bury navyies with
pckaxcs aud barrowsi and while hardly wrinkle IL
health n the blooming girls, the hills cut through
or breaches between them spanned, we choose
But because land shows this readiness 20 be
changed all signs OF permanencc upon Il raise tender
cEuent instead OF awo some OF US al least, love
the scanty relics OF forests and thankful AZ
bush - LETT OF thu old hedge-row. crumDlng bit of
wall where the delicate iyyleayed toadnaN hangs It's
hight branches, bit Of thatch with patches OF
dark ATS shoulder aud troop OF grsss-sems
lts rage, thing visit And then the uled roof OF
COTTAGE and homestead, OF the long cow-shed where
gecratOns OF the milky mothers have stood patiently
Of the brosds hcudered barns where odfashio1ed
nali made resonant music. While the Watchdog
barked at the timldy yentuTesone fowls making peck
iug raids on the outlying grain-the roofs that have
looked out from among the elms and walnut trees, or
beside yearly group VI hay aid stacks, be-
low the square stone steepe, gathering their
ochre-tintCd nchens aud their olive under
oil Ininsirfeslet praise the sober harmoncs they
give landscape, helping 10 unite pleasantly
with the elder generations who titled the soil for VA be-
fore We were born aud paid heavier and heavier taxes
with much grumhng. but without that deepest OF
corruptiOnIhe gent despair which cuts down
end consumes. and never plants.
The typical characters which compose the greater
part Of the volume are described by Theophrastus
with good deal OF pungency and force OF express
sion, but hardly with the Attic nestness and grace
Of his Grecian namesake, or the archness of fancy
and delicate coloring Of La Bruyere, the modern
initator Of the classical satirist. only Temper"