New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-11


In Westminster but 1t has some points In 1t vhteh
lovers OF Burns will probably md asretab!e. ~
especially dwet upon the enthusiasm OF WHICH I"
poet is the source. saying:
think. indeed. that the greatest OF ,ne MAN.
debts that we sc9tchmen & the latter nineie e
century owe 10 Rur s m N ossi TO
the debt for although nation sdnne, ve q W sh
out We de a'n and decay FOR an individual
indeed Il seems nobler TO fail win i thsn 10 sue
nerved III" French RevoIutionsts to bea, back y.
French Revolution. 1t was enthusiasm, that freed
our slaves and made a 9yrcs ns sSms Ss, md
may raise you the stars or explode yo1 Guldaes
by we'll wiHdq ,o remn mn this now when wave
moral ASSIGN il sweeping over tNr land anu ~, ~
s sfs M"S With disnerested moral enthusiasm viii.
towering indsnation against me op9reSsso or, s
.d III; nyr ss s Tss Tsh fS 81 s:s
s%t s hal e posy one
Britannia ShsS has been nc ne foe e
IS unchanged and unchanseable. we nave ~. pno'gI,
We have Kr hss ,sa we ' oWs our supply
distinguished from gusts ana nashs ~ We s nsnny
eogs sadd,d scots do not s,asnse into
genius and character are the Gun stream TW H.
prevents our freezing into apathy anu 'a'e'''' NV
A prospectus OF the new Centenary Edition OK
CARLYLE has come to hand. 1t promises many {"
cellences graphical illustrative ana other"se
The form Is a convenient octave. there VIII ~
thirty volumes In the set and the price - reason
able The edition would seem to nc everytnmk
that IL should be- Mr.. II. u. Trail. a Thoroughly
competent editor. having supervised It's production
The first of the thirty volumes. by the way /"
"Sartor Resartus." 1t is just appearing from Va.
press of the Scribners. The last will be publshed
In December. 1897.
Mr. Thomas b. Mosher grows funnier and fun
ner in the highfaun that he preftxes TO the re.
prints in his "Bibelot' magazine The mth"
castigaton administered 10 him by Mr. Andre"
Lang whom he first pirated and then audaciousy
de6ed has done nothing to diminish the a"t"'
orotundity and solemn fooishness OF those same
introductons The latest is called forth ny fatsr
| essay on Joachim du Beay. reprinted In "Ihs
| Bibelo," for October. on an early page, enter MI
| Nosher loau!tur: I'm Nion's imperishahle verS
| Mats OH sont les neiges d'antan lies summed the
whole of Joachim du Delays HE. In that un'
earthly line oubreathes the sigh OF an entire ssnef'
| alton OF men and women become aweary or pleas
ure who feel they about 10 die Poor thinss'
| II Is not surprising that Mr. Mosher sauigsies
| around In horrible pangs OF rhetorical distress
| Rut why an unearthly line? This H. something
new However. there is no telling what VIII happen
| when once Mr.. 7. T. Mosher and his Bihe'otc
prose get after the mperishabl" treasures OF hers
| it can in a state OF semi-darkness Hut Mr. Moshs''
| he knows Io uminates our gloom. rhese
| folk" he declares meaning II doesn't matter Ju"
! whom ARE 'revenanis' who. from behind moth
| eaten arras, come with a faded air as OF secr"
| chambers long sealed up Now what does ths
| mean, anyway:
| Posthumous literature is apt to he SO dissPpoinr
ing Il has meant such sad stuff In the case "
Robert Louis Stevenson. for example. a. It has alp
| In that Of Eugene Field. that there IN parficun"
comfort 10 he derived from 4 reading of Mr. Bus'
| ner's last story. published In the current scfe'
ner" II Is a most ingenious little narrative as az"
| n thing as he wrote. In fact. In the wv
Cellar, is exactly illustrative OF Burners mos
| yrorkmaplite vein. 1t has the delicate spirit "'"e"
| permeates all his writings. but II has also ,n,'
! symmetry as a piece Of dramatic devisrs WHO"
| characteristic Of him In his happiest moments "
an author of short stories. This farewell nat'a"'
! OF Burners giving, as It were. Ills last worn ~
| what he considered to be the province OF prose =.
| ,on reyiyes one question which applies 10 ".
whole his tory OF American literature. rhrousn :"
demonstration of rare inventiveness a'o"s =.
Of strictly ingenious. coniriying signhcance' y,
minds us of how unexpectedly few the A". ~.
| writers have been who could do good worN w 49,
same field We talk Of the short story IN TINS ~.
try as one of the best existing types OF literary -,
etrue,on on small scale. and certainly sue" 49, 49,.
ing with lis is not only original ana imae'""'
hut II is peculiarly deft peculiarly well msu ~
So far as the ingenuity OF putting toss,"s A..
Mot IL concerned the American writers OF s""s hal
tion are undoubtedly in the trent rank es, Lind
of the ingenuity of Imagination. what OF wv N
of dramatic inventiveness whieh Poe pS ,s s,sry
such a pitch OF perfection and OF when W., rha,
~ Mr. Runners IL n fairly good specimen -.
kind Of ingenuity. one would think should ~
nan, in America. where the genius Of the ps0v
admitted to be for the complications " -" astIsa
A reflection OF that genius in our pIvs 49, We
might Justly be expected But II never co% nad
have had one master. Poe, but We have n S." W.
any one to approach him. aud wn''e ,rsdl.sp.,
Bunner may show worthiness OF Ins ~ "
there are no indications Of widesprssc, =, Sv
what might be called the logical eccsnr' s"s,
nance srn the Wine Cellar has tins ss ~
4. aa natura, az one of the auther's nu"' tnes
urban sketches. and as pcturesaue'', .rtuolA
tously. eontrived as THE cask .. go ~ -:
which indeed 4 .sssl. ns. na nssk w x ,.sss
l'a ten shoassNa when y came 70 ''''