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LITERARY.
WILLIAH W. MANN, Editor.
SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1859.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS.
Received, during the week—
From ‘ Fannie Fielding,’’ (of Norfolk, Ya.,) j
the poem “Lord Lyle and Bessie Brown.” with
six sketches in prose.
“The Faithful Writer,” by Mrs. A. McCrim- j
moo.
The Curse of Disobedience, by Laura Lincoln, j
A Word about Schools, by “James.”
Recollections of a Contented Philosopher—
Fhoebe's Wedding Night, by John Kstin Cooke, I
of Virginia.
A Charade, by P-de.
Popular Astronomy, No. 3, by Lamkin.
Left Alone, by M. A. J.
Little Willie, by Mrs. E. L. Saxon.
The Bound Boy, by same.
The lines entitled “The Friends you leave Be
hind,” are respectfully declined.
The three stanzas on “Twilight,” the last of
which commences with the line—
“ The rays of the silver moon Is seen.”
are also declined.
The poetical contribution which, in five verses,
describes the Christian’s Heaven as “a magical
isle in the sea of Time,” with “fairy forms in
habiting its bowers,” and “the King's banner
gracefully falling o'er its jasper walls,” is hardly
admissible. Editorial courtesy, stretched to its
utmost limit, cannot accept this extravagant use
of poetic license. The editor's orthodoxy, to
say nothing of his good taste, peremptorily for
bids it. The piece presents a most incongruous
assemblage of Christian, pagan, military and ro
mantic ideas. The writer lias a luxuriant, but
undisciplined imagination, a good ear, and a fine
talent for versification. These qualities, if care
fully improved, will, ere long, enable tljeir pos
sessor to occupy the poetic columns of our peri
odicals with much more than ordinary ability.
This little crack of the critical lash is not intend
ed to discourage, but rather to inspirit our cor
respondent to more careful and successful effort.
The three poetical contributions marked Nos.
1,2, and 3, are also respectfully declined. We
really have not time to write the author a pri
vate letter as he desires, in justification of our
decision; and he would think it unkind if we
criticise the lines severely in this place. Suffice
it to say—we have seen better from his pen, and
cannot publish these, which, we are confident,
he will rim his own pen across, when lie shall
be a little older.
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Avouo. A Legend of the Island of Cos.
With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous and Drama
tic. By Paul H. Hayne. Boston: Ticknor &
Fields, 1860.
It was only by a strong effort of self-denial
that upon the reception of this enticing volume
of poems by a favorite poet of our sister State of
South Carolina, we refrained from its immediate
perusal. Fearing that the pleasure of reading
the book will still have to be deferred longer
than it would be proper to omit the acknowledg
ment of its reception, we hasten to present the
volume to our readers with a recommendation
(worth much more than our own would be,)
emanating from the pen of one who, while he is
himself a justly admired poet, is perhaps our
ablest critic.
Mr. Jno. R. Thompson, the accomplished
editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, thus
writes of this new volume of Southern poetry
and of its author in the December number of
his interesting monthly:
Mr. Hayne abundantly fulfills the early prom
ise of his genius in this new volume of verses,
which brims over with the wine of poetry, as a
beaker at a banquet with the latter and mellow
er offerings of a well-known vintage. Never
was there a more honest and consistent literary
workman than Mr. Hayne. Conscious, as he
must be, of superior powers, he bestows on all
he writes the most patient labour, wherein he
pays respect to the critical taste of his public at
the same time that he does justice to himself.
In his lyrics, odes, or dramatic fragments we
find no doubtful rhymes, no halting feet, no awk
ward inversion—all is in the strictest accordance
with the severe rules of art. Not that he relies
for the effect of his poems on the smoothness and
melody of his measures, or at any time, seeks to
impose upon us by the trick of dexterous versi
fication, saying commonplace things in a musi
cal way and beguiling the sense through the
ear alone. Not at all. No young poet with
whom we are acquainted has less of mere jingle
than Mr. Hayne. It is only as a medium of con
veying his thoughts that he employs rhythmical
forms. Writing from a soul deeply imbued with
the love of all things beautiful, his effort is to es
tablish a sympathy with the reader, and make
him see external objects or feel inward emotions
as they affect the poet himself, and loftier aim
he could not have.
