New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-18
1Iterarp Notices.


first number Of the Draw ing Room Library pub
lshed by James AIowat & Co. La Broadway, Is
all elegantly printed octave, suitable for binding
with the Mirror Library, and got up in style OF
similar taste and beauty. Ii contains the Light Of
the Lighthouse, Shells and Sea-Weeds, Music
on the Waters When the Night Wind Bewaileth,
(beautiiul a. Shelley Indian Serenade,} and
score OF other pieces-a possessing poetic merit OF
a very high order-and is enbellished with a fine
steel engraving. The leading characteristics OF MIR
Sargent poetry are a subtle and lnterpenenatlng
sense Of the Beautiful and soulelt houghtiulne>s
winch searches after truth in the deep and hidden
fountains o. the Ideal-and finds it. His pictures
Of cloud ald sea and SKY are firm, distinct, radiant
We; swimming man atmosphere OF pathos, and glow
ing with the golden hues Of al exuberant fancy en-
riched bv careful reading and high scholarship. HIS
choice OF ep,hets is instinctively and sometimes
star,lingIy appropriate. For Instance
AGAIN
Oh! for one draugft of cooling northern air
That il might pour It's freshness on me no"
That il might KISS my cheek and cieave my halT,
And part It's currents round my ievered bro"
Ocean aad 7kg, and earth blistering calm
Spread over all bow weary wears the day
Oh. lii, the wave. and bend the distant palm,
Breeze wheresoe' er thy tagging pnions stray
Triumphant burst upon the level deep.
Roc the fixed hall and swell the clinging sail .
Arouse tie opal clouds that o er US sleep,
Sound thy shrlIi whistle We viii bid thee hail I!
Though wraprin all the storn-ciouds nj the North
Yet from thy home OF ice come forth, breeze
come forth
What can be better than = he opal clouds that
DER US Sleep" or the line
al fIz 4 I'm
We think we see before us the lrrvid bosom Of
The shining deep, melting into glass beneath the
sun-whle alar in the southern horizon looms the
dim outline Of the Pan of Maanzas, and league
at cur back sleep the dreamy and pam-clad shores
of delicious Cuba. And look again-what lovely
picture of summer-night at sea:
TROPICAL NIGHT.
But o. the nisht-thc cold, luxurious night,
Which closes round US when the day grows dln
And the sun sinks from his meridian hight
Behind the oceans occidental rim
Clouds in thin streaks of purple, green and red,
Lattice his parting glory, and absorb
The last bright emanations that are she'd
In wide proGasion from his failing orb.
and nor the m00u her lids unci0Sing, detsns
10 smile serenely on tie charm6d sea,
That shines as If inlaid rih lightning CHAINS,
From nchich IL hardly struggled to be free.
~.
Touched by the downy breeze, and favored by The
tide.
The lines in Italic are exquisite, and are such as
Chide Harold might have dreamed while drinking
in the intoxicating beauty ofthew wEgean Sea.
The last bright emanations that are SIZED
is however, expletive and feeble Ii is pity that 1t
mars so fair GEM But we have room TO be
caught crcising and extracting the beautiful con
1 loo, may
all bo had for shilling. and we II not spoil the
market OF blunt the appetite tor them oy fur'hef
quotauon
THE COLOMBIAN MAGAZINE FOR MARCH.-Ihis
number will be issued in day two, and will eX'
ceed in the beauty of its embellishments and III NJ
terest any of the previous numbers. Among The
contributors are the most popular names belonging
~ Americas literature, and the whole getting up
eynces much Iiberay and expenditure on the pait
OF the propr!etoTs
REMARKABLE AcCuRACy.-ln the Report made
by Committee OF the American Institute on The
Commercial Intercourse OF the United States and
Great Britain recently published IT IS stated that
he average rate OF duties payable on articles OF Brit
;sb manufacture, as shown by a calculation on 50
articles. is Mrty-tr0 per cent The accuracy OF
this estimate is proved by the duties actually paid
on impors into New lork and Boston Tor the month
of February
Thus. in New York, the az rage dpty paid on dr-
liable Articles 81 81 per cent cent
Tins, in Boston the same was r., - ..3! per cent
Nskiuc an ayzIsge OF 32 per cent for the two potts
rFs pamphlet containing the above Report
NAV he obtained al The Tribune Ottce-price 81 %
ner hundred, or so per thousand
The foreign arrivals Boston from st January to March
9Th were 1913 ..''' ,ss ~
-" 1914 80. ........ !; :; 100
M Goods imported February, here aud III Nsw-f oIk was
A. New.yoIA duties-3l per c,nr. on whole value
~ g.. per cent on dut.ble goods.
q crilt whole Ytlu~
-' 81 pr crUt. on dutlAble goods.
Tls import, in the month OF February were:
AZ New. York, dutiabir 80 , gs5,.SS
" free e........ .....--....... 1852
Sp-c-. oo1H
fot4l ......... '..-'.....'''' s''0-'''''
ALB 1u Bosom, taSiable 81, 1903 400
tree 'o.'oIt
Sp=cs. --o-l
Tor,l .s.i739l2
Duty S6o7 ,665
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