New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-27

and harvested oats. but now nc mus h!Hselt
too inGrm to labor, though he thinks he could
walk twenty miles in day by starting earty.
He has evidently been q very muscular man
Altbouph not large, his frame is ono OF great
nower He boasts of "the strength OF former
wears Nine years ago, he says, be lifted bar
rel of rum into wagon with ease. HIS night IS
about five feet ten inches, with m expansive
chest and broad shoulders He walks somewhat
bent. but with as much vigor as many almost halt
century younger His eye is usually some what
dim but. when excited by the recollection OF his
mast eyentful life, it wrinkles and rolls IN its
socket with remarkable activity. his memory oil
recent events is not retentye, while the stirring
scenes through which ne passed in his youth APP
pear TO be mapped out upon his mind IN n, uhtaoil5
coIors. He is fond of martial music The drum
andTffe of the recruiting service ne says, "daily
mt new life into him" In fact, he says, It's
The sweetest music in the world. There's some
sepse in the drum, and fife, aud bugle but these
pianos and other such trash cant stand 1t.
MANY wears ago he was troubled with parnai
deafness his sight also failed him somewhat and
he was compelled to use glasses VI late years
both hearing and sight have returned to HIM as
perfectly as he ever possessed them. de Is play
ful and cheerful in his disposition have seen cen
him. says my informant - TER hours upon the
aide walk with the little children entering with
uncommon zest into their childish pastimes he
relishes q Joke, and often INDUCES In cracking
one himself "
At a public meeting, in the Sumner OF 1915, OF
those opposed to the extension OF slavery, Mr.
Kinnison took the stand and addressed the audl-
once with marked effect He declared that the
foneht for the freedom of ALL that freedom
oueht to be given to the 9" black boys, and closed
by exhortng his audience to do all III their power
to ABOLISH SLAVERY.
III EsoPs FABLES" translated by hey
THOMAS JAMES, is published in splendidly llluS-
trated edition, by Robert B. Collins. The present
Editor cornbats the opinion that the greater part
Of the existing fables ascribed to Hsop are the
composition of monks Of the middle ages, although
he does not pretend to bring forward this volume
as the genuine words of Esop There Is 70 rea-
son to believe that his fables were committed to
writing by the author himself Indeed the date
of his life and the nature Of his composition alike
forbid the idea The true state of the case seems
| to be as follows 4Ecop was one Of the earliest
! and most successful who used this kind OF apo
logue as the medium of instruction. His stories
being pointed and popular, soon passed from mouth
! to mouth, and then descended from generation to
generations with such verbal changes as are lnsep-
! cradle from oral narrative. In process OF time
writers as well speakers, adopting the general
outline of the fable clothed it in their own words;
while vario US good things of the kind floating on
the surface of society were stamped with the
name of the great master in this kind OF compost
ton The fables of Esop were undoubtedly pop
ular with the Alberians; they are constantly re-
ferred to in the works of the best Greek authors
Socrates turned them into verse, while in prison
Denetrius Phclereas and others followed in the
same course; and at length, we find them repro
duced in the Greek choambics Of Bolivius,
and the Latin cambics of Phaedras. These are
the sources of most of the present fables. The
editor of this volume has endeavored to restore
the text to more genuine form, than that in
which it is usually found in modern times. In
some sense, accordingly, his work claims to be an
original production. Apart from its interest, in
this respect it is embellished with great num-
Der of admirable illustrations from designs by Ten
mel, making beautiful New Years present for a
young person.
F-vye 1.-THE HALF CENTURY" by EMERSON
DAVIS, DID. processes to give history OF changes
that have taken place and events that have trans
pired chiefly in the United States between 500
and 1850 1t is arranged under the heads OF Poll-
tics, Education, Charitable Institutions, Moral
Reformation Means Of INSTRUMENTATION, Pro
|
lures, Christian Benevoence Religious Contro-
versies and Sects, and Miscellaneous Though
crude and superficial in its PLAN and showing
marks of haste and negligence IN its execution,
it exhibits many curious facts, which are worth
calling to remembrance at this pivotal epoch in
chronology We perceive from the Introduction
that the author agrees with us on the moot ques-
ton whether the present year is the close or the
commencement Of era of fifty years. The
same point was agitated toward the close of the
last century
The question was gravey discussed at the com.
mencement of the present year. (l65O,l whether
this is the last of the first half the first of the
last half OF the nineteenth century. Many main.
tanned that the half century was complete at the
end Of l849 and few centennial sermons were
then preached For time there was reason to
fear that all the enthusiasm which the completion
of half century eXcites would be used up before
the set time for the appearance of this volume
had arrived. There was similar discussion at
the close OF l799 many supposed the eighteenth
century was then complete, and that the year
1900 was the beginning Of new century. On
the LIST OF January, 1901, an editor OF a newspaper
said, -
The eighteenth century TOOK Its flight
Full many calculating head
Has racked its brains, its ink has shed,
To prove by metaphysics fine,
hundred means but nnetyninc;
While al their wisdom others wondered,
But took make hundred"
limo, PIP. AL Boston; Tappan Whittemore.)
Ess THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD by ELIZA,
BETH WETHERELL, is regular built novel in two
Volumes the principal interest of which consists
in it's lively pictures of domestic and rural life
The most prominent characters in the plot are sus-
tanned with uncommon talent for graphic indvd.
ualization, the few exaggerated touches that are
thrown in, serving to impress them indebly on
the memory without destroying their naturalness
The construction of the story, as whole, displays
little fertility or truthfnlness Of i'm tion the