The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-21
CARTOONS.

III leans, La.
a Under this title, at once suggestive an
IN appropriate, Mrs. Preston has collected be
:" late poetical contributions to the periodics
, literature Of the day; tor these Cartoons
j have, from time to time past, been given t
"a the public through the medium of variou
magazines. This does not at all, however, dc
: tract from the interest with which they wi
i be read in their present form; many, indeed
r Will admit OF more than one re-reading. TIL
! poems, themselves, belong more to that elias
which appeals to cultivated taste and in
! tellect, rather than sympathetic heart, 70
e appreciation; and as graceful, although femi
nine, studies OF subjects which must eve
remain known TO the student of the world
intellectual progress-since they are part o
and chronicle Of that progress they ranl
above the sentimentalism of the minor nine
tenth century singers" and are deserving
OF attention as something different from the
ordinary
There is, besides, healthy tone and fresh
ness about these poems which is in itself
inviting to the reader. Though there is some
thing about them, at least in their subj ects,
suggestive Of "The Poet of the Opaque, :"
unlike his work in design and execution
they are purely simple and easy to be under
stood
The table of contents is divided into three
parts: Cartoons from the Life of The Old
Masters" Cartoons from the Lie of the
Lara sIro ha "a nfH
Day"
The first, as it is the most pretentious, is
the best. These fourteen poems, variously
in dramatic and narrative form, heroic and
blaak verse, trea. Of incidents in the lives of
the master painters. 1t would be impossible
to quote, in our limited space, either from
them or the poems which comprise the second
division Of the volume, as they need to be
read, each as whole, to be properly under
stood and appreciated. AS sample, "Tin-
torettos Last Painting" published in the
BULLETIN few Sundays ago, is good, and
with it our readers are familiar.
Of the poems which make up the last d.
vision of the volume may be mentioned "The
Hero OF the Commune" "Unawares, "Be-
cause" and "By and By" as being superior
to the rest. The publication of such poem
as "a Soliloquy in the Vatican" is, we think,
4 mistake which poets who seek all readers
should beware of making. 1t is certainly not
he mission of the poet to advocate such en-
Shaving of the intellect as the spirit of the
ollowing verses would suggest as the creed
If the writer: |,
Bismarck and Dollinger. The same sad story; S
Without, within, feigned friends and crafty
Where viii it ende I'll summon Monsignore
Good Antonelh; for he ever knows ,
How best to balsam my despairs and woes.
}, for the old, untroubled days of quiet, i
When loungers basked beside the fountains
cool, ,
Jnplagued by ali this "liberal" rant and riot. ,
so they were fed, not caring who might rule;
But now-Me deggd's cote and 90 10 school!
The italics are not ours, they appear in the !
olnme. The grotesque rhyme OF "Mcnsig-
ore places GOOD Antonelli in rather an
nenviable position; and were it not for the
edateness Of the other parts Of the poem,
pom the evidence of this rhyme one might, n
J an excuse to the authors benefit, we might O.
include the poem to be an attempt at p
rotesque satire. AS offse. to this fault find
e, let US state that the very first poem in T
le book-"Th Good of lis the most n
nished aud perfect which it contains. Had al
been written by Longfellow or Whittier lit .e
q companion piece to the latter's "My a.
riumph y it would be ranked among their N
est work. It's moral applies not only to the
riting of book of poems, but to anything No
g may undertake. We quote it entire: M
THE GOOD OF 1T. nt
When any task my hands essay &C
Wherewith to fill the eager day, L.
There rises to my thought Away, A.
This hinderng question Where the need OF
vi this thy lightly weighted deed? CT
Forgo 1t. and who taketh hee0 th
Perform it,-who will praise or blame. -.
Though it be wrought with purest aim? %
Done or undone, tits all the same pr
1t can not surely much behoove =,
Ii, in thy lifes too shallow groove, ~
Thou moVest, or thou dost not move. W
Amidst the thousand myriad lives
That overcrowd eafth's human hives,
What matter if no work survives
OF thy small doing Who counts, alas, ;.
One cricket chirplng i'll the grass ui'
1ne less, Wnen summertime doth pass GU
SO, keep thy song unwritten; spare =
10 spill thy music on the air; str
Let go ths stainless Canvass bare. vl
The world is over deaved with speech; dlt
And who so out of wisdoms reach, adj
As yet to lack what thou canst teach? as
o, poor, proud reasoning shall The spray ISL
OF fern beside the boulder gray, cul
Third with the mornings opals, say nes
6 l,o1a |
Tn Won oraatoaL W. sha1iI ~ 49, maui hi
Afford an humble bee its shade?" Gf
Or the light breeze: cloud and Deep =
The mouutain-winds the forests sweep -
me
Or glow-wOrm murmur: $50 divine. Sta
SO flooding, sunlights, moonlig hts shine NJ
This moth can need no elut OF mine! -
Because our music is not keyed Exc
Beethoven-wlse therefore, indeed rev