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# The Literati of New York/No. II

June 1846, pp. 266-272
* Anna Cora Mowatt
* George B. Cheever
* Charles Anthon
* Ralph Hoyt
* Gulian C. Verplanck
* Freeman Hunt
* Piero Maroncelli
* Laughton Osborn
# The Literati of New York/No. II/George B. Cheever

Regarding poet George B. Cheever.
The Reverend George B. Cheever created at one time something of an excitement by the publication of a little brochure entitled "Deacon Giles' Distillery." He is much better known, however, as the editor of "The Commonplace Book of American Poetry," a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and is exceedingly commonplace. I am ashamed to say that for several years this compilation afforded to Europeans the only material from which it was possible to form an estimate of the poetical ability of Americans. The selections appear to me exceedingly injudicious, and have all a marked leaning to the didactic. Dr. Cheever is not without a certain sort of negative ability as critic, but works of this character should be undertaken by poets or not at all. The verses which I have seen attributed to him are undeniably médiocres.
His principal publications, in addition to those mentioned above, are "God's Hand in America," "Wanderings of a Pilgrim under the Shadow of Mont Blanc," "Wanderings of a Pilgrim under the Shadow of Jungfrau," and, lately, a "Defence of Capital Punishment." This "Defence" is at many points well reasoned, and as a clear resumé of all that has been already said on its own side of the question, may be considered as commendable. Its premises, however, (as well as those of all reasoners [page 268:] pro or con on this vexed topic,) are admitted only very partially by the world at large — a fact of which the author affects to be ignorant. Neither does he make the slightest attempt at bringing forward one novel argument. Any man of ordinary invention might have adduced and maintained a dozen.
The two series of "Wanderings" are, perhaps, the best works of their writer. They are what is called "eloquent;" a little too much in that way, perhaps, but nevertheless entertaining.
Dr. Cheever is rather small in stature, and his countenance is vivacious; in other respects there is nothing very observable about his personal appearance. He has been recently married.
# The Literati of New York/No. II/Ralph Hoyt

Regarding poet Ralph Hoyt.
The Reverend Ralph Hoyt is known chiefly — at least to the world of letters — by "The Chaunt of Life and other Poems, with Sketches and Essays." The publication of this work, however, was never completed, only a portion of the poems having appeared, and none of the essays or sketches. It is to be hoped that we shall yet have these latter.
Of the poems issued, one, entitled "Old," had so many peculiar excellences that I copied the whole of it, although quite long, in "The Broadway Journal." It will remind every reader of Durand's fine picture, "An Old Man's Recollections," although between poem and painting there is no more than a very admissible similarity.
I quote a stanza from "Old" (the opening one) by way of bringing the piece to the remembrance of any one who may have forgotten it.
"By the wayside, on a mossy stone,
 Sat a hoary pilgrim sadly musing;
 Oft I marked him sitting there alone,
 All the landscape like a page perusing;
 Poor unknown,
 By the wayside on a mossy stone."
The quaintness aimed at here is, so far as a single stanza is concerned, to be defended as a legitimate effect, conferring high pleasure on a numerous and cultivated class of minds. Mr. Hoyt, however, in his continuous and uniform repetition of the first line in the last of each stanza of twenty-five, has by much exceeded the proper limits of the quaint and impinged upon the ludicrous. The poem, nevertheless, abounds in lofty merit, and has, in especial, some passages of rich imagination and exquisite pathos. For example —
"Seemed it pitiful he should sit there,
 No one sympathizing, no one heeding,
 None to love him for his thin gray hair.
"One sweet spirit broke the silent spell —
 Ah, to me her name was always Heaven !
 She besought him all his grief to tell —
 (I was then thirteen and she eleven)
 Isabel !
 One sweet spirit broke the silent spell.
"'Angel', said he, sadly, 'I am old;
 Earthly hope no longer hath a morrow:
 Why I sit here thou shalt soon be told" —
 (Then his eye betrayed a pearl of sorrow —
 Down it rolled — )
 'Angel', said he, sadly, I am old !"
It must be confessed that some portions of "Old" (which is by far the best of the collection) remind us forcibly of the "Old Man" of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Pröemus" is the concluding poem of the volume, and itself concludes with an exceedingly vigorous stanza, putting me not a little in mind of Campbell in his best days. [column 2:]
"O'er all the silent sky
 A dark and scowling frown —
 But darker scowled each eye
When all resolved to die —
 When (night of dread renown!)
 A thousand stars went down."
Mr. Hoyt is about forty years of age, of the medium height, pale complexion, dark hair and eyes. His countenance expresses sensibility and benevolence. He converses slowly and with perfect deliberation. He is married.
# The Literati of New York/No. I/William M. Gillespie

