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DIG A LITTLE DEEPER.

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Touch Not With Dark Regret
His Perfect Fame" Sang Glider

the old speculations in regard TO what
he might have done had he had the
time" he craved IL even the ten years
For ii cannot be denied that Keats laid
down his pen before he had brought
out the magnificent strength that was
In him.
He had in a remarkable degree the
faculty Of growth. A nature such as
his could never have showed retro
erosion. He was always eagerly go
ing forward. His lack of what we
might call spirituality was due TO
immaturity. In some natures, like
that of Keats, which at first have a
preponderance of sensibility to mere
material charm. spirituality is a plant
of slow growth. Keats would at last
have acknowledged the supremacy of
the spiritual Some time before his
death we notice in many of his let
tiers foreshadowings of this fine and
vigorous spiritual growth. This would
of course have given greater depth
and scope to his work. In 1918 he
wrote: Nothing is finer for the pur-
poses of great productions than a very
gradual ripening of the intellectual
powers" And in another letter writ
ten about the same time occur those
famous words about the different
chambers through which the human
spirit passes in Its eternal progress.
In speaking of Wordsworth's "Tintern
Abbey" Keats said that the point to
which Wordsworth had come in that
poem would. if he himself lived, also
be reached by him.
1t may seem paradoXical, but we
find in the limitations Of Keatss poetry
the proof that he was but In the first
period of the development of his strik-
ingly original genius. His poetry as 1t
stands Is rich in its Interpretation Of
nature, IN ,ts perception of enchanting
forms. In It's vivid picturesqueness its
mastery Of touch, it's impassioned fe-
icity of phrase in brief. it's unerring
Insight into the magic of words, into
he magic Of natural beauty, and its
unr.vai,ed powers Of linking to that
magic of words. that magic of natural
beauty. the expression of the inmos'
soul OF imaginative truth. But i
shows but faint grasp of the moral
earnestness which animates the poetry.
which has the strongest influence upon
the spirit of man. THE faculty OF
moral Interpretation" was, however
latent in his constitution of mind and
heart. indicated by many fugitive eX-
pressions in his early poems, by the
revelation in his letters of his char
acter, its warm human sympathy, its
high and serious aims. This faculty
was gradually being developed and
we notice a wonderful growth during
the last two years of his short life.
One of the last things he wrote was
THE Recast of Hyperion" The first
part is of great value as key to the
workings of the poets mind as he was
gradually coming to the conviction
that this knowledge-knowledge of
life of human nature, of the great
affairs of the world-was essential.
THE dreaming thing" he had been
was awake to full consciousness of
1.-The agonies. the strife of human
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Music of Keats Conquers a Century of Silence

blooming of the full flower of his
genius. To such a natural impulse
this poem of Richard Watson Glider
is a rebuke:
Touch not with dark regret his perfect
fame,
Signing Had he but lived he had
done so;'
or. Were his heart not eaten out
John Keats had won prouder. might
Ter name"
Take him for what he was and did
nor blame
Blind fate for all he suffered. Thou
shouldst know
Souls such as his escape no mortal
blow
No agony of Joy. or sorrow. or shame!
Whose name was writ in water"
What large laughter
Among the immortals when that word
was brought!
Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming
after,
High towards the topmost heaven OF
heavens upcaught,
"All hall! Our younger brotherW
Shakespeare said.
And Dante nodded his imperial head.
rake MIN Ior what ne was anu uiu.
Gladly, gratefully we so take him
take from his eager, outstretched
hands the beneficent gift of his poetry
which as he died he left as an immor-
tai legacy to enrich and beautify and
inspire the world. Even with all his
lmperfections and immaturities he Is,
as Colvin justly says, the most Shake
spearian spirit that has lived since
Shakespeare.
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hearts" which, he had told himself in
the early poem, sleep and Poetry"
would ultimately be his theme.
That man, even more than the nat
ural beauty that had enthralled the
young poet, was already engaging his
thoughts Is proved by his writing
"Otho" with his friend Brown, ana
his own mastery dramatic fragment,
King Stephen" His dramatic criti-
cisms show insight into character and
discriminating analysis as we'll as
style. Then how charming is The
sentence written in one of the letters
to Bailey: Il like, love England-I
like its living men. Scenery Is
fine. but human nature is finer the
sward is richer for the tread of a
real nervous English foot; the eagles
nest is finer for the mountaineer hav-
ing looked into it,"
Note how clear was his vision into
the agony of human hearts, when after
a visit to the house of Burns he wrote:
His misery is a dead weight on the
nimbleness of ones quill l tried to
forget it it won't do. We
can see horribly clear N the works of
such a man his whole life. as if we
were Gods SPIES
In the work of Keats we see not
a whole life' but beginning 1t is
fair to assume that if years and health
had been granted he would have re-
vealed an even greater mastery than
that which he demonstrated. 1t is in
evitable that we should feel some dark
regrets for a life arrested before the
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Riley Is a Popular Poet at Yale

