| Show PERSONAL AND LITERARY according to sir edward arnold edgar A poo and joaquin miller arc the two american poets who aro suro to live foro vcr Max pRell was recently invited to write an arciclo for tho north american review on abo subject of comic journalism in america that means all your journals ho replied for they aro all comic the exiled russian nihilist lives quietly in london with his gifted wife and the two spend much timo in tho british museum ransacking books and making many notes is an industrious writer and is rarely seen at tho clubs or in society although bo has a bosta friends tho pelting gazette appears in two editions ono written and one printed daily with exception of festival days the written edition appears on the day of tho date tho paper bears tho printed edition which has to bo cut in wood an operation which takes a considerable time appears some weeks later only the most important news is given in the written edition the other publishes it quite fully browning wai at dinner at tho house of a friend tho phonograph for tho first time lie was greatly interested in it and started to repeat to it tho ride from ghent to aix when half through ho stopped suddenly and exclaimed ive forgotten tho rest the phonograph dutifully repeated all ho had said including the exclamation at the end and the film upon which the poets language was impressed is now preserved as a precious relic thomas nelson page in a pa per raad before tho nineteenth century club recently said that in tho south poetry in many respects had not kept pace with prose dialect had undoubtedly been used by southern writers to excess but there was much to be said in its defense and in defense of those who used it on tho whole tho south presented a fied tor literature such as could not bo found elsewhere and tho conditions for a literature existed there rs they did not in any other section or country |
