New-York tribune., 1872-08-19
BOSTON.
IITERARY NOTEs.

ORGAN i-ARE THERE NO GHOSTS AMONG
Usf COLORED PHOTOGRAPHS - khEfIND
DOGs-HOw TO sLEEP-A POEM ABOUT
CAT AND CANS IN GENERAL, BY MISS HALL
IPRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THB INbONh
RosIoN. Aug. Ills Old and NeC an
"organ9" seems not inappropriate question: since "
deyotos no small space in Its september issue to politics
The first article after the somewhat desultOly Iufo
ducton" is entitled Person and President III sels
forth with considerable force the necessity for real
personal power and greatness in the President
of q Republic. using as illustrations the Presidents residents
.f the past-those who have been good for something
and those who have been good for nothing. having
thus adorned tale proceeds to point Its moral WIN
Look on this picture. and then on that-sho"Ins "s
Grant the yirtuous and Greeley, the dangerous Gen.
Grant" says the writer has done good deal ana M
Greeley has written good deal" II by this he means
Ia impiy that writing worthless, why does not our
friend turn his ownpen into pruinghOok and give over
40 poor task as seeking 10 mold the opinion OF the
puhrg lie admits that neither OF the candidates is
fond 81 money. but makes little thrust at MI Greeley
y saving that circulation OF TIE TRIBUNE is ncreas-
ing on account of bis candidacy at the rate Of nearly
two hundred day That this fact argues an increasing
Iubnc interest in wbecoated philosopher seems not
to have occurred to the genial critic.
f. W Clarke IN am article entitled Ghosts and Ghost
Seeing" undertakes 60 maintain that all genuine cases
of clo-sccuc may bc referred not TO the presence or
agency departed spirits bat TO peculiar affection of
the ordinary flashes OF color which almost person
can produce AT will The article, COored Photographs
by Mr. Anne VI Sccmuler. pictures vividly number
Of ooored subjects. One Of tbem old darkie grave
digger, uttered bit OF quaint wisdom At
Tho approach OF party Of travellers, the
rld fellow threw down hi- spade and Went up to them
One of the gentlemen said "Well uncle suppose you
ind graye-a.tsne rather hard work3' "Ah massa''
the old fellow laughed as he turned on ms heel with
is hard vrork II.
Nothing ia more singular than the contempt for his own
race in the genuine southern darRie. huge black
waiter used say scoTnlly Of the other servants, III
you want a thing done wrong, just send nigga
10 dO IT," regular cOrn-hcld darke, not long
sincc III Mr. seeinuer'- presence, deliberately lifted
m foot and Kicked sable brother who sat upon Hour.
barrel near bim rcinarkine at the same time with m
huite relish, q can always kick mule OF nigga"
An old man expressed 10 wild young Vrgnan the
hall onscous creed OF many whittier sinner Nlassa
Richard said this hoary cvlldOer, soemnly lifting mp
hi- hand to cuphasze the admouition, elf there is
hereafter don't carry ou-out' and here he suddenly
lTohe .uto enthusiasm and broad gru, if there amt
no hereafter, carry ou powerful 10 Is said that
the yomg man followed the last clause Of
th- advice faithfully. One more anecdote IS Of an old
rourd preacher who represented hell in one OF his ser
mons -i1u of ni2htu Ice and snow where ireez
ine va. fayortc punishment His master was curl
ous To know Uhy Ce.alg theory q 1e p,eTqal regions
they cIaLoed To meet he asked the question. Law,
ina~. the answer 81 don't dare tell them peo-
Iie nothing else. Why II was 10 say that hell
warn. some Of them old rheumatic nggas would be
wanuus TO start down there the very first frost -
lnc Rev E HartDJ-s writes OF Pets Sud their Long
Life" Irc text is little black dog whose name was
Peter Thc Row Iii sympathzes with Hamerton' who
piicd tu, who led doges- life He says, win Gu
ihus.a4 III t one Of the best of pleasures to keep
dor Al, considers II q simple affair 10 keep horse OF
"a Gov, % dot, or cat They viii never grow up
druiars aud we never he awake nights thinking what
Ins. possibly become thcm.' Evidently the Reverend
i-rotauos,AodoX Drwuian since he traces the lineage
ofml4 through another line than that OF the ape The
dog cherish nov." he SAYS shall he man. shall
nud In J~ au infant, know him "a, my neighb0r
But tbs dogInatisrn and not susceptible OF proof
lour con ecuce your debts. OF your liver, Keep
voa awake O. nights read Mr.. Hae'S paper on "How to
Sleep. and learn that you sleep. an you will; nay,
sior Inat your duty 10 sleep This pleasant paper
will tell you how do IT, Wm. Cullen Bryant contributes
an essay "Oldbam's Poems with cOpOus extracts
John Oldham was born in Gloucesershire, England, IN
The year lo--. He was poet whom Dryden warmly
commended. and from whom Pope. and swift and
johnson. d.d not dsdJiu borrow; and 1t Is
auilc worth while 10 know something about him.
though hc died in his thrtieth year, and his
work. are very seldom encountered;
inbred "a. Bryant -ay, lac las never seen them In any
private library m this country. Besides the usual
-el!a.- there is q uea-5u; story translated from the
Swedish oI Ilrodor FederhOiu, and entitled In the
Wide World" The Egao'iqcr contains the customary
variety auG there HIe three poems" The Beggar and
tLe Nm" 10y J. C. GOOdWiu a song" by Mrs Richard
= GrecuOugh signed 4" l. H." which well-knOwn
initials mean the editors sister, Miss Hale This latter
pocu anthem Of praise, chantcd iu favor OF eats
sud alropos 20 a ayore puss. II il so quaint that it
sssorts its right 10 he copied: