New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-09
BOSTON.
,,rrp,r,,Rr AND ADJUSTMENTS.

~,y uonK-ROBERT BUCHhNAN-th1 :"
SHEPARD AND THEIR polN"e-'"'"
CursrpA AND THE PRINCE ,
vo,r an CORRESPONDENT OF TIiE TRIBuNBI
uns,ox Dec. S--Already waiting readers are
,o',. ,o sueculatesabont the forthcoming january
s,o,,nes The proof sheets OF the Atiahc nov ~
a. hand thus early. and II wDi DO priihah' "u"
nee,n With We have poem ny L"neN."", ~
Lady wentworth too long TO quote III u' ~ TO-, :.
,.pder,np Of an often told tale but so tender III u
80 tho. the frost which has silyered the poet nair
has nv no means chilled his heart. II opens WIN P
turr Of handsome Mstrrss stavers neat 90 f""
,,oom,nv as a rose" standing AZ the door VI N0i
an ST. Portsmouth. The portrait OF the Ear VI
Halifax on her sign looks down at ber' IN "Pi''' w"
rresent,y has IT, attention distracted ny
. Thin slip Of a girl like new moon.
Surc TO be rounded INTO beauty soon.
hs ,arefooted maiden Martha Hilton, vino is'arrNs
q nail of water through the street Next 'he Ea'i VI i
flax sees brilliant eQuipase, IN winch S's
"Goy Wentworth. drN ing down
Whcre his Great House stood looking ont to sea-
A goodly place where it was good to be-"
Tho stately mansion the poets verse As 1t might
IN picturc-this bone where the Governor o"e',
xnowcr alone and chlrss feeling In his solitude "the
main Of wounds that ache because they heal Ana theh-
Z. The wears came and the years went-seven IN all
And nss.s d in cloud and Sunshine DER the Hail.
The dawns their sp'cndor through its chambers sheo
The snow was on IT'S roofs. the wind. the rain"
It's woodlands were in leaf ana Dare again. q, ,
In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tdr,
ships went 10 sea, ana ships came hone from s"''
And the slow years sailed by and ceased 10 De-
Through all these years Martha Hilton had been scrN
iuc in the Great House. not wholly uno'serNod.
.'R, DAY, ny night the silver crescent grew 40 ,,,,
Though hidden 10y clouds, her hshI sun N""'"s
Amaid Of all work. whether coarse or fine.
A servant who made service seem dlNHle
And the Gov cTuor comes 10 his sXt'th "ii'hoa!
md secs with Teasing aud stately mirth' Ana at
III. close q the banQuct he calls upon the Rector ms
Yuret Ia marry hun; aud At Ii no "tn'r 'hhh MARTINS
Hilton lowered with the be ,uty OF her tWeut, years
who IN presence of all the proud guests oeeome> L'o!
Wentworth % the Hail.
Hawtborne's "septimms FELTON,: III, The Eli\ir o.
Late" will I've commenced in this number. ~ ma" tue
true !aw tloruc one would De sure WHO wrote II
had IT been cxhumcd from PoInPci, instead OF from an
old Gosk which H. I" ne in an Ola N"i'T' A"e"u!
coming events east Their shadow befor" IN the dssatiS-
faction which seJmius expresses with the breNy OIL
fh,S seventy years lie. ont "f which We go leaving
c,,rytlng Al odd ends" MAY II moi lie '>ri0le, he
esks profound sense oi the nhr'ronSe con-
frv1nc AMI adari i'n "f this material world To require
81 ,. IN an, thing spiritual! How Mond, ru it Is to
So. II ~ aiv, Sprine day all growing, budding
IT, w. cAha,>, Il VI oar r'tic lie! NOT 50; not in Il
huudr, or a tIIoi.>and lives The Whole of man.
