The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-28

Prefessor Lonsrsllew's Last Alleged Literary
EySgiariszn-Amclic lean Literature 1t . Low
70 THE EDITORS OF TIE NATIONAL INr,s,LrcEsosR.
Few OF your readers, imagine have ever heard 81
Of the Firms. The OF its author ~ indeed a. be
the work Of and not Of many in5s Is Altogether nm
% ana o as
ration HE the 1liad and odyssey Of Homer before the
tine Of Paistratus, the agnens Of this wonderful poem
have at length been brought together and stand before
the world in fo almost complete The latest version
chat Of DR.. LonnroD appeared In the year 1s4e and
hundr ed and ninety. three verses. aITE
High praise is ded to Mr.. Alexander Castren for
his excellent trsDslson into the Swedish language and
the zeal led him to make extensive journeys through
all Finland in order to take down the original from
the lips Of those who Ieied II, their cas.om is by
evenings Of northern winter. French tranalaion BY
deouaon Le Duo was published in 1915: Another IN
Eastern, to whom was also dedicated and printed 1t
Relsnfars in the year 1852 is lying before me.
the attention Of the literary puvc to the astounding fact
that Professor Longf llow In his new poem Hawatha"
mos nsns 81 ns aS s:y !:
North Anne lean Indians. The resemblance Ia 10 close
that IT cannot be accidental and yet The only approach
found in the BEGINNING of his FIRST note where he says
"Tbis Indian Edda, If may 81 cali it,"
with the following extract from that of the Kae saa
done rom the Germao transation) into Engsh Of the
same metre, which l. also that OF the original
HIAwATHA.
Should you ask me, whence these storises
Whence these LEGENDS and traditions
With the odors Of the forest,
With the dew and damp OF meadows,
With the curling srr oke Of wig "a ns,
With the rushing 81 great iivcrs,
With their fesuent iepetitions
And their wild rever beratians,
As Of thunder in the mountains!
II shonId answer, should tell you
"Erom the forests and the Drairies
From the great lakes Of the N0rthlani, .
From the LAND OF the ojibways,
From the lana VI the Dacotahs,
From the mouotsns moors, ard enlands
Where the heron, the huh-shub-gah,
Feeds among the reeds and PUSHES.
repeat them az heard Them
From the lips of Nawadaha,
The musician, the swee, singer"
Should you ark where Nawadaha
Found the songs, 80 wild and Maynard,
Found these legends and traditionsf
should answer, should tell you,
In the BIRDS nests Of the forest
In the lodges Of the beaver,
In the hoof prints Ut he bison,
In the eyry Of the esgie
All the villa fowl SANG Them tn him,
In the moorlands and he fen lands,
in the melancholy marshes
Mahug, the loon The wild goose, waEa,
The blue heron the Shuh. shuh-gah
And the giouse, The Mushkodasa p
THE "KALEwALA."
These the words We have received
These the do inherit,
Are Of WaiDan oinen's girdle,
From the forge Of ilmafinen
Of the sword Of ksDkomisli,
9th bow of Youkahninen,
or the borders If the North-feIds.
OF the plains of KsIewals.
These father sung afo.e time,
As he clipped the hatcheps ha ndle;
These were taught me by my M Their,
As she twrled FER flying spndles;
When en- the foar sporting
Round her knee was gsiy dancing,
As pi'iable wealling,
As weasl,ng small II stature:
Mover failed these wond rous stories,
Told OF Selnpo, told Of L,uhi:
Louhi vanished with her magic;
In the songs Wiunen persisted;
in the play died Il mminkainen.
There many other stories,
Magic sayings, which learned,
Which gathered by the waysde
Cuiled amid the hesther blossoms,
Rihea from 'hc bushy cJses;
Ilucked them from the tender grasses,
When shepherd boy sauntered,
As lad upon the pastures,
On the honey. bea ing meadows,
On the gold unned till,ck,
Following blsce AuurikM
At the side Of tpo tel inmo.
Songs the very coliness gave me,
husc found In the in-drops:
Other songs the winds brought t. me,
Cher sorgs, the ocean-billows;
Binds, by singing in the branches,
And he tr.otip spoke in whispers.
As q fnli apd eeiahd comparison Of tn two poems
cannot he here given. simple oGtae If the Kaicwas's
plot must Tor he present suffice.
The hero Of the eIic Is Wamimoinen q NEUROLOGICAL
IcIsonaS son OF tee cnngher Of the Air who let himself
down from heaven into the sea- and there wooei by
the storm-wpd After canning through the waters for
upnumbered ages he length reaches the land and tegns
Il career bepe'actJr Of mankind. Then follows
esefiptisn OF bis exploits adventures, extending
through forty nine When at last his mission upon
earth Is red the aged Waiuamonen enters his
copper skin takes leave Il the people the shore,
and sails away far tie blue toward he distant
ioiizD until the brrue is hanging In the clouds
between earth and heaven So he depa ted and de-
parted Eiawatha In the German II reads thu,:
Fahr Ger alte Watnauaoinen,
Nit der Seee iaufeD Rapschen,
Auf dem kUpeIreichen Boote.
Auf dem er7seschiagnen Nachen,
IN den hoheIn Under strecsen,
Zu den ni.dern Himmelsrlomen.
Eleib init seinem Boot bort baften,
Net dem Nachep d,rten sfeLen,
Dech ufuck iess da Harfe,
liess dos schone Spiel ia suomI,
Iu des volkes ew'gcr Frendc,
SchoneD Sang den Suomiknderu.
Those who may cesre to learn more OF the Kasvas''
would refer to the last edition of the Conversations
lexicon" faithful and spirited Translation would be
acquisition to literature M living English poet
Il better cited to make such one than tho author Of
Eawaba. Had he done this at first, fe., confident he
would have achieved real fame for the Indian sic
is only imitation, not creation. T.C.P.
PENNsYLvANrA, Nov. q, 1855.
Coroncrs' Inqucsta.
THE LATE FATAL SHOOTING CASE Il Fifty. NINTH SrREEr-
Coroner Gamble held inquest yesterday at tbs Nins
tecpth ward police station house, upon ta body Of Mr..
Ashbtl u. Crane the gentleman who fatally shot
Monday oernoop, the premises OF the Second Avenue
Railroad Hotel kept by Phillip A. Klos. The evidenee
iefe the jury went 70 show thai the Amity Guard pro-
cetded Monday to the premises above named for tar
get exercise, Mr. Crane the deceased bcyg Of the
invited guests. The guard had Gnished their exercise
early In the afternoon, and while At dinner some boys
who had followed them from the city undertook show
Inv NJ bc hut Ind