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being abroad at the time of its selection, and not being aware of its American paternity, complaints have been made that it should at least have been credited to the source whence it was obtained. 'Not exactly.' Articles (in two or three instances) from the KNICKERBOCKER, Written for it, and published in it, have been copied into the same English Magazine, without any mention of their origin; have come back here in English journals, and been copied, and credited to the source whence the 'stolen goods' proceeded. remove the beam which is in thine own eye, and after that,' etc. three or four years ago,' writes a western friend, in a genial, gossipping letter, 'I commenced a rhyming epistle to you, of which I remember only a scrap, which is 'matter of fact,' as an old codger interrogatively observed in my hearing, when I was about half a dozen years old, as some one was talking about the story of RIP VAN WINKLE:

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We have seen and heard JULLIEN! Well, there! there's no use talking.' Nothing like him, nothing approaching him, as a 'leader,' has ever appeared in America. We used to think, when a little boy in the country, that APOLLOS HOPKINS, when he rose in the centre of the gallery of our great, square, straight-backed 'cathedral,' was the greatest leader we ever saw; previously taking out his pine pitch-pipe, (painted red at the same time the roof of our barn was painted, and from the same pot,) pulling it out as far as 'G' on the slide, and, with a preliminary, 'Low-low-LUD-low 'um 'um!' 'setting' the tune, in something the same way that an 'expert' would 'set' Then would he rise, and his 'corps' with him, the women on the right hand and the men on the left, and, with his long blue sheepskinbacked singing-book (its covers rising and falling, like the slow-moving wings of a spread-eagle) in his left hand, and the tips of his great, bony fingers resting on the book, giving the 'upward beat, downward beat,'' with a short, uneasy motion,' until, with uplifted hand and stentorian preliminary voice, he awoke the 'great deep' of nasal 'execution.' Such was APOLLOS HOPKINS, the great musical leader of our time. But JULLIEN is different. Nothing could be more dissimilar than the styles of the two performers. JULLIEN seems more graceful. HOPKINS wore no gloves, and his coarse hands were 'brown as the ribbed sea-sand.' JULLIEN wears very white ones; his hands are small, and he 'makes more motions.' JULLIEN is 'more 'stubbed' than what APOLLOS was,' who was tall and lank; and when he stood up, and was under way, you could see, as they say, the leader 'sticking out.' Not so with JULLIEN. He 'fires and falls back,' in his elegant chair; apparently dead of a surfeit of sweet sounds. But, every thing else apart, JULLIEN is a wonder. He is a true genius. Nothing has ever moved us so much, in

the way of music, as the harmony which he compels from his hundred instruments, all sounding in unison, at once. It is the very perfection of art in its kind, and is really a 'living delight.' Now, reader, just think whether we ever spoke in this way before of any musical performer in these pages, and give us credit for an impression of a 'new revelation.' - - READER,

let us drop a word in your ear: 'Look out,' in the course of a month, for a most charming little volume, from the press of the publisher hereof, entitled 'January and June: or Out-Door Thinkings, and Fireside Musings:' by BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR. This is the writer's brief and beautiful preface:

'A LITTLE Preface to a little Book is a jewel: so these random sketches are not portionless.

'Some body has declared that 'water runneth by the Mill, the Miller wots not of;' and, for proof thereof, lo! here a little, caught in the hollow of one's hand. Not enough, indeed, to turn a wheel, but to quench, may-be, a rose's or a robin's thirst; to baptize an infant love of nature; to sparkle in dews, on opening leaves of thought. "HARK!' says the mother, as she soothes the restless child. Now, NATURE is the mother, and I- the child.'

THE following admirable lines, written on a 'June Morning,' reach us in the well-known and always welcome chirography of our esteemed friend and correspondent, ROBERT S. CHILTON, Esq., of Washingon City:

"THE cat-bird sings in the tangled bush

That loads the air with its sweet perfume,
And the murmuring bees hide all the day
In the snowy tents of the alder's bloom;
The silent thrush, with a rapid wing,

Darts through the sun-lit, leafy screen,
And tilts the branches that over the brook
Wave their tassels of tender green.

"The distant river, asleep in the sun,
Lies in a calm, unruffled rest,
And a single sail, like a snowy gull,
Lazily floats on its placid breast.

From yon white cottage, hard by the wood,

Comes the murmur of pleasant talk;

High over-head in the stainless blue

Sails the silent and watchful hawk!

'O ye who toil in the dusty town,

Come here, and your souls in this sun-shine steep;

See how the earth, at the touch of Spring,

Like the daughter of JAIRUS, wakes from her sleep.

Say if your walls of brick give back

The sun like yonder hill-side green,

In billows of dazzling, golden light,
With cool and shadowy gulfs between.'

Is n't that beautiful, now?

