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A good historian will be a good philosopher, but will The business of philosophy is to examine and estitake especial care that he be never caught in the atti-mate all those things which come within the cognizance tude of disquisition or declamation. The golden vein of the understanding. Speculations on any, that lie must run through his field, but we must not see rising | beyond, are only pleasant dreams, leaving the mind to out of it the shaft and the machinery. We should the lassitude of disappointment. They are easier than moderate or repress our curiosity and fastidiousness. geometry and dialectics; they are easier than the efforts Perhaps at no time will there be written, by the most of a well regulated imagination in the structure of a accurate and faithful historian, so much of truth as un- poem. These are usually held forth by them as featruth. But actions enow will come out with sufficient thers and thistle-down; yet condescend they nevertheprominence before the great tribunal of mankind, to less to employ them; numerals as matter and mind; exercise their judgment and regulate their proceedings. harmony as flute and fiddle-strings to the dances of the If statesmen looked attentively at every thing past, they stars. In their compositions they adopt the phraseology would find infallible guides in all emergencies. But and curtsy to the cadences of poetry. Look nearer ; leaders are apt to shudder at the idea of being led, and and what do you see before you? the limbs of Orpheus, little know what different things are experiment and bloodless, swollen, broken and palpitating on the cold experience. and misty waters of the Hebrus. Such are the rhapsodical scraps in their visionary lucubrations. would poison Homer, the purest and soundest of moralists, the most ancient and venerable of philosophers, not out of any ill will to him, but out of love to the human race. There is often an enchantment in their sentences, by which the ear is captivated, and against which the intellectual powers are disinclined to struggle; and there is sometimes, but very rarely, a simplicity of manner, which wins like truth. But when ambition leads them toward the poetical, they fall flat upon thorny ground. No writer of florid prose ever was more than a secondary poet. Poetry, in her bright estate, is delighted with exuberant abundance, but imposes on her worshipper a severity of selection. She has not only her days of festival, but her days of abstinence, and, unless upon some that are set apart, prefers the graces of sedateness to the revelry of enthu siasm. She rejects, as inharmonious and barbarous, the mimicry of her voice and manner by obstreperous sophists and argute grammarians, and she scatters to the winds the loose fragments of the schools.

Old men more willingly talk of age than hear others talk of it; and neither fool nor philosopher likes to think of the time when he shall talk no longer.

XXXVII.

A slender shrub, the ornament of your private walk, may, with moderate effort, be drawn strait again from any obliquity; but such an attempt, were it practicable, would crack every fibre in the twisted tree that overshades the forest.

XXXVIII.

We might as well in a drama place the actors behind the scenes, and listen to the dialogue there, as in a history push valiant men back, and protrude ourselves with husky disputations. Show me rather how great projects were executed, great advantages gained, and great calamities averted. Show me the generals and the statesmen who stood foremost, that I may bend to them in reverence: tell me their names, that I may repeat them to my children.

XXXIX.

Affectation.-There is nothing in poetry, or indeed in society, so unpleasant as affectation. In poetry it arises from a deficiency of power and a restlessness of pretension; in conversation, from insensibility to the Graces, from an intercourse with bad company, and a misinterpretation of better.

XL.

Oblivion throws her light coverlet over the infancy of life; and, soon after we are out of the cradle, we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it; and weariness follows, which ever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look round us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

XLI.

It is in the regions of the earth as in the regions of the air, the warm and genial are absorbed by the cold and void, and tempests and storms ensue.

XLII.

Secresy and mystery drive the uninitiated into suspicion and distrust; an honest man will never propose, and a prudent man will never comply with the condition. What is equitable and proper lies wide open on the plain, and is accessible to all, without an entrance through labyrinth or defile.

XLIV.