a national figure. In Beers's volume
on American literature he stated that
Riley had become a national poet and
indicated that he had taken the place
left vacant by Longfellow. This was
a good many years ago. long before
DR.. Phelps in an article in the indie
pendent suggested to the American
Academy that Riley should be elected
to membership. And he was elected
and not long after the Institute gave
him the gold medal for having done
the best contemporary work in original
pc .ry.
When Riley died. in 1916, there were
many who said that with the passing
of his remarkable personality the
popularity Of his poetry would pass
also. But this has not been the case:
on the contrary. 1t has been stated
recently. and on excellent authority,
that the demand for his books has in
creased each year since his death, II
Is apparently with the public as 1t Is
with DR.. Phelps, who said with much
feeling, Jim Riley seems more alive
TO me every day / live"
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TN talking of American poets re-
Gently, DR.. William Lyon Phelps
= said that he had never had any
difficulty in interesting his classes In
James Whitcomb Riley. and that his
courses had included the work of the
Hoosier poet since 1897.
1t was DR.. Phelps who first sug-
pested to he Yale Corporation that
Riley receive a degree, and after the
ceremony DR.. Phelps was gratified to
hear Dean Henry p. Wright declare
that in his judgment Riley was the
greatest figure at the commencement.
'artainly he was the most popular,
Or Phelps added, for he received more
applause from the students than all
the other candidates for honorary de-
grees put together.
Yale has always had a warm place
in its scholastic heart for Riley. In
deed as DR.. Phelps recalled, 1t was
Prof. Henry A. Beers who. among
those recognized as speaking with au-
thority, first gave Riley position as
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
Charles Hanson Towne
From a portrait painted by Albert Steiner

Long Island, and though possibly life
had been fierce. she had certainly not
so far lived fiercely. Things were diff
'rent down here on the border OF
Mexico-Mexico. which, still to quote
the Bad Man. was the only free coun-
try in the world. "In Mexico re heart
leap! Re soul she is free! You can
do what you want-zat is, onless some
one shoot YOU"
But Lucia is not convinced, because,
hampered by that Long Island in
heritance, II seems to her awful that
any one should think as lightly OF
killing as does Pancho Lopez. the Bad
Man. you talk of killing in such a
matter-of-fact way" she complains
But Lopez explains that he kills only
men, evil men. And when kill evil
man 1t makes me very Apply. For |
ave did a good deed" he says with
simple kindness.
OF course the point about this de-
lightful Lopez is that he is really a
good man. II is the odd valuations of
cur so-called civilization that makes
him out bad. He is a bandit. a ronbe-
of banks. n killer OF men. Laws are
TO him good when they are those a
man makes for himself. as is the case
in his free Mexico. Not like New
York. where everybody tell you what
you cannot do till zere is nozzing left
what you want to do" But he is
sensible. generous. gallant. a fearless
fighter and a great lover. He kills
prisoners who have to be got out OF
the way. but he would die for his
friend.
II any one can read The Bad Man"
without becoming converted TO his
philosophy and without falling I'm love
with him. IL the reader be woman, or
envying Jones the charm and value
Of his friendship If he be man. we
miss our guess.
His story IS one that moves with
speed and that produces hlarity as
Vol as making converts He enters
the hook rather late. and when he
comes tho situation has become. thanks
a. The laws ana the customs or our day
and generation, a thoroughly muddIed
pud unhappy one. The villain of tho
plot, or rather the two, for the place
Is Arizona, and there's room for two in
that wide flung State, are having things
pretty much their own way. They are
pecved at each other. to be sure. but
the mortgage is going 10 one and the
delight Of torturing his wife to the
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Pessimists take notice: "Pollyanna
The Glad Book" has sold to date 400.
600 copies and Is still going strong
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By KENYON WEST.

