Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-16

An hour among the book stalls used to be the
peculiar delight of that man of'many gifts and
many sorrows"-Charles Lamb. To leave the
dull insipity of the counting room where his
genius pined its life away and stray from stall
TO stall, and lose himself among old musty
second hand volumes, was the solace of his
heart. We took leisure hour yesterday-for
leisure hours never come of their own accord
to newspaper People-to do likewise. Of course.
as we didn't walk for exercise, we dropped into
the nearest place first-Mr. j. c. Orr's-and
there for good long while, oblivious of the
come and go Of customers, we deIved among
the shelves ito see what we should see." And
we did see great deal-and read not little
more than we have time or space here to tell
about. We looked through some books never
looked through by us before and great many
that we had. Especially did we '.take to" the
''Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"-bound now
in book form-the separate papers of which,
during their run through the pages of the At
lantic Monthly we took great delight in using
freely for the pleasing OBLIGATION of our readers.
We suppose we have read the "Deacon's
Masterpiece" half dozen times That many
Mt least. We couldn't resist the temptation to
do so again. We have not space to break forth
anew on its merits.
Eas Of , the yo9 %Ss,'. 81 shay
Yes, that's all we can say about it now
Taen, too, we must needs read again the
''oLD MANS DREAM"
The dear old man, nc dreamed this verse,
full, overlooking with all that is beautiful:
S ros moment nom Il, let my NE blood stream
Give me one gidhy, Keeling dream
or life all love and fame
We turned on over, and as we live, our eyes
lighted upon that boy, "the young fellow called
john" illustrated life size. His chair was at
m angle of forty-ive degrees to the floor, and
John was at another angle of like dimensions
to the charlse now, our readers having the
old geometry problem before them of what the
sum of two adjacent angles are like, when one
right angle meets another right angle, can
imagine just what sort of picture the boy
John presented to our vision. This is the boy
John in whom the Autocrat undertook to eluci-
date his problem of human trinity, viz:
lst-The real John, known only to his Maker.
2d-Johns ideal John: never the real one
and verv unlike him.
Sd-ThomaS ideal John: never the John, nor
Johns John, but often very unlike either.
We consider that first, second and thirdly
problem one of the best things thing that the
"Autocrat" or any body else ever wrote.
Of course, the boy Benjamin franklin, he
too, had to have his picture in the book, and
along with it, his dull, prosy French Lessons. We
say dull and prosy, because our stock of the
Mercurial, originally limited to years. indiffer-
ent study, is now SADLY added: in fact, "gonc
glimmering." But we object to it Gt will be
observed that we go out of our way to make
this remark) just as subscriber writing to us
from Peasants county, yesterday, did to the
column on our first page, which was all that
didn't suit him about our paper, although he
magnamimously and somewhat intelligcntly OBJ
served that cit no doubt did some people"
We couldn't close the book without looking
after the "school Mistress" We are rather
sorry we hadn't done so, however. for she, in
her picture, fell so far short of whit she was IN
our minds eye, that we incontinently brought
our book reverie to close and bid Mr. Orr "a
good morning"
LORD NAPlER's recall by the British govern
rnent, the New York 4l5ion believes, is owing
to the delicate health of Lady Napier "who Ian.
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