TUESDAY MAY 20
MODERN POETS.
APOSTLES OF NOVELTY.
MR. ALFRED NOYES'S CHITICISM,
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Very manchen ceiticism of modern 'poetes was passed by Mr Alfred Noyes, who was the guest of han- our at a dinner of the Authors' Chib, over winch Mr. 11. de Vere Stac poole prèvided. When the apostles of novelty, declared Mr. Noyes, di not abandon all the laws of verse they were usually to be find put ing crade thing ende words inty, the eldest and must eccventional patterns of English verse. The glory of song was opening out overy-hari, pulse writers were unaware of it, beymise they were it listening for narsie : they were' btxaket ing for something else.
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invoked. Virgil sings his great. If the new generation insists on story of Enclsunil Donte fakee this confusion of terms, we must find Virgil na his guido, Milton, the new name for what has been called greatest master of all the harmonies! poetry for the last 3,000 years. Its of our terene, using that glorious readers may still be down Milton measure of English blank verse, was found then, but there will always at one with them:
be room among the many mansions
Of man's first disobedience, and
the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose
mortal dasta Brought death into the world
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BOGUS V.C.
IMPOSTURE DISCOVERED AFTER DEATH.
A long-sustained hear by a of literature for the poetry, the bogus V.C. has been exposed by poetry which is song, the poetry the death of Corporal Herbert that buy an inner pulse of music, Lindsay Richardson, who collapsed thut, is born in music, and can never to the street and died some weeke be made by merely taking thought jagog though it is itself, the very music_off He went to Aberdeen from Sing, "Heavenly" "Miso,
thought; thought caught up into the | South Africa nine years ago, and The fuels me quite clear when one universal harmony as a violinist is as a V.C. here was fêted by considers what may be called the chestra and swept into second with to have seen
caught up by the surrounding or influential people. He claimed great words of pure poetry, whether it. That is how a very clear-think- ir German Africa, and later en- service in 1914 be lyrical (when the very name in man of science once des listed in the Gordon Highlanders implies its mubic or opic, or dran the work of Swinburne; and, under the name of Arthur Henry fic, as in Eschylus and Sophocles, though it is by no means always me Leonard Richardson, V.C., sub- is a great rhythmical art, and, of Swinburno, it is true often enough mitting to the authorities a type whether its music be that of the tyre; to place him among the great singers,written document which stated or the measted cadence of a single But I cannot see any good ground that a man of that name had won human voice, or a cherie chant, it is, for invading the woim of one it with the V.C. with the Strathcona Horse Chairman, in roposing Madways, sorg, as its various muses work which properly belongs to an- during the Boer War. After being Noyes healthy, said that the question understool th
word.. Shake her. In fuct, this brooking down wounded in France he returned to "What is poetry sensorails, dispute, of course, has complicans of this categories is part of the same Aberdeen. cul; to answer. Betry seemed to the muter a little for the misrdi-ovenent which is breaking down him to be a set of living as gent, hoeisely awed all the resoute distinctions in words themselves, garden party
Richardson was invited to a i phore hd men's murals and ces both of verse and prose in his obliterating, their finer shades of Palace, and presented to the
at Buckingham; lives and all the world around the portice dramas, and then are also mening and turning a highly or King. He had also been presented This adoospixye bane enderat connecting pushes of careless reganised and exquisitely, develop to Earl Halg. sometimes in a flash into citative in which he was neatly fanguiginto what Herbert Spencer, dere a grond thought, for halli was, of me, slowly in the cut, broadly speaking, whenever Shakespeare exercised his forin of a verse or a flower. Whig full power as a poet, wherever the he was drawing for dinner beashell great moments arive, they arrive in thin Led there wnscany such music, a music that seems to he third, phebow end whether all dietted by the very pulse of life Tanter was not, eternally young, musicas prweise
poetry.
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would have called an incoherent hosgeneity, and what, for present purposes, we inay ourselves call a
sloppy mess." Langhter. Je
It is no new achievement in poetry to break these laws of song which its have grained consinnt from Hotner
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After his death he was given an impressive military funeral, but an examination of his papers showed that he was an impostor and that he had taken the name of a Canadian soldier who won the Victoria Cross during the Boer! War, and who is believed to be dead.
