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A ALOT
_ SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE
VANCE,
“VoL. XXL
Poet’s 3 Corner, te
y Poetry originally sprang 5 froin cane and was consecra-
to pleasure. ‘In the first ages of mankind their minds
must have been struck with sublime conceptions—with
awe and admiration on beholling the grand phenomena of | !@*
Nature. "“The daily rising and setting of the Sun, follow-
ed by the lovely Moon and her starry train—the bright-
ness of young nature around, rejoicing gratefully before
- her Creator—combined with the numberless other crea-
tures of God to inspire man with the noblest ideas. A-
mong the Poets of more polished times we are to look for
the graces of correct writing, for just proportion of parts
and skilfully. condensed narratives, but amidst the rude
scenes of nature; amidst rocks, and torrents, ‘and whirl-
winds, and battles, dwells the sublime of former ages —
‘They ‘vere forced into metaphorical expressions for they
- had not words enough to express their ideas, and their
perfection consisted in the: nearest, possible “approach
“fo what was felt to be natural. ~« The’ characters
of taste, when brought to its’ most improved state, are
delivery and correctness,” says Dr. Blair ; and this again
is the nearest approach to what is natural. When other
Poets are forgotten the beauties of Shakspeare will swell
the human heart, because he is the child of nature's soft
expression—he will be ever esteemed, for he will be ever
natural. By way of exemplifying our opinions we might
cite a thousand little extracts from the standard Poets ;
- but as novelty has its charms permit ’us to introduce
child of ten years old, and see how naturally his ideas
flow, and how sweetly he expresses his simple thoughts.
, - LINES FOR THE MANTEL: PIECE...
Surly winter cotne not here
Bluster in thy native sphere
Howl along the naked plain,
There eney Yanks joyless
: oer the vwaherad flower,
: The Teniless shrub, the ruined bower;
nd fancy scorn thy sway}
d joy and friendly mirth" °
Shall bless this roof—this hoine—this hear
The rigour of the year control
‘And thaw the winter of the
ma child’ had geen
the flower beans scattered and decayed, and the shrubs
and bowers laid wase. . This he felt was winter, ‘because
joy from these sources was absent from his heart; but he
‘ejoices that, his home is beyond the control of the rest-
wh Jess clements., ; This was the boy's first attempt at poetry.
To make his second essay distinct, it is only necessary to
‘tay; that at the age’ of two years his father left for ano-
ther | nd, and that -he is since unheard of.’ The picce
‘opens with the father’s parting from his child, and con-
dudes sith the fondest Wishes of the child ‘for hig long
Jost father
Ve Kole ou prey Ob! God of love, my child—my
Uni we both ehiall meet tagain-—ob! keep him in thy
Fe.”
COME.
every j sada wears his shape, along the dusky toay.
And 8 Tye wate d these eight Iong years, v within a lonely
| Why! dont my futher
‘yet story dream of hope is vain,
hiss! I fear me het is dead —who will Me troubles hare,
‘me revel
tohere his form is laid—and revel there.
On Frater rary be you are sick upon the strangers shoré-»
write ‘
Mother oft says it must be so—ol ts once
art om WHEW A Ab ad
ore," os
And let your katte son come ere’ to press: “goer aching el
Aad raise the cordial to. your Lips, oad snceth your restless
bedi ROS Siw Yanan
pote ut wl it oser. i Googe, a
‘4 Goblin Story 9 some ells that rane the old’. Year’ out
“and ¢ Soryeh. af rin, B Charles Dickens. Pp, 475.
