New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-17
LIE IlvRE A Monthly Review. Nev-York. J. v
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lie LtNRE. HODuly review IeN-1'Ih d. W
BJu'Jn.
The September and October numbers OF this
periodical arc AZ hand. but they are hardly a. IL
terestlng as their predecessors. The "popular" y
article of The September number IS on ColOr-lrnt-
inc. with clever example OF What the writer, u.
Motteroz calls cy0n,Oyo5raphic, in distinction 10
the more familiar chIomOlithography. 1t Is this
Process which is employed II the Pretty FccSlcs,
Under the Windows and Baby's Operas which are
81 much the rage to day, the color beng applied III
pure tints not supcrimposcd to any great extent,
over printed design in black and white NJ. Mot
terror pleads in favor Of the chroTotspe. but bis
article is roo slight and his Illustration, few 10
make much impression Oh those WHO are not
already persuaded.
Tie October number has article or the library
OF Edouard Fourer the savant and cI tic, OF whom
Jules Janin said " This Edouard F0nTnIer knows
everything; he knows nothing else, but he knows
that we'll" The article is sketchy, ana is illustrated
with wood-cut showing the work room OF the
scholar: to the stranger chaos of books and pampi
lets here to hope find any particular thing was TO
believe one could find needle III a haystack but
20 Fourier himself all was order, for he knew
v here TO lay bis hand what he wanted. -Four
pier not only knew everything he was interested IN
everything and III his notebook and in his brain
he carried a million dates and names Here is one
of his bits OF omnisciencc: After the PrusSo-
Austrian war was over, no one talked of anything
but the needle gun. What wonderful invcD-
ton cred the military men who had laughed at 1t
two months before Invention, answered
Edoaard Fourier. struggling his shoulders there
Is nothing new under the sun? And he began TO
tell us about all the attempts that have been made
10 devise breech- loading niles; the rifle OF the
Chevalier darcy approved so long ago as 1776 by
the Academy of Science the rife OF Colonel Pauly.
Id lDa,,Ie 4 \
sum of money, the Cross OF the Legion OF Honor,
and breyet; but he did not use his rife" Now il
is lust here that the story told by EdOuard Fourier
becomes interesting. Among the workmen en-
Moved by the colonel there was a young man
from Er!urt. He bad once been locksmth, but
now having grown to he more skiltul workman,
he picked up the arm which the MaIslals or the
Fist Empire looked upon as toy. lie was an
able, intelligent man, this German workman. TO
whom no one paid the least attention. When
everybody condemned the rife OF Colonel Panty,
he alone did not condemn it. He took the idea
of the gun as a starting point, perfected its make,
and once returned to Prussia. had no reason to
repent that he had not despised the inventions OF
French genus. This workman was named Dreyes.
Iifty-six years later he gave his countrymen
victory the plains of Sad0wa"
The Correspondence" of lie LIRE continues to he
well written and valuable. There has been, 40
letter recently from America. In Nj. Arthur
O'ShaughnssSy's London letter find the following
characteristic bit about Mr.. Ruskn-a person who
seems TO have all Sarah Bernhardts rage for self
advertising. and to be quite successful in it rs
the lady herself
wanted to speak to you about Mr.. Kuskin.
1T happens that l am able TO give you some
Interesting details concerning him. One Of
his most recent whims-pardon me the void Is
hot TO publish his writings in London but 10 force
people who wish for them 10 20 INTO the country