Rubens is a great artist, but does that gainsay Raphael? Are not
Beethoven and Chopin twin stars of undying glory in the musical
firmament, and can we not offer _true_ homage to _both_, as they blaze
so high above us? Shall the royal purple so daze our eyes, that we
cannot see the depths of heavenly blue?
Meantime we advise the admirers of 'Charles Anchester' to read 'Rumor;'
it is a book of wider knowledge and deeper intuitions.
GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS. History of the
Administration of the Department of the Gulf, in the year 1862;
with an account of the Capture of New Orleans, and a sketch of the
previous career of the General, civil and military. By JAMES
PARTON, Author of the 'Life and Times of Aaron Burr,' 'Life of
Andrew Jackson,' etc., etc. New York: Mason Brothers, 5 and 7
Mercer street. Boston: Mason & Hamlin. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott & Co. London: D. Appleton &. Co., 16 Little Britain,
1864.
Nothing is more difficult than, amid the whirl of passing events, to
form just estimates of living men. Either our knowledge of the facts may
be incomplete, or, if the external facts be known, we may be ignorant of
the character and motives of the individual. No public man has made
warmer friends or more bitter enemies than General Butler. History will
probably, in the future, pronounce a just and impartial decision in the
case.
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