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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

Broken Branches

Broken Branches.

As on the dark and northern pine
Down drop the feathery flakes of snow,
While the branches hold but feel them not,
Till the pile doth heavy and heavier grow;
And then—ah then, the branches break!—
So do the hours, the days, the years,
Fall with a soft and fairy touch
Till mourned with unavailing tears,
The fairest branches are swept away
From the tree of life —the desolate tree!
Never to spread and blossom again
Till a spring the world shall never see.

A little group of poems suggested by scenery in New South Wales — « Sydney, » « Leura Falls, » « Nellie's Glen, » and others, are all touched with the true poetic spirit. In the two little books which Miss Mackay has contributed to the literature of New Zealand there is much that is excellent, and of permanent value; and we think there is also the promise of better and maturer work in time to come.

In an American exchange of last March we read that the « Biblical Society » of London has in its possession a papyrus manuscript in the handwriting of the apostle Peter. Credat Judæus.

An American exchange reports that Mr Andrew Young, writer of the « Happy Land, » is now eighty years of age, and still mentally and physically vigorous. The item is out of date, as it is now nearly two years since the good old man was gathered to his fathers.

A letter of unusual interest in relation to the history of Thomas Chatterton came into the market lately. It opens up an altogether new circumstance in his career, and proves that he endeavored to impose « perhaps the oldest dramatic piece extant, wrote by one Rowley, a priest in Bristol, » upon Thomas Dodsley, the well-known bookseller and poetaster, before he ever addressed Walpole. This fact appears to be quite unknown to all his biographers. The letter is dated Bristol, Dec. 21, 1768, and is signed « D.B., » « to be left with Mr Thomas Chatterton. » In one of his letters already published he mentions that the reason he conceals his name is « lest my master should see my letters and think I neglected his business. »

Miss Rosa Mulholland, a popular Irish story-teller, and a contributor, long years ago, to the Cornhill and All the Year Round, was lately married to Mr Gilbert, the historian of Dublin.

Some years ago, two little sisters in the State of New York, Elaine and Dora Goodale, published a small volume of poems entitled « All Round the Year, » which attracted much notice on account of the excellence of the verse and maturity of thought displayed, the elder being only thirteen. They had begun verse-composition at five years of age. Their verses may still be seen in American magazines. The elder, Elaine, who is not long out of her teens, and holds the office of inspector of Indian schools in Dakota, was married on 18th June to Dr Charles Alexander Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux. The bridegroom, who graduated at Dartmouth, and took a course in medicine at Harvard, is described as a tall handsome man with a high intellectual forehead and smooth clear-cut bronzed features. He holds the position of government physician at Pine Ridge Agency.