New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-01

When Mr.. Warner il not too obviously goadseaa Dy
the troublesome results Of this novel klnd o. To
cherche de In paterni6 on the part Oh ,ieasont
cans ne H. omd he nIeasanter still if he did not
occssiopaily make very labored jokes "a Marx i.6
Twain and if he did not think " nee iectonable
up f soldicrs The principles of the Peace Society
are PERFECTLY respectable and arguaDie pric.p .
doubt but Like t gteT are the perpetual subject
&c an d;nterlm argument in the history Oh series
OF VOYAGES II also Mr.. Warner drops into the
ninteilioibIe which we hold to be also the upper
,miss;be lie should have thought OF the meinora-
HE caution to strike out anything yom tnlnk par
tnnce, Z Nv companion was an Oxford scholar VINO
was travelling from Oxford through the ChuIcn os
England toward those fresh Te nf fbs clergy of
ENGLAND expects to find in future, when the
creeds shall be adjusted to the changing rengitgus
perspeetiye.n To make no other comments on tn.'
mysierious sentence it is sufficiently obvious that'
though change of perspective may very concel.,a-
bly, be the result of the finding OF fresh les, so
finding of fresh fields is physically mpossple as q
direct result of the change OF perspec.to, + oI -
when criticism of this kind becomes 700 hnu t1 ~
verges on the brutal so also would ~ NJ Wornep
recommends his readers TO study the Alhehhiiaih-
Sician war IIerodotus in hand, that ne thinks
Marcellus besegcd Syracuse SIX hnnarGa SS ors
MS that Gorge and Praxinoe took their immor nI
outing in q visit to Syracusan theatre. NJ:
Warner in Greek Is evidently sauiN W so0h 80
wouid even appear that Mr.. Warner is not very
much at home IN TRANSACTIONS OF that language
But we shall frankly own that we nave net Eh-
plishmen who were not much better.
Mr.. Warner has really told us what he saw OF
thought he saw in places for the most part very
we'll worth the seeing and he has told 1t IN a lnan-
ncr which, with all its drawbacks, ~ not mere
copy of any one else's manner, and IS gcnerally
fresh and not unnatural There is much freshness
even in his bundcrs for it is not every Doay VINO
apparently installing the name Juno Lddaid'
would have hit on the form Lacrima "a charhrr
ing attempt Mt Latinizng airesl Our Lazy on
Tears According to him SPAN is nOt only
a land of doarth and droutb and general diS,
comfort which we knew before but OF exceptional
discourtesy to the strangers person and d,sapp9nt
ment to the strangers desires of all KINDS; Ihere
are. according to Mr.. Warner, six things to- see IN
Snain. and six things only: the Alhambra. Seville
Cordova, Toledo, the Madrid Gallery, and M0nser-
rat This is rather scnaty list, and we slai own
that it is not very clear whether Mr.. Warner nun
self spent time enough in Spain or travcrSeu i its
length and breadth perseyerlngy enough 10 Justly
such a very positive enumeration. ihere gre
hooks written in much better style and with Iar
moro elaborate literary equipment than MI. war
ner's which are much less readable IL Is ohIy thc
il1beral people who cannot get over that I'VE own
deliehtfuO picture of Mr. Warner sitting over
against Euryaus (he calls is Euryclos, by the way;
Int that may he the printer, and, "licrodotus IN
band,D imagining that he is " following with tic
aid OF the historian" the siege of Syracuse IN the
original Greek who will decline to acquescc III TINS
verdict.