New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-01
THE TRlBU NE.
Iiterarp Notices.

ENGLAND IL 1882; BY FREDERICK Vos RAuMEs PIoies,
of History at The Univsrsily OF Berlin II Irans ans .ea
fiom the German By II. Exams LLoTp. In Two vol
urnes London, ohm Lee, 40 Strand: New YORK, WI
ley Putnam.
.e In dag when it is not easy to find book oil
travels written in spirit of ca ndor, the one be-
fore US has much to recommend it. No travellers
book is now deemed of any value unless in aadi-
tion TO what the writer sac, it tells what he
thought of IL: every thing which he meets is not
only TO be described but criticised. The tourist
must not only giveus pleasant and profitable ac-
count of The country through which he Journeys,
nut must also discuss all its nstitutions-lit-
erary, political and social. If this could always
be fairly and ably done it would be we'll; but the
natural tendency ard the actual result, of the sys-
tenn has been TO make books Of travels merely
media for contrasting the character of foreign
country with that Of the writer's own--which is
always assumed to be the standard of perfection.
Tbus if an American travels in England and has
the audacity to see any thing but starving Char
lists, rods of iron in the hands of cast-iron
rulers, worth trodden under the heel of want, fac
tory children crucified for the amusement of their
employers, and such like enormities in which the
Sea-girt Isle is presumed to abound, he is os,ra-
cised al honle-if perchance he is not hung up in
critical chains terror TO those who may come
after hin, in all time to come. On the other hand
il an Englishman ventures in the least degree to
praise any thing American-unless some small
cloud, no bigger, perchance, than a mans hand
5 shuts from his vision the whole 6rmament with
all its stars-he is assailed with boundless rancor
at home. though to be sure, he has apolbeosis and
thu. amends, in the land he praises. Books of
travels have thus become in a great degrce--far
greater than they should be-mere bundles of pre-
judice-of national pride and national hatred of
every body but the writer's own people.
It Prof VoS RAsmER's England is not Of this
Glass, and therefore it deserves small admira-
ion But, cn the other hand, it is far more
mon place than should have expected from
German Professor, and contains far less ins,ruc-
ton than might reasonably have looked for
The letters of which it is composed were evident
" hasty records of superficial impressions and
though lie attempts to criticse, he does it with
Is great skill power. AS we Dtnated, however,
b he never dogmatzes-and this negative excellence
s the chief comnendable feature of his work.
{ The frsl volume is occupied mainly with informa
lion Concerning the then prevailing topics of dis
cussoa n Parliament and throughout the king
dom-Schoos, Poor.laws, Tariff, Commerce, Sc
&C.; and many valuable statistics concerning each
Of these departments presented Principles,
however are left entirely untouched. The Uni
yersilies arc made the subject Of very brief
4 and imperfect letter; the number of professors
and students in them, however, is given as follows:
$50 Prot Stud, Prot. Stud.
o1iord ........S2 500 Glasgow. w........2l 1900
Cambridge .....49 1850 Aberdeen. ...2S $50
Dublin .........29 800 ST Andrew,....I3 500
Edinburgh ..... so 2,3po
English Newspapers are briefly alluded to, but
only in the way of statistical account. From
the statements given we make up the following
table OF the number of newspapers published in
the year 1886, with the stamp duties paid upon
them:
N4a6er. Duty.
London, ooo
English Counties, .......2o7 62oW
Ireland, ................. H....-........... 5000
Total .45s f26ooc
In the month of July, ls40, there were stamp.
ed Of the
27coo Morning Post, ..... o5oeo
Herald, (GlaSgow,). sc. 900 Herald 900
Courier,.............. 42,O0e Chronicle. 1896 600
Mercury eeds,).. 45ooe Northern STAR. 2sS 5 ooo
Globe. 72oGo Times 10000
Nobody in England can publish new journal
without giving formal notice to the stamp Office.
Every sheet pays duty-a penny when the page