Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-17
THE CHAFFZNG DISH

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chief need is for short sonnets." I do not
know the editors name, but here's to him
A poet should be stadious to please;
SO here TO gou, nnknOtcn, ! dedicate
The noUelty that you haze asked of late,
A sonnet to be read toith jopful case,
Shorn of half its ferrors. Whats its tatef
Perhaps you'd like nine lines in groups of
hrecs'
I'd like to make it strictly up to dGtc.
MARGARET WENTWORTH.
The above reminds us of the only published
poem, SO far as we are aware, of our friend
Russell Loines. He wrote It way back about
'94, when he was an undergrad at Columbia,
and it runs something like this:
On a Magazine Sonnet
Scorn not the sonnet, though its strength be
sapped,
Nor deem malignant its inventor blum
dered:
The corpse that here in fourteen lines is
wrapped
Had else been buried in hundred
We have been reading 1.-THE Voyage of
Vice Chancellor" in which DIR. Arthur
Shipley, the vice chancellor of Cambridge
trip of the British universities mission TO this
country last year. In this we find
October 10, 1918: Motored to the studio
of TAFT Mackenzie, whose sculptures go
from strength to strength. He is modelling
a group of men going over the top, the
finest war memorial i have yet seen
Doctor Mackenzie is a modest man and
he will probably scowl at us for this, but we
can't resist saying that his recent medallion
of Walt Whitman is the finest thing ever
done of that rugged old pagan, and copy
of it makes the best Christmas present we
know for the few Philadelphians who really
care about the fine and original work that is
being done in this city. A committee has
had some copies Of the medal struck off, and
the proceeds of the sale are to be used for
some kind of memorial to Walt.
What Doctor Shipley says about TAFT
Mackenzie is wholly true, but we wish the
learned doctor had been more careful In some
other portions of his book. Nothing leads
one to a more complete dfidence in human
accuracy than the comments on American
life made by our English friends on their
hustling visits to this more leisurely land.
Doctor Shipley, for instance, says:
A class is very important factor In
American university life II you mention
you are graduate in one Of their institu-
and the class dates from the year when YOU
enter college
How that ever got by the proofreader Of
the American publisher is beyond us.
The oldest joke in Anglo Saxon circles Is
leveled at the American traveller who dashes
around England, spending three hours IL Ok
| ford and Cambridge, an hour at Stratford
and Chester and day in London, but our
| English pals do the same over here, and
then i'll addition they write book about it.
| We have had the privilege of saying this to
Mr.. Galsworthy, Philip Gibbs, Hugh Wal
pole and others, and Mr.. Walpole has gone
| SO far as to say that he will be careful not
| to have his book about America published
in this country.
The truth of the matter really is that
| the English are the real hustlers We
| over here are far more pensve aud dilatory
! in our ways. The old fetish of American
| speed has done us lot of harm. The Eng
| lishman comes over here imagining that il
be doesn't fly about furiously he will be
deemed dead one. AS a matter of fact,
we would like to have him spend little more
time with us, sit down quietly and see the
things that are worth while and talk them
over. This is an old old country, and il
| doesn't like TO be hurried too much. Think,
for instance, of the peace treaty
SOCRATES.