New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-02
Atlantic Monthly for june.


For the New Orleans Ctesoentl
M. Editor ITpop examination we pronounce
the June number Of this celebrated work fully in
S keeping with the kindred literature with which
the country has been deluged nv the enterprisinc
. Puritan publishers Of Nav England. and in which
every STYLE of lettars is ,spa +o disseminate tei
peculiar and pernieous d,ctrinestbe hitter effects
e Of which we are now snfyartpg in common with onr
moro favored brethren of tha North
OFTEN prose articles containe5 IN tbis r,n,bor If
, tbe Atlantic Monthly fonr oro do,,otod n +bo
abpse and psrnrresen+a+jor If +bo eo,tor, ,,oo-
nile and similar paner il to bs fornd or,onn tho
literary reviews. In two of these ins+,rcos +,,o
t falsebooas are woven in tbe attractive rorb ~
story in which the poison is as carefIIg iJ5on as
was the poison in Adriene Lecourrer,s b0nrno tI,o
superiority of the negro to the .. so.caIladi ,rhito
race being suggested as iDsidiousIv as was bolIa,s
{ crime by honest lago. Another is an innassinnoa
and violent ATTEMPT to deify the notoriops Dr
Bailey one of the shining lights of the old Abo,i
tion press, and at one time editor of the National
Era in Washington. A paper published in the infer
est and at the expense Of Jas G. Birney their can
didate for President. As this article is however
well written. and is after all only an omen fn and
hold exnrassion of views that wa o mot concnr in
with M at+or,rt AZ orna+o ooncool,,or+ u IL
. Tho 10 aF oil No
article in tile review department il simnIv a re-.
hash of the MANY descriptions of the deprava5
condition of Tie Sop+hern paanla ca ortan bo,rd
fin connection with the reconstruction committee
and therefore afords little either in +ba u,,,,o ~
novelty or wondermept Not so however, tha
gem of the entire collection :. tba 1ost ,lors ~
Walter Savage Lander" which. in stvle, sentiment
and literary cbaracter i cartai6Iy rvortb,, a
]
The bi8grapher Of waiter SAVAGE Tar5or an,
pears to be a sort of New ENGLAND ..sEittlas,, ls
| the strong minded hree7 ana har lyro,v,alro. ,,f
the incidents of the last DAVIS of Walter SAVAGE
Lander seems to he intimate ndaad If t6o
nature Of the relations existing between them il
seemingly behooyes neither ber mar o,rsalras II
speak, but taking into consideration his reputatiop
FOR gallantry ana the bprnir- scandal tbs+ bIoet-
ened his last DAYS. uneharitable peone ara afforded
I plenty Of food for Imagination. Fan III ~
traordinary precision of detail in the work She
evidently knows all abont hin his anna.ranca
and habits. his likes and diszes. what he tSonr6t
upon every subject poetry. nelitfos Iitaratnra
religion and it might he added herself rs several
afectionate compliments are modestv introduced
In return her devotion for the on Tion,, il Of.
fectiyeIy painted on every page. sometimes +orcb.
luS 0'0 iLiit9 VI auu4HIoit ana Aer sacrifices to
his comfort were in full proportion. She il ,noro
retGent In regard to what she made BY all tbfs-ac
tualy silent as to the elasticity of his purse strings
but owns up to several good hauls in the way Of
portable property, such as stationery, books, |
annotated and otherwise ETC., etc.
she eontesses to having "pocketed " a very
beautiful pen-wiper on one occasion, and an
album worth fifty suineas on another. She also
lntlmates that she could have done well in the
way Of painting, his stock being heavy, but hay,
ing no faith in his taste for art feared they were
yaueIess, Apart from these little mercenary
touches the recital of the tender relations and
sentiment existing between them is so highly
oolored that the reader wonders how such Darby
and Joan could ever be brought to contemplate sep
aration' They did however, and in the summer of
L96l she left Italy where this romantic attachment
mad been born and fonrished to return to New
England VI course an atteetionate correspond
711"1oi' 'A0lH' anu iIaln-
for Waiter Savage Lander, Iis pen ran into noIi.
tics, and she dropped him in bank narIanca .tshnt
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