Richardson's bona fides appar although he had not a scrap of were never. questioned..
evidence to back up his claim. He did not possess the bronze-cross and the fact that he wore only a V.C. ribbon was put down to a hero's modesty,
The Army, List for March has the following name among winners of the Victoria Gross-Richardson. Sergt. A H. L. (discharged.)
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He thought so, but we coming do přbycipient law as the maret the present day, and my, in the The Fit Hangagri-it, struck himestr
Tiles and the ineral laws of Barmony, order, and that this might not be so, berg's Ears or the heading of the buning proportion. The true line of pro-ently Senght of some of tall heart; sq firf his words have a ugress is development. We are not bloody ballads of the Bunker of a
versal significane, acquire the at the end of metricub invention. Paso del "ways die and some time i mudil in virable nee Were only at the begining of it, Thapa Malate if wandals simplest form Nowrese mençadous diffrentes. Faught
Lis not achieved by the very simple and cheers.)
nothing of doing the opposite of Mr. Notes said that a pro rate
what was done by the past. A great pery fest Tople writing inthe Pro
deal of the so-called new work to or anywhere else knew daything
day simply takes any elder method. whatever shent poots, B would To the last syllable of ivcorded, and makes it easier by evading one Raye just are example, "Only the
(or two technical difficulties. It will ther dat heid, in a very well-Foss the inguinal wowvenient of that take the metre of Gray's "Elegy," known journal writer criticised last fine forces the thought, and, for instance, and abundon, first of certain pet-whore work do not how absolutly natural is its stress! all, that wonderful balance of the really care for very much, Bat: Fes pudse is precise as that of the cadences that makes it sound like R still, it is work of great distinction.ury and o, livre acil responsive to moving se. One can imagine very OWNER OF MS CANNOT and it has heen aftreked very olun emotion; yet, if you try to sean il-good reasons for this: but I am in that journal and said eft lip, on writers of free verses seem chiefly impressed by the fact that in se he has always had to think that verse must be scanned most cases it is merely easier. bedside tanner, and he prevede defies analysis, defies your ine, Then, the now writer will perhaps short story written by Mr. Rudyard An unpublished manuscript of a to quot ten lines or so of something prozone in the very perfection of itavado the dihenity of Lading Kipling forty years ago has just type of his bedside manner. Aspw. Ir bus foeil, in sorvida ta rhyme for the first and third lines, been taken to America, and is now o cutter of fact, the auther had law, its perfect freedom. The thing. There any be good reasons for this, in the possession of a Philadelphia Harins, G. Tanaka, T Tasaka, 5. cely quoted them. They were said could not be said better, could too, but gain. I am chiefly impress lawyer. Mr. Kipling wrote the Ruyematan, S. Yamada, K Watanabe X- ten lines from the great concluding be vaid more trally, coulded by the fact that it is easier story when he was nineteen, then Nomars, Mrs M. Atkin, Me H. A. che of Shell Prometheus not be sail re powerfully. It is Thinly, the new writer will hunt being an editor of the Lahore Civil Keane, Mr and Mrs S. Low, Matare S. 0. Urbeur!! Tougher It has Bike the rhythm of an athlete which for startling, sensational, and violent and Military Gazette, and, accord- Chin, W. i. Kwak. U. K. Tall, J. O. pot to this day been spotted, and enables lú to use every, onnee of words, will sometimes lopt the ing to the owner of the manuscript, Hofman, W. A. Scott E. F. Keighley, make ya mser of it. (Tagh his strength in the most effective erndities of fought, and even the was so diffident of his powers that G. Keizhboy, H. Keighley, M. Glas, K. Jer. Higginguishal author was way. You have only to compare grammatical cradities of the gutter: he sent it to a woman writer in Tseng, J. Mancen. 