New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
BITS OF CRITICISM.


Mr.. JAMEs's PEssIMIsM.-In Mr.. Henry
Jamess view of life, If we may trust his melancholy
though subtle novels and the hints thrown out In tns
dwindne Puritanic faith thin ofpessimism which
recognizes the faint In human things without rec0gn
no real power TO fight against the inevitable evolution OF
things which believes in nothing, indeed except the IN
Of life and in the mild dependency which that contem-
plation is apt to inspire. 1.-The London Spectator
THE SOURCE OF TRoLLoPE's SUCCESS
The source OF his in describing the things that
lay to him and fe mem a. we Say Said
from powerful imagination, from oynlcal nnor Or
unite all contrasts the essence
of this love OF reality his extreme interest IN char
ts what will preserve his things spite of those
deficiencies which keep him from standing on quite inc
same level the masters -llienry James III Inc
Century.
MATTHEW ARNOLD ON WORDSWORTH
donbt whether any one admres Wordsworth more than
do admire him, first OF all, Tor the very simple anu
soi reason that he is such exceedingly great poet
One nnts him after Shakespeare and Milton Shake
speare Ia OF comparison Milton was OF course Jar
spiritna PASSION of Wordsworth his spiritual passion
when, Ii the magnificent sonnet OF Iarewel 10 Ins
River Duddon for instance, he is at his highest anu
sees into the lie OF things cannot be matched nom
Milton / will not say It is beyond Milton Dnt Ne mas
of shakespeare second invaluable merit whleh ma
in Wordsworth is this lie has something 10 say iSr
and has less time left for trng Goethe got SO SICK OF
the fuss about and technical detiils WITHOUT uo
caro- for adequate contents, that ne sau no were
vounger he should take pleasure In setting e ocfed
art of the new school of poets at naugh anu IN trusting
for bis ~ hole effect his having something nportant
m any Dealing with wide, varied and briihant
world dealing with the common word close 10 lil ana
,sIng few materials Wordsworth, ike pls great con-
tenporary the Italian poet Leopard, VINO also deals
Nth honnded world and few NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
vortb like leopard is yet so profoundly impressive,
he has really something 10 say And the mention
~ eonard that saddest OF poets brings me, finally 10
pbt t nerIaps WORDSWORTH most distinctive virtue OF
smbis oower OF happiness and hope his deep power
Of low o-TMacmillan's Magazine.
GEORGE ELIoTs ELAB0RATrON.-As regards
Gaorge Eots genius 1t pretty clear that its cher de
feet WAS want instinct want OF spontanelty want OF
snrne Her voice. her STYLE her cast OF thought were al
somewhat heavily self-conscious Her voice was
musical but severely graded She intoned rather tnan
oonyersed Her style was without ease, moulded into
angus. sentences often painfully scientific Her WHO'S
cast OF thought wanting In spontaneity: sno
believed much in the power OF elaborate fenecuv
10 reach TRUTH and assigned far too little Importance 70
The vehement protests Of those spiritual instincts So
assured her that In Difference TO one section OF hes
intellect she was browbeating what had more clai
intellectual authority than all the power OF ner h
anayss To our minds she Is never az her greatest
she s giving us her thoughts Her essays her pv
logues TO her novels her satire her ehitcha ner
rch as they are in powerful thought. are preyains
heavy careworn and weary In tone, without any s''