Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-25


several years before his. early death.
Mr. Webster said Of him, in ls49, in letter to his
friend Mr.. Ketchan Of New York: +" He is young
of as much ability and power any know have ca
tvated his acquaintance and if had the power would
most cheerfuly bring him into public service"
Chief Justice Gibson, of Pennsylvania in letter to
Of his correspondents in 1851, says Tell Mr.. ii. b.
Wallace proud of his praise. He is Of the few
in this day and generation who appreciate the
luton Of black-letter question"
And the author of the of Positive Philosophy
often referred in the preface his Systems de Po
tigus Pospe, written few days after the death Of Mr.
W., speaks Of him thus:
Though personal intercourse limited to three
interviews with intervals of correspondence short
precious yet knew him well enough TO be entitled to
Judge Of the loss which humanity has sustained in his
death In him heart intellect and character united in
combination and harmony that he would have
aided powerfully in advancing the difficult transition
through which the nineteenth century has to pass Free
from all afectation his culture, both @thetcal and sci
entfc, in perfect harmony with his fine organization
Although he gave his youth in part to literary Efforts his
spontaneous aud free communications to me authorize the
belief that he would have distinguished himself in active
life in country where the noble citizen is greater
than the officer of State do exaggerate his merits
in ranking him the equal of the greatest American
statesman"
MEMORABLE WOMEN; THE STORY THEIR LIVES by
Mrs. NEWTON CRoSsLAND, illustrated. boston Pub
lished by TIcKsoR FIELDS. vol, pp $50 Sold by
TAYLOR s. MAURy.
The memorable women the story of whose lives are
told in this book Lady Rachel RUSSELL Madame dAr-
blay and Mrs. Piozz Mrs Ware, Mrs COL Hutchinson,
and Lady Fanshaw Miss Margaret Fuller, and Lady Sale
The Marchesa Ossol Margaret Fuler) holds distn-
gushed place in the regards of Mrs Grassland She
cminenty Boston the De Stae of the day in and
about Boston We have heretha most authentic
narrative of Love First Sight in which this gifted
lady captured young Italian noble at glance in the
vesbule Of St. Peters Church, the evening of Holy
Thursday, in the spring of 1S47. We are reminded in
reading Mrs Crossands pages of the coincidence in the
Life of Perarch, who in the sprIg Of 1897 in Passion
Week, met the beautiful Laura at the entrance of the
chapel Of St Clair Laura fed from her lover and
did Margaret from the passion Of the young NOBLE whose
hand she refused and sought safety in the attractions Of
Venice and Milan but, Mrs. Grassland says, .sto
Margaret Rome the city of her SOUL She returned
in the autumn aad became the wife of Giovanni Angelo
ossoli in December ls47 The marriage was private,
and was concealed for nearly two years.
Miss Fuller belonged to the class now known as
" strong minded women She was wont to soar to
great elevation above the heads Of those who waited upon
her steps and drank in the wisdom which flowed from her
lips but when love came the transformation was as won
derful it beautiful. Mrs. Crossaud says: Mar
riage certainly softened her character There cre friends
teho married The change long before there suspicion that
she rds scfs; and when her Wonanhood was crowned
by maternity all the tenderness and deep instincts of her
revealed themselves" This event took place when
Margaret was in her thirty ninth year.
spec hoping the happy influence of conugal relations
upon strong in the full maturity of life
might attract the attention of the many who are now
seeking to find in the conflicts of political life that relief
from ennui which may be pleasantly attained by turn
ing their attention and enstng their sympathies in the
tender ties Of love and maternity.
WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS; by HENRY D. THoREAu
Boston Pubshedby TlcKNoR s FIELDS. VOL, pp 357
Sold by TAYLOR s. MAURY.
Mr.. Thoreau, finding life devoted to Journalism did
not pay, took himself to the woods on the shores Of
Walden Pond in the town Of Concord about twenty miles
from Boston, where he built himself cottage for taet
eight dollars and tpelre and ha cents "a picture of which
adorns the title page and where he lived years His
table expenses from 4th July, 1853, to the 1st March,
1854, (eght months cost him S a. and his entire ex
Penses for that period amounted SCI 99a and his
earnings during that time $36 II, which leaves the
out-goes S25 2l4 than the incomings; but then
says Mr. Thoreau g besides Ike leisure and INDEPENDENCE
and health thus secured Ihape comfortable house for me as
long as Ichoose TO occupy H."
The object of this book be persuade men of
literary attanments how happy they be living in so
tude IN huta sort Of Robinson Crusoe life within
hours travel of Boston and Cambridge. 1t is wonderful
that this passion held out with Mr. Thoreau years.
when ne left his cottage and returned Boston to write
this book which is full of proof that his talents fit him
for something better than life Of dleness in the woods