New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-29
BIS or CRITICISM,

THE LAST VOLUME OF GREENS HISTORY OF
THE ENGLISH PEOPLE -Our readers VII probably inier
Its predecessors. NJ man can De equh ~ III sympathy
ali centuries and he whole tue eighteenth ana
early nineteenth centuries form the period with watch
Mr. Green has least in cOmInOu lhe present vOnme.
MISUNDERSTANDING It's many and great merits, reads
what like task-wOrK when compared with the
preceding The very style Is less suitable 10
the eighteenth century than 10 earlier ones We feel
that ne eighteenth century should be treated in the
manner OF GiubOL; the historian soou powder ms
nair and put on lace rufes before sitting down 70 n'
oesk and should never forget tnat enthusiasm To the
eighteenth century mind meant something dlsln'iy
foolish, # hot wicked MT Greens styG j. elhpnhucalN
that Of the later nineteenth century. ne Il paSson
emotional. lie mas Weahttss l"i NC - t3s
OF the modern novelist. " ii was the Gln. lcNtEsh
sense drift of these ohors of SPAN 20 restrict
trade with her cooues thi tmotrfsg tNtil Ioul w
struggle OF English traders with tie omnlaioS in the
Tie contentious rival traders ~ the rows between
British smueglers and Spanish coast guaTdsiHeu. We
think Of CAPTAIN jenkins and his IKE trying % run
ting an car Torn on in HE process and wonder whether
they we're troubled with din. fevefIsh present.
ments. except, perhaps, after GrlhAlhs Oou'-llhc
Saturday Review.
On BROWNIES New BOoK.-What shall be
lines an d It 1nuses Inn bewilderins stuf
well ana good! Ony. how ong 90 tne pgDne neaa TO
re Eating 10 Pietros ngiateful Creek disciple
A. he lounged at ease one morning ~ his VIVA
(Hag's the dovry) estimated Chunks oequesD MS com
Mnse e On how fools good worl Oops word could
Social circle with his praise, promote HIM man OF
All at ouce-'An old friend tan would see your
Thee stood Peter, skeleton aaa scarecrow plain writ
In the woe-worn face-for ycIovnas, and dryness
Parchment-Wth pair Oh ey es-one nope theT leeDle
The question occurs. what would publishers have sa5
to any withou- reputation, VINO had subMit'eu
This sort oi thing Tor approval Fl lie Fen
FREEMAN's LATEST HISTORICAL EssAYs.-We
all laullar with Nh Ffcemahs intense aDn9Irence
OF the Turk ami al hs works. We may add That by ms
time pretty well reconcu d to II. Unless We are
much mis- AIKEN, it Will De long befcre we saa again
speak him as our " brave ally We are nhdlht Out
has G0ue infnit. Larm We have reason 10 rear tIAt
ike Pharaoh lie viii harden his heart as soon as lie ~
Freeman has often insisted. the TURK II
s SinD t a4SPe aR sa an MS ape" Proper nome M
Freeman ha tOld the PLAIN ruth an4ut NM ana
deserve, tn thanks If all OF Tor It. He has helped
! u toward ID rational Of most inn orisnt prae
teal question. IN some quarters lie haS been sheeItu
at ana WED. Bul as We read he ESSAYS we can see
very early tAat his usOns ar not The result OF
| mere sympathy and mere humane sentiment. Thy
rest on hrmer foundation ana on q ToOuu ~ 5tch
scen,us nvestiS cation oil period % A1iuy WIN Nnln
OF Us are very lmpeIirc.y lutia,ou. , "a
| voume appears at most opportuAr ume, anu i a
van lie ald toward correct appreciation OF the most
pressing question 10 our foreign pocj-4'e spectator
MATTHEW ARYoLD's WoRK.-The best COM
uinrns be- paid 10 Af Arnold Is 20 oDs1Ite ug
numerous instances in whlch ideas. novel and unheard
a. ~ he first announced Jhem thirty o. twenty OF ten
,a~s go have become. y werr the common places
present generation l. is 81 co9lse' open 70 any
bal in year 1900 the doctrine thai poetry is a cru
clsn lfo % be me accepted stafIA s-olhI VI Poet
/ zeal err les tue Academy
T.Fwrs's LAST VOLUME OF "PROBLEMS OF
TtFT aND AIND"-It hss. II an eminent de- gree, what
rriucs are fond u calling The higher unity Which
spIn. rom 1t, being the genuine product OF H. own
v@sI,fiop and not cucd from The books Of Others.
Nav more though there Is absence OF system there
are coatroinc ceas focus The peca! ard partial
! lines of INJURY One such governing conception,
winch is un iaiental 10 M Lewess Psychology, ana
serves 10 combine hi, otherwise unconaece d discus
sous il mat Of the unity OF al psychca processes
Tie il never of INSIST that parts OF the neural
mechanism anlytirai hciions ana tna' tne r'n,o
rum is not any fixed ana dehaed organ OF the ecu
tra located IN the BRAN out ne deai c3neept'o,
Of movable centre II ls not tne oian "licn nun o
feels nut man. feeling Is the resultant OF com
prx If changes affecting he Th"le organ sur changes IL
mast suuulafious. Every impression from an external
source gives -particulOr direction; tnlS encOuhtru
uuOus stream, and beudng into group or total result
This final the attitude OF the iginsm. Inc 'O
TAI Of sucn Attitudes me rtlui ELECTS VI pHr 80 H.
orous and reactions constitutes tue PERSONALITY OF tht
man Is tie Es). A. experiences are mulIhen am re-
n.srd and more and more redui are stored up tncIt
arises a coordmatlng system which TENDERS us more
ana moro masters of the external l. mOulhes ahhuIs
OF ma entities the impressions received 20 .aI al 3ua
streets al another distressed by the Duzzng 81 ny
rcdyng Inc words or Tennyson. We ma say, " an
the product OI al mat nave ieiN A'o 0"'u '4A' "
view.
"SIGxoR MoNALDINI's NIECE."-lt bears the
mark OF much care, suGy and eiaiS prrpafatiOh ant
Iere IA A natural ghtness and freshness IN the style
a teeuness of perception, and "A lofty conception d
character which place II at once among lne pes
novels If is KIND. inclined 10 speculate Oh
fne authorship. should IT might be the WORK OF
woman American by birth ard prepossessOn, VINO ha'
rrsided long III Rome aud bad used her 0plOrtuhlue
We'll in observ1ng ana Judging all ranks ana classes
Roman social life. No one not conversAnt Win is.ai
or IA well as ways Of the Engllsh anu amer
can coonies IN Rome. could have described tue Faac
~ the Naad with its subdivisions and various nhaD
tnfs az We md Il Ii lie an admlraDe study lu
Of nuInor point vIgfant observation anu nue.
book IA concentrated on the
ter of the heroine Cami la de Montserrat niece Vi w
enrernrIsipc SignOr MOnadni she one OF the purest
80 ,atnrsv lofty creations OF modern fiction, Crane
~ her simple and slnge-mnded fidelity to Der idea
right but thoroughly womany In me lhhoeeut dIuoi
| her afectons.-L London DAILY News
| WILL TO BE CONTESTED.