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    ¦ ' Latter-Dat Poetry. Aheap Of Volumes ...

    rto 7 o ~ f relatives and friends . The late Mr . Ilingeston was a Cornish « en t eman ( here again we get on the ground of a species of separate nationality ) , . W he amused himself with the very harmless pursuit oi writing , verses on | nny and every occasion , and' sending them to the Poets Corners of pro- } JKcfcd newspapers . This was all very well ; but the son , now that , the , JSher i ? dte & , has been thoughtless enough to collect these exceedingly ; Sive pieces , and put them forth with a great fanfaronade . Mr . Iim-¦ > f £ senior , is introduced to the world as one of the allustrious dead of fcorn vail ; and the son quotes the opinion . of a fellow Cormshman hat the ™ bc would eagerly hail a-volume , of such poetry . " In a note to one of SepoSs / Mr " liin ^ ton , junior , says :--There is wWi ; »¦ great simiSy of style and character between , iiy father ' s poetry , and that of the lite Thomas Moore . " "We must confess . that the evidence is by no means ' ear to us There is something exceedingly ludicrous in the younger Mr . ilin « eston ' tliinking that the alleged similarity is made startlingly apparent by the " strange coincidence "©! ' tils father having written the lme—. : Those iovous hours are nass'd away , ¦ - .. ; - .

    before he Lad read Moore ' s song " Those Evening Bells , ' though there is a , similar line there . Why , the verse is one of the most spring common-- < places of conventional poetry ; for ( with leave be it said ) Moorp was some- . limes guiltv of writing hi the " pattern style . ' Again ; the Cornish celebrity ¦ chants the praises of another genius of the tm-producmg- county-one 1 ; or- tescue Hitchins ; whereupon , Mr . llmgestori , junior , remarks , with exquisite simplicity — "It is somewhat singular that their initials should have been the same " (\) We are pleased , of course , with any exhibition of filial uflection- but , as our opinion ischallenged , we must pronounce ^ it . JV c have looked throng several pag es of this work , and have found nothing but hopeless vacuitv . Yet nn Wiring yorld must needs be . favoured with ii view of " Truro Yean Cottage , the residence of irancis llingeston , as if all men were dying to place it among the well-known ; - Homes and Haunts j of the English * Poets . " Such is the pother which is . always made about i ¦ l 0 C VerySi " -superior ' 3 s a Northumberland hard—Mr . . Teniperlcy GrejyVylio j Vends is , from Newe ^ tlc-upon-Tyne , a few lyrics , privately printed which , though by no means of a high order , show a fueling for nature and a faculty of sm « ini .- Here are two very pretty stanzas on a mountain stream : mdeed , thc ° iiiie in italics is something more . than pretty . — In tlie rudeness of thy . miming , - ] : i the wilduess of thy glee , In thy wili ' ul , iil . iyful cunniny :, . Thou art life and light tome , . . Moinitalh stream ! 0 , mountain ' stream ! . In thy dying murmurs haunting , . Tn tin } hurUil in the sect , . In thy dirge " the wild waves chanting , TIiqu . art life and light to me , Mountain stream ! O , mountain stream ! There is a feeling of truth and passion , also , in some lines spoken by a girl ¦ whose "betrothed is dead : — - . The quiet town is sleeping , ¦ AVliilc in fierce heart-break of pain . I live ' that fatal yesterday ' . \ * ,. ' , ii .. ¦ . ¦ ¦ . i-l n ' n i orr . 'lin . - . ¦

