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      that dark and thrilling " Scarlet Letter ; " and he exercises Ms force of fascination "with such ease and mastery , as calm and quiet all the while as the deep , dark , lonely waters , that sometimes seem to woo and hold us like a glittering spell . And he has so much sweet and delicate human tenderness withal , with a most etherial playfulncs of spirit . One gets rare draughts of the wine of heauty , and glorious glimpses of of loveliness from his pages , fragrant as the * " dew , and fresh as the face of Nature in his own land . He has the

      loftiest ideal of love , and the most perfect type of feminine purity and loveliness ; and over all he writes there broods a placid grace , that glorifies , like a tender smile upon the human countenance . We find in Hawthorne a eollosal calmness , and a noble dignity , which no other trans-atlantic writer has attained , save Emerson . There is in him a subdued sense of power , a nonchalance of inner might , which reminds us somewhat of "Wordsworth and G-oethe . It is akin to the

      oratory of Pericles , who produced his effects without the eloquence of action . His writings are gemmed with beautiful thoughts and golden ideas as thick as the night-sky is studded with stars . He is exquisitely learned in the lore of love , and can cunningly produce those touclies of sadness toJdch enhance beauty like the bloom upon fruit . Beside various writings , periodical and otherwise , he has written the " Twice-told Tales , " "The Snow Image , " Mosses from an old Manse , " "The Scarlet Letter , " and the " House of the Seven Gables . Any of these may be purchased . for One Shilling , and we advise our readers who have not made the acquaintance of so rich and original , national and universal a writer , to do so at once ; they will be amply repaid .

      His last , and to our thinking , one of his very best works , is the Blithedale Momance . It is a work oi mournful interest . It tells of broken hopes , shattered purposes , and blighted enthusiasm . It narrates the failure of a social community , and the sacrifice of three lives , who staked and lost their all . Ten years ago a number of persons , full of aspiration for the better life , formed an association , and took up their residence at Brook Farm , Massacnhsetts , U . S . Among this company , were Ellery Charming , a nephew of the Charming , Dana , the poet , Bipley , Dwight , Parker , and Hawthorne . There Avcrc

      also several ladies , most of whom have since become cele brated . They went forth from the world of competitive strife , resolved to live and labour together , and endeavour to weld the principles of Brotherhood and Equality into their lives . The scheme did not answer , however , and the band at length dispersed . Out of these materials Hawthorne has created the Blithedale Romance , freely admitting , that in addition to the Fact , which is the living pulse of the work , it is essentially

      a Fiction . It is full of intense character , vital interest , and rare excellences . Although it chronicles the failure of the Communist experiment , the author does not pronounce upon Socialism , nor condemn the principles in theory or practice . The principal characters are "Miles Coverdale , " a Poet ; " Hollingsworth , " a philosopher and philanthropist ; " Zenobia , " a gorgeous beauty of imperial queenliness ; " Priscilla , " a somnambulist ; and old " Silas Foster . " Here is

      THE FIRST SUPPER . Well all sat down—grisly Silas Foster , his rotund helpmate , and the two bouncing handmaidens , included—and looked at one another in a friendly but rather awkward way . It was the first practical trial of our theories of equal brotherhood and sisterhood ; and we people of superior cultivation and refinement ( for as such , I presume , we unhesitatingly reckoned ourselves ) felt as if something were already accomplished towards the millennium of love . The truth is , however , that the labouring-oar was with our unpolished companions ; it being fai

      easier to condescend than to accept of condescension . Neither did I refrain from questioning , in secret , whether some of usand Zenobia among- the rest—would so quietly have taken our places among these good people , save for the cherished consciousness that it was not by necessity , but choice . Though we saw fit to drink our tea out of earthen cups to night , and in earthen company , it was at our own option to use pictured porcelain and handle silver forks again to-morrow . This same salvo , as to the power of regaining our former position , contributed much , I fear , to the equanimity with which Ave

      subsequently bore many of the hardships and humiliations of a life of toil . If ever 1 have deserved ( which has not often been the case , and , I think , never ) , but if ever I did deserve to be soutlly cufied by a fellow-mortal , for secretly putting weight upon some imaginary social advantage , it must have been while I ¦ was striving to prove myself ostentatiously his equal , and no more . It was while I sat beside him on his cobbler ' s bench , or clinked my hoe against his own in the corn-field , or broke the same crust of bread , my earth-grimed hand to his , at our noon-tide lunch . The poor , proud man should look at both sides of sympathy like this . Here we have another glimpse of their

