New-York daily tribune., 1844-07-03
THE rkIBU n E
THr Ks,ckg.pocxEe- The number for Ju

powerful sketch, land the ntcrspersipgs o poetry are
very respectable, although scarcely so good is
usual in the Knick-rbocker. The most attractive
department Of the number, however, is the Editor 8
Table and The Gossip The following bit Of
choice fun occurs in an imaginary Conversation
with the great Seatsheld:
What dc you think Of the North American y
SEATSFIELD: 'Spruce.beer corked in cham
pagne bottle and fancying itself made Of grapes; it
makes loud pop every time il comes out, but 'tis
dropsica stuff; without strength, and not always
with pungency enough TO conceal it's imPotency
yet il is thought far sharper and smarter than it
used TO be. think ii occasionally pala,able tipple
enough
SEArsfIELp: No, sir; its about the same Of
ynre; a little sharper perhaps, you say-but the
change is not much; only formerly it was in It's sac
charina STAGE it has now arrived at the acetous Ter
menistion. But acdity, sir is not strength; putting
more lemon in your punch will not make II stronger
Have you not higher opinion OF the Demo-
cratic z
SATISFIED: 'E Ia stessa coSa similar bever-
age, only -bottled with poorer corks. do woI-
der that my talented countrymen should spend their
time in the manufacture Of such small wares. Sure
ly there are many stout able bodied men among em.
WHY should strong hearty fellows go about playing
on the banjo and hurdy- -gurdy? IL they must make
nose let 'em Of least take Il bass. drum and bang
away to some purpose. Sir, if either Of those Re-
vi ws should load me with commentator, shall
Prospero, break my magic staff
Bury i certain iaihoms in the earth ...,
And Ar deeper than an did did ever pIumme' sound
sDo YOU hold the same low estimation Of all our
periodical literatureP
SEATsrlELD: No, sir; in the Magazine line we
arc fast beating the English. BLAcKwooD may be
considered as defunct; and in its best day II
dull trash the pert nonsense OF Eton boys. In
America, now, our most Intellectual men contribute
to the Magazines; every month gives vent TO some
valuable outpourng from Jones, Williams, or Mrs.
Brown
sDo YOU ever see the KNIcKERBocKER
SEATsFIELD: Mundt sends il TO me now and
then, and it is undoubtedly (acie princeps. Ever.
article is invariably fine; but it alwas, have no
ticed, grows finer toward the last page, until II be-
comes almost too fine for weak eyes,
DO you not think QUoD is goodp
SATISFIED: 'Quop '-quid est qu0d7 never
But do you consider SHAKsPEARE dull fe-
low7'
SEArsFIELD mo, Sir; but he lived in the
American age Of England. He had good deal oil
the rough. and.tumble poet, and wrote slap-dash
what came uppermost. In America we have many
writers Of the order; and, in fact our state OF
society in America, with its headlong railroad ac'
ton, its frequent reSerses, IFS repudatlve tenden-
cies its helter.skelterism and go-ahesdiviry, very
nearly resembles the condition Of England in the
sack.drinking, tohacco-smoking, rse-ridng, deer
stealing, pur-e-tukiug days of Sir Walter Raleigh,
Bardoph, Pistol, the Earl of Essex, Drake, Wal
siughAn, and Corporal N,m. England, SIR H.
thuse tinies was very much like Illinois at present.
One would think, then, that some poet should
arise in the lar West. OF the Shak k<pereun stamp
SATISFIED: Doubtless there will. He must
be born there il any where. Eng land is past bear
ing such men; she can barely produce small BY
RIOS Two every hal! c-nrurv. She IL not ev.,
capmh- o: appr- ciaring such minds INV. SHAKs
PtARt's fam- in England has now become alto
g. th-r traditional; II is "nl> in Amrrica aud
tIrrniaut that h- la truly uud rsiuod.
bout ,on think that SC"TT und-r-i od Ein
SE.rsF,tLp; No. > ~ not M ScHL. de"
r-uuI "a MUhDT d.-s. ] have heard MUApT 'ie'
rnnt too hours ui,"" ch"c" passages III P-rclrs
AID Titus AID oncus,' vi ich q -,n i -lt rscape
tn cnmmn in'i"n o. any Brl'i>h ,n,iIrnta"rs.-
eoHLt6EL cunI 'er- the Yorkshire i'rag-d, or
of SHtKspEAKEs highest crrarions; MUsUT h'
l,rves tisnnrr Guion "u- Of h- 'a', p'odu,
Iidn- before his sly le torrn-d. Thi- nuw wou.
never have ben c"njrctured by all Engllshniai
thn-- Blush obIus- dogs
observed that it ShAKsPEARE was alive now
he would probably go IL America and settle.
SEAlsFiELD: 'Of course hr would What
there ia m,.drrn pgnud 10 suit ~hOlc IVA un
like his His inner habit of man would be who'll,
a. variance with 'he present race OF Britons. SlF
if he was ahie to, he would immediately lake pas
sage Tor Boston in The Acadia. 1t he could not
afford 10 60 in The cabiu, he would not ahhor III
s-eragr; nav, III warrant you he would prefer 1t,
for the sake Of studying character.
what a sensation would his arrival in Boston
create ~, ;,
SEArsrlELp: 'No, Sir; think not. IT would
be an entirely different affair from DIcKEss's arrival
NO dnner-givng, no speechrnsking, no levees Al
the fremont House. ] imagine MIR. SHAKSPEARE,
attired in sober suit of drab landing al The Bosto"
wharf and walking with his staff and bundle up 10
the Bite Tavern No young rrati would find
him there. LoSGFELLow or PiERroNT would leave
no cards for him al the bar. No professor would
invite him TO Cambridge no lyceum would desire
him TO give lecture. You would not find him 60.
ing about in procession with badge aud banner, ard
boasing of the mad days that he had seem. Dea-
con GRAST would never make a temperance dele
gate OF him. No, Sir; you would hnd hm at the
National Theatre, awaiting the result OF negotia-
tions pending with Mr.. PELBY; or lie would soon
make his way quietly 10 New fork, and engage
himself al the Chatham or the Bowcry. In the
evening YOU mig hit observe him at the Shades, OF
the Ram 3. Head House. probing the my stcres o.
the human heart mug OF ale. OF a Sunday
morning YOU might meet him in the fields at Hobo
KEN musing amid the clover and picking up snlles
from the 'meanest flower that blows. NoisclesSly
thus would he glide through American existence,
winning q silent immortality; until, o'erwearisd
With the arring world he nigh, relrca, TO some re-
mote settlement in the West, and only occasionally
correspond with the Magazines.
Il think he would write for the KsIcKEngocKER.
SEArsFIELp. Very likely: every month would
fetch forth another number OF Macbeth or Olhello
Here SEATsrIELD proposed 10 so and get Il mint
uep in honor OF the day, 1.-THE FourthI and con.
yersation was interrupted for halt an hour.
The following description of an elegant man is
in Mr.. Chawls Yellowplush's best style:
He was slim, eygant man as ever see. he
had very white hands, rayther salo face, will
sharp dark Is and small wskus neatly trind anc
black as WARREss jet. He spoke very low ane
soft; he seemed to be watchin' the pussan viii
whom he was in convy sarioa, and always fat,cred
every body. In Short Mr.. DEucEAcE the younger
decidedly an elegant man.
The following is good hit at the namby-pannby'
ism of modern versi6ca,on
UPRISING, see the fful lark
Unfold his pnion to the stream;
The pensive wach-dog's mellow bark
O'ershad-s yon cottage like dream;
The playfu duck and warbling bee
Hop galy on from tree TO tree'