4. Purmals. G. too distinguished to reals, but two murers, two boxers, two crews and one way image all kinds of good England with the request to im Packer, Mrs A. Armstrong, Mr and Mrs Frantz, Being Ghạng. Y&H. Lee, Mr R. rather be led." (Laughter.)en the river, or even two, dancers,ragens for this, but again I am prove it, and get it published if F. Dasay, Me and Mrs A. Ossolat Mrs. He cold, he added, give dozens of to discover the officiency of rhythm. chiefly impressed by the fact that it possible, and in a note accompany-Tallers Moura Takahaby G Hazir anetare lo shunt that is great many And if you repent this line to your is poster than to write with a sose ing the manuscript said, pénists were simply blyfting with re-self and try to get the utmost value of all the hidden meanings and finer this up to any extent in the style T. Konde Mesas M. Jone, Y. Tsira. X. Work A. B1259 Y. Kawa, M. Kid, J KungTMa, dard their wedge of poetry-out of its, cadence, you will discover shades and subtla tones of the in- of Mrs. Oliphant's Beleagured Toyoda. Bis K. Sasaki, MET. Naito and K. Mizuss, T. Nakahara, M. Kondo, dis naughter)—and he thought the time that the run of uniceented syllables comparable legnage that was used City"In a marginal note he says 3 M. Tshio. had come when some elementary at the beginnime and in the middle, by Shelley, Keats. Wordsworth. con lesions of ere, who feed been the stresses on the third and fourth | and Terryson,
Embroider this as much as you malace at bis ich for weary years syllables ca the leng võrel sound in to be coarsened or blunted: we want they dance at Benmore Hall, and We do not want it will, also the scene later on where Cada segno interest. Tear."recorded," and on the final word fit to be tonched 10 new and finer flirt in the balconies.-R. K." beur.)
are a means of extracting infinitely results. We want to develop and
Per B. F. s.s." Patraclus" on May more then the words cult beccamplify it until its range can encomed "At the Pit's Mouth," was Mr Y. Tsutsumi, Mr R. B Salis- For some reason the story, entitl-19-Mr and Mrs D. H. Hazeli, The titles of the subject on which hind to convey in any other ferm.ass our growing world and taas-never published, but many years bury, Mr and Mrs M. E. Benson, 1 be asked to speak tor if one considers those misardous let it snow inte music. The amaz- later when Mr. Kipling had be- Miss D. Mackay, Miss M. French, might continued Mr. Noyes, in-lyrics of Shakespeare, one finds himing apostles of novelty, when they come famous the woman wrote to Miss E. Cameron, Miss O. Turner, plies a breach of contimity which often using the very simplest words, do not abandon all the laws of verse. Mr. Kipling proposing publishing. Mr G. Minty, Mr M. Nightingale, tri ac There is either words of every day; and yet, by the are naally to be found purting rule but this he refused, saying, in a Mr J. Allan, Mr H. B. Power, Mr new or old poetry. There is only fure musk of their combination, by thought and crils words into the letter annexed to the manuscript, and Mrs R. Horne, Mrs C. G.
We may comptae the those undertones of universal music oldest and Koetry of one period with that of which deepen them and quickenpattems. Very often they seem to story and could not permit publica- Mr B. Naess, Mrs N. B. Karanjia, conventional that he had no recollection of the Alabaster, Mrs J. W. C. Bonnar, another if we choose; but these divi-thom when they begin to obey his be taking the advice of an American tion of what he wrote more than Mrs K. O, Mackenzie, Miss B. M. sions are anlitary, for the lines can rhythmical in and find their largerritic who suggested that we might a generation earlier, but if the Radcliffe, Mr and Mrs H. H. Fox, w and it is the freedom, he fills them, with the sub-popularise Kents by translating "St. woman wanted to sell him the Mr R. J. Paterson, Mr B. Pugh, peculiar glory of true poetry, in all flest ecstacy that was ever breathed Agnes Eve into Billingsgate manuscript he would gladly buy it. Captain and Mrs W. C. Pitcairn, that it is perenially vital, through articulate language. "St. Bagnes Heve, 'ow blinking How the manuscript passed out Mr A. Mcintosh, Mr L. Lofting, This is not a mere figure of specgl.
