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LITTLE book, barely bigger than a wallet; containing six ty one pages and eighteen poems; in covers of sober green linen, with edges untrimmed, and gilded top: this is all there is of the body of Mr. Longfellow's latest collection of poems. But, ah, the soul of it! There is more of the spirit and form of true poetry in almost any one of these pages than in whole volumes such as confronted us in our last issue. We wish that for the moment we were living and writing in England, so that this remark might not be set down merely to national pride.

Mr. Longfellow is now in his seventyfourth year. One of his last collections before the present was entitled Aftermath. The subtle significance of that title we all recognized. A fresh delicacy of tender sug. gestion will be conveyed to every thoughtful ear by the title Ultima Thule. But let us hope that the uttermost bound is not yet reached. May there not be another island just below the horizon?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

From Ultima Thule. By kind permission of the publishers.

In what vast aerial space,
Shines the light upon thy face?
In what gardens of delight
Rest thy weary feet to-night?

Of the few newer pieces, a quaint and pleasing little fancy is the dialogue between the "Maiden and the Weathercock," she asking:

O Weathercock on the village spire,
With your golden feathers all on fire,
Tell me, what can you see from your perch
Above there o'er the tower of the church?

And the Weathercock answers that he

can see the roofs and the streets, and

the sea beyond, and

- a ship come sailing in

Beyond the headlands and harbor of Lynn,
And a young man standing on the deck,
With a silken kerchief round his neck.

This young man is the Maiden's lover,

she tells the Weathercock,

Who does not change with the wind, like you.

To which he answers:

-people would think it wondrous strange If I, a weathercock, should not change;

and saucily adds:

O pretty maiden, so fine and fair,

With your dreamy eyes and golden hair,
When you and your lover meet to-day
You will thank me for looking some other way.

That which, however, sounds the key-note of this book is its Dedication "To G. W. G."; initials which will be recognized as those of Prof. George W. Greene, of Providence, R. I., the well-known writer on Amerhistory, and the poet's valued personal We copy it in full:

Most of the eighteen poems in this little Some of the facets of these highly-polbook have already passed into print through ished gems flash with the light of historical the magazines. One of them is that pro- reminiscence; but their chief radiance is foundly pathetic setting of David's mourning that of the love of truth, and the joy of All the finer - we do not say stronger over Absalom, "The Chamber Over the friendship, and the calm of nature, and -characteristics of Mr. Longfellow's gen- Gate"; another, the pretty response from the courage of faith, and the patience of ius are ensampled in the volume before "My Arm Chair," addressed to the chil hope and trust. The gratitude of thousands us: his lofty elevation of sentiment; dren of Cambridge, whose gift the chair of hearts will spring in response to this his affectionate intimacy with nature and was on the poet's seventy-second birthday; courtly and gracious singer for the new and and others are "The Iron Pen," "Robert impressive utterance he has given to some Ultima Thule. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Burns," "Helen of Tyre," "The Windmill," of the sentiments which give us our best and "L'Envoi," from which we have quoted inspiration for life.

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Unitarian.

Crescit eundo. A story grows by repetition, as a snow-ball grows by rolling. The story of "The Three Black Crows" is paralleled by the story which somebody told to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and which the venerable and witty doctor-physician more than metaphysician, renowned as poet, satirist, novelist, but not so cautious a theologian

as his father was — kindly communicated to the public through the International Review for July, 1880.

Not far from thirty years ago, Dr. Bushnell had heard something about an unpublished dissertation by President Edwards, which was described as "an a priori argument for the Trinity," the "contents of which" (if it should be published) “would excite a good deal of surprise." Being at that time on his defense in regard to the orthodoxy of his views of that subject, he naturally desired to see how President Edwards had reasoned a priori on a theme so transcendent; but "the nature of the contents," as he understood, was regarded by

The mysterious

matter had become not "three black crows "the vulgar call a "sell."
only, but a most portentous flock of crows. manuscript had descended from Dr. W. T.
The latest and most enlarged edition of the Dwight to his son-in-law, Prof. Smyth; and
growing myth was given by Dr. Holmes he responds by publishing it, with Introduc-
in the article above mentioned. We cannot tion and Appendix. What was reported to
suppose that it owes anything of its magni- be the suppressed Unitarianism of Jonathan
tude to his imagination; for he tells us :

Edwards turns out to be the most extreme development of Nicene Trinitarianism.

