their true birth-homes assigned them. Edward Smith and Samuel Forde, whom the English have respectively called the Phidias and Angelo of Ireland; among the poets of Ireland, Scotland, and England, Goldsmith, Burns, and Shelley, are not mentioned at all; and among those of our own country, the names of Bryant, Longfellow, Halleck, Hoffman, and Wallace are left out, while the only ones recognisable or discerned among the ten given are Edgar A. Poe and Ed. C. Pinckney. To say that, because all those men who are mentioned wrote verses, and are dead (with one exception), and so are poets, is doing injustice to the genius of our land, and giving our children a wrong notion of imagination, sublimity, and taste, as regards literature. It is better to make no mention than introduce mediocrity; or, if names must be given, then let us have those which are regarded with esteem and admiration by the world for their real merits. Meditations in America, and Other Poems. By WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE. New-York: Charles Scribner. This volume of genuine poems will be widely welcomed by the numerous admirers whom they have won in our own and other pages, where most of them have appeared. It is an unpretending and beautiful volume. FINE ARTS. THE New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, after, an interval of a few months, is again open in the rooms of the National Academy of Design. The general appearance of the exhibition is more pleasing, as the pictures hang to better advantage in the long rooms than in the large one occupied by the Gallery last year, and more interest is apparent in the addition of pictures by artists who have not heretofore been represented in the Gallery. York attractions; and no visitor to the city can be said to have seen all its various institutions without enumerating among them the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts. "The Course of Empire," by Cole, is the main attraction of this exhibition. Other works by him, embracing a larger number than the public have access to in any other place, contribute largely to give the Gallery a character which belongs to it alone, and which, in the course of time, will render it one of the most important institutions in the city. We allude to its being a receptacle for one or more of the works of every American artist, so that, after he shall have passed away, both students and amateurs of succeeding generations may know where to find a work of every artist, at all conspicuous in our country's history of art. The value of the Gallery in this respect is hardly appreciable as yet, but that it is beginning to be so, is apparent in the desire of young students in art to study the The catalogue embraces the names of many distinguished artists: Cole, Trumbull, Inman, Brown, Clevenger, Leutze, Durand, Mount, Ingham, Edmonds, Kensett, Hicks, Cummings, Flagg, and other American artists, to which may be added the names of Morland and Raeburn. To strangers, the Gallery must be an agreeable lounge for two or three leisure hours, and to "sight-seers" it furnishes a place of great interest. Most of the works exhibited are by artists of perhaps a greater local than a foreign reputation; but being "to the manor born," they are an integral part of New-works of Cole. THE above Company having a large capital, and the command of the most desirable skill and ingenuity in the country, with machinery of immense power, of the most approved description, have now on hand, and will continue to keep on hand, THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF GOODYEAR'S PATENT METALLIC RUBBER GOODS EVER OFFERED IN THIS COUNTRY, amounting to over $100,000, and comprising over four hundred different articles, all of superior workmanship, and manufactured exclusively by this Company, which are warranted to stand all climates,and will be sold at the Company's DEPOT, 19 NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK, AT LOW PRICES FOR CASH OR APPROVED PAPER. The variety of goods now made under Goodyear's patent are so extensive and wonderful, as well as useful, that no stock, even for a country store, is considered complete without some of them. The attention of merchants engaged in export trade, as well as those in almost every other branch of business, is called to this growing trade, under the assurance, that they will find as above some article they need, or can deal in to great advantage. LIST OF ARTICLES WHICH MAY BE FOUND IN THE STOCK OF THIS COMPANY, WHICH CAN BE SUPPLIED TO A LARGE AMOUNT AT SHORT NOTICE. Camp Blankets. Sheet Rubber. Fire Buckets and Pails. Table and Piano Forte Cor Teething Rings. ers. Cow Milkers. Travelling Bags. Together with Boots and Shoes, Machine Belting, and Packing, Engine and Hydrant Hose, all sizes, Toys of all kinds, Elastic Paper holders, &c.. &c Orders for goods will be executed with fidelity and dispatch, and those to be manufactured expressly should be accompanied with drawings and full descriptions. A fund has been appropriated, and minent lawyers employed, to prosecute all infringements upon the rights of this Company, as well as Goodyear's patents in general. A list of articles, with prices attached, furnished when required. Look out for Infringements and Imp sitions-It should be understood that many of the Rubber Goods offered in the Market, and sold as Goodyear's Patent Metallic Rubber, are base imitations. Caution to Dealers-Goodyear's Patent Metallic, or Vulcanized Rubber Goods, are not made stiff and rigid when exposed to a low degree of Temperature, nor softened or glutinous by exposure to a high degree of heat, and all by law STAMPED, "GOODYEAR'S PATENT, 1844." To Counterfeit which is Felony. All Metallic or Vulcanized goods offered in the market, and not stamped as above, are an infringement upon. Mr. Goodyear's rights, and dealers can readily ascertain that they will be liable to a prosecution for selling the same. Jan., '51 12t CLOTHING, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. D. & J. DEVLIN, 33 & 35 JOHN, corner of NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK. THE Subscribers beg to call the attention of Merchants and others, visiting New-York, to the fact that theirs is the only establishment in the city where Clothing of the most superior make, and latest styles, is to be found in the most extensive variety, at both WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Their object being to meet the demand of Clothing Dealers throughout the country for a superior style of clothing-as contradistinguished from the common slop work to be found at the majority of houses-as also to enable any gentleman who should require a FIT-OUT, in the best taste, to suit himself, from all the prevailing modes of the day. For this purpose one of the firm visits, each season, the various European markets, so as to select the newest things, and thereby save to our customers the importer's profit. Their aim is to supply the very best and most fashionable clothing at lower prices than any other house in the trade. An examination of the stock, before purchasing elsewhere, is respectfully solicited. July, 3t. D. & J. DEVLIN, 33 & 35 JOHN STREET, CORNER OF NASSAU, Prospectus OF THE AMERICAN WHIG REVIEW. In the original Prospectus of the AMERICAN REVIEW, issued at Washington by Mr. Colton, its former Proprietor and Editor, a number of the leading Whig Members of the Twenty-seventh Congress (1845-6) subscribed their names to the following resolution : Earnestly approving the plan of such a National organ, long needed and of manifest importance, the undersigned agree to contribute for its pages, from time to time, such communications as may be necessary to set forth and defend the doctrines held by the United Whig Party of the Union. Signed by Geo. P. Marsh, Daniel D. Barnard, J. McPherson Berrien, J. R. Ingersoll, E. Joy Morris, T. L Clingman, Daniel Webster, R. C. Winthrop, Thomas Butler King, Hamilton Fish, J. P. Kennedy, J. Collamer, Wm. S. Archer, Rufus Choate, Alexander H. Stephens." An engraved portrait of some distinguished person will be found in every number of the Review. These will usually be portraits of living American Statesmen, and whenever that is possible, will be accompanied with an authentic Memoir of the person represented. The first objects of the Review are of course political; it is designed to set forth and defend the principles, the measures, and the men of the UNITED WHIG PARTY of the Union It has been a matter of just reproach to that Party, that though it embraces its due proportion of the intelligence and learning of the country, it has had no Quarterly or Monthly Organ devoted to the expression and defense of its opinions and measures. The conductors of the American Review have done what in them lies to remove this reproach, by securing contributions from sources of ability and truth. The literary department of the Review will agree in spirit with the political. TERMS.-$5 a year, in advance. D. W. HOLLY, Publisher, 120 Nassau st. |