New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
BITS OF CRITICISM.

GOODWIN SMITH on ENDYMION AND BEAc.
o>S lhLD-LIke Iis predecessors IN The series. iIls
,is work lot Of the creative imagination 0Gi o! pJr-
raurc aad carlcature. Imagnatlon Is displayed ony
other, somewhat anicai exercise OF genus weh.
wine lakes the compassion out VI the region OF his
hr which the writer intends TO paint, another
ia WAYS ming ITSELF. sonrtDes IN the way OF
Cnnir allu~iOn. commonly In tha OF invOl
nntaTy se!rryelaion II i thai OF an aspian who set,
| WIN remarkable gifs. and with freedom irola
| moral supPrstitiOns equally remarkable, 10 spOl
| tr Egyptians by pOldcal leserdemam as Other
a sp OIL ncm race BY "T tSeir financial SE p
OHr ~ II occurs TO Lndy mIons mn'l that might De
most ignorant popuace OF the cties because il Is elrs
bic Of benz iurntd by beer ana corruption AGAINST ne
game growing expensive ana brings 1t to close THIS
writer's deal ~ lie Is always the same-gorgeous pat
gold and silver pale diamonds, pearls and rubes by the
peck silks, salns. aud yelvets by the bale and Of rabi
lUus cost, foom,n innumrraoe, with powdered heads
aud longest canes horses and equ,pages hue as
those any circus. money without unit aud everything
regard expense. 1t is the day dream OF Houuds
ditch The Bys.ander.
Miss PITCHERS LAST BOoK.-"The Head
ness it, The writer's intention lie 20 be both deep
and subtle The Object has been to indicate character by
minute details and depict the fatality Of life anu ITS
effect individual natures by the story OF two or three
peops lives gr1nped together on tns 1seGgroTad OF
dcloYment. and the authoresss initial conceptions
the story proceeds however which does like Hanles
crab oy going backward, the thnness OF lis material
and Inc unsu6stantia quality Of its human personag9s
gradually lessen the sensation reality. until
reader is conscious only OF wandering amongst Set OF
broken phrases which may proceed from some settled
convictions the OF their own minds but a
any coherent meaning to his. Tue authOress
would appear TO have looked into her inner con-
seriousness for her conceptions rather than out on the
world OF ordinary and women The result IL want
OF and reality and general vitaty.-lLondon News
AMERICAN WRITERS AND Poe AS A Critic
lfaro haa
fully advanced the acquisition OF force and OF polish
novelists for example almost give US lessons
IN careful elaboration OF STYLE In rcticence, ana IN we'll
calculated effects. American poets are perhaps TOO
numerous. That they get hearing. as they 90; ana
the people contemporary verse Ia FORM 10 the
mere art Of versifng even the minor AsrSan pces
monplace much ess successful than u MAS OF od In
fiction analysis Is almost toS Se Mus
(whO was raw. uniformed schoolgirl III the lifetime OK
mehod is az 81 unlike the method Of Mr. Matthew
possible But he exercised the same kind OF ln1nenc
Thought and OF French literature into the workmanship
OF his countrymen.-lLond News
Mr.. RUsKIN's Political vIEws:,-Ihe , en-,
tire wan political perspective In Mr. Ruskns political
Vows. the inurbanty OF hs expression tue
dangerous as an ally than as enemy. He is generally
right In principle aud perhaps In the majority OF cases
that principle On the one subject where he speaks with
sufficient knowledge-the department of art pure
donable exaggeraton But In every other depart
ment. and IN the department OF politics most OF MI 90
speaks with knowledge almost entirely insufficient ZOE
tine simple reason that he does not 20 supply wna
he lacks. He is prophet, and the people VIII nos
heaIken TO the words of the prophet much tue worse
for them He tells us IN his preface that hs h1as nin
self less copously supplied with metaphor ana shn9
than he did IN his youth Those WHO 10 nun anu
OF literary guerilla Oh the right side, but constantly
bringing the right side into dscred BY his eecenrele
may wish that self-wi had permitted him to Recognize
this deficiency In hts chief methods OF argument ~
warning TO cease arguiDg.-ffhc Saturday Review.
DIR. THOMAS WEBB's "FAUsT."-Turning to
Bayard Taylor's version, which marks, as have SAID
other tunes, the highest standard yet reached We
not for general fidelity letter and spirit come any
where near IL. We do say that In some particular
passages the two may appear to be level. ~.
Webbs best work Is according such roughly ests
mated balance We can strike, about equal TO Baya
Taylor's least good ana may dnd then happen
enough have not ourselves observed ~ that Bayao
Taylor his when DR. Webb IL ct his best IN
really difficult and trying passage like the chorus Oh
spirits beginning
sehwindct ihr dunkeln
Wolbungen dr0ben-
Bayard Taylors superiority almost 1mneasuraoioS
superiority only closer rendering OF the 0ernan
aud tracing the minute anatomy of - STRUCTURE OUT w
Transferring It's harmouies aud poetc movement W TIE
and movement OF Ensiish versel rhe SSturdst
Review. A;sss
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