davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-09
"TAE DEACON"
Comedy to be Presented
by BrimfieId Artists.
Insurance Losses Have Been Adjust
ed---Peasonal and Social

Mrs. Henry Moore, a son.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ. T..
church will hold an extra meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the home of
Mrs. j. I. Williams. Ladies', come
early and bring your thimbles.
BERTHE and Erna Reiss of Kent, spent
the past week with their grandpar-
ents, Mr. L. M. Chapman and wife.
Clayton Bard of Kent, visited rel.
atives in town the past week.
Mrs. Ed. Chapman of Cleveland,
and Frank Boosinger of Kent, were
called here the past week owing to
the illness Of their sister Miss Hat
tie Boosinger.
Mrs. Fred Reed anu daughter Mary
of Mantua, spent the past week with
her parents, G. w. Bard and wife.
DR.. w. II. Dewy and wife of Cleve-
land, were guests Of w i. Pike and
wife the past week.
| Wesley Kieffer and wife entertained
Mrs. Kieffers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Laubert of Randolph, Wednesday ana
Thursday, and her uncle and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Shrader of Akron, Fri
day.
John Wilson and wife of Mogadore,
and Mrs. j. Bissler and son Fred of
suffield, spent Sunday with Wallie
Wilson and family.
Mrs. DR.. Smith and sons Of Hart
vile, were guests of j. B. Wise and
wife Sunday.
John Kneifel and family of Akron,
spent Sunday at William Kneifel's.
Mrs. Sarah Lincoln is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Emeline Waldron.
James Swartzwout and family of
Kent, visited Mrs. Elizabeth Swarts-
more the past week.
Harry Twitchel visited relatives at
Mansfield the past week
Misses Maggie Moon and Mary Mac
Lain spent the past week with Kent
friends.
Mrs. AIDA Garrison of Kent, visit
ed her sister, Mrs. Loen Moore one
day last week.
Mrs. Gate Carl of Kent spent We'd
nesday with Brimfield friends.
Philip UIm of Cuyahoga Falls, was
the guest of his brother, Wendell, We'd
nesday.
Frank Ulm and family Of Akron, Wis.,
tied his parents last week.
Fred Ruggles was the guest OF
friends at Canton, and Cuyahoga Falls
the past week,
Mrs. Il. P. Russell and daughter Mr.
bel, of Canton, visited at Il. b. Rich
ards last week.
b. G. Twitchell and family of Kent
spent Sunday at M. S. Chapman's.
The Misses lone and Hattie Beam
spent the past week with Pittsburg
friends.
Miss Stella Mcconnell visited Mrs.
10y Bssell at Aurora the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton Donthitt of
Atwater, parents of A. NJ. Donthitt,
spent New Years at his home and
partook of turkey, while the Professor
was chasing foxes in Tallmadge
Mrs. A. NJ. Donthitt entertained her
uncle, Enoch heine, of Garfield, We'd
nesday and Thursday, and she is now
entertaining her brother and sister
Calvin Bath of Dungarman and Mrs
S. j. Myers of Salem.
The Brimheld Dramatic club will
play the popular comedy drama, "The
Deacon" at the Town Tall, Saturday
evening, Jan. II.
Following is the cast of characters
Deacon Thornton, (Mrs. Thornton's
brother-in-law, with a passion for lem
onade with stick in IT., Floyd Shan
non.
George Graef Mrs. Thorntons neph
ewJ, Wallace Porter
George Darrah, alias Matt Wheeler
Fred Ruggles
James Reed, a friend of Darrah's.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-09
THE VILLAGE PARsoN.

THE VILLAGE PARSON.
The Village Parson is a play Of
high moral character, and of sterling
worth, and will compare most fav-
orably with the best of dramas now
before the public. From a literary
view it is considered one Of the best
plays seen in years. Much praise has
been accorded the piece in other cities
and the coming engagement will be
looked forward to with interest by
our theatre goers. The piece will be
seen at the Grand Opera house on
Saturday evening, Jan. u, when our
citizens will have the opportunity of
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
The Century in
German Literature.

