The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-19
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Poems of Henry Timrod," with MEM
DIR and portrait. Houghton Miflln and !
Company. New York Goth 81. so This is
the memorial edition, embrac ns poems not !
included in the edition oG 1878 The por- |
trait in this volume is declared to be an
excellent one. The purpose Of che Memoir |
ial Associa ton, which is chartered under !
the laws of South Carolina. is to erect
from the profits of the sale of this book a
worthy public memorial. An enuIe gesera-
ton has passed away; another has grown
up since our gifted poets death-Oct. =
1867. An edition of his poems was PUBLISH
ed in 1873, and sod out in a few weeks /
second edition aNas ISSUED the same veg =
and passed readily into circulation. Il Ne
bankruptcy Of the publishers follow "a
soon afler these successful issues, and the
copyright became entangled in The : nb-
fishers failure. This explains the re son
why for more than twenty years book Sell
ers have not been able to supply II o H.
mand for copies of Timrod's Poems cen
Don Carlos Buei, u. S. A., speal ing Of
Timrod's poem, "A Cry TO Arms said:
IN my judgment, that is a bait . strain
throughout, which deserves a pl ace high
up on The ron of American poer rs" Pa1I
H. Hayne, his contemporary, + rend and
brother poet, said Of him; AS o n artist he
fulfilled one of Collridge's many defni1ions
OF poetry-the best words in he lest or
der-with a tact as exquisite ~ was nm
crring." The Century Magazir d. Aprl 1895
in reviewing his poetry, sale .'Aporoach-
ing him We suspect province ism. bur fnd
a genial breadth that sur ,rises nc. HE
gamut of feeling is wide, md even in his
war songs where one eY .r,sets Ntt1a RS
trant we find admirable fself-confrol and
breadth. Now that the p7 oD!e of the south
are raaslg "a inaI,os 70 Tlmrods fame,
that the American gopie share in the
honor, for ne was a true American poet
t s H nIonSs 20 20 ib s in the narrow space
that pefohss 10 inc z est"
The Century Me .gazine, volume LvII.
November, 1S9S-A nril 1899: 900 pages. H.
lgstrated. Cloth s2.75. Gilt top So. Half
Russia. 81. 1t is the authorltativeness,
rather than the amount, of war matter 1t
contains that .mpresses the reader of the
hfty-seventh bound volume of the Cen
fury for the six months ending with April.
The names of Sampson, Shafter, Sigsbee,
hopsoh. y reene, etc, are a guaranty Of
nIst-n Md accounts of the chief events Of
the Yves Indian and Philippine cam
pdlghS; AS memories pour servir for a
htal NJ story of the war, their value IS OBJ
ylous. "Lowelrs Impressions of Spain"
deal nth period when peace prevailed
even ia Cuba; and while military proves
IS q CELEBRATED in Prof. Wheeler's notable
SER rs Of historical studies of which Alex
an Ter the Great is the theme, the Mace
az MANS campaigns are 100 remote in time
q nd place TO come into the same eategoTy
With the war story" Of to-day. Paul l..
4 Ford's "Many-sided Franklin" with a
chapter on each OF the, sew
a character and career without parallel
in American history; John G. Van Dykes
@O3d English Masters accompanying
\ Coles engravings; and Charles Henry
Hart on "Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Wo-
men" with engravings by Henry Wolf. a
II dip at random into the pages Of this book
brings up such tidbts as Lewis CAROLS
nnpublished letters 10 little girls, Mark
srwain's 'sTrom the London Times OF
iaet "a Absolute Zero" (an Illustrated de-
scrtntion OF the possibilities Of liquid air.
Noah Brooks entertaining "reminiscences
II ~ Mark Twain, and many other articles
~ much more than passing interest
4, "Oualtatlve Analysis for Secondary
A schools" by Cyrus w. Irish, A. b. (Har-
vard), head master OF Lowell gu School
Price 50 cents. The American Book Com
pany. New York, publishers. This