New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
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uue of poems has been deservedly enshrfned in
The oxford Book Of English Verse" Here it is:
EARLIEST SPRING.
Tossing his name of SHOWS in widest eddics and
warIiEe March cometh tn hoarse with tempest
Through ali the meaning chirneys and 'thwart all
Round the shuddering house, breathing of winter
and death
But in my heart feel the life OF the wood and
Thrilling the pulses that own kindred with dbres
Bud and Blade to the sunward, within the in
Dee0 in the oaks chill core, under the gathering
Nay. to earth's life and mine some presence or
Glow Shall I name it artghtD comes for mo-
Rapture of life ineffable perfect-as If in the brer
Leafess there by my door, treubles the sense OF
the rose
The memoirs of DR.. Evans, the court dentist
Of the Third Empire, which are to be published
sOon, are supposed to present more OF Tess
intimate picture of Napoleon III 1t is said that
the dentists estimate of the Enlperors char
acter is very different from the conventiona!
the memoirs describes the Empress Eugenie's
fight from the Tuilertes after Sedan
'-The Poets Ringlets" is the title Of an anus
ing magazine study by hIr- Michael MacDonagh.
He maintains, are told, that the outward
and visible sign of the poetic faculty is abundant
the British National Portrait Gallery.
The fund raised on behalf Of Bret Harte's
daughter, Ethel Bret Harte now amounts 10
about $500 The leading English authors are
among the contributors
Mr. C. K Shorter criticises Mr.. H. W. Boyn-
toms biography of Bret Harte as too patronizIng.
and he continues:
The capacity for taking trouble first Of ALL which
hFr Car1v
of Mr.. Boynton- He tells Us that Bret HaTte was
R R2rR h Geran "a and AebreW blood in his veins
very little trouble you'd have put Mt Boy913H
distinctly Jewish origin, that his grandfater
was Jew of the most pronounced type, and was
highly indignant with his son for having married
One Of Bret Harte's earliest recoTlections was of
an interview with the stern old Israel Hart, the
s6d Of hi5 name ie we are treated to great
deal Of very frank statement as to Bret Hartes
family behind him and gradually ceaslng 70 have
SGg ~ tbs hook nav be gaused from the fact
that a later work of so much value as a Waif OF
mind "A waf Of the Plains is one of the truest
pieces of literature that has come from the genera
ton to which belong.
Among half forgotten facts recalled in this
NELSON year. is that of the admiraPs connec-
ton with Sir John Sucking. He was the great
t-grandnephew Of that accomplished cour-
tier, wit poet and dramatist His mother ;
maiden name was Sucking, ana the clptIll..
under whom he first served as a little 'HlGdy
was his uncle Maurice Sucking
Sir John one likes to remember, was able
soldier as well as poet, and died in exile i'll
France because he tried to bring about the es-
cape of the unhappy STAFFORD
neat little portrait of De Quincy appears
in a new book on the English Lake County:
Had you been in Edinburgh on certain day in
the early spring Of the year 1850 you might have
a little understood, slight framed man with =
somewhat steaIrhy tread and shy. furtive glance
like who breads being watched or oVersaEe.,-II
stepping quietly along the streets. He is dressed
IL ID cln nlr-.L