New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-19
NEW BOOKS AT PARIS.
From Our Own Correspondent.

NEW BODhS II JHfo'
From Our Own Correspondent.
PARIS, April 81, 1861.
When. ten years ago, the totterns and emptied
thrones Of Europe were getting propped up again
with bayoDets aud filed with moDarchs, wnen
prisons OF State and penal colonies aud free
countries of refuge were filed with the enemies
of constitutions" of property and famiy--torn
or driven from their families and property by
arbitrary force and Illegal DEGREES, order reigned
10 Europe by the same authority as 1t reIgned
aud regns in Warsaw. The Empire was peace.
The ERA Of Revolution" was closed The
politico-couservative millennium had arrived.
Eighteen Forty.eght was failure! This was
the exultant cry OF sincere reactionists; with
some fsint-hearted liberals il was the whining
cry, with some broken-hearted liberals sup.
pressed 10 o moan. "0ur leading merchants,
too many OF them. cheerfully hgmmed il 10
variation ON the Psalm tune, Tc Dsnm PiHEm tau-
damus The chorus of high aud low vulgar, lack
inc intellectual convictions, hearty enthusiasm,
or even vigorous prjudices took up the phrase, as
they do other catch words and came to believe that
il was the expression OF Il truth on the strength of
their own ears To their own lips was confirmed to
them By the visible Successes 81 the reaction rs by
the visible msiOrtunes Of liberty.
Happily there was another party, and large,
though from 1882 to 1879, not much respected
one, composed of makers writer's, and thoughtful
readers of history, OF tough not to say ianatical
coniessors of the faith in everlasting right who OBJ
stinately refused TO accept The transient triumph OF
its enemies as n slmple end Of eternity.
/. .s.ka IN.
Gooc., honor children, wife,
- - tntr Prcht snisli;
lae city Of God reusine.A.
So sang Martin Luther, atoutly defiant OF eon-
promise or concession or submission or the South
ern trade in mdulgcrces dashing the inks.and right
ut the Spirit of Evil at the very moment when he
had donned his strong mail of craft and power.
I he movement To restore toe church To the puIlty
of iis old constitution 90 hberatc the souls oi men
from its enslayug power, looked then Ike failure.
Ii got on though and spite OF hell has mud It's
course" in fact IL going on nov.
History does not stagnate IN seoreeate puddles;
IL has Il continuous movement No instruction can
come from it, study except condition Of this fact.
Instruction was never more apt 10 The want oi the
tune than it il to-day, both in Europe aGd America.
No period OF history is more illustrative oi the feet
and fuller of instruction than that of lets. most
Timely help to liz study il the work Of GARNER
Pages hHiSioiye de Ia Rec0jsiiOn de- ISIS. the FIRST
two uf whose SIX volumes are now IN print The
first OF these principally taken up with the ke'0-
luton in italy, its eauses aud events and with the
relations between IL and its LEADERS 10 the then
French Government. The author carries his mar
rutiye no further than upt0 the day OF june, when
the Executive Commission, ot which he was 4 menu
her. resigned IL power 10 the dictatorship ci Gen.
Cayaarac tie hrran2es il in three parts: the first
eNiending 10 the end of March, i-i~, when be had
ALREADY been ~ Minister at Finances, n member o.
the Pros isonnl Government; the sccOud. from that
dats 10 the ith OF May when The Provisional Gov
slnmcnt resigned It's powers To the National Assem-
bly,, which, " q nearly unanimous vote, eicc d VI.
Pages rs one oi tie members oi the LAeculNe I"in-
mission already mentioned. whose term Of power
closes the third chronological period Ot his history.
Here them Is evidence OF the authors opportunity
To tell up the truth as To the matter in hand; the
careluest scrutiny Of the open record IT his long
public life confirms faith M his honest purpose
to tell the truth; his fidelity in fulfilling such
purpose appears from the fact that he Las
given tie past twelve years tJ the composition oi
tnis W5Ik--this fret volume Of which, relating To
ltay was DrO0fread IN other than tho competitors
sensr. nnd approx ed rs to statement oi iacr. huc
b, line IN manuscript by the writer political aud
personal friend The purest. noblest historical man
Ol our i,mr, let alone of Italian patriots, Daniel
MANN. And here II i specially 60 Ice remarked
that this volume IL printed from the manuscript n
il was completed 10 the dottngi of - and crossing
of t's, before 1850. Events that have occurred
since then qualify some Of the opinions therein ex-
pressed by IFS author; but ia facts bccouie just
thereby Toe moro significant. To the reader oi tins
volume it becomes irrrlu;nhy evident that iei-
was any thing but "A failure; that the United ltals
of lr6l is the successor, the scholar Well taught
aud prolting by hard historical lessons oi zen
years, the graduate OF 1919, commencing low, With
a vacdictory 10 rs past iuteage is ul-grpwn iie
among The lations. The second volume oi ". Car
nicr Pages book treats Of the cotemporary move.
meBts in Other countries oi Continental Europe aud
in England. The best that can be said ri he an
thorG s,e is that il ia always clear and readable
lie offers no brilliant m0's. no Snsuiarly 'iao rhe-
iorical paragraphs "a for the biiei oilaiops' 20
which alone your crowded columns can oa'r he'P''
tality. Thpse who read so De amused ~ alcrd"lr'
or 10 b. gratfea By dsPlay 81 more! literary
art. will not bo content with this book. ~ - all
dressed 10 the intellectually working mon o' oar
time, and is emincpty worthy ot their attention.
L, IL nearly six months since wrote you aooat
French books 49, and my Catalogue Ralsonne
covering that long period mast ncce.seriy be
imperfect " the historical catce.'' NE nave;