New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-25

Our dear friends the Cvilizers continue, in gene
rous and gratuitous way to advertise our repubca'
ton of Mr.. Thackeray's "Virginians, and to In
form bewildered world that we reprinted upon
them Mr.. Dickens's Little Dorrit.'" Now, it
is puzzling to us to imagine how highly distin-
guished bookseller would appear after being g re-
printed upon" Sometimes, in the minds eye, We
behold him riDged and speckled and streaked like
New-Zealander much decorated cutically after the
fashion Of his native isles. He presents to US
the appearance of an animated perambulsting
proof-sheet-the columns imprinted upon his sta.-
wart limbs, the illustrations upon his manly chest,
and the titles and notes upon bis nose and fingers.
Sometimes we think of the brawny arms of bold
mariners plctOrially adorned in India ink We
have heard of scholars who were walking libraries.
Such were Bentley and Person and Parr; but
walking edition of Little Dorrit " would be
greater curiosity than the whtest-haired and blood
est-Orbed AlbinO ever exhibited by Barnum.
There are other deliberations How many men,
bers of the firm does it take 90 TO show the pat
term" DO they kindly divide the volumes between
them, or does each take so much of the press
work the superficial inches Of his private
and personal corporation may permit Does it
squeeze and jam and macerate man to BE-
printed upon-in word, does it hurt! And can
those subjected to this process be washed like
form of type7 If not, what an extraordinary spec
tacle must the Civilizers present. First they
stamped all over with Little Dorrit," and now
they are geographically embroidered and stained
with 1.-THE Virginians." This must be the cause Of
much confusion, and render the perusal of their
persons very embarrassing to the general reader;
while, should they after death be embalmed as
typographical curiosities, their spinal columns
would be greater botheration to antiquaries than
CleOpatras needle, and would lead to fercer con-
troversy than befel Mr.. Pickwick about the cele-
brated b. ]. l.. L. S. T. U. NJ. p. S. inscription.
We certainly think that as heightened blblOpolsts,
the Cisilize perfectly justifiabe in declining to
be reprinted on and promise not to do it, unless,
in q moment of unacy, they enter the basement of
our office and throw themselves wildly upon the
presses.
There is another person who may have some OBJ
lection to seeing his works reprinted upon the Civ
ilizers. He is an Englishman. He is an artist, not
a writer and his name is John Leech He con-
tributes the best humorous illustrations to The
London Punch and in his lne-and very high one
it is-hc has no equal. He draws boys and girls
and women and fops in mastery manner-a man.
ner, in fact which no living artist can approach.
We need not say either that he has dry humor
about his designs, and about the titles which he
assgns-that they are vertable sketches of actual,
every day scenes in English society. Many of them
have no interest for Us beyond the pleasure which
their admirable execution gives US. Those who
would know who and what John Leech is should
read Mr.. Thackeray's essay upon his genius, con-
tributed, We believe, to The London Quarterly.
Now every week the Civilzers make a violent
assault upon Mr. Punch, lacerate with shears his
venerable body, and carry off these ornaments Of
his person. Not content with pilfering these en-
cravings, the garroters alter them mutilate them,
csricature them and give to them new titles of the
most ridiculous appropriateness. Is this evidence
of civilization or of Vandalism? Is this justice
to the artist! How much money do the Civilizers
pay to Mr.. Leech for the privilege Of appropri-
ating and then spelling bis finest works, emitting
his monogram and not making the slightest alusiOn
to the source from which tire originals derived
How would Mr.. Hoppn like to be served so in
London The Civiizers make great point Of the
fact that we do not give the illustrations of the
Virginians. Pictures are not in our way; but
when we undertake to furnish them we promise
that it shall not be in style calculated to fill the
bosoms of their designers with modification and
wrath.
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