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THE ALDINE,

A

TYPOGRAPHIC ART JOURNAL

"_Il ne faut pas tant regarder ce qu'on doit faire que ce qu'on peut faire_."

VOLUME V.

NEW YORK: JAMES SUTTON & COMPANY. 1873.

"_THE ALDINE PRESS_."--JAMES SUTTON & Co., Printers, 58 Maiden Lane, New York.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by JAMES SUTTON, JR., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS

Abyssinia, A Peep at _Editorial_ 186 Adirondacks, The Heart of the _Editorial_ 194 After the Comet _W.L. Alden_ 136 A Great Master and His Greatest Work _Editorial_ 83 Aldine Chromos for 1873 _Editorial_ 228 Alpine World, The _Editorial_ 134 America, Home Life in _Editorial_ 76 American Robin, The _Gilbert Darling_ 327 Angling, A Few Words on _Henry Richards_ 155 Architecture _W. Von Humboldt_ 43 Art 28 Artistic Evening, An _Editorial_ 248 Art-Musee in America, An _Erastus South_ 127 Art, Roman _Ottfreid Müller_ 32 At Rest. (Poem) _Julia C.R. Dorr_ 234 August in the Woods _W.W. Bailey_ 161 Ausable, Morning on the _Editorial_ 40 Authorship, Style in _Stewart_ 75 Autumn Rambles _W.W. Bailey_ 212 A Yarn _Uncle Bluejacket_ 216

Babes in the Wood, The _Editorial_ 223 Badger Hunting _Editorial_ 225 Barry Cornwall, To. (Poem) _A.C. Swinburne_ 50 Beauty, Of _Bacon_. 107 Beside the Sea. (Poem) _Mary E. Bradley_ 161 Biography _Henry Richards_ 65 Bishop's Oak _Caroline Cheesebro_' 172 Black Gnat, The _A.R.M._ 34 Blood Money _Editorial_ 207 Blue-Birds _Gilbert Burling_ 163 Books, Borrowing _Leigh Hunt_ 36 "Bridge of Sighs," Hood's _Editorial_ 50 Bronte's (Charlotte) Brother and Father _January Searle_ 111 Building of the Ship, The. (Poem) _Longfellow_ 89

Cedar Bird, The _Gilbert Burling_ 85 Celebration of the Passover, The _Editorial_ 64 Chase, After the _Editorial_ 227 Chet's, Miss, Club _Caroline Cheesbro'_ 59 Children, Loss of Little _Leigh Hunt_ 104 Chinese Stories _Henry Richards_ 215 Christmas Trees _W.W. Bailey_ 234 Coleridge as a Plagiarist 23 Coming Out of School _Editorial_ 12 Cosas de Espana _Editorial_ 86 Crown Diamonds and other Gems _S.F. Corkran_ 181

Daisies, Among The _A.S. Isaacs_ 23 December and May _Editorial_ 147 Death Chase, The _Editorial_ 236 Dogs, About _Henry Richards_ 175 Dogs, Education of _Henry Richards_ 234

Englishmen, Religion of _H. Taine_ 183 English Rhymes and Stories _Henry Richards_ 96 En Miniature. (From the German) _M.A.P. Humphreys_ 132 Exquisite Moment, An _Editorial_ 93

Fancie's Dream _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 34 Fancie's Farewell _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 114 Fawn Family, A Day with a _Editorial_ 107 Feast of the Tabernacles, The _Editorial_ 64 Fra Bartolomeo _Editorial_ 106 Forester's Happy Family, The _Editorial_ 167 Forester's Last Coming Home, The _Editorial_ 56 Fortune of The Hassans, The _C.F. Guernsey_ 123 Friendship of Poets, The _Editorial_ 50 Frosty Day, A. (Poem) _J.L. Warren_ 11

Garden, In the _Betsy Drew_ 138 Gems, Colored _W.S. Ward_ 39 Going to the Volcano _T.M. Coan_ 245 Green River. (Poem) _W.C. Bryant_ 72 Gypsies, The _Editorial_ 166

Heart of Kosciusko, The _Editorial_ 113 Heartsease. (Poem) _Mary E. Bradley_ 43 Hello! _Editorial_ 193 Home and Exile _Editorial_ 237 House with the Hollyhocks, The _A.L. Noble_ 177 House Wrens _Gilbert Burling_ 105 How to Tame Pet Birds _January Searle_ 146 Hunt (Leigh), A Last Visit to _January Searle_ 192 Hunting Snails _T.M. Coan_ 156

