New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-28

might name Coventryetta Patmore, at venture
attempts to tell her story with that adherence
to bare fact, and the prosiest details oil ordi-
nary life which took the public somewhat
by surprise in Tho Angel" and charineu
great many good persons into cohsiheiihg
it poetry Here, however, the position OF inc char
acters is reversed. Mrs. birmingham, whose real
maiden namc we take to be Dora Speulow, relates
how her tyrant OF John gradually developed INTO
n very agreeable male-angel-a result when, consid-
ering her own "ridiculosity" Mr. summers "oral
and the brutal GOODNESS and stupidity OF John couiu
scarcely have been expected in real le Dut authors
like Coventryetta not discouraged by any sueh
difficulties Their usual resources are DEATH
duel or serious accident the last oil which ID mere
made to play its old part over again.
Dora 1--WE beg pardon, Mrs. birmingham opens her
journal with these lines:
Married six weary weeks today
How sad is life that was so gay
How desOlate the street appears
Alas. that must live In 1t!
/ see the houses through my tears
And do not like the sight one Bit"
Then she proceeds to lament the loss of her girlsh
liberty, including dress. romps, the privilege of
flirting; to confess her ignorance of housekeeping,
and finally TO abuse Mr. Jernin CHAM because no is
not tall enough and has not Roman nose. In the
next chapter they 60 TO ball. where, in spite OF
Johns prohibition, hrs. j. INDUCES in "valse
with Capt Fitzmaurico of the Guards-who is tall
and has n Roman Then they meet accidentally
in KensingtOn Gardens; then the Captain calls ut
tho house in the desOlate street during Johns
absence. The clandestine friendship is carried on
until John becomes cruelty cold and suspicious; but
Mrs j. tells little lie to prevent discovery. John.
however, returns home Unexpectedly and hnds the
handsome Captain:
'Cooly he turned to Arthur then "a, kgh
Iquite admired HIM, calm his tone: ~ "
There's some mistake, slr-gentIenen
Don't call here when my wifes nlone!
Mrs J. so quite admired him that she tells the
truth, although she fully expects to get beating
(which John had previously threatened for It, The
result is John goes to Spain for three months, and
comes back colder and sterner than ever. Mrs. j.
by this time discovers that she loves him-a little;
though exactly why we cannot Sec except that 1t
must be so forsho sake of the story They are both
grimly polite and absurdly reicent, never allowing
each others eyes to meet yet, after an indefinite
length of tine, Mrs J. writes:
"Our hearts are drawn a little near.
Our words come 10th little free,
feel for him shade less fear,
And he a shade less wrath for me-
HE knows I'm wishing for the light,
lie knows know he knows I'm true
He knows his hand guide me right
know he knows know 1t too"
If he knows she knows he knows and she knows
he knows she knows, why. in the name of Brahma,
don't they know they knowi But no: although
single sensible word from either would cure her sill
ness and his stoidty forever, the word is not said
John must first be run over bya carriage and brought
home on shutter before Dora can learn through his
delirium, that be actually loves her; them after
weeks and months of watching. he RECEIVERS enough
TO see that she loves him. they finally know, and
know they know She is convinced that five feet
ten is the perfect hight and she remembers that
Grecian statues havo straight noses The last stanza
OF the Journal shows what a surprising change has
come oyer the vain, giddy creature:
was so full Of happy care,
And so wrapped MP in John. you know
had forgotten was fair
And wondered when he told me SO"
There il, nevertheless, certain sprightly char
acter running through the poem which, we fancy,
might make it attractive to young ladies and gentle
men. 1t does not contain aline which may not be
understood without the aid of dictionary, and its
very few metaphors are of the most obvious char
acter The style with all its baroness, is never in
elegant and some of the detached pictures are well
drawn. We have been thoroughly amused with the
volume which is more than can be said of the pain
fully serious attempts at poetry. Wehave no objec-
tons TO the realistic mode of treatment, except
that we fud it incongruOus when applied 10 such
conventional characters. The great stiff BOBBY of
john and his silly little goose u wife, do not touch
our sensibilities in the least If there is any moral
underlying their stOlS III Is inc IatncI uouDtlui one
that characters the most unlike and apparently the
most unfit for each other may be happy in wedlOck.
provided the woman flirts Outrageousy and the man
meets with a terrible accident This, perhaps, would
he preferable TO n perpetual domestic discord but
we should not advise young ladies to marry without
love- OH the strength of Mrs Jening experience
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