New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-28

man mind may be traced rather than Of those causes
which are strictly intellectual Of the environment
which helps to form the pessimstic organism rather
than of the organism itself The views Of the write
are suggestive be taken with many grains OF al
lOwance as description OF the actual state OF society In
Germany except in certain portions OF the
larger cities. They are too speculative III
their character TO be relied on as authority
and find an Offset in numerous facts OF Wmen
no mention ia made in the article The remarks on the
domestic influence Of fats worth attention, IN
these days when caprcious OF New-York fashion
is tending in the direction OF gentce tenement houses
"In towns the institution Of hats-i e. large house
with separate family residing on each hoor-s In drect
opposition TO home life large house with many fam
lilies residing in will always wear the tavern STAMP
and can never acquire the character OF homestead
that happy secusOn from the hustle and struggling OF
the street, from the excitement, egosm' and superb
cality of business where the outer man
ceases and the inner begins where true ieallsm
need not the soothing of the mass-n snort the "n
doe to es bitterness. Whatever the German says ana
writes, he has not this; nor has he the DeuIsche
Familicnleben' of which we read so much"
There 49, no doubt, good deal of force IN the REMARKS
Of the writer in relation to the business affairs OF Ger
many in which, especially since the establishment OF
the Empire, taxation has become exceedingly Ouruen-
sOme moderate incomes have been still
and retrenchment has been found necessary IN the ar
rangements of the most modest househOldS Inc
financial and commercial WnrlpOoi Vi Vui 'o
is the enemy OF the former conented, happy fubment
of duties. Everything is uncertain everybody ls eA
cited The fault chiefly lies in the credit system Bus-
ness in general is not so dependent personal exeroh
and immediate ability as it was IN former days. pu'
there are numerous fluctuations impossible 70 foresee
which, envirOnng the simple enterprise, press upon II
and influence It. It is not so much struggle with an
individual difficulty, single group OF dhcuties, as
with universal difficulty, every side Hence there
springs state Of uncertainty unrest. and worry The
depressing feeling that weighs down a man when he
feels that obstacles may lie beyond the power OF his
will is very far from being healthy. just as those ma
lions who dwell in lands where man is to great extent
at the mercy of nature become mid and fatalsnc so
the business man OF day cannot help feeling his
want of controlling power and comes to look on all sue
cess as luck" The noteworthy papers on The Future
of English Women" by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, and on
VOltaire and Madame du Chateet at Grey" by Mrs
Clarke have already been referred to in our columns
Among the recent issues of Hdrper's Half
Hour Series are England During the American and
European Wars 1765-1s20," by o. W. Hancock NJ. A.
which, with some inaccuracies, stating the number Of
men killed at the battle OF Lexington to be seven IN
stead Of eight and placing the Battle OF Bunker Hill In
May instead of June, with mention OF the American
war OF 1928, contains suecnct account OF the his
tory of the PERIOD "The Settlement OF the Constltu-
ton l6s9-l7s4" by James Rowley, NJ. A., brief but
instructive sketch Of the effect Of the Revolution OF
1888 in giving power to the House Of Commons OF the
war with France ministry OF Pitt and the change In
the line Of succession doth Of these little volumes are Of
great service for easy referencej; "The Canoe and
the Flying Proa," by W. L. Alden, an exhaustive
popular summary of the art and science OF managing
canoe; Reaping the Wbirlwind," by Mary Cecil Hay;
"The Coming Man." by Charles Reade, singularly GU
rous anatomical physiological and practical treatise
in the form Of familiar letters maintaining that the man
Of the new social dispensaton will use his left hand
and his right alike having been rescued in time iron
parroted mothers cuckoo nurses and startling nursery
maids man as perfect in his limbs as his Creator IN
tended who has been o deal kinder to man than man
has been 10 himself; for IL all mans doing that he
is any more semplegiac, lOpmbed than ion' rae
coon, q fox, a tiger or an ape"