The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-10-10
NOTES OF TIT WEEK.

The ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-This really valuable
periodical is rapidly raising itself to the head of
American serial literature. Some Of its articles-at
least those in the last few issues-may challenge
rivalry with the best British quarterly literature.
The number for August has been received. 1t is an
excellent number, and from an exchange we learn
the authorship of ONE of the articles. Trees in
Assemblage,' is by Wilson F!agg; " Miss Lucinda, -
by Rose Terry; Matt Turner's Instruction. - by
Rev. I. W. Higginsou; q Concerning VEAL is by A.
X. II. Boyd; "Reminiscences of Douglas" by j.
Howard, Jr.; " Our River" by Whittier; "Where
will the Rebellion leave us, . by Judge Hoar of Mass.
Geo. W. Curtis writes the prose tribute to Theodore
Winthrop, and Thos. W Parsons a poetical tribute.
This number is the first issued under Mr.. Fields
editorial charge. Concerning Veal is a racy and
instructive piece, which we commend TO our %confrere
of the POIyReSiaH, whose style, according 10 this
writer, is decidedly Yealy. We commend the article
to all who think that their literary productions are
finished. The writer says:
at is very difficult to distinguish between the different kinds
Of imnatgr'y, lin literary COMPOSITIONS and to say exactly
what in the moods and doinss Of youth, proceeds from each.
1t i safest to rest in The general proposition, that, even as the
calf yields Veal. 80 does the immature human mind yield imma-
fore a stage of comparative immatuity in which you read a vast
deal Of poetry, and repeat much poetry to yourself when alone,
And very like "A calf You look, when some one suddenly enters
laughing. and thuking yourself poetical. anu. indeed sublime.
The person probably takes YOU for a fool. and the best YOU can
say for yourself, Is that you are not so great a fool a. You seem
10 he. Nealy IS the period Of life in which you filed a great
volume with the verses You loved. r. X " That season OF life Is
Ncay in which you are charmed 10y the melody Of verse"
ROBBERY AND RETRIBUTION.-A1r " p. Manches-
ter, the n officer, and Mr.. VIM. Newman, boatsteerer
of the brig Hero, recently returned from the Arctic,
having been paid the proceeds Of their lays in the
voyage, $40 of the amount were deposited in n
box, and placed in a chest belonging TO one of the
parties. They left the vessel on Saturday evening
last, to come on shore, in a boat, having for their
companion a native by name Kaaipaa. This native
had been a seaman during the voyage, and being an
industrious person, had been employed on board tenn
porarily since the HerO'S arrival in port. On their
return, they discovered that the chest had been forced
open, and the box distracted. Repairing on shore
Immediately, they made known their loss at the Sta
ton House. Suspicion was Immediately fixed upon
the native, who, it appears, had returned on board,
aud knowing Of the deposit, had appropriated the
amount TO his own account. Finding out, through
the agency of n Spanish boy, his abiding place,
Young proceeded thither, and by the exer-
of detective skill, succeeded in recovering, even
tually, the whole of the amount, and returning the
same to the rightful owners, who, no doubt, had
strongly objected to such ii summary removal Of de-
posts a Ia F7oyd.