Smyrna times., 1859-04-14
CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS.

l" opportunity Offers.
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Good society is thus described: alt dffel
-, ~ from the imitation article chiefly in the fac
Ihat 1t is not an imitation. If it dresses itse
WE'LL and adorns its abode, and behaves itse
with decorum and grace, it does so, not becaus
'hese things are customary and expected bu
because 1t respects itself, and because it Loue
What Is cIeanly, orderly and beautiful Goo
society does not, however, dcspise publ
Is opinion; it is Only not its slave 1t is free
n Joyous fraternity, wherein everyone only doe
= what he pleases because every one pleases t.
DO what is right in itself and agreeable t,
X Others"
r Counsellor Phillips death made but little
i sensation, but some Of his speeches are being
, repubIIshed Here is one, about his birth
, place: There where the scenes of childhood
reminded me how innocent was, and the graves
OF my fathers admoniSh me how pure should
continue" Problbly the most famous thing
the Counsellor ever said was his characteriza-
tion Of Napoleon.
Augustus Sala, the popular writer for House
hotd Words, is Portuguese engraver, thirty.
seven years Old He gels hard up'' pretty
often. About eight or nine years ago, how
ever, lie found himself in London without EN-.
pIOyment, and without trienGS who could be
used. Reduced to his last Galfcrown and hav.
ing vaInIy endeavored 10 borrow enough to Get
nun through his difficulties he resolved 10 iry
his hand at literature. He bought three or
tour sheets of paper and repaired to a coffee
house near Drury Lane Theatre, where he
wrote full aud literal account of his adven-
! lures during his two days attempt to borrow a
lew shlilmgs. lie then Iucoscd his manu-
/ script with note to Mr. Dickens, reuuestIuU
hlm' II he thought the papers worthy Of admls.
sion to the pages of The Household Words. TO
forward whatever he telt willing to give for it
without delay, to the writer's address at the
| above mentioned coffee house. The anxiety
WIN which he inquired after each post delivery
Tor letters, was not OF long duration. Mr. Dick. |
ehS answered very promptly with VIVA: seemed
To The young author u most liberal remittance
and from that time Mr.. Sala was enrolled in |
that corps of able writers who, under their |
gifted head, have made the UnuSehOLd Words |
one OF the most popular Of the English week.
lies.
We learn by the last steamer that Mr.. Sala |
Is Coming to tins country. If he is bent on
making such "sclsatron" book as he twisted
out of Russia, we must commend Columbia to
her patron SAINT ("ho ever 1t is), in meek de-
spaIr. Cocknies CAS- NOT understand America,
aud they ought not to try.
1t does ones he.rt good to read such n shot
as the following from the st. Louis Republican,
1t Is a review OF Geprge Lrppard's blood and
thunder story called " Tile Ledge Of Aba.
rO&e:'
This novel is as " grand as a nightmare"
1t IS boiling over und bursting with lntensltles
OF sentiment aud language. There is sensa-
ton IN every sentence. The whole reminds
one OF the LAGOON group in its agony, with
huge serpents coIled around It aud RAPIDLY
squeezing the lite ont of each of the Victims.
The general title will be considered as IA
king One-the " Poison Goblet" This is fol-
lowed by others equally attractive, such as
The White Dust in the Goblet of Gold"
" The Cell of the Doomed" "The Blow for ,
the Winged Leopard" (perhaps a mls,pelling
Tor Llppard), " The Bible OF Aldarln," "The
Death Bowl" THE Buried Alive" and " Tb1
Dream OF the Damned" If anybody with I
taste that way wants to sup Of horrors, we com (
mend this chaIcs-LIppard's Poison Goblet $
to his lips" c
story, we cannot possibly copy that story about
an enraged husband cutting off the ear of the (
seducer of his wife. Peter chopped off the ear a
OF the high pr esl's servant once, but when you n
locate such story at Bucyrus, Ohio, we-can t
not swallow it. And then:
THE miserable offender is still in our midst
and when only one of our citizens continue to /
IOnU IA In, Ia
Is His ear Is preserved IN spirits in the house Y
OF the injured husband
Oh! take 1t away! a
Here is a paragraph from an article on d
= Reading" in the Southern Literarv Messen- I
ger: j.
"Out-of-door reading is a faacy. One NAV l.
wander into the woods and fields with the pur. t
pose OF douOly enjoying a good book, but how u
Tar satisfactory does he find such reading - S
1--WE have tried the mockery OF a book IN gar a
den," says Lamb. "Who can conGne his n
thoughts to the volume in his hand, when before s
him lies Outspreud the great Book of Nature. t
and above is the open sky, woong his thoughts b
away lHto It's lImItless depths For we must 4
all have experienced the irresistible power 9
which the e&panse OF sea and sky, or even an c
extensive landscape, exerts, in attracting and i
u's9'Pdt"S 'ue '"ouSH'' uho opposing the con- |
centratlVe powers Of the mind Hence, even I
musing in the open air, we instinclvely turn [
our eyes downward, IN order to shut out this /
bewildering space. No; it is impossible to read d
or even to think deeply in the open air. Our {
ideas float bout us in titu aad broken flights
and we at last hurry back TO our accustomed i
room, as the most satisfactory place for such ex-
ercise." I
The author puts the question squarely. We
have always felt as he does, but have never ,
been able to express it as well. 1t dazes one
to read out of DOORS There are, however, some
people who can lie in the sun like lizards and |
read Buiwer or Browning, with the shadows Of
a million leaves quvering and Pickering in
Innltitndlnous arabasques all over their book