The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
NEW BOOKS.
,,.f Reviews OF Important ana 1ntsrestsns
New Publlcationa.

NEW BOOKS
,y.S Reviews OF Important ana Intsrestsns
New Publications..
Mr. W. @. Brownell affords . remarkably
cns sreci,ncn Of critical writing IN his book OF
s.soys on French Art" Charles scribner's
sonsL We believe 1t was Mr.. Manton Marble
I. may have been another-who called Mr..
n,ownell m American saints Beuve. 1t was
iJsh compliment we'll deserved. Mr. Brown.
ia WORK Is pursued upon that enlightened
,heory Of criticism which requires the critic to
,,r, the attitude OF appreciation toward the
,hIn, criticised. He must understand the
,hnucht of the workman he has under review.
,rl ho must free himself OF the prejudice Of
,ho rtevai ling or Of any point OF view except
,b,t of h subject. SO that. for instance. he
nav not poke fun Mt the classical David. and
,.yiry him by means OF outrageous diagrams.
&C Thacscray did but he must regard David's
nr, IN tho spirit and light peculiar to Davld's
time, and so Judge him. Mr.. Brownell himself
vary ,erscly expresses the idea when he says
ma. "ratholicity OF appreciation Is the secret
y, critical felicity" These essays are con-
earned with the classic. romantic. and realis-
,s,ic PAINTING Of the French. with their classic
and academic sculpture. and with the new
n,oycrent in sculpture. Through It all the
critic kcsps two main ideas persistently in
,isw: one. as said. the necessity OF apprecia-
zion md the other the idea that, strongly in
d,,idua as the best French painting is and
Indcnendent and varied as its spirit has been
a, different times, It still always bears the un-
m,,,akabl. earmarks OF nationality. and has
slrays been Influenced and dominated by the
classical tendency. But the reader will be
.h.ay i'm pressed by the subtle detail and tho
An, literary quality Of the critics work. Heis
.,nsitivs to a hundred points In picture. and
what no feels he can express so felicitously
,hst We sus pect he outruns the painter more
than once. and gives us q better landscape. 1t
1, criticism OF fine Imagination and excel
lent music as we'll as rare logic. and 1t Is de-
lightiu altogether.
Further light upon distinguished figure OF
modern history 10 afforded in "Moltke: His
Life and Character Skstched In Journals. Let
ters, Memoirs. o Novel, and Autobiographical
Notes." translated BY Mary Herms tHsrpsr
Brothers.. Like tho writings Of Moltks which
have heretofore appeared. this is q volume Of
curious interest. and OF interest for the gen.
era! reader as we'll as the student It seems
to be. and must be. a perfectly truthful and in
genuous picture Of character: and yet how
surprising q portrait OF the man who led the
German armies into Paris. 1t 10 as strange to
think OF Moltke writing novel as 1t is to think
OF Carlyle doing tho same thing: but here is
the novel. Tho Two Friends" and from the
look OF 1t we think We should rather read it
than Csrlyle's. Tho letters here describing
journey to Constantinople and other travels
will repeatedly amuse the reader. Moltke
speaks. for instance, OF the assorted COM
pany on board big ship with . small
engine" on which he iourneyed down the
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