| Show I Death of Another Great English I Literary Man Completes Trio V London Literary Letter Leter B e rr i ONDON Aug u r fI LIt It Is t a n ii I com common 1 LONDON L mon mOi saying In that events ent alway come Io In threes three th and nd when bume died a few fw months month mont ago aga O vie e not nt wanting UD prophets r evil evi who bo declared dalar that tha we WI w should soon In Int lose hose t two to other great t Victorian VI literary Itry men Inca The prophets have for owe cool o proved truthful Meredith moon lon follow followed ed etl hu his hI friend ci ti the RI I IV IVand and now no the are followed fallowed by their thIr thir and und lt Sir lir Theo Theodore don dore dor Martin ar I I Sit Sli Si was ws a striking example c In a of or a man ma who began life tuE hf In II one ODI of the tl mom arnie OUI callings tn and drilled U If one ole may Huty lua be Lie permitted to use the word urd Into literature He lie H becan ba UH u H a panic parlia parliamentary agent aRet 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of a R roman the th o or 01 the pout port and h hs hM nil If having bees been very short abort It Is ii I rather Interesting to note that hat Watsons best t work has hag been bean n concerned with lit ht wife 1 asUe land It U was he lie who in Inh his bis h Ode Od on en the Ute Day of or the Coronation Cor of tf King KIM KI VII 11 referred to In Ire Inland Ireland land 4 M a the lovely and situ Ire I It linet Whom we have bane wedded but have nit n r rU rIt It U la I also Interesting to recall the he I heV V vura Verges to a ledy lAd which he h placed 1 at atthe th U the front t or of his hi hook of poems The Year at of halite published as am long Iona ago ao as Daughter of Ireland nay n t bet bot better let ter said ed of Ireland 1 s beauty r Irelands grace I rites ace Child huid Ud of or o her r eMr of ot her Mr Iw II whoa w tees face Is I leg r her glories d Though Wrong W he lie t though h he buIlt huilt en on crImes To Tn know lIw you ell lAdy le ht i to doubt nuM no mere That In iii I the world workS are mightier power pow than these V that deformity v and UI hate hat haten are Times thee n And 4 14 Uv Lot 10 and aid ad lowliness nM JuM Jal lilt before ro leavIng town Iowa 0 for hi lit his wed w t ding Watson with hi ha pub laj r loft John l I Leer We tw of fJ ofa ofa a stew new w hook hesh of poems poet wll I In II a month In or r two inn a n |
