New-York tribune., 1882-03-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
MoRI.FY,S MISFITS

bernard Tauchnitz ..,,,a-
Mn Henry Morley, son of Henry Morley, OF Ailu'
Anrst. Sussex, was born in London sixty years Ego
Educated OF the Moravian school. Nieu"leuon.sn
x,,,ne and at Kings College, London. he practised
~oadiclne Mt Madecy, Shropshire, from bis twenty
saoona to his twenty-sixth year, tried suecessiut-
= e., ,,vard of two years at Liscard, Liverpool
- rocnIiar method Of schoolkeeping and gave up
sha proiect unwillingly IN his twenty-nhlh 5ea''
nr,.,, ,op offers being made to him, he settled In
1nrdon as n Journalist. His writings, In many
Eapacities. are multifsrious lie e&ploiteo nIS
ecboolin Household Wordsj taught How 10 MAKE
Home Unhealthyj volunteered Delen'o ot Ae
,orance; essayed Life OF fahSsy, 'i'o 80. O'e
y 40 of Jerome Bardan and Life OF CorhehuS
Ao,inna selected q volume of his Gossip from
Uo,sebold Uords and compiled Memoirs
~ bartholomew Fair; gathered two VOL
umes Of Fairy Tales began the hisV
.oroo Of English Writers before Chaucerj edited IlS
Journal of a London Playgoer from his thirty-hi1h
,o his forty-fourth year; between these TWO WORMS
Lost named he iourneyed from Chaucer to dunbar
before either of the three (our method is MoIloy"
lcultvatcd The Celts and the Anglo-SaXons, ana
oscaned from the Conquest to Chaucer. lhen hc
,cr.ned Tables OF English Literature into eight pat
g.. n,otter l. holding the Celts and the Anglo
e.v,ns. plottcr =, from tho Conquest 10 Chauccr'
,i,ttcr Chouccr and his Contemporaries IA deauIy
Gvely lot Of them; platter f. 1853 years l4Oo-loooj
- = Ecigns of Elizabeth Regina and JacObn
lnrimus and sixtus); platter o. Dryden ana MS
Contelnporarics platter 7. Samuel johnson an"
HI Contemporaries; platter 8, from l|o4 10 ioo''
Waiter \ from 500 to IS. 1he last hNe oI tho9o
,Ittrslod niled upon them sixteen plates Reaching
the youthful mmatur1ty OF ttty-ohe nc PuV o'i' 'H0
,,-na stamina of what he did and did not KNOW
and what he guessed and unguessed, in FIRST
sketch Of English Literature; and now. In the deau
ard oope old wear {" Old Year well dearly rue
Yor Won ~ he ofslloots out OF Engush Literature
for Tauchnitz unhappy baron) his 2o"oth Noiunlo
for the drlectatOn of Their Most GracouS NaIeS'icS
KIM Albert and Queen Garcia of SaXOny 'ouI no
,bat oGshoot Is the barOn'sj Tor the lesser u''eU
tation of foreign readers of English, Germans anu
benighted cockucys abroad the gr ater deiec'a'lo"
nj his fellow countrymen, fellow countrywomeh
mud fellow couutrycli.dren Of al ages uncuhaouua
and others and the greatest delectatlons OF lIs
,rans- Atlantic cousins. al unpreSumlng one {"
,,bon urot!ers lis distant respects. Eut we nave
,,parlonably omit ed to mention several or nus
,pblic functions as English Lecturer at hlngs
College. London u857-lo65); Professor OF Enghsh
Literature at University Colleges Examiner III
English Language, Literature and history 10 u'c
University of London; and now again Professor oi
Tnc,isb Literature at University Colege. London
II we have forgotten to speak OF any ol MI MOT
,ev,s multitudnous monographs We are sorry II we
bave neglected TO name any of his voimninouS
nampblets It was unintentional; we have sought 10
be full exact accurate, minute, MorIeyan. III 'i'e
name of the Prophet. Fgs-and dates'
Mr. Morley says. in writing OF Southey' Inc
onlv man of whom lie wrote severely was hyroh.
ond that only after Don Juan began to appear
Ii is not true that Southey only wrote severely
upon Byron after the publication of Don Juan lot
his attacks began Immediately after the appearance
of Manfred In the spring or summer OF lSl|' at
hof,v thp j
were publshed and four years tef0re The publlca-
+ion of The Vision of Judgment" 80 Southey
SAID in letter to TIE Editor of Tho London Courier
nearly five years subsequent to the date OF tho
dreadful Manfred. "Once. aud only once, IN con-
pection with Switzerland, have alluded 10 MS
Iordshin; and, as the passage was curtaIe0 III tne
press | take this opportunity of restoring IL. In
Gbe Quarterly RcricO speaking mcldehtaiIy Oh '"e
Junpfrau | said, 1t was the scene where LoId
1,,ro,,s Manfred met the devil and bullied him
,hopoh the devil must have won his canse before
INV trlbunal in this world. or the next, II he had
not ,leaded more ably for himself than his adVo-
cate in q cause of canonizaton, ever PLEADED lot
him" If the Astor Library conld be removed
down town and compressed into one Of our book
cases or II TIE Quarterly Rerieo we're Voiuihe
for the vest pocket we might nope TO
settle az once and forever the difference between
Henry Morley and Robert Southey but
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for the game is not worth the candle. We preserve
4. therefore for other uses and one of them shall
he IN illuminate If that be posSbe) the elsewhere
darkness of Mr. Morley. We take upon trust the
first OF his three chapters under the heading OF
Glance at the Past" AMI come to the second, ana
statement therein at which we stumble. IL is TINS
william Shakespeare was born Oh the Z3d Oh
hpril" Shakespeare may have been born on the
23d bu: there is not cXtant anywhere III the WorIu
mot even in the mind of Mr. Morley-the slghteS'
proof of that allegation. The late Mr. ChaIes
Knight whose learning was as large as tha' oi MI
Nor,ev. gives US in his William Shakesp"rc,
biography vol viii. chap. g., a fac-simile OF a
olerkly entry in the Stratford Church Register in
,egard 10 the baptism of baby William, William
1be son Of John Shakespeare, baptized on the 26th
April. 1894" And when bornf The want Of such
information T. defect in all parish registers Bap-
tism 80 Immediately followed birth In those
times when infancy was surrounded WIN
greater dangers than in our own DAYS
of improved medical science that we may
believe that William Shakespeare hrSt saw the ligAt
only day or two previous 10 this legal Iecoru OF
his existence There isHo direct evidence that he
was born on the 23d Of April according to the com
mon belief But there was probably tradition TO
that effect" True, and we accept II gladly, tut we
Object 20 Nh Morley's process Of petrifying tradi-
tion into fact. We disagree also with Mr.. Morley
in believing il probable that Shakespeare TIVE have
discarded knights abomnable spelling and re-
sumed the best oncl went up 20 London at the age
of twenty-five; but as better shakespeareans than
we can pretend 20 be, appear 10 entertain that or
,irnilar opinion in regard 70 his early hegira' we
shall not dwell upon that tJifing point. We are
not writing Life Of Shakespeare, whose life is
now irrccoverable from
"The dark backward and abysIn Of time