*****
As a writer of Sonnets, we think the general
verdict of the country would assign Mr. Hayne
a rank not fm; if at all below Wordsworth. With
little enthnsiasm for this form of verse, we should
not base upon it our high opinion of the poet,
did we not see in his careful study of the ttrza
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rima the secret of his general success? Sonnet
izing has chastened his fancy, strengthened his
diction, and elevated his taste; and prepared
him for the judicious employment of rhymed i
measures and blank verse.
Mr. Wir. C. Barber, 219 Broad street, has
also laid upon our table The Woman of the
World, a sensation novel, by Lady Cavendish,
author of Lisa, or the Mesmerist s Victim, the
Divorce, &c., &c.
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THE SLAVE HOLDER ABROAD,
Or, Billy Buck's Visit, with his Master, to England
Snch is the title of a book now going through
the press, and of which the author, a citizen of |
our own State, has kindly furnished ns a few of !
the advance sheets. Had it appeared a year or
two years earlier, it would have possessed a j
remarkable a-propos, and would have doubtless !
effected more good than can now, we fear, be
reasonably anticipated. Its intelligent and pa- ,
triotie author —one of our most observing and i
reflecting men—intends it as oil poured upon S
troubled waters, calming the angry waves which 1
have so long tormented our ship of state, and
whose increased violence is threatening now to ;
overwhelm and engulph us. We fear that it is j
already too late to prevent the wreck of our j
gallant vessel. The passions at the North which s
conservative and right-thinking, but dormant j
majorities have allowed to grow in intensity, i
and spread unchecked, till they invaded all lo- j
calities, and every class of the community, hare
at last awakened equally fierce and uncompro
mising counter passions at the South. As we ;
write the words, these passions are catching j
with electrical rapidity, and inflaming the minds
of our population throughout the slave-tiolding j
States of the Union. We do fear, we believe, j
indeed, that these passions can he appeased only ,
over a common ruin. Our friend, the author of
The Slaveholder Abroad, would give himself the i
satisfaction of reflecting hereafter that lie poured j
his cup of oil upon the troubled waters. If the
North had learned the lesson he teaches —and
it might have done so, many years ago, but it
would not, —the American's patriot’s hopes
would not have been brought to the present
almost desperate pass.
The aim of the book is to show that Slavery
in the South, in its daily practical working, and
judged by its results, as they affect both the race
enslaved and the master race, is not the odious
institution so malevolently portrayed by its en
emies without; that it is patriarchal, kind, pro
tecting, preserving to the slave, ensuring him
an easy, pleasant, comfortable lot, as the general
rule, and exhibiting his class the laboring
class—as the most contented, happy, and best
provided for, that the world has ever witnessed.
Our author brings a great array of facts and
figures, drawn from incontestiblo soureos, to the
support of these positions. We bespeak for the
new work a kind reception. It cannot fail to
strengthen Southern men in their position, and
detach some whose minds passion has not yet
closed to the appeal of reason, from the host of
our enemies.
We give, on another page, from the sheets
furnished us, the Introductory Letter of the
book. It will afford to readers a good idea of
the character and scope of the work, as con
ceived by the author, and at the same time fur
nish a pretty fair sample of its style and read
able quality. We shall probably hereafter
publish one or more Letters from the body of
the work.
|y We had the satisfaction of announcing,
in our last number, the accession of Prof. J. 11.
Ingraham, as contributor to the columns of our
paper. We follow up that announcement by
another to-day, which will, we believe, be equal
ly gratifying to many of our readers, assuring
them, as it does, that the proprietor of the
Field and Fireside is determined to fulfill his
own promises, and realize the expectations of
friends, by making this journal second to none
in the Union, as an interesting, valuable, com
plete Literary and Family paper. Mr. Gardner
has secured for the Field and Fireside, during
the ensuing year, the service of the able and
brilliant pen of Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, known to
many of our readers, and widely throughout the
State, as the admired editress and writer, whose
charming productions have given interest and
value to the columns of the Crusader. Hence
forth, at least for next year, and we hope for
many years, Mrs. Bryan will write exclusively
for this paper. There are few if any young
writers of the South, for whom we have higher
or more confident expectations of a brilliant lit
erary future, than wo have conceived and are
now glad to express with regard to Mrs. Bryan :
and we rejoice for her sake, and for our own,‘and
for that of our readers and of all the friends of
our enterprize at the connection we now an
nounce.
