The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
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class-worshiper. AS a vegetarian he
won the contempt of the beef-eating
Briton. OF fashionable life, ever open
to authors of brilliancy and talent, he
! expressed disfavor and intolerance.
Against the ideal of duty he set the
idea of freedom / must say after
that, / am not disposed to cultivate
the Irish playwright's acquaintance
any further, and the later drama with
1T, for he says himself that las now
constituted, modern dramas may be
classified under three heads. "neurotic,
erotic and tommyrotic." He is so little
acute of perception. and SO dull of
proper apprehension, he puts Ibsen as
greater than shakespeare which is
decidedly ''tommyrotic, and puts him.
self by the SIDE of Ibsen. Can folly
and stupidity go beyond that? Shaw
may have some genius, but l would
suppose it not to be of the sane health
full quality. Prof. Henderson with such
material makes an interesting paper.
make one quotation that tells OF
shaw:
He is thoroughly imbued with the
most modern ideas. History he has
studied through Mommsen, socialism
through Marx, drama through lbsen
philosophy through NietZsche. and art
through Rossetti and Burne-Jones. His
career has marked him as an adept
n many lines of literary effort. Or
IRISH action, he was born on July
&c, 1856, in Dublin. He went TO Lon
don when twenty years of age, and
began his career by writing novels.
He wrote four or FIVE novels, Whlch
we're refused by both English and
I1Is C1Ih
luently appeared in socialistic or
cams"
Moncure d. Conway was born in
Virginia in 1882. He is a man OF
much ability, ana has produced sew
eral books. He was educated at
college, was first q Strong pro-slavery
advocate. and hot for States Rights.
He was also for some time Metho-
dist preacher He began an Adolf
ZIONIST, an Unitarian. and so on, ana
finally went abroad, and has hVed IN
England for a score or two or years:
He has just published in two volumes
his Autobiography, Memoirs and Elk
oeriences." Rev John w. Chadwick.
l Northern writer and preacher re-
views it in the n. Y. Saturday Re
view and says it is "a marvellousiy
interesting book" have known
something of Mr. Conway for nearly
a half century The opinion l had
formed of him was that he was gifted
and eccentric, visionary ana
dreamer. He is an uncommon product
of the South. He has redeeming traits
no doubt. He thinks that few men
lever wrought so much eViP as oid
john Brown, the Yankee IDOL he
does not admire Lincoln: which shows
his candor and insight. He edited for
years in Boston. He preached some
4 IN nt1H
He has a very high opinion of Carlyle
and admfres Tennyson ferYently
Christian people will find but lptle in
Conway. | opine, that will prove de-
sirable or improving.
In the transactions of the Modern
Language Association of Anaerica for
1SS4-'5, there appeared a cEitical pa
per of less than seven pages of mark
ed excellence and finish. T4ike all of
the literary discussions from the pen
of an able and scholarly North Caro-
linian, Prof Henry +. Shepherd, LII.
D.. formerly superintendent of
the Public Schools Baltimore.
and for years president OF
the College of ChaTlesto >
c.. upon which he reflected so much
of distinction, it was thoughtful, pene
trating replete with sanity of Judg-
ment. and of admirable discrimina
ton. The subject handled was "A
Review of Edmund Go$se's lectures
before Lowell Institute, Massachusetts,
in 1884, and Johns Hopkins University
in 1888. | have read twice each two
volumes of Mr.. Gosse's very delightful
critical essays, and would be grateful
to read all he has written. DR.. Shep-
herd treats his lectures in this country
with fairness, admiration and insight,
and while recognizing his pronounced
gifts can not fail to point to some of
his failures in his effort to trace the
development of style between the
great master and the well known
writer of studied English end precise
rhyms in a later century. Pope. l do
not purpose examining the argument
of the one and the critical dissection
of the other To show how striking is
the handling of our own gifted master
of English, / make one quotation only,
although tempted 70 reproduce other
passages in his luminous, scholarly in
depreciation of the matte under con-
siuC ration"
"In introducing his theme, Mr..
Gosse is disposed to attribute the
transition from the creative energy
and wanton exlaberance of Eliza bethan
days to the critical procedure. the
strupulous regard 20 propriaty of die
ton and symmetry that attained their
climax under the dispensation of
which Pope was the acknowledged
oracle, in the first place to that ten
dency developed by most European
literateurs during the seventeenth CEN
fury towards structural perfection,
and ia the second, to a conscious and
deliberate revolt during the first half
of the century, against the 'hy3terical
riot the RIGHTEOUSNESS and grotes-
queness of the preceding era. IT is
perhaps difficult to reconcile these two
explanations-one of which is general,
the other ! pecifo in character If the