, 1879-05-24

| }AuX1B II Luo WulkiLuue1lQ&0 1lGTe4t or WENyE
Of TIC city, and regards ropes ou, q ssnd, II dc:
driser'; when. stern,y carve, IN :Apolio.; Or
ent ,0'sfF & ssna - 1IoH va.
'taue II ga'n na I!oxaFth and ce..es
hnvs an Apollo. Ia. eecdsa IN ATTAINING i @ hit
donna, or ! DIvtn. com-ihlg standard OF excel,
l1ogartii there waa Cor.!ingyf What was theIr In
rcRRtO: what cnA . i 8p1ratlonf Not mother's
thcsc great artists to galniappro.&ng emile, nor
scscral. ways. which Al. vivid, tinving deIipht
| tcsward surprised nndiwith which the ono sczed
Iasishs4 snankina' Nosl9pon gsecsqas Incl.
smls. nor a sasherf'rapt soul shining in iho
| fruwn: not tho le1p ot,cycn Of the other. as ha
tcacherr, nor the wnr!dr rat'ed saint 10, OF urcw
premature applause; Gut an angel from, tbs skies
! the vivid, tlnx1inH de-
| light with which tho ono
se!Icd upon Ernlcsque
.the rnpt sonI sitting ia
the eyos' Of tho othcr na
| he 1tcw sant Us m an
| gel from the sk!eS.'"
Had Mr.. Adams borrowed few ideas, Illus.
tratlons, or sentences, merely, from Irof.
Mathews work, VIC should not hnve deemed It
worth while to speak Of tile matter. 4 great
9s o5pd pd's, 5 sraao Is s
Wordsworth, N Wordsworth has Of apcntcr,
ifay 81 P1pe, ind Popo of Drnmnlond md
Dryden. The echo OF another .san's xit or
Wisdom may llngcr long In the mind, after It's
source has been forgotten, Plagiarism, III the
shnpc OF rctty lnrceny, or the occasional appro-
pratfon OF stnE'e idcas md Illustrations, is 40
general thut It Inns nlzunat ceased to be counted
4 cttsnc. 1t ia only tho habtual thief who lires
| br plunder, and who thus ehows himself 10 be
both wcnk and Wicked, that merits tho pillory.
Stgrne l,as taken some ot the PASSAGES 10 his
"Trtssam shandy'"' Utmost literally from Bur-
stamped more Enthusiastically with Its authors
own ESSENTIAL 'diosyncrasy than ".rristnm
| ShHndr." and we're two products Of human wit
sver more unlike than thu: book and Burton's
In tic world" md II must not
10 imagined that every stream which is seen
tS toSwing "comes trom - peto;atio!n maas 10 an.
stead Of occasional conscious or unconscious
borrowings, p!ag!arzcs wtlo,c pages, us well as
The vcry title OF his book, from another worki
distinction, between him and the writer who
simply gathers from innuH,erablo quarters the
materials which he fuses into n new nrtl homo
gcneous composition, Is drawn 10 the Wcl1~j;nown
"sesanS S%ssD how 'ps yo me-" ssd
ONO, "for Istenl mr. 1natcEIn1s." '4Thc c3pla-
nation Is simple" rcioined the other; II btea,
my broou1s ready made" The following pngcs
With some verbal changes. from "iest!ng On II
155 15J 10, 1B0, 181, 253, ee54 o5 $50 n7, 30,
$50, aud la!gc portions OF mnny other pages
which VIC lacS space to parttcnlanzc.
Nobody rvcr ccnsured Burke for expanding
| the 'tl.ko cloud Ut Demosthenes into "t,iu
one black cloud which hung for while on the
accltyliies of ,I,s mountains y; but what would
mer's flne person!flcnton of the power ard
glory Of England, or tic beautiful and elaborate
Imagery ~ tho latters Plymouth speech, should
turn, out to ba ballly eopisdl Those who arc
Ia I'm NFxF
Dumas are nwure that tho 1srEarrus Of fiction,
unique rs he Mas in everything, was mmcuse Ia
plagiarism, OF h!s romance snti.Ic,l s'le Pas
tear dAsl'honsn ,s;, tTc entire & volume, out of
t!ous, from Augustus Lafontntnc, whose novel,
"Fsmtly pictures4f tho great French romnnccr
swallows In his own pngcs with as little con.