l,lns from shnias ~ time, have not IN all ther
number multiplicity and in all their DURATION come
H. TIE ha>t 10 know Ia, world they 1--we IN! Ahi now -
rich world thrown ava! upon lis, McIu~" We i've III
-
.ou, -irc, IN. worl '"sdm. Because We have no tmc
No Lesson il i.5,-ht. We snatohed ava! from oar
rtud, before We hay, lcdrrcd The "llNahri. Is the
world now exists 1t TO rnc al failure. because We
do hot live long enough
Books Gd ~.i.t, linn: their iHc'uira> seemed
dead and iouldy like pressed raves lie suspected that
1.-THE way trIy "hNe aud answer the purposes OF life
was vrthcr mp thorSh;S into books, where they
vr~ s"dry hut 10 live aud >ti be going about full "f
green wisdom. ril"nIne ever not in m1Nim' Gus ana
DIV. Wi-d"n dhv occasions. like II lv-
Ia f"nutan; aud ihd I" h" 81, il WIS necessary to
',t ION: "a.tn, dunk in ~ It's lessons and not To
die attainment nnattering OF ruth: hat
To- lave AN the more for that aud apply il 10 mankind
ard lnciei~' th"nNN. Ever! thing dr,rd toward the
sfruug. strang,. ,ddy into which his mind had been
drawn all his thoughts >ct IuthIwdrd."
Hawthorn" bm-'i that Tins story an inter
nal one. oca'inc as rrtir possible with outward
',cnt,; nd 1t IL easy Ia predict for II from this fi>
nu,nl"I krcnuc- Of psychological interest in conpar
with whi,h external incidents are tame. Pal
ton hcCin>. IL hs peculiar romantico-boGrap hieal man
hcr hi account the college days Of Thomas Jefer
Herr, james tels the story Of "a Change OF
Heat" wh,h - u, no mcars the orthodox change OF
th c'.rich.> r,of John Fi,ke writes OF 1.-THE Myths
IaTl,,r' World and shows the ancient paternity
of MANY ~ or own legends and n"tions. The az ho
tlub" ,o,un,ntc> It's diversions" which seem from
this >I.cnu.u t. promise American reproduction Of
thc Noct,> AmhrosiauP and The Poet at the Break
f.i I,I. lp ciu~ with "intcivicwipg" himself. and
i.di p.- oil Introducing H. (" "the other boardeIS;
lu T. H. in,tcad. the story If 1.-The Gambrel-roofed
H,u~c ll H. outlook. He says We Americans arc al
gu. make homes in the nests o other birds,
hm We lose a great deal by being in a country where
there are 20 few permanent homes and when he parted
with old Uambrci-IoOfcd house he parted with much
Which not rcrkoncd in the price paid for the Old
hoM stead. II like on- home to ones grandfathers
TO read about this 0.d house. with its Of LOmbordy
poplar, mounting guard over it, Has not every one Of
IL Played III JI>t such garrett" realm of darkness
aud thick dOst. and sh Oudko cobwebs and dead things
they wrap IN their fod~i For garnet is like
shore. whore wrecks thrown up and slowly 60 10
piece" II wonder that i'll the mood sucgcstt d
10y his rcc1cc0is OF the old house, he had to write
"Homc>ich in Heaven the poem by which, AT the end
al thu inCni, the Poet" proves b., claim 20 the
title To- E,> assumed. Beside tins poem and L0ncfcl-
lows "I1dt Wentworth" Bay AID Taylor, Edmund G.
st-dinan. Mr.. Thlyer. and r. W. Parsons. have all
gwen er best, aud Bret Hartc contributes rbymcd
legend, "GIandlnOher Tcntcrdcn,' which ain only
withheld l its length from giving You entire. In it
old moh' Ills the story Of her Jacob who was lost
nj ~ca When he went away he badc his mother good
bye h"t did not to Kiss his wife, with whom he had
sonc foolish itnI In III" nicht afcrward came great
storm. aid the moiher waking and watching saw her
con. bIs seamcn, dress all wet aud dripping.
e core through night and storm" he said:
IhIough st"l - ana night and deaih," sdid lie,
TO KRIS my wife. II IT ~ he
That STRIFE still holds 'tN ~ her and me-
For all beyond j. Peace" NJ >aId.
The sea il Ills. and he who sent
Tie wind and wave can soothc Their STRIFE:
And brief and foolish Is life"
HI hiorped and Kissed his sleeping wife,
Then si6hcd, and, Iho dream, h. went.
Now when my darling kl,>cl net me-
But hci-iIs wiie-who did not wah,.
Ny hear; within me seemed I" break
Isw"re vow! nor thence orlh sl'ake
Of what iny clearer cjc- did STE.
Aud vi en- The slow weeks brought bin. not
Sriuehow We srake Of augh beside