The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-13

Corn-dodgers dirced in maple Juice he ate with
An ox-steak when the preacher came the family
to bless;
Rye coffee with molasses sweet Che never used a
But with his knife, ten months year, poked
down the salted porl1).
XII
Still, like old Bunyan's vision, seen DER Bedford
Prisons gate,
He saw out of this poverty the highways of the
The pilgrimage of Christendom from bondage to
the light,
that seek the right.
XIII.
Husks filed his belly, but he saw his fathers
shepherd on lonely moor, he watched the
Masters star.
And not by dainty hands in kid the shacldes fell
But warty, horny, were the palms that made the
nation Just.
Still in his homely Hoosier phrase, he talked the
armies on.
The same old puckered face looked out, Column
bus-like, for dawn.
We waited for some courty Christ to draw the
sting from death,
And, To- the promised man arose in lowly
Nazareth
o West, take heed that in your wealth your
leaner dreams come truel
The hopefulness of all the poor is delegate to
you.
Speak, from your golden valley vast Swear
by your fathers dust,
The West that made the Nation free shall make
the Nation just
The poems in this volume if they do not
rise to the height of the great masters of
song, are of vastly more merit than the ma
jority of the verses put before the public
every year, and forgotten almost before the
leaves are dry from the press. They show that
the writer is a man of genuine poetical talent,
and excellent as many of them are, they indi-
cate abilities that, if not bestowed in another
direction, might have given Mr.. Townsend a
high place among the poets of the country.
From Claxton, Remsen d Haffelfnger we
have received ''The Poetical Works of Alfred
Tennyson, published by Harper & Brothers.
This is complete edition of Tennyson's
works, including his recently published ''Holy
Grail and Other Poems, which, by the way.
should have been combined in their proper
order with the ''Idyls of the King" The book
is embellished with three portraits of the poet
being atrociously bad, and by number of
transfers from some superior designs by Dore
Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti, and other
celebrated artists. The book is nicely bound
and is certainly cheap at fifty cents.
The same house sends us kitty" an inte-
resting novel of. English society, by NJ
Betham Edwards. Published 10y Harper a.
Brothers.
From 7. B. Peterson q Brothers we have
received 'Ernest Linwood,' the fifth volume
of the uniform edition of Mrs. Caroline Lee
Hentz's works, and their cheap edition of
David Copperfeld," to which attention is
invited dprOp0S of the drama of Little EmIH,
now being performed at the Arch Street
Theatre.
Tie Transatlantic is the title of new
weekly journal of popular reading, the first
number of which has just been issued by L.
r. Hamersly & Co., Forneys Press Building,
Seventh and Chestnut streets. The Irdnsdt-
lantic is made up of excellent selections from
the best foreign periodicals, and the object
of its conductors is to furnish the public with
journal of bright, entertaining, and in
structive literature. The initial number pro-
misses well for the success of the enterprise,
and if The Transatlantic continues as it has
begun, it will doubtless become one of the
most popular eclectic publications in the
country. 1t contains thirty-two imperial
octave pages of reading matter, printed with
clear type, on good paper, and the price of
ten cents number, or $4 per annum, is GER
tainly low, considering the handsome appear
ance of the paper and the merits of its con-
| tents.
The conductors Of the journal explain its
aims and objects in the following card:-
TO THE PUBLIC
INumerOus and varied as are the periodical pub
| locations, they appear few and unimportant when
| compared with those of Great Britain and one very
important class OF literature with which the English
press teens, is most inadequatey provided in this
country. We allude to class OF what is usually
called light readng-bright, Interesting and enli-
Vening-from which the least instructed need not
turn in WEAKNESS, nor the most refined in disgust
| sit Is undenable that many Of our magazines are
dependent on foreign sources for much that renders
them attractive, and we may well acknowledge this
| dependence, and make the most OF what those
means AFFORD 1t is TO render accessible to the Ame-
rican public some OF the great stores of really good
| as well entertaining reading, constantly issued
from the foreign press, that we have projected the
| periodical whose first number appears to-day.
"The transatlantic Will contain the best OF the
| stories, sketches, and essays Of current foreign
literature avoiding all ponderous dissertations as
well as all that resembeshe banefu rubbish of which
our own press affords SO ample supply The field
we enter upon is by no means fully occupied, and 1t
affords abundant material from which to gather and
| we intend our selections to be fresh and bright
| while at the same time choice and good. And as we
lay no claim TO originality, we may with better grace
commend our wares to the attention of the public.
The Transatlantic will be published every Tuesday"
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