The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-04
LITERARY.

IGDOII Vi lilt IulllllllAitC VI lllt AlliCil~
can Ornithologists' Union, for the pro-
lection of birds, which appears in the
current number Of Science, is making
arrangements for the distribution OF
100000 copies, and would be glad TO
receive substantial aid from friends Of
our American birds. The report shows
that unless immediate measures are
taken to prevent the present rate OF
destruction, our woods and fields will
shortly be without birds. "Think of
your woods and orchards without
BIRDS" and lend a hand to the associ-
alton. Address Ct. +. Gordon, presi-
deaf, Milwaukee; Thomas L. Hill,
secretary, 103 State street, Chicago, or
Levi Knowles, treasurer, 252 North
Broad street, Philadelphia. Checks TO
the order of the treasurer.
A LITTLE SONG.
Kittle song / fain would sing,
Why dOst thou evRde me soy
Like a bird upon the wing,
Sailing high, sailing low,
Yet fOreter out of reach,
Thou dost vex me beyond measure,
Unallured by prayer or speech, =.
WAITING thine own time aud pleasure!
Well i know thee. tTlcksy sprlte-
could call the by thy namej
Ihave wooed thee day and night,
Yet thou wilt not W my claim.
Hark thou'rt lowering even now
In the soft, still air above me
Phantasy or dream art thou, d.
That my hearts cry cannOt move thee?
Little song | never sang,
Thou art sweeter than the strain
That through starry maZes rang,
First-born child of joy and pain.
/ shall sing thee not; but surely
From some all-compslllng voice
Swelling high, ~serenely, purely,
/ shall hear thee and rejoice
-,Iulid q: n. DOrT, IN the Critic.
THE DECORATOR AND FURNIsHER for
March has an exceptionally brilliant
display of articles and illustrations,
all of them being particularly useful
and interesting. The recent extensive
and elaborate decorations in the New
| York Academy of Music have excited
more comment and admiration than
almost any other similar work in that
city for years; and in examining the
four pages of illustrations made by
the firm doing the decorating, n can
readily understand why they are SC
highly valued. These reproductions
of the Academy decorations are
among the finest pieces ever given IN
any magazine. There is also a long
article upon the White House, giving
a good idea of its appearance, and q
ull-page illustration of the celebrated
East room, reproduced with photo.
graphic effect. There are several ar
ticles of furniture shown, entirely new
i'm design, an article ON a promineni
Philadelphia studio, an elaborate dool
carved by Benn Pitman, ceramics, al
alabaster mantel, and a ~profusion o
other things. The magazine is pub
lished at 80 East Fourteenth street
New York City.
THE GLAssE OF TINE, in the FRS
and Second Age. Divinely HANDLED
by Thomas Peyton, OF Lincolnes lime
Gent. Seen and Allowed. London
Printed by Bernard Alsop for Law
renee Chapman, and are to be sold a
his Shop over against Staple lime, 1920
Now reprinted in a neat volume, Lon.
Primer type, bound in fine cloth, gil
top. beyeled boards. Price 80 cents
The quaint poem, of the title page o
which the above is Il transcript, an
peared nearly half Il century Garlic
than Paradise Lost. and it is intrinsic
allv probable that it would have falleI
, under the eye of Milton; in any cas-
there are trik points OF resemblanc
between the two poems, and man
have supposed Millions immortal wor
to have been inspired by the former
|, Only two copies OF the work are know
to be in existence previous to the lssu
of the present edition, N being |
/ the British Museum, the other in tn
Bodleian Library, Oxford. The cop
, in the British museum was purchase
at a noted sale of old books in lSl'
, by Baron Bolland, who notes upon
|, blank leaf that it cost him e2l LIS. I'd
(about fll0). Some years ago a gel
: tleman of Virginia, Nh. ]. l.. Peytor
sprung from the old English family
/. that name, made an accurate tran
|, script of the copy in the British mt
scum, preserving even the quar-
I spelling, punctuation, capitalizing, an
italicizing of the original. This pre-
ent edition is printed without alter
ton. Apart from its presumed COZ
a nection, with Paradise Lost, II
/ poem has very considerable merits
I its own, and is in every way a literal
curiosity. John b. Alden, Publishe
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