The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-15

in 1886; Western Windows and 9TH
er Poems," New York; "Poems of
House and Home" Boston in 1873.
In 1881 new arrangement of some of
his poems was published under the I'll
tie of "Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio
Valley reissued in London in 1884,
and another volumen in London called
"Little New World Idyls and Other
Poems,' succeeded by later ar
rangement under the title of "The
Ghosts Entry and Other Poems.'
While in Ireland Mr.. Piatt published
" AT the Holy Well, and Other Poems
or Handful of New Verses, Through
a leading firm in Dublin, this latter
volume, with two or three from Mrs.
Piatt suggested by Irish experiences,
winning them warm place in the
hearts Of the people of that island and
their subsequent removal from the
post at Dublin by Mr.. Cleveland, call
ed out an amazing expression of eulo-
CYSTIC public feeling.
Mrs. Piatt published in London,
In Primrose Time, A New Irish Gar
land,' in 1886, through Kegan Paul,
Trench & Co., famous publishers, who
had the year previous put out her GA
Voyage. to the Fortunate Isles.'
"The Witch in the Glass; published
through Houghton, Mif11in & Co., and
one or two other volumes make up
Mrs. Piatt s formal output and gives
her a, permanent place among the ex-
ponents of the poetic art in this eoun-
try. Her verse has the most pro-
nounced lyrical quality, and is, as
one writer has put it, "more poig-
nantly human than interpretive,
this being peculiarly illustrated by
the following poem called CAT Edin-
burgh Street Crossing'
"She started suddenly from the NOV
ing mass,
The wind sprang up and caught her
by the shawl,
And held her like a thing that dared
uOI pass
Then shook her for an instant. That
was all.
"Once beautiful and still almost a
child,
She wore her wet hair round her with
a grace.
I saw the great eyes staring black and
wild,
AS the scared lamplight shuddered
from her face.
"Upon her track there followed such
cry:
will you come back or no?' was all
it said.
will you come back or no?' The
voice walled by
Onto the Pit The girlish phantom
,fed.'
The association of the Piatts with
Prentice, Gallagher, Forsyth Wilson
and other "passionate Pilgrims of
the Ohio Valley, makes one of the in
teresting chapters in the literary his
tory of this country, and Mr.. Piatt s
paper read before he Western Asso-
citation of Writers last summer, on
"The Poets and Poetry Of the Ohio
Valley" was notable in its apprecia.
tive expression of the work of these
men, who are, perhaps, somewhat for.
gotten by the feverish readers of the
six best sellers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Piatt are now living
in retirement in their old home II
North Bend, near Cincinnati, altho
Mr.. Piatt has within the past few
years been conspicuous in editing
"The Hesperian Tree called als'
"a Souvenir of the Ohio Valley
and published by John Scott & Co.
at North Bend, and whose object is, a
Mr. Piatt says in the introduction,
"To offer to the Public in this volume
magazine Of literary miscellany il
prose and verse, comprising stories
essays, sketches and poems, the con
tributors to which should be native t.
or identified with the Ohio Valley,
and this has been successfully done
the volume itself being beautiful i
formal.
These poets embody, perhaps, cer
tain pathos, the pathos Of the rar
+ and superlative, who after renderin
to their country both through publ
service and in the far more preciou
expression Of aesthetics, an enexan
O pied good, are not accorded agratefr
tribute of appreciation by later pub
O lie runner on to eternity after a Iii
9 erary ideal which rises no higher tina