Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-20
Anaconda Clubs.

The interest of the Anaconda Woman's
Literary club was taken up this week
in the art exhibit, gotten up for the bene-
MT or the public schools which has re-
suited SO gloriously successful. The
ladies received no end of praise for TAX
ing the initiative in the matter of in
Producing works of art in the public
schools of this city, but they are de-
serving of every bit of commentator
showered upon them.
At the last meeting, besides the trans
action of a large amount of business,
interesting papers We're read by Mrs.
L. ID. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Chimmell, the
latter choosing for her subject the
Craftsmanship of William Pitt
MRS. FI1ZGERALD's PAPER.
'At the opening of the nineteenth CEN
fury the English government, strongly
| backed by the people, was strenuously
resisting the ambitions of Napoleon and
| the equally dangerous spread of Frent i,
| revolutionary ideas.
while the ruling classes We're reac-
tlonary and were aiding the cause OF
despotlsm on the continent, the great
humanitarian movement which had
| given rise to the French revolution, was
| still in progress and manifested itself
| III various ways. The freedom of the
press was invoked and maintained in
| its behalf. Poets and philosophers gave
varied utterance to it's spirit and de-
livered its message to the heart of men,
| Not alone the oppressed and dsconsolate
listened to and echoed it's cries The
thoughtful, religious and tender hearted
or all classes were moved and melted to
| action
/ IA fa1l %I~n,
| movement, repressed by William Pitt
and the tory party but in the literary
| field 1T was soon overwhelmingly trium-
| phant English literature had sunk into
| general monotony; the prevailing form
| OF prose writing was smooth didactic or
| reflective essays, except so far as some
| daring but incompetent novelists tried
| spasmodic, melOdramatic tales. The
estaDllShed manner in poetry was the
| heroic couplet of Pope-whose aim was
tn be correct in matter and style. The
| French critics had become the acknowl-
| edged authorities in every form of lit
! erature. In other parts of Europe at
the beginning of this century, despite
| the almost universal acceptance of the
social fashions and literary DEGREES of
| the French court. there were evidences
| OF struggle against the intellectual
| bondage.
''The broad characteristic of English
| literature at the opening of the 18th
century is the reign of romanticism: the
| settled result of the general agitation
and many contradictory movements, was
| an abandonment of the artificial and
conventional stiffness produced by close
adherence to rhetoricians' rules and
nations. The spirit Of life which breath
| ed in the ancient classics was lost in the
| modern claSsiciSm. The new romantic
| spirit turned with fond regard to the
faith and mysticism of early Christian
ity, to the pomp and ceremDnies and
religious worship of the days of chivalry,
to the solemn cathedral and ruined
castles of the middle ages. 1t sought TO
| recover the feelings the knights and
barons, priests and people of those ages
OF faith.
Though the intellectual atmosphere
which was essential to the terrific eX-
plOsion of the French revolution exer-
cised disturbing influences in every
country, it was probably intensified in
| England when the essayists no longer
combining themselves to tea table mis-
cellany, discussed philosophy and the
science of Cover nment and promulgated
the doctrine of the equality of all men.
before God and the law. The poets
muse found fresh themes in the new
revelation of the human heart and the
beauties of nature. The satirist poured
ScOrn on the Shames of society. Novel
lists undertook to paint the manners and
character rs of remote and foreign nations
as we'll as those of their own time. Thus,
following the close of the revolution,
and influenced greatly by it. England
underwent one of it's periodical revolu-
tions in thought. politics and literature.
independent critics, inaugurated BY
the Edinburg Review. gave new i'm
pulse to literature which was mere ase
by the largest opportunity granted tc
writer's by the establishment of monthly
magazines. The rise of romantic poetry
and the revival of genuine lyric poetry
is the strongest proof of the profound
change in English literature Prose IN
derwent similar enlargement. 1t is OF
| interest to observe at this time When
cultivated women were restrained by
the common notions Of their proper
sphere from venturing into print, a few
women poets were encouraged by words
of praise from the greatest writer's.
Women novelists were admitted to have
improved upon the eXtravagant roman
cings of the eighteenth century. These
beginnings were the harbingers of the
great number of women who have con-
ferred honor on the reign of Victoria
by their achievements in literature"
CRAFTSMANSHIP OF PITT.
"William Pitt the first earl of Chat
ham. was born in Westminster o., NeTe,n-