The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15


dislikes His own individual taste and
judgment clarified and disciplined by
wide reading and reflection, are his
only guies. This collection" he goes
on, represents on the whole my judg-
ment of the best Nature poems at my
disposal in the language. l am sur
prised at the amount of the so-called
Nature poetry that has been added to
English literal ure during the past fifty
years, but L find only little of it of
| permanent worth. I have not know
| ingly admitted any poem that was not
true to my own observations of Ma
ture. Thus a poem that shows the
swallow perched upon the barn
| in October could not accept,
because the swallow leaves us in Aug
| ust, or a poem that makes the chest
nut bloom with the lilac-an instance
/ came across in my reading-would
be ruled out on like grounds; or when
find poppies blooming in the corn
| In an American poem, as I several
times have done. I pass by on the
| other side. Lowell is not quite true
to the facts when in one of his poems
he makes the male oriole assist at the
( nest building. The fanciful and allie
gorical treatment of Nature is for the
most part distasteful to me. do not
want mere rhymed description of an
object or a scene I want it mirrored
in the heart and life of the poet; true
to the reality without and the emotion
within. The one thing that makes
poem anyway is emotion-the emotion
of love, of beauty of sublimity, and
these emotions playing about the real
ity result in the true nature poetry as
IN Wordsworth, Emerson and Bryant.
The poet is not so much to paint ma
ture as he is to recreate her.
OF the parodies on the Persian phil
osopher, none is more enjoyable than
the Golfers Rubaiyat. Through sew
enty-nine links the reader is conduct
ed over the course. One of the best
verses reads:
Indeed, indeed Repentance oft before
/ swore-but it was winter when 1
swore
And then and then came spring and
Club-in-Hand
/ fastened forth for one Round-one
Round more"
Mary Hartwell Catherwood. il is
said, once consulted a palmist, none
other than Cheiro, who told her she
was destined to write a great ro-
nance. The public is left to decide
whether her novel, "Lazarre," is the
one or whether her great novel is still
to be written. Meantime who is to
decide whether this kind of literary
note is an advertisement of the now
elist or of the palmist?
Apropos of the division of opinion re-
garding rialization-whether 1t is a
help or hindrance to book sales
the statement of the editor of one of
the leading monthly magazines as to
the value of serials in making circu-
lation is very interesting.
I'm ten days, the first ten DAYS of
the month in which we started a. no.
table serial, 10000 new subscribers be-
gan taking our magazine, and. by the
10Th or the same month 100, 900 had
come IN. so Tar as we could judge we
attributed the larger part of our in
crease directly to the serial which we
We're then beginning. II Is said that
conan Doyle's new Sherlock Holmes
series added 10000 subscribers TO the
English magazine which is now puh
hshing the matter. Early next year one
OF the newer magazines will begin a
serial publication of Joel Chandler
Harris novel. a tale Of the Recon-
struction period, and the publishers
frankly state their belief that the story
VIII bring them in thousands Of regu-
lar readers which they could not reach
in any other manner. Authors tbeno-
selves, as has been noted, are prone
to look upon serial rights as a. sure
means OF support and returns from
DOCK covers, but more and more. the
author whose business instincts have
been developed is writing the kind OF
a tale which will reap reward from
both sources.
MISS Bertha Bunko was scarcely
tWenty when she wrote The Plug Hat
verses at two
Mr.. Jones Greenland. the famous
special correspondent, has just tele-
graphed In the last chapter OF his book
and the first edition will be of the
press Tomorrow morning. The first
edition. II may be stated. was entirely