Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-09


The Liscrati OF Thirteen Wears Old.
A writer in the Louisville Courer-journal
thus muses. on the announcement Of "fhe Poet
of the Breakfast Table:
among many secrets communicated BY the
enterprising publishers of the Atlantic Monthly
TO the gentlemen of the press,-secrets which
the gentlemen of the press, disregarding the in
junction Of the old song, are expected not to
keep,-is one which, albeit of current literary
interest, may, we dare say will, start some SEN
umental memories in the mddle-aged American
bosom. Midde-aged! There is a sadness in the
thought that ten leyen-twelye-nay thirteen
years have passed since the Autocrat Of the
Breakfast Table began to he his own Boswell;
and thar IN consequence the young people of
that period can call themselves young people
no longer. The divinity student is, by this
time, doctor of divinity: the young man they
called John has got on in life, and having
made his fortune during the war, has settled
down after the orthodox Boston fashion, into
steady responsibility, lectures Libraries and pub
lie beneices; the juvenile Ben. franklin like
wise made his mark during the patriotic fjtTOre,
was hero and soldier, and is a member of the
assembly; and the little sch0olmistress-why,
bless herl-She must be siX-lnd thirty by this
time, and the mother of many childrenl Phan-
toms all but they will come and go in spite of
us Indeed, there be many ghostly changes in
thirteen years. and when the poet resumes the
wise and kindly prattle of the Autocrat at the
Breakfast Tabe-Which is the secret we spoke
Olive may moi looh 10 see the same company
gathered TO listen: IL Is most IKE, that the snow
mas iallen many tlnes upon the grave OF the Old
gentleman who satsopposite, the dear old gentle
man who gave the blessing at the end of the
long walk just as il has fallen, in real liie
upon me graves oil loFed ones VINO laughed and
wept with us away back yonder in 1858.
haPpy umt' happy, Peaceiui Tune! irving
was awe tnen, anu read the hrst oil those de-
sIt i PapeLs, anu llle slllli Gast VI powder
auu i ho.i iIu9 not yet Coine sulllcnlu% Oyer lhe
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p"''tt "PPe el"tou ai"u uUt wv" OlitlN a'eu Ie
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II uiu ns' neIu tiie uetaus vi q pal
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lloliies anu oaAe ll''u UGH lrlenuy IlVals. inc
grtat names III our nm iii2IS vocaotlaly were
W lnllclu ocoIt anu hI,' HIdLpe9 Inu Gehei al
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luz olle! l9us, 'ne 1oilsioias, te Lees were IN
NnoMn 10 laIhe' NoI nad Tue JourudliSll OF the
CouaIIg peen PeletIa'eu Ny Sutn st'1ii@ n'ileS
AZ AZ hahl ~ Malp le' anu W nlteiaW held' ana
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9'ip WI Do"jeS, I,iyu tue
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aIu Soiai' WI, MoIe 1. uaie, Jul vi SGn9oi' pdha
nuS an etilp, So ',eteiote"I' anu na9l perhaps,
ntlle tt''uAnt vi y war secretary-a
Iiah vi aClon anu ouiless TO ourst haally INTO
I ny -. 'iowspapef suhh0wef OF to-day
Guy hlnGks ana Farke sIsdwm and DE-.
NrlSW0lu heid possession OF te ciltica citadel III
New YORK and tine OLD Home journal, with
MOTIFS ana W ms, was "a real literary power IN
Tue iand. Forte Crayoh was a non; ana Miss
fioTa MefllmSey mad9 a sensation as great as
lhe heathcn Chihee, ana much more Substan-
tial aud pelteT deserved IL was iashlona0le in
thoSe Gays 10 discuss roe ana the Raven There
was bohehlan ser VINO were gong to estab-
llsh new ren@loh III literature and set up 4
new school, IN the execution OF winch purpose
they crank great quantlueS OF peer, and
smoked great plpeslui oil TOBACCO, and wrote all
manner oil 0dd rhymes, lrfegnlar and lunny as
9hel[ own es-untlI-uhtii thefe came sud
ueh !IaSn anu slheli ol powder, ana wheh the
CLOUDS plew away tiley were all gone, IKE the
So2llhs III l9 i3 Oastle Spectre e!
a queer GA peacelui time When Macaulay
W H. tlat letter 10 hVes OIL Vlrglnia, ana pre-