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OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, November 24, 1859.
j C'est Fembarras des richesses. In English,
I your correspondent can hardly see the forest for
j the trees. I hardly know where to begin, and
have not the remotest conception where to end
i with my politioal report for the week. The saf
est, at least most convenient, means of getting
out of the difficulty, will be to confine myself
within material limits. The contradiction of
terms, between getting out and confinement, is,
believe me, dear Sir or Madame, more apparent
l than real. Igo to the middle of second column,
as nearly as I can calculate, treating of grave
and tangled political questions. Arrived at that
limit, I jump over to other themes.
The revolutionized Papal Legations, Parma,
Modena, and, if Baron Ricasoli, dictatorial chief
at Florence will, as he probably must, yield, Tus
cany, are to come under the single rule of Signor
Buoneompagni, to whom, as I wrote last week.
Prince Carignan of Savoy had delegated the re
gency offered to him by the vote of the Bo
lognese and three Ducal Assemblies. The ar
rangement that has been arrived at, is the re
sult of a sort of compromise between the Em
peror of the French and the King of Piedmont.
Being a compromise, it is not completely satis
factory to either of them, nor to the Liberals of
Central Italy; but it is excessively unsatisfac
tory to Austria and Rome —in whose non-satis
faetion let us hopefully seek our consolation.
How all will end. I do not presume, corres
pondent though I am, to foretell. I cannot,
however, help thinking that the prospects of
Central Italy are less gloomy than they appeared
a week ago' The regency of Victor Emmanuel’s
cousin, Prince Eugene, of Savoie-Carignan, as
desired by the moderate patriots, and which
would have nearly amounted to a virtual annex
ation to Sardinia of the three Duchies and the
Legations, has been cut down, by diplomatic in
terference of France, at pressing Austrian sug
gestion, to the provisional, purely order-preserv
ing commission of Buoneompagni. Perhaps
the most agreeable feature in this compromise is,
that Austria is, if possible, less content with it
than the advanced patriots.
It must bo admitted that the objections to the Ca
rignan regency presented by the court of the Tuil
leries, had a rational, or at least a constitutionally
rational foundation. It cannot be denied that the
Carignan regency came very near to a practical
settlement of one of the chief questions—nay,
to a whole order of questions, whose “solution”
by the terms of the just-signed Zurich treaties,
is “reserved” for the deliberations of a European
Congress. Nor, happily,can it lie denied that even
the modified forqi of that regency, so modified,
the Moniteur of yesterday tells us, as to have
lost all the characteristics of a regency, does
yet help to unify the Northern Italians.
Austria seems latterly to be less inclined to
the Congress than she was two weeks ago. The
conditions on which she can take part in it, are
not yet arranged to the complete satisfaction of
England. But all that is secondary. No one
now doubts, of what I have had so little dispo
sition to doubt any time these past four months,
that the Congress will—must assemble, and
will be composed of representatives from Eng
land. Lord Cowley, the British ambassador
here, has just Tun over to London to make some
final arrangements, so that the English ministry
can accept the Franco-Austrian invitation.
There, for the moment, is the essence of the
joke: Austria, who had on the whole quite as
lief, not to say rather, altogether dispense with
this Congressional business, bound herself by
those Zurich arrangements the other day, to
join with France in inviting the members who
are to compose it. Whether now, it is to meet i
next month, as everybody in Paris was saying
last week, or month after next, as almost every
body in Paris is now saying, your correspon
dent does not know —nor does he much care.
