The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-16

ular Wlthal, that we need not add
word, by way of comment. These
cheap editions, by the Harpers, have
added to the number of the authors
admirers by the thousand.
a HISTORY OF NEW YORK, from the
Beginning of the World to the End OF
the Dutch Dynasty; containing, among
many Surprising and Curious Matters,
the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of
William the Testy, and the Chivalrie |
Achievements OF Peter the Headstrong, |
the three Dutch Governors of New AM
sterdam; being the only Authentic His
tory of the Times that ever hath been or
ever Will be published. By DIEDRICH
KNICK ERBoCKER. Complete in one vol
unle. New York: q. p. PUTNAM s. EON. |
Evansville: FISH & BARTER.
We are careful to give the title of
this remarkable History, as we find
it recorded on the first page of the
book itself, for we are we'll assured
that nothing short Of that would convey
any idea of the manifold and wonder
full events recorded in its seven books
of sixty-six chapters. Tho first thing
that strikes the attention of the stu
dent who takes up this volume for the
purpose of familiarizing himself with
the early history of the great CONNER
cial metropolis Of this country, is its
comprehensivencss. 1t starts from
the beginning of the world. The
first book is devoted entirely to
that branch Of the history. 1t treats
of the creation, and demonstrates,
among other things, that the patrl-
arch Noah committed an irreparable
oversight in not having four sons, and
portrays the trouble oecasioned phi
losophers because of that oversight
A great many perplexipg questions in
philosophy are very satisfactorily dis
posed of in this first book, and will
mover, we presume, be called in cues
ton again.
The gravity and deliberation with
which the author pursues his inEesti-
cations, are most charmingly illus
trated in the beginning of his Second
Book. We copy the story for the
benefit Of those who are always in q
hurry to have an enterprise finished
before it is we'll begun. Says the
worthy Diedrich:
My great-grandfather by the mo-
theirs side, Hermanns Won Chatter
cap, when employed to build the large
stone Church at Rotterdam, which
stands about three hundred yards to
your left after you turn off from the
Boomkeys, and which is so conVen-
iently constructed that all the zeal
GUS Christians of Rotterdam pre-
fer sleeping through a sermon
there to any other Church in
the city-my great grandfather,
say, when employed to build that
famous church, did in the first place
send to Delft for box of long pipes,
then having purchased new splitting
box and a hundred weight of the best
Virginia, he sat himself down and did
nothing for the space of three months
but smoke most laboriously. Then
did he spend full three months more In
trudging on foot, and voyaging in
IreksehrIst, from Rotterdam to Am
sterdam-to Delft-to Haerlem-to
Leyden--to the Hague, knocking his
mead and breaking his pipe against
every church In his road. Then did
he advance gradually nearer and nearer
to Rotterdam, until he came in full
sight OF the identical spot whereon
the church was TO be bniIt
Then did he spend three months
longer in walking round it and round
it, contemplating it, first from ono
point of view, and then from another
now would he be padded by it on
the canal-now would he peep at it
tn ough a telescope from the other
side Of the Meuse, and now would he