The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-10 00:00:00

LITBRATGRIE

.Tettosile Chase: its Clutors,Clier•etrr, and Cure.
By Baum. PHILLIPS DAT. London: J. F.
Hope, Cheat Marlborough-street.
This is the work of a well-nseening man. Mr.
Day comes to es with no new facts ; with no new
experiences; with no new idees ; but he has col-
lected into one volume the fruits of an extensive
reading, and his book may be accepted as a resume
of what has bees written on the painful subject of
which it treats down to the present time. We
question some of his statistics, many of them, too, im-
plicit' quoted from Mr. Mayhew's striking and
, yet not always reliable, researehes ; and
when be boldly states that in Iwden sae in nine be-
l=rt• the criminal elem.,* feel at ones that the
biswadatteeletake. Ms. Day argues in raven
of wheatin aadrediesaatariee; hebelieves in the great
ant nweasing character a juvenile crime, and his
passeas is government education. " Lot," he te-
atime. "but the government pan a single and
leisepilieraent, making it obligatory on all chil-
eod li,. nes el bite to hoiden to anted
school regularly, holding parents and guardian re-
z=elge (apsa pain of a pecuniary penalty for each
) hr Um due performance thereof, and requir-
ing a andante of attendance from each scholar, to
he submitted quarterly or half-yearly to the regis-
trar of the district in which his or her parents
or relatives may reside," and we shall have a
generation amongst which crime will nearly
be unknown. Now, while it is admitted,
even by our author, that the causes of crime
are manifold, that our juvenile criminals are made
each by poverty, intemperance, and social evils of
varicose kinds, it is not easy to see how education
alone eau grapple with the present existing mass of
vice. Besides, many of the young Arabs of our streets,
our crime-producing daises, have no parents and
guardians, in the proper sense of the word, whom
you can punish for neglect. The chief fault of Mr.
Day is that he does not rise above the conventional
feeling of the skies if writers to which he belongs.
It is not with reee-water that the moral feculence of
our great cities is to be removed. if we would save
humsnity in its bud—if we woald rescue it from the
grasp of the destroyer—if we would train it for Ood
and Heaven instead of the devil, we need a clear
brain, a strong arm, and a speech that shall be
genuine and true. Mr. Day is good as far u he goes ;
he finds fault with relieving oaceni, with tradesmen
who expose their goods, with the selfish and sordid
spirit of the age, with the workhouses which feed
the prisons and with the prisons which feed them-
selves, and with the low lodging-house keepers ; he
notes the coincidence between drunkenness and
crime, and exposes the injurious effect of the minor
theatres, penny gaffs, dancing and singing saloons,
gaming and betting practices, and demoralising. pub-
lications. We quote his account of a visit paid by