Meantime,awaiting its assembling, and thereafter
the conclusion of its long drawn discussions,
the provisional Italian governments are con
stantly working important reforms. A com
plaining protest against some of them lately is
sued by the prelates of Modena, will be to most
of your readers their best eulogy. The bishop’s
attack, in this document, as so many acts of sa
crilege, laws and measures whose sole object is
to separate the civ'l power from religious au
thority. They formally protest: Ist, against
the granting to dissident sects an equal
right to observe their own forms in worshipping
a common God ; 2d, against the liberty granted
to the press ; 3rd, against the abolition of eccle
siastical tribunals, and the subjection of the
clergy under accusation of crimes or offences to
trial by civil tribunals; 4th, against the mak
ing of marriage a civil contract, as in France;
sth, against the prohibition to religious estab
lishments, of receiving donations ahd legacies,
without a special authorization—also, as in
France. Like reforms have been decreed in the
other central States, in the revolted Romagna
among the rest. The need of them may be
guessed from this ODe fact that the property
held by the clergy in mortmaine (L e., inaliena
ble) in the Roman States alone, amounts in round
ciphers, to 100,000,000 of dollars—mind not
francs —in value. What ever comes—and
runaway dukes may be among the sad com
ing things,—these reforms cannot be wholly un
done. In the worst supposable case, they will
at least have given the people a taste of
justice and common sense, provoking in them a
hankering after, and an insatiable cry for more.
I was speaking, a letter or two ago, of the
universal Teutonic Schiller Festival. Its cele
bration throughout Germany, eminently literary,
blit supereminently national, took quite gene
rally a political color But the Hungarians, who
naturally were little inclined to join in the man
ifestation, take occasion of the nearly coincident
birth-day of their eminent literary compatriot,
Kazincy, to make their national manifestation
also. I have not space nor time to enlarge on
this point. It is, however, well worthy of at
tention as one of the many significant symptoms
of Austria’s sick estate. Hungarian discontent,
that came so near a dangerous outbreak last
summer, under the patronage of Louis Napo
leon himself, as we all know r , was not satisfied,
though for the moment hopelessly intimidated by
the results of that Imperial conference at Villa
franea. In those days, Francis Joseph was scar
ed into tho promising of large reforms. His
alarm was greatest, and his promises largest re
specting Hungary. The promises have not been
fulfilled. There is to-day a dangerous agitation
of tho national spirit in Hungary. In those
days, Francis Joseph promised large, liberal re
forms, in favor of Jews and Protestants; Os
the Jewish reforms, I can’t speak. The ordi
nances in favor of the Protestants have been
published. To an outsider, they have a liberal
air. To the Protestants affected by them, doubt
less the best judges in their own cause, the re
forms are worse than their previous estate, and
they openly protest against the ordinances, which
they regard as an encroachment on the small
measure of right and justice hitherto acceded to
them. Graver, perhaps, than all this, is the
financial condition of Austria, which is nothing
better than a chronically staved off bankruptcy.
The Emperor wrote the other day to his Minis
ter of Finance, that it was “ his will ” to have
income and expenses balanced the coming year.
The autograph letter was immediately published,
not producing the expected effect on the market,
poor, obstinate, conceited young Franz Joseph’s
“will” not being regarded by the public as a clear
source of income. I have reached my political
limits. The inexorable mail closes in half
an hour. Will you, man cher redacteur, slip in
here a chapter of Paris travels, and record my
parole that next week I will make room for other
than political themes ?
A Noble Sentiment. —Some true heart has
given expression to its generous nature in the
following beautiful sentiment:
“Never desert a friend when enemies gather
around him—when sickness falls on the heart —
when the world is dark and cheerless is the time
to try a true friend. They who turn from the
scene of distress, betray their hypocrisy, and
prove that interest moves them. If you have a
friend who loves you and studies your interest
and happiness, be sure to sustain him in advers
ity. Let him feel that his former kindness is
appreciated, and that his love is not thrown
away. Real fidelity may be rare: but it exists
in the heart. Who has not seen and felt its
power ? They deny its worth who never loved
a friend or labored to make a friend happy.
WASHINGTON'S FAKE WELL ADDRESS.
Our readers are aware that a controversy,
somewhat painful in some of its relations, has
existed for many years with regard to the au
thorship of Washington s Farewell Address.
