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AMELIE EIYES IS NAMED
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Who Thinks
p Woman Deserves the Honor.
OTHER CAKDIDATES MEKTIONED.
Some Authors I eok at the Hatter From a
Humorous standpoint
A GREAT D1TERS1TI IN THE OPINIONS
It having been suggested, apropos ol the
wrrent discussion regarding the succession
to the EngliBh poet laureateship, that
America should also hare a poet laureate, a
number of leading poets and authors were
recently invited to give their views on this
fubject. Their answers follow and will be
found both pertinent and timelv. It will
be noted that Holipes, Stedman and one or
Bret ffarte.
two other leading poets have refrained from
an expression of their oninions, but when it
is observed that they arc all prominent can
didates for the laureateship their modesty
will be understood.
Euros E. "Wilson.
Does Not Favor tho Idea.
I take only a general interest in the mat
ter of an American poet laureateship and
do not wish to stand in opposition to any
poet who has a chance of being selected, if
the question of an appointment should be
seriously considered, but my own preju
dices are opposed to such an imitation of
monarchic institutions.
P. Marion Cea-ktoed.
Robert 'U'.Criiirell TVonld Discourage Poets.
It re are to have English iree trade, let
It go st that without aping the English ens-tom-of
a poet laureate, a government office
of even less use than a civil service commis
sioner. The Greeks, who originated the
idea of an official poet, gave it up several
centuries ago and are all the better for it.
We can see why an esthetic and sentimental
people like the old Greeks should wish to
Include a poet in their civil list, but there
is no reason why a practical people like the
English and Americans should toWratenc
What we want to do in America particu
larly is to discourase poets instead of en
couraging them. Editors have been doing
this for sometime by throwing them down
stairs; but the general public ought to as
sist. The poet Cinna narrowly escaped be
ing torn to nieces for his bad verses, andyet
Cinna was a better poet than some who ect
into the magazines to-day. Just tt this
critical time I would suggest that we keep
extremely shadv on the laureateship ques
tion. If President Cleveland were to
crown a poet, it would probablv be hi)
lonlfnl friend, Bichard Watson Gilder, and
I do not think Mr. Gilder is much of a
poet. Irdeed, his appointment would likely
result in an uprising and overthrow of the
government.
EOBEKT W. CRISWELIi,
(Author of "TheKew Shakespeare.")
LllUe DeverCnx Blake Says "Certainly Not."
A poet laureate in this country? Why,
certainly not! We no more need a laureate
here than we do a court jester. Such-an in
stitution belongs only to a monarchy, -and
an ancient one at that it ought to be as ob
solete as the office of the strolling minstrel
or the Scotch harper. What would a
laureate do here? Chant the praises of
"Baby McKee" or sing sonnets to Mrs.
Cleveland? Would he set the McKinley
bill to music, or turn the President's mes
sage into verse?
Only to imagine one of our great poets as
an appointed and paid laureate is to de
grade him in thought. But the people, oh
res, the people have had many laureates!
How the gifted ones of our land have tuned
their It res at the right moment, to embody
in sublime poems the hope, the fears, the
passions and the victories of the Union.
Longfellow, Whittier, Mrs. Howe they
bare written the burning words that have
phr&seil the struggles, the aspirations and
the trinmphs of ttbe nation. There is but
one man who dercrvrs the title of the na
tion's poet laureate to-day Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Gentle scholar, keen wit, exqui
aiU versifier, he is the people's laureate;
but to think of him as a paid official is to
deface the dear im e of the loyal and be
loved poet. Ltllte Detebeux Blake.
Ho Living Poet Worthy of the Honor.
Begirding a poet laureateship in Amer
ica, I would say that I do not see how such
an office could be created or maintained in
this country, unless it was merely an hon
orary title. The laureateship is created by
the crown of England, and was said to have
originated In the reign of Edward IV. I
hardly think the Government of the United
States would recognize any necesstty for
such an office. In the Society of Amateur
Journalists it has been for some time the
custom to choose by competition a poet
laureate every year." On this plan au or
ganized literary society might elect a per
manent laureate. In rar opinion there is
no living poet in America whose genius is
broad coougb and deep enough to fill the
office. Either Longfellow or Poe in the
past would have been worthy of the laurel.
But if America must have a poet laureate,
I would suggest Thomas Bailey Aldrlch as
"best fitted to wear the honor.
Mixxa Ievixg,
Oliver Wendell Holmes the "World's Poet
Our laureate must be Is already Oliver
Wendell ITolmes. He is, to-Jir, not only
-the American poet, but the world's poet.
Who now alive, in any land, "can compare
with him To' poetic imagery, for melliflu
ous versification, for elevated and elevating
thought, for pure sentiment, for philan
thropic and patriotic ferror, above nil, ior
txquisiitj wit aflStfhttVt. Wirialnjftmtsior?'
