Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-13

GREELEY IN ~, HOFFMAN IN '76, AND THE
RING, by Pharaoh Budlong. Budlongton;
printed for the purchasers Mr. Budlong,
whatever his real name may be, for this we as
sumo to be pseudonyme, is an ingenious and
amusing writer. His production is a satiric
political prophecy after that manner Of which
the Battle of Dorking set the fashion. 1t pur
ports TO have been written in November, 1876
when Hoffman had just been elected president
and William NJ. Tweed was to be his secretary
| Of the treasury. Greeley had been president for
| nearly four years, had spent his whole term in
maneuvoTing for a reelection, and died of dis
appointment at his failure President elect Hof-
man had delivered a funeral Grafton at the
| grave of his rival, and Jefferson Davis the late
presidents chief political adviser, had offered
from his place in the senate touching obituary
discourse. AT this opportune moment Mr.. Bud
long, qualified therefor by having been private
secretary to prominent member of one Of the
national party committees, sets down a brief
record of the conception, birth, lie and death
of the Greeley administration, excusing his
treaehery in unbagging such a coyey OF political
cats by the statement that he didn't get the con-
sulship to Timbuctoo that was promised him
The whole is very cleverly done, and contains
some telling hits at prominent members of both
wings of the Greeley party. The New England
news company, Boston, supply the trade with
this pamphlet, which, if not so instructive as
some, is much less dull than most campaign
| documents.
RHYMES AMONG THE SPINDLEs, by Richard
| Hnchcliffe. This little volume of 1O2 pages
contains about that number of short poems,
whose author. as we gather from his preface and
the poems themselves, has spent his life "amid
the CHATTER of looms and the whirlng of spin.
dies, with but few advantages for schooling"
| He deals with a variety of subjects, patriotic.
social and personal, with no special originality
| of thought or expression, out with an earnest
and elevated purpose, general correctness of
language, and considerable fac ity in yersifica-
ton. One cannot read his verses without feel
| ing respect for their author.
| THE OVERLAND MONTHLY for September has
for it's opening and most noticeable article an
instaIIment of joaquin A1er's new poem, 'Isles
OF the Amazons, " full of gorgeous imagery and
descriptions. But with all its splendor, we are
inclined to grudge it the name OF poetry. 9th
or articles, all of them readable are, The Olive
and its Oil in California, London Art Exhibition
of 1872, Little Edith Murray, Facts about New
Zealand, A Few Snap Shots, which is a sketchy
essay on duelling, A Naturalists Visit to the
Tres Marias, and the concluding part of Profess
sor Whitney's paper on the Owens valley earth.
quake.
BLACKwooD's MAGAZINE for August has
been overlooked until it is now somewhat late
to mention it. 1t contains part sixth of ga
True Reformer," a political novel, excellent in
its way, although some American readers doubt
less think that they get enough Of politics in the
newspapers and elsewhere without having the
tiresome subject insidiously sprung upon them
in novel. Another OF the series of articles on
French Home Life takes dress as its subject and
treats it aestheticaly and philosophically The
Pundrapore Residency is an extravagant but
amusing tale of Indian official life. The remain
| ing articles are euogistic biographical notice
of the late Earl Mayo, vieeroy and governor
general of India and "The Last Month of the
Session." caustic review Of recent parliament
| airy proceedings.