LITERARY.
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| LITERARY.


| We have received from the publisher, q. Ct'e-


man, New York, .Esraldiae, the frst part Of


the Poems Of RnSaasS Dawes MI -,tt
We have read Geraldine with extreme pleasure ;
the plotis interesting though not complicated, ant
the catastrophes natural, yetvolent. The closing


stanzas, full of horror are graphically delineatve
Of thenatural issue Of the preceding story. NM 4:
Geraldine is the beautiful daughter Of awidow-
ed father, and is reared among all the lights ofed
|ucaton incident to so refined an .age.. Inher
lives another fair one, Alice; and
they both fall in love with foreign incog at al
Ball in New York City, He is bewhiskered and


besentimental'd as all fashy incog foreigners are;
and with his feminine brow and bravo beard, he


wins the love Of the two American beauties. With
Geraldine he condescends. in particular degree
to play the exquisite lover Alice is Jealous
she attempts, an easy, task, to ruin the morals of
exotic Waldron. He kills rival, and relnorse
and natural inclination drive him to dissipation
with gang of pirates. "ara I. n, q sF.','
Geraldine, all love, mourns his absence. He
appears to her in groye,'and with a ferocious
kindness, leaves her forever. He embarks in his
piratical vessel. The father Of Geraldine deter
mines to take her to a Southern cline. They
set sail, are overtaken, and taken BY the Pirate.
Geraldine and her father hide themselves iill the
fight is over and the ship abandonedsby the, ,pi.
rates; then the old gentleman constructing raft,
embarks thereon his daughter, and in the wide
ocean set their kandkerchiefsail- to the Winds
Meantime famine reduces the pirate crew to one
man; with blood-shot eyes he sits in the bow Of
the long boat, his vessel being sink, and awaits
his horrible death. At night the moon is describ-
ed as shining over the waters. He drifts down
the current Of life on the foaming sea, when sud
denly. struggling. over the waves. a .blackened
mass approaches him. 1t is the raft Of Geral-.
dine, She is dead, and her enclosedeyes es are fx-
ed upon Waldron's preying and ghas,ly stare.
The father is dead also from famine and long ex-
posure; and Waldron, the pirate lover, plunged
into despair at the sight, plunges into the deep.
The story ends. 1s3ha .ta ss.t.> ,1." ..-. \


lis beautifully described; the poetry is thrill
ing, exquisite, and just such poetry "a. we had a
right to look for from Dawes. There are faults
in it, that we will not particularze here; but they
are 50 minute, that only professional, critic
would quarrel about. s,r.... 1s'.,. s.5


We hope every one who has a heart for poe
try will buy the book, and judge for. themselves.
\ The balance Of the Poems will be published
about Christmas, and as it is thorough Native
American work in point and fact, and by. a.man,
who loves his country as an idol, we hope our
own readers will patrohizei it., Tb Boast 6f
protective disposition to native authgIs, and moi to
buy their works, is but poor falflpent Of our
principles and creed. u, u f.sts '..s5ss, 4