New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Edmund Yates suggests in his paper tha'
Sic Percy shelley when his theatre In Cne'seA
courlcted should open II with representation y, w
great fathers p,ay The Cenci" which has never pee
stage ST rnsedy U since the days
OF Kit NARROW and Shakespeare VT,
The life of Tintoretto in Scribner wei
tord's new SERIES Is believed TO he the o"s sep"i"
biography OF the great Venetian that has peen wr'o"
An Euglsn Ridoln Is quoted IN II as saying OF Ih'o
rctto that the greater part Of the time which nc uu
spend I'm painting he passed In his worsinsroom' w'n
was situated IN a part of the house. 90 iaf to
moved was IL from light and life that the pou pei"n
who determined seek him out was Obliged 10 ngn'
candle even in midday. Tintoretto was once ask s
winch wore the beautiful colors, and replied tnat
black nd white were. since The one giVes a.,
i fDE% by modelling It's 'Ha'' anu tue ''"'' ''
Mr. Wexford writes from London that the
projected sale OF Mr. Henry Huth's famous library VIII
not take place. 1t seems that the library was NC
queathed Internationally by Mr. Hnth TO MS w'uo"u
she finding herself in the possession OF nneNpee'euH
large Means has made present Of TO her son, Mr.
Arthur HUH, gentleman Of literary tastes, areauy
known as an author, and now engaged on ihe VI
Buckle. The printing Of tho large detailed catalogue Is
still going that its value VIII De lqcreassu ps ,ns
merely the memorial of dispersed assenDi"so VI
books
Frank Halstead, who has just died, was
eminent as London printscller The present rage TOT
Turner's engraved work. and especially for the ioer
studiorum" associated with him. Most OF the coiec
tons OF the first great collector OF the Lber passed.
through his hands. and the nnest collection that now
exists was formed by him. lie was vergipg on to old
age and had probably accumulated fortune, when ne
retired some years ago from Bondst, and ceased to
buy important art works Or late he mas Deeh III
couple of rooms in a ihoroughfare of secondary i'm
isS ~ cors,terahe value being thus able maintain
until the last his relations with the connoisseurs
An edition of the poetical works OF the late
RoDcrr 8 Hawker the strange but gifted Vicar OF Nor
weostow in Cornwall has just been issued in London
The merits OF the poems so conspicuous that Mr.
Edmund W. Gosse says they have redeemed his name
from the stigma OF rrovincality and given him firm
place among contemporary English poets Cornwall he
remarks, is almost the last place IN Great Britain 10
preserve an intellectual independence. Modern cen
traraton has proved fatal many local forms OF cu
ture 50 that another Lake School poetry Norwich
School IN painting s hardly TO be looked for PROVINCIAL
talent powsdsy Is sucked into tSe vifSa iosI in
the bound less superiority OF cleverDess
A certain Frenchman named NJ. Edgar Mon
Tell has written book the Rhine country which Ger
man newspapers are poking good deal OF fun at At
Constance he entered the territory OF the barbarans
md from that city TO Manz found nothing 10 please him
From Manz ne turned aside and went up the Main to
Frankfort This city he found far superior to any place
on the Rhine. Tue climate OF the Rhine country nc
found unwhoesome and says II produces moro
rheumatism than any other soil In Europe. The ailmen
Is be thinks much by drinking Rhine wines all
OF which were 10 him inolerahle. He urea IN urn
Hochhsimer. Rudesheimer and even the famed Jonan
plsberger but all alike arOc0us. AS Tor the Ger
man he thinks II should not be called speech
aud adds that 1t was unfortunate that SO 1ae Een d
the product Of his mind
Jacob Won Fakes cart in the House." pub
fshcd last year By l.. Prsng & Co. with notes by c. C.
Perkins, has long notice IN recent number OF me
Times Of London While the intrinsic value OF the work
Is freely conceded special mention is made of the re-
parkable manner in which good work is got up.
To combine the useful with the ornamental, TO
strike the lust balance between physical and intellectual
requirements. is II says, difhcut operation In
The making OF books In the fitting up of dwelling
To such an extcnt this faith In the post
blty that anything OF the nature OF diawlngioon
publication could have any other M SION IN ne man 10
fewcst" The Times adds toat too much praise cannot
well he given ~ tho handsome lnalAer III WHICH the
book has been made.
Macmillan g. Co. now have ready Mr.. John
Fiske's new volume. " Darwinsm and Other Essays"
Three the essays short reviews of books on Oar
winlsrn and Buckle. One OF the latter was
written when the author nineteen years Of age and
In foot he informs the reader that from the most
ofit he now OF course thoroughly dssents" 1t is fol-
lowed by the second. which IA called II Postscript on
Mr. Buckle" In this the author shows the weak points
IN Buckles historical method chief OF which is his ex
sessive fundness for generaz atoms and his singular
lack powers Of analysis aud close reasoning MI Grant
Allen in the last Academy says OF this essay "Was
Buckle worth the troubled Is not 10 attack him now
practically thrice the saio Belonging as he did
long since Inv the new waves OF thought and he remains
mere historical CURIOSITY worthy OF attention as the
product II transitional epoc, hut not deserving OF
serious confutatiOn AT the present day."
TbeodOr Won SchOn, in 1886 made a tour
IN Germany, with purposes something like Arthur
Young's in France. five years earlier The record he
left Of II has recently been published at Lcipsic. Be
sides giving picture Of the Industrial condition of his
country at that time. 1t furnishes interesting
literary experience sch0n visited Saxony and Wemar,
and paid his respects 20 philosophers and men Of let
tcrs Among those he Wieland. little old
man. who astonlshed him 10y declaring that Kant would
have been the greaes poet OF the age he had learned
10 write verse There something in tins which recalls
notion that through Carlyc's volume on heroes.
w. that heroes al originally Of stuff and that
n Is maulv by the worlds reception OF them that tEey
beronc az last so immeasurably diverse or Mahomet
he says: "A strong untutored intellect strong wild
man; oversight, hear, might nave shapeu hitnseh
INTO poet pnest-any kind OF nero"
Sir Gilbert ScOtt's volume of personal and
professional recolectons is disappointment 10 The
ANcH0um which regards the publication of them at all
a. exceedingly III advised His son. as the case stands
has pnrged the work of much that unsuited for pub
hcation but which Sir Gilbert Intended should be
printed The precise ground OF complaint s that the
book Is only defence OF Sir GlberPs career, but
full oinsnuatlon against others against their conduct
toward himself their mOtiyes, and their professional
nbnties The painful and humating story Of the For
egn Office competition, and of Sir Gilbert SCOTS share
In that transaction Is related the article Sin such
way that reader wonders while he reads that any
man could pcu such indictment against himself The
spectacle of an architect who possessed claims 10
respect urging long Of special pleas in his own
behalf jasying himself at every step, is, at the
bs unpleasant but these excuses need not nave been
accompanied bv disparagement OF Others aud
By a dsagrecable tOae OF seiasscTOn and what must
be called strange Obhquty o. judgment" The tone OF
the article by means judicial as this extract ind
Gates