New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-28

comes to adverse judgment by few at least in the
nor succeeding This hostility to reverence is
mace stand and deliver its credentials TO examina
We who know-or have been assured-that Shake
Peere dld not write the plays ascribed to him but
eli,L they were written by another man with the
same name, should be tolerant Of those who would
reduce The claim Of Longlellow to proportions
that would coincide with the iilimitable of
oleiF own capacity for Judgment Those 20 whom
greatness are anger and a despair should be
4iaIltaply allowed for the bengnant spirit
whose centennial are to-day celebrating 1oUbt-
eSs Hlsef allows for them the other side OF the
stars ts. Assuming that Longfellow may know what
{iey think OF him, we may feel certain that what
ne. IN mis- kindness and clearuess. thinks OF them
6 GoH a.ot them with contriton and witA' mort
Of respected ancestry. The spur Of adversely
lis peheiraieq nor stimulated MS ambition or
cles lie was able to accept collegiate trusts and
self for them, He was an investment and not
6oT he did not rush into pqgry as fn9
himself for authorship carefully lie aid for
uoI, 4leI experience OF the world and inlmaces
WIZ me great he gave 10 poetry serious and sys-
prolific. Then not iii then lie wrote the poems
Criticism can be sbouId he as FREE, TO nudge him
as any other But criticism should take into
gard 10 him Ctdhood find finds in him one whom It
loves and understands. Boyhood feels that he
ize the exquisite decacy and the kindly strength
age discern in him the gathered wisdom Of travel
9 q schoaTsaiP Of reflection and Of he4ignant i9ye
and to the finest hearts ana minds is p fact with
and neither with envy nor witf siurs The
u I T criticism win DO this Contemporary
scholarship Of purity Of retinemert Of liberty and
his race and his heart. He was never enylous or
own recognition. So long as our nation shall main
IAN US deals so long as our Worid shan aSe 10
the golden age. that long Will this ARTIST o. ta't9
conventional Of novel form be cherished and re
and a friend
Richard Watson Glider, speaking on Long
fellow and American Ideals" said in part;
II We do not find in Iongfellow the passion and
Of beauty the genius Of imagery, the lovely ca
the peopie-not only Of the people but of All who
love metrical beauty-as long as langn2Ee laSis
What American ideals are expressed or lmpleI
in Longfeows poems? should say the ideal or
tht peSular thourht and tradt5n Of The region in
which he lived, and where. somewhat earlier men
to be happy had been setued-but, being sellic9I
anew in the right way an ideal of free country
in which human slavery was a dangerous "IomaIE.
beloved merely because it is ours, bur because We
believe that il its rae As involved me destiny "'
Other American ideals ind in Lo9 @5 Hoy.
%S % W LINZ Nv binH hoId to be one of our national
traits, which still hold against many evidences l"
one American ideal prominently characteris,iio
used IN argument against his standing as an amer
ican poet. thar IS bis love Of the old and eSpe
clallv Of the Old World Tho element in him which
made him IN youth a passionate pilgrim IN me
old World and which fills his verse with the echoes
Of cid this 7 take 10 he truly American lpnAI'
that love Of the Ola World, its traditions is mogn-
ments its art. its hoa~y civilizations which rus
orr steamships yearly. not only with increasing
numbers Of the well-to-do, but with our school
teachers. our country people men and women VINO
have pinched and managed in order 70 save enoug1
to see once with their own eyes Ola England otN
Rome, and even ancient Egypt
Miss Edith NJ Thomas read sonnet to Long
fellow. which she wrote I'm answer 70 Nature