The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-09-03

But II must DC great Hitphh S4'tSh ' to you observed. ''to be SD frequently disturbed by such excursionists.
 :. Well. during the present year admi, 1t has been a little trying. Nevertheless. I always dislike sending q man nr woman away who has come out here for the puf- pose of seeing me or my house. oi course. have ip do I occasionally. but II k always disagrecablc 10 me necdiessly to disap2oini any one. These women whom you saw are a good a;auhch New England tepe. and like them n spite of theH lack oi tact and their abrupt manners. They are good hard-Wortihtt women. ~he make good wsse> and gaaa ma.hete. And vet the other daX. l ~as greatly amused q, one Of the same class who came here with q large baske' whether she had anything to sell ! dld a@t 5,-. et- tan apparently fer the pelpese oi tellin. me thal she had read 'F.tansel.ae f.oia beglnntng to end and. ,he aided. there neu n..nA folk, ctn~.,.tN tlsi,. .aiii eoI= YIu.ed now lhat shc hai no intcnton whatever oi bclng rsdc to alc -thc VI merely awkward and nettaa=. ..ad esle Whtl si,. dld noi mean ta sag. asSEft her | >h, had iound ,ise fctdis.. VI i.t.IF.- se.inc s.sch d o.T,tdiu. task. he qae-. .lan seemed to ,urpa.e her she a5Fet ,as},alras,,d. and ,ho~e,. Plalaiy h.. >ke hal ID rceo9ieciien at h.ssias s..4e! an shHae complimentary.
 lfNa>. IL Lar d, can remember, on the >alne occasion hat Mr Lon stcllaw tolc me of t young u.an from somewhere in New England wh" Wre,e to hu. sdyIn. th4i hc W.ts m love with Il young latiN abesc name WI, glten. and a dcse efitiiia11 of k hose appearance Aa, also subIoncd Ihewriter had been dcNoiiss hlln>elf iai t long tilnc tn the task ei winning :he voun. lads , aitcc ton. hut she had LII sIsau hIm ro encouragement; .shsi h'. d5risea a, the conclusion that .' nothing bat poetry would tctch her. \ow. would Mr. Iangicllow. whom he understood ;o llc Il poet write some suitable stuff tni hln that would appeal ta tine 2eans ladt = heart. and would he hrst let him know iitH-muCh ne charged ior1 poem of tht, kind Whether Mir. Long fellow hurlcS- ,iued Il littIc thls in, ldeut + relating | l ..n unable to s.ty hut isom the grA1A ot his manner and sill Hore from hl> tcnper.tincnlai naptne-s ter burlcsque cNlsgefaiion. 1 concluded that the m eldcnt had occurred exactly as he re- pnrtcd II.
 l. was about a year and a halt ago. l think that WAS .uil:y oi a long poem in hcNainetrr VA, th>ioas To know tfam NT Eon. felloG with what success hat handled the verse. as hls eNquIsItciy uAncd c.,l LAnuld dcl,et any mctrrd de feet ar e.issonaucc thdi mlghJ ess ape mlnc l accordingly sent him Il copy ei the GeHfa, Assa55Ht containing the poen and he MAS klud enough. the next tune spent An evening with him. h en- ter Intu d somewhat minute etlt4olsm. lhls .tadtn led !" Il discussion et the iezi,irn.tus ui tl,c heNaActef ih English and as l happen to remember some oi the opIn.ous he then uttered. shall take the hbctiS to quote them = he news paper eiitits who insist that hcNdmetcr ls not verse merely advertise thclr own ig- nordnee ar iheIr imperfect perception al meter. No eht,~l,lllN tralned man Mho has been taught lu sc m Homer and kirgd III hls youth will have the slightest dttl- .uity III scanning the same meter in In sllsh. \ number oi Latin meters. such .ts the ,,,pphIe .tisa the eicsiae verse. have been perfectly domeStiedted Ill German. and there l> no tdhd reason why the, should nc, be in English. The obJee- ton so frequently urged. that the E.n- glish is too abrupt .sna n!onasy llah!ss ta! the flowing Latin meters, iS not. to my mind. ..n insupcTLblc one. live depended 1 entirely upon the Saxon element of the l language. our hc\ameters would probablA not be cuphunious but the l..itin element et the language supplies stately t,,,i, sSil,tbie flew wht, i,- tAe Ae>,.metef- i eeites and the mixture ei the twe ele- ment, has often very nne rhythmic effect"
 While entirely agreeing m the above. made some alluslon la the dliiie ulty oi tnding good dact,ls in English tha, were not partitiplcs. Ii you distribute the da, tyi an two, ar even three words. the ,Grs, can hardly avoid becoming a liulc "choppy, and this spells at once the stately case ot the rhythm. Mir. Long fellow admitted this dttic uliy but thought that the language had a larger supply oi good daotlls than was aware of. The question oi the difference betM cen quan- uty and accent was also discussed. and remember that he maintained that that difficulty had been greatly exaggerated. AS Il rsythmical principle. accent Was quite IS effective and as well applicable to Latin meters as quantity. and II wts hardly ,o be disputed that the Roman poets had re- gard tor both in the reading and eompe- sltlon ottheIr verses. am by no mean, sure that quote these oplnions :'srbiti0 cIA!srdtiD,. but l am very sure that IT substance they are correct, He finished bN taking from his desk manuscript con. tatalng translation m hcNAmeter ot th, nrst thtry or forty lines oi the hrSt beoI vi the Had. which he read ,o me mercl, as .an eNemplInea oi the principle. which We had been discussing. He agree, wl,h Mir. Stcdman m thinking that ;hcr, wJs yct room for. another English vcfsiol oi Homer: and although he greatly ad mired Bryan;'s blank verse tfanslatioa h, could not but regret that he had no, ,rie, the hcNametcr
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