New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-23

" His poems are said 10 be Ike moonoeams
cleaning on midnight wsve-like hut,sred o Io
'cf game-lke rose. bushes amid groves OF pne-hse
'vild-fowers-like rich marriage dresses.lise re
@dsheveiied morning head of beautiful child. Inc
poet himself is likened 70 giant under ttns wa ~
rsd-botpoker pen, his big burning heart ana ms a
rugged kery song. His poetry, again, Is ssa 10 Us
e sharp twoedged sword-a magic rod con,
cunning fre--tuned philosophy-fsct on hreI~lnsed
science His loftier poems are 'dlsinonds IN tne
arouph' his earlier ones, IRE burning III nsrce eA-
'agpers ,ed and volcanic forms
Hear him on "De Quincy and " Dinner:
ain the two last papers namely, on the Casustry
Of Roman Meals loriginaly ycieped 40 BlaeS1ood
.Dinner Real and Reputed) and on Modern Super
sstitjop he discourses in very lively, learned, dis
eurnve and often singulariy felicitous style upon
two subiects which eminently suit him under that
title Of Glorious Gossip we gave him some fifteen
wears $50. In the first be gives idea OF dinner,
which brings in the language Of DR. Caius dc water
lin &c mouth and which, in this age, is never likely
fully n be realized-the more = the pity since we
cordially agree with author and with DIR. johnson,
that good dinner ia great affair and that none but
solemn twaddlers, such as Emerson who feeds his
Paptbeisrn il IL said on buffalo steaks and Newman,
wb0 wasbes down his iDsOe1t inddelty and abuse OF
the personal character Of Christ with weak tea dare
despise IT, We observe that in this paper be quotes
come admirable sentences from Dr. Croy, who seems
thoroughly up TO the subject Of Roman entertain.
rents and whose eloquence, in classic dignity and
grace is not inferior to DE Quincey's own.'
George is often attacking Emerson latterly. !
T<s
the gifted Apollo TO exhaust the dictionary of gu
perlative epitbets in praise Of man, and then he
must perorce turn to the other side for big words
Of abuse. Such has been bis method of procedure
with both Emerson and Carlyle.
That successful deneator of life in Lam
ea,hre, Mrs. Gaskell has commenced new
tale in Household Words" full Of promise
In a few days we are to have new novel
from the author Of John Drayton." Lever
10 70 give US new work entitled Martin
"of Gro Martin" The Rev. A. p. Stanley,
author Of "The Life of Arnold who has just
been appointed one Of Prince Alberts chaplans,
has a work in the press 1" Historical Memorials
'tf Canterbury, he Black Prince" Among
other books promised and of promise are 'lnven-
lions OF James Watt" PHILOSOPHY Of the
"Infnite, and 1.-THE Life and Correspondence
"of Lord Metcafe, late GovernorGeneral Of
India and once Of Canada" Mr. Wilson Croker
has eoited new edition of the Works Of Pope,
10 which The Aheneum devoted three articles
before it was published. He has found an unpub-
Ished character" Of the Duke of Marlborough.
Mr.. BOyne is about to reprint the Ballad OF
babe Christabel, with other Lyrical Poems,
in a larger and handsOmer form. This will make
the fourth edition in eight months" Bladder"
by Sydney Dobell, is just reaching its second
edition
I learn from the returns presented to Parlia-
ment by the Census Commission, that the number
OF authors, editors and writers in Great Britain,
in the year 1851, was ,o44, ,73S being male and
IO6 female. Nnety-twO OF these were under 20
years OF age. presume it will be to one OF these
precocious public instructors that we are indebted
for the following amusing advertisement cut from
one of the papers:
"a young gentleman, an Author whose writings
have obtained univer praise will be happy to give
lecture the Beautiful, either in public or pri-
vate. Poetry, Prose and Acrostics written. Poem
for fourteen stamps
"Sir Alison in his third volume, pursues his
dubious way with his usual unerring instinct for
blundering. He informs his readers that Georgia
is in Asia Minor Speaking of the Russian Grand
Duke Constantine, he says:
1.-The second son of the Emperor Paul and the
celebrated Empress Catherine he was born on the
eth Of May, 1873, and christeDed Constantine, from
the design Of that aspiring potentae to place him on
the throns of ConstantnOpe, and restore the Byzan
tine empire as appanage Of the imperial house Of
Russia"
Thus. if we are to believe Alison Catharine
committed incest with her son Paul, and was the
mother of her grandson.
Again, he says:
The capture Of Sphacteria determined the fate OF
Nayarino in the days Of Ibrahn, as II had done I'D
those Of Pericles.'
But history tells us that Perices had been dead
come time before DemOsthtn mes and Cleon cap
tured Sphacteria. lie makes Bajazet gain a gori-
GUS vi story over the French chivalry at Narna
in 1853, whereas Bsjazet never fought at VarRa
He means the battle of Ni;opOs, fought IN the
year 1896 some 200 miles from Narna, where Ba-
isyet defeated the French aud lluDgarians. One
might 20 on quoting such specimens of innacuracy
in this historian, but to what end lie is pset
mendiDg.
am afraid that am all behind with the Let
tiers of an American" by Walter Savage Ian
DOR But in case they are not reprinted in
America, | venture upon few extracts. We
thought, on reading the :" Last Fruit, that such
hale old tree had another good crop or two in it
vet We knew that the honest old weevil, age,
was working away, and nearing the heart of it,
but there was vital sap and budding capabilities
and leang life and the iruitage of other years IN
il still, and so it has proven. This rare Republi-
can at eighty, this old man eloquent" still bat
ties on in tie good cause, like an elder Milton in
our latter days batting no jot of heart or hope"
Many have deserted from the ranks, many have
turned back at the first glimpse of the lions in the
road, many have tainted by the way, many proud
hopes have been destroyed but his faith in free
dom never burns low, his hope for liberty never
wanes, his Republicauism does not change color.
If there is any living Englishman akin TO the
grand thinkers, the souls of heroic stature who
have lived in the past, surely it is this man who
speaks across the Atlantic in these letters. Here
s bit of stern TRUTH
"The Emperor of Russia is loudly called to sccoun;
fer his manifold receptions but is It clear that no
ders were given that he should be allowed to deceive
There are galleries that underground from court
to court and there are more labyr'nths and more
Roeamonds than at Woodstock. Lord John Russell
spoke indignantly on the Cars per6dy; would Lord
John Russell hesitate to treat with him equal terms
Now in private life convicted liar is what the Eng
hsh call cut meaning cut off from society. No gen
tleman condos eends to notice him in public or in pri
waite. Yet doubt whether there is any in this
honorable House, in the House above the honora-
be who would demur TO kiss the bloody hand OF this
most sudaoious of liars, or to sign treaty of peace
and smity under his subordinate A lsckey would be
turned of for one innocent lie fiDdeed any lie be in