Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-28
ESTER DAILY

TIE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, No. 2, for Decem.
Der, is published, and we have a copy from the
publishers now before US. This number strength
ems the hope induced by the first, that we have
now monthly magazine which shall give a
stroug, sound. and healthy tone to our periodical
literature, one which shall approximate to, il it
do not equal the 6rst class magazines of England
and Scotland. Should it realize these hopes,
now so generally and confidently entertained,
Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co, may well be
placed in the rank of public bshefactors.
The opening article of the number is conclu.
sionfof that in the last on "Florentine Mosaics,"
by j. Lothrop Motley, the historian of the Dutch
Republic. Nextis the battle of Lepanto,"
scenes of modern warfare. The next is fine pc
stic article, "The Wind and Stream" Turkey
Tracks which follows, though, on the whole,
sprightly story of Connecticut life, does not, to
our apprehension, succeed very we'll in its delin-
cation Of Yankee character and peculiarities. So
far as they concerned, it is, like too many at
tempts Of the kind, sketch from fancy rather
than from life. "Robn Hood is laboriously
prepared article, and will repay its reading. THE
0AOSs AsSNlNlNuS 10 dBAESaDlS nhN AAhSASSN'Ab'
"The Golden Mile Stone is one of Longfellow's
gems. "The Autocrat OF the Breakfast Table"
treats his readers again to piquant and gener-
Gus morning repast. Thomas Carlyle" fares
better in the hands of this writer than he would
in ours, had we the ability to give him his de-
serts. 1t is from the pen of an enthusiastic ad-
mirer 1.-THE Button Rose" is well told. "Our
Birds and their Ways" will interest a large class
of readers. "The Indian Revolt' is a subject
claiming universal attention at the present tlme
and the author Of the article has treated it intel
ligently and WE'LL
The next article, which we presume is from
the pen of Whittier, is poetic version of the old
Marblehead story of Skipper lreson." Floyd
Ireson skipper of a fishing smack from Marble
head, in the bay of Chaleur, fell in after storm,
with another Marblehead smack, dismasted and
disabled. The skipper begged Ireson to lay by
him till it could be ascertained whether his vessel
could be saved not but Ireson refused, and left
the crew to their fate, at the same time haunting
the skipper with having boosted Of his good luck
in obtaining "fare" On his return to Marble
head, the people were so incensed at his inhu-
mainly, that the women Of the place took him,
and, having tarred and feathered him, placed him
in cart, and dragged him in that plight to
Salem, singing by the way refrain, composed
for the occasion, in the dialect peculiar at that
time to Marbehead, and which prevails to con.
siderable extent to the present day. 1t ran thus
"0ld FLUID Ireson, for his hord hort
Was torr'd aud feIth'rd, and korrid in akort,
By the women OF Morbl'ed.h
The most striking peculiarly in this dialect, as
will be noticed, consists in giving the round
sound of o, in not, to the letter a, wherever it
should have the sound heard in such words as
heart, cart, tar, &C., &c. The poetic version of
the story is very we'll managed. "Solicitude and
Society" is undoubtedly by Emerson, with his
usual characteristics his excellences and his de-
fects. "Akih by Marriage is continuation
from the last number. ''When will it end" is an
earnest article VIII ch will afford food for rehec-
tion to all who are interested in our national
character and destiny. "My Portrait Gallery
and Literary Notices. close the work. AS
whole, it is an improvement on the first number.
and we can cheerfully recommend the work to all
our readers, who would have first rate Anlei-
can magazine. 1t may be had in this city Of S.
Thompson Co.