The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-02-05
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eWaudc' and 'COeur.'
Mn. EDlroR:-Thosp Of your read
.ers who have heard of the Right Hon
Nicholas Rigbv, Esq, NJ. p. D'Israeii'u
hero of "SlaShnc articles" have no
doubt concluded that the present age il
not So unprohuc,ive Of wonders, since,
in the person OF your correspondent
"GocUr." we have undrnlabln evidence
of second Nicholas come to SIashing.
"sNn7tde' is OF course able to take care
of herself, and if there could hr any is
sue betwixt tsta and "C0eur' We would
lie, it pass. But, since his mbecilty has
rendered an ISSUE impossible, we will
cen take a glance at this siashrr, and
.crlticizr the critic. There are two
things which a critic must have before
the world wiz recognise his claims to
such a title: these are:
First; the ability to DETECT the errors
and impert-cliols of the Subject review
ed: and,
Second, the fao,,lty Of showing up the
errors in style Tree trom ambiguity
and inarcuracies.
'Lrt those teach Others who themselves excel,
And censare freely, v.o havc wrIltca we'll
In the first paragraph OF this "Csenr"
DETER, we are told that something SIS
very pleasant" but if We Wee to stop
there it would be impo>sib|" to :rll what
it is that lis very p"asant;" Whether
the ktndness OF a friend, " yo1,r enter
tanning sheet. BY reading on further
we guess it is the sheet, since 1t cannot
be k'"dncs which gives home news
Here is an ambiguity which, however
tolrrab'r IN ordinary matter, is SIMPLY
ridiculous coming as it does from one
who affects to fear that he will be con-
sitlered '-hypercTiticaI.'
The critic says he has '.jnst finished
reading ..Haudr'S' letter. and thea, as il
he feared We would not appreciate such
monstrous feat, he tells us in the very
next lane, that something "struck" hun
"on peruslng the entire epistle." Poor
fellow. how tired he must have been
Do you think he'll ever get over it,"
Mr.. Editor !
But let us see what 1t was "struck"
him. Ii struck him, that if '.Naude'
"would drop the affected tripp-ry OF
Jest, and vein her writings with such
passages, "-as what Mr.. Coeur!
Why don't you tell us in plain English,
so we can all understand the kind Of
passages You mean ! Why dart off on a
tangent, and then turn and twist your
sentence into such an everlasting multi
plicitv of double bow knots ! What is
all that gibbcrish about "of which the
one in the article in question common
cling Now I've half mind to tell you
something of our village, is neat speci-
men. flowing as it does with the pa
thetic:'" why, the "article in question"
if by that you mean .Nuudc's letter,
does not commence with Nov Pve
half a mind, &c." and we have charity
enough to suppose you did not mean so;
but why don't you tell us what you do
mean?
You say, Mr.. Coeur, that, "the con.
sttution of ones mind, invariably gives
the real spirit, to writings epistolary es-
pecialIy such as .Unudps.' What is it. It
gires! Where is the nomnaive to your
verb gires! "Constitutionn you will
say, but why stick in that great awk-
ward comma! Very bad taste Mr.. Co.
eur, especially in hypercritIc. And
again; do you mean writings epistolary
especially" o. especially such as Maude's!
Indeed sir we are unable even to guess
in this instance what you mean. We
might point ont plenty Of other things
equally absurd in this letter, but it is
unnecessary.
Now Mr.. Occur don't you feel that
you have made great Ounce of your
self, in attempting to dictate to Maude
in regard to her Style! OF course YOU
do, for unless you have more vanity
than would kill a dozen such sickly fri-
lows, YOU must see, that her letter evin-
ces FIVE times as much taste, and ten
times as r1uch sense as yours does.
A word in reference TO AIaude. She