Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-02
POETS OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Their Creations Have Been Marvellous q,
Voices of Spanish Life.

Their Creations Have Been Marvellous as
Voices of Spanish Life.
Some of the most beautiful and SYM
pathetic interpretations of life in verse
that have been made during recent years
have come from the pens of the Latin
American poets, and yet these writer's are
but little read outside of their own coun-
tries The list Of those who have written
inspired poems in the present generation
in the mellow and melodious language of
Calderon and Cervantes is long, and 1t In
cludes those whose personal history has
been as remarkable and picturesque as the
work that they have produced. In South
America the poems that have found favor
have been voices Of life; the experience
has been the soil of the orchid and the rea-
son for it. In the land Of picture and
bloom, Of the billowy pampas and the
cleaning Andes, poems are the creations
Of what these singers have felt or done
they bloom.
During a recent visit to the Argentine
Republic and to Chile it was my privilege
to meet Senior Don de la Barra, the friend
of Balmaceda and once the Chilean minis
ter to England, the author of several books
on Greek forms Of verse and on rhythmic
expression. one of the most courtly and
scholarly men in literature He wrote the
grand ode which opened the Chilean expo
sition, one of the few of the poetic inter-
pretationso of art and science that in recent
times have been adequate to really great
occasions. In this ode one hears the music
of the march of machinery and finds his
heart in the new triumphant progress and
sees the soul of the living and inspiring
aga
I met in Buenos Ayres Senior Carlos
Guido Spano, the Longfellow of Argen-
tina, most lovely and beautiful charac-
ter, whose Identification Of his work with
his life Is as marked. he won the heart OF
the Argentines by his sympathy with the
public suffering during the yellow fever
epidemic in 1871. He is an old man now;
he has como out Of life in public service
with clean hands and, like many who have
lived for others, has not accumulated for
tune for himself. But he has gained that
which is more than material wealth. The
people of the purple republic are very proud
Of their venerable poet, Of his philanthro->
py and integrity as we'll as his verse, and
they are about to present to him home
and a tribute out Of their ample purses
that he who has loved them may pass his
serene old age amid the evidences of their
grateful Observation-Disclosures Of ReviewA
Eugenie's First Ancestor.
It is not generally known thac En-
press Eugene was partly an Irish wom'
an. Yet upon one side she was descended
from an Irish soldier Of fortune-there
were any amount Of them-who made
name and place for himself in the in
terminable Spanish wars. When there
was talk Of her marrying the Emperor
Napoleon, some Of the old nobility
sneered at her pedigree. Then came
heralds tracing out Irish blood lines
until the French authorities in disgust
conceded that Eugene was descended
from all the royalties Of Ireland back to
Brian Boru.
When a country is new and thinly in.
habited, the nonincrease Of its popula-
ton is discouraging sign. But when
a country has people enough already,
like the most thickly populated portions
of the earth, stationary number Of in
habitants is not at all to be lamented.
Indeed, on the whole, considering the
present financial depression throughout
most portions of the civilized world,
France is rather to be congratulated on
the fact that her population increases
very slowly. 1t is not more men and
women the world wants at the entrance
to the twentieth century SO much as
better men and women.
Children Cry for
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