New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-20
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

"HAPPY THOUGHT HALL'-wM. NORRIS
GOLD AND NEW" FOR MAY-MYsrERioUS
PERSONAGES AT BROOK FARM-MOUNA LiSA-
MILLMORE AND MARBLE.
IFRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THB IhiboNh'
BosToN, April 1S-"Will you walk into my
rarlor o. said the spider fly and "Wil you Walk
into my Rose Garden Roberts Brothers are going' W
say 20 all the Summer butterflies they ht from o"
90 country. II safe to predict that few II any no,o
NO charming as "The Rose Garden VIII 10 puohsneu
This Summer The title page proclaifns' niouesrS'
that IL is by the author OF "unaWares' "ho
This NAV be am unaware but tho book
sems 70 me 10 bear internal evidence that 1t was WITH
fen nv Miss Thackoray. II "The Rose Gardeh anu
"The Village on the Cliff" are not by the same manu-
then indeed internal evidence for nothing or MISS
Thackeray has a spiritual twin. The DOCK Is sooo
enough for hers in any event Tho characters are
drawn with singular skill You all the fascination
of Renee 1.-THE bright sweet. bewitching GIRL who yet
shrank so from everything dsagreeabe that TINS
ing made Of her coward and she fed from troubles,
rather than faced them. The two men VINO
loved her are admirably contras'eu ~
de Mehun with his numbering clumsy goodness, MS
transparent little surprises" his maladroit ways out
his heart of cold loyal and brave and faithful as any
(heyalier Bayards and handsome, rich, elegant jean
dc sayignv good also gracefully good, with plenty o
tact and sqror frir These three prominent characes'
and the rest OF lesser Importance but equally weura"'
move about simply and naturally among the ioVey
wild green waves tossing back their crests ana
running swiftly between the rocks into the little
ooves shadows STOPPING from the clouds overhead ana
10 the south sinking down into the gray troubled waters
line of soft tenderycOlOred hills, lying In the SUNSHINE
yellow lilac rose-colored blue-only the nara, pare
words will not paint infinite gradatons" Amid sucn
scenes sad sweet figures stand with yearnng eyes ana
ands stretched out, but with the wings ALREADY uut'e
ing that must bear them away" The author deals
as O master OF hearts with the suohs pas
sions of love and Jealousy. The motto Oh 'no
titlepage Is "TOt oODprondre c'esf tout pdTdo""o'
and in the Garden as in life, when we nave le'ne
10 understand all we are indeed ready to pardon all
Perhaps it is in this perfect understanding that the I'LL
ference consists between heaven and earth do not
he afraid Of loving said the good priest Father Laurent
10 La Renee's cousin Gabrielle, only you love deep
enough" and the words reached beyond suffering, LOT
suffering is the end Of all things, nor yet the sea
that swallows us up though yOu sometimes hearpeope
talk as if 1t were There is something that IL
ran never touch, and even here, family, the
truth reaches in the midst OF our shaIpeSt pahHS,
and for moment out of the depths we see the eterh
shore. How long TO escape from things, sometmes-
from great sorrow, great perpexity But what
seems dscord to Us only the chord the harmony re-
oures and from out the retnC notes there grows the
divinest music some lives like sonatas-the saddest
,lowest part is in the middle" But must wait until
the month OF flowers before gather you any more roses
from the Rose Garden.
Another Summer book will be Sailing on the Nile,
which Miss Virginia Vaughn is translGtng for Roberts
Brothers, from the French of Laurent Laporte Happy
Thougbt Hall" will entertain the admirers OF Bernard
who have already laughed over his " Happy Ihoushe
first and second series few readers OF poetry may
remember that WIN. Morris. the author OF Jason ana
1.-THE Earthly Paradise" commenced his rhythmic
career with "The Defense Of Guinevere and other
Poems" That early volume he is now engaged in re-
visng He will add to this collection, when mas long
been out Of print several poems and Roberts Bros
will be- as usual, his American publishers.
The proof sheets OF Old and New for May are now
ready "Reminiscences of Brook Farm would he yetmOe
interesting if real used instead OF " Hero
"sybl" Portia," Leander," Adonis," and the Ike
II is refreshing 10 come to the initials T. c. and know
that they stand for Christopher Cranch the preacher
poet musician, aud lastly, painter or hun the writer
of the article says:
"How simple, afuent soul puts one at ease! dhe
The furniture of the parlor at the hive was g 20
the fact when that evening L T. sang 10 LIE MUGS Vi
H' Fs. 5 SSsi ass sP 1s1u doe SS 9sf e &C.
melting TO tears the more susceptible Of the sympa-
thetc audience In crow led apartments that night
one, weatherbound or othrTse, questioned but we
were favored Of fortune IN being permitted to enter
the sphere Of such exquisite melody No AFTER quar-,
fetes on the VIOLIN In which he took part 10 weird
passages from the Erl King. with mysterious, awe
lures drom his notebook) OF The Experiences Of the
Childe Christopher Down East or the Harvard MIL IN
the process Of grinding out ministers, could cace thc
glowing memories OF the ballad sung Oh TINS nrst evening
la the shabby little parlOr."
1.-THE Place of Mind in Nature and Intuition in Man."
Rev James Martneau's able paper of which some time
since THE TRIBUNE gave abstract, will be published
IN this number III full Mrs Clapp continues her tender
and touching Memorial" Of Miss Helen L. ellison. The
three serias-MT. Hae's, Mr. McDOnad's, and that OF
the Half Dozen-gO on prOsperolsly; MI r. b. Perkins
contributes a clever and entertaining article on the
"Curiosities of Literature and George F. Hoar writes
Of Education in Congress-" There are also various lit
lie poems written by various initials In particular A.
A. b. has one about wicked notwithstanding, long
dead beauty, which 1 Will copy for you-te poem, not
the beauty:
MOUSA LISA.