New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-11
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LIBRARY.
"A rsBRAgY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: From From
TISE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO TtlE t.tfs--
Emit TIME Complied and Edited by Enmunu

5@s..,.s efssy,aS and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson.
In Ten Volumes. Volume VI Royal svo, PIP
M, sSss chsFies l. :" e.. 4.o,t,a forth the
AS we pointed OUT IN hise ss.sns .,.a a1,.ors
plan and scope OF shis WORE, le am !. .ors.sr
has plainly peen poe 49, IKE annoar
such exompiss Oh ,e1so - ,,,,.a Ii+oratnra
nnoer mario" ss,,ots ~ tba American
puS py repao'ons "a e. i1lrst.a+a the growth
ansenecs ~ IVY Ls....a. and ,nfect the spe-
of the Nhhona, - - -. ,,oon,o This
cessive STAGES % sne nssoly y ful-
aim has Deen 10y, -. a,,I-- svbihi,ed sound
nneo. Lps =. $500 t.~,,S tbe GREAT mass of
auasmers - 49, sa-s,,a,,5 hnt they have dis
,or,or+ial;t,, in allowing each
% sucb as that of the re-
sue " ~, AMI, IN the States of
as'Aon VI '''e =, stoalr through the
slavery OF Oh secessiol' ~ - "a A. his hest
Mouen u ns 49, .sa ,ortr ACQUIRES a marked
"a s,.,s s.ae;a,t, az tbis principle has
-. -. are "a 20 the iIlustration of political
-. N-s ~. los hean applied also 70 setting
go. .ossaI tendencies such as temperance agta-
so',,aA ,oyoan question. The sixth
= =, voellent example OF this method Of
.sss.s,a,t II covers the ueriod beginning with
seoS ~,han the slavery issue doomed on the
s,o-,,on far larger than a mans hand, and ending
A. ! se, when the storm of civil war was about
=. 49,, ,,yon tbe country The controversy upon
md cor II
-o.cnn;es therefore much space in this volume
~ Ana xvi.elv chosen citations from Stewards
.,.sa.t.s mon . the higher law and the ire
'.rsss,hIs conacts from the writings Of William
P,e'e .S, .- 60, The address of the Gin
uhoyo cerrlsen' ION ~ - Isak written by
S,nnaa aa9 S,. aon;ans extracts from Lincoln's
great Cooper Union speech; both MS lnauguraiS'
49, RECOMMENDATION Proclamation and the Gettys-
sno ss-s.i tsor Iobn Browns farewell letters
burg address, nom Sohn Dio"" 80 ..i.l +hoir
and his address 70 the court, Whicii WIN W
grand rpggedness and courage read like INSPIRATION
;to tho men Oh tne presen0 u"9. % notouo tbo
avsred in Tuscaloosa, Ala, ten years peiSre .e
war began p .,eoss tSe sobre tone of prophecy
Sonese, nso - - sa;l,re ~ secession. william
1t foreshadoweu the taiiute u 60 .orresentca
,smong the teachers of Abolition. On the other
Aand we find the farewell address of Jefferson
manu-, we n S.na.o ana his inaurural as President
of the Confederacy, with the speeches ana w,lAnso
NJ Toombs and Others. We are all Anu-oia'ery
- "a .h. brava savings of the apostles OF
now anu sne 49, a. .,Sat;,ndos Only those
aiberty read almose ihe .~s 49, roo1i1e what
who lived through that perioo eau io'' ais.ios ~
martyrdom in business reiatiohs' ~ +ha-,
society, and even at tne iauli1y - .l,o 90
sometimes brougnt &c the men W." '~ - .e,,t.os,
TO utter them. by way o. Pio'u a,ssNsI.. "a No
TO show what arguments NC" 49, - .ho
doubt sincerely onereu On Ulo 80, hu George
editors give :. -, o,otirg as show.
F1tzhngh' sohle y, 10 - a.,, ~ +h;rtv wears
ing no" IasS Nc 80.
Speaking Oh 'ie siaso'' - 49, az. onnrcssed
ihey ENJOY npe q II,shor The women do little
Serd vert and are protected from the deSpotsm
~ their husbands by their masters Inc negro
men and stout boys work ON Ine ausi"S', dav
good weasner - 1o their time is spent in perfect
ahandon Resides they have their Saboaths ana
holidays. White men, with 81 much u n0v
and nperGy, woulo pl md mental repose With
the;r faces uuturned to the sun, they can sleep
at any hour, and quiet sleep Is tne gresOe9 ~, "
human enloymentS DeSsea Itsei1Nand results
2nveh.eu With tbe nresent and confident
assurance Of the future. We do not know whether
Gree laborers ever sleep Iney are dSoS III
30, for whist Iney si, rn nse ~ ensnare and ex
,1d;tsts them The free laborer must work or
starve He is more, of slave than nie nega ~
because he works Longer a a,d bas no holiday.
aiiows s ths s cares Of life with him begin when
its labors end He has no liberty, and not
angle right
In purely literary producuon, .ns peiiou woo
the richest in our history, ana ~ 10 Lacy %
far as we can judge at the present uay' W envy
that distinction Tor long ume 10 GONE was
the era in which Emerson hawthorne long
fellow, Poe and Whittier pecdm famous anu 'neir
works hold the chief place In tnis volume Inc
task of selection in the case OF such AUTHORS moSo
Of whom have written much, IS dihcuit one
but it has been performed with taste ana oiscfe-
ton. In oil cases, extracts rom tne various
writings have been gwen In one oroer Oh men
productions thus enapnng tne feauer 70 ioi .u
1.-THE AUTHORS intehecOuai pfosrcSs' 1,,ni 6 npnol
poets are wen reprssene~ " ~ . Gus 80
II. MOTIFS, ueorge ~ Aten.iV0 ' 0nao c 49,
Holman, EnzaoeVh oakes oni,on, Ai'ur' "
M. d. Gallagher ana ALBERT fixe. Ihe noven0!s
whom the order OF onelr oif'n brings WITHIN 's,s
period were William fillmore o,uins, noperU ~
BIRD, whose Nok Oh 'le "oOu' Onln,Su VIZ,
,awfui oengnS tne Doys mho aie Nv" ~