REVIEW. 



T7ie Rural Poetry of the English Language, illustrating the Seasons and Months of 

 the Year, their Changes, Employments, Lessons, and Pleasures, topically para- 

 graphed, u-ith a complete Index. By James William Jenks, M. A. Boston : 



Jewett & Co. 



This very superb volume of 540 pages of double columns, has been on our 

 table for some weeks, and deserves to have had an earlier notice at our hands, 

 because it is adapted to the readers and workers who love the country and country 

 employments. Professor Jenks has undoubtedly employed much time and taste 

 in the collection of the rarest gems of English poetry, and he has been most suc- 

 cessful in getting publishers to execute his design well. Independently of the 

 poetry, the dedication is addressed to the proper persons. It is as follows : — 



TO 



THE HON. MARSHALL PINCKNEY WILDER, 



PRESIDENT OF TUE UNITED STATES AGKICULTUKAL SOCIETY, 



AND 



PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



TO WHOM, BY TITLE OF HIS LONG, INTELLIGENT, GENEROUS, AND SUCCESSFUL EXERTIONS, 



ALL LOVERS OF NATURE AND HER CULTURE ACCORD A FOREMOST PLACE 



AS THE FRIEND OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ART : 



And also to 



THE MEMBERS GENERALLY 



OK THE ABOVE-NAMED USEFUL AND HONORED NATIONAL SOCIETIES, 



AS TO THOSE WHO WILL BEST APPRECIATE, 



AND WHO BEST DESERVE THE PLACE OF PATRONS TO, 



A PAINSTAKING ENTERPRISE, CONCEIVED IN A SPIRIT KINDRED TO THEIR OWN, 



This Volume of Rural Poetrij 



IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED 



BY HIS AND THEIR OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT, 



J. W. JENKS. 



This is complimentary to Mr. Wilder, who is so intelligent and so active ; 

 he works in the cause with such a will, that it has become a wonder among 

 his friends where he gets the time to do so much. No celebration or meet- 

 ing is complete without Col. Wilder. In the morning, before breakfast, he 

 is to be seen trimming in his garden ; at breakfast, he presides at a bountiful 

 table, surrounded by guests from all parts of the Union ; the next hour, look at 

 him, in Boston, with a pile of letters to answer on horticultural subjects, as well 

 as important public and private business, sending a clerk to the Bank with one 

 hand, while the other is deciding upon the name of some apple or pear ; dry good 

 dealers and partners ask questions, and take a bite of the fruit ; a cargo of dry 

 goods is bought or sold while you wait for a friendly greeting. In another hour, 

 our cosmopolitan is seen presiding at the weekly meeting of some benevolent or 

 agricultural society, and receiving a deputation of admiring fellow-citizens who 

 want him to fill some civil office. At dinner, he presides at some restaurant, over 

 a moderate meal, but with all the prominent agriculturists listening to his wisdom 

 or his wit. A new-comer from Georgia or Wisconsin is waiting outside for 

 formation which is soon freely imparted, and the two new (but now) friends 



