, 1870-12-05


iand than IN this country, - tue eun1ecfe
tfested sfe OF local interest, but il ts uope the
work.
LENoRs. a ballad from rne oerm.u Of VT
ntuicslJ translated into KpRitsts b. Hear b,
WHen N. AaLaos of 20 ms OF q .rmAo LJnc4. =
Keias ''es iess es ss.iss sopae adsseia IT, ID
'Mf. Wiremsn'e previous sad failure N a
fEars1ateE from the German ought TO have
teeu = sufficient warning to hun. aad ~ Ioast
to have dietuadea him tsun astaekiug tres
IN idioua.,o poam a. Haerger's = Leaore, =
s snd q. one wh,eh i y ,lnost impos.ib!s to ran
Tho tAct .bas some fifty tsanslati tus have
already hau made, many at Them
vtry successful. should have convinced him
that be eoulo, at 1oAat. produce nothing nav
ta tbe litststutn Of Lenore. Wnlo p1eseryioe
the Original met1r. he has loet Lteraioess,
and, In almost every instance, the Significance
of sound. Virgil's wonderful horso-eslloo.
ping 10 no moro duhcnlt to put into EaVllsh
than tome Of the ines in = Lenoro.~ Enieb
ara roarvo1lously intsatiYa Aod eonornus.
Take, for instance, tho following four lines:
"Sssn W;ttesnscht ne9sahs den Le1h
Jtixt fuht' ich hrtn melu Iup7es Eeib.
Nit. NIT zotn Rtantgelogs-"
Mr. Wuenaan renders them a.:
"At midnight dust to drat condde
VIII HlpH k4Q &0QR, b& W2limentf
Now lead hGmt my youthful of1de
Come. come to tho fesaemeatH
The a-ove is fair sample Of the suthor.s
tranelAt,on, and "a the 1eader will observe no,
otlly Tails to convey the eense aud soana Of
The original. but 10 aiao sezy poor Enguah.
EScAASflSa AND ESCHASrED. Feom the
e! q Tss 6a n e 4 5:c3st ! "
"0old EsEe "onty airi," Ac. WIN nins-
6s,s,ss. s,sss; a.tssa En9ss1,$sla: = pptnee c.
This admirable Atue collection OF fai1v
ftones, after Hsckltender, embraces ssTno
Elm Tree" 1.-THE Dwaft's Nest" "The
Princess Mcrgana," T. s'Clss1e Silence" an1
The F2lEy Tanhsra." There Is nothing in
tho title to Indicate that the5 are tuveuiis IN
character, aud Jet we Imagine that theS will
fad their warmeat admlre1s among The chill
dren, who Will bail xith delight The 10 .ppeax-
aree, In such an attractive form, OF thsir oiu
f2vorites fbe Chnst-Child, Kobold. the Calinh
Hafoun Al Raschid OF BAgdAd, hiu Grand VIZ
Mr, Ahdal1ah. saladin, and the lovely Priuce.s
MOI gzna- Tho stoziea belong to tho best cls4s
Of Gernan fa'Ey lore, aud one Of the stories, the
Ptineess MosKana," has the setitAbie nsYor
Of the Arabian N1ghta Entettziama ants,
NY suMMER IN a Garden. By Charles
Dolly Wsrne,: R9ato1: F4esas: osgood 4 co.
henry Ward Beeeher has given this charm
ing h's1e volume very graceful introduction
10 the p1h!fo IN an introductory letter to Mr..
