New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-18
BOSTON,.
LITERARY NOTES.

~TRoTTY's WEDDING ToURD BY EIIZABFTH
STUART PHELPs-BOw TRoTTY GOT HIS DIVORCE.
bTHoN RseuIAR CORRESPONDENT or rTEsTRBUNBl
BOsroN, Oct 10" Sounds from Secret
Chambers" by Miss Laura C. Redden, dssrms criticism
with It's very tile when you understand lie meaning
The author best known by her pen Of Howard
tiiyndon" adopted she tells moment Of girl
nah caprice. Rumor says that she is both deaf and
dumb and that she should thus have set the silence IN
which che dwels TO song almost remarkable as
ibst Philip Bourke Marston the blind young En-
giish poet, should Lave given us n volume
at poems IN which al the aspects of IA
ture painted with the enthusiasm Oh -"
bover-the blue mystery of tire sea, tbeshore green W."
Summer, the soft flush of the downs, and the iV'u'
loneliness Of fragrant and dewy gardens~eoulu "'h
ost eyes have seen them more truly no III VI" ~
silenoes Of her soul, has Miss Bedden hSteN'u 49,,
voIoes OF love and life and rendered tpein in'o "o
clos. Her poetry IL curiously subjective A'"O'V'
poem reads Ike the confession OF o psison"' - ~
Ale book is divided into different seoHohS' ""uo 81
what fanciful headings. The first dViNoh' e"'"t
Bells tangled" is a story Of passionate love III 'u
a. tho first person The heroine thinks scorn OF love o
marriage m the beginning. She u l9' ana from sue
summit Of the experience far ataiued She LOOKS WIN
n lille contempt her mates, VINO are lhhNe'euih
powns and gew-gaws Iacef ana loVerS F"r
ter.elf abe longs Ia be poet She ht'
n ,-eyd and that lie enough for her
of oDnrse this friend allgoriOus youth, and Gar
enoo Dale Is his He has been her ally for year.
and they we read aud walked and talked together pro
toeted by definite and satisfactory understanding THAT
they are 10 be only friends soon be begins TO make
pictures Of her when his eyes shut and she begins
10 think how Disappointing and altogether pDsatisac
Tory and uncon Portable It viii he when be narrcs Oh
source no presently asks her 20 love him. and by way o.
answer sue geyes the loss OF her friend He bids
her choose fhe will have friend or lover aud
with pretty novncss. she chooses ia Keep her friend
Then the mans InasteriH nature speaks; II - take
him or leave him :" hu be All nothing. And She
of course she couldn't send him away. a friend
turned into lover might be Il disappointment Int II
was better freud nor lover, SO she SAID her
maiden yes But they young. and they agreed TO
keop all FOR awhile And soon there Wat aD ar
fanccmcnt that he should 80 abroad, and his cousin
another Clarence Dale should 70 with HIM IL Is DetI'i
that he 20 uufottered So she wears hS mig gu
her finger and his image IN her heart and SAYS houhhs
though mother Is beginning 70 smile on her proaay
~ she aces Robert Graome The richest man IN town.
g. fancying her. You rec It's ihe Aud Robin Gray
story over again. went astray. and zine enbod
ies the weariDess OF waiting IN little poem
say At morn, " ! snail nave one to-hay
! say night, y shall have one tomorrow
Bal day and night go creeping SLOW away,
And leave mt with my sorrow.
And IA he sieki or is he dead. or changed
o., hapy. has he leaned 10 love an0tLcri
II coud know MIN careless o. estr.nGed,
Ay pride my love might smOthcr.
last night indeed. 7 dreamed a letter came.
AM wecomer thau any first Nav blossom!
And then / heard mother call mo Ddfne,
And hid u u my bosom.
And. cheated wose and heard the night wind rave,
Aud hd my vet eyes IN my lonely pillow
And dreamed again, and saw a na,noless grave,
HAITI hidden Dy willow
Her father dies. and they poor, and Robert
eraerne comes wooing, again ana again. aud Will not
tshe her "no for answer. Then hears that her
dtar, one love has married
Ppauigh girl with velvet eyes
Aud archIng foot, and supple nerves;
Each hps that utter sweet replies.
And fgue foil OF naddeumg curves"
Then comes her SLOW beart-break and thus she sings
ROUSE UPON uE SANDS.
Because the heavens blue above,
Because the Dream was 60 fair
Ia IT. far-Oh immeUsIty.
built my mansiHn there!
"Dut know YOU not." seer said,
That cruel. treacherous, sinniue s.a
May break its smooth disSulSe"
mol Doi" my trostfuI answer
Ihis sheltered sIoI ~ cannol reach
Upon the lower beach"
And so I burt and shaped aud planueo
Un,il my honse stool lar TO view
For wiling bands 70 60.
TWAS SO dear-so fart SO fair!
That ltue house upon ttc Eti.d-
II had not pleased INC Lal, 80 wei,
bont on tlle sUld land!
Forbere The white birds made their uests.
And here the sunshine shaved all daF,
To ouin'sb az tde 2iuM' cie''s
Oh infant waves al pN.
Not yet not vet i.s iori '.as come
deck d ior hu Whine wt.t;
NV heart Keep gard hcture The door
In honor 0i las r5aie.
And eyeIy time tbe snu gees DOWN.
H.s isei are one day DeaTtr nOn';
lazy rosary oi hOnIs
In patience an De- come.
"Aod when BIS f.ot the threshold cross,
And who's nav hslo d. IL his ha.y.
There viii not he o hspptI lO"s6
IL all thI6 Happy ldua!
And SHAH lced him hroa-ii its hans,
Aud show h.;" ail iiS Prey rooms,
Ana nestle shr'y . as sIGe.
Amid tAe tTl'rii flocns! ~
The wind! Tie vinul we cruel wind
And ab. ~ EGAsl5 nouth"' wsNei
From DO, WIsCt. orc huiiJrg thing
could not even save!
stand alone Upor tha sand.
bsrot =, NJ lGY Ees4iS delight;
Aid lunl 1iJu.d sEi r0t" 80 work
Ot OuD BLACK, Altiet ni2IA'
nv hslsei fle fg1l:acc of no. cart
TIE i4a.r ~ nav heart md hauhs
CcIncul.l with M nios best iAlug5,
AID bull upon Tie SANDS.
Gone-lost! for ever. ever lost
And 30 sieodIJg leiC alone.
OF al enc fic,es o. tnY borSc,
TDerc X 10. lei !. sS1Htl
AND he for whom the horse wss hu'It,
H. turoeJ aWi,v-s.nd WII rot come.
The caY ~ changed aud be Is changed,
Aud IN paic and 0umO!
Ilaye r. home ~ al the lard
No heart which % las NV mead.
such rest a. now crave u found
Ia one low, BARROW bed
And then her mother vii not let her rest She can
save tbem Ill from want aud misery by marrying Robert
Graense. she tsnDoi oeiiberate--t her IL
heart and soul numb with pain. She mas been torn
BY pride ana jealousy. and che 10 herself 81
love him. yes We love tie dead" She learn. the
i.ternees End this heipiesness OF poverty and then
.hs t1f{$ssghat Il se who any case connot less
,t raoN f41F isc rable,au the others comfort