Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-23


with some severity, by Mr.. James lnnes
Minchin in the Academy Of November l..
Mr.. Minchin enumerates the previous Eng.
lish translators of TasSo, the earliest and
best Of whom was Fairfax as certainly as
Hooke was the worst, and briefly indicates
the faults and excellences of each. He
then selects a famous stanza Of Tasso s.
and proceeds togive several versions of it,
beginning with Sponsors. Here they are,
including their original
JAro.
Col trapaSa al trapassar dun giorno
Della vita moria!e il fore ell verde;
No, PeTche facCia ininietro A Pril ritorno,
81 rlnfOra ella mai, ne 81 rinyerde.
COglism Ia rosa in sui mattilo adorno
III questO III, che tosto II streu perde:
Cogliam amor Ia rosa amiamo or, quando
ksser 81 puote riamato amanda
srESsRR.
"So JnfSeih. in the passing Of day,
OF mortal LIE, the leRie, the bud, the flower;
No more doth flourish after brsI decay,
That can't vas sought 10 deck the bed and bower
G many lady, and many paramount!
Gather therefore the rose whilst yet Is prime,
For soon comes age that will her pride deaOweri
Gather the rose Of lore whilst yet is time
Whilst loving thou maySt loved b. with equal
crime" Fd'rie Qasene, Book H., III, '5'.
FAIRFAX.
80 in the passing Of day, doth passc
Tho bud ard blossom OF the life oil man,
Nor e'or doth flourish more but. like the graSse
Cut down, recomCtD withered pale and wan.
q Gather then the rose viii time thou hss'e,
Shirt is the day. done when II scarce began;
Gather the rose OF love, while yet thou nayst,
loving be !0ved, embracing be embraced
wItFEN.
$50 nacsrs in The transit OF DAY
Oi mortal lie, the yeTduro and the loon,
Nor will tie sunshine Of q second May
The ieSi rtoICn. or the tOwcr Telume;
Gather the rose th in its rattle perfume
And morning btsuty, efc the skies ahOyc
Der,ast the land cape with furereal gloom
Whilst loved and loving none the hliS' n n we,
Now list it sgt IS youth, pluck pucS the rose Oh
lore"
II hus passes with the passing OF q day r.
The flower and yerdure of the life OF men.
Nor though young April may rcturn, and May
ReblossOms ever nor grow green again.
Pluck we the rose then In the morning ray,
Fer the days calm may fail we know not when;
Pluck we loves rosH, FOR love now let us yCarn,
While loving, we too may be loved In turn"
SIR JOHN JAMES.
80 pGsscth in the passing OF a day
Lies bloom and verdure, nor tho Aprirs showers
Return with promise OF another May,
VIII II reblossom, or again bear flowers.
Gull we, thin roses while lifes morning be
PrHnked with that prime which time will soon re-
remove;
Gull VIC Loves rose, and let us love while We
Sill loving meet with fond return OF love-
In this passage, says Mr.. Minchin, each
translator was on his mettle, and each YER
sion is good. Smiths is the most faithful,
Witfen's the most ornate; but both his and
Sponsors renderings are weakened by the
padding of the extra line. lie then forms
canto, adapting the best portions Of each,
and the result produces. he thinks, an al
most ideal version. Here is the canto:
$50 paSSeth in the passing OF a day
OF mortal life the verdure and the bloom.
Nor will returning sunshine OF the May
The leaf reopen or tho flower Telume.
Gather the roSe then in the morning ray,
Ere the days calm be overcast by gloom;
Gather the rose OF Love, and love the while,
In loving one may bask in Loves sweet smile"
,.*x*
This is distinctively au era Of handsome
books-hsndsome in design, in letter-press
and in illustration-and foremost among
them must be placed Susie B. SEEDLINGS
"Flower-Song Series" just issued by White,
Stokes l. Allen, of New York. The vol
umes are four in number, quarto in size,
and are entitled respectively: "Panses and
Orchids" "a Bunch of Roses" From
Moor and Glen" and Roses and Forget,
Me-Nots" Each volume is bound in illum-
mated boards, with heavy silk fringe, and is
dsintily and handsomely illustrated with full
7aee fac SMILES of choice sum mer and au
:umn flowers, each illustration being &C
ecmpanied with an appropriate poetic QUO,
alton in the characteristic chirography and
accompanied by the autograph Of the
authors. The letter press is made up Of
poems in harmony with the title Of each
volume, the contents Of the series being'as
'ollows: Roses and Forget Me Nots -
Moss Roses and Forget-MeNots," Oliver
Wendell Holmes; Forget Me-Nots," +. L.
Merritt; Quotation. Percival Song" Celia
Thaxter; Rocco" Thomas Bailey Aid.
rich; THE Four.Leaved Glover" Mary
Bradley; The Sign Of the Daisy H. H.
Loves Resume" Heine; The Rose" A
Balade, James Russell Lowell; Romance"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Quotation from
Edge Tools" f. C, Stedman, aud "Uuder
The Rose, Richard Henry Stoddard. From
Moor and Glen" -"Golden Daisies Lucy
Larcom; Quotation from "A Springtime,"
W. ID. Howells; Flower De,Luce," Long
fellow; "a Thanksgiving" Celia Thaxter;
Water Lilies Elizabeth Cakes Allen;
The Rambler Jones Very; Quotation
from Forward" Will Carleton; my Prim.
rose" Margaret l. Sangster, and The
Garden OF Memory" George Arnold. "a
Bench Of Roses"-"Rosee." Louise Chand-
Ter Moulton; Roses, Sc g.: :hA Sweetest
Roses" Richard Henry Stoddard; Quotss.
lion from "Menotomy Lake" J. 7. Trow-
bridge; Spring Has Come Oliver Wen
dell Holmes; IAN Invitation to the Coun-
Try" William Cullen Bryant; The Hello
trope." Frances l.. Mace; Across the
Street" Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Hello.
trope," +. C. Stedman; THE Spring is Late"
Louise Chandler Moulton; Quotation from
"A Forest Hymn" Bryant; The Passion
Flower" Anonymous, and "Benedicite," J.
5. Blackie. "Pansies and Orchid" quo
ton from Flower and Thorn" Thomas
Bailey Aldrich; Sweet Brier," Dora Read
Goodsle; The Orchid" II. H.; Pictures"
" Whittier; "Wood-Notes," Emerson; my
Nssturtiums," II. H.; "0ld Fashioned
Flowers" Ethel Lynn Beers, and "Thistles
aud Roses" Elaine Goodale.-J. B. Wilson.
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AS companion volume to the Young
Folks Plutarch,' issued last year. Mr..
William Shepard has issued through the
publishing house OF J. B. Lippincott Il Co.
Philadelphia, The Yourg Folks Josephus,"
putting in an attractive form for Young
resders Josephus unrivaled portrayal Of thu
eading events in Jewish history, from
entry into Canaan, B. c. 2O7s.
lown TO the destruction Of Jerusalem, A. d.
10 The author has attempted moth.
pg more than a simpli6caiion of the
narrative Of the old Jewish historian, bat
his he has done IN an amirable manner.
making few departures from the original
ext In matters pertaining to the Old
Testament Mr.. Shepard has not supple
nen,ed Josephus narrative from the Bible,
wen where he is most obviously deficient.
put he has called attention to such defcien.
lies in explanatory foot notes. Josephus
vide divergence from the New Testament
S well known, and is accounted for by the
act that Josephus wrote for the Romans
Ind his failure to mention Christ or Chris
ianiiy Except in one short paragraph in
be Jewish Antiquities, which is held By
ome authorities 10 be an Interpolation, his