Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-19

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Boston poet. touched flu ICES uotc Of w.
| Caunau's work the other day whrn she
| said in conversation with View York
| literary man. flili 10 always had 'ai.
mOsphcrc' II certainly Is instinct WIN
nature. Mr.. Carwnu s prnlcs pnnllv
| fond Of thr sea and many Of hl, po'i4H
| deal directly or Indirectly Win thls snb-
| icct lic has cultivated moro than ANY
writer I know fhc ballad form which
] hy he way. 70 sroms tn uio has Hicn
! greatly neglected by our poets OF late
| Az a consequence the majority NJ bis
| poems have hcru too long Tot pnblica-
/ ton in the magazines Bu hc has per-
| sisicntly refused to limit his talent by
| writing what magazine editors would
| call "nyaiiHblp' work Some time ago
one Of his friends said to him: why
| don't you stop writing those long things,
! and write short pocms that The magu
zines win be glad TO takeT Hc said
/ nothing for moment. then he replied,
/ simply. ~ cannot change tho form
| that my verses take. have 60 write
/ things Just as they come TO mc and rs
/ the ballad seems 10 boz their natural cN-
/ preston ! have go write ballads" u
| seems 10 me Tint there Us something zine
] n that rcply. ] notice, however Tint
/ Of late even Mr. Carman's longer ballads
| have appeared .u The periodicals. Mr.
| Il0wolls published Onr during his brief
reign at The Cosmopolitan. and now aud
then one rs Ia Doe seen in the lndepUu-
dent Some OF these and eevcrnl others
not yet published viii appear boo Mr.
Carmun's collection.
Speaking Of Mr. Carman reminds mo
! that The Canadian writer's hive been
attracting considerable attention of late
Most Of them have Won their fpcugni
ton from the American magazines,
Among The most notable Of these nre
Professor Roberts. Archibald LaWnmau
Gilbert Parker and w. Blackburn liurtp
a New York writer whose name nj
were Co give &c. would be- recognized an
over The country. and who has taken
| considerable interest iu Canadian authors
said to me in speaking of them the other
/ day; They arr very grateful to Amcri
On. for they feel thIt Englmd has meg
lectcd them mud that Amrricu lus given
them choir chance" Those are. of
COURSE, Che mcu who write iu English
| and most of Thorn urc of English oN-
traction. but There hes also iu Canada
/ q curious and most interesting group of
/ Cl-iuundiun WRITER'S who write
| French. Thrsn men have Inherited ilp
! French traditions Uul ihpY still cling
10 the old religion: but They Lave wholly
escaped doe influence of the revolution
I and are Ike thu Fulch writer's oft
century aud o half ago Vet they feel
I themselves FreuchWru Hud they lave
@ Kind of pnrudoNicul lrntcrun Interest
iu lhr wiclal literature of modern
France though OF course. th'v eau have
poo sympathy wh1tcyrl with ils utlni-ic
! nud immoral tpudturlp. Ihuy write yrry
pure frUuDh however. the frruvh OF
modern France and 70 i4 iusi ls we'll
/ that 10 is not II bears tho sumo re-
| loton to the Freurl ot Paris that the
| lngunpe OF American writer's bears to
/ the Language of cultivated Eugi.hmcu.
] This brings up the question with re-
gard tp tle difference between our
/ Euslish md The English of Guglishmpu
/ which hns hc,u much discussed of late.
The london papers are very fond of
/ ridicuI'ug "iinglish us she is suDkc' here.
! but it only OF late tLni ot our authors
hpvr risen CO. dricnd it "Whv should
not our English have nu iud.vidunlityY
/ said tfc writer | have just quoted TO
I do mot write litp Euriglmpp but wc
ought 90 CONGRATULATE ourselves ON THIS
fncl m many ways 81 believe thut
American writer's use the language more
| effectively lhnu the English. our slang
Cor example, stril,ra tln nail on the head
for moro often than fhr Fugliglt slang
does People are fond of dculurug the
nsc Of Nnug NJ nn Int there is mo- doubt
that 70 must exist aud therefore we
should make VI us good SLANG ng possible.
ANA 10 seems 20 me that much of the
American slang now currcnt is worth
becoming classic 10 The LANGUAGE"
conf" "a, if,,,,, "' ~ W. ,u' W ,L,..o'
t"r'' JiH i'N," ~ I"l' W." ul"u,u'
G.n pu"''''' W. WIS w
T,,,I IT, ". a,' 'n wv ni.,j"' ' ~
pI tI NV "'tt',nJ wv ','
me That IL hpd been printed IN lnppu.
! was delighted to erc sp bputiful %
piece of wur,munshp The type wus
lngc and clour the murcns were lrand
aud the Whole WORT, would have reHrctcl
credit ou the beat American or tNrlish
printing cstnhmhmcnt ON the Ry-Naf
was written prologue in SIR EdviAs
Characteristic hand "'rhc .lupWtsc NC
Admirable priUtpra' sud AhIur Pond
Nnuy American books thmf hut
This fact will nmnzr q grrnt mut pc1
PILE euro printed in japan and th'u sent
to tha country II Us chodpcr to grt The
work done over thrrc than here in -pltp
of the expense of Shipment ] asked
Major Pond 20 tilp ulby was 10 hc put
on the suge ON mo, he said, ~
thu, not u rs Cine thing from a
litcrnry point of view. md its one oi
the strongest pieces of dramatic writing
/ hive over seen: mt 30 isn't suited o.
stage production uud ! don't think Sil
Ewln cares go have it pmycd" Major
Pond Is whHn friend ot Sir liwn's
and one of hN most enthusiastic ad
mirrors Gle Is one of the courtlicsl
WpntlCmnn have over known hV up