New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-05

imagination. or did they interpret nature In dry,
pedantic spirit Sir Walter Scott als9Lwhat OF MN
Are his novels only good for bread and butter misses
lola allows that Thackeray UNDERSTOOD human ma
ture and depicted it truly. But Dickcnss genius
was bound down to manufacture Iul. Hills 1 Max
dolls which would not shock Protestant morality
IL certainly may be conceded that there Is lnuch I'M
wholesome INTERSECTION and Journalism ana cant
in Switzerland. North Germany, the Reformed
Church of France and in both Old and New Eng
land. But may not this also he 10 some extent the
outcome of the personal liberty which the shaking
brought aboutf Young men are free to
pay direct court to Young gIls OF
respectable parentagc in every Protestant S'atS ~
the world. In Catholic States they are not Sell,
watchfulness proceeds from this freedom. Inc mover
in Protestant Geneva. London ana Boston Is III
tended as much for the adoeSceut and the grown-up
girl as for people Of more advanced life and expert
Hence the circumspecton OF thr h"yolls'' III
France young people do not read novels Ih'y are
sometimes taken as cOntTahand into colleges; Dut
the girl who conld succeed IN smuggling one mo i'c
senior division of n girls school would he very
clever smugglcr. Too much. perhaps Is sacrihced
10 the young person, as Dickens IN ms chdp"r on
"Podsnappcry" affirmed The young person Ought
10 learn that there are corners Of the library
INTO which she must not at once PcfP'
hood every kind of literature hearing the stamp "i
genius. Una laid her hand with IMMUNITY ON the
lions name. Childish iunOc"ntc "ilI not bc cor
rupcd hy novel Of cliing which would be danger
reading at sixteen or seventeen, or ny pay "I
Shakespeare. The book is read 10y the chI.d Tor me
sake of the story. Tie magic of genius rnChahiN'
and the drosS of human nature. which has place III
every sincerely written work is not felt perfectly
remember when seven or eight years Oh b'lhH ao-
sOrbrd in POpc's Homer and oobbiuC over the laTI
ing of Hector and An1romachc. Those pages WlhcI
would h we been full of meaning Ia divorce c"nrt
nudge appeared IL me "a cold link in the chain OF the
narrative, and excited no interest Whatever
PEoTE>TANIIsN IN FRANCE.
NJ lola. too is disconnected at the favor in which
Protestant Deputies and Senators are held in the
Governmental regions of the Republic. " What do
they" he asks. represent Not. surely. thc mill
ions. hut the mcdiocrty of the bourgcoisc.' OF this
mediocrity he disccrns IN thrm the qulht'S-
sencc The Protcstants of the Chambers are
jog-rot in their pace mcthodlcal Scii->uiIi'i'nt'
rcasoncrs hut not thinkers and have not the
heaven conferred gifts Of instinct ana III
spiration. | am acquainted with many oil th'
aforesaid Deputies and Senators. They certainty
do approximate 10 the English V"strymnn type
Leon Say is the most intelligent Of the band hnt ~
the Empress of Austria said of the Queen OF ing
land he after all is only corpulcut harnd"or i"Wl
with no strength of wing for a high hight. The
French Protestant il not an artist aud Is waning III
imaginatIon which is AT the root of Sru~lblitN ana
sweet uity French lTOtcStaute mere are HrI-lr'iP
full and mutually helpful but their sYhlPa'h'S
rarely carry them beyond their own SCI;
They are reliable aS business mon ana
teachers are Mamuiousts Int ol 4 more air Guy
useful kind than the Jews. for they accoinpiNh .
GOOD deal of the worlds hard work IN mills "lii'h
they erect and direct in blast furnaces. ana various
tirds of factories CrcuIot. the great machine
,vorkrd fnrpc WIS created lay Eugene Sclh"lNcI Il
Lutheran. The kcstucrs D"iiusc~, JaPt "lI"''>,
Koechlu-Sth NartIS, SchcuI"r~, SAYS, hlSi ~ ar
all Prute>taufs, and the lat" t"l"h'I I"i",'
Eochrrp1n WAS one Of the many dl~tlutul>i u 81 'i-
Whist officers in the artillery. whom the i.hT,>S
Eug,nic's religious hGotry kct tom tlN'u9' ne
gas company. the tclr4raph company, Inc ""P"",
GkS,ompic. were started b. FrouNlantS aud "4e Sill
directed by them