New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-31

Tie articles OF most general interest in the current
number, apart from tho serial stories are the papers
On Tho Length of Human Lilo snd on Modern
Noyerstsr The frst Of these articles Is an iustrs-
ton Of Tire theory Of recent French Psychologist en-
messed as follows. 1.-The first ten yeap Of he are
infancy. properly 50 called; the second ten Is The
reriod Of boyhood from twenty 10 thirty Il the inst
youfb; from thirty to forty the second the first man
heed is fcm ferry to fy-sve the second from nay
FIVE 70 seventy This period Of manhood is the age Of
strength. the manly period OF human lie. From
seventy to eighty-fye is the hrst period Of old age,
and at eiehty-fve the second old age begins"
The writer remarks that the limits thus assigned by
Flourens to the several periods Of lie are not wholly
arbitrary Ike those We generally talk Of on the con-
trarv more or less sound physiological reason Is as
signed for each Infancy proper ceases at ton years,
because then the second tco;hing completed; boy
hood at twenty, because thea the bones cease TO IN
crease in ength and youth extends TO forty, because
about that tire the body ceases TO increase IN size
Enlargement Of bulk after that scriod consists cheiy
in tie accumulation Of fat The real development
Of the part. Of tie body has already ceased. Instead
OF increasing the strength and activity this later
growth weskens the body and re,ards iis motions
Then when growth hes ceased the body rests, ralhes
ard becomes inyigorated. Like a fortress with all
Is works complete, rs garrison IN fun numbers and
threatened with an early sece, Il repairs, arrangcs,
disrosos everything within ITSELF The new stores Il
daily receives are employed in fully equpping, in
strengthening il rebuilding and in maintaining every
pat in the greatest PERFECTION and efficiency. This
period o. interna. IMMIGRATION lasts faecn years,
that OF the first nanhO0l,i and it maintains itself
for ten or f.ioen years Hore, when old age begins"
The paper on Novelists SUMMONS 70 judgment the
rrpcsal modern celebrities N the departmen, Of ic
ton. namely, Nrs. Gore, M. Tfollope hr- Harsh,
Ms. S. C. Hal, M.s Milford Mss Bron;s, Nike ksv-
anach. BIS. Gaskell, Mis- Jewsbsry, Kingsley, Haw-
thorne. Lever Wilks Collins and few others Of
our eminent countrynsn The writer remarks aptiy, but
severely: The boks Of ur. Hawthorne arc Singular
books: they introduce 70 u not only an individual
mind but peculiar audience; they arc not stories into
which you enter ant sympaihize, bat dramas 81 e.
traerdinary dumb show before which, IN darkness
and bresLess silence you at and look On, never sure
for uonen. that the dimy lighted stzge before yoa
Is not 10 BE visited by tie d0rsmIe thundcr Of an
eartlouake falling houses, moaning victims, disnsy
ard honor and gloom. Had the reputation Of this
gentleman been confined 70 his own country Il would
have been out Of our sphere Of comment bat be has
had greet popularity this side 81 the Atlantic, where
We uncers;snd be i resident, srd hs books have
psIhaps e1ei,ed The public curiosity slrsost a. much
as tie books Of Niss Bro1,e. The Scarie Lett>r
gows with 4 FIRE Of Suppressed secret fever an ex-
ctsnent; Il Il Dot the gov Of natural life but the hec-
lie OF disease which buns upon the checks Of i.s
actors. The proud woman, the fantastic snd
elfsh chid the weak and criminal geraGs, and
tie Injured friend the husband Of Heater, are En-
hibited 10 us rather a. q surgeon might exhibit his
PCT cases. than q poet shows biz mea and
women, brothers and sisters 10 the universal heart
In this book the Imagination Of the writer has been
taxed 10 supply a world and socic.y in sccordance
with the principal actors n Bis feyerish trams- The
whole shy and cir tropical; and instead Of the
gentle mono.ony Of ordinary existence in ong wear
ing lxnguid soTows, It's vulgar WEAKNESS and sesp,
We have perpetual strain Of exciteuent-a Ere that
neither wanes nor lessns but keeps ut IT, original
.corching heat ior ycsr. The landscape Is psrched
and seafhcd; TIE breezen sfsrnaeeblast the volcano
i nut;ering and growing in TIE depths Of The earth;
there : an omrous Stiffness ike the psase before
grea. peal OF thander. Nor the air once clear nor
the FEVER dissipsted til, with sigh Of rctA, We
escspe Iorn the unwhoesoms fascination Of this TO
nance ard find ourselves n . word which Is not e.
rsys tending toward some estssirophe--s worif
where fears and shower. al 10 nxresh the cod, and
| Were cslsusies do 70; co1ae from the bind and
noekng hands Of fate, bat mixed with blessings AMI
eharees from tie very gates Of heaven" An srdcis
on Tie Royal soottizh Academy" contains soDe
valuable Ert-criteiszns-