Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-28
From the New York Post.
STUDIES AND STYLES!

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PrepOsterous and Eccentric LItsrn-
tuLe' a.g-z aLgs
SUGGESTIONS TO AMATEURS.
To young writer DESTROYS of entering
the field of literature With soms peculiar
-ily about his wFitings which shall pre-.
serve his individuality, II must be exceed.
inglJ embarrassing 10 decide what style be
shall adopt and make his own. Hosea
BigeloW, Sam Slick, ArternuS Ward, The
Disbanded Volunteer, OrPheus O.. KeHE,i
Doesticks, Josh Billings and many others
have chosen distinctive methods, and have
achieved notoriety If not fsms.o Whistler
they add to the'permaUent riches Of literI
ature may be question, but there is no
doubt that they amuse aud in some degree
instruct the living generation.
THE ExTRAVAGANT STYLE. al.
The e1traVagsuces of styie-simile or
hyperbole run mad-ATs old and familisn
but are stilll in use. 0uTEaP describes q
politician Is "ons who, bnoyant by putrs.,
faction, rises as he roIs." BeIIhazer Ora.
tian, in discussing the tecoBdite subject OF
mental philosophy, says. 90 Thoughts Gov.
from the extensive coasts of Memory, eul.e
bark on ths.sea OF Imagination, arrive az
The port of GeniuH. 10 be regi6tSFeds a. kha
custom house of the Understauding."-
Mother says: We often GhildishIy cry, for
"a knifegto outline fingers OF our s6IVb'I A
German writer says that young girl ia a
fishing-rod; the eyes are the hook, the
smile the bait, the lover the gudgeon, and
marriage the batter IN which he iS'fried.-
A young gentleman once began a romance
in the fguratiVe style:
"Albert rode with the speed of an ar
row to the garden, spraug like the wind
from his steed, like squirrel over the
the hedge, writhed like a snake through
the pnilings. few likes hawk TO the arbor,
crept up to her all unseen, threw himself
pnssiOnatsly - Der feet, BWore franticAlly
that he would shoot himself, was, no viewer,
Immediately heard, seated himselfin bless.
ed delight at her side sank on her bosom,
swan in sea OF bliss-GH this vas the
work of a sseond."
the MIXED. POETIC STYLE.
Tho first exhibitions of poetic genius are
generally rather striking. An editor gives
few specimen Verses of q poem which he
cruelty rejected.
al had a dreinO
thOft was alone, alone;
Oh. u did 0eme
So sad away from home, from home.
Ny he'd upon my hand
lent, lent;
hi $50 upon the sand
bent, bent.
Ithort Of other days;
And things, and things;
OF happy, childish phase,
And strings, and strings"
This is neither 90 bold in conception nor
so affecting in its conclusions rs the fol-
lowing:
''Pcor Jonathan snoW
Away did 20
All on the Tngen name,
Win other males
All for TO ketch wales
4 nero come back ARen
The wind bloc HI
The bill erS tost
All hands were lost
And no was ono,
upritSly lad,
Nigh 81"
Lines may be shortened or Heightened to
express the idea, as in tho odes to Com
modore Mutt and the Giant at Barnum's.
One commences:
"HAIl. small mani
Short 'un, but
Great, though mall
HAIL o Multi"
The other begins: i.
''EhSnOmsnON egrSgiOusI EIonEats and gigantic
Mammoth man Of mnscleI D Immense In este.
Surprising all the tall 'uuI in the chronicles roman
with s:nunoe,iom humble and with terrified
DImipItiyo six foo,sfS with trembling nee. behold
thee,
And take an observation of thy longitude extern
Being o,Enek with admiration that thy pantAlOOu.
win hold thee,
And rendering who made 'op, and II they came
The manner Of "HiaWAtha" IL easv To
initiate. 40, for instance, in,a description
OF a cat and dog eight by the author Of Tom
HyerWathSr, beginning; aaE
Meath tree a. wAs Eandsreu,
spied n manltOO grimAlkinI
Cat Of venerable k6IIor -7''-
Ncafh thP great umbFSiua lhhder
Then she walked upon the creme Hod
Berrtd dePS IN contemplation
Thinking OF the past and futOr.R
A methea BY which persqps with Short
memories may sing songs which have been
partly forgotten aud also supply rhymes, is
suggested by the following;
"oh'R had AIumty tuuilu mty tum a.,
In the land Of the olive aud a. wv
would strg Of the lumti -tunN- tumti tn w,
And play on the thing umy Jig.
And q IN The lumty tum BATH, nil
TENT tumsB al thai ernyi.st - II
On e9Iy me deep In the what. you -rnay..eaIl. y
ana plant thingumbObs over my grave"
The PRrNTER's srrIu. LA u
Tue following mild aud perfectly proper
and Ineligible directions of the foreman
OF newspaper composition room to one Of
his hands will give an idea of this:
Ilm' put General sBeaOFNRard on 4hs
galley, and then finish the murder of the
negro you commenced Yesterday. Set M
the ruins of GuyandOtte, distribute the
small, PcE; yoP need not 6uish that mnE-
ny put the mumPsin the paper this week.
Pitch that pi into hell, and then 90 to the
devil and he will tell you how to dispose Of
the dead matter, FN0' Va
This style might be varied in a very
picturesque manner BY the use OF signs, q
In the following statement of the death of
apTinter:
George woOdeock, the = Of his protes.
sion; the typs Of honesty, the admiration
OF ais aud although the ~ Of death put
To his exiatence eVOrY 3 nj hla lifn -.