New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-21
LITERATURE IN LONDON'

iFko" THE Hf'"0i IoNpoN November D.
A., oooorrt of the American meeting AZ c.
a. - .rro,c. 10 the death OF Presiueho
eli has been printed at the CuiS"ioA !, I'D in
hoi" ""o " u = Stevens II may De hau ~
-. "a a panphlet and as thlh quai' w
I. The latter is bound In white 0io'N :,
hlock-edped panel on the SIDE hlsoii'o 'o., ~
Memoriam James Abram Garfield DOM ~ nc
"Dnhnr 1871 Died 10Th September. 1881" vi
,bis a limited number whatever that may mean
has been printed on handmade paper WIN rousn
- Tho address of the Archbishop OF Canter-
hurv delivered the following evening at the Church
Of ST Martin-in-the- Field is added, occupying
twelve of the sixty pages and good photograph vi
President Garfield is the frOntispiece 10 inns elcea'
little book. The unsigned preface Is op'io"s'S
from Mr. Lowelps hand. Zone thing" observes ne'
land one thing only makes the record OF inc meet
ing at Exeter Hall worthy of separate puoiico',uh'
and coniers on it a certain DISTINCTION No' "i%'
was said but where it was SAID, I'D uiiisoil WIN
what other voices and in what atmosphere Vi Syi
pathv-that in Mr.. LowelPs modest OPINION gives
TO the words spoken in Exeter man, 'noi' u"'
noint and emphasis. Others will think that Mr.
Iowelrs address deserves permanent form LOT i.S
own sake as well as for the circumstances III winch
II was delivered Writing some weeks later he re-
Sects naturally on the probable permanence OF the
feeling common to the two nations AT the time OF
the Presidents death. 1t must have, thinks MT
Lowell something of the enduring virtue tha' oo-
longs TO what is genuine and to that only
at is something that two great nations nave
looked at each other kindly through their tears IL
will at least be awkward TO quarrel herealtel
The sight of the British flag at half-mast on ING
dav of An American funeral was some hing TO set
men thinking and that fruitfully of the great uuty
that is laid upon the English race among man KIM,
Well may we be prond of the Ancient Mother anu
we will to II that she nave ITO le"''i ~ "
ashamed of her children"
The preface concludes with recognition OF 'he
dntv of Americans to express publicly their sense oil
the kindness and hospitality and sympathy OF Eng
land which they have experienced. The ArcholshoP
is thanked and the Queen, whose wreath Sent
with such touching delicacy OF feeling to be lalu
npon the bier of President Garfield, will be hung
upon golden nail in the Temple of Concord"
Art and Letters is the title of a new Illus
trated monthly magazine in large quarto, OF when
Messrs Remington & Co. published the hrst mum
Der last month at the price of one shilling lhs Is
an attempt to satisfy public which Is not Wholly
content with so much art as is vOuchsafed them IN
the illustrations of serial stories, or with so niue
literature proper as is commonly to be found IN the
periodcals which occupy themselves with art excluS-
iyely There is to be in Art and Letters variety OF
engravugs OH wood and in fac Simile, which wllthe
conductors hope, rival in quality and quantity lh"Se
of any artistic periodical now published III Ehsahu'
There will appear also i'll each number, o compete
tale by popular writer or an lnstalment oil serial
story together with and notes relating to Art
Literature Music and the Drama This first number
has good account of Jean Francois Mllet, Win
n likeness and three large engravings from his
works; briefer notice of Mr., Du Maurlcr as the
acknowledged representative of modern English
ird no lat Frederick Walker:
M elaborate paper on Lace Making at Burano;
tale entitled An Ill Considered Blow" and other
contributions of interest. The Editor Is Mr.. j.
Comyns Carr who Is also the English editor OF
IArt Mr.. Cars authority i'll art, and hlgh rank
as writer, sufficient guarantee that TINS Is
"serious publication serious III the sense OF giving
10 the public nothing but honest and excellent WORK
The first number is good enough to make ono won
der what profit can be got out of it at the price
Paper, print ink and all the mechanical accessories
to art are excellent.
Mr. Goodwin Smith is of opinion that after the
union of America and England at the grave of Gar
field the Centenary of Yorktown came In with a BAD
grace When he wrote this lin The Contemporary
Repteto for November he presumably had not heard
of the salute there given 10 the British flag II Eng
land fell any soreness which am she did not,
over the celebration of Yorktown, that graceful and
cordial act would have healed ii. In any case,
one hardly why Mr.. Goodwin Smith should
censure the commemoration of victory which
In his view was not victory over England. lie
war of the American Revolution, he tells u.s. was
not really conflict between the two nations. but
between two parties each of which habits adherents
in the mother country well as i'll the colonies, and
the net result of this conflict not a victory of
the United States over England, but of cOnstitu-
tional principle and progress personal govern
ment and reaction. From that point OF view
which is arguable but too refined for general use
ali Engshman as such need have no
feeling about Yorktown. Tory of the
old sort, OF admirer of George ILL., if such
a person there still be. would be the proper person
10 resent it. But he would not select Mr. Goodwin
Suth to present his grievance to the pubhc|
The criticism which Mr. Goodwin Smith has to
make on Yorktown goes further back. He objects TO
the Centenary of the Declaration of Independence
and of the victories of the Revolutionary war, tell
ire us that the feeling on those OCCASIONS far as
IL was warlke, had an air of labOnOus resusclta-
ton" The objection is not that of Mr.. Goodwin
Smith the Englishman, but of Mr. Goodwin Smith
the historical student. The true anniversary OF
American nationality u.s. in his view, the planting
of Plymouth Colony. THE American Republic
does great Injustice TO her antiquity. She docks
her annals of a century and half full of most
fruitful and memorable effort. She gratuitOusy
stamps herself an upstart when she dates her life
from the Declaration of Independence instead of
dating il from the arrival of the MayflOwer." And
he goes on in passage sngularly fine in tone
THE Revolution was the vndication not the COM
mencement, of National existence Washington was
the prescrver of the Commonwealth, but Cromwell,
as the chief Of Puritan statesmen, might with more
reason be regarded its founder. The statue of the
Protector, which cannot DO eived at Westmin-
ster where it would break the constitutional har-
m0ny and dwarf the kings, might find an apprO-
pirate site at Washington. Placed there, with
Millions lines for an inscription, il would symbolic
Ill noble form the birth of the social principles
which a re- now those of the New WOrldp