New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-27
ENGLISH PERIODICALS.
THE FoRTNIGHTLY REVIEW.

An attempt is nlaue In paper Oh OuSStVi~
ned's Letters" by NJ E. Grant Duff. NJ p. to white
wash the character of the noble master OF social dpo
MACY though under q disclaimer Of that purpose,
sscubng the prejudice which for more than century
has rested on his name TO the vndictve aDmosity OF
Or. johnson, who never fOrgave Lord ChestertelTs
neglect TO patronze his dictionary. The article is IN
the form OF discussion 20 the utility at the present
day Of Chesterelds social principles laid down in the
celebrated letters TO his Philip Stanhope Accord
ing to Mr. Duff, the purpose of those letters was
20 present the conditions which the young
man should become possesscr of the accomplish
ments winch should qualify him to stand ID
the first rank OF peli;ics as member OF the hOuse Vi
Commons. negoator at foreign courts, or the con-
dental adviser Of the heir 20 the throne He undertook
20 do this in age OF minute etiquette and endless
formally basing his code OF behavior on the principles
OF religion and morals Mr. Duff arrives OF the concu-
sion that If Lord Chestered's method was not the best
education a statesman before he is old enough to
take part politics. have yet 20 learn what the best
one really The suspicion OfrOny which Is called fOrh
by the views in the article does not diminish
Its interest it's air Of paradox does not suggest
serious doubt as 70 the eamestness of the writer.
"Paris under the Monarchy OF the Restora-
ton" is posthumous paper by the late
James MacdOnell, discussing the politics OF France
from the fall Of Napoleon to the time OF the second en-
pre- presents seres Of vivid sketches OF seyefa OF
the prominent public characters during that period III
Describing the Louis XVIII the writer presents
the portait OF one OF the conspicuous figures IN
lurd colOrs; And the Grand Chamberlain OF the King
the great noble stood behind his chair at dinner
and who had the privilege Of aiding him In the sacred
mysteries OF his toilet was the ex-5shop eXTeVolu
Zionist e1conscatOr OF the Church lands eXseVant OF
The Directory eIspy. exForoign Minister of Napoleon
exbetrayer of Napoleon ex-AmbassadOr az Vienna eX-
Foreign Minister Of Louis XVIII. himself ex-eVeFy-
thng the coolest and keenes tongue In EurOpei
the arch ntguer who had deserted every master that
he had served ana who had stin to desert another;
hffr
intellect like Bonapartes to the place where booty lay
whose life was one long incarnate refutaton OF the
maxim honesty is the best policy the eonsuhma'e
dplOmatist who had enriched himself with the phaEe
OF commissions the diplomatic work which he hao
done for imperial master and whose career was fur
rowed with hes; but who always told his falsehoods
md stole and gave his beneinetOrs up 10 the police ana
got 10 the right side OF the hedge, with the
consumlnate grace aud good-breeding OF granu
seignor Of old France. No man ever hlleu
his hat 40 gracefully to the deyl as NJ de Taeyrand
The Comte dArtois, who succeeded LOUIS Xviii as
Charles " is the subject of highlywTought descrp-
ton. Of which o single paragraph may be taken as
specimen: While Louis XVIII. was as nearly Liberal
ms providential arrangements would allow crowned
Bourbon Of the elder branch 10 be, his brother inc
Comte dArtos, had all the grand pretentons OF the
old court which assumed that the rule of the BourOons
was cunningy interviewer with the nal arrangements
OF the universe and that main purpose OF the CsSs
tian revelation was provide the kings OF France with
an apOstOca succession Of private cDaplaus VI the
Comte dArOis IL was really that he had learned
nothing and forgotten nothing from tho calamics OF
exile. dis stormy and pleasure-oyng youth at Yer
Eaes had HIM neither time taste for the studies
and the society which had softened the inherited ideas
OF his elder brother, and made many of the young
mobiles disciples Of Votaire He had hated the RevOlu
ton from the outset. He would never have given way
one inch 10 Mirabeau and the other reyOlu-
tionsts who had come 10 Versailles with III
sOlent demands that the pinched common people
should have power of saying how far they might
be neeced for the benefit Of courtiers. He fanced
that his brother Louis XVII might have died quietly In
bed and there would have been Revolution, and
10 Napoleon, and upheayal of European society. If
Mrabeau and other troublesome takers had been locked
up. A German is said 10 have reasoned In the same
fashion about the Of the water the Danube
That great river said rise in the pleasure grounds
OF gentleman in the Black Forest On seeing the little
bubbng spring the cOuntryman capped his hat upon
it. held back the water for minute two. and ex-
claimed, Wont the people of Vienna be astOnshed at
the stOppage Of the Danuber great many political
reasoners like that profound rustic and the Comte
d'Arois was one Of them Hence, when the Baste fell,
and the court bowed before the democratic storm, he
saw that France was place for him, and he secretly
Quilted Versailles with his two sons the Due dAngOu-
leme and the Due de Berr Exile, the beheaGng OF the
King ana the Queen the Reign OF Terror, and the En-
pre- only deepened his hatred OF all that was meant by
the symbol OF Liberty, Equality. and Fraternity"