New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-10


men of injured innocence, some are briefly narrated
by our author, but most of them are passed over
in expressive silence"
ApIopos Of these secular retributions, the
biogrspher discouIses in an affecting strain of
car dor and Christian charity. II dOes the heart
good to listen to the Expression Of such tender
considerations for human infrm'ty. He repre-
sents his hero as victim to the malice, per
verseness, or snobbery Of the citizens of New
York. The vould.be patrons Of art were
unwilling to support his journal so long as it
preserved the modeit decency Of its infancy.
lie could attract no attention until he csrca-
tured himself. He was obliged to become a
mountebank in order to escape starvation. He
must assume more titan his natural blackDess'
or the public would not listen 10 his music, just
ss the negro minstIels can produce no mirth
until they are daubed over with burnt cork
and ard, and show the darkest of dark skins to
be attractive" On this theme Ouf authors
"emotions are unutteiable." He does violen; e
10 the yer1acuar and to common sense IN the
aboItye effort 10 paint the injury experienced
by the genius Of Bennett from the people Of
New. York lie eIolaims in the fer7oT OF
righteous indignation: "Yes, Mr.. Bennett might
have written, in prose, with the force Of a Nil
ton. or even in verse, with the elevated fjrTOr
Of that inspired republican spirit o Cfon wells
day; he might have indGlged in the beauties Of
thought which distinguish the SidaeJs, the
Fellhsms, the Brownies, tee TayloTs, and all
that long line Of earnest thinkers OF The se7en'
teehth century; he might have poured out tie
treasures Of the various, bu. ragged, tho Ugh
often btpiaised styles Of that subsequent GEN.
tUsy which gave to the world The o'ef estima.ed
and much prated OF, though much less read,
aodifons, and Bchardsons, AMI Stselesi be
might haze reasoned like Locke, or Bacon, or
Adam Smith, or have been a del IN his
prose style, like Southey; have been as brilliant
as Goethe, or as my steriOusly profound as Cole
ridge; yet in the City of New.York, he would
not have sold newspapers enough, in the year
1896, to furnish aim with chilling dinn7rs-then
originating in course with the establishment Of
the Penny Press-proyi3ed be honestly had
paid, as has ever bsen his won't, his pointers
ard bis paper makers. So much FOR pabl.e
taste"
The domestic relations of Mr.. Bennett are
described by the biOgrapher in fe" succ!nct
paragraphs. After leading bachelors life for
many years, he was married in 1870 to LAZY
"wbose engaging manners, education, taste,
love and knowledge of music, personal beauty
and private worth had made deep impression
upon his heart" She has recently determined
to reside chiefly in Europe, in order to educate
her children "out Of the sphere Of misrepre-
sentatioD, calumpy and reckless wit, to which
her name has been subjected by the assailan,s
Of her husband.
But we must close n volume from which we
can CLEAN so little that is worth, even of pass
ing attention from our readers. With the ex-
eeption of some brief sketches of the history of
American journalism, its contents are Of an IN
important and unattractye character, while
they are put together 10 d manner which shows
that the author aimed less at msrit than at mag
nitude in the connection of his materials. lie
INDUCES freely in verbose comments on obsolete
questions, which doomed up hugely 10 their doy,
gives labored descriptions Of trivial incidents
that have long since lost their interest, aud at
t6mpts 10 rtNlNe Iue mtuoI! vi PoIit'Oi', H'pi-
ary and artistic names that have scarcely been
celebrities with the present generation. Few
readers will have the patience to wade through
such a mass Of verba ye-uness for the sake OF
examining an audacious specimen of book-mak-
ipg-and no one will gain from its psrusal any
inconyenent respect either for its subject or its
authOr.
MANUAL OF PHoNOGRAPHY, by BES PIrM.s Of CTS.