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READ'S ILLUSTRATED POEMS.

Poems, by T. BUCHANAN READ. A new and enlarged edition. Beautifully illustrated with designs by eminent artists, and finely engraved on steel. Cloth, extra, gilt edge

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"We do not hesitate to declare our opinion that Mr. READ is the most promising of the living transatlantic poets. We know of no other American (with the doubtful exception of Edgar Poe) having so much real feeling as is shown in some of his verses. It presents a refreshing contrast with the cold and clever manufactures which most of his contemporaries would impose upon us as expressions of feeling. Mr. READ has a very high sense of natural beauty: this kind of description is his forte. We offer no apology for quoting the whole of the exquisite poem called 'The Closing Scene.' This is unquestionably the best American poem we have met with; indeed it is, with one or two exceptions, the only American poem we have read, or could have read over and over again. It is an addition to the permanent stock of poetry in the English language. The first thirteen stanzas, taken by themselves, constitute a truly inspired little poem. Tennyson himself, the great modern master of that kind of description which employs the object of outward nature as a language for human feeling, has scarcely surpassed, in its way, this poem, which in our opinion merits the fame that Gray's celebrated 'Elegy' has obtained, without deserving it nearly so well. The feeling of the three opening stanzas-the only unexceptionable passage of more than two or three lines in Gray's poem-is here sustained to a far greater length, and with much simpler language and imagery. Mr. READ'S volume affords other equally remarkable instances of perception and polish."-North British Review.

"It is pleasant to turn to a volume of poetry like Mr. READ'S, and not the less so, as enabling us to pay a most willing tribute to American genius. When an American poet is not only known but reprinted here, it is clear that his genius is of a more universal and general character, touching the heart as such, not as an American or English heart. Pure, tender, sympathizing, and hopeful, with an eye observant of nature and an ear well trained to give melodious expression to every turn of thought--simple and unpretending in the choice of subjects, but touching each with fresh, genuine feeling-there are not many modern writers of verse who have supplied us with such a pleasant book of desultory reading. * * One poem, called 'The Closing Scene,' in which the thoughts, measure, and cadence are in happy harmony, we are obliged unwillingly to curtail. A description of late and dreary Autumn, given with American accuracy of scene-painting, ushers in a picture of failing and sorrowful humanity."-Christian Remembrancer, (a London Quarterly Review.)

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"A poet, whose fame, both at home and abroad, heightens with each succes sive production, and widens as the knowledge of his work extends."-Willis & Morris's Home Journal.

"The volume we have now the pleasure of introducing to our readers abounds with delicately-pictured images, a rich, luxuriant fancy, and high-toned seutiments, marked by a touching and polished simplicity. *** All is mirrored in the poet's soul like the beautifully brilliant foliage which his genius pictures on the bosom of the quiet stream or sequestered lake."-American Courier.

THE NEW PASTORAL.

A Poem. By THOS. BUCHANAN READ. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth

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"We must give Mr. READ the credit for writing the only good pastoral poem of the present day."-Evening Bulletin.

"Poetically imagined and beautifully expressed.”—Baltimore American.

"It will be welcomed as the first truly American poem. We predict for it an immense circulation. It must become one of the indispensables for the centretable in America, both in the palace and the cottage."-Farm Journal.

"The New Pastoral supplies the vacant place in the literature of America, which Thomson and Cowper have filled in that of England; and we feel proud of our young countryman when we say, equally well. His poem is purely national-American in its scope, in its spirit, in its ideas, and in the exquisite pictures of rural life and manners which constitute its chief charm."-Reading Democrat.

"Mr. READ has given us a pastoral poem of great smoothness of versification, naturalness of thought and expression, and abounding in passages of great beauty; while over the whole is breathed a spirit of domestic and rustic quietude such as commends it to the gentler sympathies of the soul. It deserves to take its place among the best of our fireside poetry."-N. Y. Observer.

"American literature gets, in The New Pastoral, a valuable acquisition."Boston Transcript.

"The author has, by this work, achieved for himself a high position among American poets. * * It will continue a 'standard' in the literature of his country. * * A chastened imagination has decked homely scenes with all the charms which it is the high power of poesy only to do, and painted American rural changes with a lifelike fidelity which stamps them forever upon the page."-Morning News.