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His "Chambered Nautilus" excels Keats'
"Skylark," and (at the other end of the
line) ' his "One - Hoss - Shay'" surpasses
Hood's 'Tale of a Trumpet"
The" day of long-windedness has gone by.
This is the era of brevity condensation.
The flash of sunlight on a sensitive plate
has taken the place or the laborious work of
the burin on steel.
Let us crown our beloved Dr. Holmes,
and do it quicblv, while we can offer the
laurel with a smile, for the sad day ap
proaches when we must bestow it wet with
our tears. Joseph Ktrkxakp.
Julian K&lpn, Favors Engone Field.
I bad never given a thought to the possi
bility of America's having a poet laureate,
but an instance's reflection convinces me that
I am for having one as quickly as possible.
The mab for the honor is Eugene Field, of
Chicago the most American, the most
gifted and versatile of our poets, and a
royal a fellow as ever put laurels on a poet's
brow.
Jtjuait Bat.ph.
Let Each Man Choose His OwnLsnreate.
My impression is that we have borrowed
enough oi snobbery from onr friends across
the water, stnd can afford to let every Amer
ican poet, who is worthy, rest content with
the bay-leaves of the public opinion of a
people who are the greatest on earth, when
they let flunkeydom alone. Such an office
is proper in Englaqd, where every math
owes duty' and allegiance to his sovereign.
We live in a republic; each,mao, is a sover
eign. Let each man's heart choose and
crown his own laureate, who shall' be bis
friend, his guide, his helper not hisOlym
pian butler. In heaven's name while we
are passing law to keep out articles of for
eign manufacture, let ns place the tariff
high upon offices that to us would mean
nothing. HENRY a DeMille.
Inappropriate, if Not Impossible.
To my mind it would be manifestly inap
propriate, if not impossible, for America to
sustain a poet laureateship. Our literature
is far too young for the crowning of any
poet with such an honor, and when we are
a hundred or two years older it maybe
wise to consider the wisdom of suoh a
course. By that time England will have,
in all probability, dispensed with her poet
laureateship and her example will be a very
good one for America to follow.
Edwabq W? Bok.
Another Vote for Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Begarding a poet laureateship for Amer
ica, I have not given the question much
thought, but it would seem as if we were
too democratic in our tendencies to make
the appointment of anyone to such a posi
tion advisable. Bnt were any one oi our
American poets to be made poet laureate,
my vote would be cast for Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Ebex E. BexforD.
The "Views of Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
I do not think America now possesses a
living poet who has written enough great
poems to merit a laureateship.
The grandest poem in literary construc
tion and richness of language written by
any American poet is, to my thinking,
"Herod and Miriamne," by Amelie Bives
It is the creation of great genius a
genius yet in its early dawn. If it is not
crashed by the bludgeons of the mob, It
should in 16 years' time fit this author ior
the crown of laureateship. t
I do not say this because she is a woman I
Indeed, my preference in ail things is to
see men lead. Had a man writteh."Herod
and Miriamne," to him wonld I accord the
same praise. 'But I know of no other Amer
ican poet, living or dead, who has so nearly
approached the Shakesperian standard! no
other poem so rich with remarkable' and
universal lines of beauty.
Ella Wheelee Wilcox.
An Admirer ot Joaquin Miller.
In regard to the American laureateship:
If it were to be given to the only American
who has ever possessed the true poetic fire,
who has ever crossed the border-line be
tween high talent and genius, I should
recommend Joaquin Miller. It is true that
he has done more bad work than good; that
his best is suggestive of jewels in a dust
heap, yet the divine gift goes for more than
the exquisite art of the mediocrities.
.Following Joaquin Miller, it seems to
me that the American poet who possesses
the most dramatic fire and imagination is
Helen Gray Cone. And of course her art is
more even. But neither she nor any con
temporary poet of any land has given to
letters a finer or nobler poem than Miller's
"Passing of Tennyson."
Gertbude Atheeton.
No Man Worthy of the Office.
If America is to have a laureate he should
be a man who is lull of true American spirit
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Jbme WJiltcomb RiXey.
and destitute of buncombe. Some uncon
scious pupil of James Russell Lowell wonld
fill the bill I wish he would anpenr in
print John Habbeeton;
- J. TV. Itilejr the Man for Poet Laureate.
