New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-26

sgement as at best but temporary devices 70 pa
late evils y hich under deeper system VI sovie
~. need not exist at all, find beauty n Iu'S
insOzriance Without raising a controversy %
that point we think it enough 70 point out me
fact There is something awful 10 the conception
il involves. What a native cnglng oil msnAlnu
10 this poor life there mast be, what an lneNtn'
euishnb.e sweetness IN the mere iact Vi SAsE
erce or at least what Dire al ol The hnF oil u'S
solution, VI hen millions Il human belsS' &C.
in circumstances which many OF their Ieho"-
creatures regard rs insulierably Wretcheu' ye'
uursue their weary Journey faithfully 70 US
Latursl end, gudgiug 10 lose the smsHesI
inch Watch u poor old man IN rags Slowly
dragging himself along in mean street as
if every step was pain. his lie mas oesu ou5
Of toll an hardship, and now he may be ~heiess'
friendless and beegar What makes thAt man
hold on any longer 70 existenc" at ALL ls It any
remnant Of positive pleasure he still cOntrives 10
extract from 1.-THE pleasure OF talking t"addle
TO people who will liGten 20 him, OF looking ABOUT
him at children playing, or peerng into doo,s anu
entries as he passes; is It fear aud caculRtilh
of chances or is it the mere imbecillty OF haoit
Who can tell True, this is bat one case There
are thousands of classes Of men in the proetarian
order whose prudence and perseverance, have ais
sipated the circumstantials OF misery to "hich
thew were bo %, and created around them homes
If resce and comfort; and the theory is that 10
This country at least the paths TO the highest
material prosperity and TO the chief positions oil
social eminence, are open to the very poorest o,
the land. But the instances are exceptional, and
the theory, if advanced in any but an excePtlonai
sense. is a lie, deusion and mockery
CONNECTION BETWEEN LITERARY AND WORK
ING MEN.
Though hitherto, BY the very necessities oil
their position, literary men have been IN more IN
innate relations with the moneyed class than win
proletaireS though in certain ages they have been
In fact the clients Of the moneyed class, yet IL Is
D - ~ ~ n raaamhIaQCA
which might be the ground OF establishing close
/ connection between literary men and the "a ass Oh
! the people. BOsh classes have one common char'
acteristic- that OF pecunlary mS0HctdHce' BON
! classes, again, have natural preference ior the
general over the special point OF view. "A liter-
Srv man and working man both attack ques-
ton broad,ide by the force of general human de-
/ sires and instincts; whereas moneyed or mer-
camille man who has " stake IN the country, Is,
| for the most part determined in his Judgments by
/ those established facts Of society, and those
rules Of conventional routine which prescribe the
lini!s of the practicable. Hence, It may be al
filmed, there is a greater number of solutions OF
important questions, and greater number OF ad'
mitted maxims aud principles, common 20 ilser
| ery men and the working classes, than their are
common either on the one hand, to literary men
and men OF property or on the other, to men OF
property and the people ut large. la certain
| sense, indeed, more profound than that In which
the saying lie Usually understood, It may be as
serted that literary men IN AL ages uhFe oeSu b'o
organs of the saDien=G U0igGre or general senti
ment Of the people. The poets of old may have
| derived their means OF s8steDGnce from their no.
Bile and wealthy patrons, but they derived their
tone ard spirit from the crowd. What ID unlyer
/ ssl in its interest what moves the deepest pas
sions ard touches every heart, is the true matter
| of the highest literature. The peculiar manners
and habits Of even those who lead ptOessl0na,
or technical lie. well as the high aud abstract
conceptions of the most rare and trained minds,
demand, of course, their due share Of literary
recognition and representation; but as no piece
/ OF music is thoroughly grand In which the har-
moDy however elaborate is not pervaded and
commanded by some flow of delightful melody,
80 no work Of literary art is OF the noblest class
| wherein whatever may be its exquislteness or
intellectual ingenuity, there is not perturbation
of the primary and all aetatihg emotions. Shell
! Icy may be a poet of the cultured few, but tho
poet Of world is a soul like 4Eschylus.
The number also contains articles on Neander,
Arthur Halam, The Social Position of Woman,
The Gold Mines, and SO forth. IL. Scott * Co..
T. "BLAcKwooD" for March opens with an
able discussion of The Dangers of the Country
1t shows concusively that amid all the boosted
and really astonishing increase of the natural in.
dustry Of Great Britain the suffering and misery
Of the working classes has constantly gone on in
creasng. Take one fact in proof of this. In the
year 1896 Immediately following the terrible
financial crisis Of December, 1925, the total emil
grafton from the British Islands was less than
2l0C0; while 10 the year ls49, the last six months
OF which was period Of great commercial actvi-
ty, 1t reached the prodigious amount OF 300 900.
An increase Of 500 per cent. in less than twenty
five years This food of emigrsnts were driven
into exile by suffering, not tempted into it by
hope Borrow's Lavengro is broken on the wheel
in a bloodhirsty article, and genial tribute il
paid in another to the character OF Southey.-
"LeRerds of the Monastc ORDERS" and "The
ArtB in Portugal" are made the subjects Of agree
able discussions. IL. Scott x Co.
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