New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

discourse entities it to hi CHER place IN our current
literature than can be claimed for many OF the
tributes to the memory of the eminent man whom
il celebrates. 1t sets forth the peculiar features Of
MIR. Evcrett's character with a vigorous and DIS
eliminating touch, and illustrates their Development
and application by a singularly fecitods Seiec''ol
of incidents in his career The following Pietureoi
The state of intellectual cultivation IN America az
The time of Mr.. Evorctts first visit to Error ~
1915 ia a model Of condensed and expressive &C.
serption:
The entire free white population Of the ccnntry u'u
NOT exceed six mions. Our claims to hlga ci..'h "a
were put forth Gncerainly at home ano huS = ga NC
abroad Extreme doctrines of state rights hau - pr
vailed that we hardly knew whether We nau - H.
government The first spade bad nOt o'FH 80 -.
The Erie Canal Not hoqSe si2oa up9a ,nr and the
arr now the cities OF Lowell and Ia"renS'i iiu ~
Nerrjmsc and the Connecticut ran their "Ncs cou
unobstructed t. the sea. II was seven !e"ls n -,
that the first manufacturing corporation on Tue ei
InTiSnity If cur race on this continent, there was
none Time had moi, ms now gtn,iou 40 ts ou vu''.
history It's gray hues and venerable iOrms Names 10"
nIpssic were familiar and recent In Sages % me rev
e,utonary period had shailed OF the mortal con 81
party connection and prejudice Oi later men, 20,
sters name not known across the Atlantic; Ano
Wheaton. Kent and Story had not written oae Oh re
works which have made them authority IN ooth i'e'aIs
pheres In history Prescott had graduated tnat year.
bancroft and Palfrey in College, Hdreth was ~
school and Motley iBfint in his cradle. Uniyersl'
ties except in name had none. No college he'd
school IN connection with II, nor Ia" scnoo
IN successful operation. There were no museums o.
Zoology or Anatomy, few aud poor cabinets Cd Geology
and Mincra!ogv and not observatory nor sderchl
telescope We had d. public library large or as rich
ss the private library Of Lord Spencer at s country
sest Of Althorpe In the fine arts, West snd COp.ey,
always British subjects, were douelel IA LONDON eh1
Anston stl young. Studying ard travelling IN En-
rope. We had no galleries OF pictures of statues.
doubt if there was even Iroessed sa OF IIs tes
in fla md and had Ital Ist
sculptor. -,
In arc, itecure our Capitol and other public build
ings at Washington were smoking ruins o1d. exceit
few State Houses. we had scarcely secular b9I1hg
with any preteusiOns TO architectural cHet wine le'
kgiou architecture had hardly begun Its exodus IRON te
elanbOarded aud shinged barns OF our ancestors IN
usic we had some marches and popular sOnes Dn tie
opera and prima from Europe had not visited Us
and except some modest attempts az the kreai
IN Boston, religious music had hardly dared even 10
pln its escape from the prlsorhouse OF Fallah Ie-
str,ints. Monuments we had n1ne,-nelther at Con-
eord nor at Lexin yton Bunker Hill In poetry,
there had been patriotic eusons but their merits were
FATHER moral than art site The Ihanaopsis mad not
been written, one of those poems when nave given
70 their authors the and fame Of American poets
Irving had not written lis Sketch Book Cooper one
Of his novels; and ii five years after NJ Everett
sailed for Europe that the most liberal Of British essay
sts in the most liberal of British journals PIT the IA
nous question "Whc in the four quarters Of the globe,
yeads an American bookf
Not less striking is Mr.,Dsnas account Of the
European scenes with which the young American
traveller was to become familiar.
He went u trace a civilization Of twenty five hund'
red years-an antiquity counting by tens oi ceniules
rs we cornt by years 10 among the fallen col
umns the broken arches the ruined walls of a eiviza.
tion If exquisite beauty; 20 follow the faint traces OF
the site of Troy TO wander through the pass q Tier
nopyp and over thc fields of Maganthon and rlatpa.
He went TO visit not only the Rome O. Cicero and virgil
and the Caesars but the Rome of today. the Eternal
City, the seat Of the more wonderful ecclesiastical
power He went not only 10 explore the traces or ne
Dast but 70 meet the splendid civilization OF actual En-
rope TO note the tread OF armies and the sweep OF
Aayies; to see Europe bristAng with oayoneis from
military fame Of Napoleon 10 see Statesmen assembling
at Vienna and Paris lay out tae boundaries Oh en-.
pIes make gifts crowns and scepters ard 10 setto
the public law Of Eurore and 10 meet princes ana no
bes heads OF families of an Antiquity running naeK 10
MYTHICAL origin, whose ancestors for generations had
commanded armies and nayies ed senates ana ca0l
nets and only affected the desinies OF empires but
changed the face of nature itself The peculiar child o
academic education he went TO visit universities where
were gathered the teachers and the taught OF cont
nent; and to find at Oxford. university so ancient
that one of its colleges called per sxeeenoe the New
College, founded hundred years before Columbus
discovered America. The student Of books, be went 70
examine libraries where had been gathered not only all
there Of literature in printed volumes out iuIain
ted manuscripts and parchmens older than the revival
Of letters The lover OF art he went not only TO explore
the beautiful remains Of classic art IN al It's orders, but
70 view the castles and towers OF tie feuda ages anu
magnificent Gothic structures Oh vast scale that
through the great windows Of one OF them might have
been pushed. after another all the buildings OF bis
Alma Mater, their cellars and chimneys with them.
He observe historic spots in all parts Of tie
continent, marked by III monuments, and the great
squares OF cities embeshed By the statues Of heroes
ssges saints and kings TO visit galleries where were
collected the paintings Of tie schools OF every age
and nation; and TO find, hidden among the untroiden
ways the roof Of the Cathedral at Milan more marble
statuary than he could have found in bis country
nom Maine 10 the MISSISSIPPI Inc spprecaaOr OF sci
working places of Calico Copernieus, Leibnitz KEEP
Ter, and Newton. but he was to find living and hon9red
Humboldt, Culver, and Davy The orator and student
Of history and public law, he went not only 10 stand