The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-31
POET TURNS ON her CRITIC
PRINCESS AMELIE TROIBET-
skOY DEFENDS HERGRAMMAR.

PRINCESS lMELIE EhOt NJ u.
sKOY DEFENDS HERGRAMMAR.
che Rrsrnts tho So Of such Terms as
.sio> enliness' and Ignorance" \p.
plless TO One Of Her Poems and Quotes
shAk espeare and Milton In Defence.
A woman author who refuses 20 be re-
gartied in the light OF an -ahronted female
and critic who il stickler for grammat-
ical technicalities have been maintaining
a highly interesting literary controversy
for the past few we eks. To show the crit
ical side first. the grammatical. sticking
side. an excerpt from the Literary d.
gesf OF October 1, 1910. is quoted:
Now, in honesty said Carlyle to Rich
ard Mines, what is the use OF putting
your accusative before the verb. and
otherwise changing the syntax: il
there really il an image OF any object.
thought or anything within you. for Gods
sake let me have 1t in the shortest way
and will So cheerfully excuse the omission
Of the Jingle at the end
The best part Of this typical bit Of Car
lyle's scolding applies directly TO Loves
Coming print ell in the current Hrrpsrs.
Such grammatical diversions and errors
an the to learn. tine To teach would have
been better. my pillow he. not know
ing hun who he. did he bring. are simply
signs Of ignorance or sloveDline-s Yet.
il we assay these twisted lines for poetry.
We can find a few grains OF gold And
the bone of contention il quoted:
LoNE's COMING.
By Awhile TsOt BFTsNOY
I.
When / was young. and wanton. wide eyed
LII.
r.ss.d m. from sleeping. Love himself did
come
| Me to console and learn tn dream awake.
vim heavenly TOYS my pillow he bestre~ed.
! Gifts Of Dame Venus IN his bzbyhood
The Iitti. mirror that had held her face
! A goI,Is, -ho. that Pegasus had cast;
one OF her doves bright plurne-; an iTised
edge
Brok. from the she'll she iay in at her birth.
A roe Kissed open by immortal lips.
| All night with the prstty baubles played.
i Then asked hts name. not showing who he
4 am First Love. auoth he. and straight
way fed.
Youth with First Love was gone and Life
asleep.
But lay wak.ful. lonely even for dreams.
When on. came suddenly. like a serving
! King
And xmoothed my pillow. Wonderful his
| ewes
As winter waters tina. enfold a star.
No baunle- did hs br,ng nor any rose.
But for a -cepir- held n branch Of thorns
Thick studded as with rubie-. Trembling
Kind lord. 1 questioned. who art thou in
I truth
! Then did he bond his sceptre 10 my brsas, /:
/ 4 am Last love. he said. and I remain.
For tbs. harsh critic who called Carlyle
to his aid the poet had literary gods OF
her own To line mp on her side. without
los- Of time in three days IN fact. a com
munica ton found lts way from Castle.
Hill which - on. of the modern haunts
Of the MUSES. situated at Gotham, Abe
marie county. Na.-to the haunts 81 the
CarlyIe devotee with shafts from Shake
speare and from Milton. This communica-
ton said
When n paper of the standing OF the
| Lifsrcry Digest accuses an author Of 'ig-
noranc.' and 'slov-nline~-' IL should. I
think. in fairness and from sense Of
justic. publish that authors words 81
, self defence.
The verses. Loves Coming. in Hdr-
p.r's for Sept .fnb-r. are frankly written
IN, archaic Style ! did not say me to
teach which you stat. would have been
better than M. 10 learn for two reasons
first that learn was Used az an active
verb IN the age 81 that style which had
i adopted: second. becla,i-. the word teach
In harsh and Bl-o repeats exactly the
vowel sound IN the word me A for
INV Authority for using learn az a transit
NV. verb. the first quota ton which comes
la me II from The Tempest. J.. ?. $50:
The red Dls gu- red VOL
For learning me your language.
As for the inventions used by me in
loves Coming. they are also accurately
in the style which had chosen to adopt
inntanc. ~ what il called tn. supple
nebtary pronoun.
As AN example Of inversion I have
example from Milton which shall now
quote
Such resting found the sole
Of I'M I.-t feet. Him followed his next
| Mate.
| PHTJdtsS Lost y. go
with all, Difference. I would suggest
that courtesy IL always "A gracious and
| an easy thing 10 practise and that before
accusing a W ritter 81 ignorance and sloven-
illness The critic would do well 10 inform
himself thoroughly upon tha subject Of
which hs undertakes 10 write
! The critic. the aitacker now turned
beslagad after waiting two months 10
search through his CARLYLE only in vain
Under date ~ Derernher 10 thT,Is, back
The uss Of the words ignorance and