New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12


tie child was required by him. part Of her dai'y
tasks to compose number Of Latin verses at fourseon
she had probably made larger and various intel
lectua acquisitions, whether Of words, OF fae OF u
ideas than ary other person Of like years in the world.
But these treaeures bad been won at Serious cont W
n physical frnme naturally vigorous and robust, and
sle endured much in after life, and was den dsa0'o'
for days by sick headaches and spinal suherhsS re-
sung from those youthful exeesoes III study hsr
edrcaton mainly proceeded under her fathers mmedi-
ate guidance and bis roof but she spent some time a.
bosrd,oehoo ands some years afterward became prin-
ciral teacher in seminary for young women In frovi-
denoe, r. L., where her intellectual powers were
evinced and Acknowledged Returning to Massachu-
sets she in 1899 commenced, in Boston, series OF
"Conyersatons' for women which were continued
through the two or three succeeding winters. Her
first book-a translation Of Eckermans Conversations
with Goethe-was published about this time In 1911,
she partly translated the letters Of Gunderode ana
Bettne. "Tbc DIAL quarterly serial OF eminent
originality and force, commenced in lSiO edited
bv Margaret Fuller, assisted by H. w. Emerson, and
OILERS; and she gave TO il some Of her best days
and energies throughout the four years Of lis ex-
stence, though lacking the stimulus and almost the
hore Of recunary recompense. The essays on Goethe,
HAYDN. Mozart, Handel Bach Beethoven, the two
Herlers and some others reprinted in these volumes,
flst arreared in "The DIAL and repete are they
with fresh, vigorous thoughts that they viii yet be
read with interest and profit by thousands.
Tn 1898 she made a Summer excursion with some
friends to Niagara and the them Far West-that 10,
The Prairits surrounding the head OF Lake mchlgan-
iourneving 20 far West as Rock River Her pictures
of that region then just beginning to resound to the
hum Of civilized industry are at once graceful ana
vivid truthful and poetic and may yet be read with
pleasure az enduring records Of state of things which
will seem stranger to none than TO those who now IN
taLi those regions and who reflect that the villages
of Chicago and Milwaukee described by her sepa-
rated by barely seventeen years from the cities now
covering their stes. Tie Indians who then cainpei
beside them TIE prairics which stretched, vast and in
virgin solitude, beyond them, have seldom or never
been gazed on with more discerning, sympashling
eyes.
Toward the close Of 1874 she removed to NewYOrk,
The better TO fulfill IN engagement then formed to con-
tribute TO tie literary department Of The TRIBUNE
Here size remained till the August of 1876, and
alou one-ourth Of the contents of the four volumes Of
her writings now before us first appeared in the
these columns distinguished by the y signature 80 well
come to our more cultivated readers of fifteen years
| ago. Thomas ToOd-Edgar A. Poe-Frederick Dong
lass-Festus- Emersons Essays-Capial Punishment
-Cassius NJ. Chy-Eew Years Day-St Valentines
| Fourth of Jsly--First of August-Thanksglvln
| Christmas Grace Church-The Rich Poor Man-The
Poor Rich Man--Farewell to Newly ork-such are the
titles Of few of the essays which muny readers who
were Younger once tlan they now, will be glad
| to greet again in these fair volumes.
In 1876. Margaret found herself able TO fulfill her
long-cEerisbed reluctantly pospored desire to visit
EmoTe. Accompanying a family of beloved and
| loving friends she trayersed England Scotland,
France, thence proceeding to Italy. and finding at
length resting-I lace in Rome, that "city OF the
| soul wherewh her name and fortunes were destined
TO be lenceforth blended. Entering It's walls almost
simultaneously with the dawn Of the new hopes for
Italy and for Man based the Accession Of Plus TX.
the Reform Pope she flung her whole soul into the
struggle then initiated never blinded by the glare OF
present unbounded and almost unressted triumph tohe
black tlunder-couds gathering and muttering IN the
distance; honorng the Pope for his kindly feelings and
good intentions she was vet never oblivious Of the
weakness of biz character the nrmity of his purpose,
and the Interchangeable hostility of the influences sur
rounding the institutions enshrouding him, TO that de-
yelopnent of popular intelligence freedom of discus
sion and independence Of judgment which is the essen
tial basis Of Republican Liberty While others, more
sanguiEc, less iar-secng dancing in exultatlOn
over the grave Of civil and religious despotism she
was appealing to her countrymen at home for SYM
Jathy AIMS material aid in view of the deadly strug-
gle inevitably approaching Hence the hour of over
wbelming reaction Of deadly pers, of priesty male
dcons and popular CONSERVATION Of mastering legons
and cleaning bayonets convorgng from France, from
Austria, from Naples, to qnench the beaeon-lres OF
Liberty still burning brightly if not cheeriIy on the
rampats of tie seyen-Liled city, found her calm
oc earless, leaving her young babe in its rural nest
10 stand through the rght-watches beside her husband
in the batteries the ramparts Of the beleasuered
city, and give her days 10 sympathizing abOrs in the
hol itas where !Lo wounded soldiers OF the Republic,
torn with caunon-shot and parchcd with fever,
breathing their last in the bitter consciousness that
they had poured out their lte-blood in behalf of q
bol eless, ruined cause.
Tie triumph of despotisn, though nobly resisted,
was inevitable The delese of Rome, hopeless from
the lirs,, yet necessary and beneiiccnt 1t ar
rested and GAed the gaze of the civilized world, COM
r.rg millions to perceive End realize the ready in
snciye union of AL The powers of darkness and des
pom to quench the fame of Lberty-the readiness
alike Of sacerdoal and political ogrches 10 shed tor
rents Of blood for the retention recovery Of justly
forfeited power Rome fell; but nations and COM
pretended tie catastrophe and the seed watered by
the blood OF her martyred defenders already throbs
with the life quckening in ts bosom. Yet little
while, and the uppringing Tree of Liberty viii over
spread the sunny land of he Gracchi and of Ricnz
and twenty-five millions Of happy people will eXult in
III protecting shade.
After Tie fall Of Rome, Margaret fingered some
months in Italy mainly in Florence, deyoting her time