The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

BLUSH FOR Tll2 LAND.

Weep—blush for the land where the deeds of the gallant
Are-lost on the rabbis-rout hailing " Reform!"
Where a title hard ;earned by the daring and valiant
With mock'ry is zreeted—relected with scorn !
Achieved by the sire and maintained by the son,
'ro no failing hand was the.recordh.equeathed,
Since science ordained that a laurel fins Wen
Should by inns with the .sews of her fountain be wreathed;
Oh, ionl fall the stain on the powerful degrading
The high name of freedom to riot and crime,..
Who their. forefathers' altar are darkly invading, .
Though the blood of the Martyr established the shrine !
Heaven speed thee, brave Howard! not thine is the failing
Not misguided hirelings the Douglas" can blight
For. alike disregarding_ their madness and railing;
Still, still wilt thou Vindicate• God and one right I E. B.

A "LIBERAL" Kr .--The Leipgic. aritzeite., informs us, that
the Police of Munich liaveinterdictel GOldsnlith's Vicar 'of
Wakefield." Sensible dogs! But pray, let' as ask, has not
the King of Bavaria been'outrageously puffed up by our liberal
tourist. laterateurs as the great patron of literature and the arts,
Sec. To be sure he was! Dere is a proof of his liberality
towards literature.— The Aye,
AMERICAN LITE A TURE.—The scornful question of the Quar-
terly, 1' Who reads an American hook ??1 drew faith the ire of.
every, review and newspaper in the United States.. A more
sensible question would have been, "Who reads an Ainerican'
book in America F" The good.people.of 'the United States are
the greatest readers (of every thing except their own books) in'
the world; they eat paper, as .it. were, and drink ink." A
novel of Bulwer's is republished in three days after it arrives in
the Swift packet from Liverpool; and in three weeks-it is read
in every settlement and cabin in , Louisiana, and criticised in
every one of the thousand or two newspapers between the At-
lantioand Mississippi. And from Bulwer downwards, the most
still-burn or unheard-of romance, poem, or what not comes forth
as instantly, in a cheap. edition, and is bought up and solemnly
notieed and praised in every corner of that immense country.
Nothing is more common in England than to hear small authors
talking of their American reputa: ion :" it consoles Them . for
their neglect at home... They see their names in' the Chillicothe
Bonner, or thaKenirecky Champion; with four columns of ex-
tract and an editorial critique, -and say to themselves, like
Byron, when he , heard that a volume of his poems '.had been
Seen in Albany, "This is fame!" There are American books,
however, which the Americans read: those which-have been
praised in. England. - Fenimore •Cooper's admirable novels,
Washington Irvine's works, Miss- Sedgwick's womanly and
clever tales, and Bryarrt's poems (edited by Irving, and pub-
lished in London) arc all very popular—since stamped with
English approbation. Even the great Channing, though always:
revered for his piety and eloquence by the immediate circle of
his sect, was never generally known and admired in America,
as the most powerful writer of his time, until the echo came back
from England. Then, indeed,. his essays were .reprinted, and
his works collected into a valuate, and all the newspapers men-
tioned.the fact; that they "had been favourably noticed in Eng-
land." Words could convey no more.--Athetraian. •