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HENRY MAYHEM, Nos. 8 and 10. Neas7'

| {" London Labor and the London Poor bu
HENRY MAYHEM, Nos. 8 and 10. No.
The economies Of the age we live in are not uny re,s
sentsd in the economies Of its literature Every thing Is
turned to accounts nothing suffered in by-gons times to
pass off without making profitable return Dros re-
smeted, refuse esIamned teaches re-eached
Dgs scrutinzsd explored. not left untrisd
wherever substance has chance be 20
Guilty present The other day gave hour to in
suctive Magazine article the acknowledged value
of Dirt" Time when the reading world of Anglo
Ssxoadom looked to what yet call upward be in
sressd The loves and hates the fances and foies the
espe and grmaces the prdes and mesnnssses the virtues
and vices in word the beings, sayings and dongs Of the
sstocac and fashionable circles the staple Of popular
reading for amusement Of that mixed ground lying between
instruction and pleasure. Smolet Fielding might
indeed reckless scamp through their scarcely less dash
ing and scspesrsce pages but still one Of the prom-
nent if not quite first principle involved in their popular
that the halo these scopns carried about them was
halo breahsd from the rsserenced atmosphere Of geniy
and high breeding In current time only 10 the
mon life Of the middle classes made the field Of autoa labor
by many Of best received writers, but literary descent
directly made upon the lowest haunts and novels of the great
est denses and, in respects the most appalling Of
cities The blind, the lame, the halt. the mutiform beggar
urke and hmbeg the gentee shark and the outcast e
male wandsre with the thousand nsmeess other human
fungi sprnging out Of social corruption and decay,
brought from their dank and reekng concealmen in the
depths public disgust and avoidance into the broad day Of
the wide worlds knowledge The serial publication at the
head Of these remarks is Of deep interest," and whether
considered corrective much misplaced humanity or az
furnishing the mind with and prolific fields that great
study, human nature" stands to knowledge unrivale
Il contains very much to amuse with little draw largely
upon the fountains Of commsefaon and sympathy We
make single quotation oushng the habits and tendencies of
the blind: aae A
"They mostly very jealous, they tell me. because they
say every takes advantage OF their action their
children, and their wives. Some Of the wives
dress themselves very gay because they know their hus
bands can't their fine clothes, particularly those that
hsva got chidren-then there's to tell Bat pray
mind, Pm only speaking of Of them-don blame the
whole. People took money Of my dogs basket
gals did try steal shilling of it, that somo
gentlemen had dropped n but the dog bake and they gave
Scream and run away. Many Of the blind men have
red blind women-they say that they don't like seeing
If seeing find hard job to take Of seeing
women how are blind men to do il" My informant knows
six blind who have married blind wivesthe blind wives
told stick closer to home and do not 20 PLAYS
Dances shows and have love Of dresan they are
generally more sober than those who A blind
person, says one has to be wicked those
that see-iheres not half the temptation, you know.
The do all their household duties well If they
nSd tnor eyeSgnt lnoy make puuungs ana PIES anu Doll
them, send them TO the oven, well, quick, and
handy woman that They sweep the floor with
out leaving speck; and tidy the and blackead the
ga and when the HEARTH and dress the chimney off
quite handsome can tell you. They take great pride in
their chimney pecethey like other people and they
take great pride in having their house quite clean and neat
Where live it's the remark of all, that they who can't
have their houses the ceanes don't know Of any blind
that has looknegass over the manspiece though
Pm that many would, if they had the money just
please their friends. And what's strange, the blind
wives will wash their husbands shirts quite Clean sThe
blind very fond Of their children you see sir said
we much to them, they such help us even from
their very infancy You'll little thing that hardly
walk leading her blind father about and them may be- our
affection makes them love the The blind people
more comfortable at home-bey together, and
dependant another and don't like going out into
pany Others do With women love Of company mostly
Of love Of seeing Others and being themselves the
blind wives is happy and conened at home. No that
could see, unless he profgate would think of marrying
blind woman and the blind knows this, and that's
why they love their blind husbands the moethey pity
another and can't help liking each other Now, it's
strange, that with many blind couples living together
heard Of accident from fire with blind people
the is their blindness makes them CAREFUL that there's
chance Of it besides, when there's blind people
gether they hardly light candle at ALL except whena
stranger in and then they always ask him before he
leaves to put the light ont"
The Edinburgh Rereu for the July quarter is a valuable
number 1t has instructive article the Greek Text Of
The New Testament, containing the celebrated letter Of that
glory of British classical scholarship, RIcHAnD Bentley to
Archbishop Wake the subject of the Sacred This
alone is worth the price Of the number Other articles
Johnston's Notes on North America Hartley Coleriase
Fatal Accidents how far prevenbe Pulszky's Tales and
Traditions Of Hungary Sir Edward Bulwe Lyttons Letters
to John Bull the Romans in Britain Grote's Greece
Dixons Life Of Penn closing with article Of high interest
on Modern Chemistry. 9f}
All these are from Messrs TAYLOR & MAuRI. 9ita
10; Tale of the Oldcn Fame. By X. BARTON.
D. Appleton Il Co., New York. For sale by
Taylor b Maury, Washington.
This book the fruit of attempt engra the modern
novel upon the feelings manners and opinions Of the ancient
world. The task ambitious one and think Mr..
Barton an ambitious in making the attempt From such
examination of the book have been able give it,
we are unable discover any thing very striking about it.
either ancient or modern At the very Of the story
encounter play upon the sophonsm of the word see and
the letter c. standing for the initial of lady being
display Of smariness deem specially modelled the
antique The author has good copia uorum but there
too much Of beseng sin Of the day, the acting and
writing fol stage effect about his work satisfy that
even 10 small degree have had the fortune misfortune to
be classical Blessed be the days Of darkness; blessed the
when patriotism. authorship. philosophy and philanthropy
made up in genuineness what they lacked in frequency
when neither spoke WROTE acted to be
Of men, but because the strong occasion demanded Happy
for ours and all ages that Shakespeare and Milton not the