The herald., 1896-07-19

we find a calm, affectionate respect
Doled forth by Intellect to Intellect.
Yet when Love, taking vengeance, smote
me sore,
1t was no Girton trumpet that laid low
The walls of this Platonic Jericho.
For when my peace of mind at length was
thought no whit of intellect or Soul;
Nay! was cast in pitiful distress, s,,.raer.
BY brown eyes wide in truth ana tenuer-
Alfred Cochrane.
TO HAFIZ.
Though gifts like thine the fates gave not
O Hafiz. one thing we both hold in fee
Nay, it holds us; for when the June wihos
We both are slaves and lovers to the rose.
In vain the pale Circassian lily shows
Her face at her green lattice. and in VAIN
The violet beckons. with unveiled face;
The bosom's white. the lips light purple
These touch our liking, yet no passion stir:
But when the rose comes HahZ-ih 'na'
Where she stands smiling. we kneel down
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Rossetti appears to have had liking
for curious residences, and marked
talent for getting others to live Win
him in them and share the expense.
In the big, rambling house at Cheyne-
walk, Chelsea, where he spent most
of the last years of his life he had the
company, at various times, of swim
burne. Meredith and Hall Caine. SWIM
burne wrote his essay on Blake in TINS
poetical caravansary; but Meredltn
soon departed. Perhaps he could no.
take up with Rossettis pets. Mr. w MS
tier. who was a frequent visitor, ana
ID in, nnIlnPt1On
blue china and Japanese prints, is au-
thority for a story of zebra that chased
its master about his garden with felonl-
Gus intent. There were also chafne-
Icons, peacocks and wombat. AT var
ious periods, Rossetti was the owner OF
specimens of four different species of
owls, a performing dog called Dizzy
after a celebrated statesman, several
other dogs, hedgehogs, woodchuck,
dormice, kangaroos, armadilloes, rae
coon, deer, a mole and laughing
3ackass.
A London letter writer makes the
declaration that there has been plain
falling off in summer novel reading this
season The book stands where cheap
novels are sold are doing little business
In this line, and all the publishers are
holding off till the fall the issuing of
contemplated publications. So marked
has been the recent decline in the sale
of the light novel that the cause has
been sought with curious interest. The
general belief appears to be that bfcy-
Gle riding, just now so much the fashion
with ladies of all ages furnishes the eX-
planation why the novel is neglected.
1t is said that hundreds and thousands
of women ride in the squares and parks
of London this seas On, who have former
ly spent thair leisure in light reading
at home This explanation is so plausi-
BILE that it appears TO be accepted by
book sellers and publishers.
In pursuance of the matter referred to
above It may be said that very much the
same changes in the buying and read
ing habit are quietly going on this side
of the Atlantic, though the special rea-
son above referred to may not exist.
For instance. the country has latterly
been flooded and swamped with cheap
publications, notably magazines, until
they are practically beyond considering
or even counting. Inquiry concerning
these shows that the sales are dropping
off, the popular demand having been
outrun by eager projectors of new
ventures. We look for completion of
the work of winnowing out the chaff
from this mass, and for a triumph of the
solid and deserving magazines of the
legitimate fields.
We have seen some extracts from
Cyrus w. Fields Biography. by his
daughter, and judge it must be work
of rare interest. He was a marvel of
industry, and when a boy his brother
said of him: Il never saw Cyrus so
uneasy as when he was trying to keep
still" In 1895 he started from his New
England home to go to New York to seek
his fortune, and here is how he spent the
eight dollars he possessed:
From Stockbridge, to New York....s2 90
q am not going to take them any
mOre.)
To hair cutting ............ 1o1s
To one vial of spirits of turpentine
=, (used to get some spots out of coaD 6lI
To get shoes mended .................. 1Sa4
To one pair of shoe brushes ........... %
To one box of backing. ....".....:;:. 121a
To get trunks carried from Davids
to my boarding houSe............... 25
To two papers of tobacco to put in
=, trunks to prevent moths getting in. 121A
To one straw hat the one | brought
from home got burned and was so
dirty that David thought / had bet
ter get me a new one)................ m
To one steel pen n....................... 121a
To small expenses, from time to
time. such riding in an omnibus,
going to Brooklyn, etc, tee, etc.. 25
Total ..,........................ SO
A more distinguished family than the
Field family is hardly to be found in
ing than that which tells about them.
How all these children were reared and
educated by a country clergyman on a
beggarly salary is something that people
of these times can hardly understand
A HUMBLE ENTERPRISE. BY Ada
Cambridge, author of The Three
Miss Stings, Fidelis, etc. Appleton
& Co.
Here is an excellent story in good
form and bright in incident, that can be
safely commended to the reader. / is
No 1876 of the Town and Country series,
and sure to be welcomed as one of the
ever welcome monthly visitors to so
this series SO many times that a bare
announcement of each new volume
ought to be quite enough. Ada Cam
bridge is a Mrs Cross of Australia.
THE SENT MENTAL SEX. BY Ger
trude Warden. Appleton & Co
Here is a dull-colored, cloth bound
volume, divided into twenty-one chap
ters. and comprising exactly 207 pages.
The paper is good, the print is good, but
the grammar is bad, the style f1ippant
and the whole tone foolish. 1t purports
to portray the grand passion in a dis
cursive, struggling story that had quite
as well been left untold-probably much
better.
AS touching the literary style of the
book, it may be noted that within the
space of a page we have these express