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BIHTOII’B DEPARTMENT.
WM. C. RICHARDS, EDITOR.
CUfjcns, CirorQia s
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Saturday Morning,,..July 28, 1819.
A VISIT TO PENFIELD.
BEING MORE “ LEAVES FROM OUR DIARY.”
Settlement of Penjietd, Mercer Institute,
State of the Vitiate, The Press, Exami
nation at the Female Seminary, Exerci
ses at the College Chapel, The Com
mencement Sermon, The Junior Exhibi
tion, Oratorical Deficiencies, A Panegyr
ic on Tom Paine, -Misjudged Applause,
A Disclaimer, The Oration before the
Alumni, Commencement Day, The Ora
tions, Degrees, Phi-Delta anil Ciceronian
Societies, their Annual Oration, Unfor
tunate location of Mercer University,
Obstacles to its Removal, its Faculty and
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Resources.
July 2”d. —The village of PenfieM is situ
ated between the main line of the Georgia
Kail Road anil the Athens Branch—seven
miles from the town of Greensboro’, on the
former, and three miles from the Wooilville
Station, on the latter. It was settled about
eleven years ago, principally by those who
desired to avail themselves of the advanta
ges afforded by the Mercer Institute —a
Manual Labor School, which was then in
operation. The adjacent lands were sold
by the Trustees of the Institute, uml the
village was named Penfield, in honor of Jo
siah l’enfield, Esq., formerly of Savannah,
who, in 1829, left a valuable legacy to the
Institute. In the year 1838, the School
was raised to the rank of a College, under
the titlo of Mercer University. This name
was adopted in honor of the Kev. Jesse
Mercer, D. D., who had made generous do
nations to the Institution, and who, at his
death, in 1811, bequeathed to it the bulk of
his large property, for its endowment.—
From the first settlement of the village, its
growth was rapid, and, at one time, large
anticipations were cherished, by some of its J
very sanguine friends, that it would rival j
Athens. These anticipations, however, were i
not destined to be realized, nor did the ;
place continue long to flourish. It is nur
tured entirely by the College, and inhabited
almost exclusively by those who are, in
some way, connected with it. It has no
commerce —two or three small stores sup
plying all the demand of its population.
The houses aro generally neat and pleasant
in their appearance, though there are no
very handsome dwellings in the village.
The College Chapel is the only edifice of
note in the place. The Trustees of the Col
lege are erecting a brick llall, of some ex
tent ; and the two Literary Societies have
each a neat Hall, of brick, upon the Cam
pus.
There aro two papers published in Pcn
field—one, the Christian Index, the proper
ty and organ of the State Convention, rep
resenting the Baptist denomination. It is
not, at present, in a very flourishing condi
tion, and, indeed, for two years past, has
not been popular with the denomination.
It should be sold to some suitable individu
al, who, bringing to its support all bis en
ergies, might undoubtedly obtain for it a
generous patronage from the very large
body of Georgia Baptists. The other paper
is the Temperance Jlanner, the organ, also,
of a State Convention. As an judication of j
its prosperity, its publisher announces an j
immediate change from tho semi-monthly to
the weekly issue, without increase of price.
Most earnestly do we hope that the friends
of Temperance in Georgia will not suffer
him to be a loser by bis generous but, we
think, hazardous cnterprizc.
We have attended, to-day, the Examina
tion of the Female Seminary, under the
care of Messrs. Brown and Loud, and the
general direction of the Executive Commit
tee of the Trustees of the University. The
School is small, discouragingly so to the
able teachers, and it is to us a matter of
some surprise that the denomination docs
not better sustain it.
The teachers are competent, and the ap
pliances for Education ample and tasteful.
The Examination, moreover, afforded evi
dence that the teachers are industrious and
laithful. The scholarship of most of the
pupils will compare not unfavorably witli
that of the best high schools in Georgia!
and, although we have often seen young la
dies examined in more advanced studies,
yet we doubt not equal progress could be
attained in time at this Seminary. Kespec
table proficiency in English composition
was evinced by some of the elder pupils.
MERCER COMMENCEMENT.
July 24th. —At nine o’clock, this morning,
we repaired to tlic College Chapel, to attend
the Exhibition of the Junior Class —the first
act in the drama of Commencement, if we
except the Sermon delivered in the Chapel
on the Sunday morning previous. This is
generally expected from some distinguished
preacher invited for the occasion, but the
Faculty having failed to secure such aid,
Hie Sermon was delivered by Rev. S. G.
