The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


FINE ARTs, a Journal OF the Polite World. Pub |
lished by the Fine Arts Publishing Company, |
81 Bond street, New York. Edited by LAURA !
KBEsB and EMMA WEBB NIvBRTs.
This is q new and most deserving claim
ant for popular favor in the journalistic
world, and its initial number speaks well !
for its promised success. The editors, two
as accomplished female writers as are to be
found in the great metropolis, have under
taken an important work, and one much
needed in this country, and they richly de-
serve success. They will devote their
journal, which is next to the Aldine in
size and beauty of typographical execution
to Art in all its branches, but more
especially to the Polite Arts, which en-
brace the whole field of intellectual culture,
as well as the chief refinements Of social
life. 1t is believed that the wonderful
progress our country has made in the
knowledge and love of Art creates de-
mand for such journal as these accom-
plished ladies have undertaken to publish,
and, by their initial number, shown their
entire ability to publish. "Fine Arts" will
set its face like flint against all intellectual
fiummery, and everything like false taste
in literature and art. Its articles are orgi-
nal, and have the beauty Of saying just
what is required in the shortest possible
compass. No one can read the first mum.
Der of this beautiful journal without being
strongly impressed with the superior ability
displayed in its editorial columns. 1t is
eminently suited to this latitude of culture
and refinement, as all false and purient
taste is studiously avoided, and an elevated
moral tone substituted in its place. Order
the 'Fine Arts"
WITHIN AND WITHOUT. BY GRoRGR MAoDos-
AID, LII, D. Author of "Wilfrid Cumber.
mede, - ANNALS of q Quiet Neighborhood,"
etc. Published by Scribner Armstrong &
Co. Successors to Charles Seribner 4 CO..,
New York, 1872. For sale by Ellyson Tay-
Tor, 1llo Main street, Richmond.
This is delightful book and full of in
tellectual and heart wealth. The fine prose
writer of "Wilfrid Cumbermede," most
beautiful and thrilling novel, has tried his
hand on verse, and given the world a
graphic and mastery delineation of the hui
man passions in most charming verse
story. The poem runs through some two
hundred pages as sweetly and smoo thly as
water flows over messy rocks in quie
wooded dell. Here it shows itself in sill
very threads of mirth and laughter, catch
ing the bright sunshine as it glides along
there it murmurs into deeper passion, chat
ing the tangled roots of overshadowinf
trees and the rough edges Of many-splin
tered rocks; while here, again, it break
into dashing spray, with beautiful foam
bells to catch the Aeckered light as it comes
, quiverins through the tree-tops /; and there
again and again, it dies away in ripping
murmurs as soft and sweet as those o
Arcady's shell. And yet the story il
, thrillingly told throughout. Some of tn
: songs interspersed through the poem ar
! exceedingly beautiful. They come iron
: the true crystal fount of inspiration-on
Q in which an angel might battle without an,
e loss of purity. The poem is rightly name
C "Within and Without" for it touches tn
r inmost heart, while it outfows like tn
notes of wild birds and uplifted waters.