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Show AS TO t'OLTIsr. The disposition to write what one ha to say now an then In rhyme I a prevalent iiow as It ever was, notwithstanding not-withstanding thu discouragement to which tho practice has teen auljected by the ress nnd otherwise. Home nus have muslo In them and whether their tenement are evor rmltttd to master an Instrument or tho means by whloh roper expression may be given the latent faculty or not, It still exists end In oue form or another will occasionally occasional-ly manifest Itself; to, we suppose, with the dlsioslllon to compose Jingling Jing-ling lines. Bomellme rhythm and real oetry accompany each other, but oftonerlhey do not; agalu, some good oetry doe not rhyme, uud onoo In a hlle wo are confronted with it com-Kialtlon com-Kialtlon labclod u poem which contain con-tain ' neither rhyme, reason nor urpoac. This I not to be aecrlhed to Ignorance altogether; It 1 tomellme n dUconi. A new spa per reader recently asked thu New Vork fun how many living poet there aro In the world at thewlndlug up of the nineteenth century, and received a characteristic reply. The luminary' estimate wa that there nro about a million, lu miking It It al. towel ono hundred thousand, for this country, thirty 'housjud for Kuglaud and Ireland, a half doxsn for Cauaju, a bundled for Africa (excluding the llarbary Slates nud 1'gyj t), forty or filly (houraud lor Houth Amerka, where earlccloso p"' flourish like miles In au old cheese, u hundred tlioiirnud for the power of the lrllu Alliance, tevefitr-flvo thousand for 1 rnncii, us many for Bpalu, half as nmuy for Portugal, twenty for Kuwla, as many for Turkey, a big lot for the Hcandlnavian countries, six hunlrod lor Iceland, it baker's doxeu for Australia, Aus-tralia, ii email tquad for Mexico no I the rest lor Asia, wlilola oontilu more thau one-half of tho human rat e. The Nun had not time tu ilnuslly thu poclt, i ut Ihrcu i lasses It concludes alt ulwaytpromlueni; the miioular, the mural, uud the umrbld, or, lu other words, tho bass drummers, the liar-isln liar-isln and the liouia Millers, ti nhlou kiuds may be added those ho Hie for tove, those who rlddlo fir lun, and ihosii who run tho hurdy-gurdy fur ..CM cash, all of whom flht for a pltu in the cello orchestra of this irlod of the nineteenth oentury. It la held that tome of our Amotion) oetry li letter than mostof the foreign poutrj, though thero could hardly be any worse thin n heup of ours. No at-Itinith at-Itinith made to lull why It I that, lu ititeo times, lets than u tooth art ol ihe woll'n poetry Is male by the ilitlolux, which I far morn piitlcnl iu ap rlt mid life than thu other trx, more zealous In dovotlou lo that beautiful, and even erhap more sentlmentil. l'crha It it becruie women have something better to do thin rhyming, or bfctuse they weuld rtther put tholr poetry Into their lives than Into verse. The concluding portion of tho Sun's reply la not to lautcrlng In tone but Just a trulhful and forcible, as really overy odltor of experience rau testify to nbuuJintly. "Poetry that Is mi-Jettlc, mi-Jettlc, gentle, Inspiring, slendld, dainty, ardent, ure, beautiful, heart-expanding, heart-expanding, aolacluf, unchantlug,mclo-dlous, unchantlug,mclo-dlous, sparkllnr, heroic, Hon llko, or bird-Ilka, we tove. The poets who are able to nukeeuo'i poetry cm never be too numerous. We wish wo had ten of them, or ten limes ten, to every one we have now. Hut out with doggerell" Ho sty wo all. |