Ilillycr, Professor of Belles Lettres and
Rhetoric in the College. His theme was
the difference between Knowledge and Wis
dom. With considerable natural ability in
oratory, lie is quite careless of the rules
and graces of tho Alt. Rhetorical and
grammatical blemishes ure inexcusable in
such a discourse. We would suggest, more
over, that a sermon, one half the length of
his, would have been less wearisome to his
auditors. But, to return to the Junior Ex
hibition.
The following is tho “ Order of Exerci
ses,” distributed among the audience, and
it was performed in about three hours.
The time allotted to each speaker was long
er than at most Colleges, in consequence,
we presume, of the smaller number of ora
tors.
E. G. Patchings, C. S., Clinton, Ga. —
Thought.
T. A. J vn’Es, I’. 1). S., Augusta.—
Wealth anil Genius.
J. AsntAiY, C. 8., Taliaferro Co. —The
Pursuit of Knmeledgl.
W. J. Arrington, C. S., Jefferson Co.—
Tom Paine.
T. R. Thornton, C. S., Greene County.
(Excused.) —The Dove of Fame.
C. 11. Barrow, 1\ D. 8., Morgan Co.—
The Secret of Success in Life.
11. 11. Bunn, C. S., Twiggs Co.—Origi
nality.
W. L. Kilpatrick, P. D. S., Richmond
! Co.— Man is an Anomaly.
W. 11. Clarke, C. S., Savannah.—“lion
j or is the Subject of my Story.”
J. J. Wallace, I’. L). S., Wilkes Co.—
Powers of Intellect.
W. L. Harris, C. 8., Greene Co .--llow
shall I become distinguished l
03* C. S. and P. D. 8. arc tho initials of
the Ciceronian and Pfii Delta Societies.
We shall not record our impressions of
the speeches separately, or indulge in invi
dious comparisons—from which no good can
arise. Many different conclusions were
doubtless arrived at by the auditory, ac
cording to the various tastes and preferen
ces they cherished. AVe shall speak of
them generally, with one exception. The
young gentlemen exhibited, we think, con
siderable cultivation of mind, and, also,
habits of thinking much to be commended.
Their speeches were of a serious cast, evi
dently attempered by the genius loci —the
religious spirit which pervades, to a greater
or less extent, the whole Institution. Their
views were liberal and practical, and indi
cated a progressive state of preparation for
the great stage of life. The elocution of
most of the speakers was strikingly defect
ive, and wo mention it without hesitation,
that the remedy of such defects may he ap
plied. In tliis age of excellence—when the
graces of oratory are so easily attained—
when elocution has become an inseparable
part of a liberal course of study —they can
not be neglected with impunity. The Ju
nior orators, generally, were deficient in
these attainments. They had neither a
command of their voices, nor appropriate
gestures. The voice is an organ of compli
cated tones and stops, which cannot be ef
fectively played upon, without great skill,
i the result of careful and protracted study
and labor. Action, moreover, or gesture—
that inseparable concomitant of true elo
quence—requires tho most elaborate care
and diligent practice. AVitli striking natu
ral qualifications for effective public speak
ing, many of our College graduates go forth
into the arena of public life, with none of
the artificial aids to success in oratory.
Nay, they are sometimes taught, most fa
tally, to despise such aids as meretricious.
This error is to be deplored, for it is cer
tainly true, that lie who possesses the elabo
rate and acquired arts of the speaker, will
never fail to make them effective; while, on
the other hand, lie who Icarus and practices
no such arts will often make signal and ri
diculous failures. AVe commend, then, to
the Mercer College a more efficient course
of Rhetorical and Oratorical study, as a
remedy for one of the most manifest defects
in the training of her sous.
Os the fourth speech in the preceding
‘ Order,’ we have a few words to record.
It was a most daring and shameless pane
gyric on the infidel, Tom Paine. With the
private opinions of tlic young man, we have
no quarrel; but, that he should take the
occasion of a large public assemblage of the
friends of Airtuc and Religion, to utter
sentiments of the most embittered and viru
lent hatred to the thousands of good and
wise men in all lands, who have lifted their
voices against the seductive and deadly
doctrines of Paine, and of the most unblush
ing anil fulsome adulation of the author of
the “ Age of Reason,” —appeared to us an
outrage upon the good taste and good feel
ing of that assemblage, and an unwarranted
insult to the Board of Trustees.