We are happy to state that the question is de
cisively treated, and the controversy, we .trust,
forever ended, by Mr. Horace Binney's “ Inqui
ry into the Formation of Washington's Farewell
Address'' (Philadelphia. 1859, Svo).
Whether Washington had or had not the aid
of Hamilton in the preparation of the Farewell
Address is a question, in itself, of no moral im
portance. But the unfortunate way in which it
lias been treated has given it a gravity quite
apart from its instrinsic interest: for, as Mr. Bin
ney remarks in his preface, the composition of the
Address has been regarded “ by some persons
either as an unsupported pretension on the side
of Hamilton, or as an assistance which he should
have taken effectual means to conceal forever;
and by others, as a transcript by Washington,
with a view to unneedful houor, of what another
had written, fundamental or guiding thoughts
and all." But while the bearing of the question
upon the honor of these two great names is, at
present, its most important feature, its decision
lias, besides, a definite historical value, which
must come more prominently into view as the
personal imputations, or rather insinuations,
which first suggested the “ Inquiry,’’ sink into
forgetfulness.
Mr. Binney's“ Inquiry ” is conducted through
out with rare critical acuteness, and with a still
rarer impartialy. He treats the question as a
judge, not as an advocate. The dignity and ele
vation of his tone in stating and deciding the
case, are only excelled by his tenderness and
delicacy toward all the parties, dead or living,
who may in any way be concerned in the solution
of the question. Having under his eye docu
ments unknown to Mr. Jay and to Mr. Sparks,
he is able to show, without in the slightest de
gree reflecting upon the judgment or honesty of
those distinguished men, that their conclusions
necessarily partook of the imperfection of their
data.
The case may be briefly summed up as follows:
In 1792 Washington, intending to withdraw from
office at the close of his first term, decided to
state this purpose, and its grounds, in a “ Fare
well Address.” On the 20th of May he request
ed Madison to prepare the paper, and suggested
certain “topics” which, “among others,” might
“be observed.” Mr. Madison, accordingly drew
up a brief paper, which is still in existence.
Washington, however, at that time gave up his
purpose of abandoning public life. Four years
later he renewed it, and, with it the plan of an
address. He prepared a “ draft ”of such an ad
dress himself and showed it to Hamilton, in Phil
adelphia, in the spring of 1796, requesting him
to “redress" it. On May 10th, Hamilton wrote
to Washington, asking a copy of the paper, as it
would need to be “ much at leisure touched and
retouched.” On the 15th, Washington sent it,
authorizing Hamilton, if he “should think it
best,” even “to throw the whole into a different
form.” On the 30th of July, Hamilton sent an
address, drawn up by himself, embodying all the
views suggested by Washington with great care
and adopting his very words as much as possible
but giving a new and much extended plan to
the paper. On the 10th August, he sent back
Washington’s own draft, carefully revised. On
the 25th Washington wrote to Hamilton, stating
his adoption of the new draft (Hamilton’s), and
requesting him to “ re-examine,” and return it as
soon as possible. On the sth of September,
Hamilton returned it, with a few alterations.
The “ Farewell Address,” as now known to the
world, was signed by Washington on the 17 th of
September, and was published on the 19th.
Mr. Binney gives the correspondence and
“ drafts ’’ in full, with a minute and exhaustive
analysis of every part of them, so far as it bears
upon the question. His conclusion is that
“ Washington was undoubtedly the original de
signer of the Farewell Address, not merely by
general intimation, but by the suggestion of per
fectly definite subjects, of an end or object, and
of a general outline, the same which the paper
now exhibits.” The address “ speaks the very
mind of Washington; the fundamental thoughts
and principles were his; but he was not the com
poser or writer of the paper.... The new plan,
the different form, proceeded from Halilton. He
put together the thoughts of Washington in a
new order, and with a new bearing; and while,
as often as he could, ho used the words of
Washington, his own language was the general
vehicle, both of his own thoughts and for the ex
pansion and development of Washington’s
thoughts But no Iconoclastes has appeared
or even can appear, to break or mar the image
and superscription of Washington, which it
bears, or to sully the principles of moral and po
litical action in the government of a nation
which are reflected from it with his entire ap
proval, and were, in fundamental points, dicta
ted by himself.”
