New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-04

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Remembering how soon must depart,
Is first principle in Virtues art;
For Virtue IS an art-of arts the best
Being the very sum Of al the rest!
JOYS in possession full oft neglected,
Our very choicest blessings unrespected,
Until we grow to feel that they may fly,
And so remember men are born to die
IT is an old lesson that worm may teach,
Yet one that many, many never reach.
Wise old Philosopher thy parting hour
Was like the nightfall closing up the flower;
Or like the fading of the evening ray,
Tha, gides in calm serenity away;
Or like an infant sinking to repose
Smile as a moonbeam, glowing DER the doze
Wise old Sismondi who could live and die
Without sorrow and without q sigh!
Seeking the best and smiling at the worst
Wise to tho last as gentle at the first PHAzMA.
CopYa1eHT IN AMERIcA.-Under the title Of
"yvho reads an American Book ?"-tle notable
query sneered at Us from across the Atlantic some
few years ago-the North American Review tor
the present msnth has most admirable expose
of the extent to which English readers, and what
is more even English writers are indebted 10 the
authors of those very "Amercan books which
it is their ridiculous vaunt that nobody reads
1t is made to appear in this article that the Lon
don Monthly Review" has been literally living,
for years past by the most bold and unblushing
depredations upon the paghs of the North Ameri-
can. Twelve elaborate articles cited as proofs
of this charge, all of which have been taken bodily
and inserted with scarcely an effort to cover up
the larceny by such easy means literary thieves
usually resort to to battle discovery.
One Of these articles is n review of the Ger
respondence of DR.. Bentley" and we are per-
mitted the spectacle Of an English reviewer com
ing over to America to pilfer critique upon the
character and writings OF one Of the most distin
guished classical critics of whom his own country
could boast ''Who reads an American book"
Another article among those rescued from the
robbers by the true owner, it seems, is upon-wha,
think you. reader? MIR. Dickens, Mr.. Carlyle,
Tom Hood-what think ye? Upon the sacred
ness and inviolabity of literary property. Every
word ofthis article is stolen from the North Amer
ican Review eighthvolume, pages 257 264,
and is inserted in the London Monthly, fer 1912,
VOL III. pages 66 to 72, without the slightest pre-
tence that it is any thing else than original pa
per, and written for the Monthly
In another instance, the Monthly exscissorizes
tpo Of the North American g articles to make one
of its own from; and eaborates very excellent
treatise upon " American Antiquities and the His
tory OF the Red Race, out of a review of School
crafts 'Algic Researches" and another of the
Archmologia Americana"
contained most interesting criticism upon the
writin gs of Victo Hugo, which many who read
this will no doubt recollect. The editor of the
London work waits until 1899, and then turns
back to the usual fountain head Of his best
ces, the pages of the North American, for Re-
view of the works of Vcto Hugo" And, as il
TO show that he had independence enough when
stealing his literary wares not to content himself
with flching 'the stuff, but to plfer them ready
made" he actually inserts Gas original in his
work) the original metrcal traRsations from Victo
Hugo by the author of the American critique
The fun of the thing is, after all, the owl.
like gravity with which, in of these very stolen
articles, the depredator interpoates some cool ad-
vice of his own upon the duty of the Americans to
dscountenance literary piracy, and to aid Britain
in the attempt to secure the property of authors
from the " owdacious" robberies of those land
sharks the publishers. In the course of this arsi-
Gle there is something very Indignantly said by the
Monthly reviewer about the American republisher
"defHng the banquet prepared by the writers
of England, as well as robbng them of their prop:
crty!
The North American reviewers content them
seivers with very simple and good humored ex-
pose of this matter, without commenting upon i,
or Seeding in the least degree This is the better
way by lar, and the lesson to some literary folks
the water upon the folly of coming to Amer
ca mote-huntipg in their brethrens eyes, while
they should stay at home bcam-pucking from
sheir own viii be all the moro easily and surely
laid to heart. To such good uses be il respecs,
fully commended. Nat Int
GsRMAsY.-The tastes of Germany. though Ill.
tra-cemmon-place in the general things of life, yet
swell into unaccountable extravaganza wherever
the subject belongs to higher scenes. There is an
evident consciousness of its esrthward tendency in
the German mind. which makes it fearful of trust
ing TO the course of nature; it doubts its own
limbs, and therefore borrows stills: !, knows tho
ha'ioha' propensity TO creep on the ground, and
therefore It strains every eor. to spring !, into The
arr the most matter-of fact OF ali existing GEM
fatlons 1t yearas to De the mos, ethereal: a Gar.
man genius IS nothing without rapture, and his
rapture Is rsyeriei his muse is metaphysical. and
his metaphysics press as nearly as possible to the
verge where madness rules the realm beyond ,,
There is more absolute nonsense written nnaer
the pse,ext of the sublime in Germany. than in
any other land since the frs, invention OF beala,
lBlackwood
A HoAx.-A Mesmerizer has been enlishtenins
the citizens of Frederick, Md, during the pas,
week;bat it takes acunning fellow to trick the people
of that city. l, seems that they agreed give the
boy upon whom the naesmerizer operated fifty dol
lars, il in the midst Of the experiment he would
ge, up ard declare the whole to be a humbug.-
Accordingly (" at the appointed signal the DO,
awoke, rubbed his eyes, and pronounced 1t an I'M
posture"
lDs Yesterday mua,so woman belonging to
Mr.. Marsondet, in 6t of jealousy, FIRST cut her
chiid's throat and then her own The child is