6 that we have missed,' and immediately go down one.' Although no review, strictly speaking, was intended of WALTON'S Angler,' we are well pleased with the deserved tribute paid to that fine old English classic, the best pastoral in any language, and to the accomplished American editor, who has admirably discharged the trust assigned him, which it is quite easy to see must have been to him a mere labor of love.' The Editor, to our own knowledge, is quite right in differing with Mr. HERBERT, (who furnishes for the volume a paper on Long-Island Fishing') as to the size of flies to be used in this country, compared with those used in England. Mr. HERBERT is wrong too in supposing that trout are not taken in our rivers. A friend of ours has frequently taken trout in the Sacondaga, which is a wide river, and we know of their having been taken in the Hudson. . . . 'OLLAPOD' once placed on paper the sound of a kiss, but it required an exquisite torture of the types to make it clear to the ear of the reader. Sir PHILIP SYDNEY, in a few lines treating 'Of a Kisse,' if he does not give us the sound gives us the substance of that seal of love: 'BEST charge, and bravest retreate in CUPID's fight, A double key which opens to the heart; Nest of young joyes, schoolmaster of delight; The friendly stay, whose blowes both wound and heale; Poore hope's first wealth, hostage of promise weake, We have seldom seen a more beautiful volume than the Book of Parables' by our SAVIOUR, recently published by the Messrs. APPLETON AND COMPANY. It is illuminated in gold and the most gorgeous colors and devices on every page; it is printed entirely in legible black-letter; and its binding, in papier maché made to resemble elaborately-carved wood, is wholly unique and preeminently beautiful. One could hardly imagine a more charming present for a young lady. . . . We have two communications, 'compositions' we suspect them to be, from the lead-plummet lines of the crooked-writer, which we think we shall never put in,' even as a pisaller. One is 'On Avarice' and the other 'On Envy. The only thing worth reading about the latter is its motto, which is admirable, and in fact exhausts the subject; the rest being second-hand leather and prunella: The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion, give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this; to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him! The condition of the envious man is the most emphatically miserable; he is not only incapable of rejoicing in another's merit or success, but lives in a world wherein all mankind are in a plot against his quiet, by studying their own happiness and advantage.' An article 'On Putty' would be an attractive paper, with an attractive title! . . . THE following was written in a letter for the post-office of a ladies' fair. It is unique :/ 'ONE, who your eye would fill, With strength of mind endow'd, To soil or spatter him any: Would ask, to cure the smart If you your aid supply, Old TIME to batter him any!" This original young gentleman can scribble verse, we can easily conceive, without the aid of a rhyming-dictionary. . . . A CORRESPONDENT at Baltimore recently sent us a good but quite too elaborate a story of a wag who last summer startled a dinner-table-full of eager feeders with the intelligence that an ice-berg had found its way up the bay to within fifteen miles of the city; that it had been chartered from the city authorities, steps cut in its sides to the top, and an ice-cream establishment opened upon its summit; two milch-cows having been elevated to the top and fed on sugar, were giving ice-cream every time they were milked! This is almost as big a story as DAN MARBLE'S of the man who drove the machinery of two saw-mills with the whey which ran from his immense cheese-presses. . . . Ir we had n't so many boon friends and clever correspondents among members of the legal profession, we would quote the following description of