Review of reviews and world's work . Third was, to Coutures mind, importunate in bfi:ering \ipon the artist turned and asked : Sire, who is to paint this pict-ure—your Majesty or I? which put a permanent stop to the sitting andsent the irate painter into seclusion. This and other like anecdotes renderscarcely necessary Mr. Healys remark that Couture was a good painter,but a very bad courtier. He had two pet hatreds—la-«-sers and to doctors he would never allow one in his house. He was so violent inhis that wlien he fell ill he refused all medical aid. THE
Review of reviews and world's work . Third was, to Coutures mind, importunate in bfi:ering \ipon the artist turned and asked : Sire, who is to paint this pict-ure—your Majesty or I? which put a permanent stop to the sitting andsent the irate painter into seclusion. This and other like anecdotes renderscarcely necessary Mr. Healys remark that Couture was a good painter,but a very bad courtier. He had two pet hatreds—la-«-sers and to doctors he would never allow one in his house. He was so violent inhis that wlien he fell ill he refused all medical aid. THE NEW BOOKS. TWO GREAT AMERICAN HISTORIANS—PARKMAN AND FISKE.* IN one department of literature at least, and that avery noble department, we have no need to defendourselves against sneers about American books. Wehave not only produced a succession of brilliant histo-rians whose work constitutes a standard literature, butwe may also rejoice in the possession to-day of livinghistorical writers who are fully the peers of any that. ^^If* >iR. FRANCIS PARKMAN. other lands may boast. The death of Professor Freeman,and the appointment of Mr. Froude to the chair of his-tory at Oxford made vacant by Mr. Freemans demise,have led to much discussion on both sides of the Atlanticas to the qualities and merits of contemporary historicalworkers in Great Britain. Mr. Freeman has been criti-cised as a writer who mistook the materials of history forhistory itself, and who, while scientific and erudite in hisinvestigation of great historical themes and epochs, waslacking in the highest sense of proportion, encumberedhis production with tedious and needless details, and wasdeficient in the literary quality which should belong tohistorical masterwork. Mr. Froude, on the contrary, iscriticised as the brilliant man of letters who is master ofa trenchant and fascinating pen, but who is in no sensean original and scientific investigator, and whose his-torical works are so colored by preconceiv
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