New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-02
rAYARD TAYLOR'S LETTERS.
AGAIN IN LONDON.

,;des making the tour of the ThdrIngan Forest,
T visited Coburg and Weimar l was favored
Nv sunerb autumnal weather, and enjoyed more
tSsn T can tell. the rest from travel and my
njeasant experiences Of German domestic HE
While A coburg paid visit to Rdckert, the
poet who has q small estate III tne ADJOINING
fr;Ilsoe nj Neusass. He has the reputation of
he;no a cold. ascetic man, and never mlngles In
.or;e3v Veryfew Ofthe COburgers know him, and
many have never once seen him. l fell in with
. student of the Oriental languages who had
some acquaintance with him, aud accompanied
me 10 his house. AS We were passing through
the garden we came upon him suddenly, stand
mo in the midst of great bed Of rose-bushes
and gathering the seeds of flowers In this Oc-
eupation | recognized the author of 81 Oriental
Roses" but scarcelythe poet OF Love, the ardent
disciple of Hafz, in the tall, stern, gray-halred
mar who stood before me. His manner at hrst
was rather cold and constrained, but 1t was the
sonstraint Of d scholar, unaccustOined TO strange
faces, and therefore i'll at ease. He invited us
into the house, and commenced the conversation
awkwardly, by asking me " Where have have
you been1" In the Orient" answered. This
was enough A sudden enthusiasm shot into his
hee, bis keen, deep-set eyes kindled, and his
whole bearing changed. For two or three hours
the conversation flowed on without break-on
his part full stream of the richest knowledge
sparkling all over with CLEANS of poetry. His
manner toward me was earnest kind and cordial
and charmed me all the more, because | had
decided, before seeing him, that he was unap-
preciated and misjudged by his neighbOrs.
/ was surprised to find that Rdckert who is
probably the finest Oriental scholar in Europe
WITNESS his remarkable translation of the
Ndkamdt et-Hariri,) was unacquainted with the
true Arabic pronunciation. This, 1t appears, is
not taught in the German universities, probably
on account of the difficulty Of giving the correct
cultural sounds Nevertheless, he is the only
one who has ever reproduced, in another Ian
guage, the labOriOus and elaborate Arabic and
Persian metres His knowledge of all Euro
pean languages is even more profound, and al
though he does not speak English, he seems TO
comprehend its genius as thoroughly as that OF
his native tongue. The brothers Grimm one
Of whom, Wilhelm, / saw at FrledrchsrOde,
are now publishing very interesting work on
the Origin of Language, and have issued the
first numbers of German Dictionary They
have disfgured these works by a singular ailec-
tation, discardng entirely the use Of capital
letters and of punctuation For this they have
received a great deal of well-deserved ridcule,
and the success of their works, which are really
important contributions to pathological science,
has been greatly injured.
lett GOtha on the 9Th instant, and passed
through Hesse Cassel and Westphalia to
Cologne Between Cassel and Warburg we had
IA lame locomotive and the detention Occasioned
NE the loss of whole day. | was long enough
in Cologne to revisit the Cathedral, which is ad-
vancing rapidly toward its completion The
great entrance arch of the nave is closed in, and
the nave itself will soon be under roof Nearly
all the countries OF Europe have contributed TO
this great work. The Emperor OF Russia has
recently sent donation OF several hundred
thousand rubles.
| reached Ostend in twelve hours from
Cologne. The little channel steamer was in
waiting, but after the terrible storms of the
previous week, the sea was quiet. There was
q track of phOsphOrescent light behind the
wheels such as | have never seen, except in
tropical waters. There were but few passen-
gers, among them Sir Charles Eastake, the
artist, and his lady | slept sOundly till we
reached the port of Dover, just at midnight.
At2 A. NJ. the Express train left for London,
and at A got out at the London Bridge Sta
ton, in just 2l4 hours from Cologne.
London is the same old smoky, amazing place
as ever. The same endless string of cabs and
buses, the same gentecl policemen in the
Jared population. Since the exhibition, one sees
a few more boards aud moustaehes, and can
wear them without raising a row. People are
Just coming back 10 town, after their autumn
holidays in the country and the West End grows
more lively from day 10 day. Still, the season
Of balls and dinnerparties is not yet. London,
like Paris, New-lOrk and other real metrOpoi
must always have some one ruling excitement
aud topic of cOnI rsatlon. st present, thOughhe
has been dead month, tits still The Duke. You
see him everywhere. lie is in all shop-wlndows,
in plaster, in marble, in porcelain in papier
mache, in gutta percha, in bronze, in galvanic
processes, in wood, in sugar candy, (but not yet,
hike Gen. Washington, at the Exhibition, in
soap,) done III oil and water, engraved on steel,
mezzotinted, Autographed, silhUaetted, etched,
printed on muslin, embroidered on silk, crotch
cited in Berlin wool, zephyred and, in fact, re-
presented i'll every type which the loyal British
imagination can invent. The Dukes Funerals
looked forward 10 with more excitement than
the French Invasion. Ii is the great event
blooming in the Future" which the prophetic
D'Israell might have meant. Ii will probably
be the grandest funeral pageant ever witnessed
in England. Already houses and rooms, along
the line of march are letting at enormous pri-
ees, and from three to five guneaS am told,
are offered for seats commanding good view.
The Queen is back again at Windsor after
her Scotch and Welsh trip, and the new Mem
bers Of Parliament are beginning to make their
appearance. In politics however there is, as
Vet, not much except speculation Some think
Lord Palmerston will turn up again, aftera
time but the majority are of opinion that the
present Ministry, after the skilml legerdemain
they have already played of, will know how to
Keep their places. Louis NapOleon's future
plans, especially in regard TO England, are
guessed az, but the usurper is cunning, and knows
how to keep his own counsel His Peace speech
at Bordeaux is pronounced "gammon," as it
most probably is, War is necessary concom-
liant of the Empire, and either Belgium or No