REVIEWS — AMERICAN REPRINTS. 14? 



ble loss to the American literary men, and consequently to American 

 literature, that Harper's New York Magazine has gone on for years 

 appropriating the contributions made to English Magazines, instead 

 of honestly paying its own writers for original material, such as a 

 citizen of the Great Republic could read without blushing, in the 

 presence of an Englishman. We dare say Mr. Bentley of London 

 is not much the worse for it, that the great 'New York house carries 

 its wholesale pilfering so far that the very wood-cut device on 

 " Harper's" wrapper, instead of being commissioned and paid for 

 among the artists of New York, is stolen from the cover of " Bent- 

 ley's Miscellany." Poor Raphael Michael Angelo Daub, however, 

 that ill-faring genius in his Broadway attic, might have dined sump- 

 tuously on it for a week, and his far distant brother in smoky old 

 London never a bit the poorer for it. Let the English Litterateur 

 derive from the fact such pleasure as he can, that if the 'cute Yan- 

 kee does rob him wholesale, it is in order to furnish the means to 

 starve his own native-born literary men, and drive them fairly out of 

 the field. Boston, however, if report speaks true, boasts of a litera- 

 ry aristocracy, with purses well balancing their golden pens, to whom 

 the maintenance of the Union's Literary repute is a thing altogether 

 apart from base considerations of pelf. The names of Prescott, and 

 Longfellow, and Agassiz, and others of her gifted sons, are too well 

 known and appreciated not to make us rejoicingly credulous in rela- 

 tion to all that pertains to their well-being ; but some such morroco- 

 chaired and easy-slippered reviewer it must have been who garnished 

 his " North American " article with the famous verses of the old 

 Metaphysician and Bishop of Cloyne : 



The muse, disgusted at an age and clime, 



Barren of every glorious theme, 

 In distant lands no-w waits a better time, 



Producing subjects -worthy fame. 



There shall be sung another golden age, 



The rise of empire and of arts, 

 The good and great inspiring epic rage, 



The Tvisest heads and noblest hearts. 



Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; 



Such as she bred when fresh and young. 

 When heavenly flame did animate her clay. 



By future poets shall be sung. 



