The New York herald., 1878-12-30

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most heaven Of heavens.
"AlI haili younger brotherin Shakespeare said
And Dante nodded his imperial head.
On the next page we see poet himself in noble
sonnet. He says
Call me no. dead when !, indeed have gone
Into the company Of the ever living
High and most glorious poess
We not left in DOUBT that he is in the best pos
sible company, for his friends may say Of him
T. Ssy perhaps .aassrns in starry @ y ssss Ss
Tomorrow .xho can say Shakespeare may may pass
% that three. cent. centafied wit that kept 50 we'll
Or Milton-or Dante, looking the grass.
Thinking of Beatrice.
All the poets have had this dream, but not all have
written about it, In the second Basium of Johannes
Secundus we find himself and his Neera wandering
through the Plutonian regions. among the heroes
and poets OF old.
Tnrba beatorurum nebis s.d,..arserst omnis;
Inter M@onidas 49, sede losarent
The sensuous Duteh poet said all this very we'll
and it would be as well to leave it there II we ex
cept the in two poems of trite an expression
choosing the better part luke K, 42l, We can
make no exception to Mr.. elders language. The
endeavor of his work may be summed in the lines OF
his Poets Fame
In waking dreams his many visioned ken
Clutched the large final destiny of things
1t has been merely aim to show how far ne
reaches toward the mystic goal.
ssAPPI4E BLOSSOMS.
Two children, Elaine and Dara Goodae. of the
town of Great harrington. Mass, have been writing
well that they have been put into book by
Putnam Sons, and embellished with fine steel en-
cravings Of the juvenile poets The idea of writing
poetry for publication was suggested to the girls,
aged fifteen and twelve years. respectively. by
their contributions to little home paper. called
7 70 Iaffa fheir
amusement. This paper was borrowed by the neigh
bors and finally some of the verses found their way
into the county paper. From this it not very
long step to the ST. Nicholas Maquriae and Scribner
finally took Of the closing poems under its
sheltering wing All this led to the inevitable result
of the publication Of the pretty book Of poems now
before the public. 1t is pleasant to note that the
verses exhale fragrant aroma Of healthy, rural
simplicity. There is affected smartness
about them They exhibit q genuine poetic
feeling. uncultered, Of course but remarkable.
all things considered. if not phenomenal
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the most extraordinary ju-
venile poems that American literature has known;
but he not only poet by nature but had re
ceived an abnormal stimulus in his precocious edu
cation. in the sttery of his elders and in
the almost unprecedented luxury Of the surround
ings of his youthful days. Nothing of this kind has
obtained with the Misses Goodale. Their flowers
spring from the rough ground. and their untutored
beauty is not to be measured by the tenets of art
These promising Brontes Of New England have done
well to test the strength of their tiny wings in the
broad expanse of poesy at this carly stage Of their
Let them study good models. especially the
mechanical construction Of verse; such as Poes IRA
tional of verse; and We may find in them in later
years worthy of those sweet singers Alice
and Phoebe Cary.