New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-24

with our usual art, first exhibited the dark side. in
order that the bright might all the more dsze
and delight the public eye We have Indicated the
Deficiencies of the past that the glory OF the pre-
.ent might seem the grander and more gorgeous.
The Democratic party has one literary gentleman
left. WHO is IN himself host. or. to speak hgurs-
lively. who is forest Of goo.e-quills, ocean of
ink and pyramid Of paper-who can write even
better than Mr. 0'Sullyan-~ hose fecundity i,
prodigous and who has every literary qualifca.
,ion except taste, sense and knowledge, and every
poljtcal qualification excep, Democracy, having
been Wing. Tyler man, and hno~-Noth-
ing. all with great zeal and effect Need We
.ay that We refer to Mr.. Charles Edward Lester,
whose book upon the The Glory snd Shame OF
England" is popularity supposed TO hs'e occasionea
III. dissolution of nine English Ministries aud the
suicide of nine English Ministers We do refer TO
him. We scorn concealment Lester IS the man.
The Coming Man. The Man who Has Arrived.
The Man who has launched new magazine called
if not known as The Democratic Age. Mr.. Lester
has looked about with sad but penetrating eye, and
having discovered total famine OF - bold, honest
land discriminating literary criticism, modestiy
but firmly saws. " re shall endeavor to do something
to supply this want" A New Age is on U.s.
SAYS Nr. Lester, referring in this instance
not 10 his magazine, but 10 the present
respectable yesr of 1855. The strange
"ulents of the Review have contemplated
:" this New Period" 1t would siye us novel
satisfaction to behold an Arrangement contem-
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an Arrangement contemplating New PERIOD
squirting with forty-eye-bal power st what Mr.
Lester calls the electric progress OF Eighteen
Hundred and Ffty.eght," and at the same time
nibbing its pen 10 respond to the fresh demands
which are made on Journalism Journalism
will be very much obliged to Mr.. Lester for his
friendly aid; the New Period owes him countless
thanks; the New Age, alas the Democratic Age,
is under infinite obligations. MIR. Lester enters
brayey upon the work, considering its peril.
The hand which now holds the pen, says Mr.
Lester, referring to his own private and personal
dexter, must feel the shock of the Telegraph IN
"every pusation." We have in our day seen
many gentlemen writing leading articles in various
positions Some were sitting; some were stand
ing; some were sprawlng. But We can lay our
hand in solemn honesty upon the proper side of
our wsistcoat, and, appealing to the world to wit
ness the truth of our declaration, svow that We
have never seen any gentleman writing article,
and at the same time receiving in his pen-hsnd
succession of electrical shocks. We are not
ashamed to own that we should Ike 70 see the
operation. We have our doubt of the feasibility
Of the plan. We should apprehend a manuscript
more remarkable for what We may call "jerkiness'
than legibility. As an editor we should not wish
to read that manuscript; as cOmpositOr, We should
not wish to L" set that manuscript; ssaproof.read-
err We should prefer to have nothing to do with that
manuscript; but as man who has gazed with
awe upon the portentous cacoscript of the Hon. X.
Choate, We should like to see that manu-
script. When Mr.. Lester has got well to
work; when he sits down 70 mis- machine,
With the New Age upon one side, with the
New Period on the other, with a new pen
in his hand and new sheet of paper before him;
when 1.-The hand which now holds the pen " has
been pentifully charged with the fluid, and is trem-
bling with eagerness TO get on-we shall be much
obliged to Mr.. Lester if he will send for US, and
We trust no ill-tmed poteness will tempt him to
rise upon our entrance Wew wish to see him upon
his tripod. We wish to scrutnze his "pusa.
"tions f" and witness his vigorous jumps We
have seen the mermaid; we have seen the hairless
horse; We have seen many varieties OF the ele-
plant; but We think We shall die more easily if We
can see this Sbyl of the Nineteenth Century in
pantaoons, bobbne upon his stool and shiverng
and shaking out his reponses to the fresh de-
mands which are made on journalism The
times have been hard, and are not yet precisely
soft; but rather than miss this exhibition, We
should not reluct at the disbursement of two ,hil-
ings, Federal currency or of s25, 900 in bills upon
any bank in Arkansas or Florids.
From the specimen number of The Democratic
Age which We have received We infer that the
editor is already mounted upon an imperfect ma.
chine. His language is gorgeous his pen is prompt,
but his thoughts are wofully belated. The brain
" of Shakespeare" be tells us, sprung from the
same moding hand that chi.eled the Gothic
peaks of the Alps, and painted lss' evening.
sunset" Nobody, unless seated upon tripod.
would speak of molding hand chi.eng and
painting at the same time. But who shall limit the
lofty eceentrcities Of Lester GtqatVsi There is
" law OF existence for all beings and all things
&" from the mote that floats in the sunbeam 10 the
" Bengal tiger in his jungle So says the Aged
Democrat. We will not deny 10 him what We
concede 10 the mote; nor shsl be have harder
treatment than the Bengal beast aforesaid. There
is law of existence even for him. bis nonsense
j. preordsned; and if 60 use his own words) "a