Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-31

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS,
LIrERAruRE, AND THE FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK.

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS,
LIrERAruRE, AND THE FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK.
Nrw YoRx, AueUsT 81, $780,
The dulness of August has taken. possession OF
I. New York: the city, in the present interval OF
business looks like theatre in the day time or an
Atlantic steamer laid by for repairs. Every body,
whom dire necessity does not compel to remain at
his desk and drudgery, is of, enjoying the luxu-
res of the interior or the somewhat equivoca plea
sures Of Saratoga and Newport. Our authors and
literary men, who, as class, bite very eagerly at
any bait of aziness, are rusticating in shoals all
over the country. This summer, Berkshire county,
in Massachusetts,, to command great popularity
amongst these gentlemen. The fact Of being the residence
during the months Of Miss who halls from
stockbrdse her ancestral home contributes produce this
effect and the charming mountain scenery Of the region is
enough of itself to attract any lover Of naure and afford MN
occupation for the whole sosce in waks drives ana
explorations ofthe rsmoer parts Of Berkshre
Ipeneated this romantic locale few days ago, and ound
that whole herd Of tera browsing in these green
pastures Of Stockbdge and is vicinity. OLIVER WENDELL
HoraEs the witty poet who has since been shaking the
sides Of the dgnares Of Yale by bis humorous M 0eIa
KaDpa Poem has himself in cottage on the sunny
side Of the Berkshire hills in sight Of Saddeback the non o.
the range There he escews society, and pondeates the
puns with which his future pages will glitter HAWTHORNE
more widely known at present. and more universally admired
than ever on account of his ScarLsf Letter. that most
individual of American Romances, is not far from stock
BRIDGE buried in that sort Of rural solitude which ne especially
delights n and living quite independent Of the world around
him. as usual j. T. HEADIr the popular author Of popu-
lar books one Of the few of writers who has made money
out of literature may be the Sockbdge inn, where
he keeps himself in readiness for trout fishing and such like
SPORTS Of wilder hunters experiences In the
Adirondack HERMAH MELVILLE, instead Of being in Eng
land as the newspaper paragraphs have announced that ne
would be about this tme ssummeng old mansion near
Pittsed homestead Of the Melville family one OF those
wdehae capacious and cavernous old houses
that are cool in the middle Of August and in the midst
Of December DuYcKIHcK, of the Literary World, and
CoRsxLus MATHEWS, who is engaged with success on
the Prompter dramatic journal in this cty which ismak-
ing hard push for the recuscitation of theatrical vaes
are or rather wee of this Melville Hail. under
whose anch roof raers doubtless many ucubatons have
been hatched into life during the weather. to be
food for the publishers and critics in the FALL WILLIS is
somewhere n the Highlands making, usual great dscove-
ries Of rare scenery and marvellous trout brooks for the bene
fit of the readers Of the Home Journal BRrANT has his
country seat at Hampstead Long Island and CoorEn his
at Cooperstown where judge from Rural Hours charm
ing book lately published by Putnam under the modest
authorship Of Lady but WELL understood to be from
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the pen Of Miss CoopER the influences and associations of
the country must be of the happe kind JAMES the novelist
has spent the at COTTAGE Jamaica, Long Is
land avoiding the onzng to which bis long literary career
entities him while WAsHISGToS IRvISs, to conclude this
budget of personalities is said to be i'll at Sunnysde, but
trust not seriously.
The publishers are doing something in spite Of the
PUTNAM has produced Dr. MAros new book "Ihe Ber-
ber" in very handsome style and finds ready sale.
The popularity Of Kaloolah, the authors first work, would
carry off an edition Of the present one, with without merit
But the Ber5 capital story, full Of striking points and
wel-told incidents.
The autobiography Of Goethe edition Of the excel
lent translation Of Pake Goodwin and his associates has Just
been issued by the publisher He also preparing
magnifcenty illustrated editions of WASHINGTON lRvINss
works for the approaching holyday season.
The ArrLEross have got out WoRDswoRTHs Poem, "7Ae
Prelude or Gro,cth of Poets Mind" It will be most
interesting book the admirers Of the great poet to
them than the reading public large but who has
ever studied the Excursion will fail to read the Prelude
The HARPxRs issue this week the 6 Autobiography Of
Leigh Hunt" in two Volumes This work more valuable
for the NUMEROUS notices and anecdotes of the contemporary
friends and literary associates Of the author than his own
immediate share in it. Leigh Hunts writings have been
made known to the American readers through the Library Of
Choice Reading in which his Indicator Imagination
and Fancy' and other works were published.
The Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, one OF the
most elegant publications of the HARPERs, under the edi
toa charge Of Benson Losing, ESQ.,, has reached its 5h
number It will form splendid book when completed and
fine companion to the elaborate histories of the Revo
luton. .sse NJ .ta s
II has been generally announced in the newspapers that
the great work of LEssIxe, The Martyrdom Of fus is
about to be this country for exhibition In the Dusseldorf
Academy in this city. Few Americans have seen this picture
or understand e associations the position artist Hav
ing the good fortune the studio Of Leasing Duse
do shortly after the completion Of the cartoon from which
the painting has been made cannot do better than devote
the remainder Of this letter description Of it for the accu
racy Of which vouch inasnuch it sketcAed on
my return to the hotel from the studio Of the painter.
First Of ALL word two about Dusseldorf and Lessing
That quiet Rhine town. not envroned by the beauties OF
natural scenery which have made the upper regions Of the
river famous, but situated in dull monoonous country
with few attractions souvenirs of historic interest," by some
strange of circumstances has become for art on
the continen The last retreat astreuge from despair
How the Dusseldorf school first sprang up may be account
ed for by the fact that there the time Of s formation
gallery Of pictures in the palace but the anomaly IL that
the school never foushed until the gallery broken up
and the paintings removed to Berlin From that time it has