Life — December 5, 1907 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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To those who send unbound copies in good condition the price of the bound volume will be Two Dollars. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 310t Street, New York City word-painter practised restraint. He might have said a slippery-elm tree. When the True Poet Comes “ C)H, HOWshall we know when the true poet comes?” was a question once propounded in the Century—rhythmically and notaltogether rhetorically, yet followed up with an answer that far from sati: fying practical minds. It is, indeed, a problem that presents many difficulties. As the Bertillon system of measurement has not yet been adapted to the identifica- tion of poets, it is becoming harder and harder to recognize them by p! pearance alone. In hats and hai conform to the prevailing mode; the same may be said of their taste in cravats and cocktails; neither bow nor bowl is neces- sarily “flowing.” The eye “in a wild frenzy rolling” is provided with astigmatic lenses or sent for treatment to the psycho- pathic ward. It is, alas, becoming almost impossible to tell a poet from a plumber. As a minor bard has sadly remarked: You see, my child, there was a time When every poet lisped in rhyme; And when the critics held in mirth A bard who could not prove his birth. But now that he is not afraid To let us know that he is made, And that he has to learn to scan— ‘The poct looks like any man. “But all this,” you may object, “is be- side the question; surely a much simpler means of recognition lies in the poet’s pro- ductions.” Of recognition, yes; of identi- fication at first sight, no. Most editors and poets—but perhaps more especially the poets—agree that despite the microscopic scrutiny and telescopic search observed by every editor and publisher, many a poet has passed in the night through the very hands of able-bodied “readers.” + ek * UR own clientéle, according to its lights, may variously perceive both the proof and the refutation of this view in the recent announcement by the Cosmo- politan that it had caught “the true poet,” and led him captive in floral chains, where the plain people might observe him for the ridiculously low admission of ten cents. We have an immense respect for the Cosmo politan’s critical judgment of poetry, dating back from the time when its editor, Mr. John Brisben Walker, founder of the Cosmopolitan University, assured us that the version of “Omar” by his professor of rhetoric, Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, put one Edward Fitzgerald’s ‘on the fritz”— or words to that effect. Our estcem has not waned since the advent of Mr. Walker's successor in the office chair of criticism— Mr. Ambrose Bierce, formerly of San Francisco, where the earthquakes come from. Mr. Bierce as a littérateur not only lines up with the traditional “talent” of comicbooks.com