Regarding poet William M. Gillespie.
Mr. William M. Gillespie aided Mr. Park Benjamin, I believe, some years ago, in the editorial conduct of "The New World," and has been otherwise connected with the periodical press of New York. He is more favourably known, however, as the author of a neat volume entitled "Rome as Seen by a New Yorker" — a good title to a good book. The endeavour to convey Rome only by those impressions which would naturally be made upon an American, gives the work a certain air of originality — the rarest of all qualities in descriptions of the Eternal City. The style is pure and sparkling, although occasionally flippant and dilletantesque. The love of remark is much in the usual way — selon les règles — never very exceptionable, and never very profound.
Mr. Gillespie is not unaccomplished, converses readily on many topics, has some knowledge of Italian, French, and, I believe, of the classical tongues, with such proficiency in the mathematics as has obtained for him a professorship of civil engineering at Union College, Schenectady.
In character he has much general amiability, is warm-hearted, excitable, nervous. His address is somewhat awkward, but "insinuating " from its warmth and vivacity. Speaks continuously and rapidly, with a lisp which, at times, is by no means unpleasing; is fidgety, and never knows how to sit or to stand, or what to do with his hands and feet, or his hat. In the street [he] walks irregularly, mutters to himself, and, in general, appears in a state of profound abstraction.
In person he is about five feet seven inches high, neither stout nor thin, angularly proportioned; eyes large and dark hazel, hair dark and curling, an illformed nose, fine teeth, and a smile of peculiar sweetness; nothing remarkable about the forehead. The general expression of the countenance when in repose is rather unprepossessing, but animation very much alters its character. He is probably thirty years of age — unmarried.
# The Literati of New York/No. II/Gulian C. Verplanck

Regarding poet Gulian C. Verplanck.
Mr. Verplanck has acquired reputation — at least his literary reputation — less from what he has done than from what he has given indication of ability to do. His best, if not his principal works, have been addresses, orations and contributions to the reviews. His scholarship is more than respectable, and his taste and acumen are not to be disputed.
His legal acquirements, it is admitted, are very considerable. When in Congress he was noted as the most industrious man in that assembly, and acted as a walking register or volume of reference, ever at the service of that class of legislators who are too lofty-minded to burden their memories with mere business particulars or matters of fact. Of late years the energy of his character appears to have abated, and many of his friends go so far as to accuse him of indolence.
His family is quite influential — one of the few old Dutch ones retaining their social position.
Mr. Verplanck is short in stature, not more than five feet five inches in height, and compactly or stoutly built. The head is square, massive, and covered with thick, bushy and grizzly hair; the cheeks are ruddy; lips red and full, indicating a relish for good cheer; nose short and straight; eyebrows much arched; eyes dark blue, with what seems, to a casual glance, a sleepy expression — but they gather light and fire as we examine them.
He must be sixty, but a vigorous constitution gives promise of a ripe and healthful old age. He is active; walks firmly, with a short, quick step. His manner is affable, or (more accurately) sociable. He converses well, although with no great fluency, and has his hobbies of talk; is especially fond of old English literature. Altogether, his person, intellect, tastes and general peculiarities, bear a very striking resemblance to those of the late Nicholas Biddle.
# The Last Chronicle of Barset

