The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-23
HAWTRoRNE,s nIARY.
ExtFaets From It--speeimeps OF n
!. AIemOrnnda He Left Rehind Him.

| f4RtEASts Ee0rn lI-ssSpeelmeuB OF the
Memoranda He Left behind Him.
Hawthorne, it appears, kept a diary
and extracts therefrom are to form one
of the leading features of the Atlantic
during the year 1866. They are to be
printed just as he left them, the volumes
having been found in his study after
his death. In the January number
Quotations are given dating as far back
back as lS35-sketches iof scenery, vii
lage life and individual characteristics,
Showing how marked werehis habits OF
close observation and how natural his
powers of description. Hero are a few
of his disconnected memoranda
mine of fsubjects for the NOVELIST, could
any one be found to work them up as
well as Hawthorne could have done:
"A story, the hero of which is to he
represented as naturally capable of deep
and strong passion, and looking for
ward to the time when heshall feel pas.
stonate love, which is to be the great
event of his existence. But It so
chances thRt he never falls in love and
although he gives up the expectation of
so doing, and marries calmly, vet IL is
somewhat sadly, with sentiments mere
ly of esteem for his bride. The lady
might be one who had loved him early
In life, but whom then, in his. expecta-
lion Of passionate love, he had scorned.
.sl The scene of a story or sketch to be
laid within the light of Il street-lantern:
the time, when the lamp is near going
OUT and the catastrophe to be stimuli
taneOus with the last flickering CLEAN.
The peculiar weariness and depres-
sion of spirits which is felt after a day
| other light miscellany, different from
the state of the mind after severe study;
because there has been no excitement,
no difhculties to be overcome, but tho
spirits have evaporated insensibly.
ITO represent the process by which
sober truth gradually strips of all tho
beautiful drnperieS with W hich imaRin-
| alton has enVeloped a beloved object,
till from an angel she turns out to be a
merely ordinary woman. This to be
done without caricature, perhaps with
quiet humor interfuSed, but the pre-
Willing impression to be a sad one. The
story might consist of the various al
terations in the feelings of the absent
lover, caused by successive events that
display the true character of his mis-
tress; and the catastrophe should take
place at their meeting, when he finds
himself equally disappointed in her
person or the whole spirit of the thing
Alhy mere De .TepTOuuCeu. ''
1.-TWO persons, by mutual agreement,
to make their will in each others favor,
then to wait impatiently for one anoth-
er's. death, and both to be informed of
the desiFed event at the same time.
Both, in most Joyous sorrow, hasten to
be present at the funeral, meet, and
lind themselves both hoaXed.
"The story of man, cold and hard
hearted, and acknowledging no broth
erhoods with mankind. at his death
they might try to dig him grave, but,
Mt little space beneath the ground,
strike upon rock, as If the earth re-
fused to receive the unnatural son into
her bosom. Then they would put him
into an old sepulchre, where the collins
and corpses were all turned to dust,
body would petrify; and he having died
in some characteristic net and exrres-
sion, he would seem, through endless
ages of death, to repel society as in life,
| and no one would be buried in that
tomb forever. .
"Two lovers to plan the building of n
| plensnre-house on n certain spot OF
ground, but various seeming accidents
preventit. Once they find group of
| miserable children; once it is the scene
whore crime is plotted; at last the dead
body of one of the lovers or of n dear
friend is found there; and instead of n
tomb. The moral-that there is no
place on earth fit for the site of n pleas-
ure-house, because there is no spot that
may not have been saddened by human
| grief, stained by crime, or hallowed by
death. 1t might be three friends who
plan 1t, instead of two lovers; and the
dearest one dies"