REVIEWS: - PAGE. Alabama Claims, 236. - 174 105 227, 465, 747 Thought in Music.—A. E. Kroeger, 586 Two of the D'Aubignés.-Rev. A. 216 223 18 Under the Setting Sun.-Morrison 209 Unnoticed Curiosity of Literature.— 354 479, 540 Vashti, a Dramatic Fragment.- 28 708 Vigil, A.-Mary Carroll, 487 339 612 489 Sovereignty in the United States Spider's-Web Papers.-Col. John S. Holt, 129, 257, 383, 513, 641 ton Collis, - THE SOUTHERN MAGAZINE JULY, 1871. DID SOME OF OUR (LOCAL) GREAT MEN.* FIFTH PAPER. We ID you ever watch yourself think, my dear reader? Do not be alarmed! I am not about to become scientifically metaphysical, æsthetically transcendental, or feebly technical. have heretofore got along admirably together with plain thoughts put into simple English. I have concealed my book-learning so well(isn't that a fine joke!) that you have not remembered it as you read; and I know you have not regretted my being unlearned. All that I desire is to call your attention to what goes on in your own head when you wish to analyse or to give form to some subject or to connect it with other subjects. What odd ideas come trooping together in companionship! How they skurry and flit and turn summersets over each other and displace each other! If you are on the "mourner's bench," how the forty thousand little devils switch their tails and dance and grimace before you, while ideas of love and faith, too fleeting to be discerned, shoot like bolts from a cross-bow or flit like minié-balls across an imaginary space, and you remain dull and dizzy! I doubt if there be one of us ordinary folk who can take two ideas and knock their heads together for the space of two seconds without a hue and cry from a dozen little meddlesome rascals to withdraw our attention. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by John Saunders Holt in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. |