More important az literature were the
double influences of return on the medieval
past and Of inspiration by the new political
and social ideas which gave the impulse to
the genius of Goethe. Schiller. Burger and
others. Goethe began as the child Of Rous-
seau, but asa child who had read Kant,
and drunk deep Of the manc of the Mid
die Ages. Doubtless his is the greatest
name of modern Germany, both as a stu
dent Of life. OF nature, Of history, and of
thought. He was the spiritual parent of
Scott. with his "Gotz Won Berlichingen,"
and. with Richter. of Carlyle. Through
himself and his English or Scottish dis
ciples, Goethe has been the most fertile
source OF change in the literature Of the
Nineteenth Century. III ektfen16 sc age,
curious to say, he gave the first impulse to
the study Of early religion as displayed In
the obscure rites nj beliefs Of the Aus
tralian natives: a theme remote enough
from his effect on the poetry Of Matthew
Probably the two parts of his
Faust" and his Roman lyrics are the most
parts OF his work. with '@wer-
f1nities," in prose. Schiller, beginning with
the boyish romanticism Of THE Robbers"
became a kin Of classic in his later
Leasing and Winckelmann were
the most sound and fertile influences in
criticism. 1.-THE LAGOON" remains indispen-
sable. The patriotic Wrists resurrected the
national spirit of the Teutonic race. and
Heine, Hebrew by race and half French
in character, combined the characteristics
Of Lucian, Burns and Voltaire.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Coleridge. the Innovator
in Poetry.

In poetry, in poetic form. Ccleridge was
the real and daring innovator. inspired by
the Eighteenth Century reaction against
convention and played on like an aeolian
harp by every mind Of his mystic spirit.
His reaction was too violent even for Lamb;
his originality too extreme even for Words
worth. In him.. OF all our later poets. the
unconscious SELF was the strongest and
the most free. and Of all our poets he had
the hardest battle with the dull Augustan
s~urviva, In such critics as Jeffrey.
In u more recent generation Byron pro-
longed the Wertherism OF Werther, Byron
being thus a grandson of Rousseau. while
he borrowed his form. and borrowed It very
III. from what Scott borrowed Of CoIeridge.
The genius Of Byron Is not contested by
the sane. but except in satire 1t seldom
found clear and adequate. because 1t sought
hurried. needless and tumultuous. express
Sion. Scott had a better ear and was not
SO reckless an improvisatore. Poems that
can endure are not written like Byron's,
in the brief leisure of fashionable industry.
We admire the native impetus of Byron,
his gift of satire. his constituencies to ele-
mental force of nature and in man. but We
cannot understand the furore whic was SO
much the child Of his title, his beauty. his
recklessness and his studiously cultivated
air OF mystery. MIR. Lenville. as reported
by Mr.. Folair. said that Nicholas Nickleby
was "a regular stick Of an actor. and it's
only the mystery about him that has caused
to go down with the people here.
though Lenville says he don't believe there's
anything at all in it." A later age must
partly adopt the same theory of Byron's
original and unparalleled success In Europe
as well as in England. He was mysterious
Manfred. he was Childe Harold, he was the
Corsair: a hero Of Mrs. Radclife's, with an
oriental air and a gloomy secret and a
heart burning with Indignation against the
unworthy species Of men. What had Byron
done? Even Goethe was curious, believing
wild anecdotes; now we really do not care
what Byron did. recognizing in him his
genius and his pose, not SO much the 'Sa-
tanics." as the result Of hysteria and mad
ness In his race. Satanism. from Of old,
has been mainly hysteria. The element
of personal reclame in Byron has faded, and
with 1t fades his reputation as an earth
shaking poet. Attempts to revive that
fame. in our day, attempts to bring us
back to the noble poet" are respectable, |
being based on loyalty to the taste Of our
great-grandfathers n grandmothers in all
countries. But the efforts are
futile.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
The Poetry of
Tennyson and Browning.

His contemporary, Browning. had the
misfortune to attract, by his faults, the peo-
pie who wish to believe themselves clever.
because they labor at approaching pas
sages which the poet had made obscure.
Darkness is not depth. nor is obscurity a
merit. From his letters 1t is plain that Mr..
Browning had not the gift of lucid express
ol005 7I0m 0ao p0rmo u 30 DIS sbss
he had not. In a high degree, tho gift of
verbal music and Of charms. His gift OF
the grotesoue. very real and original. wa
also his snare. In Christmas Eve" and
Easter Day" with Men and Women" we
have the true essence of Browning at his
best; We have his dramatic lyrics. with
their amazing abundance Of character and
variety Of measure. After the first fasci-
mating volume. THE Ring and the Book"
became monotonous. One song in Para
CELSIUS" to myself, seems worth all the
dissection Of character in the blank verse.
There are many who find a kind of spir-
itual help in such pieces as "Prospice."
There are thousands who find in Men and
Women" a sort Of intellectual enjoyment
from no other poet who ever lived. An en-
ergy. life and sympathy. breaking forth
in fresh unheard-of ways; vocal in strange
piercing. untried measures: these are the
imperishable qualities of Browning. Look
at his rendering Of the Agamemnon; such
is his version of life. The poetry Of
Aeschylus is not there; "carmina desunt;'
but there is a new, odd unexpected render
ing Of the tragedy. So poignant and broken.
sad. glad. grotesque, and pitiful. was
Browning's rendering Of life. He was
lever a fighter" no poet is more exempt
from whining and despair. Destiny linked
him 9Th Mrs. Browning. whose genius.
sincere and original, is apt to be obscured
~ palpable faults of manner. emotion, and
even rhyme. on which it is superauous to
dwell. Her merits. and some Of her de-
fects. made Mrs. Browning the most popu-
lar of women poets in England except, per-
haps Miss Ingelow. Both. in the crowd of
accomplished versifiers, appear as true
poets. though both. no doubt, fail to reach
the place ,tf Miss Christina Rosetti. who
never can be popular.
The matt.r Of popularity IL full Of puzzles
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

