This must h u e Uimi enough to make
any enterprising editor tear l is hair or
go an J hang himself.
To have in one's editorial drawer such
headings as ' Grover in clover," or
' Drops of honey dipped in Doer Park,"
and not to lo able to use them!
It was hard lines.
XXI -LITERATURE.
Popti, Novelists" EiMtvItt, llUtorlana.
lliiiiiortnts, JourmtliKta Writers fur tlia
ouu.
America has not yet produced a trans
cendent literary genius; but she has the
right to le proud of a national literature
which includes poets, historians, novel
ists, essayists and critics of a tmierior
order.
The Athenrrum acknowledged, a short
while ago, that the liefct criticism on the
English poets of the Victorian era was
that written by Mr. Edmund Clarence
tstediuan.
In toetry, tho bright lights are Will
iam Cullen Dryant and Henry Wads
worth Longfellow, Imth pure and noble,
and as much preciatod by tho English
as by their own compatriots; Edgar Al
lan Poo, James Russell Lowell, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Edmund Clarence Sted
man, Bayard Taylor, John Green leaf
Whittier, Walt Whitman, Richard Wat
son Gilder, Edgar Fawcett, William
Winter, the celebrated dramatic critic,
Maria Brooks and a galaxy of women,
who form a graceful garland in this gar
den of poets. In the Western dialect, a
poet, Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, knows
how to draw tears through tho smiles
which his humor provokes.
