Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
LITERARY WORLD.
MAGAZINES AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS
OF NOTE.
Wards English Poets-The Letters O.
Talleyrand-New Novels-Law
Works-Poems-Etc.

From the San Francisco News Company
we have A Perfect Day" and other po-
ems from Ina d. Coolbrith, well-known
California writer, whose poems are graceful,
full of life and feeling, and recognized now Of
class to entitle them to rank with the bet
ter works of American female writers. There
are sixty-three poems in this very hand
somely printed little volume. We find space
for few extracts gathered at random:
Upon the patient earth
A thousand tempests beat,
To call to life the flowers
That make her glad and sweet
So, DER the human heart,
The countless grIefs that roll,
But make immortal Joy
To bloom within the soul.
Thank God for the birds song,
And for the flowers breath
Thank God for any voice to wake
The old sweet hymn OF faithi
Fer world grown all too wise,
Tor ist not wise enough y
Thank God for any thing that makes
The path less dark and rough.
meadow greenly carpeted
A strip of woodland, brown and cool,
Through which the wandering pathway led
Unto the village school:
The little pathway he and
Across the happy summer-land,
In happy summer times gone by,
Trod, daily, hand in hand.
Through tangled fe' ms, up furry slopes,
Where the broad forest shadows fell,
Through golden seas OF buttercups,
Wind-rippled down the dell;
How tenderly, from stone to stone,
Where the deep stream ran swift and clear,
He led my timid footsteps on
My gay, young cavalier
He knew each haunt of bird and bee
The secret of each Nesting brood;
He mimicked every melody
That thrilled the listniDg wood.
Ah many a time the brave voice spake,
An earnest pleader in my cause;
The tanned, round hand went out TO take
Dire strokes for broken laws.
Dear playmate, in those golden ways
Your heart found rest; my heart endures;
But, through the weary days and days,
Life gives no love like yours.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co. we have the
first of three volumes to appear: " A Treatise
of Equity JurisprudeDce, in the United
States, by John Norton Pomeroy, LID. Il
treats in a comprehensive manner of equit
this country, and of the equitable jurisprud
ence as now administered by the Courts of the
United States and of those States in which
the principles of equity, originally form
ulated by the English Court of Chancsry
have been adopted and incorporated into tht
municipal law. 1t appears to be, from the
brief examination now given it, valuable
and an able work. The author thinks there
is growing tendency to give undue promin
ence and superiority to purely legal rules, ant
the ignoring, forgetting, or suppression Of
equitable principles. He thinks the prin
ciples, rules and doctrines Of equity are fas
disappearing from the municipal laws o.
many States, and that this deterioration vii
go on until checked by legislation, or by q
general revival of the study of equity through
out the ranks of the legal profession. With
this hope and expectation of revival he wrote
the work under notice. He says:
1t has been my design, therefore, to furnish tt
the legal profession treatise which should dea
with the equity jurisdiction and Jurisprudence as
they now throughout the United States witt
their statutory notifications and limitations, and
under their different types and forms in various
groups of States and thus to prepare work which
would be useful to the bench and bar in all parts
our country. During its composition | have con
stantly had before me high ideal. The difficulty
in carrying out this conception has been very great
the labor which it has required has been enormous
That may have fallen short of this ideal in all its
completeness and perfection | am only too con
seious its full realization was perhaps impossible
Ii the book shall be of any help to the Courts and
the profession in administering equitable doctrine:
and rules if it shall be of any assistance TO student:
in disclosing the grand principles of equity; ii il
shall to any extent MAINTAIN the equitable Jurispru
denee in its true position as constituent part ol
the municipal Law, then the time and labor spent in
its composition will be amply repaid.
The work is rich in notes and citations. II
embraces 631 pages and is a volume in ap.
pearance and workmanship greatly to the
credit of the publishers.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co.. San Fran.
cisco, we have Wards English Poets" +" four
volumes. Library edition, 81; students edi.
tion, "a. The books are from the press Of
Macmillan & Co., New York. Professor T.
H. Ward is the editor, and Mathew Arnold
has graced the set with an introduction. The
aim of Professor Ward, we think, has been
attained-to furnish in convenient form a
thoroughly representative selection of En-
glish poetry, from CHANGER to modern times,
excluding the drama and the writings Of liv-
ing poets. Thus, Vol. l. takes US from
Chaucer to Dome; Vol. H., Ben Jonson to
Dryden; Vol. Ill, Addison to Blake. and
Vol. w., Wordsworth to Sydney Dobeli
The writers who have labored in these vol.
umes are Arnold, Wood, Professor Skeat, Il.
Arnold, Professor Nichol, w. Z. Henley, A.
Lang, A. w. Ward, a. G. Bradley, f. w.
Gosse, G. A. Simcox, The Dean of st. Paul's,
Mrs. I. II. Ward, Professor Dowden, j. c.
Collins, w. Mimic, Professor Hales, Mark
Patterson, Goodwin Smith, A. C. Swinburne,
The Dean of Westminster, Sir Henry Taylor,
Austin Dobson, Lord Houghton, DR.. Ser.
vice, w. J. Courthope and others. 1t is
a critical and thoroughly satisfactory au,
thology, and must secure the admiration OF
all students and lovers of literature. The
critical introductions to the selections of each
author all prove of especial interest, and these
will give the work the position of standard
authority because of the wide reputation for
scholarly ability which distinguishes most Of
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