New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-11

oil the classical scholar. " men we nave sdt oo"H
to Them life seems still and serene as II IT were
very far off, and we believe 1t Is not habitually
seen from any common platform so truly and IN
exaggerated as in the Light of literature. In Sc
rene hours we contemplate the tour Of the Greek
and Latin authors with more pleasure than the
traveller does the farest scenery of Greece or Italy
Where shall we find more refined society =
| That highway down from Homer and Heslod to
! Horace and Juvenal is more attractive than the
Appian. Reading the classics, or converslng with
those old Greeks and Latins IN their surviving
works, is like walking amid the stars and con-
steatons, high and bv-way serene to travel.
Indeed, the true scholar will be not little OF an
astronomer in his habits. Distracting cares will
not be allowed to obstruct the field OF his vision,
iorthe higher regions of literature, like astronomy,
are above storm and darkness
Rev. ]. F. Clarke contributes Sketch Of
George Keats, a brother of the Poet, who died re-
Gently while in the prime of life and in the midst
of an active business career at Louisville, Ky.
He was eldest of the three brothers, most worthy,
intellectual loving and nghtfully beloved man,
greatly respected in his Western home, which ne
had chosen in early manhood, marrying at twenty
one girl of sixteen, and seeking independence
and equality on the banks of the then forest
shaded Ohio His strength of character and
kindness of heart arc fifty comnlcmorated by MIR.
c. preliminary to the citation of some Criticisms
on Milton by the Poet Keats, which MIR. e. was
permitted to copy from the Western brothers copy
of Paradise Lost These are good, but not ex-
traordinary, and are valuable mainly as frag-
m mt of the mind of Keats snatched from oblivion.
There are several brief articles both in Prose and
Verse, of which We have not room to speak; and
that on Europe and European Books by the
Editor, is SO rich that we pass it in the hope that
wo may ere long be able to insert it entire The
Literary Notices and Foreign Literary Intelli-
gence we must also leave untouched for the pre-
sent.
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