Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-21

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In our national coinage use be mad
OF aluminium. This may come In IN
course OF time. We suspect that Secretar
Morton has some knowledge OF the Uni
versity of Nebraska and Its patho-biologl
cal laboratory.
Our author says: Nothing IL no sensa
tional as truth" II he had written II
defence Of well-recognized truth his ton
and temper would roundIy condemn ~
work, and may probably break the forc'
of his diatribes. He ~ illogical. exempiify
ing what logicians know as petite
rrincipii' He Is also inconsistent. W.
wish we could properly take the space I.
show how plainly he trips up himself
| when he undertakes TO correct Mr. Drum
mond in regard to evolution as process
We have already stated that he abuses
| everything. This includes the press. Ia
expressly asserts that the spirit OF dis
like against eastern capitalists has beer
fed by small army OF our editors IL
| the West, who have been and are In
| the hands OF the politicians and have
! engendcred feeling OF jealousy and con-
tcmptible hatred towards the people 81 the
'effete East that Ii fully az dangerous
and more utterly groundless than the
dislike which the South had for the North
previous TO the war" This is for western
editors: but here Is another pop more
general: "The man who would pull down
ability to help ignorance is a fool There
are lots OF such in American politics
and on the press"
This author. then rejects Christianity.
the fatherhood of God and the brother
hood or man. and advocates his own
"undefled materlallsm." his "individualis-
tic, intelligent socialism," the paternalism
OF government, and the complete ma
tionahzation and Capitalization OF our
own balanced federative system. IL has
been seen from It's tite-page that this
production was not published even by the
Arena company: but by the author. with
the aid OF friend. TO whom he dedicate.s
II. III he be responsible for its numerous
grammatical errors-some OF which are
In the Latin line-he displays as much
ignorance OF the elements of scholarship
as ne does OF the nationality OF st. Paul.
POEMS BY JOHN h. TABB. Boston:
Copeland & Day 172 pages
"Daintincss" and Originality" are the
words that best describe this little
volume. They apply both 10 the contents
and the mechanical execution. The poems
are rarely OF any length-many OF them
are quartrains-and each one is printed
on the left-hand corner Of separate
page. The poet. better known as Father
Tabb, Is Nirginan, and two Of his
poems are inscribed TO Sidney Lanier who
was his prison-mate in a Federal prison
during the war. While in Father Tabb
we find no imitation Of Lanier. we have
the suggestion Of Communion of spirit
between the two. and Of Il similarity OF
Inspiration in their poems.
Anywhere one opens Father Tabbs
poems he will discover evidence Of the
true poetic genius. On page % we have
this:
out Of the dusk a shadow.
Then, a spark:
out OF the cloud silence.
Then n lark;
Out OF the heart a rapture.
Then pain:
out of the dead, cold ashes,
Life again.
Here page ~ another beautiful idea
5 developed:
FERN SONG.
Dance to the, beat OF the rain, little fern,
And spread out your palms again,
ma say: Tho the sun
Hath my Testure spun,
He had labored. alas. In vain.
But for the shade
That the cloud hath made
md M the gift OF the dew and the rain"
Then laugh and uDturn
All your fronds. little fern.
md rejoice In the beat Of the rain,
on pages 81 and So we find these two
;ems:
CASTER. ::
Like a meteor large and bright,
Fell golden seed of light
on the field OF Christmas night.
When the Babe was born
Then twas sepulchred in gloom
TIL above His, holy tomb
Flashed its everlasting bloom
Flower of Easter morn.
EASTER LILIES.
'hough long in wintry sleep We lay,
he powers Of darkness could not stay
'our coming at the call of day,
Proclaiming spring.
;ay, like the faithful virgins wise.
With lamps replenished. we arise
IRE drawn the death-anointed eyes
OF Christ, the King.
OF his quartrains here are examples
pages 145, 1lD taken almost at random:
HE SUNBEAM.
a Ladder from the Land Of Light,
rest upon the sod,
Whence dewy angels OF the night
Climb back again TO God. i
AND ANGELO.
one made the surging sea OF tone
Subservient to his rod
one. from the sterile womb Of stone.
Raised children unto God.
And turning from his quartrains TO his |
onnets, we present the following COM
lnlon pieces:
HE PETROL
wanderer DER the sea-graves ever !
Whereon the foam-fowers blossom day |
by day.
hat from the wave no sundering light |
can wean.
What wouldst thou from the deep un-
fathomed CLEAN.
Trail voyager? and whittier leads thy |
way?
or art thou. as the sailor legends say.
n exile from the spiritworld unseen?
o, desolate. above colder tide
Pale memory, "A sea-bird like TO thee, |
Its outward, where the whitening bill
lows hide.
What seemed Of life the one reality.
mist wherein the morning bloom hath
Returning. ghost-like. to the restless
sea.
TT ANCHOR.
ow calm upon the twilight water sleeps.
with folded wings. yOn solitary SAIL,
Safe-harbored, haply dreaming or the
gale
hat woIf-like DER the waste deserted
leaps:
ne star--a signal light above her-keeps
Watch; and, behold, its pictured image
Cleans far below. seeming anchor
frail
,here onward still the noiseless current
sweeps.
tar Of my life. pale planet. far removed.
Oh. be thou. when the twilight deepenS
near
RI In soul thine image undsproved
by death and darkness, till the morn
ing clear.
ehold smc in the presence I have loved,
My beacon here. my bliss eternal there,
with Father Tabb, as with Lanier,
most every word he uses Is essential not
lly to the rythmic construction, but 10
ie idea. Aside from the fact that he
.es everything with a spiritual eye,
; poems may be studied to advantage in
e llght Of their bearing upon II law OF
In our selections we have made no ef-
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