The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-05

reading possibly a third, because so
nauseatng vulgar and obscene be-
' ond endurance. Its extreme laXlly Oh
tone, it's deplorable brutality suggests
the indelicate and corrupting triad
Congreve, Wicherly and ShadWeii.
Prof. Smith is invariably fresh, ira
grant, cultured and entertaining. /
never fail to read him with pleasure.
and am often impressed with his
case and hexiblity as we'll as clear
ness of statement.
Professor Archibald Henderson, OF
the University, contributes fine.
scholarly criticism on Maurice Mae
terlinck, a very distinguished German
dramatic writer-still young, | think
ard about whom | know absolutely
nothing save what | have gathered
from critics in the Reviews. / read
Prof. Henderson's entertaining ana
informing critical analysis with
feeling of admiration, gratitude and
pride-that one so young, but twenty
seven-should be so accurately in
formed as to the leading European au-
thors most to the front. | suppose
that reading them in the original en-
a bles him treat of them with so much
Of thorouglness, sympathy, penetration
and entertainment | am grateful
because he gave me so much with
SO little trouble to myself in
such easy. graceful clear English,
showing so much eXactitude of
analyses of style, such familiarity with
uncommon writer's such clarity flu
ency and harmony in his study of the
modern drama and its qualities and
claims. | am proud because he is o
North CarOlinian by descent. by birth
by education, by service. L have read
other production from him that gave
me a high opinion of his intellectual
parts, and raised an uncommon ex-
pectation of other writings of his yet
to-come that would bring him in
Qreasing fame and more unfading
laurels. He IS remarkably endowed
as a critic, is my honest judgment,
whatever my capacity may be for
forming an accurate and wise opinion
as to it.
Prof. Henderson is descended from
the famous Old Granville county Hen
dersonS. His grandfather was the
great lawyer Of LouiSburg whose name
he bears, and of whom the eminent
Judge Archibald d. Murphey, in his
admirable address at the University
of North Carolina i'm the long ago, de-
clared that che was the model lawyer
CT North Carolina" He and the late
chief Justice lie onard Henderson, of
SO much distinction. were brothers.
Profs Henderson's father is the late
distinguished Representative in the
salisbury District in the Federal Con-
gress Hon. w. s. Henderson. | felici-
t;,te the University of North Carolina
IN having among the younger mem
ners of it's large faculty GOA members)
Such scholars of unusual parts as Pro-
lessons Baskerville, Smith, Hender
son and Raper, All distinguished, and
With bright future before them
sincerely anticipate. Prof. Baskerville,
young sas he is, Ky his discoveries in
chemistry, may be said to be of world
Wde fame now. / regret to see it given
cut that the University of North Caro-
ma is to lose him as he has been i'm
Nlted to the Chair of Chemistry in the
college of New York where he will re-
celVe probably a much larger salary.
rms is the coarse of nature and the
way of the world. He is clearly man
OF distinguished gifts, and the South
can not retain him. l am glad he is
native Southron
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURY.
Wilmington, n. c., June A, 1904.