The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-14

and opposed coercion, and held to the
fright OF the South to secede. During the
war England and the North came near
being embroiled, and it was a close shave
when prudence and forbearance prevailed.
/ poem of real interest on the Birth
day of Shakespeare dates back to the
eighteenth century 1t is unique in de-
| Sign. 1t is a Cento-a composition made
up OF selections from various authors or
sundry parts of an authors own writ
Ilngs-taken exclusively from the works of
the greatest poet His own lines are TAX
| en- here and thee and woven by an in
gemous arrangement into a splendid
eulogy of the poet 1t appeared in 1923,
| IN the British Essayists," gath volume,
published by Alexander Chambers. 1t was
communicated" much earlier by Robert
Dodsley, 1.-The famous dramatic publisher
who died in 1854
One of the cleverest and most engaging
critics among the new writers whom I
have read is Mr.. j. p. Mowbray. an
American, l take him to be. read two
or three of his critical papers and found
them rich In expression, acute and bold N
discussion, with striking pleasing and apt
diagnosis of intellectual disease. He wrote
for the January number of the New York
Critic an article upon w. d. Howells,
who is placed by certain Northern writer's
at the head of all living American au-
thors. 1t was in review of Howellss
last book-"L Literature and Life" There
was much edge to the critical dissection,
and no little real brilliancy of touch /
ma -n af coIo
had space for more:
ION page we are told that the most
monumental example of literature, at once
light and good, which has first reached the
public in book form is the different pub
lcations of Mark Twain. Has Mr. |
Howells forgotten the Life and Struggles |
of p T. Barnum? A great deal
of Mr. Howells's superiority to these
plodders afield consists in his inability to |
distinguish facts from fancies We shall |
never knew when it was he saw a thing !
and when it was he only pumped it out Of |
his inner consciousness. Mr..
Howells has a singuIarly mobile intellec-
tuality, and so far as we can see his lit |
erary face in his pages it is lacking in |
anything like determinism or even deter /
mination. 1t expresses capricious acu-
men-an uncertain and restless cognition,
which to the psychologist might indicate
a certain absence of intellectual mooring, /
but which to us is only the play of a
volatile fancy that cannot rest long on
any coign of vantage; a gayety of heart
that preserves for us all the varying
moods of youth. AS we look back over
the pages we see that he exults, com
plains, murmurs cOnfessps He Iauphs /
md he pouts. ="
have an impression that this most
promising, gifted young writer has died
since the above appeared
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURY.
N. c., June 10, 1903.
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