The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-31
OUR BOOK TABLE.

II NV Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
His elementary manual, one of Bingham
d Series, is designed to furnish thorough
Hin putting Latin words into short sen.
es of various constructions and idioms,
1ering the idea conveyed in a given Eng.
Expression, in the corresponding Roman
"a, and not merely substituting equiva
Latin words for the English. With this
LEFT a, I'm view, the words and sentences EN-.
ed in the examples and exercises are
\ from the writings of Cesar and Cicero,
6amiliarizing the stu lent from the very
with the purest and simplest classical
of the Augustan age.
Z" De fundamental principles of syntax, as
nplifed in each lesson are stated in clear
eoncise language, an index of synonyms
Yen, and also vocabulary containing all
lords employed in the exercises.
he design Is excellent, and apparently ad-
ably executed. The volume is hand
raSely printed and substantially bound.
o0'H ER THE SroRK's NEST A Romance from
te German OF A. Katsoh, by Emily r
teinstel. Philadelphia: j. b. Lippincott
|. Go. New Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
q admirable translation of an excellent
|eu y One of the best of the numerous
F1'no slations from the German issued by the
pincotts, though the names OF both author
translator are new to u.s.
u. PsuE's REVENGE By NJ " Agnes Fleming
eW York: G. ". Carleton i Co. New Or
rs: r. G. Eyrich.
Woo(s. Jennings novels ara noted for life
n. CON versations, varying scenes, interest
~ plots, all of which combined render them
popular. The present story will add to
Reputation as writer of society novels.
bmpaS3 Volume is completed by very interest
novelette, entitled ''Sir Noers Heir" and
hort stories-"A Dark Conspiracy" and
FOuf Better for Worse"
SHIP IN THE DESERT. By Joaquin Miller,
thor OF "Songs of the Sierras and
hal Fol longs OF the Sun-Lands." 16mo., PIP.
]. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Price,
80. New Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
clip the following excellent criticism of
bove work from the Chicago Tribune:
hti ere is the unmstakable presence of
|ble Ins in the poetry of Joaquin Miller. It's
|st, tNty is everywhere apparent, casting over
hot weakest passages shadow of dignity.
nigh for the greater length of the poem
yfe US, it has such cumulative and i'm
prong force that the effect fingers unde-
PpoSyed in the few intervals where the verse
- hayward and cratic There is sensi-
h col. apparent, too, the spirit of the author
|re M strong, unsubdued, defiant temper, that
= and sings what and how it chooses, and
|-Wers to no human law for the manner OF
ooee sdn g;oo, 60. :, ,n.;n ,, 81, :, g..
ger, he gives it possession, bat will never
% bind broken strains together, or make
| btr the yelled and mysterious. As in most
a of his poems, there is obscurity in por-
" of this, but he proudly repels any pos
oinquiry into the fullness of its meaning:
Ny task is but to tell tale,
To give wide sail to the gale
To paint the botndless plain, the sky;
70 rhyme, nor give reason why.
nd still the critics sting has wounded the
Rive heart of the poet. In the preface,
"a is tenderly dedicated to his parents, the
|" Ting of the sore is plainly discovered
have been true to my West" he says.
40 has been my only love- l have remem-
ID her greatness. l have done my work
low to the world her vastness, her riches,
resources, her valor and her dignity, her
bIIkxy and her grandeur. Yet while was
q on, working SO in silence, what were
Ia sIfhings she said of me? But let that pass,
= Hear parents. o hers will come after us.
:. IDLY have blazed out the trail for great
ds over this field, as you did across the
80 rts and plains for great men quarter of
injury ago."
Eo pain he says, more Indignantly, breaking
pom an apostrophe to the river Missouri:
|ank 1he worlds cold commerce of to-day
Demands some idle. fippant theme
and |, your MINSTREL must sit by,
And harp along the edge of morn,
And sing and celebrate to please
The multitude, the mob, and these
They know not pearls from yellow corn.
Adieu, dear, mighty stream, adieu
Adown thine wooded walls, inwrought
With rose of Cherokee and vine,
Was never heard MINISTRIES note, |
md none would heed song of mine. |
NJ find expression for my thought
p other themes.
EOtThe Ship in the Desert" celebrates, in
stately style of an epic, the vastness and |
grandeur OF the scenery and the history |
he great plains of the West. 1t is highly |
:, v in accordance with the license of poets, |
ng no pains to conform nicely to facts.
NTH. it bears about the same relation to
y that the Ancient Marinerr-a poem
PA oh it strongly rivals in weird and ghostly
1iption-bears to the real vicissitudes of
eea-farer. On gossamer thread of fc-
1t Strings magnificent picture of sky
|hAf !easth in their manifold phases at mid
and at noontide, in the desert, in the
!, and by the river side. These pictures
N some of them unsurpassed in strength
splendor of conception. Take this view
sterile, alkaline plain, stretching hope.
|Cl9 before the Western traveller
-Desolate, and rent
By earthquakes shock the land laydead,
Bdt dust and ashes on its head
The very devastation gleamed --
All burnt and black, and rent and scanned,
BIT, ~, yanquished quite and overthrown,
And torn with thunder-stroke, ana, strown
With cnders, 10! the dead earth lay
y waiting for the Judgment day.
bon
5ome serpents slid from out the grass
|f aEhat grew in tufts by shatter'd stole.
|ER Ehen hid beneath the broken mass
That time had eaten as a bone o.
|rchs eaten BY some sarage beast:
|hicAn everlasting palace feast.
IS, a. dull-eyed rattlesnake that Law
Ind vi loathsome, yellow-sknned and silent
Fac Tpild tight as knot-pine, in the sun.
With fiat head through the center run.
u. Sruck blindlv back, then rafting crept
|6,als labelled down the dusty way