ce at least our
admiration of true genius will be tempered by all proper self-respect. Mr.
BULWER has for many years entertained a desire to visit America. In one of
his letters to the late WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK, now lying before us, he
writes: 'I have long felt a peculiar admiration for your great and rising
country; and it gives me a pleasure far beyond that arising from a vulgar
notoriety, to think that I am not unknown to its inhabitants. Some time or
other I hope to visit you, and suffer my present prepossessions to be
confirmed by actual experience.' . . . WE have received and perused with
gratification the last report of the '_New-York Asylum for Deaf Mutes_.'
The institution is in the most flourishing condition, and its usefulness
greatly increased. We are sorry to perceive, by the following 'specimen of
composition' of a pupil in the eighth class, that the 'Orphic Sayings' of
Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT are taken as literary models by the deaf and dumb
students. The ensuing is certainly much better, internally, than anything
from the transcendental 'seer;' but the manner too nearly resembles his,
for both to be original. There is the same didactic condensation, the same
Orphic 'oneness,' which distinguishes all _Alcottism_ proper. It is
entitled 'Story of Hog:'

'I walked on the road. I stood near the water. I undressed my
feet. I went in the water. I stood under the bridge. I sat on the
log. I washed my feet with hands. I looked at large water came. I
ran in the water. I ran out the water. The large water floated
fast. I afraid. I wiped feet with stockings. I dressed my feet
with stockings and shoes. I went on the ground. I stood on the
ground. I seen at the hog ate grass. The hog seen at me. I went on
the ground. I ran. The hog heard. The hog looked at me. It ran and
jumped. The hog ran under the fence and got his head under the
fence and want to ran out the fence! I caught ears its hog. The
hog shout. I pulled the hog out the fence. I struck a hog with
hand. I rided on the hog ran and jumped fast. The hog ran fell on
near the water. I rided off a hog. I stood. I held one ear its
hog. The hog slept lies on near the water. I waited. I leaved. I
went from the hog. The hog awoke. It rose. It saw not me. It ran
and jumped. The hog went from the water. The hog went in the mud
and water. The hog wallowed in the mud and water became very
dirty. It slep