The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-07-01
ssne New Bseks Or Psst-y.

shorter poems make up the volume which H. j.
csis Dsssiny" "a. p Putnsn.s sons) There Ia music
in the hines ind tone decacy Of sen time
and the selfrestrslnt OF good tasts.
PerteY Coates publish . collection Of seventy or
eighty hymns and psslus all written by Nj. Thomas
Nacksilar OF Germantown The Devotional rather
than the poetic spirit distinguishes them. fhs collection
10 not likely to snpplans any Of the older hymnais.
Here u curious little product OF harmless vanity and
folly eati.isd Odd In Reason and Intuitisu PAilo.
sophicst Poem" Ths author. Mr. james D. LAidlaw, y
n'psled by sense Of duty TO the public to discuss In
rhymed verse the shallowness and Of the
present the ,uasnincaoe Of mans intellectual
tsinments the limited human reasoning pow.
and the mysterious and complicated ehaYlctAP Of
mental operations. On these points, q least every
reader Of the will be disposed to agree with the
anthor In the respondent conclusions to which sefex
AInina has led him.
An equally ambitious but broadly ludcrous e.
fsst v Mr.. Cornelius p schermerhorn's Atonic Crea-
ton and Other Poems The impression n that
volume Is Joke, intentional abs0rdity. This idea
ytsls however, to the internal evidence Of good faith
contained on every page Mr.. schsrnerhern u in
earnest; and neither the almost forgotten
Singer Of Michigan the Farmer Poet of Long
Island could rival him, they grsppls with the
mighty themes which he has chosen. Mr.. Schermsr-
horn describes creation In thirty pages He down
to the earliest monuments Of man;
The pyramid cheops was erected.
AoESturu unsnSo t2sy hs4<too
lie 10 warm admrer Of the character Of the Father
OF his Country. and probably other psst has
called at,sntson to the fact that Egypt Troy
Bsibsek nor Syracuse Athsns nor Rous had
George Warrington:
Cite. OF commercial renown.
hut they We're not Wilmington:
Carthage, on Afric's far shore.
iai M"nn ny ,a s iiHm RI %o son.
Famous In war; not y Washington.
Mexico, with her eaets millions,
Fell hrfare Cortex's iegiOns,
lab, her .a MS"t , M. waat.%ozon
IN his lighter vein Mr. schcrmerhorn Is equally enter
tain"z We cannot refrain from quoting few
from lis love songs lie pictures n seaside cottage:
In this seGneat-red villa
'1 M TSsm s M..n M %y tS .s ours,
',.",r aoem OF The Arkmaid," the heroine il up.
lr''a't.'. by young man:
She .rose; saw youth tall and fair.
As she viewed his form, his waving hair,
Her milking she suspended.
s, ,ss .s' md .5 %ss a. N.:s sfS sr
These she returned with rapt delight
That milking never gave her.
a matutinnl song is addressed To Welded Widow -
The shades OF night have sped,
vh Apoo ., yon mountain no n.nI h sild.s
lie lights the hills and Wales.
Arise, the hills decked in bloom,
No more OF sorrows dream,
DI Yaa iss 90 no. nS rsp Ssst a .s.
Knox IL not the husband Of tho Welded Widow but
the goddess Of night Mr.. Schererhorn refers 70 her
again In another poem where he speaks Of the soil
tades Of night, Knox had winged her flight"
very satisfactory collection If songs and poems
relating to the has been made by Miss Anna Ward
in the volume, Surf and Wave" (Thomas Y. Croweli
,,ia 81. hnok tnT