Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Previous Page
–
Next Page
OCR
Mba tte asneail ein. Neat, The Ws? tg
Be Kwesi Raa hana” sateen iat aa ommaat
ollie el
+
j
{
q
Notices to Correspondents,
Accepted.—Adele, a romance, by Mrs. G. S. Pollock.
-——The Murderer Frustrated, a sketch, by A. Sharp
Spigh.—Four Leaves from a Domestic Drama, by
W. W. Robinson.—-Ruth Rainsforth’s Story, or
Moral Worth versus Pride of Birth, by Aria Ashland.
Declined.—Fitz P., a sketch, by W. W. R.—Isa-
bella Valdez, a romance, by Mrs. T. B. G.
The Bridal of Louisiana, a Tale of the Nineteenth
Century, will be read soon, and an answer given in
our notices to correspondents.
Humorous Sketches, of from one to two and three
columns in length, if of merit, will find a ready mar-
ket in the Museum. Give ear, ye wits and humorists:
All authors are earnestly requested to write their
manuscripts legibly, and pay careful attention to
proper punctuation and paragraphs. Many contribu-
tions are at once rejected, because these necessary
rules are disregarded.
Several answers to correspondents are deferred till
our next, .
The Drama.
Mrs. Mowatt was married at Ravens-
wood, last week, to Wm. F. Ritchie, Esq.
Miss Logan is playing in New York.
Mrs. Fleming, of the National, has gone
to St. John, N. B. . : :
H.C. Jordan and W. H. Curtis of the
National, have leased the Hall in that build-
ing for theatrical entertainments.
The benefit to the. widow. of the late
Luke West, vocalist, at the Music Hall, last
week, realized a handsome sum to Mrs.
West. :
| Tux Drama—The following remarks
were made by Mrs. Mowatt, in the course
of her farewell address in this city :
“Jn bidding yo adieu, I cannot but ex-
t the Drama will ever, be
y you, and that by you it may
be wholly freed from those abuses which have
shadowed its luster and impaired its useful-
,ness. There must be a starting point for
all reform, and what your city has already
effected towards that reform proves that in
commencing here its onward progress is as-
sured. It was here that our theaters were
first’ purged from their worst evils—here
that it was proved that the Drama could
flourish separated from those evils which
are no more a legitimate part of the stage
itself than a temporary disease is a part of
an afflicted mortal. What an instrument of.
good the Drama was designed to be—what
a mighty instrument it can be made, it is in
your power to prove. I, who have loved it
perhaps too well, have no dearer wish, in
aying aside the mantle of the actress, than
to impress this truth upon you.” :
oh, MONODY
On the Death of Mrs, G. Ml. Barrett.
[The following lines were written for the occasion
of the benefit which was to have been given at the
National Theater, for the purpose of providing a
Monument to Mrs. Barrett at Mount Auburn. They
are now published at the suggestion of friends of the
author.} : -
*. The memory of the Dead!—that fairy dream,
Embodied once, now vanished down life’s stream,
Too fair, too fleeting, as all visions are
That flit across the fancy like a star, ©
Which gleams, elating us, and gleaming, dies,
For each sweet throb it caused, exchanging sighs,
That dream, that star,—O mem’ry! sad, strange
power—
Still the lost light thou show’st us in this hour,—
But while we gaze, we grieve: Death, like a cloud,
Has borne away our idol in a shroud.
Alas! in vain we trace the rayless track—
It frowns conviction—she will ne'er come back!
Thoee radiant features, filled with classic grace;
That queenly figure and elastic he mes
Th’ expressive gesture of that arm and hand,
Ne’er raised except to charm, persuade, command ;
The sybil readings of the tongue, that ‘seemed ‘
Quick to interpret all the author dreamed ;
The syren music of those varying tones, ,
Which now no mortal voice can claim it owns,—
Dodge's Literary Aluseum,
Which gave new force to thought, and, Orpheus-
like, . .
Enchanted—winging, as perchance they strike
E’en now, on seraphs’ ears, in courts above—
The mournful sweetness of that baffled love
Which never died within her, but gave all
Tler after accents the sad rise and fall
Of their heart-moving melody—O friends!
For these delights, what lives to make amends?
‘When in your arbors dics the glowing rose,
What substitute?—no other flower that blows:
Though each fond soil display its fav’rite child,
None of those tenants of parterre or wild,
Though each with some rare rayishments may
shine,
Like our lost BARRETT, all in one combine!
