New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE Byg,ru,yn
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The purely imaginative character of hi,
work prevents graceful blending Of the plot .,I
the incidents from real life, of which il ma,
regarded, as in some sort, "reminiscences. n.
interest OF the stor consists in its psychologists.
portraIturesi these, like everything from the III
OF Hawthorne, are drawn sharply, firmly. and -
thrilling effect; new phases of human nature 80
presented with consummste SKILL and M, 49,
their painfully ssnber colorng can dss,rov a.,
strange fascination which throws around a.
reader an irresistible spell. But the copp.et;o, :,
the persons in the drana with the scene on 49,
they are introduced seems to be so FAR ,,,;s.:.,
and forced as to give an air OF unnstuy,l,....
the whole development The artistic svm...,so
of the stery is thus damaged, altho.gh No o..
can deny that it abounds in powerful eOisodss -.
klicitous touches of nature, not unvor,hv ~.
mastery genius of the author.
Mr.. Hawthorne was one Of the original ms,,,...
of the Brook Farm Association in Mas.seh,..,,..
his share in that experiment is remembered a. ,h'
most romantic episode of his Iife and is accord.
ingy made the groundwork of the fancy ske,eb..
in the present volume. He disclams how,ys,
the intention of giving the likeness OF that as,,n
ton, or of his former associates in the imsgu,,,
descriptions, for which he has here drawn 40 NM
fusely on his teeming fancy. The story is rather
made up from large, comprehensive experience. a,.
many spheres, concerted by the potent Ide alsm az
the writer inte materials tor a gIlm tragedy ~ole
sn occasional picture OF the external environment
OF Blthedaie may suggest 10 the initiated reader
q dim, shadowy remembrance of rural lie al B,oor
Farm. One OF these rs presented in the following
pass sage, which may serve 10 raise laugh at TIA
expense OF the Aracadlans Of Brook Farm, IA which
prob ably no one Will join more heartily chan the
survivors OF that motley ana miIthful crew.
LIFE At BLIrHEDALE.
In the interval Of my seclusion there mad been num-
Der OF recruits TO our little armv Of saints aud MARVIN
They were mostly inoiyid ais wa had gone throash
such an experience as to sisgust them win ordinary
pursuits, but who were not yet old nor had suffered
30 deeply, to lose their faith In the better time "a
come. On comparing their minds one with another
they often discovered thst this idea OF Community nal
been e. owing up In silent un known CIV npathv a.
ytsrs Thoughtful, str ngy lined faces we're ainoas
them somber brows but e. that did not REQUIRE snr
tscles, unless pTemsturely dimmed oy tho studsnYx
lsmphsht, and oair thai seldom showed thread of ~
Yer. Age, welded to the past, ncrustod over vth .
stony lay OF habit, aud retaining nothing eud In ia
possibilities, would have been sbsurdy cut OF ol.ee h,
enterprise like ,hs Youth, too, Ia it, early dawn
barely more sdsp'ed 70 our purpose tor Il would
behold the morning radiance OF lie wn spft bsaming
the very spots OF ~ishered grass and barren
sand whence moot Of US had seen IL vanish We hA
very young people with us, IL IL trus,-downy lads
rosy gils IN their hrt teens, and children of ALI hgnts
above ones knee but these bad chiefly beer ssat
hither for education, which OF the objects snd
neIh 0s Of our insu'uton 10 supply. Then we hal
ooaider from town aod el,eSheTe woo lived With usn
a familiar way, sympathiZed more less Ia our thai.
rice, aud sOuetin es shared IN our labors.
