New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-07
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NE. BLACKS WmrE WNGs.-This IS. on
o.. 20 .. a Favorable -af-ne o. WHAT eooS ON ~.
INN. ID. book. ana after wud.ng through chapter
u. d. ed ,u- tlts, and ... yea Win leseIi ,,
similar phrases. DO longer fresh, can anyo one
womb. .t ye bcav.i sl-h OF relief when we reached
d. .-t D., vltn fsrf great pam tAa' we tie Ut
torH ads book unworthy oi Mi HtfA : I1pu~i.
~. . ...-- can doubt IL toe TACT 10 displays
aGa very u ilF,i ton aAo -plIl'.esShgss 10 eAecu
p, Iu use vul-alsa, there .- 10 ~ AL the soff'
AM most charitable -uppo~Itiou one can make Us tlit
IL. lie. wrote DO during Illness Tie impression IL
leaves Tie u-io u.s. uI e-til sl1' - pr ~, "oN "a .
v,a.r iash.,s himself mp % tLr peIof nance Oh Z.
II u.-s. We trlsJ may bee long ere We again met
t. .tuor JOB clrcul salee7 ~ depressing I1e spec
NACAULAY REDVIyUs.-The book has the
o. ID 40 aud essential virtue; u II spirited ana readable
il ~, highest decree. ~. 4leVeyan never 1i-s anu
Uev,I becomes ptosy. Ae Las gwen Us a D III
picture %. oi tlc most enie tanning porous I'D our
lind D. the e4znteeatl century, but we DO not KNOW
where So - vivid ana interesting al account o.
n years covered by MI Ireveyans yolaAs IHere IL
Ony one writer upon TINS period Win Whon NJ. IfeEel-
Nan need lear challenge comparison aud tnaJ Nrler
j. M a-t OF shom he could feel any Jealousy IL l. IN
pos b indeed u real 'h'a Oao. "IAout pe- I' eu
81 some o Lord M1cauiay's famou US essays some
critic may perhaps D. disposed % say that the reSeu
bGur goes Ntut To-" laI. mere az pdssd- "n.n
gfe te odd shock Of surprise with which we recognize
f..t 81. COX up expecting 10 the face OF an old
friend NOr DO ind fault with resemblance
Barau.y arc-or were. for the race is dying Quite
t.s;eala. They learned only IN DE JeIhY anu 1" Iam
Ger sentences eitn antghcss snd unsel rne tore
,,fcr doe. moi suggest the srrvile copylst, hut
tn voIlte pup the school Of "a glcat painter II Is
proaauIy duc direct personal sympathy acting upon
mid arcady prepared by certain degree OF afiin !
1nr iutat,r generally exaggerates tne faults Of the
OF eiua.-Mr. Trevelyan soneus them tie mannerism
marked, Wills tue.vgor Of style AMI the happJ
ar OF accumatlns picturesque details ana suDsii NJ!
M concrete images for -weellg gen"rhlrs nave Deeh
success, u ly adop,ed.-l Pal Mall Gazette.
cnAKEsPEARE's SONNETs. - COleridge has
spoken tne " comic sati0n OF thought In these son
Tic Of fher beng douSiesnotted with Thought ."
bu, r we mistake not, the thing hich gives 10 them
by thoag , but what may rather be described intel
lecuA nd emotion-tHat 49, the Incarnation or pure
adequately and at the same time sustalnedy
expressed IL body " symbol or situation winch j. sup
pied by the intellect The simple pouring out OF pas
apr become tresome to al save the lover ana
the be owed but IN reading shakespeare sonnets we
Or Sbe loss VI gustO The last Is as pquant az
tie ST because he mere passion, when Is IN IL
eel ,rdiuary thmg-tbough The passion OF Titan
nen0ous intellectual force winch hes behind ana be-
meath and bears II up as me foam Dell II borne on the
bosom Of the great seA.-ir1e Contemporary Review
ANOTHER CRITICISM on MACACLA7's NEPHEW
We may venture the OPINION, perhaps mat MI IieYe
on 30 ackneyed as he early Ife 81 Charles Fox and
gong fun ther, recommend MN 10 aortau from
fho.e tedious nvcctives against characters consigned 10
history which almost always impart to really vigorous
composition the tone OF the debating euD. IL IL not
gyrn 10 every one ~ bend the bow OF LORD Mdcauay;
nephew though he born with no small inter-
AIRY ability ID nO exec pOn 70 the rule he may think
little OF Judgment. but W. are persuaded Le. -
would DO we'll ne 10 learn TO write sly g more
suited 70 his powers. and 20 examine prr1udices
which he seems al present 80 have taken upon trust He
possesses OF the qualifications essential TO success
IA literature and, with little tess ambition, may attain
20 considerable measure OF list James's Gazette
lRYING's FAME INCREASING. The appearance
81 WHAT may De termed edition dc luxe O the WORKS
Washington IRVING ought take nobody by surprise.
me sketch BOOK" would alone suffice 10 give nim
pace among the greatest essay OF tins ury aud
VIZ ieas elective OF 1is wrtings the Tales " TRAY
ei Bias merits 10 which but few living writers could
.ay claim His subjects unambit lOusy chosen. but
sle ited ~ gn above the region Of the by
ieeiluK' dc lcate huInOr generous sympathies and
Dut ABOVE ALI beauty and proprlety OF dlctOn. He
spptaed 70 The purest taste and II IA
~ observe th-Tef re- that IN every Engilsh-speakiug
NAe London Times ' " ~