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London, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

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CHARLES MACKAY'S NEW POEMS.

Under Green Leaves. By Charles Mackay. G.
Routledge and Company.
Another volume of verso by Charles Mackay—
another collection of those graceful fugitive pieces
which have made his name so pleasantly familiar to
us all. Who will not welcome this little book with
all imaginable cordiality and cheerfulness ? And
none the less cheerfully, and none the less cordially,
because of that strange rumour just now beginning
to be whispered about in literary circles, to the effect
that the writer of these charming lyrics, the poet
of " Egeria" and the " Salamandrine," meditates
venturing very soon upon a lecturing tour through
the United States of America, in the footsteps of
W. M. Thackeray. Whenever Charles 'Mackay
may venture across the Atlantic upon this new
enterprise, he may count upon carrying with him
the good-wishes and God-speed of many a warm
heart left behind him in old England. And none
the less securely, " we guess," may he " calculate"
upon securing to himself a most genial reception
at the hands of brother Jonathan—with whom his
many brilliant, and some of them glorious, " Songs"
are, if possible, more popular even than among
ourselves. His " Ballads," his Lyrics," his " Voices
from the Orowd," his " Voices from the Moun-
tain," in fact, every one of his miscellaneous poetical
productions having contributed fragments of me-
lody long since ringing familiarly like " household
words" under the roof beams of that vast scattered
family, whose mother-tongue is no other than our
grand, old, composite, nervous, manly Anglo-
Saxon language. A language echoing like a won•
drous rebeck across the Atlantic in the songs of
Mackay and of Longfellow !
The title selected by our popular songster for his
new poems—[His
"Poems" generally, by the way,
being the theme, we understand, of his projected
Lectures and Readings in the United States]—will
prove alluring enough with the majority of his read-
ers we conjecture : being in every respect, to say the
least of it, sufficiently refreshing ! "Under Green
Leaves"—a collection of short poems advisedly
grouped together under that suggestive heading—
having been every one of them, it is intimated,
composed, literally and actually, " under green
leaves," in the sweet fresh air, among the verdure
of one or other of the many lovely suburbs clustering
(north, south, east, west) about this great smoky
Babel of London. Refreshingly welcome then,
sap we, must every volume of verse, so called, and
so written, by Charles Mackay, be to every man
who has been " long in city pent," so long pent,
that he pants at last for a breath of fresh air, and
a sight of the green fields, and of the green boughs,
and of the blue open heavens. Aud here—through
this book—he may see them all, and drink deep
draughts of that same fresh air fragrant with the
perfume of the country—as through an opened
lattice I Apart, however, from the allurement
visible on the title-page, there is the 'witching charm
of an old old friend from Sbakspere in the form of
that little golden scrap of a quotation
" Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me,
And tune his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's threat,
Come hithe:, come hither, come hither !"
Hearken, however, to our modern songster himself
as he thus " tunes his throat" to " the sweet bird's
note" in such a lyric as the following :
TELL MB NO MORE.
Tell me no more amid these silent mountains,
Beneath these green leaves, musical with song,
Lull'd by the whisper of these upland fountains,
The old unvarying tale of guilt and wrong.
Leave me alone one day, with Nature's beauty—
One day—one night—an alien to my care :
The needful rest will nerve my soul to duty,
And give me strength to struggle and to bear.
If it be true that love is born to sorrow,
That Hope deceives, and Friendship fades away--
Let the sad wisdom slumber till to-morrow,
Nor stand between me and this summer-day.
If I am free to dive in Truth's deep ocean,
I will be free to linger on the shore,
To watch the billows in their wild commotion,
And hear far off their melancholy roar.
Pearls for the diver battling with the billows !
Pearls for his mournful pomp, and lonely pride !
For me, this day, a harp upon the willows,
And flowers fresh-gather'd by the water's side.
Or, again, whore he thus questions himself in a
sylvan mood of reverie as to the—
FAIENST AND DEAREST.
Who shall be fairest?
Who shall be rarest?
Who shall be first in the songs that we sing ?
She who is kindest,
When Fortune is blindest,
Bearing through winter the blooms of the spring ;
Charm of our gladness,
Friend of our sadness,
Angel of Life, when its pleasures take wing !
She shall be fairest,
She shall be rarest,
She shall be first in the songs that we sing
Who shall be nearest,
Noblest, and dearest,
Named but with honour and p:ide evermore?
He, the undaunted,
Whose banner is planted
On Glory's high ramparts and battlements hoar;
Fearless of danger,
To falsehood a-stranger'
Looking not back while there's Duty before 1
He shall be nearest,
He shall be dearest,
He shall be first in our hearts es ermore
About the finest thing in the whole volume, to our
thinking, is the poem solemnly entitled " Storm
Approaching"—nineteen thrilling and impressive
&twins, written in a grand and almost awful tone
of mingled warning and exhortation. Here are a
few of these stanzas—the eloquence and passion of
which will be readily recognised :--
We live in a time of sorrow,
A time of doubt and storm,
When the thunder-clouds hang heavy,
And the air is thick and w ar m ;
When the far-off lightnings gather
And the birds of the air, fear-stricken,
To nest and cover fly
Look np 1 ye drowsy people,
Ou the verge of the darkening sky,
There's desolation nigh.

