Print and paper alike excellent, and
pleasant binding in vivid green and lustrous gold. It were surely
useless to commend Ik. Marvel now to our readers, since no one ever
attained to more rapid popularity. His sketches are always graceful and
genial, his style of singular elegance. He wins his way to our heart and
awakens our interest we scarcely know how, for he is marvellously
unpretending and simple in his delineations of life. Our author says in
his Preface to the new edition of the 'Reveries of a Bachelor:' 'The
houses where I was accustomed to linger, show other faces at the
windows; bright and cheery faces, it is true; but they are looking over
at a young fellow upon the other side of the way.'
We would whisper to him: 'Nay, not so. Humanity is ever grateful to its
true and earnest friends, and have borne thee over in triumph to the
fair clime of the Ideal, where undying affections await thee; and
ever-yearning loves shall keep thee ever young. Spring flowers are
forever blooming in our hearts as thou breathest upon them, and age is
but a name for thy immortal youth, O friend of dreamy hours and tender
reveries.'
MY FARM OF EDGEWOOD: A Country Book. By the Author of
'Reveries of a Bachelor.' Eighth Edition. New York: Charles
Scribner.
A book of farm experience from Ik. Marvel cannot fail to awaken the
interest of the community. If the author sees with the eye of the poet,
his imagination is no ignis-fatuus fire to mislead and bewilder him when
moving among the practical things of life.
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