The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

hardly so many great ones. In every
thing but mere superficial consistency
Dryden is head and shoulders above
Boileau as a critic: Coleridge a head,
shoulders and body above the Schle-
gels, whom he followed. Long before
Saint Beuve. Hazlitt had shown d
genius for real criticism, as distin-
guished from barren formula-making
which no critic had surpassed. And
Mr.. Arnold himself with less range,
equity, and sureness than Sainte-
Beuve, has a finer literary taste and
touch. AS for that general superiori-
ty of French criticism of which we
have heard so much, the unerring
voice of history will tell us that It
never existed at all, except, perhaps,
for generation before 1860 the latter
being the period which called forth
but misled. Mr.. Arnold's admiration.
With this last. nor with the romantic
revolt, in dealing with which 1t will
be pertinent to appraise the relative
excellence of Leasing and Goethe as
compared with Co1eridge and Hazlitt
But we have within our present range
an almost better field of comparison
in that neo-classic period from Boileau
to La Harpe and from Dryden to John
son, iii which on the whole, and TAX
Ing recognized orthodoxy only, the
critics Of France and of England wor-
shipped the same idols, subscribed the
same confessions of faith, and to no
+ small extent even applied their prin-
I ciples to the same texts and subjects.
| am. after careful examination, GER
| tain myself, and l hope that the re-
suit of that examination may make
it clear to others that they did not"orler
| these things better in France that
they did not order them nearly as
| we'll"
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam Is an
| astonishing young woman. Her stories
| of children have made her famous and
| like every other person who makes a
success in one line, she wants to turn
| her efforts into other directions. Her
| verse, frankly in imitation of Steven
| sons "Child'S Garden of Verse;" is
along one of these lines, and, strange
| ly enough, writing advertising mat
| ter is another. Toward the latter kind
| of work, Miss Daskam has a decided
| leaning and, not at all because this
kind of writing is more profitable than
most kinds of authorship. She says
she likes to write advertisements.
| Evidently she does, for already her
name appears over a long announce
ment of one of the magazines which
she has written. Naturally enough a
| good many of her admirers are hold
ing up their hands in horror over the
situation, but Miss Daskam does not
worry about that. That she likes to
throw bombshells about is evident to
| those who have read the account of
her speech to the Puritan mothers at
| their last meeting.
Hang on to your privileges and let
your rights 60" said Miss Daskam to
the mothers, which was not exactly
| what the mothers were expecting, since
| it is well known that they are support
ing Women's Rights. THE women who
are most valiantly anxious to get
their rights seem to forget one thing
she said. They forget that the party
of the first PARTLY that 1 mean our
| brothers. to-day right where he was
in the beginning. He has the same
number of advantages he always had.
| The woman of to-day has all these
and about 1853 more, and yet her Shout
| ders are no broader and her back no
! stronger than it ever was.
| There are two things which women
must always have had since the Gre
alton to be successful, and those two
things are the same in the far-off ISL
ands of the Pacific and in the high
school in Massachusetts,. A woman to
be successful must be good and she
must be charming. You may think of
her charm as her parliamentary abil-
ity, her oratorical power of her excel
| lent canning OF peaches, Dut Sne mas
| got to have it. And if she is not good
the world can't progress. There may
be something interesting in the bad
woman, but she can't perpetuate ma
tons, and after all that was the main
| purpose of our creation, / think. If a
woman is good and nothing else, she
will be as dull as anything the world
ever made, but If she can be good and
charming her heritage and posterity
can ask absolutely nothing better"
Miss Daskam got some applause
through her speech, but it was very
evident that her remarks did not ex-
actly coincide with the views of some
/ of the mothers. When she finished Mrs.
Blake, the president, before introduce
ing the next speaker. said
II think we all enjoyed hearing Miss
Daskam's remarks. but possibly. If
she was a woman in the civil service
/ and had not written books and had not