New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS

NEW PUBLlCAIlORS.
MELIBGUSmPPONAX The BiGLow PArEss. Edit
ed with an Introduction. Notes, Glossary, and Co
pious Index by HOMER WILBUR, AN Pastor OF
the First Church In Jslaan. &c &c. g 7 Putnam,
Nsw-York Cambridge George Nichols
Parson Homer Wilbur is somewhat known to
the public as sponsor the first literary offspring
Of his young parishoner, Mr.. Hosea BigIow. The
encouragement he gave TO the promising talent
displayed in the vernacuar lyrics OF the latter has
been universally sanctioned by the public voice,
AID Hosea has the satisfaction OF knowing that his
bluf Yankee wit and shrewd obserya atoms OF men
aud things have been spread wider aud accom-
plished far more good than the weighty sermons
preached by his venerable friend in the First
Church of Jalaam. Not that we mean to dispsr
age the Parsons scholastic requirements the
passages from his discourses appended to the eiiu
sons Of Hosea and B Sawin. prove him to be a
conscientious clear-minded and earnest man but
hs words DO not 90 so directly TO the comprehen-
sion of the universal Yankee race, nor has he the
knack Of administering his Bible truths with such
spice of knowing" humor. The poet Lowe
IN his Incident IN Railroad Car, says 1t is bet
ter 10 write something which shall make
"a clearer faith aud manhood shine
In the unsutOred heart,
than to be one of those great minds which only
appear at intervals of centuries. Now, even though
Parson Wilbur be one Of these last, we must still
think that more practical benefit will accrue from
the teachings Of Hosea.
la his Preface, the Parson gives an interesting
history OF his pupils studies, with partial ped
gree Of the Biglow family aud n dissertation on
the Yankee dialect, in which he very correctly as
scrs, that many OF the words stigmatized by
English philologists as the new and unlicensed
coinage of this country, are but old terms, which
were in common use in the time OF Shakespeare
The following rules of Yankee pronunciation are
curious
1. The genuine Yankee never gives the rough sound
n tho when he can help H. aud often displays coDsid
cradle ingenuity in avoiding 1t even before vowel
> lie seldom sounds the final =, piece OF sell de-
NAL If consider his partially for nasals The same
OF the final d. as han and stan for hand and stand.
3 The in such words as rhit rheH' ~here, he
omi.s altogether.
In regard to a. he shows some Inconsistency
soInetmes giving close and obscure sound ~ ser iOr
hare heaf for handy for as tef for Gf and again
giving 1t the broad sound 1t has IN Jdfh", as haHsomt
for hGudsome.
5 10 the sound on he pre6xes an (hard to cxem
pity otherwise than orsly)
The following passage in shakespeare he would reciie
thus
Med glorious summs by this sun o Nock,
An all the clouds ihel lowered upan eour heouse
In the deep buzzum o the oshia buried; ...,,.
Meow air eour brows bound IN victorious ~fesths
-Four breused arms hung up fer monimunce,
-Four slsrums changed 10 merry mee1ins
-Four dreile marches TO delightful measures
Grim yissged war beth smeuhed his wrinsled ffcn'
To flight the souls o. fertile edyerseries,
tie capers nimy In n sdy's chamber,
To the lsscivious pieasin NV n loot
6 A. In such words daughter and slaughter, he
pronounces N.
With the poems by Hosea Biglow aud b. Sawiu,
our readers are already acquainted What Mr.
Robinson Thinks The Pous Editors Creed,
etc. have gone the rounds OF the Northern press
and been enjoyed with exceeding gusto. Prece.
ding the title page, Parson Wilbur has placed
number OF Notices Of the Independent Press,
which. 10 save trouble he has himself written.
This plan 80 feasible and IN this instance 50 sue
cessiul. will he very generally admired. We give.
SIS specimen, the commencement OF an article
from the World Harmonic folian Attachment,
which the editors of that paper could not help
installing for their own language
Speech is silver silence is golden. No uitersnoe
more Orphic than this While, therefore as highest
sgihOr We reverence him whose works continue ne
roicsly uuwritten. have also our hopeful word Tor
those who with pen from wing Of goose loud KING
srrsph God commissioner record the thine that Is
revealed. Under mask OF qusintest irony, we oet'S'
here the deep stormtost nigh shipwrecsed) soul
thunder Scared sensricalsie but ever climbing hope
fully toward the peaceful submits Of an Infinite Sorrow
rss s.cssp Po.rs o. ESSL,Sp .So ANssio, Fos
rrEsr CFStVRIEs. Edited by RvFvs W Gsiswolp.
d. Appleton 4 Co 30 Broadway
Tins rich aud elegant volume Is exactly adapted
holiday sif TO the tastes OF very large class OF
TIE community Its compilation has been based main
y upon the Gems of the British Sscred Poets pub
hshed lately in England, and Me- Wilmo'ss Lives oil
The English Sacred Poets" Commencing with old
George Gsseoigne Of the sixteenth Century whose
De Profundi. sounds like chant heard In the
gloomy sses Of cathedral the list Of authors comes
down TO Whittier, Bryant and Coke OF our own land
@d tine. The extracts from the old Eagish Poets
are adicoasy chosen and will greatly help 10 extend
ss,e for the fresh and simple grsces of our mother
aasSe in the infancy OF i,s literature
the songs Of Sponsors golden days
Arcsdsn sidpey's siyery phrase, -
sftnAang noon Of time with freshest morning dew
Brief notices OF the various authors prenxed 70
her poems and several handsome steel engrsvinss
sncetsh the work As book for sabbath and hra
Ads reading It will be a choice and appropriate gilt
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