New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04
YNGnrsa LITERARY INrELLIosvc.

Aztec sevesf, four yeau Of vaisd fOrsssss. n,
Her1'nS Head, oooc ooe a the most popvAs ., a.
dsiiy p ptr CT bosdoe has ~ bat fsiles Il oo.1,.
10 he pubtebed. hit Mr. r. Bs'dwis it, provrsss, ,,
p The iOnSo, Oerette. officially pa ss.del h IL
word ~ q belkrup. Of Jurso, the paper viz be A.
to the best purchaser: but the questios vhe.Asr
Ia worth prodshIg is fer tho grave cossasrs-
ton Of capits ste ard politicians. For The M,r,ssr
Heraid, albeit its circulation email has col ~
comparative fu-t &c since 1876 a. act Of scuick-
eia organ oftte Ctrs Tory party II uot the declared
organ. has been the thick -sndthin champion Of Ne
D-fb, Dirath cilue. In 1884, when Mr. Bndsn
bought 1t, The ho,n'rs Herald tad c.rculst;os viii
god advertising ccoOecti,s. Of some :. 900 q dss
Ten years later, sccsrdDg to the uodocabc authority
Stamp office ieturns, the circulation was oulf $50 At
prsseat il can scarcely be 100 while the exnoo.,s
al bns pspfr sid prsewo,kare high AZ Il the mr.
ral had ls-ge sele. Against TIE Times With olas.
en- 20 900 day, SIX hsr ,isg Herald had no chs.os
Of late ire proIlmt " csuse Of is prop1e,ors asol
vercy, 10 doubt, was tie keeping up high pre-. q.
ter the ,heap pewspapers came in, the sso!itoa 4
the newspaper stamp Jury. The Tir>s, soft Of a.
cessty in Lcodoo--we might say al ovor the Bautk
donl ions-on account Of its money article lie esles
Its osrrespoueNce, AID it's advertisements, sn,y
st,uck oHtLe extra two cents for the abolished asa
ard cells a. eight cents copy. Ie r'ass only cAsaos
was TO b.ye ccue dowo to a, least one-haf-tAe eev
journals are much Iows. The Morning Herald ~
bertd TO the high rate end The end was ruin Ia 1884,
when Mr. BALDWIN was aush Of cash, chiefly realised
BY The Standard ard The - Jnres's Ch'os.oe, be
purchased The Morning Herald type, presses sad
aood-will) Cor $50, zoe. Tee Rail xay mania Of 1916
created 20 many advertisements for which the bubbs
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he pu,cbase-money ard much more, was cleared il
that one yea. But Mr. Baldwin, who mad vel Coz
Quoted an evening paper. the Tory St0ndsrd, sceme<
all at see O, The Morning Herald He entrusted its
olitioG spt literary management almost who'll, 10
Irishmen most of whom held liberal opinions 10 thsf
htars but strongly, eut-ageousy wrote, az ,rcs
par1issns, 90 the sice Of ultra Toryi.m. They over
did the work. ard nurs the osuse they hired to
sus.sn Another de:ect was the notorious de6cieccy
of the psptr IN the news department Ii sss geasrly
behind s competitors in intelligence, and did not mead
the s.r by ostentatiousy isea,g extra editions, With
gres. flourish Of trumpets, which extras contained no
more than lad ahesdy appeared in the ordinary morn.
ing issue of The Times. This gave rise TO Il the
ucst humorous Of JOHN I.eecls many lively pictures
in Punch, where gentleman ssks waiter 10 coees.
