WE commend the following sentiment, from the "Michigan Sentinel," to all true Americans:--
"The duty of every American is to support his own country's interest, in every respect, _first_. Our American Magazines have called out and supported an array of talent, in a particular line, of which we are proud, and which we are bound by patriotism to reward."
Here is another from the "Kentucky News Letter:"--
"'Godey' is on our table. Beautiful! Do you wish to see it? Well, once for all--we will not lend it. Its price is three dollars a year. The copy sent us is reserved for binding, and we cannot afford to have it defaced by lending."
We knew that the January number of "Godey" was a decided "_hit_;" but our Georgia correspondent seems to have got the tallest kind of a "smite" from one of our fair poetesses. If _one_ can do such execution, what may be expected of a broadside from a whole solid column of such charming contributors as the "Lady's Book" can boast? Hear him:--
"MR GODEY--DEAR SIR: I did not think to trouble you so soon again, but the singular beauty of the 'sylphs' and the 'sonnets' inspired my muse to utter the following:--
"As the sylphs of the seasons tripped their round, In a sacred grove of laurel trees Another fair sylph of the season they found, And they crowned her 'Mary Spenser Pease.'
"So wild, so sweet was her sylvan song, They, listening, delayed the passing years Till, floating away, they bore her along, To sing her sonnets in brighter spheres.
"_La Fayette, Walker Co., Ga._, January 22d, 1851."
WE are happy to find that the ladies have their husbands' _interest_ so much at heart. Several orders have been received since our last for "Breban's Interest Tables," the advertisement of which appears on our cover.
WE have been favored with an engraving representing the "Family Seat of George C. Sibley, Esq.," at Linden Wood, near St. Charles, Mo. It must be a place of exceeding beauty.
CAMEOS.--We have on several occasions called the attention of our readers to the perfect likenesses produced in cameo by Mr. Peabody, whose room is in Chestnut Street near Fifth. One of the most perfect specimens of his cutting, which we recently had the pleasure to examine, is the likeness of GENERAL PATTERSON, our well-known fellow-citizen. Heretofore, we fear our friends have not paid sufficient attention to this beautiful art, or given it that encouragement it so richly merits. We hope, however, that the time is at hand when the able and persevering artist will be fully appreciated and rewarded for all his skill and labor in the introduction of these accurate and beautiful memorials of love and friendship.