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Dodd & Mead's Sunday School Annual for 1871 contains a catalogue of books suitable for Sunday-school libraries and for the use of Sundayschool teachers, with hints to superintendents, committees, and all workers in that cause. A. L. BANCROFT & Co. have published Time and Eternity, a poem, by George MacHenry. Messrs. Bancroft & Co. inform us that this work was entirely manufactured on their own premises, and they claim that it is the finest specimen of book-making ever done on the Pacific Coast. NOTES ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS. SONGS OF the SIERRAS.* THIS is a truly remarkable book. To glance through its pages is to observe a number of picturesque things picturesquely put, expressed in a vivid flowing form and melodious words, and indicating strange, outlandish, and romantic experiThe reader requires no great persuasion to leave off mere skimming and set to at regular perusal; and when he does so, he finds the pleasurable impression confirmed and intensified. ences. Mr. Miller is a Californian, domiciled between the Pacific and the Sierra Nevada, who has lived and written "on the rough edges of the frontier." Last winter he published, or at least printed, in London, a small volume named Pacific Poems, consisting of two of the compositions now republished --one of them in a considerably modified form. San Francisco and the city of Mexico were known to him; but it is only in the summer of 1870 that he for the first time saw and detested New York, and soon afterwards reached London. Thus much he gives us to know in a few nervous, modest, and Το the genuine formative experiences and typical realities or images of a life, is sure to tell us something which we shall be both curious and interested to think over. There is an impassable gap between the alien couleur locale or even so great a poet as Victor Hugo in such a work as Les Orientales, and the native recipiency of one like our Californian author, whose very blood and bones are related to the things he describes, and from whom a perception and a knowledge so extremely unlike our own are no more separable than his eyes and his brain, Such being the exceptional nature of Mr. Miller's subject-matter, the best way of obtaining some specific idea of his work, both in its beauties and in its defects--which latter no doubt are neither few nor insignificant—may be to give a brief ac count of his stories.* ... Such reduced to a caput mortuum, are the materials of this striking book, through whose veins (if we may prolong the figure) the blood pulsates with an abounding rush, while gorgeous sub-tropical suns, resplendent moons, and abashing majesties of mountain form, ring round the gladiatorial human life. The reader will hardly need, after our summary, to be told that Byron is the poet whose spirit most visibly sways and overshadows that of Joaquin Miller. The latter is indeed a writer of original mind and style; and there is a weighty difference between a Californian who has really engaged in, or at least had lifelong cognizance of,, all sorts of wild semi-civilized adventure, and a noble lord to whom the like range of experience forms the distraction of a season or the zest of a tour. Still, the poetic analogy is strikingly visible, and has a very mixed influence upon Mr. Miller's work. On one side, taking interest as he does, like Byron, in adventurous picturesque personages, with the virtues and vices of the life of defiance, full of passion and resource (for Mr. Miller has the art of making us respect the intellectual calibre of all his characters, whatever they may do, seven poems. The last of these-a tribute to the and however closely they may approximate to glorious memories of Burns and Byron--is comparatively short: all the rest are compositions of savages), he is lifted at once above the mild and mediocre or the merely photographic levels of some substantial length, and of a narrative charac- work: on the other hand, he exhibits life not only ter, though Ina-considerably the longest of all— under the rudimentary and incomplete conditions assumes a very loose form of dramatic dialogue. which his subject-matter suggests, but with an Mr. Miller treats of the scenes and personages and effect of abortiveness and gloom due partly, no the aspects of life that he knows-knows intimately doubt, to the Byronic tradition, and so extreme and feels intensely; and very novel scenes, strange as to be almost morbid, His interest in life seems This personages, and startling aspects these are. to be very much that of a gambler, who plays a fact alone would lend to his book a singular inter- stake, conscious that the chances are against him; est, which is amply sustained by the author's conor, one might rather say, of a man who watches a tagious ardor for what he writes about, and his game played with loaded dice, and who sees his rich and indeed splendid powers of poetic present-friend ruined by an undenounceable conspiracy, ment. A poet whose domestic hearth is a hut in an unfathomable cañon whose forest has been a quinine wood, permeated by monkeys, The volume, of some 300 pages, contains only "Like shuttles hurried through and through The thread a hasty weaver weaves," and whose song-bird is a cockatoo, and to whom these things, and not the converse of them, are all "Songs of the Sierras." By Joaquin Miller. London, Longmans and Co.; Boston, Roberts Bros. In Ina, for instance, gratuitous misery is poured forth, as from a bucket, with a liberally cruel hand, It is intensely unsatisfactory to be told of a lovely, girlish, and wealthy widow, steeped in amorous grace, constancy, and spirit, making love to the hot-blooded youth who has adored her all his life, and whom she has confessedly adored-only to be repulsed with a stolid obtuse morgue, and then to * See Littell's Living Age, Aug. page 506. wrap herself round in her dignity, and close the last avenue to a right mutual understanding. We see Love assassinated before our eyes by two lovers, who can find no better employment than persistently carving the death's-head and marrow-bones over his headstone. In this tale the very motif