New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
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rp,NsYA ALTON OF FRANCIS HUEFFER's " MUST
CAL STUDIES "a CHARAC TERIsTIC NOTE FROM
John RUsKIN-sALE OF DIR. JOHN A. CARLYLEs
LIBRARY.
fFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE Tribune.
LONDON, May 12-Mr. Francis Huefier' the Weh-
known musical critic. has collected INTO LIMO:
volume Edinburgh: A. g. G. Black number Oh
recent contributions to various periodicals. giving
to the whole the title Musical Studies" Nobody
disnntes Mfr. Hueffer's exceptional competence to
treat of musical matters-with a single quahca-
ton. He is prominently Wagnerite-a Wlgnerlte
ou1nd meme say some of his colleagues who are less
excluslvely devoted to the German master-aud
first made his high reputation in England as
an apostle Of Wagner and missionary
of the musical gospel which Wagner promulgated
II IS said to be popularity of the disciples oil inns
teacher that they Inappreclalve OF the merits Oh
rival schools regularity unknown to the devotees
of other religions. Mr.. Huefer was one OF several
hlstori, ms of the Bareuth Festival and has repuD-
lsbed his account of that extraordinary soemnlty,
precededby study of Wagner and his Ring OF the
NbuupD These two papers excepted, the present
volume does not avowedy concern itself with WaR-
neri morris II wanting in Acknowledgements OF inc
exoellences Of other composers Mr. Huener is aDlo
IN sav IN his review of our cOuntrvman Mr..
Thaver,s Life of Beethoven" that this masters
works especially those of his third and last period
have beyond q doubt become The basis OF all
that is essentially characteristic OF modern ART
In this, to be sure, he only follows wagner VINO
oAms that instrumental art in its separate condi-
ton has reached it's ultimate development In the
Choral Symphony and that, by having recourse to
the snokeu word in the final movement of that SYM
nbonv Beethoven pointed the way to the music
drama "a the consistent outgrowth OF bis reform.
For Chopin, ALSO Mr. Hueffer has many word OF
svnnathetic appreciatiOn, and the reader OF THIS
and the articles on Foreign Schools of Music and
the chances of English Opera may como to think
that q Wagnerite is, after all. capable OF seeing
good in other works than those Of one great COM
poser. These essays are, without exception, learned
and thoughtful.
Mr. Hoyoake kindly copies for mo the following
| curious epistle from Mr.. Rusln saying; send
It 10 you because his former letter to me first ap-
peared in THE TRIBUNE, and this Is intended TO IN
terpret it,
BRENTWOOD. Coniston, Lancashire,
18th April, 1880.
Deoa nv :I 81 al That Won are safe back in England
ard am not n little grateful for your kind reference
| to me while In America and for your letter ABOUT
INT let me pray for another Interpretation of my
former letter than mere Utopianism.
| The one Calamity which perceive or dread 1Or
| an En9IIshman is his becoming rascal, and Co
operation among Rascals-if 1t were possiDie-Woulu
| bring curse. - l. l.
| had work and rob their customers on the sly; All
poIitical movement among such animals call es-
| scntially Fermentation and Putreiactlon-hOt 10
operation. Ever afectionately yours , p,,.,.,,,
The Ruskin collector, Il any example Of that I'M
happy species exist among you, will be interested to
hear that the threatened third edition Of the
Seven Lamps" has made its appearance. or
late years, the amateur who was making mp set Of
Ruskln felt himself obliged to have the second as
..I.Azr
engraved for the second. For the third thoy remain
the Same as In the second; save that some
| of them have been, as I judge retouched.
It is the text which has undergone alteration.
Mr. Ruskin's new preface of itself would suffice to
| give a stamp to the new issue. He RACES against
the book he reprints, declaring that he has long
since said elsewhere and better whatever there
Ia good in 1t, but that as people will
90 on reading what he thinks rubbish he is willing
to humor their caprice by republishing book long
out of reach Of moderate purses. 1ts clear he takes
certain pride in the keenness Of the demand for the
book he despises He does not mention prices.
but either OF the first two editions fetches at the
shops in cloth $40 or $45; the second being dl-
cult to get as the first. Mr.. RusSin 49, however of
opipion that the first will always command high
price, Theplates, he tells US, were not only etched
| but bitten by himself. the last of them in wash
hand basin in his room OF the Hotel La Cloche in
Dillon. This last precious item about the wash-hand
| basin excepted. most Of what he says about the
plates was known before. As for the text.
he has left it, all spangled and ovcrshot
with exuberant riches as 1t Is. in ITS
primitive state save that no has cut out both
from text and notes the toolishy false Protestant
| lam heretofore TO be found there. lie has also
printed the essential principles, summaries of doc
trine, and aphorsms, scattered through the hook,
oI, 10 81 Inkv,, 4
| pages where this emphatic appeal to the readers
| eve occurs. The impecnnious admrer OF Ruskin
will no more be able to buy this new edition than
the Others It is published at two guineas by Mr..
George'Allen snnnyside Orpington, and is on paper
| q size larger than the old No numerical limit Is
set to the edition. but be presumed the plates
will not be worked after they cease to give good i'm
pressions. Mr.. Ruskin's announcement that fresh
issue of the Modern Painters" or parts of that
work. will be made is O surprise. 1t had been I'M
derstood that the last edition was final, and that
the plates, or some of them, had been destroyed.
The books belonging to DR.. John A. Carlyle
brother to Thomas, and translator in prose OF
Dantes Inferno, were sold the other day by auction
They did not, as a rule. bring high prices and the
newspapers did not think them worth mention
nor indeed, was the collection n remarkable onC
except for books bearing inscriptions from somt
famous men notably from the late owners greater
brother. But some Of these latter were full of in
terest. There was Wilhelm Meister, Stuttgart
1916 in which was written, " From thu
cory tho English Translation Was made. T. c."
and copy of "Sartor Resartus," reprinted TO
friends from Frnsers Magazine" 1s34,-two year
before the Boston edItion-wIth To my dear brother
John T. Carlyle" There were gift copies Of Emer
, sons Essays" and Representative Men," from til
author; "The Confessions Of Faith etc." 1881, o
the Rev. Edward Irving, inscribed " TO my dea
and 1luch-esteemea friend DR.. John Carlyle EdDd
IrUiRGj Mill ION Liberty" "Jrom Tho author
q / with the added siRuature T. CarIyla CkeLseo