infinite faculty of sermonizing, muscularized by long practice, and
excellent digestive apparatus, and, for the rest, well-meaning
enough, and with small private illuminations (somewhat tallowy, it
is to be feared) of his own. To him, there, "Pastor of the First
Church in Jaalam," our Hosea presents himself as a quiet
inexplicable Sphinx-riddle. A rich, poverty of Latin and Greek,--so
far is clear enough, even to eyes peering myopic through horn-lensed
editorial spectacles,--but naught farther? O purblind, well-meaning,
altogether fuscous Melesigenes-Wilbur, there are things in him
incommunicable by stroke of birch! Did it ever enter that old
bewildered head of thine that there was the _Possibility of the
Infinite_ in him? To thee, quite wingless (and even featherless)
biped, has not so much even as a dream of wings ever come? "Talented
young parishioner"? Among the Arts whereof thou art _Magister_, does
that of _seeing_ happen to be one? Unhappy _Artium Magister_!
Somehow a Nemean lion, fulvous, torrid-eyed, dry-nursed in
broad-howling sand-wildernesses of a sufficiently rare spirit-Libya
(it may be supposed) has got whelped among the sheep. Already he
stands wild-glaring, with feet clutching the ground as with
oak-roots, gathering for a Remus-spring over the walls of thy little
fold. In Heaven's name, go not near him with that flybite crook of
thine! In good time, thou painful preacher, thou wilt go to the
appointed place of departed Artillery-Election Sermons, Right-Hands
of Fellowship, and Results of Councils, gathered to thy spiritual
fathers with much Latin of the Epitaphial sort; thou, too, shalt
have thy reward; but on him the Eumenides have looked, not Xantippes
of the pit, snake-tressed, finger-threatening, but radiantly calm as
on antique gems; for him paws impatient the winged courser of the
gods, champing unwelcome bit: him the starry deeps, the empyrean
glooms, and far-flashing splendors await.

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_From the Onion Grove Ph[oe]nix._

A talented young townsman of ours, recently returned from a
Continental tour, and who is already favourably known to our readers
by his sprightly letters from abroad which have graced our columns,
called at our office yesterday. We learn from him, that, having
enjoyed the distinguished privilege, wh