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IBID. Miscellaneous Poems.

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY. Verses on Various Occasions. London: Burns, Oates & Co., 1880. 12m0, pp. xiv and 378.

WERNER, ALICE. The King of the Silver City, and Other Poems. London: Women's Printing Society, Limited. 12m0, pp. vi and 87.

IBID. A Time and Times: Ballads and Lyrics of East and West. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. 12m0, pp. vii and 158.

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LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. thorized edition. New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1884. 12m0, pp. vii and 262.

IBID. London Lyrics. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 16mo, pp. ix and 194.

BAXTER, JAMES PHINNEY. Idyls of the Year. Portland, Me.: Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1884. 16mo, pp. 73.

KETCHUM, JOHN B. Stray Melodies and Songs of Sentiment. New York: American Literary Agency, 1884. 16m0, pp. 136.

MASON, MARY AUGUSTA. Fancies. Binghamton, N. Y.: Privately printed. 16m0, pp. 40. WILLIAMS, SELINA TARPLEY.

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COOPER. In a letter to the editor, Mr. Cooper states that he has written numberless song-words for the musical composers, Beautiful Isle of the Sea," "Sweet Genevieve" and "Must We Then Meet as Strangers?" being, probably, the best known. "As a writer for the children I have gained some praise, which is very gratifying. Most of my things are written out of doors, with a wayside stone for a desk, and of many of them I have kept no copy. I took a prize for a 'Ballad of Stony Point,' (Oliver Wendell Holmes being the judge), and also for a song or two. I never made a collection of my verses; but many of them are printed in the various published volumes of poetry."

DORR. In selecting her favorite poems, Mrs. Dorr names "The Clay to the Rose," "Quickness," "Fire," "At Rest," "When Lesser Loves," "The Fallow Field," "O Wind That Blows Out of the West,” “Foreshadowings" and "An OldFashioned Garden."

SHERWOOD. "Albert Sidney Johnston was a Memorial Poem, written by invitation of the Executive Committee for the Unveiling Ceremonies of the General Albert Sidney Johnston Equestrian Statue, held under the auspices of the Army of the Tennessee, Louisiana Division (Ex-Confederate), at New Orleans, April 6, 1887, Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh and of General Johnston's death. Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood received the following letter, beautifully engraved and printed on white satin :

HEADQUARTERS ASSOCIATION OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE,
LOUISIANA DIVISION OF VETERANS,
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 10, 1887.

Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, Toledo, O.:
At the unveiling of the equestrian statue to General Albert
Sidney Johnston, April 6, 1887, in the city of New Orleans, on

the memorial day of the association of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, your poem sent us from your Northern home, a graceful tribute to him and our heroic dead, was read to an appreciative and admiring throng.

In grateful response the Association returns, with its greeting, its accompanying badge. The center bears the Confederate Cross, and the Pelican is of metal taken from a rivet of the statue itself. As "Peace hath her victories no less than War," we join heart with hand in reciprocating the cordial and fraternal sentiments set in those sweet and stirring strains, in which a woman's true soul, giving all honor to the knightly men and the gallant deeds on either side, in that "Great war that made ambition virtue," commemorates in charming numbers our day of reunion when veterans of the Blue and the Gray met. "But not as rivals, nor as foes, as brothers reconciled.

To twine love's fragrant roses where the thorns of hate grew wild."

We greet you in your own fitting words:

"Our Country's Future.

IBID. "Ulric Dahlgren." Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, son of Admiral Dahlgren, U. S. Navy, distinguished himself by his dashing exploits with the Army of the Potomac, while serving on the staff of Generals Sigel, Hooker and Meade, and lost a leg at Gettysburg. While still on crutches, he led an expedition to free the Union prisoners in Libby Prison at Richmond, and fell in a midnight ambush March 2, 1864, at the age of twenty-two years.

F. F. B. IBID. The "Army of the Potomac" was written for the Unveiling of the Memorial Urn, to be placed in Memorial Hall, Toledo, Ohio, Memorial Day, May 30, 1890, by the Toledo Branch Army of the Potomac.

NEWMAN. The hymn "The Pillar of the Cloud" is generally published with the popular title of "Lead Kindly Light." In the author's collected poems it bears date, "At Sea, June 16, 1833." In that year he visited Sicily. There, at Leonforte, he was very ill with malarial fever. "My servant," he says, "thought I was dying, and begged for my last directions. I gave them as he wished; but I said: 'I shall not die, for I have not sinned against light.' I never have been able to make out at all what I meant." Later on, in the course of the disease he became much depressed and sobbed bitterly. His servant, asking what ailed him, could only obtain the reply: "I have a work to do in England." At last he was able to "get off in an orange boat," but was becalmed a full week in the Straits of Bonifacio, between Corsica and Sardinia. Here it was that this hymn-the most famous of all his productions-was written. Its sincerity of feeling and purity of expression have made it universally ac ceptable. Its original title was "The Pillar of the

Cloud." It was first published in the British Magazine, and then in Lyra Apostolica, 1836, in three stanzas, with the motto, "Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness." The statement of Dr. Newman himself fixes the date of composition as June 16, 1833, and the voyage, begun at Palermo, terminated at Marseilles. The circumstances can be read by any inquirer in the "Apologia pro Vita Sua," 1864, pp. 35-119 (London edition of 1875). "I was writing verses," he there says, "the whole time of my passage.' There is a further reference to the same facts in the "Parochial Sermons," Vol. II., Sermon 2. The additional verse sometimes printed is given below:

"Meanwhile, along the narrow, rugged path
Thyself hast trod,

Lead, Saviour, lead me home in childlike faith,
Home to my God,

To rest forever after earthly strife,

In the calm light of everlasting life."

