Evening star., 1894-12-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A.. Cronut; author Of "A Midsummer LaTt, :.n..
eret," etc. New York: Lowell Brothers Com
pany.
IT cannot rest me till they GOMEZ he cried,
And from the hut his shepherds reed he
blew.
The honeyed note in sweet cajolery few
Ger desert sands and up the mountain
wide:
And as in dells it's fainting echo died,
The grazing focks Arcadian heard ana
The loving call. and, moist with evening
dew,
The motley creatures FASTENED to his side.
20. fiocks uncouth!' wandering traveller
'Ill-bred, ill-chosen-" "Ah! how fair they
bew
The rustic spake. what pleasure have
I could not rest till they had come to me.
For with them 1 have lived and laughed
and wept."
And then the happy swain lay calmly
down and slept"
Thus. modestly. does DR.. Croffut deliver
himself of the prologue to his latest vol
ume--a volume in which the literary, grave
and gay are respectively the more con-
spicuous because they are sandwiched each
between the other from preface to finis.
Nearly all the verses have appeared In
days gone by. but newspaper evanescenc
offers one of the best of reasons for repub-
ucdtlOI. All manner Ol tOpiCS are touShcO
upon or dissected, and, as a rule. the work
is very cleverly done. The trend Of the
religious poems is hardly toward ortho-
dOxy, but that does not damage their poetic
value, nor are the views sufficiently near
the extreme to be regarded as startling.
Aside from other considerations there is
local interest in the book, for DR.. Croffut
has long been q consistent Washingtonian.
SONGS FROM vAGABONDIA. Bliss Carman and
Richard Hovey. Designs by Tom B. Meteya-d.
Boston: Copeland Day.
In this day Of perfunctory poetry and
magazine poets. Songs from Vagabondia"
is in the nature Of a vernal relief. These
gentlemen have something to say and they
say 1t in q hale and ready way that Is as
convincing as 1t is artistic. One is not met
at every turn by some platitude laboriously
wrought, which the minor poets nowadays
80 delight in, but ring and cheer and
manner neither obscure nor commonplace.
with just enough mystery to delight and
stimulate the imagination without over
taxing 1t. Surely, in such verses as THE
Mendicants" and THE Wander Lovers we
have songs that are musical and poetry
that Is poetic 1t Is hard to imagine that
Mr.. Carman and Mr. Hovey write their
verses in an atmosphere OF steam radiators
and electric lights; but II they do mores
the credit, for
"A vagrant's morning wide and blue
In early fall, when the mud walks too"
Charles Kingsley. Illustrated with drawings
by william Martin Johnson. Two Volumes
New York: Harper & Brothers. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
OF the work itself-thc great product of
a master mind-it would be difficult to say
anything new, but the form In which 1t Is
now presented compels laudatory comment.
more artistic result has not been achieved
Of late than is evident in these volumes.
There is the typographical superlative, the
hall nf illustrations and
the finish of the skillful bookbinding hand.
Those who love the book beautiful will
find much to admire upon and within the
silken covers.
PUSHING TO THE FRONT; or, Success Under DIFF
fculties. Book Of Inspiration and Encourage
ment to All Who are Struggling for Self-eleva-
tion Along the Paths of knowledge and OF
with twenty four fine portraits of eminent per
sons Boston, Houghton, Mifiin & Co. Wash
ington: William BallantyEe & Sons
If this book could be placed in the hands
of every boy and girl in the United States
it would do great good; if the precepts con-
tanned in it were put into universal practice
our civilization would move ahead et a
pace SO swift that In fifty years the nine
teenth century would seem to belong TO the
dark ages There is magnetism in success
full men, and there is intense magnetism in
every page of the record of success here
given in a fashion that must deeply in
terest all readers.
THE OLD BRICK CHURCHES OF MARYLAND.
BY Helen West Rdgeiy. With Illustrations by
Sophie De Butts Stewart New YcrE: Ahson
ID. F. Randolph & Co. Washington: William
Ballantyne X Sons.
Folks who delight in the study Of things
religious as they were in days long gone
by will derive pleasure from reading this
contribution descriptive of Episcopal his
tory in Maryland during the early exist
ence of that fourshing section Of the coun-
try. The facts recorded by the authoress
are entertainingly presented on pages that
testify to the printers interest in the vol
ume.
ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, Religious. Literary
and Social. BY Phillips Brooks late Bishop OF
Massachusetts,. Edited by the Rev. John Cotton
Brooks. New York: E. p. Dutton & Co. Wash
ington: VIM. Ballantyne Sons.
1.-The collection of essays and addresses
here presented" says the editor, "com-
prises all Of which any record at all satis-
factory has been preserved Of Bishop
Brooks public utterances outside Of the
pulpit" Religious, literary and social top
les are dealt with as only Phillips Brooks
could deal with them. This Is a volume
that has material and memorial value.
| THE SOCIAL OFFICIAL ETIQUETTE OF THE
UNITED STATES. By Madeleine vinton Dahl
gren. sixth Edition. Baltimore: John Murphy
Co.