The age-herald., 1901-03-24

l future article). or Poe, Barrett NeHuelii l in his recently published Literary Ills tory of America" says:
 ITO turn only to the bigliography in the last volume of Stedman & WoodbeT- l rvs admirable edition of Poe, it appears that between 1890 and 1895 there were at least ten translations from his works into various foreign languages, among others l Swedish something that looks like Bohe- milan, Italian, Danish, and South Ameri- l can Spanish. Certainly among the liter 1 ary classes of Europe no American au- 1 thor has attracted more attention than Poe whose influence still seems extend | ing" This from the distinguished profes- sor of English at Harvard College put voices the sentiment of most critics ana at least lifts one poet above the "dead l level of mediocrity."
 The name Sidney Lanier is gathering | glory with the rolling years. The circle | of his influence is extending as the eX- | pression of his poetical genius is studied | And today by one of the most critical as we'll as the most judicial of northern critics, it is said The most gifted and | accomplished of southern poets was Sid ney Lanier." The estimate does not de- | throne Poe, for the same critic does not | class Poe as a southern poet. The works of Lanier are today more frequently Tn demand and more widely read than at any previous date. Their beauties are becoming more appreciated and though appreciation has not yet reached It's zenith, we may say that in Lanier an- other southern poet has not only risen | above the dead level of mediocrity', but has achieved what will be a worldwide fame.
 Two other potes of ante-bellum days now claim our attention. These are Henry | Timrod and Paul Hamilton Hayne, Hen ry Timrod, born in Charleston, s. C., i'll | 1929, educated at the University of Geor- | gia was destined for the bar. Literature | claimed him and he gave his life to her service. His poems possess at times power that at others seems totally lack ing, but every poem is a finished presen- tation of a beautiful thought. "Timrod's style" says Henry Austin. midway be- tween the elaborateness of Tennyson and the weedy naturaless of Wordsworth, bears a great resemblance to Lowelfs, but has perhaps more grace and less power"
 Of the great poets of the Southern past Paul Hamilton Hayne stands in the fore rank Born, as was many another South ern genius, in Charleston, S. C., he be- came an adopted son of Georgia. He died at Copse Hill (Grovetown), in that state' July 6, 1886. Of this singer we read Tn
 
 Stedman that Haynes vitality, courage and native lyrical impulse have kept him in voice." At this time an appreciation of his work by Maurice Thompson (au- thor of Alice of Old Vinciennes ) Is par tcu1arly interesting
 The Mountain of the Lovers, The Macrobian Bow, 'Macdonald's- Raid, Unveiled. The Vengeance of the God dess Diana, and The Solitary Lake are works worth the crowd of an academy. As a sonneteer, Hayne was strong, rank ing well with the best in America, ana nls descriptive verse is often very melodious and full of warm harmonious color. What luxury of southern rights, sounds tastes, perfumes, and colors we enjoy In his poem 'Muscadines', than which no lesser genius than Shelley or Keats ever penned better or a richer?'
 A communication has been received from John A. Joyce of Washington, In which he says:
 "I knew personally Theodore O'Hara, Father Ryan and George Denison Prem tice of Louisville, Ky, for whom l com posed in January, 1863. Laugh and the World Laughs With You
 'lYou might have justly claimed as southern poets Gen. William Haynes Lyt!e and Stephen Collins Foster. who write Pm Dying, Egypt. Dying and Old Kentucky Home Uncle Ned old Black Joe,' old Dog Tray and 'S'wanee Rib ber.' was personally acquainted with Lytle and Foster
 Henry T. Stanton, who was my school mate at Maysville, Ky, In 1S53-54, wrote the truest and most philosophic poem of any man of this republic. Here 1t Is. l have heard him recite it:
 Is there no place on the face of the earth Where charity dwelleth, where virtue has
 birth
 Where bosoms of kindness and mercy will
 heave-
 Where the poor and the wretched shall
 ask and receive?
 Is there no place at all where knock
 from the poor
 Will bring a kind angel to open the door? Ah search the wide world wherever you
 can,
 There is no open door for a moneyless
 man.
 Co., look in yon hail. where the chandel- Drives off with its splendor the darkness
 of night
 Where the rich hanging velvet inshad
 owy fold
 Sweeps gracefully down with it's trim
 mings of gold
 And the mirrors of silver take up and re- In long lighted vistas the 'wildering
 view! Go there at the banquet and find, if you
 can, A welcoming smile for a moneyless man. Go look in yon church of the cloud-reach-
 ing spire. Which gives to the sun his same look of
 red fire: Where the arches and columns are gor-
 geous within
 without sin; Walk down the long aisle see the rich
 and the great
 In the pomp and the pride of their world
 ly estate; - 4a Walk down in your patches and find, if
 you can,