New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-22


what use il serve except perhaps for baTeade
DO you with BIZ chance 20 roast come 20 my room
in LordoB everything is colossal here. The crate u 80
large that II i impossible TO make little fire in day
IN June II wants i,s eo to lii the shovel the
topcs Above this colossal grl,e glass but placed %
ht that can but jnst catch glimpse Of my eyehroFs
in IT, Two immense belropes with eockades large ss
the top Of hat complete this formidable furniture in the
midst Of which man il lilputisn. I need not dwell
upon tie oo.Gis Of yy BED ron furniture The bed,
which should be esrscious, q narrow, like berth ON
board q steamboat: the mattress az have sid sooai
| az elastic a seablscuIi.
! ~ Lecornte's bodily and mental stature must be
| about On par and both exceedingly small. IL il 70
be regretted that such stupid descriptions should be
written, read and believed. Ii the French know us
only through such writers there be no wonder that
they should misspprehend US.
In few days we are TO have "Fermlan" or The
| Student Of Bsdsjos; Spaslnodic Tragedy: by t.
Percy Jones that is W. L. Aytoun Esq., Editor OF
BlaciwoOd's Magazine and author of the Lays of the
Cavaliers. Letters BY American, edited by Walter
Savage LaDdor published but have not seen them
yet. The same publishers, Mtssrs. Chapman q Hale,
have printed two poems By Robert and Elizabeth
Browning for Cd. imagine they were not written for
publication. They sent TO some friends Of the
poets on the occasion Of some Ragged School enter
tainnent, and characteristic of their auhorage
i new work of some importance Is advertised:
T"History Of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from
1857 to the storming and sack of COnsantinOple by
the Crusaders in 1904; and from 1904 to the siege
"and capture Of ConstantinOple by the Turks under
III.
author of several histories and the proprietor of The
Edinburgh GHGrdisH, one Of eur very best weekly
| papers.
John Chapman, recognized as the American Pub
Usher has left the house he lately occupied IN the
Strand as Shop and American clearinghouse. lie
has removed to King Wlliam.st., Strand, where be
will still carry OH his book buness but will be too
| cireumscribed in room TO open the clearinghouse
afesb so that visiting Americans who have been wont
to stay there will have 10 get other quarters imgt
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circulation considerably since it has been in mis- hands,
but the sale of il is not mach 800 copies even
now. It's principal writers have been James MART
neau, Mrs Martineau, George Combe, u. H. Lewes,
Proud author of the "Nemesis OF Faith, who has
written tie splendid articles on Mary Stuart En-
| glands Forgotten Worthless, The Book of job, John
| Knox &C.; David Mason, Professor of University
COLLEGE and an extensive Reviewers James Hanway,
| author of Singleton Fontenay; Mackey, author OF
| the Progress of the Intellect; Grey, DIR. Samuel
| Brown &c II has various occasional contributors,
I and some gatuitous Mazzni wrote one article,
but imagine the dose too strong TO he repeated
| The summary Of Contemporary Literatue is done by
| various hands including a Mr., Huxley, and Mrs.
Percy Sinnett, who is not tie only "Old Woman
Take il for all in ALL The Westminster is better now
than we remember il to have ever been; but what
miserable circulation for the best Quarterly Review
| that we have l,s00 The old Quarterly and Edin.
burph Reviews still circulate their nine thousand
copies only they mostly Wing and Tory articles OF
furniture to their subscribers who still stand by the
buff blue and yellow, as III the days OF @ford ana
! Jeffrey. We have had n rumOr that Mr.. and Mrs.
| Browning were about to pay visit To England Mrs
Browning will find her poems in the third edition, but
| | am afraid that Brownngs are still IN the hrst.
don't think the small sale of their poems is to be
mainly attributed to our want OF taste Tor poetry
something must be set down 70 the stupid lnslaiage-
ment or ndoent careessness of publishers, and then
they are sold at - shngs which is another drawback
There are very few among those who eau afOrd such
price who care to purchase two modest looking vol
umes in green cloth like those of each OF the Brown
| ings They would not prove very sumPtuous atrac-
tions to the boudor drawng-room table Aud those
who buy books of poetry seldom afford 10 spend
II shings on a living author. You cannot gauge the
influence of the poetry OF the Brownlngs ny any APP
peal to their sale. TennysOn is in his ninth edition. but
there can lie doubt that his becoming Laureate made
il fashionable to buy his book by the arisocracy Not
that our aristOcracy have muck sympathy with " In
''Memorium" its author with them ApropOs
| of this subject good story Is told which VIII repeat
bopsg that il is new to YOU; if il is not 1t will bear
| re-teing Tennyson seldom goes out visiting he
would much rather sit at home in the cloud. OF his To-
bacco smoke talking poetry with some one Ike Co
ventry PatmOre, Mr.. Palgraye, or Charles Kingsley
Some time ago he ill., and the Queen hearing OF IT,
called upon her chosen Laureate and made kind In
! Quiries respecting his health. This no sooner got
noised abroad than the sycophans OF the arstocracy
who do as she does far as they can follow her In
| great numbers initiated her example and called to In-
oure about the health of the Laureate leaving their
cards in token of their interest and c0ndescentlon
Tennyson it is said, just put the precious cards INTO
envelopes and returned them per post to their respec
| tive owners.
have another capital story, which believe is true,
| as | had it from good sOurce-and If 1t isn't 1t
ought to be- Every one knows that Tennyson is some
what of solitary in his habits, and that he likes to SIT
darkling like the nightingale He is our shyes bird
of song. lie is fond of staying about the country IN
outof-the way places, and deghting in odd, out-of-
the-way characters A friend of mine met him in this
way On one OCCASION and by adroit management of
conversation got the great Alfred to roll oriousy
on the subjects of John Milton his poetry and the
poetry of Pope, Campbell, and others But to the
story: There is clergyman at Bishopwearmouth,
who has formed sUa all w0rkngmans boys college,
in which he educaes the children of peasants-I think
for the ministry. One or two autumns since he had
sum of money placed in his hands in order that he
might give the boys holiday treat They went into
the Highlands of Scotland and night they stopped
belated at lone inn, determined Ia put up with any
inconvenience rather than push on any further that
night The landlord informed the clergyman that all
his beds were occupied and that he had only
where they could lie down, and that had one person in
already and he had occupied the sofa for the night
They accepted the room, and laid down as they best
| could Before the boys went TO sleep they held
lengthy and spirited conversation the subject OF
Tennysons poetry, and the question, was he great
poeti They decided that lie was in large majority,
ssd dronred asleen, In the morning, as they were
about TO leave the gentleman who had occupied the
sofa and who rose up tall dark, broadchested, with
pale spiritual face and Hebrew-looking hair, called
the clergyman aside and expressed his great
interest in the eoung critics and their CONVEX
.stion of the overnight, which he had overheard,
placing card in his hand on which was written Al
!. fred TenuysCn" Tennysons Poems have been
translated into French aud that wretchedly But
| here is a volume of "Gedichte Won Alfred Ienny-
:" son - translated by Herr w. Hertsberg, who has