New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-16
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
MI0ore'- Poems

THE POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS MOORE
Complete in One Volume Illustrated with En-.
cravings. from Drawings by Eminent Artists, Royal
svo. PIP. 1919 D. Appleton and Co. 200 Broadway.
TON MooRE's genius hickcrs in its socket--yet a
fresh novel act of Tyranny or Bigotry may be so
aagrant as 70 sting him TO the production OF a
scathing pasquinade, at which Tor its victims the
world cannot help roaring despite on creeJs pol
itics We doubt whether the man lives who has
done more to undermine and destroy the giant fab
nc OF British aristocracy and Inispovernment than
he has To expose TO intense scon or derisior
crafty Knavery, leaden Bigotry and sleek Rapaci-
" in Church and State has been the labor of his
hfe-a labor Of love, truly bat OF some selfdenial
and selfsacrifice withal; and when the day shall
have arrived that his native Isle ma rejoice in
her enfranchisement from despotic ard blighting
Foreign domnaton-when her people may live
and labor for themselves and each other instead OF
being plundered and starved by an absentee Arts
tocracy and an IN Christian detested Church Es-
adjustment, she will in. gratitude erect monu-
ment toRhomas Moore at least as stately and en-
during as that in which she testies her grateful
regard f0r him whom she already recognizes as her
Liberator
Moore's genius has not been fairly appreciated
Many of his earliest Poems were licentious in their
tendency, and justly exposed him to a prejudice
from which he has never recovered. The most OBJ
ectionabIe of these illusions Of his thoughtcss
and reckless youth have been we believc omitted
from this edition though many Of those retained
are of at best questionable tendency Educated
or rather, uneducated-as ninetenths of
youth still are, there is peril TO their moral puri
" to their enduring welfare, III whatever tends to
induce premature development of amatory pas
whatever depicts. however truly the asci
nations OF Love free rs air and gives no full i'm
pressiyc warning of the and degradntions to
which it inevitably tends We could have wished
that many OF the Songs retained in this edition
had al least been printed separately IN an Appen-
dix, SO that none would have read them but those
who>delberately chose to do so. We apprchcnd
that in default of this, this volume Will fail of at
tanning place onmany center tables. where Lalla
Rookl, The Epcurean etc. have long been
treasured,
Apart from these, Moore is u true Poet-one
of the richest Humorisis OF our agc--and better
still, warln.he arted fearless hater OF Oppression
and Wrong and lover Of all Humankind Nearly
everything he has written tends directly TO the
sertlon OF the Right the upraising OF the Lowry the
exposure OF Cant and Grcediness to mockcry and
contempt He has done the Race good service in
his day and generation-enough we trust to far
outweigh the dement, OF the pernicous eiiusions
Of his fervid and crrine youth
To hope to present anything from this volume
not already familiar to most general readers would
be futile we therefore discard it, and extract
one of his best cxpositons OF the absurdity-nay,
the atrocous robbcry-ol the Established Church in
Ireland adding the clever take. oil of the Divine
Right of Kings which given in Of his
Fables for the Holy Alliance. These must con
tent Tor the present
nREAM OLE IIINnOSrAN