Hermeneutes.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
“Charles K.” is a well written tale, and, as it is apparently founded upon facts, would undoubtedly interest those personally acquainted with the scenes which it describes; but, unless we misjudge, it would strike others differently.
“Evening Thoughts,” an article on William Wirt, and a “Sonnet,” are declined.
“The Seminole,” with some metrical alterations, may appear in our next.
“A Rhyming Mood,” is accepted.
The author of “Niobe,” and “Spring,” (we suppose them both from the same pen,) would do well to use the ‘file’ a little more freely, and also, read, at his leisure, a chapter or two of some treatise on Perspicuity.
“My Village Home,” “The Pleasures of Innocence,” and “The Future,” (which, from the paper and chirography, we judge to be the productions of one and the same intellect,) might, perhaps, be creditable to the powers of an Infant School poet; but, Dii Immortales! can it be possible they have been perpetrated by any one of riper years? Take a specimen or two.
“But ah! where’s now their boyish pranks
Since last I saw those sloping banks;