Sixth and final book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, published in two volumes
THE
LAST CHRONICLE
OF
BARSET.
BY
ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE H. THOMAS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.
M.DCCC.LXVII.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
Frontispiece to Volume One
Mr. Crawley before the Magistrates.
Frontispiece to Volume Two
"It's dogged as does it"
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# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Joseph Rutter

Joseph Rutter.
A Dependant of the Family of the Lord Dorset, and Servant to his Son, and at his Command, translated the Cid of Corneille.
The Cid, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1637. acted before their Majesties at Court, and at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, by their Majesties Servants; dedicated to Edward, Earl of Dorset, whose Son put his Hand to some part of the Translation from Corneille.
The Cid, Part II. a Tragi-comedy, 8vo. 1640. dedicated to the Lady Theophila Cook. This part was also translated from Corneille, by our Author, at the Command of his Majesty. These Plays are generally bound together, and are founded on History; see Rodeoric de Tolede, and Mariana, &c.
The Shepherds Holiday, a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1635. acted before their Majesties at White-Hall, by the Queen's Servants. This is written in Blank Verse, and attributed to our Author by Kirkman, in his former Catalogues, though there is no more than J. R. affixed to the Title Page.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Leonard Willan

Leonard Willan.
The Author of a Play, publish’d one Pastoral in Verse, call’d,
Astræa; or, True Love’s Mirrour; a Pastoral, 8 vo. 1651. It is dedicated to the Illustrious Princess, Mary, Dutchess of Richmond and Lenox. Plot from a Romance so called.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Lewis Sharp

Lewis Sharp.
THis Author, who liv’d in the Reign of King Charles the First, writ but one Play, viz.
The Noble Stranger, a Comedy, 4 to. 1649. acted at the private House in Salisbury-Court, by her Majesty’s Servants; dedicated to Sir Edmund Williams.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Lewis Wager

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Lewis Wager.
This Author (who was a Clerk in Queen Elizabeth’s time) was then accounted a Man of great Learning. He writ in the beginning of her Reign an Interlude, stil’d,
Mary Magdalen, her Life and Repentance, 4 to. 1567. This was printed in an old Black Letter, it may be acted by four or five Persons.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris.
A Player yet living, and Brother to the Famous Organist of the City of London; he has been more than once aiming at Authority, by the Help of his Friends; he has Publish'd Two Plays under his Name, called,
The Mistakes, or the False Report, a Comedy, 4to. 1691. which Play, as I am inform'd, was originally compos'd by another, and put into his Hands, and so he made shift, by altering it, to spoil it.
The City-Bride, or the Merry Cuckold, a Comedy, Acted at the new Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants; 4to. 1696. and dedicated to the Honourable Sir John Walter, Bar. This Play miscarried, tho' borrowed from John Webster's Cure for a Cuckold, whole Scenes being the same, but spoil'd by the Transposer; for which he wou'd seem to make amends, by the Performances of the Musicians, and so far he is in the Right.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Joseph Haynes

Joseph Haynes.
This Person is mentioned here, for the sake of an abominable Play that is mentioned under his Name, but he is not the Author of it, called,
A Fatal Mistake, or the Plot spoil’d, Printed 4 to. 1696, but never Acted.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Lewis Machin

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Lewis Macchin.
This Author liv’d in the Time of King Charles the First, and writ one Play, called,
The Dumb Knight, a Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by the Children of his Majesty’s Revels. Compare this Play with one called, The Queen; or, The Excellency of her Sex: see also, The Complaisant Companion, 8 vo. and 12 mo. and Bandello’s Novels, Tom. 1. Nov. 13, &c.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Lodow Barrey

Lodow Barrey.
This Author Liv'd in the time of King Charles I. he writ one Play call'd, Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks, C. 4to. 1611.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Wright

John Wright.
A Gentleman, if I mistake not, of the Middle-Temple, and is yet living; has writ Two Plays, of which in their Order:
Thyestes, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1674, dedicated to Bennet, Lord Sherrard. Translated from Seneca.
Mock Thyestes, a Farce, 8 vo. 1674. This is writ in Burlesque Verse, and printed to be bound up with the former.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Lady Elizabeth Carew

