New-York daily tribune., 1843-06-29
THE TRIBUNE.

BLAckwoop, MAGAZINE for June, 1913. New-Iofk: 20,
This Number of BIACKwooD, beside severai
other able articles publishes the first part o' "
tale, which promises to be highly interesting ell
titled " Marston, or the Memoirs Of Statesman
The pleasures and pains-tle honofs ana '''' ~
feats-of public life are set forth ABLY ana WIN
insight. We extract from the opening portloh
several detached passages, from which the spirit
of the whole may be caught 7;
ANp,rJoy.-Every man is born for a special
p,1rpose, and with special passion lhe multi
tude. possessing both, exhibit neither; they are
fnne. or choose to be flung, into the pond, where
they float only to perish, like blind puppies. But
there arc others who stem the great tide, and are
only the stronger for the struggle. From my
first sense the passion to be known and felt, nay,
at the expense of being feared, was my impulse
1t has been the impulse OF all men who have ever
impressed the world. With great talents il is all
commanding the thunderbolt IN the hands oil
]oye. Even with inferior faculties and ! make
no pretencc of nine, 1t slngularIy cXcltcs, urges
and animates When the prophet saw the leopard
iringed, he miracle; | claim for my powers
only those of the muscle and slnew
Ambition was the original passion of my nature.
dian, until its fire drives him to the shade |, too,
have been scorchcd, have shrunk and now | re-
cret my shrinking But time deals alike with all.
can now amuse myself only by images of the
past; and, in the darkness and solitude of years,
take the Magic Lantern, and replace life by the
strange, Wild and high -coored cXtravaganccs, the
ghosts and gcnii ofthe phantasmagorla OF ambition
ScnooI-D,Ys-lf whoever does me the honor
4 tnoca ,.,tn tha In, ,ofc ,pnl
DAYS as much as do their memory, he will easily
pardon my passing by the topic altogether. If the
first purpose Of all great public institutions is to
stand STILL the great schools of England, fifty
years ago, were righteous adherents to their con-
tract; they never moved. The world might
whirl round them as it would there remained
the gray milesloncs only measuring the speed
with which every thing OH the road passed them.
This they say, has largely and fortunately changed
in later years. But the change must proceed; the
venerable cripples must throw by their crutches,
and try the effect of flesh and blood. Flogging
and tagging the education for tootman;
they disgrace the common and offend the
feelings of a manly people. The pugilist must
be expelled, and the puppy must follow him.
The detestabe grossness of classical impurty
must be no longer the price at which Latin
quantities are to be learned. The last lesson
of the prodigal son must not be the first learned
by the son Of the gentleman of England-to be
fed on the husks fit only for the swine.
MENTAL GRowTH.-I have always held that
the life OF mans mind, where man has a mind
which is not always the case-ls thing of fits
and starts. | even doubt whether any one who
will take the trouble to rccollect will not be able
to put his finger on the precise periods at which
new views of every thing suddenly opened before
,,,d bo
powers. at least into q new use of them. The
frame may grow like tree; the faculties may
grow as impcrccptiby as the frame; but the
mind acquires that knowledge Of life which forms
its exercise, its use, and perhaps its essence, by
bounds and flights.
AN ENTRANCE INTO LoNDoN.--I shall say but
little of my frs, sensations on reaching London
Ny eyes aud ears were in full activity But the
impression upon all who enter this mightiest of
capitals for the first time is nearly the same Its
perpetual multitude its incessant movement It's
variety of occupations, sights and sounds, the
echo of the whole vast and seepess machinery
of national existence have been thousand times
the subject of description, and always of wonder.
Yet | must acknowledge that its first sight re-
PEELED me. had lived in field and forest, my
society had been among my fellows in rank;
had lived in magnificent halls, and been sur
rounded by bowling attendants; and now, with
my mind full of the calm magnificence of Eng
lsh noble life, felt myself flung into the midst
of numberess, miscellaneous, noisy rabblc, all
rushing on regardless of every thing but them
selves, pouring through endless lines of dingy
houses; and | nothing, an atom in the confusion,
agrain of dust on the great charot-wheel OF So
clety lonely and obscure struggler in the mighty
current of human life, which rolled along the sui
len channels OF the most cheerless, however 1t
might be the largest, of capitals.
Christopher North, always delightful, gives a
very pleasant running commentary on some new
illustrations of GoLDsMlrH's Vicar of Wakefield
Just published in London. The subject does not
glye hun lnll scope-but the paper is exceedingly
pleasant. The Attorneys Clerk in the Monks
Hood" is the title of very interesting article on
Chat,cr.on, ~. w,rva,ous boy
The sleepless soul thar perissed IN his pride
There are several other literary articles of ability
and interest in this Number; and the political ar
ucle is a valuable exposition Of the British Com
mercial policy with reference to Russia.
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