New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-05

| I'm bovhOOd, cared much for field sports. vi "oru'-
worth It Is Remembered that his only active amusement
was Skating.
q Poor sensIbity and an ear for rhyme and rhythm
are very common gifts" says Dr. Holmes In letter
| 70 q literary asplrant "and are constantly mistaken
for poetic genius by those who possess them ana their
friends OF the hundreds Of thousands OF poems
that are written BIZ our educated and intelligent ladies'
verv tew are marketable or remembered week after
they are published The real reason that the Mss
Of such writer's are returned to them, he declares Is
that new writer's match themselves against those who
have proved their superiority. 1t is just like Villase
| baseball club challenging the Bostons" And the
aspi rnt to whom this Is addressed VIII proDaoy go
on filling the land with poor poems to the end Of
| her existence!
A complete translation Of Heine's works has been
made by Charles q. Leland, and is on the point al pup
ucation It Is to be in thirty volumes and Will in
clude all the letters and memorials in the last German
edition. 1t will also contain valuable biography Oh
| the poet by Dr. Garrett. We are glad to welcome
this exhaustive translation for it has long been needeo
An interesting glimpse Of Robert Browning is given
| TO us by Paul Desardins, French writer. He Vas
little man." says Desiardns, but stout and robust
| at the first glance struck with his look OF
| blooming health and moral equilibrium His gestures
were quick his color fresh and sanguine, even In old
age when his beard and hair were snowy white; his
|
Ids but they looked out percngy when turned upon
| you full face. Ills whole small person wore that
| cOnquerng and adventurous air Of the bon enfant
which the OF pure Norman breed still have, in
herited, Doubtless from ancestors who voyaged far
| When talking with strangers BrOwnng's courtesy was
| extreme almost 700 complimentary, too considerable
OF ghness which almost appeared affected, SO mUch
he seemed to wish to dscOuntenance the idea Of him
one would have formed beforehand. lie talked OF
the weather. of the gloom Of London, the happy skies
of Italy, etc, evidently playing part so as to euoe
anything that would proclaim him as poet Among
friends he forgot himself little more; and then he
discOursed freely and with vgor, waldng about ike
an offcer his quarterback; expressing himself IN
precise, concrete sentences limited to the subject in
hand This Is OF that kind that is thus never pro-
cccing by general statementsand then, all at once
| growing ironca or violent, but never using cutand-
| dried phrases-he revealed the inner flame OF his
ardent nature.
Il seek to conjure up In this way after his DEATH
the real Browning, because lie alone in the poetry
of time has given proof Of the love Of action, and
has perfectly expressed ii. l find none like him In
| that respect among the living. In literature con
sequently he is great a dramatst for the gift OF
being best pleased, most interested in actIon-the gift
OF vaor-s the Characteristic of the drama, and In that
| essential none surpass him. Consequently, also in
life Browning is a greater inCiter, an nspirer and
master OF conduct The race par excellence, active
and strong of wi-the English races, 1t were all
| summed up In him."
That there is in the average mind curious sort Of
unthnklng conviction that the author is not supposed
expected to make much money ont OF his wares Is
proven by the fact that when no does make the money
it is publicly commented upon as very extraordinary
thing This IS a state of affairs which IS not to be
| found for example. in France; and it is, no doubt,
partly 10 the material aims Of new country where
| in an uneducated man who does big business in
pork packing, is of more practical Importance 10 the
Average than the literary fccr" who merely
confers noble book upon his generation. But the
times are changing: ard those sensitive souls who are
80 very much afraid that well-fed, welldressed and
| wclI-houscd author won't write his best may look
forward to ample opportunities to discuss their theory
The new copyright law imperfect it is is. in more
senses than one, long step forward
What Thnclcray himself thought Of the play which
he aferward developed into novel is to be seen in
this letter which he addressed to Emden and which has
lately been brought into type
SO, Onslow square January Goth, 1862
Lovel the Whoever the story which YOU propose
to dramatic for Miss sedgVck and Mr.. Robson /
wrote 1t originally drama myself, having Mr.
Robson in my eve for the principal character Mr..
Wigan however, did not think the piece suitable for MS
the atre, and declined 1t: as also did Mr. BuckSt0ne,
unless would make alterations which did not choose
Ne arc going to have private representation Of this
piece by some Of my friends and family ana had
versatons at the commencement seem TO me to be
| needlcssly long and probably are unsuitable t1r me
,agc but these could surely be curalel, and the last
act IS s. ey lively ard amu;ing that cannot but
do9 Mr. WITH 2n9 a RooR haTe the kNdEes to
read it over? 1t to me that he and Miss Sedg-
wick would be excellent representatives OF the Two
principal characters. Believe me-, Your very faithful
| servant W. NJ. IhAOh'hNi'
LET those who would read story Of tragic
perience told with al simplicity that makes it powerful
iurn TO the July Century, and Mrs Murphys nara
| tive Of the Bonner Expedition. This lady is sur
vvor of that sad journey, although child when
she nearly died Of starvation in the CABIN uhder the
snow at Bonner Lake the details Of the tragedy are
st fresh in her memory. One cannot read the record
unmoved and 1t dwarfs most curously the noveliSts
version in Gabriel Conroy."
There is not much to add to these convincing SEN
fences from the pen Of an English critic on the base
work of Ibsen As Ibsen and his advocates claim
for him that he is essentially ethical writer, one
who seek, to better the world by his pIesentment Of
the doings Of It's inhabitants on his stage, il is not
unfair TO ask If he has succeeded in his intent He is
an ideal dramatist; has he set up one single ideal
figure and so clothed it with mortality that may
believe in it and use it as a standard to live by,
hating and despiSlng loving and admring and
striving TO live up TO this standard Has he made
| folly seem moro foolish by his humor, vllang and
hypocrisy more contemplate by his wit. raised the
standard Of right dOingl Will he leave behind him
Lord Foppiugon. Tartuhe, Hamlet, a Cordelia
| His enemies may contend that he has degraded
humanity by many degrees and condoned the vlleDess
that he paints If his types to be accepted as
FORMAL the world Is certainly viler as well as a
| gloomer place than most Of us have supposed
Miss Edwariss book Egypt. PharaOhs, Felalis
and Explorers Is now In the lIarpers' press.
II not generally known that the library Of the Bel
CLAN Academy I'm Brussels contains an interesting
series OF Tallcyrauds letters The letters written
To the Duchess of Curlnd, mother Of the Duchess OF
Sagan. a number Of them relate 10 the soOurn Of
Louis XVIII in Client but contain comparatively few
references to the important political events In which
the lrfnce took part they said, however, to DO
examples Of his best style and to resemble his
munl,atiOns to Louis XVIII during the Vienna Con
grcss Julius van Pract refers to the letters of the
Academy I'm his work, La France debut dc Ia