The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-08-03

i IN my loutN, cry my eyes out over her stories
but her fair cheerful face forced me TO forget IL.
She long ago iorswore the world and lis vanities,
and adopted the quaker faith and costume, but
fancied that her elaborate simplicity, and the
fashionable little train TO her pretty satin gown,
indicated how much easier Il IS 10 adopt theory
than 10 change ones habits. Mrs. Austen
stands high here for personal character, well
as Tor the very inferior but undlsputed property
OF literary accomplishments Her translauons
are SO excellent, that they class her with good
original writers. II her manners were not stri-
klngly conventional, she would constantly re-
inlnd me Of ---; she has the same Madame
Roland order OF architecture and outline, but
she wants her charm Of naturalness and atirac-
i've sweetness; so II may not seem 10 Mrs AS
sisters and fond friends. A company attitude is
rarely anybody's best.
There IS most pleasing frankness and social
charm IN Sir Francis Chantrv's manner. call
ed HIM repeatedly Mr. Chantry and begged him
! 10 pardon me on the ground OF not being ma
tive to the manner He laughed good narured-
~, and said something of having been longer
accustomed 10 the pleban designation. heard
from Mr. r. much stronger illustration than
tins OF this celebrated artists good sense and
good feeling too. Chantry was breakiastlng
with Mr.. r., when pointing to some carving in
wood he asked Mr.. X. il he remembered that,
| some twenty years before, he employed young
indlstinct recollection. Il was that young man.
resumed Chantry, and very glad 10 get the five
| shlllings day you paid me- Mr.. b. told pen
dant 10 this pretty story. Mr.. b. was discus
sing with Sir Francis the proprlety of gliding
something-l forget what. b. was sure il could
be done Chantry as sure il could not and Il
| should know, he said, for | was apprenticed TO
carver and glider Perhaps, after all, il is not
so browning a grace in Sir Francis Chantry TO
n 10 yno IF brl
as II IS disgrace to the paltry world that 1t
should be so considered.
81 have seen Owen of Lanark, curiosity
rather from the sensation he at one time pro-
duced IN our country, than from any thing very
extraordinary IN the man He is pushing his
theories with undated zeal. He wasted an
hour IN trying 10 convince me that he could
make the world over, and set all TO rights if
he were permitted TO substitute two or three
truths Tor two or three prevailing errors and ON
the same morning philanthropical phrenologist
endeavored to show me how, if his theory were
established the world would soon become heal
thy, wealthy, and wise. Both believe the good
work IS going unhappy men SO il has al
ways been There must be some philosophers
stone, some short hand process, rather than the
slow way OF education and religious discipline
which, to us, Providence seems to have or
dained."
ENGLISH OPINION OF AMERICANS.
have been delighted with the high admi-
ration expressed here in all quarters of Dr. Chan
ming, and above all, to find that his pure religion
has, with its angels wings, surmounted the walls
OF sectarianlsm. | have heard him spoken Of
with enthusiasm by preates much distin-
gulshed for their religious zeal as for their sta
ton Prescotts history is spoken Of in terms
OF unqualified praise. ! have known but one
exception: reviewer, hypercrltc, dyed in
the wool, sat next me AT Mrs. --'s dinner
de said Mr.. Prescott must not hope 10 pass
the English custom-house unless he wrote purer
English, and he adduced several words which !
have forgotten, | ventured TO say, that new
words sprung out Of new combinations of cir
cumstances; that, for example, the French reyo-
luton had created many words. Yes, he re-
Piled, and American words may do for Amerl-
ca, but America is, in relation to England,
province. England must give the law to readers
and writers of English After some other flip
pant criticisms, he ended with saying that the
history of Ferdinand and Isabella was one of
the best extant and that Mr.. Prescott had ex
hausted the subject.
He said what was quite true before the habits
OF colonial Difference had passed away. but is no
longer, that an American book has no reputa-
ton IN America TIL it is stamped with English
authority, and then il goes off, edition after edi-
ton He uttered sundry other imperlinencies
but as he seemed good natured and unconscious
that they were so, ! sat them down to the ac-
count OF individual ignorance and prejudice,
not to nationality, which has 100 often to answer
for private sins"
=" have not dared TO draw aside the curtain of do.
nestle life, and give the particulars of Miss NJ s,ouch
ing devotion to her father. He is all TO me and am
all to him. she said. God help them in this parting
world !"
We were the next morning. AFTER breakfasling
with Mr. r., in the presence of CARLYLE speaking of
this deed of sale and of Tagioni He amused him
sell and US with calculating how many Paradise Los,s
she might pay for with single nights earnings; and
after laughing at this picturesque uxaposltion of
Milton aud Tagioni he added seriously, Blu, there
have been better things earth than Paridse Lost
that have received payment-that have been
paid with the scalold and the cross ="
!" In the United States Mrs. Barbauld would per
haps divide the SURFACES with Miss Baltic but in
England, as far my limited observation extended
she IS not lated so high or generally read here.
She has experienced the great dsedy nage of being
considered the organ of sect. Does the Adj
dress to the Deity and the Evenings Meditation
rank with the best English poetry and no, her
essays that on Prejudice and that on the lncon-
sistency of Human Expectations, Unsurpassed 7"
s." should not have presumed, by public mention
of Lady Byron, have penetrated the ntenchmens
feminine deicacy and reserve which she has with
such dignity maintained but for the DESIRE far as
in my humble sphere might do it, TO correct the i'm
preston so prevailing among the readers If Moores
bogi Apply in this country, that Lady b is of
those most unlovely of women, who, finding it very
easy to preserve perpendicular line, have suffer
for the deviatioDs of others no aptitude, lex
biity. How different this image from the tender
compassionate loveable reality the devoted mother
tho trastcd friend, the benoiactress OF poor chill
-Iyan.'
=. W. have had the grace here, after transcribing
them, = suppress some fresh bon mo,s of Sidnos
Sn'ths on recent works popular authors beinc sno
ken OF Grace 1t rs, knowing how much more accent
ape 70 readers are bon mots than descriptions