Show KNOCKED KNEED LITKRATUKK 1 rt Miss Host Kliabilh Cleveland has k broke out again in a now spot and the j Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century u is what she calls it this time The r symptoms arc quite alarming We regret to bo obliged l to admit that the Nineteenth Century is in a dilemma if it baa to lend l a t Roie Klizabeths poem Wo do not wish I to appear cross but we protest against this mercenary literary competition that sets up a 1 false and totally vacuous I standard rating litoratmo at its drawing it value rather than its merit Why should that misguided somewhat vain rather mercenary and certainly mAture jpinstc ho hoisted l blue Blocking coikscron curls and l all upon a 1 pedestal i1 j and bowed down to by all tho psi I mawkish shorthaired Hfotortiood 00 If Miss Cleveland could write just a little f bit and if her vetoes worn not overgrown I t over-grown monstrosities j knockkneed blear eyed humpbacked halt and lame wet we-t I might forgive her publisher for shovin j the productions of her brain into an oh Id1 scare corner t Ilut why should Minx Cleveland or + any one else ho permit tell to masquornd y i s before the public in the guise of Ills ruy tr I scholar and above all pool Why I a should inane drivel be paid for at the rate of tr00 1 a cargo and advertised s t I worth tho money when oven Whillior1 L lofty muse does not command an np lb br proximalcly magnificent figure 1e I Purveyors of literature have a 1 grave 4 responsibility resting upon them am they should MOO to it Urn f L I they discharge it faithfully Popular magazines mould l popular taste If the I young inexperienced and uncultivated t t are to bo taught that vain moulhings 1t Ir had taste hybrid sentiment and general t worthlessness is the acme of poetic stylo X sn the evil infludnco of bad teaching wills will-s have its sine impress on the next genera r S tion of writers |