and paradoxes. Tennyson was popular, yet
great. because he Is popular. There was a
moment when popularity without perma-
nence might have been expected for Long
fellow. The excellence of his moral inten-
tons was then more obvious than the po-
etry In such early pieces as Excelsior"
and THE Psalm of Life" which yield odd
results on analysis. But not much better
can be said for the Queen of the May"
and for parts of The Miller's Daughter"
In these IS a marvellous dexterity in sink
Ing. But sink, and remain sunk, was a lit
tie characteristic Of Longfellow as of Ten
nyson. He was a true poet. in his lyrics.
even in his TRANSACTIONS. as we'll as in
"~Evangeline." and that excellent expert
ment. "Hiawatha," where the measure Of
the Finnish popular poems Is applied to the
not dissimilar legends Of another woodland
race. Blu LongfeIlow lacked that undein-
able quality of the rare. the strange, the
hitherto unheard. yet delightful note,
which now and again is heard in the verse
Of Edgar Poe. He was an Ishmaelite in lit
~erature. his hand against every mans
hand. and hence seems to be less admired
where he was personally known than in
France and England. 1t Is not the famous
Raven" but such pieces as ITO Helen.''
THE Sleeper and at most q dozen others
which give Poe his high place in the judg-
ment Of his admirers. Not his ideas. but
the beauty Of his haunting lines. confers
on him the laurel. OF Bryant. as a rule.
and of Whittier almost always. the reverse
is the truth. The acceptability of their
ideas. the efne simplicity. not the nat
ural magic. Of their form. are their claims
to renown. Except in a few places. as in
such as his "Commemoration Ode" Mr..
Lowell is better remembered for the wit
and vigor Of his Biglow poems than for his
serious verse. at least. in England: while
Emerson's prose has precedence here over
his poetry. The wisdom Of the East and
West. blended with his happy. courageous
temper. made Emerson a corrective Car
lyle, while Thoreau is the complement Of
EmerSon-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Cooper Regarded as the
Scott of America.

What he did see. and admire. was the per-
Torrance of Cooper. with whom actual and
living American fiction may perhaps be said
to take its rise. In England, Cooper was re-
garded as the Scott of America. and 1t is to
be regretted that Lockhart did not excise a
splenetic personal reference to Cooper in
Sir Walters Journal. He was old. tired n
fatigued with the pressure of society In
Paris when he wrote. Cooper had the genius
to appropriate the unworked fields Of Ameri-
can patriotic seafaring life. n Of the
manners of the Red Man: he is Cooper
of the wood and wave" Eagerly were
his works read by boys. when Thackeray
was a boy. and when I was a boy. Never
shall his readers forget the Long Cara
bine." to whom Thackeray was devoted. and
Uncas. and Chi~ngachgook.
Still we love the Delaware
And still We hate the Minsoa.
Doubtless Coopers Indians are not real
istically" treated, though there is infinitely
more of truth in his dignifed hunters and
warriors than people conversant only with
the red man OF to-day are ready to believe.
But Cooper. probably. does not live with
the Immortality of his first renowned sue
oossor. Hawthorne. Who. for secure Derfec-
ton of form, IS to modern fiction what
Keats Is to modern poetry. Like Scott,
Hawthorne Is the enforced fruit Of his an
cestry and the society into which he was
born-a Puritan, not a Cavalier artist. with
q background OF austere faith and Of old
superstition. differentiated from that Of the
by the shadow Of deep for
ests and of struggles with the Indians and
the wild things of the woods. These had
passed into mellow memories. as. for Scott,
had passed the age of witches. fairies,
r~eivers. and claymores. Entirely in the
Scarlet Letter" as by way Of hereditary
influence in the House of Seven Cables
Hawthorne produced what wal old, making
1t POLITICALLY enduring. His Moses From
an Old Manse' and other brief tales set
the fashion. except by Poe. long unfollowed,
OF the conte. Neither author has been ex-
celled in his own portion of this field. Haw-
thorne's haunted condolences. Poe's treas
ure tale. his detective stories and his tales
Of terror remain unequaled. though SO pro-
fusely Initiated.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Hawthorne and Poe
in the Classical Interspace.

