The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-01-20
FRIDAY. JANuARY I'd la54.
Miss BreIner's Homes Of the New
World.

Miss Bremer's Homes Of the New
World.
Some days ago We finished this last book
fof Miss Frederika's. and We have had q re-
view Of It in preparation IN our mind ever
since. But now We have concluded, chat
on the whole. the work does not present
substance enough 70 hang any eEitisilh mp
On. and will therefore leave 10 wiser heads
and ADLER hands, the task Of giving it its
appropriate mich among the travelling liter
atufe Of the day. The book is written in
the form Of letters to sister, since dead;
and though the authoress declares that she
! did not intend to make a book on America,
and never dreamed Of publishing them til
she went home to Sweden and was begged
by partial friends to do so; it looks nightly
likeimalice aforethoug htaIl the way through
We are sorry 70 doubt Miss Fredericka's
word, but the fling is almost absurd, that
she shonld go tosthe trouble to compile from
statistics and historical records facts aldin-
cidents which give to some Of her letters a
real bookish tone, il she did not intend to
publish them. She talks Of cher dear'litt
tie Agatha from quartoes--and addresses
the DoWager Queen Of Sweden in the style
Of one sent out expressly to write a book;
wherein her royal highness should be duly
and duhfally pulled.
The greatest fault in the book is its sem
timents Miss B. has all the romance of
young girl Of si1teen--a and she has way
Of making herself hero WOrshipper Of
smallcelebriies, and Of making.Ihe ceIebri-
ties sometimes really ridiCulous.
Downing, the Agriculturalist; was her
"brother." He was silent man, had beau
tiful eyes,a musical mouth--but was silent
land like the owl, kept up an awful think
ing. Emerson seems to have puzzled her
more thru all the rest Of her heroes. Won
der how he likes being shown up in the Let
tiers?
Miss B. being clone woman the gal
liant Americans would not let her stay at
hotels, but forthwith took her to their pri-
vate firesides-bless their warm hearts! and
she out of gratitude for their hospitality,
daubs them over with sentiment and per-
sonalities. Nothing. it would seem to us,
is in worse taste than for authors or editors
to drag the names and sayings and doings
of private individuals before the world in
their books or journals.
We give below a specimen Of the book
which we should class in the matter and
style under the Mandy pamby head. She
has been sick with dyspepsia, and after try
ing the Alopathists Of Boston, a friend sends
her homeopathic. II he can live after
the following touch, there is something in
his ''litLle white powders after all:
81 entered my sitting-room, I beheld
there a tall old gentleman, with pale and
strongly marked countenance, high forehead,
bald temples, silver-gay hair, and a pair Of
deep-set. blue eyes, full Of feeling and fera
vor. He stood there silent and dressed in
black, in the middle Of the room, with the
appearance almost Of Clergyman, and with
his penetrating. earnest eyes Fiyited upon
me. I do not know how e was, but it was
SO, that from the first moment saw him
felt confidence in and affection towards him.
! advanced towards him, took his hand be-
tween both Of mine, looked up in his pale,
grave countenance and said, Help mel"
Thus helpless, feeble, and poor, had now
for some time felt myself 70 be, under the
power as It were Of strange suffering,
which crippled me both in soul and body,
and, alone too, ii strange land, without
any other support than the powers Of my
own soul and body to sustain me through
the work which had undertaken
He replied in deep bass voice, speaking
slowly Is If with diffcuity-but all my
child, il seems Ike vanity il me 20 say what
he replied; but let me seem vain for this
once be said, s'liiss Bremen, no one Can
have read your Neighbors, and not wish %
help youl And ! hope % be- able to help
yonl''
wept: kissed the thin, bony hands,
which ] held, a. would have kissed those
81 fatheFly benefactor; / felt myself also
Ike child
looked Ike nothing and which Was 70
take before I went q bed. took Il; slept
exeellently, and the next day--ahl what
ieelingsl al malady was gone, felt my
self IS If sustained BY spirit-Wings; name
less sensation 81 peace and health perVadz
my whole being went out did not
leel my body. reioiced III thc blueness
lof heaven. "a TIE Iaaoinr Sc The pillows.