MCCLELLAND. Eminent among the literary workers of her state stands Miss Minnie G. McClelland. That she was born out of the ordinary groove, was made plain in her early childhood. The old ancestral home stood for common-school and college in the education of the growing girl. There it began, and there it is still going on, self-directed, broadening, and deepening. She is an intense student, cherishing a keen interest in every department of learning, and has shown a surprising mastery of fresh intellectual gains, by the way in which she weaves them into the fabric of her stories. Long before the publication of Oblivion" she wrote magazine stories and dialect poems, which compare favorably with the work of her maturer pen. The first of these was written, when very young, under the inspiration of a realistic situation. A chicken-fight over a worm, occurred in her presence one summer morning, as she sat in the yard of the old homestead engaged in the domestic employment of churning. Seizing pencil and paper from a folio beside her, she jotted down with one hand, while continuing her homely Occupation with the other, the notes of a negro dialect poem. In addition to her fine intellectual gifts, Miss McClelland possesses a God-given love of humanity. From her youth, she has stood for the defense of the weak and helpless. Sacrifice of personal pleasure for the benefit of others, to her is a privilege rather than a duty. She is a genuine child of nature, cherishing a vehement indignation against all forms of injustice and oppression. With self-forgetful magnanimity she gives her hand to those on the lower step of life's ladder. Socially Miss McClelland has great attractions. Her conversational powers are decidedly fine. Her manner possesses unaffected freshness and charm. She is unconventional to a degree, and wholly devoid of self-consciousness. Like her own Myra Yorke in Madame Silva," she is "enthusiastic, emotional, intense." In person she is rather tall and slender. When in repose, the expression of her face, as delineated in her picture, becomes introspective and tenderly eloquent of unspoken thought, silencing at once all-intrusive remark, which might disturb some beautiful mental creation. W. R L. S. BIBLIOGRAPHY. WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS IBID. The Celestial Passion. New York: The Century Co., 1887. 12m0, pp. 76. IBID. Lyrics. Second edition. New York: The Century Co., 1887. 12mo, pp. 136. HOUGHTON, GEORGE W. W. Songs from Over the Sea. New York: No title page, S. W. Green, printer, 1874. 12mo, pp. 24. IBID. Album Leaves. riat, 1878. 12mo, pp. 34. Boston: Estes and Lau GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE. The Defense of the Bride and Other Poems. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. 16mo, pp. 4 and 124. IBID. Risifi's Daughter, a Drama. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. 12mo. pp. 4 and 109. SYLVA, CARMEN. Songs of Toil, by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Rumania. Translated by John Eliot Bowen. With an Introductory Sketch. New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Brother, 1888. 16mo, pp. 143. CONVERSE, HARRIET MAXWELL. Sheaves, a Collection of Poems. Second edition. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. 12mo, pp. 8 and 217. IBID. Miscellaneous Poems. MARTIN, WILLIAM WILSEY. By Solent and Danube, Poems and Ballads. London: Trübner and Co., 1885. 12mo, pp. 11 and 171. IBID. Miscellaneous poems from QUERIES, and unpublished poems. GILFILLAN, ROBERT. The Scottish Minstrel. The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns, with Mem Bos IBID. The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood. Author's edition. ton: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 16m0, pp. 162. IBID. Complete Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. 16m0, pp. 313 and 332 and 145. IBID. Poems of the Old Days and the New. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885. 16m0, pp. 229. STARR, ELIZA ALLEN. Songs of a Life-Time. Chicago: Published by the Author, 1887. pp. 21 and 400. 12mo, ABBEY, HENRY. The Poems of Henry Abbey. New, enlarged edition. Kingston, New York: Henry Abbey, 1885. 12mo, pp. 5 and 256. JEFFREY, ROSA Vertner. Poems, by Rosa Vertner Johnson. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Lexington: Hitchcock and Searles, 1857. 12mo, pp. 7 and 334. IBID. Daisy Dare and Baby Power: Poems, with eight illustrations, designed by D. Vertner Johnson, Esq. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1871. 12mo, pp. 57. IBID. The Crimson Hand and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881. 12 mo, pp. 200. MORGAN, MARY. Poems and Translations, by Mary Morgan, (Gowan Lea), Montreal: J. Theo. Robinson, 1887. 16mo, pp. 77 and 195. BUSHNELL, WILLIAM H. Miscellaneous poems. BROTHERTON, ALICE WILLIAMS. Beyond the Veil, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1886. 16m0, PP. 14. IBID. The Sailing of King Olaf and Other Poems. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1887. 16mo, pp. 145. IBID. What the Wind told to the Tree-Tops. Illustrated. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. 8vo, pp. 54. BOLTON, SARAH KNOWLES. From Heart and Nature, by Sarah Knowles Bolton, and Charles Knowles Bolton. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1887. 16mo, pp. 82 and 61. CRASHAW, RICHARD. Poems of Richard Crashaw selected and arranged, with notes, by J. R. Tutin, Printed for Private Circulation. Hull, England: J. R. Tutin, 1887. 12mo, pp. 12 and 85. SCOLLARD, CLINTON. Pictures in Song. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884. 16m0, pp. 9 and 137. IBID. With Reed and Lyre. Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1886. 16mo, pp. 173. IBID. Old and New World Lyrics. Frederick A. Stokes and Brother, 1888. 8 and 174. ROBERTS, CHARLES G. D. Poems. Philadelphia: J. B. 1880. 16mo, pp. 114. New York; 16m0, pp. Orion and Other Lippincott and Co., WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. The Poetical Works and Remains of Henry Kirke White, with Life by Robert Southey. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 12mo. BLAKE, WILLIAM. The Poems, with specimens of the Prose Writings of William Blake, with a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical by Joseph Skepsey. London: Walter Scott, 1885. 18mo. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The text carefully revised by William Michel Rossetti. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, and Co., 12mo. GOODALE, DORA READ. Apple Blossoms. Poems of Two Children. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 (1878). 18mo. COWLEY, ABRAHAM. The British Poets, including Translations. Abraham Cowley. Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1822. 16m0. PRIZE POEMS. The Publisher of THE MAGAZINE oF POETRY offers prizes to the amount of Three Hundred Dollars in cash for the best original poems submitted for publication. Other prizes will be awarded hereafter. QUATRAIN. For the best Quatrain (subject: Poetry) received by the editor on or before June 1 1889, one hundred dollars. First prize, $50; second prize, $30; third prize, $20. SONNET. 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