This epoch, say from 1880 to 1855, was a
kind Of classical interspace in the literature
Of the century. France. preoccupied by war
In the first thirty years Of the age. now
awoke to her own famous romantic era.
with Hugo. Dumas. Musset. Gautier, George
Sand, Sainte Beuve. Merimee-names of the
highest. Germany, to the non-Teutonic
world. is. in poetry. represented by Heine,
and. in science. philosophy. philology and
history by a galaxy of innovators ingenious
and Industrious. America saw Hawthorne.
Poe. Lowell, Holmes. Whittier. Ticknor,
Prescott. Motley, Longfellow. Bryant. En-
erson. in their prime: while England had
Carlyle, Tennyson. Newman. Browning. the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

To brave Mark Twain, across the sea-,
The years have brought his jubilee;
One hears it half with pain,
That fifty years have passed and gone
Since danced the merry star that shone
Above the babe, Mark Twain!
How many and many a weary day,
When sad enough were we, Marks way
unlike the Laureate's Mark's)
Has made us laugh until we cried,
And, sinking b .ck exhausted, sighed,
Like Gargery, nat Mrr!
We urn his pages, and we see
The Mississippi flowing free;
we turn again, and grin
Ger all Ton SaWYv did and planned,
With him of the ~Ensanguined Hand,
With Huck2ebeHY Finn!
Spirit Of mirth, whose chime OF bells
Shakes on his cap, and sweetly swells
Across the Atlantic main,
Grant that Marks laughter never die,
That men, through many a century,
May uck DER Mark TwainI-ZMg.-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

all critics, and not worthy to be called .
criticD arc entirely devoid Of ignorance.
personal bias. dislikes. pre1udices. pet aver
sions, Incidence, we are not so blindly
conceited as to maintain. We have been
taught by many centuries of creative gen.
fuses, from Theocritus to the latest protest.
ing popular novelists. to know our proper
place, and we take refuge in confession
and avoidance" The new century Will not
know our names when we pass where Den
mis- and where Cibber are. unless Mr.. Robert
Buchanan writes a new "Dunciad-"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Keats Not Killed
by Criticism.

That something in Leigh Hunt which
suggested Harold Skimpole to Dickens and
his violent conception of 1.-THE Cockney
School to Lockhart was not hidden from
Keats. and inspired him with some bitter
words. 1t was what he derived from Hunt
that gave occasion to Keats's assailants,
who were more Of political than of literary
partisans. Lockhart or Wilson, or both.
with the Quarterly reviewer. in attacking
"Endymion." were attacking, they thought.
a member Of an affected, efcminate and
radical coterie. Keats himself, maturing
with the suddenness Of genius. looked on
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Robert Burns at Home
in the Nineteenth Century.

