New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Senior CASTELAR,. who is writing Life OF Jesus
H going To Palestine To make himself familiar with the
scene OF Chrsts mission. II Is said that ne Is also
engaged upon a history of SPAIN
WHY doesn't some American publisher bring out the
works of Thackeray and Dickens, in cheap form WIFI
large type and paper covers? There are. OF course
editions which are not expensive but which sun cost
too much for many would-be purchaser ~ "ou
be well to sell such cheap editions not only IN tic "
but by separate volumes. Why should no. ho'''"
like this easily available as the unspeahauie W
with which the news-stands are filled! Arrange
ments could doubtless be made for the publication Vi
such editions.
There is a great deal OF truth in this impatient
outburst from "The London Glope' Nii So
writer's are not artists. Musset was hot o"o' o"'
Baudelairc and Leconte de Isle were III idoe, ~ -
a curious thing about this inner rapuu'e' winch
called the sense OF art that il is strong only IN te
.cona r.te men scott and Dumas we're no artists
hui f;uv do Manpassant and Turgenief are Ihacheray
,r,s not an artist but Mr.. oscar Wilde is ONE lie has
ART, As n sympathetic critic puts it, Ana ts Is ITO"
Won work If you are artist and WISH 10 liltf'c
Cnstaye Flaubert; but before talking about WORK let
us know exactly what is the proper attitude OF hu
toward the rest of the world What Is the af''S'ic
atmospheric
BEFORE all things else the true and perfect artist
must contemn and hate and the every day crowd
of inartstlc and lie is TO take no dehe, I'D
his fellow creatures it be at second hahd rs teS
have been pictured in books; If he minee WIN al
sorts and conditions of men frankly and lovingly as
Fielding and Sir Walter did, his state is parlous, he
NAV get himself delivered of rstrate book anu cease
IN ne an artist Flaubert was in this respect very
orthodox He hated the citizen. he held the bon
peuple' in contempt; my contemporaries he salu
inspire me with disgust The Bourgeois was to him
ten times hateful being than the Phistine Is TO
the would-be artist of the English school"
What does Walt Whitman mean when he says in
aThe Critic that in his opinion what Is meant
through civilized nations everywhere by the great words
Literature Art Religion, etc, with their conventional
adminsterers stand squarely in the way OF what the
vitates of those great words signify more than they
really prepare the soil for them plant the seeds or
cultivate or garner the cropS?"
In the forthcoming Life of Cowper," which is
likely to be a defnitive biography. will be quoted the
testimony of lifelong friend of the poet to the effect
that Cowper himself always pronounced his name
Cooper
Mr. spurgeon says of Mr.. Stanley's book that the
work is not Of the chpin-the porrdge order, weak
and favorlessn and he adds that in bearing his test
ony 10 and prayer Stanley has done more good TO
the world than could have been wrought by thousahd
down grade discourses."
"Now that labor of every kind says the venerable
Charles Gayarre, is generally advocated and hon
pred as the most important and praiscworthy Of all
earthly things, physical labor is anxious to shrink TO
only eight hours of the diurnal twentyfour hence
mental labor must be entitled TO be reduced TO four
which is Just proportion, considering that branwork
according the medical faculty is twice as eNhausng
as that Of the muscles. The increased dignity OF labor
of every kind may require this increase of pampeied
leisure but what of the paucy of production as the
esult of it? and what OF the consequences taken in
connection with inevitable competition against other
nations less solictOus about physical and intellectual
repose and comfortl"