Life — March 31, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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THOUGHTS FROM THE POETS ON SPRING. Thomson, OME, gentle spring! Ethereal mildness, come And send brutal winter, material wildness, home. Fair-handed spring unbosoms every grace When horny-fisted winter is tumbled off his base. Goldsmith. Winter, lingering, chills the lap of May. So winter do not linger ; get away. Lucy Larcom. ‘The peach bud glows, the wild bee hums, ‘The oyster loses caste and the cucumber cumbs. Herbert, Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, And showers and thunder and colds in our noses. * * * ARPER & BROTHERS have just published a book entitled “Baldine.” We hope it is not an elaborate advertisement of some newly discovered hair restorer. * * * E have reached the season when the young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, and the young maiden begins to put on what Milton termed “airs, vernal airs.” * * * AVING written a volume called “The Opening of the Chestnut Burr,” it is quite appropriate that Mr. E, P. Roe should follow it up with a second, bearing the suggestive title, “An Original Belle.” * * * W* have frequently been puzzled as to the exact signifi- cance of the Oxford and Cambridge honor known as the Senior Wrangler-ship. Close attention to Parliamentary debate has in a degree cleared up the mystery. * * * HE Evening Suz is not the best paper in New York by any means, and it never will be while the Morning Suz continues to shine for all. * * * N Amateur Composite Photographer recently superim- posed a negative of Irate Shafer upon a birdseye view of Jewseph Pulitzer. He obtained a most accurate photo of the Sullivan-Ryan prize-fight. * * * L™ congratulates the Emperor William upon having attained his dolce far nientieth birthday. E are inclined to believe in Washington Irving Bishop, the Mind-Reader. Somehow or other a man whose name combines the veracity of Washington and the gentility of Irving with the virtues of a Bishop inspires our confidence. If William Shakspeare were here he might get some clue as to “what's in a name?” * * * R. CLEARY is a shining example of the man whose virtues and vices may be described-as being “six of one and half a dozen of the other.” * * * LATE NEWS ITEMS. P to the hour of going to press, Mr. Pulitzer still lives. Mrs. JAMESBROWNPOTTER’S debut may have to be post- poned until the Prince of Wales’s dress coat is made over. KAISER WILLIAM sneezed four times yesterday morning. Otherwise the situation in Europe is unchanged. METHOUGHT I HEARD A VOICE CRY, ‘‘SLEEP NO MORE!" * * * I N the March number of Longman's Magazine, Mr. Andrew Lang writes: “A Mr. Boyes, in the Forum, declares that the American Young Girl is the ‘ Iron Madonna’ of fiction who crushes romancers in her ruthless embrace and he thinks that fiction is therefore in a valetudinarian state.” We have searched the Forum through and through, Mr. Lang, and we fail to find there or elsewhere the “ Boyes” who would thus malign the girls. c Perhaps you refer to Mr. Boyesen, who recently wrote enter- tainingly to show “ Why We Have No Great Novelists.” If so, you have made a great error. Mr. Boyesen is not one of the “Boyes.” He is a full-fledged author with as many laurels on his brow as there are js in his name, which is saying much. We think you owe Mr. Boyesen an apology for your assault upon his good name. comicbooks.com