instance, describing the sinking of Helge's ships after the utterance of the dragon:

"Scarce was it spoke,

Ere keels of oak

By unseen power
Began to lower :
Then on and on

Are downward drawn

To Ran's safe keeping."

But each of the translations contains charming passages; and we conclude by quoting a few lines which give a fair comparative impression of the manner, both as to faults and merits, of the two.

"No streamlet's waters rushed so swift
O'er which he would not Ing'borg lift;
How pleasant feels, when foam-rush 'larms,
The gentle cling of small white arms!

"The first pale flowers that spring had shed,
The strawberry sweet that first grew red,
The corn-ear first in ripe gold clad,

To her he offered, true and glad.”

So Tegnér, of Frithiof's boyhood, in Professor Stephens's version; the American translators render the same passage thus:

"However swift, there ran no brook

But o'er it Ingeborg he took ;

How sweet when roaring torrents frighten
To feel her soft arms round him tighten !

"The first spring flowers by sunshine fed,
The earliest berries turning red,

The first of autumn's golden treasure,

He proffered her with eager pleasure.”

It is sufficiently clear that we need hardly look for perfection of form in these translations; and yet for charm, for attractiveness, they have their value, and will serve a good purpose in directing attention toward the eminent beauty of the original.

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No. CCLVIII.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1877.

ART. I. — THE "ELECTORAL CONSPIRACY" BUBBLE EXPLODED.

"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,

And these are of them: whither are they vanish'd?

Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, melted

As breath into the wind."

POLITICAL literature, contributed by violent and disappointed partisans, seldom deserves or takes a high rank in the esteem of men, either for style or permanent usefulness. That contained in the last number of this Review, entitled "The Electoral Conspiracy," furnishes no exception to this rule. Its author, the Hon. J. S. Black, was one of the counsel for the defeated Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President before the Electoral Commission. Having been long a member of that party, and especially distinguished, when Attorney-General of the United States, for his devotion to the fortunes and the schemes of the Secession leaders of the South, he saw in the defeat of their favorite nominees, Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks, only another triumph of Northern principles and of Northern Union men, both regarded by him with sincere dislike.

In view of this, was he wise "to remind the reader of certain points in our political history which have within the last twenty years divided the two parties and defined their antagonism"? Or fortunate in unfolding the bloody leaves of that treasonable record which contains the history of those with whom he and other leadVOL. CXXV. - NO. 258. 13