lebil is." (Laughter.) The of the woman's hands, went back Mrs J. Martin, Mrs H. C. Gillard, It is not merely a sounding phrase
new way, the now glory of seng. is to England, there to be bought by Mr and Mrs F. W. Shenstone, Mrs to say that, postry lives on while? The nearest to a definition of opening out on every hand, and they an American, and returned to A. A. Peterson, Miss H. D. Peter- the Caesars and their dynasties pass poetry, on its technical side, was unaware of it. because they are England is not known. A curious, son, Mrs E. S. Litter, (Jr.,) Dr. W. it is one of the mule by Edgar Allan Pes, when he not listening for music, they are legal condition exists that while Pell, Mr G. E. Kliams, Miss D. E. illuminating facts of history, one of said that it was the rhythroical looking for something else. To be the manuscript is the property of Tope. Miss D. A. Grant, Miss H. the most mlion illustrations of de Fergation of beauty." (Cheers continually thinking of the audience the purchaser the right of publica-F. Hoar, Master and Miss Lucey, power of the human sairit. The During the last few years, however and to be preoccupied with the detion still inheres in Mr. Kipling. Miss H. Calvert, Mr Wm, Cole, Dr. Fong of Homer is alive today, while there has been a tendency to break sire for novelty kills sincerity, leads The present owner says he will and Mrs. A. Wight, Mr and Mrs G. the world in which it was created down the distinctive mesnings of our preciosity, and absolutely silences not consent to publication of a Graham, Mrs A. H. Skinner, Mr S. has vanished: Pa-sages of Virgili Pune. We have to face the fact that spontenequr music which Words-single word or phrase of the story F. McKenzie, Mr J. D. McKenzie, Fill to like, the cry of a living that there are very large numbers of worth heard mong the lonely hille.as Mr. Kipling is absolutey in his Miss H. D. Colcough, Mr and Mrs voice, with their poignant sense of people who have no ear for the music in poetry the simplest note of na- right, and would have power to G. S. Anderson, Mrs A. Michell, the tears in mortal things, while the of poetry, and that they have beentral song is worth more than all the sun, if one sentence were publish- Mrs. R. L. Warren, Miss S. M Rome of which, in his life-time, he codevouring to persuade themselves word-hunting and all the self-con-ed. was merely a petriotic poet, has and the world that the true poetryuming rttempts to be subtle and left her most august memory to his is really something quite different now (Cheera.) In the last analy keeping. The song of Dante lives We have reached the point when, if a thor alicempts are found to bo in the minds of men to-day, his any write of realistic descriptions merely literary, sophisticated super- relled head even being familiar for instance, Arnold Bennett-chosoficialitics; and there is nothing so where the medieval polentates are to end his work up into lines of odd superficial us literary sophistication. WILL IT ENABLE THE DUMB forgotten; and, from our own liza-or even length, and print it so that that other note, the natural notes bethan ago, all that is now alive is it looked like what is called free of song, cannot be naivsed, and is the sirene vice that said of a fremse" (laughter)-1 am not for the and the most profound, for it is atment speak by means of an anti- Mr G. A. Reid, Baron P. de Becker,
found to be, after all, the subrjest How to make a scientific instru- king After life's fitful fever he nomment criticising "free" verso”—il siceps well. Even invo, gemoration great part of the English Press one with Nature herself, oven in its ficial tongue has been demonstrated mech mear to our own, how would call it Mr. Arnald Berretta artistry: had where it strikes out on by Sir Richard Paget before the Mrs Gilman, Mr A. C. Fillingham, familiar, in comparison with others, new poem, or, possibly, Mr. Arnold exquisite form it does along the lines Institute of Electrical Engineers. Mr. C. J. Merritt, Mr and Mrs C. W. the voices of Wordsworth, Bennett's great new poom, and des- of natural law as Nature unfolds a Sir Richard, taking a small Beck, Mr A. W. Stevens, MA and Shelley and Kents; Keats, who cribe it ne a work of poetical genius, flower (Cheers.) went to his death not knowing whe- (Laughter.) Very many or rend-