Ideal, The _Theodore Parker_ 133 Il Beato. (From the German) _M.A.P. Humphrey_ 183 Ill Wind, An _Leslie Malbone_ 112 Inside the Door _Caroline Cheesebro'_ 30 Ireland, A Glimpse at _T.M. Coan_ 119 Island, On an _Caroline Cheesebro'_ 114

Jack and Gill _Editorial_ 223

King Baby. (Poem) _George Cooper_ 224 Kingfisher, The _Editorial_ 125 King's Rosebud, The. (Poem) _Julia C.R. Porr_ 107 Knowledge _Ethics of the Fathers_ 135

"Lais Corinthaica," Holbein's _Editorial_ 182 Lalalo--A Legend of Galicia. (From the Spanish) _H.S. Conant_ 164 Lamp-Light _Julian Hawthorne_ 165 Lisbon, Loiterings around _Editorial_ 44 Literature 28, 47, 67, 88, 108, 128, 148, 168, 188, 208 Little Emily _Editorial_ 178 Liverworts. (Poem) _W.W. Bailey_ 70 Longfellow's House and Library _Geo. W. Greene_ 100 Love Aloft _Editorial_ 116 Love's Humility. (Poem) _B.G. Hosmer_ 141

Mandarin, A _From the French_ 19 Manifest Destiny. (Poem) _R.H. Stoddard_ 47 Man in Blue, The _R.B. Davey_ 50 Man in the Moon, The _Yule-tide Stories_ 120 Man's Unselfish Friend _Editorial_ 60 Married in a Snow-Storm. (From the Russian) _Wm. Percival_ 152 Marsh and Pond Flowers _W.W. Bailey_ 126 Martinmas Goose, The _Editorial_ 243 Maximilian Morningdew's Advice, Mr. _Julian Hawthorne_ 74 Millerism _Editorial_ 10 Minster at Ulm, The _Editorial_ 158 Misers, About _Betsy Drew_ 99 Mother is Here! 20 Morning Dew _Editorial_ 76 Morning and Evening _Editorial_ 242 Mountain Land of Western North Carolina _J.A. Oertel_ 52 Mountain Land of Western North Carolina _J.A. Oertel_ 214 Mountains, In the _Editorial_ 16 Mouse Shoes _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 197 Music in the Alps _Editorial_ 33

Necessity of Believing Something _Jean Paul_ 31 Neighbor Over the Way, My. (Poem) _G.W. Scars_ 110 Newport, At. (Poem) _Geo. H. Boker_ 10 Niagara _Editorial_ 213 Noble Savage, The 110 Nooning, The 16

Oblivion _Browne_ 120 October _W.W. Bailey_ 192 Old Maid's Village, The _Kate F. Hill_ 26 Old Oaken Bucket, The _Editorial_ 152 Othello, How Rossini Wrote _L.C. Bullard_ 91 Out of the Deeps _Elizabeth Stoddard_ 94

Painted Boats on Painted Seas _Hiram Rich_ 201 Patriotism and Powder _Editorial_ 132 Pavilions on the Lake, The. (From the French) _H.S. Conant_ 14 Pepito _Lucy Ellen Guernsey_ 212 Perkins, Granville 48 Peruvians, Among the _Editorial_ 24 Play for a Heart, A. (From the German) _H.S. Conant_ 54 Pleasure-Seeking _Editorial_ 240 Poet's Rivers _Editorial_ 70 Portugal, Wanderings in _Editorial_ 224 Pottery, Ancient _S.F. Corkran_ 72 Prince and Peasant. (From the German,) _H.S. Conant_ 196 Puddle Party, The _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 83 Punishment after Death. (From the Danish) _James Watkins_ 218 Puss Asleep _Henry Richards_ 143

Queen's Closet, The _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 27

Rainy Day, The. (Poem) _H.W. Longfellow_ 120 Raymondskill, The _E.C. Stedman_ 154 Real Romance, The _Julian Hawthorne_ 10 Ruse de Guerre. (Poem) _H.B. Bostwick_ 63

