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LITERARY.

~ SATURDAY, MARCH u 1861
LITERARY.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS. b9 Rev.
ALFRED TAYLOR, Pastor Of the Fifs. Pies5yte-
ytan Church. Bri5tol. Pn,, with IN Introduction
by Jonx S. HAHr, l.. L. D. Boston, Henry HoJt+
The Sunday School Photographs is what
it's title suggests series Of brief, lfe-like
sketches Of Supesintendents, Teachers, and
Scholars, the result Of the writer's ooserVa-
ton and experience The reverend author
E:s Keen insight into human character and
draws pen pictures admirably. To al who
arc Interested In the cause Of Sabbath
Schools, tho little book will have especial
Significance and interest, It should be In
every Sabbath School library.
sonDEI1o. sTnAFroID. CHRISTMAS EVE,
AND EAsTER PAX r':,a1 by y1ssi M9fERr Dso"Siso'
Robert Brownins's poetry holds tue same
place In literature that 1Eagner'e music does
In art. sordello and Tannhauscr belong to
future destiny. They will live TO another
generation, perhaps to many, and In the met
aphys1cal znilleninm they will bo held in the
same esteem as Macbeth and Bcethoven's
6FmFQCHlEb H1E uUh UC4uA 1kNHAAAts ID E1AQ.
osrte In his decorations, and we can admire
here and there splendid cornice and an cle-
CANT capital, but the grand thought Of his
architecture is subtle and 60 refined that It Is
only by eerere menhl effort you discern 1t.
It Is a question whether the mass of readers
are disposed to exhaust mental effort for the
pleasure Of reading metaphysical poetry when
the English language furnishes so many simple
md grand poems Of the masters, and for this
reason We imagine that sordello will find few
readers except in certain clnss Of the intel
lcctpa1 creme dc la creme. Christmas Eve and
Easter Day arc comparatively new poems,
but Sordcllo and 6tra1ord we're written In
1910 "6traford, Tragedy" though re-
1ating to one Of the most interesting events
In English history, and brought ont by Mn
crcady, when that great actor was rejoicing
In the full noon Of his fame, was withdrawn
from the stage after winning faint applause;
and when published 1t was, Sheridan said Of
play Of his own which had shared similar
fate, "not as it was acted, but as it was
damned, at Drury Lane Thcater, London"
"Sordeuo" is o work Of genius, but genius
of mystical order that not many will have
patience to follow. There are passages to
he selected OF rare md delicious beauty, but
tie render will undoubtedly say with Sir
John Hawkins while looking for the Canary
Islands: "Hc did not doubt they were there,
| but it should seem he WAS not get born to
whom God hath appointed the finding Of
them.n
T!lE LIFE M hSn GAAIGhES; ~ SnSS SER; =.
] OHEiIYIa:th Il. +. rarimcnt, Witi, comic ills.
trauore. New York, Carleton, 1861.
| Every body knows private Miles O'Rellly,
his sulcrings, his pleasing Irish songs, his
mellow Wit, aud lis political services. I'm
der the garb Of witty, rohckins Irish SOL
dier, the nnthor, III. Aaipln, advocates the
| claims Of the soldier, attacks the rotteuness
Of New York politics, and In general at-
tempts to mirror the army feeling. Leaving
out thc local illusions, the book Is full Of
| good hunaor and capital songs, and Will
pleasantly fill up an hour. It Is liable, how
ever, to The same danger Which threatens all
books Of this class, that before you get to
dnls 1t WILL cloy upon tAe appetite. One
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turn.
,rrEr Eop praVrv-a state ,r orr.o ,nor
earth; the only preparation Tor state Of gfot.
n ncasen- Boston, ROBERTS BROS, ls'A.
luS soiunae L. tue sequence u aeasen o'e'
Home, q work which has Ind q large sale II
| the religious world. The author, in his lat
ter effort, describes the state of''the ch1ldrc1
OF Cod who are already gloriflcd, viewed
| chiefly in their individual exa1tation and per
sonal glory, and the state of grace upon eart1
that gives us the preparation to Join them
In the course Of the work the author attack
the belief that death will affect IN entizs
change in the spiritual and moral condition
Of the soul He also points out certain aua1o
gies existing between state Of grace upo1
earth and a state Of glory in Heaven, aut