New-York tribune., 1907-06-05
Literary .Neszs and Crf4fcfen,

srstitnde a 59rer Pis he owed the
81 ITeatInent: And ought it to be expected that a
ms kindness would be able to moderate his frio4s
ton ana babit i ~ ms VICIOUS and perverse inclina
unmanly violence? 'e '''0 'i0'-"4 u MS
asking pardon for these warm efusions of
an alarmed Virtue and an innocent mind" little
catherine wound up by stating that tho not
prone to superstition, I cannot but consider as
frightfully ominous this offer of marriage from
an Imperial Assassin to the daughter and
| granddaughter of two Assassinated Emperors"
The subject of psychical research greatly in
'efested the Duke of Somerset. and the final
chapter contains some extracts from his MS
0o'ecllon OF stories of dreams, visions and pre-
rnonitions Here is one of these accounts from
the dukes hands:
Lady William Russell dreamt that LORD Hastings il.ss
hat e' sI' ms IiIS arm round her and kissed her and
ff5r' far rpo9 which he replied: YES | am cold,
as Won tbipI- Il In@ther so difficult non strange
walked in ''if u fb+ III COR nearly those wordsl She
i ana IoTTard in the room, which had a large fire
dreamt nearly The went sa6o 70 bed again and again
T3,fiIIEtha S'rGSE mat she talked much it that day
her and whom she detained ai6 Nv VINO called upon %
bor btp'Y SO SO long that the lady's husband scolded
d9Isp"hd AUS the cause of her delay. Lord Hastings
after talking Of LADY William Russell nd nsht ana ana
c"ahSe he was about to undergo.
Here Is strange story of coincidence also set
down by the duke: Mr. Law told us at table
that he was at school al Mr. Pearson's with one
OF Mr. Percevars sons That this son had a
olSpute with another boy, and said to him.
Your father is killed in SPAIN upon which the
other replied No, but your father is killed IN
the House Of Commons This was about ;
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killed in the House of Commons at that time :"
When the critic who is wearied bv minor
poetry ventures TO observe that writer's like Mr.
stephen Phillips, for example. ought not TO be
set upon pedestals and adored, he is asked to
remember that there are thousands of readers
VINO disagree with him. and that thew are
readers who are neither stupid nor vulgar All
'lls Is quite true, but there is something still
10 De said on the matter. something which is
pafucularIy we'll said by the London Saturday
Review in the following passage:
in mere neTe really is large public quite honest and
tig matters tiers by no means unintellgent with an
that there should be such puhiic2 Paste is I5i pro
America. To those who care for III prt fEi'nd , ana
Thtne 4Stng ling c6lors II is Just good real
mere the analogy between poetry and the
s pIeciGus stone is almost perfect The diamond
coIors f ot Ire p9Wnbroker can tell that the
,,ot 80 VI d uLnond ring. rose cut or brilliant, are
~ more numerous. and even the flash not brighter
receive
@ @nieaA up a ray OF light just finely cut dia-
lliOIIu Will Hence paste is the manv-indeed 10
all Of who are not experts in preci3us eto,a ~
as GOOD TO look at as the diamond. But to the cx-
peri the TWO are utterly different Go To a sale of
JtNeIly. The dealers who gathered there know
at a passing glance what is paste and what Is dia-
!!n9ohd Hash tells them. The diamond has n Ger
Jatt rein haTdness-to mar their knowing eye-which no
great quantity of seeming poetry published To-
gay winch resembles real poetry closely as-to
II-e ulIrofesslonaI eye-paste resembles diamond
IL Is fuH OF beautiful sckly sentiment about love
aHn the ram and the moon, the mist and the sheen
OF inc stars, ii is ''temperamentaI"-Kelt!c and
OF omtherwlse-subjective, mystic and all the rest Of
me regular poetic stOck-in-t rade How is the pub
nc 10 know that the pretty looking stuff run for
an II is worth by those who wish 10 have n poet
III their pocket. and doomed by the literary younq.
man man is not mere paste? Not only the public in
deed many educated people TO boot are tIcL,ied
by this aluring form of imitation ieveIry In
less man has the natural instinct 10 dlstin-
gllSh real from false or has unconsciously trained
hiHself-n the early years that count so Inuch-bv
able to Judge for sure no