New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-03

popular ver,ifer thus puts the case:
with faces turnd from Bate, they went forth:
The, .s1i.e & their fest mil 1T r"us. III deaf
Wew,n, with marital tfiums h ia orr zeal.
They urmbed le'' The void mis15 come 70 blows
y quy-r'd tor ihe ting and m1its close
Thsy cps mild Mot for the Ca:
Vile they qusnehios sreed5u'. sestterd f'es,
Welndled memories Of heroic Sire.
They q have this grand O. d rsgaud criuge snd pray
10 ~ sni.e ne, krss; bet II YOU VIII. YOU mfJ;
We'd her as in ttose proud times Of old, -
Nhtn rom~th spoke, I'D Slasss war thandsr' ToiId.
;be, TO hi POSING po -'ers Of daI sne.. avn:
- o. e B.oodsUc.eT. they woald bod us slaves
q would be fee. or sleep Ia s.oh1rs crave.
nate s .dtrs Here or There, weave " bs alice
Thee hnld The victas VIII the others ct Ike
The bwerf- uail srrat Ssnper ia toe mire;
Nes,s ioi mn e. be'I Il nm b. sod higher
acc pitch them from tber dresm-lsni to-the Osyn"
An aspiration that lives in the hearts OF hun
dreds of ,h"ussnds TO day. When we cried
War with Russia, we meant war t. D-sposism
ucarnste-war to tbst colossal embodiment OF
physical power which has sEorn to put down
Revouion-~sr ~ the murderer of Poland. aud
the subjcgator of Huneary-war, that peace nay
BE- victorious night, ard not crowned sDd deiiod
wrong We esd holy and bslowing purpose in
going to fight. But these imbeciles had no pur-
POSE TO PLAN and hence this faurc--f0r up to the
present il is fniure-dark and darnable. Aud,
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men who have wasted such brave blood, and 80
many lives Of our young heroes and valiant veter
ans in that desOlate Crimea The heart Of our
interest in the war is almost broken. Sadness is
On the face OF England, depression weighs down
its spirit
Tie war and its unsatisfactory state naturally
have depressing effect on literature. For time
Cur Own Correspondent" OF The Times was
more to Ms than all the authors at home. He put
down the Republic Of Letters and installed him
self as en peror OF the literary world Suddenly
his graphic reports from the Crmea ceased. l.
IVES rumored that bis bold criticisms and daring
exposures of bmuders and msmanagement had so
e1asperated Lord Raglan that be had ordered
Lin TO quit the camp. This The Times denies.
But there is my stery somewhere.
We have had no word from the gentleman hiul-
self. Tor long time. The Timess account of his
having cone TO COnstantnOple to purchase clothes
and PROVISIONS il not satisfactory. At least IL
does not hold good for SO long a time as has
elapsed. There is evidently something pending
One of the most noticeable hooks on the war,
lately issued, is "A Month Before the Camp OF
"sevastopol." by Mr.. Bushby young lawyer.
Great part of the book was sent home from the
Camp, BY the author in letters many of which
appeared at the time i'll the papers. One startling
account Of the attitudes Of the dead. after the
battle Of Iukermann, was copied into THE TRIBUNE.
This book has no great literary merit or depth
of observation, but we are glad TO &c; all We can,
especially from an eyewitness
No doubt we shall have book from Mr.. King
lake The author of EOthen, who was present
during The earlier part of the campaign and at the
Alma. At present however, he lies i'll with fever,
caught while in the Crimra. Mr.. L,yard, also,
Is expected to detail what he saw, as he was
spectator OF the three great battles.
The poets are by no means silent. Tennyson
has given us a song. Messrs. sydney DObell and
Alexander Smith have joined in partnership, and
published small volume OF Sonnets on the War,
ard Gerald Massey has printed brochure OF War
Waits dedicated to the memory Of John
Bright who fell recently aud SO eoriously fight
ing the battles OF the enemy. will make a raid
amorg tie rhymers in my next, so that shall pass
them by for the present.
81. Louis Blanc has given us the sixth volume OF
his History Of the French RerolgtiOR. he finds he
will be able 10 complete the work in four volumes
more though be had originally intended it TO be
in twelve volumes. This volume fully sustains
the promise of the earlier ones, and when the
work ia fosbed it will form at once the most
searching. brilliant and solid of all the histories
OF that Wild and wondrous epoch The author is
singular compound OF poet, painter and just
judge, and his writing has the warmth OF poetry,
the bloom Of painting, combined with the terse
precision of ali acute lawyer.
Tie publishers Of the Rev. Charles Kingsley's
books some time since announced new prose
work by lin: UeSfTdrd no! be,Hg the IOydgeS
and Adrentures Of Sir Angus Leigh. Of BreHOr,
County Of Der0n, in the Reign Of Elisabeth, Of Gi0-
nous N,m0ry. This, imagine, has been delayed
10 consequence Of the illness of the authors wife,
WHO is long sufferer, aud, | am told, in rapid
decline This is often the lot Of men Of genius.
Tie wife Of Tie poet sydney Dobell, wears on
her lie q "LoOd Of pain" and is always
in. Tie Resurrection Day, in Bdidcr, may be
taken az literal fact: it was the only day
in which the poor thing was free from suf-
ftIing. and il came revelation of
new lie. The article by Carlyle in the current
, number Of The Westminster gives the lie TO the
report that tie great man lad declared it 10 be his
intention 70 deposit all his future writings as man
uscrl t. sealed, in the Record Office some such
place, Lot 10 be produced for some two or three
iheussId wears. when the world may be sufficient
3 tnli. Lttnod TO receive them with benefit and
rroft. Let us hope that old Fritz is not TO be
cactd IL such manner. BY the by, Carlyle
cluckts immensely over the difficulties that our
rIry Neakiings Of Ministers have got into be-
iwern that mighty Gar with his towering and
subtle intellect, and the English people, ripe for
fight, now The Gar be calls the man with
"a Iurpose.' think the old prophet may be yet
sti1Itd 10 launch another pamphlet. OF course
yea sye got Lcech's collection of pictures from
FEEd one of the best books Of modern times
for al insight into particular phases OF life in Lon
don. Any enc might get as much from that book
as they would from ten years residence here.
II is raid that the paper On it in the current Quar-
terry Rerielc was written by Thackeray.
Mr. Leech is still a Young man-loohs younger
than he is-tall and dark, has long, dark hair and
nusiacLe peculiar spiritual face lighted as with
a pale sYlendOr and a weird look that would have
enchanted Poe. | extract the following notice of
Iffrg Ia