Life — October 7, 1909 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Liz y Y @Theliteraryjoow Rhymed Reviews “The Bride of the Mistletoe” (By James Lane Allen. The Macmillan Com- pany.) A’ expert in the woodman’s craft, Instructor in a rural college, Professor Fred was plainly daft On mystic, legendary knowledge. Beneath the tree on Christmas Even, With all the Christmas candles’ burning, He read his wife, poor Josephine, A screed of queer, symbolic learning— A yarn of Oak and Mistletoe, Of Primal Maid and Forest Lover,— And all to let the lady know That he was growing weary ‘of her! And she? It seems she found it right To love him still, This Fred was lucky! A hoor so crudely impolite I thought they lynched in old Kentucky. change your pen! blow these murky bubbles, 1s writetyou can, of men— ks with manufactured troubles. But write Not fre Awake from nympholeptic dreams! Forsake the cloud-enveloped steeple! Abjure these modern-pagan_ themes, And come and hve with living people! Arthur Guiterman Polar Monopoly CCORDING to Sverdrup, Commander Peary “thinks he has a’ lease on the pole.” A curious state of mind—or so it would scem to one who has never been pos- sessed by an idea—yet not without precedent It is told of Wordsworth, for example, that he had a sense of literary proprietorship in moun- tains, and was inclined to resent another person's enthusiasm for these inspiring features of the landscape. Now, this attitude of Wordsworth, so far as we are aware, has never been re Nideal Health resort aiteactive during the wlater with frstcls scaly i and EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI. reached tron Seal . feaving BOP Md Springs tor beeaktast the next Denner the train : I Panenger Arcot, Chicago. G. A. BLAIR, Gew't Eastera Agent. 391 w York City. garded as anything more serious thay amiable weakness; yet, compared with Com- mander Peary’s mild obsession, it was scaly an expression of reprehensible greed. ‘here have been and always will be mountains to spare for everybody who wishes to. wri about them. A landscape poet, moreover, has an inexhaustible fund of subjects with which he necd not he too inconveniently i: when the weather is inclement. But cor the case of the explorer. There is only North Pole (we do not wish to be ¢ however, and are open to argument) order to ma copy” out of it for the zines it is incumbent. upon the explor journey there at considerable outlay of time and money. If writers rushed Areticward in} large numbers, without regard to e¢ an- other's feeling or the consequent slump in the rate per word, the pole would cease to be a literary prize.’ As it is, we are credibly in formed, that the last book on the subjec sued at $5 per volume, netted the author $2.15 in royalties, On the whole, we think Commander Peary is not so unreasonable as Sverdrup would seem to intimate. All that we can ask of a polar lessee is t he be merciful to writers and readers generally, and give us a chance to write and talk about mere literature, if only by way of recreation. Brandes as a “Best Seller” 'HE, shocking inaccuracies of a breakneck daily journalism are so frequently. be- wailed by those leisurely gentlemen w prepare the predigested pabulum of our monthly magazines that any lapse, on their part, fr the absolute truth is always an occasion for sincere and whispered grief. A memorable in- stance comes to mind in the case of Mr. Ed- ward Bok. 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