The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-06
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sonnets, as the dreamy, dolce far niente OF the
following lines, under The title "In Dog-days,"
will prove:
81 see the landscape tremble in the heat,
hear the murnur OF tile nesting trees;
L close my eyes. and to myself l seem
AS one who floats mid odorous Indian seas.
Scarce draw the sails in the dull Opiate air,
Scarce stirs The breeze the Opalescent calm,
Upon the sleeping islands that we pass;
Scarce move the fringes of the shadoWy palm.
And, as SAIL seem to hear the voice
OF one who reads some dreamy Eastern tale,
Telling of men untouched of all the ills
Which for our hands and for our hearts prevail;
Aye, TO be living in those days seem,
And in those days still dreaming that dream"
The purity and beauty of the following speak
for themselves:
"My darling boy, kissed but moment since,
And laid away all rosy in the dark
Is talking to himself What does he say2
Not much, in truth that can understand;
But now and then, among the pretty sounds
That he is making falls upon my ear
MY name. And then the sand man softly comes
Upon him and he sleeps,
And what ain I,
Here in my book but as little child
Trying to cheer the big and silent dark
With foolish wordsl But listen, o my God,
My father, and among them Thou shalt hear
Thy name. And soon /, too, shall sleep.
When L awake L shall be still with Tlee."
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Illustrated
by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner's Sons,
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II the writer of this ever-popular fiction could
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Here we have the renaissance of the old-style
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DREAM LIFE. BY Donald G. Mitchell Charles
Scrbner's Sons, New York; Merrill, Meigs, q
Co., Indianapolis.
The republication of TX MarvePs works will be
grateful to the many who are not fortunate
enough to already be familiar with them, while
the very many od.young who have dreamed
over his inimitable reveries will read them
again with fresh relish. His philosophy is so
simple that the mind absorbs 1t at once, while
the susceptible heart is captivated by the first
page OF his delightful Iancies. In the present
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CLASSIC HEROIC BALLADS. Selected by the edi-
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The object of the book, as defined by the col
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Of beroism and adventure'-has been fully car
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heroic verse, "HOratius." The poems, so
far as possible, have been arranged in the order
in which the events they depict transpired, and
include the best inspired by heroic events IN the
history of our own country.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
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As the self-estimate and personal remns-
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MERCEDES AND LATER LYRICS. BY Thomas
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Aldrich can build living bouquet of words,
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CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN ITS THREE GREAT PERI
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This is the third book of the set or series, and
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THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND, by J. R. seeley,
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The hook ia maua nm of two cOurses of lec-
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time during which that government has so
widely extended It's foreign possessions.
INDIAN IDYLs, by Edwin Arnold. Roberts Broth
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Songs of the Orient translated in verse from
the Sanskrit, by the author OF ''The Light of
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Don GoRDoNs SHOOTING Box. By Harry Cas-
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lively story of adventures and mishaps of
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THE CRUISE OF THE sNowBIRD BY DIR. Gordon
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story of arctic adventure, told in a style to
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collection of some of the authors later
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JOHN LOT HRoP MOTLEY. Prose passages from
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CASTLE IN SPAIN A novel. By James De
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