Show Coleridges Bust LoxDoif May 7 James Russell Lowell unveiled the bust of Coleridge the poet in Westminster Abbey this afternoon LONDON May 7 Previous to the ceremony cere-mony of the unveiling of the bust of Coleridge a preliminary gathering was held in the Chanter house Besides Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Baron I Hough ton there were present Lord Aberdare Canon Farrar Robert Browning Professor Blackie and the whole Coleridge family including the grandson and granddaughter of the j poet Many members of the House of Commons noblemen bishops deacons and a large number of Americans were also in attendance Dean Bradley and Mr Lowell entered the Chapter house arm in arm The dean made a short speech in which he heartily sympathized with much of the meeting He paid a high tribute to Mr Lowell and said that he was eminently emi-nently fitted to perform the duty of unveiling un-veiling the statute The ceremony he said would add another link to the many that already bound together Eng I land and America Mr Lowell replied that he would have preferred that the task of unveiling the statute ad been entrusted to worthier I hands but the fact that the bust is the I gift of the late Rev Dr Mercer of I Rhode Island through his executrix Mrs Pell supplied that argument of fitness which would otherwise have been absent He continued All the waters of the Atlantic cannot wash out I of the consciousness of either nation that we hold our intellectual property in common The literary traditions and fame of those who shed a lus tre upon our race remain an undivided inheritance Coleridges works are companion aful teacher in happiest hours of our youth and in old age recall the radiant images of youth which we have lost Surely there are no Iriends so constant as the poets among them none more faithful than Coleridge Just fiftyone years ago I became possessed of a pirated pi-rated American reprint of Cole ridge Shelly and Keats and trust I may be pardoned for the delight I took in it Coleridge was a metaphysical teacher and interpreter whoce services are incalculable Mr Lowellsaid he admired especially the Ancient Mar riner far more indeed than Christabel Mr Coleridge was a man of artless simplicity sim-plicity and yet a finished scholar although al-though not exact He owed much to the poetry of others but most to his own native genius He was picturesque in the best sense of the term Mr Lowell concluded This is neither the time nor the place to speak of Coleridges conduct to himself his family or the world He left behind him a great name let those who are blameless cast the first sfone at one who might havebeen better had he possessed those business faculties which maKe man respectable i re-spectable He left us such a legacy as only genius and genius not always can leave It Cheers Lord Coleridge returned thanks on behalf be-half of the family The assemblage then went to the poets corner and Mr Lowell formally unveiled the statue which bears the simple inscription I Samuel Taylor Coleridge |