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banqueting tables , and the eating and drinking guests . What changes time brings ! That untroubled face had looked doAvn on that A'ery floor upon untold myriads and numberless generations of devout worshippers , who , long centuries ago , had moulded back to abori ginal dust ; and IIOAV there was the same sublime
countenance surveying m its stillness a hearty English dinner party , unperturbed by the bang of the champagne bottle , the rattle of knives and forks , the happy English laughter , or the cheers that crowned the toasts . " Behind his Royal Hihnessaud to the
g , right hand of him Avas a strange group—Shiva , as a half-male and half-female divinity . The one half of the figure is that of a man , and the other half that of a Avoman . Further to the right and still behind himShiva is seated in his heaven
, with his bride Parvati , and groups of male and female divinities are shovfering down flowers upon them from the heavenly cloudland . To the Prince ' s left hand , and yet behind him , Avas a group again representing SluA'a ancl Parvati on their bridal-day , Avith
attendants ministering unto them . On the Avail to the Prince ' s right hand Avas a group representing a ten-headed and tonarmed poAverful worshipper of Shiva
attempting to carry off Shiva and his heavenly abode , that in his love of coveteousuess he mi ght have Shiva ahvays AA'ith himself . On the Avail to the Prince ' s left hand Avas a representative of Shiva beheading in his Avrath , a son of Brahma ,
ancl having eight arms , tusks from his mouth , and adorned with necklaces or strings of human skulls . The cause of the great god ' s fury is that one of his Avive ' s had been slighted , became she had presented herself uninvited at a party given
by one of her relations . On the same Avail , and still to his Royal Higlmess ' s left , was another repiesentation of Shiva in one of his most dreadful forms . It Avas with these great solemn figures before and around that the banquet proceededAvhile
, the Governor ' s band Avas outside discoursing in the calm tropical night , SAveet European music . " The cave of Elephanta is interesting to Masons , as it is said that Masons' marks abound on the Avails .
Reviews.
Reviews .
The Masque of Pandora , and other Poems . By Henry Wadsworth LongfelloAv . ( Routledge . ) WE are among those Avho have ever admired the poetry of Longfellow . We remember , years agowhen Ave first became acquainted
, with his pleasant measures , and AVC have learned to like them more ancl more ; yes , and repeat them to ourselves day by day , as time has grown old for us , as life has changed , and Ave have found them welcome companions amid our studies and .
our SOITOAVS , our crosses and our cares ,, our pressing concerns , and our serious duties . Indeed , we have never been able to understand on Avhat basis of sound criticism
tho shalloAv , if current , objections to LongfelloAv ' s poetry have been founded . It has been asserted that he is " light , " it has been contended that he is " artificial , " it has been boldly stated that there Avas a " sameness" in his compositions , and that if his A'erses Avere pretty rhymes they Avere
not , after all , real poetry . To all these hasty judgments Ave have ahvays demurred , and do demur still . We think , on the contrary , that LongfelloAv has every attribute of a genuine poet . He has imagination , truth , tenderness ,
sympathy , pathos , a harmonious metre ,, and ringing words ; and Avhatever may be the judgment of some diletanti objectors , some pseudo-critics , the verdict of the discerning , the intellectual , ancl the cultivated has long been g iven in his favour . Many of his happy poems are "household Avords " in Great Britain as well as in the United
States , Avherever the Anglo-Saxon language is spoken ; and some of them perhaps have been more often quoted , and more largely used by Avay of illustration and application , than any other poetry , except Tennyson ' s , of the age . Holding Longfellow to be a most true
poet , and one , too , of the first class , we have been greatly pleased by his last contribution to poetic literature—namely , the little Avork Avhich heads this page . Our only fault Avith him is , that he has not given us a feAV more of his most charming sonnets , some of Avhich are very affecting as Avell as most effective . In compliance Avith the taste of the hour ,
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banqueting tables , and the eating and drinking guests . What changes time brings ! That untroubled face had looked doAvn on that A'ery floor upon untold myriads and numberless generations of devout worshippers , who , long centuries ago , had moulded back to abori ginal dust ; and IIOAV there was the same sublime
countenance surveying m its stillness a hearty English dinner party , unperturbed by the bang of the champagne bottle , the rattle of knives and forks , the happy English laughter , or the cheers that crowned the toasts . " Behind his Royal Hihnessaud to the
g , right hand of him Avas a strange group—Shiva , as a half-male and half-female divinity . The one half of the figure is that of a man , and the other half that of a Avoman . Further to the right and still behind himShiva is seated in his heaven
, with his bride Parvati , and groups of male and female divinities are shovfering down flowers upon them from the heavenly cloudland . To the Prince ' s left hand , and yet behind him , Avas a group again representing SluA'a ancl Parvati on their bridal-day , Avith
attendants ministering unto them . On the Avail to the Prince ' s right hand Avas a group representing a ten-headed and tonarmed poAverful worshipper of Shiva
attempting to carry off Shiva and his heavenly abode , that in his love of coveteousuess he mi ght have Shiva ahvays AA'ith himself . On the Avail to the Prince ' s left hand Avas a representative of Shiva beheading in his Avrath , a son of Brahma ,
ancl having eight arms , tusks from his mouth , and adorned with necklaces or strings of human skulls . The cause of the great god ' s fury is that one of his Avive ' s had been slighted , became she had presented herself uninvited at a party given
by one of her relations . On the same Avail , and still to his Royal Higlmess ' s left , was another repiesentation of Shiva in one of his most dreadful forms . It Avas with these great solemn figures before and around that the banquet proceededAvhile
, the Governor ' s band Avas outside discoursing in the calm tropical night , SAveet European music . " The cave of Elephanta is interesting to Masons , as it is said that Masons' marks abound on the Avails .
Reviews.
Reviews .
The Masque of Pandora , and other Poems . By Henry Wadsworth LongfelloAv . ( Routledge . ) WE are among those Avho have ever admired the poetry of Longfellow . We remember , years agowhen Ave first became acquainted
, with his pleasant measures , and AVC have learned to like them more ancl more ; yes , and repeat them to ourselves day by day , as time has grown old for us , as life has changed , and Ave have found them welcome companions amid our studies and .
our SOITOAVS , our crosses and our cares ,, our pressing concerns , and our serious duties . Indeed , we have never been able to understand on Avhat basis of sound criticism
tho shalloAv , if current , objections to LongfelloAv ' s poetry have been founded . It has been asserted that he is " light , " it has been contended that he is " artificial , " it has been boldly stated that there Avas a " sameness" in his compositions , and that if his A'erses Avere pretty rhymes they Avere
not , after all , real poetry . To all these hasty judgments Ave have ahvays demurred , and do demur still . We think , on the contrary , that LongfelloAv has every attribute of a genuine poet . He has imagination , truth , tenderness ,
sympathy , pathos , a harmonious metre ,, and ringing words ; and Avhatever may be the judgment of some diletanti objectors , some pseudo-critics , the verdict of the discerning , the intellectual , ancl the cultivated has long been g iven in his favour . Many of his happy poems are "household Avords " in Great Britain as well as in the United
States , Avherever the Anglo-Saxon language is spoken ; and some of them perhaps have been more often quoted , and more largely used by Avay of illustration and application , than any other poetry , except Tennyson ' s , of the age . Holding Longfellow to be a most true
poet , and one , too , of the first class , we have been greatly pleased by his last contribution to poetic literature—namely , the little Avork Avhich heads this page . Our only fault Avith him is , that he has not given us a feAV more of his most charming sonnets , some of Avhich are very affecting as Avell as most effective . In compliance Avith the taste of the hour ,