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Lady Elizabeth Carew.
This Lady lived in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, and has left behind her a Tragedy call'd,
Mariam the Fair Queen of Jury, 4to. There is another Tragedy written by Pordage, more Modern, on the same Subject, call'd, Herod and Mariamne. Plot taken from Joseph. Hist. Jews, lib. 14 & 15. Salian. Tom. 6. A. M. 4012. Torniel. Tom. 2. A. M. 4026, &c.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Dover

John Dover.
A Gentleman of Grays-Inn, in the time of Charles II. whether he be yet living, I know not; he Writ one Play, (viz.)
The Roman Generals, or, The Distressed Ladies, 4to. 1697. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lord Brook. For the Plot see Plutarch's Lives of Cæsar and Pompey. See also Lucan, Suetonius, &c.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Dryden, Junior

John Dryden, Junior.
THis Gentleman is second Son to the abovesaid great Poet of that Name, and is now living in Rome, in the Pope's Service, as a Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, where he wrote a Play, call'd,
The Husband his own Cuckold, a Comedy 4to. 1696. Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Howard, &c., and is usher'd into the World by a Preface of his Father, who in it indeed shews the tenderness of a Parent, but I think not the Impartiality and Justice of a true Critick, when he excludes all from Poetry and Nature but his Friends, at least since the Revolution. The young Gentleman in his Epistle, has gone a little too far for a ​Beginner, as yet too uncertain of his own Success, to fall upon the other Writers of the Age.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Day

John Day.
He liv'd in the time of King James I. was once Student of Gonvile and Caius Coll. in Cambridge, and has Writ Six Plays, (viz.)
The Blind Beggar of Bednal-Green, with the merry Humour of Tom. Stroud the Norfolk Yeoman, a Comedy, 4to. 1659. For the true Story see our English Chronicles in the Reign of King Henry VI.
Humour out of Breath, a Comedy, 4to. 1608.
Isle of Gulls, a Comedy, 4to. 1633. This Play was often Acted in the Black Fryers, by the then Children of the Revels; Plot from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
​Law Tricks, or Who would have thought it, a Comedy, 4to. 1608. This Play was also divers times Acted by the Children of the Revels.
Parliament of Bees, with their proper Characters, or (says the Title) A Bee-hive, furnish'd with Twelve Honey-Combs, as pleasant as profitable: This in former Catalogues is accounted a Masque. Printed 4to. 1607. Dedicated to a worthy Gentleman (viz.) Mr. George Butler, who has Writ and Published a Treatise of Bees.
Travels of the Three English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Mr. Robert Shirley, an Historical Play, 4to. 1607. Rowley and Wilkins joined with this Author in Composing this History for the Stage. See Dr. Fuller's Worthies, in his Description of Sussex, p. 107. see also our English Chronicles.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Cook

John Cook.
THIS Author has but one Play in Print, called,
Green's Tu Quoque, a Comedy, 4to. Publish'd with a Preface by Tho. Heywood, who says in his Epistle, That it past the Stage with general Applause, and that the Title had its Name in regard that excellent Commedian, Thomas Green, Acted the chief Part in it, whose general Repartee to all Complements was, Tu Quoque; and gives him this Character, That there was not an Actor of his Nature in his time, of better Ability in Performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the Audience, of greater Grace at the Court, or of more general Love in the City. The Printed Copy is not divided into Acts, but has since King Charles the Second's Restauration, been Revived and Acted with good Applause.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Corey

