New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-16

". are told by an English critic that the older
possst,, so. the more Importance the poet atlacheu
"a metrical form, and he forthwith gives an III
stance: When Rossetti. at Kelmscott' "ro'o INC
cloud Confines" Morris (who was not In the hapit
q, criticising the work Of his friendO mace on
hearing 1t read. a remark upon the Nhe'
War that skaters her tiain
On the pitiess eyes OF Fate
Thar. wa. Morris thought. a certain lack OF right
ness in speaking Of war "shattering' victims al
ready SLAIN" Also he suggested that the woro
them" In the second line above quoted was IN
h,guous IT suppose" said RossettL that you
would have me say
Peace that grinds men a. grain
VIA, =, courss would have prose accuracy But
when the struggle IL between prose accuracy ano
metrical music prose accuracy must give way
otherwise, why write in verse at air
After William Morris published "sigurd" he came
N the conclusion that the time for writing long
narratives in verse was gone by forever. Iehhysoh
.bowed this view for once when friend In talk
,ny ~ "The Idylls OF the King called the group
an enio the Laureate said: ut is not an epic; the
day is past for eplcs."
Morr,. grew to dislike decasyllabic blank verse 10
.uch an extent that he used to say. with an angry
laugh: 'I wish that an act OF Parliament couio Dc
passed prohibiting the use OF blank verse for the
next fifty years
Morr,s's Kelmscott Press will soon be closed. the
,os, hooks TO be issued therefrom being Some
German woodcuts OF the Fifteenth Century Ia
collection Of thrty-hve reproductions from DOCKS
In the library at Kelmscott House, and "A NoIe "
William Norris" The last is an account Oh .iio
noet.s aims in starting the Press together WIN
facts concerning the Press and an ahn''a'eO '''
OF all the books there printed
"The Town Traveller 10 the title OF MT. George
Cissing's forthcoming novel 1t suggests another
example Of Mr. Gissings particularly poweriu'
work the study Of sordd city nfe
Mr. H. O. wellss story. THE War OF the
Worlds" which has lately been published as a
serial is to be recast and enlarged before II Is
brought out IN book form
Mr. Austin Dobson 10 quoted as saying tnA' ne
has rooted objection 10 tho Intrusion OF his per-
sonality" upon the public. either through press or
platform He has put very little OF himself into MS
poems, the only piece describing an incident In ms
own experience being THE Poets Seat: An idyli
Of the Suburbs" "In writing verse;. he SAID the
other day, 81 have never been preoccupied by any
thing mora than the desire to produce GOOD WORK
though there are many subjects which shou!o IN
stinctively refrain from treating at all. H. as
whole what have done does not make for harm
less pleasure. sympathy with humanity and Things
honest and Of good report, It has missed iu mean
inr This IA what have tried to express In In
After Dsys'"
II IL doubtful II we may look IN the future for
many new poems from Mr.. Dobson's pen. After
nye and forty" he says, "a writer OF familiar verse
usually feels that he has said about all he can well
say In that form. and In my judgment, unless ne
strike out an altogether line he had far better
be silent No doubt shall stu write pieces occa-
sionally but certainly the bulk OF my verse Is done
Mr. Dobson 10 q Government official; for the last
forty-one years he has spent his days at the Board
OF Trade, and for nearly thirty Of them given his
evenings 10 literary work. His usual habit after
dinner 10 to read listen TO music until 10 o'clock
when he goes his study and writes until midnight
He regards this literary work as his recreation.
He has q large and clever family. His eldest
ann 4. teaching In China, his eldest daughter, who
a n Bachelor Of Music. has been working among
@he Bombay Parsees under the Missionary Settle
rnsnt for University Women. and another daugh-
ter Is studying medicine.
Miss Edna LyaIs new novel, Hope the Hermit.
=. an English love story Of the period Of william
and Mary.
Mr. eamuel Butler has Just published In Londor
4 book designed to show that young woman wrot
ina "Odyssey," and did It about the year 1000 B. c
cvsr a hundred letters written by Lord Nelson
- hitherto unpublished have lately been discov
er.d and will be included In the work on the grea
admiral upon which Lord Charles Beresford Is en-
gagged.
TIE BRONX WANTS BETTER SERVICE
A MAss-MEprINo IN THE ANNEXED DIsTR1c
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