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** Then I aslc ^ d her loved me , and otir hands met each in each , And the dainty , sighing ripples seemed to listen up the reachj While thus slowly with a hazel wand she wrote along the head ) , ' Love , like the sky , lies deepest ere the heart is stirred to speech / " Thus I gained the love of Inez—thus I won her gentle hand ; And our paths now He together , as our foot-prints on the strand ; We have vowed to love each other . iii the golden morning land , , When pur names from earth have vanished , like the writing from the sand I " A variation pi" the same air is heardi in this : — «* ¦ When the Spring ' s delightful store Brought the blue-birds to bur howers , And the poplar at the door Shook the fragrance from its flowers , Then there came two wedded doves , And they built among the limbs , And the murmur of their loves "Pell like mellow , distant hymns , There , until the Spring had flown , Did they sit and sing , alone , In the broad and flowery branches . " With the scented Summer breeze How their music swam around , Till my spirit sailed the seas Of enchanted realms of sound ! ' Soul / said . I , thy dream of youth Is not fancy , nor deceives , For I hear Love ' s blissful truth Prophesied among the leaves ; Therefore till the Summer ' s flown Sit and sing , but not alone , In the broad and flowery branches / " Then the harvest came and went , And the Autumn marshalled dawn All his host , and spread his tent Over fields and forests brown ; Then the doves , one evening , hied To their old accustomed nest j One went up , but drooped and died , With an arrow in its breast—DiedTind dropped ; while there , alone , Sat the other , making moan , _ In the brpad and withering branches . " ~ " ~ - ~ - And so on through the volume he chants of Nature and of Lover—the only things known to him , and those not with any depth of experience . But one so rarely hears a strain of music , that welcome must be given to Buchanan Read , whose maturer volumes may earn for him a permanent position .
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets , Philosophers , Statesmen , Divines , Painters , Architects , Engineers , Sfc . With Biographies originally published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . Parts I . and II . W . S . Orr and Co . Every one is familiar with the Gallery of Distinguished Men whose portraits and memoirs were published by Charles Knight , under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . The original cost was seven guineas . Messrs . Orr and Co . now re-issue the work in monthly parts at half-a-crown , which will bring the whole within three pounds . Amateurs can limit themselves to single parts , if their means forbid their taking in the whole gallery . Each part contains seven steel engravings , with memoirs . Dante , Petrarch , Boccaccio , Wiclif , Chaucer , Lorenzo do Medici , and Cardinal Xhnenes , form Part I . Bramante , Leonardo da Vinci , Erasmus , Copernicus , Ariosto , Michael Angelo , and Sir Thomas More , are in Part II . Letters from Italy and Vienna . Macmillan and Co ¦ PHEASANT letters , worth reading in a leisure half hour , but claiming no serious attention . The ground has been trodden too often before ; and our mionymous traveller , though an agreeable companion , has littlo novelty to sot before us .