TIME memory of John Keats the
man is as deathless as his
poetry and his letters-remark-
able letters which are scarcely less
famous than the poetry. From the
testimony of his friends who knew him
wen we realize that the man behind
the words" had strength and nobility
of character, a high honor the SIM
plicity OF true greatness, a genius for
friendship-and he never betrayed his
friends never broke a woman's heart
as some poets have done; an ardent,
burning energy of soul that throbs
and pulsates through all his work and
touches the soul of others as with
sparks of fire, and yet he possessed
that sanity of Judgment not often seen
in a temperament so purely poetical
as his. He was generous in his esti-
mates, loyal and sincere; showed dig
nifty and calm self-reliance under abuse
where 1t touched himself. but was
nobly capable of flaming indignation
at wrong and injustice done to others.
The worth and the charm of his ma
ture made him very lovable.
IF I recover" he wrote in his last
letter to Brown. IT will do all in my
power to correct the mistakes made
during sickness: and if I should not,
all my faults will be forgiven" The
fibre of his nature was essentially
strong He must be judgnf by the
days OF his brightness and his vitality.
not by the last sad days of suffering
and despair. Yet in those days he
showed courage, self-forgetfulness.
gratitude "Lovable and considerable
to the last" said Joseph Severn-the
perfect friend-''his generous concern
for me, in my isolated position at
Rome. was one of his greatest cares.
His response to kindness was ire
sistibly winning"
IF / should die" wrote Keats in
one of his letters to Fanny Brawne,
81 have left no immortal work be
hind me. nothing to make my friends
proud of my memory; but | have
loved the principle of beauty in all
things, and if I had had time | would
have made myself remembered
No immortal work behind him? How
he moderated his power! more
truthful self-estlmate had been given
when he had received In so manly and
dignified a spirit the malicious and
infamous attacks of the reviewers Of
"Endymion.'
This is a mere matter of the mo-
ment," he wrote Reynolds, Il think
/ shall be among the English poets
after my death
praise or blame has but mo-
mentary effect on the man whose love
of beauty in the abstract makes him
a severe critic on his own works.
I was never afraid Of failure,
for I would sooner fail than not be
among the greatest"
He did not fail. His fame is as
sured He is among the English poets
the greatest of them.
At this centennial of his tragic
death. when England and America are
paying fresh tribute to his genius, 1T
is inevitable that there should recur
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20

