The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

VIII rest also on the third and fourth
cantos of ''Childe Harold" Manfred >
1.-The Vision of Judgment" and some 9th
ers. He writes that as table talk" the
great poem is ''the finest in the language.
1t has neither story nor purpose" Byron
himself regarded it as chatty and funny,
for he wrote to Tom Moore, after compel
ing the first canto, that ''it is meant to
be little quietly facetious upon every
thing, and he wrote to Murray, his Lon
don publisher, that it will please if it is
lively He began in 1918, and finished the
last canto, the sixteenth, in 1923, less than
a year before he died. The critic writes:
1.-The one persisting poetic character is
the measure. Never was verse so man
aged and moulded. Impassioned poetry,
| trivial badinage, tersest narrative, light
est reflection-all find in Byron's ottawa
rima an easy vehicle =. 1t is not
sigh but a shout. Open it where you will
| it flashes life. :. There is no
msasma or helpless ranting. Every line
reveals cheerful yet implacable fighter
=. He speaks with incompatible
strength, of utterance, as man who has
seen the kingdoms of the world and their
glory There is another paper in the
same number of the excellent bi-monthly
magazine of book-lore." 1t is entitled
/ "Byron's Homecoming" and it is alike
very interesting and pathetic. l wish
had space for some selections as it
abounds in information. Byron's death
created In Great Britain a wide intense
excitement. Sir Walter Scott said of his
death: 1T is as if the sun had gone out
There were great silence and many tears.
The authorities denied burial to him in
the Great Abbey. The body lay in state
IN Great George Street Westminster The
Greeks intended a tomb in the Temple Of
Theseus if he had been buried in their
classic land The London Times puts in
an advertisement every year to remind the
English people that Lord Byrons name is
still excluded from Westminster. 1t will
appear annually SO long as the exclusion
continues. Byron died at Missoloughi, Apri
10, 1924. The funeral took place July II,
1924. The body was brought from Greece
on the brig Florida, and the interment
took place in the family vault at Hucknall-
Torkard, only a mile or so from Newstead
Abbey, Byron's ancestral home. Thus
ended Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Had
he been buried in Greece, the writer OF
the paper says, ION some lovely Aegean
isle, or on some Grecian promontory dear
! to the poet and historian, Byron's obelisk
would have caught the first and last rays
CT the sun, and the mur1nur of the waves
around his tomb would have recalled to
every pilgrim his majestic and melan-
choly verse" He then repreduces the
noble stanza beginning-"Be Between two
worlds Life hovers like a STAR
Here are some pickups not in the news |
papers In the far West there are what is !
described as Forest reserves" Northern
people living in Eastern States think these
forest reserves are big things and full
If trees of lxuriant growth, but they are
without trees really and are not desirable |
otherwise. S. R. Wright in Munsey for
July writes that these so-called Forest !
Reserves are really 'treeless," and in ad-
dition are mountainous and billy" He
says you may ride for miles through these |
reserves, seeing only dwarf cedars, scrub
oaks and stumped juniper, where nature
has been kind enough to furnish even
these poor specimens OF forest growth"
He says water is very scarce and you will |
find skeletons of animals all about who
have persisted for water" Do not eco
West young man. as Greeley advised |
Stop and consider. North Carolina is a |
prime State to remain in. Go to work
United States Judge named Isaac G. !
Parker, was on the Western District OF |
Arkansas from 1875 to 1885, twenty-one !
years. During that time he sentenced to |
death 172 criminals, of whom SO were
hanged. What proportion were whites is |
not given in Frank Lesles Magazine for |
July. Parker's territory covered $4,000 |
square miles, embracing all of Indian Ter |
ritory. During his term of office 65 of his |
deputies were killed. He tried at his first |
term Is murder cases with Is convictions |
A Judge that will hang now and secure |
convictions is indeed a disideratum and |
curiosity. | suppose that there was no |
higher power to set aside verdicts and /
pardon criminals out there 1t is indeed
most fortunate for society if there is no
one-man power to intervene to prevent due
punishment as awarded by the courts.
Dr. Conan Doyle is in some respects a
success. He wrote a book against tine
Dutch Beers IN Africa, and as a reward
was made British Sir by the present
King. He has written one or two good
novels, and detective book or two that
were much read His hero is Sherlock
Holmes. After killing him, he had to
'.resurrect'' him. 1t is announced that [
Doyle is to write for a London magazine. !
THE Strand" and for them he is to re-
ceive $780, 600. Think of it. 1t pays to pet
petuate a defunct character in fiction if |
there is money in it," To get IS 900 for
magazine story of a few pages looks
fabulous. 1t pays now to write third-rate
fiction by order. The idle, undeveloped
mind Graves excitement
1t Is not known to many English readers
that Victor Hugo was a very lewd, i'm
moral man, as was Alexander Dumas,
the elder He had many affections" al
though married man. Madame Drouet,
who worried and chung to him for a half ,
century, was his "most particular flame,
though there were others. A recent writer
says of him that he twas idolized by wo-
men," and that to him "a pretty woman
was irresistible and that many suffered |
through him." Madam Drouet is described |
as very devoted and very jealous of him.
And all the time where was the poor wife.
was she jealous and miserable? Hugo was
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