The Washington times., 1903-04-08
The Talk of the Day.


In dreaming fellowship ! talk with you.
Sweet sisterhood by happy poets nam'd
With titles musical Is held-how IS bear,
Whose simple JOY : inst IN being fair.
Not knowing how their beauty has been fam d.
CoFlnna, Iseult, Beatrice Una-how
They ring together, faint hyacinth bells
Blow n'er So s0ftIyi-Anthea, Rosalind,
And Guener-theiF very sounds are SPELLS
Sweet spells. in sooth. for all VINO sigh 10 hear
OF lovers. and loves mastery over man,
Working ike springs elixir in the blood.
The luring smiles OF gentle syoHanhood
And fragrance from the dewy paths OF Pan.
o beautiful young faces In the dusk
yearn for you. VINO are 50 dear TO me;
And syllable the dainty NAMES that rang
To such fne music, vixen the Wrists sang,
FlutteFing oTchard-blOoms Of Already.
The New York Sun" says that Miss
Smyth. the composer OF Der Wald
was so anxious to have her opera per
formed here that she offered to buy off
the performance of Don PasquaIe" by
paying the singers their fees Perhaps
this pecuniary enthusiasm accounts for
the first production OF the opera at
Berlin. where IT failed disnaIly-
Nevertheless. it's a pity that we did
not have an opportunity of judging for
ourselves. A well-kuown musician in
Boston looked over the opera carefully
and gave this criticism: The composers
name IS Smyth; but the music is IN
deniably plain Smith
Several interesting autograph letters
will be sold at auction this week from
the library Of the late Edwin P Whip
pie
Richard Golden wrote from Midhurst.
January %. 1865. a letter of Ave pages
on the American political situation and
the position taken by the London
Times"
a silly report seems TO have been
prOpagated, apparently originating with
the correspondent of the Times at
New York, that our government IS con
templatfng the recognition OF the indie
pendence of the South in March. This
rumOr is I suppose, launched
with the design OF comforting the
Rebels & encouraging them TO continue
their hopeless struggle It is
difficult TO understand the motives which
still prompt the Times to admit such
rubbish & rawlings as Mackay continues
to send from New York We
are looking anxiously for news from
Sberman's army. Political justice will
not be done until Charleston is held by
q black army corps. with negro sentries
pacing the streets to keep the white
rowdies in order"
Among the hooks is "the first com
plete set Of The Pioneer offered for
sale at auction. and only one other com
plete set is known This literary and
critical magazine. y r. Lowell and r
Carter, Editors and Proprietors.'' lived
for three numbers-January. February.
March. 1913 Among the contributors
were Lowell. Hawthorne. Poe. Whittier.
Parsons. Story. Neal, Elizabeth Barrett.
Lowell wrote in letter, which viii also
be sold. 70 the late John 6. Dwight COc-
tober :, 1S42J about the scheme of the
new magazine. and added;
If you are willing I should like to
have the musical criticism under your
charge. At first I shall not be able TO
pay as much as I wish. But I viii give
at least SO for every article OF three
pages or more and 81 page for less.
The possibility Of raising our peoples
taste in this divine matter must be
part of your reward at first. II the
magazine succeeds shall be able and
glad to pag you as you deserve"
This shows that wind pudding was
dish set by Boston editors and publish
ers before hungry newspaper men and
essayists and poets sixty years ago: and
this dish has been in fashion ever since.