Unhappy genius! Fame could not repair
The wrong pride did thee. From thy heart's de-
Over blighted love,—when he, the honored, died,
Who sought thee, vainly, his forbidden bride,—
From out thy desolation all griefs grew
Which o’er thy future life a shadow threw,
Dimmed the rich plumage of thy bright renown,
And strove, forevermore, to bring thee down:
But the strong eagle soared, with broken wing!
The bleeding bird, though wand’ring, still could
ing!
And though the voice was sad, and lower the flight,
We owned the melody, admired the might.
Let them who bear the ruined hopes of years
Attest how hard her Jot, and give their tears:—
Of some brave citadel, o’erpowered at last,
We may deplore the present,—but the past
Outshines the wreck, with golden years of fame,
And makes a word immortal of its name! .
Hearts would be human, did all virtues cease,
Crushed, with the shrine of dear Domestic Peace;
Yet her good heart, as noble as her mind,
‘Was ever generous, charitable, kind. -
None knew and loved her more than Friendless-
ness; .
The face which others praised, the poor would
bless.
In dreariest home, as in the gaudiest hall,
“Her voice was ever low and musical,
‘An excellent thing in Woman!”
>
And over Webster's death, while standing here,
She waved the torch of tributary gloom,
And called your votive sorrow to his tomb:
And now, the mourner is the mourned. She
sh -
sleeps— : .
Where Art, with Nature, friendly vigil keeps,
_ O’er many of the lovely, loved and lost,
None lovelicr than she. Her spirit crost
The sea of death, calm as e’er angel trod,
In hope and gentleness, that path to God.
There, on His bosom, gifted BARRETT! rest;
Thy mortal beauties in Mount Auburn’s breast:
The Stage, thy home, shall shield thee! You fair
ne .
Shall frame thy relics with its fadeless green,
While, watched by thy true type, the evening star,
Thy name, in marble, speaks to ages far!
Rights and Wrongs of Woman.
We copy the following from Dickens’s
Household Words. It is the picture of
woman as Heaven intended she should be:
“ The true woman, for whose ambition a
husband’s Jove and her children’s adoration
are suflicient, who applies her military in-
stinets to the discipline of her household,
and whose legislative faculties exercise
themselves in making laws for her nursery ;
whose intellect has field enough for her in
communion with her husband, and whose
heart asks no other honors than his love and
admiration ; a woman who does not think it
a weakness to attend to her toilet, and
who does not disdain to be beautiful; who
believes in the virtue of glossy hairs and
well-fitting gowns, and who eschews scents
and raveled edges, slip-shod shoes ‘and au-
ious make-ups; a woman who speaks
low, and does not speak much; who is pa-
tient _and gentle, and intellectual and in-
dustrious ; who loves more than she reasons,
and yet does not love blindly; who never
scolds, and rarely argues, but whoadjusts with
a smile. A woman who is the wife we have
all dreamed of once in our lives, and who is
the mother we still worship in the backward
distance of the past; such a woman as this
does more for human nature and more for
woman's cause, than all the 8ea-captains,
barristers, judges, and members of. parlia-
ment put together—God-given and God-
blessed as she is!” .
£a> Tue amount of tea raised in China
annually is 2,200,000,000 pounds, of which
Literature and Art.
Fetripce & Co. have published a
handsome pamphlet report of the Boston
Slave Riot and Trial of Anthony Burns,
with all the chief concomitants. We un-
derstand it is meeting with a rapid sale.
Get it for reference.
Rogers has. been regarded for half a
century as one of the classic and standard
poets of Great Britain. Tis brightness has
been dimmed sometimes by the superior
luster of poetical comets and meteors, but
they pass away, and there is Rogers stil
shining, a fixed star in the pure upper
heaven of song. His career has been one
of such unclouded prosperity and populari-
ty as has been seldom vouchsafed to man.
In his youth he was the intimate compan-
ion of Fox; in his age he was the familiar
friend of Wellington. No man, probably
—whether king of a nation or of the Ex-
change—ever entertained so many distin-
guished persons under’ his own roof as
Rogers has collected in his elegant little
mansion in St. James Place during the last
fifty years. His first production made him
famous, and his latest’ work was universally
received by the critics as fulfilling all the
promise of his youth. With the present
generation, perhaps, his “Italy” is more
generally popular than “The Pleasures of
Memory,” but both will continue to be en-
joyed as long as purity and beauty of senti-
ment, and scholarlike accuracy and elegance
of expression, are appreciated by the lovers
of true poetry.
Rogers has a million pound bank-note
framed and hung up in his London resi-
dence. It contains the most interesting lines
in his possession.