has a twist of dislocation: in some others, as our summary will have shown, the conception, though mainly monotonous, is interesting in a high degree, but the poet shows little gift for constructing a story. In Arazonian, for example-an excellent and truly engrossing poem-the reader is unable to credit the central fact; namely, that the goldwasher, having for twenty-one years lost sight of his early love so entirely as not to know that she had been married for a long series of years, travels in good faith to search her out and wed her, and accepts at first sight her daughter as being her authentic self. It might perhaps be added, without cynicism, that the daughter, who so absolutely realizes to the manly-labored gold-washer, the person of his long-lost love, should really have stood to his feelings in that relation; and that his natural and compensatory course would have been to court her on the spot. Excitement and ambition may be called the twin geniuses of Mr. Miller's poetical character. Everything is to him both vital and suggestive; and some curious specimens might be culled of the fervid interfusion of external nature and the human soul in his descriptive passages. The great factors of the natural world--the sea, the mountains, the sun, moon, and stars become personalities, animated with an intense life and a dominant possession. He loves the beasts and birds, and finds them kin to him; a snake has its claim of blood relationship. At times he runs riot in overcharged fancies, which, in Ina especially, recall something of the manner of Alexander Smith, whether in characterizing the objects of nature, or in the frenzied aspirations of the human spirit. It should be understood, however, that the only poet to whom he bears a considerable or essential analogy is Byron. In Arazonian indeed the resemblance of diction and versification is rather to Browning, and some passages might seem to be directly founded on the Flight of the Duchess: but I learn that this resemblance is merely fortuitous. As such, it is an interesting reciprocal confirmation of the value of the peculiarities of narrative form belonging to both poems. At times also there is a recognizable ring of Swinburne, especially as regards alliteration, and a vigorous elastic assonance, not only in the syllables but in the collocation of words and phrases. The There is little space, and not much occasion, for dwelling on verbal or other minute defects. swing and melody of the verse are abundant; yet many faulty lines or rhymes, with some decided perversities in this way, could be cited; along with platitudes of phrase, or odd and inadmissible words. All these are minor matters. Mr. Miller has realized his poetic identity under very exceptional conditions, highly favorable to spirit and originality, but the contrary so far as united completion or the accepted rules of composition are concerned. He is a poet, and an admirable poet.. His first works prove it to demonstration, and super-abun dantly; and no doubt his future writings will rein. force the proof with some added maturity and charm. He is not the sort of man to be abashed or hurt by criticism. Let me add that the less attention he pays to objections, even if well founded, and the more he continues to write out of the fulness of his own natural gifts, the better it will probably be for both himself and his readers. America may be proud of him.-W. M. ROSSETTI, in The Academy. "This is a neat Owen Meredith's Poems.-The popularity of duced his American publishers, James R. Osgood Owen Meredith's famous poem, Lucile, has in& Co., to issue a pamphlet edition of this beauti ful story in verse, in connection with his other most popular poems. The volume is printed in clear large type, embellished by a portrait of the author and sixteen appropriate illustrations by Du for a book of its size and style. The Nation says Maurier, and published at a remarkably low price of the new edition of "Lucile": volume, printed with clear type and on fine paper. Lucile is the principal poem in the volume, and is possessed of great merit. It is a tale of suffering, which love sacrifices everything to the beloved. and patient, persistent devotion to principle, in The principal characters are finely drawn and strongly marked. Lucile, the heroine of the poem, makes her debut as an accomplished woman of the develops many noble qualities, and finally, after world; but as she passes before the readers, she passing through the crucible of human trial, she could possibly pertain to the human character, and appears adorned with the highest excellences that retires from the stage, on which she has played so active a part, a very saint, carrying with her the pity, the admiration, and the blessings of her selfsacrificing career. And while the story induces the desire in the mind of the reader to aspire to perfection, it is rendered attractive by the romance which tinges its pages. The versification of the poem is peculiar, but musical; a sort of galloping rhyme, which carries the reader along easily and pleasantly, and leaves him, at the end of the story, with a feeling of regret that he can go no further." The Coming Race (Felt).-Whether the author of "The Coming Race" had it in mind to convince the world at one showing how utterly impossible it is to improve upon God's plan and upon the normal progress of man, we do not know; certainly he could not have gone better to work at it. This anonymous book has met with general favor from the English public and leading literary au thorities. Though a novel of fiction, it is scarcely to be called a novel; it can be classed only with such works as Johnson's "Rasselas ad Beckford's "Vathek." The social state, "the new Utopia," which he contrives, unites and harmonizes into one system "nearly all the objects which the various philosophers of the upper world have placed before human hopes as the ideals of a Utopian future." Of course it is a harmony of contradictions, a unity of absurdities; but such the author probably meant it to be; his prophetic satire is largely burlesque, though he writes with an owlish gravity. The book is a marvellous one, and if read aright, ought to |