The writer is informed on unquestionable auThis is not the place for an exposition of thority that there is, or was, in existence a manuscript of Edwards in which his views appear to the "Observations" now, at last, made pubhave undergone a great change in the direction lic. It will suffice to say that Edwards, of Arianism, or of Sabellianism, which is an oldfashioned Unitarianism, or, at any rate, show a according to this product of "his powerful defection from his former standard of Ortho- but crippled understanding,", accepted all doxy, and which its custodians, thinking it best to be as wise as serpents in order that they the affirmations and negations of the Nicene might continue harmless as doves, have consid- Creed, and with them much of that specuered it their duty to withhold from the public. lation concerning the tri-personality in the If any of our friends at Andover can inform us what are the facts about this manuscript, such Divine Unity which has made the formuinformation would be gratefully received by many lated doctrine of the Trinity repulsive to inquirers, who would be rejoiced to know that so able and so good a man lived to be emanci- many a devout believer in Christ. The New pated from the worse than heathen conceptions England theology, of which Edwards was in which had so long enchained his powerful but some sort the originator, and which was crippled understanding. developed and shaped into a system chiefly None who are familiar with Dr. Holmes's by his son, rejected a great mass of medimanner of writing in relation to matters eval and Dutch scholasticism, and with it

theological need to be reminded that, gener- much show of transcendent knowledge about ally, when he lets fly his arrows at men who the "eternal generation" of the Second Percontend for the faith in which his father son in the Trinity from the First, and the lived and died, "he means wenom." Such "eternal procession" of the Third, as well readers especially if they could remember as many "words without knowledge concernthe conflict between "old-fashioned Uni- ing a covenant among the persons of the tarianism" and the Orthodoxy of sixty Trinity for the redemption of the elect." years ago-were not greatly surprised at New Divinity men- the younger Edwards the insinuation, witty but venomous, about and his friends-determined which of the 'friends at Andover" who "think it best to manuscripts left by the great founder of be as wise as serpents in order that they their school should be published; and, most may continue to be harmless as doves." obviously, the reason why they did not But those "friends at Andover" might natu- publish these "Observations" was not that rally feel the sting. They had heard with the tract was alarmingly New School, but proud delight his poem at the centennial of that it was too Old School. the Andover institution a poem more exBut in process of time, the New Divinity whoever at that time had possession of the quisite than anything that Goldsmith ever rejection of unintelligible talk about eternal wrote and the luxurious edition of it generation and eternal procession was tendmanuscript as a sufficient reason for deny adorned their parlors; they could use in ing toward Tritheism-not One God mysing his request. In the preface to his Christ in Theology, published twenty-nine worship those hymns of his which have Christ in Theology, published twenty-nine place in Orthodox hymn-books, especially years ago, he stated the fact of his un- the hymn so evangelical in thought and

phrase,

O Love Divine, that stooped to share
Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear;

successful request, and expressed the hope
that Dr. William T. Dwight, who had then
become the possessor of the mysterious
manuscript, would "disburthen himself of
the very important responsibility, so faith- and, like many others, they had tried to
fully exercised, for a whole century now believe that the sentiment of that hymn
past, by persons not more competent, cer- came not from the poet's memory and imagi-
tainly, than Jonathan Edwards to guard the nation only, but from a heart responsive to
orthodoxy of this very distinguished name." the Love Divine, — when, lo! he bends his

teriously Three, but Three Gods mysteriously One. Bushnell revolted from such a dogma-not in the direction of Unitarianism, but in the direction (though he was hardly aware of it at first) of the Nicene formula. It turns out that he was nearer

to Edwards than some, at that time, thought he was.

AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.*

very solid book, as there should be, to Those from whom Dr. Bushnell received bow, he makes ready his arrow upon the THERE is nothing in the title of this the story had heard of "something that was string, and shoots at them the stinging insin- show that it is no mere sporadic publication, as black, sir, as a crow." Some of his uation that they have conspired to suppress but the twelfth annual issue of a work readers seem to have understood that what an important fact of theological history. which, begun as a personal convenience he had heard of was a veritable crow, and Aliquando dormitat bonus Homerus. It by a New York advertising agency, has to have reported accordingly. In less than seems as if the good poet Holmes, as well grown into an established public instituThe newspaper has thirty years, the story, "slightly incremable" as the good Homer, were sometimes sleepy tion of much value. at each repetition, had been so often re- -or sleepy enough to be a little off his long since taken its place by the side of the peated in certain circles that the subject-guard. school and the church as one of the three leading factors in the formation of American character and life; and a directory of Ameri

*Observations concerning the Scripture Oeconomy of the Trinity and Covenant of Redemption. By Jonathan Ed

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The response from Andover shows plainly and the more amusingly for its learned gravity-that our good poet gave too ready credence to the "unquestionable authority" from which he received his information, and that he was the victim of what

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can newspapers, like a list of American lies, 129 are semi-weeklies, 843 are dailies, religious weeklies, which are so familiar in schools and churches, must have more than 868 are monthlies, and 7,590 are weeklies. American homes, leading places are justly mere commercial uses. In the United States What a field is this, at the beginning of our assigned to the Sunday School Times, the and Territories there are now published, second national century, compared with that Examiner and Chronicle, the Observer, the according to this Directory, more than presented at the beginning of the first, when Congregationalist, the Churchman, the Chris9,700 journals, including under that head all the entire cluster of States had but 37 news- tian at Work, the Independent, the Watchperiodicals, from the daily newspaper on the papers among them, all of which save one man, the Christian Union, the Advance, the one hand up to the quarterly review on were weeklies, and none of which was a Methodist, and Zion's Herald. The range the other. To give a complete list of all daily! Taking those 20 American cities of circulation in the case of the foregoing these publications, classified alphabetically, whose population, by the census of 1880, is estimated at from 10,000 to 30,000. first according to States, and under States exceeds 100,000, we find that the dailies are according to cities and towns; to describe distributed among them as follows: New in a few words each several one, with par- York heads the list, of course, with 30; ticulars of size, terms, character, editor, pub- Philadelphia follows with 19; Chicago has lisher, etc.; to admit in italics such addi- 15, San Francisco 14, Cincinnati and Pittstions to these descriptions as respective burg 9 each, Baltimore and St Louis 8 each, publishers may care to pay for; to furnish New Orleans, Boston, Cleveland, and Milan estimate of the circulation of each jour-waukee 7 each, Buffalo and Newark 6 each. nal, based when possible upon authentic Detroit, Washington, and Louisville 5 each, statements, and always upon the most trust- Brooklyn and Providence 4 each, and Jersey worthy information to be obtained; and to City 3. Brooklyn stands third on the list of do in brief the work of a gazetteer, by giving American cities on the score of population; some idea of the situation, surroundings, but daily papers do not flourish correspondpopulation, and business character of every ingly on her soil, because of the overhangplace of publication mentioned, all this is ing shadow of New York. On the other what this Directory undertakes to do; and hand, San Francisco, which has a world

Among the curiosities of American journalism, judged by their names at least, we will mention, in conclusion, the Barbers' National Journal, the Tailors' Review, the Lakeside Watch, the Ice and Fish News, the Tobacco Leaf, the Sea World, the Grain Cleaner, the Texas Knight, the American Druid's Journal, the Journal of Inebriety, Y Cyfaill or Hen Wlad, and the American Cancer Journal. The circulation of the latter is given as exceeding 500; we are sorry it is large even as that. May it soon be less!

