Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
NEW BOOK.

hIRwAN we take 10 be a nom de guerre; and much
amusement may be CLEANED from his pages, though the
general tone is somewhat lugubrious.
There is, it would appear class Of tourists who can
travel from Dan Beersheba and cry out all is barren
who regard the graceful eyy Of France as impety and
the scuptured temples of Italy the seats Of dolary
In this class may be included those pous yaetudnarans
victims Of periodical malady for which foreign travel
and liberal outfit is conceded by indulgent hocks
To the eye Of orthodoxy it is true the prospect the
continent Of Europe is gloomy; Popery triumphant in
Rome and throughout fair Italy dominant in France
Spain, Belgium, and Austria the memory of Calvin
forgotten in his chosen tabernacle at Geneva and
sitting in that seat whence he adudged Servetus
to the flames; Socnians trampling the Institutes of
the great Reformer and openly preaching those doctrines
for which their unhappy apostle offered up hoo-
caust. GERMANY, on the other hand the field of mag
unanimous Luther overgrown with tare and divided be-
tween Popery and Neoogy between and sceptcism
the only resting place for the dove pure and indebted
religion being Sweden and Norway with perhaps corner
of Scotand To the eye of contemplation this state of
things is nscrutable Truth, by mysterious dispense
ton, reegaed to hyperborean wastes while ERROR
cupes those fertile regions the land Of the olive and the
grape the seats of science and arts refinement and
of learning
We would, however, recommend to the murmurer an
aequiescenoc In the Of Providence 1t may indeed
conduce to the greater happiness of the sunny South
There is in nations individuals diosyncrasy fitting
them for their sphere of moral duties The Italian mind
nurtured classic models and heavenly FORMS and pro-
Tossing creed eminenty conservative of the creations of
architecture painting and sculpture may not perhaps
be qualified for the reception of the doctrines of the
Reformation The splendors of public worship, and the
glorious creations of genius adornng their temples
tribute to nfuse reality through the inets of the
to the vague perceptions of celestial things and excite
fervor of devotion which calls forth the remarks and adj
mira,ion of all strangers.
The people of France Spain, and Italy, moreover, pos
TRANSACTIONS of the Scriptures unequaed they be-
eve in accuracy and elegance yet have these people not
dscerned their doctrna in the mirror Of the
sacred volume, felt tempted embrace the riger
dogmas of evangelical austerty.
Turn We to our traveller. 1t is curious feature OF
the human WILL and first openly evinced in Paradise, that
what is forbidden is coveted ROME has been held
in bad odor by writers, ancient and modern Eft quo
tanta fut Roman tib vdendi," inquiries the guile
less swain in Virgil land the question may be fair
y propounded by his flock to every reverend tourist
"Qud Rome faciam, mentri nescio? is the indignant
sarcasm Of the Roman sarist Yet, in defiance of the
warnings of wisdom, is pastor emancipated
from the weekly toll of the pulpit than he rushes Fes ct
Rhed Rome wards, eager to visit the lady of Babylon
the Prophet, Come out of her my people" &c., he hur
res by the Porta Giovanni, and ensconces himself
snugy for weeks in the Hotel dAngleterre does he
often quit the " Sink of Inquity without having pros
traed himself before the Man of SIM and kissed the
hem of his garment
We sympathze with our amiabe tourist on the rebus
and impostons pracsed the simplicity of his nature
The most unknd cut at Geneva and inflicted by the
great Doctor MERLE DAUDIGSE the historian of the Re-
who is written down in the book boor and
a clown. The guide at Baden Baden ALSO kindly con-
trbuted to yctimze innocent traveller by appropria
ing to his and emoument in order to enhance
his Mysteries of udolpho the old Dutch story of the
!" Maidens Embrace" while Joe Miller, though dead,
yet speaketh in the delectabe anecdota Of lie purgato
rial frogs
The tour being dedicated to his own people, it were
to be wished that the author had consulted their ed6ca
ton by eschewiDg those strange and udicrous ambgui-
ties resulting from inaccuracy Of style and composition
We give afew specimens obtained cursory reading
Page %. eve now at London, tie Worlds Babel
and its greatest centre Of influence"
Every tyro in Geometry knows that great lille cam
not be predicated Of a centre.
Page So 'There is the grand banqueting room, less
than three hundred feet long"
This dimension will suit most banqueting rooms
Page "a. How joyful must be the anticipations of
heaven to such saint just putting off his harness"
A saint IN harness!
Page SO. "When that furious mob reached the gates
which marched out from Paris"
Here gates is the grammatical sntecedent to which
marched out.
Page CT. "Wrung from the peasantry and citizens, |
who regarded by that bad of Kings does the
farmer his CATTLE whc reared to yield their milk &C.
npstrum cui lumen ademptum."
Page 60. "The wrath of the nation, rhich had been
accommodating for ages under the pressure of the iron heel
Of despotism."
Accommodating under the pressure Of iron heel
This figure is described by the great Master Of Invec
tive "dancng in the of metaphorica confusion