is low or mean, no occupation can confer upon him
respectability or regard. On the other hand, no useful employment, however
trivial, in the social state, can degrade him who faithfully performs its
duties. It is not always the men of genius, those gifted with
extraordinary natural endowments, who are the greatest benefactors of our
race, or who enjoy in a greater degree personal happiness themselves.
WASHINGTON and FRANKLIN were not men of genius, as the world understands
that term. It was by probity, industry, perseverance, a well-strung nerve,
and an iron will, that they conquered the obstacles before them, and
acquired that true greatness which has made their names preeminent among
the famous of earth, and their example the inspiration of American youth.
Circumstances may do something for us; we can do more for ourselves. We
must have faith, we must be in earnest.' The healthful American spirit
which pervades the 'Address,' characterizes not less prominently the poem
of Mr. COOLIDGE. A passage from this performance, commencing 'List to the
Psalm of Labor!' speaks of what we intended our readers should have had an
opportunity to 'hearken to;' but the tyranny of space is despotic.

DRAWINGS AND TINTINGS. By ALFRED B. STREET. pp. 48. Albany: W. C.
LITTLE. New-York: BURGESS, STRINGER AND COMPANY and M. Y. BEACH.

We cannot aver that we greatly affect the title given by Mr. Street to the
collection of Sketches from Nature which we find upon our table; but for
the sketches themselves, as our readers well know, we have a cordial
affection. Many of them have already been encountered in our pages; and
after winning cordial admiration in the journals of the day, they have
been arrested as 'fugitives' by their author, brought home, and bound
together, preparatory to receiving sentence at the hands of that
many-headed monster, the Public. As a careful and minute observer of
nature, in every phase of season and change of the hours; from the wide
and comprehensive general view, to the most delicate scanning of the
aspect of the lowliest shrub or flower; we scarcely know our author's
superior, after BRYANT. Our readers, however, are so well acquainted with
the marked peculiarities of Mr. STREET'S style, that we shall content
ourselves with a single Daguerreotype sketch from 'The School-house:'

'A picture of soft beauty is the scene
When painted by the sinking summer sun
In tints of light and shade; but w