TIME memory of John Keats the
man is as deathless as his
= poetry and his letters-remark-
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other. The young and not quite de-
termined hero-for there are two
heroes also, as it happens-is in bad.
The girl he loves married to a brute
with millions, and his ranch foreclosed,
and just as oil is discovered on 1t. tool
And there Is of course nothing to be
done. Everything is within the law.
Or so it appears till the Bad Man
comes along.
With the help Of Uncle Henry. who
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ought to have another book all TO him.
self, the Bad Man Is put wise to the
whole situation. Now. IL happens that
Jones once saved Lopez's life. That
was when he was a simple peon, be-
fore he became soldado, wore brass
buttons and gold braid and very fine
sombrero, and was made colonel of a
regiment of free Mexicans. And Lopez
means to see to 1t that Jones gets all
he ought to have-the ranch. a few
thousand dollars to the good. and the
woman he loves.
For months now audiences in New
York have been seeing Just how Lopez
goes about a job of that sort. 1t has
become the thing for New York to
see. and roars of delight greet the en-
trancfng Bad Man and voice hearty
approval Of his ideas and methods
Now we have him appearing to a
larger public through this book, where
Mr.. Towne has succeeded In catching
his stirring personality and Joyful.
spirit, and In conveying the fascinat-
ing broken English of his speech. II
is no easy thing to turn a play into
novel. and to keep the movement and
vitality of the thing. to get the eduiva-
lent of the visual appeal into the pages
Of book. Mr. Towne had done this
difficult thing. He gives us the sun
and dust Of Arizona. the humor and
the swinging gesture of Pancho Lopez
He paints in past and a future. for
novel cannot begin nor yet end as
abruptly as can n play We are not
willing to take as much for granted
we want more elbow room. we have to
be told few things beyond those that
meet the eye.
This Is the book 10 take on trip,
10 spend rainy evening with 10 leave
on the guest room table for the re-
firing guest to stay awake over Read
ing II YOU agree with Lopez when, at
the close of the crowded day that sees
his activities on behalf OF Jones. he
departs. bowling. smiling. and remark
ing:
'Ees 'appy day for you. Ees Apply
day for 'er--ees Apply day for me-"
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Reviewed by
HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE.

did you ever know the JOY of fierce
leeving? Did your"
Lucia Pell. She has no reply to make.
most of her life had been spent on
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
A Good Bad Man

THE BAD MANLY Charles Hanson
Towne. Based on the Play by Porter
Emerson Browne G f. Putnam's
Sons
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-20

pack Up and leave It's a hard deal
says old Smoke-'em-out
Friend. says Andy. touching the
old man on the aesophagus. why this
jeremaid when the polar regions and
the portals OF Blenheim are conspir-
ing to hand you prosperity on hall
marked silver salver. We have ar
rived
"A light breaks out on Smoke
'em-out's face.
"'Can you do il. gents? he asks.
Gould ye do II? Could ye play the
polar man and the little duke Tor the
nice ladies' Will ye do it?'
Il see that Andy IS superimposed
with his old hankering for the oral
and polygot system OF buncoing. That
man had a vocabulary OF about TO-
600 words and synonyms. which ar
rayed themselves into contraband
sophistries and parallels when they
came out.
Listen says Andy 20 old Smoke
'em-out. Can we do it? You behold
before you. Mr. Smithers. two Of the
finest equipped men on earth for in
weighing the proletariat. whether by
word OF mouth, sleight-of- hand or
swiftness Of foot. Dukes come and
go. explorers go and get lost, but me
and Jeff Peters. says Andy. go after
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-20

the come-ons forever. If you say so,
we're the two illustrious guests you
were expecting. And you1l find says
Andy, that Wen give you the true
local color Of the title roles from
the aurora borealis TO the ducal port
cullis.
"OId Smoke em-out is delighted.
He takes me and Andy up to the inn
by an arm apiece, telling Us on the
way that the finest fruits Of the can
and luxuries OF the fast freights
should be ours without price as long
as we would stay.
"On the porch SmOke-'em-out
says: Ladies, I have the honor no
introduce His Gracefulness the Duke
of Marlborough and the famous in
ventor of the North Pole, Lieut.
Peary.
The skirts all flutter a nd the
rocking chairs squeak as me and
Andy bows and then goes on in with
old Smoke 'em-out TO register. And
then we washed up and turned our
cuffs, and the landlord took Us to
the rooms he'd been saving for US
and got out a demijOhn of North
Carolina real mountain dew
Il expected trouble when Andy be-
gan TO drink. He has the artistic
metempsychosis which is half drunk
when sober and looks down on air
ships when stimulated.
After lingering with the demi-
john me and Andy goes out on the
-, In -
TO earn our keep. We sit in two spe-
cial chairs and then the schoolma-
ANS and the literaterrers hunched
their rockers close around us.
"One lady says 10 me: How did
that last venture OF yours turn out,
sir?'
Now, I'd clean forgot to have an
understanding with Andy which
was 10 be, the duke or the lieuten-
question whether she was referring
to Arctic or matrimonial expedi-
tions. So l gave an answer that
would cover both cases.
We'll, ma am, says I, 1t was a
reeze-out-right smart of a freeze
out, ma'am.
And then the flood gates of
Andys perorations was opened and
I knew which one Of the renowned
ostensible guests I was supposed to
be. l wasn't either. Andy was both.
And still Furthermore it seemed he
was trying TO be the mouthpiece Of
the entire British nobility and OF
Arctic exploration from Sir John
Franklin down. 1t was the union
OF corn whiskey and the conscien-
tious ficuonal form that Mr.. w. ID.
Howletts admires so much.
Ladies, says Andy, smiling
emi-circularly. I am truly glad 10
visit America. I do not consider the
magma charta, says he, or gas ba-
looms or snow-shoes in any way a
detriment to the beauty and charm
OF your American women, sky-scrap-
ers or the architecture of your ice
bergs. The next time says Andy,
that I so after the north pole ali the
VanderbiIts IN Greenland won't be
CONTINUED on PAGE NINE)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-20
By O. Henry