The loud applause which followed it, we
attributed to the right source—the thought
less, imliscrimiuating part of the auditory ;
! anil, while we were lost in astonishment
that the Faculty hail authorized such a
speech, the President arose, and briefly sta
| ted that it had not been sanctioned by
! them as it was delivered. This loft us only
, one cause of regret, so far as they were
concerned, that they had not, at tlic earliest
development of the impudent character of
| the address, peremptorily forbidden its
further delivery. If the public opinion of
] the assembly would not liave applauded
j such a measure, we have estimated it fa^
| beyond its worth.
This afternoon, the Address before the
Alumni Society was delivered by Richard
M. Johnston, Esq., of Sparta. This was
’ the first Anniversary of the Society, which
| exhibits, as yet, very few names on its roll.
Mr. Johnston's theme was Charity, and he
dwelt especially upon the evils of Poverty,
and the occasions they afjbrd for the exer
cise of the beautiful virtue of Charity. Ilis
address was chaste and eloquent, and the
i style of liis oratory almost unexceptionable.
July 25 th. —One advantage of a small
graduating class, if we can suggest no oth
er, is the brevity of Commencement Exerci
ses ; and this is not a small advantage,
when tho excessive heat of the weather and
the crowded state of the Chapel are consid
ered. There were but five orators in the
Senior Exhibition, as will appear from the
annexed programme, where their names,
themes and honors, arc set forth.
Theological Seminary.
A r . A. Gaskill, P. D. S., Penfield.—
, Christian Boldness.
College.
T. TT. Cool*kh, C. S., Scrivcn Cos., 2<l Hon
or—Latin Salutatory , Utilitarianism.
W. 11. Swanson, C. S., Auburn, Ala.,
3<l Honor.— Light.
N. K. Davis, C. S., Penfield. (Absent
by permission.)— Power of liitlieule.
T. J. Earle, C. S., (Irregular,) Spartan
burg Dist., S. C.— Rewards of Genius.
J. T. Stephens, I*. D. S., Forsyth, Ga,
Ist Honor.— The infant * is father of the
man—Educate the Mother.
And the Valedictory.
The prevailing characteristic of the ad
dresses was seriousness. The imaginative
scarcely entered into the composition of ei
ther; and iu all, the practical, rather than
the rhetorical and brilliant, predominated.
Tcldltl, Wordsworth says—Ed. Uaz.)
aa§emi!D© 5 wis saw ©aoniMfio
Os the Valedictory Address, wo feel com
pelled to remark that very much of its le
gitimate effect was destroyed by its unwar
ranted length. Emotion is not expressed in
words, nor will words, however multiplied,
compensate for the lack of true emotion.
The manner of the Valedictorian—espccial
i ly os displayed iu his theme, the Education
of Mothers—was disfigured by assumed en
thusiasm, and liy a consequent overaction—
, a striking proof of the importance of orator
ical culture.
After the speeches were delivered, the
Baccalaureate was conferred upon the fol
lowing young gentlemen: J. T. Stephens,
jT. B Cooper, VV. If. Swanson, and N. K.
Davis, and the Rev. President Dagg made
. an appropriate address to the Graduates.—
The degree of A. M. was then conferred, in
course, upon Prof. J. S. AVillet and the Rev.
S. Landrum, Graduates of 1817. The whole
exercises of Commencement were agreeably
enlivened by frequent airs performed by a
brass band belonging to the village, whose
ability and taste deserve notice.
There arc two flourishing Literary Socie
ties connected with the College—the Phi
Delta and the Ciceronian —with the former
of which we had the pleasure of fraternal
intercourse, and wc:e happy to find that it
is in a prosperous condition, and aiming at
a still higher degree of excellence than it
lias already attained. A largo number of
honorary members were present at its an
nual festival.
