Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-29
Bayard Taylor in the New York
Mercury.

OF tne feU AV'~ -Nef Nv y
IF the talented American tourist and au-
thor, Bayard Taylor, Esq, is among the
most brilliant of the many Journalistic
enterprises OF this journalistic age. The
of this arrangement has
been greeted with a flrore of mingled
surprise and admiration, on the part OF
the public, and not only has the literary
world been aroused TO decided pitch OF
excitement, but all other circles have
likewise been brought 10 the gu v1ve OF
expectation and interest.
The variety and piquancy of Mr..
TayIor's adventures-the romantic and
interesting scenes-the thrilling incidents
among which his path has lain, and
the fresh, sprightly, strictly conscienti-
GUS style of his writings, will render them
peculiarly appropriate to the columns OF
a paper that aims to be, and is, at once
brilliant and chaste in tone. The gen.
eral title, chosen for these contributions,
is STRAY CHAPTERS OF LIFE AND
TRAVEL "a simple but expressive head,
under which, not only the characters and
customs of other lands will be portrayed,
but the voyager'8 own personal adventu-
res, vicissitudes, and fortunes, sad and
merry, tragic and comic, also.
/ The first of these s. Chapters, which
has just appeared in the MERCURY fol-
April 30th, is entitled CITE FIRST
JOURNEY l EVER MADE" and is al
that could possibly be desired, for fasci
mating interest, instruction, and amuse
ment. The author considers this first
journey to have been, perhaps, the mos
interesting of any, and he has certainly
made glorious bit in describing it.
The recent engagement of our grea
American artist, Felix o. c. barley, wa
master-stroke of enterprise on the par
of the MERCURY, and indicated wha
their second coup-d'etdt corroborates-
that the Proprietors intend to emplo
the very best talent, in order TO max
the very best paper. barley is univel
sally acknowledged to be the most ia
ented artist now living, whose works al
engraved upon wood. England has be
Gilbert and Leech France has be
Gavarni and Cham, but our own Darle
: combines the best qualities of all-tt
picturesque appreciation Of Gilbert-tt
= humor of Leech-the mastery effec
9 and rendition of character that signal,
Il Gavarni-the love of fun and sati
that have the Paris ChdriUari what it
all are under the control of Darley
and when two such instruments as
pencil and Bayard Taylor's pen a
brought together, to enrich the colum
a of family paper, we may indeed won
tn er at the enterprise of publishers.
IN The Proprietors of the Mercury
le serve great credit for having made Il
st ACQUISITION to their already brilliant cor
en- of contributors, and although the exper
&C. has unquestionally been enormous, the
r. is not a particle of doubt that the re;
x ing public will most gladly second tn
efforts to give additional lustre and 81
ay dity to home reading.
ii As might naturally be expected,
lel demand, for the MERCURY of April &c
ers containing the first of Bayard Tayl,
are journeysis entirely unparalleled in ne.
as paper history, and the rush for it, at
m the book stores and news depots throu
leh out the country, plainly attests the
ind mense popularity of the talented ira
len er. A further proof in the same di
ere ton, if further proof were desired, I
ore be found in the fact, that the subsc
.ese tions received by Messrs. CauIdv
ven Southworth and Whitney, the proprie
TRY Of the MERCURY, since the amour
and ment of Bayard Taylor's engagem
It OF amount, as we are credibIy informed
over Five Hundred Dollars a Dag
m addition to the enormous sales of b
so, sellers and news agents!
this. But this, perhaps, is hardly t
sive wondered at either, when we cons
that the New York MERCURY is ackn
such edged to be the largest, cheapest,
ther best literary journal in America,
al a large quarto sheet, filled with pit
uud- original matter from first to last, for "
MON only TWO dollars per annum is cha
any with as liberal a reduction to clubs
'har- made by other papers of half its
ainst and less than half its merit
We at
since Mrs WISsLow's SOOTHING ST.
teie- FOR CHILDREN TEETHIyG.-This