New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-09-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS,
THE sluNpERs OF VICE AND P0LLY.

George Routledge Il sons.
The fact that Vice and Follyare blundels no more
needed the proof Of volume AXE this than the fact
that every villain in Denmark was an arTant knave
needed the testimony Of the ghost. We are glad to
have the volume, nevertheless; for though 1t ~
neither profound nor exhaustive, II is instructive
and entertaining Whom Mr. Harreayes gener's-
Ives he is commonplace; when he illustrates NJ
interesting. He hasnot made enough of his suo'e''
90 deter others from taking II ny after hiil' ".o
hope they will do So for we welcome every ,ints
10 make vice anI folly absurd. As the ino', S.I5
whom MANY consider the regular faculty nav
IN cpse their patients there can be no glo'' Ai
irving those whom they probably co'Su'i 80. %
the Wits Ridcnle may net Oe Il soou -.
Trntb "a Slafteslmry maintained, Dut ~ 70 NV
I'D tost Of Talsehood An old English poet HAS P"'
this fact in a nutshell:
a.. rcr h, who does not tTomhle at the SWORD,
W,lc snails not with his head upon inc nloch'
1Srn buf n lest against him, loses heart LII,
1,hcre is no man alive who can live down .,
The unex tinguishable laughter OF mankind
Ar Uarereayes has no great faith in the punish
,ncpts which men have invented, the best, he CON
ceives being coarse and clumsy, even IN the most
refined and intelligent communities when compared
With the deNtcrous chastsements dispensed by
Nature. He may be right1n theory, but we should
not like to live in a country where his theory was
carried into practice The perpetual dread Of assass
nation in which the first Donysius of Sicily is sald
to have lived NAV have been a heavy, but II
WAS not q sufficient punishment for his baroartles'
We should be willing to let monarch like LOUIS the
Eleventh of France shut himself up IN hls Jall-lke
Chateau du Plesss les Tours but we should feel she
only when the KEY was ont of his hands and IN our
own We agree with Mr.. HargTeaves that Nature
forces transcrcssors execution upon themselves,
but there are cases when this execution is TRIVIAL III
comparison with the trangressiOntoo trivial ever TO
prevent similar transcression. The night to punish
NAV be disputed the right TO protect is indisputabe
Mr. Hargrcaves quotes a saying of Horace Walpole's,
The proper punishment of mighty criminals is
their knowing that they are, and must be forever,
despised by the good and adds: And however
abandoned man may be, there is always some point
in which he breads the desires the appro
baton of his fcllow-creatures for the notorious
Burke-the leading partner in the firm of Burke N
Hare, purveyOTs of dead bodies for the anatomsts-
was particularly anxious to appear respectfully
dressed on the scafod and displayed more sOcitude
about the clothes in which he should die, than he
did about the sixteen murders upward that lay
piled upon his soul" We think we understand the
anxiety Of Burke the clothes question, but for the
life of us cannot what the anecdote has to do
with the saying of Walpole's TO winch it is tagged
Should Burke have been hung en- dishGbHle as a
hung at all! The riddle is too much for
Among the multitude of blunders that men com
nit the greatest perhaps spring from the root of all
evl-mOney. They embrace the two extremes
of avarce and extravaganza, and it is not easy to
say which is the ridiculous for if the spend
thrift cannot keep his money, the miser dare not
spend his-One being the steward Of Others in the
present the other the steward of others in the fu
ture Misers have had great men IN the ranks
actors, artists sometimes men of letters. GarTick
misery III the matter of tallow, as was also the
sculptor Nollekns, who never lighted his candle at
the commencement Of the evening, even when COM
pany was expected but waited until he heard a
knock at the door and second knock after it, lest
the first should have been runaway, and his candle
wasted. lie used to pocket nutmegs at the Academy
dinners and his wife procured spice for her table by
asking the grOcers of whom she got her tea sugar
to give her q Glove or hit of cinnamon to take a
bad taste out of b mouth. If smile at this, we
ought TO laugh ou ght at the avarice of Nj. Vaudie,
a rich French magistrate whO seized by illness ut
was in phlebotOmizing age refused TO let several
practitioners bleed him. because their charges were
higher than he chose 10 pay AT last a barber offered
10 perform the operation at the rate of three pence
time. " How often would il be requiredp Three
times was the reply losing eight ounces of blood
on each OCCASION The mser mused Gould he not
save sixpence by getting it all done at Oncep 1t
war done; the twenty-four ounces were taken. He
saved his sixpence-and lost his life But it was no
great loss after all-except to him.
volume light be written about spendthrifts and
gamblers Mr.. HaTTeaves has some anecdotes of
the latter which are worth remembering as illusra-
tons Of human folly. One of his great fools is Gar
cia a notorious Greek whatever that may mean,
who once played at Homburg from II in the morn
ing till II at night lie broke the bank five times,
winning on each occasion $4,000 francs-in all
10000 francs Next day be left the place. Next
year he was back again seated at the table, where
he lost million of francs before q week had elapsed
He returned TO Paris realized property TO the amount
of another million. and, repairing Immediately to
Homburg. was relieved of that within the space of
another week The Duke of Queensbury died at the
gaming table. Pitt was heavy player, but he sue
ceeded in breaking himself Of the habit. His great
rival Fox. however who, as il said could easily
have made several thousands a year by restricting
himself 10 whist lit is Mr.. HargToaves who insinu-
ates this clause if il creditable of Fox was
30 besOtted by the vice that he preferred hazard,
where skill is useless, and in consequence, beggared
himself before he had well set foot in public life be-
sides running some Of his best friends who became
sureties for money advanced. Lord Holland left
him G154OOO. all Of which went TO pay his gaming
debts. Almost everybody who had money then
gambed, the fashion being set by what the English
are pleased to call men Of the highest rank The
biographer of Duncombe the Member for Finsbury,
gives a list of some of these worthless, and hint Of
their losses The Duke of York, he says, was one of
the most conspicuous of these untring tempters of
fortune, and one of the most unlUcky. He rarely
won, and constantly lost large sums. There were
some men Of fashion who could not live without
play The Marquis Of Drogheda ruined himself
over and over again, till he was obliged to
live on a small annuity paid quarterly. As
sOon as he received his money he lost
it at the gaming table, and afterward had