Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-02
--READERS.
Kipling Introduces Golf Into
Vermont
He FORSAKES LITERATURE.
FOr the Orama-PfoL Dfummond Will Lecture
In Boston This Monlh--Soms Now
Plays and Notable
Books
he FoRsAKEs LITERATURE.
~ N snnlnr GnEolIe.

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For Tho Sunday Gazette:
A new edition OF the translation by The
late Thomas William Parsons VI Dnntcs
Inferno "PurgutOr.O' aud d portion ~
tho Paradise is s0uu 20 be published
This h gratifying 90 those who care Tor
good literature, Tor Dr. Parsons trans
lAu0ns were done with a skin that gave
them unique place among ihc Easl.h
versions of Dante. DR. Parsons brought
20 his task tine poetic faculty tlht
never wou the recognition 10 deserved.
lie WAS altogether one 0t She most Ettrd
OF QUE American pOets. | remember
hearing d Boston literary man sAy g Few
years agQ after reading "a hnV poem writ.
Ten by Dr. Parsons iu honor OF one of
she many birthdays of DIS friend llr,
oliver Wendcll NOlmcs. Jbat Parsons LOO
bis Judgment deserved to wuk higher
than Holmes himself Iuis b. 90 ellI rN
ample OF thc way In which 'r 'It,IEs
vas Regarded by those who. aucW li.l
best. Unfortunately, hiF reputation
hardly extended beyond hts hulr rric
1f admirers iu Boston. This was due il
ltrt 90 the poets characteristic shyucs
uui reserve. He seomel 90 clrc very
httlo foe publicity or for Aue. / rcmetu-
hcr asking one Of the members OF bis
family, why he preferred 10 publish his
new poems Ia the Boston newspapers in-
1tVad Of iu one OF the leading magazines.
any 0f which would have bppu glad % re-
celyc them "Oh." she replied. THAT is
bocause he wants his poems TO appear Ht
once 80 that bis friends may enjoy thom.
lie does not Ike 90 walt a long time ug-
fore they appear as ho would have 10 80
4 be gave them 10 the magaEiues.' In
this way SOME Of Or. Pnrspus finest
verses made thclr appelranyg DO The
NsIHHNaW NHNaN ami 'INIfa N.nnfDm aIHrInF
% both ~ which he was "a frequent cuu-
trbutor, his work often appcarng lu The
FOst n the morning aud in The Tram
script in the evening. lie has spcnt all
Of his life with the exception of those
few years during which he lived abroad.
chiefly iu hts beloved Ray, IA Boston;
consequently nearly dl lis personal
friends % whom he was deyotedly at
tuched were Ia his native city. II b my
good fortune 20 have known him soup-
what. and l shall never fOrTet the churIn
OF his kindy Old school mauuor and thc
iutorcst thar he took In every QUE and
every thiag Pertaining 20 literature lie
loved nature with the real passion OF the
poet. Many a time / have secu him
provlng about in Boston commou, one
~ his thvoute haupts, and standing =
few moments here and thero % admire
some particularly beautiful yistas that
caught bis eye. ] remcmher once while
NtHNllNn Wis AAAhliN Nk hWNAH summer hNluN
Ia Scituate, Mass, how he called us an
out from the draWiur room Que summer
evening 60 admire a particularly beauti.
ful star that he had just discovered lie
was always doing such characteristic
things as this, ! hope that SOME Que will
eoucet his original poems and publish
them, for l am snre that they would Ia.
eystahly win for him recognition on over
The Eugllsh speaking world His sister,
Mrs, A. H. Lent herself poet. would
le lhe proper persnu 70 90 the work
have heard she Is about 10 prepare a life
OF her brother and l hope that the 70.
port = true
Professor Henry prlunond. whose
little book "Ihe Greatest Thing Ia the
World, had sale of hundreds az thous.
ands of copies a few years ago. and
whose later books have won immense
POPULARITY h coming 20 this couuUy
very soon ln order 90 deliver "a series oi
Lectures at the lowell institute IN Bos
ton. Ihls 70 Professor nrummondt
second visit 60 this couutry, During hu
hrst visit, half dozen years ag0. n,
made a profound Impression on EN- VIII,
heard him speak Ills success has heei
phenomenal. ana he has almost started ,
new era Ia practical ethics. lie a
nun 81 herce enthusiasm, with the long
lean traule, thin tece and burning eve
OF the conventional enthusiastic His sta,
IA America VIII probably he a hrief ono
for The dcmaads upon him ia Scoylan,
are yery great.
Mhy doesn't some enc write novo
ot Washington llfeF" said q Washinutol
woman 20 me she other day VI coul,
not tNl, " we'll dOne. 20 be a great suc
cess both artlstlcaNy aud financially
Invre Ia no city in the country whar
there IS greater play of forces, hner lota
color ~ z more picturesque hacS crouul
than Washington. The inner wort
Of political hle there. would h,rnis
abundant matedai tor most dramati
and Instructive novel. but yet On one ~
thus TAR succeeded in dolnE Justice Ia h
Mrs. BENEFIT has tried hut her rrhrobc
Tue Administration does not e,,n,ns Z
With That Lass D lowrles' ana ofhe
of hgr novels. Moreover. Mrs Rurnet
WAS handicapped hy her conspruou
place ne Washington society. There ar
Two ginds ot society 10 WaShlnrtao. IN
syn MagylAud society, which consists /
tno2e who have been born ana Who hav
wed an their lives 10 Washinston. nm
Sne more irapsient set made No iorsel
those who have come 10 Washlnato
"a mlddie hfe ard have been ronnecii
WIN tht c,ty pobttealiy durnx one 4,
tAN'e.t atlpn ~ more Now Airs Hnrn,l
9 leader "a p0liilcsl society, ana p.
As trANlA she WAS usRble 10 vs. IN
~ toe th Washington NJ
f'Qu ~a4alN considered Is IN !
AieN exWaqnlinNry INSTITUTION,
saA ~ s't3nse enplea types, ~ rldici
.'ea $500 tesuls ead ot ell klpds
s92s would lend themselves
q es,isa avoie these reuafl
~ - lsRsnt * she golglislg America