The New York herald., 1876-11-25
LITERATURE.

BRYAHT's NEW LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG.
Many collections Of English poetry have been made,
Of them excellent many Indifferent, but the value
Of the best OF them has been impaired by time. New
poets have enriched the language and old poetry long
neglected, has had its resurrection. The want OF a
new collection has been long fet ana can justly
say that its pan Its scope, its execution, the .New
Library Of Poetry and Song' is the finest compendium
ever published No man is better fitted than Mr. Will
liam Cullen Bryant for the work. and he has been ably
supported by the publishers An idea at least Of the
extent of the collection, may be formed from the fact
that il contains 1000 poems selected from over
600 authors-English, Scotch. Irish and American;
that it has twenty steel portraits Of Distinguished
WRITER'S twenty full page engravings wood twenty
silhouette t,les ard twenty iac-similcs OF manu-
scrpts II Is published by subscription, In twenty
parts each embracing oryeigh pages Of text besides
the illustrations. The typography clear and dis
tnct, and Messra J. 3. Ford Co deserve the merit
Of having done tner part quite well Mr. Bryant
has done hs
This collection must not be eonfounded with the
previous Library" which Mr.. Bryant published in
iorm- One-Afth Of the poems in the vol.
has been lett out Of this and twice as many new
poems added. II extends from Chaucer TO Dr. j. HoI-
land, and thero could not easily be greater range
The American writer's whose portraits are given
Holmes, Poe and Holland. Tho English portraits are
those Of Chaucer, Shakespeare Milton. Scott Shelley,
Byron, Burns, Mrs. Browning, Tennyson, Hood Coler-
ness, extent and the intelligence displayed In the
selectionsa good illustration OF the theory Of the
survival OF the nttsst'-Mr Bryants "New Library
OF Poetry and Song" will long remain unequaIed
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