The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-03


Heane appeaicd as 10 other German ever
DID, ~ perhaps no other German ever can.
as even Goethe could not, to all men. 10
all women. to eli time. In his heart vas =
bird. When II bars; into song the world,
stepped TO listen. 1t 10 listening stiil.s =
The echoes continue. and wflf--untfi song
perishes and verse Is dead. The date oe
his birth is a detail. The important thiag
Is that he was hor.t
The State Is the name OF q worthy mag
azine published n the interest Of the Pa
c'fic Northwest by that clever young writ
e.. Leonard Fowler. His varied experi-
e'ices have taught him just what a tickle
literary public desires, and he aas built
his magazine on those lines. One new
feature about the periodical is the illus-
srasions- Instead CO the cats being print
ed In with the reading matter. they arc
printed on extra slips and these sips are
pasted on the page. This Is certainly .
novel Idea. hnt whether the gain viii
compensate him for this extra labor is =
question fer Mr.. Fowler's own decision.
The March number is iast out. and IL il
a brilliant example Of the editors ke-
Mus The different contributions arc from
the pens OF r. c. kaufrnann. OF Tacoma:
Richard Sake jones. Miss Agnes NJ. Row
en-. J. J. Donovan. Miss May Fuller. Maud
Miner Bigiow, Agnes NJ. Smith. Col. Z.
Mrs. Aivah Glover Salmon. who has long
ard favoranly eceu known in semi-profes-
sionai and amateur theatrical circles. and
who Is at present studying for a profess
sionai career In Boston. contributes =
column Of Eastern dramatic notes In
the February number Duncan frverarity
contributes Northwest Athletics" and
Charles II. Baker an article on "Sncoual-
mie Falls"
A valuable mass OF naval Information
Is impaired. verbally and plctorsally. BY
the new number Of Coilierss Weekly. n
fun page Is given to views OF the Terror.
which "a the type cf all our war ve1sss
OF the newer monitor c'ass. and page
to scenes In League Island Navy YArtts
where the twin niers." Columbia and
Minneapolis the ram kasahdin,. and the
monitor Miantonomoh have sssst besn pre-
pared for sea. The frontispiece Is q draw
ing. made at the Eiswlck shipyard, OF the
cruiser Amazonas, which the United
States purchased from the Brazilian gov
eminent few days ago Another page
Is covered with Illustrations of the interior
OF the gun foundry Of the Washington
navy yard: the article describing these y
by naval expert. Golfers Weekly con-
tains, also, the first printed descriptions
and illustrations OF Commodore Howelps
new roekei-torpedo gun. which II expect-
ed 70 use enormous charges OF dynamite
and other high explosives and thus revolu-
tionize CLOSE Quarters" engagements be-
tween vessels or between forts and neeta
Tho entire subject OF coast defense 10
treated strongly yet temporarily by -
artillery oficer.
That Is q wise critic who has lately
risen up in England 10 hail with rapture
q hook OF criticism that is not full OF thu
frgon Of the critics. says the New forks
Tribune. ut II stimulating to know
observes this courageous man. that the
great stupid public may at last and out
those intoierable frauds. the technical
writer's: Is at last likely 10 discover that
the critics generally knows most OF tech~
nique who speaks OF II least" No ono
With grain OF sensitiveness to the sfirit"
OF true criticism can fail to sympatfdk4 /,
with the wrath underlying this sentence.
IL there n anything more wear.some than
the criticism which deals more or less sx-
cIusively In technical terms. We do not
know It. Such terms are sometimes adj
misshle, and occasionally they are imper-
alive. but these occas.ora are 10 rare 40
hardly to count at all. The most luminous
critics have eschewcd words which would
be understood by specialists alone. When
Matthew Arnold delivered his lectures "0ul
Transiating Horser's he may hAve Yelt
compelled now and then to mepffoA TN
technical elements OF verse. htit heftHpe
he nor 6ainte-Bcuve nor Lowell nor JQhn,
Ruslin nor any other critic OF euninenoo
ever wrote criticism which the meyeaG
Iayman could not understand. We suspect
that nine OUT Of ten OF the stcchnicars
eriticisms published nowadays are writ
ten out OF that ancient desire OF critics
and, other Meu-tn show on. A familiarity
with special terms II supposed to imply
special knowledge. which II the Kind Of
knowledge that everybody likes to have Il
thought that he po1esseA. Home persons
are more candid than others about this.
as his pet amusement, Cycling and show
bition OF himself In pompous attacks upon
Shakespeare. wagginx his head the while
with that sapfence that only belongs to
the "technicar' critic. In fact. this kind
OF presumption and the kind which
wreaks itself on serminoIosy go together
and are own brothers. fostering and intens-
flying one another. The critic who talks
In n 1argon In always the critic who sees
something which no one ever saw Before
He n safe In asserting this. too. becnuse
no ono understands him outside Of -
pedantic circle, and few can contradict
him. We do not doubt in the least that
Mr.. Shaw's present Grutesque articles
on Shakespeare are rooted In long years
OF that ''technicaI'' study of the drama In
which he delights His CRITICISMS al
ways wear an air at tremendous logic, a.
though he had locked into the workings
Of the plays and had seen things which
no man rot . technical expert could pre-
tend to discover.
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