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That seem toslift me nearer to His throne,
Whose purer air, from drifting cloud-iands
With strength anew for effort weary grown
Ny being thrills;
Sing ~ scge ther. and with glad accord.
o, valleys sweet
In golden haze and purpling shadows drest;
Whose a';syp happy homes Ike clustering gems
Your wealth OF love. your store OF peace and
With JOY replcte.
Sing ye together. and with glad accord,
The blessings OF the Lord!
o. mighty deepl
gaze far out on thy infinity.
Ger heaven-touched waves God's spirit moves;
His depths of love. his boundless SYM
o, waves that leap
To greet him, sing with thankful, glad &C.
The mercies of our Lord!
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This is story OF Napoleon at
play" although it seems to US that he
was very serieus on that night just
eight days after Austerlitz, when, i'm
patient at not receiving letters from
Josephine, the emperor scolded and
stormed and declared that she was too
much bound up in "her BOBBY Of q
son." And it was then and there set
tied in his own mind that Eugene
Beauharnais should marry. "He is q
fine fellow" declared the emperor. az
he softened down. 81 also love him.
II he had been my sonw
"Yes! But he shall marry princess,
and l will adopt him and make him my
heir to the kingdom Of Italy, falling
children of my own. have it! Pretty
Princess Augusta Of Bavaria!"
And although Augusta was at the
time betrothed and many other things
stood in the way, it all came about as
decreed by the impatient plotter, as he
pouted and scolded by the flsring fire
that night in an old Munich mansion.
And not only did it happen that Eu-
gene and Augusta were married, but
they lived happily ever after, as people
may do in historical as we'll as in other
novels.
We confess to not being much i'm
pressed with this book, although it has
been called brilliant. There is too
much of studied, not to say stilted
phrasing in it. The pictures are not
quite natural and the reader is con-
scious all the time that he is being
played upon. The tendency to alliter-
alton, for instance, is at times oppres-
sive. Thus, "The distant Csrpathian
mountains raised pallid peaks from the
plains" OF course, this is not very
bad, but it is trifle trying. Still it is
book we'll worth reading.
L :.
THE AIMS OF LITERARY STUDY. By Hiram
Corson, LII. ID. rto'e sor OF English litera
ture in coraeli uairer;ity. Mcmillan &
Co., New \ ORR:
Professor Corsoo hardly needs an
introduction to t., public at our
hands. He has bson a prolific writer
on literary topics covering wide
range. He is Shakespearan scholar of
note, and one OF the best interpreters
of Browning. This treatise is beau
tiful little volume, gilt top. and bound
In style Uniform with William Win
ter's works by these publishers. Most
of the papers comprised in the volume
originally appeared in Post-Lore.
Here is sample OF the style and
thought of the author: "The word
must become flesh IN order to be spir-
itually responded to. The response of
the intellect to this abstract does not
quicken" "The intellect should be
trained and habituated to clear, dis.
tinct ana adequate conceptions. con-
cerring all things that are the object
of clear conceptions"
4 q h
OF Mrs. Daggett's book, "Maripo-
silla,' Boston Ideas, one OF Boston's
literary lights has pleasant words of
praise, as witness the following extract.
The story Is daiutily picturesque
tale of modern doings among the
elusive, passing charms of old-time
Mexican life a. San Gabriel, not far
from the popular beauties of Pasa.
dena. The rich romance of the whole
centers in Mariposilla, q beautiful
young Mexican girl, whose initiation
into American society and into an un.
happy love affair forms the source of q
current of deep emotion whose course
cannot be stayed and which flows in
swift rebellion against the mandates oi
an inexorable fate.
The authors style ia so very natural
that one feels himself looking into hel
mind and following with introspective
analysis the whole path of the story Of
it winds its way among her inevitable
GO PoAACANCSs
OCEAN ROvERs ByWM. II. THOMAS. Laird
Lee, Chicago.
Here is a breezy volume, made up oil
stories that bring back to every mar
who was ever on shipbosrd, the salt oil
the spray, the smell OF the tar upor
the ropes, the hard breld and salt meat
of week days and the duff" for Sun
day dinners.
The most ambitious of the yarns
herein told is The Privateersman, {
story of the war of 1872. Ths Escape
is also narrative of the same exciting
period. The Pirates Prize is the mos
slifting" recital, and might have come
out of The Pirates Own Book. Thii
volume gives US q glimpse Of q vanish
ing store OF romance.
The MAGAzINEs.-April brings III
showers OF good things by way of tn,
magazines. There is no room here t,
make even general mention of wha
10 in store for the careful reader. On,
article, however, in Scribner's, ought I,
be read by every newspaper man-w
mean the paper on The Ethics of Jour
nalism.
Perhaps the solidest of all the Apri
magazines is the Atlantic, which has
very strong paper on The Presidenc,
and Senator Allison, and one on Th
Case Of the Public Schools, by F. W
Atkinson, principal Of the Springfield
Mass, high school. The Alaska Bound
arv Line. by DR., Mendenhall. il also