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      Julian Fanjs's Poems. Poems. By Tho Hono...

      chooses to repeat echos .. instead of creating them , if he does not always obey the first law of poetry , and utter in sincerity both of thought and _expression what is m his mind , we—remembering the accent occasionally heard—will content ourselves with calling his attention to these suspicious facts , and turn to those pages where he holds Out bfetter promises . ... ¦ . ; Of the two great divisions of poetical expression—viz ., the _giving musical form to internal experience , and to the varied aspects of nature , he is successful only in the former . He has known sorrow , and he can sing of it in accents of his own ; but when he ( tries to paint Nature he borrows the palette which has become common property . It is , however , something to find a man giving voice to that which really does move within him , and it is this something which animates with poetic life a few bf the vefrses in this volume .

      Here are two love poems , very opposite , yet both originalj the first having the accent we speak of rising melodiously above its commonplaces : — Kathleen ! my saint , that art in heaven , No griefs can cloud thy nature now ; Thy sin ( if sin it were !) forgiven , A glory girds thy guiltless brow : And thou with all the sainted Dead , Who watch God ' s throne with happy eyes , Dwellest where tears are never shed , And only Pity sometimes sighs . Ah ! turn not thy clear eyes below , Lest thou , whose buman tears would roll Adown thy cheek , in streams of woe , If ever sorrow dimmed my soiil , Should ' st see me where I sit forlorn , And rock and sway an aching breast , And strive in vain , while so I mourn , To lull my sleepless woe to rest : Lest thou , my darling , noting this , Should ' st feel a vague sense o ' er thee creep Of something wanting to the bliss Of Angel-souls— -who cannot weep ! second carries with it an air of reality :- _^—The lad , who holds his honour fast , Writhes long beneath the scourging cane In silence—but lets slip at last A little stifled cry of pain : And I—who hold this doctrine good , That Silence oft reproveth best—Send from an all-unwilling breast A little murmur , long subdued !

      Oh ! rich in every charm tbat breathes Enchantment on Love's plighted vows ! Ob I skilled to bind tbe sweetest wreaths That ever crowned Love ' s happy brows ! How is't that petty Wrath destroys So oft thy smile by frownlets crossed ? ' How is't thy sweet , sweet voice so oft Doth vex my heart with wrangling noise ? " Iruth by true love be not denied !" ( Thou answerest in a merry mood ) " And true is that reproach implied " 1 n thy low murmur long subdued ; " But love , if Love a changeling be , " Now warm and kind , now cross and cool , " Lovo follows but the golden rule " Of pleasing by variety ! " Heaven ' s face , ao fair , knows ceaseless change , " And ceaseless change fair Ocean knows ; " Nature ' s fair voice delights to range , " _Jfoch breeze a manifold music blows ; " All sights and sounds the Powers above " Vouchsafe us vary , and are fair ; " And those same Powers , to make Love fair , "Denied monotony to Love !"

      Arch-sophist ! jester ! Thou for this Shalt , suffer , trust me , by nnd bye ; Trust me , I know a cruel kiss ! And thou shalt suffer by and bye ; Meanwhile the Muse , truth-loving Muse , Hearing thy voice as she swept by , Paused—and now prompts au apt reply , Which gives to thee and Love your dues Wide-natured , manifold in change , Kngle and nightingale and dove , Endowed with voice of boundless range , —Tim Powers who made him meant that Love Proud king , meek wretch , or merry loon , Should chant a million airs divine ; They never meant that Love , like thine , Should sometimes carol out of tune ! Before Mr . hano writes again it will bo well if he keep steadily in mind the fact that in an abundant and magnificent literature like ours no echos are needed . Any feeling ho has actually felt ; any imago that has actually formed itself into music in his mind ( and not been taken from otherB fo fill the measure of a verse ); anything , in short , that he cap tndy call his own , every one will bo glad to hear him pour forth in song . It iu only original melodies that survive .

