New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-23

TIE SEoPs ~ SALIsBURY.-The following pas
sage full Of clear strokes and ine points, is from
DICKENS description of P;nchs visi. to Salisbury,
il the latest chapter of +" Marin Chuzrswi::''
But the shops. First OF all, there were the Jew
ellers shops with all the OF the earth dis
| played therein and such large silver watches hang
ing up in every pane of glass, that if they were any
thing bat first rate goets, it was not because the
works could dscently complain Of want OF room
In good soo,h they were big enough, and perhaps,
as the saying is ugly enough, TO be the most cor
rect OF all mechanical performers; IN Mr.. flnch
eyes, however, they were smaller than Geneva
ware; and when be saw very bloated watch az
nounced as repeater, gifted with the uncommon
power Of striking every quarter 81 an hour inside
the pocket of its happy owner, ne almost "isheo
that he were rich enough TO buy It,
But what were even gold and silver, precious
stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence 8
pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed camc lssu'
ing forth awakening instant recollections OF some
new grammar had at school, long time age, with
IN lster Pinch, Grave House Academy, inscribed
in faul,less writing on the hy-leat. mat Win oil
Rucsia leather too and all those rows on rows OF
volumes. neatly ranged within-wl1at happiness
did they suggest! And in the window were the
.pick- and-span new works from London, with the
| ti,le.pases, and some timos the first page OF
the first chapter, laid wide open: tempting unwary
men to begin TO read the book; and thea IN the I'M
possibility of turning over rush blindly in and BUY
i. Here too, were the dainty frentlspiece and the
trim yienette, pointing like handposts on the out
skirts of great cities to the rich stock OF incident
be7cHd and store of books, with many grave por-
trait and troc.hcnored name, whose matter he
knew well and would hare given mines to have, IN
anv form, upon the narrow shelf beside his bed at
| Mr.. Pecksnih's What heart breaking shop 1t
was
There was another; not quite so bad at hIs, ou'
still tr7ing shop; where children zoos
sold, and where poor ROBINSON Ciusoe S'oou CO.
hi, with dog and Ratchet goat akin cap and
fowling piece, calmly surveying Philip Quarll and
the host of imitators around him, and calling MIR.
Pinch to witness that he, of ali the crowd impress
ed enc solitary footprint on the shore OF boylsh
memory whereof the tread of generations should
not stir the ligktest grain of sand. And there too,
were the Persian Tales with flying chests, and stu
dents of cnchca:ed books shut up for years IN ca
verns; and there, TOO, was Abudah, the merchant,
with the terrible little old woman hcbbling out OF
the box in his bedroom; and thsre the mighty Ia
lisnan-the rare Arabian Nights--with Cassim
Bahia, divided by four, like the ghost OF dreadful
sum, hanging up, all CORY, in the robbers cave.
Which rHatchless wonders, coming fast on WI.
Pnch's mind, did so rub up and chaie that w1 o.:
derful lamp within him, that when he t"fneu .ns
face toward the busy street, crowd 81 PHaN. -
waited on his pleasure, and he lived again Will
new delight the happy days before the I scNsnin
era.
He had less interest now in the chemists shops,
,vb their great glowing bottles with smaller rePo,
STORIES of brightness in their way shoppers anu
in their agreeable compromises between MEDICINE
and perfumery in the shape OF toothson'e iozehses
and virgin honey. Neither had he the least rega1u
(bu, he never had rnuch) for the tEors where inc
newest metropolitan waistcoat patterns were he"S
ing up, which by some strange TRANSPORTATION 81
ways looked amazing there, and never appeared al
all like the same thsg any where else but ne
stopped to read the play-bili at the theatre, ana
surveyed the doorway with a kind of awe, which
was not diminshed when saliow gentleman with
long dark hair came out, and told boy to run
home TO his lodgings and bring down his broad
sword. Mr. Pinch stood rooted to the spot on hear
ing this, and might have stood there until dark but
that the old cathedral bell began to ring tor yes
per service, on which he tore himself away:
Now, the organist's assistant was friend OF Mr..
pincb's. which was good thing, for he TOO was
very quiet. gentle SOUL and had been, like Tom,
kind of old fashioned boy at school, though well,
liked by the noisy fellows too As good luck would
have Tom always said he had great good luck the
assistant CHANGED that very afternoon to be on duty
by himself. with no one in the dusty organ loft but
Tom it; so while he played Tom helped him with
the stops; and finally, the service being just over
Tom took the organ himself twas then turning
dark, and the yellow light that streamed in through
the ancient windows in the choir was ming led with
arnurky red AS the grand tones resounded through
the church, they seemed to Tom to find an echo IN
the depth of every ancient tomb no less than in the
deep mystery of his own heart. Great thoughts
and hopes uo crowding on his mind as the rich
music rolled upon the air, and yet among them
something more grave and solemn in their purpose,
bu, the same-were all the images OF that day
down TO its very lishtcst recollection OF childhood
The feeling that the sounds awakened, in the mo-
ment Of their existence, seemed to include his
whole life and being; and as the surrounding re-
,li,cs Of stone and wood and glass grew DINNER
in the darkness, these visions grew so much the
brighter tina, Tom mis- thave forgotten the new pu
pi and the expectant master, and have sat mere
ponrag out his grateful heart till midnight but fof
very earthly old berger insisting upon locking up
the cathedral forthwith. SO he took leave oil MS
friend with many thanks, CROPPED bis way out a.
well as he could into the now amP-llghted Streets
and hurried of to get his dinner
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