The Portland daily press., 1867-09-27

ant heart He lneels and prays, and the voices
of the-Heavcnly choir chant the amen. The
dying wife hears the sky ringing with the joy
full song that he is redeemed ana save L." and
passes away in peace and joy iueffable Then
he says:
Rebellion slept.
| grieved and still 1 grieve; but with heart
A. peace with God, and so9 with sympathy
award az my sOrrowiug, struggling, sllfu iaeej
ay Hgyi nope that elung so fondly to the world
Nav ne ne rewaris Of time, an anchor sure
of graasps the Eternal Rock with II The veil
And t1aaoied waters. storms NAV wrench and toss,
But / ,s s,,s may may SWING me, in their ebb and flow,
| not be moved.
And in Conclusion.
Iov n,v si,ie' Il m OF her precious Christian iife
| oWe u 70 herself and to the 1yori1 ~" i'i''
Grateful tor all her tender mi,a;.u'
| In lie anu death, | briug these ieSS,,o. -,
with her own roses, dewy wieh nv 80 es, eht"'h-u
| And lay them as The tribute of my I.iS' LIS
| Upon the grave that holds her sacred luss
This simple and touching story is told will,
clearness, drectness and pathos. The scene 10
laid in the lovely valley of the Connecticut, and
there are some good touches ofdeseription The
| book breathes throughout the finest and most
delicate appreciation OF all that is noble in wo-
man, and everywhere bears the marks of
having been written by a man OF culture, re-
finement and feeling. But for all that 1t Is not
poetry 1t is completely prosaic from its begin
ming to its end You may read through all its
three hundred pages without finding line
that shall thrill you, thought that shall send
aquiver through your Consciousness; and when
you have finished it you will be inclined to wish
| that its author might have an enlighteninS ex-
| perience similar to that Of NJ. Jourdain who
was so delighted TO discover that he had uncon-
sciously been talking prose all his life.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
| The DAUGHTER OF AN EMPRESS. An Histori-
cal Novel. BY l.. Muhlbach, author Of"Ma-
rie Antoinette," Berlin and Sans-Souci,"
Frederick the Great" etc. Translated from
the German by Nathaniel Greene. New
| York: ID. Appleton & Co.
The indefatigable and voluminous novelist
whouses the nom de plume of Louisa ATuhlbacb,
| appears in this her latest production in new
| field. 1t is Russian history in the time of the
Great Catherine she here attempts to illustrate,
and with success equal to that which has at
tended her previous efforts. Not for q long
time has there been published n this country
any series of romanees so widely popular. As
an illustration of the eagerness with which they
are read the fact may be mentioned that on one
day last week the publishers received an order
for five thousand copies OF the novels already
issued from a single New York book firm
The Mer Lib. Association of that city having
over twelve hundred copies of these novels on
their shelves, and one day last week only two
copies were in the library. tits said that the au-
thor proposes tovisit this country, and has writ
ten to her American publishers ton the chance
of her being able to pay her way) in Amer
lea by reading to the German resident popula-
ton from her books, a Ia Dumas and Dickens,
while she gathered material for biography OF
Abraham Lincoln, for whom in common with
all North Germany, she has a profound admi-
ration. Should she carry out her intention it
would doubtless be the means ofgivng to the
Prussians a very wel-written biography of the
| great President.
The above is for sale by Bailey & Noyes.