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      fMtt 7 H « M $ >« e 4 «* & a »« teimitjfl 5 oiis ; low dteto and traeite aesctro ^ ona d § 'Wttbum ^ mtA'kam ^ wearf unliketheifleegBartt « aQ nume introduction of » btoml f ft < anii ¦ ¦ ii ^ tnode r » poems . - EacbHftfttrac * er-8 periks lrHi own lamgcage . An ^ 'Otw art ^ K iiilK WcagRer ^ Msrtlfcft does nofrTOe tl » swnfr images as © fr tAw , lt « i » wtGpb « As 9 doeswwfc jetft tike IProfc-fc . But in fhese mo « 3 em poems all the men talk I&e some 'language , smo ! aBl ^ ftie -fc-onien tjfliUke all ¦ p n — «¦ 33 » ti 4 se ** aBBp le front Kte latest offender—and a sample irbichi » T # r ^ MM » ti » fr < rig wrve ibr » td » g ^ te ^—read -few fragmerrt of a young fa * y % * ej iy ***»«• frwmd ^ -cpiestium , " Wfrjr art them sad : ' *—\ * "J 7 ora . Tfey / Osrolaw , Sdfc . »» d 1 S « not ^ AethBtr- aoajrBt ,- ^^ w ell t . I 3 H » N ^ WJwl 0 TO ^ , j « idia « ebBrwth . .. AjMyaoBfite dgr otao % foralie . Bttra . 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But it is olear thr ^ gnout the poem « Bpi HCc 'S ^ g , fifce the author of Holder , Ute Gerald Maasey , and manr fnat , ffeMom tzoi ^ bles liinaaelf wita « . ^ a < ne Is to say , eolely occupied witk how to say it . Imagery and grandiose expression are the game fhey . ie . A . snxnle , an epxthet ^ a sounding line—fhese are their conquests ; JBU 3 , Uie more frequent the simHea , fhe more startling : the -epithet , the iDtupre resonant the vErse , flie greater Is the poem they believe themselves to ¦ y * tto Reduced . It seems of very little consequence that the simile should * g * e any likeness , or the image represent any actual feeling expressing ¦ Wu 'metaphorically . Mr- Bigg has nevertheless in one passage bo admi-« Mly ; characteriaed this species of poetry , that © ne is amazed to find him so SMueiJlhr dSh « target of hia own shafts : — " One mutt indulge a laiigh at ther expense Of those who , ecoCHing oatare ^ s godlike rale , ! Fnane lairs onto themselnes ^—those who ate lost alUniaot « he xniota and ) ndnum of s « lf . IWlnefa ithoy y ^ qjectbefoce itnem on ull things ?~ Those everuutinjr smirkeua whom nought wins From their aelf-worship and idolatries ; Who think and speak as "though they were commission'd To preach their vanity l > efotB ull worlds , And lay upon the altars of all minds An offering to their little emptiness : W < hoee thooghto ace vqpid aa small beer uncoi'k'd ; "Whose words axe blown like bubbles till they burst ; Who talk of great things with an easy air , At though to talk of them were to be great . *• Alexis . Whoso writes * thunder is a thtuulerer , And -be who spelleth ' lightning' is » god!—" JPerdiaand . Who g « t chin-deep into the mtul , and cry Behold the deeps 1 the Aeepu 1 Who spout their rhym e * Into the people'a ears , as though tliey were Tiiro morning chimes of stll the great world-bolls In 'God's cathedral , the wide universe , GaKng all men to prayer" Ahm ,. Alasl AIm I Toll them to keep their heads still—all will cease ., Far fhej ure but the jingles of the bella 'That pendant-wise embellish their fools' caps .