School-Children _Editorial_ 198 Scissor Family, The _Lolly Dinks's Mother_ 144 Secret, A. (Poem) _Julia C.R. Dorr_ 212 September Reverie, A _Editorial_ 172 Serious Case, A _Editorial_ 203 Shadows _Julian Hawthorne_ 142 Shakspeare Celebrations _Editorial_ 90 Shakspeare Portraits _R.H. Stoddard_ 103 Shameful Death. (Poem) _Wm. Morris_ 83 Shrews _A.S. Isaacs_ 63 Simple Suggestion, A _Mary E. Bradley_ 216 Smallpox, Worse than _L.E. Guernsey_ 157 Snow-Bird, The _Gilbert Burling_ 207 Song Sparrow, The _Gilbert Burling_ 32 Song or Wood Thrush, The _Gilbert Burling_ 66 Sonnet _Alfred Tennyson_ 67 Sparrows' City, The. (Poem) _George Cooper_ 165 Stael, Baroness de, The Salon of. (From the French) 43 Story of Coeho, The _R.B. Davey_ 71 Street Scene in Cairo, A _Editorial_ 239 Stuffing Birds _January Searle_ 246 Summer Fallacies _C.D. Shanly_ 176 Sunshine _Julian Hawthorne_ 92 Superstition _Bacon_ 56 Swift, Dean _Lady Mary Wortley Montague_ 53

Temple of Canova, The _Editorial_ 203 Thievish Animals _Editorial_ 238 Thistle-Down. (Poem) _W.W. Bailey_ 145 Tired Mothers. (Poem) _Mrs. A. Smith_ 172 Tropic Forest, A. (Poem) _Montgomery_ 20 Trout Fishing _C.D. Shanly_ 141 Truants, The 40 Two _J.C.R. Dorr_ 152 Two Gazels of Hafiz _Henry Richards_ 145 Two Lives, The. (Poem) _S.W. Duffield_ 201 Two Queens in Westminster. (Poem) _H. Morford_ 132

Uncollected Poems 50 Uncollected Poems by Campbell. _Editorial_ 144 Uncollected Poems by "L.E.L." _Editorial_ 94 Uttmann, Barbara. (From the German) 66

Venice, A Glimpse of _Editorial_ 13 Violins, About _J.D. Elwell_ 36 Virginia, On the Eastern Shore of _Mary E. Bradley_ 79

Water Ballad _S.T. Coleridge_ 67 Weber (Von), Karl Maria _Editorial_ 206 Wine and Kisses. (Poem) From the Persian _Joel Benton_ 27 Winter-Green. (Poem) _Mary E. Bradley_ 90 Winter Pictures from the Poets _Editorial_ 14 Winter Scenes _Editorial_ 230 Wolf, Calf and Goat, The _Æsop, Junior_ 124 Woman in Art _E.B. Leonard_ 145 Woman's Eternity, A _E.B.L._ 204 Woman's Place _Editorial_ 162 Wood or Summer Ducks _Editorial_ 187 Woods, In the. (Poem) _G.W. Sears_ 192 Woods Out in the. (Poem) _Mary E. Bradley_ 126 Wordsworth _Taine_ 33 Wyoming Valley _Editorial_ 36

Young Robin Hunter, The _Editorial_ 60

Zekle's Courtin' _Editorial_ 30

ILLUSTRATIONS

Adirondack Scenery _G.H. Smillie_ 97 Advance in Winter, The 236 After the Storm _Schenck_ 231 After the Storm a Calm. (I, II, III, IV,) 244 Agnes _R.E. Piguet_ 112 Albai, View on the River 183 American Robin, The _Gilbert Burling_ 227 Artistic Evening, An 248 At Home 239 Ausable, Morning on the _G.H. Smillie_ 41

Babes in the Wood, The _John S. Davis_ 222 Badger Hunting _L. Beckmann_ 226 Blood Money _Victor Nehlig_ 190 Blowing Hot and Cold _John S. Davis_ 142 Blowing Rock _R.E. Piguet_ 57 Blue-Birds _Gilbert Burling_ 163 Bonnie Brook, near Rahway _R.E. Piguet_ 112 Bridal Veil _Granville Perkins_ 154 Bridge of Sighs, The (View of) 13 Bridge of Sighs (Hood's) _Georgie A. Davis_ 49 Building of the Ship, The _T. Beech_ 89

Capella Imperfeita, Archway in the 44 Casa do Capitulo, The 224 Casa do Capitulo, Window in the 46 Castle of Meran, The. (Frontispiece) _C. Heyn_. Opp. 189 Caught At Last 238 Cedar Birds _Gilbert Burling_ 85 Chase, After the _David Neal_ 219 Christmas Visitors _Guido Hammer_ 231 Coming Out of School _Vautier_ 12 Crossing the Moor After _F.F. Hill_ 228

December and May _W.H. Davenport_ 146 Death Chase, The 236 Deer Family, The _Guido Hammer_ 106

