The New York herald., 1872-08-01
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July al.]

entire newspaper world
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3l]
MAN WITHOUT NEWSPAPER.
The letter OF DR.. Livingstone to Mr. Bennett, OF
the NEW YORK HERALD, will naturally suggest to
the American mind the inquiry what is an intelli-
gent man without newspaper DR.. Living
stone left England in 1858, and has had an
Europe and America since that time; u
the the success & Of Of the Atlantic telegram
cable The events Of tho rebellion in this country,
have have ''' BEEN Ssss to Uni him ' r imperfecsy Known
Still moro wonderful was the. account OF
arSter aS Of Of he great
shores and the great rise and unincation Of the
German power under the leadership, Of Prussia;
just published was dated eight months ago,
very little account Of the German after the be.
Sos oiosea ait ait6ousn the fall Of Paris was at hand
ami the bloody troubles with the Commune were to
civilization again. have much more to learn, ana to
him many things Will have all the freshness Of ro-
nance, which the civilized world has already for
From the Washington Patriot, July 30.]
DIR. Mvfngstone's letter to the editor Of the NEW
YORK. HERALD, thanking him for the forethought OF
up and interview him, is provoking in
one particular, and this is, that he does not
intimate that he was ever 'lost." So far as he
hlnself was concerned he clearly does not believe
The sturdy Doctor does not beray any Very great
enthusiasm at the thought that Stanley fonnd him;
n the truth be known so thorougly English Is ne,
o United States nag, and not the British, which
greeted his eyes on that memorable day when Stan
leyH party came up carrying the Stars and stripes
at their head. For the rest the letter is that OF
bold, manly nature-iust such one In fact, as we
might have expected from our lOng-lost and now
newf0und friend.
From the Pittsburg Despatch, July 29.]
There is q spice of humor about DR.. Livingstone
which peeps out In his interesting letters. He had
seen companion broken down in spirit and de-
spairing of success in consequence Of an accident
to photograph Of his wife, and he could not resist
laughing at the superstition which seriously re-
garded such trife. DR.. Livingstone had seen his
towards. He had travelled for months with.
out sympathizing word to cheer him he
had sSped N hac sns
point at which he hoped to accomplish the main
object Of his tedious journeying At last he found
Of knave, and with the prospect Of oeggary in
that strange land before him. yet he refused to de-
result proved the wisdom Of his philosophy. Relief
| came disprovng the reliability Of the sign con-
wisdom Of constancy and hope "Never despair'
is Lvingstones motto in the wilds Of Africa and it
| Is good one anywhere.
From the Home Journal, New York, July 81
AS If FROM THE DEAD.
| Those who recOllect certain scene in Mr.
| Dickens powerful Tale of Two Cities" and the
strange resemblance of that scene to kindred in.
| cdent in 'Mggles," will find parallel between
the queer sentence written by the fossil bank clerk
in the former volume and the sensation in London
when it was announced that David Livingstone
had at last been found. There were who laughed
when the HERALD expedition headed by Mr..
| Stanley, was bulletined having set out on
| its mission. There were who sneered when
| the first fruits of that expedition thrilled the
| cable, who muttered "Another sensatOn!n There
| have been those who doubted the authenticity OF
I the prolix and dOublc-ead reports Of Mr.. STAN
leys success; but at last the matter A, assumes a
and probably the most audaci0us newspaper solu.
| tiOn of problem ever attempted has been, beyond
| cavil, carried to successful ISSUE DR.. Living
stone, whose fate has been the subject OF years OF
speculation and many newspaper hoax, looms
in obedience to the rod Of strange magician, the
! tomb doors had opened and revealed living
The topic is not one for compliment but for con-
gratuaton-for memorial; and in having con-
! Quoted the work to successful issue the HERALD
has proved ITSELF as often before, an era-maker.
While daylies, weeklies, magazines, scientists, gov
crnments have been engaged In useless guessing
I d
has been fitted out-has penetrated the barbaric
wilds Of Africa; at last emerging with definite
tidnes OF thesman. Carlyle's dogma that the hero
received an illustration that the world
been cleverly guessing the man of action
has settled the Solution OF the rldde--now thor.
ougiy autograph letters to Mr.. Bennett from the
great explorer printed last week, abundanty wit
| ness; at the same time erecting a historical
monument, more enduring than statues OF marble
| or bronze, in memorial OF the man and the deed.
Thus far the side Of cOngratulatiOn. The
scientific side remains to be examined. In his let
| ters to the HEHALD-or rather to MI. Bennett-Dr.
Livingstone rather gossips than details new facts.
He has stood face to face with the slave trade has
! studied the negro man at home as somebody re-
Gently did the Egyptian gentleman; has taken notes
| and memoranda Of social and domestic habits, Of
| the beauty Of their women; has crayoned some
| what on-hand the Cazembe Queen; has looked into
the psychological constitution OF what Huxley terms
the Negroid type In his letters he has, Of course,
used his pencil very cursOrily and somewhat at
! random. yet with minuteness enough to awaken
! vivid popular curiosity.
AS to his main purpose, that OF examining the
watershed ofSouth Central Africa he congresses his
results into heightened paragraph, but ono teem-
| ing with geographical suggestions. Passing
! the head Of Lake Agossa, on his jour-
| ney inland, lie finds himself In the skirt
! of "broad belt OF tree-covered upland, some
| seven hundred miles in length from west TO east.
! The general altitude is between four thousand and
! five thousand feet above the sea, and mountains
| stand on 1t at various points which are between
| six thousand and seven Thousand feet above the