New-York tribune., 1841-11-06
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,,,s r,osy AND SHANE or ExCLAND: By c. EpwARDs
iHA LE.TrR vo. N-w-YorL Harper & Brothers.
al, :orcofui volumes. The author has examined
England, not like our fashionable young gentlemen
who skim across the ocean to Liverpool, whi.k up
20 London, stare at St. Psuls, saunter through
Westminster Abbey, roll out 10 some lords estate
10 rejoice over his unexceptonabe venison and
champagne, dash on to Scotland and return in
three months enraptured with TIE greatness Of
Britain and the happiness of her people. Dir.
Lester has par;aken of these eRioyments but be
has also looked into the novels groped MS way
through the damp foul butthickly inhabited cellars
and conversed aa brother with the long, starving
millions whose condition constitutes the shame OF
England. Ii is for It's portraits of these, It's har-
rowing pictures of their wretchcdne''' taat hs
work is chiefly valuable. They arO aS circum
stantisl, as vivid as could be desired
Heartily as we approve the spirit and scope of
,h, work, we by no means consider it faul,les..
1t jumps at some of its sweeping conclusion. too
hastily In attrbuting all the evils which aiiliot
the Poor of England TO the Policy of its Govern
rnent and the grasping rule of its Aristocracy, he
assumes much that should be demonstrated, and
considers but a portion Of the fundamental facts
Britain is borne down by the weight of an enormou.
National Debt, contracted to maintain proftess and
exhausting (though not always unnecessary wars.
She has remarkably dense population. Her peo-
pie high and low, prone to living beyond their
means, and TO the destructive Of intoxicating
Liquors. We doubt not that iudicious relaxation
sfher Restrictive Policy, while it would se greatly
advantageous to this and other countries, would be
also beneficial to her own laboring people. But
this is not panacea for all her ilIs-very far from
it. No change in her established Policy, which
Sovereisns or Parliaments could make, would re-
lieve her from beggary, destituton and wretched
ness. The disease is deeper and more compl-
cated-its remedy more dis,an, than this.
We have marked Interesting extract from
this work, which will appear soon.
The PotrcAL WORKS OF REciSALp HEBER late Bishop
efCalcutta q Wi. l2mo. Pp. 3l0) Phiadclpha
Lea 81 Blanchard
The Advertisement Informs that the Poems
Of Bishop Heber have not before been presented
complete to the public, although volume profess
ing to contain the Works of Hemans Heber and
Pollok, has been current in this country for the
last eight or ten years. We surprised that the
good Bishops Poetical Works should have re-
NAMED SO long uncdited and have little doubt
that they will even at this late day, be gener
ally read They are not of the very highest order
the fire of Genius is less intense thaH in the writ
ings of the born poets of our century they do not
soar to the highest heaven of invention though
that last is poor word for the idea. Still, their
merit does not depend their piety, intimately as
the two are connected. Hebcr has written many
good poems and no bad ones and who in our day
has given us HYMNS surprising From Greenand's
lev Mountains, Thou art gone TO the Grave, and
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning ,
The volume before is just fairly executed we
think finer one would have been more generally
acceptable.
The AMERICAS BIBLE SocrTY AND THE BArTlsrs or
the Question Discussed Shall the whole Word of
God be ven to the Hcathen2 By W II. WycSoFF,
AN. Sew-York John Barker $50 Nassau St
This work is a statement Of the reasons which
have impelied the Baptsts TO withdraw from the
support o' the Afher'cs" p'oe Society """ 'S'"o-
hsh one OF their own. 1t Is very torciely written,
and confirms mech matter of value to those who
take an interest in the Baptist Controversy. 1t is
a small lSmo OF l'2 pages