Enjoyment 241 Evening _Paul Dixon_ 205 Evening 243 Evenings at Home _A.E. Emslie_ 77 Exquisite Moment, An _John S. Davis_ 93

Fashionable Loungers of Lima 24 Feast of the Passover, The _Oppenheim_ 64 Feast of the Tabernacles, The _Oppenheim_ 65 Fisherman's Family, The 239 Forester's Happy Family at Dinner, The _Guido Hammer_ 167 Forester's Last Coming Home, The 56 For the Master _Offterdinger_ (Opp.) 236

Garden, In the _Arthur Lumley_ 138 Gertrude of Wyoming _Victor Nehlig_ 117 Glen, The _F.T. Vance_ 194 God's Acre 232 Gondar, Emperor's Palace at 186 Good Bye, Sweetheart 233 Grandfather Mountain, N.C. _R.E. Piguet_ 215 Green River _August Will_ 69 Green River _R.E. Piguet_ 72 Green River _R.E. Piguet_ 73 Guide-Board, The _Knesing_ 230 Gypsy Girl at her Toilette _G. Dore_ 166

Happy Valley _R.E. Piguet_ 53 Heart of a Hero, The. (Kosciusko's Monument) 113 Here. Chick! Chick! 240 Hollo! _John S. Davis_ 191 House Wrens _Gilbert Burling_ 105 How a Spaniard Drinks _Dore_ 86 Hudson at Hyde Park, The _G.H. Smillie_ 81

In-Doors 243 Infant Jesus, The Copied by _J.S. Davis_ 229 "Is the solace of age." 247 "It ofttimes happens that a child" 245

Jack and Gill _John S. Davis_ 223

Kate _R.E. Piguet_ 112 Keeping House _John S. Davis_ (Opp.) 29 Kingfisher, The _L. Beckmann_ 125 King Witlaf's Drinking Horn _A. Kappes_ 131 Kwasind, the Strong Man _T. Moran_ 109

Lais Corinthaica _Holbein_ 182 Lake Henderson _F.T. Vance_ 195 Limena, Middle-Aged 25 Linville, On the _R.E. Piguet_ 52 Linville River, The _R.E. Piguet_ 53 Little Emily _John S. Davis_ 178 Little Mother, The _John S. Davis_ 80 Loffler Peak, Tyrol, The 135 Longfellow's House _A.C. Warren_ 100 Longfellow's Library _A.C. Warren_ 101 Longing Looks _J.W. Bolles_ 96 Love Aloft _Otto Gunther_ 116

Manifest Destiny _W.M. Cary_ 37 Man's Unselfish Friend _Chas. E. Townsend_ 61 Marston Moor, Before the Battle of 121 Mestizo Woman, Young 25 Mill, in Wyoming Valley, An Old _F.T. Vance_ 36 Minster at Ulm, The 158 Monastery de Leca do Balio, The 225 Monk's Oak, The (After _Constantine Schmidt_) 33 Moonlight on the Hudson _Paul Dixon_ 170 Moose Hunting 232 Morganton, View in _R.E. Piguet_ 53 Morganton, View near _R.E. Piguet_ 214 Morning 242 Morning Dew. (Frontispiece) _Victor Nehlig_. Opp. 69 Morning in the Meadow _R.E. Piguet_ 113 Mother is Here! _Deiker_ 20 Mountains, In the 16 Müller, Maud _Georgie A. Davis_ 9 Music in the Alps _Dore_ 33

Naughty Boy, The _John S. Davis_ (Opp.) 89 Navaja, Duel with the _Dore_ 86 New England, Hills of _Paul Dixon_ 204 Niagara _Jules Tavernier_ 211 Nooning, The (After _Darley_) 17

Old Oaken Bucket, The _John S. Davis_ 159 Ornamental, The _Deiker_ 234 Out of Doors 242

Patriotic Education _F. Beard_ 130 Penha Verde, Doorway and Oriel in the 45 Perkins, Granville 48 Peruvian Ladies, Costumes of 24 Peruvian Priests 25 Pets, The 241 Picking and Choosing _Beckmann_ 238 Pines of the Racquette, The _John A. Hows_ 121 Playing Sick _A.H. Thayer_ 174 Preston Ponds, From Bishop's Knoll _.F.T. Vance_ 199 Puss Asleep _C.E. Townsend_ 143

Rainy Day, The _John S. Davis_ 120 Raymondskill, Falls of The _Granville Perkins_ 150 Raymondskill, View on the _Granville Perkins_ 155 Raymondskill, The Main Fall _Granville Perkins_ 155