The BookCase , No . I . Across the JRocJcy Mountains from New Torh to California Vy William Kelly . Sims and M'lnfcyro T « E speculative publishers of the first of the cheap libraries ( The Parlour Lirar Messrs . Sims and M'Intyre , have commenced a now series , under the title <> t lite Booh Case , which is to include works of Biography and Travel . The volume is handsomor thnn the Parlour Library , and printed in far hotter type , vvo should suggest the addition of Scicnco to the departments already contointh ] to G * °° d k °° k 8 w 0 nro cevtain wil 1 P » y- Mr - Kelly ' s spirited " Kido across » o itock y Mountains , " which opens the series , has already been reviewed by uh «« great favour , and we have now only to announco it . The Four Primary Sensations of the Mind . A Brief Essay . By John Bell , Sculptor
. Chapman and Hall , havn ™? tlACt wl"cl * cftn l ) 0 read in half an hour , and wjll clear up subjects that andfS ™ P 8 P . ' zled tho metaphysician for yearn . It is an cssuy on tho Sublime wonldl ' i U * ' withthoir « orl # d « tc 8 tho Ilidiculous and tho Unplcpring . . It readoi Vi m * °° to ontor ' mto the discussion , and wo sim ply indicate to our is tne oxiHtonco of tho essay , which we commend to their notice . ° * Hmni ? , X m p > ysical Description of tho UnivorHo . By Aloxandor von 2 ; 7 r . wiuiBlated from tho Gorman by E . C . Otto awd B . it Paul . ( Itohu ' a ^ otentl / io Ztbrarj / . ) Vol . IV . K . G , Bohn . u nhv - lT concludca tlM ) wanoloffical portion of Humboldt'H vast nttompt at iindft ' f Oription of tho U 1 » v «™; a » d although , as in former volumes , wo last no ¦ ™ poiiiiot 18 ' J'ot tho multitude of its facts , loada uh delighted to tho tookou aJV * * ° ° nl ) BOnco of thttfc philosophic grasp of tho subject which tho ftirnid *? 1 « * » ° " The 1 ) ook ' we boliov » to I ) o greatly overrated , but people are m » mnt tho dissatisfaction they fed . Tho section on tho neonfa is especially
interesting , though something more distinctly expressive of his own views might have been desirable . v Self-Control . By Mrs . Brunton . ( Railway Library . ) George Eoutledgo and ^ Co . What need be said of Mrs . Bnuitori ' s well thumbed novel now-a-days ? That it is added to the list of cheap amusing books known as the Bailway Library . Two Stories for my Young Friends . By Frances Brown . ¦ _ , •*¦ ¦ ¦?¦ ¦ _ * J . .. ¦ Patonand Eitchie , Edinburgh . Fkances Bbown , the poetess , has here" given children two little stories which , on the authority of children , we pronounce delightful . The Mriclcsons is the favorite in one quarter ; but in another the claim is set up for The Clever Boy : or , Consider Another . Parents and guardians will settle the question by buying the little volume and leaving it with the young critics .
Life of Constantine the Great . By Joseph Fletcher . A . Cockshaw . Another volume of the Library for the Times . It is an . elaborate historical biography in small compass ; well suited to its purpose , but labouring under that very common deficiency- —the want of an index . Michaud ' s History of the Crusades . Translated from the French . By "W . Itobson . In three volumes . Vol . I . Geoigo Routledge and Co . When we consider the immense historical significance of the Crusades , and its romantic interest as a subject for the picturesque historian , it seems astonishing that our literature can boast of no better account than the lifeless inaccurate work of Mills , and perhaps even more astonishing that no one should have thought of translating Michaud ' s admirable book—a book that all Europe has accepted . Mr . Itobson deserves encouragement for producing this work . He has translated it carefully , and avoided the unseemly imitation of French idioms which generally clings by translators . On the completion of the work we shall notice it at length .
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COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY . By Gr . H . Lewes . $ ait JK--48 iograp !) icaI . At the close of the Biographical History of Philosophy , after having traversed the great epochs of speculation , I endeavoured , in a few rapid touches , to sketch the position occupied by August ® Comte , the greatest thinker of modem times , and one whose doctrine is to the nineteenth century , something more than that which Bacon ' s was to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . Imperfect and meagre as that slcetch necessarily was in the narrow limits of a concluding chapter , it has not been without its effect in exciting the curiosity of many thinkers , whom it has incited
to a more intimate study of Comte ; and I please myself with the notion that a considerable public may be found eager to hear a more ample and more . detailed exposition of the . Positive Philosophy . A long cherished intention to do this in some shape or other ijr now at last to he gratified . It is one of our noble humau instincts that we cannot feel within us the glory and the power of a real conviction without earnestly striving to make that conviction pass into other minds . All propngamle is religious ; all steadfast preaching of the truth , such as our minds decree it , is a human duty , a social instinct . Otherwise , why ruflle the complacency of fools hy demonstrating their ahsurdities ? Why draw upon oneself the harsh names and harsher constructions , the scorn and bitterness of those from
whom we differ ? For my part , I owe too much to the influence of AuausTB Comtk guiding me through tho toilsome active years , and giving
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Gojsxnii .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1852, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1929/page/19/
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