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DUTTON & COMPANY, J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Publishers, 39 West 23d Street, New York. 715 & 717 Market Street, Philadelphia. The Literary World. No. 24 by these means he could give "the very and "Halbert and Hob" for its simplicity turn of each phrase . . . as Greek a fashion and power. "Echetlos" and "Muleykeh " as English will bear." Adornment and are the finest pieces in the second series. amplification he has carefully abjured; and if obscurity seems the inevitable result of his method, he reminds his readers that the learned Salmasius long ago pronounced this 419 play without a rival in ancient literature in point of obscurity. 419 420 THE WINTHROP PAPERS A FRENCHMAN IN TUNIS A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE FICTION 421 TRANS Edited by Wm. J. Rolfe: 421 422 423 423 424 427 427 428 428 429 431 431 THE THE WINTHROP PAPERS." HE Winthrop Papers preserved by six generations of the Connecticut branch of the family, and since 1860 in possession of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, are already After fair allowance for the purpose thus favorably known to antiquaries from the plainly set forth, the success of this effort three parts heretofore published. They are is beyond question. Of Mr. Browning's a rich mine of colonial lore not even yet 423 skill in reproducing not only Greek thought exhausted. The present volume contains but also Greek form, we have had ample letters of very unequal value from John 427 proof before. Balaustion's Adventure is Winthrop, Jr., and Henry, Forth, Stephen, almost superior to the original Alcestis in Adam, Dean, Samuel, Fitz John, Wait, and 428 power and verve, although conceived but John Winthrop, F.R.S. They cover the 429 little in the precise manner of Euripides. years from 1626 to 1701. The letters of 430 With the genius of Æschylus Mr. Browning Fitz John and Wait Winthrop after 1700 has far more in common, and if the present will be published by the Society hereafter. 432 work is less attractive to the general reader The volume under notice is printed at the 432 than the former, it has even greater interest expense of Mr. R. C. Winthrop, Jr. for the scholar. The rugged, condensed expression of the mighty Greek suits well with the natural style of Browning's verse, and as we have followed the version line by line with the original, we have been amazed 437 to mark how closely the very idiom has been kept. The Bohn translation will still have greater charms for the school-boy, and the English reader may prefer the easy but often nerveless version of Prof. Plumptre; but, if we mistake not, the elect few, for whose appreciation Mr. Browning most cares, will welcome and cherish with grow ing delight this grander rendering of the grandest of all Greek tragedies. 433 426 425 436 Here are evidently the letters of gentlemen, or, as the editors fairly put it: the writers of the following letters may be seen to have been amiable and genial men, good sons, ers, serviceable friends, not slothful in business, serving the Lord, given to hospitality, addicted to moderate amusement and scientific investigation, while perhaps singularly free from harshness and illiberality of word or deed. From this the editors proceed to argue against the drift of certain recent writers who accuse the Puritans of moroseness. But, per contra, it would hardly be fair in any respect to take the Winthrop family as a specimen of the average Puritan colonist. The Winthrops were high-bred and educated men, much given to travel, and many of them college graduates. A strain of gentleness in gentle blood not seldom betrays itself by its very contrast with its opposite in the conduct of associates. Besides, most of those who appear in this volume were of the early years of Puritanism, and had affectionate husbands, devoted fathers and broth BROWNING'S AGAMEMNON.* RANSLATIONS in general, and translations from Greek and Latin in particular, differ widely in form and character, according to the diverse tastes and needs for which they are designed. If, then, we seek a fair judgment of the merits or the defects of any given version, it is important to know with what purpose and for what Of the other poems in the volume we readers it was written. The easy-going col- must speak briefly. Like the earlier vollege-boy has one standard of excellence, umes from the same pen, they blend humor the ordinary English reader has another, and pathos, portray the noblest and the darkand between and beyond both these there est sides of human character, and, with the is wide room for preference. A rendering mystery that clings to all that is real and literal enough to pass the requirements of intense, are "full of morals half-divined as the examiner, whatever the sacrifice of life." "La Saisiaz" is another meditation known the restraints of English society. spirit and grace, serves the purpose of the upon the great theme of "In Memoriam," one; while a version that gives the