Dear Sister:It is wonderful how well the Book of Mormon narrative fits into blank verse. It must have cost you much labor, however, in writing Branches That Run Over the Wall, to make your lines flow so smoothly and rhythmically, and I congratulate you on the accomplishment of this.I like your device of prefixing letters to show which lines are historical, which imaginary, and which contain comments on the text. This will prevent misleading the reader, and yet allow you lattitude enough to weave into the woof of the poem some iris colored threads of idyllic romance. I was amused at the pretty conceit of naming the wives by transposing the letters of the names of their husbands.I have enjoyed reading your composition, and believe thousands will do the same. I sincerely wish it every success.
And thinks that, like herself, they all are good And blind to all its shoals, its storms, 'and strife, She enters on the treacherous waves of life.
Captured by a howling Mob — Their brutal Threats and Con duct. — Standing's Manner and Expostulations. — Rudger receives a Blow. — Honest Owensby and his Horse — A heroic Girl. — Scene of the murder.-shoot. That Man Horrible Spectacle. [his is terrible.
Life may change, but it may fly not: Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth.
Meno male, che il buon pensiero m'è venuto sul principio di questo sciagurato lavoro: e me ne lavo le mani.
I mull: own I am proud of the Imputation; unlefs their Quarrel be, That I have not done it enough But he that will give hirnfelf the trouble of examinin will find I have copy'd him in nothing at in two or three Lines in the Complaint of Mo leji, Canto II. And in one in his Firil: Can to; the Senfe of which Line is intirely his, and I cou'd with it were not the only good One in mine.
The old letter referred to may have been that of August 28, I 775, addressed to Captain James Craigie.
Such being the case, however, his talents, and the employment of them, are alone before the world. This is but halt the picture, and I believe few who have known so much do not wish to know more.
Princess Metternich found at Paris the aristocratic world that She had left at Vienna. She had passed from one cosmopolitan atmo sphere only to enter into a Similar one, the Empress Eugénie's Court being largely com posed Of foreigners from all quarters of the globe. Russians, English, and Americans mingled with Spaniards and Italians, a few Germans, and some Mexicans, Of whom Mme. Erazzua was the most prominent. Hence the celebrated Five Quarters of the World ball was given. I had the advantage of hearing much about that entertainment from a lady who (with her sister, Miss Carter) was present at it — Mrs. Ronalds, who died only a few years ago. Her sister represented America in the tableaux, and Mrs. Ronalds had preserved illustrations of the scene pub lished by the Paris papers of the period.
The Pauper Population. - Pauper Children. - Opinions concerning their proper Treatment. - A Hundred Thousand Children loose in London Streets. - Neglected Babies. - Juvenile Market Prowlers.It is a startling fact that, in England and Wales alone, at the present time, the number of children under the age of sixteen, dependent more or less on the parochial authorities for maintenance, amounts to three hundred and fifty thousand.It is scarcely less startling to learn that annually more than a hundred thousand criminals emerge at the doors of the various prisons, that, for short time or long time, have been their homes, and with no more substantial advice than to take care that they don't make their appearance there again, are turned adrift once more to face the world, unkind as when they last stole from it. This does not include our immense army of juvenile vagrants.
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