This afternoon, the two Societies nnd a
large congregation assembled in the spacious
Chapel, to hear the customary Annual Ora
tion. The speaker was the lion. H. F. Por
ter, of Alabama, whoso reputation as an
able jurist and a polished writer, is widely
known. Ilis address was a happy specimen
of extempore eloquence. It was not alto
gether lacking in the graceful finish cf a
w r ritten oration, while it had all the advan
tage of spontaneous nnd unfettered thought
and feeling. The theme of the speaker was
the dignity of the world nnd of man, as ex
hibited in the works of God and in the pro
gress of human society. His illustrations
wevo exceedingly felicitous, and his lan
guage not uufrequently kindled into elo
quence which won the warm applause of his
auditory. AVe may not subject an unwritten
oration to the same severe criticism which
an elaborately prepared address would de
mand nnd provoke; but we think that all
who listened to Judge Porter's speech, will
agree with us, that it was eminently practi
cal in its spirit, abounding in pleasing fact
and illustration, and embodying sound and
judicious advice, especially to the youth of
the Societies.
AVitli this address closed the Exercises of
this Collegiate festival, and with character
istic rapidity the audience dispersed far and
wide, gratified, we cannot doubt, with “ the
feast of reason and flow of soul” that they
had been permitted to enjoy.
It is a matter of deep regret, that Mercer
University is situated so near to the State
College, as to be evidently within its shadow.
Scarcely 00 miles asunder, the two Institu
tions cannot both derive ample patronage
from the surrounding country; and the
younger of the two —although liberally en
dowed and appealing to a sect for its sup
port —suffers from the proximity.
The question of its removal to AA’estevn
Georgia, has been agitated among its friends,
and would probably be resolved upon, but
for the provisions of the w’ill of its distin
guished patron and god-father, which posi
tively fix its location at this place. AVlieth
er or not a Court of Equity would set aside
this restriction, in view of the disadvantages
of its present position—amounting almost to
a defeat of the legator’s generous intention
—is a question of doubt—tliougli it would
seem to us that such a course would be con
sistent with Equity. Removed to a health
ful AVestern town, its success would be com
mensurate with its merits, which are nei
ther few nor small.
It is well endowed—out of debt —provided
with a good Philosophical and Chemical Ap
paratus —a valuable Library—and, nbove
all, a respectable Faculty. If not men of
distinguished talent, its Professors arc, n v
crtheless, generally diligent and faithful.
THE AMERICAN ART-UNION.
In the Bulletin for July, there is an out
line sketch of the Bronze Statuette of which
20 copies nrc to he distributed at the next
Annual Drawing. Tlic subject is “ The
Choosing of the Arrow,” and the model was
made by Mr. 11. K. Brown. Tbe Statuette
represents a young Indian, selecting an ar
row from his quiver, while at the same mo
ment lie is watching the effect of one just
discharged. It is highly poetical in design,
and will doubtless be a gem of Art.
Tho Gallery is rapidly being filled with
choice works. The Catalogue already shows
156 pictures as the property of thcUnion for
1849. Among these are pictures by Hunt
ington, Osgood, Church, Doughty, Cropsey,
Richards, Gifford, and others well known to
fame.
Those of our readers who intend to avail
themselves of the privileges of this admira
ble Association, for the present year, should
lose no time in sending their names to the
nearest Honorary Secretary. It is impor
tant to the Managers of the Union to have
the funds of the year at their control as ear
ly as possible.
ottr Book £ablc.
[Publishers and Authors who desire to have their
Books noticed in tbi*Gazette, are requested to
send copies to the Editor through String’ r &
Townseud, New- York, or Carey & Hurt, Phil.
Republican Christianity ; or True Liberty, as
exhibited in tho Life, Precepts, and Early Dis
ciples of the ( treat Redeemer. By E. E. Ha
ft, on. One vol. 12mo ,pp. 422. Boston: Gould,
Kendall & Lincoln. 1819.
Mr. Magoon has achieved suddenly, a
reputation as an author, wdiich indicates a
more then ordinary claim upon the public
attention. The chief element of his success
! is, we nrc inclined to think, the boldness
with which lie performs liis self-imposed
tasks. Os course, wo take liis ability for
granted ; but many authors, with equal tal
ent, have failed to win the high reputation
he enjoys. They have been wanting in the
independence, tho pointedness, which Mr.
Mngoon’s works exhibit.
The author’s “ Proverbs for the People”
contain many unpalatable truths, but they
have been justly commended by the review
ers. His two works on American Orators
have been well received—and tho volume
before us has within its covers, thoughts
and opinions, honestly yet kindly express
ed, which will have no inconsiderable influ
j cnee upon the popular mind.
As the work is theological in its bearings,
and necessarily imbued with the author’s
peculiar views of ecclesiastical polity, we
shall confine ourself to a mere notice of it.
