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NOTICES OF BOOKS * 207
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1. Footpaths Between Two Worlds, And Oth...
because it is not a rich , fabric , and be satisfied only with , the veryrichest ; but do not blame a sarsenet or a calico because they are not
and do not profess to be _velvet . We are not so illogical in other departments of art . We are
content to read and be amused with the Semi-attached Couple , and do not dream of objecting" to it because it is not to be compared with
Adam Bede . as A a Hol bank Famil of flowers b by Rap Miss hael Mutrie ; and the is not Christ so y great Minstrels an achievement 7 Mocking
Bird is not y equal y to y a Mass by Beethoven ; but there are times for all thingsand in poetry as in other spheres of imaginative creation ,
there are , low levelswherewhen we are not in the mood for starry heihts grassy and mountain , ranges , we may take many a
pleasant morning g ramble , or loiter away many , a quiet twilight hour . There is no denying , of course , the fact that the writing of verses
and the faculty of rhyming has become comparatively an ordinary accomplishment , by the manner in which from , our very earliest years
we are accustomed to be nourished on poetry , and to have our moral as aphorisms more sentimental and our philosop experience hical administered and historical to information us in verse , as of well one
not quality make or other the . class Merel of books y smooth , to which pleasant we are rhymes now , referring therefore , , but do
we think in up all from which we are about to quote , and in very many othersthere is something beyond this , showing a spark at all
events , of true poetry ; and if so , should even the very tiniest spark \ be lected or forgotten ? / \
unknown In neg America to the , general as in Eng public land , and there yet well are many worth volumes reading . of Most / verse of
us are not likely to meet with , the class of American poems we refer tosave in a newspaper extract ; but we cannot believe that the one
or , two stray pieces known to the English public as written by Bayard TaylorStoddart & care not taken from volumes where
there are others , as well worth , , reading as the following . _NOVEMBER ,.
The wild . November comes at last The Beneath niht wind a veil blows of rain its ; folds aside
Her g face is full , of pain . , The The latest Autumn of her ' s race vacant , sh throne e takes :
Sh And e has she but must one short live alone moon . to live , A barren realm of withered fields :
Bleak woods of fallen leaves : The The palest dreariest morn of that eves ever : dawned :
It Poor is no month wonder ! that with she tears conies of pain , :
For But wh weep at can and one weep so hopeless again ! do K . II . Stoddart .
Notices Of Books * 207
NOTICES OF BOOKS * 207
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/63/
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