Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-11
Such is New Years in New York no&I1sdays The ssa-
sons be praised that it comes but once year.
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Such is New Years in New York no&s1sdays The ssd4
sons be praised that it comes but year.
.... STATISTICS or 1850.
The statistics of 1880 give wonderful pre-eminence in
many respects former years. far least New York
Is concerned Figures which, in spite Of the old saw do lie
occasionally most wilfuly, in Ibis sonnexion truthful
enough Every element Of activity nse been in ui
operation in this city during The past ,eT every nerve Of en-
ierpse has been stretched lis EXTREMIST tensoh ard the
result is prosous progress In the old world the divisions
OF time are not OF 80 much with Fake Eu-
opean capital and what necessity there g pacse at the
end Of any period OF time reckon up the advances and
movements of the past What begsary acssun, Of empty
boxes would be aprto appear in the review U coutss am
speaking of the old fashioned decaying Cities which, with
some few exceptions, make up the metropolitan capitals of
the continent few there where Infusion of
vyo give a sem-vitaIiy to their existence but
taken in the aggregate, what contrast they preseat
American cNes. Ship building, building house
buildings chuych building every branch Of industry, svey
department OF invention, every province Of art every css of
sciense every division Of action There is nothing kst
be done under she which done in New York; and
well deae too. Nowhere the globe did industry
PRISE cad skill coOnizs with success advance
in their work win swifsr strea h is curious how
the city ,utgows ITSELF sad almos. mpercepdky revolution
zes the habits and customary associations of s cizen
ing quiet streets into busting Of ses ebowing private
houses Of their old localities make way for hotels and
shops and spreading itself amongst the rocks and green
feds Of Manhattan Bland which, BY summary processes
grading and filling iny suSdued from q nature TO
state Of civic propey and g,ace at the close Of 1851 we
shsll doubtless sights which ls6Onsrer dreamed Of
NEW hooks.
8iterary p.Djecs AMI, announcements scssee. The
publishers have yet abandoned the hoYday books Tor the
substantial stuff Of ordinary Publishing One of
the Inst noveess translation Of Goa7HSs Lsiignaa
Iaus. into English bsnh verse; by Professor ADIER of
the New York University. He would be a bold American
EDgl,hman who, afer quarter of cenu,ys expert
in Deutschland, should reproduce c5eh or
King Lear in the tongue and Of SoIER and GongHE;
but the patient perseverance Of the Germ delights
in such difficulties as~tasks Kindred this present. The
harder the the bsss and really Professor
Adler manages to extract great dee Of of truly po
etic and sweetness Of this onsheled not Of
GoErHE's-drama. The English language is familiar to
him be toa foreigner and hisoasc helps him
out Of those occasional bunde into which he best of trans
ators seeno fall BY fatality peculiar ts their class If
any isdsposed grumbe GoErHEs being translated
BY German, let him produce the native poet who is
peent dohe work, and do better The mantle Of the
translator OF Hansten, CoLRaIDeE, amongst whose unul
filled plans the version of all ScasLLEns plays far
task than that Of all GoErHE d has not yet fallen
any Of hssuccessor in the ranks of poetry, and until it
does may well receive the efforts of the counyman of the
great German poet ndsau Of ADIEn has asleast
the advantage Of the greatest familiarity With the original ard
for faithful rendering Of the spirit Of As bis work
be highly commended what helacks n English poetry he
makes up in German phloogy. and if hs caps and aszes
wrought with smuch delcasY and finish might
be desirable tho granite which he has had hand
and which shows well in spite OF occasional slip Of tie
chise
A Hunter in Madeira, and Suraner iS Spain and
Florence Such is the title of interesting and graceful
narrative Of travelling experiences by heHon BHS A. D11,
who, since HE retirement from publios for the present. has
filed up part Of his leisure hours in tho preparation Of this
volume, published BY WILL1AM HoLDaEDsx of this city,
book Of travels from the pen Of scholar and of
always agreeable and instructive no men see with the
eyes hear with the ears receive identical
impressions and M this is that the great field
literary eo which the regions of travel present will
be exhausted Mr.. DIX has the advantage of comparative
novelty in his sketches Of the island Of Madsir and his
tire volume she result of much good taste, observa-
ton, and original thought. JAeaUEs Du MoN,E.