New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-13
JOIN BRIGHTS FAVORITE AMERICAN
AUTHORS.
BRYANT, 1oxGrEmow WHITTIER, HOLMES. LOW


nryAyr 1oyGFETIow. WHITTIER, HOLMES. LOW
ELL AND BANCROFT
Fro,a The Tqural Addfcse ne opening Of ne Brnng
hG'1 Free Lt,rdTtcS.
If Won would permit me for a few minutes |
sbnuld nike m ask Won 10 cross the 81 autic witt me, and
scei there anytnng can learn there. Applause II
not many years the authorizes III Criticism III
Euclanl said Can any good book from the ntcd
statcsl At this moment there are JCOOoOOO 81 per
in that Republic, nearly All OF Whoth Cth re-
our books not a lew Of whom writing books which
we NAV read with advantage IL Is al immense new
field for the writers OF the English language IN tIla
cnunry and If is nm immense ~, supply 10 take
the good things that writers IN the EnSisn IAN
guago there. and horc provide Ior us We hd'o Ia" "
ONLY poets which the United states have produced must
necessarily have been OF late ears. l}ut thc pos VINO
rise 10 my nind at tho present time are Bryant,
who was the oldest, aud WHO has passed away ;
LOugfcliOw lappauscl, VINO came NEXT known bucIi
more TO Engsincn than ant and he now has passed
away; Whittier, who has gun 10 be more known IN
thi, country than ne has been; Wendell Holmes and
Mr. Russo Lowell lapla,iscl MiuaIe from the United
states 10 our Cour, ana not less. / thIIk may say,
the Minister to people. Checrs- Lonslchc" "a7 a
man of whom NADIA hitic personal kOt ledge spent
a morning with HIN the hose al tnc late ehi-
ncnt ply sician, sir IrnrJ Holland, ana as 1 walked
away win him through Hanover square lac was sea1-
~ generous, afectiontc, imam hla language
ousy. He said thought Whittier was poet rcinar&-
aDlc III one hng, thai he seemed always, IL hs "Ill-
ms, to improve. would Ike To ASK "a II !u Ia. I
read what have considered to De the greatest 0l
the poems OF the United states that II InglchoN 3
sODS ol liaWaiha' Many Peop4e ma i,.i. 80.
song Of Hiavatna" because 81 Inc snpI cit! II inc
metre but If only read the mrs. le" hhcs % H. ot
VIII, hOpo, feel rather rs Ielt an" oc uHlo7 40 u
opportunity Offers, the poem through aSu on
have already read IT, II L. poem contdhE nt '. W
uon OF lnddn NE ana lhdiah Iceehus, "ht", o. ~
mex prsab.c beauty; ana do not M state u s'
reason judges That Is poem NhlcH ue7,I '
TO AFc, ana Wll iNe, ana at liis Hocn IL ~ az,
poem OF amy length tnat has been produced .! "ii'
Now san say a word about John Grcenleai Whittier.
Tor though nave nIm have hau COlrc-pOId-
eLce with HIM, nave great an,ciloh lot NM ana thtie
- another connection, for ne IN tnc United states II n
member Uf "A small church OF winch AN "a member ~
tnls country. during INC Amei lcal %"f, an einlIcit
cllAch oil INC Sl~Je 81 u lolC me Hc i'u-H.
there was ia the Uhteu states whose writings Al
the tiuc, ami Tor some years before lhh hdd htd such
great lhlucucc on pup'c UpI"n III &c county ~ tAC
writings 0 John Grccncaf III Ter. ana no doubt That
arises partly rom ts, ihdl ne "Io'c strongly on inc
suDec, % liccdoh ana b'IoheN Hst!ht Uc :! h'o uI
saNCry winch was HuOJt tO nVONe mat grcat country
u civil would not WISH 10 eNasgciatc anything
with REGARD To what me AHlc!'ls Piou"V, Dut taAc
deal ma! be said n their favor Mhitcr MIN
sc, when lac attacks the question Oh negro slavery ana
ncrt nave raised the Indignation 81 tue people whom
against TIC enormous evil IL COO gives real
poet 10 the people at uhc i'Ao ma puls mo MS
ncart these sentiments ana INTO his moulin these
ask them To return 10 tue ways OF mercy aud
righteousness lAppEtusc.J Was going TO ga! tnat
poets We do nOI place them on leVel Win Anton ana
shakespeare But then III TINS country-perhaps IN the
world Dut surely III TINS colintry-htr Is out one Milton
but shakespeare. And not plIcmg them on that
level we may accept thenas ihink all readers have
accepted thcas real and genuine poets, contrib
utng through our language 10 human dom, 10 human
enjoyment, and 10 human happiness. recocct Soho
y
COvcut Garden Theatre at one OF our free trade meet
Iugs. quoted passage which forget now from the late
Lcn Hunt, himself poet, and has left poems
that die. In making TINS quotation bpOLc
Leigh Hunt plcasuIe giving ppct, ana two three
DAYS after IrcccVed from very KIND note in which
he SAID II was Impossible could nave chosen tiilc
which he should delight to deserve and 10 have
that OF plcaouicg1Nng poet. say, referring
i've six names nave now mentioned OF the poets
vi tine Uutcd states, That tney Lrur
and high pleasure giving poets. and /
Y would ne great addition
knowledge Of useful and charming literature the
become acg TAINTED with theec poets speak
from the other size oil the AtlAnuc lApplause.l
VIII mention Otncr book, Ouly one that L.
not a book OF pOc,ry all IT BOOK history, ana
my most instructive book of history
have read. do not mean t.ut IL contains
facts than bigger books. Facts hDuhdint Dut
the study winch tses offers, al The lessons which
IL tccucs surpaSs, my mud those that have derived
found any otner BOOK OF history. IeIcr
BaucrOis history OF the COOnizdtloh Of the United
States IL Is book great deal READ IN TINS country Du
ltdcscryes be Ied by every body WhO WISHES 10 have
knowledge OF the history OF some OF the
pOrtaut events which trdsprcd durng the LIST injury
reading the book you eau ma out now piHntod
colonies mat have become grt at Naiiun and viii
become The greatest Nation upon the globe how tncy
governed IN their rtdte 81 infancy they grew
ana thoy pros errd, becoming at last The great
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