ix m_crely.nor for any merely temporary advantages, but with reference to a future empire. on have, as we have said, been greatly blessed.-— And ’ it now remains for their children to prove themselves worthy ofsuch sires, by carrying forward and perfecting the institutions which they began, with A wise reference to the improved condition of society. The savage has been driven oil’. The for. osts have given place to smiling harvest-fields. The resources of the country are every where developing themselves.. .Good institutions have gained a pro; scriptivo title to ourregard. The fabric of govern. mont, we may hope, is settling down to a firmer base, and gaining strength by age. Let us now strive for ahettcr literature, and a sounder learning; for some of the real refinement and grace of life. Let nojprofligate reviler, with any appearance of truth, '¢‘3_!!_.!&,7 9£.°‘I..I'.y1ative. land, , s - . ' ‘ Mind, mind alone, without whose quickenlng ray, . The-worlms a wilderness, and man but clay, Mind, mind alone, in barren still repose, , Nor blooms, nor rises, nor expands, nor flows.’ When that day comes, when we shall neglect all liberal pursuits, because they do not minister palpa- bly and directly to personal advancement, or a sor- did love of gain ; when the remoter influences of letters and taste on individual character shall be disregarded and despised; when we shall listen ox- clusively to these political economists, who legis- late for men's bodies. but forget that they have souls ; when we shall blight, by a cold derision, all gener- susfpnrposesand high aspirations ;——-when that day comes, ‘ Sod rnlhi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscatti ‘the era of our national decline will have begun ; our ancestral honors will be our shame and our re- proach {ignorance and barbarism will spread over and blight all that endears or ennobles life. life may livofor a while, indeed, on the patrimony of which we have proved ourselves unworthy, we may have fora while, a Tyrian ora Turkish greatness, but ‘thick darkness will cover the land, and gross dark- ness the people.’ ' Trrt.,LxrsaAav Resume or J. B. Lam), M. D. with s. sltbtch ofthe‘ author’s life, 1 vol. lflmo. pp. 5228.——— New C. Sleight.-—The faithfulness of a sister's atfection libs now, for the first time, collected a'nd_'insde public, these remains of a youth of high ‘promise, who nearly fifty years ago, at theearly ago of 99, fell in a duel in South Carolina. The me. moir of the life of this young man illustrates forcibly the valueand effects of that sclfcducation respecting which we have already given such eloquent. extracts to.diy. He was wholly selfitsught, and that too in spitelof all obstacles, and the discouragcments of his own faiiiilyicircle. A native of Rhode Island, he raiscdforhimself there so high a character, that when her cherished son, General Green, returned, after the peace, ‘to ‘enjoy at home his well earned honors, youiigwlsadd soon attracted his notice and concilia- ted esteem, and finally at his suggestion, and upon tho strength of introductions from him, the saviour of the "South determined to go to S. Carolina and practise his profession. Accordingly, at the age of 20 hejbogan his career as a physician, in Charleston, and anion, became distinguished, alike for his profes- sionalslrill and literary ncquirements,» and was pro- ceeding, in a route that promisedfarne and afllu- gncg’ hgn “u:£1_-iv9lpus.qua.r,raly-s-thavtflflmoir 8031953‘- was fasteneld upon (him; he received agchallenge, fend, though disapproving the practice’, could not re- concile himself to the disgrace a refusal might en- ", "tail upon him,,feught and fell. Thugs: E‘ remains" consist of short poem! on Vari- " (mg uibjocts, a fragment of an oration on the 4th July, 1785, delivered at the request of and before Gov.._Moultrie,a critique on the style of Dr. John- son, and visomo other prose pieces; and, taken, as th¢y,u\hu.s‘t_.