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friends than enemies , as is shown by the success of hnr paper , now one of tho most influential in the United States . From so smalla beginmng-one thousand dollars of borrowed capital—it has expanded into a flourishing concern , with a gross income of nearly half a milhon of dollars . This poaition he has gained by sheer force of character . The Tribune has never flattered the people ; indeed , it has generally been emp loyed in advocating some rather unpalatable doctrine . The « Know-Nothing' movement , for Sample , which is carrying all before it throughout the Union , finds no & with Mr . Greeley . When warned that he will sufferfrom opposing that powerful party * he says he is quite willing to do so . Whatever may happen he does not intend to flinch . " If any one , ' says the stouthearted American editor " would prefer to discontinue the
lnbunebe-, cause it is and most remain opposed to every measure or scheme of proscription for opinion ' s sake , we beg them not to delay one minute on our account . Weisbatt all live till it is our turn to die , whether we earn a living by making a newspaper or anything else . " A man who can speak to the public in that tone must have a pretty wide platform , or he would soon be put down . But-Horace Greeley has fought his way to the proud position which he now occupies , and the skill and courage he has shown during that struggle prove how well qualified he is to maintain it . .
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ADDENDA . A choice fragment of diplomatic history is contained in Baron Mii filing's Narrative qfhis Embassies to Constantinople and St . Petersburg tn 1829 and 1880 , translated by Mr . Edward Jardine ( Longman and Co . ) . In this the late chief of the Prussian staff relates how , after a night conference at Berlin , between the Emperor Nicholas and King Frederick William , it was resolved to send an envoy to frighten the Sultan . Matters stood thus :- —a Russian army had marched over the Balkan , and now hovered on the mountain slopes to menace Constantinople . Marshal Diebitch , vain and jubilant , boasted that the Ottoman Empire was at his mercy , and ready to nerish when he should smite it again . France was astonished , England was
alarmed , Austria believed , and Russia trembled lest some one should interfere . Only the Turks were undismayed . They knew the strength which remained to them after defeat , and the Russians knew the dangers which arose with victory . In truth , Nicholas felt that he had done his worst ; and he and his . kinsman plotted how to persuade Europe that Turkey lay at the feet of the most mighty Czar . # . However , it was not at his feet . His troops might enter Constantinople ; bat what then ? Sultan , ministers , ambassadors , soldiers , stores and strongbox Would be transported across the Bosphorus . Thither they could not be ixoi t /
pursued , and thence the capital drew all its supplies , so that the aen ity would remain , to be burned or evacuated , or garrisoned by a starving army . Then , also , Great Britain might be incensed , and affairs might take an unexpected turn . Now , therefore , vras the opportunity to extoTt concessions from Turkey . False representations were necessary , —and a man to deal them out . What envoy so unscrupulous as a Prussian ? What Prussian so unscrupulous as Baron Muffling ? But the confederates of the Holr Alliance could not , and never did , do one thing without pretending to do another . A marriage ceremony was therefore advertised as an excuse for Nicholas and Frederick William to meet at Berlin , and thus under a bridal veil the surreptitious negotiation proceeded . Baron Muffling received orders to depart at once for Constantinople , though he , again , could not go thither tnau nwucnuui *« ^
without announcing ne waa gumg s cwo . . » . «—~ . ~ .. ~ . ~~ capital he preached , day by day , about the perils of Turkey , the strength of Russia , the sweets of peace , and the certainty that Marshal Diebitcb , if so inclined , might come down onlstamboul and turn it into a burial-place for dogs . " The other powers" concurred ; but the Ottoman minister would not be alarmed , and Baron Muffling was so coolly treated that he had to invent a " terror . " Arming himself with pistols , therefore , he gave out * that any one , minister or not , who was less than civil to him , Baron Muffling , would be shot dead . By other arts and sleight-of-hand , aided by the compliance of his associates , the ambassadors of the neutral powers , he gained his point ; and thus , as the old romancists say , it fell out that the treaty of Adrianople was signed—an ignominy to Turkey , a fraud upon Europe , and a clear triumph for Russia . Baron Miiffling ' s Narrative lets the light into the cabinet of Prussia , and must be consulted by every historian of the past half-century . Let those who would learn what history will tell to the next generation read the volume diligently .
