Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-26
NEW PORK CORRESPONDENCE.

BY the first number Of the new Bulletin for the
year 1851 of the fit Union, (which l send you
by this maiI,) you win see that il has assumed
place amongst The magazines, and contains well.
assorted supply of artistic novelties and literature
DARLEY has contributed newly embeIlished cover,
and capital etching Of WoodvilIe's (" Me9icn,
NsUs" forms the main engraving. This highly
popular picture 10 one of the six plates intended
for the subscribers to the .drf Union for the cur
rent year, In addition to the chance Of obtaining
picture in the general distribution al the close Of the year of
the works Of art purchased ty the Committee of Manage
men Il 10 capital picture and tells tho whole story Of
the lively interest with which the Of the American
Eagle, detailed in the erras running over with Mexican
defeats were devourei by Brother Jonathan WooDvILE
one Of most promising and popular artists capital
picture just sent homo by him from Europe where he
is called the Chess is amongst the pictures for
distribution this year, and Of the very best Of the col
lection. 1850
The Art Union has its friends ell the country every
direction, but they apt wait till the very last
before registering their subscrbr If they knew
how mach they lost BY the delay in not securing the month
receipt of the Bulletin they would be early their sub
scrpons they apt to be late. Il gratis only
subscribers after the date Of their subscription and Of itself
worth large proportion Of the subscription price.
Speaking Of art the last application Of the dsguseo,yps
is worth noticing The Bostonans, always distinguished
for streak Of lunacy Of some another have been
startling the world with daguereotypng the moon. By the
assistance Of the lenses Of the Cambridge telescope
they have succeeded in getting fair likeness of the ipequa
ties of the lunar surface the smooth plate of the daguee
oype. Similar kenesses Of all the heavenly bodies win
probably be taken and il is to be hoped that the gallery of
these celestial portraits will exhibit fewer monstroses than
some Of the terrestrial ones now open to the public.
A. LII
proposes attempt the erection Of an observatory for popu
lar in Union Square, in the centre Of the upper part Of
the city the building to be ornamental and to be furnished
with telescope Of equal magnitude with that at Cambridge
and the free to all the payment Of tring
fot admitance. He thinks that such arrangement
would prove great Of social advantage i. would
cultivate interest in astronomy and. he expresses it,
had chance Of seeing Saturn and his rings in this
accessible and convenient way the disk Of dollar might
look smaller to him. The funds be procured without
difficulty, provided the Common Council and the neghbor
hood around Union Square the astronomical project
The BaAc sailed on Wednesday with two hundred
largest number which left this port in
steamer for Europe She crowded with vstes to the
Worlds Fair, in spite Of the discouragemens which some
Of the recent accounts from the Crystal Palace begin excite
II evident from the despondent ofetterwters that
they all suffering under the influence Of London March,
with its inherent backne fog and weblanket atmosphere
few bright May days will restore confidence and those
who look forward to contributing their presence to the Worlds
Fair ought to give the idea because Of the panes
Of glass in the palace have been broken Of the goods
drenched by uniucky showers. asN
~ NEw Books arc quite numerous this spring. and will
give up the rest of this letter to notices Of such Of them
space will permit. ts "A. s
The House Of tie Seue Gables, romance, by NArHAsIEL
l. al
greater than this volume fresh from the magic pen
Of HAwrHoRsE and the dainyprsss Of Tfcrsoa & Co.. ct
conjunction Of author and publishers has not been given to
the reading public 70, this long time. Mr.. HAwrHoRSR,
after having occupied for number Of years the position Of
occasional essays whiting from implusathan from
any settled purposes plans Of authorship and appealing
necessarily limited class Of readers has emerged into
position far better suited to his breadth of genius and taken
his stand in the front rank Of that class Of writers Of fiction
with whom fiction only the medium fos the exhibition and
analysis or human thought and Pa.,oa Ine sep s Ies..
published about ago, was hts first experiment IN this
new aud enlarged sphere II was book which no man
could read without acknowledging an unrvaed power 10
the author book Of intense interest and pahos from
any startling developments Of plot incident but from its
mastery painting Of character and strange revelations Of the
human heart It proved deservedy successfu and enlarged
Hawthornes circle Of readers and admirers from New Eng
land to national circumference. His present book is
pleasing auheicaon Of the success Of the former one and
will be eagerly sought after by all who have already made
themselves familiar with the author fatH .@ a fs
The House of tile Spep Gables is New England story,
true in all its details and descriptions its locale and yet 10
its spirit aud mode of far removed from the COM
monty received notion Of New Engandism, and dssniar,
as the castles Of the Niedsrwa from the factories at
Lowell II is one Of the pecuaes Of literature that
in the midst and Of the most practical and least
tic Of communities both 10 action and thought, should
ind writer like Hawthorne eliminating the elements of
purely imaginative tale from the life going around him
He ID thoroughly native in his taste in almost all his works.
taking their groundwork local tradition Of the old
Puritan Colonia times and giving prominence to the cha
rac,escs and peculiarties Of his immediate neighbours
the best material for his purpose The House Of the Seven
Gables stands in street Of Massachusetts town; its occu
pants Miss Hepzbah PyncheOn an old maid Of vetabe
New England stamp and Phnbes her niece, and deaized
"sma GIRL such meets with, but entirely unideaI
ized all along the valley of the Connecticut The shadow
of has rested upon the old house, and pervaded its
dark eblackened INTERIOR since the original Puritan
proprietor built the spot Of ground which he bad
wested from The heirs Of old Mathew Maue, who had been
hung for wehcr and in way another has dalkened
the life Of all its inmates. Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon d-
BY her poverty the sad extremity Of keeping shop in
the arstocranc mansion and the story opens with the
bitter experience Of the worthy dame in this emergency The
old maid and her brother, whom unjust sentence
has kept thirty in prison, and who comes bone to the
Pyncheon homestead wreck and run and hs COUSIN Judge
Pyncheon, the respectable and moral wealthy citizen, but in
reality the author OF the convc msforunes and his deadly
enemy the principal characters, forgetting streak Of
sunlight through the Otherwise dark texture Of the
tale in the person Of Phoebe beautiful and complete charac
ter, who the good genius Of the story The plot simple
and the thread Of the narrative even, its whole power lying
n the marvellous ehiaroscuro in which tbS characters
pn,ed and the subtle analysis thereby Of thoughts