The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-02-16

four tho ono which is famous quotation Is in
correctly printed. The Bishop wrote:
westward the course Of empire takes ~ way.
These editors prefer to print;
Westward the star Of Empire takes hs way
Only throe stanzas Of tho Marseilles Hymn
are given. and there is no mention Of the trans
lutor. Mrs scwail's why thus Longing " is
entered twice in tho Index. once credited TO
Harrlot wadsworth Winslow page ELSEWHERE
we do not find itl-and again credited to Harriet
Winsow Scwall page 357 where we do find it
oil but its closing stanza. which has been OK
plunged. Tho poem printed rs Courthope's
" Chorus OF English SonRstcrs " Is only about
half ot It no given in his Paradise of Birds"
and the poem entitled The World" page SIT,
il but fragment OF Lockers The TESTERS
Plea two stanzas out Of seven. John Will
hanson Palmers For Charles Sake " IL most
shamefully butchered. or its eighty-one lines.
only thirty-three arc given. Among the dis
carded lines are the best In the poem
In none Of the above mentioned cases OF mu-
tilation are there stars or othor marks to indi-
cate that something has been omitted. OF the
instances OF mutilaton in which the incom-
pleteness is Acknowledged by line Of dots 80
faint as to be hardly perceptiDle. we notice
" The Splendid Shilling" Of which about half
Is given. the Rhine Of tho Ancient Mariner"
loss than one-third. and Halleck's Burns. also
less than third. A very small fragment Of
Shenstone's Scboolmisircss" lie given. OF
The Deserted Village SO much is inserted
that 1t might ms well have been made complete.
But, though some sort Of defence can occa-
sionally be made for mutations which save
space. there can be none whatever for inaccu-
racies that change the authors words. spoil his
rhymes. and obscure his meaning. or these
the New Library Of Poetry and Song" is full.
As We note a few Of them let II be understood
that ia no case do we refer to the punctuation;
we only hold the editors accountable for tho
authors own rendering OF the words.
The first stanza Of the first poem in the book.
Mrs Mulock-Craik's Philip, Ny King" is not
printed as 1t stands In her works. OF President
Lincoln's favoritc poem. Oh. Why Should the
Spirit OF Mortal be Proud 2" but three stanzas
out OF the fourteen are free from errors. II
Mr.. Bryant's library did not contain Knoxs
Songs of Israel" us2il. in which il appeared
originally. he could have found the correct text
in Single Famous Poems" OF the twenty
four lines in Coates Kinney's Rain on the
Roof" thirteen are misprinted. One Of them Is
made to read:
And thousand dreary fancies into busy being start
The general cheertulncss Of the stanza mglt
readily have suggested TINT the true word was
" dreamy" In George Herbcrt's little poem.
Virtue. the substitution o. " my for thy"
makes nonsense Of the third stanZa; and in
Alexander Smiths Night Before the We'd
ding" the last QuairGin is rendered un.ntcll-
Gilic by the mlspriht Of unto" for into"
The Burial Of Sir John Moore" disagrces In
five places with the standard text Us printed
in W0f,'s Femau-r-1n-c'haras b,---~-'
Of the Dead, we read
Pun many mothers brcaii has swept
Ger AneosturA's Iiail---
which is nonsense Tho true reading IS:
Full many noithcr BREATH &C.
The allusion Is to the sudden anil violent wind
called norhcr." which is peculiar 20 the
Cult Of MeXiro and It's coasts. Mman's hymn
Of the captive Jews in Babylon appears IN this
collection, with the title jewish Hymn IN
Jerusalem and the last word in il H. changed
from dome 10 throne. not only destroying
the rhyme. but placing the throne III TOP OF It's
occupant. thus,
WAsrc oer tie chersbseated Cod iu. llescd tie IRA.
Mrs. BrGnch's much-ndmirci little poem.
" The Petr.hcl Form" is Incorrect in every
stanza. In SnNo's cpisram. page $50. the meas
ure Of the first line Il spoiled AMI the sense Of
the whole obscured. Is the omission Of the
word dying one Of the cuuplcts from Pope.
on page az, Is made 10 read thus:
T., 'Ia is. t T., T should e.- es.c, employ
waueh's poem The lule = T. this bonnet o.
mine is labelled Yorkshire dialect Mr.
Waugh himself says 10 his tide ptge that HE
poems ar" in tho Lancashire dmi"-t. or Gen
Lytle's " am dying Egypt. dying" page 2aJ.
We ara told that il Wis written in hos
pital while lying mortsiy wounded at Chicka-
mGugu.' III cur memory lary... lis e,rr..ff,