Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-28

don letters of the Tribune, the spicy edi-
torials and clippings of the Eueniag Post
and the Mail, would make q pleasant
book, il collected and revised; for be it
known that the proof-reading on all these
journals is most execrably done.
The project Of tunneling the East
river has not been abandoned, as has
been reported. A committee, consisting
of VIM. A. Smith, of brooklyn, and Joel
A. Pithian, of New York, members of
the Iron Tubular Tunnel Company, has
been appointed to present the claims OF
the corporators to the public, and il is TO
be hoped that before many more winters
pass we shall have reached the glorious
consumtnation Of having an easy and
safe mode of getting to the City OF
Churches without being obliged TO de-
pend upon the Union Ferry Company.
The bridge project is still in abeyance,
owing to the secret opposition OF this
same company, which controls the bridge
, stock; and unless the people OF the two
cities insist upon the carrying out of the
provisions of the charter, l much doubt
whether we shall ever have bridge.
Now is tbs time for new plays, new lee
lures, new journals, and new books. The
last stage sensation is after Dark, one
of Dion Bourcicault's exsggerations. 1t
is full of horrors. 1t fairly bristles with
them. A woman leaps from bridge
into the Thames and has narrow escape
from death by drowning. A man is
poisoned to within an inch Of his life, and
is afterwards laid upon the track of
subterranean railway to be run over and
crushed by the fast approaching train.
A dozen other people are placed In
equally embarrassing positions, but OF
course only the wicked have their vital
continuity violently solved, and the good
are all saved to live happy lives and re-
ceiye the rapturous plaudits of the audi
euce. A queer version of the same play
is on the boards of the Bowery, where il
is nightly rehearsed in presence OF all
the newsbows, bootblacks, and other
oap,ius of this great city. Wallack's
glories in the Lancashire Lass, who un-
| fortunately suffers from an attack OF the
Grecian bend, disease which, to the
honor of the women of Lancashire be 1t
said, has never appeared in that fine old
English county except among the very
old women. As fashion it has dropped
lately, even in New York, aud you rarely
meet it in your walks. When you do you
are morally certain that the individual
who displays it is either an escaped luna
tic, or else resident of some three'story
brick house in Greene or Mercer street.
Among the new lectures are those of
Dr. Lemercier and Rev. DR.. Anderson,
of Oxford University. Jeems Pipes is
here, too, telling us about the delightful
"Sixty minutes in Japan" which have
made him so we'll known as a truthful
traveller; and this week we shall have
Mark Twain, who will teach the Metro
politaus how the Sandwich Islanders eat
babies.
As to new books there is no end of
them. You know that in literature as
in finance, much paper aud much pow
erty may coexist, and this fact is very
patent Just now. Mrs. Tucker has writ
ten a life of Brick Pomeroy, in which
that patriot is set down in the caelndsr
of uncanonizad saints. She says :" His
ears are large, and indicate the Demo-
cratic element of character" and other
wise describes him as young man who
should by right of talent and knowledge
of public affairs be at once elevated to
the Presidency. Prof. Noah Porter has
Just finished his book on Tho Human
Intellect" and an enterprising publisher
few days ago issued an illustrated
novel by John Csrsten Hauch, Phi. d.
1t is called Robert Fulton" and gives
a picture of American life and manners
which is decidedly more refreshing than
one of Dimpendickerby's coal-oil
sketches in the Tinicien Academy of
Fine Arts. 1t gives also panorama of
the great steamboatmsns mind, and
tells of bis love for Laura, and his
troubles with half-scere of enemies,
and ia altogether wonderful book. 1t
should be read by every American who
has a curiosity to know what is thought
of his country by DR.. Hauch, a philoso-
pher who has never lived an hour out of
sight of his own town, ID. Al.