Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-06

LITERARY NOTICES
EMBLEms, DIVINE AND MORAL. BY Francis Qaarles
New York Carter A Brothers. Sold by Gray 4
Ballantyne, Washington. vol. PIP 1913 With
numerous wood cuts.
Francis Quarles has been for many years
favorite with us. This is not book we have
once read and then put aside, but read and
read with oven new delight and profit. II is
book full of piety and poetry. His style par
takes of the taste of the age in which he wrote.
He soas the eup-bearey 10 Queen Elisabeth, and
doubtless witnessed all those absnrd mysteries
which were played at court while Shakspeare's
new plays were first fresh from his brain, and
first enacted at the Bulls Head Theatre. The
love OF quips and conceits, which mar the verso
now, once wero regarded its chief ornaments.
But these are as stray hairs upon robe Of
velvet-and indeed we confess to love Of
them in Quarles, as in Shakspearc--in despite
of all that Dr. johnson has said--and what
more could he say, than that bubble was to
Shakespeare
The fatal Cleopatra for whom he lost
The world and was content to loso It
The Emblems arc divided into five books,
and are designed to show the progress of
souls experience from birth to the grave Ii
is Of course book Of enigmas, never to DO
solved by minds to whom a spiritual life is
unknown; but no one can read these Emblems
without admiring the beauties scattered every-
where, and cpithets SO rich and felictons, that
Shakespeare, the player is often rivalled by
Quaries, the Queens cap-bearer. We give an
example, from Book I'll, p. 1865, Emblem w
''Lord, if the peevish infant fights and flies
With unpar'd weapons, Mt his mothers eyes,
Hcr frowns (half mix d with smes) may chance 10
An angry love. tick on his arm or so;
Where if the babe but make lsp and cry,
Hcr heart begins to melt and by and by
She coaxcs his dowy checks her babe she blesses,
And choakes her language with thousand kisses
am that child 10, hcre PROSTATE lilo,
Pleading for mercy; repent and cry
For gracious pardon, lot thy gentle ears
Hear that in words, what mothers judge in tears;
See not my frailties, Lord, but through my fear
And look on ev'ry trespass through a tear;
Then calm thine anger, and appear moro mild
Remember, thou'rt q father I a child"
And if the poetry were not worth tho price
of tho book, there are precious gems Of thought
extracted from the great fathers of patristic
piety at the end Of each Emblem. While
there arc 80 many books printed which must
die like bubbles, we are glad to sec a book re-
printed which has stood, and will stand, the
test of human scrutiny and Of Christian expert
ence, to the end Of time
Roc ET's THEsAURUs CT ENGLISH WORDS BY Peter
Mark Roget Edited by Burnas Sears, d. d Sec
rotary of the Massachusetts, Board of Education
Boston: Gould Lincoln. Sold by Taylor 4
Maury and II. Farnham, Washington. 1vol., PIP.
46S.
This work will become the handbook Of
every man whose business lies in the use Of
words, to whom it is a matter of moment to
have the right words in the right places, and
to whom style and variety Of expression ia
deemed worth labor to attain. To editors,
lawyers, ministers, to say nothing Of authors
and members of Congress, this book is invalu
able. And what is remarkable, too--this il
the only work which has ever appeared, of the
kind, in our language, the body Of which is
here anatomical, as it were, and distributed,
not under any mere pathological arrangement,
connected with tho mechanism and strnc-
ture Of language, but classified by tho wants
of the mind with reference to the purposes
of expression, and tho actual demands Of
oral and written communication. Now that
this book is composed and published, the won
der is that it was never compiled and printed
centuries since. II is a work Of vast labor and
patient, careful, discriminating thought After
a little use, this Thcsaurus will become "a ne
cessary to everybody az Webster's Dictionary.
Honor TO WHOM HoSoR.-G. T. Williams,
b. l.. Allen, w Washburn, Tisdale Drake, and
A. B. Mnnroe, Aldermen Of Boston, have issued
a card, in which they state that Justice to
themselves demands that they should be alb
solved from the implication conveyed in GER
tain paragraph mentioned. They not only did
not advise the Mayor to call out the military
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