New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-21
BITS or CRITICISM.

Jrr1,N HAwruoRNE.-Mr. Hawthorne has
perhaps moro powerful imagination than any c3nten-
9id il Justice would yet bring him immortal types" not
mere monstroses from the Vastly and yet nneAnaused
,Ieeps of the natural and moral worids-IAe LONDON
Academy.
SwINRURNE on VICTOR HUGO.-Hugo, for all
his dramatic and narrative mastery OF effect WILL always
nrobav remind men rather OF such poets rs Dante OF
faah than of such poets as sophocles Shakespeare
We cannot OF course imagine the FlOfentnle OF mo
Hebrew endowed with his infinite variety OF sympae
f interests and of powers; but rs little imagine
I'm the Athenian such height and depth OF passion III 'le
Fngiishman such unquenchable and sleepess fire OF
moral and prophetic faith And hardly In any one OF
these though Shakespeare may perhaps ne eAcepie,'
can we recognize the same buoyant and chdlike exua,
ton In such things as are the delight Of high-hearted
chd-n free glory of adventure and ideal daring IN INC
triumph and rapture OF renless imagination which gives
now and then of godlike empire ana super
human klngshp to their hands whom MS hahu' nl.o
created TO the lips whose life is breathed into them rom
his own By the Iomcric stature of the soul ne measures
the capacity Of the sword.-lThe Fortnghtly Review.
Mr.. HowELLss CHARACTERs.-If our conn
trmen and cOuurywOmen were 70 be judged OF ny mo
times which MIR towels has illustrated an opinion
W6n,d be formed which would be wholly mlSeadlns:
Ills creations move and act and have their being DiS
thew are not men aud women having the thoughts ana
.uoy 'no g Li,,auitv They ore emascuated Thoy
are perhaps, what men should be rather IMAM what h.n
ore: hut Sill world where the cardinal virtues Were 10
Te be place of the grand passion could fail to be
tame world The love which Mr. Howells pictures does
not flame up with heat and intensity which may 40
times prove mgovernabe but instead 1t has the eou,
pale glow OF aurora borealis Persons so drawn ,g ~
be admirable characters In their way but one MISS
them the humanstic elements which are toul III ~
healthily organized beings, and which give so l''h
ETY. and interest 10 life. IL may be offensive 10 u'.D
stories written which perpetually turn upon NloaohS
of the seventh commandment, but IL Is running 20 o
other extreme 70 the physical OF 'o
occurrence OF such Violations The Boston Hefalu
SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S SMALLNEssLI
Clarssa Hawlowe" be, some critics imagine, wy
greatest novel in the English language its author OF
whom we happen know great deal, was one OF .no
smallest of men. His faults well virtues WoLo
fcminne His sef-appreciaton enormous MS oIla
ousy contempblc his Intellectual range narrow III to
cXticme. Probably no writer who has made cOlsP'c,
by education His opinion Of books is rs worthless 40
that OF an enthusiastic but ignorant school girl u ~
writing OF his great rival Fielding he displays an rst
cbiiity of temper and mn incapacity OF dsceInhs &
only to tolerated In affairs Of the heart iona 81
who has lost her lover may he excused for speakus
tenptuOusly OF the woman who takes her place. nh
we cannot expect Richardson TO be pleased Win az
Andrews" he ought, II not prompted by 81
least 10 have had the sagacty to write WIN a
its author. His ncapacty TO appreciate the nhea ~
tiles OF Fiedings genius would be astoundlns W.
not Explained by his jealousy London Spec'"'oi
ANTHONY TRoLLOPE ON DIsRAELI.-BecaliSe.
he was bright and OF genius he has cerrlea III o.
ject as regards the young He has struck uei WIZ 81
tonishmen and aroused In their Imagination
world more glorious, rich, more WITTY moto ~
prisng than their But the glory mas Doon III
glory OF pasteboard and the wealth has neen "a
Of tinse The wit has been the wit Of har-fesse'a 49,