RECENT NORSE LITERATURE. INCE Dr. G. W. Dasent, in 1861, pub

we must say, after a prolonged examination almost to itself, but is the ninth city, ranked Sled his charming edition of The

of its pages, that we think it does it well. No such book can be perfect. This is doubtless marked by errors and omissions, some of which we readily detect; but of the sincerity of its intentions, the honesty of its methods, and the success of the result, there can be, we think, no doubt. The editor's preface is a frank and manly statement of the principles on which the work is compiled, and they are certainly business-like. The difficulties in the way - and they are many have been met with patience and good nature. The evidence of editorial integrity is convincing; and the wonder is that so much can be done, and be so well done, in so dark a field.

The delicate point in such a work is, of course, the estimating of newspaper circulation. A newspaper's circulation is, in a sense, its capital. Publishers are generally very sensitive about disclosing figures. But there are many ways of ascertaining them, approximately at least; and though many evasions and prevarications are attempted in answering too close questions, and many downright lies are undeniably told by publishers who are afraid of losing advertising if they tell the truth, our judgment, on the whole, is that the truth is told in these pages about as nearly as it is possible to tell it in such a matter.

by population, supports, all but one, as many
dailies as Chicago, which is within "fast-
train" reach of the New York dailies, and
is several times San Francisco's size.

Story of Burnt Njal, the most beautiful of all the greater Icelandic sagas, the interest in Old Norse literature has been steadily growing, and no better evidence could be The number of class, trade, sectarian, and desired than these substantial volumes by nationality journals in the United States is Vigfusson and Metcalfe. We have now very large. Omitting all which do not in- fortunately gotten beyond the time when the sert advertisements, there are, roughly esti- English reading public had to depend on mated, of religious periodicals of all sorts slip-shod books of travel, written for the something like 450; of those devoted to most part by persons totally ignorant of the agriculture, horticulture, etc., perhaps 125; Scandinavian tongues, for their knowledge of medical and surgical, about 100; of jour- of the Scandinavian countries. The Engnals published in the interest of education, lish book market has been flooded by Six say 150; of juveniles at least 50; of the Weeks in Iceland, A Summer in Norway, organs of the Freemasons, Odd Fellows, etc., in which their authors have imposed and kindred associations, over 100; of com- on the public and stultified themselves by mercial and financial sheets, nearly 200; of a mass of undigested and incoherent twadscientific journals, about 100; and of law dle about Northern history and literature. journals, 50. There are upwards of 300 Modern Scandinavian literature has recently German newspapers and periodicals, largely found an able critic in Edmund W. Gosse, emanating from New York, Pennsylvania, whose recent work, Studies in Northern and the Western States and Territories; Literature, reveals a thorough acquaintance about 50 French; and towards 100 divided with Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian literbetween Scandinavian, Spanish, Holland- ature, as do also his numerous reviews of ish, Italian, Welsh, Bohemian, Portuguese, Scandinavian works in the leading English Polish, and Hebrew; with one Cherokee periodicals. Indeed, with such men as Mr. to close the list.

Gosse at the service of the press, it becomes difficult for literary hacks to foist in their crude productions.

The lively interest taken in Old Norse literature in Great Britain is largely due to the presence in the realm of three distin

1 Sturlunga Saga, including the Islendinga Saga of Lawman Sturla Thordsson, and other works. Edited, with

We find but six periodicals whose circulation is estimated at above 100,000. These are the New York Herald, Sun, and News; the Boston Herald, the Youth's Companion, and Scribner's Monthly. As to Harper's Monthly, no figures are given. Its circulation was once on a par with the highest, but is generally believed to have fallen off considerably during the past few years. Harper's Weekly and the Philadelphia Public Of the (say) 9,700 journals now published Ledger are thought to come well up toward The Englishman and the Scandinavian; or, A Comin the United States, 14 are bi-monthlies, 43 100,000, and Harper's Bazar, the Scientific parison of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Literature. By are bi-weeklies (fortnightlies), 55 are quarter-American, and St. Nicholas are set down in Frederick Metcalfe, M.A, Fellow of Lincoln College, lics, 55 are tri-weeklies, 123 are semi-month- the neighborhood of 50,000. Among the Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.