Thus Crabbe. the precursor Of whoever,
Englishman. American, Frenchman or Slav,
has written OF the somber tragedies of the
poor. was born in 1854. Blake, whose per-
fectly un-Augustan rhapsodies and mystic
lyrics were made fashionable about 1870.
was born in 1757. out of due time, for his
best side is Elizabethan in quality. Burns,
born in 1853. Is as much at home in the
Nineteenth Century as Tolstpi, while God
win could not be more advanced" or Mary
Wollstonecraft more Of "a new woman"
II the former belonged to our Forward
Liberals" and the latter perforated at con-
crosses OF her sex. The first twenty-five
years Of Miss Austen belong to the Eight
zenith Century: yet, except for a certain
''old-fashioned' primness Of style, she is
the frsts and beyond all doubt. Tho greatest.
of ali Nineteenth Century realistic" nov
elists OF domestic life. For. though a
'realist." she is a humorist, and the COM
bfnation is almost u~nexampled. Your COM
mon realist is a gloomy thing, with no more
sense Of the comic than NJ. lola.
OF the new poets. revolutionary in meter
and matter. Wordsworth. Scott, Coleridge
and Southey were born in 177o-1774; they
were mature before our century dawned.
His Northern home. among the hills and
lakes. fitted Wordsworth to be the austere
and mystical poet Of Nature and of man in
relation to Nature. Born a poet. his genius
was determined by his environment, while
his ardent sympathy with the Revolution
at once turned his attention to the unre-
garded poor. and inspired his not wholly
successful attempt to shake OF the tram
mels OF Augustan poetic diction.' the sur
vival Of the Latinism of Boileau and Pope.
Later. of course. Wordsworth became the
Tory, the patriot. the churchman and the
stamp collector. But his poetical creed HI
never consciously changed, though he often
lapsed from 1t unconsciously. II Scott wal
to be a poet at all he was fated to be in
duenced by the New World, not in its eman-
cipated ideas. but In its wistful return to
the Old World Of Reivers. spearmen, clay
mores. goblin, ghost and fairy. The border
ballads lulled his cradle and were the joy
Of his childhood and manhood. All tradi-
tion to him her charms of border
and highland legend: every ruined abbey
and castle had its tale for him; to Ettrick
and Yarrow he needed not to say, like
Lady John Scott. "Have you no message
to- met" de never had a touch of the
Augustan & 9rror Of mountain and torrent.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
French Writer'S Who Have
Influenced America and Ensland.

This was. indeed. an extraordinary gen.
Grafton. by far the greatest since that Of
Corneille. Racine and Molere. Many Others
might be named; the reserved force and in
cisive irony Of Mertmee; the learned and
genial criticism Of Sainte-Beuve; the mex
haustible talent Of George Sand, and the
mighty Balzac. the maker and founder of
the modern work of introspection. Prob
ably, of all these writer's. Dumas and Bal
FAC nave exercised most influence on later
fiction in England and America. Flaubert
continued, with painful elaboration, the ira
ditions Of Balzac; from Flaubert, and round
him grew up Daudet and n. lola. and the
Goncourts.
ANDREW LANG.
Copyright, 800. BY The Sun Pyintinx nj Pun.
lishiuR Aauocintton,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

miration Of Europe and the applause Of
VoItaire into the subject and dependent sot
Is an example Of modern historical tragedy:
in its elevation and its decline more apt to
move pity and terror than the circum-
stance that a journalist has taken to drink.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

thine and space" a
noble philosopher has
observed. "are but
Authorizations" It
may be so. and from
the point of view OF
t h 9 m~etaphysician
ours may be merely a
"so-called Nineteenth
Century" Certain 1t
is that to Judge litera-
ture in blocks OF CEN
turtles is to make a
convenient but illogt-
cal ross-division. The
early. and perhaps
the most important.
literary influences OF
the century were in
existence long before
1901. Thus II We look
at whatever is now
called fin de steele. at
violent ~antagonism to
tradition and conven-
ton. at %sconte OF
every sort with every
thing-with K,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

I never a touch Of the Augus.an contempt
Of 'barbarism."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-01
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT.
Sir Thomas Thinks He May Be Able
TO Move the Cup a Little Today.
cOLUMBIA'S CREW HAS MADE NO BOAST
The Close Contest OF Saturday Has ST.
fenced the Talk OF Long Odds
on the American Yacht.

New York September S0.-Every one Is
wishing for favorlng wind when the
Columbia and Shamrock IL meet tomorrow
In the second race for the Americas cup.
Interest is tuned TO the highest pitch as
result Of the grand contest OF Saturday.
Confidence is supreme on board the Erin
and the Shamrock. as It is with the Amer
lean yachtsmen. The course is to be trlan.
gular, ten miles to leg; a beat 10 wind
ward and two reaches or a run and a
reach; this, however depending upon the
wind.
The start may he expected about 1880
o'clock.
The official forecast for Sandy Hook from
Washington is as follows:
'Tho winds will be light to fresh north
westerly In the morning, hut they probably
will decrease toward noon aud become
variable aud light -
A rafting wind without too much sea,
were the conditions ON the course today.
II was such day ms made the sailors on
both boats euylous. Sir Thomas called II
Shamrock weather and said with q clink.
Ing breeze tomorrow he would surely move
the cup n little on Columbia there was
no boasting, hut comfortable degree oi
confidence and n certainty that IL the dc
fender wins tomorrow there Will he moth
Ing In II hut three straight.
BETTING today showed the cffcct of sat
urday's wonderful contest The talk O!
long odds was sileuCcd and . to l ou
Columbia seems TO have been tho best re
corded on the general result, while ON t.
morrow's race these odds were shifted
down in some Instances to to ..