The volume is dedicated “ To all who hate
tyranny, revere humanity, bclievo in pro
gress, and follow Christ.” The author’s
creed is brief, but comprehensive—“ First:
lie believes in Jesus Christ; and second : lie
believes in no one else, ns having the slight
est authority over the personal freedom and
religious rights of mankind"—a “ confession
of faith” to which we may he allowed cor
dially to subscribe.
The first part of the work treats of the
republican character of Christ, as exhibited
from five great points in liis earthly career
—liis Infancy, his Youth, his Manhood, his
Alinistry, his Sacrifice. The second part
regards the character of the Primitive
Church, which our author thinks was es
sentially “ Republican” iu its constitution.
In successive chapters, lie presents the
Church without cither King, Pope, Bishop,
Priest, or Aristocrat. AVitli his wonted
zeal and vigor does lie level blow after blow
at the various ecclesiastical systems of the
present as well ns of past time—and we
should do him and our conscience an injus
tice, if we did not acknowledge that he
brings to the attack no common skill and
acumen. He declares unequivocally for the
Congregational system ns the only Republi
can and Bible organization of the Christian
Church.
In the third part of the work, the author
discusses the Republican Influence of Chris
tian Doctrine, and exhibits Christianity as
the Solace of the Obscure, the Patron of the
Aspiring, the Fortifier of tho AVeak, the
Deliverer of tho Oppressed, the Rewarder
of the Sacrificed.
Tho foregoing analysis of the hook will
suffice to indicate its scope and its aim, to
the reflecting reader. The work is calcula
ted to inspire thoughtfulness, to provoke en
quiry, to challenge criticism, and there will
be much and varied dissent from the Benti
nients it teaches. It is, however, an earnest
book, and cannot but do good. Whatever
of Scriptural and philosophical truth it Con
tains, will prevail—whatever of error and
prejudice, will not withstand tho test of
reason nnd Revelation, hut die. It is a hook
to be read and pondered with a thoughtful
spirit by thoughtful readers, nnd to such
we commend it.
The History of AVonderfm. Inventions. Il
lustrated with numerous Engravings on AVood.
In I2mo.—2vols.ini.
The value of such hooks as this can hard
ly be overrated. They nrc the indexes of
human progress—the brilliant and instruc
tive annals of .Art nnd Science. Upon their
pages arc recorded the events which divide
time and society into distinct periods, and
which have given, successively, new im
pulses to the “ march of intellect.” In the
very beautiful volume before us, we find
clear but concise accounts of some of those
discoveries and inventions which are proper
ly called “ wonderful,” expreaw their In
fluence upon the character and destiny of
man.
In the first volume, (or part,) there are
descript ions of the Mariner’s Compass, Light
Houses, Gunpowder and G un-Cotton, Clocks,
Printing, the Thermometer, the Barometer,
the Telescope, and the Microscope. In the
second part —of the Steam Engine, the Cot
ton Manufacture, Steam Navigation, The
Railway, Gas-Light, and the Electric Tele
graph . The on! y regret we have iu noticing
this volume is, that, being of English origin,
it was not submitted to an American revi
sion, or annotation rai.ber, that the inven
tion of the Cotton Gin by AYhitney, nnd of
Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph, might
have been detailed fully in their appropri
ate places. The engravings are very well
executed, and quite apposite. Tho volume
is one of a valuable series, under the name
of the “ Boy’s Own Library.”
The I.NCARNATt in, or Pictures of tho A’irgin nr.d
her Sun By K lward Beecher, with an Intro
ductory Essay by Mrs. Harriet Beechor Stowe.
One vol. New York: Harper & Brothers
1849
“ Pictures of tho A’irgin and her Son !” :
exclaims the honest Protestant reader— I
“ that is not a book for me, I’m sure.” But
let us look at it, and see what it really is.— j
The design of the writer is well set forth in
Mrs. Stowe’s preface, which we briefly quote j
—“ to re-produce the Sacred Narrative un- j
dcr the aspects which it presents to an im
aginative mind, with the appliances of geo
graphical, historical and critical know
ledge.”
After an earnest perusal of the work, we
are prepared to express our approval of its
spirit and of its style. The beautiful inci
dents attending the Incarnation of tlic Son
of God, arc narrated in the style of fiction;
that is, they ai with events and
circumstances, which are only exceedingly
probable, and in no wise incompatible with
the sacred character of the history. The
imagination is thus interested, and through
its powerful aid, the holy truths of the New
Testament may be fastened upon tho heart.
