New-York tribune., 1867-09-14
THE END or THE SEASON.

and sea breezes whisper gentle monitor 10 the
outgoing traveller; metropolitan announce
ments signify that evening is soon to take the
Mace of morning in our daily experiences; and
sunrises and sunsets are so many flaming ad-
vertiscments that Nature, like fanciful specula-
for. is beginning to lay in charming stock OF
nntilities for the Fall. September blandly
advises ia that for the aurOral delights of Will
derness and ocean we are TO exchanse
the "HesperIs that bringeth all good
"things" in the starry ornament OF Art
We are almost ready to take somber
and sober farewell of the vernal days
Our hours of vacation seem to be shed as nat
urally and luxuriously as the leaves Ill val
Iambrosa, and the flower and bloom OF holiday
deness passes away with the Summers last
rose. Still abide some golden days OF grace
which the spendthrift Summer has not scat
tered out of handbags of serene gemality
when TO travel i, a greater comfort than uhuer
the stcaming rays of August; when 1t Is pos
sible TO fulfill the Hindu maxim, that to con-
tempIate and act at the same time IS tho
su0iciencv of bliss and wisdom. September
i the ripe mellow month OF the year
maturity. season in itself, the best perhaps
for visual knowledge of our Northern shores
through spectacles of sunlight. 1t Is Summers
retrosnect Autumn and Winters prospectus,
and is the midway of preparation for the
oornhst davs of the year. Pity it Is, indeed,
,hat Summer is not more Septcmber-llke, anu
thot no Iots Are 20 fast fastening which are
70 hiring us the fading Sall. and the wan and
insubstantal gloles of the Indian SUM-
mer. But the season must end, and the
world in walls call back its itineraries.
Those who started ont in the morning on a
pleasure trpmust now turn home with reluctant
steps. We hear a harsh trump sounding re-
call from the market Wall-st. noises are
summons as loud "A an orchestra, and the
standardization of the dollar can be heard
further than Trinity chimes. All who are
reading their lcdgcrs in green fields; who, as
far as they have travelled. have never escaped
the rcmorseless fatcs of the fashions; who
have carried the city. bag and baggage, INTO
the country, and somehow or other have
never caught sight of what the best guide
books call naturc-wl easily bring fashion
and the ledger back with them, and be aO-
sorbed into the commOnplaces of society anu
the matter-of- fact of the money market Men
who have been carrying the moncy-bag about
with them as sheep carry their bells, are IN no
danger of being lost in aesthetic speculatIons
Happily. this class of travellers is diminishing,
or Withdrawing into still narrower channels,
while the student the artist, and scientist, are
finding new habtations in nature. Long
Branch Newport, Cape May, and Nahant repre-
sent the city carried to the seaside like another
IIardicanute but these are barren scenes COM
pared TO the true life which always awaits the
venturous and independent pleasure seekers
The Adirondacs, a wild paradise of CLASSY lakes
and bosky hills the blue, ambcr-lighted Cats
kills haunted with the best poetry or the New
World, the White Mountains and the ALE
ghencs, great with the unuttered secret which
0ur philosophers have been trying TO catch from
pine and hemlock; the great rivers, Hudson.
Menimac. Concord. and Susquehanna, and
the rest, the most beautiful commentaries on
our general scenery and therefore sacred to
literature and the muse-thesc tempt the
stroller who seeks untrodden ground, and
reads the leaiy scriptures of the wilderness
with pilgrims piety. Fashion has some time
ceased To be fashionable with the I'M clllgent.
The scholar must go his own way. He must,
Der force, seek with his friends some sequcs-
tered spot, cherish private dream or two,
and as the laureate has it, let the devil pipe to
"his own" Our students are growing cordial to
the German theory that first OF all, the
student must know his fatherland. "Iravel-
ing says the leader of our idealist, =" is the
fools paradise" :" but he meant travelling
abroad The followers of the outdoor creed,
the friends of Thoreau's breezy and native
evangel, may be said to "carry the eagle and
"hold the sword of those who stay at home.
Rather than go to European cities to hear what
New. York has been dinning every day OF the
week let lis tread our forests and hills, and
hear what Thuringa and Switzerland are
not likely to tell us quite so wildly
well and to the point The student
who has travelled through the green woods OF
PENNSYLVANIA or NewYOrk is in advance OF
the young gentleman who has merely guide
booked himself through Europe. The traveller
was slrewd who told us that we might stay mt
home, and yet travel round the whole world
by the old Marlborough road. The pupil who
knows how to tramp through State, or to
sail the Northern lakes need not he puzzled
with the problems Of geography and geology,
and those who walk where our Northern Flora
grows will have botany at their fingers ends.
Here. indeed is Alps and Switzerland, and the
traveller who aims to see either 10y way of
London had better send home his trunk and
go into the backwoods.
The Summer gone by has added not little
TO the annals of holiday making nd it is plain
that new prophets have been reaching, and
that some new outlaw evangelist has gone into
the forest, making the way straighter for those
who seek natural life, and need nothing so
much as an example. Hereafter we shall hear
that the spirit of travel has entered into all