The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-28
LITERARY ITEMS.

This is the opening piece-the poem from
which the volume takes its name:- .r
Oh. .E FLOWER DE LUCE.
Beautiful lily, dwelling by still rivers,
Or solitary mere, 1..
Or where the sluggish meadow brook delivers
Its waters to the weir
Thou laughest at the mill, the whirr and worry
OF SPINDLE and of loom,
And the great wheel that tolls amid the hurry
And rushing of the flume.
Born to the purple, born to joy and pleasure,
Thou dost not toll nor SPIN,
But makest glad and radiant with thy presence
The meadow and the lin.
The wind blows and uplifts thy dropping banner,
And round thee throng and run s-..-
The rushes, the green yeoman of thy manor,
The outlaws OF the sun. 81 q"
The FURNISHED dragon-fy is thine attendant,
And tilts against the field,
And down the listed sunbeam rides resplendent,
With steel-blue mail and shield.
Thou art the Iris, fair among the iarest
Who, armed with golden red,
And winged with the celestial azure, nearest
The message OF some god.
Thou art the Muse, who, far from crowded cities,
Hauntest the sylvan streams,
Playing on pipes of reed the artless dlttles,
That come to us as dreams.
nser finger dc te Es Ess Rg R0S@ and let the river
| o flower otsong, bloom on, and make forever
The world more fair and sweet
Lee & Shepard announce a new weekly
| illustrated magazine, to be edited by Mrs. Julia
| Ward Howe and Edmund Kirke The first
| number will be issued on New Years day. 1t
will be "deyoted" to tales, travels, poems,
sketches and essays. Charles !. Co1gdon,
rick w. Shelton, Louisa NJ. Alcott, Jane g.
Austin, Rose Terry, and other noted writers are
| announced as contributors. The Daily Adper.
User announces, with becoming gravity, that
this new periodical is to be called The North
ern Lights, because it is expected to be-a
roarer!
| Professor Agassiz is lecturipg at the Lowell
| Institute and is also busily at work writing his
''Travels in BRAZIL This book will be OF popu-
lar character--a volume of adventures, or travel
! proper, rather than of scientific exploration.
| II win make handsome thick octave, full OF
| Illustrations.
james Parton is travelling "out West,n in
order 10 collect material for series of articles
for the all-devouring Atlantic the great cities
| OF the West. He has been earnestly urged by
| Mr. Redpath to write an elaborate HE OF John
Brown, and will probably soon set to work on 1t.
! Jean Ingelow's Poems, published by Rob-
| erts Brothers, have sold, in the United States
alone, q, 900 copies OF the American edition.
| A layshly illustrated and richly bound edition
| Of her poems is nea1ly ready for the market.
| oliver Wendell Holmes Is writing novel
! for the Atlantic. The first part Of it will be
| published in the January nu mber. II Is called
| 'The Guardian Angel" 1t is novel OF New
|
! --Forsythe Wilson, the author of "In State"
| and "In Sepulchren which obtained considera-
| bic celebrity during the war; has volume of
| poems in press. The name OF it is ''The Old
| Sergeant, and other Poems.n
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves "Chimne ey
| Corner Papers" will be gathered into a volume
| and published soon. She Is now occupied Oh a
novel fer the Atlantic, which will probably take
| up all her time next year.
Emerson is now reading the proofsheets o f
l rN~ wulf frI
| before Christmas. 1t is entitled May Day and
Other Pieces" Emerson goes to the West this
| winter to lecture.
john G. Whittier is engaged in preparing
for publication a new volume of poems, TO be
called The Tent on the Beach, 1t has not left
his hands yet, but it win probably be issued IN
the spring.
| -Longfellow is still engaged on Dante. He
| has not only translated the whole poem, but has
nearly all the notes done and stereotYped; so
that the work will certainly appear during 1866.
james Russell Lowell is writing series of
! articles, in prose and verse, for the atlantic OF
next year. The statement that he is engaged on
a novel is incorrect
| -Bavard TAYLOR has been chartered by the
Atlantic to make a trip TO the Old World, aud
write series OF papers on the "by-ways OF
Europe aH -
The author of that popular novel, ia it'll
| Gartney's Chlldhood,p . has another book on tue
stocks 1t will be Published by Ticknor IL
| Fields.
The second and concluding volume Of the
''I.ife of John Winthrop" by Robert G. Win
throp will be published next month.
miss Louisa NJ. Alcott has returned from
Europe, and is said to be writing volume OF
4 European sketches.
( -4Thoreau's Journal is still in stdtu quo No
thing has been done with It, Mem.-"Au edi-
4 tor wanted" '
The "Life OF sJOsiah Quincy by his son
Edmund Quincy, will not be published until
spring. eN lLu u.GL.
Roberts Brothers have in press, I"Winter