The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-04-04

LAND AM (AJIEhlDNTE.
"Cone back into memory, like as thou vert
in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope
Ike p fiery column before thee-the dark
pillar not yet turned,-SAMUr1. TAILOR
CoLEHIDGE-Logieian, Metaphysician, BardP'
Lid
The arrival of distinguished persons from
abroad Is wontto be chronicled as an ong the
most important articles of current news.
Even the announcement Of IN unusual impor-
tatiOn Of silks or teas. does not fell TO excite
some amount OF interest and speculation
| But the arrival which has suggested these
paragraphs, and the foregoing title, is such as
If zone rose from the dead !" and when, be-
fore, has the TIDE of commerce drifted upon
| the shores of this seaport metropolis such an
invoice as-THe Library Of Charles Lamb
The sight of such wonder was, however, in
store for us. Here they lie, at Bartlett and
| Welford's, Aston House; some 60 in number
| q am told; have been too busy to count
| them) of the identical volGmes wLerewith
Lamb was wont to enrich the scanty hours,
rescued from his India House employ ers and
| the ''Sabbathless Satan" Many OF item are
| repcte with annotations in the familiar hand
writing Of the venerable Coleridge, TRIPPING
| their value; others have been made Of clas-
steal and immortal memory, by havIg their
names emhalmcd in the forever fragrant Is
says of Ella.
Turn (readsr, who chcrishcst the genius of
Elia) 10 that fourth Essay Of the series. and
read with me. Alas, we look in vain among
| these venerable survivors for Daniel. for Old
Burton, for Sir Thomas Browne" Izass
Walton has been caught BY other anglers"
John Bunclc" (it would sccIn) has rot re-
gained his lost Eury1icc; for here he stands.
as in that little back study at Bloomsbury"
stare, reader, If thou hast tves y - Nidorer
volume, with eyes closed, and he mourns his
rayishcd mate More fortunate have been
''the Letters Of that princely woman, the
thrice noble Margaret of Newcastle: Iere
stands the illus;rious folio" and "those alb
sruSer coaitations OF the Greyille": their
wanderings in the country Of Friyolity and
Frenchmcn are safely ended thew stand here
together, rescued (thank Heaven D from for
sctiulncss and crave "in Pagan lands
We may also notice here, preserved in sable
and solemn munnnylood, that volume of
Chaucer signaiizcd in one Of Lambs letters
IbcTeve) as the oniy Rack letter 70 ',fiae III
his collection.
Many other interesting suggestions and IS
sociaiions arc called up by marks and remem-
ORANGES upon suudry OF these old volumes
There are Iloyds pocms-with manifold man
uscript liberties, suitable only to tie Authors
rand There Is Coleridge's Rcmorse. rs first
published with quaint prologue b. Charles
l.aaib. 1t is Loand with other srndrics, and
uPe -scTibcd upon the coyerinh heavy ink sir. kc.
Remainder OF Christ's Hospital For Charles
Iloyd. Please return when ,'onc with. C.. L."
Ore massy and antiquated tome IS indicated
within to b" eit with ''A:r. Lamb, Co'cbrook
Cottage" with ci-ccteras Of detailed direction:
evidently the result ozone ofthos, offerings at
bookstore.
But il i not Lamb ONLY, or chiefly. (ssabcve
Intimately that these Interesting relies serve 10
bring black INFO memory 4 mighiier hand
has rested upon these pages. throughout many
If them are visible The touches Of the pencil
OF Colerid@e ; "in no very clerkly hand" vet
rcfuecnt rs the clustering finecr-traccs of that
f:tbicd alcleniist, whose touch created gold.
One Of the most notable Of these is a volume Of
DIR. Donnes roctry. Colcridec never possessed
it. At least these annoiaiiors bear date rs
late as 1911. We could wish the same had
been true with still more OF the hooks in Lambs
moderate collection. Tie notes are charac-
tciisiic and rcfTC ing-nostly ola critical ,r
turn. Occasionally however,
sparkle Of humor appears; rs an instance Of
which may lie taken the follc wirg epcram up
on Donne's first poem, entitled "9hc Fleq:"
Be proud As .Sppairn's leap fer jov. We Flensl
Ia nature H,'HBi realm we're row GIantlccs.
-Skip.im * no more, nor ciyillcr. skil-,iolns.
Fleas. greet you al - Dons.
In lhpLuS' archives registered are We,
And this YOUR title Of Nobility"
PASSING ly many interesting remarks. We
find the following note preGxed 10 the third of
Donnes satires:
"If Won wish to teach a scholar in the high
rst form class how to read. take Dome. and
IF DOME this satire. When he has learned to
read Donne, with all TIE force and Ifcanine
which arc involved in the words-ihcn send
him to Milton, and he viii stalk-cn like a mas
er, enjoyinq his walk"
Al the end of this satire are added. Iy tho
anne hand, these words "Knoiiy, touble-fst-
ID Giant Crampof strength ."
The book ends with collection ofelcqies on
he author, from various sources among whith
me written in Latin verse calls forth the follow
ny observations. If they sccm COMMONPLACE
aimost) at present, it must be remembered that
shen first written they implied the most I'M
ar enable of Ii e-ary hele estes; and hat are
lainly indebted to the unappreciated influence
t Coleridge for our own emancipation from
liilldr DOnuaEe
''The careful perusal Of modern Latin po-
ms is not without its use. They furnish in
.anccs Of every species Of vice characteristic
f modern English poetry; ard in some meas
re arr, perhaps, a cause. But even Virgil,
nd Horace in his serious Odes, will do the
lme, though in less glaring way. Compare
lesc. or the best of their successors, with Lu-
retius. Catullus, PlautUs. and even Terence
he difference Is as between Rowe DIR. John
on &c. &c. and the writers Of Elizabeth and
ames."
This Latin poem seems to have excited the
Marginal anrotator's most unmitigated disgust;
n token whereof (among other marks OF lis
he translates -'faciti dsfdnf," brayless
sses; parapbrase which may perhaps be
laced beside Lambs translation OF @SeJ1soni
ropriora," properer for a sermon.
At the end Of the volume is the following
harocfc=i<4if oi,-erva.ioD