their class; but as it is, it would hardly do: 'Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger; who are more or less passionate according as they are paid for it, and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportionable to the fee which they receive from him.' . . . Wɛ have been favored with the perusal of a great portion of an illustrated work, in the press of the BROTHERS HARPER, entitled Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico.' The volume is from the pen of Captain W. S. HENRY, of the United States' Army; a gentleman whose occasional letters from the seat of war, published in the 'Spirit of the Times' literary and sporting journal have been widely copied and much admired. The qualities of the writer's style are, directness and simplicity, with a picturesqueness in the descriptive portions, not less faithful than it is attractive. . . . IT has been remarked by the greatest philosophers of our time, and is also our opinion,' that we are, with the exception of owls and monkeys, the most serious people on the face of the globe. Our very amusements have an air of solemnity about them. This has been observed by all travelled Americans, who have been enabled to contrast the abandon of European hilarity with the seriousness of our own, and it is the constant commet of intelligent foreigners. We have no amusements now-a-days,' said a friend, a resident in the country, to us the other day. There used in my young days to be husking-bees, and quilting-frolics, and convocations of the young, of both sexes, to pare apples, etc.; but it is quite otherwise now. The people, young and old, labor all the week, and their only amusement consists in going on Sunday to church. I seldom see any body laugh, now,' he added; 'we have become a very grave people.' Are we any better for it? S'pect not. . . . Wɛ do not recognize the western friend who expresses his gratification at the few words which we devoted in our last to the Tittlebat-Titmouse' whom we encountered in our recent trip up the Great Lakes; but we are glad that he considered the allusion well-deserved. An impudent fellow,' says ADDISON, 'is an outlaw in good breeding, and one may express his mind of him fully.' When a person speaks coarsely, or acts rudely, he has dressed himself clean to no purpose. The clothing of our minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our bodies. To betray in a man's talk a corrupt imagination, or in his manner familiar impertinence, is a much greater offence against the conduct of gentlemen than any negligence of dress. Our 'TITTLEBAT' reminded us continually of Squire WESTON's landlord at the Hercules Pillars, who had all the news of the town, and could tell how affairs went, knowing a great deal, since the horses of many of the quality stood at his house!' A MOST provoking misconception has prevented the appearance of nearly two pages of Notices of New Publications, and two of 'Gossip,' which had been placed in type. Our friends the booksellers must pardon the unavoidable omission. They shall have attention in our next. O 'WE regard it as the very best work of its kind in the Union.'- St. Albans (Vt.) Journal. "THE KNICKERBOCKER was received with unfailing punctuality on the first of the month, which however is the least merit of this agreeable miscellany; for its contents are as invariably good as its appearance is punctual.'-WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, in the New-York Evening Post. 4 THE last KNICKERBOCKER is exceedingly good. There are no less than twenty-four original articles, and all of the right sort; some of them worthy of BLACKWOOD's palmiest days. The Editor's Table is in Mr. CLARK's happiest vein; varied and racy in a remarkable degree.' New-York Commercial Advertiser. "THE KNICKERBOCKER seems to increase in attraction as it advances in age. It exhibits a monthly variety of contributions unsurpassed in number or ability.'