Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-10-26

passion 80 that pretty nearly quaI'ef o. nun
may b. said 10 have pefishec; ana 'hat Is 20
small portion. He has come rack 10 Ills OLD
size subst auen:lJ; prThaTs is bigger IMAM ever;
very likely some new sHecion mas ciosea Iounu
his hi arr ard ribs and made hem comfortable.
Half fellows panss al losing wo-
man. result from vanity more than from ahsc
lion. To be LETT by a woman IS tic deuce an.
all, to he SURE; but look hew easily zoe leave
'em" -
"rhey were passing through The Strand as they
talked aud BY newspaper office, which was all
lighted up and bright Reporters were coming
out OF The place or rushing into II in cabs; there
were lamps burning in The ediols' rooms; and
above, where the composofs were al work. the
windows OF the building were in blaze Of gas.
Look at that. Pen" Warrington said: "There
she is-he great eDgine-she never sleeps. She
has ambassadors in every quarter OF The world
her courers are upon every road. Her officers
march along with armies, and her enyoys walk
into s.alesmens cabinets. They are ubiquitous.
Yond.r journal has an agent al this minute
giving bfibes al Madrid, and another inspecting
the plice Of potatoes in Covent Garden. Look
| he:e comes The foreign express gaoping in.
They will be able 10 give news in Downing
street lo>Incrrow! funds will rise or fall, fortunes
be mace OF los; Lord 3 will get up, and holding
| the paper in his hand, and seeing the noble Mar
uuis in his place, will make great speech; and
| MIR Doolan will be called away from his supper
al The Back Kitchen; for he is foreign sub editor,
and sees the mail on The newspaper sheer before
he goes 10 his own" And So talking, The friends
turned into their chambers, as the dawn was
beginning 10 peep"
GHence Young Pen got prodgious reputation
! in the University, and was hailed as sort OF
Ciichcn; and as for The English verse prize, in
competition Tor which we have seen him bu,ily
engaged al Failoaks, Jones Of Jesus carried il
that year certainly, but The undergraduates
though. Pens much finer poem, and he had
his verses printed al hIs own expense, and dis
lribu.ed In gilt molocco covers among his &C
| Quanance. found copy Of il lately in dus-
| " corner OF Mr. PENS bookcases and have il
before me Tins minute bound up in collection
oil Cd OxbrId5e tracts, University statutes, prize.
poems by successful aud unsuccessful candidates
| declarations recited in The college chapel,
speeches delivered al the Union Debating Socie>
| IT, and inscribed by Arthur with his ma me and
| college, PeuGcnnis-- Boniiace; or presented TO
him by his aGeclionale lteId Thomson or Jack.
son. the author. How strange the epigraphs look
IN those hall.boyish hands, amt wha, thrill The
sight OF the documents gives one alter The lapse
OF few us;ers How lale, since that lime has re.
moved some, tslfang ing Others dealt awlully with
all. Many hand IS cold Thai Wroe lhl s. kindly
MEMORIALS and that We pressed in The confident
and generous grasp OF youthful friendship. What
passions our friendships were IN those old days,
now aIlie>s and Void OF doubt How The arm
you were never Tired OF having linked 10 yours
u1deE The lair college avenues or by the river
SIDE, where il washes Magdalen Galdcns, or
Cblis Church Meadows, or winds b. Trinity
and Kings, was wuhdrawn OF Necessity, when
you catered presently the world, and each parted
10 push AID struggle Tor himself through The great
nut on the way through lie Are We the same
men now that wrote tno.c inscriptions-lhal read
tnvse po-us} thai delivered or heard those essays
aud sperchrs, 50 simple, So pompuus, so Judi.
