New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-25
BITS OF CRITICISM.

THE NovELIsT's SEcRET.-A novel In which
the characters carefully drawn, In when they acs
HPo9 one Ss 10 ss spene uus Wanting The
more contrasts we get sd Wees
pness and misery, wealth and povecy Joy ana aespa,
to for the happiness Of real life con.
sists IN the fewness and moderation or these contras
Ss work Sna Blaze the gentle sequence OF events
novel pleases by showing lie IN drecty Spposit1 ~
ing every condition cheek BY Icwl with lie Opposite,
ygarty with high place yrSS9s sse% nssb MIN or
earthly things reducing the most assured position 20
Gs Of TS ~ s cos as
in trade cost the inferior artist very little he re-
%H force aad wes Su they are not the less
preme test Of power. The writer who can appreneno
sion and feeling is master Of bis craft. What grasp
Of the H O TSs Sas TO have IN bes
heroines weddlDgday Is turned to desoston ana sne
s G0%s al Rsve%
OHM. RENAS's "swEEr GALLRAN vraoN."--
orr own good IN order that in the immortal life, our
burdens be far less heavy and our hearts lighter.
order that millions might strive for kind OF NE
%oe1 saSSSS than other kind
which the moral genus OF man might DEVISE and -
bic of attainment neither does deserve to be
paLronzed mere rare and lovely flower OF Eastern
growth, II either supernatural religion OF moss
SrduOas obligation, or superstition Of most sroi.
tay kIdether fire 20 burn ug half our r nature Sass
half that IL may ndurate and mutiiae what remains
0y ns sw OF rDs
vision Of the worm that dietn not and the fire that s
false it is sufsieny SHOCKING IN neither case is g
very sweet. There something IN the honeyed words
Christianity that seems to qs worse than the eitsrsss
S hsy might Gasy tax g. sws
thing 10 costumes.-lrbe Spectator.
W. n. CHANNNG's LACK OF ADEQUATE
THoUGHr.-In dealing with the question OF miracles
Claiming failed 70 perceive tho character which the
Hsd
the objection drawn from the uniformity OF nature and
movement In Germany which began with Lessing. and
found Ts s Of
thought aud research be detected In his treatment
atinS 10 miracles. since the dawn Of modern ps.oso
ply tendency OF theis has been - merge
.Re as bun he newer rasped it's significance did
not occur him inquire how far tao tendency was
doctrines Of tree VIII and immortality. -lPalLMall
Gazette.
THE VALUE OF THE EVOLUTION THEORIES.
II hardly consistent vito The Evolution doerine ;sen
to hold that there must now. for the hret time, be
sudden divergence nom The line Of pr9sress BY the
foIm-n all the previous stages- The ahsardt e. OF
"a ss g s
Of this aud are 40 far more rational than that
total annnnauon 81 Tue Eel9ocs lnsmsI p Ss ~.
all law and government 10 which sucn men ~ M Ter
bert spencer look forward Their theories are them
selves ranstory phenomens IN tne evoiuuen Oh human
thought aud when they have played their part by pro-
Things will drop the extravagances Into which they
have rushed the wantonness which accompanies The
consciousness Of being the pioneers In comparatively
new line OF inyestigation--lrhe Spectator
THE New TESTAMENT AND "THE LIGHT OF
Whining bis coastTynen. who would be little likely q
pod throusb Che wsarisome tnsooay o. Buddhism. 70