Several of the best ballads in Mr.
Lockhart's collection recite incidents of the Cid's history. The
best ballad in the book is the "Count Alarcos and the Infanta
Solisa," which is a meet companion for Chaucer's Griselda. The
"Count Garci Perez de Vargas" is one of our favorites; and there is
one called the "Bridal of Andalla," which we have long lost all power
to read as a poem, since we have heard it sung by a voice so rich,
and sweet, and penetrating, as to make the ballad the inalienable
property of the singer.
_Tecumseh; a Poem_. By GEORGE H. COLTON. New York: Wiley &
Putnam.
This pleasing summer-day story is the work of a well read,
cultivated writer, with a skillful ear, and an evident admirer of
Scott and Campbell. There is a metrical sweetness and calm
perception of beauty spread over the poem, which declare that the
poet enjoyed his own work; and the smoothness and literary finish of
the cantos seem to indicate more years than it appears our author has
numbered. Yet the perusal suggested that the author had written this
poem in the feeling, that the delight he has experienced from Scott's
effective lists of names might be reproduced in America by the
enumeration of the sweet and sonorous Indian names of our waters.
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