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resistible discontent overwhelms us! The paved hand of
the city spreads out beneath us, holding down the grass and
shutting off the salutary earth-pores, and we pine for balm
and moisture! The over-worked mind offers no asylum
of thought. It is the out-door time of day. Nature calls
us to her bared bosom, and there is a floor of impenetrable
stone between us and her! At the end of the omnibus.
line, we turn and go back, and resume our paved and walled.
up existence, and all the logic of philosophy, aided by ice-
that
creams and bands of music, would fail to convince us,
night, that we are not victims and wretches. For Heaven's
sake, some kind old man give us an acre off the pavement,
and money enough to go and lie on the outside of it, of
summer afternoons!

we "refused to fight" the "friend" of these "highly respectable young Miss Pripigans."

One of the Sunday papers gives a very kind notice of "The Union Library," and the "enterprise of Messrs. Moore and Willis." Types really seem to feel the dog-days and run mad in this present solstice. We wish among other things to redeem a passage of Shakspeare from misrepresentation, and we will print it correctly, here:

"Armado.-How hast thou purchased this experience? Moth.-By my penny of observation."

Our own printer has metamorphosed that word penny into journey, on the title-page of Pencillings, (printed while we were ill a-bed,) and the advertisements change it again to powers, by way of making sense of it.

the words " conceive, prolific, pregnant, teeming, beget, en-
gendered, abortion, and other phrases of the doctor's voca-
bulary." He concludes his homily with this remark: “The
usefulness of your writings is in telling what good things you
have found in other languages more than in vapid love
stories." We pass this lighted straw to the next.
alive!"

"Jack's

Somebody snubbed us the other day, for not giving more A correspondent who commences by stating that he is an attention to evening amusements. It is very easy to say something about them, but very hard work, for that very English gentleman of literary attainments, wishes us to reason, to do it entertainingly. Everything that other wri-point out, to American writers, a peculiarly frequent use of ters are likely to say, must, in the first place, be thrown aside. We do this occasionally, and the best proof of how much labour it costs us, is the immediate copying of any such article into English papers. They know over the water what costs work-especially if it is on a subject they have themselves exhausted. At the same time, no two people see things alike, and we never yet saw a public performance for the first time in which our impressions were at all anticipated by a criticism we had read. But what shall we do? It is one man's plenty of work, to go to, and criticise, one-half of the public amusements of the city. The Mirror, besides, is printed some days before it is published, for the sake of drying and pressing,-two processes very necessary for the beauty of our engravings. Of course, theatrical and momentary matters would be stale news. How shall we please all our readers?

Our Albany friend, (vide the last page of last week's Mirror,) seems to promise us some novelty as well as a lit. tle amusement. The following is his reply, verbatim et literatim, to our wondering denial of his charges:

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N. P. WILLIS.-But few people in the world, admire the genius of this gentleman more than we do, and but few have learned to esteem and regard him as the most polished and brilliant periodical writer of the country. But Mr. Willis, like all other great men, has his faults; among the most prominent of his propensities, is a depraved appetite for abuseing the Knickerbockers in general, and the sturgeons of this city in particular. He even admits as much as this, in a card published in the New-York Aurora of Tuesday last, which was called out in reply to some remarks copied from our paper of Saturday. He excuses this pensity, however, by saying it expired with his boyhood, if it did, his boyhood expired at a very late day, for it was written in 1830 when he was a boy of at least thirty. As respect an other charge in relation to his offering an insult to some ladies of this city, he denys it in to-to. pels us to our proof, whether we wish to or not. We ac. cordingly appeal to his own letters from Europe in 1832 to the New-York Mirror, from which we will copy an extract in a day or two, showing that he ridiculed and defamed two highly respectable young ladies of this city under the names of " Miss Pripigans."

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We certainly have no little curiosity to know who are these "highly respectable young Miss Pripigans," and, as our letters from Europe are just published, for the first time entire, our Albany friend will have full opportunity of" proof."

The readers of the Mirror shall have the full benefit of his revelations. By the way, our friend has forgotten to sustain one of the most important of his charges. Perhaps he will remember, in his next paragraph, to state when and where

We have received a very admirable translation of the old German ballad, "The Luck of Edenhall." A translation of the same ballad by an able hand appeared in the Mirror not long since, however, and we can only wish that the genius of our contributor had been employed on something newer

to us.

THE MIRROR LIBRARY.

IN Germany they have what they call the "golden marriage" an assembling of all the descendants and connections of those who have been united in wedlock a certain number of years, and a merry-making review of their life and its results, with a renewal of vows for another epoch. Exactly to this period have we arrived with our family of type. Its last accession brings its value to the first denomination of gold-a GOLDEN EAGLE! At this five-dollar period of our progress, let us call up our family of fifty, review their names and faces, and congratulate ourselves on their worth and value.

The Mirror Library stands before us.
No. 1.-The Sacred Poems of N. P. Willis.

The first progeny of our poetical youth-pure and pros

perous.

No. II.

-The Poems of Passion, by N. P. Willis.
The child of a more tempestuous period of manhood-
wayward and energetic.

