In Martial Array, with colors flying, prancing steeds, and tightened reins, a most splendid battalion of Cavalry passed through several of our streets yesterday.
The sight was the most beautiful and inspiring one which the war has brought before our eyes.
We thought of the six hundred who rode into the "Valley of Death" during the Crimean war, and were immortalized by Tennyson — of Job's war-horse, which snuffed the battle afar off — of McDonald and Selim — and of all the "pride and pomp and circumstance of glorious war, which make ambition virtue." Surely, there is nothing so grand and magnificent as a charge of Cavalry.
The battalion we saw went into camp near this c
Days, is published work from the pen of his Guizot. "An Embassy to the Court of St. James in 1840, " which is elaborately noticed in all the Reviews.
The muse of Poetry has been remarkably silent.
Nothing of importance has appeared since Tennyson's "Idyls." In poetic criticism I notice a "History of Scottish Poetry," by David Irving, Ll D., and "The Roman Poets of the Republic," by Professor Seller, of Oxford.
The most noticeable poems are "Elwin of Deirs," by Alexander Smith; "Ancient "Poems," by Adelaide Proctor, daughter of "Barry Cornwall," some additional pieces of Shelley's, edited by Richard Garnett, and "Ballads from Scottish History," by Norval Cline. "The Remains, in Verse and Prose," of Arthur Hallan, the subject of Tennyson's "In Memoriam," is published by Murray.
In politics, international law, and political economy, have appeared John Stuart Mills's work on "Representative Government," which is anti slavery in sentiment; Mr. Spence's admirable essay on the A
a serenade or reveille whenever he chooses from several bands of Mississippians and others here, who will let him hear the music of their rifles and the roar of their artillery as soon or late as he is ready for the racket.
In this connection, let me say that the music I heard at the last performance by the "Barksdale Thesptans and Europeans." at which Prof. Nutting's Band and the Glee Club of the Richmond Howitzers, led by Prof. Crouch, performed, was as exquisite as any I ever listened to. I did not hear at all, but one piece reminded me of Tennyson's.
"Music, that gentler on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes."
And another was soul-stirring, as Comus says. "to create a soul under the ribs of death. " The army and the audience appreciate the high standard they have introduced in their entertainments.
The afterpiece.--"The Recruit"--I did not hear, but understand that Briley and his fellow actors "brought down" the curtain as well as "the house."
tated that he should follow up and abide by the first order issued by him upon entering upon his present command.
He in d remarked that his Ohio constituent's and sentenced him to Congress.
[A voice, "Served you right" Great laughter]
The Chairman several times declared the meeting adjourned, but the audience clamored for "more."
The young ladies sang several places, and the band also performed.
The Hon Thomas Swan, after repeated calls, made a few remarks.
He quoted from Tennyson's last ode, and stated that citizens and strangers were "all" Marylanders in their welcome of those who were devoted to the Stars and Stripes.
The Union, he said, was one and indivisible, and must stand or fall as a whole &c.
The meeting, at nearly 12 o'clock, adjourned.
It is understood that the guests of the Union League will be entertained by a grand review at Fort McHenry to day, and that a supper will also be given them by the members of the Union League to night at the New
ll have already learned some things about him; how France quaked as he passed; how the English heart was thrilled when be touched the shore at Southampton: how The Times, one face toward Napoleon and Francis Joseph and the other toward the People, cried, "Order gentlemen, order!
Remember that it must all be for Garibaldi in the abstract — not a word about Garibaldi in the concrete, you know!" You know, too, for the papers will tell you all the pretty things, how he interchanged visits with Tennyson, and planted the tree (Wellingtonla gigantea) at the Laureate's "castle," Faringford.
But about that part of his visit I will tell you what you will get from no London paper; and that is, that the first man he was closeted with on his arrival was Joseph Mazzini, and the next were P A Taylor, M P, (sometime President of Garibaldi Committee years ago,) and Kari Blind.
All of which gave a very plain assertion of what perhaps most people (certainly all in France, Austria, and Italy,) knew bef
ll have already learned some things about him; how France quaked as he passed; how the English heart was thrilled when he touched the shore at Southampton; how The Times, one face toward Napoleon and Francis Joseph and the other toward the People, cried, "Order gentlemen, order!
Remember that it must all be for Garibaldi in the abstract — not a word about Garibaldi in the concrete, you know!
You know, too, for the papers will tell you all the pretty things, how he interchanged visits with Tennyson, and planted the tree (Wellingtonia gigamea) at the Laureate's "castle." Faringford.
But about that part of his visit I will tell you what you will get from no London paper; and that is, that the first man he was closeted with on his arrival was Joseph Mazziai, and the next were P. A. Taylor, M. P. (sometime President of Garibaldi Committee years ago,) and Karl Blind.
All of which gave a very plain assertion of what perhaps most people (certainly all in France, Austria, and Italy,) knew b
News of Literature.
--It would appear that Solomon spoke truth when he said that there was nothing new under the sun. Tennyson's famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" owes much of its popularity to its metre and mannerism.
Except the sounds corresponding to the reiterated "six hundred," (such as blundered, thundered, wondered, sundered,) the rhymes are mean, and "cannon to right of them," "to left of them," "in front of them," are not rhymes at all. In the first stanza, as originally publi, "Take the guns!
Nolan said." We suppose that as Nolan was only a subaltern, it was held, on second thought, that his name was not worthy of being preserved.
Had he been a general, it might have been different, perhaps.
Even the metre of Tennyson's lyric is not original.
An English essay writer, in a volume just published in London by Stahan & Co., and entitled "Table Talk," quotes a verse from a ballad, "The Battalion of Agincourt," by Michael Drayton, and published in 1627, which show
