New-York tribune., 1841-10-15
TIL E RIBU Nc.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER Is.

FRIDAY MORNlNG, OClOBEK 10.
TIE GIFT: a cnslsrMAs ASD Ntw.YsAas PRsssy7
FOR 1872. Philadelphis Carey q Fart. New York
Cargi & Co.
In topographic beauty and external tas,efulncss
n, volume clearly surpasscs its predecessors.
MANY OF It's Illustrations also are capital. The
female face on the title-page Is remarkably sweet
and expressive, and The Tough Yarn, engraved
by Pea,e from painting by Mount, is irresistible.
.Dulcinea is clever, and the accompanying verse
BY Miss Leslie renders it pquant. The Country
Gill aso is queenly face, though in perfect
keeping. OF the literary contents we have pub
li,hcd The Tough Yarn, by Seba Smiths clever
q Yankee Story as ever was spun, and The APP
peal of Maria Thercsa,' true poem by cur la
mented Lucy Hooper. Mrs. Sigourney has con
rbutqI four graceful poems Autumn and the
GARDEN. Snow, Nora, and The Village Church
Mrs. + S. Osgood has two articles, Miss Z. II.
Waterman new Mrs EsIins) TWO Miss Leslie
rich deincation of The People that did not take
Bosrders. and the verse; above indicated; Miss
Could Mr. Ellet, Mrs. Embury, and Miss Cathe
r;,e T. Beechcr, arc each contributors. w. &.
s;mms. Edgar A. Poe Park benjamin., Lieut.. G.
". Pa,ten. c. W. Thompson and Prof. Walter
each appear on its pages; MIR. Simms in ghost
.toryof fair length. The Author Of a New Home,
Who u Folov 2 appears in characteristic story
Of The RecTree.' We shall not eulogzc The
Gift the articles we have published and those
we shall hereafter present will clearly prove
Tur NsEg, or The Coavrcrs or LrsNAMo"A; by VIII
LIAM CARLrroS; Author of Neal MslUae, Traits
sndStones ofthe Irish Pcasnutry, &c. 2vols. Phiia
delphia; Carey & Hart. Ncw-Yoih Ca'vIll q Co
Mr. Carleton is one of the very best portrayers Of
Irish life who has written for many years, and OF
Irish life only but of humble life. of real life and its
stormy passions. The story here printed in two
volumes has been widely aad justly popular as
.Fardorougha the Miser, running in continuous
numbers IN -ough several of our best periodicals.
Ii cannot be read without fixed, almost GREATNESS
interest.
TIE juvenile CLASS Book OF NATURAL HIS CRY; con
tanning a cODcs. and familiar desC iptlon oil the Dl
fc.cnt Rsccs of Men # Beasts, Birds Fishes, Rep
ulss Insects: By DANitL HASKELL. Rec Lock-
wood All Broadway.
The rudiments of Natural History are here com
pressed into a single volume OF l24 pages, de-
signed for elementary instruction. cursory ex-
animation convinces us that the work has been
well executed.
The WAvKRLEY NOVELS, No. KIN, being
Tales of the Crusaders, has just been published
by Israel Post, IS Bowery. The Betrohed, and
The Talsman, are both given for IS cents
Also.
THIERs's FRENCH REvoLUrloS, No. XIX,
12i cents.
The NoRrHERs LIGHT, for October, which
contains translation Of long and spirited story,
by the popular French Novelist, Paul de Kock,
translated by A. G. Joh&son. 1t has also able
articles by John A. Dix and others.
Tux PRICE OF GLASS OF BRANDY, pow
crrul Temperance Tract, by lady, has Just been
published. 1t should be widely disseminated
Joux c. CoLr-The New York papers give
many items of the history Of this young man, some
OF them perverted statements of facts, but mostly
mere labricatons TO meet the craving demands OF
excited curiosity. 1t may be question how tar
public curiosity should be grathed in such case
We are disposed to enquire whether this morbid
taste for the details of crime, may not help to pro-
vide materials for its own qualification and whc
Their the NGwgaic literature otour day ha. not IN II
the elements of sclt-pcrpetuation. We do not ask
for apathy indifference 10 crime lis frequent
recurrence, in such horrd forms, calls Tor the most
vlgilant interest; but not for that fascinated nc
rest. that shuddering admiration with which we
have suffered ourselves to be drawn into sympathy
with vice, under the mastery deneationS OF per
ver,ed genius, until have come to look upon
great wickedness as great romance.
The simple facts in the history of John c. Colt,
as they have been made known TO Us, by those whe
were familiar with him from childhood, would necs
but little adornment present tale as attractive
as any of its class. We could not ask for better
materials from which 20 furnish forth hero. than
the fine person, the generous impulses, and the I'M
bounded mental energy which we could vouch ioi
in him. He has sh ,wn a sclf-relance, and u stern
resolution in overcoming the difficulties OF dew
Gus course that, 10 interest, would reed little help
from fictitious surroundings. and an eagerncss and
perseverance, in intellectual culture that would
command sympathy and just admiration
We wish we could transfer 10 the minds OF the
thousands who so eagerly read all that Is sad OF
him, the one impressive lesson taught. n
we trace the evil in this case back 10 lis germ
That germ whose growth has been bitter, was
nasatordinatton from his childhood upwards.
His whole course has been marked by selt-will,
breaking through all the common resirains OF the
family, of the school-ro4 OF the counting house,
OF social life, and OF tie law OF Gsd ,Iohn c.
CoH has been for fourteen gears a voluntary
s2iie from the parental root. Let the child who
will not submit TO be chec,ed and guided. ,rcmbi,
for the end of his own career: and er th, ,,aren,