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Mr. Whittier in Mem- phis. discussing works whose beauty has roused enthusiasm in every age, rarely indulges in a reflection which any one would recall or quote in their presence. The great success of his book in Europe is partly due to the fact that it is the only one of its kind, from which those who aim at general culture can obtain a sufficient idea of one of the broadest fields of human activity, concerning which everybody is now-a-days expected to know something. This will undoubtedly ensure it an equally favorable reception in the United States, where the number of readers interested in art-history is constantly on the increase. They will find in it what they want, while special students of ancient art will turn to Schnasse, Brunn and Overbeck for more profound discussion and deeper views of its periods and schools. Considered as a book of "Outlines," it deserves the high praise which has been bestowed upon it, and yet like human works in general it offers opportunity for criticism. The peculiar features of art in Egypt and Greece, for instance, would have been better accounted for, and made more clear to the general reader, if the author had laid greater stress upon the influences of race and physi cal geography, which acted so powerfully upon it in both countries. So also the phases through which art passed in Egypt might have been separated, and thus impressed upon the mind, if they had been severally utation in his own country, rests on the New Empires - each of which historical their own sake, and see in these adaptations his histories of Architecture and Sculpture, periods had its peculiar characteristics. This evidences of a superior wisdom, the story his able contributions to the complete edi- would scarcely be inferred from Dr. Lübke's which this book tells will be instructive. tions of Kügler and Schnasse, and his Out- text, and yet the art of the Ancient Empire All are familiar with the fact that while lines of the History of Art, which, after which produced the early wooden statues some flowers are both male and female, oth-passing through seven successive editions and the delicate and flatly-treated bas-reliefs, ers, such as of oaks and birches, have the two in Germany, and being translated into Ensexes in different flower-clusters on distinct glish by Miss Burnett, has now received the and ignored religious dogmas, is of a very and which dealt with agricultural subjects branches, and still others, like poplars and honor of a new and more correct translation different character from that of a later periwillows, bear them on different trees, these in America, edited with notes by Mr. Clar-od, when chapters of the Ritual became the depending upon the winds or sometimes up-ence Cook, and published in the two very obligatory decorations of all tombs, and on insects to carry pollen from the one to handsome and profusely-illustrated volumes royal scenes of battle and triumph of all the other. But few are aware that there are which form the subject of this notice.. many plants bearing perfect and complete The work is a lucid and well-sustained narblossoms, quite alike as to all but the sta-rative of the History of Art from ancient to mens and pistils, and these different only in relative length and the nature of the pollen; and that this length is so regulated as to ensure the transport, by insects, of the pollen of the long stamens of the one to the long pistil of the other, and from the short of the one to jects. the short of the other, so as to bring about appreciate exquisite adaptations in nature for R. Lübke's high and well-deserved rep-connected with the Ancient, the Middle and reciprocal cross-fertilization; also that the pollen of each sort is nearly impotent as to the pistil of its own flower, but prepotent upon that of the other form. Through this arrangement such flowers retain all the benefits as to crossing. of those with separated modern times, so much generalized necessa- This unavoidable result of the at tempt to treat a subject so vast in so limited a space, is not a defect in a book whose nat- *Outlines of the History of Art. By Dr. William Lübke. palaces. The editor's notes upon matters which the author, intent upon giving an unobstructed narrative, has perhaps designedly passed over, are so valuable that their paucity is to be regretted. The value of the book would have been increased by notes upon the ProtoDoric Order in Egypt; the Proto-Ionic in Assyria; the development of stone from wooden architecture, suggested by certain architectural details about Egyptian pyramids and tombs, as well as by Lycian and Etruscan monuments; and lastly upon the alternate influence of Egypt and Assyria in Phoenicia, which worked through her upon Asia Minor and infant Hellas. As bearing upon the early development of Greece, and its relation to the Homeric po ems, these oriental influences are of the deepest interest, but we cannot hope to have them correctly estimated, until the