New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04
NEW PUBLICA TONS.
OLD TINES IN NEw-ENGLAND.

psot .aEI THEA ispEPEspExcE. By CHAsLEs w e.
LOTT. 1vo'a vo. Charles Sosibnor
Mr.. E.hott slludes " what has been called " IA,
dignity Of history" rs "a singular myth" He ba
certainly shown no superststous attachment TO che
sentiment IN the composition Of these volumes. Il
othe< writer's have catered the f-d oo stills, be
makes bis appearance slipsbod. Or rather Ike
man about to engage in an arduous piece OF "es~,
10 takes Of bus coat, rolls up his ohrt-seeves and
prooeeds to handle his subject without gloves ITO
has 30 fear of literary S:nbes and Pnar'seeS Do'o'o
ks e,es, never attempts TO please the PufnIs ~
fstsslous phrases and rounded periods, bus H'ates
the story he has come TO tell with as h'mey and
dsvnrsh, simplicity a. If he hsd been born aud
bred among the plain sP ken Original Pdntans.
HIS book, accordingly, has certain fresh aud pr
ousat flavor, as il BIO were describing actually
Before his eyes, rather than raking up the rnoldy
remains Of past age.
Nor i he so much intent on recording
the course of events in chronological sequence
ss on pOrrayipg the manners, the Prlncl-
pies and ideas, the outer and the inner LILO
of the peculiar race of men VINO LAID tho
foundations of New. England. His narrative H
complete, apparently accurate and oef'an'y aol-
mated He preserves the facts essential 10 an m'ea-
Eeeut comprehension of the subject with the palms.
Ming m,nuteness Of tho driest annahst but his
heart N evidently not so much in the construction
of smooth. symmetrical history, as In the vivid
illustration OF tho points Of character, the every
dsy features Of social and domestic existence,
which marked the coloLists of New-Eagland, aud
reader them the subjects Of interest and sympathy
I<.,,h firm histar
thread pervsdes hs volumes, but he loves to stnns
around it a collection of characteristic facts and
circumstances whleh have as little ptetenson 10
storical dignity" On the festoons of dred sppies
and sheed pumpkins which used " adorn the dweL
kpgs Of the people whose ancestors he describes.
In this way, he has succeeded in making unique
work-ose which has no prototype, except dash
Of Cariyie's French Revolution in occasional pas
sages-One which viii be widely read, and though
often exciting smile at its Incompatible naisete,
which will be greatly reEshed BY all whose attach
nent to conventional methods has not fnttered
away their taste for robust and JUICY vitality
Tho quality Of Ms. Eaott's book, however, eso
be placed in the clearest light BY gathering from IT'S
Dsees some of the quaint and curious deta Is with
Tie Pilgrim Fathers Of New England.
The story of their voyage In the Mayaower is
familiar 70 every reader. Not 20 many of the par
tculars of their experience after landing at Ply
mouth. The shores we're covered with scanV
growth of pines, jumpers, sassaffas, and other
sweet woods. A "great store of fowl" filled the
forest The bay and brooks abOunded with fish,
and fair water ga. he'd forth from "dehcste springs"
They commenced the work Of preparing taeir new
homes with brave hearts, bat before Spring had
fully set in, little more than theee mohths from
their fret Arrival. death had reduced their original
number Of one hundred and two to fifty eight
The Decd were buried 10 the bank short distance
from the Plymouth Rock, and lest the Indians
shoud tiscOses the weakened condition Of the rot
tiers By ooun 1ng the graves, they were eveed and
sOwD with grass.
With the return Of Spring, The sailing OF the
NARROWER They bad struggled througn the Winter,
and he ship he'd always been IN sight place OF refuge
and relief ia Any de-pefSe emergency. Whue sue iay
On the bay the Plgrims had bold upon friends own
zaon spo ChrisIinDy but let the ship once depart and
on the ole hand there would be- the broad, deep ten
peetuous sea- the other VIDE, unkao~n fofeste-
poopled by saysses and Wild BEAST fon 6oyai vas
he neNest pout whore they could find white men, and
Nat vas az ay some Eve hundred miles The future
was befure them WITH all is uneef ainteswhch they
must march fIsad to meet yet not one OF the num'
her returred In the ship The sailing of the Maybe ser
surpassee in dignity Rough not i'll desperation, The
burning Of his ships by Cortez This snah band "
men, women, ano CHILDREN were grouped on the suore,
watching her she slowly set her sas and crept eut
o The ksy and FIR )m their sight, when tho sun set In the
western forest dirappeared In the distant blue
few In ians rnigt have been towering ON the ne'gh-
bspg bgbts Watching the departure OF the gre,t sea
bird but the last eyes that babe farewe 70 me may
flower were thOee Of woman.
In Tho Spring Of 1893, the plan of working Ia
common was given up, and it was agreed that
every man should cultivate for himself. In the first
season they plan ed about twenty acres of corn,
and dressed it with fish; in the second season,
about slxty acres. great drowth" which lit
pleased God to send almost destroyed their crops.
Parties went out both in Summer and Winter for
arh. and the best hunters secured the woods for
deer and game. The FIRST neat cattle that came
into New England were brought IN 1924 The first
netice of horses does not occur until 1914. Il
was q country for cattle rather than horses.
II was not oil uncommon thing to ride on bulls.
"wben John Alden went TO Cape Csd, to marry
Priscilla Mu Inns, he covered his bull with broad
slstb. ard rode on bis back; when he returned DO
placed hn VIE there, and lcd the bail home by the
ring N his nose One historian thinks, that had
Lsac gene On bali instead Of a camel, Rsbecca
might net have said as she did, Il viii ga Yet
tho bsh n the bands0mer beast. 1t is tod that
Alden 81 frst went 10 ask the hand Of Priscilla for
his friend, Miles Ssnd,sh; the father rcfcrred hun
10 the daughter, who listened with attention; but
fixing her eyes on Aden's handsome face she said,
'PrytAee, John, why do yos not speak for ysur-