No. In.-Lady Jane and Humorous Poems, by N. P. Willis.
A diary of travels and facts, fused into the flow of fiction.
No. IV.-
-The Songs and Ballads of Geo. P. Morris.
Strains upon master-chords-by the way they pay, pas-
sably popular!

No. v.-The Little Frenchman and his Water-Lots.

Hits at the times, intended as ephemera, but collected into
a volume in surprised obedience to the universal demand.
No, vt-The Songs and Ballads of Barry Cornwall.
A triple braid of genius, enthusiasm and affection.
No. vi.-Letters from Under a Bridge, by N. P. Willis.
A daguerreotype of a five-years' granted prayer.

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same time pure and womanly poetess. The admiration of
her has been singularly universal.

No. XXI.-Evenings in Greece, The Summer Fete, etc. by
Moore.

Another delightful portion of Moore's works, written in
his maturest and most cultivated hour.
No. XXI-Songs for the Sabbath.

This is a third volume of our collection of sacred poetry, and the thanks we have received from clergymen, and from the more serious portion of our subscribers, for these inspired aids to worship, convince us that we have done no common service to literature in getting them together.

No. XII.-The Rococo, No. 3, containing Croly's " Angel of No. xxiv.-A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, by Dr. Grethe World," and Leigh Hunt's " Rimini."

Two Tales of Temptation, wondrously well told. No. XIII.-The Songs and Ballads of Dibdin," the bard of poor Jack."

gory. To which are added, Trials and Temptations of Woman, and The Solace Religion Affords.

This is the jewel of instructive literature, and should be printed in letters of gold. It is worthy to be the text-book of all who are interested in the purity and noble qualities of

woman.

A gem worthy of being brought over "in two ships" incomparably valuable to the sailor, and spirit-stirring to every reader who has a spirit to stir. Why, Hurrah for Dibdin! Who ever swung with such a fling the great pen- No. xxv.-The Gems of Scottish Song, edited by Dr. Cumdulum of human song? "We pause for a reply!"

No. XIV. The National Airs, Legendary Ballads and Mis

cellaneous Poems of Moore.

ming.

Like the songs of Dibdin, this is a collection of admirable gems, long overlooked, and unattainable hitherto without

A careful pluck from the great little bard's choicest gar- great research and trouble. den of flowering immortals.

No. xv.-Sands of Gold, sifted from the Flood of Fugitive

Literature.

No. XXVI.-The Sacred Poems of Mrs. Hemans, and the Hebrew Melodies of Lord Byron.

This is a union of the more hallowed portions of the

Four stories well worth plucking from the drift towards poetry of these two eminent minds, and forms a curious and Lethe-each one a condensed novel.

No. XVI.-The Sacred Rosary.

This is a volume of Sacred Poetry collected with much care, and worthy of a choice place in the library of every lover of hallowed themes. Every line seems inspired. No. XVII. The Rococo, No. 4, containing Hood's Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, The Dream of Eugene Aram, etc., etc.

Hood goes into a poetical theme like daylight into a dark room, with a most inevitable and penetrable clearness and enjoyableness. An imagination at once so rich and analytical has not existed since Shakspeare.

choice book in that respect, as well as an important addition to the stores of sacred poetry.

No. XXVII.—Pencillings by the Way, by N. P. Willis.

The first complete edition of a work that has gone through five editions in England. The portions so much canvassed by the critics are given in this edition as originally written, and the whole embraces travels and residence in France, Italy, England, and the Orient.

No. XXVIII-Two Ways of Dying for a Husband, by N. P.

Willis.

Under this title are embraced the two successful dramas, "Bianca Visconti," and "Tortesa the Usurer." This, and No. XVIII.-Live Coals raked from the Embers of English Po- the three numbers of his poems previously mentioned in this etry; containing Goldsmith's "Deserted Vil-series, form, together, the only complete edition of the aulage," "The Traveller," "The Hermit," etc., thor's poetical works.

etc.

This is a delightful book that was more quoted by scholars and poets than known to general readers. We have restored it, from that by-lane of the privileged, to the high road of common use.

No. XIX.-The Rubric of Love, containing Love Thoughts by many contributors.

All the best things ever said on this everybody's favourite theme, are here collected into a volume, and a most apt and available book it is!

No. xx.-The Harp with a Sabbath-Tone.

We have given, as we said above, a great deal of time and enthusiasm to a collection of religious poetry, and this is another pick from our treasury.

No. XXIX.-The Odes of Anacreon, by Moore.

With the preceding numbers of Moore's works, and with one number of our Library yet to be given, this forms all of his poetry that is not local to England-the "Twopenny Post-bag," &c., being nearly incomprehensible to the American reader, and possessing little interest in a popular edition.

We safely call upon our friends and neighbours to admire the contents of the Mirror family up to this golden epoch! Was there ever before, so much included within a penny dollars! Seriously, we assure those who have not provided and a gold piece-within the embrace of five every-day themselves with the numbers of the Mirror Library as they have appeared, that there is more choice reading and valuable thought within the library now offered by us for five dollars, than we know of elsewhere for many times the It is a treasure of rare poetry, story and moral, worth Miss Landon was a most impulsive, passionate, and at the every man's owning.

No. XXI-The Passion Flower, containing the Improvisatrice, the Venetian Bracelet, the Lost Pleiad, and other Poems, by L. E. L."

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