The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-26

and eminently prosdc name not ordinarily
suggestive OF poetic possibilities-but in an
invocation to a friend Of his youth. who Is now
physician. the poet thus inReniousy makes
Wilson subservient to the needs Of art:
And you. my old.time comrade. Wilson.
What patients try ye now your pills oni
This shows q certain audacity as well Us
skill. and the poet twbo is also q physician)
might classify the effort as good professional
exhibit: though as an instance Of technical
difficulty successfully overcome It is even less
striking than couplet which occurs in stir
ring poem descriptive Of the lawlessness OF
life on an Australian gold field.
In these wild places. where ones cares
Were limited to his own affairs.
He soon had been in Charons bark hearsed
Who there had played the part of Parkhurst.
Bark hearsed and Parkhurst surely consti-
tute verltab!e triumph Of mind over material
apparently unsusceptible to poetic treatment.
In his verses in praise OF the hero OF San Juan
the poet shows himself in another mood. while
still retaining his facility Of rhyme.
Up hill dashes Teddy.
The bullets OF lead he
Despises paper wads hurtled with force
The shells that burst him.
Nor touch him queer him.
Tho death OF his charger delays not his course
(If that nag had his spirit.
Or any thing nearit,
The o. 9. has lost there mighty good horse,
All honor to Teddy.
And those that he led. he
Fought manfully on till the conflict was won
Till Spain ceased resistance.
And in the far distance
Found safety and shield from tho Rough Riders
gun;
It was q great skirmish.
And weyler felt squirmish
To hear cafe ut homo how his puppets could run.
Mr. Major treats OF a number OF subjects
grave and gay. He sings a song OF Destiny
and appropriately eulogizes The Republic and
the City OF New York. He is always entertain
ing and occasionally instructive. as in the poem
''Polonius to Laertes." wherein he inculcates
some principles OF profound philosophy.
Listen my son. to a fathers advice. for q fathers
monition is true.
Trust to the map of the pathways of Life he would
wish you unfaltering pursue.
Since the emptatons he met arc assuredly also
waiting for you.
Son. listen not to the voice Of the woman-the woman
unworthy of name
Surely to pay is q loathsome transaction. why miro
yourself. son, with hershame.
waste not your gifts the actresses simple; they
only bag you for their game
All though in vain Is the net set in the sight of
the coy, shrinking bird.
Still though the trap is eer easy to sse yet cap
ture has often occurred
But SO they take him and break him and shake him.
how eternAlly true is the word.
Yet be 4 man among men-oh. my son. of kiss
from q lass and Joke.
Keep thy lips mute thrice abhorred the lips that
have kissed fair maid and then spoke.
Can'st thou get drunk on one glass. take morn,
or lose good repute from q smoker
It In a curious fowler, with curious net who
presents himself in Beatrice Harraden's story.
1.-THE Fowler" (Dodd. Mead Il Co... The per-
son indicated has an exaggerated assurance
which one would think ought to have suggested
itself as extremely comcal. and ought not to
have been considered as in the least danger
ous Why any maiden having "a gallant ap-
pearance and a noble bearing" and Of whom 1t
IL further recorded that health and happl-
ness and strength had claimed her for their
own" should have been immensely disturbed
or disturbed at all. by the little man with eye
glasses. with black ribbon attached. who
bullied her and insulted her with an
offer OF fee when she kindly showed
him over Graystake Castle. the regular
custodian being occupied in churning butter.
It Is hard to see. Nevertheless. the fact has
long been recognized. and as long depored.
that very fine women. large. handsome women
| and women OF superior education. do PROSTATE
| thems selves before piGmies. and do yield weakly
| TO the preposterous bullying OF small men with
| eyeglasses when they are prepared to stand
| quite firmly. without tho suggestion OF n
| tremor, in the presence OF unRlazed and re-
| specttul giants Nora Penhurst, who had en-
| joyed the larger education. detested the little
| ma. whom she showed over Grsystoke Castle
| and vet It is only at the end OF the book tina,
| she managed to escape his domination. She
| had read more than he, and was infinitely his
| superlor as an archGologist. He listened to al
| she had TO say about the castle, pretending this
| greatest interest. but now and then he smiled
| cynically, and asked many questions with that
superior air which is 40 peculiarly irritating tC
the person questioned. especially when she
| has received the larger education. At last he
| became intolerable over detail OF tracery
| and Nora Penhurst lost her patience. To her
self she called him u little wretch and she sait
10 him: "Oi course I merely quote from til,
guidebook And the guidebook merely auotel
| from Britton's Architectural Antiquities.
Other authorities are mentioned 10 the bamph
lat published by the vicar Of this parish.
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