TAM'S FORTNIGHT RAMBLE. Tam's Fortnight Ramble, and other Poems. By THOMAS "He is a man of genius, with a heart as tender as a woman's, who would have been effeminate from over-delicacy of construction, but for the masculine necessity of getting a livelihood. I like him."-N. P. WILLIS. "Many of his sonnets bear upon them the richness of genius, and awaken those feelings which nothing but true poetry can arouse."-Hon. J. R. CHANDLER. "We hesitate not to pronounce him a genuine poet."-Rev. J. W. ALEXANDER, D.D. "Tam is no new acquaintance, either to us or to our readers; but one of those "old, familiar" friends who are cherished in our heart's core. The beauty of his verse, not less than of his sentiments, has endeared him to thousands on thousands of the readers of the Gazette; and not unfrequently his cheerful strains, his poetry "tipped with heavenliness," has made festival in many a sorrowing heart. Tam, or Mr. MACKELLAR, to speak of him by his real name, is no pretty triter in verse, but an earnest man, writing on earnest subjects, and striving to do good as well as to amuse. Such should ever be the high aim of poetry." -J. C. NEAL, editor of Neal's Gazette. "He touches every subject with ease and grace, and breathes life into that which was before inanimate."-Del. Co. Repub. "Written by our printer-poet, as the title indicates, in a season of relief from the persecution of publishers, printers, and proofs. The poetry is remarkable. for its beautiful simplicity, high-toned morality, and earnest piety."-Rev. Dr. SUMMERS. "Mr. MACKELLAR has in him the poetry of pleasantry and pathos. Some passages are touching, others amusing, and all evincing sound sense and discrimination. A religious vein runs through all, and the minor poems are the breathings of a heart which seems to have the highest enjoyments amidst the domestic circle."-Presbyterian, (Phila.) "This is a volume of poetry, in the best sense of the word; true poetry, responsive to nature and life, and to the heart of man. There is a charm-it is the power of inspiration-the charm of truth and nature, and of poetic feeling, blended with sacred charity-on almost every page, which invites and holds the willing eye and ear of the reader."-Christian Observer. "He is a poet of nature and of the home affections, and he appeals to the heart with a gentle and persuasive force that only those who feel what they write can exercise. It is refreshing to turn from the stilted rhymes and forced ideas of most of the writers of the present day, to the sweet and pleasant thoughts that come upward from his heart to stir our sympathies and exact our admiration."-Evening News. "The head and the heart of this author, although he is too modest to make high claims for either, in truth require no gratuitous commendation. His muse has indeed the truth, and depth, and insight of poetry, lacking only the passionateness, fire, and rapture with which its sometimes grandeur, oftener giddiness, intoxicates the fancy. It is a gentle, loving, hopeful, healthy heartiness that is the charm of his poems. The rhythm is smooth, the versification accurate, and the sentiment always beautiful. Extracts made anywhere at random from this book would show how just the character we ascribe to the writer, and how tame the praise we have given to his poetry."-Dr. ELDER. 忌 |