Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-11-04
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Pcllucid Review is demoralizcd. We
make the solemn announcement with
sorrow.-sorrow too deep for tears
1t gives us painful emotions. Some
time ago-it is not material how long
the editor aforementioned, in the cx.
ubcrancc Of his aesthetic virtue, so!lcd
a large portion OF his Weekly Pellucid
Review in critlcsiny piece Of second
rate advertising poetry which had pre-
viously appeared i'll the columns Of the
Plugville Elevator. That the criti-
cism with humor, pathos and sarcasm
was richly merited, we have no doubt.
The criticism was its own best excuse
tor being.
As weremarked above, theyenerabe
editor OF the Weekly Pcllucil Review
has become ;esthetically demoralizcd.
There is, there can be, nodoubt thereof.
The evidence is as clear as moonlight.
1t may not be trite, but we must &C
cept it as true that whose does that
winch he has heretofore condemned
or sneered at, has been translated to a
state OF decentralization. Well, not
outstanding the severe critical notice
which the editor aforesaid gave to
the poetry in the Elevator, the said
editor of the W. =. II. ''Eas been,
went, gone and done it. The col
umns of the SAID Weekly Pcllucid Re
view have lately !ccmed with versitica-
ton OF the richest character. dramatic in
every line and synchronomic in every
feature. The author thereof, supposed
to be the veritablc venerable Amina-
dab Jehosaphat Socrates, 4. NJ, ID. d.,
LII. y. himself, draws his poetic ira
Gerry with genial hand Auditory of all
those Houses of good repute, doing bu-
sincss in the city of Delectablc Resi-
denccs with ability to gam ingrcss to
the advertising columns of the SAID
Weekly Pellucid Review. SINS cere-
monte, sans pear, he Delabiates all his pay
ing patrons, and crowds his hyperbol
ical SMILES to the highest peak of: his
rugged Parnassus. With aparticular-
ity in detail that is astonishing, and an
effort that borders on the Homeric in
descriptive power, he sings the viz
tues OF his patrons wares, and in limp
ing 1--WE mean limpid) measure, the To-
cality of each business house is marked
with care. We doubt it such a poem,
long or short, has been given to the
world since Virgil wrote his
"Arma, virumque cano,"
and we shall await with anxiety the
appearance of another that shall rival
it.
Using these various and varied eff
tloresccnccs ola poetic genius as q
guide book, no man or woman need so
estray in the streets of the city where
in is published the Weekly pcllucid
Review.
We feel sure that the editor of the
Bloviator, If he have beneath his vest
the heart of "a man and brother
will sincerely regret that he ever adj
mittcd to the columns of the Elevator
such paltry poetry as that which has
seemed to be the cause OF the paltrier
poetry which the Weekly Pellucia
Review has lately given to the world.
Remembering the fatal accident on
that old Aleian field, where one, whose
natural habitat was earth, sought, on
the back OF the winged Pegasus, to
reach the Empyrean, the editor of the
Elevator will ever, we trust, truly
dcplore his indiscrction, which was the
cause, OF precursor, OF that attempt Of
his neighbor to initiate the mad feat
OF Bellcrophon. That the sad tate of
Bc!lerophon will not be met by the ed
itor OF the Weakly Pcllucid Review
is our hcarticst hope.