New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-28
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eouimemOrated in this agreeable volume, are sxhib-
Md on every page Of its contents, and viii give it
abOspitahe welcome among large circle Of Rad.
ers. is devoted to biographical notice. Of Cooper
Cole, Crawford, and Washogtos Irving and from
ne personal relations Of the author with the sub
tcis Of bis narrative and cnticism, is marked by
singular freshness of feeling ms we'll as BY beauty
Of dshpestisp and just analysis.
In one Of the papers, emitted Personal RecOl-
ieetions of Cooper" we find some interesting de-
halls OF the life Of tie American novelist while in
EaIope.
shall never forget the first day that Cooper.
u VAS at good old General Lafayette IN that neat
Gstle apartment Of rue dApjou, which has been the
scene OF many hings that have hallowed IL 10 80
many memories. Aud the scene of that morning wa
striking one too and not easy ~ he forgotten. Som
81 nv rsa ders nav remember thar, many years ago
che demon of speculation led one Of those rockies
white men who have abandoned their Tn homes 10
live smOng the Indians, 70 parade SEINE bali dozen
Oesges through Europe, filling his purse at tue ex-
sette of the poor natives who believed Nil the while
chat thew ere enjoying she tree hospitality Of thei
fath.r, Ond the sea Lafayette's kind heart
d;,suted by this knavery, snd be had granted them
An sudience nc bis own house, in the nope of per-
s1adipe them 10 return home while il YET in their
power will rot attempt to describe the scene; tue
groups thst clustered 10 the hall, the crowd that
sunped the street. The venerable form Of that great
and coed man, " ho had done much and suffered 90
much snd no stood there with that cain and noble
bearing, that winning smile, and that air OF serene
seVOtfessiOn which is raid never to have abandoned
him. sit er II triumph in tria-tbe bright faces and
bright eyes, the curiosity Of soms the kindly symps-
CAV Of Others and the objects of all this
sstheing, seated with all that they Lad left of for
mer life their wild costume and hsbitua ap Athy on
the coucbes of Partisan salooD. AS WAS gazing
tar singular scene with feelings easily Imagined
shsD described, saw gentleman enter whose ap-
VezraIce INN eoiaely called off the Generals attention
from the s cl quests OF the hour. He evidently
IA tie prime Of life and Of that vieOr which air and
manly else give and with something in all his
nept which awakened in you al inst Antan, ous
yicnOn that the mind and will which governed them
were Of DO ordinary energy and measure. could not
WITHDRAW my eyer: had seen heads of gre 1t meu,
and there were some great men close to me at that
very m iment-but there none with such full
expabkiye forehead, such strong massive features
noah so frn without hardness, and an eye whose
clear gray seemed IN read you At glance, while met
yonrs iIh the unhiDcbug look of one that fears not
10 let you read him IN turn. Who Is he J" Wits
pefed TO granddaughter Of the Generals, who stood
nerme "Nr. Cooper: do you not know Mr.. Coop
Arf let me Introduce you 10 him." Cooper" said
10 myseIf "can it be that ] am within five PAGES Of
Copfer and that there too feeble represel
Gves of tie race round which his genius has shed
halo like that of HODers own herOesP was fresh
from the MOhcans," and my hand Hembed as it met
she cordial gasp OF the man 10 whom owed macy
pleasing hoors. asked him about the indians. They
are POOR specimens" sad be- fOurth-rae at the best
IN ,beir own woods and ten times the worse for the
hses they ba re been leading here" would gladly
lave pTOensed the conversation but the guests
beginning 10 move, and were both borne onward by
the tbrolg.
day or two afterward met him in the Generals
bedroom and mention 1t here IT afforded
opportunity Of witnessing his first interview with BE
ranger, and seeing how warmly the great poet well
eoned him. And next met him ri Florence, in his
Beautiful little villa, just stOn3s throw from the
walls. Two years had passed away, and he had been
working sl tie bile In the rich mine which his own
hands had opened. His face showed 1t, aud his
Rer showedit. They were the face and IN amer of
man who's mind is busy with something that he
loves who 10 his tark cheerfuy and still feels
brig bt and cheerful when be lays aside, because he
Knows that there sre new pleasures IN store for him,
when he returns to il again. One evening particu-
larry remember, and am glad TO record 1t, as it
gives me opportunity Of paying brief tribute to
tie memory Of common friend, who Ike him has
sunk, ID the funess of good Deeds into the grave for
Mhich be was so wei pfepared-I the late
George Cooke, well kDo all lhs lovers of his no
be srii admired by sll who had witnessed his unwea-
ned siduiy, his admirable judgment and
eIaowmeDtt; a5d widely beloved for all those kind
aid genial quales which make friends aud bind them
fssi Cooke with me that evening, enIveDIng
ear wsls by his Jich conversation and feeling Ike
pysef that there peculiar pleasure in passing
81 hour with such man in such spot. Cooper al.
vsSs brilliant when be chose. than had
ever seen him; and 1 could not help thinking that |
whsteyer chapter he had struck off that day. il
have b. good one. Art, for which be had deep
feeling and business Of appreciation, came in for
AhhJe Vf bis roqueDcef0r eo4uence the true word;
and thOay have often heard life own great masters
speal q il, ana rhorwaldsen among them yet
did zee il awaken nobler and purer enthusiasm
thsD then. Al lust we came 20 poeiry-a transition
always natural, but on that cain Snmmer evening"
wi.hin few minutes walk of Santa Croce with
italian stars looking down upoo us from their own
pn.ichless Ky aud The soft breeze that swept gently
over the vineyards of Val dADo, breathing sweetly
through the oen easement, and making meet music IN
tie tOIs; yte there aud then The transit
natural indeed. He spoke Of WOrdswO't h, whom be
bad seen and liked Byron who loved 50 fervently
his OWN faN oie element. He spoke, too, of our own
poels bis fellow aborers in and dfcult field,
uen 20 few, thoogh they till 30 many volumes.
Bryant and PeFcvsl already the fret names Of
PsIBassue. Percva he praised for tie richness Of
his fancy, and the modeely vi lis yerse-though he
condemned lbe InssDctDess and vagoeDese into which
be - Ohen falls But for Bryant nc had nothing bat
crane. Bryant had jest Published tho " Skies
where Cooper saw u, do Dos remember; bat well
rent mber that be had had it copied Neither Cooke
nor bad ever seen IT, and glad enough we were when
he afked for tie commonplace book, and seating him
s<1 by the light read in u clear full voice, with per-
feet hlOdulaOD Of and depth Of feeling winch
showed its.f IN voice, manner and all, that noble
sssfecTaiiVn of our own lovely heavens. When he
had finished, he went back selected ver-e by
yerfe the pats which had pleased him mosI. Certain
expressions seemed to have taken peculiar hold OF
ks ina nation for be repealed them over and over,
ano sDslyxed the IN with almost inisntle dcllgi IT.
Ia was beautiful tribute aud beautiful lessOn-oDe
artst uoet prasng sDober and keemng toreOlce that
fhsre ere other names 10 iBscrIbe upon that sacred
keIoIl where his own $1,000 50 high
OF Crawford 10 Rome, We have the following;
His sec nd Winter had brought him new expe-
riao co of the artste life American travellers had g.
covered that there American sculptor III Rome.
Il afforded them ali opportunity OF enc JuraS'ng nalve
sepius snd Of ettIinS themselves pat into marble
sbeap ln ten teks be modelled sixteen onsts SHOW
inR what facility he ban acquired III oan ing ms
tOos ion the ordinary purposes Of hiI profess on AS
~. ards pric he wrote ~ bis frieu IT, that re-