The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-29
REV. E. C. MURPHY
LECTURE BEFORE TEACHERS SUMMER SCHOOL.
Enrolment Has Reached 1,2eo and Several Hundred More Are Ex- pected-List of the Ala
 bamians in Attendance.

Knoxville. Tenn, June S.-(Speclal)- Suner,ntendent Claxton announces that .horo had been registered 1,295 students in the summer school of the South, and that before another week is passed three hundred more are likely to register. All provisions for the new arrivals have been made, he said. The buildings of the Ten nessee Deaf and Dumb School have been secured for rooming the new students.
 The largest audience to hear day lec- ture in the pavilion heard Edgar Gard ner Murphy the Secretary and Field Agent of the Southern Education Board He spoke of later day poetry and with his charm of eloquence and interesting treat rnent of the subject held the large au- dience spellbound.
 He said among other things that poe try was more in evidence now than poets. The poetry of English is the richest and has the greatest future. Under its sway and affording it wealth of subject mat ter, are the people of Ireland, India, the negro of the United States. and peo- nIo ,vhcrover the language runs. The poetry reflects all the different phases of fife among these 50 that the literature Of the English language is as broad as lire itself, He said that 1t is literature Of an ascendant and catholic people.
 He found three distinctions in the poe try of today, which made 1t superior 10 that of any other generation. the poetry concerning child life, the poetry concern ing the sea and the poetry of love.
 As examples of the characteristics that marked the childhood poetry of today as hat several selections from the more recent poetry. He said that they were not mo- bier in theme than poetry concerning childhood in other ages but no age or period had such an atmosphere, such real appreciation of the child as this. NO age of the world previous to Wordsworth, he said, could have written such poetry as that of today concerning child life. This feature. he said, was the most prom ising and redemptive in modern poetry.
 The modern poetry cxcelled all others in treating of the sea, he said. in that it had more details of the wonders of the sea than ever before. In Milton, Shake speare and others of the greater poets, there was in their description of the sea a feeling of uncertainty and lack of knowledge.
 In proof of his position, he read some of the most beautiful selections of poetry of the sea from Matthew Arnold, Swim burn, Stephen Phillip, and referred to Watson and Lanier. and closed with passage from Rosetu.
 In the poetry of later days, he saw a c ertain increase of passion in it's love. more reserved and graceful, with more of fascination. a greater sanctity, and a new frankness. This added a new beau ty to poetry.
 There are teachers here from almost every State in the Union which is great record for the first attempt in this South land, of the Southern Educational Board
 Alabama, with 131 teachers, comes third in attendance. Tennessee and Georgia are first and second. respectively.
 Those from Alabama are; w. E. Strip lin, Tallassee; Mrs. NJ. L. Temple. Union- town; w. E. Turnipseed. Collinsville; Miss Mary L. Ware, Selma; Mrs. J. w. Watson, White Ulains; Miss Della Yaretzky. Gainesville; Miss Minner Mutch. Opelika; Mrs G, B. Parker a certain increase of passion in its love ThomasviIe; Miss Norma E. Al len, Birmingham; Miss Cloriae Berry, Birmingham; Miss Nellie Castleman. Birmingham; Miss Kate Dao- ney. Birmingham; Miss Lucy De1 lis' Birmingham; Miss Alma Feagin. Bir- mingham; Miss Una Gilbert. Birmi1g- ham: Miss Est aile Heaslett, Birmingham; Miss Mary N Henley, Birmingham; Miss Helen Hudson. Birmingham; Miss EliS- abeth Hughs Birmingham; Miss Virginia McMiIlan, Birmingham; Miss Annie Pear son. Birmingham; Miss Gertrude Pickett, Birmingham; Miss Bertha Schoen. Bir- mingbam: Miss Alice shepherd, Birming- nam: Miss Madeline Smith, Birmingham: Miss Stella Spiva. Birmingham; Miss Harriet Dobbins. Birmingham: Mrs. NJ N. Dabney. Birmingham; Mir, J. R. Gun ningham, Birmingham; Mir. c. A. Brown Birmingham; Miss Pearl Keith. Brsse- mer; Mrs. Augusta Robinson, Bessemer: Mrs. Ella Scope, Besscmer; Miss Stella