New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-24

SOiiIC dbG lOph uO"I-lillS lOutIS iOlUD
Shall hold thee and thy glories ALL
The naughty brow, the manly frame,
The daring deeds, the sounding fame,
Are trophies but for DEATH
And millions, who have toiled like thee,
Are STAYED, and here they sleep; and see,
Does glory lend them breath
JAMES Dixon would have been poet had he
been born in poverty and remained thus. These
verses bespeak an unimproved capacity to write
better:
THE INDIAN SUMNER.
WHEN the Summer breeZes have died away
And the autumn winds are drear,
And the forests have changed their green array,
For the hues of the dying year;
There comes season, brief and bright,
When the zephvrs breathe with gentler swell,
And the sunshine plays with softer light,
Like the Summers last farewell.
The brilliant dies of the Autumn woods
Have gaddened the forest bowers,
And decked their painless soiudes,
Like blooming waste of flowers;
In the hidden depths no sound is heard,
Save low and murmuring wall,
As the rustling leaves gently stirred
BY the breath of the dying gale.
The hazy clouds, in the mellow light,
Float with the breezes by,
Where the iaroff mountains misty hight
Seems mngIing with the sky;
And the dancing streams rejoice again
In the glow of the golden sun;
And the hocks are glad in the CLASSY plain
Where the sparkling waters run.
IT is a season of deep and quiet thought,
And itbrlngS calm TO the breast;
And the broken heart and the mind Oerwr0ught,
MAY find in lis stiffness, rest;
For the gentle voice Of the dying year,
From, forest and sunny plain.
Is sweet as it falls on the mourner's ear,
And his spirit torgets its pain.
Yet over all is a mantling gloom,
That sadden's the gazer's heart;
For soon shall the Autumn's varied bloom
From the forest trees depart:
The bright leaves whirl in the eddying air,
Their beautiful lints are fading last,
And the mountain tops will soon be bare,
And the Indian Summer past.
But we must shut down the gate, leaving out
the two BURLEIGHs (the elder among our best
living bards, though he does edit sour-tempered
and snarling Abolition paper,) and many others
whom we had intended to quote from The ed.
tor is alike udicious in his selections and discreet
in his observations, and has made capital book
for the library or comfortable He usually writes
well, but the following slip on p 1872 is too good
to keep to ones self He is speaking Of Selleck
Osborn:
During the early part of his Military life he was married
adv of New Bedford omuch personal wealth who died
after few years the happiness IF rhich he has fully COM
meM0rGted tn has verse"
The Rococo-The Mirror Office has Just is
sued two numbers Of the Mirror Library under
the above title The first contains the Poems of
Edward Coates Pinckney, which well deserved
collection for preservation. We like this gather
ing up Of valuable things that have remained IN
apparent obscurity. No. II. contains the Gull
prit Fay" Lillian" and "The Eve of St.
Agnes" We do not exactly understand the
principle on which such a trio are put together.
1t is like taking out the finest passages of all the
finest operas and constructing them into one
This is very striking, but looks too much like
trickery in literature.
BLAcKwooD's MAGAzNE.-The February No.
Of this standard Magazine has just been published
by Leonard Scott & Co, ll2 Fulton-st. 1t con-
tains, as it always does, many excellent papers
and among those of the present number one by
Alexander Dumas.
r BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for
February, has just been neatly issued by J. Win
chester, 80 Ann street. The article on the Sc
cesson from the Church of Scotland, is very
able presentment of the ant-Secesslon side of the
question. Free Trade and Protection are ably
handled There is capital account of Life in
Australia, in News from an Exiled Contributor
go per annum, ISL cts. per number)
~ Col NAp1ER's History of the War in the
Peninsula, and in the South of France, from the
year 1907 TO the year l8l4,' No. l. has been is
sued by ]. S. Redfeld. Clinton Hall. This is
about the best Military History, especially for
Military Men, ever written; it may be regarded
as profound elucidation of the art Of War, with
the Peninsular campaigns for its Illustrations
1t is to be completed in nine numbers at IS cents
each.
rTHE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE of Foreign Litera-
ture, By J. II. AGSEw, for March, contains inter-
esting papers on The Vaudois Church, The
Oregon Question: american side,) Prescott's
Mexico, The Congress of Vienna German
Literary Ladies' &c. &c. selected from thelatest
British Quarterlies and Magazines.
u The UNLoyED ONE, Domestic Story by
Mrs. HoFLAND, authoress of Catherine I. or the
Czarna, has just been issued By the Harpers for
shilling.-We have read but one of Mrs. Hot.
lands stories, but that was so good that we re-
gret our lack of time to read this one.