New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-10
THE TRIBUNE.
Boz'S New Work.

Deeu iaid upoi tte tdDe-d preaestiHeO VIC
jim dedicated to the knfe and scorching fame,
ID thought, even before it was born, and bodily as
soon as il nade iis appearance upon our RePue'
can shores. At the hands of its author these men
feel that they have received some deep insult
some terrible wrong-in return for which they
have vowed TO mmola,e all his lucksess offspring
that from this day forth may venture IL look out
upon the earth, though they be lovely as their ell
der brethren and plead for mercy with eloqucnce
ike the music of an Angel. Why this should be
80, they are puzzled to tell; they thought
him one of the gods and are, beyond all doubt,
pa, little chagrined to find that their worship
does not nee; as prompt payment as they demand
for ell such religious Difference. He has ventured
TO hint, rorever in their presence, and without
heir fear before his eyes, that be has Rights
well as the rest of the world and he makes no
s,rupie of asking them to recognize and respect
ibose rights. There is something in this to their
minds superlatively impudent, and their spleen
rses that foreigner should dream Of his rights,
in q land where Ike rights of all are respected
and secured. Still he perscveres in his procama-
ton of wrongs edressed-and they TOO in their
wrath. Their anger begets fear They know
that they making themselves ridiculous and
they suspect that he knows it too; and what is
.ill more alarming they are fearful ne will have
the boldness TO mention it-te tell the whole world
of ii, and lend them, moreyer his right powerful
and efficient aid in their undertaking. They nurse
their fears until they become surmises-then sus-
pcions; and finally they put on the garb Of bold
assertion: ard with one consent they all agree that
Boz is writing wofally savage book upon Amer
lea, that he means to demolish the Continent at a
blow and swallow all its animate creation for his
own annsement-by no means forgetting the tribe
of critics and all others who strove so hard, and
so pnsrcccssfuy withsl, to make themselves so
specially agreeable to him. So the fierce De-
mocratie" prepare for the blow. Awaiting the
book is reception far different from that which
greeted its author. Without knowing at all what
it was 10 be, its utter destruction was resolved
upon; and no sooner did it touch the shore than
some Of the more hungry of the rusful crew COM
menced the onset; and it has already teen de-
clsIed TO have been written for the express pur-
pose of defamng America and her institutions, to
have grown out of personal resentment, and to
concentrate all the malignity and stupidity that the
most woHder-working genius possibly crowd
into 80 small compass
We have read the book very carefully, and are
forced osay, in the face of all this stormy denun-
cianoD, that, so far as its tone toward this Coun-
Try is concerned, it is one Of the eery best ,corks
Of its class ace hare euer seen. There is not a
sentence in it which seems to have sprung from i'll
ord of MT.
tered for s own sake or in fault-finding spirit
the whole is calm, iudicious, gentlemanly, un-
exceptionable record Of what The writer saw-and
candid and CORRECT judgement of its worth and
its defects How writer could look upon the
broadly bazoned and applanded ISLANDERS of his
own land which abound in thls-how he could run
through the pages of TESTERS book-fled to the
margin with the gressest, most unfounded and il
liberal assaults upon all the institutions and the
social phases of Great Britain--and then write so
calmly of this country, with so manifest freedom
ifam passion and prejudice as Dickens has done,
sto W no slight marvel. That he has done it is
infinitely to his credit, and confirms US in the opin
ion we had long since formed of the soundness OF
his head and the goodness of his heart. So far as
cur space will permit propose to give some
hasty account of the book-thoush the extent of
It's circulation throughout the city has in slight
degree fores,alled our endeavor.
The first two chapters entitled Going
Away and The Passage Out they ore mainly
descriptive, and are strongly marked by that mi
nuteness of detail which always gives such exact
ness and life 10 his pictures. His description OF
sea.sickaess is more vivid than any other we have
ever read and not the most iuveterate weeping
philosopher, al least of modern times, could re-
fuse to iaugh-long and heartily-at the state OF
things on board the vesse-whch in his descrip-
tona ali their grotesque reality stand close before
him. Is no. this lively and perfectly accurate
picture of the performances of vessel in storm,
and Of the adicrous feeling Of confused astonish-
msnl with which passenger on first awakins be-
holds them all
:" 1t is the third morning. am awakened out
ofmy sleep by dismal shrek from my wife, who
demands To bnow whether there Is any danger.
reuse myself and look out of bed. The watering
spunging and leaping like lively dolphiR; all
the smaller articles are ahoat. except my shoes,
which are stranded on carpet bag, high and dry,
Ike couple of coalbarges. Suddenly see them
spriag into the air, and behold the looking lass,
wtlichis nailed 10 the WALL sticking fast upon the
ce.hng. At the time the door entirely dis
appears, and new one opens in the floor Then
begin 10 comprehend that the state-room is stand
los It's head.
Before 1t Is possible TO make any arrangement
at all compatible with this novel state of things,
the ship rights. Before one can sav .tTbank
Heaven she wrongs again. Before one can
cry she IS wrong she seems 10 have started for