Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-01
- ,n.. q on our table, Vol 81 Of the new

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az what we before said about the other vol
6es of this great work, viz; that it bids fair to
far surpass any undertaking of the kind that has
preceded it. The present (5th) volume com
mences at Oh, in the Alphabet, and although
Volume of seven hundred and seventy pages,
gets down only as far as Co, from which TACT
some idea may lie formed of the great purpose
of the publishers to make it the most compre-
hensive summary of knowledge ever yet issued
from the press.
Mr.. j. G. Orr is the agent for the sale OF the
work in Western Virginia.
We have also on our table many other works,
which we fear arc never destined to be read by
us, and consequently not noticed beyond mere
Acknowledgement of their receipt 1t is rs
much almost as one could do nowadays, to
keep the run OF the titles of the new books,
and the greatest infection, possibly, that could
be nut upon a good hard-sensed individual of a
sensitive organization, would be to read any
considerable number of them.
We have also the last number of the London
Quarterly Review, Littell's Age, Knickerbocker
Magazine, Great Republic, Blackwood, Ladies'
Magazine, Hunts Merchants Magazine, The
Southern Literary Messengcr-all of which are
good, and some of which are especially good,
and any of which are to be preferred to the
kind of reading that the mass Of people are
Just now given to. 1t would be a great gratiti-
cation TO us to think that we should live TO see
the day when such literature would be as eager
ly sought every Saturday night by the busy
throngs, ut the News Depots rs are now New
York Ledgers and New York Mercuries, and all
that class of ephemcraI and unsubstantial read
ing. We are glad to know by the healthy and
prosperous look of the pages of these Journals
and magazines, that year by year they are gain
ing in their holl upon the popular mind.
Some Of our readers will no doubt recoect
n speech which we published some months
ago, made by Charles Dickens, before the
"Working Mems Exhibition at Manchester"
England, in which it appeared TO what sur
priSing extent, and with what astonishing re-
suits, the highest grades of literary and ssien-
tific reading and studying had been introduced.
Men who, in their youth, had never enjoyed
the benefits of any thing else than the rudcst
sort of parliamentary education, We're III at
te'.tl....-~ IAEnrA this great exhibition. with
elaborate theses on Chemistry, Botany, Geology,
Mathematics and Northumberland at the hands
Of some of the first scholars of the realm, re-
ceived assurances of the vast additions which
they, in these theses, had made TO the before
known stock of information.
Such results never would have flown from the
brains OF men who spent their spare hours
pouring over the 'dreary drawn OUT baller-
dash spun by Sylvanus Cobb. Why is it not
inst as possible for people engaged in active me
chanica pursuits in city like ours, to combine
with their experience, a knowledge of the theo-
rctical in their different branches, and push, out
from this combination theoriesEand discoveries
of their own as it is for the employees in the
factories and workshops Of Manchester, under
far less fuvorobIc circumstances, to do So
We shall be glad il a word dropt from
time to time on this subject shall be
productive of some such good results as
those which we have enumerated All the
advance that has been made in the arts has been
made by the patient study of principles going
arm in arm with everyday experience. To
come back, then, TO where we started, we hope
that the toiling thousands of our good city will
more and more give their leisure hours to the
reading of the highest grade of literary and
scientific journals, like somo of these we have
mentioned, instead of wasting them over fash
literature, which not only does no good, but
actually, as it has been we'll shown, dissipates
the natural intellectual force of its dcvotccs.
DIsGRAcEFuL frauds have hecn discovered in