The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-08
az ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Louise SiChIOy bOyu, " muse pOcSAu-
nous volume OF verse was issued
yesterday through the Nicholson
Press, of this city, was a striking Per
sonality, and a poetic writer of con-
sideration, her product having appear
ed in many of the leading magazines
of her day.
She died two years ago at an ad-
vanced age.
For many years she was resident
of this county, in Dublin, although an
Eastern woman, having married DR..
S. S. Boyd of the latter town and COM
ing at once to Indiana, with whose lit
erary interests she was long identified.
The writer was made by Mrs. Boyd
her literary executor and the former
has edited the volume of verse which
contains that part of Mrs. Boyd's pro-
duct which she deemed worthy OF
preservation in book form, many of
her poems having been published in
such we'll known periodicals as the
Atlantic Monthly, the Century. Serb
ner's. Country Life in America, Har-
per's Young People, Wide Awake, and,
at an early period in the knickerbock-
er Magazine. Appleton's Journal and
other magazines of like calibre.
In the preface it is said of Mrs.
Boyd:
Louise Vickroy Boyd was alien to
her environment and to her day.
For her setting she should have
had an eighteenth century or mid-Vic-
| torian salon. She was remarkable,
virile, picturesque human manifesto
ton She possessed the true poetic
spirit Hers was an imprisoned ma
| ture She was swayed by subtle emo
tons. The loftiest sentiment found in
her an instant appeal.
''Anachronistic as was the combina-
ton of her masculine Intellectually
with her thorough-going femininity.
this was not. altogether, the cause of
the misunderstanding that frequently
attended her, which was more to be at
tributed to her native cosmopolitanism
and catholicity among the insular.
"A delightful menage was that OF
DR.. and Mrs. Boyd in Dublin. One of
trimming hospitality and much good
talk, for DR.. Boyd's geniality and fine
| literary sense, his love of nature and
humorously whimsical outlook, admir-.
ably complemented Mrs. Boyd's poetic
gifts, her erVdition constantly in evil
dence, and her forceful and erratic ut
| terances.
Zone of the earliest opponents OF
votes for women" she was identified
with the leaders of the suffrage move
ment conspicuous in her prime.
! AN advocate of many of the broad
est tenets of Socialism, she had long
correspondence with William Morris
who sent her his autographed photo
graphed
! Not alone in her attitude toward
the great social movements just nam
ed, to whose adherence at that time il
took much high-born courage, but il
her prescience toward the more ad
vanced thought of her later years, was
Mrs. Boyd 'attuned."
The volume is a handsome one
bound in green cloth, with an introduc
ton by Grace Julian Clarke, as wei
as the preface just quoted from, which
gives the facts of her life and the his
tory OF her literary acnleVementS. Il
is printed on deckle-edged paper anC
has a pictorial frontis-piece of Mrs
Boyd.
Here is Mrs. Boyds definition Of
poetry:
Once Echo showed to me her gen
tie face,
And once a Shadow spoke swee
words to me,
Then Shadow-music married Echo
Grace,
And 10! their fairer child was Poet
ic.
OF all the spectacles of puerilit!
commend the multitude to the DR.