On The whole II was society such has seldom met
together perhaps, could 1t reasonably be expea6
To- hold together long, Persons Of marked n1ivcuany
crooked sticks, as some Ot us might be caled-ara
not exactly the easiest 20 bind up into f.sot Bot 20
long as our union should subsst man of intellect and
feelh g, with tree nsuren him. mig have soughtfar
ana n' or without hnongso May points Of attraction
as would allure him hlhersaId Wa x-re of al cresds
and opinions and generally tolerant Of all 90 -ysrv in.
setnsble subject Our bond, IL seems TO me- was net
affirmative but negative. We had individually found
one thing apCher 10 quarrel with Ia our past life and
were preuy well agreed the inexpedtency of ua.
beIibg along Nth the old system any further Asp
WHIST shoDd be substituted there Was much less una.
liniiy. We cid not gready care-at least, never
olCiOT the written eOnsnIui under which our mil
leuuiurD bad commenced My nope was hat betx.en
iheeTy and praclce q true and available mode NJ life
ulgbI be stIUck cut; and THAI ever should we usr-
nNiey i4 the months or years spent 10 the trial would
Dot hsVe teen wasted either as regarded passing en-
joymept or the experience which makes men wise
Arcsoisns though We were, our costume bore no
resemblance 10 the berioooned dOubets, silk breaches
that guish the pastorai people OF poetry aud the
stage 10 outward show, humby conceive, we looked
rather Ike gsog OF beggsr- or bsndtt than either
company OF honest lsboIing men, or concsvsof pblos
ophers. Whatever mi hi be- points of difference We
all OF seemed % have 10 Bthoale with the
thrifty and sudsbe idea OF wearing old clothes.
Such garments as had an airing, Whenever strobe
aheld Goats with high collars and with collars,
broad krted swalow.taled, and with the waist vt
every point between q bip and armpit; panaloODs Of
dozen successive ePocns, ana greatly deisced az the
knees by the huEiausns Of the before hi. lady
love in short We were = living cpl, me OF defanct
fashions, and the very rsggedest presenmeDt OF
who had seen bet cr days It genrlity In
Often retaining scholsrlks or clerical dr. you might
hsv. taken for the deuzeps OF Grubstree latent ON
getting BILE livelihood by agrcu ur.l Or
Coleroeess projected PanrsOcrscy In full experiment.:
or Csdide and his motley associates 1t work Ia their
cabbage garden; or anything else that was msorsby
out at eibCws, and mot clumsy patched la the rear
We might have been sworn Comrades 90 Fslsaf rag
eed regiment Ltts skill boas cd 10 other points
OF busbnDd'y, every mothers son Ut would have
served sdnb ably 70 stick up for scarecrow And the
worst Of the matter that the st energetic move
ment ssieptsl TO one downright stroke OF real labor
10 put finish 10 these poor hsbiinenu. So
we gradually lung them all aside, and took honest
be mssIun ana insey'woolsey rs preferable, on tho
whole, 10 The plan recommended think, by Viral.--
" Ara hHdusj see Rudus which, a. 3 las Foster re-
MAJ kec when translated the maxim would be spt To-
ast0Dlsh the wOnen-fJks.
After reasonable training, ths yeoman life throye
chests gained In Compass and our shoulder. In breadth
and tquareness our great brown fists looked az II they
bad never been capable Of KID so,es The plow the
hoe, the sythe, and the hay fork grew familiar
grasp The oxen responded 10 voices We could
DO almost as fair days wsrk as Silas Foster HIMSELF
sleep dreaDlessy aipr H. aud awake al day break With
only little stiffness OF the joints, which was usually
quite gone by breakfast time
To be sure our next neighbors pretended TO be In
errouit US as 10 our real proficiency In the business
which we bad taken In hand. They told ssoderous f.
pies ABOUT our inability to yoke QUE own oxen, or ID
drive them afed when yoked or 10 release the poor
brn'es nom heir conjugal bond at nightfsl. They
nso the isce to say, too that the laughed Que
awEWaIdness at milkDg tIne, and Invariably kcket
over The pals; partly In consequt nee of our putting
The .tool on The wrong SIDE and partly because taking
offence st lbs whissing Of their tails we were In the
baoit OF holding these natural yappers with one hand,
and milking with the other Tnfy further syerred tbst
we hoed up whole If Indian corn and other CROPS
aid Grew the earth carefully about the weeds and mat
We raise five hundred uits If burdock mstaking he