By all means let us have an American
poet laureate! It is precious little that any
Government can or will do to give encour
agement to literature; and if we are ever
going to begin, now is the time. Why Gov
ernment, and especially this Government,
should not give out of the half billion dol
lars spent every year, and often question
ably spent, some little gratuity to encour
age literature in its higher grades, is, a
puzzling question. Greece, Borne, England,
Germany, Spain and Italy have had their
writers thus rewarded. France has her
Academy, and the "Forty Immortals," cer
tainly reflect credit upon the country, quite
as much as her soldiers, artists, scientific
men or inventors, and much more than her
politicians. Ever since -Dr. Johnson, the
ursa-rnsjor jof English literature, refused
the "patronage" that had been retused him
when he was struggling v the garret of
Grubb street, and was now offered him,
there bas been urgent needier assistance to
struggling authors.
But it vrjll b suggested that this is not
given as a charity but as a gratuity, from a
rich nation to a poet wjio has done it
honor. True enough, but the recognition
nf literature bv a nation which is bestow
ing S15tf,O0O,OOO per year on sick and lame
soldier, suggests that oftentimes poets too
have lame "feet and march with halting
step and have, mostiof them, been engaged
in a struggle for brd aqd social recog
nition, quite as tryingfesthat Of the soldier.
The small portion whilb. might be granted
iroth (he salaries-Of trl tbfaSsaMs 'or'waird-.
ccicr, poimcjani gsjt. jj;uwiattnw,mHo
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have forced their way into pnblie life
through saloon influence," and over the
beads of worthv men, and whose unworthy
names fill the plethoric pages of the Gov
ernment reports, wonld not be missed. A
blush comes over the cheek of a true Ameri
can when he remembers poor Poe, button
ing his coat up, as he handed in his MS.,
to bide the lack, of an undergarment; or
Balleck, he ot "Fanny" and "Marco Boz-
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
zaris," clerk of Astor, the millionaire,
wearing away time at the desk like, another
Lamb, on a salary that a clerk nowadays
would not look at
We have hundreds of rich publishers,
manv of them mounting up into the rank of
millionaires, but few poets who can call
themselves free from financial embarrass
ment Government recognition of poetry
as the highest art? By all means
But do not think of allowing the poet
laureate to be chosen by the public elec
tion, or it would be decided bj; his being a
Democrat or a Republican, while aPeople's
party man or a Prohibitionist would not
stand a ghost ot a chance. Neither .should
he be chosen by Congress, which has blun
dered so in its taste in art whenever it has
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attempted a choice. Of course it could not
be a woman, because, not being a voter, she
would have no "pnlL" Let him, therefore,
be chosen by a vote of the authors of the
United States, aided by the college pro
fessors aud professional readers.
As to individual choice, I might choose
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, the twlllght-lovine
Eugene Field, the glpsy-tongued Cnarles
G. Leland, or the finished and fortunate
Bret Harte. Then comes a shoal of sweet
singers, full of promise", certainly as much
so as "School-Miss Alfred" was when
Bulwer attacked Tcnnyjon. It is nurd
picking, but two come so near that "were
t'other denr charmer awny," we could be
content with the choice Edmund Clarence
Stedman and James WhitcombBlley. Those
glorious Ivrics of "Pan In Wall Street"
and "Phil Kearney's Bide" entitle Sted
man to precedence In the contest over all
that I have named; but the manner In which
the Hoosier poet gets close to nature's
heart, and human nature's too, and the rare
dramatic quality that shines out in many of
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Annie" and that rarest study, "Gladness,"
quite capture my sympathies. By all
means let us hare a poet laaresKe and let
the State show some appreciation of litera
ture, pure and simple, and so reflect credit
on itsdf. WlET ABLAKIX
Edgar Fawcett Favors tho Idea.
It teems to me that an American poet
laureateship would be an office in every
way consistent with our democratic usages,
while at the tame time hinting most whole
somely and handsomely of that great .lit
erary and testhetic debt which we owe to
the mother country. There it nothing
monarchial, however, in snch an idea, and
it might well be made one of the crowning
graces of a mighty Bepublio like our own.
Of all onr living singers, I should say,
Oliver Wendell Holmes first deserves the
honor. Like Horace the laurigerHoratiut
whom in many ways he resembles, Dr.
Holmes has always been the prince of "oc
casional" poets. In his noble and sweet
old age the gift would be a glorious one,
and from my heart I wish that his white
hairs might be crowned with such a civic
wreath, gathered from the bay-bushes that
thrive so hardilramong the dells and glades
of his own dear New England hills.
Edgar Fawcett.
The Office an Odious One.
I do not see that anything is gained by
the laureation of a poet; a true poet honors
the lanreateship; the laurel adds nothing to
his art Now that patent medicines' and
rival soaps have each a poet laureate the
office has become odious. Poems written
to order are seldom worth printing.
Charles Wabhex Stoddard.
Should the Honor Go to Stoddard?