* Chapman and Hall Londhn. .,.
re’ Dickens may ring the old year ont nt and - the we year
in} but if we may, judge from the popularity of hie Christ-
smas Ce ion, or ¥4 pearly
dition for every month of the: departing 1844, he, in
‘pint of fact, eat to bing and: “Ting all the "year
rougt ‘ * i
“ey ith the present rotume weare stopped on’ the ‘hres:
hpold by 8 frontispiece and a title. epee, for whiel
tor aud the public are indebted to the exuberant: fancy
é mazicof the ofmer and ‘the exuisite
tne of the latter, are in‘leed worthy of bis fame.
ae are oatpourings of i inoagi ination * fall cou pact 7 y and
“P
&
T watch | for ‘hima at ‘evening’ twig
a
to confess the truth, the wonderful
heir combinations, their endles
drawing and
10 us to be present ‘on one
immense a display of invention, ex
ver seen in an entire
art. In the
emblem of coming sp ‘ing, in the cent
to the cbarming iiea conveyed by the
jar subjects “and ‘illustrated with the
conception of {
ecuion, nts
zrial beings
up towards the ‘Ries the last jetters of the name of
ens—above the ken:
Eruth ts powertul and will prevatl,
ss NEW-VORK; ‘SATURDAY, FEBRUARY: 8,°1845,
Jorms,
28 variety and beauty, their
ing throughout the belfry scene, seem
na pon
work devoted te ‘simi
@ greatest powers ol
title. page 100, besides the delicious bacchate,
int
lift ting
Dick.
f mori
other enbelabiments by Stanfield, J. Leech, and
Tl
R. Doyle, are all of
highly attractive,
the old church and Will Fern’:
them approp)
riate, and eeveral of them
Stanfel's two delightiul landscapes,
's cottage, are quite worthy
of his penel if employed upon an, Ishin 0 or a. Mounts
Leech’s portrait of the hero, Trotty V. capi-
taland characteristic and his residence of Sir done
Bowley, with its hall and library occupants, 50 his
concluding humorcus New. -yeat's dance, are 2 eeceelnely
well done: | Nor must we pss 3
belles his dinner on the steps, and
fair examples of more than rising tal
r. Doyle without
he bas rather inetenotpheced Troty among the
Trotty at home,
lent, vie is th
we believe, of the famous and interminable
Bs faving thus paid our jespects to the ate what shall
say of theauthor? . {t woul
eabsurb to say
praise,
are
he son,
much,
for almost all thé theatres in Kondon are ringing with his
bells,-and they will be i in every bod
even before we can hay
story is more imaginative than that ofthe Chritsmas
and the inculcation of benevolence towards the
more palpably .and satirically enforce
ley, arich unfeeling personage ;.an
stat ation, W
who are contrasted with the “, fed,
«Sit Josep!
ars} The
a Saturday's pullat them. . The
Carel,
Fan in
and imulthusian statistician; Al-
derman Cute, a caricatured magistrate ; +
h Bow-
superior
ill-clotlfed,
ill-paid, and suffering lower onlers—might pizhaps have
been equally effective had_som
wit
ness. , All the weal
the high
there is enough of
lights among the
alloy
vanity, ieee foolleries, or heard-heart
n_ incorporated
ted-
ndon are not selfish, nor all
in given foaiees though,.
ig ades,. were it only for the sake
truth and justice, thonghit might have interfered a litte
wi ith {he broad general desiyn..
regard to the other matters which strikes ‘us on
this volume, we ma:
arly runner of errands,
ma creation of the
tie deporte of
author's, with great
bserve,. that
is a perfect!
nature, an}
Trotty
origi-
ark
with ‘neidental touches of mingled ain licity, pathos,
raiture he 0 eminent.
Jin
and humour, i in which genus of portrai
gs ps
excels,
The full swing given to his imagination in
a bell-worldof visions is ably balanced with’ the, busi-
actual existence, in -whicl
rdtty, his
sweet
daughter Meg, her lover the blac! smith Richard, Will
Fem, Lillian,
And the winding up of
with the poetic
so much of pain and sorrow, and
We hardly
which so
but for thet sitant and foreign w
amples, , Of Trotty !, the descriptiv
«The:
speed if it didn't make it.
and Mrs. Chickenstalker, are concerned,
the dream will gratify all -readers
al judgement which has spared .to_ misery
ermitted ‘0 ‘Tripe: 80
potent an jnfluence on the literature of Englan
perhaps; most likely; but rob him of his trot, and
would have taken to his bed and died,
with mud in dirty weather ; it cost him a
world of tre
he could have walked: with infinitely freater ease
that was one reasoi
A woah, small, spare 0
his Toby, in his
He deli
nd couldn’t wel! lord to
old mi
ood intentions.
very p
with a delight-—t
ike to make any extracts from a ork with
of our friends must already be familiar;
ve select atew brief e
called hon Trotty: from his pace, which meant
Ile could have walked faster
Toby
|. .o It bespattered him
uble;
3 but
in for his elin ‘ing to it so tenaciously.
e was a very Ile!
