The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-08

1 Here they come crashing-all this way
| And all afrel And It isl
| Weak as ] am, and like to die
Who must be huntedY With bound
| He reached the floor, and fed around;
| Once, twice, thrice, round the room he nedi
| Then in the nurses arms fell dead.
| Stnl Colebrook Furnace grimly stands,
| Waving its plume DER Cornwall's lands,
Blightlng the air with poisoned breath,
| Spreading its bounds of waste and death,
| Its Stag and cinder, dry and dun,
| That nothing green will grow upon;
| STILL like hoary king, 1t rears
| Its head among its dismal peers;
! Still at its glowing feet are rolled
| The floods that turn to wicked gold;
! Still beasts birds reptiles shun the piace'
| And man alone will do 1t grace;
| The Squire and all his race are gone;
| But this wild legend st lives on
| Christ us from the wretched Fate
| OF him who dared his wrath TO safe
on Gods dumb creatures as of old
Befell the Squire of whom tod!
In addition to the two leading works that
give the title to the volume, we have collec-
ton of the miscellaneous poems from Mr..
Boxers pen that have appeared from time to
time in the magazines and newspapers during
the last five or six years. These include
Countess Laura" "The Fiddler, 'Ad Criti-
cum, " ''Dirge for Sailor Captain Semmes,
G. S. A. N, ;" Cavalry Sheridan and other
well-known verses, which are among the most
popular of the offspring Of Mr.. Boxers
muse.
From Turner Brothers & Co. we have re-
ceived number of new publications. adam
Bede" is the first volume of a new, cheap,
and elegant Household" edition of George
Eliot works, the publication of which has been
commenced by Fields, Osgood IL Co. There
is no English writer of the present day that
better deserves to be put before the public in
handsome but cheap and popular style than
the author of "Adam Bede' and 'ERomola,
and in this country, where her genius has al
ways received the heartiest recognition, this
| edition of her writings will undoubtedly OBJ
tain a widespread popularity. 1t is proper to
state, too that the author has a pecuniary in
| terest in this Household" edition, and in a
| letter to the publishers, a tac-SiHtae of which
is given, she expresses desire that her books
may appear under their auspices. The series
will be concluded in five volumes, and will be
| bound in green cloth, similar to the ''House-
hold editions of Charles Reade and Thackeray.
''Metas Faith, by the author of est.
Olave," ETC., and ''False Colors," by Annie
| Thomas, are a couple Of entertaining novels
by popular writer's.
-lIIJttDIt" OO'tI 't'tC III hOOpNClllbOl IL lltt1
for frontispiece an engraving entitled "The
Chess Players, from painting by NIeissonier,
and it also contains besides otherillustrations,
steel engraving of ''West Point, from a
painting by H. Fem. The literary contents
of this number are up to the usual mark of
| excellence.
Our Boys and Girls for September II
has an entertaining variety of reading matter
for young people.
-From'the same house and from Porter
Coates we have received "a Guide and Time.
Table to Fairmount Park, which contains
colored map of the Park and time table OF
the Park accommodation train run by the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and alsc
of the Schuylbill river steamboats,.
From Il. Ellwood Zell we have received
Nos As and 4G of ''Zell's Popular Encyclo
pedia, which is brought down to the title
''Briseis."
From McCauley, No. 1914 Chestnut street
we have received parts three, four, and five
of a new collection of hymns edited by James
Pearce, Esq, organist of st. Marks Church.
The September number of THE AmerjcG1
journal Of homeopathic Materja Medica
edited by Constantine Herring, NJ. D., ant
Henry Noah Martin, NJ. D., contains mum
Der Of valuable papers on medical subjects.