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

THE GLoRY AND THE SHAME OF ENGLAND By C.
I,d1ards Lester, vols. New York Harper & Bro
theirs. We hardly know what TO make OF these two
volumes mixed are the ingredients of which they
are composed The title is designedly, suppose,
quaint one, and refers the hand To the arts IL
terature, and benevolent enterprises of England as
her glory-and 10 the inequality of ranks and for
tunes the sulerings and misery of the poor and the
hopeessness OF the operatives condition her shame
The volumes are made up Of letters addressed
here in print for the first time, presumeto diff
fsrent persons Of eminence among us-Dr. Chan
ming, Washington Irving, +. G. Haleck J. q Adams,
c. Calhoun, and others; and they discuss all varie
ties of topics.
duty and cIeverness that they display-hc exlraord
nary adventures which always to have laid in
wait for traveller if to show him at once the
extremes Of English existence. For instance, when
about 10 step into railroad 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
repines not The conversation he holds with her and
the examination he institutes into her family ccum-
stances and religious feeling, overheard by gen.
tcellooking middle aged stranger, who at their close
stepped up, and after presenting sovereign 10 the
young woman, handed his card to our traveller and
asked him to accept seat in the apartment he had
gagged in the for London. This strange turned
out to be Irish nobleman, who begged his American
companion not to address him g my lord, and was
wonderfully communicative to him about the vices Of
tho British ArisocIacy,
Then as~:-, - .ha sarnna vnlnma, going from
ball at Lord ---s at the West End, our traveller
steps into omnibus at midnight, destined for
Threadneede street, and there finds himself .aete
with pale, beautiful unhappy highly dressed female,
TO whom, after ride tor time IL silence percei-
ing indications of deep misery and suffering, he ina-
ly ventures offers Of service. These were 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 newborn infant in her arms
The mother Immediately tainted and there was orr
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-
shcd that night, and that, through the humane in
terventon of our traveller and the policeman provi-
sion made by of the London charities for the
mother.
These odd adventures, Detailing author fire.
quently, seem to lack probability, and yet
hardly suppose them TO be mere fancy sketches.
There is, however, good deal of information,
good deal Of vigorous writing and of independent
thinking, in these pages and whal something of the
bookmaking aIt.-N y. Amer.
The above work is for sale in this city by F. Tay-
r, 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.. ID.