New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-28

February, ls4s. Vol. l. No. 2. New-York James
suDger, i55 Broadway.
If the Editors of this Magazine prosecute their
undertaking as ably as they have commenced it,
land we see no reason why they should net,) it
will very speedily establish its character as, in
many and most important respects, the best
Monthly in the country. Its contents are not so
varied in their character as those of aome others,
nor are they well adapted catch the attention
and at once secure the applause of those who
read merely fer pleasure and an hours amuse-
ment as the great majority of general readers
DO. It's articles have Literary and Critical in
teest and in this respect they are far superior to
those OF any other monthly magazine umong us.
We sincerely trust that the Gt audience it will
find may not be so few as TO render its success
for moment doubtful
The leading article in this number is by that
gifted writer NATHANIEL HAwTHoRNE, whom we
are heartily glad to meet in walk of literature
which every stroke of his pen enriches and adorns
lisa sketch of Visit to the Hall of Fantasy
gotesque structure combining wilder mix
,uro Of styles than an American architect
usually recognizes as allowable" yet which is
"Iikcly to endure longer than the most substantial
structure that ever numbered tho earth" He
gives US notices of those whom he saw there, and
frequently by single ePirlet paints picture full OF
strength and definite character. % The grand old
couutenance of Homer" he says, "the shrunken
and decrepit form, but vivid face Of Esop; the
dark presence of Dante the wild Ariosto Rab.
elais', smile of deep-wrought mrth the profound,
pathetic humor of Cervantes; the all-glorious
Shakespeare; Spencer meet guest for an alegori
structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and
Bunyan, moulded Of honeliest clay, but instinct
with celestial fre-were those that chiefly attract.
ed my eye.' We should be glad to copy this
whole article, hut as we have not space, we musl
content ourselves with extracts. The following
gives US pleasing glimpses of American poet,
whom he saw in that fantastic Hall -
Bryan, had come hither from his Editors room,
bis face no longer wrinkled by political strife, bul
with such look as if his soul were full of the
Thanatopsis, or of those beautiful stanzas On the
Future Life. Percival, whom to see is like catch
ling glimpse of some shy bird of the woods, had
shrink into the deepest shadow that he could find.
Dana was also there; though for long time back,
the public has been none the richer for his visits
the Hall Of Fantasy; but, in his younger days, he
descended to its gloomiest caverns, and brought
thence a treasure Of dark, distempered stories.
Halleck, methought, had strayed into this purple
atmosphere rather by way of amusement than be-
cause the strong impulse of his nature compelled
him hither; and Willis, though be had an indefea
able right Of entrance, looked so much like man
Of the world that he seemed hardly to belong here.
Sptague had stepped across from the Globe Bank,
with his pen behind his ear. Pierpent had come
hilher in the hope, suppose, of allaying the angry
glow OF controversy; fire unmeet for such an altar
poets kindly heart.
In the midst of these famous people, beheld
the figure Of friend, whom fully believed to be
thousands of leagues away. His glance was thrown
upward TO the lofty dome as whe should say EXCEL
sloR!
lis LorgfeIow - Iexclaimed. "When did
he return from Germany"
His least essential parl-that is to say, his
physical man-is probably there at this moment,
under water-spout" replied my companion
But wherever his body may be, his soul will find
nsw way into the Hall of Fantasy. See; there is
Washington Irving too, whom all the world ssp-
poses TO be enacting the grave character of Embas-
'ador to Span'
And, indeed, there stood the renowned Geoffry
Crayon, in the radiance OF a window, which looked
like the pictured symbol of his own delightful fancy
Mr.. Cooper had chosen to show himself in more
sombre light, and apparently meditating
speech in some libel case, rather than scene OF
such tales as have made him a foremost man in
this enchanted hall.
Here is kindly netice of some men of mark
4 who live in world of their own-seldou ventur.
Eng out of their shadowy Hall into the air and
daylight in which most men dwell:-
"Ia the midst of these lights of the age, it glad.
deued me to greet my old friends of Brook Farm,
with whom, though recreant now, had borne
'le hea, ot many summers day, while we abored
together toward the perfect life They seem so far
advanced, however, in the realization of their idea,
That lheir sunburnt faces and ,oi-hardened frames
nay soon be denied abundance into the Hall OF
ssa,asy. NJ. Emerson was likewise there, lean
as asains, one of the pillars, and surrounded by
10 admiriEs crowd of writers and readers of The
Da, and all manner of Transcenaentalists and
eheiples of The Newness, NEST of whom betrayed
9epower of his intellect by its modifying intiu-
sace upon their own. He had come into the hall,
Ssarch, suppose either of fact or real man;
a OF which he was rs likely to hnd there as else
suefe No more earnest seeker after truth than
",and few more successful finders of il; although,
Nasumes, the truth assumes mystic unreaiity
~ shadowyness in bis grasp. In the same part
me aait, Jones Very stood alone, within cli'
ss which no other of mortal race could enter, nor
aaself escape from. 81
:. Here, also, was Mr.. Acott with two or three
"'sAas, whom his spirit had assimilaied to itself
:" Drawn 10 his New-England horne, though an
Seaa rolsd between. There was no man in the
ssasnted hall, whose mere presence, the language
saoss look and manner, wrought such an i'm
S.ssNon as that of this great mystic innova.or.-
sn and gentle was he, so holy in aspect, so
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