The age-herald., 1902-02-02
..SOCIAI1 REVIEW OF A WEEK..
"Current Event Week
 At the Cadmean Circle
BY PAUL PRY,

It was sCurrent Event. week at the cadmean Circle last Friday afternoon and several of the topics discussed were of unusual interest
 Mrs. John c. Henley gave a very thoughtful and comprehensive talk upon the subject 'Who Today is Writing Poe try"
 In speaking of poetry Mrs. Henley said that the drama of the different countries could be ignored with the one exception of the practical drama found in the beau Uful tragedies of MT. Stephen Thtllips, 'Herod" and "Paola and Francesca" While there are very tragic and beauti- full MT. Phillips is more distinctly poet ical force when he writes non-dramatic verse as in his poems 'Marpeso" and The Woman with the Dead Soul"
 MT. W. B. Yeates in Land of Hearts Desire and "The Shadowy Waters gives us work with delicate and elusive beauty. Mrs. Henley continuing spoke of the Poems" and "The Masque o1 Judg- ment'' of MT William Vaughan Moody Spoken of by MT Morton Payne as con- stituting the year for our American, lit erature. The symbolical and allegorical hut intensely human drama "The Masque of Judgment" challenges compar- ison with the greater achievements of English poetry. In Mir. Moodys Ode in time of Hesitation" there Is a high and pure note of song The late Richard Hovey in collaboration with MT. Bliss Carmen has published Last Songs from Vagabondia, "The Dead Calypso" by Louis A. Robertson, and '"rhe Lutes of Morn" by Clinton Scoilar are several of the beautiful poems of the day "Ad Astra," by Alexander Thaw and Weeds by the Wall' by Madison Camein and also popular poems; while Arthur Hardy 8 exquisite talent is evidenced in his flaw less lyric-''Songs of Two"
 Religious poetry of the year is found in the work of Sidney Isysaght, Poems of the Unknown Way"
 Father Sheehan, has ahso written many poems full of reilgi0ns fsrvor.
 George Maredith,e, "A Reading of Life" has been declared the one really notable English book of poems for the year B. c. Stedmans 'fOdei' for the bi-centennial celebration of Yale has been universally admired Tho work of Kipiing we must all read whether we admire 1t or not, and Mrs- Henley 'dtvsit with special inter est on his poems from the fact that no statesman or pubic man in England reoefves more prompt. recognition and re- sponse than the utterances of Kipling. The Islanders is his most recent poem in which he takes entirely new posi- tion in regard to the soldiery and wars of his country.
 Among the women writers of poetry, Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Lillian Bell are prominent. each of whom have recently paid beautiful tributes to the women of the South. Mrs. Julia Doris .'Aftergiow'' and Miss Josephine Preston Peabody's Fortune and Mems Eyes are classed amongst the best work While 'Idyl of the South Sea Island,' Rosa of Dawn and '.Asl,es of Roses" from the pen of Helen Hay, daughter of Secretary Hay are truly exquisite poems. In clos ing Mrs Henley paid a beautiful tribute to the work Of Mrs. Julia Nicely Finch. Those especially beautiful are First Born,- ''Unborn'* and My Child" While Mrs. Finch's poems have never been pub lished. they appear ,from time to time In magazines and the daily press and are widely read
 Mrs. Evans l. Dunn gave a splendid talk about the 'sHotei Ramboullet," and of the charming Duchess de Rambouillet who established this famous Salon in Paris. Conversation Is indeed a rare ac- complishment and the meeting of the famous people at the Hotel RambouilIet cultivated a lively exchange of wit in con- versation which remains even until today distinctive feature of the French peo- pie. Mrs. A. O. Lane reviewed the "In- ventions that are helping Men" at the present day, and altogether the afternoon was most profitable