The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-24

We hope, when II comes our turn 10
cross over the Great Divide into the
! Great Beyond, to meet among the
names the happy shade OF that un-
/ Identified but necessarily good old Goth
who. threcscore and seven years ago.
! had enclosed for us In protective pre-
sentative binding (but with the pages
sadly diSordered in respect OF convea-
fiona numerical progression) the first
[ twenty five numbers. Jauuary-Junp.
lSiS of II magazine intituled The John
DonkcN edited by that prince Of Amer
lean raScally wits THOMAS DUNN ENG
IIsH. In world where justice is all
too seldom done. ii is hut just to SAY
that this volume, whose pages are more
precious than pearls, came with bless
ing into our appreclative hands through
the valued friendship Of Z gentleman
who sells (grudgingly to the hetero-
geneous public fine old books in one
Of the far auStral North River ferry
streets devastated by the Infamous sub
flumina tube" As that Avernian
tunnel disiavored life FOR the Jersey
comnmtcr, 50 in these days Of drab
daubery John DOHkcU--nay. for he Is
~ much "A personal devil, give him tho
accolade of the Exalted order VI Small
Caps joins DONKEY brings mournfully
home to the empty echoing bosom ~
oldstcrS who have Jagged superfluous
on the Stage lpoSeurS all) sad rcnllza-
zion of the fact that since the Roaring
Forties something has gone out of life (;
something pungent, nerve tonic, lung
stretching "A subtraction whose NOM.
mental aching void rs not filled by Lie
and its competitors and compeers In
the fine ART of gloom smearlng. Where
are the wits of yesterday?
In 1878 when john DONKEY made
his how the war with Mexico had run
out its course; peace was declared ~
February. Chromolithography swan
into the printers ken. hut JoHN DON
KEY was content with the older inks,
now in his pages II mellOwed liquor.
Workmen were asking for ten hour
day; in four flying decades they have
Topped one-fifth off that President
POLK laid the cornerstone of the Wash.
ington Monument. MACREADY was NJ
the Astor Place Opera House Gold was
turned up at Suffers Mill. The sclen-
tihc department OF Harvard College
was started IoNGFFIIow was Just
past "Evangeline," "Biglow Papers
and "Sir Launfal' came In odd juXta
position from LOwEIL's pen. PAULD-
ING, NERPLANCK and other Knicker-
bockers mixed with COOPER, BAYARD
TAYLOR, Por, HAWTHORNE marked the
overlapping of the literary epochs.
FREMONT was exploring the Far West !;
the ladies', in convention NJ Rochester,
cried for "wOman'S rights; the Croton
AQueduct was carried over the Harlem
River. But JONI DONKEY DUNN Eng
IIsH was the Old Man Of the Sea po.
litlcal: Polk was President, the elev-
enth; SCoTT, TAYLOR, CLAY, CALHOUN,
CAss, VAN BUREN, FILLMORE repre-
scented the orders old and new, SEW.
ARD, WEED and GREELEY were at" in
New York State. JEFFERSON DAVIS was
elected United States Senator from
Mississippi, At Baltimore SILAs
WRrGHT's Barnburners and MARCY's
Hunkers held forth for the greater gay
ETY. Of gay people. Big broad days
to look back upon. Would prophetic
insight into America OF 1915 have
helped or hurt the peace Of mind Of
the y-elghters?
JONI DONKEY had the magazine in.
stinct he knew the value of CONTINUED
in our next" the serial idea" A gal
lery" Of Indian pictures ran from week
to week; also new history Of "Don
Key Naughty" The Historical Soci.
city under the presidency Of ALBERT
GALTATIN was always good for II sly
paragraph. A myth OF "WAsHINGToN's
leather brooches" ran" strong: so did
that of "thc" subscriber. The Circum.
locution Office was game with no closed
season; The Navy Yard spending -
(estD in advertising for bids TO fur.