EDITORS' TABLE We have received a letter from an esteemed subscriber in South Carolina, which forcibly directs our attention to a subject that has occupied our thoughts for some months past. Our correspondent says, "will you allow a member of the class that established the Magazine which you conduct, and of which our venerable Alma Mater has reason to be proud,* to suggest with all kindness, what I have every reason to think would make the Magazine more interesting to the Graduates, who have left, and who annually will leave those scenes and that spot so endeared and hallowed to them. I judge from my own feelings, and suppose that all who leave those walls feel as I do an anxious desire to know all that is going on in College-how the societies prosper-the exhibitions-commencement-the society anniversaries-and above all, the little chit-chat of the day, concerning Yale and all connected with it. And what I would respectfully suggest to your consideration is, that an article in every number should be devoted to College news, and to any interesting topics occurring in New Haven." Now, the truth is, there is much difficulty about this matter. We live in a quiet place; little could be found at any time to fill such an article. News is a rare condiment here. Still, we shall endeavor to act upon the hint given by our correspondent so far as lies in our power, for the future-at this present moment there is nothing to be told, but whenever the anniversaries, of which he speaks, occur, whether of the societies or of College, we shall endeavor to give a sufficient account thereof. . . We have noticed, in different quarters, severe strictures upon our remarks respecting Mr. Mathews' poems in our last number. Still, our opinion is not changed, and we cannot feel any inclination to say any thing different from what we have already said. It is the work of such attempts at versification as the "Poems on Man" that has produced in the public mind a sort of contempt for poetry, and we cannot blame those who may chance to fall only upon such productions, if they pronounce all rhyming detestable. If others have different opinions from ours, they are welcome to cherish and express them, but we have no desire either to puff or ridicule, because higher authorities have done the same. Our correspondent “Thou and I” is as singular in his style as in choice of a cogWe have space for but a specimen of his article, which we will give and leave himself and others to ponder thereupon. nomen. "31 Dec., 1841. "The hour is past eleven. It is a cloudy winter night. The sighing of the wind among the leafless branches, comes to my car as if it were THE DYING VOICE OF THE 1841st DAUGHTER OF OLD FATHER TIME. The gray-headed, though yet powerful spirit stands by her bedside and her god-father, Jove himself, makes his earth and muiscal spheres to sing her requiem. The bells that hang in the great Cathedral of the Universe chime sweetly as they tell that she is going, going whither her thousand sisters have gone before. THE SEXTON IS DIGGING HER GRAVE AMONG THE RUBBISH IN THE POTTER'S FIELD OF ETERNITY. HUSH! I HEAR THE CLINK, CLINK OF HIS SPADE, LIKE THE RATTLing of hail UPON THE PAVEMENT !!" 66 'Thou and I" will receive his communication by calling for it. 99 66 "A Day in Vacation," "The Rescued Bride," Esdras, 2, 10, 11, 12," "Mutual Love," "The Whippoorwill," &c., &c., are rejected. We were obliged to curtail the sixth chapter ef" the Witch" in the present num. ber to make room for other articles. • Gammon.-FEINTER'S DEV. |