New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06

I'M ,t,,ob+ no was believed at the time, Is not
800 INIT n so his fate was happier than that OF
Uy,, Iamas O,fren. who reeling in bis saddle from
- - Mood was helped oil the field with spln-
.orad sboulder and who after bungling operation
nv an unskilful surgeon. fingered In great snner-
ing. diving finally OF lockiaw on the 0th Oh April
1852 His body was brought TO New-iork sonio
DAYS later, with military honors ana deposlted An
the receiving vault at Greenwood Cemetery oucn
in brief, was the life and snch the ueatn VI luz
James o ljrien. ria
From the voluminous literary remains Oh I"N
lanes O,Btien Mr. Winter has selected forty-tbree
aa.ioa1 iocos and thirteen stories. He has por-
formod his task with commendabe skill dwelling
&c favorab1v as possible upon the merits OF these
nroductions Ind as lightly as possible upon inc
fou,ts of their writer We think he has overIated
hotb We see no evidence Of deep thought in either
and no evidence of fastidiousness OF taste. we sec
intellectual clevcrness without intellectual con-
science. the wish to accomplish dlsdalnlng the
means of accomplishment. lie might nave uoho
better We think at first, but upon renection we aio
NJ srro ~ T. We find no suggestion of greater in
,ont;ons no promise unfullled II 1t is SUPERFICIAL
II ia because he was superficial. Nnat strlKes no
most in the poetlcal pieces with whlch Tile eolicc
zion opens is the absence of poetry Ihey are wen
yersifed but they are NOT orgnal' thelr oeSS
quality is n certain SOU OF splIiU' anu IN ''O''
aloom Of the dramatic faculty, which assumes the
form of surprise They are not imaginative anu
thew arc not melodous. The first test OF poeuc
nov,r ability TO write blank vcrse-is absent from
. Sir Rros,ls Falcon which does not rise above
tho AoUerv level of Wilss Scriptural Sketches v;
tIe second test of poetic pOwer-abllity to write
tne Ode meamre-is absent from Kane" when
hardly rises to the arid level of Spragucs Shake
snoore Ode" The only power we hnd mere IL Ill
. Willy and J." "1he Sea-" ana "lhe lnreo
Gonnets.n which are fair examples OF lYrieai
talent For the rest OF the verse-it is not so poet
col no that of Mr. George Arnold, and is not to he
named in the same day with that OF Mr. Robert
Kelly Weeks who escaped recognition i'll his llie'
but assuredly ranks high among
Tha interiors OF unfuIhed renown.
Tho reputation Of Fitz-James OBrien will prob
ablv rest upon his stories which are among the best
n tber kind. They we're written when there was
n demand for such things-a demand which had
hocn created by the Tales of Poe who died only
tbrno or four wears before tho first of them was
,vritten. and BY the "Twice-Toid Tales OF Haw-
tborne who was then broOding over his Scarlet
Latter and Blythedale Romance. They are as far
removed from daily life as these.
Oui Of space, out OF time
and are characterized Ivy the same invention though
not the same intention. They are for the most part
fantasies akin TO those OF the German Holman
with whom derium tremens was n normal condl-
tion of mind. Less morbid than the Tales OF Ioe'
and less spiritual than the Twce-Told Tales OF
Hawthorne they are inferior in literary workman
shin though not without charm OF their own, ana
are impressed with vitality which refuses TO DO
forgotten.
HISTORY OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FROM ABOUT
A. u. $50 TO THE PREsENf TINE Bv |Eo ,in
pUNCHARD. Vol. tN.--tONGHEGA IioNALi'A ~ AMLh-
ICA limo PIP G7S. Boston Congregational fuO-
fishing society,
"My history" SAYS the author. " has been like an
oldfashioned United States ship Of war, who's frame
was sometimes suffered 10 stand under cover Tor hVe
and twenty or more years. waiting for an occa-
sion or an appropriation to finish it-wcI seasoned
The preparation Of the book interrupted by Ill
ness and only in old age was the writer able TO re-
turn 10 IT, The present volume was issued after his
death and the fifth aud final one was left in mana-
script.
One of his chief objects las been TO furnish bib
liorrapby of Coug-egatonaIism. Collateral secular
history has been given somewhat freely. but only 30
far as was necessary to illustrate the progress anu
development of CougregIiIoha'lsm. The work IS
manifestly that of a dcuominalional enthusiast
who regards his own branch Of the Church ~ tho
most truly apostolic in IT'S ecclesiastical polity The
present volume begins the history Of Congregation
alism in America with the Church organization IN
Salem in 1929, under Governor Endlcott. and fol-
lows its development in NewEngland, the Southern
States Bermuda aud the West Indies, Nova Scotia
and Canada closing with the history oil tue denoml-
nation in Vermont from l749 The book covers
perlod very interesting to the secular no less than
To the ecclesastical student and by its clear aud
readable style and extensive research will commend
itself as an agreeable and useful contribution to tie
literature Of the Congregational body
DON QUIxoTE OF LA MANCHA. Translated from the
Sptuish by r. A. MATTEUX. Two vols: Svo 20.
xiii 4A5; XII, Asa Edinburgh: william Pater-
sou.
It will be long time probably before the history
of the ingenious gentleman" whom Cervantes
has imuortaz, ID will reappear in more luxurious
form than these two superb volumes. The paper is
heavy, the margins wide, the type large and at
tractive, and the full-page etchings by NJ.
Laauze are well suited to the quaint
humor and groesqu eness OF the greatest Of satrcal
romances. Motteux's tran.laton appeared IN 1912.
and has since held Its own against several other
translatlons which may be somewhat truer TO the
letter but are not so faithful the spirit. Cur
iously enough Motteux was a Frenchnan who went
to England in the time Of James II. lie trans
lated Rabeais as we'll rs Cervantes and his
success in both instances was due 10 his lively sense
Of humOr and great mastery of his adopted tongue.
enriched with an inmitabe quaintness due to ms
foreign extraction. The notes to this edition are
excellent and are based upon the notes of J. Glib
son Lockhart, to which much interesting matter
has been added.
LAW TO 2 sFoGKs f R6EPS ASD oTMEE
els 4. LEWIS IT,, OF the Philadelphia bar Philadelphia
ilees, Welsh & 60. 1881. syo PIP. $50.
A convenient manual of the course of de-
cisons aud Of legal information upon the questions pc
culIar to the stock market. law book, but not OF
highly technical character designed evidently for
by bankers brokers and investors well Ivy lawyers
Cavanagh in 1879 issued work the English law OF
Money Securities; but we believe Mr. Lewis correct,
30 far as American law concerned In saying (preface)
that there any systematic treatise the subject
After describing the Stock Exchanges OF various ooun-
tries and explaining their peculiar expressions he DIS