New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-17
,w-yoRg. FRIDAY MORNING, rsARCH ~, 1915.

and wept, offended and been rccoaciled. kne"
not-how could l Ito be within the ranse OF the
farfying and far-fstching spirit of love, whica Is
the ie-oflie OF all things beneath the sun, moon
and stars
Do We ken sir very naturally asks the poet,
when De Quincy stops, that love TO hear We
speak far best ava when YOU lay aside your logic
But we have exhausted our utmost limits, and
must conclude Extracts. The book is full OF
passages Of equal power and beauty with those we
have cucied almost ar random; introduced too,
into ca ua conversations which lends them spright-
illness and yivacity, which quite lost by their
detached citation. The cooQuial style is pre-
served throughout, and the dialogue is maintained
with unsurpassed bri!Iisncy and ability froG the
first volume to the last Each man speaks in his
own proper character, and throughout the whole
no-one seems 70 say that which might more prop
erly have been uttered By another. The lefty I'M
aginaton and nervous strength of the OPlUa EAT
Err, she discursive and unsracetuI, but most brill
liant and exuberaut genius of the SHEPHERD, the
pointed and kecnsigh GIFTED bitterness of llcKLER,
the learned and ddactic criticism of opoHERTY.
the snappish and sharp wit of JEFFREY, aud the
magisterinl dignity of NORTH himself, are carried
into every chapter of the Notes, and wrought out
with the ability and skill of the most successful
draInatist We are sorry we are unable to cite
some of the Songs which were sung, and the Poems
rected in that goodly company, for many OF them
are of rare brilliancy and polish.
Among the criticisms scattered throughou the
work, our eye fell upon the name of MAcAuLAY,
which frequently occurs, and the admirers OF this
brilliant writer will be interested in Witnessing the
blows he now and then receives. Macaulay tie
view of Cookers Edition of Boswelts Lite OF
Johnson, is one of his most celebrated papers
marked apparently By the most dilisent research
into the minute of dates and names, whereby
he seems to convict Croker of the most unpardon-
able ignorance, and by vigor of vituperation un-
usual even with him. johnson, says he, was
man of whom the best biography ever written
in any age, or in any country, has been written by
the greatest fool who ever wrote biography ana
which same biography has now again been edited
by ,he merit greatest fool of however distinguished
namo in letters and in the affairs of State lhose'
BY the way, who complain of the personalities OF
the Noctcs should call most vocferously tor an
Expurgated Edition of Macaulay's Miscelianles
for no writer of English hus ever been more
indignantly or brutaly personal than he. Near
the opcniag of the fourth volume of the Noctes
ia an extended conversation upon this article, IN
which NORTH ouidees Macaulay in the nicely and
diligence of his Investigations, and coavcts hlm
of complete as well as most lmpudent ignorance
with regard to almost every one OF those minute
points for which he SO bitterly maligns Croker. 1t
is capital reply and will we'll repay attention.
The whole book is feast of the choicest sort
whereat men of oil tastes may be gratlied, and
none need go away unpleased, save those who have
M taste Mt all. Portions of it have lost msch OF
the interest they had when first written; but even
these will be read for the vvacity and sturdy sense
they manifest, and at all events will most realty
be pardoned for the sake of the rest. The publ
cation is an enterprise eminently deserving public
support; and this, we doubt not, 1t will receive
for Notwithstanding the vast amount of literary mat
Ter continually issued from the press, general read
ers of taste and discernmenr-to adopt pun cited
by the book itself,
Non po.susr SINE NoCTIBUs FtAcERE'