The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-04

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a. an occasional defect in tho LGe OF 10 this ella
borste n,fomsy OF styc-a certain pri mso cooriog
la passages where absolute simplicity would have salts led
better k may well be supposed thar Irving origin alv
calm relater Of facts and others with the Spirit ana fire
| OF who had become warmed with his subject aul
THIS probably occasion TO what sad OF inc
quality the style The attempts elevate the dic,iou
he simpler portions, we may suppose, marred what
Irving afterwards per evad had really been Of the
work In the spring Of 1879 Irving made
another vs. TO the south Of Spain, collecting materials
from which he after wards composed some OF his most
puisr When the traveller visits Grenada and
is taken the Albaubra his guide will say, Heres
OF the cur,oses OF the place; this Ia tho cha nber
occupied BY Washington and he will SHOW
you have Of the glorious valley Of the Gen, with
the mountain peaks overlooking IT, and hear the murmur
plain In July OF the year he repaired to London,
where no to act secretary Of tho American Lega
OF Grenada" ono Of the most delightful OF his works. an
exact history for such ad mtted to be By those whs
have searched most carefully the ancient records OF SpAn
yet 20 full OF personal incident 30 diversified with sur
prsng OF fortune and these wrought with such
picturesque effect, that to expression Of Pope
1881 he gave world another work Spanish hsto
ry-the Voyages OF the Companions Of Columbus" aud
y tho year following the Ahambr., which s another
''Sketch Book with the laid 10 Spain While
the Irving MAD planned Ds cosa q p. cos
wards DO had actually began the composition Of
the work, no happened to learn that Prescott de-
signed 70 write the history OF the Mexican conquest and
immediately he desisted II his intention to inter-
weave with tho narrative descriptions OF the ancient
and their gorgeous pageans BY way Of relief to the san
gunary bar bariaes OF the conquest He what rich
he had accomplished his plan he would probably have
produced Of his most popular works In 1882 rvRg
returned to New York He returned after an absence OF
years lind hts natro city doubled In popua
ton quiet waters alive With sails and furr0wed
by steamers passing to aud fro, its wharves crowded
with mssts the heights which surround it, and which he
remembered wild and solitary and lying forest, nov
with stately country seats with dwellings
clustered in villages every where the activity and
buste Of pr sperous hopeful people And he too,
how had he returned? The young and comparatively
author whose works had only found here and
there reader in England had achieved fame vide
civilized world. ALI the trophies he had won Ia this
field he brought home TO lay at the feet Of his country
Mean he all the country moved TO meet HIM the
rejoicing universal who had represented
illusriousIy abroad henoeferth t, live among
yps hated pubic n but he was orosa to
II was given At the City Hall the Both of May, Cnance
or Kent presiding and the most eminent citizens OF New
York assembled at the table. remember the accounts
Of this testivy reaching me "a Was wandering in ILL
nos, lowering the skirts Of the Indian war region
only write Irving and ask leave add my voice
general reclamation In bis address at the dinner, Chan
back TO hs NATIVE city and Irving in reply poured forth
bis heart the warmest expreons Of del ght fading
himself again among his oountrymen and kindred in
asked," As SAID how long I mean TO remain hero.
They know little Of my heart VINO can ask mo this
rambling had not, however forsaken HIM. In the sum
mer ter his return he made journey to the country
commissioner entrusted with the removal OF certain In
dian tribes and rosmed over wild then the hunt
Of the ssvass but into on which the white 70 man
publish his account Of this journey until 1896 when ap
pesIed the fra. OF the sCrayon Miscellany"
under the title OF "Tour on the Prairies In this work
the original West Ia described Irving knew how to de-
scribe and the narrative in that vein OF easy gaiety
peculiar his writings. "Aobotsford and News.ead
Abby " formed the volume Of the "Crayon Mscel
any and 10 these be has added another entitled Ie
gends OF the Conquest Of Spain In 1885 he published
"Aftora; or, Anecdotes OF an Enterprise Beyond the
kecxy nounns asome wnas curious exsmp.e OF laerary
duh ore of the earth Of which he refined and wrought
into symmetry and splendor Irving reduced to
regular Dsratye the events to which referred bringing
out the picturesque whenever be found IT, and envening
the whole with touches OF his native humor HIS nephew,
Pierre NJ Irving hghtencd bis labor materially by exami
their contents In 1887 he for the press the DAD
ventures OF Captain Bonneville OF the United States Army
In the Rocky Montana and the Far West" He had the
Irving apparent every sentence. Aoout the time
that this work appeared Irving drawn iuto the only
public controversy IN which, 80 far q know he ever
engaged William Leggeu then conducted weekly peri
odical entitled the Plaindedl remarkable both for it's
ability It's love Of disputaton attacked Mr. Irving
fer altering line two In one Of my poems, with
. view Of making 1t lees offensive to English read
ers, and for writing preface to the ;, American
professions Of love for his country, which were
studousy omitted from the English edition From these
circumstances the Plaindear Inference unfAvor
able 70 Irv.ngs sincerity should here mention, and
hope may do without much egotHm, that when q
volume OF my poems was published here IN the year
1882 Mr. Verpanck had the Enonese 70 SEND copy OF
70 Irving desiring hm 70 nnd pubIsner ior IN Eng
land Tns ne ready engaged 70 40, tnougn wholly I'M
acquainted with me- ana ouered the volume tc Murray.
foeHy ooes nos sen ~ present. ealo MuIrsy ana oe
chned IT. hOxseler IN BOND street, named Andrews,
undertook It's puohcauon out required that irving should
introduce II with preface OF ms own he did So speak
ing OF my verses In sucn terms as would naturally COM
mand for them the attention OF the public, and allowing
his pane to be placed in The title page as the editor The
clifton in consequence found sale happened, how
ever that the publisher objected to two lnes In poem
called the "Song OF Marion's Men," One OF them was
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