New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-31

Art thou not saddened by the fight of years
Or is thy throne too far above the blight
That mars all beauty in this vale OF tears
There seems no trace of lime upon thy BROW
Methinks thou ne'er hast been more fair than now!
1t NAV be that thou feel'st no blighting breath;
Thou mays st be loosened from the Spoilers hand,
But if thou bowest not to the conqueror, DEATH
Thou yet must trcmble at the high command
Which the ArchangePs last dread trumpet brings;
For thou art not of uncreaed things. H. E. q.
Oberlin Ohio, Jan. 1874.
DIcKENs.-Mr. N. P. WILLIS, in his letter to
the National Intelligencer of this week, gives an
amusing account of his first interview with
Dickens. Mr.. WILL1s's publisher, it seems, was
on his way to Newgate and was to take along
with him young paragraphist for the Morning
Chronicle to give account of the visit. On
his wav he encountered Mr.. WILLIS and took him
in also. Mr. w. thus describes DIcKENs's domi-
Gle, ct cetera.
81 followed by long flights of stairs to an up
per story, and was ushered into an unexpected
and bleak-looking room, with deal table, two or
three chairs-and a few books, small boy, and
Mr.. DICKENS for the contents. / was only struck
at nEol Will OiiC koLo l. iAi%uS
dunn of it that evening, as the strongest instance
had seen of English obsequousness to employ
ers,) the degree to which the poor author was
overpowered with the honor of his publishers
visit | remembered saying to myself as sat
down on a rickety chair, "My good fellow, if
you were in America with that fine face and
ready quill, you would have no need to be con-
descended to by publisher" Dickens was
dressed very much he has since described
"Dick Swiveller''-,ninus the " swell look. His
hair was cropped close to his head, his clothes
scant, though jauntily cut, and after changing a
ragged office-coat for shabby blue, he stood by
the door, collarless and buttoned up the very per-
sonifcation, thought, of close saier to the
wind. We went down and crowded into the cab,
Zone passenger more than the law allowed, and
DICKENS partly in my lap and partly in my Mac
rone's) and drove on to Newgate. In his works,
if you remember, there is a description of the
prison, drawn from this days observation. We
were there an hour or two, and were shown some
OF the celebrated murderers confined for life, and
one young soldier waiting for execution and in
one OF the passages we CHANGED to meet Mrs.
Fry on her usual errand of benevoence Though
interested In DIcKENs's face, forgot him natural
~ enough alter we entered the prison, and do
not think heard him speak during the two hours.
parted from him at the door of tue prison, and
continued my stroll into the city.
Two or three years afterwards, (says MIR. Will
hs,) was in London, and present at the compli
mentary dinner given to MAcREADY. SAMUEL
LOVER, who sat next me, pointed Eout DICKENS.
looked up and down the table, but was wholly
unable to single him out without getting my
friend to number the people who sat above him.
He was no more like the same man had seen
than a tree in June is like the same tree in Feb
ruary. He sat leaning his head on his hand
while BuLwER was speaking, and with his very
long hair, his very flash waistcoat his chains and
rings, and withal a much paler face than of old,
he was totally unacceptable. The comparison
was very interesting to me, and looked at him
long time. He was then in his elimination of
popularity, and seemed faded to stupciactioa-
Z Remembering the glorious works he had written
since had seen him, Ilongcd to pay him my
homage, but had no opportunity, and did not
see him again till he came over to reap his har-
vest and upset his hay, cart in America. When
all the ephemera of his imprudences and impro-
vidences shall have passed away--say twenty
years hence-l should like to see him again, re-
nowned as he will be for the most original and
remarkable works of his time.
WESTERN NEw-YoRK INDUSTRIAL Assoc,A.
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