Two newspaper clippings including a poem by Mary Campbell [Mrs. George Brown] and a review of her work. Transcription: [handwritten by Gunn] Tribune ?s critique [first newspaper clipping] ?ǣPOEMS AND TALES, ? BY MARY CAMPBELL, MARY MEL, &c. ?A little volume of poetical pieces, most of which have already appeared under the above noms de plume of the authoress, M. E. B. [Margaret Elizabeth Brown] With slender claims upon the public attention, they have been reproduced in the present form, at the request of ?ǣa large circle of kind friends, ? to ?ǣwhose tastes ? they are probably ?ǣbetter adapte
Two newspaper clippings including a poem by Mary Campbell [Mrs. George Brown] and a review of her work. Transcription: [handwritten by Gunn] Tribune ?s critique [first newspaper clipping] ?ǣPOEMS AND TALES, ? BY MARY CAMPBELL, MARY MEL, &c. ?A little volume of poetical pieces, most of which have already appeared under the above noms de plume of the authoress, M. E. B. [Margaret Elizabeth Brown] With slender claims upon the public attention, they have been reproduced in the present form, at the request of ?ǣa large circle of kind friends, ? to ?ǣwhose tastes ? they are probably ?ǣbetter adapted than like productions intrinsically much superior. ? The author is right in supposing that out of the charmed circle, they will ?ǣappear as very crude and inferior productions, ? although there is no doubt of the ?ǣexcellence and purity of the feelings and sentiments they embody. ? The very first stanza in the volume gives little encouragement to proceed. I MET a lady very fair, Decked out in fashion gay, All beautiful she seemed to be, Light tripping through Broadway; Her face, all radiant with smiles, Won my enraptured gaze ? But very soon I was decharmed, And stood as in amaze, But it does not improve on further acquaintance. Here is an effusion to an ?ǣAbsent Love, ? a kind of composition in which the author often indulges, the lover in the case, however, being the husband of the lady poetess. DEAR FRED, I cannot fix my mind On anything of humankind Beside yourself. I try to read, The pages swim, and there indeed Your image stands with beaming smile, Before my lone heart all the while! To other friends I try to write, The sheets are spoiled, and I indite To thee! and should from morn ?till night. [handwritten by Gunn] To the George Brown. [second newspaper clipping] There are several prose tales in this volume, which are shade better than the poetry. (12mo. pp. 160- T. W. Strong.) -------------------- I LOVE THEE ? BY MARY CAMPBELL ? Not that the sweetness of th
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