New-York daily tribune., 1851-10-01
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an. and A'n hsninnr md focdnc ram
d,sret>ed inos, ;rop.cal ,s.Tars and lei' rs cool
| ana erect. ultnI au- t"-v ~ tho rcl' y'ilo"
.utnmual hch; III, tenderness - feeling N
,,uced " tao loneliness oi i's waning year Gre
Ate, symua:h, i,r this season more person
thAn tof any o.hef II * the sympathy "lih oe
Z, me and dea'n, ihe ave teiofe the mystery at
wh.sh they are the avenue and gaze. IN Inc
Quincy OF ;he ycaT the Autumn Is VENICE, Sprins
- Maple, certainly. and the majestic maturity oi
=, miner - Rome Not dlsslmilaT, is the ieens
vub which YOU glide through the shadow of
crumpllnr Venetian inagnliicenCe, and the sentI
ro,,, with which you tread the gorgeous bowers
Of Autumn Nhal life, What hope " IA! illlmr
able promise. once hlled the eve here, and fed
the imagination Venice failed to iulhll that
promise L. experience. Has any summer ever
Kept II to the life
Sec m the radiarce and flashing cloud-forms
Of tn, sky, how the year repeats the story OF
June, how /, murmur~ hose dying Sprng songs
So m Venice
To these palace ghostly glory
Cllngs IKE the family remembered s,ory
or ali cid damOnded dowager, mumbnhg
Tales OF her youth from her memory cTuihphhS
Ii is not possible to shun the influence OF these
days The deep dome OF the sky frescoed by the
last sunbeains with delicate traceTy OF vapors
eli ha g Y
tent of the sea. which Is only small when you
are ulon 1t, the uniform line OF the coast, SIM
plc. grand material outlined as grandly, these
store your mind with sweet and solemn imagery,
and indicate even here, where the wassall-
worship OF our Epheslan Diana has but now
rceled away, the altar of the unknown God
Nor can YOU avoid wondering what evidence
Won shall hnd in the Winter that the city has
summered upon the sea side II yearly we are
thus submitted TO the most beautiful and pro-
found natural influences, and the tone OF our So
ciety remains still as nercely frivolous, II is NOT
strange that the September musings OF cynical
Tnon make HIM still more cynical. How can
he help dreaming dreams of a race that should
show throughout their Winter life the freshness
and vlgor OF their Summer neighborhood II
youne man passes a lew years IN Europe and
returns with nothing but the air OF inquire N
the last PRINT of fashions, he can only please the
ninth part of a man. lie will pain and mortify
all the rest HIS mlen and motion and conver-
sation should show that he has seen and heard
and elt what so many yearn " behold. because
they could ENJOY to the utmost, yet must die
without seeing He should be Painting and
...sk
informed with experience he should be chan
mel into the new world of all the best Influences
of the old, or he has defrauded his country, him
self and those who might have been all that he
has failed to be, by not relnIuishing the oPPor-
tunity 70 another. look INTO his eyes, but In
stead u the Alps and Italy, see only the Boule
wards or NOtre Dame dc Lcrette. ! hear HIM
speak and catch fine French oath, but no
MisereTe, no Campagna Song or Barcarole
mark his manner with women, but do not per
ceive that he has seen Raphaers Madonnas
with men, bu, do not feel the presence OF the
Apollo or the maniness OF Michel Angelo
lxion has come down from heaven having ban.
queted with all the Gods and remembers only the
pattern OF the table-cloth.
Akin Ia thus Is the instructive requirement IN
the character of a society, which every year re-
pairs to the fountains OF mental and physical
health In lts eye should be the cleaness of the
SKY, IN It's the fresh sound of the sea, IN It's
movement the grace OF WOODS and waves. IL l.
very well 10 carry the country to the city, but Il
L. very all 10 bring the city to the country. The
influence of the CITY Is always TO I've resisted, bc.
cause the necessary splt of the CITY is belttlng,
-. H. h,
other hand is to be- fostered, because II Is I'm
personal and universal. The eNhilaratlne stim-
uus of the contact OF men IN the lclty Is useful.
sometimes essential, but always dangerous. The
tranqu,lzinc friendliness OF the country avors
repose, perhaps inactivity and intellectual rest,
but is always humane and clevatng. The city.
IN Its technical social sense, Is always ludlcrous,
and. If It possible, insulting, IN the country
There is nothing finer III nature and art than the
sublime scorn inherent IN their vlrginal purity.
great picture will not be " seen" nor grand
Landscape done" In the crowds OF lstless
oilers who lnfcst Rome yearly, how many see
the Trar siguration. or hear the MiseIere, or
know the profound pathos OF the Campagna'
Nature and Art are veiled goddesses, and only
Love and Humility draw the curtains.
We must leave In the city then as Tar as'pos-
sible. the social hctiOns OF the city, If We hope
ever to master them rather than to be mastered
by ,h.m And that rs precisely what's most rare
" done, precisely what we Americans do less
than any other people
remember. as we foated about the canals IN
Venice, how we used TO imagine HE and socie-
~ worthy the climate and the loetlc city. The
women Of those fanoies were Of beauty 50 rare and
of character at once 20 lofty and so lovely, that