Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-23

l !" AurOra LeSh, Ill Q company, ana reaQ uttlc here and there just few sentences at random and laid it down provoked It is hard meekly to confess one self stupid it is good deal more comfortable to feel contemptuous and pronounce your author scRseless. I confess that in my haste did confer upon Mrs. Browning inarticuate compliment very much to that effect and since have felt no par ticu]ar desire to read more of Aurora Leigh. until yesterday, when, coming again upon the book in an l idle moment, I began at the beginning and read without stopping precisely seven ty-forr pages, dei cation included. At the b.ttom of the seventy fourth was interrupted by call from sweet Hiher nian lips to the kitchen This time laid down the book iot in a pet but softly and penitcntly, and walked away to my duties domcstc-the subject of 1 a regular pauline conversion, blur ill either eye and ringing in my heal as of Cathedral bells; ' What strange. startling delicious poem. catch tb. refr;in-I agree with all my young lady friends entirely As powerful as ' Pbihp Bailey. without his rhetorical denen: ia an huge ptitudcs in c.sc of original conceptions. What compact vigorous pungcnt dicinn! tissue of finest gold and steel scintillating With electric light and jewels thick set. What Woilswortian depth of feeling and insight in the descriptive parts-with lines that thunder and tighten ill their Dantean vehemencc. and whole paragraphs wrought out at tiercest white | heat. And in spite of an approach t" bomnst here and there, and slight leaning occasionally to the i gautly and technical fin ornament. how rife every page with true fcsit;cs ot st lc, conceptions of well nigh Mi!tonc sulin,ity. and touches of pahos that one would sea. cely expect to find out of Tcnn.son Hood or Boz On the whole was very nicely vcrted, think in the brief space of srvcnty-four pages! Bm-and here, o my Editor. comes my grief. Charmed--lct me say, astoni>hed-as l am by the singular graces and dazzling splenors of this poem of Aurora Ie gh'- the spell of its beaE 1 tE is br,kcn to me by the perpetual laraSSing oc- currtncc to my mem 'ry of a passage, that ii not nonsense, is possess cd of meaning that most pro- *okingy persists in e!uling my grasp. Will you, kind sir, help me to an understanding of it and so relieve of my distress concssng yourself in like painful predic,mcnt-aiyc 1nc the benefit of your sympathy. In grief come te you to have this worse than thorn in the flesh pluckcd out-f indeed. to do it is ng tc D. ssic ica:S of demon stratiyc surgery. Ihis is !lle thorn:
 ''Ihen the bitter sea
 Inexofablv pushed betwce:l r1s D ,th
 And sweeping. up the ship with my despair
 "Tl.rcw Ifs out is a pasture to the stars '
 4 pnstre {, Me starx' If you tell me. friend of l the Muse-Sphinx how Aurora and her despair can by any miracle of poetic ingenuity. be male to tain the interesting relation of green meadow to the great and lille bear to any of the herd of sel tr cunie. you will ccncr favor upon inc that be assured, l will be sl W in forgetting.
 i Yours truly, FArLINA. : Looking over copy of '' Aurcra Leigh" we find tracks that paused at tl.is very passage. but needed no long stay to get assured that Mrs. Erowr ing neither insane nor a fool. but that clumsy typc and careless proof reader. had given us ahoh erwcrd than the one originally dropped F m her per- | Writing to the friend who gave us tie book to scc if he could help us to right understanding of Mrs Browning's true meaning, we received the sn- nexcd answer, which quote with peasorc for the leneft ef our fair correspondent =
 "--- was jnet this very morning talking with the gentleman who read the pro' f-shects of the poem, and if had grttet your letter day ear r. co that the thing could have hern in my mind l would have borrowed from him Mrs. Browning manuscript copy itself where d, ttbss the origin of the bunder in the obscuriy of the handwriting would have been quite apparent. The woId which so distgures tine sense is obviously typographical error for "pagean the i!ea heinz that tine " bitter sea- void of all sympathy with Aurora and her grief and pushing itself incxorahlt between her and her Italy filings out the ship almost fonnering with her heavy woe an idle spectacle to the stals It is strong im.gs of most abs lutc contempt, and hcartless unconctrn for the poor breaking child heart of Aurora with its world of anguish
 We are selfish enough to wish that the fair ' paulina' may not unfrcqnently find in her read ngs bcwil,!ering words. aild unsugycstitc images if thereby she may be compelled to mplore hclp Perhaps she may feel inclined to tell us now that we have made her acquaintance. just what she thinks ot Adrera Leigh as woman. and what she snpposes it was that crowned her With such beauty in the eyes of Ro,@hct. Ed f, omrer,.
 As it regards the Waterbury tourila Democrat. or whatever its name is, propose f,,r its future benefit the plan adopted for the frso,crs at Sing Sing Once year, i've think tie 4tli of July they arc allowed the privilege of speaking aloud From morning until the going down of the sun arises shout, the like of which cannot hc eoiaet this side of Fandchottiuni. The roar of tho cars is lost in the dcmoniac cry, and far of the hills the af- frighted farmer starts if hc behcld vision of the hcatllcss hutselnct1.
 On the 4th of July, or Thanksgiving, the Demo- crat shall have the full benefit of G lumns It shall be permitted to " see itself as others see it." All its personality. its stale jokes and inucndoes shall appear that is, if some subscriber to Its col umns will pain his fingers sufficiently to clip and send them to for publcaion.) Ne close our re- plies to it, by giving authentic account of the notable story about tho Dr. s horse:
 Some seventeen years ago. we were sent into the field for the old animal. Supplying ourself with whip and hrdlc, entered the pasture but what was our surprise at discovering other heas than the Doctor himself, who, like Nchuchanezz,r of old, had turned himself out to grass; and was qui- cty grazing by the side of saw log. As the sides of the Doctor at this time, presented less favor able seat for saddle than they do we simply left him our whip and bridlc, supposing he deavoring to personify that portion of Scripture which prcscribes "a whip for horse, bridle for al. ass and rod for fools b,ck.'
 We are in the receipt of several interesting pub lie documents, from the Hon: E. A. Foote, of Footesville, Wis, MT. Foote will long bc remcm- bered in this County. Fctmerly one of our mos. entctprsing sons, he has carried his New England education with him to Wisconsin, where his catt,s city is duly appreciated.
 A DESPERATE conspiracy on the part of some of the most infamous characters confined in the Tombs New York, to escape from their con finement, has just been discovered. The plan