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honor In the number, Gardner G. Hubbard
noInting out the great advantages that
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Henry George writes OF "OyerprOductlon
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perts as TO what Is absolutely needed, In
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Yale College Observatory, explains the
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cussion OF the question OF Morality with
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"LEGExps. LYRICS, AND SoSNErs.' By
Mrs Frances l.. Mace. Boston Cup
pies, Upham Co. l6mo. Cloth, PIP.
1872. Sl.25.
There would seem small need Of direct
ing the attention OF our readers 70 anything
from the pen OF Frances l.. Mace, whom
Maine proudly counts among her most
cir ed daughters, and whose verses
have found so wide circulation In the
Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals;
yet we turn the last leaf of " Legends,
Lyrics, and Sonnets " with 4 thankfulness
that the authors work has thus found per-
manent form, and with desire that lovers
OF poetry may not overlook this addition
TO poetic literature. The book opens with
the legend of Isratll, the angel OF Death;
legend full OF pathos and ofhOpe, and which
loses none OF It's charm in the hands
OF the writer.
In 4 Legend OF the Dawn, the mystery
OF the hiding of the precious stones
those
" Blossoms that never shall lose their sheen"
in the depths OF earth and ocean, is quaint
ly and beautifully told.
Instlnctiyely, the true poet interprets
for souls of deuser mold the myriad voices
with which the world or nature seeks TO
reveal its hidden depths Of meaning That
Mrs. Mace's brthright to kinshlp with The
Muses. Is proved by this same token, none
who read her Storm Fantasy on the first
page of this paper will dispute.
II Is evident she truly loves her work;
and In grateful appreciation Of the gift be-
slowed upon her, she sings
at Is enough 10 be the humblest child OF Song.
And will be content
To love her for herself; with homage sweet
To sing unheard. unanswered at her feet.
Till in some other life make my song COM
plete."
The ceaseless striving for possible -
morrow OF earthly ease and happiness
which ever eludes the grasp-a striving
which blinds the soul to the beauties OF
today, until, too late, the logged for boon
is seen to have lain all along the way by
which we have come, Is beautifully voiced
in the lyric OF Arcadia. We again find the
same truth in the closing words Of the
sonnet on Happiness:
"The happiness we know
Is yelled when with us-in the vanished guest
We first perceive an angels fieeting plume"
1t is impossible that the poems Of any
author should be all of equal merit; but
we have tried 10 point out but few OF the
many in this book which one would love
TO read again and again. The conspicuous
faults of the work are typographical rather
than literary. TIE title-page barely es-
capes ugliness, and We are left to guess at
the last two or three words OF Bsldur the
Beautiful; while the title Of The Century
Plant is omitted from the head OF the