The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-18
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The Elegant in Literature.

ruth impels us to say that, In our hum
BILE opinion, he is no judge of fine writing
He may be most exemplary individual
n kind husband, tender father, a self
member of society, a firm
pillar in the Church; nay, even, for 'the
valuable and praise-worthy
journalist but when he assumes to set
himself up as critic of the metropolitan
press, and to read lectures upon the pro-
pricties to the able, and talented, and ac-
complished editorial corps of this city, we
hope he will feel chastened, though not
crushed, by the remark we are about to
make-that he is meddling with things
little too high for his comprehension.
We desire that his conduct shall be such,
in future, as to afford us no room to repeat
this suggestion.
In our view of the case for elegance of
style, brilliancy of imagination, intimate
acquaintance with the names of all the
gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines,
nymphs, naiads, loves, muses., graces,
furies, dryads, and so forth, of the Heather
Mythology-memory of all the tags and
scraps of plays and verses in most COM
mon use-terms of entire equality with
most dignifed and aristocratic words in
the language-ability to edify and en-
large an incident that, to the vulgar OBJ
server, appears triaing and commonplace,
to the full-blown dignity of sensation
item, at once interesting and important
the gentlemen of the local columns in
Cincinnati can not be exceeded by an
equal number taken from any other city
in the whole wide world Nothing but
a dead ass, it was said to his credit, was
nee essary to set STERNE to sentimental
izing: they do not even need that the
animal should be defunct Who, like
them, can describe, with all the heart
rending particulars, the untimely resur-
rection and moving re-interment of a
buried prostitute-the matutinal discovery
of a. newborn baby nocturnally deposited
upor, the paternal door-step-the scene
where Miss Lucretia Lightbody, having
been found by the watchful guardians of
the city slightly intoxicated at a latish
hour of the previous evening, and sen,
fenced therefor, by the stern representa-.
tive Of blind-fold justice, to thirty days
residence in unfurnished apartments, and
diet unpleasantly simple, takes weeping
leave of her gay and joyous companions
and bids farewell to the festive halls OF
which she has so long been the light and
ornament? Who, like them, can state in
three-fourths of column, with startling
headlines, the story that some foolish boy
and girl have run away from their parents
and Kentucky home, and got married in
the parlor Of the Spencer House; or how
some lady, fair but frail, has been de-
tected in the act of cheating her lord and
husband out of franchises to which hic
title has been supposed to be exclusive
We do not want to say cutting things
but really, our cotemporary will pardon
us if we express the apprehension thai
his education has been sadly neglected
Our cotemporary has been troubling
himself about the manner in which some
of the gentlemen of the press have aired
their vocabularies on the occasion of the
recent unprecedentedly successful open
ing of our new and most magnificent
Opera House, and actually goes 50 far as
irreverently to quote certain paragraphs
of their production, which he is pleased
to consider turgid inflated and extrava
CANT. 1t is evident that he has no rea
conception of the importance of the
event otherwise a proper regard for the
integrity of his circulation in this city
would have dictated different course O.
remark. We advise no gentleman to stoI
his paper for the first offense; but pru
dence would suggest the avoidance cf ;
repetition. This is subject upon which
there is very deep and wide feeling, ant
a proportionate demand for literature
suited to the occasion.
There is another consideration con
nected with this affair to which-for
gentleman of the press he seem
strangely insensible. The Opera Hous,
has not yet defnitively disposed of it
printing jobs-thc present arrangement
being provisional and the future depend
ing upon Certain considerations. Gu
large newspaper concerns have job offic
attachments; and how, we ask, can thei
proprietors, under the circumstances
help feeling strong interest in the futur
of the musical drama? When the print
ing business is settled, these brilliant lii
erary efforts will mostly be confined to th
columns of that sheet whose office print
the posters and programmes. We hop
this explanation will suffice 10 close tn
mouth OF our contemporary forever.