The public mind, we think, will rest in this
conclusion. Wo thank Mr. Binney, not only
for his calm investigation and conclusive settle
ment of a question about which a needless and
annoying controversy had arisen, but also for
the beautiful illustrations which this book af
fords of the inner feelings and relations between
the two wisest names in American history,
Washington and Hamilton. Each knew his
own worth and wisdom; but each knew still bet
ter those of the other. Where either recogniz
ed the other’s superiority, he leaned upon it
with unqualified trust, but with no abatement of
self-respect or dignity. Hamilton’s cast of mind
of studies made him far more the literary man;
the accidents and exigencies of his life made him
far more the politician than Washington ever
was. Washington knew all this; and hence
sought and used Hamilton's aid with the utmost
freedom whenever his literary or political talent
was needed in the public service. The extent
to which he depended upon Hamilton in these
respects is well known to all who have investi
gated the matter. Nothing can be more absurd
than to consider the fact any disparagement to
the greatest name in the history of mankind.
This is to estimate Washington by a standard
of which he knew nothing. As if he, whose
single and lofty aim it was to shape his adminis
tration for the best good of the country, had any
of the petty vanities of “ literary authorship 1”
Hamilton’s aid was rendered freely, always with
a just apprehension of the relations between him
and his great chief, and always with the strict
regard to delicacy and honor which was charac
teristic of his noble nature. Ho was a coadjutor
in the building up of an empire, not of a literary
reputation. Statesmen, on whose acts a nation’s
welfare and the world’s future turns, have no
time or thought to waste in adjusting, either for
themselves or for posterity, “ the credit of a
composition ” to which they have contributed
together.— [Harpers' Weekly
—in
Though sometimes small evils, like invisible
insects, inflict pain, and a single hair may stop a
vast machine, yet the chief secret of comfort lies
in not allowing trifles to vex us, and in prudent
ly cultivating an undergrowth of small pleas
ures, since great ones, are let on long leases.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
WASHINGTON, A BOV.
From Lossing's Mount Vernon and its Associations. I
In this vicinity lived some of the Lees, always
a distinguished family in Virginia; and one of
the most intimate of Washington’s friends, in
his earliest childhood, was Richard Henry Lee,
afterwards the eminent statesman and patriot.
They were very nearly of the same age, Lee
being one month the oldest. I have before me
a copy of a letter written by each when they
were nine years old, and which are supposed to
be among the earliest, perhaps the very first,
epistles penned by these illustrious men. They
were sent to me a few years ago, by a son of
Richard Henry Lee, (who then possessed the
originals,) and are as follows:
RICHARD HENRY LEE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.
“Pa bought me two pretty books full of pic
tures he got them in Alexandria they have pic
tures of dogs and cats and tigers and elefants
and ever so many pretty things cousin bids me
send you one of them it has a picture of an ele
fant and a little Indian boy on his back like un
cle jo's sam pa says if I learn my tasks good he
will let uncle jo bring me to see you will you ask
your ma to let you come to see me.
Richard Henry Lee.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S REPLY*.
“ Dear Dickey I thank you very much for the
pretty picture book you gave me. Sam asked
me to show him the pictures and I showed him
all the pictures in it; and I read to him how the
tame Elephant took care of the master’s little
boy, and put him on his back and would not let
anybody touch his master’s little son. I can
read three or four pages sometimes without mis
sing a word. Ma says I may go to see you and
stay all day with you next week if be not rainy.
She says I* may ride my pony Hero if Uncle Ben
will go with me and lead Hero. I have a little
piece of poetry about the picture book yon gave
me. but I musn’t tell you who wrote the poetry.
"G. TV.’s compliments toll. 11. L.,
And likes Ills book full well,
Henceforth will count him his friend,
And hopes mnny happy days he may spend.
“ Your good friend, George Washington.
“ I am going to get a whip top soon, and you
may see it and whip it.”
