New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-22
FROM ROME.
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beside her made-dsh Of shops, gossip, scandal,
fashion and vanity which manyprefer in all profuse
banquet for the wise and the foolish, from which
none need 20 empty away; and also food for sense
and for soul differing only in the partaking and dr.
gesting.
To sans equr and fine linen people ride on the
Appsn WAY, a sight Of the Forum and Coliseum,
ST. Peters and the Vatican, yawn at Gibsons,
Crawfords and Pages some mosslcs, pearls and
scarfs; something gossppy and garrticus about the
ministers, spiritual and temporal, and, BY way oi
balancing their charities, some speculat"ns on
Crawford's state his eulogy, eptaph and convales-
cence; then Roman Punch Of As divorce, B.s
litigation C's engagemeut-whetber il is generally
known or not and whether she knows his lntrlgues;
then cigarette in the Villa Borghese or on the
Pincbio, and finally salute at Il Cardinals recep-
ton is the farng sumpuously every day and the ver-
liable feast Of reason and flow OF soul, undreamed
Of in their arch rpiCurean fancles. Once IN While,
in transcendental fit Of wisdom, for instance IN
ine day when as Emerson says. 4" the cattle have
great and tranquil thoughts" seeming the tran oi
vsgrant faneur, in hopes Of rare and dainty game,
or Uf finding some piquant weed for condinent or
favor they follow by-paths into by-cOrners, aside
from prescribed sights and gude-book routes, and
praise and hug themselves IN coming, al OF a sud
den, on pot of cream III cellar, or some saVory
herbs IN garrtt, OF u VIII uuCh WI q SncAi' oH
which taking care not TO heat or soil themselves,
they mack into their pic mic sacks lauding extremely
the brllancy of their eccentricties and wondering II
ever apy one won 80 Willingly value from their
travels: entirely unsuspectlDg that the old Leather
Stocking hunter who has left these small stores be-
hind il far ahead by his sagacity and patience I'LL
ing his pouch with the daintest birds, and bearing
the heavier game on his back, wlich nourlsh him as
loves in the heart, and truth in the head, and IN
their way make him too fare sunptu0usly every day;
finding his tent pitched under any shady tree, or
home in every yine-tapestried ruin, where he
NAV muse on all the canopy covers IN Rome
and without, with no aim but 10 hunt Gods tritn
and to live on Gods goods, content always with
the simple fare of wisdom and love which these
fashionable pursuers Of his trail pervert IN cooking
with their condiments of curiosity, vanity and
worldly wisdom, till their final dish is, Ike French
fricassee or an Italian mas sonnaise, made TO tickle
the taste more than to nOursh the strength. Leath-
or Stocking is chary of his commerce win fine
Linen and the Grundyists in general; but OCCASION
ally with a simple and trlth-loyng heart, ne IN
dulges an amcabe mood, and spreads out before hun,
in some favorite haunt, his dainty repast, and waits
till the shadows grow long in telling his tales OF
town and country. Sometimes, with friend or
two in q short cut across the Campagra, We have
caught familiar nod as he hurried by, or seen his
fresh footsteps up some valley, opening vista 10
the mountains OF found bouquet OF hrst wall-h0w-
the sun with group Of models, or playing the cas-
tanets to the Sartoreo dancing girls, but before we
arrive he is of as quick his shadow, lost IN an un
expected subterranean of the Palace OF the Casafs
or next seen emerging from an unmasked cOlunoa-
rum in garden of chicory telling the gardener of
the arabesques beneath, and also about some
Ghiotto frescoes IN q waled-of corridor IN the
church across the field. Anon at the Vatican, IN
citizens dress he is looking at pure Greek Bit too
mutilated for Red Book rhapsodies, but just whole
enough to hold heart or pulse; and the next we
hear Of him he has found something of promise IN
an unknown artists studio or is eYtoling something
Ruskin never or wrote about, and all the Royal
Academicians are ignorant or blind to; regaing
himself continually with tit-blts neither fashionable
nor conventional, doing the socratc with the rich
boldly as with the poor, huskng down oil people and
things to their kernel giving the husks to the SWINE
sowing the good seed good ground, and leaving
the bad TO rot or come to tares. Again we md MN
rating the Apollo. the Torso Belydere and the Dy-
ing Gladiator at their full value and rendering honor
10 whom honor is due, in the works of Raphael and
Michael Angelo but reser,ng his superlatives for
things better still having place for everything and
eyery thing in lie place, with order astonishing
and incomprehensble 10 those who would pile
all pell-mel, on the top shelf. Though not
lion hunter Leather r-StOckina makes the
old lions cover effectualy as Gerard's sure
shots and before him Prince, the Lion of
Jamson, Mrs Guckill and Mrs. Stowe, are asplayfll
as madens and all the big bugs and little bugs take
rank and make file IN their order OF merit, and buzz
off safe buzzards leaving in great relief Margaret
Fuler's observation the natural history OF Mons,
that when seen close TO- their pranks are much Ike
those Of other animals. Whether Leather Stock
ing can be called, popularity speaking, friend or al
enemy | cannot say; On some he leaves a shame
shadow, on others glow of delight; tO some he Is
the skeleton Of their house, to others as their
household god, just as their affections take him.
But the most We knoG a this rare old wonder ID
from hearsay, or from occasional short encounters
on his trails, or from hints gathered fresh from
where he has just gone, or from rehearsals oi his
propenstes by some iellow-companon, as at our
visit to r. the other day, who never tires OF MS
eulOgy
+. is one of Leather Stockings cronies-more OF
A uaniast and less universal than be, but yet akin
in loyes and so always friends that look each other
in the eve. +. came pensloner to Rome from
Piedmont at the age Of fifteen, and since then for
forty wears he has traced his designs, smoked bis
cigar and taken his coffee at the little table at
the Greece and inhabited the same high, sunless
rooms in the Piazza San Pietro looking out on the
grim. yine.deyiced walls connecting ST. Angelo and
the Vatican, spite of damp dark and solitude, Gov
ering his cherished nest-eggs and Matching out hints
which the world steals, nurtures and is proud OF,
while his own broodiDg patience is more content and
happier IN the Matching thah ID Ihe rearing Vi lts
offspring .
INV kind old master not that | owed him one be-
cause be ever comes to see me-for when ne Is on
his nest he is always at the Grecco-but because
when i 90 TO see him he greets me cordially, aud
locks happy that have not forgotten him or lost IN
terest in what he is and does aud thinking be and his
appurtenances might be among the rarest OF Romes
by-way sights, proposed to the two Misses Fine
Linen 10 accompany me 10 his rooms AT III we
enter the sun-sparbling Pszza-the fountains and