Kneel down in the dust and ashes I
Kneel down, ye high and great,
Who call yourselves the bulwarks
Or fathers of the State,
And clear your ;sleepy vision
From selfishness and scorn,
And mingle with the people,
To learn what they have borne—
Their suffering and their sadness,
Toiling forlorn, forlorn 1

Awake awake ! ye sleepers,
There's danger over all,
When the strong shall be sorely shaken,
Ard the weak shall go to the wall ;
When towers on the hill-top standing
Shall topple at a word,
And the principles of ages
Shall ba question'd with the sword,
And the heart's blood of the nations
Like fountains shall be polled.
When a fierce and a searching Spirit
Shall stalk o'er the startled earth,
And make great Thrones the playthings
Of his madness or his mirth ;
When ancient creeds and systems,
In the fury of his breath,
Shall whirl like the leaves of Autumn,
When the north wind belloweth—
And drift away unheeded,
To the deep, deep seas of death.
The first large rain-drops patter,
The low wind moans and sings—
Awake, ere the tempest gather,
Rulers, and priests, and kings !
Ere the thunder-clouds are open'd,
That wall and flank the sky ;
Ere the whirlwind leaves its caverns,
And the shafts of vengeance fly—
Look up ye drowsy people,
There's desolation nigh !
enough, however, in the way of extract. The book
must speak for i tself—it will speak for itself—tor
Charles Mackays poems ever command an audience
to say the least of them—respectful, observant, and
interested. An audience that will not fail to listen
for a while absorbed—while they hear sung to them
in well-known accents the griefs of "Hornyhand,"
the excuses of " Shackaback," lyrical pieces about
"The Cobbler" and about "The Musician," about
" Cracklethorn " and about " Lullingsworth,"
about " Gideon Gray " and " Castle Athelstone."
Flaws there are in these verses, easily distinguish-
able, here and there, as we turn them over casu-
ally—the book being in no respect, of course, that
great world's wonder, "one entire and perfect chry-
solite:'But we care not in its instance to point
ahem out—.the work coming before us in no respect
withany very grandiose pretensions. It is musi-
cal,t
genial, and unaffected. And, therefore, only
to be thought of in a kindred mood to that in
which Wordsworth called to mind the bed of daf-
fodils moving in the breeze : when he spoke of them
thus tenderly in the mere remembrance—
" And still my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils I"
And so, too, in a mood as tender and as natural;
and occasionally with the " tears in his voice, '
Charles Mackay—crowning himself with a fresh
bay-wreath—sings to us UNDER GREEN LEAVES .

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Reports of th•
deputation of shareholders appointed at the last half-
yearly meeting, held at Bristol in August last, and of
the directors in reply, from which it appears that the
deputation and the directors hold opposite views with
regard to the management of the company's affairs. It
will therefore be the business of the shareholders to
decide the poibts in dispute at the ensuing half-yearly
meeting. The result of the efforts of the deputation of
shareholders is stated in the following sentence in their
report :—" The committee regret to report the failure of
all their efforts to bring about, in conference with the
directors, any alterations in the constitution of this
. board.".

IYI4RZET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE,

Most of the country markets held on Saturday were but
moderately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited
business was doing, and inferior parcels were rather cheaper.
Barley was in good request, at very full prices. In the
value of other articles very little change took place.
The continental markets have been tolerably firm for all
kinds of produce. The American advices bring a dull sale
for both wheat and flour.

The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were but moderate. The imports from abroad were
12,749 qrs of wheat. 12,231 barley, 17,752 oats, 131 G beans,
355 peas, 120 tares, 1,880 linseed, 10,970 rapeseed, 2,303
sundry seeds, 181 sacks and 4,607 barrels of flour.
The supply of English wheat in to-day's market, received
coastwise and by land carriage, was very moderate, yet the
bulk of the samples, considering the prevailing damp wea-
ther, were in fair condition. Selected qualities of both red
and white were, in most instances, disposed of at last Mon-
day's quotations ; but middling and inferior kinds ruled
very dull, and, in some cases, prices were the turn in
favour of buyers. At the close of the market a large por-
tion of the supply was unsold, although factors would have
taken ls. to 2s. less money to affect a clearance.
_ _

We were well supplied-with foreign wheat. Although
the demand ruled extremely inactive, importers were firm
in their demands, and in the few sales effected, last week's
currency was supported.

Floating cargoes of grain realised former terms.
We were well supplied with both English and foreign
barley. The trade was much less active than last week,
yet prices were well supported, except grinding sorts,
which gave way is per quarter.
There was a dull inquiry for malt, yet prices were steady.
The show of oats was on the increase, nevertheless, the
oat trade ruled firm at full quotations.
Both beans and peas were in fair supply, and steady re-
quest at fully late rates.
We had a dull trade for flour at barely last week's
prices. Norfolk qualities were offering at is per 2801bs.
less money.

- CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex L Kent, Malt—Chevalter .... 768 to 793
Red •..• new 531 to 67a Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto•• .• .... old —a —a Lincolnek., Feed 21s 25s
Ditto, White new 56s 74e Potato
Ditto.. •• .... old —3 —a Youghal and Cork
Norfolk and Lin- Black. •• •• •• 193 22
coin, Red, old —s —a Cork, White ... •• 21s 26.
Ditto new •• 524 658 Scotch, Feed. •• •• 26s 294
Rye—Old •• ......•• .. —I —e Beans—Tick ..• •• .... 34s 35,
New •• •• •• ...... 388 42c Pigeons ...... .... 40, 43,
Barley—Grinding ..• .• 31s 33a Peas—Grey ..•• •• •• •• 368 39,
Malting .•• •• .... 36s 363 Maple..... •. —.. 40s 41s
Chevalier •• .• . . 42s 528; White... —•••• •• 39e 424
MAR—Suffolk and Nor- Rollers ••••. •• •.40s 43,
rolk•• •• •• ...... 67s 77a, Flonr—Town•made... bBs 60s
Brawn ............. 63s 6181 Suffolk .• •• •... —42 s
Kingston andiVare 76s 788 i Stocktn t Norfolk 42a 43s