The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-11-06


FEMALE WRITER'S. Blackwood for
October, contains caustic article on
Modern Light literature" intended
specially for the eyes Of elderly ma
irons. who forfake their household, to
go into the book making business
and sentimental Demoiselles who write
odes to the rainbow, aud lauguish over
tho last love story in the last "Lady's
Companion" Talking Of the mania
to do the lives Of the Queens, before,
as well as after tho COMMUNICATING
n word Of advice to Miss Strickland,
who has unsettled the standing of Mr..
Shakespeare for veracity about tho
Middle age," Kings as well as
Queens the writer says:
Ono thing we cannot help express
ing our unfeigned gratitude for-the
Queens ut last are exhausted. Nobody
can write any more lives Of our fethale
sovcrcigns; and though there are a
formidable number Of princesses re-
naming, We trust our fair writer's
(bcgging humble pardon Of DR.. Doran,
who is not fair-but if it is his will to
place himself in tho Amazonian CO.
hort, it is no fault of ours) will be mer-
ciful, and not overwhelm us with a
new series. Saying this, however, We
would give all commentator to Mrs.
Everett Green's learned and painstak-
ing efforts.
After all, then, it would appear that
human nature is about tho same in
one place, that it is in another. and il
is pleasing to see that English and
Scotch Reviewers fast coming to this
conclusion the writer continues:
One would suppose to read these
histories, that there was no school like
n court for intoxicating tho domestic
virtues and that SO far from being
hindered or burdened by the cares of
state, tho royal matron was almost in
variably the flower and perfection of
matrons; not only good queen, but
a model wife and mother, an example
to her humber and less encountered
subjects. This, we humbly opinc, was
scarcely thing to be expected. One
business is about rs much as one per-
son can manage in common circum-
stances; and we have always had a
strong conviction that Elizabeth was
in the right, and that sovereign
prince who has the misfortune to be
born woman, should give herself to
her profession, and let common life
and its responsibilities alone,-always
excepting, as in duty bound, our own
most gracious liege Lady, who is not
called upon to be a ruler and govern
or, like Elizabeth. Yes, the poor
necdlcwoman who rocks her baby's
cradle rs she works, has no better
claim upon our forbearance aud SYM
patty than the poor queen who is not
permitted to rock the cradle, but has
the care of it Notwithstanding, and n
moro onerous business besides than the
necdlewomans--a whose little
tempers should require quite as much
allowance made for them. But we are
amazed when we come to find how
unnecessary our forbearance is, and
wonder in silence at the unruflled am
liability of the illustrious hcroines of
Miss Strickland. Everything here
or almost everything. for our author
ess has her avcrsions--is| couieur de
rose and Miss Strickland is quite
willing to take the word of the court
poet for her lady's beauty, and to give
the same lady every credit for the
highest womanly qualities, whether
possible or not, in her circumstances.
T The Hon. Caleb Gushing has
our thanks for Photographic report,
fthc trial of Henry Hertz ct al, in
the United States, Court for Eastern