New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-07
SOME MAGAZINE NOTES

can't be well governed and there's no use III eA-
pectng it, should consult the March century
There they will find article by Dr. Albert oha"'
xhich will set them athinkins 1t gives Il cool ana
.centifc description Of the way in which e'cy OF
Glasgow 4, ruled fo the benerL 90 her ciiicas. and
not for that OF politicians. 1t shows tiat 1t - pr
fcctly possible TIN, ,riod Of tho worlds pIoscs~ 20
secure economical, honest ana thorough admins
tration OF municipal matters. Glasgow /, governed
py town council of upright respected and success
hl men OF business who have entire con;lol of all city
Affairs and manage them strictly on business princi
,Ies. Her streets well paved and clean
absolutely clean. though that is hard for
NEWCOMER to believe: the most advanced sanitary
arrangements in admirable working order gas
works and street railroads run with profit to the
,ty and at a cheap rate TO citizens; and many
yeniences of life conducive to the health and comfort
Of the poorer citizens have been established There
Is good deal of provincial vanity still existent IN
this city and Dr. shaw's paper is good medicine Tor
it. 1t is fine reading for the citizens Of town whose
leading rivals in the matters of strcetpavlnS ana
STRENGTHENING cOnStantinOple and a pg-sty.
That is a delightful paper in "IIarper7 in which
-hackeray's daughter writes Of her fathers old fmend
and hers John Ruskin. Very genally Mrs. Richie
Eliminates many traits and aims of the great writer
she reverences; and she tells concerning him lew
graceful and touching anecdotes. one legend. she
SAYS, begins with dream III which RusKh uredhO
himself Franciscan friar. Now am told that when
he was at Rome there beggar on the steps OF
the Pncio who begged Of Mr. Rusk1n every day as ne
passed and who always received something ON one
occasion the grateful begg suddenly caught the out
stretched hand and kissed IL. Mr.. Ruskn stopped
short drew his hand hastily away. and then, with a
sudden impulse bending forward. kissed the bcSSars
cheek. The next day the man came TO Mr. RuSkn's
lodging TO find him, bringing gift. when ne oNereu
with tears his eyes 1t relic. he said slred
of brown cloth which had once formed part OF the
- Mr. II
when the poor beggar brought forth his relic and
thence so told came his pilgrimage TO the con-
vent of ST. Francis of Assist. where he beneld thoSe
,rescoes by Giotio which seemed TO him more lovely
than anything Tintoret himself had ever produced
personally should like to believe that the mendcan'
was himself st. Francis. appearing IN the carp vi d.
Seggar to his great disciple
In good sooth Mr.. IIowells was 1t quite Just 10
bring into the fierce white light OF your charming
study little grammatical error WHICH IN al prop
ability the printer introduced in the copy OF the
Hon. E. J. Phelps Let take it for granted that a
student and teacher, educated intelligent and thought
full knows his Lndley Murray and that little
failure in agreement between verb and lie noinlnaVe
is merely a typographical blundcr.
There be those TO whom Wagner's music is an in
tolersble congomeration Of meaningless sounds; and
there be those who thrilled by ii, they know not
why Tho former may be made TO understand, If
not to feel; the latter may be helped 10 trace the
springs of their emotions All this Mr. Krehblel does
in his admirably simple and scholarly paper nsructing
the readers of Harper How to Listen 10 Wsgncrs
Music II is paper which all music lovers should
carefully preserve for reference.
There was once person whose absolute test Of
other peoples woriIne>> be liked loved was their
capacity TO love Charles Lamb and all his works To
this prejudced being those who found no pleasure
in Lambs writings limbs Of darkness which 'twefc
base fattery >all and for Carlyle-who. la
Podsnap, put away Lamb with snort Of scorn-he
Of bfs orx9v -Ci III
horrence Without going quite far in the direction
of Lamb-worshp. it may be said that to all gentle
and humorous souls. whatever speaks Of that sweet
spirit is matter of interest, and 10 these may be
commended Mr.. Martins pleasant paper In scnhner
on the Footprints of Charles Lamb The lusra-
tons Of spots associated with Lamb add much TO the
agreeable effect of the chstty text.
Mr. W. II. Mallock presents in the March Forum"
clever and suggestive paper the relation Of to
truth lie points out what is emphatically true that
all art that represents realtyeven the art that rep
resents a scene event with the utmost complete
ness and fidelity posSibe-is nothing moro than the sc
lection of few facts out of multitude 80 that
lfter all il is only a part Of the truth Life in It's
entirety adds Mr.. Mallock, " seems very different
.hng to different men, according the religion the
philosophy in the light of which they vie and con
seouently the facts that they select samples Will
vary also"
The pessimist, the optimst, the mateiialist, the
mystic the Christian. will each seek 70 represent life
Of facts and every may be equally true and re-
ported with equal accuracy some OF the facts VIII pg,
siby be In each case the same but the proportion VIII
he different in which they are mixed and the effect WI"
W Supposing for moment that it were possible for
to know what the truth about human life in its
we OF IL some We're not like it at all some
were grotesque caricatures while Others were approx
mately true Now. in the case of those that were
false what would be the Of the falsehood? Not
the presence of any single detail that had not Its
every detail recorded is fl itself trueta the record
is absolutely realistic The falsehood would be Que 70
gether in wrong ProPorons,n proportions % that da
else that the selection was incomplete We should
were have before us drawings Of man, Of which
gave him stomach like a barrel head the size
Of and Others that omitted respectively the head
And now let US turn to the school of NJ. zola-to
what called the es school par ef'e Dscd on ana
moral pedestal the ground OF the severe ana courage
S os reeeoDs i viii show itself under aspect
II will show itself amenabe TO the following sentence
os do sh G It do BY e
represent life, but. the contrary monstrously mis-
represent it. BESIDES a great deal that l. merely Dc
testable In human nature there IS no doubt much that
puen sna hhy ana acSnr aI anu B tey @
sent II out Of all due proportion; and thus their
works more true TO life than picture OF man
would be, such as Just now dcscribed in which me
stomach colossal and everything else microscope
What kind of treatment could be false than this.
OF OF f n 'naii0"er insight mo '' '''"'' '
There is great deal of talked and written
by and about the struggling young poet who IS
supposed to suffer grievousy from inability to get
INTO the magazines and TO be subjected continually
10 unmerited encouragement the hands OF editors
and critics. To tell the truth, there are no struggling
young poets That editors are painfully anxious
TO accept verse with the least trace Of imagination
i'm IT the wocful quality Of magazine poems shows
There is no human being that editors are more
anxious to discover than real poet and falling
him. they often admit TO their pages the twaddng
yersifer In that winsome talk, over the Tcacups,'
I'm the March Atlantic" DR.. Holmes says
For the last thirty years J have been in the habit
OF receiving a volume of poems or poem, printed
or manuscript will not say daily, though some
times receive than in day, but at very