(5) At the same time, however, making isn't off-puttingly technical or '
jargonic', as one of my teenaged children recently put it.
The Cincinnati Commercial calls him the "Yahoo of American literature." (7) Judging from specimens of his
jargonic poetry, which we have seen, (his publishers have not sent the lately published volume of his "Leaves of Grass" to the South;) we think the Commercial scarcely does justice to his peculiar merits in calling him a Yahoo.
With one exception, the pieces on art seem little better: they tend to describe work better seen (or not) or to offer
jargonic generalized praise.