New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-28

oboice with every available postal Ill
roctory and strike out from his nst Oh
insanity or mixed characters every
name that he finds there; and even 'he"
he may not he safe. for not every po-
,ontial subject Of libel Is necessarily
~ he found in a directory OF names
The best names used by Dickens, we are
reminded here. were all real names
The law of libel had not in those DAYS
heen stretched to its present dimensions.
Dickens in the most audacious way lie
his characters even from the bencn, rs
wanted a magistrate for oliver iWlsC
So what he did was to change an II mo an
= and then 10 sit In court and sketch MI
Fang from his worship; ar, Lalns' ,sus as
if were. brought up before the noveiist. anu
the novelist went off scot-free happS
DAYS Dickens certainly sometimes menS
TOO far. He himself regretted in after years
having made Harold Skimpole too nluch
The Image If his old friend Leigh hunt.
IIoUever i'm these cases he dissembied the
name But what might nave nappenso
he had been living in these days. ana ms
names for imaginary characters mao 10y tne
long arm Of coincidence found ideniinaoie
doubles in real life? Some one shouin now SN.
prepare a complete list OF real hanles LOT
noyelists Ia use as an Index Expurga-
torius.
In the current number of The North
American Review" there Is an article
by James Raymond Perry on The Poe
fry of Lincoln" While not asserting
that Lincoln consciously cast any part
of his prose addresses into metrical
form. Mr.. Perry nevertheless believes
that the careful observer will discover
whole lines. perhaps a succession OF
lines. in the iambic pentameter form
like the blank verse Of Shakespeare ana
Milton" The careful observer may test
the point by reading the Gettysburg adj
dress in this form:
Fourscore and seven years ago
Our fathers brought forth upon this con-
tinent
A new nation conceived in liberty,
And dedicated TO the proposition
That all men are created equal
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
Testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated
Can long endure. We are met
On a great battlefield of that war
We have come to dedicate a portion OF
That field as "A final resting place
For those who here gave their lives
That that nation might live.
II is altogether fitting and proper
That we should do this.
But i'm larger sense
We cannot dedicate. we cannot consecrate,
We cannot halOw this ground. The brave
men,
Living and dead who struggled here.
Have consecrated II far above our power
To add or detract. The world will little
note
Nor long remember what we say here.
But il can never forget what they did here.
II is for us. the living. rather. to be dedi-
Gated here
To the unfinished work which they VINO
fought here
Have thus far so nobly advanced.
II is rather for us to be here dedicated
To the great task remaining before us
That from these honored dead we take
Increased devotion to that cause for which
They gave the last fun measure OF devo-
That we here highly resolve that these
Shall not have died in vain. that this ma
ton,
Under God. shall have a new birth Of free
dom.
And that government Of the people,
BY the people, and for the people,
Shall not perish from the earth.
4 revised and enlarged edition of Pro-
fessor c. NJ Gayley's book, The Classic
Myths in English Literature and in Art"
is announced by CHM e. Co. Among
other additions is an outline of Wag-
ner's version Of the Ring of the Nibe-