New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
uAwTHoRNE's ENGLISH SKETCHES.

Che somber inventions which be conjures up from
The sepuchral ruins Of the past and clothes with the
iurid colors of bis weird Imagination. Ills nara
tive possesses charm FOX large class Of readers
which they do not find in his fictitious compost
sons With bis keen eye for the poetry Of life and
nature, he combines rare sense Of the quaint and
humorous aspects Of passing events, scarcely ex-
celed even by the happest vein of Washington
Irving. In conducting his observations be is
sturdy reslist; no alurements Of fancy can tempt
him to disguise the true character Of fact; he is
sensitivey alive to every changing trait of manners
aud personality while no scene or occasion Is so
Grave or commonplace as rot to reveal the comic
features TO which he is always attracted py the po
Rent magnetism of contrast, MI HaVthoTues nu,
NOR is the more effective from the strong esss OF
reality on which it rests and from the quiet, often
Eemure tone in which it is presented. However
taustc bis satire it never sparkes gives its color
IN the cup. You are presented with what seems 10
be gla Of fair water, with no notice of the solu-
Rion of vitrol which it coneeals. He opens upon
Sou with the most candid, the most innocent re-
mark.-you think the writer one Of the most ami
able of men, o perfect Sunday child with no
trace of original sin IN his natuTe-but while every
thing moves softly, swimningly along, fash Of
rischieyous pleasantly darts over tho page, aud you
pook to see how far the lightning has struck. IL
6hese sketches, which are founded the experience
tf the author while American Consul at Liverpool
,se fnd the features Of John Bull portrayed TO the
aife,--eyidently with malignant purpose, with no
s'grudge to feed fat against kindred race,-but
with resistless desire 20 laugh at the solemn pom
posity and inflated conceit which present such
tempting game to the humorist on the surface OF
Enrlish society.
OF arriving a: the scene Of his consular functions,
AZ. Hawthorne found the appointments of Office on
q scale of EXTREMIST Republican simplicity. The
consulate was in shabby and smoke-stained ediice
kituated IL the ncchboEhood Of some Of tho Oldest
docks, by no means polite or elegant position OF
HE town. stiff carieature of the American flag
Maved over the entrance. Every morning the pas
eare-way was crowded with gang Of unolean
scoundrels, purporting 20 belong to our mercantile
marine Of whom not one in twenty YVES en- Amer
iean. These miserable vagabolds were shipvTecked
Crews in quest Of bed, board, and cioihiEe-woTn'
out invalds wishing to be sent 70 The hospital
bruised and bloody wretcAes who had been puniiAed
tv their ofIcers-Siih @ spice # reasonably hon.
est" men 10 serve as seasoning for such a. III
sayored company They ell Wore red flannel shirts
Epy respectable visitor who could make up bis mind
10 sail in among such troop Of sea-monsters va
admitted to an outer Office, occupied by the vice
eonsul and clerks while the chief himself Bat 1t a.
Amer shrine whose mysterious obscurty was we.
Fitted 10 DO the abode Of oracle. :" II was a
apartment Of VEN moderate size, painted An nitn
Gon Of oak, and dussily lighted by two window
looking across by-sireet ii the rough brekside o
an immense cotton warehouse palmer and ugiio
structure than ever was built in America. On III
walls ofthe re u hung large map Of the Cniie,
States, las the weTc twenty years ago, bat seen
little likely 10 , twenty years hence and simila
one Of Great b. ain, with its territory go proyok
ingly compact that We may expect it 70 sink soone
than sunder Further Gdornments were some rude
eacrayings Of our naval victories in the Of 1872
sogether with tao Tennessee State House, aud
Hudson River steamer, and Colored, hie-sizc hta
ISraph of General Taylor, with an honest hlteous
ness * aspect, occupying the place Of honor aboT
The mantle1Jece. On the top Of bookcase stood
Gerce aud terrDN bust Of General Jackson, pi!lorie
il military collar which rose above lis ears, al
frowniDg forth im1nitigably a, any Englishman Wit
might happen 10 cross the threshold I am afraid
however that lie turbulence Of tie oli General
expression was utterly thrown away on this sto
md obdurate race Of men; for, whom they occasion
ally inquired whom this work OF art represented
was mortified TO fad that the younger ones Ia,
fever heard Of the battle Of New-OIleaas, and tina
their elders had either forgotten altogether OF con
trived TO misremember, and twist il wrong end fore
most into something Ike gu English victory. The!
have caught from the old Romans whom they re
seinb.e in 20 many other cAaracterstcsl this excel
lent method Of keeping the national glory intact b.
sweeping all defeats and hanil .tions clean out o.
their memory Nevertheless my patriotism forbade
ne 10 take down either the bust or the pictures
both because il seemed 10 more than night that an
American Consulate being little patch Of our ma
tionality imbeddod into the soil and institutions q
England should fairly represent the American taste
minded me 50 Delightfully."- Of an oldiashioned
American BARRIERS shop. One truly English object
was a barometer hanging o. the wall generally in
dJcating one or another degree Of disagreeable
weather, and seldom pointing 10 Fair, that be-
gan to consider that portion offs circle made su
pG1uOusly. Tie deep chimney, with It's crate Obj
luminous coal wss English too, as also the chill
temperature that sometimes called for fire Of mid
summer end the foggy or smoky atmosphere which
often between November and March, compelled Inc
to set tho gas aAanc al Eoonday. am not aware Of
emitting anything important in the above descrp-
five inventory, unless it be boOksLevel filed
with octave volumes of the American Statutes, and
good many pigeon-holes stuffed with dusty
,nulicatons from former Secretaries Of State, and
other official documents Of similar value consti-
cutting part Of the archives Of the Consulate which