New-York tribune., 1880-04-04

stage, he had expended so mucn Iapor Ior ulc
mere love Of his art. Some mcney was LAY, sS
scenery and decoration and in the employment
of good singers. There was triumph OF es-
TEEN, but under the circumstances that was
matter of course. | do not know that any OF
Mr.. Fry's musical work yet survives, at least
heard his brilliant "Lancers "payed upon q
tinkling and evidently venerable pianOfOrte IN
O beer-cellar. 1t was odd to catch the well-re-
membered passages coming up into the dayl'ght
and mingling with the ~, roar and rattle Il, anu anu
intellectual face, to which i'll health had lent
pensive expression, that engaging insOucidnce OF
carriage which had in it, nevertheless, sug-
gestiOn of grave earncstness, those gentie-
manly manners which had no superficial gloss
and were all the moro delightful because gen
tlemanly manners are not, unfortunately, SO
common as they once were.
Mr.. Fry, in addition to the musical articles
which he contributed to THE TRIBUNE, waSa
frequent writer in the editorial cOlumns.- lie
liked to discuss topics of social interest matters
of fashion, men whose folies offered talr opcc
portunity for satire and the lighter phases or
politics He did this with gOOd-natured bad
image, and hand which though hrm W was h,', not
ill-naturcd. l cannot say that he handled num-
bugs, as Isaak Walton directs the ANGLE 70
handle trout "as if he loved them but inc
process of exposure went on pleasantly though
it usually left his victim in q conditl0n
sufferer had at least the pleasure OF being DIS
membered in admirable English. lie was
slain in a style of which Addison would nave APP
proved though it might have driven the aver
ace Professor of Rhetoric mad. During Ills
last days in Newly York, Mr. Fry came seldom
to the Office. The SUMMER OF 1864 saw nm
there sometimes, always cheerful ana occa-
| sionally in those excellent spirits Wllch are a
Of tue aeI ThH Seope T@e the New
| Year, in the island of Santa Cruz, not yet nifty
years of age, after u life of honorable amoltlOn
| and of constant usefulness: Like Taylor ana
Hldreth, he expired far away IRON rom ta' Ina ,ns oae
Printing House Square, which while nc was
| living knew him so well, and II his untimely
departure was mOulned in many private
ciIce | am sure that he was not less tenderly
regretted III the office OF which so olteh ne VAS
But who is this odd little man, much bearded,
| and with q emi-military stride, III great boots
outside his trousers if the weather happens 10
demand them? The Count Adam Gulowski,
Pole, author, revOltuionist after lille OF
various vicssitudes, has become a writer ot
leading articles upon foreign topics 1or
The TRIBUNE. One who began by beng eX-
PEELED from the gymnasium or warsaw Ior MS
iadical politics, at the early age OF thirteen was
extremely likely to pass lis life Ill state OF eX-
pusIon ut least from most European kingdoms
| The Count GurOwski had. for q time been re.
| stored to the good glacts Cl the husslah UoV-
! eminent but matters had gone wrong again,
| and he was now i'll New-Ycrk, Writing Tor
| THE TRIBUNE mainly upon Ioreign p0il;iGs,
and frequently upon his hobby, winch was the
Importance and the destiny OF the slavic lace:
| He had not attained sufficient knowledge OF
our vernaeular 10 use it with accuracy. His
| Uapers in French it was necessary to translate ;
| those III Enghsl to submit to piety :1Ed
correction: Scme ot them ,iad mysen the
| honor, and l may add the bother, OF manllni-
lating; and suppose that must have done tte
| work toleraby well if l had much blundercd,
the Count would have Let me know 1t IN way
which even DOw | tremble to thlnK Ol. ,F4f,
| whatever virtues he may have possessed, he
was of u most irascible disposition, and could
! express his wrath in great MANY languages,
leaving those whose pathological cducAtion HAD
been neglected, altogether as much at loss
as DR.. JOhnsOn's fish-wile was when he called
her proposition. In his wrath, when he was
stalking about in the great boots which nave
| already mentioned, he presented q somewhat
comical figure Poor Fry, who had not grain
| Of malice i'm his composition, liked nothing so
much rs to get our Count into passion, either
| by some disrespectful alluslon to his notions OF
the Slavic race, or by some lnnuendoes against
his ideas Of the regeneration OF soclety. lhc
! exl,ed Pole was sure to go off like gun at the
offence, or rather like a great many guns, for
there would he q perfect iuSI.ade OF English
which it would be complement to cal broken.
| And all the time the little man would be walk
| ing about in the funniest yay, gesticulating,
stamping, and suspect occ lsiOualy swearing
| aud not III the least appeaSvd by the
smile upon the countenonc OF has antagonist.
Whcn ne Dau DecOulc Cdnltl, btA MOluS
| sufficed to set him off again and the fun might
| have been continued indctl ntcy, II the worthy
philosopher Lad not fed from the field or If his
! toImentOr had not become tired of his amuse-
ment
The department of literary icism was then
as now in the hands Of DR.. George Ripley. How
admirably he has duiing long series CT years
discharged the duties Of that difficult and deli
cate position it is quite unnecessary for me to
say Those VINO have relied upon his recon-
mendatIon of books, and who remember how lie
has never misled them, as well those who
would know something of modern works with
out the expense Of purchasing. or the trouble of
reading item, will join with me in crate
fSl rer0TieciIOn of the numberless reviews OF
the frat order which DR.. Ripley has contributed
to THE TRIBUNE. Swift to praise whenever
praise has been found possible, and habtuallY
disinclmed TO ccnsure, unless IL should DC NOR
ally demanded' DR.. Ripley has for over thirty
years been literary censor III these columns
without once exhibiting that irritation or prcju-
seldom been free. If lie spoke well Of a book
1t was safe to biy it ) if he could not speak we'll
of it usually he has been silent or nearly so.
The recollection Of his duties thus discharged
must surely be pleasanter to him i'll his mellow
old age, than any celebrity could be, won at the
expense of kindness, OF bcncvOlence, ana, may
add, of truth. The days Of literary butchcry
have gone by; reviews written merely to give
pain or TO crafty spleen are now hardly tOic-
rated; the quarterly ZouS, like Clifford or
LOckhart, no longer tears young posts Ill
pieces or dIsmlsses the honest labor OF a life
time with ridculc and contempt. IN the new
and better school of criticism, DR.. Ripley has
same time he is emitted to 10 small share of
the credit due to its creation and establishment.
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