"We have the 'New Pastoral,' from the pen of THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, a poet whose name and fame bid fair to become household words in America. In simple and flutelike prolongations of melody it breathes the soul of a new people, stirred by new experiences, dwelling in a fresh, young world."-Commercial Register.

"The North British Review pronounced one of Mr. READ'S former productions the best poem that had appeared from an American author. We think the poet's well-merited reputation will not suffer from the present work. It is rich in the elements of a permanent popularity. The just appreciation of nature; the beauty of description; the truthful pictures of simple, rural life; the delicacy of sentiment; the overflowing of a gentle, loving heart, and the sweetly flowing numbers, cannot fail to win admirers, and gain new laurels for the bard. The fact that it is also, in all respects, a home production, thoroughly American in all its incidents and scenery, gives it additional charms."-Presbyterian.

"It is written with sincerity and feeling: there are descriptions which have great truth of detail, and the poem has the great merit of a subdued and natural tone."-Putnam's Monthly.

"The lovers of sound moral sentiment most sweetly expressed, and of the bright portraiture of nature in her peaceful scenes and moods, will find in this volume a great deal to elevate, to interest, and to refine."-Natchez Courier.

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TAM'S FORTNIGHT RAMBLE.

Tam's Fortnight Ramble, and other Poems. By THOMAS
MACKELLAR. 216 pages, 12mo

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"He is a man of genius, with a heart as tender as a woman's, who would have been effeminate from over-delicacy of construction, but for the masculine necessity of getting a livelihood. I like him."-N. P. WILLIS.

"Many of his sonnets bear upon them the richness of genius, and awaken those feelings which nothing but true poetry can arouse.”—Hon. J. R. CHANDLER.

"We hesitate not to pronounce him a genuine poet."-Rev. J. W. ALEXANDER, D.D.

"Tam is no new acquaintance, either to us or to our readers; but one of those "old, familiar" friends who are cherished in our heart's core. The beauty of his verse, not less than of his sentiments, has endeared him to thousands on thousands of the readers of the Gazette; and not unfrequently his cheerful strains, his poetry "tipped with heavenliness," has made festival in many a sorrowing heart. Tam, or Mr. MACKELLAR, to speak of him by his real name, is no pretty trifler in verse, but an earnest man, writing on earnest subjects, and striving to do good as well as to amuse. Such should ever be the high aim of poetry.” -J. C. NEAL, editor of Neal's Gazette.

"He touches every subject with ease and grace, and breathes life into that which was before inanimate."-Del. Co. Repub.

"Written by our printer-poet, as the title indicates, in a season of relief from the persecution of publishers, printers, and proofs. The poetry is remarkable for its beautiful simplicity, high-toned morality, and earnest piety."-Rev. Dr. SUMMERS.

"Mr. MACKELLAR has in him the poetry of pleasantry and pathos. Some passages are touching, others amusing, and all evincing sound sense and discrimination. A religious vein runs through all, and the minor poems are the breathings of a heart which seems to have the highest enjoyments amidst the domestic circle."-Presbyterian, (Phila.)

"This is a volume of poetry, in the best sense of the word; true poetry, responsive to nature and life, and to the heart of man. There is a charm-it is the power of inspiration-the charm of truth and nature, and of poetic feeling, blended with sacred charity-on almost every page, which invites and holds the willing eye and ear of the reader."-Christian Observer.

"He is a poet of nature and of the home affections, and he appeals to the heart with a gentle and persuasive force that only those who feel what they write can exercise. It is refreshing to turn from the stilted rhymes and forced ideas of most of the writers of the present day, to the sweet and pleasant thoughts that come upward from his heart to stir our sympathies and exact our admiration."-Evening News.

"The head and the heart of this author, although he is too modest to make high claims for either, in truth require no gratuitous commendation. His muse has indeed the truth, and depth, and insight of poetry, lacking only the passionateness, fire, and rapture with which its sometimes grandeur, oftener giddiness, intoxicates the fancy. It is a gentle, loving, hopeful, healthy hearti ness that is the charm of his poems. The rhythm is smooth, the versification accurate, and the sentiment always beautiful. Extracts made anywhere at random from this book would show how just the character we ascribe to the writer, and how tame the praise we have given to his poetry.'-Dr. ELDER.

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