Of course, the first use of a newspaper directory is in the hands of business men, who study it to learn where they may best do their advertising; but it presents many facts of general interest, to some of which we now invite the attention of our readers.

Prolegomena, Appendices, Tables, Indices, and Maps, by
Dr. Gudbrand Vigfusson. Two vols. Oxford: The Clar-

endon Press. 425.

Oxford.

xxvi, 515 pp.

London: Trübner & Co.

185.

guished Icelanders. These have all received good official positions, and they have all found native partners in their literary work. Jon Hjaltalin is librarian at the Advocates' Library, in Edinburgh, and with him is associated in literary work Mr. Joseph Anderson. Together they published, some years ago, The Orkneyinga Saga (Edinburgh, 1873). Eirike Magnusson is librarian at Cambridge University, and his literary partner is the well-known poet, William Morris; and he has also published works with Mr. Powell and E. H. Palmer. But the chief of them all is Dr. Gudbrand Vigfusson, professor at Oxford, well known as the editor of the great and epoch-making Icelandic-English Dictionary, published at the Clarendon Press in 1874. His literary associate was formerly Dr. Dasent, but is now Mr. Powell. The Icelander furnishes his thorough knowledge of the history, literature, and language of his native island, while the Englishman is the greater master of the English tongue; and while the two thus sit closeted together at opposite sides of the table, the one talks thoughts and theories, and the other puts them into shape. By this we do by no means mean to say that the English partners in the work are not excellent Old Norse scholars. Joseph Anderson, Dr. Dasent, Wm. Morris, and F. York Powell are known to be thoroughly posted in the saga-literature; and while they turn the theories and arguments into elegant English phrases, they also furnish many valuable suggestions calling forth and unlocking thoughts and things half forgotten and hidden away, and assist in throwing side-lights on the subjects from the literatures of other countries. This fact is cheerfully acknowledged by Icelandic scholars themselves. When we consider the debt we owe to Iceland and the high rank that must be accorded to its literature, representing as it does the noblest and most characteristic qualities of the Teutonic mind when we consider that Iceland is in fact the Patmos where the Apocalypse of our Teutonic past was committed to writing, we cannot help expressing the wish that some of our wealthy American universities and colleges like Harvard and Yale would imitate the example of the British universities, and secure the services of distinguished Scandinavian scholars, and thus build up a school of Scandinavian literature and history in this country. To put the matter even more plainly, we should say that AngloSaxon, Medieval German, and Old Norse literature, that is, the intellectual heritage bequeathed to us by our Teutonic ancestors, deserves at least to be placed on the same level with Latin and Greek in our educational institutions.