Scene on the Catawba River _R.E. Piguet_ 210 School Discipline _John S. Davis_ 198 Serious Case, A _Ernst Bosch_ 202 Shakspeare, Ward's _J.S. Davis_ 104 Shipwreck on the Coast of Dieppe, A _T. Weber_ 139 Singing the War Song 187 Snow-Birds _Gilbert Burling_ 207 Song Sparrow, The _Gilbert Burling_ 32 Song or Wood Thrush, The _Gilbert Burling_ 66 South Mountain _R.E. Piguet_ 53 Spanish Postilion _Dore_ 87 Spanish Ladies _Dore_ 87 Sport 240 Squaw Pounding Cherries, Old _W.M. Cary_ 162 Standish, Miles, Courtship of _J.W. Bolles_ 151 Street Scene in Cairo, A Opp. 229 Surenen Pass, Switzerland, View in the 134

Temple of Canova 203 Then fare thee well, my country, lov'd and lost! 237 "There's a Beautiful Spirit Breathing Now" 218 Tight Place, In a _W.M. Cary_ 76 Tropic Forest, A _Granville Perkins_ 21 Truants, The _M.L. Stone_ 40

Useful, The _Deiker_ 235 Uttmann, Barbara 68

Venetian Festival, A. (Frontispiece) _C. Hulk_ Vischer's, Peter, Studio 84 Visconti, Princess (After "_Fra Bartolomeo_") 108 Villa de Conde, Church at 215 Village Belle, The After _J.J. Hill_ 228

Waiting at the Stile 147 Watauga Falls _R.E. Piguet_ 53 Watering the Cattle _Peter Moran_ 171 Wayside Inn, The (After _Hill_) 107 Weber, Von, Last Moments of 206 What Was That Knot Tied For? (After _I.E. Gaiser_) 92 "Which in infancy lisped" 246 "Who Said Rats?" _A.H. Thayer_ 175 Winter Sketch, A. (Frontispiece) _George H. Smillie_. Opp. 149 Wolf, Calf and Goat, The _H.L. Stephens_ 124 Wood or Summer Ducks _Gilbert Burling_ 179

"Ye limpid springs and floods," 237 Young Robin Hunter, The _John S. Davis_ 60

Zekle's Courtin' _Frank Beard_ 29

THE ALDINE

VOL. V. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1872. No. 1.

"MAUD MÜLLER looked and sighed: 'Ah, me! That I the Judge's bride might be!

"'He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine.

"'My father should wear a broad-cloth coat: My brother should sail a painted boat.'

"'I'd dress my mother so grand and gay, And the baby should have a new toy each day.

"'And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor. And all should bless me who left our door.

"The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill, And saw Maud Müller standing still.

"'A form more fair, a face more sweet, Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet.

"'And her modest answer and graceful air, Show her wise and good as she is fair.

"'Would she were mine, and I to-day, Like her a harvester of hay.'"

--_Whittier's Maud Müller._

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_AT NEWPORT._

I stand beside the sea once more; Its measured murmur comes to me; The breeze is low upon the shore, And low upon the purple sea.

Across the bay the flat sand sweeps, To where the helméd light-house stands Upon his post, and vigil keeps, Far seaward marshaling all the lands.

The hollow surges rise and fall, The ships steal up the quiet bay; I scarcely hear or see at all, My thoughts are flown so far away.

They follow on yon sea-bird's track. Beyond the beacon's crystal dome; They will not falter, nor come back, Until they find my darkened home.

Ah, woe is me! 'tis scarce a year Since, gazing o'er this moaning main, My thoughts flew home without a fear. And with content returned again.

To-day, alas! the fancies dark That from my laden bosom flew, Returning, came into the ark, Not with the olive, with the yew.

The ships draw slowly towards the strand, The watchers' hearts with hope beat high; But ne'er again wilt thou touch land-- Lost, lost in yonder sapphire sky!