      LIFE IX COMMUNITY . On the whole , it was a society such as has seldom met toge ther ; nor , perhaps , could it reasonable be expected to hold together long . Persons of marked individuality—crooked sticks , as some of us might be called—are not exactly the easiest to bind up into a fagot . * * The peril of our new way of life was not lest we should fail in becoming practical agriculturists , but that we should probably cease to be anything else . While our enterprise lay all in theory , we had pleased ourselves with delectable visions of the smritualization of labour . It was to be our form

      of prayer and ceremonial of worship . Each stroke of the hoe -was to uncover some aromatic root of wisdom , heretofore hidden from the sun . Pausing in the field , to let the wind exhale the moisture from our foreheads , we were to look upward , and catch glimpses into the far-off soul of truth . " In this point of view , matters did not turn out quite so well as we anticipated . It is very true that , sometimes , gazing casually around me , out of the midst of my toil , I used to discern a richer picturesqueness in the visible scene of earth and sky . There was

      at such moments , a novelty , an unwonted aspect , on the face of Nature , as if she had been taken by surprise and seen at unawares , with no opportunity to put off her real look , and assume the mask with which she mysteriously hides herself from mortals . But this was all . The clods of earth which we so constantly belaboured and turned over and over , were never etheralised into thought . Our thoughts , on the contrary , were fast becoming cloddish . Our labour symbolised nothing , and

      left us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening . Intelleft us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening . Intellectual activity is incompatible - with any large amount of bodil y exercise . The yeoman and the scholar—the yeoman and the man of finest moral culture , though not the man of sturdiest sense and integrity—are two distinct individuals , and can never be melted or welded into one substance .

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      The following , with which we must conclude , is full of thrilling " power . 'One of of the community is missing , and a dark forboding hangs over Zenobia ' s fate . " The shadow-of great woe , like coming night , . Lays its hand darkly on the face of things . " THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST . " When our few preparations were completed , we hastened , by a shorter than the customary route , through fields and pastures , and across a portion of the meadow , to the particular spot on the river-bank which I had paused to contemplate in

      the course of my afternoon ' s ramble . A nameless presentiment had again drawn me thither , after leaving Elliot ' s pulpit . I showed my companion where I had found the handkerchief , and pointed , to two or three footsteps , impressed into the clayey margin , and tending towards the water . Beneath its shallow verge , among the water-weeds , there further traces , as yet imobliterated by the sluggish current , which was there almost at a stand-still . Silas Foster thrust his face down close to these footsteps , and picked up a shoe that had escaped my observation , being half embedded in the mud . ' There ' s a kid shoe

      that never was made on a Yankee last , ' observed he . ' I know enough of shoemaker ' s craft to tell that . French manufacture ; and , see what a high instep ! and how evenly she trod in it ! There never was a woman that stept hansomer in her shoes than Zenobia did . Here , ' he added , addressing Hollingsworth , ' would you like to keep the shoe ? ' Hollingsworth started back . 4 Give it to me , Foster , ' said I . I dabbled it in the water , to rinse off the mud , and have kept it ever since . Not far from this spot lay an old , leaky punt , drawn up on the oozy riverside , and generally half full of water . It served the angler to

      go in quest of pickerel , or the sportsman to pick up his wild ducks . Setting this crazy bark afloat , I seated myself in the stern with the paddle , while Hollingsworth sat in the bows with the hooked pole , and Silas Foster amidships with a hay-rake . ' It puts me in mind of my young days , ' remarked Silas , ' when I used to steal out of bed to go bobbing for horn-pouts and eels . Heigh-ho!—well life and death together make sad work for us all ! Then I was a boy , bobbing for fish ; and now I ' m getting to be an old fellow , and here I be , groping for a dead body ! I tell you what lads , if I thought

      anything had really happened to Zenobia , I should feel kind o ' sorrowful . '— ' I wish , at least , you would hold your tongue , ' muttered I . The moon , that night , though past the full , was still large and oval , and having risen between eight and nine o clock , now shone aslantwise over the river , throwing the high , opposite bank , with its woo . is , into deep shadow , but lighting up the hither shore pretty effectually . Not a ray appeared to fall on the river itself . It lapsed imperceptibly away , a broad , black , inscrutable depth , keeping its own secrets from the eye of man , as impenetrablv as mid-ocean could . ' Well , Miles

      Coverdale , ' said Foster , ' you are the helmsman . How do you mean to manage this business . '— ' I shall let the boat drift , broadside foremost , past that stump , ' I replied . * I know the bottom , having sounded it in fishing . The shore , on this side , after the first step or two , goes off very abruptly ; and there is a pool , just by the stump , twelve or fifteen feet deep . The current could not have force enough to sweep any sunken object , even if partially buoyant , out of that hollow . '— 'Come then , ' said Silas , ' but I doubt whether I can touch bottom with this hay-rake , if it ' s as , deep as you say . Mr . Hollingsworth , I think you'll be the lucky man to-night , such luck as it is . ' We floated past the stump . Silas Foster plied his rake manfully ,

      poking it as far as he could into the water , and immersing the whole length of his arm besides . * * Once , twice , thrice , I paddled the boat up stream , and again suffered it to glide , with the river ' s slow , funereal motion , downward . Silas Foster had raked up a large mass of stuff , which , as it came towards the surface , looked somewhat like a flowing garment , but proved to be a monstrous tuft of water-weeds . Hollingsworth , with a gigantic effort , upheaved a sunken log . When once free of the bottom , it rose partly out of water—all weedy and slimy , a devilish-looking object , which the moon had not shone upon for half a hundred years—then plunged again , and sullenly returned to its old resting-place , for the remnant of the century . "

