Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-14

An lsnklish Nirw OF iuNcll
Perhaps the most remarkable con.
trihuii1n 90 periodical literature this
month a the character -kcicl of Jam.,
Russell Lowell by W. q. Stead IN his
Review Of Rsyiowl Mr. Stead SAYS
that America has loot BIER lastgrcat poet.
one wh1 chad no comreer since Emcr-
son, aud vino left no successor" Ia bis
own land Lowell wa. not Ia his lat days
in touch with his couutryincu ~ be- haas
been before he was minister % tine court
Of 81 JMncs. Rightly or wrongly. thoy
felt that he had fllDa fomuwhat FROM
Die ilrst works and hianr.i love flr free
dom and human brotherhood. that Brit.
ish social distinction and British dinners
had weakened hi- rcruhlcluim.
Tho mighty influence Boz exercised on
one Engllshmanwill therefore DO learned
now Tor the Hr.t time vi Interest by
Lowclls fellow country 10. Stead
/ ,ay, that on that ia, OF Atlantic
sull hngcr veterans who Ia poetic power
are the compo,r1 Of Lowell. He adds
this. however. "But neither on one sido
Of the Atlantic nor on the other Is there
any poet left whose vcrse ]. Instinct with
~ much inspiration, or one who has iu
him 30 much Of the uc,r Of these latter
days"
\ What this in1plmtion was to bis own
life. siaad tells ~. He write. "rms
article Is simply the fcrycnt ouipouring
NJ the gratitude o., one among the thou.
sands whom ho has helped" Stead was
only fifteen when ho tut fclt the inspi.
ration Of LowJll's word. iowella pref
are 10 "the Pioug Editors Creed'
helped Stead 10 determine his occupa.
ton in lii,, De balieyca Three NJ four
year later ho happened on o. volume of
LOWELL pocm,. Stead was then threat.
cncl with blindness flo was Obliged
% give up an serious study. aud llfe
looked dark indeed ~ him. Among the
poems 10 the volume was that entitled
"Eztrcmo Unction," and now when the
distinguished Journalists goes back 10
the book which 20 filled his boylsli
dreams h. finds line drawn In pencil
around "ExIoms Unctionn and the
words written, This poem shaped my
liic" A dying man nys to tho holy
man who would shrive himi
Col leave me. Priests my soui would b.
Alone With ile rnlsulor. Deaths
flf Hslf-r eye than thine VIII aou
Ihis rflrhllhg clay yield up i' BREATH
lIHHH HsIa Ha.HH . b sIs9. 10.
Than bob OH eau slsauHo away.
liaals tant layc pluoked tho worlds
MeSi,ls, pia,ssa tho aosc -ofMa,.
Thrfo m, deaa Youth do-, vrir N. hands.
| Ard Tiers, With riea that r0ad me SGT,
The ghosi pf mi Heal stands,
Stead was at the most impreRionahlo
time Of his lie. Tho poem filed him
with horror, this youth OF eighteen. at
the thought that hitherto he had liyol
for himself alone aud for tho working
out Of bis own ambitious day dreams.
The mental poc-sS through which hs
passed with his cnfiohlol health AMI
failing ryUigld was not unlike that de-
scH6od by religious persons as conylc,
ton Of iu and conversion. Mr.. s.rad
writes ~ ~
~ the same tine this rrmorseful horrur
wolld anuIrtimaa ahtto somewhat, probably
owing to occasional baxter health aud then an
immtns0 Inspiration thrilled me- from tbs llnesi
On this blWtl hoad tho awfll Past
unCo laid IT, conHtofailng hands
Tho Future IN i.a purpose ynst
Paused, wnitiua my supreme commands.
IL ! recovered aud nay rfesishi did not fnll,
psrhAps. after nil, imigltyu thyr a. batter puf-
poe fovlat purlo'c' The answer came In
thr next yrrc,
God hcnds from out the deep and sAya. Z
- gave thee The sroai .dit OF llfci
Wat tAuu DOT called 10 many wnysf
Ar uUi uy loHson aud earth at stflfof"
The ldra that rserJ thing wrong ia tho world
WA divine rsll 90 uau your ITO iu fighting it
sank darp Into ny soul And thrrc, In the
darkness ard che gloon " that time % weak
nrsa aud trial, put aNn} frum iuc, az of the
OWL one, all dreams NJ flfar and the literary
ambitions on NhlUh had led ny boyhnld, aud
rrsoluioly fgt miHot there and thon 10 do
VIVA, little could, whore ! wa. among those
who surrounded me, 40 iulhll "tlc trust for
such high uara givsn," u was one % The de-
cislss moincnts IN my life. Since then / oan
honestly cay that have mover regarded liter
trafy o. journalistic aurdcsH ns worth straw,
excepting iu ~ lar a. Il enabled nc 10 strike q
htsVior blow Ia Tie csusu ~ tho,o Tor whom
was called to ufht.
During the month of september IN,
United State, shipped ssl,OOO, 900 worth
more Of brcadstuli to Europe than IN
the corresponding month OF last year
This will help Iay oil some Of thos'
morlgages
Electric rss, ar motor are invente,