Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-08-14
LETTERS FROM NEW YoRK.-sECOND
SEP IES- RN L. NJ GIIII


SERIES. BY. L. NJ. CHILD.
Mrs Child has recently issued another volume
of her delightful letters, in all respects fully equal,
and in some, Think superior to her former SERIES
She is an ornament to her sex, and writer of
whom America has reason to be proud Her mind
is of an eminently philosophical cast yet it is not
an aembic that distils the baleful subtloties aud
" airy nohngs" of metaphysical speculation, but
prism through which the whole actual living world
about us is environed with all the beautiful hues
of the rainbow. The divinity Of Nature she sees
manifested in all its outward forms. Every thing
around her, from the everlasting hills down to the
shrinking violet at her feet, is instinct with spirit
uol life, and fraught with spiritual meaning. She
Finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing"
No ackadaiscal sentimentoist is she of the Lydia
Languish school, who with a sicbening shipper
Prates of beauties which she never saw,
And flncies rapturos which she never knew.
No! She has innate, passionate love for the
beautiful, and deep child-like reverence Tor the
true and wthal she has an earnestness Of spirit,
and warmth of enthusiasm that inspire with kin
bred sentiments the hearts of all who commune
with her Her soul is of too ETHEREAL a mould to
submit to be cramped and confined by the strait
laced formalitics Of arbitrary custom. All the kind
ly feelings and generous impulses that nature plan
ted in her bosom are allowed to grow and expand,
unconsraned and unperyered. She will not
degn to play part in the hollow mummenes of
fashionable life She conforms neither her thoughts
nor her feelings TO any models that public opinion
may institute She thinks strongly and feels deep
ly, and, like true woman, she fearlessly speaks
out what she thinks and feels. She has an exalted
conception of the dignity of human nature, and
would throw over the weak errng ones of the earth
the broadcast mantle Of charity. Like many other
eminent writers of the day. she believes that soc-
ETY. makes its own criminals; that vice and crime
are the products of influences and circumstances
for which civil and domestic government are di-
rectly answerobe; that the errors of our fellow
beings are to be remedied, not by violence and an
appeal TO the ignoble sentiment of fear, but by
kindness and the exercise of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
principle of love. Whether you admit the correct
ness of her opinions not, you cannot but admire
the supplemented fervor with which she advocates
them; and we venture to say you cannot imbibe
much Of her calm, meditative, hopeful, practical,
and we will add, religious philosophy, without be-
coming wiser and a better man.
Her style is singularly captivating Her words
sparkle like gems, and her sentences are as trans
parent as crystal Seldom, indeed, is it that we see
such richness of sentiment combined with such fe-
licy of diction. In conclusion, we would advise
our young friends, who DESTROYS Of obtaining,
in the form of book, a companion with whose
company they will not soon tire, to procure this
volume of Mrs Child's Letters we believe that in
this, they will be sure of finding the object of their
wishes.
The work we presume may be had at either of
our bookstores
For all Ladies' lCho consider themselves Young, that
is TO say the Female Ser GENERALLY.
Our hand, dear souls, is entirely out of the ques
tion but we are not afraid to venture our little fin
ger that you can't, the first time at least read cor
rectly the following love-song from Dean Swift,
although every syllable of it is genuine everyday
English. To be sure it looks wonderfully like Lat
in, but appearances" as we sometimes say when
surveying certain fashionable APPENDICES of the
present day, "are very deceitfuL"
DIollis adult,
Has an acuti,
No asso fms,
MOlll dlvlnlS.
o mi de arms tres,
Uni ma dis tres,
Cantu dis co yer
Meas alo ver
Or try another from the same author The ster-
f ling value of the golden sentiment it contains will
amply repay you for the trouble of getting at it.
Apud in is alm de 81 re,
Minis tres | ne yer re qui re-
Alo yer findit gestis,
His miseri ne yer at rests.
NED-FOREARMED."