The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25
grazing from Maclises designs for this work. We
take the following from the publishers prospectus:


"Whe is believed that the general appearance of the
work will be found in unison with the subject and not
association with the creations of the departed
Moore whose fingers swept the strings of harp with
such pahos and beauty that the hearts of all her children
brated his song the publishers trust that work of such
universal interest and exquisite beauty will find welcome
in the drawngroom and the library the
table of fer and the thinker the poet and the painter
To the Irish people they believe it will be especially welcome
as an elegant of the genius of their native land And
to the American scarcely less pleasing addition
to the Melodies it will contain all Moorcs poems American
thought and line of which will by the
finest style engraving thus making the first and only illus
trated poeca work American Subjects emanatng from
American press will be novelty, from the fact that every
page beautifully ustratedhe engraVngs conveying in
exquisite the ideas of the truly great poet
The work will contain nearly 500 pages large quarto beaut
fully printed on the quality of paper manufactured
pressy this work. while the ink and other materials of
the best American manufacture
The for bringing the work in style worthy
of people, have been completed at vast expense
of tme thought labor and money, and it now remains with
the public reward the enterprise with the patronage de-
serves Nothing but large almost unlimited sale, remu
nerate the publishers 1t is remarkable that there has hitherto
existed really fine edition of Moores Irish Melodies and
believing the time has fully arrived for supplying this much felt
deficiency in the literature of Our Country the publishers
submit the present work the patronage of the American
ple"
We are specially anxious that the work should be
in every family in the land; and it becomes
a duty which the Irish people owe the
publishers (who are not Irish, we be-
lieve,) to give them assurances of appreciation
To the American people we need scarcely recon-
mend it, for Tom Moore is one of their household
words, and, coming in these robes Of beauty, he
will be doubly welcome. Too long have we sup
ported "caricature'' Irish literature, which has
nationally degraded us much as theatrical carl
cature. Let have such representatives as the
present work in American households, and Ireland
will take her place in the American heart and home,
beside where Scotland has been throned by Scott
and Burns. Let us be judged by Moore's Melodies
instead of Lannigan Bals'' and the other outra-
geous bufooneries that disgust all lovers of Irish
song and music. The latter were started, on the
London stage, to please the morbid appetites of
Cockney bigots-the former have sprung from the
heart of Ireland and our true representatives.
Had our people appreciated such genius as
Moore's, he would not have written The Bard's
Apology
"Unprized her sons till they've learned to betray
Undistingushed they ve they shame not their sres
And the torch that would light them thro dignys way,
caught from the pile where their country expires
This may be already partly reformed, but co.
reform it altogether"