New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-07
FROM BOSTON.
From OIL Occasional Correspondent.


BosToN, July l, 1859.
Can YOU tell me whether there be such thing
under the sun as a new jokel Upon my soul, so
often meet my Oldest acquaintsnces going about
mssqueradiDg that have come to doubt as to the
originality of all good things, except my OVID.
Now, the other day opened casually the "Edi-
tors Drawer" of Harpers Magazine, and there l
found this nugget, marked California and cer-
tilted by the editor as every Tich'
"Oue of our poets, remarkably ycada7erous-lookirg
msn, recited poem descriptive OF country walk,
in which the following couplet occurred:
The redbresst, with fur,iye glance,
Cones and looks al ME a,ksnce.'
Upon which wae exclaimed, Cad, if il had been
caiIion crow, il would have stared you full in the
face "a remark humorous and unexpected that 1t
was received with unanimous shout of laughter
Now, well as / am aware of the constitutional
proclivty of that journal to chronic piracy, should
think il might have taken the pains to disguise its
kidnapped jokes little more before undertaking
to pass them off as native born. The joke ras a
good one; but it was made by the late Lord Dud-
ley on Rogers, "the bard, the beau, the banker,
whose lines slightly damaged, aIe the ones quoted.
/ advise the editor tn use next month the other
mot of the same eccentric nobemaD, aproPos to the
cadayeIOus looks of the poet; "Why, Rogers,
DOW that you have made your fortune and can well
afford il, worder you don't set up your hsarse :"
Rogers, however, bad bis revenge on Lord Dudley
when be was Mr.. Ward, before his fathers
deatb-for these quips, and for his review of his
Vision of Columbus, in The Quarterly Rtr0r, by
the famous epigram which be composed, as be ad-
mitted, with yme little assistance from Converse
ton Sharpe:
Ward has no heart, they say; bu, denyit;
He has heart-he gefs hn Teeeh's by ~"
1t used TO be attributed to Byron, but Rogers
claimed il as his own.
And in this connection" as Mr.. Everett says
(and many after bim), l would here express
my gratitude to Lord Dudley for phrase which
have occasion to use almost every day of my life.
He was a man of fiue literary taste and great
lover of reading and used tn say that he consider
ed the hsppiest human condition would be 10 have
an income Of 81 500, and lodging over book
seller shop-his own income belDg tos, OOO-but
he hated new books, particular 10 which have
the honor to resemble him. Accordt ely, when he
was a,ked whether he had tad tuch and such
book just published, he would reply "No, not yet.
1 shall wait little. PeTh0ps Il tcH bloo orer :"
How many books have knoSn to elbow over"
BY just waiting little while
Again, in the last Atlantic Monthly, in the clever
article on Thomas Paine, the writer says that
Paine reeembled the French lady who naiv.ly said
w 30 VIC UVhtc quc Htot qat
"topjours rsison,' IL find no one but myself
" that is slwsys right" Now, was there French
lady who said this TO DR.. Franklin dare say
there Was, if the Doctor says co. but if so abe stole
her mot from the memories Of Madame de StasL
Now don't let your cOmpositors 90 and correct my
spelling and make my authority Madame de Stse
on the mistaken notion that she was
"Neeiers fair daughter, stsl the Epasene,"
for it was totally different person, Msdemoselle
de LauDsy first the lady's maii, ard sfter~ard the
friend of the Duchesse du Maine, the daughter-n-
law Of Louis XIV, and granddaughter of the
great Conde. In her memories, published after
her death, 750 she attributes this saying ~ tse
Duchesse de Ia fert6. And, BY the way, you did
US honor over much two or three weeks ago. in a
editorial, IN laying the venue Of the epigrsm on iis
uiatterng not
- atnss
II hcs.Op whip Barry, Os Barry whip NJ M,..op,-
in Boston. Ii wss written not Of the mansger Of
the Boston Theater, Mr.. Thomas Barry, but of
SpIsDger Barry, the rivSl Of GGrrck, a hundred
years ago, and Of Henry Mcssop, tee rival of Barry
AS any one may see by turning to Churchilfs
Rosciad.
Twas diverted the other day BY meeting with the