Graham's magazine . Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson belongs to a class ofgentlemen with whom we have no patience what-ever— the mystics for mysticisms sake. Quintilianmentions a pedant who taught obscurity, and whoonce said to a pupil this is excellent, for I do notunderstand it myself. How the good man wouldhave chuckled over Mr. E! His present roleseems to be the out-Carlyling Carlyle. LycophronTenebrosus is a fool to him. The best answer to histwaddle is cui bono? — a very little Latin phrase verygenerally mistranslated and misunderstood — cutbono? — to whom is it a benefit? If not to MrEmerson ind
Graham's magazine . Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson belongs to a class ofgentlemen with whom we have no patience what-ever— the mystics for mysticisms sake. Quintilianmentions a pedant who taught obscurity, and whoonce said to a pupil this is excellent, for I do notunderstand it myself. How the good man wouldhave chuckled over Mr. E! His present roleseems to be the out-Carlyling Carlyle. LycophronTenebrosus is a fool to him. The best answer to histwaddle is cui bono? — a very little Latin phrase verygenerally mistranslated and misunderstood — cutbono? — to whom is it a benefit? If not to MrEmerson individually, then surely to no man living. His love of the obscure does not preve>theless, from the composition of ocrin which beauty is apparent by jlahis effusions appeared in the \V — more in the Dial. of wide1the sun —or the , the Problem,and some tine old-fashione and stately maid whose <11in MS. is badj spra — although sufficient!be, and no doubt isaifectationi DORCHESTER. 49. The name of Gtjlian C. Verplanck has long beenfamiliar to all American readers, and it is scarcelynecessary to say more than that we coincide in thegeneral view of his merits. His orations, reviews,and other compositions all evince the cultivatedbelles-lettres scholar, and man of intellect and high genius he has about the same claim as Mr. Sprague, whom in many respects he closely resem-bles. His chirography is unusually rambling and school-boyish— but has vigor and precision. It has nodoubt been greatly modified by adventitious circum-stances, so that it would be impossible to predicateanything respecting it. DOUCHES TER. BY W. GILM0RE SIMMS, AUTHOR OF ATALANTIS, THE YEMASSEE, ETC. [ Dorchester was a beautiful little country town on the banks of the river Keawah, now Ashley, about twenty milesfrom the city of Charleston, in South Carolina. It was chiefly settled by New Englanders. For a time it flourished andbecame a market town of some importance The plan
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