      " Ferdinand * Wbwreot high-sounding words instead of thoughts And seem . uncoraciotEFt&atifaey are not one . ' " Alexis . Great words come from great mouths , not from great minds ! " Ferdinand . Who would reduce all things to empty sound , And , cDcT the process answer , woald confine ATrbesflty'to their verses , which , drum-Eke , Return mad volleys of a vagne uproar , JDenoiid oSjoawi and . of meanin £ ^ E > Qth > n The ginud "mrstafce o ^ f dtesb poets * is to imagine tirenigeQves Dhouglrtful tieggnsg 1 i ! feyi 5 aHr -cf ^ wmgltt , meftaphysicaft 'becanse tlrer 'fling abotrt metaplfcyncBSlanWage . The * re& thcraght of I ^ te poet is shown in liis shaping fbrnErinto wear aistinctnesH—is &own in his cheating- types which stand aa represeiJtaCives of * whaC we have seen , and * 8 § L % and tnown ; "whereas these , po « ts- 'flhar'ow atH -ftieir labcrar on i&eir verse , ptfKsMng i ! he marble instead of canong fhe Btatne . TSicy deceive themselves wxifh grand phrases , and deceive others too , who know not how easy it is to produce imagery when that 5 n » geiy"is ncrt € be protfoct of Tmagmatron -wedtled feo Seamy , hut ot the nnrestrlftined'Kcense of Imagmatibn '"" wandering at its twni sweet wlH . ' * la ordHrarywrSSrigi ^ ihe ® fficiKfcy is not to tarn sounding periofe , but accuwrtely -to express the meaning nr your mind , when yon have a meaning . So , likewise , the difficulty in poetry lies not in imagery , but in appcopiaafcely ea ^ ressing Sy an imagge & woagfaft which is poetical . Or b % -anoHtihed poetoit it is joot difficuato laonch your soul ruddedesa upon the OcGKUQr Ixmaity , and let it float there , stormHtossed on tiiat BnosE&eBB Se % tl ! L it be shipwrecked on a reach of Stars , and « ta « d appalled wt the gaze of "Crodt "it is not difficult to roll up jxxar Orb from Passion ' s raistmg ^ Bleeps . ; to suffer a world-travail in throes and agonies of poetic thought 4 . to pour out eloquence Ske lava rushing down , the searred sides of JStua ^ rto dza ^ ( p ^ e ^ iiuuinheaus &om your lady ^ s e ^« - ; to clnnb ^ the Hei ^ kt 3 of iWughl ^ r tetasraal Wasb ^ to "Eden pageantries witkmyout soul ; tthMe-• SGope y&wr mind with heaps' t © deat with all the essences of-things ;; ta prcftMB « nd -psove . the ttotTfingnesa of science ^ egpeouJEy- grammar ^ ^ to taako . yoar thousbis Propheeiea of E ^ exni ^ . . and yesur adaons . Grystak of line ; to scota i £ e Breaent amd its -vain a $$ d « aee , because jwooe 3 a » oo » hta areiStsxa Iflaatiug ia thcIEtcitveui < rf 4 > h& Snfinxtev aibd , 'therefore "to thifik only oFii&e JPnfttnre yet gni' Wuiiibeg'F It is true , that iihosreVho are so soBcitons of t £ he B ' u&xce -ac& open tDf&e objection , of ihe JMerrj-Andrew in . JPausic—** WerTnarfit ^ demtider Jiifew , elt Spaaa . " ^ WliDiibe dettofr is = te ansBe the preseatf * Aiid ^ that objeefion tm % lit tesn ^ icte'itself into wwrtiierquestion" Why not wait fer thb ^ Futare be&re you publish ? Certain it is , that having ao hold cm the present , speaHsg neither the langaage c ^ men , ner df poets , this latent school of poetry cannot be of the sEghtest service ^ -were l 2 ie talent oJTits disciples ten timves greater . JSSx , Bigg , whom we hasre chosen as . our text , la certainty a maa of too , cu-ainary Jaeoli ^ if he i » very yomig , we may yet ea ^ iect good-woria ^ rom htm . He haag ^ est power of verse , power of expressioa T sad morbid laet i vhy ctf unagmotioB , "wimch lie allows tfco go unrestramed , as he says : — ; '^ My . dreamB-are ¦ wild . . A 84 h&IankJhair of ancient praphetessi , Streaming Jp ( frenzy on the midnight wild . " We opened 4 hi » instmit the iboofc at random , ftnd this maa the pa « ffl » e ¦ "wfeic'h met out -eye ¦ : — <( CareliuB . Bee , the-moon hangs there on the verge of staxs , L 3 te a btright vestal srt a templei ^ porch . "JFtrdiwnuL M , 'tia » bliwfnl night ! Che uni * rer * e Is a ereat cosbiofthymn o £ prflise-to God . My £ ewrt issm ^ ng ^ tthtthe happy spheres ; S [ pt a « txingjax » 'bikt all is harmony . JSight is- toebeaatifiil black slave of . God , And beads , before him ever wrapt in awe , "While-hergre « t heart ithrobstbaaks in btrrning stars !** and we quote it as a specimen in brief of the sort of writing which meets ua on every page : God and the stars everyvhere 1 Me Bi has only to ask himself what aspect of life , or what system of fb oH ^ htf h ? is poem represents , to see thirt he has been led astray into the mistake of Boppoeinj that the mere indulgence of lx& imagination would produce a poem .

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      GENTLEMEN US THE INDIAF AEMT . Otxkfield ; or , FeAlowate jyin ike East . By W . D . Arnold . ( Second Edition . ) Longman and Go . This book is a transcript of real experience , and as such is valuable . It is the product of a cultivated mind pondering upon life as presented in _ oar Indian army : ; » nd it will strike every reader by its seriousness and ability . iBut a novel , in the ordinary sense , it can scarcely be called . There is just enough story to serre as a framework 'for the observations o > f one wlio deplores the low tone—let us call it blackguardism at once—which disgraces and demoralises too many of the young men on their first entrance into the service . That is the purpoae of the book ; and the purpose is excellently

      carried oat . Edward Oakfield , the hero , is a young man with very strong religious convictions , who quits Oxford because there it seems hqpeless for liim to reconcile his beliefs with the circumstances of his position . He wants to act on Mondays what is preached oa Sundays ; a most anarchical desire 1 In India he hopes a now field will prescivt more favourable opportunities for fluch a crusade ; and he joins , therefore , the Indiiui army with this very unirulitary purpose . His disappointment was inevitable 5 was not his expect ^" tion extravagant !? Oakfiula sees clearly enougU the discrepancy between

      Sunday ' s preaching and Monday ' s conduct , but he does not seem to appreciate the significance of this discrepancy . " I am sometimes rtroroked by the cool way in which people assume that what is gool for them must , bo gooa for you . I am aure I do not quarrel with thorn for thinking appointments good things per se ; 1 only bog them not to expect m « to think ho ; but this the / will not agree to ; but still take as an axiom in diacuflBing what they cull ' prospects in life , ' that money , iunl poailion in society , and so on , are ttucLouDtudly good things , aa certainly aa truth and courage are . And yeL doubtless , all who tulle so have written in their copy-books , -when children , that ' the Iwo of money in the root of all evil / and have liourd on Sundays , as

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      & 0 ® THE 1 EADIR . [ Sato * bAy ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 3, 1854, page 522, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2041/page/18/