ISAAC ABBOTT.-

Mr. E. P. Cranch, known to many graduates if not to many present members of the college, has discovered an old New England ballad, entitled, "The Mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott," and published it in artistic pamphlet form. The tale is in truth most mournful, being an account of the ill-fated Isaac, and telling how he

Went out one day just as it seems,

- One day just as it seems,

to cut a tree down. But in the course of the chopping a portion of the upper tree falls on his head with such extraordinary force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground

To minguel with his native clay,

- Guel with his native clay.

The mournful tale is enhanced by some of the most extraordinary drawings, from the pencil of Mr. Cranch, that we have ever seen, and the whole makes an amusing pleasure book well worth perusal.

*Songs of Harvard. H. D. Everett, '89, publisher. On sale at the bookstores.

- The mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott: E. P. Cranch. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, O. 1886.