New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-31

THE SOUTHERN LrrrE,EY NfsssSsEs. Vol VII W. >
flr NAY. l'i2 L. W White, Eiior and Proprietor
Redmond. Va.
The number Of tai, sterling work which ha. Just
reached u opens with a strong and shrcwd article
on Spain. wherein orr National bad habit Of IT,
prccia,ing the intelligence, literature. character
religion. morals and physical condition of the pro-
pie Of other nations i mos, Justly and ably chas-
used. Our addiction 10 rdsine Of such rco-
pie by the accounts Of rambling Adventures. who
run through country with no adequate means
IT becoming acquainted with it, real ~o1di-
ZION. material or Intellectual. who perhaps hayo
never been admitted TO an intimate frcsidc inter-
course with single family Of the better class, but
have picked up their impressions from their per
retual confac, with bar-roorn. and po.tillions. j..
also forcibly rcprchended. We CIV out against
such judgement Of our Country and people by for.
sign tourists. but We DO no, hesitate 10 adopt II
ourselves. Lieutenant Sldcll', Year In Spain
come. in for pretty thorough cxcoriation. Ih"
writer shows that there Is a very r,sueciabir
Spanish Literature of modern time although Lieut..
$. not being acquainted with any, reported TINT
there was none. He also shows good ground for
believing that the condition Of the Spanish People
moral and physical. !. not below that of the Eng
..h, and that the amount Of positive suffering from
want in Spain i, immea.uraby below that endured
in England This is a capital paper.
There are several good tales in this number Of
the Me,,enecr-' The Pa.ied Heart by the au-
dior Of Losing and Winning, etc. We Ike best,
though Love Sketches. by Miss Jane T. Lomax,
are very readable. The Hunchbnck, Pennsyl-
vania Story viii please different and harder
class being enlivened by stirring incidents of bor-
der warfare. Each i good Of It, kind
The History ofIhc knight, of Malta i, brought
down to the death OF LI,e Adam at the famou.
siege and capture Of Rhodes by Sultan soyman
the Magnificent in 1920.
Middle Church, by JohnC. McCabe, conducts
II, to one Of the Oldest place. of worship in this
country. in Mddcscx County, Va, near James
town. \ lonely and dapidated house Of PRAYER
surrounded by the crumbling memorials Of Death's
Dongs two centuries ago. seems hardly to belong
70 America
Ponce dc Leon and his romantic quest of the
Fountain of perpetual Youth, hi- adventures and
death in the land OF flowers inspire brief, IN
tcrcsing narrative
Two essays alone appear in Nc number; one on
Th. Value of College Reputation and the true
way cf laying the foundation for fame and useful
ness at College; and .ne on Mordern Fiction -
caustic fearless, and in the main just d--crta-
ton on recent novels, living noyellsts and the
Literature of the time Bulwcr fares better here
tam usual-bettcr than in the Critical Notices in
this very number; while Dickens, Lever and
Jane. are pretty accurately measured.
The Literary Notices of the Messenger quite
extensive though brief; that of Mr. Griswod's
3 Poets and Poetry of America Is liberal. candid.
and cmbodes much information in regard to the
theme a well as the work. While Mr.. &. 5 work
receives the discriminating but decided commend
alton Of such periodical. as the Messenger, We
think team afford to be d.parsged by such Jour
nals a. the Brother Jonathan.
We cannot close this notice without renewing
the expression OF our anxiety that the Messenger
should receive a generous measure Of public favor
and support which is Editor strives 50 assiduou,ly
and successfully to deserve. In times OF pecuniary
pressure and difficulty. there is danger that the
real if not the apparent patronage ct our best Pc
radical. will fall n, through the abstraction OF
their patrons thoughts well a funds to other
us... 1t speaks well for the indomitabie energy
n, well as capacity Of Mr. White that he has sus-
tanned work OF the high character OF the Mes
senger through more than seven years OF general
depression in a section OF the Union which never
before kept up work Of similar Pretensisns for
half that term. 1t ought ~ this tine to be firmly
established and profitable, and it, unmmitted
achievements give ii strong claim on the generous
.upport Of all IL whatever section of the Country
who feel Just interest and pride in the progress
Of our Literature.