New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-17

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Mr. foorEs motion for Select Commit
BE- ~ Thirteen ua~ made the special order
for halfpat twelve today. after some uu.m-
portaut conversation Tine Senate seems ia
n great hurry amy moro than the House rs.
gitcTnfuIe and 5ifC.
g. not many years since the Mercantile
Lbar, Association was conyul.cd rs d.
st,uggl. profitable to IT, bat costly To- many
offs members turning on tho propricty Of
excluding vo,Le o5 fc'ioa from future pur-
chase forit- rerlcui~mont Precisely what
definition was intended TO Zee given 70 the
pbm,e vmksof fiction va, Tot stated bui
w presume Bonym. Pilgrim, Progrc--
Millions Paradise h.. ml the Parallels Of
Chri.t wore not among tee work, marked
for prescription had the anti fiction party
prevailed, as it happened not TO do.
stu. the distinction between books Of a
wholesome and those OLA pcuieiou, cbmao-
ter is badly drawn and badl! comprcheudcd
by great numbers and We propose to maAe
~ clcarc. fpo,siblc.
The proper test Of a books value is It's
truih Certainly. book might he written
which should bee thoroughly true yet utterly
WORTHLESS. because setting forth mo- fact #
amy moment not already known To ITS read
or. 70 impress the minds Of those who
may pcrusc it with important truth is the
only ~uihcicu, justification for adding anoth-
or 10 thc oppressive multitude Of books all
rcady existing. But book may hc made
up wholly Of facts important, essential
facts Vet 20 arranged and combined as 10
mislcai and harm It's readers Many a VIII
ter of History whose statements are rarely
Inaccurate mas vet perverted aud corrupted
thousands 4 bad man. or even a strongly
prcjuliced man, may write History with
verbal accuracy, yet by supprcsslng some
facts ., Of no Importance, while bchuling
some and mgniNiug others Of those lac mar
rates, he may giyea radically false and perm
cious view of the events he describes On
the other hand, many a work nominally Of
fiction is trucr to human nature and more
bcnc6cent IN its teaching, than any literally
vcritablc narrative ever written. Nc all lit
erlture. Sacred or proianc the Parable Of
the Prodical Son is Doubtless the page
which the world could least afford 10 lose,
while there are volumes on volumes of per
lectly reliable History that might be ami
hilated and the world bc no whit the worse
Cor IT,
They who read novels without consider.
ing the moral they >eyerally attempt to con-
.vcy d. equal injustice 70 their authors and
themselves. The novel is Il teacher some
times Of good, often Of evil and is good OF
had according not to its incidents but it,
TENDENCIES The novel Of our day-we
sneak Of course of the half dozen works
coming out in the course Of a year which
arc worth mentioning at all-is more elab-
crate tract-an adroit and most efficient
.sonmendcr ol certain principles or ideas
a disguised sermon--a Sugared potion
Bulwers last. The Caxtons tor example
is the hest word yet spoken in our axe tol
Conservatism. as one Of his earlier works
(.paul Clifford was in It's day the mos
fiery, potent, startling utterance Of Radical
ism. The Cations is not = mere plea ioi
State, Altar and Home as they were hand
.d down by rcyered and noble ancestry
tits counselor As well as champion, AND
indicates wherein according to the iar-See-
ing adhereut to the established order II
must coneede and revise IN non-eSSenual'
IN arder 10 be more thoroughly adapted ARD
fortified to resist the pressure Of the roaring
side AZ innovation and destruction. II the
aisersaries Of the Radical spirit Of our day
psre 70 offer dukeiom and fortune to the
writer Of the mos, effective Conservative eS-
cav for popular circulation and effect, they
could procure nothing more torclble than
Tho Caxtons.'