Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-24

street, and dismiss them with a great deal of
good advice about going to work, &c-only
We don show them where or how to go-be-
cause our hearts are so easily touched by the
appearance OF misery that We can't, we really
can resist that is, it is a great deal easier to
heip people to homilies and three cent pieces
than follow them to their homes and see into
the truth OF their story, and put them In q way
| to help themselves. We show the most lauda-
BILE alacrity in assisting all benevolent enter
prlses, and get ourselves called to preside at
meetings held to organize them, with the great
est enthusiasm. We rise with OverhOwing
hearts to make a few unprecedented remarks,
| got by rote the day before; head subscriptions
with liberal sums, which are not to be called
| for, in order TO induce somebody else to SUBJ
| scribe similar sum, which is to be called for
and furnish the reporters of morning papers
with n copy Of our speech, together with the
| proceedings OF the meeting and the names of
| the officers.
We turn up our eyes with edifying conscen-
| tiousness at the idea of shaving ten cent from
promissory note and turn them down again,
cOmplacentiy, and prick up our ears at the
offer of a ground rent or mortgage at the same
discount because "yOu see, that is a different
| thing; 1t Is at is-that Is you know-thcre
| is diherence-when you take real estate Sc
| curlty. you-a-a-a-it $50, you see-a-a-'
to be sure; not doubt of it; nothing could be
| clearer.
u Ill.
fusely illustrated (by the aid of Glossary
with learned techncalitics, such as breadth,
tone, warmth, charo-scurO, perspective, lights
touch, foreground, middle distance atmospheric
effects, intersected with great deal Of cant
about handling, style, execution, composition
| idealism, lovely bits Of distance, &c, of the
| meaning of which we have as accurate percep-
ton "a school-boys. with imperfectly developed
mathematical organs, have of what the dreaded
POns Aslnorum is all about when they have got
through saying it ''off the book"
VIC get up reputation Htterateurs 1--WE
hate using foreign words in English writing
but no other word expresses the idea so well)
based, with regard to books. upon the advice
of Dean Swift-waSn't it to a friend with
regard to the members of the English Pcerage
-" learn their names and then bray of their
acquaintance; and we descant upon their
merits, and discourse drcary platitudes con-
cernlng their want of plot their lack of origin
ality, their inartistic denouement, or on the
other hand, of their ''independent noble tone"
their free. untrameled expression of thought.
their ''entrancing pictures of the beautiful"
the truthful delineatiOn of this writer's style
1--WE copy this last yerbatiOn from a news
paper criticism; what as a truthful delin-
cation" style y with gravity and prOfund-
| ity that almost delude ourselves into the idea
| that we are talking sense.
We have a great many other shams among
u.s. grave, thoughtful men, who never say any
| thing because they never have anything to
| say their gravity and thoughtfulness being of
the owliest kind, requiring no brains, but only
| discreet silence, backed by a solemn counte-
nance to give them effect = dignifed men.
whose dignity consists in looking pompous and
| prOnOuncing long tailed words, with a sonOrous
wObble of voice, calculated to produce feeling
| Of respectful awe in their hearers-celebrated
| writers, whose name. nobody ever saw or heard,
until they were placarded in big letters Oh all
tho blank walls, and announced with flourish
in the fash newspapers, (which themselves
should take high rank in the list of shams
only we can't stop to deal with them now for
which they get up blood and thunder stories by
the yard, mixing sixteenth century grandiOsity
and our own dear nineteenth eentury's Jakey-
isms in the same speakers mouth, in the fun
| niest manner conceivable.
There is host besides which we have nei-
| ther time nor space even to enumerate. Alto
| gether, when We think how little of anything
| genuine see or hear-of how few things we
| can say this is itself and isn't something
| else of how we are constantly trying to
throw dust into our neighbOrs eyes conscious
all the while that they are trying the same
thing with US, the wonder is that we can ever
look each other in the face without laughing.