laid eggs, golf. girls, garages. coo,-
ing breezes, straw rides, open
plumbing and tennis; and oil with
IN two hours ride.
80 me and Andy dumps the books
out the back window and packs our
trunk and takes the 9 o'clock Tor
toise Flyer for Crow Knob, a kind
of a dernier resort in the mountains
on the line Of Tennessee and North
Carolina.
we are directed TO a kind Of pri-
vate hotel called Woodchuck Inn.
and hither me and Andy bent and al
most broke our footsteps over the
rocks and stumps. The inn set back
from the road in a big grove OF
trees. and IL looked fine with its
broad porches and a lot OF women in
white dresses rocking in the shade.
The rest of Crow Knob was a postOf-
flee and some scenery set at an angle
/ of 20 degrees and a welkin.
We'll, sir. when we got 10 the gate
who do YOU suppose comes down the
walk TO greet us? Old Smoke en-
out Smithers, who used to be the
best open air painless dentist and
electric liver pad faker in the south
west
"OId Smoke em-out is dressed
Clerico-rural. and has the mingled
air of a landlord and a claim jumper.
Which aspect he corroborates by
, telling us that he is the host and
proprietor of Woodchuck inn. I in
Produces Andy and we talk about a
I few volatile topics. such as will go
Ground at meetings OF boards OF di-
rectors and old associates like US
three were. Old Smoke-'em-out leads
us into a kind OF summer house in
the yard near The gate and took up
the harp Of life and smote all the
chords with his mighty right
Gents. says he. I'm glad to see
YOU. Maybe you can help me out OF
I a Scrape. I'm getting a bit old for
street work. so I leased this dog
days emporium So the good things
would come 20 me. Two weeks be-
( fore the season opened 1 gets a letter
signed Lieut.. Peary and one from
the Duke OF Marlborough, each
wanting TO engage board for part OF
the summer.
Well. sir. YOU gents know what
IA big thing for an obscure holstery
i- would be 20 have for guests two
gentlemen whose names are famous
from Ions association with icebergs
and the Coburgs SO I prints a lot
+ of handbuIs announcing that Wood
chuck inn would shelter these dis
tiuguished boarders during the sum-
mer except in places where il leak
ed. and L sends 'em out TO towns
GROUND as far as Knoxville and Char
,otte and Fish Dam and Bowling
+ Green
And now look up there on the
porch. gents. says Smoke EN- out.
F at them disconsolate specimens OF
I the fair sex waiting for the arrival
of the duke and the lieutenant. The
house IS packed from rafters 70 cell
lar with hero worshippers.
" There's four normal school
/ teachers and two abnormal. there
I three high school graduates between
50 and AZ; there's two literary old
maids and one that can write: there 8
f "a couple az society women and a
lady from Haw River Two elocu-
i tionists are bunking in the corn crib.
and I've put cots IN the hay lofe
for the cook and society editress OF