, 1879-05-24

tne GupFSe o! esth3s II. while tho 1nYhdes arc YET
we ncvoto hnmo fnace TO sketch nf the nsl1fn and
Htcv,e!opnent Of thc ntsan ani Tn'k''i! Empires,
@ tMe!s noatitn IN EuFupc, and thciE tolatlonH To-
"ard one nnothor.
;, 1i'esc,1pon hn devotas thirty-elaft .pages to
Russian history, from the dim dawn OF trniltfnn
II, anctcnt sc}th1n to this day. n,l srvuntr~ei1ht
oSn aSs' to ra5ksT rom q, equally remote ni'
ollfor Is evidently iloyal!st, nrul fails to nakn
Rpparcnt my such attotg lintrei Of all arbitrary
power a. would peisa'tc tic pagcs of a |sepnb.
Ilean wrltcr: Evc1, positive bias ngatf,st vllnt
might Gu called " Tic American 1dca u mar to
perceived In such passages ~ this:
.. Ever since tho dlsastrous war of 1a70-1R71, and
tlic equally disaatroun revolution which expelled
w. Ms9oieGmls ynussy for lsepua!c q li,sc'.
tho counsels Of Europe.
eoqera! cr1tlclsms may to nnde on this short
paragraph. III thu first place, 10 sav TINT ono
systsn m Is sxpslo t"r anohes Is oor Eeit1h;
ss!ersc,-"councIla" " boing tho recognized term.
W. = more serious fanlt may DO found With the
op'tllon ~ boldly hazartled. MAny Of tic best
thinkers In the wor1d-lnost OF those It, America
Motd any a. at The EXPULSION of rotten Empire
e1it which atone1 for hll tho sniafortuncs Franco
aus1ercd at ihe hands Of Germany. Of course
Nc ranlot insist t!,ut al men shall look Ut all
matters ii the sarne light as ourselves; but VIC
regards thu downfall Of Napoeonism rs
"cquallr disastrous With ts.at overwhelming:
defeat.
Barring this possible sinister bias, MIR. Olltcr's
work seems done with care, nnh with fairness
as lctweon the combatants. II u.crc bs an
antt-lsushtan tendency It is not dscoverabtu
without very searching examination.
The 1nnlmcFabl0 wOod.cuts havc doubtless all
done service in the paEcs Of European illustrat-
Cd papers. They are not, mud do not pretend to
be, srtumphs Of nrt; but they arc vivid aud
graphic suggestions OF thu persona, places, md
things treated Of By the authur. Tie portraits
Of ,D1israel, All pasha, and hundreds Of other
well-known characters 0f our own time arc pho
toGraphic in their strong Realism. 60 nro the
pictnrca Of the crlcl sccnes about tho outsk!rta
of battles and attcndant on the march OF
hostile troope. The pictures Of battles them
efforts; tho figures arc too crowded h,ltl the
life and death too s!ramatic to be rcul. Those
arc OCCASIONS not adapted to tho exercise Of the
9kctchnr'e art.
r.Casscll's illustrated History Of the Russo
Turkish Wsr." BY Edmund Ol'lcr. Vol. I.
From tho Commencement OF the War to the
Fail Of Plevna- Price, 81. Cassctl Potter g.
aalpin, London, Paris, and New York; ]. K.
FALCONDERG.
Mr.. Boyesen's novel, comug ao shortly after
bis critical essay on Goethe md Schiller, must
suffer by comparison. It Is evident, Indeed,
tint ho has the critical faculty highly developed,
tAAA <nAs Ao 1A%no ts1S Ru"G4 w -lSAl0 ANf WOlh
Of tue Imagination worthy to live. "FnlconbcrE"
is not only Inferior to tho best American novels;
II Is below tho rank Of ecrious works OF fiction
Intended for adults mud Gcntiics. It might do
In Sunday school library. We orc Inclined to
think It might not suircr by comparison there.
The story Is that of young Norwegian, who
lends "fast" life ut college, gets Into difficult
Ties, forecs Ills fathcr's nnmo to escape
nrreSt fnF 6nhf. ny,f1 IA
lead ~ ~ nav 'n liz. liz liz comes so''feN 70 this is
:onntry settles + M%!nnespta % tsls @ h. lSve,
editor OF T. paper, big secret becomea known to
bis hnomies, one Of whom Is bis uncle. uu IL
invited to sell out, but declines. lie survives
tho shock TO his reputation, lnarrics his sweet
heart, nnd lives down The calunny. There Is 1lo
strong characterization III tho story, no very
tdca1tzatfon worthy Ut the nA1nc. (tFatcon-
berg" By Hiallnar Hjorth Booyese,. New
York: Charles scrbner's Sons, sl.5o)
AN ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN.
This attractively-naucd novel Is pleasing
story, ucitllcr better nor worse than thousands
Of It's kind. The "accompllshed gentleman"
htmaolf Is not the hero of the rnc, but the per.
son to whom tho heroine this daughter, md the
hero lhor lover), and everybody else, AFRO very
nearly sacrilccd because he is enc OF those En-
glishmon who, without meaning to do anything
wrong, expect and c1acs doRree Of selfnbnc-
0ation On the part of ull connected With them
such MS we Americans eau scarcely concetyo ol,
The Rccne Is laid IN Veucc, n,nl tic whole mat
torscen,s little like thrcshlng over again we'll
thrcshed sheaf. 1t tnkcs tho presence mud con-
Trusting characteristics Of some rcat Americans,
aud the genius OF Henry Jamcs or William b,
1fowells to bring aoythtng very readable mt OF
this old kind Of subject. ("An Accomplished
Gentleman," by Julian 9turgls, author Of "Iohn-
a-lrcatns." New York: u, Appleton & CO,
1870. Price, 10 csnts,) J.K