--_New Monthly
(London) Magazine_.
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Legends and Lyrics. By Anne Adelaide Proctor, (Daughter of the Poet,
Barry Cornwall.) One very neat volume, 12mo. Second edition. 75 cents.
This is the charming volume of fresh and tender poems, by
the daughter of one of England's most honored and popular
poets, which has lately been received with so hearty a
welcome in England and America. Choice portions of it,
copied by the press with lively praises, have found their
way to the firesides.
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The Household Book of Poetry. Collected and Edited by Charles A.
Dana. 1 vol. 8vo. 793 pages. Third edition. In half morocco. Gilt
top. $3.50.
As the New-York correspondent of The Boston Transcript
enthusiastically writes, 'The elegiac composition, the
exquisite sonnet, the genuine pastoral, the war-song and
rural hymn, whose cadences are as remembered music, and the
couplets whose chime rings out from the depths of the heart;
whatever the old English dramatists, the ode writers of the
reign of Anne and Charles, the purest disciples of heroic
verse, the Lakists, the Byronic school--Wordsworth and
Dryden, Mrs. Hemans and Scott, Shakespeare and Hartley
Coleridge have made precious to soul and sense, are herein
brought together; and more than this--the many isolated
single notes, whose lingering harmony embalms their author's
name, with the numerous fugitive "brilliants," heretofore of
unknown parentage, cut from newspapers for the last half
century--the deep, soulfull utterances of heroes and
mourners, lovers and exiles, devotees of nature and
worshippers of art--are here elegantly garnered and
chronicled.
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