New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-09

- ., - r.ossh,c these societies have been
represented by publications. VI course, DIV 49,.
aid not invent this device OF modern ne '''
extent TO which it has been carried OUT was 1
due to the success OF bis plan III Dr'"e
n his soset,cs Mrs ELEPHANT gives considerable spa
and sh. might we'll have devoted chapter 10 INC
nnro,v literary societies whose publications are I"
TREASURY OF |, airing and Information. Inc '
OF n few men Ike Thomas Wright whoin sue "'",''"
briefly would certainly suggest how much Ia,
done for English letters In the last tnreeq"
cen,prv by such organizations AS the Royal oo'ie'!
~ Literature the Camden society. the Early h"e'
Text Society. the Chaucer >ocie'y-'hese h'"'o
only cven AZ random as eXamples-and others WIZ"
II Is useless to mention here. There Is "iso '
admirable modern literature In the ihuCuuo"o' W
books whose titles would not suggest IL. AZ va,
rrecman perhaps who said that the BEST vi III
stubbss historical work was not III HIS "or' pa
ont,ous hooks tut I'm these introductions. such d.
ave inst been alluded to. Not little OF Inc 'sp'
ton OF other modern lerature-ior eAai"pc' ~
relating directly or indirectly to ancieh. >oi ~, IN
and pOetry-came through such socieucs i"o "
which they mined has been TRANSMITTED Ih'o mo'
coin by the historians the poets ana 'h' ''9H'''
and one can trace their unacknowedgcd ihnuen
nor iufrcaucntly I'm the pages Of Mrs Ohphih'' III"
indeed IN page after page OF much moier" o'"
cIsm where the ancient worker has been io's"'''"'
where the modern deliver has been lorSVlu'"' ~
where the modern remouder Ct IDEAS AZ oiu ~ Wv
universe itself gets credit rs If he were c'o''''
This is the way OF the world.
Mrs Oliplant's estimate Of the thonsahu anu o'o
writer, great and small whom she has occasion "
mention /, I'm general kindly. The reader VIII Pi
haps b. astonished at the number oil pages ue,'
tc Lcckhart Sir Walter SCOTS son-in'law ana o'os
raphcr but the discussion Is deeply Interesting never
thcless and il, length will not seem exravagah' !"
those who agree with the author that the three gre'e''
biographies ever written Lockhar''s Scout b''
Wells Johnson and the Agrlcola OF Tacitus Ih'r'
are few very feminine. very polite, ana very sharp
thrilsis at one two Authors. but they are not VIII"
ont justification. Of living authors "a RUE '"c
SAYS little der first chapter IS devoted 10 thoSe
brilliant lights Of the Regency which SUI shohc WITH
the lustre OF the past at Victorias accession Ih'h
She speaks Of writer's like Lockhart ana Landor VINO
wcr. already renowned In 1881. but who tad yet mi'h
work TO do before they laid aside the pen Then 'lr
takes ND Carlyle John stuart Mill and the e'>ayN'N
and critics. Macaulay and other historians much oil
whose work was done the present reign theh the
greater poets: then Dickens and Thack.ray ana the
Older novclists then the thcologanS the Scl'h'Iho
writer's and the philosophers then the younger poets
ana uoyc,i.tS the writers art-Joln KusKlil, OF
course. being treated NJ length: rounding up h'r
r,,hers e,sayist> an estimate of the present con
mon e literature in England. and study 81 me
! reading periodicals and newspapers OF the victorian
age. The marginal heads ded!4"iiv convenient
lyr lookng up anything that may be- wanted IN 'he
more than SIX hundred pages OF printed text.