clousy solemn; parudled 50 afllessly from ooks,
ana spoken wIh SNUG chubby iaces, and such
an admirable apihs Of wisdom and gravily7-
Here is The book before me: il is scarcely fifteen
YEAS old. Here is JACK moaning with d, spair
aud Byronic mlsaE thIOpy, whose career al the
University was one oil the unlnixe mk-punch
Here IS TOMS daring Essay in defence Of sui
eide and vi iepubllcdnsm in general an opos vi
The d.a,h oi Roland and The Gi!oncus Toms,
VINO wears The staTchest lie in all The diocese
and would 60 10 Smilhfield rather than cal beet
steak on Friday in LEM. Here i. BIB OF the
- Circuit, whU has mad; fortune in rail-
ruad committees, aud waose dinners are SO good
believing out with TancIed and Godfrey, son
To The breach, ye soldiers oil The Cross, Scale the
red wall and SWIM The Choking floss. Ye dsunl.
less aIchels. lwang your c:Oss-bows well; On,
bill ami balle-ax and mangonel! Ply ballerne
ran ana hunlins caiapult, Jerusalem is ours
i'd Deus uui" Alter winch COMES a mellihu>
GUS description vi The gardens oil Sharon and the
maids vi Salem, ana a prophecy that roses shall
deck The en!isc country OF Syria, and a speedy
reign vi peace be eslabllshed-all in undeniable
decasyliabic lines, aud The queeresl apug vi sense
and sentiment and poetry. And there are Essays
Soln 4, MOI
boyish exercises (Which are al uuce frank and
false, ana So mirhu, yet somehow, So mourn-
iul,) by youthful hands, that shall never write
mole. Fat. has in,erposed darkly, and the
young voices are silent, aud The eager brains
have ceased 70 work THE ono BOD e..i"s auu
a great descent, aud seemed 10 be destined 10 ho
noIs which now ale vi little worth 10 him: that
had virtue, learning, genius-every faculty and
endowment which might secure love- admiration
and worldly lame: an obscure AMI solitary
churchyaic contains The grave Of many fond
hopes, and the pathetic s!une which bids Them
iarewell-l saw Inc sun shining on il in the fall
Of last year, aod heard The sweet village choir
raising anthems round about. What boots
whether il be Westminster or a lille country
spirc which covers your ashes, or if few days
sooner OF later, the world iorsess your
All the above works are from the press Of
Harper Il Brothers, N York
FROM A. MORRIS
Quiatus Cu'tius Rufus-His eight books on
the deeds of Alexander the Grea'; with a fine
map oil Alexsnder's immense Empire. THIS
Standard Latin Book is one of the valuable elias,
steal series edited by Drs Schmitz and Zumpt
Lea s. Blanchard, Pnilsdelphia.
FROM NASH & wooDHoUsE.
Tie Moth British Rerew; August No. Among
its valuable articles is one on our Lieutenant
'Lynoh's Dead Sea Expedition" of which it
says:
at mus, be pronounced of great value, not
tnly Tor The addition which il makes to our
knowledge, but as the authentic record of an
enterprise in the highest degree honor BILE 10 all
The parties concerned
The writer expresses the opinion that Lieut.
Lynch deserves, and the hope that be will Oh.
tain, the gold medal Of the British Royal &C.
ographical Society for his discoveries in tho
Holy Land, in bis expedition to Palestine in the
Supply. Lieut.. Lynch's Through exploration
OF The Jordan is mos interesting
Biasicoods Magazine, for August and Oclo-
Der, with s usual variety Of attractive articles
lis review OF "Werne's Narrative OF Voyage
up the Rhine" furnishes description Of some oil
the strange scenes passed through, as follows:
1--WE can conceive few things more exciting
than such voyage as Mr. Verne has accom-
plished and recorded. Starting from The oupos
OF civilization, he sailed into the very heart OF
Africa, up a stream whose upper waters then
for The frs, time we're fnrrowed BY vessels larger
Than savage canoe-a stream OF such eioa Mir
proportions that S width al a thousand miles
tom the sea gave II the aspect of a lake rather
than of Il river. The bfule creation were in nro.
potion 10 The magnitude OF III. water course.-
The hippopolamus reared is huge snsal above
he surface, Wallowed in the gulies ha, on either
hand run down The stream; enormous cfocodiles
gaped along the shore; elephants played in herds
upon The pas lures; The tall giraffe slalked among
The lofty pains; snakes thick as trees, lay cued
in the shiny swamps; and ant-hills, ten feet high,