Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-16


Ter, Cowley, Otway, Congreve, Prior, Gay, Cow
per, Akenside, Shenstone, Collins, Gray, Rogers,
Burton, Michael Angelo, Voltaire, Beranger,
Boileau, Montaigne. In mercy, that will do!
An accomplished poetess of our city has beau
tifully said:
1.-THE greatest agony of wo
Is-that II Is q LONELY THISG."
Personals.
Garibaldi has recently married young wife,
daughter of Count Raimondi.
Edward Everett still writes for the LEDGER
Having concluded his series of Mount Vernon
papers, he is now entering upon new one, call
ed Leisure Hours No. appears in the Ledger
of the 18th.
Sylvanus Cobb, jr., writes for the Lrdger. So
do Alice Carey, and George P. Morris, and G. D.
Prentice, and Pebe Carey, and Lydia H. Sigour-
ney, and Paul Morphy. The Ledger has the
largest circulation in America
William Porcher Miles, our Charleston Repre-
sentative in Congress, appears in Harpa's Week.
ly this week. A large wood cut likeness and
Biographical eketch bring the Hon. member for
ward quite conspicuously.
De Riviere, the notorious, is said to be living
in Q small way in New York city.
FRANCIS LEIBER-We are very glad to learn,
as we do through the New York correspondent
of the Charleston Mercury, that our long ago
teacher and friend, DR.. Lieber, formerly of our
College, is likely to be advanced to the Presiden-
cy Of the Columbia College in New York city
We will never cease to rejoice in the honors and
successes of him at whose feet We sat, when we
were younger and lonelier than now, with CRATE
full attachment.
Recent Books.
Perhaps the most generally readable books Of
the last month or two is "7he Fate Of Sir John
Franklin Discovered" by Capt. McClintock. 1t
is an authentic statement of the facts that leave
no room to doubt the fate of the bold explorer.
Many of our friends will be pleased to learn
that the fugitive papers of Martha Haines Butts
have appeared in book form under the title of
"Leisure Moments" Every body knows that
Miss Butts lives just now in Norfolk, Virginia.
Her pen has character.
The first volume Of James Parton's "L1e Of
Andrsv Jackson" is announced as ready. This
is to be the Life of Jackson. Parton is eminent
ly fitted for biographizing, as appeared in the
success Of his Life of Burr, few years ago.
Parton is, as everybody knows, the man that
Fanny Fern married. This Life Of Jackson is
to comprise three octave volumes Of $50 pages
each, with steel portraits. 1t will be "sold by
subscription only''-which means that it can be
bought, in few months, from any bookseller,
huckster, clock-maker, or newsboy, anywhere
in America.
We are just receiving the new edition Of Wor-
cester's Dictionary. This Dictionary of the Eng
lish Language, just published, royal quarto, in
Boston, is, we consider, the very best standard
of American English. In every respect it is su-
perior to all others, we being judge. 1t contains
about 1O4, 900 words-nearly $4,000 more than
Todd's Johnson.
Edgar Poe and His Critics.
This is the title of little volume, an early
copy of which has just reached US by the mail.
It's from the pen of one who knew him in life,
and in death has right to speak of his memory.
1t is by Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. The little volume is writ
ten in spirit of the strictest charity and is
eminently calculated to prepare the public mind
for true understanding of the real point in es-
timating the strange character of Edgar Poe
The accomplished authoress does not plead
blindly for his errors but tells US what were
those errors, and asks that not they alone be
heard. Listen to few words: "Could we be-
lieve that any plea we may have urged in extern
uation of Edgar Poe's infrmities and errors
would make the fatal path he trod less abhorent
to others, such would never have been protfered.
No human sympathy, no human charity could
avert the penalties of that erring life. One
glance into its mournful corridors-its 'halls Of
tragedy and chambers Of retribution'-would