John Corey.
A Gentleman that has set together a Play, called:
The Generous Enemies, or The Ridiculous Lovers, a Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal, 4to. 1672. This Play is patch'd up out of four several Poets: The chief Design is borrowed from Quinault's La Genereuse Ingratitude; that of the Ridiculous Lovers from Corneille's D. Bertram de Cigarral, which is also founded on the Spanish Play, Entre bobos anda el juego; Bertran's Testy Humour is partly borrowed from Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass, Act 2. Scene I. and Act 3. Scene 3, and 4. and the Quarrel betwixt him and Robatzi, Act 5. wholly stollen from Love's Pilgrimage, Act 2. Scene I. Act 3. Scene 3.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Dennis

John Dennis.
THis Gentleman now Living, has made himself a Name by several Books, both in Prose and Verse, which he has Published, but for none more than his Critical Observations on the so much Celebrated Prince Arthur, writ by Sir Richard Blackmore, in which he has shewed himself a perfect Critick, and Master of a great deal of Penetration and Judgment; his Remarks being beyond Controversy just, and the Faults he finds undeniably such. I am notable to give any Account of his Parents. He was Born in London, his Education was at Gonvile and Caius College in Cambridge, which he improv'd afterwards by Travel and the best Conversation; but the occasion of his being mentioned here, is a Dramatick piece he has lately Publish'd, called,
A Plot and no Plot, a Comedy, 4to. Acted at the Theatre Royal, 1697. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Sunderland, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Houshold. The Plot of this Play is our Author's own, tho' I confess, an Incident or two are not so new as the rest of the Play may justly be said to be; for old Bulls being perswaded, that he is in Newgate, when he's in his own House, is not unlike an incident in the City-Politicks, and young Bulls being married by Baldernoe has been in the Old Batchelor, The City Match, &c. This Play is exactly regular, and discovers it self writ by a Master of the Art of the Stage, as well as by a Man of Wit; the justness, fineness, and delicacy of the Reflections, the pleasantness of the Humours, the Novelty and Distinction of the Characters, the admirable Conduct and Design of the whole, with the useful Moral of the Play, places it in the Rank of the best Comedies of this latter Age of Poetry; and tho' he himself term it low Comedy, gives us a Desire, as well as Hopes, of some more Noble Performance.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Dancer

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John Dancer.
This Anthor liv'd a great part of his Time in Ireland, if not born there; about the Year 1670. he came over into England, and understanding well the Italian and French Tongues, he then Translated Two Plays, as also a Pastoral before. The first in Order is,
Agrippa King of Alba, or The False Tiberinus, T.C. 4to. 1675. written in Heroick Verse; printed in London, with Amendments from what it was before, when Acted divers times with great Applause in Dublin, before his Grace the Duke of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and Dedicated to the Lady Cavindish, Daughter of the said Duke: Translated from the French of Monsieur Quinault.
Aminta, a Pastoral, 8vo. 1660. This has been translated into Five several Tongues, from that celebrated Wit, Torquato Tasso, accounted the Father of Pastorals, and is, above all others he ever writ, the most esteem'd; this is printed with several Love Verses, &c. of the same Author.
Nicomede, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1671. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; and Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Ossery. Translated from the French of Monsieur Corneille, being a Piece he much valued. Story from Justin., Book 34. He writ besides, a Romance, called, The English Lovers and (if we believe Mr. Winstanly) A compleat History of the late Times, and A Chronicle of the Kingdom of Portugal.
# The Man that broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

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I've just got here, through Paris, from the sunny southern shore;
 I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's rent; Dame Fortune smiled upon me as she'd never done before,
 And I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent.  Yes, I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent.
CHORUS As I walk along the Bois Boolong With an independent air You can hear the girls declare "He must be a Millionaire" You can hear them sigh, And wish to die,
You can see them wink the other eye At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
I stay indoors till after lunch, and then my daily walk
 To the great Triumphal Arch is one grand triumphal march. Observed by each observer with the keenness of a hawk,  I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch—  I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch.
I patronised the tables at the Monte Carlo hell  Till they hadn't got a sou for a Christian or a Jew; So I quickly went to Paris for the charms of mad'moiselle,  Who's the loadstone of my heart - what can I do,  When with twenty tongues she swears that she'll be true?
Chorus.—As I walk along, &c.
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