New-York tribune., 1879-03-01

A curious coincidence in the respective
iudsments passed upon Madame dc stael by Schiller,
German poet and Byron, British ord Is noteu Nv INC
Athen9Um. Schiller wrote 10 Goethe: ." she Is all oi
piece There odd false and pathological iea'ure III
her character The intellectual culture OF tue fI'hch
has in her pure and exceedingly interesting fepreseh
tative For what call poetry she has no appteca-
tion" Aud he added The only tresomo thing aoou'
her is the extraordinary volubty OF her tongue ono
has 60 transform oneself into an organ LOT hedI'h "
order 10 be able to follow her" Eleven years Ia'cr
Byron wrote TO MURRAY - 90 not oyS yCuT natives as
RuthOress, IN nv opinion anu WU 10 said Mrs
could help IT," On another occasion no t SEQ t.ish
C0rnne always fingers long after dnuef hal VIC WIS"
her in the draWln6Iooul ,
The letters of DclacrOix, just published I'D
Paris are said 10 be very agreeable readlhg' Inv!
chow mat what was thought TO be violent, exaggerated
and odd I'm his work artist did not proceeu from
a wish 10 astonish the public. He sought more ana
moro intense Ite and ideal being often caught sght
Of bat never attained did not appear to the common oO
server for hat really These letters sho" 'h't
his mind was weliDaiauced, simple ana srohs' n"u
that his understanding clear He was not ohiy an
artist but a thinker well, while rs an art crluc ho
was gifted and possessed taste At once delicate ana
wide Besides these lie possessed saws The AeHdemy'
in earlier years "burss OF free ana eponi3hcuu'
ravety tender and enthusiastic friendships ana lasty,
nectol os years went on that feeling OF the sadness
Of fc ard human affairs found In all those VINO nave
taken destiny seriously
I
proposed that "auy author who published book with
out an index shouid be deprived Of the behrn'
OF the copyright act" and Carlyle expressed his
views on the subject long ago. as VIA,
scarchcr for facts in books has mott VI al
books German have perhaps the fewest indexes
DE- Rusch's Bismarck" had none, and ihi9 pooR
needed one ali the more because 1t is made up
of detached pieces which sometimes are mere
broken uttorances OF Bsmarcks Macmillan q Co.
have no index in their English edition. ana the
wish has been often expressed IN England tha' 'heH
second edition, now IN prcparalon may De ploNIued
with one In referring TO the criticism that these vol
umcs have been overrated, The AhcHGUn remarks
that this true the thar, as literary per
iormancr "th.y do etan1 high. being scrappy aud
dsointed TO an extraordinary degree" On the other
hand it regards their Importance to historical sluucn
and all VINO "for an insight into the inner com
p.catons Of one Of the most marvellous periods or
modern history and for comprehension Of the Won
deIlul figuring III the centre oil IL as OF Inc
greatest"
NJ. Zola, the French novelist, who is just
now III the fooGtide OF his popularity besides beng
novelist is o dramatic critic Tor Pars newspaper and
literary CORE spondent for Russian review An excited
controversy has lately grown out OF his connection "ith
the Russian review. II that he had the mdls-
ccton 10 crtclse his contemporary French noyests N
one Of his letters with plauness and severity, mingled
with an ingenious pTdcshOwing,t 1t IS SAID, bOti lis
falling and lis strength Tho newspapers soon dlscov-
cred t. and in u short time the letter was talked OF
everywhere in Paris. VI. lola finally reprinted 1t IN
Tic4ro Apnonse Daudct. NJ. FauOert and II. DE-
Goncourt alone found at his hands But tne others
were dealt win uuspaunSly. Except in one or two
Instances ns judgments said 10 have been precisely
what the literary pubhc had already passed npon ihem
without saying publicly and with 70 reucence re he
has done HIS victims have protested in loud terms
against the crIuclsms. one Of them affirmed u solemn
words hat not TO be REGARDED ny " Ioid serious
novelist WAS 10 hm uatterot lndhrr"nc". Another
claimed that the cause Of NJ las attack that ho
httI
pretended 10 be angry az benz 80 Wtli iteat'o ana
urged the reviewer 10 strke 8gan; while those whom
he had not mentioned al ul amCsingy inquired: Am
not novelist t4en, that he LasLl even auJ thhS DAD
10 say about me -
Mr.. Hamerton regards RuSkin as the only
artist IN words of any conspicuous power who has writ
ten uucn and with uls best force about painting some
OF tue passages in Modern Painters the Produc
tons Of consummatc artist IN words. but when
Ruskn wrote them "tEe critic III Eltn must nave
been slencod or asleep II is not true ms Rus
kin's works seem to imply, that 1t the
Modern Painters" which revealed Turner 20 the
world tor it can be shown by simple comparison OF
dates that had been Royal Acadcmician about
seventeen years when Mr.. Ruskin was born, and no
aItisJ elected hdt rank unless he Is mighty
esteemed by The date OF turner's emanci
patton from reality Mr Himcrton fixes at the painting
OF "Klchuru Castle, which ia 1902; IT'S the
eraI belief tnat did not become dreamer til much
later period. This picture bears about the same rcia-
lion 10 reality that dreams do when We dream u
some place that have visited. There i one point,
however and one only, says Mr.. Hamcrton, in which
Turner really did the artists OF all time, and this
Was IN nis appreciation Of the mystery Of nature.
The mystery of nature applied 10 painting Is prOba
hy a modern object OF study and ambition, for OF
painters who lived before INN there were none VINO
had made special use OF it, Turner conscious of
tins pccu arty iu his art. When picture Of MS had
been sent 70 NJ Lnnov in this city, lie asked how NJ
Lcnox liked II, and told that he thought It "nis
tinct" You should tell him." Turner replied, " that
iudistinctncs= f. nv fault" Turner dnrr-out.
nor dId he give dinner, himself He got up carly iu tile
morning and labored hard all day. Ihe works ne left
behind h,n enormous I'm quantity-'hundreds and
hundreds Of pictures" and thousands and thousands
of drawings and sketches" 50 that merely to copy
these ali completely, without the trouble OF scbcminc
ana Inyeuting them "wOuid occupy man for hun
drcd years" Surely he had no time for what Emerson
calls the "cards, cust8rds and compliments" of
society. He was absolutely incapable Of Social
courtirf-Elp any OF its disgui-CS. When elected
a ROYAL AcadeInician he would not 60 t0
thank his electors, in obedience to the eStah-
sled usage. eft they had not been satisfied with my
plcturc" he said, "they would not have elected me.
WHY, them should thank thcmi Why THANH mdu for
performing a simple dutyl one almost thinks II
might have brcn Turner VINO said "thc devil is the per
published by Roberts Brothers. OF Boston, wiz b. ont
Today IL s Issued In style uniform with The lu"lec-
tUd Lfc," aud ether works by MI ldmeTioA and con
tiIEs nine etchugs from pictures by Turner.
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