New-York tribune., 1881-03-27
BITS OF CRITICISM.

THE PoEr AND LOVE OF NATURE.-One OF
the %sny oTs " pusture is ncTs cSsraeIer:e q
thers Herein they are mostly governed oy the temper
be sings OF nature t IL because the time invites the song
Love Of expression the poetic love, and that NOT
hest are those silent devotees only enjoy her in
solitude. and who are often toDgue-ted by the intensity
OF the delight gives There hundreds OF country
people incapable OF rhyme who, after the dew gone
can guess by the LOOK of nuttercap or daisy wha.
skysrk lost in the dazIing sunlight the very instant
when he has determined that now be viii descend; bui
did the poet ever live who couldi Not one. unless Il
were the poor pOghbsy John Clare The great poets o.
hut il would puzzle most them show such primitive
ledge as required TO distinguish the ega
S9 nS vet % decds Whistler the nightingale L OyoT
or melancholy singer-iTne AthenDum.
r. II. SroDDARp's OPINION OF LITERARl
MEN, have great deal more respect for literature
than for literary men, whom have seldom found wissl
than their fellows. They have kpack at writing which
deserts them when they talk, ss y did Goldsmith
are nsI ignorant MO- Of many things they might know
and concerAng things that they do know they are do
YSd tSad % S sd SbSOtsford With wreic6ed dsSS and hs
music IN his soul that ho delighted IN the aoomt
SSE s %SSS Se ese and
so wrongly that he placed Pope among the great peeu
| OF the wOrd.-lThe Csitle.
Mr.. TRoLLoPE's "CIcERo."-To speah
plainly the novelists knowledge OF Latin Is ucl
feeble for the task which attempted. Moreover
Greek, we fancy e even weaker than bis Latin and
From man thus poorly eqdipped. however great hi
ss %SS % Of No Se
mere industry could make up for such serious de-
ia Mr. Trollopes volumes. He has written them with
careless II not with hasy pen ana ne mas nsSssee 20
| some competent scholar. 1.-THE Spectator
CARLYLE's "HITs.r---It is hardly possible to
s,sses S% t"o sSss sco ana %
| impsh delight IN "psying ON" whoever may nass
the two CLAWS of Carly and Welsh whose champion and
cheftan he became. OF course Il s open to Mr. Froude
aGS nj viii delight 10 virtue Of their bits
to By way q Justification Tor their publication thai
Yet sOcietyN0nisss. indeed. has Oeeoma .ntolsr
and has its rsticences aud aagnsnmitiss IL not Il.
sanetes. Hitherto t has been vaguely understood
se o theSsslyes for ths pleasure and i
which the Burnsan. not 20 say Christian. rule prevails
Gently scan your brother man.
Still genter, sister woman
But this rule already honored In che breach than
the observance is TO be abolished atogethcrf sccety
Is to mean number OF men and women meeting make
in general measuring themselves srapst each other ks
caIs In suburban pack garden, aud II these obserya-
apparently @ y at the balaece Its bot be
no seregarding, much less unselsh people viii enter
FpSs woao ~ have done we for Se q Carr
yle and would not have taken the pctufesgueness
though they be- 10 essentially private people In scotland
aud London, who, so far as can be seen, have donS
nothing to deserve to be thus pilorsd Academy
LoNGFELLow AND CowPER.-In speaking OF
Hawthorne these pages, and comparing his geuius
with that OF others nentioned the purity OF I0ngfrilvn
aud said that the seraphc exeeence OF Biawafhs
/ aud Eyangelne' conld have proceeded only from
mind which tho worlds rughBess had neither touShs
ened tainsed such. 10y shintios the gscgss
nature Of L0ngelleus 3 But he pure without t.e
slghtest aisotatot of puritys cur own psros
are those with whom the same deicacy "a the
| characteristics Cowper b as pure as eeed ~ %ny
stretest lady. But With him t ainoons almost " -
adeetstion. He rises. especially In ns Task 70 Eeee
heights OF poetry beyond pcrkaps those ach y ~
simplicity, Longieiew attempts he Is too,
master OF the melody of versfcatop, whereas
low, In tho peculiar manner and methods when ne
adopted. becomes sometimes almosf prosae but
Of Longfolow's works leaves on the readers ILL.,
feeling that he 10 pure because ef his nature vs s
on the 0tnef hand rases o0uyictien that hf -,
having overcoRe his nature. He seems 70 prsiss
former connection with original Jee osheS = ~,
living the life no has lived in which sn hss VA
part. H be DO serAphc Is bacGusc h8 was noh
bred and 10 be serapho has eesy g ~ ~
Cowpef have had stirring troubies Will e'
his youth, aud have c0uQ1orcG him. IS tss,s
Cowpor delights In old being ic:s
cid men. and Il pfous. mad snd tp3prea ~,
tskcs n people ahey erd " 4tstns ''7 NJ q
mad, 20 tia outward ecnae, ln1<S1op. S'
great poeI b8 poetry p1r{tc(ly Y4ko
Ikellcpo "a The huPfb Amtf1Gkh ~ I. (. III