New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

.,,,,,o vr,s ,.vANGFLINE With illustrations
az NV r. o. c. DARBY. Honghton, MIMI a. 20
MI adit,o., of afyangeline is clearly printed
lint cumbersome folio of some fifty pages with SIN
tear fu,l. page drawings by Mr.. barley interea'eu
Tho whole is bound in an uncomfortable paper nh'
itation OF alligator skin.
There is TO our thinking something psthe'c !"
tho i'll fortune that has for the most part atiehueu
Mr.. Darleys attempt, to get himself IN g""o ngh'
before the pnbic. Except in such performance
,s his Illustrations to Judd's Margaret" Irving
Rim Van Ninkle," and llawthoines Sca''et
Letter which are in outline. and which are " ell
opopch renroduced Ivy the helotype or by htho
GRANNY barley has never been well engraved VIC
wish some one of our publishers would try the
,ncnt of an edition of lrving's Kip van "Ihho
&, tbe handy size OF Macmilan's "BraceoiIuEo
Iaun and Old Christmas" and illustrated W."
wood-cuts Of Mr.. Darley's designs "h''" ~ u
Lee dispersed through the text IKE 'no'o VI 'i'.
,:ala.cott. so 'prcttiIy engraved by MI ''oP'' -
these little books ,>,.. .S,s IN rs
In the "Scarlet Letter, Mr. DARCY s"o"i'
IN have essayed flight beyond tae Po"oi VI
wing. and in the illustrations TO }" ENa"s'i''o
fails in tho scenes where tragic power ~ "oo"
d., No nre can look at these pictures from Long
fellows poem without perceiving That .lie a. %
has merits of no mean order. lie has s'mll'o'S
tion lie has been q close student oi huni"i ""'"
ond ms gestures and attitudes are the result VI @
ohscrvation. while he tells a story 80 PLAINLY 'na'
/, Ohio rms NAV read II is true there Is Sa'i'-
ness in his heads If we look through inc l"hS i'0
ord of his industrious laOors, but inc s""' |
lac said Of almost every artist ana liius'i
has lived. We believe however, th"' ~
essential merits will long keen him u liao0 -
ooo1.vilI Of our people, and we repeat 'n"' ~ 10
nitv his work cannot be put before JUS III '",'P0
that will attract to it the better euucaVeu P0''0'
of the public as it is, his illustrations al h">0 o"
,utiouated. out-of-date look. YET II the picSe"
drawings are a rcoeLt effort they SNOW Nv i"'-.Is
OIL on the artists part, and this wOn!u oe pi"'"''
ace, were they presented i'll wor'hler GROSS =,
There - IN tie market this year r'Val gu Vi
;rn,,,,ti,ns IA " Eyanrelne." Mr.. Frank DlcK'ee
la, made nineteen drawings illustrative u NV
ooem IN accompany an essay by Professor Nol"
p,r,er nrcsident of Yale College, called ITO
ploc. the story and the Poem" some OF Mr. Dlch-
s..,s drawings are reproduced by the phot"Si"N"'0
process by Messrs Goupil 4 Co., process ~ cot
isfactorv from every point Of view tha' "n'lo'o
ment - hardly TO 0c looked for, ana lc" %io ~
imuressoLs en- India paper from inc orIel'"i ~
TL,s book Is every way much handSoher gnu
hook than the ont Published by MeSsrs' ioufn,o"
,ti,,,,, A. Co and Nh. Dicksee's pictures have hau
nil the advantages that artistic engraving anu soou
nriutinq on Gne paper can give taem. An" 'N1'
sr certainly worthy of their setting. But loi AL
~. enjoy Mr. Darley's pctures more 'hah 'o'oUi
his English rival. There is homey s'Ie"s'"
abont then, touches OF sSmpathe'lc n"'u'o' a"s
certain harmony between the pictures anu
uoom itself "a If poet and artist both belonged 10
IN. same country and had shared tue sailio NM"
euce.. so that after all deductions made We prefer
unrEt O
seas.
POEMS BY JOHN RUsKIN. Collected ana ed'''H Hc Wy
i,vFs O~uORNE WRIGHT. l6no PIP %"t' Nc"
York: JOAN Wiley sons 1857
Tho reputation Of Ruskin's prose writings iehe'iS
anon these verses of his youth an interest ""ch
,heir Intrinsic worth would not warrant except
i, the case Of four out of the twenty-scVeh
noems of the volume. These are Inc brohoh
Cbainp THE Departed Light" A Walk IN Cha-
nonr, nand "The Old Seaman which would De
remarkable in any collection for their deep 1eehhg
and mastery versifcatiOn. " The Broken Chl'h'
the longest poem III the volume, Is all III lyric
measures whose music IS as oeica'o DC
shallev,s and almost as sweet as that OF
Tenpyson. The story of false love Is or Vaeues'
outline such rs music rather than words must tell
The hook is careleSsly printed, so that we cannot
sov beibcr the title of the second OF our lavores
.,,,l5 lao " Dcparted Ilght ur Lights Ii beng
o;en ,ue way in the table of contents and another
IN the body of the volume. However, it is not ma
teriol 70 ITS value as n tender meditation anna
scenes once made lovely by the presence of woman
dear TO the poet.
According 10 the PREDATORY note the poems were
nil written between the ages of sixteen ana twenty
seven. The Walk in Chamouni," which Is near
tbe end of the volume may belong 10 Ruskln's ripe
youth aud lacs; poctcal attempts; at any rate
there is good descriptive power and maturity OF
Thought shown in IT. This is the concluding
slanZa:
All! why should that be ccin'oFtIsssI ny cold
Which is 80 near 10 Hcavenl The lowiy earth
Ont of he b!ackness of rs charncI mould . O.,
Feeds lis fires life. and lights Us banks with go!d;
Rut other proud submits. in eternal dearth.
Whose so,itudes nor mourning know. nor hlFth'
Rise passiOnless and pare, bat all unbiest;
CorruutlOn--must II root tue brightest Dlitu
Aud is the life that bears iis iruit lge Oest
one neither OF supremacy nor rest I
The poem which gives its name TO the collection,
"The old Water-Wheel," occurs on page ISL and
serves for one poor illustration Ia the beginning
cine Old Water-Whee' seems to be In good preser-
walton. aud lies under the corner of building
which no one could ever mistake for mill. The
English edition of the poems evidently have ether
illustrations.
The Rnskin we know is not here 1t was mile
stone perhaps tho first in his long, arduous Jour
ney. Like 50 many othcr famous "ilieiS 10
served an apprenticeship to the Muses. 1t educated
him for the service of the sister arts Of painting
and architecture He has teen their poet aud pro-
phef The moral purpose which bpoetry does not
often demand or tolerate has had IN them It's
proper scopr. Something of Ruskin's solemn ear
nestues. some readers may detect in This early
poetry. At any rate il is all intensely sad both in
subjects aud treatment Remote themes from
Egypt. Scythia and elsewhere such as affect the
Imagination by their obscuritv aud yet are .o
seldom moving 10 our feelings aud the minor poeti-
ca! key common to most young poets, are what
characterize the larger part of these poems. But