New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-20
BOSTON,.
LITERARY NOTES.

-, . nt n AND NEW FOX Afhii--sih'H"
err ,uNr-MISs HELEN GlLsoN-A sIkANw|
ISL irS,pp CALLED AMERICAN PoErRf-iN-
,IrpIrrD sIN--A DEFENSE OF BUTIERfLltS
TWO soNNETS FOR YOUTH AND blAo ,,,s
WHAT JOAQUIN MILLER DOES VII" "''
MONEY. - -,, -r,vn,,.r, |
RosroN. March 1s.-Liking better the psalms |
and bvmns that make melody unto the Lord thah most
comments and critical dissertations upon them' hau an
ticip1tcd little from "Bible Music Wmeh hoper's
Brothers are about TO publish, beyond mere eNpIo'a
non Of sacred song even though knewi to be the work
Of Nh Francis Jacox, whose "Cues nom al guar
mrs. was certainly very pleasant reading. But the
rrnof.shocts are agreeable disappointment
Nothing could be further removed from the sphere
NJ IN ecclesiastical commentary. Ihere Is h'le
Dise and much music Mr. Jacox was as certainly born
with genus for quotation was Dickens with one TOT
navel writing The London Spectator spoke Of Inn, some
time ago. as OF wide reading, whose many ooois
did not as Robert Hal once said OF learned frieho'
prevent his from moving" He Is by natural III
stjuc, an optmist and discovers in everything its BEST
as surely as IL he carried mental wtchhazel rod I"
whose swinging all hidden springs answcr lie finds ser
nous in George Augusta saa, WELDON IN + mum"
Yates and good Miss Braddon. He quotes from her
bert Spencer and swuburne, from Lecky ana Longer
low from Cotton Mather and 4. d. Maurice ahu
everybody else who wrote anything goou
ever 90 remotely connected with music anu
Il ia In these remote connections, these TRANSITIONS WINCH
never seem abrupt, that the great charm OF 'e "ooA
consists. He makes "Bihe" music OF H. ny HeuuliF
eaoh CHAPTER with reference to some passage OF scrip
ture For instance. the chapter entitled oonES III '
Night" refers Us to JO5 xxXy, TO- But from LhhuS "oIus
n Job II vaudcrs TO MendelssOhn and Horace Neihe',
and from Them 70 Coriune hearing band OF Romans
singing the night before she left Rome ana lmPei'"
30 follow them they sang III lno"Soh'
Castle of Incidence he finds the bard making songs IN
re night Less easy sing must have been the hFs"
NM celebrated ian Northern literature, the death-s0ng OF
the pirate Racnar Lodbrok, said to have been sung by
Rim when having been taken prisoner by Ella, King OF
Northumberland, he shut up in barrel with SNAKES
1t ends with the famous line. d" Laughing VIII Ole
md this reminds Mr.. JacOX Of Romoos query,
How oft when men are at the point Of death
Have they been merry u
La Fontaine Keats, Tennyson Mozart, Hogarth, VIII
liam Biakc-who died in his 10th year, and ON the day
Of his death composed aud uttered songs go sweety
10 the ear his Catherine, his wife for 40 years. that
when she hear him. he. looking upon her most
efectiouatcly, said: My beloved! they are not NINE
Carylts Frederick having German hymn sung
IL Lin While he lay dying; the mother of Henri Quatre
1rlling gay song while she was bringing into
ne world at Pau, the future king; Thomas Hood
singing 1t the last, when his mind was wan
Ccrirr, I'm wearing AVA to the Land O. the
1,i~ in tones his children could never for
ea--Dot an these references and quotations eX-
1st ,le resources Of this fascinating chapter Mr.
Jacox is a genuine music lover and THINKS win Lazy
z stake that is impossible for music 20 Oe otherwise
tnau pure. We only make 1t IN ans Oh h'iii "i'n
nary TO words. An instrument "hiSH - Ai'-N "
,ous,e Alone cujoys the glorious disability to express
Ru.c vicious idea inspire single corrupt Thought
H seems feel also. genuine sympathy WIN 9ir w.
Temple, who quite prOsaicaIy ncllnes
"To think the tale OF Orpheus no fable
'Iis possible he did enchant the rocks,
And charm the forest, sOffeh nell HeeH
Win IL commanding Lutte
Az Wordsworth says Of another oldWoiid worthy
"The ctft to King Amphon,
Iaat walled cty WIN . IS . mei .5T .,ior
CoulI humanizs the creature, 81 NE sea- - s.
Were men We're nonstc's. lat grace he Graves,
l. ave Tor one Chant the lulc s1uad
ee,!s from the deck Ger willing waves,
Ana listening dOphlns "a her round
said Mr. JaCox found some good in everything, but
be finds none at all orGangnDders. He trusts to adj
vancag civilization 20 exteriuinae them, aud draws
whimsical picture Of Childvisitor at some future
Madame starting back in terror from the grim
presence waxwork of hirsute grinder in full play
horrible 10 the eye and a mother soothing her umit
bantling, and eddins, "~hy, con remember Whcn
OF that sort were allowed 10 go ioOsc III INC
streets all about London"
Tue pToof-sheets Of Old and New" for April are now
ready and the number will several articles of
unusual interest, beside tine serials, which are always
good There account OF "Si7er lSlet Nine, which
purports to be 10y b. c. M1lin but which sounds as If
Ba,bad Sailor bad written IT, Think of mine, pur
chase little year ago. for s225OoO in gold which
has nr'ar paid for itso sPa"t n"oriy ''.no00
mapeat IMPROVEMENTS divided over 200 per cent of
profits and nearly ready to declare another dividend
Of equal amount! in view Of these statements it does
bought little moss> than twevemonth ago for $50
each should have been recently sold high $500
Sixteen months back woods Location" "Siver
Islet' was wild aud and almost inaccessible district.
as desOlate and lonely the most distracted hermit
could have desired. Not human being, occa-
sonal Indian exploring party, could be found
there. Now II by magic, the whole scene has
changed. A busy town has sprung up, with It's post
Office its church, and its comfortable though roughly
constructed dwellin -housesH Truly the wonders Of
oIed nv fllp
Of Silver Isct.
very different story is the " Memorial OF Helen L.
Gilson" by Mrs p NJ Clapp, commenced in this num-
Der, and to be continued Miss Gibson American
Florence Nightingale, and served the of suffering
humanity In War Of the Rebellion with quite as
much herosm and patience and sefforgetfulness as her
English sister displayed III the Crimea nations graft
tude is believe TO erect wel-deserved monument TO
this noble woman who is already TO receive the
reward Of her labors in Heavenly rest and meantime
MR. Clamp tells so quietly that her very simplicity |
flow Of eloquence could, the tale of this
rare ana Cbrst-ke ife II IL story which cannot
read without thinking better of human nature CoPOns
extracts made from Miss GlsOns jOurnaa Journal
written In hospitals in ambuances, and beside death
beds No wonder that soldier said, There is not
man in our regiment who would not lay down his life
for Miss Gibson"
Mr.. Hales's instalment OF Ups and Downs" is. ms |
usual good. THE Wears Daughter eubodies many |
characteristic utcrances Of that Christianity. gentle
and Catholic, and tnctured at the samo time with |
worldly WISDOM which makes Mr. Macdonald dear to so |
many readers. Here, for instance is fragment Of con-
yersation about Inherited sin:
"Descent," said Mr.. Blackstone. "must be a serious
fact Ia any who Like myself believes that the sins
the fathers visited on the children"
"Mr Blackstone" objected Roger. 81 can't imagine
you believing such a manifest injustice"
believed