New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14
, aas nnrAr pnre struck BY Our General isnOranee

vas never more struck by general ignorance
Of America ian ignorance very nnn rblIshed book
~ Reoresertative Poems" by English ard American
mns ssi tn ESr s Of 'srS several TST Of he.e
nursed a guilty, though, ] hope, not an ih'hcloio
sro9nce ne l9st To T SnInr ME he occupied more
pages than Nj. Lowell Mr. whittier. ny i.olu lT sIns
son, or my LNr Lytton IS tetsp nev snT r
covered the shock which ny ignorance OF o Mr o sb
that the wEons way g speak S ID ,e pe lSo
cti,mGs-i u. make now dcpatnre modern siyiel
Ter Us read Nlr. boxer to-day Hut conscience 81. ~
~ Amciscsn lIteraturr when he Is in this condition
when hc he's neglected Boxer Consequrn,N &c IN
nv svcasinr Mr Matthew Arnold caused some mlrth.
fear In The s,ac, when he said that they mae .So
much their sI0ars sGe one mot 1 1STSs I"s
nimcr of American literature Mr.. Arnold said that
Scotch literature was far s, R RoSo S0 pssbed Primer
OF that 1t Is not for me to disclaIm irDuie 10 mS
;,on III. but TIM! When 'aA@ ame 9n
besns-let US say. FOR arguments sake, from
ne wo Of % ra rsh fo we Scsn a1 or
this PURPOSE at ihat late daie we lesye Our Burns,
keep Aytoun. ard wilson. and Lockhar, and CARLYLE
% he Is To count. and Alexander smith ara whom
Hawthorne poe. Loneteloy. Lowell, Whittier. Pscs-
Emerson. ho'iey. "hppie Lahsf: s,"a1ar,ii
and critical names that crowd on ihe memoy, and 70
cOnteup Or3ry move ISIS ana hu.iOipis. III.
tr,Ifh Is that English critics hardly know enough OF
scotch literature hsfosc Burns TO criticize ~, u, ana ana RI
Laye even met persons OF education VINO never nearu
nj The Tttrick shepherd In Mr.. Humphrey Wards
usei Collection Of English Poets there Is. think,
inst one uuiGportan' extract from tha corious ana
Vigorous author When we have Home RUE IL SCOT
land then YOU shall with our primer Of our ma
,ional Scotch masterpieces and. a. for EnRiish We
shali not Ike leydcn, sp0ll Scotch hy irving to
learn that Language which. Indeed, The great liz
eulst never mastered. ,,,-
America the better. Who avoid bunde's IN such
: a mar. 49, y no ever wrote a biography without the
friends OF tho subject tho hrthcrs q the corp pro
claiming thar IL va, all wrong Who ever described
ic,eii;v ,hnut prOvQln-, storm 90 rN roach ffuni
Tho Jrc;lers therein. Moody can Dc quite accurate
In recent American g1ideboO TO London: or some
hing OF thai Mind. hear that our upper classes cr
tla1on their names brass doorplsies In Town Tai.
asionshrd me and felt that, II an Enslishmsn had
would not have passed quito unnOtlced. II might
rerhaps have given offence and, though II must needs
be that offences come II is VOL 70 avoid going In
search OF occasions for them. Mr. Roosevelt In his
.fre re,eI Grln and Mr. Matthew Arnold The two
FORMER offenders ncred he preferred 30 treat some
,,st aerlV likely he knows of
than Lord Volscley and OF American administration
Ie ,nattsrs American alone. that Lord Wolsesy had
1rus,rd say fhc character ~ Bfasdes, and thai sr
I.prl Grnln had been cOueni 10 investigate the Gus
ic,. q the filf ties. In that ease nobody feelings
ISr1 volsplry had made Dada> ahe par; in the siege
OF syracuse and II Sir Iepel ,rifE had not ikef the
hoofs worn By Tire lamcntsd Inhabitants of Asa Minor.
Noreoyrr ny opinion ~ the accuracy ~ i.Ofd
voselry's remarks On war or Sir l'pei Gri'lns on
,hlngs In general. is o. more value than perhaps
Mr. Rooscvclts Is tho prepars'ion Of Wcaet But
~ Arnold wrote about literature and social life In
America would that he haf used thai exquisite art OF