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j qtier prejudice and make proselytes by ! the force of example: to encourage other countries to imitate uur institutions, by shewing to them that r\ nation mav be at the same time powerful, prosperous, and virtuous.■ ■ ■■■■“■•■mhBMMICTIMVI/iP »*•«•* m ■MISCELLANY.THE SKBTCH-noOK.Under this# title the lovers of literature are promised a series of writings from the pen of Washington Irving, Esq. The first number, which has already appeared, contains five sketches—an account of Mr. Crayon, the author—of hi? voyage; a sketch of Uoscoe; Sketch of a Wife; and the Story of Hip Van Wincle. The sketch of Roscoe is a cha9te and manly eulogium upon the character of that historian. The Wife is a pathetic tale, told with much elegance, and will perhaps be considered the tinost. production, Rip Van Wincle is the author’s cvvn vein. The mountain scenery is sketched with a rapid pencil, the personal story of Rip is spirited and full of humor; and the general picture of low life in a Low Dutch village at the foot of the Katskill Mountains, as it appeared before the revolution, is truly comic — There is, however, a gross improbability in the 9tory, which is in no way cleared up. Rip ascends the mountain with his dog and gun; loiters about till dusk; and thinking it too late to descend, lays him down to puss the night lie is startled at .hearing his name called, and repeated; descries a man lugging a keg of liquor up Uie cliffs, who presses him into his service, and conducts him to a glen, where he is introduced among an assemblage of mysterious personages playing at nine-pins. While they are at their game, Rip indulged himself with the contents of die keg, until he falls into a deep sleep. Wlum he awakes (in the morning, as lie supposed* and as the reader takes it,) and de kscemls the mountain, he finds the face of things changed, his old associates in the village gone, his wife dead, and hardh knows his own house. This is committed in crder that Rip may be astounded at a modern election; which is described sufficiently ludicrous; but the design is unworthy of Mr. Irving.The present number, which is a beautiful specimen of American typography, the author modestly tells us is published upon experiment. And vve need not ex press our belief that the experiment will
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Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Gazette
Augusta, Georgia, US
Wed, Jul 14, 1819
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