New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
,,,O AMERICAN LECTURES.

m. ,,vo,ve lectures embraced in thisvolume loini
s;s.;not courses one delivered TO popular auu'-
~. IN poston IN Baltimore and, In conoenseo
- in NewYork. aud the other addressed 10 tno
.,n5onts Of Cornell University. They cover TWO III
5sncndent subjects. The title OF the nrsC 10
" The English People In its Three Homes anu ''.O
great historical fact which the author ehiol0'S -
these six discourses is tho Teutome ntsl a''o"' s
tro,n tho Furopean Continent 10 the island o'
-, IA socondlv from that island TO North
America with the substantial identity ana con-
-. - ,ha reonle in these successive abiding
nIoccs He calls them and very justly people
-, roeo and as the readers of his more eiapoIa'e
,rorl,s are well aware he objects altogether TO INC
Co., A,o,oSaxou as il is commonly emP"!0u'
"Tba English folk is the namo "hon'
ftbore were no danger of being misunderstood n0
xvonl5 precer TO apply to us and to our ahCe'coi
The Teutopic invaders of Britain were c"i'0u
ons by the Cets whom they found theIe' O", ~
- oouo3 themselves either SaXons or Ahglo-
c,v.rs. no man ever did call himself an Ahg'o-
S.xop unless he meant to say that one {" LIS f".
cnts was an Angie and the other SaA"n' no 49,
90 the TeutOnic settlements began 10 ara" .'eN
ond 70 feel the need of common hau"n'' -
4bev called the mselves English ana taelr IAN" '1e
land and no other style was III coiii'',' 10, -,
80 oven n the period Just after the Norman
Go Mr. Freeman lyon find strong "Pp' ,rp'
-, Lo,,cen 'Normans and saxons Inc
-, i supDosed ever to have i'll his NOUN Wv
-. covon; nc q name of contempt p"'
:: rool,ty the distinction was between
,,,o,, >, and "English,' or later between ri'"'"
onJ English" As tOr the term Ahs
,cc,,s indeed IA the teu'h and eleVeh'h
Int with a very few inc"nSidel"O.' ~ r.,,oi
only m Latin and in connection vi r '' ,
s,,I. of thc king as a contraction "i "'" any
=, S,royu,, King of the Angles ana o"@"n'' i' -
+c.olf,l century the word English aW'IS '"' , ,t
:, nonulor uee had entirely superse"1" - 49, -,
Freeman cnllr2cs upon ihiS Poli'' az 9V'''o 80
I.ia,o. =. NOR, d,sp,t, about name ne makes II
the occasion of dispoing some pIVN"''N, ru -.
r.so.ot,,, the character of q" the EngA'h I'l"
sL -, b,s remarks npon the nature and cohSe-
o,ooo of thc Norman invasion he conlf''oI S'i'0
IL, assu,nntious which have become Almost ooh'-
,,nonlocas Of literature The Effects, even 'Io III
1,oto Of cts of the conquest were n"c" eli~,.'''
-. oo,,,uonlv supposed Whatever tue NOT
,,o,, IA whatever came of the mary ana gi'"'
co,.eopeuccs OF his coming DC uN ~,
zinc ont. he did not change Ne u
4 c,, undermine the ma Ional III II we LusllS'
,.o,,o He modified our law; he no"'Hea on '"1-
l,,,ge. he did not destroy either; 10 "'u no' sep
,bo unbrokcn life Of either" IN WoACoI4U'H
,bcrt ;ime The English people ABSORBED an" ",'
u,ed the Nornaus as they had already ass.Hiii'''u
tbo Danes Mr Freeman's treatment OF 'n's par
41i,s,,,ioct and his description and explanation
Of the differences between the Ehgl. o''"P Wv"
81 uritoi,, and the great movements Of colonization
ir..,on elsewhere in the world, are admirably
clear and interesting. in following the
rroIsb folk across the Atianuc 10
~ third home. he tells us little that
;s,.,c lie assumes. rather than demonstrates th&t
to blood is practically the same now as IN the days
ofpaleipb and the Nayfower. The immense Ger
man Infusion we have received directly from inc
common iathrrland Of his people and OF ours oI
.,rso does not affect the STRAIN. Tor his theory
we are only getting Teutons VINO cone
straight from home instead Of those who have matted
n few hundred years in an island on the way.
Whether we are really asSimiiatlug the Celuc ana
ether clements of our mixed population Is 4 ques-
ton which be hardly touches. Perhaps 1t 10 100 soon
10 answer II.
The second course Of lectures on The Practical
Bearings of General European History" begins with
n discnssion-,omewha prollx and rudmentaGy-ot
causes and effects. as preliminary to the develop
,nen1 of the h.soians one dogma that like causes
lead 10 Ii effects provided only hat those causes
are not coupterworked 10y other causeS-which IS
the same az saying tn At they cease to be like causes
This is followed by an exposition fthe government
md public life of the democratic city Athensl, tAe
ars,ocratic city lROme and the ruling city Rome)
md lis empire in each case with an inquiry INTO
the origin and rationale of the ancient INSTITUTIONS
and ch.rac eristcs with parallel between them and
modern States especially ENGLAND and America.
Further observations upon the Elder and the
Ncv,cr ENGLAND are inspired by the same phosophi
cal spirit; and in closing chapter on Rome Trans
planted. a compound Of several lectures delivered
ALI, Nv q T.
Question with a warmth md elOquence of which the
nrecedlup pages give but few indications. HIS style
gains ANIMATION as the work goes on, and most
readers will find tie last part Of the book much
more suCgestive and readable than the first. The
following extracts will convey to most people
novel idea; Mr. Freeman has been explaining the
difference between nobility and an aristocracy:
la England things in the end took course quite
unlike ANYTHING that ever happened else where.
The British peerage Is something unique In tGe
world. In England there Is ~, strictly
speaking no nobility. There Is
undoubtedly an arstocrauc cement IN INC
English constitution the House OF Lords
il that aristocratlc ecment. And there have
been times in English history when there has been
"A strong tendency to ailsjocracv. when the lords
have been stronger than either the King or the peo
ple And il is not 10 he denied that some OF the
iordly families OF England have shown from gen
Grafton TO generation all the higher qualities OF an
aristocracV, among them tl:at hereditary capacity
for government which We see at Rome &nd 1t
Venice. But real aIlsiOcTacy IKE llat Oh ncInCo,
an arstOcIacy only stronger than either King or
people but which bad driven out both King and peo-
pe an aristocracy from wboseTanks man can come
down and into whose ranks 10 man can rise save
bv the act of the privileged body ltselt-such an
aristocracy as this England has never seen. Nor
has England ever seen mobility in the true sense,
tie sense which the word bears in every con-
tiuental land, a body INTO which men NAV
be raised Ly the king, but from which no man may
come down, body which hands on to ITS m mbers
10 the latest generations some kind OF privilege or
distinction, whether lis piivi leges consist III sub
stantal political power, IN bare titles or prcce-
dence The English peeragc, il we must
call il O nobility at all, 10 nobility
so exclusive that 10 shuts out from its
liz. ni,h nr.cr. tI1.nn IL,