‘be,_.as the productions of a very’ young snan,d:who,,i'n.,despi_te of allyobstacles, had educated “T},_i.',,.!jg_;1,p,g gm pf no or-dilaryipromise. TsfI""§nl'1*I9IiS-A'rilus'r: C. P. -Fessendcn, Broads syay.-'-i-W-itliout‘ going deeper into the philosophy of the heai‘t‘,'A‘tlie?;:aus‘evj, of the ‘satirical Their endeav- AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. pilgrimage, founded our colleges and schools. and framed all their institutions, not for themselves Swift :—- “ We laugh our hearts out one and all, “ '1‘o see a comrade get a fall.” For however earnestly the moralist may enjoin upon us, that ridicule is no test of truth, it is unliappily the general disposition of men to receive it as such, it must be admitted, that the literathre of no country presents such a body of satirical writings as can writings may be foundjin the familiar couplct of and join in the laughagainst the subject of it. Still T ~73 v .w..—u-‘ms. --lg-n—.. works, may not be inaptly in,troducsd__arnpn_g they rambling observations :-- 3 ‘ . . y - I own I like not Johason’s turgid style, That 'gives'an inch the importance ofa rolls ; Casts of manure a wagon-load around To raise a simple daisy from the ground; Uplifts the club of I{crcule's—-for what ?~—‘ To crush 21 butterfly or brain a goat; ; . Creatcsa. whirlwind from the earth Lodraw A goose'a feather .oi'.sxalt a straw ; ' * ~ ‘ Sets wheels on wheels in motion——sneh a clatter {- To torcc’ up one poor nippérklii ‘or water; ' Bids ocean lai.i_oi',,vvjtl_1 trenicridous roar, To heave acockleorhell upon theshere. t compete at all in quantity with those upon other subjects ; a fact that is_oasily accounted for, when we recollect that most satires are local iutheir appliea. tion, and from referring to characters and manners that are ephemeral and transient, they must have singular merit to redeem them from oblivion when these have passed away. It is Quintillian, we be- lieve, who claims the invention‘ of this species of poetry for the Romans ; among whom the Poet En- nius had the credit of first modifying the scurrillous oxtravaganzas that formed the proludes of their stage into the shape ofa rcgularpoem, and by refining its grossness and polishing its asperity, recommended this species of writing to the men of letters of his time, and the Horaccs and Juvenala that came after therm English literature, though it has produced no moral satirist to equal these, is peculiarly rich in satin ical poetry; and the volume before us, though; it. commences with Pope, and consequently ex- cludes, with Butler and Dryden, all who flourished before his time,‘ contains specimens of no less than twelve different poets. "Among these are the Den- ciad. and Byron’s “ English Bards and Scotch ‘Re- viewers.” Perhaps the most attractive pieces just now, however, while Mr. Crolrer’s book is the sub. ject of so much comment in the literary world, are two poems taking off Boswell, by Dr. VVa.lcot, better known as Peter .Pindar'. T The opening lines of the “ Congratulatory Epistle” to the Prince of Biogra- phers, running——-' A D “ 0 Boswell, Bozzy, Bruce, vrhatemr rhyname,‘ “ Thou mighty Shark for anecdote and lame, “ Thou Jackal] leading Linn Johnson forth " To eat Macpherson in his native n'orLb.", are almost as applicable to Mr. Croker, as to him to whom they were addressed,-—~cxcept that, since the other side. Little did the satirist knowihow completely his words were sooth when he told Hos"- well—‘-— i i D i “Triumphant thou through Timvs vast gulf shall sail, “ The pilot of our literary whale.” Mr. C.’s book got into the mavv of the Edinburgh Vt Review, the Eating at the North has been all on Alike in every l.llelnclll,s‘])0fl1p0U.1vu't, 2 .' }lea.ven’s awful thunder, or _a rambling cart! . : ‘ Oi Pepe, since Byron offered to sacrifice himself upon the altar of his fame. it is unnecessary here to speak as of one coming again into fashion. He always has been and always will be read, by those whosetasto, . is not cramped by a fondness for some new-fanglsd ' school. or vitiated by the saga for -s¢ymafpqpi‘r1ur_‘fi; ' veritc. Justnovv, however, when poets and_plhyers i are neitherinuch, in fashion, there seems to be audio." . position to go back to_ the masterpieces efthoir art ~ _.