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Show X Critli Ur Canada. ItlslWltilispuUbiefaet Unit wi are on thseveuf a greul national tr sis In Canad r and an lntellectu l revolution, vlndi will mark an epoch lu our literar, hittory, is already at h tn J. At ts usual iu the initial stagea of every lileratuie, there are mre poets aal clever VersificMthiJ writers o'gewl pree ill Canad i; but Ihe co-i'emiairary poets in Canada have j Ucsrd a whle gulf between tt eni and the preceding preced-ing generation. Their work lias more technical finish; i tbon more sign-sof CuStUit, rfuu is nlve all imbued, as the Isnidou .IM'iKriilW aiid recently, in a cr.Uqje of k-t anthology ui Canadwi s-ng, with 'the exldlir.tKiu that comvs In a brilllaul 1 1 . ate to mfi, who are day by day p-jscsiug themselvta of nsture's srerets ntnl her wtaltb." The pn.-puiiUniiH-e of try In Caimulm littratiirete veiy slHiilfUiml. The ltb. ktc the sure preeursofs of a rra tiinal upheaval. In the history of all countries and races the preaching preach-ing of the gojl of frtrdom has la-en perfoniud by thu siugersof the rare. Tlie surest way to otTend the rising generation of Canada to-day to-day the sturdy farmers' and merchants' mer-chants' sons Is to remind them that their country is still a Hritl-h colony. They ere tired of noce-Ing noce-Ing their learning and their art from Euglind, and are awakening to the fact tint the love of the beautiful and the capability of txi.rrsslng beautiful thought is not the heritage of one race, one country, crone hemisphere. Art, in the widest Milbld acceptance of the term, Is Iho world's mother tongue, and not the irttois of a clique. .V land Mjjarine. |