    This days drag on ; but no relief—Oh ! " am I blind ? " I do but see . One ghastly sight of uttur woe— J ) cath lookinij throwjh fond eyes to ma . " . " Mr Grey docs not always write as well us this ; in fact , we have picked out j the two best things in his little , book—which , by the way , with itsclear type and illuminated initial letters , is an elegant specimen of provincial printing . But the Northumbrian minstrel has in him something of the lroubaUour facultv of those old gleemen who used to come " from the INorth Countrie . | We next take up a poem from ( or of ) Australia—lurra 1 arra , or the Wamlennq Ahorhfuie . A Poetical Narrative in Eleven Books . By Kmnahan Corimalns . ( Hamilton , Adnms , and Co . ) Yarra Yarra is an Australian chieftain as well as an Australian river ; and , being dispossessed ot his ancestral lands , on the site of the present Melbourne , by "the withering blast of civilization , " wanders over the world , and , With exU-n .-nvi ! view , Surveys mankind from China to Peru . A strange , incoherent poem is this record of his rumblings ; and very sinsuhu * are the liberties taken with the English language . Such , however , we suppose , are the babblings of Young Australia , already emulous of oucshimii" America in verbal monstrosities . Mr . Comwallis is evidently dosirous that his poem shall be , ior the aborigines oi'the great southern islnml , whut lliaicatha is lor the perishing red men of the western comment ; wherefore , he writes after this fashion : — Oh ! 1 rejoice to think on K \\\\\\\\ Q . uah , The fairest virgin that o'er ^ Loolu-rwaa Danced to the war-song of a naked throng , Or yabba yabb ' aud o ' ev old lhirrendong . Hail ! all those regions l > y t . ho rocky Koo , That once fair river that through Kishlunioo , In harrying waters now baptized the Swan , DouimIs to lviiiH Oeorgc ' H P \ or rostk . s . s yun , Itulurning never to tlu > yoiui mount , Tlmt livea l ) eyuud nn evcr-ynrring fount , . . . Onknpaiingn , lh'onlc . eroo , TM ' urwnrrftron ^ wirran ^ , Mynun ^ a , yolll , NVillun ^ oo , Noorlnn ^ a , Merrianp ; , Fx-oin IJunya Munga to tlio IuIIh , IMoorum-li to tla * sua . ; A < lieu ! adieu ! no moru for me . ia it to ( jiizo on ye . In other places , we have whole lyries in the native ; Au .-tialian tongue ! At p . 48 , however , there is n touch of Jisiturc which may mo . sl truly be si \ k ! l . i make the whole world kiiu since men of all countries can sympathize with

    it . Mr . describing , , voyage during a storm ; and thus be writes : — ' ' . The sailor on the watclt walk ' ct treinlling quick , While there close by lain , passengers icere side . Yarm Yarra is certainly a singular book ; but the reader wjll bear us witness that it is not devoid of truth . —Mr . Cornwallis also publishes a cheaper edition of the same poem ; but we have not collated it with the other , and therefore . cannot say whether or not the author has seen the error of his wavs The reader may , if he please , give him the benefit of the doubt .

    ; The Kev . It . A . Blomefield translates from tbc French The . Poetical Works of IJciry ' lhc / C'dd , a Swiss . ( Lay . ) The verses are conspicuous for a devotional feeling but . as our language is not wanting in religious poetry , we do not see the occasion on that ground for translating these effusions . As for the descriptions of Swiss scenery , those are now stock property . We cannot say much for Messrs . Durand and Blom . efield , . nor for } lr . I-dward Charles Mogridge , ' whose - P & W / w ' -OTudd ' and ' ; Glass ) -appeal to the same species of audience . . _ . ¦ . Corona am 7 01 for Poems , by E . J . Reed ( Longman ) , present some Ingher qualities The / first and longest poem in this volume tells the story ot a set of enthusiasts who sro out to a desert island , in order there to inaugurate a new and ideally perfect state of society , and who of course fail . m their endeavour * , and finally return to the old land , content to ivork humbly with their fellow-men in . the good cause of gradual progression . Ihe writer has

    . steeped himself in Tennyson , and imitates Ins phraseology ancl Jus caUcnces v ; ith the skill of a mockins-bird . But be has real imagination and fancy , and his descriptions , though -sometimes , overwrought and turgid , possess colour and substance . Air . Reed may do something in future years , if he will avoid affectation ' and imitation , and restrain his tendency to excess . F <>« r-n < ic-l , « , > h ( i * cs- of Thutujht a . ul iFcdinrj , by J . 117-Powell ( Partridge and Co . ) , ¦ are volumes of veive l > v working men . Devotion to a form of art is , of course , commendable in " any ' class of life ; but it would have been betterto have circulated-these productions privately . -Messrs . Curtis and Aldndge write one of those foolish , fussy prefaces , in ^ vliich the vanity that proclaims

