Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-08
The Opinion Of Leading journal Inou tn,
"IntelIigencertr" IItrr.ry Cr,1i.i.,.,

me opinion OF a Leading journal Imam the
"Inteliigencer's" Literary Criticism.
from the Memphis Appeal.
Inc south Is greatly indebted 10 I-uCa-. -
sleciai contributor fora special series 0t
well considered articles on Southern Iit,ra.
t"re anu literary men, which appeared some
weeks since in the Lancaster T>TELTTgrS
GER, one of the most notable or TN. 1.,il,-
papers of Pennsylvania and one of tho most
influential. In these "Uncas" il both fair
anu frank. lie contrasts Mr. Cable, for in
stance, with all of his cOntempoIary nova.
ilsls with results in the highest degree favor
apie 10 the Southerner. lie regards Dr
sewer, whether "from a purely literary
Polht oil view, or from the higher one OF
moral purpose and tendency as remaining
the most artisticaily perfect aud ethicaIly
wholesome novel yet produced nv. nm
American writer, not eXceptinr eitber H..
thorne's or Harriet Beecher StoWe's For
strictly speaking, neither of these enter into
comparison with Cable. Hawthorne's ro-
~ r,,auces are not novels but rOmances, and
unquestonably without peer, scarcely
without rival, in the language, while I-ncjs
Iom's Cabin is far more than a novel and
therefore to he Judged by other tests and
UcoIuihS 10 other Standards" Charles
f-sbert Ciaddock, whom Tennessee NAV
proudly own, "Uncas" regards as second
only to Mr.. Cable "Neither of theqe tu,C, ;;
ne says, may yet be as ripe in their art "a
oho or Two OF the greatest of Our Northern
authors but II they continue growing in
power as they have begun, their mst,irity,
VIII bring forth fruit Of a finer flavor f,r
than American letters have vet urnduced
whether In the North or the south That a
held which has been under cuItiy,tion hr,
lew short years, As has the field of South.rn
literature, should already have such an
abundant yield, and OF such eXceIIent
quality, as the few leading names / have
mentioned indicate, Is something which I
regard as a little short OF marvellous and
surely full Of brightest promise for Ibe
luture. Joel Chandler Harris holds n nI.ro
apart and OF himself" for a gentle hn,uor
and pathos ana descriptive power ali his
own. or him "Uncas" speaks with eyident
delight, and in words that the million of |
lovers of "Uncle Remus" will say siamen, |
To- And OF Sidney Lanier who was taken |
all TOO soon, just as he was ripening into a |
place as essayist higher than any American
las yet reached. Paul Hayne, too, our finest
poet-our most tender aud graceful. vel
'trong and pafriotic-and Father Ryan, who
las Just passed away. These and many
'thers that we cannot here find room for are
reated OF with marked discrimination. and
'et with something like loving hand, |
meas does not fail to remember tho
journalists of the South or the work tbev
ave done in re- establishing their states ana
10 makes IL plain that in nothing so much
= the south revived or made more rapid
trldes Whatever her place in the literature
I The English language before the war
etween the states 1t Is a thousandfold in |
reased, greatly To the credit not only of our |
ection but OF the whole Union, Tor whose
eace aud perpetuity the best pens of the |
outh continually labor.