New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-17
SCENES AND THOUGHTS IN EUROPE By An
AMERICAN Wiley g. Putnam'e Library Of Amer
Of American Books No. XVI.

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AMERICAN Wiley g. Putnam'G Library Of Amer
Of American Books. No XVI.
This book is delightful instance Of the trans
forming and recreatve power of the mind upon
every thing it touches The most hackneyed ground
Of Europe, persons and objects that have been the
theme for the last half dozen years Of every literary
remittance from abroad, appear TO us clothed with
new charms and meanings. because examined with
finer penetration than they have been by any
other English or American traveller.
Whether speaking of scenery, national charac-
Ter, or objects of art. the book displays fine taste
and large views based upon principles Of per-
manent value. After glancing through it, as is our
wont with books of the kind. when we have our
own catalogue raisonnse Of all the topics, we find
that the customary two hours acquaintance will not
ansv,er ell and have laid the volume aside really
to read in some long, precious leisure day. And
recommend 10 all good readers to do it the same
honor for they will find it but justice.
1, is scarcely worth while to give many extracts
from these volumes whose wide circulation makes
them accessible to every one or we should make
them in profusion. We must content ourselves
with merely expressing our sympathy in the re-
marks on Art and Artists, and especially with what
is said Of copying from nature and the fine &C
count Of whit is required for the sympathy with
Nature which can enable man to copy her-with
the remarks on English aris,ocracy, and the symp.
toms of progress amid the dark and painful circum
stances of the present day. The account OF the
Water Cure, funeral OF Napoleon and other such
objective realizes" given in vigorous sim
pie way and with just enough of individual opin-
ion intermixed to give us a resting place while
looking without getting into danger OF optical
illusion. With regard to Napoleon, we feel that
after all the portraits some of them, including that
lately presented by Il. w. Emerson TO New-Eng
land OF admirable fidelity in parts and showing the
sight Of genius to the whole and notwithstanding
the countless memoirs, souvenirs, and books OF an
ecdotes furnished by the Bonaparte era, and which
find no, yet their end there is not at this time, suii
cent growth strength sufficient recovery from
That crisis OF which he was great part, to ena-
BILE any or all 10 tell the truth about him with any
adequacy He is not seen, for as yet no mind
stands high enough to command the colossal appa
ri,ion n whole, and praise and blame, thus far
have been alike shallow or partial. We must climb
the nights of this century get the proper point
Of view.
We give, as samples of the playful style of this
author the following description:
Stunning M we did where the HAD Ni
lowed The advice Mancse gentleman, who accosed us
In the boat Had gone on, we should not have MADE
by good deal much of mornings for the upper end
OF the lake has less interest aud beauty than inc middle
On reembaki rs the boat returned, between one ana
two we renewed conversation with the friendly giver OF
such good counsel lie had spent his Sunday In passive
enjoyment OF the rich soft beauties OF the Lake This was
the easy and highest form of worship for nature Ike MS
Hewas man past forty of rather more than middle stat
urS with well made, somewhat stout iramc inehheu 10
fulness His complexion was OF that rlch creamy ,i
oener Italy thnn elsewhere, with olack mar
and smooth whlskes handsome man, with regular bold
fra;ues that didn't bold the gcnteness OF his
expression; for his graceful mouth and large white teeth
formed smiling and his black eyes We're nor tnoSe
gl1ing Italian orhs IN whose depths SO nuch oil Soou o
eyillics seepug-you know not which-they were shai
low handsome happy eyes He ordered coffee ana pressed
me 10 take n cum Afer this he offered me cgaf rom
his case and upon my declining that too he seemed to co
eludo that lived very poor life For himself TIC lei nor
hour In the day go by nc said, without fegaihS ms
body w,hsut some or other fragrant snuant He urged
u.s. should we Milan, stop AT the hotel where ne
lodged whose cuisine and wines he praised with thankful
linz ticu Yet he not of those who spend their
mornings In expectation OF their dinner He was 700
subtle an cplcurcan for such dead diurna vacuiiy
Though his dinner the chief circumstance OF his being
,t, amer his mode, he valued time and knew how to
bridge over wide quits between meals pillars con-
sruc,ed enjoyments Including among them easy
acts Of Kindness and courtesy.
After the myriad descriptions OF Switzerland
the following still must strike and charm the aten'
ten
In the sranaeurs, suel,ntes. movements Of Na'sre In
,erapd creative energy reveals itself In dolhss
and voices that the Imagination. Nature seems
here more than elsewhere vtvthcd by the breath OF God
Those gigantic piles OF rock fixed IN sublime ueyed
ness proclaim with uEwontcd emphasis, the awiu hahd
that arrested their upheavug Those terrific helds OF
serna Ice nourishug mothers OF great rivers tempt
tho Imagination toward the mysterious source oil Nature
processes The common and elements OF our globe
are here exaggerated. Hills and valleys become mountains
ana winter dwelis on the peaks 'hTonSnou sum
aer; streams obliged to bc tcrrcnts. Walking In 8
meadow, come suddenly on strsSmet that looks IN
The grass Ike transparent serpent ~ fGll speed II runs
with such startling velocity though II had momen-
c. mysterious mission. The rvcrs rsa cut o' tue lakes
.si.they had twice the work 10 do ofother rivers.
In the two following notes of celebrated subjects,
we find our own in,uitons strengthened and con-
6-med by one who knew how TO see. OF Munich
the common place traveller tells q very different
s,ory-Rachel all men feel Alright though they may
af,erward avcusc themselves by appan, resist
snce to. and frivolous mention Of the overpow'
erng force of the phenomenon;
II being tso late 10 rcepter Italy BY the SplGsea Pass
we bent orr course more Eastward toward Munich and the
Tyro through the nne old Germaniowns OF WarzenIs and
Augsburg. We might have been present AZ 'ne 9esuva
held TO celebrate the completion OF the Hdadd m nih
temple the shore OF the Danube erected pS nt
King Bavaria In honor OF German worth kno senas &c
BE adorned with the stakes and ousts OF Germany erea
men, from ArmtnuS 10 schiller When learnt AteF"sfV
.ha; this temple Lster Is 70 ee excluded was glad
tina; VIC had not gone way it. Figure &c
yourself the Apoo Of the Vatican with the head purpoe
taken o or the Cathedral SJrashury with the spirc de-
roshcd and YOU VIII have notion OF the grossncss
q this outrage. \ German Pantheon without Luther
The srandes national temple that Architecture could de-
vse and Sculpture aGoru with the effSieS OF German
greatness vet e OF that OF Luther could never Dc
bat fragment. The mpernencc Q: THIS petty trasteH
King 10 try 10 ya afroni on the mShsS @NSihs SoVe'
reign. Lutheri
In Munich there noble collection OF pictures; eutthe
city, with Us iresh new palaces and churches ane
hasa made-up look II seems the work Of pietianisr
IS not warm growth Of tho wants and ASPIRATIONS
OF the time lis II il had been said ATchectIEe Ao
Painting are nne things; therefore will have them Inc
King OF Bavaria. the buder and collector o. all this mas
been great Patron OF the Arts. Laerly his patron
Az IS said 10 have taken another direction and he hiss be-
come patron Of Religion. The is proper subject
for patronage rs the other.
Rachel is wonderful She is the stage Of an embodied
radiance. Der body inwar6ly illuminated. Con-
ceive Greek entued with speech mobility
the purpose OF giving ut.ersce 10 profound soul stirred
70 IFS depths and you have image Of the magic union in