New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-07-04
THE TRIBUNE.
Aitcrarp Notlres.

4 Literary Notices.
publishers who send us their publications for crtica
o will confer especial favor by emitting the chifosFs
hsy often lavish upon the blank pages 1t always ser
4, deaces the book and certainly fails, in our eyes Il
-. TO add TO its value An accompanying note VIII an
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-ss DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, July, lSi3. Ne" 1oiA' -
II. 6 Langley, 81 Chatham street. DIV
4 aThe Sandwich Islands," which, since lheil
- tsmpore seizure by the British, have formed
asleading article of almost every daily, weekly
i monthly journal in the country, DO duty this
10Th in the Democratic. The article relates to
{ history of the Islands, the progress OF Ame-
IAN Missions there, their recent seizure and the
.,+.ude which the q. S. Government have as
,ned with regard to their national lndcpend-
40 Mr.. BRowNsoN contributes powerful pa
=, on the Present State of soclety-based on
r,,,yrr,s latest work, which Mr.. B. deems ode
.;ied!y the best he has yet given u.s." The review
written much in the spirit of the book and sets
NTH the same evils in almost as forclblc Ian
mace. MIR. Brownson always enters heartily IN
st6e spirit of whatever subject he studies, and
i. earnest sincerity, his decided adherence, at
b.s, for the time. to what he deems the truth,
,.unot fail TO command respect even when his
,,runent and eloquence do not produce convic-
ion. Many of his old admirers may be surpr-
ed 10 find in this article the opinion that the
meat mass of the European population were much
letter provided for in the period when Fcudalism
and the Catholic Church were in their greatest
gory-that is between the tenth and fourteenth
anturies-than they have been at any other time.
The downfall of the Nobility with Fcduallsm,
the weakening of the Church, the Revival Of
Letters as it is usually called, and the Invention
Of Printing arc all spoken Of by Mr.. Brownson
IN style far enough removed from that llnmodc-
rste glorifcation they usually receive. In ndlca-
inr the remedies for the evils which, in his view,
affect society, Mr.. Brownson uses the following
language which will be understood by many per-
sns TO evince the partiality, which he Is sad
elsewhere to have manifested quite as strongly,
ir the doctrines and organization of the Roman
Catholic Church,
@We would also see revived in all its medlGral
force and activity the Christian Faith, and, as the
Interpreter of that Faith, the Christian Church
one and ndivisible; the ground and pillar OF the
truth clothed with the authority which OF right
belongs to it !: and enjoying and exercising DIS
cipLne on high and low, rich and poor, as elective
as that of the Middle Ages, but modified to meet
The new wants and relations OF Christendom."
Horaho Greenough known as an American
Artist Of great merit, furnishes brief paper on
American Art, and HAWTHORNE contributes
btiei, simple, and touching tale, wholly fact, en-
tiled The Two Widows Laurette, or the
Red Seal and Ernest Steiner arc the titles oil
two stories, and the author of Charcoal Sketch
es contributes charcoal sketch of the News
boy.
a'The Lay Of the Land y is the title Of the po-
ltcal article, written for the especial cdtlcatlon
of John Tyler. The Wings have been accused
Of treating this functionary with harshness, but
they have rarely reached the hight Of vitupsra-
ton from which thisDemocratic Reviewer casts
birds eye glance over The Lay of the Land
Hebegins by saying, plainly enough, certainly,
that
"Thc spectacle presented at Washington is GER
ainly-(we hate the coarse word, but 1t must
out us certainly the most disgusting ever yet
exhibited by an administration of our federal gov
eminent, 1t is almost enough to turn the sto-
mach OF an honest man, be he Democrat or Wing.
Such imbeciGty and such conceit-such feeble
ness and such petty activity of small intrigue
such pretcnsion Of purity and such shamelessness
OF political venalty-such aflectation Of indie
pendent dignity, and such fawning for the scorn-
July refused favor of a great and noble party,
whose smiles are never to be propitiated by such
men and such means