Men of powerful minds, although they never give up Philosophy, yet cease by degrees to make their professions in form, and lay ultimately the presents they have received at the feet of History. The deeds of past ages are signally reflected on the advancing clouds of the future: here insurrections and wrecks and conflagrations; here the ascending, there the drooping diadem; the mighty host, the mightier man before it ; and, in the serener line on the horizon, the emersion of cities and citadels over far off seas. There are those who know in what quarter to look for them: but it is rarely to their hands the power of promoting the good, or averting the evil is entrusted. Yet, all is not hideous in the past, all is not gloomy in the future. There are communities where the wisest and best are not utterly cast aside, and where the robe of Philosophy is no impediment to the steps of men. Idly do the sages cry out against the poets for mistuning the heart and misgoverning the intellect. Meanwhile they themselves are occupied in selfish vanities -on the side of the affections; and, on the side of the understanding, in fruitless, frivolous, indefinite, interminable disquisitions. If our thoughts are to be reduced to powder, I would rather it were for an ingredient in a love-potion, to soften with sympathies the human heart, than a charm for raising up spectres to contract and to coerce it. If

dust is to be thrown into our eyes, let it be dust from under a bright enlivening sun, and not the effect of frost and wind.

XLV.

Philosophy is but dry bread: men will not live upon it, however wholesome: they require the succulent food and exciting cup of Religion. We differ in bodily strength, in compactness of bone, and elasticity of sinew; but we are all subject to the same softness, and nearly to the same distemperature, in the nobler animators of the frame, the brain and blood. Thus it is in creeds: the sage and simple, the ardent enthusiast, and the patient investigator, fall into and embrace with equal pertinacity the most absurd and revolting

tenets.

LINES

WRITTEN FOR A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM.

Dear Caroline, the boon you ask
Demands from me no easy task.
Let others frame the lofty line,

And round their brows the laurel twine,
In me the poet's fire is dead,
Fancy and love, and feeling fled.
The gush of feeling, and love's thrill
Wax faint, when gath'ring years distil
Their poppies on the heart; and mind
Partakes the doom to man assigned,
Sinking in gradual, slow decay.
Time quenches reason's brightest ray,
And withers fancy's fairest bloom:
"And who can then that light relume ?"
These are the springs, the living springs,
Where the muse laves her glitt'ring wings,
And plumes them for a flight sublime,
Above the mould'ring things of time.
The warm line, gushing from the heart,
Love's impulse can alone impart.
Touch'd by bright fancy's magic wand,
Before the enraptured poet stand
"The forms of things unknown," and shed
A glorious halo round his head.
"When passion owns its secret stings,"
By feeling taught, the poet sings
In melting strains, the plaints of woe,
Writhing with sorrow's recent blow;
In verse of fire, the throes of rage,
Revenge, despair, those foes that wage
With human bosoms ceaseless strife,
And darken all the shades of life.
In me, alas! those founts are dry;
From me those fairy visions fly.
From youth alone you might obtain,
To grace your book, a fitting strain.
With fancy, yet undimm'd by years,
With bosom, yet unscath'd by cares,
With feelings pure, and free, and strong,
Youth pours at will the poet's song:
Who, that recalls that time Elysian,
When life is all a fairy vision,

When music breathes in ev'ry sound
And all is light and fragrance round,

When hope, to our enchanted gaze,
Its bright and gorg'ous prism displays,
And mocks the urchin's wand'ring view
With visions of fantastic hue?
Who, but would be a child again,
Nor deem such bright delusions vain?
Who would not flee from toil and strife-
The dull realities of life,

To taste the exulting joys of youth?
Blest age of innocence and truth!
'Tis in that season of life's spring,

That passion first unfolds her wing:

Then glows the cheek with love's first blush;
Then throbs the heart with the warm gush
Of feelings fresh, sincere, and pure;
Feelings, which time cannot restore
To manhood's tainted bosom, riv`n
By passions fierce, and madly driv'n
To toil and anguish, vice and woe,
Till pierc'd by death's last welcome blow.
Yet for our life's declining day,
To brighten its expiring ray,
Some calmer pleasures yet remain,
Some fainter joys their hold retain ;
Wife, children, friends, their ties combine,
And round our hearts united twine.

