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MORE POETRY.
NEW EDITIONS. TRANSACTIONS AND
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF 5 I'm W aHR
MITCHELI:, NJ D.. ILL., d. HA sS New New-Y HrrD
The Century Company.
SONGS FROM THE GREEK Transats %eD by JAKE
SdoTse S G Rlesmon 4GtSV Co. pp 3D.
ARMENIAN POEMS; Rendered into English verse Is@
Boston Roberts Brothers
AUCAsSIN AND NICOLETTE. Translated by NJ
s. Henry from the Litte-Varying ola trenGn
Bonrdillon The Verse Translation Rhymed by
Edward " Thomson. Duodecimo' PIP To- Bos-
ton: Copeland & Day.
French and German Translations ComparattT,eeyy
Arranged in Accordance with the Text OF !. "a "a
tons, Notes Biographes BhoSgr h Sn6
Haskell Dole. Two Volumes. Octave. PIP.
ciXxix. W. 597 Boston: Joseph knight Company.
OEUyREs DE JOsE5MARIA DE HE ri 8aA;-
Alphonse Lemerre.
LYRA CELTICA. An Anthology Of Representative
with Introduction and Notes by William Sharp.
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BOOK VERSE Edited by W. Roberts. Octave PIP.
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LYRICAL VERSE FROM ELIZABETH TO VIC
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Scribner's Sons.
THE RICHES OF CHAUCER. BY Charles Cow
den Clarke. Fourth Edition. Octave PIP. XVI.
63 New-York: The Macmillan Company.
THE POLITICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.
With Introductory Memoir Notes BiolIogrIap 2iG,
Warne e. co.
THE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS.
Edited by Robert Chambers. Revised by Will
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The author OF 1.-The Collected Poems" has fire.
ouently been discussed In this place. sometimes
with admiration for his skill and grace in those
works which are here set apart as "Miscellane-
Gus Poems" rarely with much satisfaction in the
dramatic Poems" which come first in the vol
ume before us and occupy more than half Of the
latter II d. Mitchell had been well advised he
would have reduced the proportion of dramatic
N nurelv lyric poems in this book and would
have put the latter In the first place. Certainly
there is nothing In "Francis Drake" or philip
Vcroon" or Francois V.llon" or any Of the other
dramatic essays. to match in beauty and poetic
reality such an effortless. vagrant bit Of verse
as this. called "Ideness:"
There is dearer lover of lost hours
Than T.
can be idIer than he idlest flowers:
More IDLY lie
Than MONDAY lilies languidly anoat
And water pillowed in "A MINDLESS moat
And | can be
Ster than some gray stone
That hath no motion known.
1t to
That my still ideness doth make nv own
All magic gifts Of Joys simplicity
This is not major verse. but II is poetic More
over. II typifes the best that DR.. Mitchell can
do. He equals it in many short poems He
never even approaches It In his dramatic nara
t,ves The last epithet is advsedly chosen
.rrancis Drake" and its fellows are narratives
not noems An occasional effective turn In
n.1es and neees Of blank does not give
that verse life. and, after all possible amiabili
Ties have been bestowed upon rereading OF the
dramatic attempts. there Is still left sense OF