The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-20


Of true smooth golden csstors
siIyery foors and who have most agreeable way
Of dying on when their nepnsws and nieoss
begin life in earnest by getting married, and
50 leaving to tho young people an ample supply Of
railroad shares bank stocks houses Allied with poor and
cash on deposit al the Suffolk or MsreSsnssi No; Mr.
Philip Fgerton Is such uncle that He ID the uncle
Of the babes in the woods modified BY Boston inau
turies earlier, Mr. Egeron would have packed Oh his
nephews to the nearest wood and had them committed
to the berry bushes and robins for board and Lodgings
easy terms Unfortunately the preudces Of the world
do not admit Of unces getting rid Of orphaned nephews
by those expeditions which In vogue with the
now compelled to kill BY inches and to torture daily,
instead Of putting their juvenile relatives out Of their
pain at once. Mr. Philip Egeron Ia supposed TO be i'm
mensely rich and to have made fortune In China the
popular notion being that he had buried immense of
gold in his garden which, accordingly some onteyrsing
M seaon
imagnations Of mis- contemporaries that when death
called upon him to come down with his dust, " he
had but little more than his body with which to
the peremptory demand His contemporaries were
not much to bame for he acted very like rich man
that is no visited the insurance Offices and the Athe
nmum with wonderful regularity and there monopolized
the papers-that II the most natural thing In the
world TO suppose that he wealthy Train, or
But who, you may ask, were the Barclays 20 They
wealthy model family, and very perfect in all
respects Mr. John Barclay is very rich and has three
daughters and The son Ia hobbledehoy, but the
daughters angels The eldest of these damse makes
mysterious marriage with Gerald Sanderson As she
supposes who her in the Streets with little regard
to the of society," and weds her at strange house.
with regard to our States laws on the subject Of
" connubiaity." This Ia the most tragic event Of the
work, as II turns out that Mr. G. Sanderson had
the lady whom II was supposed he had won in
singular n fashion but he very improperly conceises
passion for her being brought to her presence Indeed
the incident works complete change in his character.
He abandons Lordand, takes at clearinghouse,
and devotes hist and talents to rational money making
pursuits SO that his loving friends choerea by
after all In the meantime Mr.. C. Sanderson who has
become enamored of the second Miss Barclay, leaves
Boston for Calcutta Che should have gone to San Fran
cisco Nelbourne,) for the purpose of shlkng the
paeoda tree" AS he cannot because of lack Of
dollars his intention is to ret lac of rupees in India.
On board the ship with him is passenger of very for
bidding character, who hates the adventurous youth,
quence Of Charleys kindness to him during serious t
Of sickness The converted gentleman turns out to be
not only rich fellow enough but also Of great nau-
ence on the banks Of the Hoogley 'ln Short" the
immortal Micawber has it, Mr. tombstone makes the
young mans fortune and enables him to return home in
atew years where he claims and receives the hand OF
poverty-a much more dasng and rampant dragon land
endowed with lives than whole households Of cats
saint of England third daughter WEEDS model parson
who is engaged important theological works. all Of
which you may depend upon receiving full account
Of, ! have decided propensity for that kind
of reading The alse true love- Of Miss Georgiana Bar
clay-the counterfeit Sosiceat length presents himself
in shockingy consumptive state and at length dies,
and is buried on the banks of the Arno. turns out
that he not bad fellow and sinncd only from excess
81 win no xiT visit hing ON hs ana
though her father played the part of the Good Samaritan
towards him. The lady afterwards refuses the hand Of
the Gerald and devotes herself to the cherries joys
of vestal lfe for Whatever unless that
she had been taken in by Gerald of course,
becomes miserable and should hold that he would take
very dark night by the curious on the Beacon
street mall of the common place much affected BY un.
successful overs-and by successful Ones too for that
matter.
Beside the characters named there is Mr.. Richard
Barclay an eccentric S whose PEI aversion
sensible thus illustrating Hawthornes theory that
love and hate the same at the bottom. There are
action neither advances retards the progress Of the
piece. The widow Sandcrson becomes rich through
great rise in the value of real estate All the ladies that
deserving Of promotion get married. or receive egi
BILE offers
The book is one that everybody win read once but that
true test of excellence second reading will rarely fall
to its lot 1t is sufficiently striking impressive to
warrant the belief that must become familiar book
thImbed volume one OF those the hrst reading 81
time in existence-one OF the seem 'dc'd dies OF
human life.
and careful proofreader ought to be employed before
it shall have passed to second edition. Some of the
eEgaphs are not correctly given or credited That to
very like couple of lines from Of George Withers
best pieces. shirley is think, slightly misquoted
chapter, and Bryant over another But these are
rfes though ones respect for The author leads TO
regret that they should have occurred
Mr. Shilabar's new work-'sIife and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington and Others of the Family'-wi be out in
fortnight from the press of Phillips, Sampson Co.
The entire FIRST edition Of ten COPIES has
do not hesitate TO that will be one of the pleasant
est books Of the year.
year The estate School street, owned by Mr. Joshua
Seward and occupied by him livery stable has been
what Mr. np
but few years since The land 60 feet front by 10
Deep and contains 200 square feet On the first
of May Mr. Seward will remove, all the buildings now on
the estate will be torn down. and Mr. Parker will COM
menoe the erection Of fine building, with granite 'front.'
and Of six stories This building will be used a. an hotel
and it is intended that it shall be equal to any establish
ment Of the kind in the country The frst floor will be
appropriated to dining rooms. The second floor will be
divided into beautiful suits of club and the upper
floors will be devoted to sleeping rooms 1t is proposed
10 have the interior arrangements Of the most perfect
kind, and the furniture will be of the most costly de-
scrpton The hotel will be under the charge OF Messrs
Parker and Mills. The site is good one 1t Is about
half way between State street and the State House.
with leaning to the latter and very to the centre
Opposite to one end OF the street is the Old
South the St. Paul's of Yankee cockney land At the
other end Of It, and fronting fremont street, is
Kings Chapel the scene if not the least interesting
tons Of Cooper's Lionel Lincoln" and the site OF
We may nr ims
in the Scarlet letter. From the upper windows Of the
new hotel the spectator will be able to look down upon
the Oldest graveyard Of Boston, where sleep Hester
Prynne, Mr.. Dmmesdale, and Job Gray, to say no.
thing Of other noted characters. The Athenaeum
will be only about three minutes walk distant,
the Court House about one, less, and Washington
street but few hundred steps II the traveller should
wish to see evidence Of the mutabity Of fortune he
would only have to leave his hotel and make brief
walk to the old Province House. the place where the
old colonial arisiocracy gathered around him in great
stateor there was an arstocracy here in those times,
and in respect II resembed modern aristocIacy
ii had deal to do with Goldfish, the catching and curing
of which has always been great business Of first
men, AS Amsterdam was said to have been founded on
herring bones, may Massachusetts, be said to have
solid basis the bones Of the cod The greatest man
that the colony, OF province ever had-no less man
than the immortal Sir William Peppere the captor Of
Lousburc-was famous fisherman. ALGOMA.
The MoRMoHs AMI THEIR WIvEs.-The January
number OF the Northern Islander paper published by
the Mormon settlement Beaver Island in Lake Michi
gan, soys-What business has Congress the United
states with the law concerning marrages That Is do