The native American., 1838-05-19

[CoMMUNIeATED.1
RUNNING REVIEW OF THE KNICKER-
BOOKER FOR APRIL.
will take up this excellent periodical in good
humor-there is something frolicsome and bon
homme about the name: delicious flavor OF
most capital tobacco and ancient pipes that floats
over our senses as we smlingly recur to those
good old times when Novo Eborace was but New
Amsterdam.
There was day when the periodical called
the knlckerbocker, did essay the spirit of the
past, and conjure up the sacred form of the ver-
table Deiderick; but now we fear that il is too
much given to long yarns, spun out by modern
penny-a-liners, whose whole business Of life con-
sists in concoting dull catastrophe out of barren
thread of incidents. However there are MANY
fine writer's for this periodical, and occasional
blemshes serve but as foils to the brilliant gems
streWn over its pages. | will now take up the
various articles as they stand in the contents
The Po,oer Of Mind: By r. Babcock ,jr. d. ID.
&c-An article of sound sense, but of style
not over captvating-wanting the brliancy of
Goldsmith without the delicate finish Of Steele
tits. withal, an ambitious paper.
Complaint ofthe Iiolefs: By Bulwer.-Po-
etry, gemmy and free but rather smooth-water-
ish, with little sprinkle Of moon-shine and lack
adaisical.
Effects Of Familiarity: By Inos H. Sireevc
Of Keatucky.- stuff.
My Tablets: By a Lady. (!)-Prctty fair.
Shakspeare's Third .Age-IHe Lover.-A
beautiful article-an article Of love and feeling.
Who is the author! Deep read is he in histo-
ries of emotions strong and whimsical. The tone
of keen sagacity that is evident in this compost
ton, marks its writer, as man who has studied
well the different phases of the heart, and marked
the shadows and the sun-lights that pass its disk
By the way, | agree with the author when he
says that he is not partial altogether to red and
rosy cheeks. Now like cheek land who does
not!) decately tinted, if an angel had pressed
rose of Eden upon it-no broad and glaring light,
red and fiery like furnace-but sweet halo,
like the faint painting Of nature upon the gentlest
shell that sleeps upon the sea shore.
Oriental Fragments: By the Hon. J. Silk
Buckingham, ". P.-We meet with the inde-
fatigable type loving, ambitious Buckingham,
wherever we turn our eyes. We see him gar-
ing in hand bills in one section, and in pamphlets
in another. We see him here a Temperance
Agtator, and there Lecturer the Divine land
Of Goldman. In the Knickerbocker he is the
agree etravelling companion carryingus over the
catacombs and by the everlasting shadows of the
mystic pyramids, along the shores of the typical
Memphis and by the Rhine, where he who was
to deliver the chosen people of the Lord, slept
by the yawning mouths Of crocodiles, an infant
III the bullrushes. The Fragments are highly
entertaining.
Eugenius &ruggle-Why will this writer
mar his beauties by such long riggamaroe SEN
tences? The poetry run-mad is an excellent
hit at the modern play-wri.ers of the Wilsoni-
an school-the Blanca class.
On Wedding Days.-Heaven preserve them
from the same dullness that damns this article.
The Escape Of Mary Queen Of Scotts--1s tol-
erably good.
All we are with the Palmyrine again! What
a delightful Tadmor in the desert is this mans
writngs-so pure, so lofty, so well sustained. SO
Roman. We almost fancy that we see the mo-
dern American author of the Letters of Lucius
NJ. Piso, sitting with his classic toga around
him-his ancient tablets before him--hs lamp
suspended from the arched ceiling, and his broad
white brow blazing like moon with intelligence.
These letters should circulate the Knicker-
booker to every nook where genius has friend
and style an advocate.
pass over several very interesting articles.
The Literary Notices are well Judged and tolera
bly, clever-though short and not very we'll cared
for.
The knlckerbocker is too well established for
me to injure, nor would |, if possessed the
power, do aught to mar its onward and prosperous
march, 1t has its faults, editorial and otherwise:
but as our age of literature ripens, as her paths
become more frequented by the earnest and the
erndte, all the periodicals Of our country will
improve in talent and force-in usefulness and
beauty. A NATIVE.
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Mr.. EDITOR: will be glad to know whether