New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
RECENT POETRY.

POEMS OF PASSION BY ELLA WHEELER. 16no, PIP
LOO Belford, Clarke d 20.
uANo: A POLITICAL HISTORY. BY X W. DIXON
Canon OF Carlisle. 12no, PIP w. 1eorse hou'
ledge Sons.
Jones Very was man unique IN his generation
n New England mystic in whom was blended the
Buddhist ees;acy and sweet sedate Puritanism'
His singular life aud character made more impress
sion upon those who knew hun than did his cool,
pure verso upon the literature of his time. Many
persons in Salem believed him insane-especially
those worthy clergymen whom he called upon to
practise more literally the precepts of Christ, TO
submit themselves wholly to the Divine Will and
be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Those who like
Mr. Emerson believed him TO be profoundly saue"
and wished 1.-THE whole world were as mad as he"
felt themselves exalted by the Oftiness of his fam
and the seIene transparency of his nature. lie hVed
in communion with things spiritual, suDlec'ins
his beng completely. as he oeleVeo' "
the Divine Viii and becoming merely the mediuin
IN his poetry of the uterance of q higher rover.
Mr Emerson says that the young enthusiast ieit IL
an honor TO wash his face. being as IL was Tue
temple of the Spirit" Il ought not to omit aods
Emerson to record the astonlshment which
seized all the company when our brave SAINT Ine
other day fropted the presiding Preacher. The
Preacher began to tower and dogmatlze with many
words. Then foresaw that bis doom was liked;
and AZ soon as he had ceased speaking the Saint
set him right and blew away all has words in an IN
stant-unhorsed him, I may say, and tumbled
him along the ground in utter disnay ike my anger
of Heiiodorus; never discontinue more CON-
pete In tones of genuine pathos he BID him Won
der at the Love which suffered him to speak there
in his char of things he knew nothing of; one
might expect to see the book taken from his hands
and him thrust out of the room. and yet he was al
lowed 10 sit and talk, whilst every word he spoke
was step of departure from the truth and OF TINS
be commanded himself to bear witness. Jones
Very is gone into the multitude solitary as Jesus
In smissng him seem to have discharged an at
row into the heart of Society"
Vrrys poemS-chiefly sonnets-are spiritual and
aspiring delicate in fashoning, and as sweetlv
grave as Herbert's own. They are not all perfect
in FORM nor are they especially original IN idea
The aspiration toward complete expression OF
Chriss Christianity, of devotion to the DIVINE VIII
and OF love to the neghbor has been sung by many
a 6eyout enthusiast though not all have chanied
their measures IN Verys gentle and harmoniousiy
simple tones Gnef that man should not realize
tie high estate unto which he was born pervades
many of these somnets. - he Dead" is one Of a
series entitled The Message:
! see tbem-crowd on crowd they walk the earth,
Dry lealess tees no autumn wind laid bare;
Aud in their nakedness find cause Tor mirth.
Aud all unelad would Winters rudeneSS dare;
No sap doth through their gathering branches how
Whence springing leaves and blossoms bright ap-
Their hearts the living God have ceased to know
They mimic life as il from HIN 10 steal
His glow of health to paint the llvid cheek;
They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel,
That with seeming heart their tongues may
speak;
Aud In their show OF life more dead they live
Than those that TO the earth with many tears they
give.
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with man. and finding the peace and joy of his ex-
istence in that intimacy. In The Columbne"
he has expressed phase Of his affection -
Sill, still, my eye will gaze long fixed on thee
TIL forget thai | am called man,
And al thy side faSt-T0Oted seem 10 be;
And the breeze comes NV cheek with thine to fan.
Upon tnis craggy bill our life snail pass
A life of summer days and summer Joys
Nodding our honey-bels mud plant grass,
In which the bee half hid his time EMPLOYS;
And here we'll drink with thirsty pores the rain.
And turn. dew-sprinkled. to the rising snn.
And look when In the flaming West again
HIS orb across the heaven Its path has run;
Here left in darkness Oil the rocky steep
My weary eyes shall close like folding flowers in
sleep.
1t has been understood that the lady who be-
slowed Poems of Passion )" upon the world has re-
ceved not grateful praise for the gift, but
rather on the ground that these poems are some
what too highly colored after the manner of the
Swinburne school. Indeed. in the concluding poem
of her volume, in fable relating to the fight of
the Eagle and the envy of the Crows, Owls, ETC..
Miss Wheeler saws:
The Eagle is spreading her splendid wings
She RISES rises. and upward swings
With slow, majestic motion.
The genlus-crowned or the power shod.
Over the dust world saiing
Aud back like splnters blown like winds
Must fall the missiles OF silly minds,
Useless and uDavaIllng.
IT, by chance, this fable may refer to Miss
Vheelers owa experience, and the missiles u have
been hurled at her verses it must be sad that they
deserve to be unavailing." These poems would
not in truth, thrill fly corrupt the morals OF
q ladybug
1t may be observed that no writer need trouble
herself to treat the strongest sentiments of human
nature WAC Is not prepared to do it with force and
originality MISS Whcelers matter and manner
both of the average sort which make a not unhand-
some appearance in the columnsof local news
paper but which are hardly entitled To book form.
She maintains, however, an adherence to poetic
rules which many more distinguished writers lack ;
she has an mag nation which responds to the
Imagination of others, and she has an unvarying
facility III rnyiniug.
SIR Mano is Norman knight, whose adventures
in Geld and castle Canon Dixon has told with more
prolixitv than power. These are u'nes IN which
the men aud manners Of the Middle Ages not
popular as subjects for verse unless treated with
picturesque and dramatic fervor. While Canon
Dixon has shown much industry good deal OF In
geauiiy in tue use of unusual measure, and a
careful study OF the ways Of the tenth century, be
has not succeeded in producing poem Of either
passing or lasting interest.
THE SECOND DEATH AND THE RESTITUTION OF
Il, Ir,.
MARKS on 1'hE NATTER AND INSPIRATION
OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. A Letter to Friend by
AsDRIw JUXLs. 8vo, pp. 1874 Thomas WHITAKER.
This book, which has now reached the Ell nth
edition Of the many signs pointing 10 the growing
popularity OF the dogma Of universal salvation, per
haps moro accurately to the growing unpopularty OF