'A THOUGHT has just struck me,' writes one of the precious friends we have left, (for DEATH, within a few months, has made sad work among the little band whom we had 'buckled to our heart with hooks of steel,') 'that I should like to know what you are about at this hour. The idea 'sticks to me like a burr.' Well, this: We had been out on the lawn, under the trees, with the little folk; watching the line of porpoises on the calm Hudson, rolling over like sea-swine, on their way downward toward the ocean, with now and then a sturgeon, up

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right and stiff, jumping straight from the water, and dropping back again with a sudden splash, that sends circling ripples widening to the shore; upon seventy sail, becalmed in the entrance to Haverstraw Bay; upon the cat's-paw marks of 'schools' of fish, triangular-shaped, like files of wildgeese in the air. Then we shook the plum-trees, and as the round, plump, ripe fruit rolled upon the grass, they were speedily picked up and enjoyed; then we took the step-ladder, and picked some ISABELLA-grapes, from the trellis-roof of the arbor in the garden; then we put a board, with 'cleats' upon it, against the 'big tree,' and all of us got up in the broad branches, and were most pleasantly seated - a perfect 'family tree;' then little JOSE sung, 'When the wind blows, the cradle will rock;' then we came down; then we lighted a mild cigar; and then there came a voice, telling a 'young sauce-box to come down,' which he did, and his 'paternal progenitor' after him, with the rest of his 'tribe' — pretty quick if not sooner. Can't a great many sit in a tree a great while without getting tired; 'leastways' we found it so, among us.' 'A FRIEND' says: 'I heard a good anecdote just now of a wealthy man 'here-away,' who had a number of servants, and was in the habit of sending some one of them a-fishing for trout; but one day his man returned with a smaller number than usual; and, upon being asked the reason of it, he said: 'A negro came along and threw them overboard: upon which the master asked him 'if he 'brooked' such conduct?' 'No,' was the reply, 'but I brooked the nigger!' The verdict of the coroner's jury was: Found drowned!" FRIENDS, if you remark any 'shortcomings' in the original departments of the present number, please to recall the first ten days of September, in which they were prepared; the penetrating, permeating, saturating, debilitating, enervating heats; worse than the 'selectest influences' of SIRIUS and the Dog-star at any period heretofore. It must have been the comet. But thereby hangs a tail' too long for present handling. - A PERSON named CHARLES W. SNOW (white and spotless soul!) obtained several subscribers for the KNICKERBOCKER in Virginia last spring, but has never reported either the money or the names. ‘An individual' calling himself HARVEY DUNN, has been 'doing' still worse. He has obtained numbers and volumes of our Magazine, and other periodicals, on a credit, and getting subscribers — delivering one or more numbers, and then keeping the money. The public are notified that whenever any agent is sent from this office, his name will appear in print in the Magazine. All others 'work on their own hook,' and we are in no way responsible for their operations. Persons wishing specimen-numbers, and writing solely on their own business, are particularly requested to pay the postage, if they expect any attention to be paid to their letters. Publishers of newspapers, every where, are informed that we do not give an EXCHANGE for publishing our prospectus, except where it is done at our request. Our large exchangelist requires reduction rather than increase. AGAIN We leave pages of 'Gossip' over, Notices to Correspondents, of New Publications, etc. Correspondents must keep copies of brief articles sent us. It would be an endless task to return all communications which we do not accept. At the same time, contributors should bear in mind that articles, in prose and verse, may be accepted, and yet await insertion for months. Variety, length, typogra

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phical fitness, all have to be considered, to say nothing of postponed papers, which abide their precedence, like 'customers' in a barber's-shop—'not to speak it profanely.' - - WE again remind our readers and correspondents, that all communications intended for this Magazine, and all inquiries, of whatever kind, in relation to them, must be addressed to 'L. GAYLORD CLARK, Editor KNICKERBOCKER Magazine,' Number 139, Nassau street, New'York.' WE learn that our long-time friend and collaborateur in the pleasant field of letters, PARK BENJAMIN, whose success as a lecturer has been uniformly great, has relinquished his design of going abroad, and will remain at his own house in this city during the next six months, except when necessarily absent in pursuit of his popular vocation. This will be acceptable news to the managers of the various Lyceums, Institutes, and Associations throughout our country, by whom Mr. BENJAMIN'S services may be secured, as usual, for the present and coming season. We hear Mr. BENJAMIN's new discourse on 'Americanisms' very highly commended. Mr. BENJAMIN's address is Number Three, West WashingtonPlace, New-York. 'On that we had money!' was our involuntary exclamation, at seeing an advertisement in an Albany journal, headed, Lake George Property for Sale.' To be near Lake George, the most beautiful sheet of water in the known world; to be near SHERRILL'S 'LakeHouse,' and its delighted visitors; to have a house and a home on the classic grounds of Forts 'WILLIAM HENRY,' 'GEORGE,' and 'GALE,' all looking upon lovely Lake Horicon, and the mountains of braided-blue that rise out of its glassy bosom, and swell up from its reflected shores; to have a house and home here, accessible in ten hours from New-York—this would be 'bliss indeed.' THE following, among other works, have been received by the EDITOR, and await present notice: 'Passages from the History of a Wasted Life,' by the Author of 'Pen-and-Ink Sketches,' published by MUSSEY AND COMPANY, Boston, and beautifully illustrated by BILLINGS; 'Spiritual Vampyrism,' by C. W. WEBBER; 'The Roman Traitor,' by H. W. HERBERT; 'JOHN CARROLL BRENT'S Address before the Georgetown College,' D. C.; a work from the press of BOHN, London, and BANGS, New-York, upon 'China, Ava, and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam, profusely illustrated; 'Fun and Earnest;' Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine-Law; 'The Behaviour Book,' by Miss LESLIE; DE QUINCEY'S 'Autographical Sketches;' BRITTON and RICHMOND'S 'Discussion of Spiritualism;' 'Old New-York, a Tragedy, by Mrs. E. OAKES SMITH; 'Turn-Over,' a tale of New-Hampshire; 'State Prisons of New-York' Reports; 'Story of an Apple;' Report of the New-York Young Men's Christian Association; 'Mind and its Creations,' by A. J. HART; 'The Young American,' by Bishop DOANE of New-Jersey; 'Venice, the City by the Sea;' 'Treatise on Daguerreotyping,' etc. OBSERVE, please, the advertisement of Frankenstein's Panorama, on the cover of the present number. No one who has not seen the Great Cataract, should fail to visit it; and all who have seen it, can see it again, with all its sublime accessories, save only sound and motion. OWING to an early issue for the California steamer, the commencement of the story of 'John Biggs,' by the author of The Quod Correspondence,' was not received in season for insertion in the present number.

