The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Algernon Charles Swinburne.
We last week published poem of George |
Arnold's which we thought ought to have had |
a place In the permanent collection. Below we
give another OF equal merritt
sEA-sHoRE FANoIEs.
pleasant waters, ripping the sand,
Green and pelucld as the bervl-stOne
With crested breakers heaving towards the land, |
Chanting their ceaseless breezy monotone,
" hat snowy little feet at RIrlish play
Have ye not kissed on Newport's beach to-day?
waves, that foam around yon lonely rock,
Bodlng tue distant storm with hOarser roar
Has noC some ship, beneath the tempests shock,
Gone down, piteoTs wreck, to rise no more9
What gallant hearts have We not stllled to-day!
o dancing breakers fresh from other seas
Whereon the lingering, loving sunshine smiles,
Borne from the spice groves of those palmy isles
Where dusAy maids make merriment alway-
Have ye not laved their perfect forms to- day?
tossing billows come ye from afar r.
Where over fields the aurora beams,
Dimmng the radiance OF the RortneIn star
That through the engthened night of winter CLEANS
Upon the topping icebergs grim and grey
Have ye not ashed their frozen sides to-dayg
Professor Plumptre, the translator of
"sophocles," has just published a volume of
poems under the title of "Master and Scholar"
which contains fine tribute to Mr.. Gladstone
VOICE FROM OXFORD.
On, noblest statesman, thou OF all our time,
On to the tasks that lie before thee stl,
10 guide, CONTROL raise, purify tue will
OF tolling millions in their manhood's prime.
my fight scars high above the cloudy cline
Where dull tradition holds her wonted sway,
AND iesr 'aSdS a8d E&S u fHS @e
We miss thee now, but England owns her son,
Tried in the fire that purltis the gold
Ouls is the logs, bur thou hast nobly won;
Then on, be brave, the futures scroll unfold,
And, as the months OF ordered progress run,
Flom out thy treasures bring forth ne and old.
The members of the press in this country
are not in the habit of using choice language
towards each other in their little fallings out,
but really they outdo us in England in the
matter of personalities 'The Flaneur' of the
star, for instance was lately accused of riding
''seedy hack" in Rotten Row by the editor of
the Pal Mall Gazette, who drives a "neat but
unlrctending brougham," whereupon the
Flaneur responded and partly to this effect:-
"They know perfectly well that never ex-
pressed the sentiments which they ascrlbe to
me in regard to Rotten Row; but 1T 1s the ten
dency of Captain shandon's 'aristocratic' style,
when it cannot answer argument, to employ
Vltuperation, and an anonymous writer can
safely insult one whose nom de pht'ne has never
been used as a mask. The PdH Mall journalist
says that when he sees galloping snob in the
Row he shall say, There goes the Flaneur OF
the Morning Star y / can only remark that
whenever meet gentleman speaking the
truth, / shall at once know that be is not the
editor of the Pail Mall Gazette" ..,1
The object which Victor Hugo proposed to
himself in writing "lhe Toiler's Of the Sea" is
thus explained by hlm in recent letter to
friend:--l Is- rH. F. .r f.".r# ..r
81 sought to glorify labor, WILL devotion
everything which makes man great. wished
to demonstrate the most implacable OF abysses
in the heart, and that what escapes the sea does
not escape woman. / wished to demonstrate
that in questions of love DO Everything is van
quished by Do Nothing-G Hiatt by Ebenezer.
l sought to demonstrate that to will and to com
prehend suffice even TO the atom to triumph
over the most formidable of despots, the in
hnite.n t7- ... .H..
Professor G. L, Craik, of Queens College,
Belfast, died recently at the age of sixty seven.
He was well known as a writer by his Romance
of the Peerage," his History of British Com
merce," ''The English OF Shakespeare" ''The
Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties" the
idea of which was suggested to him by LORD
Brougham, and by his noagnune opus, Sketches
of the History of Literature and Learning In
England" .~ yls ~ sn
Mr.; Dion l.. Boucicault has made great
success in Paris with Jean la Poste, his trans
lation OF AYrdil-nd-P d-P oJue-which Is now running
at the Gaite--the critics agreeing that no French
dramatlsts could have succeeded nearly so we'll
in placing such entertaining scenes OF Irish life
on the French stage. The most popular part OF
the play is the dance at the wedding, with
which, by.the.way, Mr.. Bouccault himself has
but little to do in his dramatic capacity.
"A note which has been copied from the
American into the English press stating that
Ticknor q Fields have Just printed the three
hundred and fourteenth thousand of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" has occasioned surprise among
English booksellers, who would like TO know II
that represents in any way the real sale OF the
book in America. Mr.. Routledge, of London, said
that he had sold far more copies than that in his
accounts. "' -