New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-11
NOTES FROM LONDUN.
,p ARNOLD. SIR MOSES M0NTEFloRE,
'i"' MAYNE REID, TENNYS0N, LOWELL.


nm the new and popular edltlon OF MI Mat-
thew Arnolds Literature and Dogma" lie Is
,bought to have done graceful act in expungihg
tbe illustration of the three Lord ShatteSDurys
and there is q sufficient recognition OF the mouNo
and manner of the withdrawal. The Standard, how
over which occasionally accepts an amateur cham
onship of what is conservative ill Church OF STATE
diccnsses this new Preface with touch OF the pro-
verbal theological acrimony. Pursuing with zeai
the phantom of the Conservative workingman' TINS
writer dissents from Mr.. ArnOlds dictmn ti' "i'f
sans as a body neither reverence religion nor DC
leve in IT, He is persuaded, moreover 'h"O 0-
upper classes are more religious than tneS "'1o -
the reign of George IL. The Church. I'D MS WOW, "
once more beginning TO gain holu on o'o
The intelligent sceptic of MT. Arnoiu : .'.-
toto hpt ia nv no means in a majority lie Is hioio
over confronted by an increased ac'l'nS Vi hi'
clerical foes, and so on ,o,4 :,
Rut the kernel of this discourse IS 10 DC soushV III
,he dilemma propoundcd TO Mr. Arnold at Ihe emu
He insists that not only is Chris'ianty he'oSs"!:
H., .be Church Also and the clergy; the future OF
Cns;s,ianitv ;s hardly conceivable without them"
wit then cries this journalistic apostle" what
ON h;s own hypothess are the Church and the clergy
20 teach, If we do not accept the supernatural
tho, bacome lecturers on morality, and University
professors could in that do all that was neceS-
sarv, II VIC do accept it, Mr.. Arnold's whole argu-
ment collapscs" The collapse is not quite complete
I should say, but must leave it to MI Arnold 10
deal with his critic as he sees fit.
In the leading organ Of Dissent, Mr.. Arnold is
handled in different spirit. The now Preface ana
the three Lord ShaftesbuTys are left to take care oI
themselves, and Mr.. Arnold is discussed IN Dis new
quality of visitor TO the United States Inc aI'cio
ia n long one and not particularly ill-natureo IL "
sniflng tone may here and there be percelNeu' US
IL Il. al nj
liberalism in its comments on America lhe writer
has heard lone would like TO know where that every
American railway porter is well acquainted with MI
Arnold's verses So is the rest OF the American
world. in sixpenny pirated editions. Therefore We
are supposed to DO curious, nay, anxious, 10 sec
what manner of man it is who wrote Empedocies
ond the Strayed Reveller. In England, the railway
norters have not read Mr. Arnoldss pieces put 'heio
those who have atone for the ignorance OF those
who have not by being not the least curious tpouV
the author. And then comes the time-honoreu ac-
count of the American lecture system, winch our
Dissenting friend believes still to be universal Ill
the States. "Lectures are TO America what the
opera is TO Italy and the theatre to frahce-the
great popular intellectual enjoyment ana relaA"-
tion,D This remarkable statement appears, not zen
or twenty years ago, but this very morning III u
nevertheless followed by genial expression of be-
and that Americans may well rejoice to have seen
one of the chief English poets and the first English
critic of the generation.
Tho Jews would be singularly insensible TO the
claims of one Of their most admirable OF men II thcy
allowed the hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Monte
fore to pass without marked honors. They are pay
ing him tribute of respect and affection whchlsh no
more certainly, than his due. The Christians are
quite ready to take part III it, and arc not stlntg
their eulogies upon man whose charity has proved
wider than all restrictions of race. There used To
be q story that Sir Moses Montcfore was knightcd
in 1887, by the Queen, in gratitude for piece OF
advice TO her mother, TO which the Queen was in
dcbted for her throne The story, fear is apocry-
nhol and there were plenty of other reasons Tor
comforting the distinction, there were for making
him Baronet nine years latter. You may reau Tic
record of his long life In the columns upon columns
which the English press dcvotes to him. one does
NOT know whether most to admire his preaching
beneyolence or his sagacity, or the originality and
force of his character, or his vitality, which seems
more miraculous than all. ] saw him last so long
ago as 1879, ON that memorable afternoon Wheh
Lord Beaconsfeld made his triumphal cntry INTO
London on his return from Berlin. Sir Moses Mon
tefore was one of the company which had gathered
in Charing Cross Station to await tho arrival OF the
who as the train rolled into the station, stood on
the platform and greeted the Conservative chief as
he stepped out Of his saloon carriage The veteran
was then in his ninety-ffth year. His tall and pow
erfulf cure in its most upright moments had stoop
Int ne Lord Beaconsfcd held out his hand his loyal
friend and admircr bent his silvered head almost to
the ground thought for an instant he was going
down on his knees, but happily he did not. Lord
Bcaconsfeld too, is glad 10 say, bowed low. If
Il were in his nature to he touched by anything,
should say he was touched by this homage thus
publicly offered TO him by man TO whom the whole
Jewish race paid homage not only for the beauty of
his life but for the ancient lineage and high birth
in which the Montefores are among the foremost of
their nation and religion. They claspcd hands, and
stood for a space the central figures of a brilliant
ossemblage which was shOwering on him whom
they deemed successful statesman and dplomatist
bonors all but royal. Then they parted and can
not remember that have seen Sir Moses Mon
tefore again.
An Enclshman of whom any good whatever can
be said may be called happy if he dies i'll the dull
season of London journalism. Then shall he have
columns where only paragraphs would be vouch-
safed to him in stirring times. This good fort
uno has befallen Captain Mayne Reid, whose death
occurred on Monday night late on Monday night
as the chroncler too eager to hint at an apology for
not having had the news on Tuesday, is careful to
insist. OF the man nothing need be said which is
not creditable to him. He fought our battles in
Mexico and for that he shall be mentioned CRATE
fully. But his place in the world was that of n
writer of books and it must be said that his books
are not good books. They never think, really got
hold of the boys for whom they were meant He
had period of success due in great measure TO the
novelty of his subjects and of his method. But as
one judicious writer observes, it is impossible to
take Captain Mayno Reid seriously as a novelist.
lie has been compared with Cooper, but Cooper
with all his faults, had reality and imaginative
power, and vividness and true pathos which Mayno
Reid had not. He lived think, out of London.
can recollcct meeting him only, and that quite
recently; gray-headed, cripple, amiable in man