New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

lish In through L. IT, vi 'hat wv
book called sixteen sayours, or onei-The Gospels
not Brahmonc" being reply TO certain free thinkers
splrltuasts and others the West who base their per
versions of theory and fact the exploded notion that
Christianity has an East Indian origin. The matter
contained in the volume was originally printed III ah
Indiana paper in reply to OF these sp1 laiss TWO
Of whose works had had wide circulation Tue poh'S
brought out by Mt Perry not TO be found In the
ordinary defences of Christianity elsewhere In the
condensed and popular form in which he has given them
and must be looked for In great many different worKA
Mr. Perry is OF the Editors OF The Cincinnati uozeue
He Is an accomplished scholar, and has made minsei,
thoroughly familiar with the nature and methods ot
iudey in the loud and vulgar forms Ill when haS oi
late years been current.
Mr.. Froude, in his "Casar,n now printing
at CHARLES scrbners sons remarks that the natural
place for Cicero was at Cnsar's side unfortunately he
was conscious that to Caesar, alone OF his contempOr
ries he inferior, and this was ntoleraoie 10 hn'
He had been made unhappy by the thought that poster
ty might rate POmpey above himself, aud wh9h cose'
acquaintance had treasured him 50 far as PompeS was
concerned Cesar remained and In him he was conscious
OF higher presence. Against this Illuminating acknoWi-
edgmept he rebelled. Cicero was"a tragic combina-
ton of magnificent talents, high aspirations, ana true
desire to do right, with an iufrmy OF purpose anu
latent insncerty Of character, which neutrahra au,
could mako MS almost forget his n0bler qualltles
Born as ne was intoGn Of violence he was 700 ees
to contend with IT. but 1t is the 81 his
memory from too harsh a Judgment.
IT has been said that Tennyson's LOcksley
Hail. as now printed abounds in verbal alterations ol
the original poem, but the author of "Tennysonana
has succeeded in finding only five. In 1912 four lines
Of the poem read as follows;
''Ts the place, and round The qables as Of DID, the
curlews call"
''sldes the bird DER lustrous woodland, uo'pS 'no
trailer from the crag.'
"Let the peoples spin forever down the ringing grooves
OF change"
"Thro fine shadow OF the toorld we sweep into the
younger day"
In volume OF selections published in 1865, the fifth
line Of the poem was made 10 read thus:
"Locksley Han that hair in ruin oyerlooks the SANDY
tracts"
In The collected editions of the Poems the original
readin5 Of this line "n the distance" IL retained
Lady Clare originally began with the following hnes'
the second and fourth line with slight change In tue
fourth being part Of the poem as II now STANDS:
lord Ronald courted Lady Clare,
trow they aid not part In scorn
Lord Ronald her cousin, cCurtcd Eer, .
And they Will wed the morrow morn"
Mr.. Froude in estimating the life and
character OF that the purposes OF govern
ment are order ana the execution Of justice and that
the Roman constitution Cesars time had In certain
degree outlyed the period OF its usefulness through
bad government, incident TO low state OF morals u
had as it were outawei itself The rule of the arstoc
racy had been reGstabshed by Syla and 1t had iaed
&" grossly and disgracefuly." CHINA and Marus had
",
trying what law would do and the Julian Laws were his
contribution 20 the problem. constitutional liberty
under which Justice was made impossible, didno APP
pear 10 him to be liberty at all. " lie came
into the world" says Mr.. Froudc, at
special time and for special purpose. ihere
remained OF spiritual conviction only the common ana
human sense of justice and morality; and out OF this
sense some ordered system Of had to be con-
qtructed under which quiet could live, and labor.
and eat the fruits of their industry" The spirit which
would confne government to its simple duties while 1t
left opinions unfettered, was especially present ID
Caesar himself. From cant Of all kinds he was totally
free He never pretended that Jupiter was on his
side He thanked his soldiers after victory but he did
not order TIE Deums to be sung for it, His aims werea
practical and made only upon injustice and op-
preston so far his public actions were concerned
he betrayed passion save hatred of ustice ana he
"moved through life like force OF nature As already
announced Charles Scribners Sons have this book In
press.
Several interesting facts connected with
Tennyson's poems, in addition to those already NEIL
toned this column, given by the author OF Ten
nysoniana" The prize poem " IlmDuctOo" WHICH II
printed several American editions OF the complete
works but not in the authorized English ones was re-
viewed in The Athenaaa in 1920 (he year III which 1t
was publshed) and praised follows "These produc-
tons (prze poemsl have often been ingenious ana elc
giant but We before Seen one OF them which
indicated really frst-rate poetIcal genius and when
would have done honor 10 any man tDat ever WROTE
Such we do not hesitate to affirm is the little work before
u.s." John Sterling had bought part OF The Ahen6um
few months before Lls and the has often been
attributed him. Carlyle, In his " Life OF Sterling"
makes no mention of it, however. ThacAeray, who was
then at Trinity College Cambridge, with TennysCn was
publishing periodical there called The Snob copies OF
which are sometimes met with nowadays in private Ii
brares but none its contents have been reproduced
I'm The Book of Snobs." In this periodical burlesque
was printed the year, the writer tending That
It had been finished too late TO be sent in for compe
ton II was Thackeray, WHO afterward remarked that
Tennyson the wIsest man he ever knew. Both Al
fred and Charles Tennyson when attending the Louth
grammar school had read largely III literature. Nearly
all their poems in the Poems by Two 81 others
headed by quotations From Horace there no fewer
than nineteen aud among other writ rs quoted are Adj
olson BeatIe Byron, Cicero, Caudan, Cowper, Gray,
Hume Lucretus. Milton Moore OVID, Racine, Rousseau,
saust, scott, Tacitus, Virgil and Young.