' Mrs. Eauty C. Jupson, widely known
by the assumed name of Fanny Forrester,
lately died, at her residence in Hamilton,
Madison Co., N. Y., after months of severe
illness. The N. Y. Atlas says,
“ The seeds of her disease were no doubt
contracted during her residence at the Bur-
mah Mission, as the devoted wife and co-
worker of the late Dr. Judson. She was a
lady of singular powers of mind, and a most
graceful and accomplished writer, and her
loss will no doubt be severely felt by a large
circle of personal friends, to whom she had
endeared herself by; her many estimable
private virtues.”
Critics anp AuTHoRSs-Among the
pains and penalties of authorship, the criti-
cal censorship of the press has had its share.
Cumberland once said, “ Authors should be
shelled like the rhinoceros;” but it would
hard, says one, were the linnet or the
nightingale to cease from warbling because
they cannot sing ina storm. Severe and
unmerited criticism has been but too fre-
quently the bane of literature, although, as
in the instance of Byron, it has ultimately
tended to elicit the nobler developement of
talent,. which otherwise might never have
been brought into action. Some writers
have been driven mad, and others have act-
ually died of criticism. " Hawkesworth was
a case of the latter, and Tasso of the former.
Ix another column will .be found’ a
lengthy and interesting announcement of
the recent organization of an Art and Lit-
erary Association for the encouragement of
Literature and the Fine Arts in the United
States. We feel that large numbers of our
readers, in every part of the country, will
cordially approve the design of the Associ-
ation, to which at an early period we shall
Great Britain consumes 55,000,000 pounds.
devote our attention at more length.
Srr Isaac Newton had mastered the
highest elements of the mathematics before
he was 20. At 25 he had discovered the
new principles of the reflecting telescope,
the laws of gravitation, and the planetary
system. At 30 he occupied the mathemat-
ical chair at Cambridge.
Monument to Bunyan.—It is in con-
templation to erect a monument to John
Bunyan side by side with Milton and
Shakspeare in Westminster Abbey.
Mustc.—G. P. Reed & Co. have issued
Sonatina No. 3, in C. Major, for the piano,
by Carl Czerny; and I have a Garden of
My Own, words by Thomas Moore, music
by F. Suck.
Oliver Ditson has just issued, in an ele-
gant style, A. E. Miiller’s Method for the
piano, revised by Julius Knorr and translat-
ed from the German. Every amateur pian-
ist should obtain it.
Macuixery.—There is said to be more
work done in England by machinery than’
all the men and women in the world could
do without it.
BuinpNEss in JapAN.—In Jeddo, the
capital of Japan, there are 26,000 blind
persons. That accounts for the fact that.
they cannot see the propriety of our open-
ing their ports for them.
ga> “ Tuar was a very good speech,”
said-a friend to Charles James Fox, “ but it
won't read well.”
“ The best speeches seldom do,” was the
statesman’s reply. ‘“ People see their shal-
lowness when the veil of oratory is with-
drawn.” .
“3§- WeE’ seldom’ find a store, in any
place, that contains so large a’ variety of
goods of all descriptions as that of P. Mc-
Gowans, at Windsor Locks, Ct. . Every-
thing, from a yard of tape to a French bu-
reau—all kinds of articles, domestic and
‘imported—can be found at his famous ba-
zaar of trade. It is one of the largest es-
tablishments in the State.
Europe. *
Austria and Prussia are about to de-
mand that the Russians shall abandon the
Turkish territories. They have invited the
codperation of. Germany. The - Russians
are endeavoring to prevent communications
between Varna and Silistria, where, their
operations are temporarily suspended, ow-
ing to a defeat sustained by their General,
Luder. They have also been defeated by
the Circassians. Persia will remain - neu-
tral. ‘oe
The ultimatum to Greece demands the
observance of a strict neutrality, and the
punishment of all those who have joined the
rebellion, the immediate recall of all civil
and military officers who have joined it,
and the refusal to re-admit into the public
service those who had resigned office, or
left to join the insurrection. If these eate-
gorical demands are not granted by the 22d,
the throne is to be declared vacant, and a
new government established. , France will
augment the army in Turkey to 170,000
men, in order to carry on the war with vig-.
or, particularly as no complaints about the
sacrifices which the country must make are
to be heard anywhere.
The Russian soldiery are so severe in
their treatment of the people of Finland,
that it is said the Finns are leaving their
country .in great numbers. We presume
that the Finns go by water. . -