New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-07

islands are aon one side gracious, on the other
terrible OF they have smiling interiors 10 nc
reached by harsh and Churlish approaches. Inc
nationality moreover. is equally confused; " they
ate bits of France which have tumbled into the sea
and been picked up.by England" Another contra
diction il the combination of Old World gothic
laws and customs with the most complete personal
liberty " in theory the feudal ages, IN pracNee
Republic There is one exception to TINS hoeitS
one only we have already referred to 1t, Ihere Il
in England a tvrant The Englshman's tyrant
bears the same name az Don Juan's creditor. lie II
called Sapdag The English invented the proverb
Tine is money. The tyrant Sunday reduces the
available week to six days-that is TO say, he taxes
away a seventh of the Fuglishman's whole capital
And resistance is useless. Sunday rcignS by rght oil
custom, different despotsm from that OF Jaw
This King Of England, Sunday has Prince OF Nacs
named SplecR. He has the right of boredom lie
closes workshops, laboratories Libraries, museums
theatres and scarcely spares the gardens al"
woods . After all happy IS the people that Is
free six DAYS out of seven. If Sunday Is another
name for slavery we know nations who nave seven
Sundays in a week.
The LoD6ou Spcctator takes exception to Mr.. Troll
Iopcs complaccnt Characterization OF his Lizzie
Fustace as "a second Becky Sharp" Becky, II ne
clares ais type of the infinite resource and I'M
SpTIuIlOuS genius or FEMININE luiIlEut-d ~ P''
audacious craft as rich and humorous and as full
of the buoyaut energy of selshness as lago is rich
and unscrupulous and full of buJyant malignity
and evil Lizzie Eustacc is a trcachcrous cum
ming little drawing-room woman, of no
humor. no great power and, far
indeed, from the dimensions of Becky Sharp. II
Mr. Trolope had compared Lizzie Eustace to
Thackcrays Blanche Amory, he would have been
nearer the mark Becky Sharp ia one of the great
est creations of Thackeray's geniOus. Lizzie En-
sta ce is not even one Of the best creations of Mr.
TrOllOpe's."
The Pusskagq Sidriaa in its October number, con-
tains the gist of conversation which Iurgeneh Is
said TO have had with some intimate friends III
March, 1850. Turgenef remarked of Victor hugo :;
His knowledge of foreign literature is of the most
elementary kind. In the course of a talk with me
on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't
find anything particularly great in the writings OF
that author. The tragedy of 'Wallcnsteins camp
had made upon him very disagreeable impression.
When drew his attention to the fact continues
Turgeneff, chat 'Wallenstein's Camp was by
Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered; THAT
is all the same thing, Goethe and Schiller, they are
frnjts of the same tree and believe me- that know,
even without having reat either OF them what
Goethe could say and did say, and what Schiller
could write and did write.'' 1t would seem that
lack of time only prevented Victor Hugo from writ
ing Faust 4" and Don Carlos
Prince Krapotllin, though i'll in his cell, is writ
ing busily upon several articles for the Encycio-
padia Britannica. He makes many complaints
about the state of his apartment and the miserable
food given to him.
The first two volumes OF the forthcoming bogra-
phy of Bulwer deal with the history of the COM
position of his novels. The work will be issued III
six volumes.
Mr.. Blaine is writing upon his book Twenty
Years in Congress-" from until every day. He
revises his work as he goes and empoysno secre-
tary.