New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-11-18
VOL. VIZ. NO. 100.
New Publications..

New Publications.
! EfANGELINE. A Tale OF Acsdie: BY HENRY WAps'
WORTH LoNGTELLow. Second bdluon. Nrp 1917
Boston IlckDor & Co.
The fact that Second Edition OF this elegant
volume was called for before copies could be dis
tributed to the Press evinces popularity in the Poet
If no. excellence in this particular Poem. We
have not yet read Evangeline thoroughly, and its
metre is very dspleasing to our uncsssical taste,
vet the snatches we have caught indicate grace
fol and affecting story. Itopens thus:
This the forest prmsvsL The murmurns pines and the
hemoeks, ltxiight
Bearded with and In garment, green the
stand ike Druids Of ed with voices sad md Prophetic
Stand like hrpers hosr with boards that their
bosOms. focesn
Loud from rocky eaverns the deepvoced nesbbores
SPEAKS, and In accents disconsolse the wall q
the forest.
Th. Is the forest Primsysl but where the heart.
Lesped hse tn roe when he hears in tho oodsnd the
Where 10 the hstchrooied village, the home Of Acadan
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the
Darkened by shadows Of earth, but rejecting an msse Of
Waste are those pleasant farms and the farmers forever
Scattered like dust and leaves when the mighty blasts Of
Seize them and whr them aloit and sprinkle them far
Noushi but tradition repsDs Of the beautiful village Of
Grand-PTe.
Yewho believe in Affection that hopes endures and
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength Of Womsns
List to the moarnful tradition still sung by the pines Of
List to Tale Of Love in Acsdie home Of the happy.
p. S. We have read most Of Evangeline and
like 1t better and better.
THE POLITICAL WORKS OF FITzGREENE HAL
LECK: Now FIRST Collected illustrated with Steel
Engrsvings from Drawings by American Artists
tSvo. PIP. 280) Appleton Co.
Hacck was younger once than he is now, and
b prasupoo mora uoafical in souI and
The blockheads who complain that he gives
nothing new would degrade Poetry to the level Of
Pottery and expect to elicit an Ode as you might
tune from street hurdygurdy. While in the
spirit he wrote Poems and good ones now that
the spells of Youth and Fancy have departed, he
stubbornly declines to bis well Learned fame,
as Campbell and Walter Scott were tempted to
do. Herein he shows uncommon wisdom. The
verses be has written are excellent in their seve-
raj ways they are still widely read and warmly
admired and long will be They are enough to
establish reputation and we rather count it
recommendation, in this busy age, when books are
so infinite and reading hours few, that all Of an
author on which he challenges the public judgment
is presented within the compass OF a volume an
evening. Doubtless, the announcement OF Hal.
lecks Poems, New Edition, containing several
Poems not before published, would sell that
edition more rapidly, but would it add to the
during fame OF the poet Our author seems to
think not and we are of the same opinion.
Mr.. Halecks is not the highest order OF Poetry.
but there is none better in its way. Alnwick
Castle Bozzars, Burns, Red Jacket Mag
daen,' Connecticut, perfect In their diverse
moods. We do not think Fanny entitled to rank
with these still less the Epistles etc which
were very well in their time and place, but which
will quietly drop out of the popular collections Of
his works, leaving nothing but the pure gold
Let us not forget to thank the publishers for
the judicious iberality evinced by them in getting
no this work Seven Steel Engravings, from
paintings by Leutze, Huntington, Elliott, Durand
and Edmonds, and including good portrait OF h al
leck fifty illustrate the handsome text, which is
printed on fine, thick paper and encased in superb
binding Hallecks Poems are a luxury, and
should be issued accordingly. The Messrs. Apple
ton have done It,
"ADvESTuREs IN MEXICO By c. DoSsAvAS."
This 10 decidedly the best work that the Mexican War
hes thus far melted. The author IL a journeymsn
printer who clerk on Mississippi steamboat when
the War broke out went with his boat to the Rio Grande
and up Csmsrgo was captured near that place by
Canales's guerrilas, marched through Carmio, Mon
clova end Parras Zscstecss thence by San Luis Po
tos to vsladoid In Southern Mexico, where he and
companion were sold to work In printing Office whence
he escaped alone aud reached 10 safety Quereiaro,
whence he made bis way TO Mexico, and 50 homewHd
by Vera Cruz reaching New Orleans few weeks since
Having thus travelled and resided In the mostinter
esng portions of Mexico. he was enabled to give much
desirable information and he has done II In lively and
graphic manner. His book costs but rs cents, and we
advise those who would know the Mexcsns as they are
to buyit. (Robnson & Jones, Cincinnati W. d. Ora
hsm, N. York;
CT' "A LIFE OF GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR, com
prisng Narrative of Events connected with his PROBES
sional Career By J. REESE FRr with an original and
accurate Portrait and eleven illustratons, has been
fairly issued by Grigg Elliott Philadelphia This sp-
pears To differ materially from the general of bio
sphies of living heroes In being made up In good part
of authentic public documents so AZ fairly TO claim the
rank authority There less gas In II than usual
Ia works of its class; and the whole. II our young
readers are 10 be intellectually nourshed on accounts
of battles and bloodshed. consider this as good az
any other Up. S32, l2mo)
~ SHORT PArEsr SERMONS, by Dow, Jr
originally published in the Sunday Mercury Vol l.
Second Edition" is an odd mixture Of quaint humor
aud drollery with general shrewdness, occasional vu
sary and wha, sounds like irreverence They are GER
tary clever and will attract readers and admirers
vet without eevatipg their tastes or purifying their
morals Much important truth is here puneentiy pre-
.ented but not way make sprofound and serious
/ Impression We doubt whether msn ever became
truly vrtuous seeing vice rdculed and laughed al
/ Paige Nichols & Krsuth l09 Nassau st)
rr"THE SCIENCE or THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
"A Practical Grammar In which Words, Phrases and
Sentences are classified according To their offices and
their relations each other. illustrated by Complete
System Of Diagrams BY :. W. CLARK, A. NJ is a ne a"
work which strikes very isvorsbly lts deviaions
from older books of the Kind are generally Jucclou'
and often important We wish Teachers would exam
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rY' LEXICON SCIENTIARuM-A Dictionary
forms used In the various branches of Anatomy A'To
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~ Natural Philosophy, Physiology. Zoology &c. by
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