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      LOUIS KOSSUTH . ( Concluded from last Saturday ' s Star of Freedom ) . In 1841 , the county of Pesth returned Kossuth as its representative to the Hungarian Diet , and now , for the first time he was in a position to cope with Austria successfull y . He was welcomed there by the liberals as one of themselves , a compact was formed , and even before the opening of the Diet he had so united and organised the opposition , that when the session commenced they faced the government in a phalanx , such has had never before bsen witnessed . Kossuth at once drew up a " programme , " which won the heart of the people and smote the Austrians with dismay . Kossuth ' s next grand stroke was to

      frame that important measure , one of the greatest in the history of statesmanship , which gave the Serfs their freedom , and made them master of the soil which they had cultivated as slaves . This was carried through the influence of Kossuth with his omnipotent eloquence , and thus the horrible massacre of Gallicia were prevented from being repeated in Hungary . The abolition of this serfdom was one of Kossuth ' s proudest achievements . It stands alone in all history as the finest and completest reconcilliacion of antagonistic interests . The nobles magnanimously giving up the property they had held for centuries , and the serfs willingly forgetting and forgiving all their sufferings in the past in their boundless hops for the future .

      It was owing to this magnificent reform that nobles and peasants were found lighting side by side on the same battlefield ! roasting their food at the same bivouac fire—side by side on the same scaffold , joyfully sharing the same captivity—and glorying in their lot of mutual co-operation , mutual triumph , mutual hardships , and mutual death . At length the news arrived at Pesth of the revolution in Paris , and the sullen murmurs of political discontent assumed a more audible and definite voice—agitation increased , and spread throughout Hungary . ^ In March , 1848 , Kossuth , with a select deputation , accompanied by numbers of young men , went to Vienna . They wove the Hungarian tricolour , and bore a banner on which was inscribed— Equal Liberty for all People . "

      Kossuth delivered speeches in Vienna , which fell like fire on the minds of the Viennese , and aroused them to the loftiest enthusiasm . ^ He returned to Hungary with certain concessions and . promises from the Austrian Court , which were speedily broken . An Hungarian Ministry was formed , and Kossnth took the portfolio of Finance . He now put into operation his famous p lan of a paper currency . He issued the celebrated Hungarian Bank Notes , which very soon obtained greater credit than the Austrian ones . This paper-money proved to be

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      one of the greatest aids to the revolution . Hungary now be to enjoy a short season of repose and happiness , such as she M not known before . The people accepted their youn g libe *! with a demeanour as noble and calm as though they had sin « i its blessings for centuries . ea But the perfidious court of Austria , and its vile Camarill . that is back- stairs government , could not bear to see the pco }' happy . Besides , they felt they were fast losing their hold of Hungary , and at once they began to ply their machina tions

      u upset this state of things and regain their tyrannical p owe There were no serfs in Hungary to incite to rebellion , blood shed , and pillage , so by aid . of gold , false promises , lyin o- . sations , and the vilest artifices , they began to stir up the neiV bouring tribes , the Serfs , the Wallachs , and the Croats a » l provoke them to a war with Hungary—all the time h ypocriti cally pretending to be its protector .

      When these tribes began seriously to menace Hungry tlu new Ministry convoked the Diet at Pesth , in July , 1349 a ' i in this Diet the nation for the . first time was truly represented Kossuth saw through the intentions of Austria , and accord " ingly summoned the representatives of the people on the 8 th oi July , to vote for the defence of the country 200 , 000 soldiew and a credit of four millions and a half . This occasion evoh j from his lips one of the sublimest and most memorable addresU ever delivered . After his appeal , the Diet rose as one man ' and voted the soldiers and the credit for the defence of the FathericHKla

      Phe Cabinet of "V ienna now thought that the moment had arrived to put their plan into execution and invade Hunowrv Jellachich was sent to invade the country with 40 000 Chats ' advancing at once on the capital of Hungary . The HunW nans were not ^ in the least prepared for this , the country naving been drained of men and money to feed the armies of Austria , in the midst of almost universal panic , there was one ! ^^ not deW lie » e ™ ^ st faith in the heart

      I an energies of the people , it was Kossuth ! He poured forth one of those magnificent and soul-stirring orations which have so often made Austria tremble . He inspired the gallant Ma ™ with a sublime and all-sacrificing enthusiasm , and they were exalted into a nation of heroes . The Austrians were beat-ii back , and there the execution of popular justice on the persons of Lamberg and Latour . Both Austrians and Hungarians now strained every energy for the inevitable conflict .