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A PINNY OAFF.
Lately, pas Illeteeday erasing, I visited a few of those
plectra awaked ia the neighbourhood of Blackfriars- bridge
and the Newest, Idashath. The exterior of the buildings
permed nearer a Pest appearance, having as array of
showy lamp to dist, bat the interior was Day, fogey, sad
Wins is Emery saes of the word. limeept w way, the
levant sad west of tbam t pd." le Paws is Ile mod
resperside is lay, end the Wirers of the am meld ter
eNe b dereptary to bequest the other. Having -dr
mei Mop deer prey, I was mitisod to mar erg
Mesugh• lees elseadwa pessoge, oa alkali abaft'
sidireisheil mese, peel relikli rem oppesgskesd ode
of raluehasset etas useedeisterioas &snake died lahllM
bees '!mio jadolamtr the shops seddiesdpiendthe
MM we atoned. SPIN embed the
pit, I beri ft aernmed with bm seseber
of enema lieredised. didlety and toady, illeales sleben
had the oppresses of Mtn jest Mod week. Mewl
th.l.= were • few ma sad girls el the beisat
ddlgisted with Ibe amass deli 11111“ brig mated
idea—ttir 'Pb. years, Meese mem, end M-
I die oder that arose Is. this part of the bee* VIM truly
itellidegot hick, crabbed with dr der areseplm.inade
stir see haiderebis by the mis hem Ishasee-pipes, ren-
amed Or passe sayildeg bal aresabia er laird sup-
media
Tie eireiths''s satertermal ammenest with • eerie of
esulilhe Mete, erbia • lbw Mew Emmeline, who
risseered let the reinvested le WM
eerie* es es Se dem the Mole delight of the eabble
MOM ; illsolies Yee es the part of the hem
ranturbane eippleere upecarious laughterfrom
, until the miebrises nearly 11 horrible and in-
fideiehlb ea that dersdked bg ea African traveller, who,
Ming by plevellensi bad Ida moral slumbers one night
saildeab drooled enll ilmipsted by the unearthly, weird-
-111eWeedngse/s vide army of partitions wild dogs.
I Mewed a elide weediet, who illustrated, is character,
leg, the membg-sweeper, by a variety of pm
pindipst Meet .erred Milk me hamlets .sough, but
Mese bed • lethea brieney set only to bring sacred
UMW bet seas dr Holy Book itself, into
Mei the palm to which Sermon was
blesmilletwith the lion, and when
raider %Ir▪ l
ihe dry of Girls his back, were
wady est Weeded, than solemn subjects
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Mere
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seseniel • einemew cites by the MGM to dr
=pawldr air hit of cardboard I led esideed to a
amp, wine stood sentinel by • hdideer at
the smelt of the rake, which was at oseeepesell per my
Mama Whet am dignified with the mars el boxes, are
keg rims *lbrahim seers at eithersii= et the Pl.
iforbette ears parrs el which 11
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the right al Weds tie=
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tweet *NI .aver dscent.lookiog yams rams with
otiMee, sod • gembeesaly young time, who al upg
Tu. bard ow 111.4 entirely with hogs eamewhet
Delta embed Ma them b.ktw, but still of dr dm.
A is. Inv ustaidai dart day pipes eves Is"
the very secorammilastivedeam who acted as
Informed me that "Smoking was sot peratitted.
of the boor." A large aytadag is else ceiling, trees wildsh
the decayed plestertag use OAP' irk la thick sodas, ups
the bessaar lades wire sea
thi stalls, blued a
caroms of treab sir, which air the WwwwwWwwwws. was
malted, estreaktaa alter lambi se Meg Mend the gent-
il seresphoe the pit. L. ray sem spur the lock
of the toteriod boar, I era/ ersemd a Mmbly good
view of the singe, as well se she a Remy el the satire
beildimg. Directly to die tight, sad immediddy fronds(
i.lteei"Wr a lags, pesiaarliesd elms* la prey-
aid& sameameal a OPP Idermear Hater-
=LT* eiWitimerder amt. rrthe Dmsbtd Mr..l—•
B —a." The sail barn mew dm, a pormbeir
play ;Et which, from my very Ape
with the that amorous rehire mg
/eat I knew to be elecialleey e/Silas
seen I sever whereat web presamised eediedsem e.
repesisily graded she Mee of this
eapiece, aim Ms sailed
beeme dr met* nerved the se _ Mash mew
abeadmit ermilrestra el tangible.So pat el the
Mime se Ile My mho Me le Mem wring sneers
wee redo Wbes ell we ewer, the eselt Ism y. Mee
pore el the hove was temmdess.
No Ma will be the worse foe reading Mr. Day,
and yet we fear that we have quite enough of
writers of his elate. If one thiog be clearer than
Ilifiallar it is the fact that to be perpetually brooding
ii ..elf is neither a Pry desirable nor a very pro.
MO seeds of spending time. It interferes with the
llosineas of life ; it creates a whole brood of
sr~maladies ; it too often turns into a miserable
hypochondriac a man who might otherwise have
dose something for the world. In the same manner
it is sot very iorrable that a nation should be made
op of croakers, that it should be perpetually bewail-
ing its own depravity, that it should be constantly
holding up to public view its nakedness and its
sham. 'We have somewhat too much of this.
Truly the times have altered. When we bred up an
indomitable race, when we laid the foundations of iser
gigantic commerce, when we won immortal vio-
tones by land or on the deep, when we planted seeds
arumempires in every corner of the globe, the
heart had a healthier and • happier tom

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