While Mr. Hawthorne's analysis of the book was correct, his prophecy as to its attaining a national popularity was never realized. The literary critics, East as well as West, whose views and pretensions Field had so often lampooned mercilessly, had their innings, and as Field had not then conquered the popular heart with his "Little Boy Blue," his matchless lullabies, and his fascinating fairy tales and other stories, "Culture's Garland" was left to cumber the shelves of the book-stores. Several of the articles and poems in this book have been included in the collected edition of Field's works. In it will be found Field's famous "Markessy di Pullman" papers, with these clever introductory imitations: _"Il bianco di cazerni della graze fio bella Di teruca si mazzoni quel' antisla Somno della." --Petrarch. "He who conduces to a fellow's sleep Should noble fame and goodly riches reap." --Tasso. "Sleep mocks at death: when weary of the earth We do not die--we take an upper berth." --Dante._ There, too, are reprinted the verses he composed and credited to Judge Cooley, to which allusion has already been made in these pages, and of which Field wrote to his friend Cowen the week they were published: "I think they will create somewhat of a sensation; I have put a good deal of work upon them." All the pieces of verse read by Field at the Indianapolis convention also appear in "Culture's Garland," three of them being included in the article on "Mr. Isaac Watts, Tutor," of which "The Merciful Lad" was one of Field's favorites: _THE MERCIFUL LAD Through all my life the poor shall find In me a constant friend, And on the weak of every kind My mercy shall attend. The dumb shall never call on me In vain for kindly aid, And in my hands the blind shall see A bounteous alms display'd. In all their walks the lame shall know And feel my goodness near, And on the deaf will I bestow My gentlest words of cheer. 'Tis by such pious works as these-- Which I delight to do-- That men their fellow-creatures please, And please their Maker, too._ Field was immensely tickled with the British gravity of one of his critics, who ridiculed this imitation of Dr. Watts, because, forsooth, he could not comprehend how the dumb could call, the blind see, or the lame walk, while he wanted to know what gracious effect the gentlest words could produce on the ears of the deaf.