The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-21
ATALR WITH sTEDMAN.
The Many Social Dem 4nds Made Upon
His Time.

His Time.
NEW YORK, July 20.-In recent con-
versat on Edmund Clarence S-edman re-
marked that the social and Other demands
upon mis- tIms outside Of mere business en-
gagements had assumed within few years
sIch a magnitude that he could hardly say
that his time was his own any longer.
During tie last half-dozsn and more
years" said Mr.. Stedman, my correspond
ence mas gro6n to such an extent that II /
should attempt to do it, it wouli be simply
impossible for me u ans YER Informally in
p-rso1 one-qusrter Of the letters that | re-
cetve, not OILY from persons in I lis coun-
try, but tnO,e residing abroad o. course
| am al ways very glad b get letters from
any friends wherever tuef are Or whoe Ee
tuey may be, but it is impossible Tor
me to reply TO them AS they
would like to nave ma. doubtless, and so /
have bee ! compelled to use a printel form
il tne great ajorlty Of istances. which
an lily Deg my frie .ds 70 accept Ia lisu OF
what | should t1srwise be Only too glad
20 send them. IL IS no unusual thing for me
20 +, ceiye as many as lou letters day, an /
h 'se to1, outsiCe of NEE business letters.
Think Of it
Referring the older pets of America
Mr. Sgsd q re narksd as follows sin
the case of the twJ oldest sur sivors ii
slng-Mr. Whittier aud Dr.. Holnes-Ne
observe their aimirers more exCeIded / .
numbers y ith the sprea Of ca ture Ia our
81 u. II tuoIr Woes a noe .eafd as ire
qlehty as form sriy, 1t is not because tney
ave grown less S rOng and sweet, Tor
with Q Gu new u5le alce as IL co mes TO u
r IN tim, to q ne, we are liable to detect
any varlatiO il ths cones we all long agJ
so easily learned TO love.
Lowell Is less of.en heard nowadays
hal ne Used to be, but it is not, as W.
know, beca Sc Of any di ..inutioI 10 tie
quality of that DICE Nh Sc IN sc is 50 ap-
ecla Ell by all Gu ii at d people everJ-
wners. O rolly regret 10 that we do not
near more of it--as We nay have reason to
lope we may wuen Elm wood" is again
gracet by the press ace I master. St)d-
lard, whose work u4e never been appre-
Grated as 1T should b, Continued to be loyal
W his first love, ana from time 10 times.
lotwIths andlng adval nag years AL phys
cal infirmi les, AIDES T. the poeticSl riches
VI our literature. / rsl lot heip feeling
| that the outlook for pOotry in this county
Is enc uragl &, thong aud Will .ot deny
I at with TIE younger AMI coming singers,
altogether too m zen stress Is laid up N the
more pal .ful forms Of verse. The volumes
| of Verse en4haJi & from IN luth TO mouta
ON the younger writer's. do not contain
| that distinctive Character If work such as
belonged to tnat formative peri d when
| Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell,
aud the writer's Immediately following the ii
| wrought for q waiting people Longfel-
| ,o~'s ID 1t Youth" III Itself was sufficIen.
| % eStablis the reputation OF any poet WAC
| could produce such maotcrpiece. How
| lew of on younger writers give us any
thing like this And yet there Is no reason
,hy such poems cannot be written to-day
as III Lolgfellow'S early years My advlce
| to our coming singers iS-do not give SO
nucI at eutlon to the lighter forms of
We Se-making, but seek to produce some
| hi when snail be full of real C laracter,
| and shall stand part, as 1t were, from the
| iaInty order oil verse referred to- These
| otis Of We SO are all pretty enough, aud OF
| course are in given sense promises of
| 50 netting better to come, but tIat Is all.
! SCll as | nave SAID, there is much .cour-
agement TO believe that the outlook for
Joetry in this country i, bright,
| 81 CO every now ami the
,Ome striking instance is afforded as evil
| Isuce of this fact, as in the case of Wood
| uerry's the North Shore Waite -" one OF
ne finest elegiac poems of recent times;
| .lso il he case Of Millers "Songs OF the
,5ierras," and several of 81 lney Lanier's
compositions, such as the IS ng Of the
Jnatta AoJchse," "The Revenge OF Ham
lsh," a ID "The MarsAes of Glynn."
trust the day is near at hand wuen shall
be free from tne pressure OF outside duties
i.,d cares, and give MOI attention to poet
| ~ tnan | have DeeA able to devo to IL
| for sometime past Win the competition
of the work on American Literature, on
which l have been eng ICED for a c)nSiiera-
Ole period of time, | shall feel that | ca
o4ce more take up the work nearest my
| heart, iii whlch service toll is only a re
| freshmenG aud delg IT."
CHAs. s. BUTLER.