New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-02

il Ii. lad po,sesse,, a.. adequate "nOwicuoe VI
what is only partially Understood even now. C ~,
the surface, aDsolutlsn was the Only ,s,,caa
the politics Of Europe; lie nad himself uisP'"s
one OF the most ARBITRARY uvnarchs INA. -,
cursed IL nation. Nevertheless, ne wus WINS ~ ~
Just Us Washington would have been WRONG u nv
nad opposed instead OI leading anu en'."'"e ,,,
the desire of Americans iOi Il constitution. '"p
pose that lie HAD endeavorcd 10 sIa,iy, .,i' ~,
stInctive demand Of the people iOf d uchni'o -,
tlement OF the form of government Al '.'a
case ne and his advisers might have mt uJoh Wv!
very reforms that came aitef"dru ." o.v, a'
Suppose. the other hund, ina, tne Goi .nri,.
wealth had survived for generations uiuer scii.o
of stern, mas,cru Protectors ike himself, dhAiou
TO work for the good OF the people, put dctrlinru
to work for that Object only III 'heir Wv. w.
1t would simply, under changed circunistanno.,
have resulted in q repetition OF the eAperieuce
which England had already passed through unuea
the Planagenets As il turned out, the ictn ,,
OF the Stuart disease lrOught us wv" i''"''
drastic but eifectual. H. c,l,
Ii will lie said, indeed il Is said by Dr. Chrk'
that Cromwell, occupying Us lie dld pos,ion VII
prccedcnted in English history, had enough ~ Nv
without attending ~ a parliamentary uepa.ins
society. he had to guard against the niachi'ia
lions Of the Royalists. His last speech 10 rar-
lament was warning against an INVASION IfoW
Scotland threatened By the friends OF Charcs ~.
lie had to govern England as mildly as possiniIi,
among the angry religious factions ApoIe al
he WA, obliged by the precedent oil EilzaWth ah'
by his own sympsthies to Ike the guardian ana de-
tender of Protestant liberty throughout E"rope.
Ills reputation as general ana thal VI us n.
instead Of direct interference, but the ruier WIN
could give the Pope 20 understand that IN GER
tain probable contingency his guns wouln thun'cr
within hearing distance OF Rome, had 10 Dc III u
position TO make his threat good Yet, IN later
lines, England has not found that the uebates
in Parliament intcrlcred with her foreign poncy
as long as the governmental machine was ia soou
order. $3.50 -
From the charge of personal ambition DR..
Clark successfully defends mis- hero. lie andiyzcs
with care, and not without some bitterness the
All ks
which were feature Of English history down
TO the time Of Macaulay. His bitterness Is Jist.
1t seems incredible that partisanship could nave
fixed upon the greatest OF EnSlsliineh such cpl
thets as devil and hypocritc.
Upon Hume DIR. Clark is particularly severe,
making the case of Cromwell an occasion TO-, ior
denying TO the scottish sccptc any creiiDilty
as an historian. OF Carlyle lie says; tarlyic
will enable scholars TO know his hero, but ms
book will never be read except by a few AMI
hence the need of such books the present
one And here ! cannot but remark that lille
of Oliver which will command general attention
and have IA permanent place in literature Will
WIN take many years to do it. but it will be
done Outside of the letters and speeches, tar.
lyle left vast old fields unexplorcd. II he read
1huroe he made but little of his Vast
materials lie complains that Thuroc had no
useful index, and the absence of illusions to
scenes depicted and events related i'll the state
through the book; Not one OF tlese monstr9ns
old volumes-thc Rnshworth's. Whtlockcs, Nal.
sons, Ihuroe's,' he SAYS ha. so mneh as an
records lie il in error: 1hurloe's is wonder
fully interesting book and tie London edition
of l74c has complete Cromwell index at the
NcwEngand Libraries alone in COLLECTING ma
terial for life of Cromwell which would he
worthy Of III enduring place in literary annals
DR. Clark's volume Is Illustrated with copies
of MANY portraits of the Lord PROTECTOR A
picture of cast from the mask tkGp altcr
death is Of special interest