New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

has been behind the scenes in the Modern Athens.
We give one or Fo Of his touches under this
head. ol..ro. ..,-
II il pleasant to have within radius OF two or
three hundred miles Of our town, such sampler
NJ manners morals and politics. as the City Of Bos-
tom There conversation is a. art Of life, instinct
IL p, fined by birth religion is sublimed By intel
lert the Opera Is cultivated with extravagsnce'
French pretense is confined to the kitchen, edac2-
RON euptlies nerve TO the feeble dignity cOnceas
week.-Mrs.. yellow flannel covers the babe, genius
riots at the Town and Country Club, and GgyP-
tan prircesses are unwrapped for the delight and
instruction OF the learned 1t is pleasant 10 leave
fror, tine to time the brick and dust of New York,
IFS sitting heat, and crimson fronts is sad iOolery
OF PerTine payements and everlasting Omnlouses'
TO stroll through The clean and Sunday like streets
of our sister city to lose one self under the shadow
Of FaneUil Hall, or to snuff the air by permssionl
OF Beacon, or Mt. Vernon-those Pisgah nights
from whose houses Puritan infancy LOOKS forth ex'
ultiuey upon its land Of promise the Boston
ON mon. Say what we will, Fritz, OF that tidy
Eastern se7.Pert Boston is altogether nice Pace
it's Gather IS nice; It's lava nice its Juries nice
its churches nice It's gentlemen nice It's literature
is Lce its taste is rlce, and they have nice he
hgion. -
More than all its ladies' are eminenty nice. Far
be il from me, Fritz, q merely humble Republican,
to assume any Intimate knowledge Of the habits,
or private peculiarities OF those whose birth, &C.
conf lishmenis air, aud dignity place them beyond
an ordinary man q observation. Boston processes
are not easily laid hold Of and when unwrapped,
may turn out only swaddled man. Eat even sta
ton does not forbid certain knowledge OF excel
lencies and they must console themselves as they
best car, for the affective dishonor of popular
mention.
Boston lsoies are not so remarkable for beauty,
rs for Accomplishments nor do the graces of their
peysops often oulshadOw the attractions OF their
mind All those minor arts for the cultivation OF
natural grace, which are so assiduousy cultivated
by New Workers, are entirely discarded by Boston
ians. They talk better than they smile they ride
better than they dance, and they walk better than
they waltz French cOltfeurs and mOdISteS are not
receivable; and will not make polka partners, even
at the most retired Of watering places The BOs-
ton la5y is not much upon the public thorough
fares; she may venture into w ashngton street
but il is only for her shopping and her morning
stroll upon the nights above the Common, IS
simply hyeienic her luxury Of display will be in
p ride to Roxbury, or a pretty straw at the
church.
The Boston lady talks always like a connoisseur
about paintings and though her opinions Of the
new AtheIRum gallery, are modulated mewhat
by the names, and regulations of the owners they
are nevertheless, curt recherche, and decisive
She is rot given to any of the prettinesses OF Pa
small waists, and gaiter boots yet she is an IN.
col tTollablc sdmirer Of Holy Families, Of which
she finds full supply in the newly-opened stock
She is much more tenacious OF head-dress, than OF
foot dress and though not especially coy in the
matter Of ancles she studies very little the graces
Of cT0uSSuTe a son pied
The Boston lady is intellectual; an with al
her ruddness of cheek, and robustness OF form, she
is not q stranger to Libraries, to Lecturer and her
opinions sic far more apt b show the aplOmb OF
woman, than the decacy OF girl. She is lover
Of mystcs and good patroness OF Boston genius.
She occasionally dabbles herself II the ink, aud
here and there tOucby, testy letter in the Boston
Transcript, shows traces OF feminine hand, joined
TO masculine judgment AS her age ripens and
even Boston fogs caEnot always preserve freshness
she may turn her faculties to the elaboration OF
stately paper, for that statelest OF journals the
n nh American Review. And there those, as
/ am informed on good authority, whose energy
and literary perseverance,, are sometimes equal to
a perusal Of that extraordinary Paper
The Boston lady has friends at Cambridge
either nephew who is a rising man in the Uni
versity, or a cousin who is making stir IN Diyin
ity, or an uncle who is man Of vast eruditlon, or
an acquaintance, or quasi lover, who Is pattern
Of scholar, or q Pindar OF poet she enc )ar'
aces the Opera more particularly il the piece has
be en- apulouded in the Cambridge circles, and ech-
oed by the Transcript. Nothing in her view, could
be more exquisite than the performance on the
night of the late high prices Commentator was
general and telegraphic, finger announcements OF
The price of seats, around the house as so macy
proofs of the genial and characteristic appreciation.
The Boston lady does not affect French o., "a
Their she reckons it a school.dsy accomplishment,
with which she does not often sully her p in So
ciety. The English lady is her pattern OF breed
ing ss she is her sampler OF grace. Her ideas of
free dressing never 20 beyond Cir Peter Ley and
would stop far sLo-t Of his vo.uptuous beauties.
IL. Ill
reading OF Hampton Court The lusts Of the eye,
and the pride Of life, are not so much among her
sins as the suifciency of the Pharisee. She is no
poorPublican, but by Heavens bounty Bostonan.
Her religion is Intellectual to fault, and her
Christian ingenuity revels in theoogic conceits.
Between Messrs. Parker and Emerson, divinity
radiates from every corner OF Boston mystic in
tellectsm pervades their fog Of belief, from which
an occasional scntlstion Of genius breaks out as
a signal for shout, and as q new star in the
East
BOSTON BUGS And CLUES.
But Boston is our III rival as fit as Sparta TO
Athens they will show US a Lycurgus for our
Solon,-a Lysander for our Perices and 10 their
honor be it spoken Spartan mother, for our As
pasta. Even in the matter OF associations, they
can fully match our Historical, with their Hortl'
cultural. Our learned men Of the University Hall
are not more jealous, phianthropic, and devotional
in their search after inscriptions, musty pamphlets
ana OuLCn oTeccutsi thaH tuC Vioi WHO VI AZ ave.
gentlemen OF Sehoostreet,in their pursuit OF vege
table enormities, and their inquiries concerning
grub-w and cabbages. Indeed, the assiduity,
and earnestness of these vegetable philosophers OF
Boston, would quite throw into the shade the choc
olate and stale jokes Of our historical doctors.
Boston bugs are classified and not chrysas
can break upon the Common, but the size and color
of the escaping fly will be reported 10 the Board
As for carrots and mangel wurzel, they are ticket
cd dressed, and exhibited as the triumphs OF Dos
ton science, acting upon Boston soil
The Boston Clubs are perhaps worth note
there is the Old Suffolk, coming near to our
Union with its lazy, corPulent, dinnerlovng
men, who talk slowly, and easily, and who are a.
ways sure their own opinion is the best possible
opinioni who look upon New York with comPis.-
cency, and who think it a rising town, and that u
will come, in time, to be respectable city. There
10 the Town and Country Club. once quite promls'