The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-03-27


before us are reprinted from the second London
edition, and the remainder will be issued here ..
fact as they appear from the London press.
THE NORTH BSIrrsH REVIEW for February Navy,
Leonard Scott & Co. For sale as above
This number contains many most iptero.,;u.
articles. Among them we notice an abla one .
the Literary and Labor question ro,,:..- =,
" London and London Labor and the aIon,on
Poor" by Henry Mayhem; and , ror;a-" -
Alton Locker or the latter wo,k Ns. ~ v
hew is the reputed author.
The reviewer attaches great Importance - ~.
tendency ofthese two extremes, literary mon al
proIefa"es to come together, and act in coroo.. y
IL is undoubtedly one Of the most striking che,
acteristics of the nineteenth century
Another question OF popular interest ~.
Social Position of Woman il most oil. -,
cussed in review of Thoughts on Self o.,
ture," by Maria G. Grey, and her sister Fill
Shirref, and of" Woman in the Nineteepth c.
tury," by s. Margaret Fuller. The reysvsr ~
longs to the Conservative school: and wb;e ~
contends for the present position of women Al
mits that "There are thousands it is to be feared
among the lower classes, who have too little self
command to deny themselves what was formerly
considered a Legitimate mode of correction in sr
treme cases, namely, the infiction of cornoroI
punishment on disobedient wives But bs
adds, we doubt whether there is a cobbler in
Great Britain who beats his spouse without lurk-
ing doubts as to the identity of Might and Right
We think it argues i'll for the general condition
OF the sex in England, that public sentiment does
not teach the cobbler a practical lesson on the
distinction between Might and Right.
Nib
TIME THE AvssGsR. BY the author of " The Wilmipg
tOns,"" Lettuce Arnold" &C., &c. New York; Harper
Brothers For sale by Frsnck Taylor Pennsy ave-
nue., Washington.
This story we have read, and will give our
readers the skeleton, for their amusement aud
OBLIGATION
An old man of sixty is introduced to the
reader in the act of prosecuting to the brink of
destruction young man full of hope and prom.
Use. While the court is sitting, and Just before
the terrible sentence Of the law is pronounced he
discovers that the young man is innocent, and
with fearful cry of anguish and remorse he flies
from the sight of his victim, and yields himself
prey to the most fearful eoytofes of a My ava
kened conscience.
The old man has been bad man, not crimi
nal, as the law defines the term, but hard, cold
grasping, unloving and unforgivng He has
lived for himself alone, and his heart is dreary
desert. Now, for the first time, the finty rock
is smtten, and the waters of human kindness
gush forth. He yearns for sympathy and love,
and, as the first fruits Of his repentance pleads
for an interview with his late foe. This is soon
effected. They are reconciled, and become warm
friends. AS the ice melts in the old mans heart,
one by one his buried treasures are revealed.
Thirty-fve years before, when he was in the
prime Of his manhood, he had loved passonatey
young girl of scarce sixteen summers, young
ward committed to his care by dying friend.
She is beautiful, gay, and capricious, full of
mirth and frolic He is cold proud, reserved,
and morbidly sensitive on the score of his person
al dignity. His strong good sense and many
manly virtues win her heart, but she is too proud
to show her passion, and he too sensitive and self
distrustfu to suspect its existence for he was not
blessed with personal attracticns-was awkward
stiff and formal, and looked much older than he
really was. They never understood each other,
and they went on from bad to worse until at last
they separated in rage each thinking the other
the hardest and most Indifferent of mortsls. He
buries himself in his counting house; and she
marries beautiful, accomplished, but worthless,
scamp, who spends his prncely fortune at the
gaming table, and dies in prison, whittier be
has been followed by his wretched wife and child.
Meantime she finds in religion consolation for
all her troubles; and sftersvarious vicissitudes
retires with her son and an old servant of her
fathers into the mountains Of w ales, where they
lead q most exemplary life. Her son grows up
into manhood, and she has reached the mature age
of fifty.
About this time the old lover, who thinks her
dead, sets out with party afa friends to make
summer tour among the mountains There on
fine summer day, the aged lover, with his accus-
toned awkwardness, not at all improved by his
years and SORROWS, stumbles down the mountain
side into little shaded glen where sat his lady
love, medtating in the even-tide. Think Of II, ye
lovers of romance swain of sixty-fve and
nymph of fifty But we commend the whole in
terview as reported in e1tes0 by the clever artist
to the lovers of the marvellous
For ourselves, we have not much faith in sexa-
genarian love-making. M. l.. B.