"Babble Brook" Songs. By j. H. M'Nanghton. (0. Ditson and
Co., of
Boston.)—The author has sent this volume from America, because "the blare of the bugle and the jar of the cannon have well-nigh drowned in that unhappy land the undertone of the poet's lute." But we sincerely
hope that the poets of the North will not persist in a course which lends so powerfnl an argument to those of our countrymen who desire
intervention. Its own "little volumes of poems" are as much as any people can be expected to read. In lieu of criticism we give a whole poem :—
" Dark-eyed, romping girl of Jeddo,
Skipping o'er the down and meadow, Vancing light boree so nimble To the clang of drum and cymbal, Dark-eyed, romping girl of Jeddo."
"With your tresses darkly flying, Dancing, smiling, singing, sighing, Come with me through weld and warren, Como with me through meadows foreign, With your tresses darkly flying."
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