New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


the public win receive from his we trust wi prove
premature II is to be hoped that his physical strength
viii correspond with the mental yigor e1hoiteu III lo
present essays and that many years OF
are vet TO be counted IN his literary career his VIII
ings arc too auent in valuable cOunses wise sngges
tonsand attractive sketches Of personal expereneeuot
10 an an important place In current literature Mr.
I,urrtt e IL well KNOWN is selfeducated man, but he
IA entirely free from the faults that sometimes, and
usually without Just cause ascribed TO that class OF stu
dents His learning is exact and perhaps as extern
sive his reasoning is as sound, and his use
Of language as effective, as II he had Deeh
nurtured at the breast Of the fairest Anna
Mater in the land. With than common
grounds for bOasting, he is eminently free from
eeotis and preepce If he has followed the pursuits OF
literature at arduous personal sacrifices ana under
pecnliar dicultos he sets himself up as para
ron on that account represents the performance Vi
his dnty as o wonderful achievement. Although III
culture and attainment the peer OF the proudest
scholars he finds his favorite audience among the
masses of the people. he talks with them by the way
aide is welcomed in their dwellings sits with their chill
ren around their simple board engages in their pleas
ures shares IN their sOOws, and partakes largely IN Inc
sympathies of which he is abundant giyer with
ibis experience Of everyday life, his writings
have a singuarly practical character His WORDS
of cheerful wisdom come home TO the Dus-
ness and bosom OF the farmer behind the
The bench of the matron the breadrough aud butter
tub His counses are wholesome as they are quick
enng He casts illusion the Imagination by pre-
senting false views Of life. His hOmey sense is no loss
remarkable than his sound learning reproducing the
sage bumor of Franklin with warmer glow OF afiec-
fion and the renements Of modern culture. The pres
ent volume is made up of brief essays on variety OF
subjects including questions OF national and interna
tonaf politics. OfecOnOmica and industrial interest, talks
with school children discussing several points OF learn
ing in familiar manner, and remarks on miscellaneous
topics of education morals aud religion very curious
and interesting feature OF the book is series OF hle
talks with small children the law OF Kindness III Whch
no word of more than one syllable is used by the writer
presenting valuable study for elder readers and
allowing the force of short words in idomatc English
We quote a single paragraph as a specimen OF inc
methods "There is no power Of love so hard 10 get
and keep as a kind voice. kind hand Is dear ana
dumb. II may be rough IN flesh and blood yet do the
work OF a soft heart anddO it with soft touch. But
there is no one thing that love much needs as sweet
voice to tell what it means and feels; and it is hard to
get and keep II in the right tone. One must start IN
youth and be on the watch night and day, at work ana
play to get and keep voice that shall speak at all
times the thoughts OF kind heart But this Is the Time
when a sharp voice is most apt to be got You often
hear BOYS and girls say words at play with quick,
sharp tone as If it the snap of whip When one
of them gets vexed you will hear voice that sounds
If 1t we're made up of a snarl, whine, and bark
Such voice often speaks worse than the heart feels
II shows more lwi In the tone than in the words. 1t
Is often IN mrth that gets voice or tone that's
sharp and sticks him through life, and stlrs up i'll
will and grief and falls like drop of gall on the sweet
Toys Of home Such these get sharp home voice for
use and keep their voice for those they meet else
where Just as they would their best cakes and
pies for guests and all their food for their
board. 1 would say to all boys and girls, Use your
guest voice at home Watch it day by day as pearl OF
great price, fOrit will be worth more to you in days TO
come than the best pearl hid in the kind voice is
Joy ike larks song to hearth and home 1t is to
the heart what light is to the eye 1t is light that
sings well shines Train it to sweet tones now,
and IL will keep in tune through life" In
another line Of thought is the following description
OF the vital forces Of Nature which gives in nutshell
the of physical theory which has made good
deal Of noise in the discussions of popular science
"When we speak Of nature, we do not mean solitary
fact or merely the existence the size soldty of the
globe but speak of it that everlasting form OF
force vitality which produces the different climates
and seasons which clothes the earth with beauty
which fills all its veins with the pulse OF happy life
which covers it with the green glories OF Spring and
the golden gOries Of Summer harvests which perfumes
. with flowers gives IL the music Of birds and the music
of running streams in the key Of gadness; which
Rds It with gold OF the morning dawn, and hangs it at
evening with purple dIapery Of the sunset clouds All
this is nature in its work the earth nhabit And
from beginning end it is work. 1t is the result OF
an infinite variety OF brought to bear upon the
surface of our globe without these forces this earth
ours would be IS cold, barren and bald roek-as
desert void Of any form OF vegetable or animal life
There would be such thing Nature in the sense
give to that term. But every Of these forces which
give such life aud beauty to earth comes from, or
put ia action by, power ninety millions of miles dis
tant from The sun Is Of the thousands Of Gods
vieerOys through which and by which he governs his
material universe its mnutest detail of life and
ton by laws no has established To act without variable
ness OF shadow Of turning for The earth which
we are so tempted to think the and substance Of his
creation is only Of the smaller provinces which he
has placed in the vceregeney Of the sum- solar empire
called our planetary system What we call nature, in
the sense of vitality and action is only the SUMS imme
date work for 1t is the Gods vicegerent in
our physical world that unfOlds the leaf of every
tns and perfumes every flower clothes every field with
green OF gold dsts every drop of rain dew and gives
70 us every ray Of light and every breath Of arr
The peculiar sphere Of Mr. Burrtt, everybody knows
IS the study Of philoOgy, and he has made himself
ter OF many languages as to experience no iDconyen
ence from the confusion of tongues at the dispersion
Babel But If any supposes that he IS mere dab
bier words and phrases the perusal of this volume
will correct the mistake. He will find abundant exam
plies Of sound and vigorous thought embodied 10 the
choicest yernacuar equally beyond the reach Of the
bOokwOrm and the clOdhOpper.
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