New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-26

of tlp NQllnC man WHO WAS s''NiNNh't NiNb vi I'M
hanks Of the Peacus River. The yeTy wildness Of
that writer's humor tended 50 strongly TO the bur
Jeanne that it became unnatural, fault which we
see in Mr.. Nasty at times for instance when he gives
us his dreams" which the least mentonous let
ters Of this collection.
The writer OF Nasty attempts 10 indiydualize his
Character but fails He is not character Ike Are
mus Ward and Hosea Biglow, nor even rude our
ceoue like John Phoenix. The ant of the huihoilsU
becomes clearer and stronger when II creates 'N
ems has done this well as 10 bc regarded as pen
efactor TO the race. How did our grandlatheiS Nv
| in a world that knew not wilkins Micawber, that
never heard of Betsey Prg nor of SaiTy camp, nor
held personal relations with Samuel Neler anu n'
respected parent, not to speak of the REVEREND
! Gins who so ludcrouslv fell from pace1 Nheh
/ Punch was first drawn he was a burlesque-' '"'
| crn caricature. rs though he had been drawn upon
| . ,,,lI Win charcoal by tpsv men drinking ale,
oueer cripplcd humpty dumpty creature, grotesque
/ and unnatural Yet Punch has become so com
| nletcly idcalzed by Ieech and Doyle and Ienlol
/ that we should certainly recognize HIM II we met
! him on Broadway. We know him in all ms moods
angry. pleasant riding Derby race, IN the presence
| of ROYALTY long on the Brighton beaches playing
/ croQuet or sauntering down BOnd-st with hat ana
| cane and thin, tapering cigar. Mr.. Nashy ilS ITO
such life to us and indeed If he had any real me- u
| would he dispelled by the drawing OF Mr. MAST
which has neither taste finish nor humOr. Nor do
we find any dstinctivencss IN the Nasty orthogra-
phy 1t is arbitrary and does not give any dialect
| Thus we find him spelling gmerin" and "eNtn-
quished" "ishoocd" and "manimity," "ca'eSsln'
| and "paroxvsm,7 'noomeTious" and guaranteed
"ocashun" and gorgcously"! each ease spelling the
/ common word improperly and the difficult word
properly Perhaps we are to infer that Mr.. Nasty
used dictionary for words one or two syllabes
hut his dictionary served him poorly for on one page
we find "Dimocrisy" "DcmOcriSey' Dmnycat'
| Democrat" while Mr.. Buchanan becomes " Book
| auanv and "BuckanOn" and "Boohanon.' II he
had been artistic he would have been rs careful IN
| this detail rs Mr. Lowell or Mr. Ihackeray'
| When Hosea BiglOw writes IN Yankee dialect we
! have as much ingenuity and consistency as III the
proper English. Charles Ycllowplush's orthogIaphy
is artstically bad-we see the kitchen in every syl-
! liable At the best, we look with suspicion upon
| these tricks of composition. The humor that com
mends itself Ivy bad spelling and bad grammar
generally has no other feature Mr. Nasty would
/ have written as strongly if lac had spclt Book
/ auan" Buchanan. and "uoomcTious' numerous. OF
I he might have done some service 10 literature ny
| taking a Western man. with Western idionls ANA
! giving us pure We dialect, such as may he
/ heard in every taN. grocery oi limos " Is
something TO know tlat Our greatest men did not
pronounce correctly that Mr.. Lincoln was 'zec-
lous7 always, and that the first genius Of New-En-
gland viii talk You about PuIce' when hc should
/ speak of Pierce. What Mr. Lowell has done for the
Yankee Nh Nasty should have done for the loosier,
and il is with something Of disappointment that We
/ do not find The true booster in this book
Therefore il is not for any art OF care that Nasty
has become popular Wanting ant. it is not true
humor. and cannot live. There was a iano Ike THIS
in the Letters of Jack Downing; but who reads Jae%
Downing now Nasty is mere conccit-bcgun
during the war to enable its author TO support the
war by showciing rihcule on IT'S opponents, and
adapting irony the form of this ridicule Nothing
in writing is more difficult than irony nothing more
! successful when well managed. lie is the most cX
I IRENE Democrat, and he writes from the EXTREMIST
Democratic point of view. lie is one of those mag-
nant Golden Circle Coppcfheads, who infested the
lower part OF Indiana during the war, too cowaTdy
to ight too poor to own a negro. who had all that
was vicous in the Southern nature with none OF the
good Let him tell his own history:
Twict wuz drafted into service detcstcd-twict
/ wuZ torn from the buznm nv NY family, "lch
bnzzim wood occasionally rit obstin and refooze 10
give sich washin money cz WIZ nessary 10 my exiSt
the chdrcn-twlCt say, wuz pulled into the seryls
and tvct forced 70 desert 10 the Dnousy Nv The
nv my left had acksidcntaly shot of OWN TO my
foot Desomn entangled INTO the lock NV my gun we.
and longer liable 10 military doOty and Good bid
Provost MaTshels defiance, only Hccrd clear ny Scy'
10 90 bunpin onto ChaIShdis / coodent let Dmocrisy
alone and the egglns-the RON upon rillF-the laEi
, NV the Oath-but why shOOd harrow MP the public
buzLum stood il an till one mite wW pulled out nv
bed compelled to knee onto my bare knees IN the cold
forbids inenshun the name of it, frtterin in
JanoOaIy wind and by crowd NV latin soers compelled
20 take the oath and drink pint NV raw, undilooted
water! That feather broke the back the camel The
oath give me inflammation NV the brane aud the water III
famashen the stunic, and for six long weeks lay
wreck my former self IL arose from the bed aud
ssw in glass the remains my pensivc beauty vowed
10 unceasin war on the party wich caused sich
havoc and hey kept my oath.
Thew bin In the Apossel biznis more extensively than
any the time Paul. First ! established
church Democrats in little oasis diskyered ia the
ther four groceries, but nary church SkOo housc
within four miles, and whose populashen wul unani-
all the land around em-but alals! wuz forced 10
eeve IL after the election Of Lnkn IN 1864 Moo Gescy
being the only state North vich osqueched her
fed and AT Saints Rest (Which Is Ia Moo Gerseyj
J "a ,c,r mt Aiiisbnjs ~ ,',fsrni , ttin
went Ablishin and agfn like the wandering Jew wuz
forced To pun up and weBd my weary way Kentucky,
where at Confedrit Roads feel that am safe Mas
sychoOscs ideas can't penetrate here The arstOcracy
6eeye speech hut they desire exercise
supervision IT, that they may not be led astfay.
They beeve tbeyr rite and for fear they'd be forced to
change their minds, whenever they gt into argument
with anybody ef the ndvdooa gifts the better nv Them
they tO-wunst shoot him eZ distuIber Hence Masfy
chOost can't disturb us here the populashen is nnani
In0usly Democratic and bids fair 10 cOntinyoo
ful life Here in the enjoyment that end the hopes
NV all Democrats, Post Offs, with four well regulated
groceries within stuns throw and dlstiley orna-
meun the Landscape only quarteruv mile from where
house within site my winde from wch rises the odor,
grateful TO Democratic nOstril, and witch lie snuff
witch consumed when II wuS burned. wat more kin
wants feel that more than repaid for all my
suIfens and that shc sale smoothly down the stream
I NV time, unvexed aud happy.
| There good deal of fun in this. The "washin
money necessary TO my existence" is capital. The
description of being walked up at night and com