Ftalds. although tbeae studies of rural LIE,
for such they arc, have intrinsic merit enough
to commend themselves. Tbs writer II the
editor Of the oldest dai]y ioursa1 in New Eng
land, and yet. happy man, hss found tina
not only TO hare garden, but to end the Be-
Get Of h.ppiness IN it, and to confie that So
a srst To- s.s, his 1s.dets in = qo.1at, humorous,
from tnts little booS ' either divinity M ,'Ata Or
toHticuitures but, il he gets pure
happtness, and tendency to repeat that hsppi-
ntta from the simple stores Of natute, he
will gain from our friends garden whAt Adam,
lcst Ia his, and what neither philosophy nor
aiEinlsy has alFsya been aole to restore, It
Is book which will bring tha reader foto close
communion with nature, and into familiar uu-
aesatan- ing with the tseas and flowers, with the
vegetables, and even the weeds- It will un-
told 10 the reader the pleasures Of simple.
haalthful, qu.et eEto5ment: In their. Wy,
in spirit to those which lave been collected IN
Leigh Hunts Day by the Fi1e."
Fern leaves" 81 Foiiy ~ ii ritee,1 kc. New
York: Carleton Chicago; 8. Z. Gr1gss L Co.
1t has been long time since Fanny Fern
has been beforo the public, in book form, but
she has lost nothing of her old vayacity,
humor. and spice: Har Ginger Snsps are crisp
and palstable, and msde in the old FASHIONED,
cen1nnu.sense way. These little essaya are
nothing hut hlta Of familiar talk, but she talks
70 we'll and 60 sensibly that ono cannot but
listen With pleasure, even when she scolda, and
that she 0oea quite Often She il funny,
witty, pe.t, sharp. aud incisivo, aud has di-
tsct WY OF hitting eyezy naA squaEely On the
head, which ID refreshing.
FAIRY TALES FOR LITTLE FOLKS, py Mad
nne La toHtesse de Stgut, nee Rostofchlnv.
Translated from The FreLcn BY Afs Chapman
Co'eman and her daoghtsIs ttte transtators
ehesRo Ro:f dsss ca ,s sF
We have already expressed our opiaion up
on the collection Of German fairy stories by
Hackiaender, aud now hare before us \ colleo-
lion Of FJtneh fairy atn1aea which forms az
excellent counterpart to it. Both theae works
should 60 into the fairy department OF every
are very gracefully told, aud have baAn put
into English apparently with express reg gard
10 the juvenile Comprehension. It iaApity,
however, that work which is 80 extremely
interesti1g TO children ~ this, should be dis
Is it not more important to place good pic
Sufe before child than before the matured
reader7 And Of all books, should not tho
tures2
Meeers s. G. GEiggs / Co. Also send us an
other fairy atoty, from the preaa Of Cla1ton,
Remsen i Hanelfnger, pbilade1phia, BY Har-
riot .. Mckeever, the author Of " Westbfook
Parsonage" entitled - Litile Mary md ths
Fairy" very handsome and attractive llttlo
book tor the vary email children. It Ia told
partly in prose and partly IN poetry. and
IL illustrated with large cnlofed engravlngs.
TEN TINES ONE Is TEN: The Possible K-tar-
nation. 4 stoEy In nin- cnapsers By Colouel
Ereslel lex IoEham. Bo8to1: Roberts BrplnefA.
Chicago: s. G. GrigRs "a. 1s7A
The Rev. Edward Everett Halafa qusiut
story, with Its mathematical title, has become
pleasantly familiar to all magazine rest,err,
Hna, now, In its nex aud mere dientded foru,
will reach sti1. wider circle Of readers. Mr.
Hsle's terse, epigrammatic, and sketchy nan.
ner, ara nowhere better shown than IN this
odo, little stor3, and the true, religious, and
human undsrcurrcut which flows through
it. It hardly nesds any mention at our
h.uds, as it is already widely and farorably
known, but if We do not mistake It
will reach many additional readers when
ii il known that il was written by the persua-
sion Of the late DR.. Francis WlylA1d, Presi-
lent Of Brown UniyerAts, ons Of the deepest
and caeatest thinkers, one Of the most earn
eetlE religious men, and one OF the most
practical and fA1-sighted theologians OF his
dhy. The lessons Involved IN this little work,
seeoive additional importance and value iron,
nuch = recognition.