Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26
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NEW BOOKS.
MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Poet Lau-
reate, ID. C. L., VOL 2, PIP. $50. Published by
Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Washington, sold
by Taylor and Marry.
This the second and 6na volume Of the memoir noticed
in the negencer weeks since Ii brings the reader
70 the close Of bis life, which ended the 23d Of April
1860 day in the calendar made notable the day on
which Shakespeare, the prince Of poels born and died
We spoke the of pecuay Of Wordswor.hs genius notc-
ed by the Erick Shepherd who united bis name with tho
Bible and Shakespeare for the beautiful thoughts with which
his poems abound. We find ColeIdge has expressed the
opinion in letter addressed BY him to Wordsworth,
dssuadng bim from translation Of Virgil he writes thus
Since Milton, know Of no poet with 80 many sReites
and unforgeiable lines and staDsas az you"
The life Of Wordsworth eminenty happy; possessed
OF an unsurpassed love Of Nature he made his home on
Ryda Mount which is beautifully described in the first vo-
lume With love Of travel he able make journeys
on the continent at will and, loving bis Muse, be had mo-
calls on his time to prevent the highest cultivation Of his
The existence Of our county the knowledge Of
through the purchase Of Pennsylvana bonds by
female friends and have to thank the Of Penn for
the sonnet written under the inspiration Of the payment
Of interest to their English bond holders Tstue the bonds
are now at and the interest paid full but the
net remains uncancslled-a good for having
mecial transactions with whose pointed pens like poi
soned darts nfct wounds the of which be-
obteated Towards the close of this volume pleas
ed to fnd grateful train Of thought awakened in
the mind Of the poet by the reception Of very admirable
reprint of his works Philadephia in 1887 Ts the pre-
hour English authors their own countymsa.
The fact, mpressvey taught BY every census
the end of the present century there viii be five readers Of
English this continent to in England has yet bs
come fixed fac" in their mnds and they write accord
lngy Wordsworth became advocate for inter-
national copyright law seeing, be says, the vast crcu
aion Of English works in America, and it is TO be hoped
that this law will become popular with U.S. only because
is most just English authors but for the better
until this is done shall have national literature. So
long publishers print English books without paying
for the right to do long will native talent remain but
partially cutivated and instead Of the American mind be
ing educated by authors mbued with the spirit Of inst
tuons shall continue drink in the principles and pre-
judices Of English writers. We say this from no want Of
sympathy with the mind Of England, but from higher love
of our own land
''Not that we love Cesar less, but Rome moren
No law will prevent the Edmund Curs Of our cities pi
rating foreign authors they do upon each oher
the destruction Of all the conventional laws Of bookpubsh
still international law would be Of value the
encouragement of American authorship
We have page 464 Of this volume anecdote of Cole
ridge. In his Table Talk be had sad elf Wordsworth had
visited the battlefield Of Marathon it would have raised in
him kindling emotion y and Wordsworth asked by
his friend Price whether this token Of his mind
At FIRST Wordsworth said, "Oh that bravado
for the sake Of astonishing his heare But then correcting
himself be added, "And it might in some sense be tus,
for Coedge not under the influence Of external objects
He had extraordinary powers of summoning up image
series Of images in his mind, and he might that
his idea OF Marathon vivid that visible observation
could make it more remarkable instance Of this,
added the poet his poem said TO be composed in the
Vale Of Chamoun. Now he was never at Chamouni, or
near it, in his life."
These volumes contain many pleasing anecdotes Of tea
ry and Wordsworths crcsms of his contemporaries
though devoted designed for biography and criticism Of
Wodsworhs writings for it who every where
speaks In order to appreciate work Of this sort let us
suppose the correspondence Of Shakespeare recovered in
which he records hs views Of his plays his criticism
on Of Macbe md
mona, how would the specustons Of Goehe of Sch
ler Of Hsze, and Hudson be superseded! Now, there
are some whose minds constituted as to love Words
worth above all writer's of English and these volumes such
what the recovery Of correspondence
would be to all the world.
by VIM. GREsoRr, D., FIR Sc. Professor Of Chem
sry In the University of Edinburgh. Philadelphia
Blanchard & Lea, 1851. Washington for sale by
Franck Taylor.
The author Of this book the distinguished translator Of
Rechenbachs Researches Magnetism, and brings to the
work before most intimate and thorough knowledge OF
the subject. Animal magnetism, at time almost univer
sally regarded serious science has Of late been BY quacks
and cheating exhbiters made subject for and
ridicule. That there be something in It than
many think, who reads the numerous welvouched
experiments contained in Professor GREeoRTs book for
instant doubt We do not wish discuss the merits Of
the SCIENCE but commend the book the curious and
skeptical as well worthy their perusal
History OF the Edrty Sefflenae'h ana indian Wars
Of Western Nirginia, By DR.. WILLIS DE HAss,
Wheeling, 1851: 4l6 pages, octavo.
This work, comprising the recital of the most important
facts and Of many Of the principal actors the the
of which il treats be read with intense interest," It
such works which teach the present generation what cost
their parents secure them tho rich inheritance
oyed by the living generation Here in the pages Of mode
sized octave have with all the interest Of Epic,
picture Of the heroic age important section Of the
GREAT WEsr.
To reproduce mentally, the mind realization Of the
hopes and fea dangers and violent DEATHS which
or more and often ALL realized in day, have TO
hast the past and present We have in "THE INDIAK
WARs Of the then West picture Of in which women
and children the most frequent victims and in the actual
condition Of the region contrast alone consong,
but excite the best feelings Of the human hesr The
book deserves may be hoped will receive, very gen.
eral reading. w. DARBY.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
TIME WHIG VOTERS of the Sixth Congressional Dis
il trct of Maryland composed Of ST. Mary's, Charles,
Calvert Prince Georges Anne Arundel, and Montgomery
countless respectfully invited assemble in PRIMARY
meetings In the Election Districts of said counties
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