New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-15

when "to make an effort amounts 10 Alnu
of Jfelo-de-se.
In most editions of Byron there is an auto
oranb leaf containing his fine description OF
an Anime thunderstorm, which reminds us VI
that Western phrase, "finging ink" SO Diot-
tom ond scrovled and slobbered, such maze OF
or,snres and interlineations is it. The reader
immodiotolv supposes that his Lordship wrote
the verses in the midst of the tempest when
tbov commemorate. 1t turns out, however
tLot tbov were composed six weeks AFTER IN
a." oon,fort Of n tavern. SO when we go IN
tho course of our Summer touring 10 Sicc' 'no
natural glores Of the world, we shOuiu rciieiio0i
that il is not important that we carry anything
with us more than an open eye: 10 Drlns AWAY
something, hic labor, hoe opus est we ADVISE an
never to sigh for an appreciation OF scenery Il, 10
very presence; it is better to stahd sIlii liho
tbo Israelites. and see tho salvation OF tne
Goddess. He who goes Numbering and moon
inc, mn and down. looking first at the lake and
tben ot his guide-boOk; searching the index 10
see at what particular spot he shall be I'M
nressed ; waiting for somebody in the company
70 declare which are the fine bits, had better
hurry back TO New York, and sleep III the attic
for the rest of the Summer. Above all, dear
Young readers of TIE TRIBUNE do not be
mortified or discouraged when you come to
the mountain or the valley which you are told
by some poct-you have his volume in your
trunk-to admire, and find that really and
truly. YOU do not admire it at all! Nalt
littc!-wat even until next Winter! linen
the glory and the grandeur may come back TO
YOU when you want them NEST, Ike the
memories of childhood which never waken Tor
the asking. There are seas in which 1t IS n
shame and a sin to sail by the compass ana
the sOunding-ne and the chart-OYcr when
we have oily uncOnsciOusly to drift into the
future with the glory of the voyage trailing
behind us, and the priceless argosy OF me
experience ever but inyisibly accumuatlnS'
II il related of Ncander that unsurpassed
scholar and simple, excellent man, that when
ever he was persuaded to take a trip for the
benefit of his health he always travelled with
an ASS load of folios; and there is Ger
man caricature of him crossing tho Alps on
mule-back, reading a tremendously tall copy Oh
the works of st. Augustine. 1t would nave
been better for him if he had LETT his library
at home; and it will be better for us, whether
we read Greek when we are at work or not,
| 10 leave that and all other lumber on the shelf
when we 90 out to play. If man must read
during his rustication, let him content himself
| with the newspapers - with accounts OF
people he never heard of who have had some
| thing happen to them in places the existence
! of which is now for the first time disclosed TO
| him. AS he is going back to the world, It's
| fluctuations and its vast affairs, presently, he
must not 90 back quite ignorant OF what has
occurred during his absence-fires, failures,
! deaths. revolutions, and such like ycissltudes.
! The newspaper will he better for him. for ms
brain. stomach, and alimentary apparatus-iar
better than the thckest volume, with the long
est words in it, of DR.. Kant.
Poor betwistcd and beblindcd creatures that
we are, it is the most hopeless work in the world
| for us to get into n proper relation to Nature.
| The trouble is that,we ego out.for to see some
thing with enthusiasm prcpense, and therefore
do not see il at all. Our raptures speedily re-
lapse into the most leaden Of lethargies. To our
hackneyed souls the Summertime imparts none
of its rpcning glories We carry with us into
the temple our little pack of commonplace and
our atmosphere of habit; we greet the grandeur
Of living God with Lo, berew or Lo
therem We accept Nature only upon GER
tifcate from the poets of her previous good
character, and it Is no wonder that she proves
but a moody and sluggish servant. When we
arc in her presence, there is nothing for it but
TO wait for her greeting; and if we wait like
obedcnt children there is that which will come
TO our eyes and ears, which will be "A pos
| "ecssion foreycrn