Review.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 48, 2 December 1867, Page 301

Review.

ThEv JTe<jWy Be-cord-of LitcrcdufeffScience';arid (heMrts: Clarson, Mass'ina. 'j;. : .3td l >yolume T of anillustr ated periodical bearing the above titles It is very ,': creHitably gdt up .in the style of the London .Joiirnal and ; other kindred .pnblicatidns, containing a sensational tale, continued from week to week, entitled ** Harcourt Darrell,” which, so far as we can judge from this first part, is well written, and’promises to sustaint its t interest. Besides this, ■ each number- contains. two or three shorter, tales or novelettes* familiar introduction to science, * answers to correspondents, aqd a good miscellanea and collection of facetiae. The illustrations; comprise portraits of H.R.H. The. Duke of Edinburgh, the • Hon. Sir Francis Murphy, and the Hon. R. D. Ireland, A Scene on the Hawkesbury Plains,' during the late floods, and several sketches illustrative of the incidents described in the tales, besides a fair sample, of poetical effusions, from the latter of which we select—

THE STAR . AND THE VIOLET. . AN ALLEGORY. Come, list to me, and I will tell a tale . Of a sweet floVret in a, little dell, Which nestled softly in its leafy bed, "While dewdrops glittered on its tiny head, Lite tears arrested in their crystal cell.. Andj’ ip tlie heavens shone a brilliant star, • W liicli fondly loved this little violet bine, As forth it came each clear and stilly night, When all its beams of calm and silvery.light Upon that bed of emerald leaves it threw. 33iit the fierce sun,' too,’ loved this, gentle flower, And proudly came, with hot and burning ray, Taen died the dewdrops with his feverish heat, And paled the colour of that flow’ret sweet. Until it-faded slowly, -day by day. One calm, still night, I sat beside a .‘tream, And watched the heavens with enraptured eye: When from the myriad stars the brightest flew, moment glittered, soon was lost to view; And then ,’twas wanting in-that lovely sky. Then as X sat and pondered on its fate, -" A- little boat came dancing o’er the wave, - Twas made of ivy leaves of darkest green, - i^ 3 bow a fairy form was seen, ("grave. . . Whose face, was sad, and gloomy seem’d, and And he it was who, weepings told this tale, And showed me where' the pretty violet lay, - He told howgently it had pined anddied, How mourned the bright star for, its little bride, And then, in flashing frenzy, cast itself, away. —Woolloomoolloo, Sydney. M. A. C. : As an inducement to the public to subscribe to the new volume, the publishers have offered four sewing machines, which will be drawn for after the manner of the Art Union prizes, in the month' of December, ; and each purchaser of each of the four first numbers will have one chance, every one of such numbers - being, marked with a distinctive number, of which four will be successful, and duly announced in. future: numbers of ~the journal.: Respecting the success which has. already attended this publication ft od its. future prospects, the Editor' gives' the .following address to his readers:— r : A EEW. WORDS TO Oim READERS, , Upon the commencement, of our. third yearly volume, we desire to express our thanks ; iu the , first ■ P ii Ce to those readers and contributors who have followed the Australian. Journal in its career for ■ the past, two years; and, in the next, to congratu- ... reading public of '-these colonies generally upon_the success 1 which has attended the effort to establish a_ purelycolonial' popular periodical, m-* h) light and'entertaining literature. - -.Tha mass oUiinported literature, and.the speed • which it is disseminated, sufficiently proves that the people of these colonies are a reading people; and in the establishment of the Australian Journal we never for a moment contemplated the production of a periodical ’ that should appeal to one- class or section alone,—whether it were the . . easytor<toiling class, the highly educated or 'the mental struggler. It was, and is, our desire to carry.hea.tny, amusement and: entertainment to the ~distant corner of these, vast colonies; to -the ? * n b ler and the station. of the squatter* -! v -the: shepherd’s hut and the artizan’s home; to lnterestat once the schoolboy, and the scholar, old and _ young,' grave and gay, the "toiler and the thinker. . > . Erom the encouragement-'.we have - received, ■ during the- two years-that have' passed since- the , commencement of our labours, we are animated to , fresh endeavours .to give: truthful representations r 1 i .to call into active and honoiirable existence, as much as;possible, the latent - tdr e . n t ,which,_jsye well-,know, the Australian cocoptain,|.dth6ugK;in .many cases "even, the possessors themselves are' but half conscious of their undeveloped■pbwers. , i : : ' ‘ 0v brder thatfictionmayjbe made to subserve the ope r - ofynuman passions upon,Bociety, our tdes : present -pictnyes illustrative 'iof living human i fcyi,upoa;:the : 8ea:; aud, the shore, oil , the. mountain .as well asin, the yaUeyorthe j mine.' ■ v And aiming to extend .popular acquaintance • with the 'more: deyated walks of'Hterature* we , ■ shall not, despise those minor; contributions ‘which are at all times so.welcome from our more humble, ixiends, ;whose Jittle lonely flowers, insteadof lying . v ‘unheeded; webopeto see continually ::rclieving_andgeiiinung'Ourpagea )J hy.t}ißir-nnag. •'■sdniihg contrast.with pfoductiohs bf higheraspivl rations.'. ;:vV:i 1 .--yv -yhyi ■ v ' .Hsnceforth, we} shallendeavour fco amuse as, wellasinterest our readers, by poetry ’ : ’'And'rproßeyl^tffahd^fictinuT^WHilHt'3ninAt.y:.'flTid andiearnesfopowers ; 3which;are: soessentialitoithp ?pffdgrew‘;;diid';wellwhich preyaila iii all young colonies.