The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1837-02-07
THE HERALD.
TU.sDxY. TEBRUARYy, 1891.

SIR Arr y CITY.--AoutS fs~'Ds~'--s
money work, now absorbing INC a'"" -.
hereafter, in dwelling upon u'e ueep'' '"'P' '
,.r- nc the present moment.
On the subject ofrents there appearsto DC gehe'a,
.o,bn.,on Of all the spectators, capitalists ana
,,d owners against the poor the needy the laDorer
I'D ,be workingman. Even the corporation that
arena OF speculation is eagued with the spectators
AGAINST tenants. They opening streets IN all d'rec
lions This only serves increase the value OF houses
and drive tenants from the CITY,
A social revolution is beginning among us, IN con-
seouence of these land spcculanons, and the cohse
ouent rise of rents Many who keep boarding houses
are now preparing to give up the business ana 10 re-
move finally from New York TO the great ":se-or
any where sooner than live in this place OF usurers
extortioners, graspers and bood-suckers Diners
private families-are entirely breaking up house Keep
ing and going to board cheaply as they can we
do not believe that New York saw crsis SO ex
citing as we may expect bsfore May day. The spirit
Of the people is rising up at every corner. lett is
consolation TO think that this arocious rise in rents
has been created by the upstar spectators Of recent
appearance All the COED old citizens of New ork-
your venerable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. very generally
permitted their tenants to hold at the old rents
or at q very little advance.
We have heard some remark able instances Of this
kind which deserve to be chroncled and enbalmed
for fuurity. Something must be done and that soon.
FANCY SrocKs.-PENoDscor GRANITE CoMphsy
The Sun' is very busy making fuss about some
transaction, picked up at the Police Office in which
the valae Of this stock is made the basis of charge
offraud and swindling.
The Suns ideas on stocks something like It's
ideas on special messagcs--it is very apt 10 mistake
thing for anotherand to get up stones as II eets
through the wax of seal in some mysterious way
not known TO the law or the gospel.
Wehaye heard good deal Of the Penobscot Granite
Company, and we know that the association is COM
posed of several Of the respectable gentlemen IN
this city. Others that we could name have also pur-
chased of the STOCK and there be no doubt OF Its
value. The Company possesses tract of land, on
the Pcnobscot river near Bangor. We have seen the
documents and speak from book.
As 10 the story of Lock wood it is like great many
other clancy sketches originating in the Police office,
and carried there at the promptngs Of some limb OF
The law 10 shew off in--all humbug.
MoNrREssoR IN HAvANA.-Every body remembers
Monressor, the famous Italian singer. We haveJust
received from Havana, very curious account OF ms
imprisonment and probable Punishment by the valiant
Governor Tacon at the instigation ola pria donna,
who had qrarrelled with him. in performing an opera.
Moniressor's property has also been coafscated.-
More of this anon. The conduct of Governor Tacon
is the most remarkable we have yet heard Of
CHEAp LrrnRAruRE-FosTERs MIscEILANY.--We
have Just received from T. Foster, corner ofPne and
Broadway copies of the 4th and 9Th numbers Of his
"Cabinet Miscellany'-the first being "Strangs
Germany" and the second "Granfs Great Metro
polis'--the latter work which has attained much
popularity, in very short time, both in Europe and
this country.
One Of the most important features Of both these
works is their extraordinary chespness and the SUI
per,or typographical execution for the price.
THIS quality of cheapness in literature il beginning
sorevoluonze the world. In the course of few short
years have already the effect produced in this CT
fyby cheapness and excellence in the newspaper press
In literature the same movement has begun, and few
years will shew the results This not an age of much
originality bookmakng at least The original works
of the present day. issued by the book sellers both in
this country and IN Europe, are sad msagre, miser-
able contemplate nash-mere refacciamenfos Of for
mer thoughts and former writings. The booksellers
and republshers the great movers in literary mat
iers Cheap republicauons Of new standard works
worth all the originality that gives the reading
world tho headache. Newspapers indeed must al
ways DeonSnai VI oe powerful ana encrgeuc, Dut the
last age exhausted the literary genius Of full century
10 come No second cluster of genuses can spring
to existence during the state Of social organza-
non. There must be entire revelation in the society
and institutions Of the British races before we can have
such consultations appeared in the age of Shak-
spcae, in the age of Addison in the age Of Johnson
OF in the ageof Byron and Scott. Our present writers
are mere m,aiors. The only original department of
the human mind that remains to be explored is the
newspaper press, and such works as compose the
Cabinet Library ofFoster.
Bat the application Of past discoveries il rapidly
changing the world. Cheap literature is beginning
movement in the general mind, that joined with the
new energy ofhe daily press, will in less than twenty
years earely revoutionze both this country and Eu-
rope. The recent cheap publications issued by Foster
by the Hapas, rnd by Others the beginnings
of an intellectual revolution, much more important
than they imagine. They have caught the spirit of
the age, and are busiy engaged in giving universally
TO the same thought and feeling which heretofore have
only occupied the higher classes of society In some
respects Foster has outspped all his rivals in rapid
ity, good execution taste in selection and lnvariabe
eheapness. His miscellany" comprises the most
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