The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-14
INaWlHnMnmM mInH1lTmnmnmINE
MARRIAGE IN wAsHIMGTON
 OF MISS RIARD AND

MIR. SPALD1NG.
 The continuation of an engagement of long standing between two prominent young Southerners occurred in Wash- Church, Miss Annie Bi1rd and Mr. Spalding Spear were married. The marriage ceremony was soIemnized 1t high noon, Rev. Randolph McKiHi of fieiatIng. in the presence of large number of friends who had Oeen in- vited to bo present.
 The bride was given away by her un- cle, Mir. Charles c. Abefcrombie. of this city. and she was attended by Ter mother, Mrs. Annie Abercrombie Biard, She wore a coat travelling gown of green velvet, and carried afmo vio- let's. Shortly after the ceremony tha young couple left for New York to sail for Europe They will spend the win ter tn Southern Italy, and will travel abroad for year before eturning to make their home in Atlanta.
 Mrs. Spear spent her sirlhood in Montgomery. where she and her moth- CT lived until they went to washing- ton to live few years ago. During ths past three winters. ahe has been here with her uncle, Mir, Abercrombis. at whose home she made her debut. She has also spent much t.me in A6- ianta, with her aunt. Mrs Grant Wil- kins and it was there she and Mir. Spear met She is young woman who Is fortunate in enjoying the devotion of wide circle of friends and ad- mirers in Montgomery, Atlanta and Washington She is member of one of the most prominent families in the South. and by her culture, refinement and grace she will do her native land credit during her stay abroad.
 Mfr Spear Is member of very prominent family of Georgia, members of which have always taken high stand in the political, social, and financial affairs of their State. Mfr. Spear is a yofng millionaire. who has spent the past two years travelling abroad. Their friends all over the south will be in- teFested in the news of the marriage of this young couple.
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 DIR. BARNwELL's LECTURE ON TENNY s0N
 A rare intellectual treat was enjoyed by large and appreciativs audience In the auditorium of the Girls High School last evening when Dr. Charles Barnwell of the University of Ala baina delivered q lecture on ''Tennyson. the Poet as an Artist"
 To this occasion the students and low ers Of the works of this great repre- sentative poet of his age have been looking since its annoureement, with highest pleasure of anticipation which was fully realized in 'he splendid presentation of the subject by pr. BarnwelI.
 The speaker of the evening was in troduced by MT, c. A. Lanter in few remarks in which he touched on the privilege accorded MontgcmeF'~ns in this opportunity. He referred 70 the lack of college atmosphere in our city and our dependence on importation af such opportunities He spoke of tine need of poetry" in our lives Of it's necessity in lifes regime, and said he deemed it a great pleasure and dis tinct honor to present Dr. Barnwell to his audience.
 Dr. Barnwell prefaced his lecture by a few remarks on the pleasure 1t was to him to epeak 10 thee high school teachers and pupils. He said:
 Tt Is an off-year with us if there are not at feast .cne or two graduates of this school among our students at the University and the state Knows how high stand they take"
 He also alluded to the fact that among the teachers in the high school there are two of the University grad uates. -5v
 Dr. BarnweIl began his lecture by stating that he would speak only on one phase of the works of the great poet He would treat only of Tenny- son as dH dFLlSl LII H0IQHs A1S HMtA that all critics joined in making two remarks of Tennyson. that they speak of him as the characteristic represen- : tatiYe, poet of his age and as Q great verbal artist. He first touched upon the early works Of the poet published in 1882 in which promise was given of the great things that would be writ- ten by him later, and quoted from 'CIaribel" as an example. He spoke of the severity of the critic of that age, of 1t as the sIaEhing. scathlng, biting age. and of Tennyson's wisely seeing the errors pointed out and shrewdly profiting by 1t.
 years in which the great poet was si- lent, wounded by the stabs of the crit ics; ten years In which he went over his past works cutting out and chang ing the parts that had offended the critics, sense. Most that Tennyson wrote in these ten years iTi which he was silent went up the chimney like his pipe smoke he said.
 Dr. Barnwell then spoke of Tenny- sons book of poems published in 1s42, and he divided his discourse under two heads; The poems of the pure style, and those of the ornate he placed un- der the pure and simple those poems by beauty. with utter lack of adornment, and under the or nate, the powers or IaVlsh ornament alton. To illustrate the former he read from "Rora" as an example of the pure and simple. As an illustra- ton of the ornate he quoted from The Gardeners Daughter"
 ,'Tennyson,r T he said, found 1t Inost difieult to write the simple story of Dora. proving his natural style to be the orhateS
 He spoke of the marvellous skin of Tennyson in adapting sound to sense, and of his rare mastership in the arti- flee of alliteration; of the poets sub tie use of this method of expression, and of his use of antithesis. the, bal- aneing of word against word, sound against sound, and phrase against phrase as obvious qualities.
 At this point in his lecture Dr. Barn. well said he had reached the end Of "cataloguing." and he took up the poets greatest works. stating that it is the concensus of critical opinion
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