He loved 'e earn his
ted to believe—Toby was
cules,
oor,
hat he
was worth his salt, . Witha ching or an cighteenpenny
message or small parcel in hand, his eourag
rose higher. , As he trotted on, be ‘would fesinoey to fast
fe ostmen ahead of him to get out of tI
ie
igh,
he way; devoutly be-
ving that in the maura course of things he must inevi-
ably overtake and, ru
fai —not often vestetin his bein:
thing that man . cot
and he had
ig able to carry: al
perfect
ny-
Thus, even when he came
Falling aut into the road to
when the chimes resound
ied, Toby trotted still,
ibis, lat, excursion several times a. day, for
wring on is
Jook up at the
chilly
ly defend-
belfry
» He made
they were
and when he heard their voices, he had
an interest in glancing at their week
how they ‘were moved,"and what
th
the wind and rain drivin | inw
outsides of all those houses § never
the blazing fires that plea amed +
wind lows, OF
incapable of pation inanyeof d
Were constantly being
and the atea ralingse to prodigious. eo
ent at many windows
youthful faces, pleasant
but Toby knew no more (though he
these uiflee, standing idle i in the atreet
place, and thi
getting
inking
hem.
hung there in all weathers; with
only the
any nearer to
‘out and shone. upon
e dut of, the chimney tops: and
the
e good ‘hings that
handed, "ough the siect doors
8 came
3 vometiines pretty faces, | ¥:
faces: sometimes the reverset
oiten epeculated on
8) whence they
i ban Y
or where they. went, or whether, when the lips moved,
one kind word was said of him n all the year, than aid
the chimes themse eB? vet vi
Jroity is.eating ie humble mess. of tripe, when several
ae aracters we have alluded to sppear, and are thus
sl
c= This a description of animal. food, alderman,” said
Filer, inaling Jittle punches in it -with
*‘commonly known ro the Jal
country by the aime of tripe.
and winked; for he was a merry fellow Adlerman Cate.
h, and a sly fulow too!
every thing. » Not to be imposed upon.
ple’s hearts! ». He knew them, Cute did.
* But who eats tripe?” said Mr. Filer, looking rou
« Tripe is, without exception, the least economical and
the frost rastefl article of consumption that the market
f the country can possibly pro: ‘The loss. upon a
pound ott tripe bas been found to re in the boiling seven-
eighths of a fifth more than the loss upon a pound of any
other animal substance whatever. . Vripe is more expen-
sive properly understood, than the hot-house pine apple,
Taking into account the number of cattle siaughtered
eres within the bills of mortality alo one, vand forming a
low estimate of the quality of tripe which the carcasses
animals reasonabl ‘well butchers, would pields
Tint that the waste on that amount ot of tripe, i boil led,
would yictual a-garrison of five hundred wren fo r five
months of thirty-one days each, and a February over,
waste, the waste!” Trotty stood aghast, and his
legs shook under him. He scene to have starved a gar-
of five hundred men with his own hand. ‘# Who
cals tripe?” said Mr. Filer, waraly, “ Who eats tripe?
u rotty made a miserable bow.: «* You do, you?” said
ir, Wiler. “Then T'll tell you something.’ You snatch
wee tripe, my fiend, out of the mouths of widows and
orphans.” ; «I hope ‘not, sir,” said Trotty,
sooner die of want! le the amount of tripe before
mentioned, alderman sid ‘Me, Filer, “ but the estimated
number of e saad orphans, and the result
be one ‘pennyswerght oft tripe to each.
leit for the man. Coneequently, he’s a robber.” “Trotty
Was 60 that it gave him to concern no see the
alderman finieh the tripe himself. It was relief to get rid
it, anyhow, : “And what say 2” asked the
alderman jocosely, of the red-faced geitleman in the blue
“Sd
2
coat. mu hav riend Filer. lo you
say ” Wi hs ws it possible to say ” returned the gentle.
ni to be vid?” Who can take any interest
meaning Ti ty «in ench degene-
rand old times, the great old times?