complex questions to which the wonderful discoveries of Dr. Schliemann and General Cesnola have given rise, shall have been freely discussed in all their bearings. Future writers upon ancient art, having the advantage of light from Troy, Mycenæ, and Cyprus upon the early history of the arts in Greece, and from Olympia upon the period of their highest development, will be able to explain much which is now wholly or partially obscure. Dr. Lübke renders a faithful account of present opinions upon the first of these points, and also upon the last with these exceptions, that in his description of the perfected Greek Temple, he omits to speak of that application of the Pythagorean system of numbers to architecture, which made such a building as the Parthenon a musical unit; that he says nothing of those subtle curves which invested it with a long inexplicable grace, or of the inclination of its walls to a common center, which gave it an otherwise unattainable strength. present efforts on this side of the Atlantic, lage on the Connecticut river. Here a great In conclusion I may express the opinion that Dr. Lübke's book is remarkably free from errors, and marked by sound judgment upon the relative merits of art-schools and artists. It has the great merit of freedom from bias and sentimentalism, and forms a welcome contrast to the uncritical and halfdigested books upon art which are daily issued from English and American presses in gaudy and pretentious bindings, whose bad taste is calculated to make serious readers shy of their contents. In the last part of Dr. Lübke's first volume and the whole of the second, the art of Christian times is skillfully treated in all its phases and branches. Here, too, frequent occasion is given for notes calculated to increase the value of the book, as for instance, upon Bonanno of Pisa, Roger of Amalfi, Nicholas of Beneventum and other early workers in bronze; upon Byzantine, Saracenic, and Norman influences on sculpture and .architecture in Apulia; upon Giotto's work both as architect and sculptor; upon Omodeo, the greatest north Italian sculptor of his time, and his share in the construction of THE MEMOIR OF JOHN WOODBRIDGE.* the cathedral at Milan; upon Arnolfo del CHARLES C. PERKINS. Cambio as sculptor and originator of that THE Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., the A long note by the editor placed at the end of the second volume very justly draws attention to Dr. Lübke's very incomplete Dr. Woodbridge's life and character, yet, as The town of Hadley lies near one of our treatment of certain modern schools of art. forgotten; and America is mentioned in a er lands, were turned towards what was go- been passed over in absolute silence. The few words devoted to her art-history show that Dr. Lübke knows nothing of past or The New England Ministry Sixty Years Ago. The Dr. Woodbridge, by his ancestral associations, as also in his pastoral labors, was enclosed in that circle of influences, flowing downward from the times of Edwards. He was a native of the quiet town of Southampton, always small in population, but wonderfully prolific in educated men. His father was, for fifty years, the physician of the town, invited by the people to come and settle there in his profession, just as they would have invited a minister. This Woodbridge family, dating back into English history a hundred and thirty years before the settlement of New England, and reaching down to the present time in twelve successive generations, has furnished eleven Rev. John Woodbridges, besides a multitude of other ministers, with other Christian names. Hadley, where the chief part of Dr. Woodbridge's ministerial life was passed, had its own rich historical associations, and its marked characteristics. Here John Russell, the first minister of the place, concealed the regicides, Goffe and Whalley, and took care of them for some fifteen or sixteen years. Here, when Dr. Woodbridge was settled in 1810, he was the successor of Dr. Samuel Hopkins, cousin to that Dr. Samuel Hopkins from whom the "Hopkinsians" derive their name. The very atmosphere, in and around, was charged with theology. The author has done his work well. The book is no hasty production made to be pushed suddenly upon the market. It has had the seasoning of years in manuscript. The style is crisp and sententious. The paragraphs have been weighed and carefully old days rises before him. As to Dr. Woodbridge himself, there would be quite a variety of opinions. He was a man of marked character, strong in his prejudices and strong in his friendships. He held the olden type of theology, and held it with a Scotch-like vigor and tenacity. But there was a warm, genial side to his nature. He bound his friends by a strong cord. After twenty years' ministry in Hadley, he left, and sought other fields of labor, but after an absence of twelve years he was called back to his old home. This fact alone would serve to indicate that he was a man beloved by those who knew him intimately. Moreover, |