Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-12-02
"StOIen Waters /"

By Celia i. Gardner-Carlton & Co.,
Publishers, New York, 1871.
This is book, containing 500 pages OF
wha. purports 10 be poctry-lhnt Is, II Is
printed in lines of longer or shorter length
and each line begins with capital letter
and bungling attempt is made at rhyme,
which is more or less dc!e,tive, and errors
Of grammar are of frequent occurrence
Poetry, WHICH the, old grammars used to
tell us, sis The regular accession Of accen,
ted and unaccened syllnbles," il surely is
not and it is not even decent prose. 1t is
n handsomely bound volume of free.love
doggetel, which a respectable house ought
to be ashamed to publish. The story is
this. A fashionable yoins ln'y of New
York, church -goer, and member Of the
church, falls in love with o married man,
who is the tenor singer of the tnar'e,te
choir. She thinks it no harm to send him
q note, to getup correspondence with
him and, finally, to make appointments to
meet him secretly. This intercourse COM
pri.es the "Stolen Waters" and is kept up
with divers difficulties an misun lcrstand-
ings and cold fits and hot fits, caresses and
presses and kisses and blisscs, for three or
four years, until the wife Is kind enough
to die perhaps is roisoned-npd the
church going, psalm singing free lovers
get married nj last and are happy after all
their sins and so the story ends.
All this is told in the form of Journal,
written mostly of Sunday nights after the
firipgs and religious exercises of the day
are over. She describes the fashionable
church with its splendid appointments, its
Gothic tablets with the ten coHimandmonts
engraven thereon, ,including,lh 7th theGoth-
ic alcove, in which is the choir, then she
says
"w ell in that lonely placo we have wor-
SHIPPED TO day
AroM when they, sang, bowed the head
when they prayed
There ISaw, too, u face had seen once
before ,va
gushing o err"
Did you ever? No. never a little fur
tier she tells us, or rather lells her Jour
nal:
Il suppose you would like description
OF him
have told you SO much of him. Well,
TO begin,
He was not very formidable after all.
lie is neither quite short nor is he very
tall. az.
His shouldsrs are wide and you'd feel
you could rest
Sale sheltered from harm on his broad
4. manly breast 4tr,g 80.
Dark hair, soft dark eyes and mouth
passing sweet, 10
Soft mustachss and whiskers shade tcih
lip and cheek,
Hands white aud we'll shaped moderate
.ly .smsll feet ,..t
You have nov, my Journal, his picture
complete
Yes, there we have 1t, and qnite enough
thank you, No more, for Heavens sake
The one man with two mustsches was ire
sistable. II seems he was engaged inthe
book business could it have been the
handsome Carlton himself? We eau hatd
ly imagine auy Other inducement for pub
lishiug such s,nff. We assure our readers
that the extracts we have given are very
fair samples Of fhe whole, and the bsre.fs-
csd mixture Of fres-love and religion, pro-
fessiOns Of purity with the utmost lieence
Of conduct, are amazing. II this book is
is be received as true pieturs Of ordins'
ry fashionable society in New FORK, "GOcd
Lord, deliver us7 Il is to be noted that
during the long period the susceptible and
seductive Miss. Celia was engaged In car
ryiBgon her ''bitiersrset," as she calls IT.
intercourse with the handsome married
tenor, she was. also, keeping up very
pleasant eorrespoBdenes with Col Allair
of the army and that her piOus mofbers
great part Of The time vas well aware Ct
her doing. ard instead Of spanking her
deeply synpsibissd with bsr snisrprising
offspring. ffaI this is not enough osisk-
IN one viii Ks- fsft seeisy and Esr
Tork publishers, We tnss not What would
They took a Ionisville mar on