New-York tribune., 1881-09-11
BITS OF CRITICISM.

MIR. w. s. GLBERr's PLAYS. SFCoNn Srprrs
-ln ne volume before us we discern, amid exuberant
higher powers than we detected in The frst t 81 "a, ar
comes genuinely from the heart and goes to il; 1ne
with With some pereeptbe sense of purpose and possibility u
might become airSiii' os %n"s an extreme cases
new ana pec1ar oi intense eomicaty, and quite org-
maj hANor on these things there are, observe, more
Than Indications and there great deal OF trashy ana
childish stnh associated with them The fairy psv jn
which fr,noe fioridn MonSta the defomed dwarf and
Ladies Httdd bdrr, MeifSno and Anlanfhss Kin time
mitted the somewhat ungracious one that Mr. Gnhcrt
WOULD to our thinking do well TO look upon par
adNentnres OF etra,cey aud the love affairs Of the i'm
rnscities Of Mrs Macrare her danbSe 5e p%e,aTas % &
NJ Angus naeaitsier strike much above the aver
& shows nus hand The perfect simplicity of the subec
Spectator. -" '"'
a LAsHING FOR Mr.. MALLoCK.-Mr Mallock
IN some of hs earlier works has strong some
has been less maeralistc or further removed from se
nesnly school. IL has been impossible hitherto
sNnpalhlze with his aspirations. You could not help
Neneratng his ideal Ii Will be real personal grief 10
many persons that the author of Is Life Worth Lvine"
should have inscribed nis the utle-page oi
book which ought not TO be admitted into any decent
household IL Is shameful that any man born Of woman,
ana admitted into woman'r socety-any permitted
schooboys hs2d-shoSi have written and as Ian an ~ &
world story which is like nothing much the se-l-
Standard.
+. j. FURNNALL on TIE SHAKEsPEARR
MAsK-ProiesSor Dowdcn's the only edition OF shake
speare's Sonnets with notes sufficiently fu. vet not
oNerdoBe. IL Is the best, containing the souuest
VIEWS and most efficiently explaining relation oi the
sonncts To one another and 10 Shakespeare The oIiy
drawback 10 the book Is the portrait, which am hound
10 call miserable IL misTepresents terribly the
kesselstadt death mask the unfortunate idenunca
OF which with shakespeare's face is due simply The
fact that mssk-douhtess OF some Gernaii-Nas found
in little German town thirty forty yeare ago.
ugly mask, instead OF tine one, human being would
have thought OF fixing II Shakesp peare--. The
Academy
DIsRAELTS NovELs.-Ihese novels abound in
wit ana daring, in originality and shrewdneSR Ia kuowt
edge OF the world and in knowle ledge of man rhey
un most vivid and striking studies character. both
portrait ana catlcature; they abound m speakng
phrases ana happA cplthets they aglow with the
passion oi youi, the love of love, the worship
cal beauty the admiration of costly
cCt anu slendd-from Countess a castle, and from
abuke 10 danond--and delight in whatever Is pow
eriu or personal or attractive Their author allows
no Time TO weary OF him. for he is worldly and passion
ate, cynical aud ambitious, hippant and sentimental
oluatey rhetorical and trinmphanty simple IN q 3reat
ne ls imperousy egostic bat while constantly paradbg
ms own personality before the public, he careful
10 tell them anything about and he is wthal imper
turbably good-tempcTed He brands and gibbets with
smile, ana with smile he adores and appauds He is,
intellectually at least, IN sympathy with character a.
every sort; and he writes becomes a man
oglzed that the conduct of depends upon the TEN
permanent not upon a bunch of musty maNinIs. T" ant
tiat there deal OF vice that really sheer N
adVertenee. 1.-The AtheneuIn.