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      BOOfcS ON OUR TABLE . The Ethnology of Europe . By K . Gk Latham . r _** _^ . The Ethnolqgy of thc British Islands .. Byj _& _^ Q . _Latham . j _" hn V ™ _^ ° 0 r 8 t _Michauffs History of the Crusades . By W . _Bobson . Tol . IIT . o _pITiT ' A Tramp to the Diggings . By John Shaw . RioWd _tt 1 ee Blackwood ' s Edinburgh Magazins . _w . Blackwood _£ _M _Colbum's United Service Magazine . ColSa _„ a p Eraser ' s Magazine . Johik ~ W PslVV ° Tait's Edinburgh Magazine . Sutherland and K _™^ Bentley's Miscellany . * Richard Bpnfl Bentlef * Shilling Series—Sketches of English Character . By Mrs ; Gore . Richard _RmUi _^ Bleak House . By Charles Dickens . Bradbury and F Writings of Douglas Jerrold , Cakes and Ale .. Bradbury and _Ey _*" ' Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . Bradbury and V . Jt _™' The Soartng Zark . Adder and On The Bookcase—The Glacier Land . ' Bimms and _M'Tnt _™ The Dodd Family Abroad . By Charles Lever . Part I . Chapman and HaH Democratic Eeview . jy . \ _y . Holl The Illustrated Exhibitor . _John CasseH The Popular Educator . ¦ _j 0 _^ Cassell The Working Man ' s Friend . _j 0 \ . p ° J { The Portrait Gallery . Part IX . W . S . Orr and rv ! A History qfBritish Birds . By W . Macgillivray . Vols 4 and 5 . W . S Orr and Co The Home Circle W . S . Johnson The Biographical Magazine . J . Passmore Edwards

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      "We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourage itself . —Goethb . R

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      tunity to attend ; for the Englishman is so closely confined to work , that he is taken away all day from life , including , of course , public life or national life . For him public affairs come out with the cats ; which latter are to a stranger not less remarkable than " the people . " The English encourage them greatly , to keep down the mice that infest their little houses , so largely built of wood ; and there are few homes in which the furry alien does not reside . At night , the cats stroll abroad , intent on exercise and the society of their species , and then their voices are not unheard . It is much the same with patriots .

      III . November 1 , 1851 . _2 || _fis || T last , my dear Giorgio , I have achieved the enterprise of going to _| m _»<| a " meeting , " and a very striking sight it _waS . I have not very _Iwlmi long returned from it , and the sounds are still ringing in my ears . _^ _£ _§§ It was held in a large room , ordinarily devoted to concerts , but now used for a more stirring purpose . The hour fixed was eight o ' clock in the evening , in order to give members of the working class an

      oppor-The hour fixed for the meeting was eight o ' clock , and about a quarter before eight we entered a smaller room set apart for " the committee . " Our own party comprised Edwardes ; his wife—for one does see a few ladies at political meetings , and I am told that at religious meetings I shall see a still larger number ; Margaret Johnson , who clings strongly to Mrs . Edwardes ; and myself . The committee-room gradually filled , with men in a curious condition , between bustling and sauntering . I was pleased with the order and quiet of the proceedings , but surprised to see an air of carelessness on most countenances—a vague smile of anticipated amusement ; and if occasionally a grave face of settled purpose showed itself amidst the others , it looked strange and out of place ! Yet the object of the meeting was " to sympathize with Hungary , and the other down-trodden peoples struggling for freedom against the Absolutist tyrants of Europe . " If it

      had been a party assembled for a christening , there could not have been an air of gayer decorum . One source of anxiety was evinced in the constantly repeated question , " Has Lord Dudley come ? " Lord Dudley , they told me , is a " steady-going chairman" for all meetings on Liberal foreign subjects . At last he did come , but I did not discover him by any personal distinction , until he emerged into the distinction of the chair . He has occupied that post for a generation or two , and seems likely to continue m it . Before we left the room , however , another source of anxiety broke forth , and a whispered rumour ran round , that there were " Chartists" in the meeting . The announcement was met with a great show of firmness in the committee , who at once rose to take their places in a body , and wc defiled

      on to thc platform . It was a grand sight , that body of Englishmen of all ranks , roused into enthusiasm , alive with patriotic fire , offering to Hungary and her fellowsufferers , not an unavailing sorrow , hut the active sympathy of a powcrlu nation , full of victories and of resources . My bosom hounded at the sight , and I could feel Yseult cling to my arm under the same shock of p leaset excitement . It was as if a hurst of light had broken once more upon our beloved Italy . And what followed was calculated to strengthen that feeling of hopefulness . which

      Thc chairman , in plain English accents , described the wrongs Hungary had endured , whieh Italy still sustained . He denounced the cruelties , the tyrannies , the barbarisms , the encroachments of Austria am llussia , with their dependent allies ; and other speakers that followed kq > up the strain . The meeting responded bravely with its . cheers . One resolution , denouncing the tyrants , was moved by a gentleman who was announced as having travelled both in Hungary and Italy , aud who ton the indignities and sufferings of the people so as to draw tears even from the burning eyes of the men . The Reverend Alfred Conway , a clergyman of tin * Church of England , declared that _Protestantism wtts at stake in the

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091852/page/20/