LINES

D.

WRITTEN FOR AN OLD LADY'S ALBUM. Where smooth Ohio's waters pour,

Through fertile vales their limpid wave,
'Tis said the streams possess the pow'r

To turn to stone whate'er they lave.
Thus oft as time's strong currents roll,

The coming ills of life revealing,
The cold stream petrifies the soul,

And indurates each softer feeling.

Thus as our cares, our griefs increase,
And time dissolves each tender tie,
It kindly bids our sorrows cease,

Numb'd by the touch of apathy.

But yet the tear that promptly flows,
Beams lovely on the cheek of youth;
Shed for its own or others' woes,
Those dews the throes of anguish soothe.

More beautiful, because so rare,

The flow'r of feeling loveliest blows
In age's bosom, lone and drear,

A gem of beauty on its snows.

What though its frozen surface deck

No plants, in sunnier climes that growThough waste and dreary, yet this speck Of verdure shows the warmth below.

Like that unwith'ring flow'r whose hues
On Scotia's snow-clad peaks expand,
Winter's cold breath its tints renews,
As when by gales of summer fann'd.

Though all its hopes and joys expire,

Oh never may the tide of time

In age's bosom quench the fire,

That warm'd the heart in youth's first prime!

Still may that heart responsive beat,

Till time's last ebbing sands have run,

To those emotions soft and sweet,
Which thrill'd it when life's course begun.

Then, when the polar night of years
Involves us in its thick'ning gloom,

Will mild Religion calm our fears,

And sympathy our path illume.

in 1774. A meeting of her citizens recommended a Congress, on the 17th of May. Philadelphia on the 21st of May. New York, 23d of May. Virginia, 27th of May. Baltimore, 31st of May. Norwich, Conn., 6th of June. And so on.

THE NEW YORK REVIEW.

D.

The April Number of this work answers well to the expectations which its precursors had excited. At least the usual proportion of its articles may be pronounced decidedly able; and not far inferior to the North-American, which, in our judgment, ranks next to that intellectual leviathan of Reviews, the Edinburg. The New York Review has its matter classed under four, great heads: 1. Reviews, modernly so called, being in fact copious essays or ample narratives, wound about the books which they profess to criticise, as their nucleus; 2. Critical notices-being shorter commentaries upon works too slight, too tame, or too formidable, to be subjects of reviews; 3. A Quarterly Chronicle, of Politics and Literature; and 4. A Quarterly List of new publications. The Quarterly Chronicle is a new feature to us, in such periodicals; and a valuable feature. It sketches, in some fifteen pages, the events and transactions, political, scientific, and literary, of the civilized world, for the last three months: and is one of those comprehensive retrospects, which ought often to be taken by statesmen and philosophers. We are strongly tempted to incorporate such a summary, monthly, into our own work.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The past month has given birth to two new periodicals in our fair and growing metropolis; the Virginia Lyceum and the Odd-fellows' Magazine. The former has superseded the Journal lately published by the Richmond Lyceum, and is designed to promote the same cause to which its predecessor was devoted. Its first appearance, if an index of future usefulness, is highly promising. The editorial matter and contributions are generally written with taste and abound in vigorous thought, and the selections are, some of them, curious and very interesting. The poetry, both original and selected, is decidedly good, and upon the whole the first number furnishes two or three hours of excellent and entertaining reading. We regret that our limits will not permit a particular designation of the articles. The critique on Captain Kidd is laconic, pungent and perfectly just, manifesting a right spirit of independence in the department of criticism. We recommend the work to the public, and especially to the young, who may be stimulated to try their intellectual strength in its pages. The habit of composition is the habit of thought; at least it stirs up, concentrates and invigorates the thinking faculty. The work is published by an association of gentlemen, and is edited by L. R. Streeter.

