Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-30
Chs Gveem an.
MONTPELIER, VT.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE MASQUERADE, AND oTuKR POEAs By
John Godfrey SAKE. Boston Ticknor and
Fields.
The publisher have given the public in this
volume, mos, captivating in its artistic and ty-
biographical beauty, the latest poems of SAKE
most of them we believe new, and now read
for the first time. Ssxe has now a very well
established and clearly defined reputation as a
poet. Wit and epigrsm he is quite master o,
and he tells good story in verse with an ease
of vers6ca,ion and felicity of style very e1-
cellent, as it is also peculiar to himself. This
volume is not, we think, the best of his pub
lished poetry, but it is nearly rer eci in its way
rather enthusiastic admirer of SAKE contri
butes to the New York World notice of this
publication, and from the notice We copy tbs
following
"The Masquerade comes to US in the de-
lie lous dress OF an art in typography that is ba-
4ncing the beauy Of our modern books, like
the tapestry that blends brilliant coloring with
lie finest of fabric. 1t is a : ook of thought.
We do not at frs; appreciate the philosophy,
the Clear Judg Of human motive, tn line
measuring accurately the human heart but,
af er me dancing melody of the expression has
been Ell iyed, GO back to discover the depth
Of the shadow or the strength OF the light that
exists in the picture so innngIy framed. He
is a scholar IN hi. verse. He knows that cire-
fulness the attribute OF the Old School
the best school and thus he never negle
that metre and rhyme-the drill OF the sentences
of sll that shall make the cadence fill the ex-
pectant harmonic of the taste-that all this
shall be in that order of beauty from which trne
poetry can never be divorced.
His clear, bright yersihcation flows ike a
river to the truth it clothes; and by way that
gra,ifes the Judgment, while it charms the
taste, We find ourselves called 10 reflection where
We thought We should only be amused.
A Vermonter born, and d New Yorker adopt
ed, there is Parlsianism about Mr.. Saxe's
grasp and gathering in of an epigramatic truth
whIeh must have It's origin in some ancestor OF
the gay vine and-per haps some gallant Hugue-
, not VITO would not abide the red ru 'rc Of st.
Bartholomew evening.
The volume is a collection of pleasant picture
poems. The book sustains itself. Its opening
poem, tie one that gives 1t name, is master y
aud lne Others walk with it. 1t is not, as 80
many books OF poems are, bracelet with one
diamond, and the rest, but the lustered pebble
Ii is evidently written carefully, and that is, o.
Itself, worthIness.
We copy the poem, " The Superfuous Mar,
the sonnet, The Grateful Preacher" and tbs
spigram, Too Candid by Half"
TIKI sUPERFLUoUs NAN
1t IL s>certain ined by inspection of the register. o.
many counties, hat the proportion OF male tc
in respect 10 marriage, every 2lst s naturally
Prrhuous--rKEATIsI On POPULATION
long have been puzzled guess,
And SO have freQuently said
What the could really be
That 1 never Ia happen we'd
But it is perfectly clear
am under a natural ban
The rls are already sssigned,-
And I'm d super eaous mani
Those clever statistical chaps
Declare the numerical
of women nd men in the world,
Is Twenty to Twenty-and-one
And hence in the pairing, you see,
Since woong aud wedding began.
For every connubisl score,
They we got superfuous man.
BY twentes and twenties they 60,
And gddily rush - their fate,
For OF the number, Of course,
Can fail of q conjogal male;
But while they are yielding in scores
To Natures ME xibe plan,
There's never woman for me-
For I'm a supernuou. man
Itjsn that q churl.
To solitude inclined
1t is ut that | f,u
In morsis manners ind;
Then what is the reason you ask
I'm still With the hschelor-can;
merely numbered amiss,-
And I'm q supertuous man,
1t is MT that want
OF personal besuty or grace
tor many a man with a wife
Is uglier far in the face;
Ind ed, eleg snt mea
l fancy yself in the van;
But what is the value of that,
When I'm a super nuous
Although l fond of the girls
For sught | could ever discern
The tender emotion feel
Isoue that they return;
'Tis idle 10 quarrel with fate,
For struggi. hard 5 l can,
They're mated already, YOU know,-
And Pm super huous man!
No wonder l grumble times,
With women pretty and plenty,
To know that never born
To gure of the twenty;
But yet, when the average lot
With critical vision / scan.
/ think it may be for the best
That .'m q superfuous mani
THE GRATEFUL PREACHER
A .,rOliing preacher, " once upon a time,"