-the productions of Mass;inger"and‘Ford. Dryden " and Pope; at an swan,‘ in spite .3r,‘m‘. ppintiid ivjizf and biting satire. he will be prevented by his.r‘w,olt- 5 ing grossness from again becominga general'favorite*~.’ A book that one dares not leave ‘lying alioutipiirldrtg i must sooner or later be‘ found in the 1ilira.rics_ofs'cl1‘o. lars_ alone.‘ Allhurchill, strong but ciiarse, -itjiingsy the tomahavvk of satire so much at randomp that in our age of nice manipulation hewould betolers-. if ted with as little patienceas the 'unprofessi_enal‘: soetingyof Captain Iiawiton, itliio, _scieutiii,c,Dr.. merit upon all the names that we findin the.iridox’o:f" this volume, to each or which by the by lthfiere is ‘,1.’ ready a short critical notice‘ attached. Canning‘-we -, think is overrated by the editor as a poet. iversality of this great man’_s genius is what hi. wahena adniiration for it, and if pre.em'inenc§s_'is' is V be claimed forhim iniany thing, oratory shoulidtakio V , tliqpreference. The following linosfronfihis f_.‘~71*l‘éIrN- r Morality" are ‘as’ applicable to the latg eonimotiaxiif the last packet. g y M We heard by her,“of.Loire’.r ansan uinecl flood. , . “ Choked up with slain—ofLyons renched ,' r Mood,:- “ Oicrimes that blot the Bend, the age‘-‘viii: "shame," “ And sickly war the hue ofFreedom’s name." . In conclusion. we have only to remark that this little duodecii-no‘ is a clever colle_ction_oT s:‘ngii.'i’.’_.2.,f_*_._ of the English Juvenal grace the title-pagc_bjf_inelu. ding the Bceviad and Mdeviad in the col:leetiqri.1M',* But here, again, Mr. Croker might divide honors with Boswell :-—- “ Thou curious scmprnonger shalt live in song, “ When Death has stiiled the rattle oi thy tongue.” at 1: as as -in “ Yes, his broad wing has raised thee. “ J1 Tom T1’! twittermg on im Eaglchs 4- is as «r as San bad haclr) acll-' 7" , as at “ And while the Rambler shall a comet blaze, “ And gild a world of Darkness with its rays, “ Thee too that world of wonderment shall hall, “ A lively, bouncing Cracker at its tail.” The last line, it will be observed, requires only the change of a letter to make’ it, literatimvas well as verbatim, applicable to Mr. These pieces, ‘howe‘vcr,,=1.h”ough wittyanaugh, cx'h'ibil;' the usual Oarorrun Svmnroms AND Cash or‘ 'rsa‘Ii~mi.Unsz;A.i--. ‘ From the office of the Journal of V I_fil.ealth,_‘_l'!li' iidbl. phia. This is a treatise teachings ,. sense and without any affectation of '-‘learning.-,' may . be generally read with‘ advantage. ‘We’ laar_rrj:‘_ffrorri‘ o'w'ed'it's’oir‘igin to planetary influenc.e. asperity and want of delicacy of Peter Pindar’s Li;-n-Ens1~o Msnxrxgn L.-mu.~,g,'by Hugh, Sjnii/g,h, British satirists, to him least of any them, can those lines, in which Perseus so exquisitely describes Horace, be applied’:—- ' T T _ Omne vafer vitium ridenti I-‘Iaccns .amfIr.o Tancit, er. adrniseus circum przecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populumsuspendcre naso. Which might be thus paraphrased :—- Arch Flaccus tented with a subtle art‘ ' Oi simpering'fr_iends c_acl_i weakness’ ofthe heart Sportive throughout its inmost eh_ar_nbers played, And food for jeering sly_ly'th‘encc conveyed ; While} easy iooli we:-eel lilicir'f1t'ultlI be'guil'ed,' Exmsedtheirfai.lln5ts:an¢l.disa’eoI¢ll-Bnriledz.-' :- r P . . - , lords." ' _ a ‘tableof tlio_"r I .t'¢9'r't,dI';I1'3J"'!‘:’,'-_§’t writings. 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