New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-27
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
New Publications.


for all classes: Edited by JOHN SAUNDERS. London.
HowrrT's JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND POPULAR Pao-
eRyss Edited by WILLIAM and MARY HowIrT.
The appearance Of these two able periodicals,
conducted by some ofthe leading minds of the day,
both having the same interests and advocating the
same object the elevation of the masses of the peo
pie is of the most significant signs Of the times
With all reverence for the Past we believe that the
present age IL distinguished by the existence of spirit
which has characterized former period in the history
Of the world In of the journals In question Misc
Nar,nesu in her Survey from the Pyramid land 1t
would seem little In its shadow says:
ave are apt 10 oveuste the Importance OF our own
times our own work our own experience. This struck
powerfully the other day when standing on the
highest stone Of the top of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
The present famine In Ireland and trying Winter in Eng
land seem naturally enough 10 those In full view or ex
perience Of them the most important events that can
happen In the world but 1t s worth while TO look back
to the fsmines which occurred Ia this Eastern part of
the world several thousands Of years ago and see if any
thing could be important than their causes and
their consequence
We readily copcede that the famine of the past year
In Ireland may have been exceeded In severity by those
Of former times but whenever before did such calam.
ity call forth the spontaneous and universal sympathy of
a foreign nson-such sympathy that which has thrill
ed the hearts Of the American People from end of
tona ships their messages of mercy and Of love- Ia
den with the abundance of soil and moved even the
heart of the semi barbarous sutsn Of Turkey She says
sgsn;
We vain of the enlightenment of our age
think that knowledge il almost all new and that
able to do things by steam electricity. the eles
cope and the printing press, which before
dreamed of by man survey of the Past from the
heart OF Egypt may show us whether this is true and
perhsps sober our views In regard 10 our attain
.rA - az. u.
the building Of the great Pyramid could be- done
with all our boasts of our modern resources"
II Is certainly true that We hovs done things in this
sge which were never before dreamed Of by man and
II Pyramids have not been built the reason doubtless is
to be found Ia the fact that have had no occasion or
for them and the spirit that has grdled the
earth with the magnetic telegraph made the Atlantic
highway for steamships and discovered planets by in
dUeton; that has multiplied to infn,y the conceptions
Of genius by prints and books and placed them within
be reach of the millions will be equal the exigency
when the spirit of the times shall demand the coDsruc
bon Of such colossal orks the pyramids Of Egypt
That the masses Of men at the present day very
little in advance of those of antiquity, is undenisbly
true But it is not from the masses it 10 from ndivdu
ais that the spark has emansted which will yet be cuff
GENTLY intense to kDdle end umine the world. Above
sgOsm and patriotism on the broad basis of phisnthro
Christianity The sArs 10 stand and with the slpowerfu
lever of Christian love the world will yet be moved
least such ia the creed of few spirits of the present
dsy-,he fororn hope of Humanity who desperate
ly against existing wrong and evil and who believe the
golden age Is Jet to come. Such the writer's of
the Journals speak Of which though hopeful in their
tone, manifest no undue enthusiasm.
We should regret that the Misunderstanding between
Mr. Hewitt and the publisher of the Peoples Journal |
which resulted In Mr. and Mrs Howitts retiring from
that periodical and establishing one separately them
selves II not that by this the circle of nhu
ence will be greatly widened. These volumes illus
rsied with fne woodcuts the subjects well chosen and
well executed These Journals both to be found at
the bookstore of C. :. Francis g. Co.
TRAcrs ron THE NEw TINES No. II. SorEScR FOR /
ALL. New-York; John Allen, pp 80.
This pamphlet is by that profound thinker and |
able writer, JAMES JOIN GARTH WILKINSON, the well |
Known translator OF swedenborg's gress works Ply
sioogy. 1t aims TO show the method by which know
edge In the Sciences may be universally acquired and
made easy retain in the mind The treatment of the
subject lie original and striking, and commend the
essay to the attention Of the thoughtful The following
reply to tho usual geological argument In relation to
the time employed in bringing earth Its present
physical maturity Is ingenious
According to this science (and have wish to speak
with dsrespect OF branch of knowledge
full and rich In facts) It 10 difficult assign too long
Duration to the existence OF the planet Once eman
cps,ed from the literally of Genesis II delights to heap
millions upon millions Of years. as though time were
mere abstraction, and cost science nothing and by |
number Of watermsrks and deposits 1t fixes the epoch
OF the world with knowing air If IL judy
ing OF horses age by his teeth. A
therefore they would require the time in the
lest ages OF the world such ia the pos,ustum Of &C.
oogy How would this logic look If We were to try 1t
upon any OF those series OF which we know both the
beginning and the end and where, if commit \
error We have the advantage OF detecting IL Let US
make an experiment Of the kind with human being
with youth OF twenty years old Now the problem shall
b. 70 End his age from his hight giving hight of his
bat years growth at half inch We will suppose for
he sake Of round number that he is six feet high
Proceeding then, the simplistic Law, that the last
nent and not merely that part of the which sp-
pies between the years OF 10 and % have only to
say BY the rule OF three, that If he grows half inch
70 one year, be will grow 70 inches, ak feet In IA
years whence IL turns out that the youth of 20 ought
u science, 70 be more than times 20. Surprising
yam that he grows quarter of an inch between 20 and
a. the same method will prove that instead of having
merely reached his majority he has s,sined the pa
riarchsl Of 2SS years If we taxa hin, hetyosn 81
ND ~ the proosoh,y Is that We shall find no increase
all and in strict keeping with geological logic
We may now infer whist many philosopher has nor
hetaed q infer Of the worldly that our Youth Il non
oily older than the Wandering Jew but poin, of fact
70
EGYPT. ARABIA PErRAA, AND rHR Holy LAND.
Journal Of Travels during ls4l-2 BY DAVID Nil.
LARD, Prof of Biblical Antiquities. &c Q2mo pp.
3ss) Third Edition, NewYork Published by j.
q Hsmn. 1914 Ludlow-st
This is a work of merit, and il is pity il was
not Issued IN better style. However have the sub
'anee and very readable substance 1t Is. The main
'oes OF the authors journey the recovery Of his
ne1'a much leisure in consequence, at his dispo
VI and he appears have turned il good advantage
ne whole work 10 the result, Of personal observation,
ma a. 'sch, 1t is interesting.
'Aeoi Narrative Of Adventures In the South Seas '
ny hkssAs MxLvILLE, author Of "Typee." Q2mo
p Sss New-iork Harper Brothers. Lon
aon; John Murray
in" peculiar and interesting work, written in
unusually free sndeasy manner and possessing. the
.'u 0' carrying the reader along with IT, The ARA.
: aeeesssriiy begins where Typee' ended bat has
y N'oer connection with the latter work. We say
begins for the author. adventu ga AZ, stated
=" own Introduction only shifted Themselves from
peasant captivity among the nasves IN the valley of
yPSc 70 the SOcety IslaDis fhrou.h ! n