The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-22

specimens that have not only enriched
our language with fine poetic thought,
imagery and expression. but have been in
ccrporated into the legacies OF English
speech. Campbell was not of the highest
rank. He was not of the second rank.
and possibly not even of the third rank.
If a rigid and just selection was made,
but he was true poet, and sang some
notable and memorable things that ought
to long survive. Let noe reproduce few
OF his lines:
While memory watches DER the sad re-
| OF joys that faded like the morning dew"
Its the sunset OF life gives me mystical
| lore,
And coming events cast their shadows
before
And leaving in battle no blot on his
name
Look proudly to heaven from the death
bed of fame
Whose lines are notices OF the heart,
| Whose truths electrify the sage
On Burns.
Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep:
Her march is DER the mountain waves,
Her home is on the deep"
There was silence deep as death.
And the boIdest held his breath
! For a time
In LIES morning march, when my bo-
som was young
ITO live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die"
Wordsworth is one OF the greatest poets
OF England after Shakespeare and Milton.
He is probably read today by more
thoughtful, cultivated people than no was
q half century ago. Scott and Byron. OF
their kind unrivalled, are read by the
hundred thousands as the many editions
OF their works issued by many rival pub
fishers attest. SCOTS Lay of the Last
Minstrel is one of the glories OF nine
! teenth century poetry. 1t is indeed Il
romance, most picturesque, most poetical
filed with glorious strains of enchanting
melody and rich in high Inspiration and
magic numbers. 1t is very original. 1t IL
fresh in plan, unique in execution, mas
terly in the splendor of description, and
unbroken in the fascination Of its incl
dents and in the flow OF it's pathos A
writer of the past said of it that there are
many glorious bursts OF truly Honeric
fire when he gets into the full tide Of
minstrel inspiration" Scott reviyifies the
past. brings before the reader most i'm
pressive scenes. and in the lively octosyl-
Liable lines he made so effective he gave to
the world one of the most moving, en-:
thraillng. energetic noens that glorii Tie
last century SO full of superb poetry. But
| can not say more now and must leave
"Marmion' and THE Lady of the Lake
untouched, which many regard as his
finest. most complete production in verse.
| Shelley and Keats are Immortal but can
not characterize them now, much less dis
cuss their exquisite inspiration and art.
Soutbey is not much read, but he was
| very far below his great contemporaries
named i'll the perfection and interest OF his
! poetic compositions. l have but recent ~
written of Byron and ut length. and also
glanced at Southey.
/ CLEAN some happy snapshots as ]
read. The Washington Post says; THAT
| New York scientist who claims to be able
| TO make gold out of water should be
| furnished with Mr.. Mprgsns address AT
| once
| The Post says again: John Temple
Graves wants State set aside for the
negroes and to have them disfranchised
outside of that State. ri the plan is adopt,
cd here's vote for Massachusetts, s,.
| Mr. Bryan's able paper, The Comlnoner
makes ten strike in the following para
graph: MIR. Rockefeller says that when
ever he wants anything he prays for. It.
This recalls the story of the darkey who
prayed for a Thanksgiving turkey, but in
vain. Then he prayed that he might be
sent out to get a turkey, and there were
feathers in his back yard before sun-up.''
England has lost within few weeks
! four men Conspicuous individually both
OF character and accompl5hments"-
ly, Henley, Lecky. Whistler and Phil
/ May. The first two were gifted and en1in-
ent men OF letters; the last two were gift
ed artists. Mr. Lecky was the. foremost
living historian, and the most philosophi.
cal. His History OF England in the Eigh-
teShlH century, III SiSnC OCtBtOS, ~ u
! superb work-calm, broad. fair, strong
and in excellent style.
| The greatest depth in the Atlantic
Ocean thus far found is 4,662 fathOrns The
sounding was made by U. s. S. Dolphin
in January, 1902, latitude 10 degrees So
minutes N. longitude 81 degree AZ
minutes W., so miles north of the west
end of Porto Rico.
| The U. s. n. Nero found the greatest
depth of the Pacific TO be $3.50 fathoms,
exceeding all oceans 1t was found in No
vember 1899, while sounding for the Paci-
fc cable. 1t was little to the South and
/ east of Guam.
! All people have to eat when they, can
get it, and are interested In bread. and it
! is worth knowing what really the best,
the most nutritious. and most economical
breads. Here is an opinion, but do not
know whence it comes 1t looks like a
scientific chat. and possesses no doubt a
certain value. 1t will interest buyers,
housewives and dyspeptics:
The most and least economical OF foods
belongs TO the vegetable kingdom. The