lection in Copenhager, and had previously Iceland, and that they date from a time subto his coming to Oxford in 1864 acquired a sequent to the settlement of Iceland. He substantial name by the editing of numerous considers the eddic lays to be a parallel saga-works in Denmark and Germany. He development in the Western Isles to the is also the author of an important work on saga in Iceland, composed for the same purIcelandic and Norse chronology. The pres- pose (popular entertainments), after the inient work is printed wholly from original man- tiative of some great poet who arose among uscripts; and, knowing that the editor has no the Norse emigrants somewhere in the West living superior in acquaintance with Old and inspired a school of poetry, just as Are Norse manuscripts, we are able to pronounce in Iceland inspired a school of saga-men. it the most perfect text edition of the Stur- Now, this making Great Britain the original lunga Saga ever published. It will hence- home of the eddic lays is very interesting, forth be the textus receptus. One volume, certainly, and if the theory becomes estabcontaining the Biskupa Sögur (History of lished, it will make them as dear to every the Bishops), had previously appeared, and Anglo-American as Beowulf or Shakespere; nine more are to follow. These ten will but, with all due respect for Dr. Vigfusson's contain the most approved texts of every intimate acquaintance with the eddas, we thing that is really important or beautiful in have a right to demand some evidence. This Icelandic literature. Mr. Vigfusson is now is, to our mind, utterly wanting. What trace preparing a Corpus Poeticum, which is to is there in the Western Isles of the exist give us, besides the lays of Edda, the ence of this literature? That the mythology other remains of the classic poetry arranged and heroic episodes they reveal were once and properly classified. The Sturlunga common to all the branches of the Teutonic Saga is prefaced by an elaborate, learned race, there can be no doubt. But there are introduction (Prolegomena) in English. It no more remains of that wondrous edifice of contains 220 pages, in which the reader will mythology in the Western Isles than on the find the most complete and accurate account European continent; and, adopting Dr. Vigof Old Norse literature ever written in Eng- fusson's theory, we may as well claim that lish, and, indeed, in some respects - as, for the eddic lays were composed in Germany. instance, in its discussion of the dates and All over Teutondom are scattered fragments authors of the various sagas, and in its ac- of the system, in the form of traditions, count of the various manuscript collections popular tales, and superstitions, bearing tessuperior to all preceding works of the kind timony to what has been lost. We have no in any language. Beginning with the settle- patience with the theory set forth during the ment of Iceland, the editor gives a succinct past ten years, and again very recently by description of the age of saga-telling, of the Profs. Bang and Bugge, in Norway, that, of saga characteristics, of the various classes of our mythological and epic traditions handed sagas, of the eddas, of the manner in which down in the two eddas, in Saxo Grammatithe Icelandic manuscripts were found and cus and in the German Nibelungen Lied, collected, of the value of the various manu- only a small fraction is Teutonic, and the scripts, etc., and ends with an interesting bulk of it of foreign origin, based on tales sketch of Icelandic and Norwegian laws. and poems heard by the vikings from EngThe three greatest writers in the Icelandic lishmen and Irishmen, and having their ultisaga-age were Are, the northern Herodotus, mate sources in Greek-Roman mythology Snorre Sherlason, author of Heimskringla, and Jewish-Christian Bible legends; and and Sturla, the last great name in the classic though Dr. Vigfusson does not go as far as literature of Iceland, and, in the main, the Bang and Bugge, his conclusions really point author of Sturlunga Saga. Mr. Vigfusson the same way. It will take proof, and not characterizes these three writers in a single mere opinion, to depose Teutonic mythol sentence, saying: "Are was the most vener- ogy from its proud position as representative able, the most thoughtful, and the one we of the original beliefs of our forefathers. could least afford to have lost; Snorre ex- Before leaving the Sturlunga Saga, let us celled in humor, in eloquence, and in epic add that, like the introduction and text, richness of style; while we should pronounce the tables, indices, and maps are monuSturla to be most pathetic, the most natural, ments to the editor's painstaking scholarand the most human." ship. A few misprints are yet to be corAbout a dozen pages are devoted to a dis-rected, as in for it (p. xxiv), Christiana for cussion of the origin of the lays of the eddas. Christiania in several places, and a few Mr. Vigfusson makes an effort to show, by an others. acute analysis of these poems, that they are much more recent than is usually held; that they were not known to the Teutons of the Continent, but that they (with one or two Mr. Vigfusson has given us in two large exceptions) owe their origin to Norse poets octavo volumes the original text of the Stur- in the Western Isles (he means by this term lunga Saga. The editor was for many years England, Ireland, Scotland, Man, but more (from 1856 to 1864) connected with the especially the Orkneys); that they are, in Arnemagnean Old Norse manuscript col-fact, to these islands, what the saga was to

Mr. Metcalfe's Englishman and Scandinavian is a thoroughly readable book. It covers the whole ground of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse literature; and, while every page bristles with facts, the style is so graceful that the reader might think himself perusing a modern novel. The first half of the volume is devoted to Anglo-Saxon literature, beginning with a description of the