Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19
LITERARY NoTcEs.

We have receivedf from Mr. r. TAYOR two eeos ts
maps published this yesrons Of the sod Regions Of Can
forns and the Other of Texas Theywil be Of nch =.
ssance to those who desire to have erect toDosranb
knowledge Of portions Of country about which in
cressns interest 10 I but whose geosphy has been for
the most part little sndisd from want Of az comDrebensye
and authentic charts We have already bee able 10 rive IN
our mind local habiialon 10 more than oe Town ho.a
name il il did suggest the iaea Of myhs least called
up quite loose notions to s geographical arngs and
distances.
We hiy also mention handsomely prniedsoume bv
II. T. TueEERMAs, being the second series Of k Chc
raefrisfics q Literature" in which be selects anne one
man as type Of cassnovelist, historian orator. or cr
TIC and, while dsussing the pecuiatiss of bis sSiec
apPends much Agreeable and spirited ta Of his own a
ton to the several brahes Of literature and science W.
select extract from hin remarks on the orator of whh
class Mr. EyERETT Is taken specimen because the pa
sage will show the general character of Mr. Tuckeau
STYLE while il renders justice he chaste and ervd sIoquencs
Of our respected coantryman
Wh the freshness Of national youth Glowing In e
sentiments and often in the very subjects Of his addresses
be breathes into them the medtatvs spirit and dscipipe
that haunts the Old Worlds the wide knowledge Of an
cient seats OF learning the serene philosophy that makes
air Of and venerable the mellow
hues that like the soft haze Of antumnal season. brood
over the pictures, architecture and landscape Of Europe m
word, the neutral tint the conservative tone the sober
light which comes only from communion with the past the
genuine ecectcism dignity, and Of scholarship,
refine and chasen the Oraory Of Everett Were it
bran extravagsn intense, flowing with the rhetorical
sparkle Of Macaulay studded with the original epthes Of
Carlyle, the morbid taste Of the multitude would doubtless
find greater zes in the style but the reader whose percep-
on Of tue beauty and force Of expression has been viii
ated who has learned how nearly allied simplicity and
vgor penpicuty and grace the natural and the Ian
guags will appreciate the subdue even and pure utteranse
of our vernacuar in the pages Of Everett Eoquence is
comparative term and may be applied equally the ponder
Of johnson and the delicate sensiby of Tenny
but in its relation the Of oratory, there
doubt that its inspiration must be sought in what is nte
gbe broad and permanent both in sentiment and language
The less Of arce in the Of the latter for such end
the better for oatory and the il becomes the
vehicle for ideas, the transparent medium Of emotion the
more directly will the shaft Of argument find its way the
mind, and the glowing metaphor to the imagination. All
great art is simple statue, cartoon, sonnet,
oD that survives the age of its production will be found to
embody some truth, idea, principle of beauty with
sngeness Of purpose and unity Of design that holds and
perpeuates it intact. Tricks Of rhetoric will win
suages beyond the than grotesque forms in sculp
ure inharmonou coors in painting. Everett,
bal artist has sought to hamonze rather than 10 dazzle with
the elements of his art He them not for experiment.
but for efficiency, like master, not ,yro charatan he
trusts to the intrinsic force and beauty Of language not to
novel combinations with almost coloqua and Auency
be unes the impressive and graceful in style, and adaps it
the varying phases Of bis subject with skill both pctu
esque and musical yet always chaste and judictous."