Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-10

Should lu our balmy elumber, and at morn
The mellow bugle from the distant hills
Should cheer us onward, az We gayly chased
The bright Hamingo from his shady haunts,
Until he dropped and died amid the 1rifts
OF water lilies, ss falling star
Is quenched upon the SHOWS The buoyant air
Should culver with the melodies il held
Az thrills the bosom of the morDing-clOud
The lark is floating in; and then above tt
And over oil a sky like Heavens own smile,
10 its unsullied brightness"
upbraided by the Emperor, she tells the story
of her love thus:
"Ny soul was like the ore
That waits the Ightnng's 6ery fash to fuse
1t into molten god-that lightning came:
heaven had not made me blind-thy laws could not.
| looked Abroad saw a noble youth
Glorious in manhood. Soon he sought my side
He wooed me with the tones that spirits love,
Till like the echo of his thrilling voice,
Ny heart stole ont 10 him IN gentle signs,
And then-refurned no more"
This drama will take rank among the 6rst
productions of the kind which our literature
has produced, and give its distinguished au-
thoress another claim on the atfectionate ad-
miration of her country, and especially her
own beloved Southwest.
MODERN PILGRIMS: Showing the Improve
ments in Travel, and the Newest Methods Of
reaching the Celestial City. BY George
Woods Boston Phillips, Sampson & Co.
For sale by G. W. SMITH, College street,
Nashville.
The above work has been lying upon our
table for several weeks past. It's neat white
paper aud elegant Typography were very invi-
ting, but until within the last few days, we
have not had time TO read it. We find upon
making our pleasurable way through its pages,
that it is an allegory which no one can read
without decided relish. The path of the pill
grim to the Celestial City, is portrayed with q
pencil of light, and the foIlies and vsnities
which overhang it and gather on its sides, are
satiIized in stJle both quaint and pungent.
The author has keen appreciation of the good,
the beautiful and the true in human character;
and 8 Just sense of the righteousness which
characterizes the age. To present The former
in winning vesture; and to exhibit the latter
in its most repulsive features, has, therefore,
been to him a pleasing duty, and he has per-
formed it with becoming fidelity. Old John
Bunyan achieved immortality, without dream
ing of it, by his ''Pilgrim's Progress" Moth
ing in that style can ever attain the height Of
renown to which it leaped without effort; but
nevertheless, Modern Pilgrims" more schOl-
arly and attractive as literary production,
will afford the intelligent reader more pleasure
and quite as much edi6cation.
FIVE HUNDRED MISTAKES CORRECTED. New
York: Daniel Burgess d Co. For Sale by
TooN, NELSON & Co., Union st., Nashville.
Here we have little volume of seventy
three pages, devoted to the Sysiphine task of
correcting errors which have crept into gener
al use in conversation, &c. The author evin-
ces considerable temerity in addressing himself
to such an undertaking; and should he attain
mis- object, will be regarded as a moral hero, in
whose presence the efforts of all sorts of schools
dwarf into insgnifcance. His little work is
mirror in which nearly every man and woman
can see his or her faulty syntax, ortheOpy,
&c, and we commend peep into it, to all
who can read. 1t may be of much service to
them.