Any step which tends toward the social
and literary elevation of a man, indirectly
affects the social and literary elevation of a
community. The appointment of a poet
laureate in this country wonld tend, to rouse
an interest in versified literary work, which
is. to a great extent, on the decrease. In
111 matters of national interest, the poet
laureate's metrical views would be looked
ror expectantly. In fact, scores of
aeasons can be found in favor
of such an appointment to coun
terbalance whatever objections might
arise. It seems to- me that there are but
two men left from the grand old group of
which Brvant, Longfellow, Lowell and
Whittfer were representatives, and these
are Holmes and Stoddard1. While granting
to Holmes all the sweetness and humor
which is his due, Stodilard surely bears the
palm of vividness of conception, dignity of
thought and fluency ot expression. He is
the master of tho ode and yet is possessed
of that ver&tility which make it possible
for him to voice, in lyriosong, the warbling
ot a bird or the sigh of a lovor. The people
Jt this country, it seems " to me, have not
realized how true a singer this man has
been, and even at this late day to lay the
laurel of the laureateship upon his silver
hair, would be an honor to those who gave,
as v ell as to him who should receive.
James Clarence Harvey.
Grover Cleveland and Edward IV.
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date and not worth thought Any great
national event makes our whole country
break out into song. There are laureates
of average capacity in every community.
The magazines and newspapers select, pay
for and preserve the best of their effusions.
Wb.y then should the Government worrv
about a laureate? Edward IV. found one
an advantage; Grover Cleveland would
consider one a bore. It is a long cry be
tween Edward IY. and Grover Cleveland.
We might, I was going to say, have a poet
censor, but a moment's reflection shows
this office to be still more unneces ary.
Are we not blessed with the illustrated
newspapers, and do they not kindly show
us every week.our most obvious shortcom
ings? ' Amelia E. Barb.
Thomas W. Knox Would Voto for Stedman.
"Under our system of government, the ap
pointment of a poet laureate would most
probably be made on political grounds and
the poet who could bring the greatest
amount of influence would seenre the honor,
provided, of course, his views upon the
tariff and other great questions were in ac
cord with those of the ruling powers. The
poet laureate of the United States shonld
be subject to change, like the postmaster or
collector of customs, in order to avoid dis
agreeable contingencies. It would be mani
festly awkward for a Harrison appointee to
write a Cleveland panegyric, or vice versa,
and a rank free-trader could not be trusted
to compose an ode to protection, even
though he might be willing to write
its obituary. On the whole, I don't think
it practicable to have an official poet lau
reate in America. But if we are to have
one, I should vote for Stedman, who cer
tainly stands in the' foremost rank of
American poets, is a genial and most agree
able gentleman, aud belongs to the same
political party that Ida
Thomas W. Knox.
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reason for the existence of a poet laureate,
either in America or in any other country.
Even if it were desirable to have a" poet
laureate in this country, there is tfo practic
able method Of selecting him. The great
poet has no advertisement upon his fore
head announcing his genics-to the world.
In the absence of this announcement, to
what official shall be giTen the responsibil
ity of selecting the laureate? The kings
and the prime ministers of England, with
one or two recent exceptions, have made
wretched selections to England's laureate
ihip. Is it probable that American Presi
dents wonld do much better? It wonld be
more in consonance with our institutions to
have our laureate elected by a popular
Tote. But it is not probable that the great
est poet would be uniformly selected in
this manner, for popular estimate, in this
respect, is seldom sanctioned by posterity
the infallible court of final resort Though
It is desirable that American poetry should
be encouraged as much, for instance, as
American steamships, or American sugar,
or American tin, the laureateship trans
planted into American toil, I fear, would
not accomplish this purpose.
Sam Waltee Foss.
The Honor Shonld Bo Conferred on Holmes.
I see ho reason for institntlng an official
poet, but manifestly Dr. Oliver Wendell
Edmund C Stedman.
Holmes should have the honor if it were
to be conferred Upon anyone.
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THE HOUSE AS
FINE FURNITURE.
PRESENT- OPPORTUNITIES -IN
IT
WE NEVER EXCELLED
FURNITDRE
FOR THE BEDROOM.
The Bedroom of to-day is something more
than a bare room in which, to sleep. Mod
ern styles of Furniture have transformed it
into a pleasant, home-like, inviting chamber.
Our stock of Bedroom Sets furnishes a
splendid illustration of what we mean. From
the cheapest to the finest set there is a
touch of art that while it doesn't add much
to the cost, adds a good deal to the value of
the article offered.-
Durability, too; is maintained. No shod
dy, imperfect or poorly-made goods at any
price. The assortment to choose from is
immense:
MERE SUGGESTIONS.
Book Cases, . Ladies' Desks,
Lamps, , Cabinets,
Fancy Chairs, , Pedestals,
923', 925, 927
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