New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28

says II We could but find out what it is o I'M
ia'hohlaple deepsT' What is the good? And
what is the beautifuI?" he makes his novelist
ash- no can say? All we know is that both
Inns aie synonymous, the quite much
'ie othef. The exact form and pressure of
ooieil thought We get in passage like
-. we are as swimmers, cast upon the
oiieihfna horns of two swift currents. Each
''iohe lor the True bears US upward and
"u' each surmounted rung Of the ladder
ilahes the next but easier, especially if we bear
otllers with u.s. And here is the author of
temporal Power in her most phIosoptic vein:
Inc age Is 'ennuye' 1t has grown tired of the
WISE pure poetic ideals Of Greece and Rome.
Inc udS dreams of a Sapho Juvenal
accounted less piquant' than the ugly facts Of
an Old Kent Road. Who was it that said o
Temporal? and, again o Mores'?" But per-
maps the best Of all these nuggets is the fol-
lowing; Noel? What thoughts what emo
tlohs the little word awakes, 1t is the French
Ior Chr1stmas" With the same terseness Mr..
Seaman parodies George Meredith giving us
| Illuminating sentences like these: I'm the yes
llouie OF Adolescence the Boy stands at plastic
PAUSE clay-soft to the imposed idea. This is
1Ee FropaSandist's Hour; then, never, the
Vegetarian has his chance. woman
more nosingly fastidious of essentials you
might waste a season Of Church parades and
band for his gift of dgesting Welsh Rarebit.
A neXt-weeker for procrastination, there
was 1Eacus in his eye for the DELAYS of others
Chatham-and-Dover with himself he was Time
and-Tide for the rest
In the next chapter have the "glimpses of
the obvious for which Sir John Lubbock 0Iord
Avebury) is famous buriesqued so we'll that we
seem hardly to be reading a burlesque at all
"A mans work will often outlive him Thus
ha kac a
and the steam engine survive. In read
ing we ought to employ selection. 1t is almost
impossible to read every book that has been
written SCOTS Novels is of the Hundred
Best Books. Nature is governed by n
varying laws. Every day the sun rises; every
evening it sets. The only local exception TO this
last rule is the British Empire. . Much
has been written about the uses of adversely
Let US hope it is true. . Home Sweet
Home! l forget who said this. Water
is recognized as a necessity to ships. What
should we do if anything went wrong with the
ocean? Suppose the deep did rotl (Coleridge)."
Maeterlinck is treated by Mr. Seaman in much
the same fashion, and one of the bits of phi
losophy' joyously ascribed to that colossal
thinker is nothing less than little masterpiece.
The spectacle of plain. four footed COW sit
ting alone with her destiny, chewing the cud,
and altogether unconscious of the laws of the
that moves more than the crash of conflict
ing mastodOns' The two parodies of George
Moore one being of his realistic method and
the other of his Celtic enthusiasm, good
that we want to quote them both, but we must
be content with the first.
RebecCa Gins walked down the lane putting
her feet forward alternately. There were hedges
on both sides; the left. one on the right.
The young leaves We're pale green. Overhead
ran the telegraph wires. The poles were about
thirty five yards apart. \ thrush sat on Il spray
Of blackthorn. which moved under its weight,
now down, now up. Rain had fallen, and the
ground Wet, especially in the ruts. The
second hand feather in Rebecca's hat dropped
a little her left ear; and the third button Of
her off boot wanting. Smoke went up from
the chimneys, taking the direction OF the wind
All these essential details Including the feather.
which was out of sighU escaped Rebeccas
notice. She was not gifted with that grasp OF
actually which Is the sign of artistic nature.
Most Of the PAROLES in this book are OF prose
writer's. of novests like Mrs. Craigie. Hall
Game Henry Harand. Henry Jams, Mrs.
Huruuhry Ward and Maurice Hewlett, but