New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-12
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Nothing could be more characteristic There
are few subjects on which the Old Parliamentary
Hand cannot be ambiguous when he WISHES ~
no. and perhaps sometimes when he does not
wish To- on ecclesiastical subjects. ambiguity
and modification are in order. The reaoer moves
I'm a cloud OF doubts. and also amid gooo oe"
Of rhetorical thunder and lightning Inc paper
is written In Gladstonese of the hnest Kihu' often
with phrases which carry the reader aiohe W
their invincible impetuosity and by mere lu'iesS
and affluence OF diction. The writer Is III MS
eighty year, and the blood no"s j" HIS
veins like lava: the tendency OF which Is a'so
to flow over. lie has the old power OF "a''Ns
what he thinks heresy. He denounces Eras'ah-
ism as II the Erastans were all ah"-ho'''e
Rulers His arnory OF ad1ectiVes Is iheA"au''-
ible He paints Professionalism as "a nara IN
exnugnable intractabe, indigestible fact" And
YOU hear the voice almost OF Isaiah IN MS ire
mendous invective against the persons Of this
world who ION whatever pretext take INTO their
uncommissioned hands the manipulation Of the
religion Of our Lord and Saviour" 1t Is granu
outburst and. on the whole. the ecclesiast sur
passes the politician.
NJ lola has now written a book which Will
find I imagine, few admirers or even readers
outside OF his own country or OF countries peopieo
nv Latin races "Iourdes' is In the beginning,
a medical treatise. and singulary repulsiVe
one Wha, II may be in the end do not Know
nor expect to know. After fifty pages OF loa'h-
some physical details most readers VIII nave hau
enough Never before except in La lerre mas
NJ lola let his theories Of realism run so COM
pletely away with him. Broadly stated his theory
is that the fact that thing exists Is suincieh'
reason why IT should be described
That is his conception Of literature That -
tho theory on which he has constructed this book.
or the first part Of It. A train full or patients
ON their way TO Lourdes to be cured by the mir
aculous Intervention Of the saint who presides
over that headquarters of religious imposture-
that is the scene to which he introduces YOU
The reader is not spared single medical detail,
not a single horror OF the hospital, not "h't
Of the poisonous air. not groan Of the tortured
dupes The whole is inconceivably odious ana
revolving. and as remote from anything Ike true
literature as the pages Of the Lancet or
british Medical Journal" What follows may
be better or worse. 1t hardly matters whlch. ii
better few will care to wade to 1t through the
mass Of filth In which NJ. Zoa wallows with a
sympa thetic delight.
Mr. Frank Lockwood has published In pretty
little volume the lecture THE Law ana Law
yers of Plckwick" originally delivered 10 MS con-
stituents in York. then repeated at the request
OF his friend Lord Russell Of killowen, theh Az
torney General and Sir Charles Russell no"
Lord Chief Justice Of England. Mr. LOCKWOOD
has several titles to be heard on this subject
He il himself a lawyer and most successfui ad-
vocate lie is an ardent Dickensite. II that De
a permissible word He has humor OF N''u
which makes him very competent critic OF
Dickens The American admirers of that au'hor'
esneciallv his legal admirers. will read with
Measure this professional estimate OF the iega'
characters perhaps immortal whom the author
Of Pickwick launched into the world. o. W. 3