The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the New York sunday Times
THE ROSE OF NEW YORK.
nv MApY PYLE nAIllc

bI MAXI kI LIE DALLLS.
Ma said my Fanny, who is only
seven years old, and whose literary re-
searches had. to the best OF my belief.
been confined to the lages of Bluebeard
Cinderella, and 'The Paren,'s Assis-
tant'-'Ma, if you had been Edith, the
Flower of Peekskil, wouldn't you have
had Malcolm Fitzsmilh, in spite Of your
father and that aw FIJI Anat Agatha Q
p Goodness gracious what do you
mean, child 2? exclaimed, in astonish-
ment. What are you talking about p
oh. it is a book Hepsiba got from the
circulating library replied Fanny; 'and
it is about Edith, the Flower of Peeks-
kill, who must have been as beautiful AS
my doll. mother; and her lover. NAL
colin F;tzsmith, who was highway
man, and rode a milk white charger,
and was SO splendid. you can't think +;
and her aunt was beldame. and her
father was tyrant. and wouldn't let
have him. Where we've read to, they
have just fed by moonlight. Wouldn't
you have fled if you had been her,
mother p
What stuff have you been reading =
l exclaimed. L shall scold Hepsiba
well for letting you get hold of such a
book. Don't you know that it is very
wrong to disobey your parents, and that
a highwayman is nothing but thief p
"Oh, no. ma! Malcolm Fitzsmith
wasn't. said Fanny-'he was splendid!
And how could yon mind your aunt, if
she was beldame -
Don't use such words. Child I in
terruptei.
Or your father, he was tyrant ?
proceeded Fanny.
Bring me the book this minute /
answered, quite out of patience 'and
tell Hepsiba to come here
The book is upstairs, under Clara's
pillow, said Fanny. 'Pll get it: it is
SO interesting. Clara has read it aloud
to us, SO far. Won't yon finish it, Ina?
And away she went, returning in few
moments with a paper-covered volume
in her hand
1t was just such work as / had i'm
agined a combination Of sickly and
gross sentimentalities, bad grammar.
and worse characters-in other words a
New York novel. The scene the his
tory was New York-the year 1853.
The characters were highwaymen who
wore poiunards and slouchcd hats. des-
peradoes. and murderers of impressive
mein and fascinating appcarance-elder-
ly gentlemen, whose appearance must,
it the description may be supposed ac,
curaie. have been SO truly diabolical and
yillainous. that, had they but shown tie
tips of their noses in the street by day
light, the first .igilant policeman whom
they happened to meet would have ia
ken it upon his own responsibility to
secure them in the nearest station house
An erratic yonng lady, ofinsane man.
ners, who wore kirtle and coronet,
{ Heaven knows for what reason y and
who resided in castle, with dr,wbridge
moat, and portcullis attached, some
where in the vicinity of Peekskill. Her
father. who could not listen to reason,
madly refused permission to her modest
request to marry the gallant highway
man. Malcolm Fitzsmith. who had muir
dered a dozen elderly gentlemen, and.
who resided. with price upon his head
which Was generallyalluded to as though
it had been hat or turban. somewhere
in the vicinity Of Fifth avenue and Four
teenth street. in state, so said the au-
thor, of 'vuluptuous splendor' The
aunt was evidently introduced for the
purpose of being abused. As her chief
duty appeared to be that of grinding her
teeth and re-marking Beware 7 in dark
passages, she was always spoken Of as
'hag.' 'beldame. or vile scorpion in fe-
male guise.' In the end. the strange
discovery was made that, for several
ages previous TO the commencement of
the tale, every one had been changed at
birth for some one else; and that the