THE LAUREATESHIP,
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The Times says:-The columns of the newspapers during the past few days lear "witness to the interest aroused among literary men and women by the question of the Laureateship. Should it be i abolished? If not, who should be asked to accept a position where the liability to irresponsible criticism is at least us great We as is the dignity of the office! published an article telling in some detail the story of past Laureates, and of the curious alternation of eminence and inthos which marked the succession, at last, till the accession of Southey. On reading this article many must have been inclined to cundole with the writer on the dull blankness of a great part of the annals which he has investigated. this is an age of research; and the writer, emulating those workers in darkness, the explorers of Egyptian tombs, dug deep and revealed something even of men so obscure as Tate, Whitehead, Eusden, and Pye. The last two were equally bad as poets, but Ensden, whom Pope pilloried, was not a very reputable character, while Pye was a worthy country gentleman, magistrate, and M.P. Unfortunately he also wrote verses, and so Pitt, an a reward for political services, made him Laureate in succession to the excellent Warton. As Cowper was out of the question, as Dr. Johnson was dond, and as Crabbe was as yet scarcely known, it may be that there was no one else to chrese. They say that the darkest hour is that which just pre- cedes the dawn; and certainly the twenty years before the emergence of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byrch and Shelley, wer the darkest t
inodern portion! Porson- the epigram is bistory.. rightly given to him--said that there were four ports for the Minister to choose from:-
Our
"Poetis nos fetamur tribus,
Pye, Petro Pindar, parvo Pybus; Hi alterius ire pergis,
Adte his Sir James Bland Burges.” The nineteenth century changed the fortunes of the Laureateship and its repute. From 1812 to 1802 there were but three occupants of the past, and of these two were great poets and the third an admirable prose-writer and critic, who occasionally produced good poetry, Southey, in the revulsion from his early Jacobinism, became too much of a Tory artisan, and his poetical fame suffered accordingly; and Wordsworth adorned the office more by his name and the memory of past work than by what he wrote as Laureate, for he was an old man -when-he-was-appointed. But Tennyson, as the older generation of those now living can well remember, was Poet Laureate for the greater part of his productive life, from 1860 till 1892; and he remains a brilliant example of what a Laureate should be, and can be if he has gifts. It is a large if," but what it means is that the claim upon a Laureate postulates two things-general poetical eminence, and a power of throwing himself imaginatively into the great public events of the day, wheher they concern Court or country. In Tennyson's case these wore combined in such perfection that we can well under- stand the reluctance of both Mr. Glad- stone and Lord Rosebery to appoint any successor, since nore existed of the like eminence. Independently of the poein or general themes, there are three distinc tively Laureate poems of Tennyson which had an instant" success,, and which are still among the classics of our language- the Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington.' "The Charge of the Light Brigade." and the Welcome Alexandra." But the comparative failure of several other "poems of occasion by Tennyson proves that, even in the case of a great writer, pone can guarantee success in work of this kind. In a literary age like the present hundreds of people can do it fairly well; but the verses that a pussession of the race-how
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At the same time, we are still a country where tradition counts for much, and where there is a general and very healthy and unwillingness to destroy places customs which have lasted for three cen turies. Therefore we confess that we should regret a decision either to leave the Laureateship in abeyance or to abolish it. It is true that the task of choosing a port for the post will not be an easy one-not because, as in Pye's day, there is nobody good enough, but because there are a large number of qualified persons of whom no One, bas overwhelming claims. perhaps the strongest of all, is hated by the Little Englander school, and its members would probably make themselves! offensive to the present Government if the appointment of this spirited poet were suggested. But there are others, accom plished, scholarly-perhaps too scholarly
and with a knowledge of what is being done and thought in the world; and any one of these would fill the position with distinction. Of the seniors, there is Mr. -Robert Bridges, and there is that friend" of us all, Mr. Austin Dohcon, whose graceful humour would bring a new and not unwelcome note into the Carmen Seulare of the future. Feminists would add, and not without some reason, that there is Mrs. Meynell; perhaps to make her Laureate would help to satisfy those eminent persons who wish to admit more women to the Civil Service. Then, of a gomewhat younger generation, there is Mr. Henry Newbolt, and of the-modern, the very modern, their name is legion, and the works of a good many are sampled in Mr. Edward Marsh's little book of Georgian poetry. The choice would be difficult, but it would he still more difficult, among, such excellent wrilers, to make a really gross mistake.
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THE GERMAN MAIL.
The M. str. Yorck, carrying the German mails with dates from Berlin of the 11th June, left Colombo on the 28th June, and may be expected here op or about the 9th July.
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Temperature 20th July.
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th June, for Hongkong direct.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION 00., UID.
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Hongkong 2nd July. Chinthing, from Weihaiwei, is dus in
Hongkong oth July.. kong 13th July.
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