New-York tribune., 1874-05-21
TIE FAYORITT CHILD.

Winch OF five sDowdrops would the moon
Think whitest, il the moon could see
which of five rosebuds flushed with June
We're reddest To the mOther-treei
Which OF five birds that play one tune
On their sOft-shlning thrOats, may be
Chief slDger} VINO VIII answer me
Would not the moon know If around
One sBOwdrOp any shadow lay T.
Would not the rOse-tree. If the ground
Should let one blossom droop day
Does not the one bird take a sound
Into the cloud, when caught away,
Finer than ali the sounds that stay I
Oh, little, quiet boy Of mne
Whose yellow head lies langud here
Poor yellow head its restless shine
Enlightened tine butterflies last year -
"SqiS % PsG paeT hands naSs' unseen s pa near
You are my iavOrite now, fear!
Iwere to mention all thepoems particularly like
As for instance "The Clothes Of Ghost" "Tne Flight
of the Children Sometime" aud many aDotherI
that my list would be long to be practically table
Of contents.
The proofs OF another book OF poems before
ne-a book for which l to predict enthusi-
astic welcome. refer 10 Sea and Shore, volume OF
poetcal selections. eiited byyes, will tell, and
man shall prevent meMrs. Goddard. the accomplished
wife OF the editor of The Adrcrtisfr and her
friend Harriet ". Preston the author Of Love in
he Nineteenth Century" aud the translator Of
"Mireio." TEs secret has been known to me long
time and have kept silence Having thus proved by
my self denial that e2n keep Secre venture at last
TO take you into confidence The table of.eOntents
of sea and Shore" would captirate Neptune himself
n he reads English. No who has fifty sung he
praises OF his kingdom has been out have selec
from Homer. aud Pindar ana Eurpides and other
classics lin best transaons), and Offset them by
Lear's "Jumblies"
They went in a sieve, they did
In sieve they weut TO sea;
In spite OF al their friends could say
On winters morn. on Il stormy day,
In sieve they went 10 sea
The water 1t soon came in, it did,
Tue water II soon came in
20, TO keep them dry. they wrapped their feet
In piuky paper, ali folded neat
Aud they fastened II down with pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar
And each OF them said, "UOw wise are
Though the sky Ice dark. aud the voyage be long,
YET we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round III our sleve we SPIN"
Far and few far aud few.
Are the lands where tue Jumblles live;
Their heads are are green ~ ana thgr hands are blue;
IL seems impossible to find good short poem
about the sea- all English literature, Is cot
cluded IN this captivating collection Browning and
Byron, Victor Hugo, and Charles Kingsley and T,nny
and Thoreau, and Bret Harte, and David Wasson
and Bayard Taylor. and Miss and Mrs. Everybody, all
fish for this gttering net Tue best lines OF
The beet poets here and 10 take the volume into the
country will be good as takinga small poeteal library
Will be published by Roberts Brothers in Ue Sum.
wanderers by sea aud shore,
The third book Of which have 20 speak is a book
Of poems; though II is by who calls himself poor
believing poet and infatuated antiQ uary." refer to
." The Rhine" by Victor Hugo, a characteristic volume
which Estes Ltur!at nave nearly ready. IS the ae
count Of tour from Paris 10 Mayence. by way Of AK
LaChapelle. OF course Victor Hugo of this jcur
ney in his peculiar. unnistakable manner. The
book s Hugoese. from beginning to end Every place
has its legend aud every legend suggests sentiments and
reflections At Varennes, for Instance, tine traveller
Gaverses melancholy street. where the houses have
closed shutters and grows in the courts Suddenly
he enters square surrounded with small white houses
one story high Louis XVI OF France, on his flight in
1884, was arrested IN this square by DrOuet the Post
master Of Sante Menehoud. Louis protested so strong
y that he not the King that the people were about
10 release him; when Monsieur Ethe, who cherished q
secret hatred against the al family appeared THIS
person like Judas IscariOt, said to the Kiug GOOD
day Sire" This enough. The King was seized
There were five OF the royal family with him and this
meant ruin 10 Them all Says Victor Hugo
Bon jour Sire ?! for Louis the sixteenth, for
Msre and for Madame Elizabeth, the guillo
for MadatDe ROyale exile and the exermination OF
race vaTennes is about fifteen leagues from Rheims
that 10 say for my coachDan TO tue mind tlere IS
abyss-the Revolution
Ever before the of this traveller rise the males
tic shades past and in ms descriptions though
often touch OF grandoquence, there IL sin-
gular solemn sort OF charm Take for example this wi
hight glimpse OF Scissors;
As / approached SOis sous day was fast fading and
night Its sOmber aspect hat beautiful val
where the road after passing the hamlet OF La Feie
gradually descends aud leads 10 tine cathedral of SAINT
Jean-des Va gnes. Notwithstanding the log which
around perceived the walls and roofs Of the houses OF
S3lsso-s "!th q halfmoon pee; 3s !ro. hehiod ih"m
AiSnted, AND, viIh heart fully acknowledging the