The Odd-fellows' Magazine, by J. C. Walker, editor and proprietor, like its contemporary, the Lyceum, is very neatly printed at the press of Mr. P. D. Bernardand appears to be principally designed to promote the cause of the Order from which it derives its name. Our readers are, perhaps, not generally apprised that The Reviews in this number consist of eleven articles. the society of Odd-fellows is a secret fraternity like I. ON LITERARY PROPERTY, or the justice and utility that of the Free Masons, and that their Lodges are of extending the benefits of our Copy-right laws to multiplying in our own State as well as in other parts foreign authors: II. On the life and character of the of the country. Like Free Masonry, their processions, late Dr. BowDITCH: III. The CONGRESS OF 1774, and we presume their private meetings, are conducted being an examination of some historical testimonies with prescribed ceremonies and an imposing display of touching that body: IV. Longacre's NATIONAL POR- the peculiar insignia of the order. Like the Masons, TRAIT GALLERY of distinguished Americans: V. GER too, they profess to have in view the advancement of MAN POEMS, of Goethe and Schiller, translated by John the cause of Benevolence and Charity. Friendship, S. Dwight: VI. SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS: VII. love and truth,-three most excellent things,-constiThe ABORIGINES OF OHIO, treated of in a recent Dis-tute we believe the motto of the Odd-fellows,—and the course of GENERAL HARRISON: VIII. Keith's Evi- great object of Mr. Walker's periodical, as we underDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY: IX. Modern French Ro- stand it, is to strengthen this golden chain and to knit mance-especially Balzack's novels: X. New trans-in closer bonds the dispersed members of the fraternity. lations of the BooK OF JOB: XI. STEAMBOAT EXPLO

SIONS.

Article III. settles, with apparent clearness, the several priorities of the claims which the anti-Revolutionary colonies have to the honor of having originated a general Congress. It seems put beyond doubt, that PROVIDENCE, R. I., first broke ground on that subject

The Magazine promises also to devote some attention to polite literature, the arts and sciences. There is one article in the April number which we regretted to see,— we allude to that by Carlos, from an unpublished MS. We hope that the remainder of the MS., if like the fragment which has seen the light, will be buried for ever.

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Smith, Samuel M...........Rising Sun, Indiana........vol v
Speight, Moses..
Blakeley, Georgia........vol v
Seawell, John T....h&d....Gloucester C. H., Va........vol v
Smith, Thomas M.
....Richmond, Va........vol v
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Stewart, William A.....bg.....Greensboro', Ala........vol v
Stevens, William C.....jpw.....Athens, Georgia........vol 5
Tannehill, Wilkins F....jna....Nashville, Tenn........vol v

Smith, Thomas C. h&d - Charlotte County, Va... vol 4
Sublett, Samuel.....
Sarvay, John..

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Street, Mrs. Nancy C. h&d Stratton, N...

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.vol 5 ...Lee Town, Va......vols 4-5 ..Richmond, Va........vol v ..Richmond, Va........vol v Cleveland, Ohio vol ▾ .Petersburg, Va........vol v

Watkins, Richard.....tli.......Somerville, Tenn......vols 4-5
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Walker, Miss Sarah - h&d Prince Edward Co...... vol v
Williamson, Dr. Thomas...rn...Portsmouth, Va........vol v
Wortham, Charles...
..Richmond, Va........vol v

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Williams, Orrin................. Richmond, Va........vol v
Winston, James........
..Richmond, Va........vol v
West, R. M..
...Richmond, Va........vol 4
Woodson, jr. Warren..
.Fulton, Missouri........vol▾
Willis, William...
. Cincinnati, Ohio........vol v
Wilber, Perlee B.......... ..Buckingham, Va........vol v
Ward, Miss Ann E..
.Warrenton, N. C........vol v
Ward, Robert F........... .Nottoway, C H. Va........vol v
Webb, Dr. R. D.......j.. ...Greensboro', Ala........vol 4
Webb, James D.......tj. .Greensboro', Ala........vol 5
Wellborn, Miss Caroline.....tlj.....Irwinton, Ala........vol v
Woods, Miss Rosanna E.. ..Darlington, S. C........vol v

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