-National Intelligencer. "THE KNICKERBOCKER is one of the most valuable Magazines of the day, and outstrips all competition in the higher walks of literature.'- Albany Argus. 'WE have here an old and general favorite; one among the pioneers of the American periodical press; the venerable KNICKERBOCKER. The EDITOR'S Table' is always the most attractive portion of 'OLD KNICK.'s' monthly bill of fare-to us at least; and in the present number we have found it more so !'-New-York Gaz. and Times.' PRESIDENT EVERETT, OF HARVARD COLLEGE, LATE MINISTER TO ENGLAND.-'I peruse the KNICKERBOCKER with high gratification. It seems to me of an order of merit quite above the average of the periodicals of this class, English or American.' HON. J. K. PAULDING, LATE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.-The manner in which the KNICKERBOCKER is conducted, and the great merit of its contributors, place it in the highest rank of periodicals.' PROF. LONGFELLOW, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. - 'The KNICKERBOCKER stands high in this quarter. It is superior to most of the English magazines, and well deserves its large list of subscribers.' HON. ROBERT M. CHARLTON, GEORGIA.-The KNICKERBOCKER is a work which requires no puffing; and I shall always feel that I am conferring a favor on those to whom I recommend it. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.-'I have long regarded the KNICKERBOCKER as the best periodical in America, and it really seems second to none abroad.' THE LONDON TIMES.'- 'The London Times' commends the KNICKERBOCKER in cordial terms, and speaks of several articles from which it had selected liberal extracts for subsequent publication.'-LONDON COR. N.' Ev. STAR,' THE LONDON EXAMINER.-"This very clever Magazine is the pleasantest periodical in the United States. Its articles, which are numerous and short, various and interesting, are well worthy of imita tion by our Magazines on this side of the Atlantic.' LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE.-Judging from the numbers before us, we are inclined to consider this the best of all the American literary periodicals. Its contents are highly interesting, instructive and amusing.' THE LONDON LITERARY GAZETTE.-The taste and talent which the KNICKERBOCKER displays are highly creditable to American writers, and very agreeable for English readers.' LONDON METROPOLITAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. We have read several numbers of this talented periodical, and rejoiced in them. They would do credit to any country, or to any state of civilization to which humanity has yet arrived.' LONDON ATHENAEUM.'- From a very clever Monthly Magazine, The Knickerbocker' of NewYork, we copy the following spirited story,' etc. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. The KNICKERBOCKER is the best American periodical I have yet seen. I take pleasure in enclosing you an article which was penned expressly for your work.' CHARLES DICKENS, Esq.-I read the KNICKERBOCKER with very great pleasure: it is indeed a most various and entertaining periodical. It affords me pleasure to contribute to the pages of a work which numbers among its regular correspondents such writers as Mr. IRVING.' REV. Dr. DICK, SCOTLAND.- 'I have read a good many of the articles in the few numbers of the KNICKERBOCKER which you sent me, and find them to possess great merit. Some of its papers, it is true, were too light for my serious turn of mind; yet the whole appears well calculated to gratify the tastes of the mass of readers.' CAPT. F. MARRYAT.