The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-13 00:00:00

Itteraturt.

REVIEW 3.

Boron's Potties! Worts; Loseslimes Podiral
Worts; Naturergisili. by Profemor Direke. London:
L Nozon, Son, and Co., 44, Doveristreet, W.
Tre edttions of Byron and Longfellow presented by
Nests. Mogen and Pon to our notice are really edition,
de fear of very elegant aprearance, being got pp in lb.,
newest style of ernanuntal cloth, Atter' to grace any
drawing room table, or light up the sl•elvi s ..f sou
libellee. The Inside is tonally attractive; the hooks are
rtiord on toned paper of an agreeshle tint and with a
glom 'broad type that is very easy to rend, althow.rh a
large amount el matters contained in a enneeident
compose. The type hisa • strong flavour of the antique
style which is now so much in fashion, but it ha.,
sufficient i f the modern style to keep it from appearing
bizarre to eves tried to the common form. The com-
pleteness of these works is worth special notice, for it
ini extroordinary in editi on of this elan—them " Long-
fellow" contains even to the "gong pt
and Byron the full text of " lksn Juan.° The dinars.
lions are in good taste and beautiful, and thr letter-
press is very correct. The poems are each ourtiv
prefaced with introductions. and notes are added, whi'lh
greatly encluinee the ease with which the reader 'Mon
Into the author's meaning. We torrierstaorl that
Mews. Noxon end Son have mule it their aim to
.sei.v!
the public very tantalite ea ilea 1111 Lien. of our t";;."".
Poet', at pimply nominal pricee, and to ma" , "
men.
buoka really artistic productions the.. nom;
show the: the results of the time and
-,nht. which
they here not inert,' are vet/ eieisi
immense
stores
of
P'er,
b6eh
it
• will be
hope that the succeed...a r"ln";,,^ ° •
be gaged to
equally good, and if so. Bre'''. ""'lnr", ter,
have done a real eft-gine to stmdst.l era
tahmosemaihiyNature emir or the Art,
....efnac,t,ithinicgh
excel-
lencies Is tt'' Ire awl " 'I-fluorites of Universal
dcp.ndeht oh the te,nifold
Hitare.—Thia is a rather for; tome with •
llvnijlable tit!,: hot it bcarefuily written, and appears
to he well•rantovwhile the. great abundance and
'vanity of the illustration...quoted from • treat number
,f sources, show the author to be • man deeply read in
poetry. The
beanie of these wiatet'one almost tempt.
one to clip here and thee. n• err t erlly as the honey ben
g II nicer to flower, she,
seem. tad.', when er
without visible resit, passes by half, and only mocha
those that reit her f.ney. Cert•in as she loot finding
"wahine pleasant in whitener flower she visits, go are
we in opening at our vice. Par on flu! Professor
Dindst ! this fatal% for fault you mn.t deem it, ino.-
your object M toner.• the floe. osity of, and I tip us to •
definite mode of atuilying Nature Th. Drnfe.-or pro.
seeds to show that no meth.lical study of Nature is
on record, end very failly 'dates that neither
Niftier nor Art has been eons•il. red eapeble of being no
coucentsited as to effort an init. pendent study. Still
the author " bows that be having classified and
arranged a greet number and variety of examples, and
clown from them the sr vcril ways in whiela unieersal
nature has affected poetic minds at different times and
under many obades eireomotancee, he hu increased
the facilities for future students of the ',me subject,
to an extent which may eventually lead to the este-
Bailment of an uniform method of Nature.study." Alt r
some criticism on expo vsions which reveal eitnniebing
flaws in some of our best poets, the work deals with
metaphors, and prov, rt.. picturesquely indebted to the
ob.ervenc. of eat nal Nature. The work then prce
els to descriptive poetry tia applied to single object.,
then with such objccts comiounded; " Human Nature"
next treated on, meditative and aeriou forms of
poetry twingeing. Imagination and fancy, negative
views of Nature, as given by fabulous °restarts and
naysticiam, form subjects for profound observations,
and the hook closet with practical remark.. It is •
vi.ok worthy of being platted alongside Lord Xiamen
"Element, of Critichon, and we may hope that
through Its study our authors may elicit new sod
correct ideas from the vast Held of Nature lying un-
bounded before our view.