general course of the author's thought, in an intelligible manner and without much care for details, best satisfies the other. Still other readers there are may their tribe increase! - who measure the worth of a translation with more critical eyes, and ask such fidelity in details as shall reproduce the force and beauty of the original work in the highest degree possible. For readers of this class, Mr. Browning's version of the masterpiece of Eschylus, and of Greek tragedy as well, is directly intended. Reflecting upon the accuracy he should himself demand, if his own acquaintance with Eschylus were to be formed through a translation alone, he has made this the ideal in his own work. Archaic and difficult constructions, anything, in fact, except absolute violence done to our language, he has deemed allowable, if But as Puritanism involved itself in politics, and men bred in this alien soil came on the stage, a new temper of hardness betrayed itself. This shows itself even in Puritan portraits, where sometimes the face of the son has a harsher aspect and less refinement than the father's-as in the case of the two Winslows. Indeed, the wilderness, with its savagery, its lack, its toil, its moroseness, entered not only their doors but their inner lives. The New England Puritan differed from him of Old England, both as superior and inferior. The final synthesis of our Puritanism has yet to be made, and requires a very delicate and judicial hand. Documents like those under review are invaluable aids in the undertaking, since these letter-writers are off their guard, are not posing for any public, and since under their pens gleams of the real life of colonial The twelve dramatic idyls vary in length and quality. Each takes a single incident, for the most part familiar to all, and creates around it a fitting scene, or draws out the deeper shades of character indicated in the traditional outline. Of the first series "Pheidippides" is the most pleasing, while "Tray" deserves notice for its sarcasm, ciety MDCCCLXXXI. Winthrop Papers. Part IV. • Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. VIII. Fifth Series. Boston. Published by the So New England flash out to reveal curious things in the darkness. Yet with all their service these writers have left many things unsaid that we would gladly hear. For instance, what an illumination of history if the younger John Winthrop had told us with his Puritan pen of the state of English society under the Commonwealth and after the Restoration, or of the formation of the Royal Society, of which he was early a member; and why it was that Charles II gave him his miniature, still preserved in the family; or if Fitz John, thirty years later, had told us of the court life of William and Mary when he was living in England as agent for the Connecticut Colony. Yet the student of colonial times may well forget what he misses in what he gains from the Winthrop family. They were men of affairs, with their hand on the helm of public business, industrious, keen-eyed, and resolute; given to commerce and land-owning, some with a bias towards medicine and mechanics, eager to improve their farm stock, to discover iron mines, and to build salt-works, as their letters show. Best of all, they show us the times here, as they saw them, down to very curious details. Here we see what difficulties our fathers had in sending and fetching law documents across seas, when deeds of land on either shore were to be legally executed; the vexatious delays of letters sent round about by Barbadoes or Virginia; the curious custom in these same letters of pious mottoes written over every page, as, "God be Immanuel with us and Jesus;" the difficulties of currency and exchange where beaver skins and corn took the place of guineas, and there was much lack of all commodities in bad seasons; and in general the hardships of a few white men on the sea-shore between a sea from four to twelve times as wide as it is today in time, and a whole continent given over to savages. East and West seem to have exchanged tastes. houses with Turkish and Persian furniture; in little." "If you have saved any beef or tal-zation that is as harmful as it is ludicrous: Very gentle are these words written by Grief cuts me off that I cannot write either The measures that Cap. Fitch has used at that The ancient orthography and abbreviations of the letters have been preserved by the editors, and several fac-similes are given. As usual with the publications of the Historical Society, there is a good index. THE In Europe, Moorish buildings, Oriental carpets, the East, and especially in North Africa, European culture clumsily ingrafted on an Oriental stem, and instead of walking on Persian carpets through the midst of those productions of the East which we have seen in dream-like visions, we find Parisian varnish, Parisian patchouli, cheap paper-hangings, and dreadful engravings. Our author compares the result to the spectacle of a negro he once saw in Hayti, clad in an apron and high hat. The Arabian