New-York daily tribune., 1845-02-01

tIe corpse, or, IKE mat Ol DdILtC. W eIiAeit6iL
the intellect merely Earnestly he hopes 10 learn
from it the remedies for disease and She conditions
of health. Sue is Socialist. He believes he
secs The means by which the heart of mankind
may be mace 70 beat with enc great hope, one
love; end instinct with ,tiis ;houyhf, his tales of
horror are not tragedies.
This is the secret of The deep interest ho has
awakened in This country thst he shares a hope
which is, half unconsciously to herself, stirring
all her veins. II IS not 50 warmly ont spokenes
in other lands, beth because no such pervasi7e
Ills as yet yet call loudly for redress, and because
private conservatism is here great, in proportion
to the absence of authorized desPotism "e are
not disposed to quarrel with this it IS we'll for
the value Of new thoughts to be tested by a go1d
deal of resistance. Opposition, il IL does NOT
preclude free discussion, Is Of use in educating
men TO know what they want. Only By iDtel-
gent men, exercised by thought and tried in viz
tue can such measures as Sue proposes De carried
out; and when such Associates PRESENT themselves
in sufficient numbers, we have no fear but the
cause of Association, in its grender forms, "ill
have fair play in America.
AS 4 writer, Sue shows his want Of a high
kind of Imagination by his unshrinking portrait
urc of PHYSICAL horrors. %e DO rot believe any
mar could look upon some things he describes
and live. He is very powerful in his description
of the workings of animal nature; especially
when he speaks OF them IN animals merely, they
have the simplicity OF the lower kind with the
more full expression OF human nature. His pie
lures of women are of rare excellence, and It is
Observable that the more simple and pure the
character Is, the more justice he does to it. This
his heart is uocontaminated. Men ho does not
describe so well, and fails entirely when ne aims
al one grand and simple enough for great
moral agent. His conceptions are strong, but
in execution he is too meodramatic. Just coiB-
pare his " Wandering Jew" with tha,of Berenger
The latter ia as diamond compared with charcoal.
Then, Ike all those writers VINO write 10 num-
bers that come out weekly or monthly, he abuses
himself and his subject; he often must; the al
rangcment s false and mechanical.
The attitude Of Sue is at this moment imposing.
as be staGds pen in hand-this his only weapon
against an innumerable host OF foes, the cham
pion Of poyerly, innocence and humanity, against
superstition, seifishuess and prejudice. Whtn his
works are forgotten, and for all their strong ppas
and brilliant decorations, they may ere long be
forgotten, still the writer's name shall be held
in impe,ishahle honor as the teacher of the gro
rant, the guardian Of the weak, true Tribune
for the people Of his own time.
To sum up this imperfect account of then mer-
ils, see De Vigpy. retiring figure, the ger
tlemar the solitary thinker, but, in his way, the
efficient foe Of false honor, and supe!sttious PIE
ludce. Balzac is the heartless surgeon, probing
the wounds and describing the deIirum Of suffer
ing men for the amusement of his students Sand
grand, fertile, aspiring, but, in some measure
distorted and Irregular nature. Sue bold and
glittering crusader, with endless ballads lnglng
in the silence Of the night before the battle They
are much right and good deal wrong; for
instance, all, even Sand, who would Iav down her
life for the sake of truth, will let their vrtuous
characters practice si'atagems, lalsehood, and vi
olence; in fact, do evil for the sake of good They
still show this taut of the old regime, and Won
der La belle France has worn rouge so long
that the purest mountain air will not at once, or
soon, restore tho natural hues to her complexion.
But they fins figures, and all ruled by the on.
| ward spirit OF the time. Led by that spirit, see
them moving on the troubled waters they do not
sink, and trust they will find their way to the
coasts where the new era will introduce new me-
thods, in spirit OF nobler activity, wiser patience
| and holier faith than the wo'ld has yet seen.
Will Balzac also see that shore, or has he only
! broken away the bars that hindercd others from
setting sail We do not know. When we read an
expression OF such lovely innocence as the letter
Of The little country maidens to their Parisiau
brother lin Father GoroO, we hope but present
ly we see him sneering behind the mask, end We
fear. Let Frenchmen speak to this They know
best what disadvantages Frenchman suffers
under, and whether it is possible Balzac be still
alive, except in his eyes. Those, we know, are
well alive.
To read those or any foreign works fairly, the
reader must understand the national circuni.
stances under which they were written. To use
them worthily, he must know how 10 interpret
| them for the use Of the Universe. X
BEAUTIFUL BOOKS FOR The YouSG -Messrs
Lspe Il rippsit OF ths Methodist Book Concern in
this City, have recently published in tho convenient
and popular handbook style, which for some time
past has been SO popular in England, series Of
beautiful little works on Natural History, the titles
of which The Honey Bee, The Spider, The
Ant rhs Fly. The Flower, The Egg, The Nest
&c. &c. We believe they are all reprints from
London editions, carefully revised, however, by
Rev d. P. KipDgn, The Editor Of the Juvenile ard
Sunday School Department Of lhs; concern. The
same publishers have also just published, in the
same nea, style, The Jew among all Nations, We
are Seven, Kingdom OF Heaven smcng Children,
Anna the Prophecies, Forty two Children, Ananias
and Sophia, &c. These Iittle books may safely be
nj aced in the hands of children or youiil-lhev are