New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE ATLANTIC ALMANAC.

aiding than its pictures The table OF coneS
b charming. The Rev. L. E. Hales account OF an In,
Esbmans thirty days tour through thirtyone states u
tbe American Union is exquisite bit OF quiet SaHio
IN his best vein Mr. W. D. HOwels turns the story Vi
sBopeep into lovely pastoral with rich hea'S4Sn
hayOr
She rs as fair as any shepherdess .o,o
That ever was in mask or Christmas sceuo
hnd Of finer her redheeled shoes appears the sheen
And she hath ribbons Of snch blue or green
As best suits pastoral peoples eomcilhess
sho sleeps and 1t is In the month Of May,
And the whole land is fun Of the delight
or music and sweet scents; and all the DAY
The sun Is gold; the moon IS pearl al nlsht'
Aud like young girls hopes the world is gay.
Seeking her lost flock the little shepherdess faints al
the door Of heTmts dwelling. The recluse however Is
90 white bearded old ascetic in a coat of skins:
Arrayed he was in princeliest attire,
And Of gOOdly presence s0Oth was no
As any little maiden might admire,
Or any kingbehOdmg cat might see
81 My poor Bopeep" he sigheth plteonsy' :,
Rest you, and warm you at a hermit's i,e''
she looked so beautiful, there, mute and white,
He kissed her the lips AID on tie eyes
fine most a prince could do in such phgbU;
Bnt chiefly gazed her IN still surprise,
And when he saw her my Ea Sy Da ds rSe eh
"Rude is my fare: bit Of venison steak,
With clean white bread, is the poor feast make.
BE served. pray: think this flask IA, is fine"
This day win its WEAKNESS forsake."
And then he told her how it CHANGED that he,
King Coles son. in that forest held his court
And the sole reason that there seemed To De
Was, he being hermit there Tor sport;
But he confessed the life was not his forte,
And herewith both laughed cut right JOlhly
We need not quote the rest.
There Is pleasant fragment Of Thackerays My First
Waltz "a foretaste we suppose of the hitherto uco
Iected misceanies which Fields, Osgood Co purpose
including in their Household Edition There is an
essay by Mr. Hlggnson on Swimming" Mr.. Thomas
NJ Brewer dscourses OF The Song Birds Of America"
James Russell Lowell speaks "a Good Word for Winter"
and gathers from far and fragments OF poetry and
humor in favor Of old fellow who has hitherto had
scant justice done him in the main" Miss Field makes
en- amusing OF her Adirondack experiences; there
poems miscellaneous contributions ny various
hands numerous 10 mention; specimen is given OF
MI Bryants Translation Of the Iad and Miss Milford
contributes a character sketch entitled Little Miss
Wren" The articles which VIII attract most notice. how
ever from the hands of TennysOn and Dickens MI
TenDysons poem We quote in fun
THE MYSTIC.
Angels have talked with him, and showed nm
We knew him not he was not one of ye:-
We scorned him with an undscernlng scOrn;
We could not read the marvel in his eye,
The still serene abstraction he hath 1elt
The vanities Of after and before;
Albeit his spirit and his secret heart
The stern experience Of converse lives,
The linked woes Of many fiery charge
Always there stood before him night and day,
OF hayward, varycOOred circumstance,
The inperlslable presences serene,
Colossal, without form, or sense. or sound,
-Four faced to four corners Of the sky:
Aud yet again, three shadows, fronting ono,
One forward. one respectant, three but one;
And yet again. again and evermore,
For the two first were not, but only seemed
One shadow in the midst OF a great light,
One reflex from eternity or time,
One mighty countenance OF perfect calm,
Awful with most inyaliable eyes.
daughters of Tune, diviney TALL beneath
Sieve nd
Smiling gOdlke smile (the innocent light
OF earliest youth, pierced through aud through
Keen I knowledges of low-embowed eld)
Upheld and ever hold aloft the cloud
Which droops, low.hung. on either gate OF life,
Both birth and death: he in the center txt,
Saw far on each side through the grated gates
Most pale and clear and lovely distances.
He often lying broad awake, and yet
REMAINING from the body, ana apart
In intellect and power aud will, hath heard
Time flowing in the middle of the night,
And all things creeping to a day OF doom.
How could ye know HIM fe were yet within
The last. which. with region of white flame,
Pure without heat, into larger arr
Upburnng, and an ether OF black blue,
Investeh and ingrds all other lives.
Mr.. Dickens's paper is the amusing story OF Chops
the Dwarf" who draws prize in the lottery and "goes
Into Society,"" ...
Twelve thousand odd hundred pound, Cbopss win
nins He had bought halfticket for the twenty-five
thousand prize, and 1t had come up The first use he
made OF his PROPERTY was TO offer to tight me Wild Indian
for hve hundred pound side, him with a poisoned |
dsrnin-needle and the Indian with club; but the |
AFTER he had been mad for week-n state of mind.
IN short in which, had let HIM SIT the for
only TWO minutes. believe he wOuld have bpst-but we
KEEP the organ from him-Mr Chops round, and be-
haved liberal and beautiful all. He then for
young man he kuOwed, as had very genteel appear
aud Bonner at gamng-Oooth most respect
able brought up. father having been imminent IN the
livery stable e but unfortunate IN commercial crisis
through paintin old gray gingerbay, and sellin hm
with pedigree, and MI Chops said this TO Bonnet who
said Normandy, winch II wasn't;
Normandy. I'm going into Society. VIII you 20 |
says Normandy DO understand you, Mr.. Chops 10
bintmate that the ole Of the expenses OF that move Will
COrrecl.T says Mr.. Chops. And you shall have
The Bonnet lifted Mr. Chops uUon chair to shake
hands with HIM, and replied IN poetry. with his eyes
"enihly inh Of Ne I[a lr,; +. on ii. ,so,.
AID ny bark is on the sea
1 RSa rt 10 G DO. a,A ~, VITA 'nl'f thee"
They went into Society, in ebay and four grays with
silk Jackets. They took lodgings III Pail MALL London.
aud they bazed away.
In consequence of note that was brought to Bartemy
Fair in the Autumn Of next year by servant most won
derfu got up milk white cords and tops cleaned my
elf and went to Pail Mall one eyenin appinted The
ChOpss eyes was more fixed in that Ed OF bis than
pany, mean, and mowed the third WELL When last
met, he bad a white Roman shirt, and bishops
inter covered with leopard skin, aud played the cari
pnet all wrong, IN a band at a Wild Beast SHOW.
This took not To know me, and Mr. Chops said:
.Gentlemen TINS Is Old friend OF former days i and
Normandy looked at me through eyeglass and said,
Magsman, glad 10 see ou''-whlch I'll take any oath
he wasn't Mr. Chops, get him TO the table,
had his chair throne dnuch of the form of George
the FouTs in the canvass but he hardly appeared 10
e TO be King any other pint OF view for his
gentlemen ordered about like Enperors. They was all
dressed like 'Day-gorge0us land as TO Wne they
made the round OF the bottles first separate TO say
had done ~, and then mixed em all together TO say
had ~ and trfed two OF em half and half,
and then rother two. Altogether, passed peasn
evenn. but with tendency 10 feel muddled until con-
ss Se " ETIs m yoa for the variety
Of foreign drains you have stood SO ansome looks to-