New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-31
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


WoRpENsKIoLDs VOYAGE ROUND Asl ;sa ASp PAS PAS
NOPE Popular Account Of the ko'1 Hevs,.no.
sage Of the Vega isss,,S Nth y rec mans and
fo,ay-seven original illustrations DENY oes saa
2e3 London Sampson Low "ais'o"'
Riyipgton ~, p;ah
1,artenant A. Hoygaard, of the Royal Danlsn
Macy accompanied Baron Norienskiod IN ms
vovare from Tromsce to Behring Strait, as supeiiu
tendeut of the magnetic aud meteoroogicai "oiA vi
the expedition Without attempting 10 eolnpe'o
with the protector and chief oil that eNpeui''oh Va
fhe important work Of compiling periano"'
record OF so memorable an achievement nc mas
ventured TO Law before the Danish public popular
account of the voyage This has been trahSia'eu
for English readers who may prefer lighter ano
lass serious narrative than Baron Nordenskioios
which has recently been reviewed in these columns
rbe anthor has entered with the enthusiasm OF youth
upop that od-time quest for the Fole winch eAei-
cises so powerful a fascination over the mihdS Oh
nayigators and explorers. lie has recently eVoNeu
from his inner consciousness new theory IN regaru
10 she proportions of land and water ana the move
ment of currents in the Arctic belt ana mas oeeh
advocating an expedition in the direction OF franz
Josef Land, the coast of which he is cohhdeh'
trends much further to the east than the Austrian
explorrs imagined This theory, on which
Danish expedition to the Pole may be organized is
based upon the hygroraphc data collected during
fbe Vegas VOYAGE Concerning this new basis OF
Arctic exploration the author is silent in this vol
ume and indeed the scientific results OF the eXpe-
dtion receive very slight attention. Lieutehaht
HoygaaId was under too many obligations TO Baron
Nordenskold to risk giving him offence by rework-
ing any of the material which belonged properly TO
him as the head OF the expedition and It's natural
historian.
What the author gives us in this volume is MS
own personal impressions of the voyBge recorded
and h,o MOI
yened by many incidents on ship and on shore which
the scientific head OF the expedition did not con-
slider serious enough to mention The episodes OF
the VOYAGE the scenes from day to day, the bear
nunts the incidents OF the long wlnterlng, the adj
ventures with those good. natured savages the
Chukches the by-play of the gunro0m, ana the I'M
pressions which an Arctic solourn makes upon
newcomer are reproduced with freshness ana AMI
nation The grim Baron, who had wintered SO
many times in Polar night and faced tor many
year the perils of Northern navigation had an eye
for scientific results rather than pictorial ehecs and
minor incidents. His young companion has accord
.ngy written book which can be more easily read,
and which general rvaders may find on the whole
more entertaining than the ambitious work.
The historical and scientific dgressions are fewer
In number and less extended in reach, and the mar
rative while lacking the permanent value OF the
u.ain record. is well adapted for the public for
which it was written. The illustrations are admir-
able and add materially to the interest of the vol
ume. The translation is one OF uneven merit, being
needlessly strained and harsh in some portions.
THE SOCIAL LAW OF LABOR. BY WILLIAM
WEEDEN Boston Roberts Brothers lSs2
This is an interesting and suggestive review OF
the Labor Question in the chief modern aspects.
il combines, in about equal proportions, cordial
recognition and quotation of the opinions of leading
ioh rell q Labor
tai historic information, often novel TO the genera
reader of the early growth of social institutions;
and practical discussion OF questions now rl1e, as
the author views them. The style is genial and
even spirited and the general tone pachcatory and
encouraging The book seeks to explain ratherthan
to reform the frictions Of modern industrial move
mont. The growing aggrandizement OF capitalists
their monopoies and pools, the union OF worknen
their strikes and riots, treated rather as evils
necessarily yet temporarily incident TO develop
ment which is on the whos proceeding BEAUTIFULLY |
and steadily toward better social condition than |
ms symptoms of soc ial disease and death; and |
readers are summoned to study the nature and laws
this development, promote its progress and await
the result rather than to unite in instant war upon
its incidental res Its if they were indefensible
and permanent abuses
The common idea is that Capital employs and
pays labor. Many thoughtful persons have said g.
The dispute is an old one whether Labor Capital
should be accounted the governing and honored fac
tor in production. The answer given by Mir.
Weeden is: Neither Capital Labor employs the
other: but Society employs them both. They can
not unite unaided, and accomplish production.
third factor is needful-a want. an IDEAL concep
tion. which may harness and guide them in a COM
mon enterprise Such an ideal toward which they
NAV cooperate is generated for every enterprise, by
the social life of mankind; and it cannot be said
that any part of the result is contributed wholly by
Capital OF wholly by bor;-the social law adds
something at every step. Expressing the thought
more concretely, the mere owner of capital and
the mere laborer are helpless until third person
whom Mr. Weeden christens the "capitaIizer "-in- |
tervenes taking each by the band He is, often, |
the owner of the capital bat need not be; the func
tions are distinct But let give one OF two OF the
authors spirited illustrations in his own words.
You say that You win go TO the untracked forest,
hew out a deal plank, take 1t 10 market on your
and commerce. by the labor OF your own hands aionc
The axe you use is not yonr through the essence OF
labor though y OF 9b NAVE "a the Market The
idea of the axe its pot ntialty which enables 1t TO
prevail over nature, does not belong to you ms is
The result of long generations of development run
nng from the time of the rudest stone tool 10 the
elegant steel blade which now rings through the
pine woods of Maine. This belongs 10 society
neither the laboTer nor the capitalist owns this
principle though either may for the moment hold
the thing which represents IT, You and l, every;
body, all acting together beget a want social
motive which, issuing forth, sends the aXeman TO
the tree the log the mill the plank to the joiner,
OF the whole movement The labor theorists and all
the economists cannot arrest this progression al any
point and say THIS is labor aipn th3 ass capt
tai alone, that is land I'VE nclnde all the FORCES Oh
Nature in the element land alone.
This general idea that products are not attribut-
able to either Labor Capital as their creator but