New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-02
yOR.. ZEE. 40. l3O.

The last Dublin University Magazine contained
an article on American Authors, dlctateo oy
spirit of undilutcd malignity and assaillng every
thing in America which makes the slightest liter
ary pretcnsion with a bitterness so exrayagant
that in the end it defeats its own malevoent pur-
pose and provoEes nothing but laughter BRY-
Ant. DANA, LoNGFELLow and all the literary men
of whom, as Americans, we are Justly proud, are
ridicued with the most contemptuous tlpp 1ncy,
and assailcd with the most pltliul abuse. Mr.
MATHEWS comes in for his share of the renew
crs anti. American venom; and the terms IN
which it is vented are quite as low as those en-
ployed to heap contempt upon his elder brethren
The whole article is one to which no American
can refer with the slightest respect; and yet the
hnckerbocker, an American literary monthly,
stoops to quote from this identical article as Gecl
sive evidence and boasts that its own opinion Of
Mr.. Mathews finds abundant confirmation N
this most respectable and authoritative magazine
There is but one eplthet which can properly char
terizc so INSCRIPTIONS warfare upon any literary
man 1t is contemplate. II the opinions OF the
Dublin University ore to be quoted as authority
against American writers FROM which there is no
appeal we may at once dismiss all thought or hope
Of a national literature and send those who have
done something TO build one up, such men as
DANA and BRYANT and PREsCoTT and IRVING, IN
to Coventry, till it shall please the Editor Of the
Dublin Monthly to withdraw his confirmation ,
of the Knickerbocker's opinions and permit them
to return.
But we are saying too much Of this matter
more, we arc sure, than IS necessary. In the
minds of the readers Of the Knickcrboclc: who
know little of him except through its pages,
prejudice is implanted by such attacks as these:
and, as we deem them at once wanton and un-
just, we do not scruple to protest against them.
The Literary Notices in this number of the
Knickerbocker arc extended and interesting
The review of Mr.. CnILD's Letters from New
York. Que of the best and most gifted publica-
tons of the times is enriched by several selcc-
tons from its pages. The Editors Table is adj
mirably filled, as usual, with whatever is light,
graceful and pleasing. We intended to have
given our readers some of It's choice paragraphs,
but have left ourselves no room. But the extent
of our fault-fnding with single sin must not
lead our readers to infer that we find nothing for
approval--lor in fact VIC find every thing-cxcept
space. So rescrving that for another occasion we
will hint at one more blensll in the Knickor-
bocker's pages. In noticing an cplgram sent for
publication the Editor concludes thus Oh =, 90
long, you p'ison critter you. What do you
mean I? In rejecting another communication he
says: Could MT approve the sentiments of our
correspondent any way at he can fix it, On
similar occasion he exhorts {. contributor in
the following emphatic language: Q git eout.'
and again he allows himself to speak of well
known literary gentleman Crazy Neal
Such particularly elegant expressions are doubt
less well enough in their place. but, most re-
spect(uly and dcierentially, we beg leave to sub
init that their place is much more properly IN the
columns Of the Subterrancan than In the pages Of
the oldest, abest and most fashionable monthly
magazine in America.