ENIGMA, NO. XIII.
1 am composed of ten letters:
My 1, 0. 7—is a hut
“ 4,8, 10—is a box for corn, etc.
“ (>, 5, 10—is what one of the days of the
week is named after.
“7,2, 3, 4—is where we are all going to.
My whole is essential to life.
Colin Spence, of Va.
ENIGMA XIV.
I am composed of nine letters —thus:
My 2,8, 4, 3—the name of a celebrated poet.
“ 6,2,1 —a “ bulky piece of timber.”
“3,2, 8, 9—a bird, pronounced, in scripture,
“ harmless.”
“9, 8,4, o—the synonym of wicked.
“3, 7, 9—a female quadruped.
“ 5, 1; 3—another word for turf.
My whole is a beautiful description of Deity,
from Holy Writ. E**#-
ENIGMA XV.
I am composed of twenty-six letters —thus:
My 8, 23, 6, 16, 17, 3,8 —pure carbon or coal.
“ 11, 15, 5, 17, 7, 23, 18, 2—name of a group
of islands.
“ 1,9, 24—an instrument of war.
“ 4,12, 1, 22, 20—the emblem of American
Libertj’.
“ 21, 6, 14, 26, 17, 9, 10—name of a distin
guished Southern statesman.
“ 25, 15, 13—an auxiliary verb.
“ 19, 9, I—part of a buggy-harness.
My whole is the name of a distinguished officer
in the Florida wars. F
ANSWERS.
Enigma XII.: Obey her mama always.
Answered by ‘'Bennie Gibbes,” Columbia, S.C.,
and by “Fannie,” of Washington, Ga.
Mattie, of Alabama, and R. J. C., of Madison,
Ga., answer Enigma XI.
M. R. P., of Mobile, R. J. C., of Madison, and
“ Mason,” of Richmond, Va., answer Problem
2, by “James.”
Problem No. 3, (by “James.”)
Having a certain number of turkeys and
chickens worth s4s.oo—the turkeys worth each
sljso, and chickens each 15 cents. There are
30 chickens to every 7 turkeys. How many of
each sort are there ? To be worked without the
aid of algebra.
JTgp’Young folks and old folks, who oblige
us and show their interest in the Chil
dren’s Column by contributing Enigmas to it,
will please remember that, in all cases, the An
swers must accompany Enigmas; and, to save
time and troublo in criticism, (for riddles, like
everything else that goes in the Field and Fire
side, have to be criticised,) contributors are re
quested to furnish the Answers written out be
low the Enigma in the following form, contain
ing the Answer to Enigma XII., published in
our last number:
Obey her mama a Iwa ys.
1 23 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 1415 16 17
4,9, 10 Yam.
8,9, 4 May.
7,12,16 Ray.
8,3, 14 Mew, Ac.
The editor can thus, at a glance, see if the
Enigma is acceptable as a whole, and good in all
its parts.
Enigmas should be written very carefully, and
writers should endeavor throughout to convey
and impress upon the minds of children good
sentiments, memorable facts, and useful informa
tion ; so that, while they pleasantly exercise the
ingenuity of the young, may improve the mind
also.
The “Periodical Enigma" of W. J. H., is de
clined, because it really conveys nothing useful
or improving—it is hard to guess, and not worth
the trouble.. Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.
Let W. J. 11. bear in mind the rule above given,
and he can send to the Field and Fireside an
Enigma we shall be glad to publish. We know
he can, for the “ Periodical Enigma” is ingeni
ously gotten up.
The Enigma of L. M. P., of Greenville, Ga.,
is of rather too political a character for this
paper. Let L. M. P. try again.
Two Enigmas have been received from J. E-
W., of Alabama. One of these will bo pub
lished ; the other, the editor says he must be ex
cused from.
Enigmas have been received, also, from L. L.
W., of Madison, Ga.; from Bettie Gray; from
Colin Spence; from R. J. C., of Madison, Ga.;
and from Mattie, of Alabama.
Several Problems from “ James:” which will
be soon published, are in hand.
The Lost Child, a child’s story, by Bessie 8.,
will soon have place.