, 1880-12-18

t'nssr npon te weq p,es;s p,.'; md sa TnoN
r. aM afnal aw h. a n,n;fGp"ttc;I a. neSe
nini lmi.aiabs inws. jio eal'e,l, Vo!tnlre
"tha Incarceration Of nll tue qualities q ;tlio
Frcnel, mattol'' Eo@Mt @ 'nM' ~, nn.i. 1e ,a ,av.I9
Ills last writing was ai' essay on tic tllspnsa
OIL tic question vi tho unity Ut composition
~ caryie 5f ''HI cae Sfe; qf;aes tho master spirit
tho spokesman Of Ills age; tho ar'tst pAr tx-
cclleirc Of thu. n'neteelltl, century," urf!,llM
gOcs l,ryonu fills anil ,nakrs hlin MI "lslcal
sp asro gs !:f!Sste exf1syasnt eoKyes ssees t
seems to us tiilwarrnnt tet-bccoines tedious:
nnn? "t;oetho shows, himself, on ono
side Z roct; y solnna,nhulist WHO Is not
his pp!l; dreamer viu docs hot understand
htntsef, md Ia In Ills own uycs II l,nlf iic-
t!tions crent1tre,Iis vacilintt',k, eoiis!iss;!.
and passlnnatc: Will en]ny thy Koo!!s af this
jatl, alt obstacles which threaten to hinder
+, HIT, nn THO oiler sis!e. fl Ypl,os!tion t9
tlls, stallds his unnereIfal objyctiyily nnd
pcrs tu hin. Instantly wl,oro thu weak sllln ls
IN inen md things. i. =. So wo SEQ lllnl
ss naturalist, statesman, lilst"5lan: llo Is
ssiiS eiix savSqIv NsS!|| e9 99aa aseMt M ss a. a'. M
e sesks te f'i1a!i Ms .!asys (i'axe 3D.
genius IL nlao admirably SGT .fortll. IN
Tho Life md Times of Goethc." A prolific,
Waltcr Scott, Thoiias Cariyist' aid Ilayani
Taylor for translators. Fitty-flye .vullmcs
comprise his pllblishsl works, which llayo
been well nna1yze,l by Mr.. Grimm,
llfe afc mentioned BY Tic Iattrr tis first Wis
that hu never expGrtcnrGd anything which
tooG him wholly out q himself: and, sccontl-
ly, that l1H iievex mentions nliy living nnn Or
any contemporary book TINT fully il.Nts tho
IL Nunsi-bclevcr 1T whit we would Gull splrft~
unllstlr communications, lila tlnal religious
convictions wern deci.tctl and 'lrn. lint tlcro
w9s lrrsonal Cod and n pcrsonnl lniMlor;-
nttenipt to 70. Afr. Uriil,u claims tint
Ilcr!er nttcr Merck WIS tho original of
Mephistoplclcs,-a novel thought, nt any
rnte.
III general, then, t,is work gtycs good d.
gest of tho i,a,nc!lsu mass Of iiouthes l'tern-
ture, contributes much new light on Ills llfe
aini works nnd tito gradual extension Of his
tsl1nn. Tint the work llAs bGta conscientious
~ t1nNu was to have been expected Of 80
eminent d sclin0r M tic author. Tint Ills
admiration fns cnrrfctl lin to tho extrl:tnu
Ut hNrD.woTsf1ip IL not 50 much to bu WILL
t[erctf tl, SttlcU II Es common characteristic
of tho Gerilntn nation. "ln him t,l0!iu Ter
lnnny Wl,s ,lnttcd,'
pnh,,c,od IL, 1,os,,r,,. min ,,ro,,., +. ~
1un''s1eu " boslon ny lAt1se' hro"h% o. CO.
MusIc-srupr IN GERMANY.
Miss Amy Fay, pianist and tenclicr of
considerable rcp,ltc, nnli very agreeable
writer, has given ts tho record OF ller ,htlslca!
study III a neat llttlo rollIlnei which Will
commend Itself to musical readers by the In
formal md gosslpy lnal,l'cr In which 1t Is
written. Tl1u contents Of tile book werc
originally comprised III letters written llo,no
during her stay abroad. anu the snbstancc Of
some Of them appeared some tfnu since III tho
Atia',tic MonLhty, where they attracted co'i-
siderable attention. The letters have beul,
edited III the lnalh very jutfIcfously, though
still clnscr revision would have Improved