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ART. I. IN SEARCH OF A PLACE,

JI. THE JOY OF THE HARP. BY REV. JAMES GILBORNE LYONS,
III. LIFE'S SETTING SUN,.

JV. MOULTS FROM THE WING OF A WHITE BLACK-BIRD,
V. LINES: AUTUMN. BY LAWRENCE LABREE,.

VI. HARPINGS UPON HADES. BY C. A. ALEXANDER,

VII. THINK AND WORK,.

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VIII. A MORNING-MEMORY. BY MARY GRAVERAET,

IX. MEN, MANNERS, AND MOUNTAINS. BY ROBERT M. RICHARDSON,
X. DEAL GENTLY WITH MY MOTHER, WORLD.

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7. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 'RECTOR OF SAINT BARDOLPH's,'

EDITOR'S TABLE:

1. 'INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL:' LETTFR FROM UP THE RIVER, 2. MR. BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR'S NEW BOOK,

3. HUDSON RIVER RAIL-ROAD EXCURSION, .

4. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, .

1. AMUSING FPISTOLARY GOSSIP FROM A LEGAL CORRESPONDENT IN IND'ANA:
STUMP-URATORY: PALPABLE HITS: AN ACCOMMODATING CLERICAL DE-
FENDA T. 2. MY ANGEL: LINES BY A YOUNG GIRL. 3. THE SAINTS' BY
TEL GRAPH. 4. SEWING-CIRCLES: THE MISFORTUNES OF DESIRE AYRES.
5. AUTUMNAL REMINISCENCES: THE DEATH OF FRIENDS. 6. 'CETTING DRUNK
LIKE A GENTLEMAN' THE RICH VERSUS THE 'POOR TOPER. 7. VOLMER-
ING'S ART OF TRANSFERRING PAINTINGS. 8. PUNCH ON MATHEMATICS. 9. A
MODEL POLICE-KEPORT FROM THE LITERARY EMPORIUM.' 10. TRIBUTE TO
MR FAYETTE HUNGERFORD, LATE OF PIERMONT RESPONSE OF MR HUNGER-
FORD 11. ESTABLISHMENT OF MESSRS. ALFRED MUNROE AND COMPANY.
12. PROFESSOR JULIUS CESAR HANNIBAL: A CORRECTION. 13. MR. PARK
BENJAMIN'S POEM AT BACON ACADEMY, COLCHESTER, CONNECTICUT. 14. AN-
OTHER SUB ECTION OF CHILDREN'S GOSSIP. 15. TALL CORN FROM AN ED-
ITOR: LETTER FROM OLD KNICK.' TO HORACE GREELEY, OF THE TRIBUNE,'
16. LEGAL ANECDOTE OF OLD JOHNNY BALDWIN.' 17. DER ENZ ISTERN:
SPRING IS AWAY: AUTUMNAL STANZAS, FROM THE GERMAN, 18. FIRST
INSTALMENT OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PSEUDO-PISHOP,' REV. DOCTOR
STEVENS N 19. SHANGHAIS: A RIVAL TO K. N. PEPER, ESQ. THE DOWN-
FALL OF HUNGARY.' 20. AQ ERY TO J. E. O.' 21. THE HOBOKEN JOURNAL,
BY T. W. WHITLEY, Esq. 22. AN ORIGINAL SONG, BY BARRY CORNWALL. 23. MR.
JAMES GRANT, REGISTER OF SAN-FRANCISCO. 24. AMERICAN SPORTING-SONG.

25. JANUARY AND JUNE, OR OUT-DOOR THINKINGS AND FIRE-SIDE MUSINGS.'

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