The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-19
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tiful work of art ever published in this or
any other country, and the April number
only adds to the high reputation it has al
ready attained. The credit is due to
JAMES SUTTON & Co., of New York, of
placing the United States in the very front
rank of excellence in the department of art
to which the Aldiie, in its superb execution,
belongs. In its literary character, it diff
fers from the ordinary periodicals. of the
day, in rejecting the temporary and ephe-
neral, and giving only the more elegant
miscellany and graceful literature which
promise to be of abiding interest. In its
collection of pictures and illustrations, the
very highest and rarest artistic skill is
called into requisition. We have exam
incd some of the best English, German and
French periodicals., in which the highest
typographical and artistic excellence of
those countries is sought to be reached,
and we have seen nothing comparable in
design or execution to the Aldine. Each
number contains some thirty pages, printed
on heavy cream paper, and is absolutely
without rival in the world. One of its
chief excellences is that it apes nothing
foreign, but is purely and genuinely
American. Five dollars is the subscription
price for one year, with splendid oil
chrome premium furnished to each SUBJ
scriber. No family, in which there are
children to be refined and elevated in taste,
should be without it. Published monthly
by James Sutton & Co., No. 90 Liberty
street, New York.
Music AND Morals, BY the Rev II. R. Hawies,
NJ A., New York. Harper Brothers, Pub
fishers. 1872.
We have just received this remarkably
fine book from the publishers, through
Messrs. ELLYsoN 6 TAYLOR, of this city,
and notice it with far more than our GUS
tomary pleasure in noticing new works.
For hasty perusal of its pages satisfies us
that the author has given the public work
of most rare beauty and interest, if not of
genuine scientific truth and value. The
first dozen lines CT the first book are
enough to fix the attention of the scholar
and induce an eager perusal of the entire
volume. He begins with the fount of color
and the fount Of sound, in the study of ma
ture and art; places music in its proper re-
latIon to the other arts; gives an analysis
of emotion and its connection with music
treats of its moral force, and its power
over the general as well as cultured mind
compares the German, Italian, and French
schools, without indicating any English or
American school, or the possibility of re-
cognizing one at present, beyond the musi-
cal perturbations that may belong to any
age of country, and closes the first book
by pressing the need of artistic unity upon
the attention of the musical world. The
first book treats of the subject of music
philosophically the second, geographically;
the third, instrumentally, and the fourth,
critically. 1t is work that every musical
scholar should get and read in fact, every
such scholar should studyit and know what
the book contains, or disclaim acquaintance
with the art.
Ten YEARS OF TORTURE; or, Sutten's
Death-Bed Confession of show he married
Miss Martha Morton, an accomplished
young lady, of Baltimore, with the hellish
CHATS feeble word design of to,trng
her to death, merely because she was
religious, while he was an ipfidel. Such
terribly thrilling, yet fascinating, history of
wrong and torture and christian meekness
has never yet been published"
All this, except what is parenthetically
is contained in the ttle-page of
the brochure which we have received from
Messrs. ELLYsoN & TAYLOR. and which
is published by G. W. Alexander, 224
South Third street, Philadelphia. The
work purports to be from the pen of
bishop Williams, who says he never
heard in all bis Life such recital as he
heard from Satten's dying lips" And we
IAN believe Bishop Williams most i'm
olicitly, if he heard this story from any
'ne that God ever made in the shape of a
human being; for it is tho most incredible
md absolutely horrible of all tales ever
old by human lips. And why incredible /? |
Because, in sounding the depths of human
lepiayity and absolute tiendishness of
human intent and parpose, no plummet |
'yer before brought up such devilish sedi-
nent. And the idea of such monster
epenting of his sins, and seeking entrance
nto Heaven through death-bed confess
ion, is as absurd as it. would be for |
'atan to cast out Satan, or for Belzebub |
o become an angel of light. The book,
however, is exciting enough to have its
'run,n .
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