There arc thousands of young people, who
[read the New Testament narratives with no
interest whatever, as tho result of long fa
miliarity with the language, while others
forbear to read it at all, because it was made
a task to them in childhood. To such, Mr.
Beecher’s beautiful versions of the Annun
ciation, the Birth of Jesus, the Flight into
Egypt, and other events, will liavo all the
charm of novelty, and all the fascination of
romance, with none of their unhallowed in
fluences. AVe shall look with pleasure for
more of the Evangelical narratives promised
by the author.
The Earth and -Man :JL,ecturc on Comparative
Physical Geography, In its Delation to the
Hi-tory of Mankind. I3y Arnold Guyot, l*ro
fessorof Physical Geography and History at
Neuchatel, Switzerland. Translated from the
Trench, by C. C. I'elton, Professor in Harvard
University. Poston: Gould, Kendall & Lin
coln. 1849.
Physical Geography, as a science, is of
comparatively recent origin. In Europe,
Humboldt nnd Hitter have contributed val
uable works in illustration of tho subject.
Until quite recently, it has received no at
tention at all in this country—nnd Prof.
Guyot has done the cause of Science ineal.
tillable service, by the publication of the
present work. It will help to redeem the
study of Geography from its dryness and
barrenness, by showing it to consist of
something more than superficial views of
political divisions and sub-divisions of our
earth, with Idle names of its continents,
islands, mountains, rivers, oceans and sens.
The lectures comprised in this volume
were originally delivered, in French, in one
of the Halls of the Lowell Institute, in Bos
ton. Prof. Guyot is eminently qualified to
do justice to his subject. He has studied it
deeply in the school of Ritter and Humbolt,
and has brought to bear upon it his brilliant
power of generalization. He has shown us
the intimate relations which exist between
limn and nature —between the characteris
tics of our physical globe and the history of
the races upon it; that the forms, the ar
rangement, and the distribution of terres
trial masses, reveal a plan which we are
enabled to understand by the evolutions of
history, and that each continent or particu
lar portion of the earth's surface, is adapt ■
ed, by its very nature, to the wants of the
race in one of the phases of it.- history: in
a word, that there is unity of design, oflaw
and of action, in all departments of matter
and of mind.
We are happy to learn, as we do by an
announcement of the publishers, that this
work will be followed by a scries of Ele
mentary Books on Physical Geography, by
l’rof. Guyot, illustrated with cuts and col
ored maps. *
The Seven - Lamps of Architecture. By John
Buskin, author of “ Modem Painters.” New
York i John Wiley. 1849.
This is a book for the few. To those who
can understand and appreciate it, it will be (
esteemed an invaluable acquisition. Though
intended specially for the Architect, no Art
ist or lover of the Beautiful and the True
can peruse it without pleasure and profit. —
The author is a thinker. He looks through
outwnrd forms, into the spirit which per
vades them and to which they should cor
respond. lie grasps a Universal Law which
harmonizes all things. lie is deeply in love
with his subject, and handles it with the
skill of a master. We commend the book
to Architects and to Artists generally’.
< % *
our (Contemporaries.
Tbs Southern Quarterly Review, for July, 1819
Charleston: Jas. S. Burgess.
In the hands of Mr. Simms, the Review
is already affording indications of increased
vitality and of a brilliant career. Most
cordially do we wish the work that full
measure of success which, as the only crit
ical Journal in the South, it is justly enti
tled to.
Our limited space forbids us to notico in
detail the articles of the July number. —
The leading paper, on Elwood Fisher’s pam
phlet, entitled “ The North and South,”
written, we fancy, by a distingrished gen
tleman of Carolina, is a masterly review of
that production —admirably illustrating and
enforcing its author’s independent and gen
erous views of “ our peculiar form of civil
ization.” Among other articles is one on
Macaulay's England—a themo that has well
nigh exhausted the critical genius of both
worlds. The reviewer accords to the histo
rian the high praise which it would have
been both vain and unjust to withhold, but,
at the same time, is not as indiscriminate as
some writers, nnd frankly suggests those
points in Mr. Macaulay’s great work, which
appear to him to ho deficient in cither his
torical or rhetorical accuracy.
A spirited defence of Col. Fremont in his
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