New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-05
And when that all was tasted, then Mt last
We thirsted still for drafts instead OF sips.


Learned from this there IA no Southern land
can III With love the hearts of Northern men. ,,,
SICK minds need change but when in health they s'ana
Meath foreign skies. their love iles ho . AGAIN
And thus with me il was the yearning turned
And stretched far westward while the il .eat Durheu
With love for ireland, looking on Ca'hay!
NV first dear love- all dearcr for thy griefi
NV land, that has no peer IN All tue sea
~ irst 70 no man else. thou 'rt first TO me.
New loves NAV come with duties, but the first
Is deepest yet,-the mothers breath and SMILES:
Like that kind face and breast where was nursed
lis my poor land, the Niobe OF isles.
Lucy Maria" by Mrs Abby Morton Daz is a new
book which Miss Hallock has illustrated, aud J. r. Os
good Co. about to publish. 1t is story told IN
series of lettersa fashion of storytelling Of which the
author of 1.-The william Henry Letters" has already
proved to the public that she is mistress The materials
OF the tale Of the simplest and so rs the manner Oh
its telling; and yet it thoroughly interesting through
out. Lucy Maria IS herself an energetic NewEngland
country girl She wants career and she undertakes to
teach little children, aud is humbled by her task
Anybody would do for the small ones they said How
they think sol sense Of incapaciiy weighs upon
more and more each day OF schooii1e Wheh one Oh
nnocent conding way, feel, 1t were, very close TO
its sOut really seems as # you could see me sour vi
cious immortal how shall such bungler as dare 20
try my skill your 1t is very solemn thing to help
in giving even one young life its first direction Every
impression tells. Think OF that !-every look, every
word every action Anybody WI dO Ior tn1 odiii
seraph / believe that the wisest and best aud most
angelic and most beautiiulooking persons IN the ianI
che little children; and they ought 20 De orgaeI anu
Why. find. that even to teach young seh0laIs IKE
mine, person should possess every one OF tc
virtues and know something Of every branch or knowl
edge under the sun. My ignorance enconpasseth me
like wall and am brought up square against u con
stantly. need 10 be acquainted Win botany asuOh-
omy geology theology physology, ne habits OF EYER
hearCeducatioul, ana che history OF an noble ives
Before she can feel herself fl for this chosen work OF
her life she ucedsa general culture to which she thinks
she can only attain in the city Accordingly, since no
other way opens she goes TO town a3 seamstress WIN
the understanding that she shall have certain portion
Of her time at herown disposal. En- paSSdnt viii not
some phiIanthrOpst establish intelligence Office
where we can lud the glorned hand-maidens OF Mrs
Whitney and Miss AcotJ and Mrs. Dlaz What wages
would we give TO Bell Brec We would pay Christie
WELL too though she had a Troublesome sturdness OF
natuc and for Lucy Maria would pour out currency
like water. OhfOr such % scamstrcss who would form
our minds While she fashions our Aouuces or course
she exists for have not this tho Of realistic aud vera
cious authorosses continually encountered her; but
where does she hide herself, when 70 in pursuit Of
hor3
Mrs. Calloon, at any rate, fortunate enough TO
secure Lucy Maria; and from her attic room J.. M.
WHITES letters her cousins and sister and friends twice
as interesting ana valuable rs those Of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu who always did seem to M tremen-
dousy overraed Into these letters the threads Of sew
era romlnces get tangled for tlc book is real novel
whore they love ald lose and marry and are given in
marriage Beside the interest Of the stories told III
them the letters are fun Of the s0undest common sense,
the most healthfu wisdom. Here is one OF hundred
passages equally well worth quoting;
As 10 being independent it me that the ONLY
way 90 be dependent Us t. have some ann IN ne WcH
vi 20 I'm up our minds that snail not think whether
we ore independent NOT. / wish people were less
hound bv custom IN small matters, ike taxing on lats
observing certain FORMS ana following cefl"l lslIO,.
fJlJusthat tic whole trl0c must an 40 allhe, OF
DerisD simon says UD! SIMON says oOrH; simon saws
icg,r1g; all ,cgir0gi But not without btHgR says 90
OF there'l De % forfeit it t. very vel 10 play pay
once IN while: but Tor making hfe one everlasting
game of iciqrrg don't believe IL IT, suppose woman
practices sixty years making good appearance:
when Ter body drops of she nave to 20 on iynSi Out
of what VIII a that sixty years Oh placlee De To
here People ought TO look ahead little, ana not I'VE
from hand TO mouth"
The emotions described in the book arc strong and gen
nine. There is scky sentiment no sham, no aheeta-
ton The principal characters are heroes and heIones
without Luowihgi They live hcTOicaly because they
live honestly; and one great lesson Of the book is that
character higher than attainment and both are higher
than any material success Money is to be s.rven for,
but strven Tor because II books and music and
pictures and the leisure enjoy them and, above AL
because it means the power 70 help others fancy no
young reader with mind still uniformed, and purposes
still chaotic viii read this book without being inu
enced by il to Dohler living 90 higher aspirations, and
more resoute oudcayor. Mrs. D!az has wrought con-
sceutiOusly and truth and womanhOod make fair her
pages. " l. c. NJ