Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-07-27
Miscellaneous.
IcI-1NO'S LITERARY MEN,

FNGLAND'S LITERARY MEN.
W. We announced some weeks since that
u,, Sedgwick's journal Of her tour in !
lone W., was in the press Of the Harpers.
Ne find in the Democratic Review the
tr,winp interesting extract from lis
",gss. The glimpses which they give US
,iibe social habits aud personal manners
oisome of those whose names are familiar
e,,ncbout the world, are in the highest
Sogree entertaining and valuable. We
.5el look for the appearance ofthe work
with renewed intsrest:
4 BRsAxFAsT AT RoGER's.-"We had
,be pleasure Of breakfast at Rogers.
Yogr long familiarity with his poetry tells
,oy tbe melancholy fact that he is no lou
Ger young; a fact kept out Of your mind
7s faras possible, on a personal acqualn-
nree, by the freshness with which he en-.
r,S and the generosity with which he
,roarts. | have heard him called cyni-
n. and perhaps a man OF his keen wit
NAV be some times over-tempered to dc.
noasrate il, as the magnanimous Saladln
M, 10 use the weapon with which he
,lr,itly severed mans head from his
S,Iy at a single stroke. If so, these are
h. executions to the general current o.
n, Ne. which, | am sure, flows in thG
EoIy current. X. told me he met hin
rs winter in Paris, where he found him
ooying ar; like a young enthusiasts, anC
,o,sipg every boys name in the stree
- lived in. and in friendship with then
Al Does not this speak volumesl
aHe honored our letters Of introduction
nv coming immediately TO see US, and re
Giving US as cordially as if we were oil
trends. He afterwards expressed a re
rrpt 10 me that he had not taken that moi
Tpq. before we.plunged into engagement
g.. S,lr,w tire J0lrSTsurE'S s-''% la-s-stSs =.
units. the house where our Frankll
I,s5 and other classic localities. A
Is GOES TO swell my pathetic retlr'
e,n Of the general lament, 1 have had II
losseSr
oils manners are those Of a man OF
world lthe best sense simple and natui
without any apparent consciousness /.
fame or support. His house, as all
civilized word knows, is cabinet OF a
elected and arranged with consumm'
taste. The house itself is small; not,
should think more than twenty-five
lont and perhaps forty deep in M
6rlunate location, overlooking the Gre
Park. The first sight oft from the W
i'I.'..a sor1 of coup-de -theat
for YOU approach the house ana ense !,
bya narrow street. Every men OF u
asoronriated to tsome rare treasure
eboi.e reduction of art. Beside the
ure land What you might be temp
"a AL tr,n man want beside such
mresl9 are Etruscan vases antiau
Egyptian antiquities, casts OF the + =
marbles decorating the staircase wall y;
endless adornments of this nature. II
are cunosities of another species
books, such as most beautifully nun I!
ted missal, exquisitely delicate PainIl
designed for marginal decorations, eA
ted three hundred years ago, ana Y
from the Vatican by the Frencn-glIl
robber In a catalogue OF his doom
he poets own beautiful autnog
there we're inserted some whlmslc'
lies Of hooks, such as 'Nebuchadn'
on Grasses
@Bu. the most interesting thing
he collection was the original docu
with MiIton's name, by WHICH ne ,
kred to his publisher for ten pound
copyright ofParadise Lost. Next
lefest 10 this was portfolio, in when
arranged autograph letters from
and DRYDEN, Washington and FRA
and several from Fox, Sheridan, ana
addressed to the poet himself: 2
them was that written by Sheridan J
fore his death, describing the exiren
bis suffering, and praying Rogers : :
0him. But must check myself, Z
ogue raisonnee ofwhat our eyeslou
ced over would fill folios. haa In s
Oreadbreakfast ofsitting next MID
whose name is 80 well known ainon
lheauthor of the self-calculating ~
lie has most remarkable eye tns
as fit might penetrate science y
thing else he chose 70 look ny
described the iron steamer now
which has "a larger tonnage IN
merchant ship in the world, and g
an opinion that iron ships woulo
'ede all others; ard another oPln'
much concerns Us, and WHICH,
nav soon be verifed-that in !
these iron steamers viii 60 % AZ
seven days! -,
"MacauIay was Of the par
Conversation resembles his wsrlsin
rich and delightful, filed WIN S :
and illustrations from the aoounol
Of his oVerfowing mind. Some =
he talks too much; but none' e1 ~
heir own impatient vanity, COO'0
we're less.
at was either At Mr. hogst
breakfast few days after ~ VA -
ter's whose houses by-the-way'
pendant for his, that we NAG
MOukbar's hunor, from worthy