-'You make an excellent Magazine-spirited, various, and original. I hope my 'Moonshine' will reflect no discredit upon the good company in which it will find itself.' TERMS-$5 per annum in advance. New subscribers who will pay $10 in advance shall be entitled to the four past volumes (1844 and 1845) gratis. All remittances must be made to JOHN ALLEN, Publisher. THE following persons are authorized to receive subscribers and collect subscriptions on account of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE. MR. HENRY M. LEWIS is our Travelling Agent for Alabama and Tennessee. MR. ISRAEL E. JAMES, for the Southern and South-western States, assisted by JAMES K. WHIPPLE, WILLIAM H. WELD, O. H. P. STEM, JOHN B. WELD, B. B. HUSSEY, T. S. WATERMAN, REUBEN A. HENRY and JOHN COLLINS. MR. C. W. JAMES, for the Western States, Iowa, and Wisconsin, assisted by J. ROBB SMITH, J. T. DENT, E. Y. JENNINGS, T. GARDNER SMITH, and FREDERICK J. HAWSE. OF THE Knickerbocker Magazine. THE Thirtieth Volume of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE will commence on the first of July, 1847. The work has been so long before the public, that it is not deemed necessary to enlarge upon its claims to general favor. The annexed List of Contributors to the Magazine, and a few notices of the work, (up to and including the last number) will sufficiently attest its character and its popularity: WASHINGTON IRVING, HON. LEWIS CASS, MRS.KIRKLAND, (Mary Clavers) W. D. GALLAGHER, F. W. EDMONDS, REV. HENRY BASCOM, CHARLES SPRAGUE, HENRY BREVOORT, REV. MR. GANNETT, (MASS.) H. W. ROCKWELL, FREDERICK W. SHELTON, CHARLES F. HOFFMAN, RICHARD B. KIMBALL, Esq. MRS. E. F. ELLET. PARK BENJAMIN, THEODORE S. FAY, MRS. FANNY K. BUTLER, M188 CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN REV. WALTER COLTON, CONSUL G. W. GREENE, REV. DR. SPRING, ANSON H. CENTER, Esq. THOMAS W. STORROW Esq. H.T. TUCKERMAN, J. H. SHELDON, JR., 3. G. SAXE, Esq., JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, (VT.) THE foregoing list included also ROBERT SOUTHEY, Rev. TIMOTHY FLINT, Miss LANDON, CH. JUSTICE MELLEN, TYRONE POWER, Robert C. SANDS, WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK, B. B. THATCHER, Dr. CALEB TICKNOR, WM. H. SIMMONS, JOHN SANDERSON, the 'American in Paris,' NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Miss MARY-ANNE BROWNE, (Mrs. GRAY,) Eng'and, Rev. Dr. BRANTLEY, South-Carolina, WILLIAM L. STONE, Rev. Dr. BEASLEY, New-Jersey, J. H. HILLHOUSE, and other distinguished writers who have paid the debt of nature.' The following notices of the KNICKERBOCKER are from the American and English press, and from American and British writers of distinction. THE first number of the Twenty-Seventh Volume of this venerable and widely-popular periodical appears upon entirely new and beautiful type, in all its departments; and in its rich and diversified contents, continues to vindicate its reputation as the most agreeable and entertaining Magazine published in the United States. When we first started the old 'New-Yorker,' our friend CLARK had preceded us as Editor of the KNICKERBOCKER about a twelvemonth; it has now reached an age greatly beyond that of any American Moatbly; a fact which literally speaks volumes' in praise of the manner in which the work has been conducted. No number of the K. has ever been issued under CLARK's supervision that did not bear indubitable evidence of editorial care, and anxious thought and well-directed labor enstamped upon its pages. We have known no monthly, of this country or Europe, so thoroughly edited, in the strictest sense of the term. With a corps of contributors embracing the most eminent writers of the country, with not a few from the other side of the water, it has been able to present articles of a high order of merit, and in rich variety) while, as if emulous of the contributed portions, the editorial department has regularly increased in variety and abundance.'- New-York Daily Tribune. 