, 1873-05-11

u AUUAk f40oehA8 ~ ~AS
unideal business men who arc the unconscious
ellis and gnomes in this magic work.
JOAQUIN MILLER
has q poem, "In Exile," which must be read
beon given to understand b.. English crit
les that Joaquin Miller-h1rs. Mi1ler'a revela-
tionB about tho rhyming dictionary to the con-
trary notwithstanding great poet: he has
been taken to the bosom Of the great Ien9yson,
and suffered to tar1y in his house ct the 1sle Of
Wight for q full week,-a condescereion that
can only be appreciated when one knows that
Tenuyaou abominates the generic American.
And yot, after hearing these testimonials 10
Joaauin's poetic scope, one finds himeelf unablo
to detect anything in his verses but the muslc of
language:
Whose i'll had devised, with evil done,
That WINS bidden to arise and got
I hear the clear Columbian waters run,
/ see the white Pacific dash and flow
Below the swayiug cedar trees that grow
On peaks eminent; but never mine
Again the wooded why On steed Of SNOW,
The freeinans mountain camp in cloud or shine,
Or pure companionahip Of meek-eyed nottad kline.
What wonder that swore prophets oath
stood, looked forth, and then looked 6sct al 10th
VIII SUDDEN ss ns
! plunged in the Arena stood Wild
Uncertain thing, and srtless all in art. !.
The brave approved the fair leaned fsir and smiled
The lions touch with velvet touch titnid child.
But enough OF men. Enough 0f1e1 Q8y
Of tanner life. The court, the castle gate
The gracious converse Of the kingly great
Had nade another glad and well elate
=. with hope. world Of thanks; but am grown
! The poor, the plain brave border men alone
Were my first love, aud these will not now ddsoTn.
Who loyea the leazt may oft 1ament most loud:
stand mute-nouthed upon far gray shore:
The soul lifts up a lone and white-winged cloud,
And ike so1ne Eea-bird back and then before -
Tho storm Of seas, It seeks my land once more;
And here about the peaccful peaks, as white -
AZ steps Of God, until the fztes restore
NY feet, shall it abide: tie sea at night
dashed reflections back from foamy fields Of Light
CHRISTINE G.. BROOKS STORY,
mTvo OF Three BIunders," contains material
for two OF three good stories. There is sug-
'gestion of unconscious power in the writing OF
this author, which promises fruitful results to
careful training
Ex-Goy, Bross has brief article on
1.-THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION"
in which he asks and answers the quc8ton:
From what source can the farmers Of the North
west hope for relief from the enormous. freight
eheed tat ~ tber Is n
OF the late Capt. Hugunin, whom the writer once
( heard Say, with ringing emphasis, that "The great
aso the great lakes snd the mighty st. lawrence to
carry their commerce to the ocean," Here IL
channel made by ths s "A Almighty himself h1 th.
millions Of prosperous freemen who now 1ves OF who
may hereafter I've, west OF Lake Michigan. True
channel but without them could not have our great
1akes the long reachca Of nasigabe ater in the
Detroit River and the St Lawrepeo enc Aeaay there aIs
them has al other means Of transt aa well as the
predictions Of ita most enthusiastic statsticans The
Loco tons burden and the st. lawrence canals
VIII be enlarged to the same capacity as rapidly as cir
Lake Etfe and the Welland Canal will, doubtless in
few years be superseded BY the Huron and Ontario
less than % miles of closs canal navigation. BY this
route nearly 400 miles would be saved and the tedious
navigation On the Detroit and st. Clair Rivers, and
Canals i completed, it ,ot Is asnGnstrsele enc
uced to Ii cents, md oat likely to H. betwoen Lake
Michigan and tide-water. We have no definite state
ment ss to tbs time It will require to complete these
a1eat work fully accomplished. Let our farmers.
therefore, possess their souls In patience To lay down
win Be equivalent to adding from 20 to Is per cent to
the value Of their farms for al time 70 come.
- :: THE sroRY OF ATLANTIS,
b7 J. ". Foster, views the discussion which,
though old ns Egyptian tradition is still pursued
with fresh interest by students OF ethnolosy
and geography, as to whether the inscrutablo
waters Of the Atlantic do flow over submerged
Atlantis, the former seat Of q mighty empire,
and source Of the most ancient and splendid OF
earth's civilizations:
Among the most Jealous advocates Of the truth Of
the old tradition tH the Able Brasseur de Bourbourg,
who has brought out these traditions in his translation
Of the nTeo AnoxtiN which Is the Toitecan mytho-
logical history Of the cataclysm Of the Antilles and
the late George Catlin published little work In which
this theory ts vigorously maintained Among the In
dian tribes Of North America, Catlin found the trad
ton Of such cataclysn- The tribea further south
relate that the waters coming in waves like
mountains from the cast and Of the tens Of thousands
who for the high grounds to the west, according
to some traditions one man only, and according to
ceeded in reaching places OF safety and from these
nave descended the present races Of Indians
:" The tribes in Central America and Mexico, In
and in British and Dutch Guinea, distinctly
describe these catacysms by water, one by fire,
and the third BY vnds This tribes nearer the vicinity
Of the terrible convusons coguizant Of the whole
effects Of fire and winds, when the remote tribes
senaible only ohe flood Of waters which went to the
hAse OF the tnountaina."
From amidst =" the thunder and flames that came
ont Of the sea Whit HmQuutaug vera linking and