The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-31
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THE ANGEL House.. THE BErRorna1. Boston
Ticknor Il Fields.
This poem, printed in old English type, bears
the impress of an English mind-its illusions.
Its scenes, its tone, and all that is local. are
English. But the subject is one that belongs
to no country exclusively; its sentiments are
universal.
1t is noble poem, on the noblest subject.
Had it been written by Tennyson, it would
have been everywhere smooth and musical.
which it is not now but not Tennyson himself
could make sweeter lines than some of these
in The Angel of the House
AS yet, we ask in vain, who wrote it and
rumor says, Coventry, Patmore; one critic
friend says, the author of "The Bottle of To-
per-na-fuosic," and certainly there are lines in
"The Bottle of Topper -fuosic" which sug-
gest "The Angel of the House." But we are
left to conjecture, as yet.
No review of the book can do such iustica 20
it as copious extracts; but we have neither
room nor time for many. From the Idyl.
called "The Lover" we quote:
90, paradox of love, he longs
- Most humble when he most aspires
To suffer scorn and cruel wrongs
From her he worshps and desiree
And ye, his passion nneed be,
Would spend all on a single kiss,
And call 1t great economy,
Counting the honor, not the bliss,
trfe serves for his relief
A trlhe tur"s him sick and pale;
And yet his pleasure and his gref
Are both on a majestic scale
From "Frost in Harvest" the following rs
copied,
"The lover who, a gulf
OF ceremony, views his love,
Andd oreS vat L.
Pays worship to her stolen glove
The gulf oerleapt the lover wed
IL happens of, THE truth be tOldl
The halo leaves the sacred head,
Respect grows lax and worship cold
Like song of birds before they pair.
Or flush Of flowers in boastfu spring
Dies out and leaves the summer bare
het should man, II seems TO me,
Honor what honorable is,
For some more honorable plea
Than only that II Is not his
The gentle wife, who decks his hoard
Ano makes has Gay 10 have no nigh,
Who finds her own in his delight,
Is she another now than she
VINO, mistress Of her maiden charms
AT his wild prayer, incredibly
=, Commlhed them to his proud AIMS
p1,sss her choice OF him's slur
- Which makes her proper credit dim
nc never enough can honor her
Who past all speech has honor'd him.
And the following, from still another IdyI:
Sweet are the batteries OF love;
They neither would do deceive
Albeit they Lift our hearts above
All batteries which our hearts believe,
But this Of making her lord
Appeared such passionate excess,
! almost wished her state restored,
almost wished she loved me leSsp
But quotations, to do the book any Justice.
would be too numerous and copious for a 70.
view. We advise all to get the book, and reaJ
1t. 1t IS no6te poem, on a noble theme. =.
ASPIRATION An Autobiography of GirhOod. BY Mrs..
Manners Second Edition New York Sheldon, Lam.
port, Bskeman, No lis Nassau street Pr. aa4
This is the production of an earnes. mind.
The author did not write because she must say
something to make out a book, but has poured
forth of the riches Of full soul, as the stream
gushea sparkling and free from its fountain.
1t is the history of the inner as well as the
outer life of school girl, and presents re-
freshing contrast 10 the Aimsy and super6cia
character Of boarding school life generally