Those wate the times for a bold easantry, and all that
sort of thing. Those were the times for eve oy sort of
i nothing now-a-day;
sighed the red-faced egnilerman, “the good ‘old times, the
good old times gentleman didn’t epee ify what
particular times he alluded” to; nor did he say whether
e objected ro ihe present times, from a dintrested con-
oneness th 'y had done nothing very remarkable in
roduciny “The good old times, the good old
times,” repeated the gentleman, « « What imes they were!
they were the only times. . It’s 0 talking about | «
any other times, or rsiacussing shat the bee are in these
times. , You don’t call these times, de you
ook into Strutt's costumes, and see er used to
be, in any of the good old English reigns.” «He halu’t,
in hit very best circumstances, a shirt to his’ back, or a
stocking to his foot; and thi here was scarcely a vegetable
in al E ogi for him to to his mouith,” said
Fil can prove it Dy tibles " But still the red-faced
gentleman extolled the good old times, the grand old times,
the great old times.» No matter what an:
them; as a poor squirrel turns and
tarng in its revolving sees touching the mechanism and
trick of which, it has probably quite as distict_ percep.
tions, as ever this red- fat gentleman had of hi in deceosed.
Jtis possible that poor old Trotty’s faith in
vague old times was ‘not entirely Aesraye, ‘ort he felt
Vague enough at that moment, ing, however, was
Plain to him, in the midst him dene to wit, that how.
ever these gentlemen mignt differ in details, his migivings
of that morning, and of many other mornings, were well
foun NO» we can’t’ go right of do ee
thought Trotty i in, _lespair. The: ere is no good in u
ire horn ba
From this half a ecene-—for Alde jerman Cato (vient
aime ry slight fonndation at a worthy and etfit-
ient magistrate) also playsa ‘@ speci
tnnioger at least o anotier tone, and different fro’
ani sei
“Tt wasa hard frost, that day. The air was bracing,
crisp, and clear. The wintry sun,: though: powerless for
warmth, looked brighily down upon the ice’ it was too
weak to melt, and set. u radiant “glory theres At other
times, Trowy ‘might iave | learned a poor man's lesen from
the wintry sun; but he wee past that how. fe yent
was old that day. » The patient year* had lived throweh
thereproaches and misases oie slanderers, and faithfal.
ly performed its ne, suminer, aucinny witier
It had labored throwah thet desed round, and -now. laid
down its weary heat to die, t from hape, high
impulse, active happiness itself, at messenger of many
joys to others, it nade appeal in itsdectine to Have ts toil-
ing days and intent hours remembered, and to die in
pea hentty might have,read a poor man’ 3 allegory 4 ‘in
the fuling years but he was past that. how.”> And anly
he has the like appeal been ever made, by ‘sevent ty
yearsat once upon an English laborers bend, and made in
ain? “Che streats were full ‘of my tha’ shops
ng Tyra Rees ino
came,
* This is surely a wey strange styles aad seers 'e have
drawn apon the wri
ie as OFFICE Na. 70 BAYARD.
Hoy STREET@ IN THE REAR,
Uae We Te ee Rec beeen at
soe tee tact NOL 6
were decked out gaily,” The new year, like an infant
heirto the whole eats ee waited for with presets,
welcomes and rejois were books and toys
for the news, glen inkels er the new schemes
entions to beguile it. © "The life
was parcelled out in almanacks and pocket books; the
coming of its moons, stars, and tives, was, Known before-
hand to the moment ; all the working of it ‘seasons ia
their days and nights, was calculated with a much pre~
cision as Mr. Filer could work sums in men and women.
