Show ERRATIC GENIUS Sentimental readers reader and even ven many critics critic are wont to spend a good ROod deal of time lamenting over oer the III luck of many of the worlds world great t poets dramatists and artists It shocks them to recall BR as Kipling did In that little HUle after dInner dinner dinnet din dIn- ner net speech of his that perhaps tho the finest literature we ue know came from a midnight stabber Villon VUlon a sheep stealer Shako- Shako spears a roving ro tinker Bunyan and anda a dissolute plowman Burns Burm It Is still more grievous ous one onn might I say 8 that and poverty Overt and I squalor should haunt th the steps o of other geniuses such geniuses such uch a as poor Chatterton who was 1 forced to suicide or Keats who died dle-d broken h hearted arted by hostile criticism Think too of or Byron sodden with brandy brand In hl his hIli la last Jut t few years yeara or o of Po Poe Poe who ho was U BO so poor that when hi his hh wire was dying ho was wa obliged to cover er her with his greatcoat because he could not af afford aford atford at- at ford ord a fire and who himself died half 1 starved stat In Baltimore the victim of a gang of roughs I |