New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-16
Now PUBLISHED,
MEMOIRS OF BENNETT AND HIS TINES,
With fne MEDALLION PoRTRAITi f@ pages Fnce 81 -
A BATTLE IL PROSPECT

With fne MEDALLION PoRrRnTj lss psges Pnoe Al IS
A BATTLE IL PROSPECT
IN, interest excited BY the merits Of this book and its con-
pete view Of Journalism the United States las been 10
tense The opinions 2on the work diverse car be
imagined Strange viii be discovered in them and A.
public curiosity seeks know how the book hss been received
quotations time TO time viii be river, IN order that re
Press NAV fairly represented the subject The ssiho hA
stated be seeks bis work the pubic s judge Of
without being instructed BY empty defamation
forced against the
POWERFUL FACTS AND EVIDENCES
boug; forward il the volume. The work itself furnishes the
key TO the peculiarly contradictory character Of these opno
The public press of the city supplies interesting notices
from which few unfsvorsble and favorable comments are
selected from the
PRINCIPAL NETWORK JOURNALS.
The dtnifed Commercial Advertiser says;
The .uhor has been severity censuIed BY several eoemgO
rsnes wno are error sy Dos =, bs ME- az he IN
praise the industry and tact with seh II has been compiled
boz been written truthful and impartial sPht under the
influence aad control Of the person whose NE P1Iors %
MODE Of treatment Ssher Nh Bennett, nor any soa
recy with respect The wiring publication Of these Me-
MORE ULle,s therefore, this assurance = an absolute
ctyeo q, voluntary unpomptec snd independent produ ton.
But apar from its special object, the book ncu1el real
he last ihiIiy years that it viii generally be read with
interest"
urns fdsntereed COMMENT accompanied By extracts al
tered from the suit the He seriously
alarmed book should be read an his warning houd be
generally Known;
awe wan the public that there very little Of interest and
nothing whatever Of value, in The b'os before poor
caicbpeDDy trashy III rrittsn, verbose compilation ard Dat
dead small beer
The refined Home journal appears haye examined the
book with disposition represent it fairly This IS ts
dict;
we confess that have resd with relish dervabe
ony from the schjec bat be to the exceedingly k
u manner witch that subject has been worked Indeed
nay well a. once say that yog ne no l,urnait-
vhsteysr may be hs opinions OF MI benner personally
should be without II may be imagined that was common
labor 10 digest and arrange such nme Of personal
We should say than the uuh h memoirs 10
suitably the bes and most complete OF ref class which we
bsve ever seen In every respect we oeAe'e t1 "oh VI"
The Trbune philosophical scuteness dHued throughout two
columns rs ay be complied in a lew ofits lines thus;
But we must close volume from which CLEAN
little hat iworhy Of passing attention from readers
readers viii have the patience wade hr ugh snch
ofveIboge the sake Of mining auds ioas psc
men ofbook.mskiDe"
The N Y Evening Mirror d.criminates with justice 1t
says:
The book is worth reading and the Life worth consider
without partially the e progress and cur Of one Of the
iAns medallion Likeness Of Mr. Bennett which Is the best
thing Of the Kind have The publishers
are xp citing sale Of The book and the attacks s
to belp the sale to Inre the subject OF the volume
The stately and reliable Journal Of Commerce comments as
follows:
he author has absAaed from personal intercourse with the
sbeo his Memoirs either ufDrmat0n council with
view o influences that such association might
operate egnder The material OF the having been
cefv eabees published writings, she world cannot look
for enlightenment respect 10 he qualities
which entte its hero ic his own eniOn
10 be considered The Napoleon Of Journalism in America
The book poseses suppying the threat
of somewhat and ul public c-e-r AID as
e incidents and occurren zee that have
invoked tubc attention intervals during the last thirty
years.
The United States view has taken different view Of the
work From nine pase. ofreyiew these lines selected:
Whoever the sent may be whose pen has given the
leading the life of remarkable iD p1s'es
ling the Of those features wnich
marked greatest only that he has
mos satisfactory and able biography that have ,ross
for any years. must have been labor which has long oc-
cuped him"
The very charitable and up biased Evangelist observes;
does not Justice 20 s subject aud ihoud be
so much dissatisfied with it Mir Bennett add his family"
The following very important and yet humorous decision is
hom The New-York sun:
Ccnps sf.r rich confessions and humorous
ions evenul life the book appears dull aud dea be
youd endurance Instead Of NOR and gapnc re-
the biz of the last twenty or thirty Yeas We nave
n espchoy example booknaknE relieved only by
readable chapter the Il the Peany
Pr, So and especially Of The New J ork Sun"
sTRINGgR& TOWNSEND, Publishers, 2a2 Broadway
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