dummy voice box and blowing air. Mr H. Webley, Miss Niven, Mr B. Mrs M. B. Shroff, Mr Hansen Ma, ther the world had heard him, or are them ever before, in fact, art. Joseph Holbrooke, afr. Robert manipulated his fingers that he and F. Bush, Mrs A. M. Massie, Dr. Harold E. Briggs, of Town, through it by a rubber tube, so Crawley, Mr. Crichton, Misses E. would ever bear. I always think now reading bmi proso, without Knowles. Mr. Fan King and was able to make the box produce M LEH, Wegman, Mr Yuan, Mr that a line in lus "Ode to the Night knowing it, and doing so in the firm dr. Francis Skrine took part in a vowels and words. The magical McClelland, Mr R. P. Burton, Mrs. ingale, describing how ho groped belief that now, at last,-in-one-brief discussion which follmind box also called-on Sir Oliver Clarke, Mr Huishen Mr. G. Diss, though thut darkness of a suinntörs decade, the vital continuity of 3,000, Mr. Emest Short, the vice-chair. Lodge and Professor Vemon Boys MP. R. Mistry, Mr J. Montgomery, night, spellbound by the song in his years has been broken and supersed-mag, proposing the health of the by name own heart, describes with unconsed, and now, at last, they are enjoy chairman, referred to the knowledge
Mr and Mrs Rugh, Mr Z. Lan, Mr. cious pathos, his own inakility to seeing the new and the only has poetry and experience neoossary in modern an organ reed as a substitute for Grubb, Mr Barclay, Mr. A. S
A model was used containing his approaching fame, a line fall of Laughter.) The matter is com-literature, if the imagination of men the vocal chords. Pairs of pot- Walker, Mr Maruyama, Hon. Mrs the hushed wonder, of a poet, on plicated by the fact that the work and women was to be touched and shaped resonators gave the effect Britten, Mme D. Uhlenbeck Erme his way to death and immortality may be in gome other respects mastisfied." "I cannot ace what Blowers are utterly; that it may even in the wider
of the mouth cavity and spoke the Hng, Mr. C. S. Zecha, Mrs Edwin my feet."
The Chairman briefly replied, and vowels like a human being. Jones, Mr Wang, Mr J. S. Progle, serie, pоRBOBB Bomething of that on bir paganation the company drink Another instrument, recently Mr M. Solway, Mr and Mrs A. G. For 3,000 years there has been a postry which is the substance of all silence to Mr. Charles Garrice. invented by Dr. Eccles, was operate Xavier, Mr G. N. Moore Ne Rugb Groenveldt, Mr Candlin, Mri vital continuity and moreover the arts, and is of course the sub
Platina manja-En-this-the-assolistars-FOTO- though poetry as never been alesiance of some of our greatest prose. quately, defined there has been But if it right belongs to the prose
merely tuned electric circuits after Mr H... Woodstock, Mr B. J. Lee,
Mr-J-Fi, Brook, Dr. G.Candlio, continuity of idea in the minds of all category, und if because it is divid
"A Boy and His Stomach- the manner of a wireless set. The nations with regard to the character-od into more or less regular lengths as much as he pluser fu aurg some loud speaker, apparently by The by who eite whatavor, whenever vowel sounds were produced by a istics that differentiate postry from of line, or because a number of awk-duotoned very mudo ly Chamberlain's depressing a row of keya pape. The earntial element the ward rhymes cm introduced, it is | Cole and "Dia tipes Remedy. It stops These experiments suggest the the opposition groups at a con- Tokyo, May 19-Leaders of element that differentiates poetry thrust into the category of song, Almmt instantly un-laing pounch and from hos hen the minsical theme are confusing our ferman wel gting, hot weather home and possibility of the dumb being able ference last night reaffirmed element the element of cong. I use confusing values in literature and wooning diarrhoe hould be kept to speak by regulating the air in cooperation for the attainment of the word "song here as it would be marring the peculier beautice bath of meades, everywhere,
in every household. Fold and recoman artificial mouth box with their of their aim against the Gover understood by the Muss that Hunter 1 proso and of poetry.
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