New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-28
VOL. III. NO. $50.
to contrast him with tha, acute and powerful In

to contrast him with that acute and powerful In
tellect, who stands not far off,
All, you mean Mr.. Brownson.'' reped m,
companion Pray Heaven he do no, stamp his
foot raise his voice for if he should the whole
fabric of the Hall of Fantasy will dissolve like a
smoke-wreath wonder how he came here :"
And is there not philosophy and truth ia this
passage about reform
Yet, withal, the heart of the stanchest Con-
setvative, unless be abjured his brotherhood with
Man, could hardly have helped lhrobbing in sym
pathy with the spirit shat pervaded these immune
rabe theorists. Il was good for the nam OF un-
quickened heart 10 listen ia their folly. Far
down beyond the fathom of the Intellect, the soul
acknowledged that all these varying and conflict
ing developments of humanity were united in one
sentiment Be the individual theory wild as
fancy could make it, still the wiser spirit would
recognise the struggle of the race after better
and purer life. than had vet been realized on
earth. My faith revived, even while | rejected
all their schemes. 1t could be, that the world
should continue for ever what it has been; soil
where Happiness Is flower and Virtue
so often blighted fruit battlefield where the
good principle, with its shield flung above its head,
can hardly save itself amid the rush of adverse in
|
gazed through one Of the pictured windows; and
behold the whole external world was tinged with
the dimly glorious aspect that is peculiar to the
| Hall Of Fantasy; insomuch that IL seemed Prac-
ticabe, at that very instant, to realize some plan
| for the perfection Of mankind. But, alas if re-
| formers would understand the sphere in which
their lot is cast, they must to look through
pictured windows. Yet they not only use this
medium, but mistake it for the whitest sunshine.
J. S. DWIGHT concludes his critical remarks, or
rather essay, on Bee'hoven's Symphonies, and he
seems to US to write Of Masic in profounder
strain than our world is accustomed to hear. What
he says of interpreting music by words is admira
bic, though we profess no ability to speak of its
truth; and his application of his theory to one of
Beethoven's Symphonies is most pleasing and in
genious. JOHN NEAL writes one of his nervous,
snappish, though not ill natured, articles on News
papers, which is apparently only an introduction
to farther essay upon the same subject. Mr..
Neal seems to us always to write though he
were scolding, and yet he always says something
| worth hearing, and in so direct manner and with
so explicit tone that no one can mistake his mean
ing or refuse to listen Dream Love" by |. B.
Wright gives extracts from the daily journal of
poor painter, expressing the inception and growth
of his love for beautiful lady whom he CHANGED
to meet. 1t is not ove-tale, for there is plo,
and little action in it; but it analyzes skifuy,
though to our minds somewhat tedieusly-the
shades and changes of the master passion.
Song Writing by j. R. LOWELL, is an admi-
rable paper, full of blended poetry and philosophy,
and giving some very discriminating and clear
sighted criticism upon the old English Song wri.
ters. The prose style of MIR. LOWELL is strong
and generally clear and direct. 1t has one mark,
however, in common with very much of what i.
termed the brilliant writing of the day. that we
do not quite like, though it has its merits. The
old-fashioned, straig ight- forward way of saying
thing is set aside; and truth is thought ade-
Gu ,tey expressed unless it be uttered in figure,
or involved in some neat comparison. Thus the
very frst sentence Of Mr. LowelIs Essay is of this
sort-,housh the simileis so beautiful and apt that
we would not for u noment censure it: he
Songs of a nation,' he says are like wild flowers,
pressed, as it were, by chance, between the blood
stained pages Of history" And SO the whole Es-
say is made up of figures, almost every sentence
containing one or more, some very neat and grace
full and others forced. This is pleasing and often
effective mode of writing; but we cannot help
thinking that it too often exchanges for ornament
and tinscl, the manness, dignity and power which
belong to the older and better style.
WHITTIER contributes number Of Lines
written in the Book of Friend, from which we
copy the following simple and strong verses:
Yet, if the spirit gazing through
The vista of the Past can view
One deed to Heaven and Virtue true;
If through The wreck of wasted powers,
OF garands wreathed from Folly bowers
or idle aims and msspent'hours,
The eye can note one sacred spot
By Pride and Self profaned not
A green place in the waste of thought,
Where deed OF word hath rendered less
The sum of human wre;chedness,
And Gratitude looks forth to bless
The simple burst of tenderest feeling
From sad hearts worn by evil-dealing,
For blessing on the hand of healing
Better than Glory's ponlp, will be
That green and blessed spot to me
A landmark in Eternity!
Something OF Time, which may invite
The purified and spiritual sight
To rest on with calm delight.
The department of Literary Notices contains
several very excellent criticisms of Macaulay's
Lays, De Qunceys Letters Longfellow's Poems,
and London collection of British Ballads. The
illustrations, of which there are three, are of
new style exceed irolv sstefnl a nd elegsnt The