New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-06

usedl-and pranked out, and polished, aud mus
cadined-until, for all honest purposes OF true
high poetry, il was mere unavailable ana con-
temptbe jargon. Ii might do for cheating ageHts
de ckdEeeoR the Bourse-i0r onngPohtOisns
in the Chambers-ior mincing dandies IN tue
Sal0Rs-for the sarcasm Of Scribe lsn comeoles
or the coarse droeries Of Palais Royal fsrces'
but for poetry the French language was extinct
All modern poets who used it were mere fGts-
eurs de phrdSe-thinking about words and NOT
feelings. mo, nc" my Troubadour continued
to write poetry, you must get the language OF
rural peoples language talked among fields,
and trees. and BY rivers and mountains-a
language never minced or disfgured by academies
and dictionary makers and journAlists-you mast
have a language like that which your own Burns
whom read of in Chateaubriand-used; or like
the brave old mellow tongue-unchanged for cen
tures-stutfed with the strsngest, quaintest rich.
est raciest idioms and odd solemn words, tall OF
shifting meanings and associations, at once pa
thetic and familiar, homey and graceful the Ian
gusge which write in, and which has never yet
been defled by calculating men Of science or
Jack. a.dandy ilteTdfeETS. The above sentences
may be taken as q specimen of the ideas with
which Jasmin seemed to be actually overhowlng
from every pore in his body-so rapid, vehement,
and loud were bis enunciations OF them
The rsptures of the Newly orkers or Bostonians
with Jenny Lind he says, are weak and cold com
pared with the ovations which Jssmin has re-
ceived At late recitation at Auch, the ladies'
present actually tOre the flowers and feathers out
of their bonnets wove them into extemDore gar
lands and flung them in showers upon the pant
ing MINSTREL while the editors Of the local papers
next morning assured him, in foods OF iattering
epigrams. that humble as be YVES now, future
AGES would acknowledge the divinity" Of Jas
min
There is a feature about these recitations which
is still more extraordinary than the uncomfortable
fits of popular enthusiasm which they produce
The last entertainment Of the kind given by Jas.
min IN one of the Pyrenean cities-I forget which
produced ?, 600 francs. Every sou OF this went
10 the public charities. Jasmin will not accept
silver OF money so earned. With species of
perhaps unrestrained, but certainly exalted chivA-
rio feeling, he declines to appear before an audi
ence TO exhibit for money the gifts with which
Nature has endowed him. After, perhaps, bril-
liant tour through the South of France, delghting
vast audiences in every city, aud hinging many
thousands of francs into every poor box which be
passes the poet cor tentedly returns to his hum
bic occupation, and TO the little shop where he
earns his bre lad by bis daily toll as barber and
hair dresser. 1t will be generally admitted that
the man capable of setdenial of so truly heroic
nature as this is no ordinary poetaster. One
would be puzzled TO find similar instance OF per-
feet and absolute disnterestedness in the roll OF
nainstrels from Homer downward: and 10 tell the
truth, there does seem spice OF Oulxotlsm
mingled with and tinging the pure tervor OF the
enthusiast Certain it il, that the Troubadors OF
wore. upon whose model Jasmin processes to found
his poetry, were by no means so scrupulous-
" Largesse" was q very prominent word in the
vocabulary.