New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-28

No sportsmen, we presume, between Lake
Memphremagog and the Chesapeake at the very
least can be unaware that Frank Forester implies
HysRY WILLIAM HERBERy, and that y. Cypress,
r. s,ands for the late lamen;ed VIM. P. HAYES of
and Criticisms the last the best but least known)
have rendered him favorably and widely known to
the reading public, Of whom far smaller portion
are aware of the rich, delightful humor the life
ike portraiture and glowing narrative of 81. Cy-
press, Jr.' No man lives among US who has written
better things than he yet he has passed from among
Us. and but few thousands are distinctly aware
tina, he has written at ALL The reasons are, FIRST,
that, while he possessed abundantly the genius, he
had none of the craft Of authorship, and threw
sbroad his rare coneets through the most conve-
aient or opposite channels, without dreaming of
profit or the applause of other than the few con-
genial souls In the next place, his writings were
generally on Political or Sporting topics, whereof
the excelencies of the former not remembered
or regarded and the latter do not yet attract much
attention among US. Literature is popular, SO is
Sporting but they have yet little affinity Thou
sands have ben, delighted over the inmitabe raci-
ness and fun of Fire Island Ana The Rapture
OF Proserpine, etc. withou, knowing who among
lis was their author-who could write the very
best things Of their kind in the English language.
And thus he lived and died scarcely known as
writer, while Magazines we're enriched and news
papers enlivened by the rich corruscations Of his
fancy-by the rare felici,ies of his genius.
We rejoice that these essays have at last been
collected and published, and undert the supervision
den. and sympathizng friend. They form two
volumes of most delightful reading for the scholar.
the sportsman and the lover of quiet humor. That
they will be eagerly sought and widely treasured
we can hardly doubt The following extract from
the outset of ire-[sland- Ana is all for which
we can make room to-day:
NED Locrs.-Ned is young gentlemen, who
spends his money! and shoots, and fishes and tells
tough yarns for living. His uncle manages his
estate, for although Ned is now OF age, yet he
don't want to deprive the old man of the commits
sious and, besides, ever since Ned got his bach
elor's diploma, he has forg often his Greek and
Trigono merry without which, no man can bean ex-
ecutor. Ned although not strictly pous, delights
not in things of this world. Mere terrestrial AK
IONS know no Judgement in his confidence. His
,neditations and labors are in another sphere,
universe of his own creation. And yet he believes
himself TO be plain, practical, matter-of-fact man
one who has no fancy, who never tells his dreams
for truths nor adds single bird or fish in the
story of the sum total of his successes. There is
70 design, upon his part in the choice of his place
Of existence, or the description of his sensations
and actions The fault, if any, lies in his original
r. ~ haI
blamed for it, not he. His eyes and ears not as
the eyes and ears of other men, and, truly, SO is
not his tongue. There is an investiture Of I'M
earthiness about every thing he sees and hears
BY day, and by night, ne is contemplating con-
slant mirage He never admired d woman ac-
count of her having flesh, Blood bosom, lips, and
such things but while he gazed, he worshlpped
some fairy incarnation tina, developed and adorned
her with unear,hly grace and hyper-ceestia sweet
nesses. Even in his reading he is an original dc
never gives to a fine passage in Shakespeare It's
ordinary interpretations; but the brilliant light OF
ihe Poets thought, is crooked, and thrown oft,
ant sometimes made caricature rainbow Of by
the refraction OF his cloudy Imagination His aunt
sen, him, one years day, when he was at col
lege, an old copy of the Septuasint which she had
picked up at the auction sale OF the effects OF
demsed ecclesiastic. On receiving the present,
ne wrote upon the fy-leaf, what he considered to
be the opposite sentiments OF Mark Antony:
"Lelb u, the Commons hear this testament,
Which, pardon me, do not mean TO read
That was Ned. all over With such constitution,
it is quite possible that lie may SEEM those men
who always want the actual proof OF thing, chap
ter and verse 10 be rather given TO romance Ned
hates such people. So do |. They without
faith, ea,,h-bound and live by alone, grossly
am do M know what | am, exactly | M
distan, relative Of Ned "a blossom of one OF the
poor branches of the family. ''expect | m
kind of a loater m Neds friend, aud he S mine
I'm his molahs,. and minister, and tiger, and KIND
Of tutor, and ne lends money. certainly lri-
tend to pay him though don't owe him much
now, bv the BY, for have wen all the bets we have
made lately, as nigh, naturally be presumed-Ned
always bets so wildly We keep along pretty
square. Ned 5 a good fellow. If only say.
."Ned, m rather short to-day, how are you? =
he II give me draft on his uncle, tor cool hun
bred. We play picquet, too, now and then, ana
casino, and all-fours, little. can beat HIM al
those games. keep my account at the Iea-wa'er
Pump. haze though, of getting into some K,ho
Of business-I think | am calculated tor 1t; cut
my affection for Ned will not permit me TO leave
him. We were both !" licked by Joe Nelson, the
blind schoolmaster, and hectored by his ,win-headed
unders,rapper, and we were classmates in old Co
umba ana put into practice the doctrines ottorces
AID action and reaction at Robinsons s, during inter
mission hours, and were always together 80 we
ride about and take our comfort
There was enc eminent qualification, which was
possessed by each of the trio above outlined IN
monopoly without statute. We coaid each cut
down leather. head. flying by point OF marsh
before strong north wester, sixty yards OH nine
teen times out of twenty. That is a tact; ana
there are not many men besides and Ohm Verify
and Raynrr Rock, who are up to that performance.