New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-08

bodies would admit the rays from blue glass; woud
the smile of the latter the patients SKIN enec'
cure2 Not all bodies can be assumed 10 possess INC
sane "ether" and the latter might easily refuse 10
polarize itself even though the color issued from the
Hexad of the sephroth. The Kabbala, doubt
Iess contains n solution of these and other
dGiculties which suggest themselves; but since III
concealed the of gravtaon for nearly 2ooo years.
until Newton profanely let the cat out Oh the Dag
would he vain for us to seek enlightenment from the
DSeller OF the Threshold. The practical portion OF Dr
Pancoasts volume Is brief and unsatisfactory He de-
scrbes ten cases three OF which rheumatic (and
therefore certain to be helped by exposure TO hght
whether blue or whtel. and four of physical and es
pecaly nervous exhaustion, and therefore 10 DC hepc
by the exacted repose InasInuch as he CLAIMS 10 bh'o
established the fact that Light is Natures SPECIFIC for
Disease" We should prefer to have had few cases OF
oryspeas dropsy, cancer scrofuia, epilepsy Br1ghts
disease liver complaint and tetanus Until these arc
furpshcd not even the wizards pentagram and the UNI
bcal sun can persuade to pin our faith to
and the Kabbala.
HARRY by the Author of "Mrs Jerningham's Journal"
Macmillan & Co.
The Sasac. scribner Armstrong, Co.
The author of " Mrs. Jerningham's Journal"
would have better to stick to prose She appears
to greater advantage in such slight lively sketches as
"Miss Utchcock's Wedding Dress than in the gushing
sentiment and forced tragedy Of Harry" The heroine
OF the latter who tells the story in rather tiresome verse;
is the same little creaturewe allowed TO for
get that she is vice." tiny" petite" and all that
full OF prettiness sweetness and foOlshness whom we
first met az Mira. birmingham. In Harry" she IL
cross between David Copperfelds Dora ana Tennysons
Maud she has the childish ways OF one, and the little
head of the other. The book, even, is dedicated 10
Menella Smedey, "as Tiny token OF 0oundfss
love-" etc. We fancy the author casplhs
her little hands in depreciation of serious eris-
csm uplifting her soft eyes, and murmuring III
q sort OF musca gurgle: "Please DON'T
I'm but cheeyild" What, then, shall we say OF thf
booki It is like the thinnest whippedcream Favored
with vanilla and served lukewarm The story is
nothing and the scarcely touch any experience
stronger than those which belong TO the period OF car
love Yet il Will probably receive a certain amount OF
popularity here mainly because ii comes from beyond
the Atlantic II the characters ana scenes were hier
can the book would attract little notice-nay some
messages woud be picked subjects FOR Dur
csdue Suppose we change the Names and see how TIC
following stanzas will then read:
"'Twas a beautiful evening. fresh and fair;
Earth and sky had the sweetest OF tones
NV heart heating light rs q bird IN arr,
When Harry brought home with him sammy
Jones"
"A little hotel in Rockaway stands,
Where dinners scIy'd lcindr" any well,
And sometimes Harry slips ont oi nlT hands
And dimes with sam at Tins littie holel"
al am safely housed with a faithful friend,
ANA tac letter write hls h"iiis WI n'hu;
I'm at Waycrley Place, Number seNeniy-scFen
Q've told YOU, lOyc, Of my former EeaNenl'
If f. curious that such prosac particulars as these
should seem poetic distant read r.. Mr. Coventry
Patmorc first set the example OF treating ordinary He
with the utmost realism, aud then calling IL poetry but
hc had only a very transient success MIS-. JcFhlnSln
(as We may call het adds little sugar 10 INC hll ur'
without making 1t more palatal Ether more truth OF
nuIuOr. would have improved ihc ulsh