The new year, the new year, everywhere the new year!
The old year was already looked upon as dead, and its
effects were selling cheap, like some drowned mariners
aboard ship. Its pattern’s were last yeais, and going at a.
sactifice, before its breath was gone. treasures were
mere dirt beside the riches of its unborn successor, Trot-
¥ had no Potion, to his Shinking, i in the new year or the
m down, put ’em down, ood old bmese
eos one times, Put ’ein down. put" va down —his trot
went to that measnre, and would fit itself to nothing else.
Buteven that one, melancholy as it was, brought him im
duetime to the end of his journeys te ithe mansion of Sir
whey, member of Parliament. ‘The d
opened by a porter, Such @ po: ret! Not of Toby’s or~
der; quite avother thing. hs Jace was the ticket
‘oby’s. Tis poner ‘underwent. some bard
usly out “hair ‘Without first taking
time to think vou itand compose his mind.» When he
ad found his voice—which it took him some time to do,
He it was a long way off and hidden under a load of meat
e said in ait whispers “who's it from» © Tohy
“You're to take it i
inting to 70 smat ibe ent of s lo long et opening
from the hall. « Every thing spesstraih ton thieday of
of the year. - You’ a bit too soo! @ cartiage is.
atthe door now, ‘and th ney have only one “ town now
for a couple of hours, a’ purpose.” “Toby wiped his feet
(which were quite dry already) with great care, and too!
the way pointed out to him; observing as he went that it
was an awfully gran
and a much statelier genta, w whose ata
the table, walked up and down, with one hand on his
breast and looking com complaciy from time to time at his
own picture—a
over the fire-place. «What is thee said -namé
genueman. « Mr. Fish, will you have the goodness to.
attend 2” Mr, Fish begzed pardon, and taking the letter
im Toby, handed it with great respect From Alder-
man Cute, Sir Jo «Is this all? have you nothing
else porter 2" inguited § Sir Joseph.” Toby: replied in th
negative, "If you have, present it There a cheque-
jook by the side of Mr. Fi ‘she T glow nothing to be
earch ‘into the new year.
is settled in this | house at the ‘ne of the old on:
(o———"
that if death w: fe cat”
To
dering now and then as in the great
tions, “at this scason of the year, we ‘ jould think, of -of
reelves, We should look into our—our accounts,
should feel that every return of 80 eventiul a period in
homnn transactions involves matters of deep | moment be-
tween a man and his—and his banker.’
it Joseph felivered these worts as if he felt “the fall
orality 0 what he ane and .desired that even
Trotty should have ay °p portunity of being improved by
such discs @ bad this end before him
still toreuring to vest A e tei of the letter, and in tel->
ling Trotty to > wait whee he was al me inute. -* You were
desiring Mr, Fish to say, my lady—' observed Sir Joseph,
‘ fish has said that, I elves eared his lady,
glancing at the Jetter,
Tdom't think I can let it
«What is dear? inguir
love, ‘They only allow two voues for a subscription of
five! pounds, » Really monstrous ? + vwley,?
returned Sir Joseph, “you surprise men Is. the Juxary of
Feelin to the number ‘of votes? or is it
tightly constituted in proportion to the number’ of appli-
cants, and the -wholesome state of mind to which their
anotle ‘vonilemen t * thought Trot
Cute here, fur instance? said Sir be holding out the
Yetter. | «IT dowt aeree with the Filer
with any party. My friend se poor
with anything of that sort, an vohing of that sort has
any business ¥ with him. » My: friend the poor man, in iny
district, ie my business, No man or body ef mi dasany
right to interfere hetween ny friend and ime . Th at is th
ground I take.'* i assum
wanls my friend.
a aternall f
been’ ms ‘eel Ore” comfortal
my cool howe pursned Sir Joseph, king tae -
at Toby+ * only burincss in Yeo
needa't rouble Yourself to think about aay. y wal