The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-01-29

Of Buffalo, against him and Mr.. Banks SO great
has been the demand for this remarkable exposition that
we have been under the necessity of publishing this
EXTRA to satisfy the public demand 1t will probably
be dramatised the Olympic next week. 1t is one Of the
drollest things ever published
The Literary War between England aud
the United states-AmOsher Broadside'
Siuce the return of Mr. Charles Dickens to Ing
land, we have had number of very violent broad
sides against the instltutions-soclal haoits-nor-
ais, politics and literature of this country. The
politicians and the newspapers have been parlcu-
larly the subjects of these hostile attacks and now
alas. the poor poets of the past and present genera
ton have come in for their full share Of the
my's fire. The last number of the Foreign Quar-
teyly RevieW contains long arlice-the leading
article, too-which is very fierce and furi-
Gus attack'on the Poets and Poetryof America. We
have given, on the first page of this days paper
number Of extracts from this article, in order to
afford our readers opportunity of forming an &C.
cnrats judgment respecting the temper, candor, Ii
berality, and general competency of the reviewer.
They make capital reading for this cold weather,
and are almost equal TO our reports of the debates
in the House OF Representatives, between the Hon
orable Mr.. Stewart, and the equally Honorable
Mr. Weller, to say nothing of their FIRST fight be-
fore prayers.
Every one who reads the article, in this Re-
uie,o, on the Newspaper Press of America" will,
Of course, the perusal OF these extracts, recog
nize the same hand. There are, in this article, the
same inveterate prejudice-the same virulent nvec-
tive-the same gratuitous assertion-the same bas-
tard wit-ihe Blllingsgate slang-the same
Boosting egot sm-the same envenomed hatred of
tlrt,n A,ra~ 7. L.,
indeed to fnd, even amongst the peculiarly gifted
fraternity Of Enalish reviewers, two men capable Of
pouring out against this country such quantities of
spleen and Immature, with so marvellously little
apparent provocation. Nobody but Mr.. Dickens
could do it. On him the very mention of America
operates like a tormenting charm. There is some
thing in the name even in these United States
which perplexes his judgment, breaks his repose,
and sets him foaming and shrieking like some I'M
happy demonac. And the most melancholy part
of the business is, that the poor will not try to
forget this torturing source of ANNOYANCE. On the
contrary, as if influenced by tyrannical fasc-
nation, he is continually directing his attention to
1t. To this thorny subject his mind perpetualy re.
verts, and though lacerated at every touch it is
fascinated with the instrument of its pain, that
it cannot be drawn away from the distressing OBJ
ject Poor Dickens!
II is really amusing to observe the eagerness--
the frenzed sort of joy-with which the Reviewer
seizes on Griswold's collection OF American poetry
Of the general merits of that book, and its claims
to attention or respect, a means of estimating
the character of American poetry, we believe all
sensible people here, except the author and dozen
or two OF the rhymers, whose names he has saved
from rerdi,ion for year or two, have but one OPT
Mon. But such hodge-podge, njudicious, Jim
Grant (not our Jim Grant, in Ann street.,
who is capital barber,) sort of col
lection" was just the thing for Reviewer
like Mr.. Charles Dickens-a perfect God
send, indeed-to be made the most Of And so
II has been made the most Of least so far as the
iliberallty, injustice, virulence and malignity OF
Mr.. Charles Dickens very magnanimous little soul
enabled him. Even the collection" however,
did not afford sufficient scope for Mr.. Dickens dis
cursive detestatlon of America 1t is only after
belchlDg forth a torrent Of general abuse of the
country, which occupies several pages, that he gets
to the works under review, and even then, when
he has taken them up, he is constantly DEPRESSING
for the purpose Of letting of the rapidly accumula-
ting bile.
Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Emerson and
Longfeilow get an approving pat on the head, but
all their brethren of any degree are peIted without
sed of, receiving, indeed, almost as much abuse as
her country itself. The name of the great Ameri-
can song writer, General George p. Morris, is not
even mentioned. Probably the nature of the
personal relations subsisting between the dis
tinguished bard and the equally distinguished
reviewer, prevented the latter from making
any open manifestation of hostility. But the
somewhat significant allusion in the article TO
the grievous wound which would be inflicted on
some of the poets by the omission of their names,
even in terms of disrespect, may mean something
IN this as we'll as other quarters. However, that
we leave to the judgment of those who best know
the "Mford bard, we beg pardon,-the bard of
Gotham-George p. Morris-General George p
Morris
Altogether the article in question is melancholy
tissue of splenetc bitterness-violent prejudice
gross uncharltabeness-wiliul injustice, and pee
wish Irrabilny. II is vile buresque on that just
digni6ed, manly, enlightened criticism, which
should characterize journal pretending to instruct
and inform public opinion, and to correct and edu-
cate public taste. 1t is true there few-a very
few-whoesome truths uttered by the reviewer,
but they bear to the mass Of fasehood, misrepre-
sentation, and vulgar abuse with which they are
surrounded, about the same proportion that Fall
staffs pennyworth of bread did to his many gallons
of sack. Poor Dicke ms!
REPORTING IN WASHINGTON. Cave Johnson
Of Tennessee, has offered proposition TO exclude
all reporters from the House. except those connect
ed with the Washington papers. If this PROPOSE
ton does not in altogether all the best reporters
in the country will be excluded, and the House OF
Representatives may as well hold its sessions with
closed doors Yet after all, whether it cares in or
not, the reporters will go into the gallery and in
stead of the present tame and timid reports, we
shall have faithful, graphic, perfect pictures of the
scenes in Congress That's all. So members may
in that case expect to be cut more deeply than ever
And in this view of the case we would on the whole