New-York tribune., 1901-06-09

dor warmth. Franklins has long been a classic.
We think il not unlikely that the story ot
Booker Washington's life viii also become a
classic; but whether il does or not il has al
ways proved itself something better than an
other classic, namely, an inspiration u
fortunate race-a book that by irresistible
compulsion teaches youth 10 live cleanly. TO
work honestly, 10 love ones neighhOr. and to
have that long patience which is another name
for faith"
Paul Hyacinthe Loyson. the son Of the once
celebrated Father Hyacinthe and his American
WIFE. mas made his appearance as a poet
Father and son were ardent Dreyfusards. and
the Young mans book deals with various phases
Of the Affair"
Mr. Andrew Lang has been unearthng a copy
Of Matthew ArnJId's Newdigate prize poem
Cromwell OF tN4%, and comments upon II
lightly The mountains and the sea he says
are the cradles Of freedom note refers Us 70
Mr. WordswCrths sonnet 10 that effect. But
Cromwell was not born in mountain home or
genius OF Cromwell supplied the place %
scenery:
Thine eye
IN common sights rea-. secret sympathy
Thus. naturally enough:
Life became
Threaded and lighten'd by a track Of flame
Cromwell had mystic premonticns
From their deep base. thy beetling crass.
Dunbar.
Rang. as he trod them. with the voice Of war
Are thrre "tllnE CllUS at DUNBAR mere Is
certainly no dark and stormy steep "a Camp
bell sings at Elsinore. pancake Of place.
With feet that sp1,ned the ground, 10, Milton
there
stood like a statue
Rather a prancns statue, II it spurned The
ground il stood Charles / appears as
The princely boy.
The hild-companion Of his childish JOY
An apocryphaI circumstance. However. FOR u
prize poem Cromwell Is not bad"
The widow OF Matthew Arnold is lying dan
gerously i'll III Loadon. She is at the house Of
her daughter, Mrs. Armine Wodehouse. whose
husband-the younger Of Lord kimberleys two
sons-died the other day after a serious oper@-
tion.
Something that ought 10 be uncommonly en-
tertainiuS Is 10 be looked for in the July "SCri5-
ner This is a hitherto unpublished extract
from Francis Parkman's Diary-One describing
the incidents Of mis- first visit to Lake George
Intimately associated that beautiful re-
slon IS with his memory. il was not until re-
Gently that any memorial OF the man and his
work appeared there such memorial now
exists in the name OF the highway running along
the lovely eastern shore OF the lake. 1t is called
"Parkman Road"
lection of stories called The Honor Of the
Army" Most OF therl written for a Rus
sian magazine some years ago. The first of the
series is the only story by Zola in which due
is described.
Strange IS the taste of the West in poetry
Only the other day came upon the phrase
''matchess lyric" applied in organ Of criti-
cal opinion to one Of the east effective poems
OF minor singer And in the same jour
nal The Dial" find described as a 'glori-
Gus ap0strophe 10 mankind" these lines 10y Mr.
W. Y. Moody:
20 Dreamer, O Desirer, Goer down
Unto untraVelled seas in untried ships!
. crusher of the unimagiued grape
on unCOnCeivei lips
- player upon a lCrdly instrument
No man or god hath had in mind 10 invent:
- cunning how 10 shape
E-nulsent Heaven and scoop out bitter Hell
From the little shine and saltness of a tear;
SegeT and hSrrier.
Beyond the moon, of thine buded town
Each morning won. each eve impregnabla,
Each noon evauished sheer
II this be glorious poetry. then the noble com
pany of immOrtals heretofore supposed 10 be
great poets simply didn't know how TO write.
\ group OF letters written by Charles Dickens
and showing the author a successful match
maker, will soon be published by The Saturday
Evening Post"
Mrs. Voynieh the author of The Gadhy' and
of new novel. Jack Raymond" is married
a Russian refugee who escaped from Siberia
after some extraordinary adventures