The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-26
LI1ERARY REVIEW.
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This volume compiled upon the suggestion Of John
Grigg, Esq, gentleman whose long and successful ca
reer bookseller gives the weight Of authority to his
statement that the volume before is ga book better
deserving extensive circulation among families than any
other printed excepting the Bible" While we should
hesitate about endorsing without qualification this en-
thusastic admiration, glad 70 welcome the col
lection Of MIR. Moniss writings valuable addition
10 the useful literature of country There Is much
solid thinking and good old fashioned common sense
in these illusions, which will find welcome amongst
the growing class Of intelligent readers We want books
that shall be monitors to young men and womep-
books that shall speak with authority in the family and
which, in the constantly hour Of temptation,
shall help MS ut all hazards to obey strict rectude In
our common worlx-day life We are gratefult TO the pub
scs and to Mr. Fitzgerald for rescuing from the perish
ing files of the Inquirer much that ought not to be
lost Mr. Morris furnishes fair illustration of the i'm
fense amount of good influence and wise suggestion
which the journals of America constantly supplying
for the people, outside of the yexed questions of politics
or religion. Nothing has done more for our national
character than the newspapers which hastily read and
as hastily destroyed Words like these Of the editor Of
the Inquirer find lodging place in the heart and they
nsensbly mould the characters Of those to whom the
newspaper perhaps the only teacher Ono of Jour
nails published in New York, representing portion Of
citizens who having awaited themselves Of all the
advantages of citizenship still strive to keep sort of
inperim in mpCo by talking about 'our Queen, and
by capng everything American las IL they not
part of Amerca gravely tells in recent criticism,
That America has produced and most wants. sa-
tra The writer Is mistaken shall not lack satirists
while envy, malice and uncharitableness have their
abode amongst men, but do need moraists, and we
shall find them, if anywhere in the ranks of the journal
lists. 1t ia comparatively easy task to exhibit the
faults Of individual of nation because the analytic
lower order of genius than the synthetic but requires
something very like inspiration to lead the host out
of the desert into faircr and more beautiful fields
true moralist, whose words continually grow and
archng like the banyan tree take root again and
spring upward having fresh supplies for human want is
the rarest of intellectual prodigies The temptations
and besetments of such man very numerous, while
the mere satirst has only like coai, to stir up
the public private In search OF foul
fostering of We want moralist who will be able to
distinguish between the three very different but Seem
ngly similar classes of moral religious, and political
truths-one who understand that while he may de-
scribe what ought to be, the statesman must deal with
what be one, moreover who leaving to the legis-
lator and divine what belongs to their peculiar provinces
will 20 into the midst Of domestic and individual trials
and speak in familiar way words that shall day by day
make each nearer better man For so much Of this
noble mission Mr. Morris has discharged in his articles
en- Never Give Up, .Success or Failure, :" "a Start
in Life 'The Choice of Profession, .'Early Train
inc N uThe Mother and her Sons .tMatrimony or a
Bachelor In Dilemma" Occupation or the Uses of
n Trade or a Profession nMarred Life sHome Festi-
walls .sIhe invalid !" tStyIe and Dress and sHome
and its Harmoncs we tender our most grateful thanks
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