New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19
A BOLD RRIToN ON RICHARD GRANT WHITE.

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A BOLD BRIToN ON RICHARD GRANT WHITE.
-AppdIen.y Is The am oI sO-caIed phoogls.s III tao
should hot possess common iang9aSe AZ al evests
Il seems TO Dc prine,ple T,.n M n,re u no. tnas ES
that the alterations OF IL and aecretions to II wDeh
emanate from them invalIi until they generally
adopted by Americans. and particularly by himself His
toucnsione OF proprety In speech reason "a teriu
which ne IS Tor ever narping upon-is as os soon soos
essentially his name Tor us personal approval Is hos
tnat his runSs, over and above those when
to be r,jecied outright, are sicn as can be accepted
without large modhcaLon and correction. HIS .essoDS,
II acted on could nave few results besides those Il
ervatng and obscring 1t. Rig and hldebound llu-
gusuc conservatism lie has, indeed. Oy his suggestions
DONG nc has done good service IN the interest of no
pniology of common sense. He will ito wisely TO connne
himself In future 10 tne correction Of American
There Is real value ID the scattered comments
them III the TWO books which nave here been
eursOriy surveyed; and uuutiilzed material tor com
npnls this description must lie ready 10 his hand
abundance. In the meantime as ooucerDs the English
will be well advised II lie leaves all attempts toward iS
reformation 10 those To wnom 1t is natiye.-iPai Mai
Gazette.
THE YoUNG-OLD PORTS OF THE DAY.-Time
was wuen you.4-as he DDS. aciD aud tue late Lord
Lyton went on declaring iii ripr experience taugns
tnem the superior beauty Of middle ase-was the oLy
energy that could do work OF the world and 10
poetry has been tue fashion among critics oil Mh,on.
down TO Mr.. Mark Paison, 70 dsparage SaInsoa
AgOnstes," on the ground that s badness OF sty.e
from an exhaustion Of what Shakespeare calls thc
poetic gum And us late as Byron and shelley, poets
at thirty speak OF themselves old men,
Wordsworth. however So the asnion oI Lvog long aud
produced poetry as long as he lived The fashion Was
excellent, publishers no less than for The pubic and
been luy followed tnat at The age wDen
Shelley aud Byron would have cOnsdg red themselves
patrarcu and long alter the ago wnen Shakespeare re
tired from dramatic business 10 SratfOrd the poets or
England, France and America sRro either maAing .
youtA.u beginning or branching out into new lines
1.-The Athenseum.
RoBERTsoN's DECLINING COMEDIES. - How
ephu comedy DA"nets "hen al Il OaCked
strong qualify. literary Oh Iinatc, is proved
M tue fact thaI che comedies OF l. W. Robertson
commencing already 10 show signs OF axe. Essentially
thugs of their day, these Productions held up
the nlIrOr to au age unwear,ed, has en-
every previous age, In contemplating ITS own
lneame Ia Besides forming n school in which
WHAT was weakest and most commonplace
the original was copied vita slavIs fidelity,
the means OF eecp2 what amounted so a revolution in
hstl,onlc art. No more knowledge the stage than
could DO acquired IN few weeks practice requisite
Tor those whose highest duty tao
at po-nc, wear with moderate amount OF ease u
military uniform To cigar e. ADOPT
tone of languid indnvrentism o. To accoutudto tue
fashionable drawl o tne day. 10 tne nhlonce of tao
RJbertsOnian comedies IL may BIO attributed tnAl & o
STAGE become dcugeu win actors WAC are Ia TACT
amateurs and that nure roOusi, II more conyenlona
style OF acting had az one time ien out o. IaYot Al
ready however the public IL cOnnencng To wear, OF
bOti pieces and acting. ana signs not wantg tnaf
bo.n III few years VIII be things OI the past he
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