The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-25 00:00:00

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across the ocean—that is, of the far.famed—

CITY OF NEW YORK.
The Island of Manhattan, on which New York is placed,
is very like the shape of a sole. Now, if you suppose that
the skeleton of a sole had a network of cross-bones, parallel

as well as perpendicular to the backbone, you will have an
CZAOt Woo of the plaiz of Now York, Tin /backbone is

Broadway; the parallel cross-bones aro the avenues, num-
bered from east to west; and the bones at right angles to
the spines are the streets, numbered consecutively from the
sole's mouth to its tail. This arithmetical nomenclature of
the streets, which seems so barbarous to us in Europe, is
really of great practical convenience. The system is not
perfect, because the streets in the cld part of the town have
names of their own; but still it is sufficiently so, to enable
anyone to tell, given the name of a street, whereabouts it
is situated, and how to get to it. The corner end of the
island, corresponding to the sole's mouth, is the commercial
twpeair:rhtet,httheifheere city of New York, of which Wall-street is the
Cornhill. Broadway is the great thoroughfare, where all
the h
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resort
shops st
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Upper
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suburbs,the
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if New York should grow
at its present rate, to cover the whole island of Manhattan.
Across the Hudson and the East River, which join at the
city end of the island, lie the great suburbs of Jersey City
and Brookiyn—Birkenheads, so to speak, to the New World
Liverpool. So much for the topography of New York.
The volumes under notice are inscribed by their
writer, " by permission," he tells us, to no less for •
midable a reader of any man's lueubrations, than—
JOHN STUART
ageII..IILIL,h,
epreerihsaps thecoura stgemionspuchhil7odpe
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in keeping with it, there is a courage of
cation--of
odno—f
bo uu rt,
thought and of expression apparent to us, again and
yet theagaino,tshprooknueghovuotlume. s wholewe
reado
of Mr.
them even
manfully outspoken
where they are the most directly opposed to our
own views, with that especial satisfaction
with which we all turn to the examination
of the writings of a man who is really himself in
earnest. Before closing our remarks upon Mr.
Dicey it is but justice to him to observe that he is
not less of an Englishman in his views, because, in
one sense, he is more of a cosmopolite.

Dr. Samuel Butler's Atlas of Mockrta Geography.
A New Edition. 33 Maps. Longman and Co.
We are never surprised at the announcement of
another New Edition of the compact and admira-
ble little Atlas of Modern Geography, for which
so many English students have so long stood in-
debted to the skill and the research of the late
Bishop of Lichfield. But—even in these days of
cneapness and enterprise—we are, for once, surprised
by certain peculiarities noticeable in the entirely
New Edition of the work but just now issued from
the press by the Messrs. Longman. While very
considerably improved, it is, at the same time,
wonderfully cheapened. Containing three and
thirty full coloured maps, carefully engraved
in steel by Mr. Edward Weller, a Fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society, a draughtsman
well up to his work—this royal quarto atlas by the
late Bishop of Lichfield, Dr. Samuel Butler—pre-
viously head master of Shrewsbury School, com-
prises within it several additional maps never be-
fore published; being, besides that, minutely cor-
rected throughout "from the Government surveys"
es well as "from the most recent authentic sources of
information." The whole vvork, moreover, has been
edited by the author's son, the present rector of
Langan, the Rev. Thomas Butler, M.A., F.R.G.S.,
As evidence of the care taken with each division of
the work as it passed through the hands of the en-
graver it may be sufficient to observe that the
discoveries of Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Barth, and
others were very cautiously taken into account in
the map of the continent of Africa. This Modern
Atlas (now costing no more than half a guinea) is
in a manner perfected as a book for instant refer-
ence by an Index wonderfullycopious when viewed
in connection with the moderate dimensions of tho
volume and the scale upon which the maps con-
tained within it have been drawn.

Herbert Fry's Shilling Guide to the -London
Charities. Pp. 174. Robert Hardwicke.

Remembering the dictum of the Prince of the
Apostles about charity covering a multitude of sins,
one cannot, while looking over the pages of this
most affecting catalogue of the abundant charities
of London—one cannot but think, with a
sense of awe and of hope of the charity that may
literally be "covering " or overshadowing the
sins of the Great City. It is a wonderful
catalogue. Though merely a list of names
and dates, and addresses, and objects, and
incomes—it is pleasant reading, for all that. We
have a feeling of obligation towards Mr. Fry for
the industry with which he has compiled these
useful and consolatory particulars. It is a shilling's
worth of information well worthy of the careful
study of the benevolent.