will adopt European dress and furnish his But tenure of house in the European manner, but his Oriental inclinations are sure to come to the surface. The rich Tunisian will erect a palace in the Mameluke quarter and carefully shut out all the exquisite products of the East. "He will hang three or four large glass chandeliers in a small room, put besides some candelabra on the side-tables, and at least two or three clocks between, which do not go." "They buy three copies of an engraving, put them in broad gilt frames, and hang them all in a row." There is a curious absence of caste-feeling in Tunis. "Nobody ever knows whether the Bedouin he meets in the streets today may not be an influential man tomorrow." An almost republican equality prevails. The A FRENCHMAN'S TUNIS.* prime minister began life as a barber's asHE Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg is not sistant. General Bakush, minister for fora De Amicis, and his book on Tunis eign affairs and governor of Susa, is the son has not the brilliancy and color of the Ital- of a slave, and, up to his twentieth year, ian writer's fascinating sketches of Morocco, was a commission agent. but it has, on the other hand, none of the office is as insecure as it is easy of attainfalse lights unduly magnified through the ment; and there are strange stories of cormedium of an orientalized imagination. The ruption and dishonesty. To protect themChevalier seems to have enjoyed unusual selves from the avarice of their rulers, facilities for observation, and his plain, wealthy residents invoke the aid of foreignstraightforward narrative has the interest ers. Thus, General Bakush had built a which always appertains to an honest study large house on a fashionable street in the of a remote people by an intelligent and un- European quarter. The prime minister heard prejudiced observer. The style is uneven, of it and said: "I like your house; give it not uniformly free from laxities of syntax to me!" "The house is not ready," anThe details are quaint enough. How and disfiguring foreign idioms, but on the swered Bakush; "I will have it finished their horses fared, and the best breed of whole readable and never offensively ornate. first." Then he placed himself under French goats, and the raising of swine, rabbits, An introductory chapter reviews the history protection, and made the structure inhabitaand turkeys; the making of berberry can- of the regency, while the bulk of the work ble without completing it, "and his exceldles and the way to discover adulterations is given up to descriptions of the capital, lency, the prime minister, has been waiting thereof; failures in growing tobacco, and a the government, manners and customs, the a long time for the house of the chief of his search for and purchase of periwigs, and Jewish quarter, and life at the watering- cabinet." A reigning Bey cannot, accordleather belts, and sealing-wax-such mat-place Goletta, where "the wife of the Bey ing to Tunisian custom, live in a palace can descend into the sea direct from the where one of his predecessors has died; and ters appear in these letters beside politics, as a consequence, there are more than a religion, and the general fortunes of conti- palace-perhaps bathes at the very same nental Europe. Stephen, one of Cromwell's place which Dido frequented." About one dozen unused in the capital. Even when soldiers, writes from London: "My much hundred pages are devoted to travels through used, the official residences are managed on lying in the wet fields upon the ground hath the provinces, among the Berbers and Bed- a scale of barbaric extravagance. The sumbrought zeatica [sciatica] upon me as it hath ouins, to the holy town of Kairwan, to mer castle of the Bey at Goletta is occupied by him only for a few weeks in a twelveupon many others." Wait writes to Fitz John from Boston, 1677: "Candles are not month: to be had for money, and if you send no tallow we are like to sit in the dark." The same to the same, July, 1678: "There is not one English or Dutch cheese in the country that I hear of." And again: "Your candles were so intimately mixed with straw *Tunis: The Land and the People. By the Chevalier and joined together that they were good for de Hesse-Wartegg. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.75. Gabes and Sfax. The present century has marked a great change in the old Roman province under Islam rule. The fairy-like magnificence of the barbaric era of piracy has long since gone to decay, and with the advent of European ideas has come an artificial civili From the day of his departure until the fol lowing year it serves cattle for stabling, and gangs of strolling Bedouins for night quarters. The costly, ornamented sleeping-chambers are then full of incredible dirt; in the broad corridors and up in the garret-floors heaps of rotten straw lie about. Doors and windows are broken, the walls dirty, the beautiful marble slabs on the floor torn up." And all this notwithstanding that many people are paid to keep the palace in |