punction ga boa-constrictoe would swallow II
nnntly rcrudaies the charge. Petty thieves,
he declares, aFs guilty OF stealing; not 50 With
Tic Ale1Atders mud Napo1eons Of letters, like
himself. Mighty cs,nquerors. they invade tbs
t!onnin Of other al.hors, an.l aHner tn their
own wholc rcalns of thought. II wholesale
annexation makes literary conqueror, we must
acknowledge Mr. Adams 10 b. one Of ihc Alux-
ull1crs OF letters.
sINTEEN sAvIORs OR ONEE
Mr.. Kersey Graves, u skopllcas SpErlsnalist OF
Richmond, Ind, has obtained Bofne local celeb.
rity through his two books, tile Worlds N.x-
teen CrucIfleI Saviors; or, Christianity Before
ChriBt,n aud "T'e 1]blo Of bibles; or, Twenty
eayon Divine Revelations" 1t IL evident tllnr
MIR, Graves Is not a scholRr, nor profound
loglcfau lie has taken I'D beforehand the fals0
position, for ono who diacusses pnEcl5 literary
Questlon, Ut I'LL atlytcAte OF = case. l1ts style
H,,1 arrangement are bad, anti lte lacks direct
ness md a!nslcncss VI usll. At tts sumo timc,
ilu has y ceria!n shrpW1 n.o.iler Hlt; altd W. do
not for mo1nout doubt that he Is sinrcrc uml
honest nan,
Ills works have attracted Intention outssde Ills
own narrnw sphere. They haya passed through
tho dignity Of . rolutat!on froal au aola anl
scholaslr u.an, Ar. Johu I. Perry, ono VI tha
odit1rs OF tte Cincinnati Gazttft. Mr.. Perry
Wro,s w., long 5cy!sw ot H. 1fnys:' nooks 10.
thr antldotc OF the nalsoal In lilo ssat Of tts
grealest activity. Mr. urAyes replied to Alr.
Perry. The latter rejotned. Tho original crit
Gesa seiIscteI ind W prs4 M ss io Tn youns. ss ~"
Nit. Perry has far ,llo best Of tho argument.
Hs demonstrates col,elusiycly that thero
y, nS ttssn syaeocs c 4 all 4avsn q ts e!gSssn
Cruciled ssViors,', and that tho esi-
krlshna-ts apuro1s. hr. Ferry en'oavors to
asstr1y and .h II 4 %sasare doe; @ anst5oH. tue
1stwesn Christ anl other supposed sayioEs. As
Prof. Swing clearly points out In . communities
tion, slso ,IEtnscd III tEs yoslue It Is not neees.
eACf AuF eue pAEposa Q4 tAc tAA II AFbAutht tnAs
tho parallcllsm In quest[on shulhl be dc
stroyod. 'tThs glttvd Hr4scr {Atr. Pesry)
might have ooMtendud,h says Prof. Swing,
"thnt II the man Of Nazatost! were the sixtson!h
Of group,or tho six-hundrcdth, atwoull pnly
show how anxioua lnen everywhere bud been, N
all times, to full some onp who cnull
eotau able aud willing to lead tho heart up out
Of tho yaIa VI SORROW" OF course, there Is M
answer ~ thIs, al.u q good one, but Mr.. Graves.
does not appear able 10 make u.
We wish that 8lr, PoFTy had set hts poor an.
tagonlst . better example by refusing TO In
dulga In personalities alr. GIaYus, tho skeptlc
aud 8pirltua'lst, cerkAtnly exhibits moro grace
aud . higher restraint " tb's respect than hs
Cheissian assa!laus. ('si1tcun baYtors OF Ouo'
TA0 Gospala not Brahmpnic." BY Juhn Z.
Perry. Cincinnati: Potter q. Thompson. Paper,
10 cept3. Cloth, ~ cents)
BRIEF NOTICES.
We have received IA plea for Z More Thor
ough Study Of the Bemlttc Languages In Amen-
cs," being tho address Of the Rey. Samuel lvos
Curtess, Jr., 1t hll Inauguration - New En-