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SELECTIONS FROM POETS AND NOVELlSIS.
HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY BALLADS AND SONGS
by WALTER THoRSBURY-"GoLDEN TREASURES
OF POETRY, ROMANCE, AND ART'-THE DICK
ESs-coIIINs CHRISTMAS STORIES"
BosTON, Dec. 21.-No one OF the many noi-
day books made ready by the Boston plpshefs " ooi?
tempting than the collection OF Historical and Legend
arv Ballads and songs,"by Walter Thornbmy, which
VIM F. Gill CO. are about 10 issue. In this volume tue
editor has collected Of the least known though oe.
worth knowing, Of ancient ballads They are gatnereo
from all sorts of for to tins charming tash M
Thonbury has given as he tells us, the pcastes' anu
sunnes hours his last 25 years. The harvest is well
worth the long has cost The ballads are selected
from the literature of the Greeks, the Romans, the
Orentals the Morse, the saXons, the Normans' inc
French Scotch Germans, Italians, and Americans Ana
this choice selection is Atty encased in shape and FORM
that must make the work delight TO the eyes OF all BOOK
fapcies Its leterpress and binding admirable and
il lavshy Illustrated by the best English artists ana
engravers: Whistler John Tenniei, Watson, Small
sandys Walker, Pinwell, Morton, Lawiess, and many
others Among so many exquisite ballads II is dihicut
to make selection to give taste of Their qua
ity Here Is one from the old English, so changing ana
resonant that it comes through the long years as
inspired it were to enter busy streets with Jingle OF
spur and elatter of sword and hoof:
THE CAVALIERS ESCAPE.
Tramrle, trample, went the roam,
Trap trap! went the gray ,..,
MY chestnut broke away
1t was just five miles from salisbury Town,
And but one hour 10 day.
Tbud! thud! came on the heavy roam.
Rap rap! the melted gray;
But my chestnut mare was OF blood so rare,
Nh Che s1l..fyq "A flpn all A.
sb ama on Ss s6 SSS ON III ,i[ d"Gsi my hat,
And wished them all good d'y
They splashed through Iniry rut and pool
But chestnut Kato switched tine gate
saw THEN droop and taii:
To Salisbury TOwn-but mile OF down,
Once over tins brook ana ran.
Trap trap! heard their echoing hoofs
Past the walls Of NOISY sione;
TIE roam few ON nj Il staggering pace,
But blood is hetteT than bone
Ipatted cid Kate, and gave her the spur,
For knew il was al my own
But tT&wgs rG% Hd. c eIos f@sf st'0f'
felt like royal hart at hay,
And made me ready to Turn.
Hooked where highest grew The May
And deepest archcd the fem
flew at the first Fnave's sanow throat
One blow and re down:
The second rogue fired twice and missed
sliced The villains crown. .
Glove through the rest ana logged brave hate,
Fast, fast to salisbury town!
Pad pad they on the level sward,
Tliud thudl upon the sand;
with a CLEAN Of = words and burning match,
And shaking 81 nag ana hdnd
But one long bound ard passed the gate
Safe from The cantin& BAND
And here il one from the Greek hut modern in
form and spirit that furnishes another proof that tie
human heart the in its hopes fears, loves aud IN
all Its emotional experiences whether the human
ture who has felt culver of pain s thrill Of ecstasy
lived in tho older world or in orr own time
TIE M8DMAN or CORINTH.
m nd M al he
beat his wife and struck his child and lis ruthless
Did NOT abate TIL he came and sat hill above tie
calm fell his fevered brain and he grew patient ten
As he and watched the haven, afar from Other ne
Aud the gulf spread blue and sapphire clear before his
steader KEN
Forgot the oboi all spent the purple robes all sold.
AS he saw the trremes sailing forth, shaking out fold by
Their canvas 70 the northwest wind that blew keen
fresh, and cold
There day day he sat and watched until he dreamed
For him, those stately arsosios with spreading white
For gold and frankncense and myIrh, and nard and
spRenard sent
Withered hands
And waved Bis ragged robe and staff, and screamed his
And ordered forth More SAIL more sail :" eastern,
western lands.
At sunset too, when ocean deep seemed glowing on all
lie shouted from the grassy cliffs, and mounting higher,
Blessed all tie ships returning from Sicily or Tyre
For him the basamaden barks came down the CULTS in
For him tie hustle and the din OF Coriuths crowded
For him each wave upon the OF quay and harbor
beats.
Too friends from Gaen the Trrhene
They purged his brains with hellebore and woke him
And drove away hose wild fierce thoughts that through
frenzy creep;
Until he pinng, sat forlorn all day upon the LII.
Crying "Alasl my honest friends, know you meant
But s Instead of saving me, you only came to kin"
Illusions are like colored clouds that move and veer
with iris changes gay and swift transient and ancy-fed
without them earth but grave, and lie the Gros3 OF
lead.
For those who desire somewhat less expensive gift
book and 81 various, that TO say isccl
laneous contents W +. GIN d Co. have ready Golden
Treasures OF Romance. Poetry and Art by well known
authors and artists The table OF contents includes The
names Of many popular poets and noycliss Of to-day,
sucl as Lowell Whittier Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wikic
Collins Tom Taylor, H. H., James Parton, and George
MacDonald besides sprnAliug Of extracts from stand
ard authors. II il very entertaining volume and fall
enough Of pictures 10 satisfy tic mos; pcturc-Oync
The 6rn have also nearly ready "Ihe Dicsens-
Collins Christmas siorles,' comprising Che stories writ
ten conformity by Charles Dickens and Wilke Collins
among which The Two Idle Apprentices" and " No
ThOrOus hfaru." L. G. NJ
TIE MOVEMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANETs.-
On the occasion of the presentation Of III, new tables
of Neptune 10 the Academy of Science at Paris, Le-
verrier gave a review Of his works which. begin
ming in $50, have been steadily followed up for
nearly 10 years. and have been completed by
the successive formation of satisfactory tables for