    itself such struiralcs with / " the pride , that apes humility . " They tell us that "they have satisfied themselves with respect to the general merit of the wort , ' but do not know whether the reader will be equally satisfied . They think their publication may not contain , any thin-- " extraordinarily sublime , " and that ( C the more lengthy and pretentious productions [ niay appear ] singularly incoherent and ' incomplete , ' "' they have not uniformly ren-nrded " the auxiliary pruc . es of rhyme and metre , inasmuch as they are m 3 i ( vwav e ^ ential to true poet ry -V but they hope " . that due regard lias been paid to the fixed rules of English prosody . " After such explanations as these , the reader knows what to expect , though perhaps he would hardly anticipate that these poetical brothers ostentatiously accentuate heaven ( i heaven , ' out of civility , perhaps , to the fixed rules of prosody . ^ ' , A fow volumes remain , of which we need only record the titles , since they present no special features for comment : —A new edition of Melancho ' / i / , and Other Poeiu * . By Thomas Cox ( Satmders and Otley ) . Songs of Earhj > Bp / Mij . By Rowland Brown ( Kent and Co . ) . Dream of Freedom , and , V / for I'uujLs . liy James Smart Linwood ( Bulnuih ) . Poems and Love Lyrics . Bv Robert W . 'Buchanan ( Glasgow : MutTay and Son ) .

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    r ] } j , } , , | . PUBLICATIONS AKD REPUBLICATIOInS . The Life of Cardinal ¦ J . ltzzofliuti , by Dr . C . W . Russell , published by Messrs . Longman ' and Co ., is the development of an essay which njiponred some years a ^ o in the JuHiibt ' . rqh ll > ' > : ica \ and which has been translated into the French'Ttiul Italian language .- ! . It is a work we shall examine with much interest . . From the same publishers we have the continuation of "Mr . banvuel Bailey ' s J / 'l ( rrs <>;> Ifo P / iilo ^ opli // < f Ifo Human 21 ind . another volume which claims deliberate examination . ^ . _ A new volume of H ' -lrcfions , -Gran ? and <' " /!¦ , by Thomas do Qtuncey , comes from Kdin'burjih ( Hogg" and Co . ) It contains Essays , Sceptical and Anti-Seepticul , mi l ' robhjnis Neglected and Misconceived , on "Walking ¦ Stewart , on Oracles , on C-Jrwce , oii Miracles , on the Marquis "Wt'Ucsley , on Protestantism , and on Casuistry .

    The author of ' How to Make Home Happy , "' has published ( Kent and Co . ) a new and useful volume , Health fur the MrUioii , a book so full of wisdom for application to daily life that we must treat of it at large . Messrs . Sampson Low ami Co . send ns a little volume called Types of Wo >/ u / , / l / ood , contiiining four stories : — Our Wish , " ' - ' The Four Sisters , " " ik'rtha's Love , " and ' " The Ordeal . '' They are of the quality tlmt attracts vounir readers who interest tliL-niselves in dramas of uflection ami social adventure . It is quite an announcement to mention a new English translation of a novel by Alexamlru Dumas . As usual , it appears in the Parlour Library ( Hodgson and Co . ) , forming the hundrml iind eighty-socond volume of that scmpUernal collection , ami is entitled The lieijenf ' . s ; i ) t < t < tjltti'r ) a , \\ Historical Rojnanoe . A vvelcome nnil delightful treasure for every dr . nving-room is a new edition of Moore ^' . v XatioiKil Airs < did other Soz / i / s , , toic Jirst , Culleeted , and published by Messrs * . Longman and Co . These beautiful melodies have been too much out of fashion of lati . and wo . cannot say that \\ n-y have been replaced by songs or ballads better worl . li listening to . Assuredly this most seductive casket will restore Moore to favour , and a glance at iho dear old words and airs will thrill through many hearts like a . sudden memory of happier days . The sixth volume of the Key . Charh-s Morivnh >\ s llis / nrj / if Ifo . Romans under the Empire ( Longmans ) has boon long lookoil for niuhvill bo eagerly appropriated by ^ Indents . It coiumuiM-os with a chapter on tho pacification of IJjivd by Claudius and the subjugation of Britain . lu'tuming to Itonxc , it conducts us through the reigns of Nero , Clulbu , Otho . Vitellius , and Vespasian , and the volume concludes with the destruction of Jerusalem by

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051858/page/19/