should be either preceptors or pupils . On the principle that if enough is eood , more is better , we have scenes in rich array of floggings , knoutings , and humiliations , from which we recoil . The Serf Sisters , byMr . JTHarwood ( Routledo-e ) , has more to recommend it than the title promises . It is full of distressing incidents , though not overwrought enough to satisfy Washington Irvine ' s " gentle and bloody-minded reader ; " out these are relieved by pleasant scenes of soeial life , affording an insight into the manners of th $ middle class in Russia . Mr . Harwood has a picturesque power ; but big delineations of character are absurd , because they do not present the mingling hues of humanity ; they are embodimenfa of absolute good or evil , and , ° like all abstract personifications , totally unreal . The stcry , however , is well imagined and skilfully conducted . m So far our miscellanies prolong the " war" echoes . A subject of permanent interest is developed by Professor Royle in The Fibrous Plants of India % Fitted for Cordage , Clothing , and Paper ( Smith , Elder , and Co . J . This book , figuratively speaking , reveals many a source of Indian gold . Dr . Royle explains why Indian flax is dear , and how it may be cheapened ? points out new materials for paper ; and supplies a more copious and syfiJ tematic account of Indian fibrous plants than is to be found in any other work . He has a full command of the sources of information , and has compared his personal researches , —themselves not limited , —with the reports of all competent witnesses- Such a book ought to be valued , in a commercial country , as more than a repertory of economical suggestions . It lays open a field of wealth , and explores the Eastern plains ^ and hills for materials to enlarge the range of our home industry and foreign commerce . Somewhat identical in purpose is Mr . George Wathen ' s volume on ThA Golden Colony ; or , Victoria in 1854 . ( Longman and Co . ) The author is an old traveller , known and trusted . His Egyptian investigations were patient , and he recorded them modestly . In Australia he breaks nexr ground , and we feel immediately , that he can write on a worn subject in an original manner . Perhaps no light work on colonial life , contains a more truthful picture than this , of social ways and means as they exist in Victoria . Mr . Wathen describes the configuration of the Australian flats , creeks , and valleys , as only an artist and a geologer could describe them ; vet imbues his narrative with the pleasantness of sketches and stories . Who can desire more in a book on the golden colony ? The author makes one felicitous hit : he quotes Talleyrand ' s epigram on Russia , and says that English government in the colonies has been despotism , limited by rebellion . Again , a prophet , more decent than Mr . Godfrey , yet not less fearless and far-reaching , Mr . Ambrose Lisle Phillips , takes Daniel by the horns in Mohammedanism in its Relation to Prophecy ( Dolman ) . The Arabian teacher , he , says , was undoubtedly the Little Horn , and Antichrist is come and gone . Mr . Phillips may settle these points with his readers ; they concern not the critic . But the manner of these expounders offers a study to painters of human nature . They invariably sap and mine before they advance , and blow up all adversaries by an explosion of satire , pity ; or vituperation . Pity is Mr . Phillips ' s weapon—mercifull y used . His predecessors are not idiots—only in error . But let us add that he argues more learnedly and rationally than most of the vaticinating school . Will it be conceived that we can write this with a passage under our eyes in which the author glibly calculates the " many hundred millions of the human race" who suffer ** everlasting perdition in the flames of hell for abandoning paganism , and believing in Mohammed ?" Escaping from the fumes of pitch and faggots , we fall in , nevertheless , with another gentleman , who is as positive about the stars as Mr . Phillips is concerning the bottomless pit . Mr . T . C . Simon , in a volume entitled Scientific Certainties of Planetary Life ( Boaworth ) , takes up the discussion on the planets and their people , and , in spite of dogmatism , contributes a readable essay . In a similar undoubting spirit Mr . H . G . Cooper writes Indestructibility one of the Great Truths Proclaimed by Nature and Science ( Ridge and Son ) . His metaphysics are at fault , although his statement implies nothing more than a proverbial truth . Among philosophical miscellanies we naturally class M . Francoia Arago ' s Autobiography ( Longman" Travellers' Library" ) . Is it a dull , didactic thesis , however ? By no means , but a charming narrative of adventures , a romance of youthful enterprise , thick set -with pleasant perils , and vicissitudes delightful to remember . Arago was a philosopher in that he sought to be health y as well as wise . Mr . Timb ' s Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art ( Bogue ) marshals nil the discoveries and improvements of tho past year in alphabetical order . It is a meritorious and reliable volume . Miss Susan Wollaston ' s One Hundred Sonnets from Petrarca , with Notes , and a Life of Petrarch ( Saunders and Otlcy ) , enjoys tho honours of a new edition . But why affix to a real interpretation of the poet ' s verses an unreal portrait , an hermaphrodite fuce , no more like Petrarch than it is like the Queen of Shcba ? Among poetical varieties , we have also The First Four Notes of Milton ' s Paradise Lost , with useful notes for school teacher ? , by Mr . C . W . Gorman ( Longman and Co . ); and in " imagination" Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localtties , by Edward Waugh ( Whittakcr and Co . ) . The writer undertakes to depict some of the traits of Lancashire life and scenery , with illustrations from local history . His book ia a pictorial and legencfary guide ; but we warn Mr . Waugh not to be humorous . Hisj ' okes are spasms , and end in paralysis . Apart from their dull fun , " Lancashire Sketches" may edify and amuse the tourist .
ReVerting to the actual theatre of war , we find on our table a cheap reprint ( Routledge and Co . ) of Koch ' s work on The Crimea , with a Visit to Odessa . This ib a plain diary of a traveller ' s observations . It describes the Tauric Chersonese , as less a paradise of vines and flowers , than some fervid writers have reported it to be ; yet assigns much importance to it as a commercial outlet and military emporium . We have no doubt that Mr . Koch ' s account of the Tartars is full of truth . They are not a changeable race , and among their hereditary characteristics , agricultural industry ia certainly not one . " Regular government" has done all it can to spoil them ; but they ure still nomadic , impatient of labour , and contented with small pastoral stores . " As God" they say ., " has given sense to the Franks , ploughs to the Russians , and arithmetic to the Armenians , so ho has given
waggons to us . " The book teems with information . To such as are more interested in the prowess of our army than in tho social aspects of the regions visited by war , Mr . George Ryan addresses a volume on Our Heroes of the Crimea . The sketches first appeared in a newspaper , but they deserve the short life of a shilling epitome . Lord Raglan—Madame Tussaud ' s new hero—Sir do Lacy Evans , the Earl of Cardigan , Lord Lucan , the Duko of Cambridge arid others , are hero extolled , that their fame may live in the cottage , and spread among those who read as they run . We notice , however , that some of tho now season ' s cheap books arc , in the matter of type , like the American prints , of which their critic said that they would deprave tho reader if they didn ' t blind him . Slavery , black and white , increases in repute « s a material for tho terrible extravaganza of a certain school of romance , in which wo aro sorry there
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BOOKS ON OUR , TABLE . Louie Fourteenth and the Writers of his Age ; being a course of Lecture * delivered in French to a Select Audience in New York . Ily the Kov . J . F . Aatie . * Trubner and Co . The Life of iSir William Papperell % Hart ., the only Native of New England icho was , created a Baronet during our connexion with tho Mother Country . By U » licr Parsons . IVubnor and Co . The Caxtons : a Family Picture . By Sir Edward Bulwor Lytton , Unrt ., &c . Common Imw and Equity Report a in all the Courts . ( Part XXX . ) Spottiflwoodc . Journal of Public Health , and Sanitary Review i including the- Translations of the JCpidemeological Society of London . Kdltod by Benjamin \ V . lttchardson , M . IJ . Samuel liighloy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 848, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2104/page/20/
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