Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-10-11
New Books.


The RAG PicKEn; on BousD AND FaEE-
New York, MAsoS BsorHERs, lS55-for sale
by STEWART & Bower, indianapolis.
The utter selishness Of human nature has
not quite consigned to oblivion all patience
and good works, though the iron age Of the
present seems almost to bind in fetters tho
few instincts Of pious and benevolent emo
tion which remain to us from the hard soul-
Less skeptcism Of fity years ago. Between
these two .nauences the humanizins endea-
vossof religion and sympathetic gsnious have
>nlsn ne.rIS esashsd Qua .TAc EesrSt aud
utopian moral chivairy Of q Shelley and a
Foorier have tended almoss as piuch TO the
encouragement of universal commseratinS
brotherhood, a the more contemplate zeal
of Maumon and his yotaiies These en-
cumbrances the immortal sense views with
disgust. and has done so since the first
riyet was put INTO its chains. Five years have
served 70 run into an extreme the nervous pa
thos which the yision-seeing latter-day pro-
phetoi England first reused by his fierce and
denunciatory appeals. Some of us can yet
remember the jeers which encountered his
attempts, and the savage critic who compared
him to the mailman on the walls of beiea-
suered Jerusalem, who strobe to and iro Tor
forty days, crying WOE woE WOE and on
the fortieth day vas dashed To pieces by a
stone from catapult But the clang Of his
mighty hammer against the mailed coat oil
heathenish christianity, free despotism, and
generous rnaInmenism, that bristling trio OF
modern paradoxes, has rnng out an alarm,
which, even admitting it to bc like the cack-
ling of the geese of I.atium, may yet accom-.
plish more than the salvation Of n Roman
Empire. Five years have served to convince
that class Of existence which we term TIE
rwld, that more happiness may result from
friendly and plying investigation OF the con-
dition and feeling Of such units in the mass
"A may need friends aud pity. than by self
enwTapping from the softening influences o.
social and mutual kindness. The flood OF
books tending to cultivate this hitherto de-
pressed state Of feelings serve 10 snbstantiate
the hope of zeal and strongly-grounded To-
formation in the selfshness OF individuals
and TO regenera.e the mass of civilization. not
as separate unalloyed atoms, hut as great CO.
working community, whose present aims are
but little different, whose ultimate goal j,
the same.
The volume whose title stands at the head
of this notice, comes into that description
which may be deemed tho protest of an en-
ergetic mind against tho expression and lacl
of sympathy OF one class towards ano:her.-
Though there are some views expressed il
which We can hardly coincide with the an
thor, we can fully unite 10 his cordial desr
10 console the unfortunate, to urge on m
friends Of freedom and REFORM and to aid III
general march Of progress" For one thin
We can even love him, unknown though h
be, that he has given in the dedication tr
butte but too seldom paid to the nobility
woman's nature, and the honor in which h
holds sisters affection.
We extract the following pure swee
breathing hymn:
CARRIES EVENING HYMN.
When the glitteging stars peep our
From the dark and sslent sky.
Tvinklins through the azure sphere
GaD has placed them ", on 6gh-
Ihen, with folded hands al even,
fyas s1R R s1.issi ~as assl1. sss II s s.sves e"
To accept our humble v0s,
es viii listen, He will ble.s.
For, within his word us fouDd--
Not without the srHER's knowledge
Falls the sparrow 70 the ground.
Little children, then, af even
Well may CONS and lowly hDx.
For the FATHER dwells In heaven
ADD accepts their humble vow.
Asking patience for its addition, We su
Join, in conclusion. this stirring and brave a
peal against one of our last 1--WE are glad
say already eramtling) relics Of Gothic fe
dalism.
"The acquisitions of the statutes in ref,
ence to the poor ds5tog, at that period, we
indisputably fogi blot upon the general
fair pages Of the Massachusetts, legal code.
They presumed oh men to be rogues al
cheats; and the moneyless unfortunate "
placed on footing only with the knave al
the robber. Verify, the honest poor man
the exception, not the ruiei And better.
better, that hundred villains escape I