New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-02

| easily aroused In behaf or DUST or A.
Tennyson this side OF the ocean.
| The point OF view maintained by Mr.
NJ Allen In his book. God In His World.
is remarkable at once for the fexiblity
the liberality OF mind which 1t implies ana
the steadfast buoyancy Of faith which also
underlies It in every phase OF the long argument
! OF the ultimate virtue OF such movements in life
as often puzzle and torment us. Mr. Alden
has no doubt. The profound trust and with
! that trust the same enduring stimulus, will b
found In the work by him which is to be brought
out in August. Mr.. Alden calls II "A Study Of
Death" and broadly speaking Its aim may be said
TO be TO rob death OF its terrors TO enforce its
significance as a normal mystery Of transition
about which there need hang glooms OF regret
or fear Stated thus concisely the idea advanced
in the book may seem 10 bark back to the stern
outlines Of Stoica philosophy; but the most strik.
/ ing element in Mr. Adens work is the spiritual
and to follow him along the subtle lines OF thought
which he prefers is to extract positive invigor.
alton from his prose, not the negation which goes
with a purely Stoica hypothesis. He is mindful
Of fact In his reasoning. erudite when need be-
and always logical Yet he avoids the theological
attitude when 1t is necessary to touch theology; hs
is never dogmatic; and you would call his work
peculiarly the work Of a man OF culture II 1t were
not pre-eminently through the depth OF its imag
nation. the work OF poet.
There is old distinction brought back to the
advanced by De Quincy when he worked his
famous analysis OF what he called the literature
OF knowledge and the literature OF power II IL thu
| latter to which God in His World Belongs" and
! to which "A Study OF Death" also promises to bs
added The literature OF knowledge is within the
reach OF q student with the faculty OF co-orlina.
/ ton and a limited stock of ideas. He marshal
his data draw conclusions therefrom, and postu.
late a partially theory Of literary historical
philosophical development, as the case may BE-
| The literature of power is sometimes. but not
necessarily, based ideas previously established
by various writer's. but those ideas are only intro
duced into the foundation because they serve her.
and there as props. The essential structure OF tia
! literature Of power, It's vital spark direct
! from the Imagination of its maker. Mr. Alien'a
prose is interpenetrated by a spiritual. imaginative
quality which lifts him above the literature OF
knowledge. great that literature may be.
There is to be an anthology OF Irish verse which
ought TO be very good one for Mr. Stopford
Brooke and Mr.. Alfred Percivai Graves are TO edit
IT, only verse OF the very best quality will be IN
cuded in the volume This will distinguish nfron
all other collections OF Irish poetry which have
invariably exhibited too enient editorship.
Mr. Coventry Patmore's book The Rod the
Root and the Flower" is coming when III
author has reached the OF seventy-two. Hh
first volume Of poems published nearly fry
years ago.
A new organ OF literature and art" is announced
! in London 1t is TO be called the New Quarterly"
but ordinary person 1t would seem that Il
might better the title OF OF the
old-fashioned albums OF prose- and picture
since 1t promises be OF similar character.
Hans Breimann. otherwise Charles Godfrey lie.
land. has collected from the people and retod q
quantity OF Legends OF Florence" and proposes 10
| bring them In a book Immediately.
Mr. James l.. Ford. the author OF that lively little
book The Literary Shop" is preparing 10 publish
a volume OF sketches and stories OF New-York life.
A splendid edition OF Shakespeare for Armenian
readers is on the eve OF publication In ST. Peters,
burg
quaint and amusing japanese Life OF General
Grant is 10 be reproduced in The Century" in III.
eral translation. Thi- life" widely dstribut.
ed in Japan during Grants visit to that country.
The illustrations as funny as the text.
A translation OF a volume The Mycenaean
Civilization" by the Greek author. DR.. Crestos
Tsonntas. is o be published in the autumn BY
Houghton, Mifnn & Co The book is 70 have
about a hundred Illustrations.
Mrs Riggs formerly Mrs. Kate Douglas wiggin)
Is preparing a book for autumn publication.
Miss S. O. Jewett has also another volume in hand
A new Library of Foreign Classics IS in
OF preparation abroad The first volume contains
some OF Molisre's comedies, and this is to be fol-
lowed by Rochefoucaulds "Maxims and Refec-
tons: by Pascars provincial Letters" Rousseaus
Confessions" la Fontanes Fables" and Cor
neilles Theatre" Other books are 10 be Boileaus
Poems" La Bruyeres Characters" Diderots
"Neveu de Rameau" and voltaire's "Candide." Tho
text In each will be full
The Bronte Museum. at Haworth has just been
formally opened to the public. The museum occu-
pies suite Of rooms near the old church and vicar
age house The collection OF relics is unimporant.
few sketches books and autographs being all that IS
available at present. The only original portrait OF
Charlotte Bronte in existence is in the possession OF
the Rev Mr. Nichols her husband
The Pope has granted the French author. Boyer
dAgen. permission to write his biography. and for
this purpose has given him access TO the family ar
chives OF the Counts Pecci in Carpneto VI. dAgen
has found among other things. number OF inter-
esting letters which the Pope wrote to one OF hs
brothers while student OF the Colegum Romanum'
He then nineteen years old.
The last number OF THE Bibelot." the iittle
monthly which Mr.. Mosher has established Tor inc
republication OF and prose not accessible 10
every reader, is devoted Swinburne's sOnne,s On
English Dramatic Poets" The tiny an'holosy
gathers together admirable work Win MS
accustomed ardor Swinburne becomes rather rotuha
and norId In OF his lines. but he mad III 'his
case a theme well calculated 10 swell his verse 10
mighty fulness and II is inspiring 20 read his more
than cordial praise. His criticism is not as souhd
In details as Mr.. Mosher would have us believe pue
for the broad sweep of his euoglstc chant SWIM
burne had strong warrant, and in the main THIS
sequence OF sonnets leaves fine an impression a.
any he affords In all his work.
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