New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-09

me sts Il Vas a irving moment Religious Jerror sns;
aimed the cergymen; love of humanity broke
the Sheriff. Not that galOwsbeleying clergJ, q
less susceptible TO impression than other men, Vu dey
possess oonded control over Their emGtlop% aatgre
1t Is true that Jesus wept over suHerlpS humanity,
but He never attended but one executpn, ana lie the
victim. 90 .,zo., Ne
and almost hearttbroken man. He separated hlnseiI
from the church TO winch he belonged lie lost iatn ~
the Christian religion expOunded by such Gospel
teachers He became reckless and disspated' and his
sble realities Of that hour The did not punish the
young men, for the attending eergyneh aVefleu tat
they were concerted and had to hedpj but the law
did punish and still Furnishes, the innocent official
We have thus given specimens of the contents OF
this vigorous volume, which discusses Insanity
Human Fallibility, Theology, Prison Discipline,
Progress of Reform in Penal Legislation, and every
other phase of the general theme. We might not
assent to all the authors positions, but we heartily
thank him for the spirit with which his work is
imbued, and for the "cloud of witnesses he has
summoned from every quarter to attest the inutlty
and moral mschiefs of the Death-Penalty
THE AMERICAN WOMAN's HOME, Or. PRINCIPLES OF
DOMESTIC SCIENCE; being Guide TO the Eornnt on
and Maintenance OF EcohqinlCa i,,t ~ RErcHER
aud HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE. Emo d. d. foiu
& Co.
Any book which Beecher writes is certain TO DC
clever and suggestive. Miss Catherine Beecher Is
known as a most ardent and practical re-
of social institutions Mrs. Stoves charm
ing House and Home Papers make her
an authority in matters pertaining to household af
fairs This book some of whose chapters are famll-
lar friends-not unwelcome however, in their fine
new clothes-is a whole library of sound suggestion.
important information, eXhortatiOn, and reproot AS
people we have not acquired the alphabet OF beau
tiful living These teachers spell out manuals OF In
struction They assume that the explanation of.the
terrible disabilities which restrain and overbear
women is their almost total lack of training for the
occupations of life that in their need and pain they
grope ont blindly for any relief, and imagine
that in political activities the remedy Is attain
able; that a deeper thoughtfuness will teach them
that skilled labor must be their defense, aud the
largest range of avocatons their help; that when
the value of Thorough aud various work is under
STOOD the value Of h",,me and of the family relation
will come alstJ to be better understood-and Woman
as e and mother will be seen to have been chosen
to the highest destiny. The authors remember that
this destiny calls only pant of those women VINO
long for a larger and more helpful life than they
lead and they feel that reform by legislation and by
public sentiment must precede the gain of the best
things for the sex. But they hold that
marriage itself would be more frequent, and
far higher relation, if the wife were a producer.
and not consumer only or rather if her present
too heavy tolls were recognized and hghtened, and
the opportunity given her for individual effort And
there being doubt that the cOstliness Of modern
living is serious hnderance to marriage among
those classes which demand a certain elegance and
grace as the condition of happiness they feel that
any advice which makes beauty cheap is worth the
Offering and worth the taking. . .-....
To the consideration of those women who have
homes, then, they present very useful thoughts
about building with economy and taste, about ven
tilation abundant water drainage. the closepaclng
of convenences to space scientific cookery ar
tistio furnishing, light, sunshine, Conservatives
ferneries, the keeping of gardens Tho contriyances
which are to serve dozen different uses dizzy tho
arithmetic of memory. Our impression is that
what is a bed at night turns into a
whole room full of exquisite furniture by
day. that India screen becomes china
closet that packing trunk develops into library
table and that so much can be done with one room
that il is wasteful and ridiculous excess to spend
ones days in the acquisition of more territory The
wonders of SignoT Blit2's hat nothing TO the
feats of legerdeman which the ingenuity of Yam
kee housewife, with the apparatus of hammer and
box of tenpenny nails, can display. We are not
certain that we remember rightly, but We believe
that banyan tree will cheerfuly grow in the
librarv-window, and the trundle-bed become, by
erection, piano
And besides this house-furnlshing without money,
there is much good counsel about health, clothing,
daily habits, domestic manners, giving in charity,
economy of time of babies of the aged, of SER
wants of the sick of the homeless, the helpless, and
the vicious with a nurses manual in addition. In
deed almost every small everyday perpleXity finds
its help and answer here and it is book which, TO
country readers at least, must prove invaluable We
find ourselves condemned to suffer from nelcgant En-
\ aud a1
to differ from certain examples of beauty and fitness.
We cannot, for example. imagine anything much
uglier than the lambrequins offered patterns in
figures 80 and 80, or, for that matter, than the
Christian Home" which is to contain the lambre-
quins on page %, than Norman arches, described
with wall paper on the walls of one-story cottage
But the sentiment which demands the adornment is
good and this book itself will educate that sentiment
to demand purer forms and more harmonious combi-
nations than it offers
The paper is thick and white the printing good,
with occasional blunder Of prOofreading and
the price exceedingly reasonable, in view Of the
fields of gold the covers and the fact that they
as chock full o. science" as old Sol ellis
SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS IN FRANCE, GERMANY,
AND bWiIZEkLANDi or, ExPEkILSCEs OF An
GOULD BUFFUM, author Of Six Months IN the Gold
Mines" &c, &c. l2mo. Harper Brothers.
The lack Of most books of travel is that the chiel
who takS Totes neither saw sights nor experienced
sensations. lie has been, Of course, where it was
" the thing" to 60, he has looked at the proper
objects, and he has set down the impressions which
he is certain he ought to have had in his mental
cabinet is scale Of emotions, dniy ticketed, which
vibrate whichever the chord Of correspondence is
touched. He knows the entire gamut, and he meyer
mistakes. Object, cathedral emotion. awe. mingled
with reverence. Object, the Louvre emotion, won
der, and admiration Object, Baden Baden emo
ton horror amazement, or furtive interest as the