, 1877-10-14

/ For the Spirit of the Winter,
Deathlike. now is ling ring there.
| MINERAL POINT, Wis. l.. A. OsB<
"THE BARONESS OF NEW YORK,
Foston Transcript.
| sThe Baroness Of New York is lust such ;
| wild, reckless, irregular poem as no one bu
[ Joaquin Miller could have written or wouit
have written. Its incidents are neither prob
! able nor possible; there is a great deal o
] sloyenly writing in it from first to last, and
many passages arc the baidest kind OF prose
cut iuto lengths, with nothing OF poctr,
[ about them but the rhymes. In spite of thest
faults-thc neellcssness of which make:
! them all the more exasperating-th book is
one which fascinates and cnthralls the reader
1t is full Of beauties Of description and expires
sion, and one is compelled to acknowledge that
has ever published, it also contains his best
The story opens in dense forest On an island
near the South American coast:
Il ,inl, dars land OF bird and beast
Hack. shagey beasts with cloven claw;
land that scarce knew prayer priest
Or law Of man. or natures law,
Or aught that good men ever saw.
The heroine-for every story must have q he
rosnc-bears the name Of Adora. She is the
daughter OF . Spanish pirate and an Indian
wilds with only such q teaching and instruction
as could be given by mysterious old priest, and
IN old lnu!an woman whom Mr. Miller irrey-
erenily calls ia horrid hay." Years before
when Adora was an infant, the natives had
risen against the piraticat crew and slain
them to man, her father among them.
Their immense hoard OF gold was Sc
crctcl in tho dsptns Of the forest. and at the
time Of tfc opening Of the story no one knew
thu place Of It's couccaItncnt tut the ''hag'' and
In ,3,r IL rit,1r
the island. She stands upon cliff and watches
1t rs 1t approaches
How proud she was! How purely fairl
How full of falth. OF love. and strength
lier long, strong tumeled careless hair,
Half curled and kuottcd everywhere,
From brow to breast, from cheek to chin,
For love to trip and tang]e H.
The ship comes to land. Its crew is made up
OF escaped Australian conyicts, the Captain hay
inr been expatria;ud from Ireland for political
oifenses. The two meet, fail very desperately
in love, and arc happy. After time. however,
Uougha1, for that is the rather uneouth name
the author bestows; upon his hero, tires
civilized life. Adora pleads with him to re-
main, but he refuses, and Ills men set to
work preparing the vessel for homeward
VOYAGE. FinIiug all eutreaties in vain, she
curses him. This touches the hardened heart Of
Doughal, aud he tries to persuade her to accom-
pauy lin. She refuses, and the priest, deter
mined that htr betraycr shall not leave the
coast, causes the forest to be fired Tie flames
drive all manner OF wild and ferocious beasts,
reptiles, and scrpcuts out Of the woods down to
the shore:
Slim snakes slid qucl from ont the GRASS.
From wood, from fen. from eycrywhcrs,
A. if they sped pnrsnln. her;
Tnev slid thousand snnkes, and then
You could not step. you would not pass,
And you would hesitate tp stir,
Lest in some sudden, hurried tread,
Your foot struck some nnbrllisel head.
1t was tu weird. it seemed withal
The very grass began to crawl.
They slid iu streams into the stream,
They rurtlcl leaves along the wood,
They hissed und ratified Us they ran,
As If in mockery Of man.
1t seemed like some Internal dream:
1t seemed As they would ill the flood.
They curved, and graceful curved across,
Like deep and waving Eca-Erccn noas-
Thcre is no art Of man can make
\ ripple like running snake.
The wild beasts leaped from ont the wood;
They rent the forests IA they lied;
They plunged into the foasiing Good,
And swan with high, exated head.
It seemed az it some mighty hand
Had suddenly lousened all command.
They howied rs il the hand Of God
Pursued and scourged them with rod
The vessel is oyerrun with all sorts Of creep
ne things; a rat is aescribcd Us screeping
through the har,'' and ''pink-eycd micc'' as
peering from the beard" OF tile hcllnsu,au as
hey worked of shore. Meanwhile, Adora is
,ornc away in u boat by the Old Indian woman
o the island where her fathers gold Is hid
len. The disclosure made, the Old woman
lies, and, the priest having persisted in the
"a, Adora is left alone. The second part of ]
he poem opens in New York City with 4
,izarre apostrophe to Fifth avenue Adora. !
rho, by some unexplained means, has escaped !
rom the island with her treasure, appears IL
scw York Society as the Baroness du Bois. and /
is Saiu, who was companion OF Dougaal sn
Australia, having been transported for the
ame otfensc. This Adora does not know;
lor does Sir Francis know, OF the island
pisode in which bis former friend ana
Gaipe''es Siajpg one lew eseuins in Central Park,
hey are attacked ~ band OF tlamps'
ud in their leader Sir Francis recognizes Dou-
hal. The lady is suffered to pass on, and, after
n interview between the TWO men, SIT fFancl5
ejoins her and tells her the Story ana says tnat
o save him he must renounee her. carried
way by his noblencss, she contesses that she
; an i1npostor, and proposes that they shall
'ork together to save him. Doughal, it ap-
ears, mixes in New York society to some
xtsnt, etnploying the on tlH'e from nas
aileries and attending receptions. The three
,eet at last, and Doughal claims the so-ealed
aropes5 US his wife. She sweaEs she never saw
in, and instigatcs Sir Francis to kill him in a
uej The rivals meet, fire, and the bullet
i,irh should, bY rights, have made hole
rough the v,tals OF The hero-tramp, is stopped
packet OF letters and miniature OF Adora-
his be discovers and shows to Sir Francis. The
arones=, who has followed BY stealth, orerhears,
I'd now rushes forth, declaring that Doughal
her husband, and that she has always loved
m Sir Francis, OF course, retreats into the
Re ef1r t,ara ha