Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
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An instructive description Of the authors
scope and tendency prscedes the analysis Of
the book under consideration, and the treat
ment is always sympathetic and independ-
ent. TIE paper on Swinburne is just and
scholarly. As "Daniel Dsronda affords
the opportunity for S survey Of the English
novel since Fielding and comparison of
George Eliot's life lesson with Balzae's, SO
Swinburne's Erectheus leads Mr.. HAZEL
tine to discuss the feasibility of reproducing
in English the form and spirit Of ancient
Greek tragedy and comparison with Mil
tons Samson Agonistes is made, to the
advantage, it must be confessed, of the mod
ern poet. For Gale by A. L. Bancroft & Co.,
San Francisco.
LETTERS AND MEMORIALS OF JAM WELSH CARLYLE
Prepared for publication by Thomas Carlyle
Edited by James Anthony Froude. New York:
Charles Scribners Sons and Harper Bros.
These letters would be remulerative
study to realiss novei-writer. They are all
written after the Carlyles went to live at
Chelsea, Mr.. Frouds stating in his preface
that Mrs. Carlyle's previous history had
already been told in the "reminiscences, to
which previously published work be refers
the interested reader. The present volumes
are tbs record, in the unrestrained and coE-
vineirs Language Of every dsy, Of the outward
and inward life of highly organized, i'm
pulsiye, brilliant and loving woman. That
just such a nature does not find the world a
bower of rosss is not TO be wondered at, but
the majority If the letters display also q
cap acity-indicsted by the arch expression Of
the pretty face which makes the
| frontispiece-for seeing the humorous side Of
disagreeable things and tiresome people, a
zense of the laughs in things which exist as
| . L. of
companyipg the letters, and almost as inter-
esting, ia a running comment by Carlyle,
always tender, sometimes passionately re-.
| morseful, sometimes in mere explanation of
! the Jokes and by-words of which her letters
| TO himself are full. There are glimpses of
| the admirable character of Geraldine Jews
| bury, the newspaper writer and novelist, for
many years Mrs. Carlyle's closest friend.
Her account-given in letter 20 Froude-of
| Carlyle's devotion to Lady AshburtoD, which
embittered many years OF Mrs. Carlyle's life,
is written with judicial calmness and re-
| strsint, yet full of loving loyalty to her
friend. There is persistent effort made by
writers on the Carlyle domesticitY to prove
that Mrs. Carlyle was very unhappy, and in-
| deed constant ill-heslth made all suff sring
| harder for her to bear !; but phrase in ore Of
her letters to Carlyle is at least significant
"Your love, which whatever it is, suits
crochetty ne better than anything else y
| The work is Issued iI one and two volumes,
and is for sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co.
AMERICAN STATESMEN. THOMAS JEFFERSON. BY
| John 7. Morse. Boston Houghton, Mfin &
Co.
| This is the sixth of the American States
men series. and the second by the editor of
the series. The strictly biographical part of
Jefferson's life is very briefly treated in the
first chaptef-his parentage. BIRTH early love,
esrly studies and marriage being all com.
prised in few pages. Jefferson's claims to
being devoted student in boyhood. Mr..
Morse gently laughs at, as worldly uncle
might over similar professions from his
nephew. Where the interesting political era
| is sketched when the new nation of America
was beginning TO take shape, the editor never
attempts to make Of Jefferson q towering or
stupenious figure, though all the specific acts
of his life are clearly set forth. Indeed, one
often gets the impression that this dreamy
| drawer-up Of declarations frequently found
tie tide of time almost TOO strong cur
rent, and for all his advanced sympathy
with the French Revolutlon-whosa blood
| lest period he did not witness-ufft to Crap
| pie with the problems arising ouS of revo-
| luton. There is o clear account of Jeffsr.
sons settled animosity against Alexander
| Hamilton, who was Secretary Of the Treas
ury while he (Jeferson) was Secretary of
| State, and the latter's ignorance of the
| principles of political economy is made 70
appear in its singular light. Mr.. Morse has
| clear, csustic way of putting things and
detestetion Of mere phrases, in which JEFF
| fersou, for man who could count SO many
monumental deeds of craftsmanship. was re-.
| marksble prolific, TIE first troubled stir-
rings of the slavery question. making them
selves felt even before the revolution, are
excellently Indicated, giving the spirit of
those times unobs cured by the known event.
Il il duly noted that John Adams died on
the same day as Jefferson, AND that the day
was the 4th of July, 1926. For sale by A. L.
Bancroft & Co., San Francisco.
A Book WRITTEN BY THE SPIRITS OF THE So CALLED
DEAD WITH THEIR Own MATERIALIzED HANDS,
ETC. Through Mrs. Lizzie S. Green and others, as
mediums Compiled and arranged by C. C. Hell
leberg, Cincinnati.
Tbs spirits are as ungrammatical as ever
Clearly tie schoolmaster is not abroad in the
great beyond, and well may the process be
called independent slate.writing. There
is motto from the Psalm Of Life" and 9
communication from Tom Paine, in which he
says his little say about capital punishment,
with tie characteristic petition that we shall
we can, because dissmbodied souis of
wicked men bore him (Paine) frigktfully in
the spirit world. Margaret Fuller has de-
generated, but one tropicllly inclined spirit
pselad and ate s banana in full seence, grace.
fully leaving a little word who she was. and
il was recorded thst when 'id the form she
was partially fond of bananas"
BUT YET WOMAN. BY Arthur Sherburne Hardy.
Boston: Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
This is beautiful novel, above the average,
and written in pure literary style. There
are epigrams and aphorisms through it that
bear stndy and careful Remembrance. The
Characterization ia pale, while the analysis ia
often mastery, as ia the case of Marzac the
episode of Feliss is powerfully, dramatically
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Stephanie taking ths veil full of exalted and
poetical religious feeling. For sale by A. l..
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