      We nave not space to follow the several events of the strafe which must be painfully fresh in the minds of all . Who docs not remember how gloriously that gallant nation fought for life and liberty ? That all-conquering valour-and deathless en tnusiasm—those marvellous traits of patriotism-that national sacrifice on the altar of the world ' s freedom . They will all h found chronicled and treasured up in immortal glory when the History of Heroism shall have been written , and Will form one of its sublimest chapters . Through all that tragic etraHe Kossuth was to be found , ¦ cheering , directing , oreanizinff ° ana

      inspiring , oemg most efficiently supported by Bern ; Perezel and others , and thwarted more especially by Georgey What fol lowed , we know too well . We have not forgotten the hano-ino * and floggings , and murderous martyrdoms that made upVat fiightful tragedy . Poor Hungary lies hushed as in the silence ol the grave , her martyrs are sleeping in their gory shrouds but her wrongs are not forgotten , they are treasured to for the day of reckoning which will inevitably come . Hungary is not dead , and has not said her last word . Kossuth still lives ! and there is hope for her future . Grand and clear does the character of Kossuth shme

      out in the expiring glare of the Hungarian revolution 1 Looking upon his past , who can doubt but that there is m store for him a great future ? We have heard from Kossuth s own lips , the history of that proud struggle , how valiant and how righteous it was ; and when the torch of liberty which he had kindled in Hungary had been quenched in the dark waters of the Danube , and he came to us , a wanderer from exile how our hearts leaped up to greet him ! It was a proud day for us , when our welcome to Kossuth made the Despots gnash their teeth m impotent rage , and sent the thrill of hope through the crushed and stifled heart of poor Hun « w In conclusion we would say to Kossuth- « Courage ™ t heart ' come what may-still fight on and let not the faith die within you . Courage ! for Martyrdom and Victory are twins . " Gerald Massey * . , -a-

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      UxcROWNiNa a Kma .- « Doctor , don't you consider yourself a very bad subject of our dear king ?» said a lady to Wolcot , one evening at a party . « I don't know anything about that madam ; 1 only know he has been a very good subject to me . " -Letter from Cyrus Redding in the Athenceum . Ackostic on the Napoleon Family .-The names of the male crowned heads of the extinct Napoleon d ynasty form a remarkable acrostic : J N-apoleon , Emperor of the French , I-oseph , King of Spain . H-ieronymus , King of Westphalia . I-oachim , King of Naples . L-ouis , King of Holland . Jl ^ l f ° - q ?\ Malt ^ - -I ^ s ^ polfonrdoingliis ut-S . Srt ?^? tlie Bse ' thc emblem atop * * ? " , Hvo of ™™ to ™ te \ yf < x M . Louis , the Bee may he suggestive ot the sting as well as of the honey ; and as a symbol of Clr ™ ' G BCe may lQ looked * P ° * " Buzz . ip ««* mSf ^ iTTl ? ? Fbehce 1 ^ ture .-Wc see that the S ! 1 ench ¥ mi 8 ter of the Finance *»?™™ - Ym w £ iT ? 7 ° '' T ' that the French wiU shortly be presented ntW \ lZTl ^ Cons |? e S how deliriously the Eng lish mthatie spect have been Fooled . —Ibid . — — .

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      GUIDE TO THE LECTURE ROOM . sS ^ SS ^ tS ^ itzroy s ^ - A ^ 29 th m * EtS ' ° yCienCe ? Cityll 0 a ( L -Au S usfc 2 M * piJ , C . F . Nicholb . ' Charti * -A' ^ tHs'l S i ° CiCt >'< ttree a °° *» the Hugh 1 I ^* - jS *^ ™ Bj ^? lMlltati <) "' Boaul » l e ™» -i »^ ' sou ., [ 81 »»• EraTs ™ h , ? w ' R ? , 'V : n « Room , B 9 , Chiircli Urn , Whit « l ta | * ' KShTI' !? wedn « tay 8 ) , a Lecture or Utausion . , sicfal Si » Vn k f pside ' Leetl « -Aug . 29 th [ 6 B a Lecturerilaml a ^ n ' . ^ ' Street , Old Garret , MaAster ^ Ai * . **; AIartin ' "J' J > Hox y ° . 'Doctrine of Free ' Will . ' [ 7 p . m . ] . ' ^

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      46 THE STAR OF FEEEDOM . August 28 , 1852 .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/14/