--_Geo. H. Boker._

_MILLERISM._

Toward the close of the last century there was born in New England one William Miller, whose life, until he was past fifty, was the life of the average American of his time. He drank, we suppose, his share of New England rum, when a young man; married a comely Yankee girl, and reared a family of chubby-cheeked children; went about his business, whatever it was, on week days, and when Sunday came, went to meeting with commendable regularity. He certainly read the Old Testament, especially the Book of Daniel, and of the New Testament at least the Book of Revelation. Like many a wiser man before him, he was troubled at what he read, filled as it was with mystical numbers and strange beasts, and he sought to understand it, and to apply it to the days in which he lived. He made the discovery that the world was to be destroyed in 1843, and went to and fro in the land preaching that comfortable doctrine. He had many followers--as many as fifty thousand, it is said, who thought they were prepared for the end of all things; some going so far as to lay in a large stock of ascension robes. Though no writer himself, he was the cause of a great deal of writing on the part of others, who flooded the land with a special and curious literature--the literature of Millerism. It is not of that, however, that we would speak now.

But before this Miller arose--we proceed to say, if only to show that we are familiar with other members of the family--there was another, and very different Miller, who was born in old England, about one hundred years earlier than our sadly, or gladly, mistaken Second Adventist. His Christian name was Joseph, and he was an actor of repute, celebrated for his excellence in some of the comedies of Congreve. The characters which he played may have been comic ones, but he was a serious man. Indeed, his gravity was so well known in his lifetime that it was reckoned the height of wit, when he was dead, to father off upon him a Jest Book! This joke, bad as it was, was better than any joke in the book. It made him famous, so famous that for the next hundred years every little _bon mot_ was laid at his door, metaphorically speaking, the puniest youngest brat of them being christened "Old Joe."

After Joseph Miller had become what Mercutio calls "a grave man," his descendants went into literature largely, as any one may see by turning to Allibone's very voluminous dictionary, where upwards of seventy of the name are immortalized, the most noted of whom are Thomas Miller, basket-maker and poet, and Hugh Miller, the learned stone-mason of Cromarty, whose many works, we confess with much humility, we have not read. To the sixty-eight Millers in Allibone (if that be the exact number), must now be added another--Mr. Joaquin Miller, who published, two or three months since, a collection of poems entitled "Songs of the Sierras." From which one of the Millers mentioned above his ancestry is derived, we are not informed; but, it would seem, from the one first-named. For clearly the end of all things literary cannot be far off, if Mr. Miller is the "coming poet," for whom so many good people have been looking all their lives. We are inclined to think that such is not the fact. We think, on the whole, that it is to the other Miller--Joking Miller--his genealogy is to be traced.

But who is Mr. Miller, and what has he done? A good many besides ourselves put that question, less than a year ago, and nobody could answer it. Nobody, that is, in America. In England he was a great man. He went over to England, unheralded, it is stated, and was soon discovered to be a poet. Swinburne took him up; the Rossettis took him up; the critics took him up; he was taken up by everybody in England, except the police, who, as a rule, fight shy of poets. He went to fashionable parties in a red shirt, with trowsers tucked into his boots, and instead of being shown to the door by the powdered footman, was received with enthusiasm. It is incredible, but it is true. A different state of society existed, thirty or forty years ago, when another American poet went to England; and we advise our readers, who have leisure at their command, to compare it with the present social lawlessness of the upper classes among the English. To do this, they have only to turn to the late N.P. Willis's "Pencilings by the Way," and contrast his descriptions of the fashionable life of London then, with almost any journalistic account of the same kind of life now. The contrast will be all the more striking if they will only hunt up the portraits of Disraeli, with his long, dark locks flowing on his shoulders, and the portrait of Bulwer, behind his "stunning" waistcoat, and his cascade of neck-cloth, and then imagine Mr. Miller standing beside them, in his red shirt and high-topped California boots! Like Byron, Mr. Miller "woke up one morning and found himself famous."

We compare the sudden famousness of Mr. Miller with the sudden famousness of Byron, because the English critics have done so; and because they are pleased to consider Mr. Miller as Byron's successor! Byron, we are told, was the only poet whom he had read, before he went to England; and is the only poet to whom he bears a resemblance. How any of these critics could have arrived at this conclusion, with the many glaring imitations of Swinburne--at his worst--staring him in the face from Mr. Miller's volume, is inconceivable. But, perhaps, they do not read Swinburne. Do they read Byron?

There are, however, some points of resemblance between Byron and Mr. Miller. Byron traveled, when young, in countries not much visited by the English; Mr. Miller claims to have traveled, when young, in countries not visited by the English at all. This was, and is, an advantage to both Byron and Mr. Miller. But it was, and is, a serious disadvantage to their readers, who cannot well ascertain the truth, or falsehood, of the poets they admire. The accuracy of Byron's descriptions of foreign lands has long been admitted; the accuracy of Mr. Miller's descriptions is not admitted, we believe, by those who are familiar with the ground he professes to have gone over.