New-York tribune., 1873-05-05

power You draw 80 near this man of many ans ou'
of much faith that you can hear his heart beat ho
49 years old. he thinks-in the prime OF me- anu @
fecton OF estate, bodily mental, aud materD' io"
the Virgin he looks, and cries.
Behold me, Lady called The Ravissan~'
Such as am, gave myself to you
So long since that cannot say Il give
And then he shows her all his tfe-hoW he mas o 80,
to serve two-how he has sought to buy peace .V
soul and how still It is disquieted within hli' WI" ~
the holy one, the mirace-worker, vouchsale 10 n
sgnl All IL comos-now will he prove ma iailn' A"sS
bore her TO her place in the church-he VIII summon ~
angels that wait forever behind her to bring MN " NC
feet He puts one foot the railing ho iooiS N
fear In a moment he will be upborne by anseiS ~ ,
not this so great faith purify Clara too ohai. Az -
somehow have his hands again, that no may i on
small hand melt I'm his and say, r"I marry you --n",
vomon ancels Won behold NY wifew Surely TINS mus.
he somewbere-meantime for the aithand the trump"
ont over the railing he springs-but were inc ahso'
late. or do they bear us where waits % ou, -,
desre q From tower 10 turf the master OF CarNauN
falls and in a moment he is dead upon his own k0'A
lawn and the gardener, who lifts HIM, mutters'
nTgb-,he Red Nightcapl" (as he raised the heal,
This must be what he meant by those htIii'so "
While was wedding larkspurs Yesterday
Angels would take him! Mad!
Not mad, but sane, says the poet
sncb beinr the conditions OF his life,
Such end OF life not irrational
Hold behef, you only haiDe,eNe,
With al-mOIncntous issues; either way
And advise you initiate this leap, ,
Put faith TO proof be cured or killed at once'
Tho many cousus being OF the world worldly, Thought
with the gardener with the poet; and 50 eu 20
break the Will which made Clara steward ana mistress
of all during her life, with everything reVer'nE "o
lutely to the Church at her death But at the very %
when the will was dated, Lc1nce had not Oeeh ,oo ,'u
70 conclude the careful and satisfactory contract "c
made them masters Of the Partisan business ana
the Court decided that the man who was
sane enough for the was sane enough lor
the other SO the fair Clara rules today NJ Cr'"uA
and the Virgin smiling always, wears her goueh cIo""'
with the great cleaning gem In the top OF IT, III ino
church OF La Ryssane by the In the few pages at
the close which the author deyoe5 to the dseuSson VI
his own characters he gives the preference TO cara
One is reminded of that most wonderful OF his shofer
poems The statue and the Bust" where the slh ne
imputos to each rustratc ghost is the uilt lamp ana
the ungirt loin." Mr. Browning likes whoe-heaTicu
sinner better than haneartcd saint L6once was di-
yded in allegiance between his love and his ith-Cara
never wayerei. To that which she believed she was
constant, for what
She did believe in, as little doubt,
WaS-Clara and Der h.ItuEsA 10, 10 s.e.alu SUSAN
Existence, grow from grub 70 butterfly,
Upon unlimited MuaGda-e9i;
In which prime aruc,c Of faith confirmed.
According to capacity, she fed
On and on TN the leaf was eaten up
That April morning
This would be dangerous teaching for daily food and
one cannot yet believe that strong sinner Is nober tAan
H.
resulted in bis doing precisely what Clara did without
struggle and without scrupc there is some ground for
the palf-pitving contempt with which Mr.. Browning
sometimes seemed 20 regard him. Red Cotton Nlsht-
Cap Country" great poem, aud not 10 he measured
by petty standards. It's insight Is subtle as n6hl'l9
dramatic power remarkable, its descriptive passages OF
singular beauty and for the interest OF the story, why
Ibayo told it to YOU and you can Judge OF for yourself
A prose poem which Browning himself sealoger hat
ne f. youd delight IN. j. Among the Isles Of Shoals
b. Mrs Celia Thlxtcr which Osgood Co. are about TO
publish Mrs. Taxter tells Us that in these Cesolae
islands nine miles from the Sew-Hampshre coast there
is a strange charm an iudcsoIi5abe influence, hardly 20
be explained. but universally acknowledged In her
boo, ono quite realizes this untold charm You sic upon
lonesome rock and oo, tar out 20 seat sea vague
with mist and with distance The stranger landing here
for the first tmc struck only by the sadness OF the
place. the vast loneliness for there are not even trees
10 whisper with familiar yoices-nothing but sky, and
sea and rocks" But he VIII Ind himself slowly
succumbng to the subtitle charm OF that atmosphere
What must it not be gaduess. OF new Oirth, 10 wake
TO the beauty of such morning as Me-. IhaXter de-
scribes
For the world is Ike a uew-hlown rose, and in the
heart OF il you stand with only the curcs,n music OF
the wafer 10 break the silence unless perhaps,
soug-,parow pours out It's bls-ul SarDlc like an en-
had is radaut the scattered sails glow with the de
Hcious color that touches so tcnderly the bare Deak
rocks. These are 0'eher Than say OF sea or tlrlht
sails graceful gulls wings REDEEMED with the dawn
btuulllul4y
granite the shadows delicate, and thr fine, lard
outlines are soeued and glOr"d beneath the first fresh
blush OF sunrise All Things speck.c,s aud spOess
there dust noise, nothing but peace IN the sweet
air and on the quiet sea.
A. one reads, longs for the strong wings Of
bird to fly away from all and tumult OF living
and be rest among these happy islands. Would any
thing but early life there have made Celia Thaxer
what iswith the seas brightness ana the seas
sadness in eyes. its music in her singing, its large
freedom in her thOuChtl or the scenes among which
she grew up-bcautiful and dreamy and unconscious,
as grows a flower among winds and suushine-,hc tells
us IN this charming book iul OF such pictures
painter ever painted. You make acqulintaLcs, TOO,
with the strange pcoplc-human yet so Isolated
hardly TO be Of the worldwide live in these wonderful
isiands-aud you love them wen that you easily
fancy them dying OF homcscness. il taken far inland
Strange old supCrsritiOns and quaint legends are en-
balmed in these pages. Ghosts walk through them.
with sea-buc eyes, and faces u solemn beauty Snus
rise aad set n gOryWavcs break IN musc-Wiit and
Summer come and 20: and between these h Is
an set down. P"id and you Wlll know. l.. c. VI.
Nem publirIllon5.