The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-01


volumes. ] have been reading White
constantly for perhaps twenty years.
There is a new volume OF essays
OUT by II. w. Boynton, entitled "Jeru-
salem and Literature" ] have not
seen it, but note this Of it: The best
of all evening dailies, the neatest of
all dailies in Typographical appears
anee, and second to no paper or jour
nal i'll this country in its literary de-
partment. the New York Evening
Post. says of 1t: For the most part
Mr.. Boynton's essays hover in polite
world where literature learns good
breeding from contact with life"
Mr.. Henry James is the most dis
tinguished OF alt New England
novelsts after Nathaniel Hawthorne.
He has been living abroad-in Engr
land recently-for the last quarter
of century, and is much of a John
Bull, and is Il great favorite among
men Of letters in Great Britain. He
has returned for all time, ! believe, 10
his native New England. How long
he will be content to remain from his
dear old England this deponent saith
not. 1t is stated that he says he has
exploited the land of his birth chiefly
"as a place from which to escape
whole hearted TO the home of tradi-
tons and symbols of fairest. fragrant
messages from the past, and long
established institutions" That. he is
a Yankee, and knows but little of the
United States outside of New England,
is perhaps true. That he is a writer
of singular and rich gifts is also per-
haps true. Thirty years ago he was
much praised for his style
but not as now. Twenty or more
years ago / read two or three of his
novels, and became wearied. | know
nothing of his productions of later
years. but critics have jabbed them
severely because of obscurities and
perplCxities of some kind Abroad
he is the most highly priced of any
American living model He is not
so interesting as Crawford, who is
another resident i'll Europe most nf
his life.
A new scheme in book producing
has been announced in the North.
It is a series in which each volume
threats of a particular era. The first
volume is entitled in the Days OF
/ Chaucef, attempts TO exhibit the
England of the great poet with its
manners, customs, institutions nan
| peniugs and condition. Hamilton w.
Mabie. a competent and most Interests
| ing writer. has prepared an introduc-
| ton. The next volume VIII present
Shakespeare aud His Times
The gifted, entertaining Scotch
|
whose volumes I read many years ago
with exceeding pleasure. still lives at
an advanced age. His DOCKS are
somehow not read now by the de-
vourers of the thousands and one cur
| rent fictionS many are not worth the
paper upon which they are printed.
| DR. Macdonald is not only most IN
teresting, but his novels are we'll
written, are pure and artistic. | am
| glad 10 see this reference to him In
Mr. w. l.. Alden's London literary
| letter in the New York Saturday Re~
view" and that some of his writings
| will be repubished in England soon:
"Of late years both his novels and his
! fairy tales have been absent from the
| book stalls. and his name has been
seldom mentioned by the press. rms
/ is the more strange, AS Mr.. MacdOI-
| aid wrote novels that were far better
| than many OF those which achleVe
popularity today. His admirers VIII
| he glad to know that there is 10 De
a reissue of his fairy tales III II uni
| form edition.
| The Charlotte Presbyterian StanG :
ard for l4th of December contained
| two short poems on Evening from
Two North Carol MAN ~Wuoers Of the
Poetic Muse. One poem by john
! Charles Mcneil Of Charlotte, ap-
| reared in the n. Y Century Maga-
I lie. lE. Ollitl va ny L>''N'A bN.''' :
I Packard Of Pine Eluff, and appearc!
! IN the Boston. (Mass.). transcript
| They are not exalted strains of poetry,
| hut are piouS and with poetic ardor
| and feeling. The second one Is per
hapS prefcra bic. | d;n @raUiCd To Sc :
North Carolina verse Writer'S thus iaV-
oied in the Northern press. | have
| received from tho wei known BostoH
publisher. Richard c. Badger pros
g ,,I hf, c.
| published, entitled. The Palace OF tie
Heart and other Poems Of Love" hv
! Miss Pattie Williams Gee. = North
Carolina daughter. It is claimed for it
that ii is genuine poetry" and that
/ it gives tcxceptional promise OF even
more exquisite achievements. uar
only hope That its merits arc ~
claimed ''genuine poetry" The put
fisher states hat "her st ning tfi5uto
to Mater Mea Carolina is the strong
est aud the longest poem ! elless the
fair author is of Halifax descent