New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-20
VOL. III. no. 2Gs.

tionable not quite SO palpaby absurd as " full of
emptiness would be, but faulty in the same way:
but that a lack Of rest should o'erload any one
Credit .JadGus! Mr.. Lowell uses the words
quently as to betray ambition to be thought ez-
pert at coming them, which we think neither in
good taste nor worthy man Of his genius-for
genius b. unquestionably has, and tina; OF high
order, and we wish he would more nobly follow its
direction instead of being turned aside by tricks
of this sort, which are only worthy The .tops and
harlcqurs of literature.
These are professedy verbal criticisms, and
WILL we suppose, las such remarks always are,)
be styled hyper-cr,icsms and dismissed with pity
ing contempt for the disposition TO magnify the
faults indicated into matters of importance. But
re maintain that they matters of importance;
and such matters as no poet who sims to write
what will live and be read out Of the pages OF
monthly Magazine will ever disregard. Such
faults cannot be found in the productions Of the
best poets and they are just as truly detormi!ies
as would be similar alterations from good taste in
painting or in sculpture. We admire as highly as
any, the spirit of Mr.. Lowelrs poetry and of the
school to which it belongs-for it is clearly the
poetry of school that mannerisma may be said to
be almost its most prominent feature. But we
cannot like, without great difficulty excuse,
purposed obscuriiy which it almost uniformly ex-
hbits or the defiance which it generally filings
at the dictates of plain sense and the ordinary use
of language by the best writers both in prose and
verse. Poetic license, we arc well aware, extends
q great way: and we are content that in this case
it should cover multitude Of sins: but we re-
specially submit tina. it ought to justify s1ch
wanton crucfxion OF the King best English and
such sturdy treason against all mental rules as the
rranscendental poets too often commit. Mr..
Lowell is very young but he has reached his
years of discretion, and ought to know better than
TO perpetrate these inexcusable enormities.
OF the other contents Of the Magazine we
have not left ourselves room to say anything: we
cannot forbcar, however, to copy the following:
Sonnet
TO A GARDEN FLOWER SENT TO ME- BYALADY.
by nIcHAap H. DANA
No, not in woods nor Tells. nor pastures wild,
Nor left alone to changeful NatSre's care,
Yeu opened on the light and breathed the air:
But one, with blush like thine, and look as mild
AS dewy morn, with love all undehled,
Chose out kindly spot. and made thy bed
Safe from the cruel blast and needless tread,
And watched Thy birth and took thee for her child.
And human hands solictous have trained
Thy slender stalk, und eyes on thee have dwe!t
Radiant with thought and human feelings rained
Into thy bosom, zen till thou hast felt
That through thy life human virtue ran
And now art come to greet thy feow.man.
The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER: January, 1c4s.-
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This number commences the Ninth Volume OF
this excellent Monthly, and, we are glad to learn
from the Editors Address, with haitering pros
poets of It's prosperity. The literary papers Of
most merit in it those entitled The Wan
derer, and Lord Bolingbroke's Political Charac.
ter and Writings. The first gives spirited
historical sketch Of the famous story of the cold
blosded Abelard and the undetermined Heloisa,
and some admirable critical reflections on the
character of Petrarch as Lever, Poet and a
Politician. In the first character, the writer de-
clares his passion for Laura, to whom, though a
married woman and the mother of eleven children,
he addressed amatory soHnets for twenty years.
to have been :" little more than the creature OF
fancy-the dream of imagination: it wanted that
dcep-toned reality and feeling which belong to the
true character of such a passion He pues, and
whines, and deals in puerile conceits too mash
for one whose heart is embraced by the Consuming
fire of love- Asa Politician, he is represented
as being clear-sghted, and though the companion
Of weak and worthless princes, the eloquent and
powerful advocate of the buried liberties of his
Country. His Latin Poems are pronounced to be
dull. bombastic, and lacking in sentiment and
depth of thought: bis Sonnets, though rich, pow
erfu and polished, are deficient in the expression
of nature and genuine feeling; and his Can-ons
truly worthy all the praise they have received
The article on Bolingbroke is continued from
former number, and is mainly critical examine
ton of his work on Exile, and general exposition
of his prominent merits as author.
The Messenger contains also an article on the
Navy; an Interesting notice of the Blind, and the
treatment they have received in different ages and
nations a spirited tale by Miss Lomax; and seve-
raj other prose sketches Oft more or less merit. The
Poetry is fair, and the notices OF new Books CO.
pious and interesting.
u Orlando II fsh, Fashionable Halter, lS7 hFeao
way would inform the gentlemen Of Rew-fork ihas his
Fall and Winter style OF Hats ready for their inspec
ton and critical judgement Claiming the distinction o
having been the FIRST 20 project and abide by strictly
AMERICAN style OF Hats instead of serveiy copying me
Fashions OF Europe which often unsuited 10 our Gu
and manners he reoiceS pereeve that others bave
fit TO follow his lead and that the following OF
European Fashions in Eats amos! entirely abandoned by
the Leading manufacturers