The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-03

"Homespun" is thoroughly pleasant reading.
In it we find no jarring figures of rhetoric.
The author has a plain tale to tell, and does
not introduce figures fit for an Arabian fable
to illustrate his homely narrative. The book
treats of peace, cOntentment, and plenty, and
positively makes us sigh for the country,
while we shudder when we think of an expe-
rience in the monotonous routine of the
farmers daily toll.
The following original letter. written by
the founder of the Napoleonic dynasty to
Talma, long before he was Napoleon the First,
is published in a London journal:-''Mon cher
Talma-l have fought like lion for the Re-
public. But, my good friend Talma, as my
reward | am left to die with hunger. l am at
the end of all my resources. That miserable
fellow Aubry (then Minister of War; leaves me
i'll the mire when he might do something for
me. feel that | have the power of doing
more than Generals Santerre and Rossignot,
and yet they cannot find corner for me in La
Vendee or elsewhere, to give me employment.
You are happy; your reputation depends upon
yourself alone. Two hours passed on the
boards bring you before the public, whence
all glory emanates. But for us soldiers, we
are forced to pay dearly for fame upon an ex-
tensive stage, and, after all, we are not
allowed to attain it. Therefore do not regret
the path you have chosen. Remain upon your
theatre. Who knows if l shall ever appear
again upon mine have seen Mauvel Ca dis
tinguished comedian)-he is a true friend.
Barras, President of the Directory, makes fine
promises; but will he keep them? doubt it.
In the meantime am reduced to my last sous.
Have you a few crowns to spare me | will
not refuse them, and promise to repay you out
of the first kingdom | win by my sword. How
happy were the heroes of Ariosto they had
not to depend upon Minister of War.
"Adieu. Yours, BoNAPARTE."
Charles Warren Stoddard, at San Fran
cisco, has a volume of verses passing through
the press. Here is a sample of them
AT ANCHOR.
A sailCr by the green home-shore,
While seas are ebbing from his view,
Doth all his early joys renew:
He sings the songs he sang OF yore;
He spies his little cot; he smiles
With full joy meier felt before
lie hoids THAT one bare prospect more
Than all the summer of the isles.
The quiet home is his; the trees
| Sprang from the seeds his grandsires laid
| Among the mould; within the glade,
The myrtIes rustic in The breeze,
| Above treasured little grave,
| His early lost, his first deep woe!
| Not any land that he may know
Beyond the purple of the wave
Hath such jewel in it's breast.
He loves each rock, and stream, and dell
| IT'S only here he cares to dwell.
'Tis ever here he longs TO rest
| This is his home of Joy and ease:
| And better Is the myrtle tomb
| Than all the heavy dusks that gloom
| The greVes OF spice beyond the seas.
"A work recently published in London, en-
titled "Tennysoniana," gives some curious
particulars in regard to the early literary
career of the celebrated Enplish roet II seems
that the first poetical work of Alfred ,Tenny-
son appeared about forty years ago. 1t was
printed and published at Louth, in Lincoln
shire (TennysOn's native county,, and was
entitled "Poems 10y Two Brothers. J" The "two
brothers, were Alfred and Charles Tennyson.
though their names did not appear on the
title-page. Alfred was at that time in the
eighteenth year of his age; and he and his
brother, with becoming mOdesty, adopted as
.. their motto the following words from Martial
"Hac nos novimus esse nihil' eve know
3 this to be nothing). Some of the titles suggest
the old poetical cOmmonplaces of young be-
. ginners: "Lines to Memory "The Exile
3 Harp" "Remorse," 'We meet no more,
l ITO Fancy, " "Midnight," !" "Friendship," "Ol
l Sublimity,n 'Time an Ode" etc. Other
have an odd tone of something formal and old
fashioned; as Lines to One who Entertaine
= a Light Opinion of an Eminent Character,
"On the Death of my Grandmother" go
being asked for Simile to Illustrate the AdvaI
tage of keeping the Passions subservient
Reason" "ShOrt Eulogium on Homer ct,
Others. again, betray that the brothers share
in the then prevalent excitement in favor
Y the Hellenes; for we had poems calle
8 "Greece," and "Exhortation to the Greeks.
Byron seems to have had a powerful inhuenc
on the minds of the youthful poets: one
Il their pieces Is called "0n the Death of Lor
| Byron ;, and lines from the author of "Child