Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-11-28

Ba%There has been rise of about six feet in the
Pee Dee: and that river is in good boating order.
For the Journal
The New Reader.
Wiley's North Carolina Reader is now efore the
editors of the State and in few weeks more will be
placed in every county, to be accessible to ALL
While it is making its way from the publishers
to places of depose, friend of education in North
Carolina, to whom copy has been generously for
warded offers brief review of the work as an ar
gument in favor of its finding its way into every
school house and domestic library in the State.
book of this kind is not to be criticised accord
inc to those aesthetic principles by which works of
purely literary character, intended for sages and
philosophers, tried The only question of mpor-
lance to be solved in its review is. does it answer
the purpose for which it claims to be intended? If
it does. then other works, but imperectly filing the
place for which 1t is designed should be Superseded
and it be uniformly and generally adopted.
All previous notices of the = Reader agree in as
signing it place equal to that claimed for it by its
accomplished and industrious author and the work
presents the following features which seem to the
writer to render the general plaudit just.
1t is composed of four parts well blended in a
reading hook: each part calculated to sow in The
heart of the young reader germs Of information and
desire to profit from its teaching and prccepts by
still more extensive range of reading and mental
training.
Part the first is geographical and Typographical
description of the State, much more comprehensive
than is to be found in work hitherto published
and showing that North Carolina properly apprecia-
ted by her sons, is something more than marrow
strip of land separating Virginia from South Caro-
lima The sublimty of her ocean scenery: the
pcuresqueness of the snowy banks rising like fairy
islands of enchantment from the depths of sea and
sound, the rugged grandeur of her sky ceavng''
mountains. with all the intermediate variety Of
!
pleasing and highly descriptive laid before the read
er. Here he learns the great diversity of soil eli
mate minerals, manufactures and agricultural pro-
auctions the State affords; and the incalculabe
amount of wealth and prosperity that lie undevelop-
| ed in her yet unwrought resources.
Part second is historical sketch of the State.
succinct but more nearly complete and better ar
ranged every way, than any work of the kind in
deed, it is not bestowing too high praise upon it. to
say it is the only history of North Carolina exant
written in popular form. Among those written are
several valuable for reference but this part of the
Reader furnishes the only history in connected
readable shape; and the more advanced reader viii
be rs much indebted to Mr. Wiley for this important
labor the student of every grade, from Freshman
f to Senior.
From the time of the accomplished gentleman
and CAV and courtly cavalier Sir Walter Raleigh III
to the time North Carolina began to lose her popula
, ton who have gone westward to seek lands where
they mi ght rip the golden goose, the author ha
given the interest and painted the truth of each in
tervening period. From the day the adventurou
voyag gers landed from the barks commanded by Ami
e das and Barlow, to the time history became par
d of the observation and experience of the presen
generation, he has dwelt every incident of npor
lance. whether it be amid scenes that " awakenet
II images of a golden age and Arcadan pleasures" t
is the infatuated of early settlers amid thos
J. hidden in the smoke, and deafening with the
l. artillery
"History is dry" say every school boy and vita
ted admirer of yellow backed and iaundiced column
k ed novels. Mr.. Wileys history, constituting the Sc
cond part of this reader is as moist and nterestin
It delightful style, pleasing strain and very
). tractive incidents make it.
of Part third is made up of selections. Sc, orr
10 gnal and heretofore published. from writers i
= North Carolina. The names of w. H. CASTOR. Gee
1t E. Badger. Ruffn, Strange, Shepard, Irede Mile
IN and Dobbin, is sufficient guarantee of the exec
MS lence of this portion of the reader In these seet
no tons moral is conveyed, truth adorned virtu
J., portrayed in her most beautiful robes and cOlors
y The reader will observe gems by CASTOR Badger
Miller. To these the author has himself added som
chapters, full of pathos and interest. Choice seet
= tons in poetry and from the Bible, complete pal
as the third.
Part fourth consists of abbreviated ancient hist
ts ry statistical and chronological tables miscean
- &c, &c, all finding their appropriate place in
eli book intended for schools and family reading.
ng To up, the North Carolina Reader fully come
no up to the expectations of the authors friends, WI
looked for him to present book that should |
worthy OF his previous reputation, worthy of tt
great cause of education worthy the State, an
he specially adapted to fill want long felt that of
N reader calculated for the latitude and meridian
=, the Old North State. The cause of primary educ
TN ton in this State cannot in the writer's opinion
better subserved than by the general adoption of IL
la Reader in the schools and families within DO
id ders. CLIO
lo Railroad Casualties.
We learn from dispatches received by US fro
A., onr Columbia contemporaries, of the South Caro-
As MAN and State Rights Republican, that, yesterd;