Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS

Mcssrs. Smith, Drnker s. Morri, have done u,
the favour TO place upon our table tho folio in
very pretty publications The first Of them has
local propriety. The salAnt Captain i, welcom,
homo to his own la nd.
"7ie .7drtnIurss Of Captain JOAN Smith. founder
OF the colony OF Virginia.: By the author 81
"Uneic Philips Conversations ~"
This is a very pretty little volume, giving the
romantic history OF this adventurous soldier in al
parts Of the world. and especially his hazardou,
deeds, in settling the plantation of Virginia. tale
than which few true ones prct,isr. Let gu,
Northern friends rejoiee as much they please in
their sour-taced proseni,ors, their 'pilgrim foun
ders": give US the brave, rough, but kindly Cap
tain. who slew three Turks a, single combat, tho
SaI-for he killed them, one down and another
come on) for the glory of Chris,endou, in less
tine than il would have taken the Pilgrims afore :
said to say many sraees. And then wha, ano
Their founder tbs courtiy, the able, the intrepid
Ra'eigh, no, more accomplished in every thing be
longing to Arms, thaa profound a scholar, tender
as poet. and ali to seal it all, most unhappy in
the close Of his Ill Quilted career, We could
spare founder to other States. but tina, really to
part with either Captain Smith or Sir Walter is n
thing impossible.
"Da,sniHg, Of Gtnin, or the early lives OF
some eminent persons OF the last century" By Ann
| Pratt.
This little collection embraces the youthful his
! tory of Sir Humphty D,vy. Crabbe the poet, the
great Cuvier, Sir J 1shua Reynolds Lindley Muir.
ray (who's in better company than he should be, !
Sir James Maekn:osh (who is much of humbug. J
and Adam Clarke. the Commentator on the Bible.
As instances Of men vanquishing carly adversely
and rising, by the irresistible force Of perseverng
labor and love Of letters. TO distinction and success
they are very we'll chosen. Better examples, in
time OF peace, cannot be &c, before the young, to
animate thom to the pursui, of knowledge.
These t~overy and tastefuiy executed
| volumes form part OF series entitled Library for
my young COnni'ymsa." IL is superintendent in its
compilation, Ivy the author of Uncle Philips Con-
vetsativLs'-a SOFT Of haf-brother to MIR Peter
Farley. bu: apparently not quito as great babblor
as that renowned parsonage.
The volumes have each a very pretty fronti.-
piece, which, however, as they are intended for
boys, not girls, might have been spared. For tina,
sex, we love such hnery. It's amour, had bet CT
have b,en laid out in authorship than engraving.
"WOrk and Wages, or life in service;" con,inu.
alton Of "Much Coin, much Care" By Mary
Hewitt.
This little volume, executed and embellisheC
much like the two preceding, forms par, of a sc
of IS volumes, designed a cheap common Schoo
Library, serviceably bound, and put Up in q nen
case.
II is (as might be collected from the ti,'e) a toll
OF humble life; but only the filter, for tina, reason
to afford practical examples for those Tor whom i
Is intended. Tho aLshor il one OF those quake
writer's. whose amiable productions ate already
widely known. she is to England very muel
what Miss Sedg wick is to this eOuntry-a sensible
simple, engaging, and (what the Age moro than al
delights in, the more centious it srows) a highly
moral writer, oil whose hcIons have what is calet
'Ihe very bes. moral tendency"
For our part, we must confess ourselves ono o
those very peUerso people, who think tina. youns
folks ge, Sermons enough, when they ore made Il
60 TO Church once week; that Morality may b.
rather overdons; that, like otter physic. j, SHOULD
no; he inflicted upon ltlle people from morning 4
night, but when they need it seriously. Constnn
dosing with il destroys the effect and weakens IN
stomach and the body. Let children live in SOM
psace from your eternal ndmonitions, whipping
them soundly when they do any thing particularly
naughty. They'll be all the better for not bein:
too early good. as all the stronger minded for no
being too carly wise. Pay don't porsseuts thi
poor little wretehes into premature pehection.-
Their greater faults repress; their lesser viii
cure themselves, If you'Il only give them time
Bu, don't hurry them into knowledge and Virtue
before they are capable Of them, and break dowr
their poor Little minds, by everlasting them. Thi
is the great error to which the presen, rrge for in
tellocsual, moral and religious cultivation tends.
As for Stories, and especially these very mora
ones, NC doubt their benefits. Where the mora
is constantly ineuelieJ tfails, teeNuse the thin:
grows a lecture rather than an entertaining tale
Bot Fiction is not the thing s purpose is 10
Certainly, tho little which you suFsr the young Il
riot in, should be rather moral than the contrary
but il is Truth, Human Action itself, History-no
is poor counterfeit, FieIion-thst must give tn
great, the use fu the real lessons. OF that tbil
dren get almost nothing and waste their time on
sophs,icato their feelings over frivolous falsehoo6
and dull mofalilies.
Gems from Amsriean Poels."-Thi1 very prelll
little volume is one OF series printed in INIT
ton Of that ofrili, London, as part Of a Minatur
Clas ical Library. II eomprehonds Thompson
Seasons, Hannah Moore's Private Devotion,
: Clatke's Scripture Promises, GoldsmilLs Essoyi
his Wear OF Wakefield, Johnson'S Rassens Mad
anne Couih's EKilss Of Siberia, st. Pisue's Pau
and Virginia, and some other such iavOuritsS. A
these, tho quite lsgble, are OF about the bulk Of
needle case and the whole collection would z
into Dressing. box. A young lady might take on
hall OF Il in her reticglo, upon morning visit.