New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-08
BRET HlRTE'S NEW BOOK.
COLLECTION OF FABLES
From The London Echo.

ECtO
Mr. Bret Harte has gone TO the author whom that
popular lecturer the Rev. Jackson Wrav, aptly de-
scIihcs ~ &" Rare old Hsop." and has produced
new book of fables whose chief fault Is that it is
small The lctteIpTess and illustration lHamiltOn,
PaternoSteI-sduarel only occupy ffty-four pages
but though the volume is thin, the fun is not SO by
anv means. We open the book at tie first page, and
read the following:
THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
certain man went from Jerusalem 10 Jericho and fel
among thieves who beat him ana stripped MIN and left
him Tor dead \ Good samaritan, seeing this, clapped
spurs h- and galioped away lest he shonld be
sent to the House of Detention as witness while the
roI,bcr- were released on bail
Moroi-The Pcrceiyeris worse than the Thief
II would have been impossible for any Londoner
10 have written a more appropriate table than TINS
even if lie had been reporter at the CIcrkenwcll
Police Court, III the constant habit Of listening 70
the pearl, Of ministerial wisdom that fall from the
Inns of Mr. Rarstow Mr. Bret iiaTte. indeed, seems
To- have either the gift of prescience or of ubquity
When we read the following fable We can almost
suppose that ne had been accustomed 10 SIT at the
fable of the London School Board, and listen 10 the
debates on the conduct OF the managers OF the ST.
Pauls lndust ial School
THE KIND-HEARIED SHE-ELEPHANT.
A bindheart sheelephnn,, while ,Wolkng through
Ions Isle herdlessly set loot upon partridge, which she
crushed death within few inches OF the nest contain
prou4 mammoth. " have been mother myself and my
affection shall for the fatal consequences OF my
neglect 20 aging she sat down 9poh the orphaned
Nor Moca,-The above teaches what home Is without
iutrusted with the care of an orphan asylum
Swindling advertisements especially those of that
leartless class of swindlers who prey upon simple
people that have little money and no employment,
appcar 10 be as common in America as in England.
Those whose necessities make them Uver-cOntdent
would do well 10 read the following:
THE PHILOSOPHER AND TIE sIIiPLETON.
simpletOn. having had occasion 10 himself, sat
down on "A Uin WhercOn he made cutlery unto
jupiter philosopher, who happened to be holding mp
"A hitchug-pOrt the vicinity, rebukcd him, say ing
can tell YOU how TO avoid hurting yourself 10y sitting
down on pins and WILL II you VIII set them up The
simpetuu eagerly accepting the Offer the philosopher
swallowed gers OF the winch pcrsheth. and
uurrd n fortune by advertising for agents, to
whom he guaranteed S3 week FOR light ana easy en-
plOvmcnt AT their homes.
aL-The wise saith, There Is 70 Niger in the
fence but the fool sendcth 20 stamps Tor sample,
and 10 taken in.
Ii is often possible to convey great moral lesson
i'm such q way that truth embodied III tale may
enter In at IOwly DOORS even where " truth in
closest words may fail" Many years ago Arthur
Hugh Clough wrote:
The wise man waits 1t Is the foolish haste
And while the IN the slides, would play,
And while the instruments are tuning, dance
How much more effectively is the lesson conveyed
IN Bret Hartes fable of The Prudent Tiger
THE PRUDENT TIGER.
prudent tiger having observed a procession bearing
the remains OF sain.ed Brahmn 10 the tomb, commu-