The Portland daily press., 1871-10-21
New Publications.

To-day James R. Osgood & Co. will publish
Bret Harte's new volume of poems entitled
East and West. We find in the advance sheets
which we have received from the publishers
many pieces with which the public are already
familiar, while there are several which we have
never before seen. Among the former are ga
Gieyport Legend" "A Newport Romance, %
"The H~wk's Nest" SIN the Mission Garden >
two Truthful James pieces and a few others.
The following, "On Pen of Thomas Starr
King" is rot SO familiar:
This is the reed the dead musician dropped,
With tunetul magic IN its sheath still hidden,
The p ompt allegro Of its music stopped,
Its melodies unbi den.
But who shall finish the unfinished strain.
Or wake the instrument to awe ana wonder,
And bid the sensaar hassAl hreatasA- as@iss------
An organ-pipe OF thunder?
His pen! what humber memories cling about
Its golden curves! what shapes and laughing graces
Slipped from its point when his full heart went out
In smiles and courtly phrases!
The truth, half testing, half in earnest flung;
The note OF aims, whose golden speech outrung
The golden gilt within it.
No stroke of ours recalls his magic vision;
The incarnation that ITS power gave
Sleeps with the dead musician.
Aspiring Miss De Lame, a Chemical Mar
rative," being the story of young lady with
pharmaceutical lover, who initiates her skirts
with hydrogen gas to give her grace of move
ment, and is carried away into space out of
ball room window near which she incautioualy
PASSED, seems to us almost as good as William
Allen Buffers Nothing to Wear" The ex-
old story to the public "St. Thomas, Geo.
graphical Sur 7ey" will recall in a hum orous
way the celebrated treaty with Denmark
which never came to anything ''Songs with
out Sense" Tor the parlor and piano, travesty
most admirably the 'personified sentimental"
the "homey pathetic" and the lyric produc-
tons of some of our "poets." Here is "What
the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding
Hood:''
Wor derng maiden, SO puzzled and fair,
Why dost hou murmur and ponder and stare?
o Why are my e!elids so open and wiId?"-
Only the better to see with, my child!
Only the better and clearer to view
Cheeks That are rosy, and eyes that are blue.
Dost thou still wonder, and ask why thee arms
Fill thy soft bosom with tender alarms.
Swaying so wlckedly Pare they misplaced,
Clasping or shielding some delicate waist:
Hands who're coarse sinews may fill you with fear
Only the better protect you, my dear!
Little Red Ridng-Hood, when in the street,
Why do press your small hand when we meet?
Why, when you timidy offered your cheek,
Why did sigh, and why didn't speak?
Why, well: you see-if the truth must appear
Pm not your grandmother, Rid ng- Hood, dear!
The Maine Journal of Education for October
is edited by Edward S. Morris of Biddeford
Mr.. A. P. Stone, who always fills his own spec
ial Resident Editors Department. with ex.
cellent matter, has good article on "Practi-
cal Education" "W. A. P.,' whose "Errata"
appear in this number of the Journal is one of
liveliest contributors that any Maine publica-
ton can boast of, and none of the alleged OBJ
security OF his hand writing appears in his
thoughts The other contributions are wor-
thy of q careful Derusal Published by Brown
Portland. Price 81. 30 year.
An excellent medical quar- tarly and a long
established favorite, which has now reached
is one hundred and twenty fourth nu mber, is
The american Journal of the Medical Sciences,
edited by DIR. Isaac Hays, aud published by
Henry G. Lea, Philadelphia. The October |
number, which is just issued, contains a sur |
orisng amount and variety of information |
RON the very highest authorit les.
Bookbuyers will fiad much to interest them |
n j. Sabin & Sons american Bibliopolist for
October. The "Notes aud @ ueries' are an
Usually full, and the catalogue of books relat-
ng to America and the "Cruikshaukiana" are
oteworthy features. j. Sabin & Sons, New
,ork.