New-York tribune., 1904-09-07

on & Georgia plantation and staying for twenty
She guest st o. The safheT Of friend % Of n mines who
The fence, when the following annual colloQuy
the host would say.
No the major would say. Il reckon I'd better
After every mint julep this Interchange would
E ay RlsGS Seake5eS AZ 5ns ena OF te 'hro 'e
We'll" he would say; II reckon III stay little
went on for decade
There was a famous place near Lexington once,
which VII eal Silver Springs and there 0s was -r
ing he went over 70 the horne OF his hosts SON
be died But there IS yet better story Of silver
fs s bo srod e with raVear ssS SFe som
ntteen years ago the church by was torn down,
' sSS soa eo q @ SSasS Of
springs wrese 70 d what reaEss Id tS Of The dead
& friend Of mine. who has been a lifelong friend.
lSOs ee 'hs rer the sna Snrd them In the family
plot There the seven rest to-day.
Painters Since leonardo: Being a History OF
Painting from the Renaissance to the Present
Day. Qzerbert S. Stone & Coz. is a well made
octave. illustrated with pretty good halftones
ON a generous scale The subtitle is hardly
exact, for tie collection OF rather scrappy notes
Of which the book consists fails to suggest. either
In substance In form. really serious historical
research Mr.. Pattison leaves the impression of
pictures with some intelligence and has had
some gIirnpses OF what the painters of them
have been driving at Unfortunately. he seems
only TO have epprehended with success the
things that lie upon the surface None of his
judgments can claim to possess any original sig
nihcance. The character of his work is well
illustrated BY q passage like this: "Holbein's
true genits shows IN these portraits. which are
not surpassed by any In the world from the
and decorative effect. Titan made richer color
and greater dignity; velasqusz stamped his por-
traits with the seal OF aristocratio elegance. and
a something else which cannot describe; but
RoIbein excites our wonder when we think of
his limited early opportunities. and what he
made Of himself The portrait of Anne
OF Cleves. Henry's fourth wife. which he loved
mere than the original. is quite unique in that it
shows US the face and all else full front equal
on either side. two sides alike in everything. 1t
has become classic for all who seek dignity and
reposc CoQuetry wearies US after time;
grace and sweet champagne sharpen the appetite
for horneliness and old cheese" On top of Mr..
Pattison's 'old cheese" comes the statement
that Anne's costume is 'as dignifed as the Capt.
tol Building at Washington with its peristyled
wings" Somehow. after nearly three hundred
pages OF this sort of thing, we are fain TO con-
fess that we cannot take Mr.. Pattison seriously.
The Swinburnian whiriing dervishes who still
hnger upon the scene very happy just now,
with a new volume in the collected edition of
their poet turning up every few weeks TO give
them a new excuse for-whirling. The critic C0
of The Athen8um' has Just been looking into
Songs Before Sunrise" and Songs of Two Ma
tions." and he is convinced thereby that Mr..
Swinburne "is the most potent OF spiritual in
oendiaries." This poet. assured, sis
chilled by the necessity Of finding ade-
auate expression for his exaltation. That in
deed, is his central secret, for no poet has sur
passed his power Of phrasing, his gift Of cloth
ing personal emotion in perfect language" But
20 do this wonderful critic justice must quote
him more at length;
The Eve Of Revolution IS a poem which blazes
with the sublime incendiarism OF Isaiah or Ezekiel;
II is not necessary 10 be a Jew in order 10 shed
to f Be 10 St tha ahd NOR hrob s
n IN 70 the ne a wna mase 5 e this oTd ajs @
the trEmpets blown by the poet, and wherein the
might sufficient 70 overthrow thrones and tyran-
ries. In the poena-that is to say; in the mind q
poet hymns rings clamantly victorious:
'E set the trumpet 10 my lips and blow.
The Winds and stars end wsters come and go
By cts Of breath and light and sound. that wake
Butt Up q sleep ''-''
Even q despotA Il e gifted & with & an artistic mind.
ngStg'
And the poem Is strown with such felicities. of
spring" while all the aspirations OF all the world
its sdjuratton TO the '-tarrying feet OF fate:
Hasten thine hour and halt not. TIL thy work be
done"
no other English poet has assimilated the He
brew temper so miraculousiy as Mr.. Swinburne.
OF course. even in Mr.. swinburne's verse the
anger is not always noble, the scorn is not al
Esse is another facet OF love scorn another phase
Of pity.
The Scrsbners have imported second edition,
much enlarged. OF Mr.. 2. J. Britten's "Old
Clocks and Watches. and Their Makers" The
book now runs TO more than seven hundred
pages. with practically many illustrations.
For any one, student. craftsman or collector,
who seeks authoritative information the sub
5ecss this is Indispensable storehouse of facts
Mr.. Brltten begins with account of the
lest known time recorders. and then gives
chronological survey of the clocks and watches
Of the century. BE may not be always as read
able as a novelist, buS he tells us so much that
is curious that he is .iever wearisome. and his
illustrations are in themselves of considerable
interest.
Some comments on the late George Gissing
in The Sphere" have led DR.. J. Holland Rose
the historian of the Napoeonic era to send 10
that journal the following note on his old friend:
at Overs College with him in lg1S-7s and
admired his signal abilities as well his devotion
:. t'eratGre ] think u Is not generally known
London In the honors examination for the Inter
English literature and Latin a feat unriyailed
s'ei.eke. az NAT tlInt IN later years ne turned