IBID. The piece on "Warnings" was cited long ago by one of the British reviews to prove that Newman could have been a great poet if he had chosen. It was written near Palermo, February 12, 1833.

IBID. "A Voice from Afar" bears date Horsepath, September 29, 1829. "Vexations" bears date, "Off Sardinia, June 21, 1833." "Flowers Without Fruit" bears date, "Off Sardinia, June 20, 1833." "Seeds in the Air" bears date, "Dartington, July 18, 1831."

LOCKER-LAMPSON. In the American edition of Mr. Locker's poems the introduction to "A Nice Correspondent" is,

"An angel at noon, she's a woman at night,

All softness, all sweetness, and love, and delight." MASON. "Stars in the Well" is from The Independent. "For All" is from The American Rural Home. "If Love Were Life" was originally published in The Independent. “A Belated Blossom was originally published in The Independent. WILLIAMS. "Hidden" was originally printed in the Chicago Current.

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BADGER. "The Veterans was originally published in the New York Home Journal under the title of "Memorial Day, 1890." "The Burns Rescue" and "Be True to the Dreams of Thy Youth" were originally published in The Christian Messenger. "God's Almoner" bears date, "Mountain House, August 23, 1879," and is from The Cornwall Mirror, September 4, 1879.

WOOLSON. "Two Women" was originally published in Appleton's Journal.

CROFTON. Most of the verses following the prelude of "The Battle-Call of the Antichrist"

appeared, but with many differences, in The Canadian Monthly.-Deeming rhyme unsuited to the solemnity of the subject, the writer has acted on a suggestion made by Sir E. B. Lytton in the preface to his "Lost Tales of Miletus," and has adopted an unconventional blank verse stanza.-Some of the Fathers held that the Antichrist will be an archfiend, either an incarnation of Satan himself, or the son of Satan and "the counterpart of Christ." To conceive him to be the Spirit of War, the exact antithesis to the Prince of Peace, does not seem to be more fanciful.-"I am the scorn of God" is the pregnant expression put by Alfieri in the mouth of the first Napoleon: "Son lo sdegno di Dio; nessun mi tocchi!”—The other allusions (to the author of the "Marseillaise," etc.), will be apparent to the average reader.

IBID. "The Cry of Cain" is from The Canadian Monthly, July, 1880.

WETHERBEE. The elm of which "The Old Elm" was written is an ancient landmark in Lawrence, Mass., being over a hundred years old, and the largest of its kind in Essex county.

SPENCER. The authorship of "A Hundred Years To Come" has been claimed by several authors, and Mr. Spencer suggested that it might be omitted from the selections from his pen, but as he asserts that he is the author of the poem it is but fair that it should be included in the study of his verse productions.

BURNS. The biographical sketch of Robert Burns is from Cathcart's Literary Reader.

IBID. Compare quotation from "Green Grow the Rashes," with quotation from "Cupid's Whirligig" (1607):

Man was made when Nature was
But an apprentice, but woman when she
Was a skillful mistress of her art.

Compare quotation from "To a Mountain Daisy," with quotation from Young's "Night Thoughts": Final Ruin fiercely drives

Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Compare quotation from "I Hae a Wife o' My Ain," with Bickerstaff's "Love in a Village," Act i, Scene 2:

And this the burthen of his song

For ever used to be:

I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.

Scott says the expression, "Let us do or die," "is a kind of common property, being the motto, we believe, of a Scottish family." It can be found in Beaumont and Fletcher's, "The Island Princess," Act ii, Scene 4; and in Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming," Part iii, Stanza 37.

Compare first quotation from “For a' That," with Wycherly, "The Plaindealer," Act i, Scene 1. "I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."

Compare second quotation from "For a' That," with Southerne, Sir Anthony Love," Act ii, Scene 1: "Of the king's creation you may be: but he who makes a Count ne'er made a man."

KROUT. Miss Krout is a native of Crawfordsville, Ind., and now resides in Chicago, Ill. Her first published poem appeared in the Crawfordsville Journal when she was eleven years of age. "Little Brown Hands" was written four years later, in the summer of 1868, during intervals of house-work and the care of several invalid members of the family, there being sickness in the house at the time. Her especial retreat was a corner on the parlor floor behind the heavy window curtains. Here the poem was written to become "familiar as household words."

MCMASTER. There died at Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., recently, at the age of fifty-eight, a man who wrote one celebrated poem, and, as far as the public knew, never did anything else that was remarkable. The man was Judge G. H. McMaster, and his one poem, doubtless familiar to many readers of THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY, since it is included in many of the current collections of verses, is given in this number of the magazine. Of this poem, Edmund Clarence Stedman wrote in the Galaxy Magazine, many years ago: "There is nothing like it in our language; 'tis the ringing characteristic utterance of an original man. There is a perfect blending of sense to sound, and of both to the spirit of the theme. To include a picture often ruins a song; but here we have the knot of patriots clustered upon a battle hillside, the powder cracking again, the old-fashioned colonel galloping with drawn sword, and as

Rounder, rounder, rounder roared the iron six-pounder,
Hurling death,

it seems a heavier piece of ordnance, and charged with weightier issues than a whole park of artillery in a modern armament. This song will last with the memory of Revolutionary days." It was written when the author was but twenty years old, and first appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine for February, 1849, over the signature "John McGrom.” McMaster became a lawyer, and at one time was county judge of Steuben county.

FRENEAU. Philip Freneau was born in New York City January 2, 1752, and died near Freehold, N. J., December 18, 1832.

HARTE. "Plain Language from Truthful James," frequently printed under the title of "The Heat 1