New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-20


canoring for sincerity he d not succeed in securing
between himself and the creature IN the world who
stood nearest to him.-.The Boston Transcript
Critical CoCKsUREDoM.-It has struck us
more than once. with some inward amusement that
authors generally far less OF their
rms critical cocksuredom would to be greatly ON
the and certainly the oslhumous form It
recently much assumed in the shape OF essences OF
biography, promises 70 Id new terror to Individual
fame Fancy being told after you are dead az Macauisy
has lately been Informed by Mr. Cotter Morrison. tnat
you ought not 70 have been so frivolous as TO reeiIe
instead OF thinking ont" the Irish problem. certain
ourselves by rejecting how Macaulav himself in his
Montgomery mood, would have pulverized this funny
and modest critic OF his greatness-lrhe Spectator.
CARLYLE AND GEORGE ELIor.-Whie it was
the great ana passionate quest OF George Eliot To keep
fully abreast OF the intelligence OF the age, merging her
swept over Europe, tho eg0sm OF Carlye-narrOw, ty
rannical and peryerse that of the fjan King VINO
killed every that presumed deny the superior mag
nude OF FIJI over every archipelago IN the world-tCrced
him close his against every light that when
had ghmmered in his boyhood from the lanterns OF Ec-
clefechanan egotism keeping him by half century at
least behind his age. what comparison there DO
between her ho down the latest her life was
acquiring knowledge the best knowledge OF the age tho
wisdom Of the aec) and aim who with all his knowledge
OF thousand which IN these days Is very
profitable to know remained all his lie an gno man.
IN the true that phrase The consequence of
this difference that. while the larger portion OF Car
lye's brilliant and picturesque writings Is already an
tiquated George E6ts writings are II not quite 81 fresh
they were produced. fresh least literary
work can be time such ours when no literature
can seems, keep pace with tho marvellous growth OF
scientific thought The Atieneum.
EMERSON.-The charm of Emerson is due in
the first instance ~ his peculiar original style His
phrases oddly discontnuous they embody a series OF
detached thoughts which sometimes elude ones grasp or
even interpretable as nat commonplace. Aud nc
frequent Intervals you meet with phrase ul OF
weight and 80 perfectly expressed that II Remains vita
you ana stimulates You, not the less because part
or system. but a disturbed uterance which has dcye
process or It's The style gradually
to DO recognLed as tho index OF those simple aud
lofty characters with whom It is good TO dwell for
We catch something for the moment of his mode OF
taking life, the wise. tolerant spirit which does
look what base and cruel la the world but which 10
equally anxious not TO overlook the nooer elements hid
den In vulgar outsides which has natural affinity FOR
the highest 81 init embodied IN every form creed WHOM
stands apart from controversy and yet seisnly
indifferent or cynlca and therefore. without being IN
hurry - pronounce upon the questions OF the day,
quietly absorbs such impressed upon by
life, and gives forth its reflections calmly wnen duy
riponed aud for utteranoe Emerson not ~ DO res