pression of great force and newness: 'Comment is unnecessary.' . . .
'T.N.P.'s article, as he will perceive, is anticipated by the initial
paper in the present number. How does he like the new definition of
Transcendentalism: _Incomprehensibilityosityivityalityationmentnessism_?'
To us, it seems 'as clear as mud!' . . . THE graceful 'penciller' of the
'_New Mirror_' weekly journal copies the beautiful '_Lines to a Cloud_'
from our January number, with the remark: 'This BRYANT-like, finished and
high-thoughted ('a vile phrase') poetry was written by a young lady of
seventeen, and is her first published production. She is the daughter of
one of our oldest and best families, resident on the Hudson. If the noon
be like the promise of the dawn of this pure intellect, we have here the
beginning of a brilliant fame.' We think '_The two Pictures_,' from the
same pen, in our February issue fully equal to the fair writer's
_coup-d'essai_. By the by, it would have been but simple courtesy, as it
strikes us, to have given the KNICKERBOCKER Magazine credit for the lines
in question. . . . NUMEROUS articles in prose and verse are on file for
insertion, touching which we shall hope soon to have leisure to advise
with the writers by letter.

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'AMERICA WELL DEFENDED' would not be inappropriate as a true designation
of a beautifully printed pamphlet before us, from the press of Mr.
BENJAMIN H. GREENE, Boston, containing a 'Letter to a Lady in France on
the supposed Failure of a National Bank, the supposed Delinquency of the
National Government, the Debts of the several States, and Repudiation:
with Answers to Inquiries concerning the Books of Capt. MARRYAT and Mr.
DICKENS.' We have read this production with warm admiration of its calm
and dignified style, the grouping and invariable _pertinence_ of its
facts and arguments; and the absence of every thing which savors of
_retaliatory_ spirit, in its animadversions upon the misrepresentations of
the United States by the English press. Expositions are offered of the
character of the old United States' Bank, as contradistinguished from the
'United States' Bank of Pennsylvania;' of the origin and nature of our
public debts, national as well as of the separate States, etc. The themes
of love of money, gravity of manners, of slavery, lynch-law, mobs, etc.,
are next considered; and the pamphlet concludes with some remarks upon the
strength of our governmen