The Portland daily press., 1892-06-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Don Finimondone, Calabrian Sketches,
by Elizabeth Cayazza, belongs to the Fic-
ton, Fact and Fancy Series, and is the
fourth volume published under that
heading. Should reader of finished
literary taste and no information as to
the author, take up for the first time
these sketches by Mrs Cavazza, we pre-
dict that he would pronounce them ex-
quisitely made translations of character
istic italian tales. The bouquet of sunny
Italy permeates every page of these sto-
ries. 1t is distilled in the very sentences
from the mouths of the picturesque peas
antry, as, "The truth is, riches are like
ducks-they run to those who know how
to call them;'' or speaking of two babies,
the little Baron and his foster brother,
the son of the carrier. ''Each was prettier
than the other; there was no choice
''Then the Baron took the whim to go as
far as England, where they never see the
sun because of the fog; and that time
also he brought back a servant, a nimble
little man with red face, and gave him
charge of the stables, where he chewed
straws and hissed like serpent as he
groomed the horses and commanded
Cirillo to bring buckets of water
The sketch which gives the book its
title contains perhaps most completely a
reproduction of the life-like touches of
description of humble Calabrian men
and women in their simple existence and
with their naive philosophy, while A
Calabrian Penelope first published in
The New Princeton Review, as Don Fini-
mondone was in the Atlantic) strikes the
tragic vein.
The Story of Cirillo is marvellous bit
of drawing, pathetic yet never sentimen-
talized.
The Tree of the Bride mingles the poet
ic out of doors element very artistically
with the disastrous love affair of poor
Girolamo, and we know right well the
brave little industrious donkey, Mu-
ridda.
A Trumpet Call is as fine in it's way as
its companion pieces; but Princess Hum
ming-Bird we find not so much to our
liking, though there again tastes differ.
Mrs. Cavazza has done and is doing
much excellent work as writer both of
prose and verse, and is an accomplished
critic and reviewer as well; but we are
much mistaken if anything new from
hn,. h,.sl1 on,116 ovoo1 thnco two
Calabrian sketches; they breathe the
very air of the mountains and valleys of
the southern provinces they picture for
us, and the very spirit of the hardy and
brave but irritable and passionate people
who figure in these little romances.
Portland has reason to be proud of so
able representative in the field of liter
ature. (New York: Charles L. Webster
& Co; Portland; Loring, Short & Har-
mon.)
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