New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-20
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u,,, will answer but the more sou have OF the Tor
,,,r INGREDIENT the better you are Of as well at Del
nopico's ~ elsewhere.
The lower saloon Is appropriated 10 general and IN
different customers who come in in hurry and must
return to their business possible The great
and extensive French and continental importing inter
ct furnishes two or three Of daily diners At
Dsmonico s-men Of education end refined tastes, IA
misr with the world and carrying with them wherever
they 20 an air Of quiet aud easy Difference oeharactes
tc Of the thorough bred gentlemen everywhere, and
which make you at once feel higher respect for your
self a. well A. for everybody else Beside these you
will frequently meet h,tle knots Of Travelled American
gentlemen. vino have unconseiously caught the same
tone aud spirit The walters too have been regularly
trained 10 their profession. and without seeming 10
observe you are always your elbow just al the mo
ment you are beginning to think about wishing ioi
something and listen 10 you with a grave attention
which assures you that you 10 receive exactly what
YOU have ordered and in the shortest possible time.
They seem TO come by electric telegraph, at the hrst
motion of your thought
After you have ordered your dinner (and we don :
sup,ose you to be such BOBBY require any in
structons a. 10 what you will eat) you have little
leisure tolook about make your observations There
SON The father is still spenddly preserved and his
hair whiskers and moustache have been exqusitey
dyed that their owner himself begins almost TO think
that he has been only dreaming Of the fight OF Time
It is really beautiful the perfect Difference with
which the handsome old gentleman is treated by his
bow Whether il is something in the dignhed aiis-
by of the father or the greater Of the SON
certain it is that the paterna authority sits much more
gracefully and naturally with foreigners than with u.s.
They are no better perhaps butthey more gracious
They have had the good to think 1t worth while
10 study and teach the philosophy Of the LITTLE On
this nne-tenths of social happiness depends This,
most American men. and women too have yet TO learn,
or at best but sclhshy and partially understand
At the next table behind these in attitude Of list
less sefcom placency sits tall striking looking man,
with ruddy beard and moustache, setting of volup-
tnous and decidedly handsome mouth He has evil
IDENTIFY lust inished-his breakfast for there stands
the gigantic chocolatecup deep enough for him. long
az he is TO drown himself in it, and before him lie the
delicate remains Of the Gufs mirOir with which he
has been trihing Although still under twenty five, he
ia evidently thorough. bred of the worldan cpl
cure an amateur diletante gallant critic, almost
n coxcomb You would think at first that he had trav-
eed So he has-but it has only been between book
covers There are few operas he does not know-irom
the score few pictures statues churches he is not
familiar w!th-by description but he has in reality
never been out of NewYork He is, prejudice vanity
obstinacy and all remarkable young man, and Yields
an intellectual bsttleax between his thumb and fore
fingers that will clesve its way in time through any
Frontde Bceuf castle of stupidity that he mag chance
10 fall in with That is RICHARD GRANT WHITE the
musical critic of morning paper.
To the right, yonder nestled among piles OF pre-
serve jars scolOped oranges and mertH9aes Ia 0tnt
arc four persons somewha worthy OF notice The one
whose profile is turned to us, he with the massive,
Jupitolan head and bushy har-upon whose sensuous
mouth good nature is broadly coniendng with scorn
of everything and everybody, and nine times in ten
gets the mastery-is PARKE GOODWIN: one of the pro
foundest most earnest yet most consistent and prac.
teal OF our strong OF progress whom il has been
the good fortune of the present to produce He Is
an Associatiouist, SwedenborgiaD, Homeopathic,
a Hydropathist know not what. But he is
at the same time hard and hopeful worker in the cir
Gle where ne finds himself and with the materials
which surround him When men learn to think Tor
| themselves instead Of taking the wind from those
human weathercocks pcrched upon high places, the :
will discover that here is man who has gone before
| them-who has thought than they ever have
| thought can think
Opposite him. in alraot every respect l. tall shape
~ man. dsutly dressed and in style that lets peer
out here and there all pervadng and nexinsuishab'
love Tor the beautiful which even, as in woman seeks
to expend itself upon the dress. The upper part O
his face with the long clustering, glossy rinsets
.. brown m the shadow golden IN the sum-"
has something cherubic in its expressonbut the eye is
small and sensual and the irrepressibe pout OF the
under.lip and the white full swelling throat add al
once mortality TO the composition. He is. perhaps
he himself might not disdsin to express it, sort of hu
man iulep composed Of spirits and sugar, with pun
gent flavor OF the mint which makes the very ali
spicy around him. On his upper lip grows modest and
maidenike brief mousaehe, delicately arched into
capital w and which will doubtless in time fulnl its
photographed destiny in completing the name Of IT.
owner--WLLIs.
At the righthand OF the amber maker in whose EN-
baminr ointment OF sweet words sraws preserved
till they become precious as diamonds, behold we in
deed manly and noble face Not tortuous nor
crossed line on its whole broad and smiling periphery
Even the tracks left by Times they 90 croak
inc over both poet and fair lady bower and sanctum
have an air of openness and temerity if they said
1--WE spell 4O-hsye you any objection, sir ?" His
forehead is lofty and unrufied the gscered Alps
ewes mild and blue with the golden dream OF poetry
shining through and threatening to rain beautiful con
ceits-rnouth bold decided utiitarian, anti poetcs!
and substantial He speaks slowly, elegantly and from
the purpose-very much as he wrtes-yet always with
visible trace running through the mouled web that
will be sure to lead him home ST last Sometimes his
soul lights with chivalrc new ihought--then indeed
the painted and wildly scattered clouds begin to con.
centrate-snd now, look out for musical thunder
storm That is CHARLES FESNo HOFFMAN, the song
writer of America and II he and WILLIS never cid
dine together at Delmonico's It is not my fault-ihey
ought TO have done so.
The fourth member Of this group is only an Editor
and not worth wasting time or ioolscap upon No
msttsr what he writes it viii be forgotten tomorrow
while the cooks wanted in the advertising page VIII
be cherished at least a weekly the housekeeper.-
He, however, ike the poor ephemeron, seems to be
unconscious of the speedy and daily oblivion to which
he is fastening and laughs heartily as II he had
month Of fame to hve--deluded man The leader
upon the Irish question in England, which you have
been ali day ckng other peoples libraries and your
own brains to concoct viii be read tomorrow by SIX
old foges on their way TO Wsllstreet just 10 keep
them out Of speculsting somebody in the omnibus