New-York tribune., 1890-08-07


rs in the story published in the current century,
1t gives the reader idea Of what possibilities lay
in Mr. Curran's pen for his other work was more or
less disappointing.
Warm weather appears to call out fiction as 1t does
fans therefore the record of fresh and original matter
in tbe months maCaz is chiefly in TINS dlrccuoh'
High in the list of short stories is the eplNode OF
newspaper life brightly set forth by Mr. KichaN
Harding Davis in "Scribner.' II IS vlvd' humorous
pathetic. unhackneycd, and seems to show that tm9
clever son of two clever people has future worth
counting upon. 1t must he SAID also that Mr. Johh
Seymour Woods New-Eneand Ingenue' is sur
prisingly wellconstructed and uncommonly enter
tanning story. There is no English hctlOn oi ule
month that compare with that OF the Americans
Mr. Kiplng's story in "Lppncot7 is far beneath
the level of his best work; and Mrs. AleXanders
novelette,. in the same magazine is While amusing
very ancient in plot and management
That is a delightful paper, beautifully written and
beautifully illustrated, which the BlashicldS, husband
and WIFE contribute to "Scrihncr.' The Paris Of
the aThrec sushetecrs" rises before US as we read
a fascinating. Gnical, picturesque and cruel oty.
A contributor 10 "Lippncott" notes that some OF
Mrs stoves studies for Uncle Toms Cabin were
made in Cincinnati among he freed houseScrvants Of
two Southern families who had LEFT heir old home for
conscience sake member Of Of these families
has said that she has Mrs stowe sit whole sumner
afternoons watching the children Of the two families
and the youu. blacks at play. Topsy was one OF
the ebony imps, and Black sam was in the same
family.
Alas. this is very serious: Marion Ilarlaud writes
in Tie Arena conccrnn. the domestic infeiCty Of
literary women, that one cause Of the same Is the
disappointment she endurcs who sees that the de
veopment Of what she estecms her highest tacul-
ties acts upon hin whom she loves sun-heat upon
an untitled field drawing into the light n0Xlous weeds
Of envy and spite. she may shut her ewes to the
painful truth for time and try mccklv 10 chiD IN
cInation and shape taste according % his decree
The process succeeds well with some. Il eiudu;h
lowering of tie whole nature be success Of the
good With more oucht 10 say, Thank God >
nature and reason burst bonds and the noblcr Of the
two whom God and love have bound together Out-r.ps
the o:hcr until the term welded pair sounds like
bitter sarcasm"
Mrs Narland declares that she can Gnd it in her
heart 10 be glad that Charlotte BrOntes married life
vas bricf The effort. she adds. after wfcly laud
chccrluD submission to the commonplace autocrat who
did not like 10 have her write, and led her. a III
leash through the very routine Of cottage vsitato~
ehape tcadrinkngS. and school catcchisingo that had
chaied her mettlcd spirit to madness the unmarried
daughter of IawOrth Rcctory is touching and praise
worthy from the Nichols standpoint. Had she out
lived the year. the struggle between duty and genius
nust have come As IL was, she wrote secretly
when the strong necessity Of expression wa upon
her and dear Arthur had carried his deep sense OF
religion to tie other end Of the parsha few chapters
of Emma p0sthum0us fragment that tells the c-
volt had begun
Professor Shaler points out in The Atlantic" the
yrievOus that the Young who proposes to ada
protest. onaI training liberal culture J., nowady 5.
usually six and twenty years of age before he
passes through Harvard College and its professional
schools Add to this the novtatc period in which the
young lawyer or doctor is forming the relations which
lead 10 profitable practice and youth has passed before
his Dfework is famy begun" remedy suggested
by the Professor is decidedly worth consideration He
sees gain in time ana in general culture N plan
for combining the academic and general training. II,
he saws the training which tends toward the choscr
prOfe be begun In the sophomore year Oi th'
COLLEGE course, and a year or year ana hdf oi Tho
professional education be cOmpas-cd before the Non,
man enters on his more definite preparation for
career, we may hope that the habit of combinnl
especal acquremeft designed for bread winning viii
learning gained for it, -ake may become common
1T does not become the United States holding hgi
place in the forefront Of the natou-, 10 stand like
highway robber beside the pathway Of civilization an'
rob the foreign author Of hi, property with one hand
while it deprives the American author of hi~ rish
with the Other.7 says Mr. Lodge in The Atlantic
The authors want copyright the publishers want 1t
the printers want it il makes not the slightest differ
ence to the people in general to whom they pay th
price of a booi-that price VIII not be raised in any
event. Who. them pray. are the men-arc they thrc'
or four or six X! who say "NO.' to the American
people?
The poem of the month taking highest rank is IN
doubtedy Mr.. Aldrch's contribution 10 "Scrbncr
Miss ThOmas's " 1hey Sad)' in THE Century j, 50
strong in many ways that 1t is the cXaspcratin
10 sec in ii an expression thoroughly unpoetic and on
OF tone with the The dictionary. Of course
authorizes the use Of the word flush in the sens
in which the poet has employed it. but il is not "a!
ways safe 10 use In words which the dictOnar!
offers and allows. "Flush7 has become firmly cStal
lshcd in the vocabulary Of slang, and not one poet
nor one hundred pocts-can now make the phrase, BE
causc thou art not nush7 anything but bhmsh to
good poem.
How will Mr. Eeamy answer Goodwin Smiths aS
sertion in The Forum" concerning his Utopia, tina
tho state though it might command the daily amour