house FOR Tie T,nes Of yesterday" and ans ~ered
With "Yezzuri Times Of yesterday engaged but
here to-dsy's Eraid, whish u oil the same" To-
deed, X may be affirmed that PsrsA did great deal
to ruin The Morning Herald. As that paper aad he
STANDARD, owned by cnc aad the ssme ProPuetst,
alike advocated the exploded and obsolete doctrines OF
Church and State toryism aud Conservatism,
Punch represented them fr nCmber OF year., - the
embodimepts Of MIS-. Camp and Mrs. Hsuis tv'd<
Martin Chuzz!swit sod mere was truth a. vel ~
hume in the wit
"A great sale Of stereotypes has come oh In Los-
con. The stcrcOtypes. copper plates ard stsep'sses
cftte ENCYCLOPEDIAS Astropolitara,' With the copy
rigb (the last costing f26 00e bought for Oe
Twenty pre volumes, consisting Of Is 672 sereotypa
Of tie celebrated PeDny Cy,lopsdia, With copyrgts
of the wort, vent to Charles Knight, the original pp.
prietor ssd eoitor sor &c, 700 something over coo
volume From fret to lsst about tlOO, 600 speat
90 this wosk.
Alexander Sc IL, 18Th, Few poet Of 1853, has
Just contributed to volume, called "Edinburgh
Essays" Highly in.ezestirg article on Scottish Be-
lads. TIE other authors Of the E.says" belong TO
the University Of when Saith is Secretary, si,h
salsr, Of ECO = year.
The incres,ipg taste for earlier English ltersturs
is evidenced by the fac. that London pub ishef
John Russell Smith Of Soho square has l,tey repro
drced st heavy co.t but With great success variety
of nearl, forgotten out-O'pnnt authors His series
includes Georss Wthers Hymns and Sings Of the
Church, edited by EdwsrS FAIR; the Works in Pross
spd Verse Of Sir Thomas Overbuy, EDITED by Il. +,
Rim bavlt the Poems Of TIE Rev. Robert Southwel
nov frst completely edited by W. b. Tu'nbu !; three
volumes of the DramaJ ana Poems of john NJ ustoa,
edited BY j. o. HsliweH; the Vision and Creed o.
Pies Ploughnar, edited BY Thomas Wright; Ia
crease Eahers RI marx able Provdences Of tho earut
Days Of America ColOpisatlon edited by George OF
for; Francis Qusiess EnchIidion; the Poems OF VII
liam Drrnmcnd Of HswthOrnden, edited by w. b.
TarpbaD; Jeba ssldens Tsble-Tak, edited byS w.
Singer. Among the forthcoming continuation of this
series are tho Msceisnes Of John Aubrey, with sdd,-
tons; George Chsprs.s trsnd ston Of Honers IlIsd,
EDITED BY tie Rev Richa-d Hooper; and the Dramatic
Works of John Webstss 1t is said ths hese reppnts
Of OLE woris find he largest aud readiest .se IN the
uni,ei States.
-Cara;.a Wnsmsn, Who 70 ore Of the meet indus
t,ious wrtes IN England considering the great prof,s
sons demands OF Lis time, is about pobisb'rg. with
portraits his "Persoaal Recoe Of the -Four Lao
Popes." Thsse are Plus VII, who rsigred hcm
MSch Is, 1900, 70 August 20, ,s23 Leo XII, tsa
Bep.smSer IS 1923, to February TO- 1879; Pds VIII,
fl March 81, 1923, to November 30, 1880, and
Gregory XVI, fem February 2, 1891 to June /. 1916.
1t would be wholly in disregard Of ell ecclesiastical
etiquette so- the Cardinal TO write sbou. the rsgsOg
Pon.iff. AZ Cardinal Wiseaan has sometimes besn
claimed Is a Iristnsn by birth, ~ 10 by blood.
Esy corec. the euor to say that he was born u ~
vile, in Spain, IN 1902 Hs h tts seventh Essna
Cs16irAAthe otter six being Pes, Allen, Howard,
York 10 soa Of the Pret.cdsr, ard never in Ensanch
" ED snd Acton
Another English tours. ~. D. BottwickD has
pubI,shsd liz experiences Of travel, as Three Yers
in CaIi.or,a." TAs szthcs Scotchman. has supplied
.ome rood iiu,trs:toos BIZ his OWE pencil. The ~