The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-01

l IA due 10 Walpoe OF having organized corruption
into system, and OF nxing market value TO every
! faculty of mind and every twinge oil conscience"
"0i all the expedents 10 make the heart lean, the
| brain gauzy, and 70 thin life down into the con-
sstency OF a cambric kerchief, the most successful
Is the little talk and taitle which, In some
charmed circles. courteously styled conversation
erich natures cannot even be perceived by pauper
natures. The mind that is unied is also unstored."
.'rhe minister's brain is often the .poorbox the
church." "The concet OF progress Is the worst OF
all things for Individuals "rhere Is q hatred of
wickedness which Is SIMPLY the snarl OF rritated
BRAIN" "It is doubtful II the kingdom of this
world can be upset by a blast from the dict0na-
rles' "Books-lighthouses erected III the great
sea or time" "Public Indignation is the cheapest
article OF domestic manufacture. There Is
no need OF tariff TO protect that"
There Is the uncouth mirth that winds, shutters,
| wriggles and screams. dark, scornful and savage,
among the dislocated joints Of Carlyles spawned
sentences" "The secuted hypothesis OF the fifteenth
century Is the me-honored institution OF the nine
teenth; the heresay of yesterday the commonplace
OF today in the past genius created the pres
ent IN the present II is creating the future" "Pru
dence without conscience holds but rein OF fax on
the Wild war horses OF passion" what a man does
Is The real test OF what man is; and TO declare that
he has great capacity but nothing great 10 his
| capacity IN motion, Is an absurdity in terms.n
"Here Is wisdom FOR you; chunks of it y as Cap
tain Cutie would observe, and were we about
| TO manufacture copy books for the rising gen.
| Grafton should draw upon ''Wmpple's Proverbial
Philosophy" for our copies. BY this strategy youth
might absorb virtue without knowing II, which is
| the healthiest way of absorbing anything.
AS man, author and lecturer Edwin r. Whipple Is
doing good IN his generation, and we heartily COM
mend his new volumes OF essays all readers who
prefer thought TO rhetoric, to sentimenality
vrity to the prettiY turned sentences Of dettant-
| Ism.
| Hes PERlA BY Cora l. v. Tappan, 1871. F. 0.
| Houghton Co., Riverside, Cambridge, Mass.
Dedicated to the Future Republic A duodecimo
OF 235 pages.
| The theme, in highly subllmated poetical allie.
CORY, is the RISE prosperity abomnations insoence,
terrific struggle and bloody downfall Of American
slavery and the glorious triumph OF Liberty and her
glorious reign. The poem. in various styles or
slhcaton. is divided into several books, each OF
which is dedicated to some one OF the great leaders
and champions Of the emancipation cause. The
authoress is scholar and poet, and Hesperia"
abounds IN poetry OF high order. In
TRUTH the allegory, with all its fancifal
characters OF the high olympus ORDER and
fanciful intricacies OF plots and counterplots has
throughout, with the glow of a pervading feml-
nine softness, wtnal something OF the simplicity
or phraseology and something or the MAJESTY
strength and klnding enthusiasm or the old mas
tiers. But the action OF this spiritual drama, we
may call IT, and Its ethereal characters and the
general argument and moral OF the story too
high up the clouds, we fear, for this everyday
working world The spiritual seer Andrew Jackson |
DAVIS and all OF his school or the Old subllmatei
abolition school VIII, however, find world Of enjoy
ment in "Hespera," or very much mistaken.
Poems. By Llewelyn C. Thomas. New York: Carl ,
ton X Co. 1871.
In the brief and modest preface to this neat little
volume for the paror table the author says:-.These
productions arranged nearly in the order OF |
their composition, commencing at period OF early !
YOUTH" and that they made public rather to !
ascertain whether the writer justified in ''more
earnest efforts in the future' than with any conf
dence IN their merits" Our opinion is tnat as a
pastine when he has nothing better to do, the
author, IN pursuing the decisions OF poetry is usti
! fed in perseverng. We think he has enough Of the
poetic mind 10 out something really beautiful,
after careful training, like that, for instance.
which has resulted in Church's pictures OF Damas-
Gus and Jerusalem.
THE DESCENT OF NAN AND SELECTION RELATION
TO SEN By Charles Darwin, n. A., Il. *. -, &C.
Two volumes. Appleton 4 Co., New York.
The sp~culatlons OF Mr.. Darwin, whether for good
or for evil are commanding the atteation OF the !
reading public throughout the civilized world. His
books are as wen known here as in England and |
OF Europe INTO which they have been translated.
His speculations bold beyond those OF any
naturalist in this or indeed IN any age. But his
special knowledge l. so complete. he has 1t much
at command, and his style is pure and simple,
that while the reader reyolts from many OF the
authors conclusions, he cannot put down the
volume until he has got through it. II is no
particular OF pleasure TO be told that
the unsman OF the tiger and or the ape, and that II
no az
than the ladpole 1t is not he is sprung from
higher but because he is the representative OF
more protracted existence and OF larger number
OF mysterious eyolutons But the story Is so pleas
antly told that the reader is not offended. There
many things in this book which the reader will not
fnd in Mr. Darwin's earlier treatises. His remarks
upon the intellectual characteristics OF the lover
mails peculiarly interesting. Instructive as are
these volumes, we do not think that Mr.. Darwin has
| satisfactorily shown now 'the much has come
Of the less the less out OF the little and the little out
| OF nothing"
THE DAUGHTER Az EGYPTIAN KING. by Henry
! Reed. j. d. Lippincot 4 Co., Philadelphia pub
| lshers.
The above Is a translation from the German OF
George EDers, an antiquarian scholar OF repute and
| director Of the museum at Jena. 1t Is story Of
| ancient Egypt, the events and descriptions Of which
| are SAID 10 be derived from sources thoroughly
authentic Tie opening scenes date as far back as
the year Us before the birth of Christ and among
the personages figuring In the tale are Canbyses
and Darius, with his faithful friend zopyrus.
NJ. mn. By j. G. whyreMelville, author OF kate
| Coventry THE Wnto Rosch sc. Leypoldt,
1 Holt 4 Williams, Bona street, New York, pub
fishers.
| IN. or N" Is a romance or English life. II Is a
| novel OF unusual merit. Mr.. Neville writes cant
| tally, and holds his readers attention Thoroughly
| enchalned from the Alpha 10 the omega 0: his pre-
/ sent work. Obviously well read himself, he
| quotes merely Tor the sake OF quoting yet often
thinks Of an apt saying in the right place. The plot
l OF IN. or NJ Is very ingenlous-a shade improba.
bic, 10 be sure IN respects. The author belongs
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