The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-23
AUTHORS IN DUBLIN.
Long List Of Modern Irish Poets,
N0velists and Historians
DUBLIN UNIVERSITIES FAME.


p<1&1< III 1cc3 B03 x2S7Fe 1xz1S1 tie roar o.
resosnfions- II sometimes the muse has
conned Phrygi&n cap and gene out On
fsss ba-ricades- this latest and mos. slug
gish 81 the Irish revolutions has done
little 10 arouse her where she sits drean,-
ing IN her cell The Isish. a. people. are
ss poetry-loving and arsisssezliy impress
sioFabse as ever: but for years they have
bad dses a Eery newspaper articles. and
an unqusnehsble osstory which has. per-
hsps, sonexhss bsunsed the palate for
more delicate impressions. AZ present
the literary movement IA Ireland which,
after long dezrth, should be nearly due,
makes no appearance On the horizon The
literary workers IN Dublin are, for the
most part belonging 70 the English liter
ature, though mort Of them hare BAD the
sense 80 see shzs their Irishisrn il thssr
Ssasea d'e<ys and 70 aes accordingly.
Cnrionsly enough. tie fe~ writers Eho
are clothing the dry bones Of ancient Irish
glory rith life are mainly Of the dominant
class, half English by race, sometimes
Whole English by inclination There -
Miss Emily Lsxless, Lord CI0ncurryss
sister, who has quit novel making for the
settsng-Ont 81 Irish true r0znznce2- Her
Essex in Ireland. p1rporting TO be the
ssory Of that expedition narrated By my
Lord Essex's secretary, deceived Mr. Glad
Stone into accepting Il for al actnzl docz-
nzent of the day. her romantic sketches
AHor Ksvanzuxh Fought Richard the
King. he Great Ear Of Kildare. " and
osbsrs nash into the dry-zs-1nss discussion
Of social problems In the Ninese~ntA C<n-
fairy . ire Of naked swords, glitter Of
chain mai. glenn Of pale faces and
F~.<f- F<-~ n =
Of battle: spaendor Of council boards and
banquess and tented helds, and knights
and chivsiry, % tell the world that re
irish. We too had our brave days Of old,
that died nsgni5censly.
HoEsTer. fear re cannot claim Miss
LsEless as DEblin literary worker. She
wss born IN her fathers great white house
At the Hill Of Lyons, ia Kildare. with the
lou hills IN the background. and stretch
ing away prospect Of park lands and
pasture felds. the rich plains Of Meath
and kildare But ike many another bril-
liaat Irish xriter, she has Eosn Array 30
tie vide life and appreciation Of London
Another worker in the same field i hap
PLY here amongst rs This Is Mr. Stan
dish O'Grzdy, also Of the dominant creed
and politics. He spent his youth Ia Tip
S<
battlefield He went 20 school n the
Abbey school, lying under the YAH Of the
p1rple-blre hill which jealoa.iy screens
Aheriow, one Of the ioreiiess valleys In ali
the world Far be Il from me TO say that
folks like Stan6Ish O'Grady and Mss
Lsviess are not national In high sense
Siandish O'Grsdy has written . history Of
Ireland. which troubles the soui Of Dry-zs-
A~-s$ u A.x sv~sr r.
and poetry. which are like fire and nar-
bzric gems and golE and silk and wrought
bFosd<ry. Poetry and myth-and in Ire
land these ar the frDess thinss-a abound
in this history. but Dry-4s-duss saith the
facts are pushed into corners. or dressed
ont Of recognition In hi. Red Hugh >
the ssory Of the gallant Ulster prince Who
held Elizabeth Tudor al bay for 50 many
years. be has legitimasely freer hand,
and be has spent On his hero ali his fine
and delicate style and exquisite imagina-
sson- IL il making Of history m epic
poem he Is engaged ~ present on per-
haps the most heroic episode IN al our
story. The retreat Of 0'Saliivan Bezre
In his hands il is sure 10 assume al the
dignity and grandeur Of the Irish Odessy
i. L.
Mr.. OGrady il journalist as veil Is
literary nlan, and his pen may be traced
nox and then in Ene literary style rhich
gives the ultra conservative organs OF the
D1blin newspaper press fitness al their
Own
Trinity college or 20 give It's more cor
rect name, the University Of Dublin, At
present exercises strangely little influence
on the intellectual life Of the people The
reason Is 70 be found IN the divorce BE-
tween the religion and tie politics Of tie
masses and the classes OF course there Il
always excellent intellectual work tesng
executed in book form By TIE professors Of
. university, and take them man 70. man.
Dublin university scholars hold their Own
against the scholars Of Oxford and Cam
fridge. However, the mathematics OF
Salmon or the classes Of Tyrrsl are the
literature Of specialists. The sEo men II
Dublin university Eho are In the sx.m Of
general literature are Xahz5y and Dox-
den
Mahafr. slight, brisk, with TIE czrio1s
lisp which makes his speech seem 80 A.
fecsed, Is vel-knoxn lgure IN Dublin,
and Is scarcely less well-kn0xn Il London
society There are q good many cheap
giles at his Partially fox tine socsesy.
However. any circle, giided ax j. nay be,
must needs gain something from she 6ne
Wit and delicate Imagination which hare
made the Efe Of Greece. social and political.
live again far 8 nineteenth cs1sE-y s-s5s-
e1ce-
DoE5en Is she idesl artist and rnzr Of
letters Handsome, sotf n speech. charm
ing and u-tz1e N look and manners. he
has penszve grace which coe remembers
Il some 81 the great E1.zaoe1o.as- PEP
hsys his pointed oesrc emphasizes she
likeness. He Lives In sab1-n q D1hlit.
making Eo- hlzT hills. where with tie
country close 81 hand and II TIE midst u
3 rich garden u the home wherein be
xezves those delicate studies O. EsSrz.zze,
ard creates his own artistic rsoez-v-
Of nove.iS-s we have . fy2o CT sckaoxl-
edged e-1inerce, with mz1y young writers
Only inst asking hearing E-u-1 Eae pub
lie Place a.x dames- First, there 3
Mrs. Hartley, who. under her maiden
name % Mss Lz42a, has Published half
. dozen novels Of extraordinary h-zlli-
sncy. and one OF Two sho-T sketches
s-Fss--srs, Issse-s xre the Counselor Is
cne-wh.ch are ve-5-ahze gorks OF gsnzus.
Mrs Hartley hiss been slcgzsz-3y fear
less writer. She 5sS sx-szz4gec nothing
in the PICTURES Of Irish LIE she has made
perhars q little s6ealsxn would have hesa
more artistic and more true However
rhs. Esy ce they Are e1g-asssng stores,
and one rises Ecl tae reading with
: light Ike ra1se- points flashing
before o-ex ms1Ezl VISION see has
bern : rlcss SccEe Observer q tie sSvx
and exrres>l0Zs q Pleasantly. ard zhe
lower middle class Of her cc1n-v yeopse
Ii = tor ;2is latter. shop xetFe-S AMI s1ea.
that her pen Is especially DIPPED II ac16
We wsaf q novelist 70 sxpzo-e thai N
known co1ns-y-sAs tack Tz-lo-s and -