New-York tribune., 1867-04-29

and indeed is mainly noticeable as suggesting that
its authorizes may yet produce WORK worthy Il ,e
field and how from a little old. aTlSiocIatlc VII
lage it "cabbages out" to Use CIlylesan express
sion into "a hig democratic tOWn-ls good anu true
representation of one of the main characteristics of
these islands in the modern steam-age'
very opportune and lively work has Just been
published by Zinsley Brothers, entitled some
Habits and Customs Of the Working Glasses" by q
Journeyman Engineer. and who describes hlIselI
as a 'unt of the great unwashed." The book Is by
no means political work, nor written in the interest
of the Reform movements it is effort TO give the
world picture of the English workingman's life as
it is and we have here portrayed in yg9Tos an@
the "fnnor life of Workshops and the lab9rcrs .
saturdays" and "Sundays.n / permit myself TO
make an extract from this work. the truth of which,
opportunity to observe the lower classes OF thls
country r. .-......-t 1... ........t
While somo OF the pictures Of the working man that
accurate a. it possible them be made from an
outside point Of view others have as was naturally TO be
expected gone to either extreme some representing him
as Something very Ike .... -......s
F. .iA" li y m.nster Of such hid.ous nieo
Hfrrr Asto be hated needs but To be seen . .
white others picture him as an perfect being. living
incarnation OF all the talents" and the whole OF the
cardinal and the moral virtues In this case however.
as in most others in which extreme TAKEN the
truth lies near the happy mean" The WORKING man OF
Of good and evil he has Virtues but he has also his
and his weaknesses Take him for all In all and his corn
bad fseS and any relation 70
better
and creditabe member Of society than the snobb
kind of person wo with the manners and education OF an
underbred and an income less tnan that
of good mechanic, sacrifices comfort and honesty 10
keep up appearances. Nevertheless, In him human ma
ture has attained the maximum Of perfectiba Just
yet his character has it's seamy as well as bright s'de
lie Ia often drunken and not always ashamed thereof
his love of drink leads to his heing guilty
of conduct whchtO put 1t mldy-is not all that may
become man moreover. he frequently IN too literal ~
takes no heed for the morrow And though ne s
undoubtedly endowed with considerable amount Oh
natural srewdness, he is constantly allowing hmsei 70
be coled out OF money and used as tool by gangs OF
idle ignorant blatant harpies who hls own interiors
In everything except one questionable gift the gt o.,
the so he as not generally Rsaf 10 we ansSaSe is
scarcely pure English undefied and TOO often ana
too habtualy fun o strange oaths; while his ideas
upon history political economy, and the constitution OF
society noticeable rather for their CONFUSION ana tne
acouracyin short. they derived for the most part
from the Sunday Smase's terrific correspondents ""'
Messrs Moxon & Co. have just published neat
edition of Elias Essays in one volume, which has
preface never before published in which the adoption
Of the name Ella by Lamb is explained When me
South Sea House" was written Lamb doubted
whether his brother clerk in that establishments,
would relish some of it. and so he appended to 1t the
fore-Elia. " IL passed off, writes Lamb. pretty
well, for Ella himself added the function of an
author to that of Scriyener like myself"
The return of the Spring has brought back num-
bers of our literary men, who of late years nave
taken 70 wandering i'll the far South during the IN
hospitasle Winter months Carlyles tai, gaunt
streets from which he has been absent lin MenOnel
for some months He is looking much older how
ever. Mr. and MIs Lewes have returned from their
sOjourn in Spain, and Mr.. Lewes's health is much
better Mr.. Fr0ude started yesterday for Spain,
where. if there be no about the Tornado affair,
he will remain some mOnths, pursuing his inyestiga-
tons for the coming numbers of his history He has
been notified by the Spanish Government that he
will be allowed TO investigate the records Of the In
QUESTION il being the first permission of the kind
ever given. In Mr.. Froudes absence Charles Kings
ley. his Wifes relative, will conduct Frasers Mag
aSne.