The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-29

South. "The Literary Digest copies
two long paragraphs from Prof. Hen
derson's article that arrests the atten-
ton of Northern readers. and will in
terest educated SOuthrons. | make
one extract from the able and gifted
North Carolinian, which will be read
with pleasure, l have no doubt. by
MANY who may read this paper I am
inditing:
Poe and Lanier are becoming as
much the possession of the whole
country as Hawthorne and Emerson.
Mrs. Edith Wharton recently declared
Sidney Lanier's Science of English
Verse to be the most Illuminating
book ever written on the subject.
Brander Matthews has given Poe
grudging Acknowledgement OF the I'M
plicit critical distinction Poe made be-
tween the novel and the short-storys
although he takes pains to assure US
immediately that neverth eless HaW-
thorne was greater than Poe. Hamil-
ton w. Mabie has recently written
long article on The Poetry of the
South which is a sympathetic discus
sion of Lanier, Timrod, Hayne and
other Southern poets. Since Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle has created his re-
markable detective, Sherlock Holmes
it has come to be recognized, to be
the first and greatest of writer's of de-
tective stories. OF the psychological
analysts of crime, POe's M. Dupin is
the acknowledged master. He is the
founder of a great detective bureau,
all of whose members carefully follow
his analytic, mathematical methods
There were SLIGO divorces granted
in the United States in the year 1901
the preceding year. In 1903, the num-
Der is given at 6S, 400. This is dis
grace to any half-civilized country on
the globe It is thus seen that our
courts broke up i'm 1903, nearly 0,000
families. It is absolutely un-ChTistian
and even barbaric. 1t is to be sincere
ly desired that the next Legislature to
meet shall undo the terrible mischief,
and wipe out the disgrace that fell
upon the last two Legislatures by their
loW-doWn divorce laws. Let a clean
sweep be made. 1t is to be hoped that
the Christian course of the people
will antagonize every candidate who
does not promise them openly to vote
for a repeal Of the present vicious, de-
grading, lust provoking divorce laws,
and adopt q substitute based upon
Gods eternal law. South Carolina
sets an excellent moral example in al
lowing no divorce at all. but II WOulu
be wise and prudent to adopt Gods
own standard. In so cities in the
United States in 1901, there We're g.
998 divorces granted. Let .conserva-
tive. law-abiding North Carolina re-
peal all laws that fight against God,
and have laws adopted that make for
peace morality, decency and
righteousness. How many divorces
were there in our State last year and
in 1902?
Kipling made a just remark when
he spoke of Charles Reade as "a
shamefully neglected author" He is
really one of the best of the novelists
of the second rank. His THE Cloister
and The Hearth" is one of the very
best of English historical novels, q
work of genius, and fun of human in
terest. 1t is urged that the cause of
Reade's decline in popularity is his
aginess." Fudge! What do novel
readers care for "staginess' when |
they read by the scores or wheel bar |
row loads the romantic and other |
novels of the last six years? A novel |
of the mastery qualities of the one
1 have designated is too excellent, for |
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