The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS

APPLEToNs' JOURNAL gives por-
trait of j. Feninore Cooper, with sketch
of the authors work and few fair Illus
trations. John Burroughs has pleasant
paper in praise of walking:
"The old doctor who advised his dyspep.
tic patient to eat gravel spoke, take it,
| in parallels. For my part, though have
never been dyspeptic, vet find gravel.
| taken in the spirit and intent of this laconic
prescription, and taken in large doses, one
of the best tonics and antiseptics know of.
am not quite English enough to crave ten
or fifteen miles of dirt road per day; this
amount, taken once or twice per week.
when my appetite for gravel is keenest,
an average, | have put up with much less
than that, and instead of good quartz
gravel, fresh, sharp-grit, am obliged to
substitute tagging and brick pavements
which are not near so good a tonic, and,
were it not for their ever-shiiting panorama
OF faces, would be intolerable. The pave
ment wearies and Expresses, like long
standing, and would in time, l believe,
turn my liver into stone; but the moment
| put my foot on the ground virtue rises
and enters me-"
HARPER's WEEKLY.--Nast has a car
toon representing Hofffnan's veto as an
other phase of "What are you going to do
about it?' The Cincinnati Convention is
caricatured as the tabled mountain, whence,
after much travail, issued mouse. A
good portrait of Horace Greeley is given,
and some Southern sketches. The leader
is on the Cincinnati candidate, and is COM
mendably free from personal abuse. The
Convention
twas called by the most earnest free
traders in the country, and ended in the
nomination of an arch protectonist. 1t
was composed OF some sincere reformers
and crowd of the most notorious politi-
clans, and resulted in the confusion of the
former and the triumph of the latter.
"Mr. Greeley undoubtedly has elements
of strength, but he is not a strong candi-
date. His name does not suggest to the
country either of the two great executive
quallties-discretion and decision. Bred in
the school of Henry Clay, whose memory
he piously reveres, he is naturally timid
and COMPROMISED. He has the credulity
which belongs to a certain simplicity of
nature, and which destroys all sound iudg-
ments of persons. His sympathies are
limited his prejudices deep and strong.n
He is politician, and not free from
suspicion of personal grievance; he fayors
the Ku-Klux legislation, although the re-
firm platform denounced it; he is honest.
but it is not urged that Grant is dishonest;
the Reformers would have a man whose
will is adamant Gt is not enough that his
purpose be pure), but Greeley will be wax
in the hands of tiatterers. The indirect
claims" difficulty is reviewed, and there is
an abundance of good reading.
HEARTH AND HOME presents por-
trait of the Rt. Hon. John Bright, NJ. P,
and has other interesting illustrations. An
editorial recognizes the worth of "old
maids :"
"It is no disgrace to woman to live
single, to belong to class honored by such
women as Florence Nightingale and
Dorothea Dix and Mary Lyon and Clara
Barton, and that noble milliner of Bristol, |
md an army of other sisters of mercy, too |
numerous to be catalogued. 1t is far |
lobler to marry nobody than it is to marry
nobody, or to marry knaye, or to marry
or to marry unworthily in |
my way. The fact that woman has
lived single does not prove that she is not
'endible, but it does prove that she has
lever been sold. )"
Speaking of the --latest Missionary
he Popular Science, the value of scientific
to farmers is noticed:
"They can least of all afford not to un-
lerstand chemistry, botany and the laws
f atmospheric phenomena. To the scien-
ilic farmer his labor is his pleasant pas
ime no Travellers tale so wonderful as
he maryels in his own field and garden