Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-08-18

Our home IL with the wind-We are the free!
There, poets and poetasters of America Ye are all
put TO shame. Such song, such glorious, soul
fhrlng poetry we have not seen for years past Oh!
how we loves poet who thus write!
Colburn's New Monthly for July is set of with an
admirable engraved likeness of the late king from an
original drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence The
histonette of his msjestys last days accompanies it,
The Quincy papers, usual possess uncommon in
terest The subjects for pictures by L. f. L., and
some rec0ectons Of Grmald, will amply repay the
attention Of the reader We find the following excel
lent hit from Martial in Londsn:-
Inpromptu under Mwqus at Fleming House
when parliament people petition their friends,
The .. stat, state o. Tbs poll on ne eanvass depends
The state OF the canvass depends on the pole.
special evening in the life of Musical Amateur is
rare treat TO musical readers.
The Sporting Magazine for July is replete with in
terest TO the turtle. II is ornamentsd with splendid
cngravngs OF Phosphorus winner of the Derby May
18th 1897 and Miss Lefty, winner of the Oaks May
18th, 1887. Accompanying this number are the As
cot gold cup, and the white terrier Nettle. The Gun
40 from design by Count dOrsay, and represents
tape" or shallow bowl of an oval shape, with escal-
lsped edges scroll border and supported by two Gen.
faurs back to back.
AT Tattersalrs, June 26 the bettings for the July
stakes. p. p go of fiat. Paganini seems to be the
hvenie.
The London and Westminster Review, for July,
contains an able article on Gray's Poems OF the
naccuracy of the frat stanza of his celebrated eeey
the words thus italicised will sufficiently speak,:
The Curfew tolls the kpeli OF parting say
The lowing herds wend slowly DER the lea
rss g'D1gs s. -. A @~TiS ss1S, As
Now tadu The giimmering andscape, &c.
LIST IL says-The word toll 10 not the appropriate
verb--the csriew bell not a slow bell ionq for
the dead. 2ndly Long before the curfew toled, the
ploughman had wended his way homeward. 3rdly.
Theday was not parting, when the curfew toll il had
long since parted. 4thly II the world was left TO
darkness in one line, how happens il tina, in the very
next line" the giimmering landscape fades. &c. =
And secondly, that we are almos, Immediately after
wards told that the mopine owl is complaining 10 the
moon, These are not mere verbal criticisms: thew
proofs that the writer is incorrect in his whole
picture.
It's probable Gray never received such justice be-
Fore. Sound too often wells sense
We give miscellaneous extracts from different ar,i-
cles:-
FrnsT.-THK FaEScn Revolution, HISTORY IN
VoLs. nv THos. CARLyLE.-THE INsuRascTroN or
WonRr.
"A thought or dim raw-m material of thought was
fermenhng all nghi, universally in the female head,
and might explode. In squald qarret, on Monday
morning, Maternity awakes to hear children weeping
lor bread maternity must forth 10 the Streets to the
herb-markets and Bakers queues meets there with
hunger stricken Maternity sympathetic exasperative.
Oh, we unhappy women But instead of Bsker.,-
ueues why not 20 aristocrats palaces the root of the
rnatter7 Alionsi Letus assemble. To the H3tel-de-
Vile; to Versailles; to the Lanterne."