Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
THE ATLANTIC AND THE ECLEC.
TIC FOR DECEMBER.

TIC FOR DECEMBEk.
The monthlies are coming on very
richly laden. We have already noted
how excellently we'll Scribner's and
Harper's are doing for their December
readers. Now We have the indispen-
sib!e Atlantic and that cream of all the
British monthlies, the Eclectic. Henry
James, Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Mark
Twain, Charles Hale, Edgar Fawcett,
Helen Earron Bostwick, Frances Anne
Kemh!e, and James Russell Lowell,
these contribute the richness which
places this number of the Atlantic up
to the good old standard. and makes
its table OF contents handsome Access
sion to the literature Of the day. Al
drich's share Of the work is series OF
poe.ical tid-bits which he has chosen
to style "Iuterludes:" and we cannot
forbear quoting the first lines OF Part
Ion
AN OLD CASTLE. .s
Inc gray aIcu CIuuluiCos
And totters and tnmbles;
The bat has built in the banquet hall.
In the don on-keep
Sly moses creep;
The ivy has scaled the southern wall.
No man-at-armS
Sounds quick alarms
Atop OF the cracked martel!o tower,
The drawbridge chain
Ia hrOkaN in twain
The bridge will neither rise nor lower.
Not any manner
OF broidered banner
Flaunts at a blaZoned herald'S call.
Lilies float
In the stagnant moat
And fair they are, aud tall.
Mark Twain tells a characteristic
story entitled "The Canvasser's Tale"
the canvasser being ono OF those
tick-like peddIers who are not to be
shaken off until they have got salts
fed or been killed. Mr.. Charles Hale
contributes ono Of those dreadfully
useful statements, so dear to the Sta
tistician's heart, entitled Municipal
Indebtedness" The names OF the au-
thors quoted above render an exact
transcript of the Table Of Contents
unnecessary to inform our readers OF
the general excellence of the number.
The Eclectic has for its embellish-
ment, steel engraving likeness OF
General Joseph Hawley Of Connecti-
cut, President Of the Centennial COM
mission. This reminds us that "Jce'
Hawley, as his friends take the liberty
Of calling him, was among the victims
of the late Democratic typhoon in the
wooden nutmeg State. Mr.. w. W.
Story, the poet-sculptor who so much
prefers the art-atmosphere Of Italy for
his studies in sculpture, aud effects
the classic pages of Blackwood as the
vehicle for his poetry, has one of his
strong, masculine sententious poems
In this number of the Eclectic. Its
subject is Primavera;" and tho
springtime poems are not quite seas
enable in these autumnal times, still
the weather We have all been bathing
in these few days past is so balmy that
we can almost imagine ourselves In
the midst OF, or about to enjoy, VIVA,
Mr.. Story has so wildly described.
The concluding lines are not ili-adap-
ted to the Thanksgiving-time, else
where treated Of. They are as follows:
The day is passing: Let us own its
spell;
And as these trees, feeling within
them swell!
The blind, dim stirring Of the spring,
express
In leaves and blossoms their mute
thankfulness,
So, grateful, let us take VIVA. Nature
gives
Love be our blossoms 49, gentle
thoughts our leaves.
This number Of the Eclectic contains
no less than seventeen selections from
tn English and Scotch periodicals, and
is full of interesting matter for all dis
eliminating readers.