New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-31

am earthy,-Of the earth
Let me choose myself a bride,
Snowy bOsOmed, dreamy-eyedi
Let our love to new expressions
Every flecting hour give birth!
Locked in passions close earess,
Let MS find forgetfulnessl
What care for aspiTatiOnsl
am eaTthy,-Of the eaTthI
We who list fame's trumpetcan.
Waste your lives and pleasures all;
When your eyes in death arc glazing,
Mhat are IotnIe gl3 9e a w1rs sIoap,
&hye Ine woman Is o Wine ANA &Scs sieep'
Let me love and drink forever!
am earthy,-Of the earthl
The second part Of the volume, which is devoted
to Arnold's comic productions, fails to awaken the
same respect for his genius which is produced by his
more earnest and more natural efforts His nature
was not without certain element of humor, but its
utterance falls short of the sting and bite without
which the conscious endeayor after mirth becomes
dreary in the extreme OF all writing the most for
orn is that which tries to be funny when no fun is
felt Many of these humorous pieces are as insipid
as if they had been written for comic newspaper
which we believe was in fact the case in some IN
stances-an explanation, but not an excuse.
To sum up our opinion, George Arnold was poet
of true promise, with powers that are not usually
found in the host of aspirants for fame and with
original and striking qualities OF character which
will long keep a warm place for him in the loving
memory of his companions. The interest which at
aches to his name enhanced by the early close OF his
life His premature departure from amongus excites
the imagination with visions of what he might have
become had his days been longer on the earth. lie
does not, indeed, like Henry Kirke White owe his
chief title to remembrance to the circumstance of his
death, but as in the case of Collins and Chatterton,
of Shelly and Keats tender grace is thrown around
his memory by the fading of youthful bloom.
ST. ELMO: A NOVEL By AUGUSTA } EvAss, author
ot"Beplah,' "Nacaria," &c, &c syo PIP 81. Carl
Miss Evans the publisher informs us, must take
rank as the first p9yelst Of America What she can
do Time must reveal. What she docs do, begging
Times pardon for the anticipation, is to write very
silly books. If one touch of nature makes the
whole world kim the progeny Of her brain Will re-
main alien enemies to the end OF things for no occa
siOnal and accidental moment of common sense or
naturalness Overtakes them from birth to death.
Her heroes or to be weakly oblivious of her former
sins, the hero Of this volume is the gentleman who
has 50 ee6 sl!i#%diPizs9 RRft9Es The f22tBg4ts &
recent felton, !I6 is kOchester-and- water lie is
Conrad Don Juan, the Admirable Crchton--but al
ways diluted with weak and fantastic morality,
present, OF possible-a two-hundred-andtwelfth So
luton, to speak opathicaly-which spells the
effect to our thinking. He is all mystery. Nobody
was ever so mysterious before, except Mrs Harris
nor The world him. When he lies down ON his pill
low at night, be is never sure that some fiend in
human shape has not filled 1t with efeeh apples
WhSh In the morning be finds the postal currency In
the left pocket of bis trousers undisrbed By the I'm
gers of tle spoiIer he * amazed he soIutinzes the
salt through pocket microscope for though 'hiA
Grand aud gloomy being reaches ont ms aims 10
Death in the high Roman fashion, lac has no mud TO
he gulled in the manner Of it. IL his lighter moods
his gayctv efferyc,ces i'm bnpcrtmences 10 ms 4
mother, aud nsolcnce 10 bis friends. Ia Ils oalh
moments lac tears his hair, cudgels ms Dog an" 'y5
" girl" in dreadful lone 70 ms sweetheart, Aht
n,"tcs and they quote did quote, have Il
6Ietcd must quote and VIII quote, OF
die Torn with jealousy, aud hacked win n
,assion he can express himself only in blank verse
or Jingle WOfnl he has recourse To- saul rogers, OF
the Dictionary OF Political Quotations lie y peri
When lac is bitter and angry. a mood WBlch snake
speare a common fellow, wOuldcNW IN snort shaip
Saxon, Sc. Elmo Murray WteIs himself ia inns "'se'
"Doubtlcss you have arrived a. the cbantaio coneln
sion that as aIu endo ed with all The 1niae ieiosyncr
cies OF the ancient cynic shall ng' i[le JON ie s,
ing Dives Club IN Ilades, ana sWcIl e iOMliS tt,
Probably shall not 'dappoint your lnd ana einhsnty
Christian ot otross th ,lf 81 pcrdition
which will then divide us that S""'tm Ooh""' o. 'eiu
nine felicity, / told yon 'o'
This we sllonld suppose 70 I've hombaSt il We were \
NOT assured by the author that II - rsciitss 1
iu0ckery" and that it "made Edna SnNcf, alltf I
which she answered sadly in words on I'VE sAl- /
tables that he was troubled generally with what MI
Nasty would call "cUSSedueSs" aud That MS sus- /
picions were ever on the gI rire! Summing O0num \
and opi rire are good; but what follows is Ahltonhh
Rochester might sag, AXE care illIe Jane, tn"ss |
life does not betray you." Not 80 ~. Elmo;
Oh child ii Won would find suitable type OF \
that torn and t,alnped battle-field-tbe human /
heart-wheIe vice and virtue. love a', mare ~ J,
Venge and rcmorse, have WieStlcd neTcely Ni iile 4
lnastcTy-g0 back 90 your lacitns ana studY uhrle ,
the dismal picture OF that lonely leutobmgiensisl 4
where Warns and his legi0ns went down IN the rea |
burial OF bgttle. What do YOU know OF the /
"
cape to engnlf youg The Neres iiend ~ hell mght
afford to pause and pity yom We shonia ,hih n
worse than The sixth crciel All You remind rue OF
alittle innocent happy c:ild, playing ON some SIM
ing beach, when the sky Is quiei-i me Mii'nS VIC
hushed. and alfthiu2s wrapped IN rest save
Ana lie long ripple washing in the reeds"
4 fair. fearless child gathering polished, pegrly
shells with which 10 build fairy palaces ana a'ocH'
lv az She catches the mournil1 nurmnr Oh the I'm,
memorial sea that echoes in the flushed and l"d'1
chambers OF the shells her lace paes WIN ave- t,u
wondcr-the childish lips part the cnldish eyes are
strained 10 discover the mystery aud while the WIS
peTing monotone admOnishcs OF hOWiing storms anu
sinking argosies she smiles and listens, only the
glowing caunme of the tlutcd cells hears only the
magic music of the sibys-and the sky blacksps,
the winds leap 10 their rack OF num- the great 9eeP
and Cyclone reign laundering waves sweep over,
and bear away the iIail palaces That deckcd ih1
strand and even while the she'll symphony sun
charms the ear the childs rosy feet are washed iToui
thcir sandy rcstiue-pace; She IS borne on hoWhng
billows far out To dashed ana nnaddentd mihh'
sfreyH with human drift; and puinb win horror,
She sinks swiftly 10 long and final rest among me
purple age! Even so Edna, you stop y9nr ears win
.nd vanish on the bosom OF stream" We have
heard of stopping he ears with cotton ana WltD the
forefinQers which being occasionally suddenly WIN
drawn and re-insertod produce Sig3IaI eiIect, Put
what the result Of plugging WITH slells WOlun 1e'
nniess n were lnnh horror cannot imagine il MI
Murray Cond but deCaim liS speeches on inc Stage
OF the Old B0wery .,at1.. 4,