'NOTHING is more remarkable than the unfailing promptitude of this old Monthly, except perhaps its constant and constantly increasing excellence. Mathematicians tell us of certain curves called asymptotes, whose peculiarity is always to approach each other, and yet, even when infinitely extended, never to intersect. The KNICKERBOCKER, which has reached an age for a Magazine much greater than a hundred years for a man, and only to be attained by a more marvellous mira e, has perpetually approached the highest possible point of interest and excellence; and yet it seems to have an excelsior, for each number seems better than that which went before. How it is done our friend CLARK may understand-but it is a sealed mystery to us. There is no publication in the United States that has so attractive or popular a feature as the Editor's Table of the KNICKERBOCKER.'-New-York Courier and Enquirer. See third page of Cover. ART. I. THE OREGON TRAIL. BY F. PARKMAN, JR, II. SOURCES OF THE GENESEE. By W. H. C. HOSMER, ESQ., 475 492 NUMBER NINE, V. STANZAS: 'LEND A HAND.' By R. S. CHILTON, ESQ., VI. LINES ON THE DEATH OF A GOOD MAN, VII. FACTORY-LIFE IN NEW-ENGLAND. BY T. THROSTLE, GENT., IX. THE LADY LEONORE. BY SUSAN PINDAR, X. XI. REFLECTIONS ON MAN IN SOCIETY. BY JAMES CHADWICK, STANZAS: WHEN AND HOW SHALL GOD BE WORSHIPPED? XII. A WELCOME TO WINTER, . XIII OLD FRENCH EPIGRAMS. BY 'IOTA,' XIV. THE RETURN AFTER HOLIDAYS. BY WILLIAM PITT PALMER, Esq., XV. ORATORIOS IN NEW-YORK: OR HOW IT STRIKES A STRANGER, XVI. LUNAR HOSPITALITY: AN EXTRACT, . . XVII. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT By W. H. C. HOSMER, XVIII. GOSSIP OF SEA-TRAVEL. BY THE LATE HENRY L. CHIPMAN, XIX. LINES ON THE DEATH OF M. L. W LITERARY NOTICES: 1. FOUR NEW POEMS BY AMERICAN POETS, 2. POEMS OF EARLY AND AFTER YEARS. By N. P. WILLIS, 3. XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA OF SOCRATES. By D. C. ROBBINS, 4. ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THOMSON'S SEASONS, 5. GOLDSMITH'S POEMS, ILLUSTRATED, EDITOR'S TABLE: 1. RICHARDSIANA: OR HITS AT POPULAR AMERICAN AUTHORS, 2. MUSIC AMONG THE BLIND: MR. DEMPSTER, 3. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS,. 493 .500 508 509 511 518 519 520 521 522 522 526 . 527 534 535 536 541 542 543 544 545 545 1. A PLEA FOR AMUSEMENTS.' 2. ANOTHER RAIL-ROAD LYRIC: AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.' 3. HUMBUGEOUS KNOWING ONES.' 4 AGGLOMERATE ENGLISH. 5. TRUE SORROW: STOLEN TEARS. 6. A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE. 7. ASTROLOGY AND FORTUNE-TELLING. 8. A FEW WORDS FOR PROFESSOR TAYLER LEWIS. 9. PATRIOTISM AND HORSE-RADISH. 10. ASLAB' OF CAVENDISH: THE WEED, ITS USES AND ABUSES. 11. AN ELECTION ANECDOTE. 12. MONEY: ITS POTENCY AND IMPOTENCY. 13. A WARNING TO COQUETTES. 14. A MARINE MORALIST. 15. LOVE AND WAR: FAIR ROSAMOND. 16. LONGFELLOW'S EVANGELINE. 17. VIEWS AND REVIEWS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.' 18. EARLY WooING AND EARLY WEDDING. 19. REV. PROFESSOR INGRAHAM, THE AUTHOR OF ALL-WORK. 20. SKETCH OF THE GREAT FISHER AMES. 21. RESEMBLANCES OF AUTHORS. 22. DEATH OF GEORGE H. COLTON, Esq. 23. THE COLUMBIAN FIREENGINE. 24. KIAR'S JOURNEY.' 25. COUNTRY VS. CITY. 26. THE RETURN AFTER HOLIDAYS: DEATH OF CHILDREN. 27. THE AUTHOR OF MARY'S DREAM.' 28. A VICTIM OF MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.' 29. WOMEN IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES' AND LADIES' IN THE NEW.' 30. THE SAINT LEGER PAPERS.' 31. UNITED STATES' SENATE CHAMBER.' 32. DEFENCE OF CHANTICLEER. 33. COWLEY'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MUSE. 34. PLAN FOR THE RELIEF OF BROADWAY. 35. LINES TO 'E. M.,' UNDER A BLAZE OF GA3:' THE CARCEL LAMP. 36. A STRAIT THRUST BY A CROOKED SWORDSMAN. 37. THE ALBION' JOURNAL'S ENGRAVINGS OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT. 38. COLONEL SNOW, THE GAY DECEIVER.' 39. DEATH OF ROBERT EMMET HOE: LINES. 40. ANECDOTES OF ELDER KNAPP. 41. THIRTYFIRST VOLUME OF THE KNICKERBOCKER. 42. DRAMATIC REMINISCENCES:' HUDSON KIRHY. 43. THE SHREWSBURY' STEAMER. 44. MINIATURES. 45 LOUDMOUTHED FAITH VS. GOOD WORKS. 46. MR. BERGE, THE PIANIST. 47. ADVICE TO THOSE ABOUT TO MARRY. 48. BOOK OF THE FEET: PATENT BOOTS AND SHOES. 49. LINGUAL ANECDOTE. 50. PUNCTUAL PUBLICATION OF THE KNICKERBOCKER. 4. BRIEF NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS, 550 565 |