The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-13

The GLORY AND THE SuAMs OF ENGLAND. By c..
Ed,oards Lester, vols. New York Harper e. Bro
theirs. We hardly know what to make OF these two
Volumes naked are the Ingredients of which they
are composed. The title is, desgnedly, suppose,
quaint one, and refers the hand the arts H.
terature and benevolent enterprises of England as
her gory-and to the inequality of ranks and for
tunes, the suerngs and misery of the poor and the
hopelessness of the operatives condition her shame
| The volumes made up Of letters addressed
here in print for the first time, presume-to diff
| ferent persons of eminence among us,-Dr Chan
ming, Washington Irving, F. G. HaIeck, J. q. Adams
J. C. Calhoun, and others and they discuss all varie
| ties of topics.
What puzzles US about them is the mixture of Gre
dulity and cleverness that they dspay-the extaord
nary adventures which seem always to have laid in
wait for our traveller, if to show him at tn,
extremes of English existence For instance, wher
about to step into railroad car at Liverpool he meets
with remarkable young woman, who scantily sup
ports dying mother and manned brother, by selling
sort Of travellers guide along the railroad and yet
repDes not The conversation he holds with her, and
| the examination he institutes into her family circum-
stances and religious feeling, overheard by gen.
teellooking middle aged stranger who at their close,
stepped up, and after presenting a sovereign to the
young woman, handed his card to our traveller, and
asked him to accept seat in the apartment he had en-
gagged in the cars for London This stranger turned
out to be an Irish nobeman who begged his American
companion not to address him as "my lord, " and was
wonderfully communicative to him about the vices of
the British Aristocracy.
Then again, in the second volume, going from
ball at Lord --'s at the West End, our traveller
steps into an omnibus at midnight, destined for
Threadneedle street. and there finds himself
with pale beautiful, unhappy highly dressed female
to whom, after ride for time in silence perceiv
ing indications of deep misery and suffering, he final
y ventures offers of service. These half fran
tically declined till reaching the end Of the jour-
ney the rain beginning to fall the female, in getting
out nearly fell from exhaustion and he caught her,
he perceived she held a newborn infant in her
The mother Immediately tainted; and there was
American fresh from all the splendors of West End
ball. alone at midnight and in storm in the streets of
London with an unknown mother and her helpless
child On recovering, she said she had no home
By the aid of policeman he procured shelter and
kinkness for which he paid, for this unfortunate, of
whom nothing further is said than that the child per-
ished that night, and that, through the humane in
tervention of traveller and the policeman, prov-
sion made by of the London charities for the
mother.
These odd adventures, Detailing our author fire.
quenty, seem to lack probability, and yet can
hardly suppose them to be mere fancy sketches.
There is, however, a good deal Of information, a
good deal Of vigorous writing and of Independent
thinking, in these pages and whal something of the
bookmaking art.-N. Y Amer.
The above work is for sale in this city by F. Tay-
lor, bookseller
We have received from the same publishers highly
useful elementary Latin work, entitled " A System
of Latin Prosody and Metre" by Charles Anthem,
L. L. d.