The Washington union., 1857-09-19


The dainty blue and gold editions of the poets pub
shed by Little Brown OF Boston, meet understand,
with rapid sale The livery is certainly very taking
one and win doubtless have the effect intended notwith
standing sovereign contempt for external show By
ron's 'Don juan and shelley's .'Queen Nab"
tanly very wicked poems but how they be resisted
in such unexceptonable 'neat dressing ~ In the lam
guage of trade centreabe would be complete with
out a copy Don Juan and Queen Nab clothed in
and gold Thus do steal the livery of heaven to
serve the devil in T.
Speaking of these popular editions of the poets calls
mind the suboned striking passage, touching the doc
Of attractions which appears in the well written pre-
face to shelley's works: - ..r
However the brain may philosophize, the heart
mains loyal to traditions and although Mrs Shelley
may have been captvated with the doctrine of attrac
tions while it drew her husband to her. she pre-
pared for the liberal application of it which drew
him away. No theorizing can sweeten desertion and
the unhappy woman disenchanted of the dream and for
saken by the substance, sought shelter in death.
"The lovers of Shelley, a man and poet, have
done what they could to palate his conduct in this
ter But question of morals, between man and
ciey cannot be reduced to any individual standard how
exaltedour partalty for the only heightens
detestation of the The greater Shelley ge
MUS the nober his character and impulses much the
more startling is the warning. If make own in
oinations the of what is right must be stern
ar in curbing them. womans heart is too delicate
thing to ucrum for the lever with which man
would overtun any system, however conventional The
misery of the elective affinity scheme is that men
chemical substances and that in nine out of
ten the force of the attraction works more constantly
and astingly upon the woman than the man. The Nor
mon polygamy is nothing more than plant from the
same evil seed in baser SOIL and is attempt to
compromise between the higher instincts OF mankind,
organized in their institutions and the besta propens
ties of sensualzed individuals "
NORWEGIAN SLEEPY HoLIow Bayard Taylor in
lite letter from Norway, thus describes Norwegian
warming pan:
cat sunset we left the lake and climbed long, wood
ed mountain to a height Of than two thousand feet
II was q weary pull until reached the summit but
rolled swiftly down to the other side to the inn of
Teterud destination, which reached about TO- p
m. II quite light enough to read, yet everybody
in bed, and the place seemed deserted, until
Inembered what latitude in Finally the land
lord appeared followed by girl whom, account of
her size and bubber Braisted compared to whale
She had been turned of her bed to make for
and instantly rolled the hoiow she had iemy
ilotc friend occupying separate bed in another
In the morning aroused by Braisted exclaiming
There she blows I and the whale up to the
face with huge pot of coffee sugar candy, excel
lent cream, and musty biscuit"
This reminds us of the fact that in Bradys Varieties
Of Literature the term Scotch warming pan is stated
TO have arisen from the we'll known story of gentleman
travelling in Scotland, who desiring to have his bed
warmed the servant maid 1mmediaely undresseu hersel
and lay down in it for a while
The following passage from Popes letters is quo
ted by Leigh Hunt master piece Of exquisite good
sense
Nothing hnders the constant agreement OF people
who live together but vanity secret insisting up
on what they think their dignity merit and inward
expectation of such of difference and
gard as answers to their extravagant false scale and
which nobody pay because none but themselves
tell readily to what pitch il amounts.
a Thousands of houses, adds Leigh Hunt would be
happy Tomorrow II this passage written in letters Of
gold over the mtel piece aud the Offenders could have
the courage to apply it to tbemselyes ryg
Donald Mcleod in his recent Life of Mary, Queen of
Scots concludes vivid description OF the assassination
of Marys secretary Ricco, in the following language
with uuwillingness record that George Buchanan
monopozes the infamy of suggesting that Mary afec
ton for her secretary not that of a Queen for
faithful servant but that of abandoned woman for her
lover. j
"And this Of Mary, Queen of Scots Not Knox, not
Randolph were bad enough for this. To the elegant
vcsi6er Of tho psalms Of David, to him only and ex
cusvely belongs the unutterable basenes OF the con-
cepton and the loathsome paternity OF the filthy false