Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-05-16
in desert OF prose like pure white
flower with a damask heart.

III u utstIt VI prose ike pure W0llt
flower with a damask heart:
LOVE.
Love was primeval from forgotten time
Cone hints q common lives BY love made great,
~ pastoral song Or fragnsntary rhyme.
While iades the fame u many warlike state.
Ioy, lives forever, though We pass away
Still shall there be hot hearts and luaising eves
Hyperion youths and maid, mere far than they
Loath lips and lingering hands aud parting signs.
When We have vanished and our simple doom
Is blended with the themes u old romance;
Ay, from dust young buds and flowers shall bloom
10 decL bright tr.Sses in a sprirg tide dance,
And be the mute sweet signs OF love confessed
To FASHIONED hopes, upon a msiden's breast
The Overland Monthly for May
retains its reputation OF being the most
readable of the western magazines in
fact, it composes favorably with any
American magazine as far as substance
is concerned, and if it we're illustrated
would deserve national patronage and
reputation. The selection of matter is
always excellent, and the moderate
length of the articles gives variety and
avoids tediousness. The Overland is
typical of western civilization and re-
fleets the semi-critical and semi.
Legendary conditions of western life
which seem like the blending of the
world of romance with the world of
higher art and culture.
The several articles relating to the
west will be found, as all sketches of
the Pacific slope and Mexico always
are, exceedingly interesting Rambles
in the Rockies, by Edwards Roberts,
barely touches upon a field of descrip-
tive literature which. we hope, will be
improved and developed by other
writers as well The Priests Tale, by
Louise p. Heaven, is a well-told
episode Of western days, half wrapped
in mystery and covered with the SOM
brero Of Mexican romance; A Ramble
in the Foothills, by Dagmar Mariagcr,
is true little sketch of day spent
where nature seems most beautiful, and
will be recognized and appreciated by
all who have explored the foothills OF
California and Mexico; and the Ballad
of the North-Wind, by Alfred A.
Wheeler, describes picturesquely and
powerfully the chase of the north-wind
over hill and dale until he at last
retires to the rocky sleeps of Mount
Shasta.
The leading paper of the Overland
for May is entitled The Essential Prin-
ciple of Poetic Art, written by G. II.
Howison, and may be considered a
continuation Of Professor lie Contc's
paper on the General Principles of Art
and their Application to the Novel,
printed in the April number. The
paper will bear careful reading and
close examination, and will amply
repay those interested in poetic art TO
anaiyze and practically apply to future
work the principles set forth. The
style of the article forcibly reminds one
Of the days of the Lake poets, and the
fine comparisons and distinctions in
the beautiful of the art poetic recalls
the manner and critical skill of Leigh
Hunt
There is poem in the number en-
titled Bergamo, written by w. Win
throp, which deserves to be singled out
from the run of magazine verse. 1t is
quaint ballad Of IA stanzas, descrip-
tive of this old Italian town. In read
ing it one can but notice with delight
the beautiful climax of descriptive
writing found in the last four stanzas,
as follows
Hard by, the Gallery ;-thther came
Rare footsteps there learned to know
Old masters half forget by fame,
Cremona-boru OF Of Bergamo.
Grave Previtali be,, Of all
Him. Ct~zs four hundred Year, ago),
Beini taught his types recall
The teacher still, IN Bergamo.
His placid Marys face me now
Their eyes a benson bes,Ow-
Once more comes freshly my brow
The perfumed breath OF BergsmO,
As leaning on the bas,on's height
The distant AngeluS sounding low,
feel the shadow Of the night
Fall like grace On Bergamo.
The North American Review for the
month of May impresses one favorably
upon glancing over the table OF con-
tents, and upon perusal becomes so
deeply interesting that person with a
turn for literature is loath to lay it
down until it is finished. This Review
has long stood first in the field of
American thought, and is critical and
fair exponent Of the development OF
civilization in the western hemisphere.
The opening paper, entitled Has Chris
tianity Benefited Womanl consists OF
two articles written respectively by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right
Rev. J. l.. Spalding, DID, Bishop OF
Peoria, who discuss the extremes Of the
question on what would seem, to the
philosophical student of history, the
narrow grounds of partizan prejudice
For instance, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
asserts that call religions thus far have
taught the hcadship and superiority OF
man, the inferiority and subordination
of woman, while the Rev. MIR. Spalding
cites all the disabilities woman was
subject to in the early and pagan ages
to prove that all her advantages have
sprung from the Christian religion.
Such arguments, to say the least, are
narrow and illogical, and will throw but
little, II any, light on these great ques
tons which modern civilization is con
stantly presenting for investigation, SC
long as they are viewed from sectarian
standpoints, social. political or religious
We fully agree with Rev, Mr. Spaldine
when he says that "the best interests
OF mankind, of the church and the
state, will be served by widening and
strengthening woman's influence" bu,
he will find few who have turned ovel
the pages Of the worlds thought and
history who will agree to his assertion
that "the ancient civilization persisted
because woman was degraded, and our.
will be perpetuated by pure, believ'
mo splt.r.yerpnt and euliul .tepe.