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LITERATURE.

Mulles from the Antique and Sketches from Nature.
By Charles Mackay. Second Edition. Virtue

and Co.

A manly and—to all but the " amiable cynics and
weekly snarlers," alluded to in the course of it—de-
lightful Preface of four pages, introduces to us this
Second Edition of what we are still almost disposed
to regard as Charles Mackay's masterpiece.
" Studies from the Antique and Sketches from Na-
ture" we examined in detail and commented upon
as we deemed it to deserve, three years ago,
namely, at the date of its original publication.
Were we now to speak of the book once more,
as it most certainly, to our thinking, alone
merits to be spoken of, we should have simply
to say ditto to ourselves. For, upon a re-
examination of these charming pages, we only
find our former opinion of their worth con-
firmed and in a measure underlined. Sup-
posing, therefore, that we were to reprint
what we said of the original edition, we should
feel half disposed —to italicize. Contenting him--
self with the elimination of the Meander from the
poem in celebration of " Marsyas," and with the
substitution of one lyric not included in the first issue
of the work for another, we presume deemed by its
author unsuitable as an integral portion of a book
otherwise intensely poetic alike in its 'character
and in its treatment—Dr. Mackay gives his book
to the world once more, as a true poet should, in
its integrity. Meaning no disparagement whatever
to either " Egeria" or " Salamandrine," any more
than to " A Man's Heart" or " Under Green
Leaves"—certainly implying none at all to either
`Voices from the Crowd," or " Voices from the Moun-
tain," to " Town Lyrics," or " The Lump of Gold"
—we cannot but recognise Charles Mackay at his
best, often at his very best, in several of these
Studies and Sketches—" Studies from the Antique
and Sketches from Nature." In the former.irnagin-
ings he has certainly caught the true spirit of classic
antiquity. In the latter he has embalmed many of
those tender human sympathies with which he
observes the breathing life around him. " Flowers
and Children" might be adduced as a typical
exemplar of the more gentle among these lovely
and loving sympathies of his as a true-born lyrist—
a poem beginning :
" Oh, the flow'rets, the bonnie wee flow'rets,
Glinting and smiling and peeping through the grass;
And oh, the children, the bonnie little children,
I see them and love thorn sad bless thorn as I pass."
Sauntering down the green lanes in- the green
countryside —he has an eye for all the glories
of the hedgerow—harebell and daisy, buttercup
and celandine, pimpernel and dandelion, honey-
suckle and forget-me-not. Strolling down the
city streets after nightfall, he has equally an
eye and a heart of pity for even such a faded
blossom " soiled beneath the common tread"
—as Coleridge sang of precisely such another—as
"Louise on the Doorstep." There are fragments
of " Heartsoro in Babylon," as fine in their
way, as purely and intensely poetic, as the
noblest among the more classic " Studies from
the Antique"—as " Proteus" let us say, or as
" The Eumenides." Closing this welcome reprint
of his last book, we cannot but give expression to an
earnest hope that Charles Mackay will shortly col-
lect together into a singlevolume the choicest among
all his many charming and some of them we are
almost tempted to say perfect lyrics--lyrics by right
of which he will always hold his place upon the
roll of our National Poets.