Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-11-26

be many years till Washington sha,
be, not in size, not in trade, but i'm il
society, its evidences of the GUILTY.;
tion of the fine arts, its advantages i,
literature and science, no bad pictur
in miniature of the American pcopl
New York ought to have been the ca
ital, (because it is not we never sha
have an American Paris or London.
but what can be made of Washingto
will be made of it.
BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS.
There is no lack of books here. I'll
Congressional Library, considering
youth, the fact that it belongs to "ne
country" whose classic age is f
down the future, and that its officer
have too frequently been chosen sin
ply with regard to pot-housc polite;
services, may be regarded as not III
worthy of the American people. 1t
catalogue alone, if properly published
(as it never has been,) would forl
several volumes, whose roll of name
-"of The few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die, -
would seem to put an extinguishe
upon Halleck's Fitz Greene, not H.W.
idea as to the everything fe,c, in liter;
ture, at any rate. But Hallcck wa
speaking of heroes. The present libr;
rian seems to have much better a,
probation of whiskey cocktail tha
of the duties of his Office. presum
he is following in the footsteps of hi
illustrious predecessors, and therefor
| make no charge against him. l sus
pect Homer as often nodded from thI
effects of little too much wine al
drowsiness. The Congressional ibr;
rian may enjoy his toddy if he 81
choose only wish he would inauc,l
rate certain needed reforms in thl
classification of the books under hiI
charge, and especially that of havin!
"Jcfferson's Library" arranged in ;
space to itself. The library at til,
Smithsonian Institute is also worthy o
notice. 1t is more particularly full in
scientific works. There are two O,
three circulating libraries, where yos
can especially get the hire of all tn,
sensation novels, yellow-back or not.
An old settler here would tell yo,
that the principal bookstores are thos,
of Frank Taylor, Hudson Taylor
Philip & Solomon, and Blanchard, al
on Pennsylvania Avenue. And the olt
settlers would be right. Ispend man,
a pleasant hour in the different estab
lishments of these gentlemen, with 9
preference, however, for that of Hud
son Taylor, who is such an earnest
Union man, and whose chief clerk
French, is always in good humor
Some men loaf" at clubs, some a
hotels, some in coflee-houses. and some
everywhere. As for me, give me my
recuperating hour after a hard day':
work at good bookstore, where tn,
clerks are agreeable, and you cal
skim off the cream of dozen volumes
without money and without price. AL
these establishments are betterup witt
the times now than they used to be il
that dull era which went ont with ON
nibusses and Buchanan.
But, my young gentleman reader
have you not recently attended a grant
party, where there was "regula,
JAM" where ladies by the score, giit
tering in jewelry, rustling in silks auS
satins, and gorgeous in all the finer,
of fashion, attracted the wonder ant
the admiration of our sterner sex
And did you not, after while, take
the maiden you loved best, in her plain
but rich apparel, to some quiet corner
and enjoy the sparkling of her senti
ment, the unaffected eloquence of he
words-here a strain Of pathos, ther
sally of wit, and next the opening c
q vein of harmless ridicule--far NOR
than it would have been possible t.
enjoy the general revelry? Of cours
you did. That is just about the wa.
enjoy ueilprin's bookstore here. !
is not SO extensive as the others, NJ
So fashionable, but is more enjoyabl
perhaps for the very reason that on
is not SO much interrupted by straI
gers. Moreover, though Frank Ia,
lor is thoroughly au fat of the boo
trade generally, Hudson Taylor tn
most hospitable gentleman in the cit
and "tip-top talker all around" bot
members of his neighboring fir
shrewd in business and well informe
tradesmen, it is no disparagement I
any of them to say that Mr.. Heilpri
is the most accomplished scholar. !
fact, he has no superior in gener;
scholarship in the city, and very fe'
superiors anywhere. He can help on
out of fable in Herodotus, or col
densation in Thucydides, better tina
all the other booksellers together. NJ
Heilprin is Hebrew, by birth Hung
rian, and in his native country he w;
eminent during the revolutionary e.
commencing in lS4S. Those WI
know much of kossuth, know Of N
Heilprin. Since his residence in An
{ RIGA, he has lived quiet, studio