The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-22

Tot particularly impress my mind on
,ratify my taste. My personal friend,
J. H. Hill whom | knew Glossy from
bout 1858. and whose poetical endow
nent much interested me, has GER
ainly left behind some poetry of UNI
nistakable excellence. have
ong admired and loved The
star Above the Manager,
and with many others of his poems /
nave cherished in rs not only an adj
i ,tion to the true poetry of the South,
out as deserving d good place IN the
American Anthology. I shall write OF
lin. l hope, at more length, not long
lence. He should not be forgotten
n neglected by the sons and daugh-
urs of North Carolina who have any
cultivated taste tor the divine gift OF
scng-the AIS POetica. He too was
Methodist / have cordially written OF
some of Prof Stockard's poems and
more than pnce. If he has not writ
EN- true poetry then ] am like the n1il-
ions, l do not know true poetry when
read it. The North has been ex-
remedy slow III recognizing the best Of
North Carolina vim, and has overlook
d much of the best and highest poetry
Of our dearly cherished Southland.
But in spite of derision, Islander. envy
md hatred, one poet CT southern
descent, Edgar Allan Poe, stands fore
most among American poets in the
,'siimat.on of British and French men
# letters, and even among some of the
cultivated folk up North" OF
write here. There are a few
perhaps who are poets born. y"
here is very much productive
less, and now and then l read poem
hat gives out the ring of originality.
DR.. Moore gives graceful suggestion
1t the close of his address TO the as
)fring verso writer's. !fc says:
Let them pigeon-hole or burn all
sickly rhymes and valueless verse.
Let them coin at their minis only the
precious metal OF lofty thought, ana
will become widely current in hui
man life. Let the bees of HymettuS
With buster hum gather genuine
1oney from the flowers Of fancy
blooming III our midst. Then our
poets now living as we'll as bardS uil-
BORN will verify our prophecy of Car
Dina poets that bright as the past has
oecn the best is yet to be-"
1 am a firm believer in inspiration
n poetry, fine authors. intellectual
activity and versatility, or close read
ng Of some poet or second poets have
enabled many gifted men to write
verse of more or less value. But
he real poets-the men of original
Intellectual passion, are the productive
poets in the wide realm of mspiia-
ton and conviction. Men may have
the gift of clever verse writing. and
an really produce enjoyable and me-
tedious stanzas, with something OF
rythm and diction that belong TO
metrical art, and yet may not
A few literary notes may be gath
cred here. Rev. Dr.. James
Stalker, noted living Scotch preach
er and professor, has just published
work on the celebrated hero and
preacher of Scotland in the sixteenth
century, John Knox, sure OF undylng
fame He was indeed great man
fearless, authoritative, Virile. able,
wonderful.
You can now buy complete and ex-
cellent edition of that great English
essayist, William HaZitt, in twelve
volumes 1t is published in this coun-
try by Mcclure. Phillips 81 Co, and is
ed ted by A. q. Waller and Arnold
Glover with an Introduction by that
very gifted critic the late w. e. Henly
all English. a critic in the New
York Saturday Review" rather UNDER
rates Hazlitt, and yet he Is observant
and acute enough to write as follows:
y
him at your peril; as u seeker after
information dealing with the subjects
on which he writes, you receive rev
contributions which cannot be better
obtained from better men. Still, 1t
cannot be denied that there are GER
tain persons who find an intellectual
Joy in reading FTazlitt. and for these
and for students and professors of
English literature the present edition
may be regarded as a possession OF
great worth | am glad l have been
A reader of HaZlitt since about 1858,
when l read his original. interpretativa
work on Shakespeare. Many sub
seQuent critic has learned much from
him. He hourished in the first quar-
ter of the last century.
A new and large poetic anthology
has been out recently published. 1t is
called The Worlds Best Poetry" is
in ter volumes, and is edited by Bliss
Carman, assisted by four or five others.
There has been many similar attempts
10 reproduce by selections from the
wide and varied and rich delds Of
poetry, the supposed best OF the best
poets. and yet all omit many very
choice and charming and important
poems, and give others of less fra
GRANGE and fame. The new work. of
course, has merit and charm. But all
selectors and editors of anthologles
have favorites, and fail to appreciate
much that is Of the most valuable and
best inspired quality.
There are essays in the ten volumes
by the following writer's of more or
less fame and trustWorthiness:
Young People and the Poets" by
William j. MacC?intock; "rhe Future
of Poetry, by John Vance Cheney,
An Interpreter of Life by Lyman
Abbott Religion and Poetry. by
Washington GLADDEN.; THE Poetry Of
Nature" by Charles g. D. Roberts;
The Place of Poetry in Life, by
Charles r. Richardson: Whars the
Use of Poetry by Richard lie Cal
licnn2: The Study Of Poetry, by
Francis II Stoddard; The ola Case OF
Poetry in d New Court by Francis A.
GuInmere; After All, What Is Poetry
| by +. Howard,
There is a new life of Earl OF
Beaconsfeld. Disraelli) by DR. IL y.
Mendes. DR.. L. w. IWisohn, of New
York city, has published a work on
The Prevention and Cure Of Con-
sumption" The New York Saturday
Review does not like Marion Craw-
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