New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES.

IT. Emerson's essay in The Atlantic, Historic
No,.s of Life and Letters in Massachusetts" lie a
vivid and racy sketch of the beginning ana ptoreS'
Of that intellectual revolution which went through
or MANY extraordinary phases IN the New-bhslahu
of the last generation. Shrewd observatlon huiioi
and philosophy are bIent in these notes win lnae
sersne charm of manner always charactel'H'io VI
Emerson's work. The eccentric ana aosuI" ue-
ve,opmsnts of transcendentallsm and reform no one
saw with clearer eyes than he, and sort ol 'choor
Armament pervades his record OF them. NOW anu
then be tells an anecdote as OF jokes perpeueu Nv
those IN wbcm the hlgh-fown Alcott conversations
-. ;oo,,rrabensble "One declared that 1t
seemed to HIM like gong to Heaven In swing;
.notb.r reported that at a knotty point in the dis
cours.. a sympathIzing Englishman with squeak
ING voice interrupted with the question: Mr. Alcott
n lady near me- desires to inquire whether Omnlpo-
tence abnegates attribute =" The story OF brook
harm Mr. Emerson relates hlndiy, but alter alashioh
which shows how forcibly the experiment. appealed
70 his sense of Lumor " In practice" he says, IL
i, ALWAYS found that virtue is occasional spotty, and
not linear OF cubic. Good people are as bad as
rocues il steady performance Is Claimed; The con-
scence of the conscientious runs III VEINS ana tho
most purctllious some particulars are iatitudl-
marian in others. 1t very gently said that people
on whom beforehand all persons would put tho Mt
necessity that the work must be done, and did it
not and it of course fell to be done by the few
l,gious workers No doubt there in many
certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker There Is
your accomplished friend: he would hoe corn all
Sunday. if would let him, but all Massachusetts
could not make him do it on Monday"
Mr. Headley's article on Washington at New
burg IN the October Harper serves as a vehicle for
many admirable illustrations. Mr.. Howard Pyle's
drawings are particularly strong Equally excellent
illustrations accompany Colonel Higglnsons
careful paper the Dawnng of independence"
Mrs Rose Hawthorne LsthrOp, In the conclusion OF
the story entitled Prisoners" shows unex-
pected ability in the description of character and
the calculation of motive and feeling. Mr. Phil
Robinson, in his saunterngs in Utah." is much
moro agreeable companion than in his recent book
Sinners and Saints" Mr.. Curtis in his Easy Chair,
pleasantly discourses Of man and the question
of the lovely Belinda to whether the great want
of our society be not social standard:
To the polite inquiry what kind of social standard
she contemplated she responded that she meant
certain fixed line which should exclude the vulgar.
But she WAS Immediately SILENT as II rejecting upon
a difficult proposition, and did not answer whom
she was asked what she thought would be the con-
sequence of removing the vulgar from the circles
which she considered mott 30 ec5.
Her benevolent attention invited further aues-
tiOn, especially at the moment % N
tered the who bore one OF the most noted
family names in the country and most familiar in
fashionable annals family which delights to trace
its lineage to a royal This proud dame had
married her daughter as If by main force TO
neted lord of hereditary acres. 1t was % familiar
fact of tine society in which she was a conspicuous
figure and IL lmpossit 10 not 70 ask: Car there
be anything more .coarseiy vulgar than to sell a
daughter for money and ttle to q man for " hoIn
she does care and shall we begin to erect the
social standard by expelllng the vulgar oiienderH"
Belinda still silent, and the brilliant Tooms
1a0a To md NM wiz q oau
Smasher to whose unparalleled fets5 even belinda
would be almost willing to request card. The
Smasher lineage is not renowned or regal; the
Smasher mind is impertectly educated the
Smasler manners are those of the suddenly rich |
who are not also sudden refined
I" Is any conceivable vulgsr.ty greater than tho |
Smasher vulgarty, 0 Belinda aud shall We con- |
tinno these exercises by cxpellinp also this essen
tally vulgar person
! Belinda was still silent She has remained silent
even to this day
The new number of LippiacotFs Magazine, while |
not striking in character is tul of entertainment
There is picturesque paper The Giants of the
Plain "-tho magnificent Osages-and one on the |
Highlands oil North Carolina which is as delicatey |
fresh and vivacious woman's pen can mako IL. |
The Wheeimdn contains an interesting article on |
Pierre Lallement. the humble French mechanic |
who invented and built the. first bicycle at An |
SONIA Copn., and who took the FIRST header and |
gained an honorable one of the roads about |
that village. Chronicles of bicycle wanderings |
through rural regions bits of neat out Of
door verse, give hghtnss3 and animation to this |
excellent periodical.
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