[1]The Forms of Prose Literature, courtesy of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.[2]This sermon is published with the kind permission of the author and the publisher.[3]This selection from Prof. Arlo Bates'sTalks on Writing Englishis printed by permission of the author and his publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company.[4]Reprinted by permission from Pancoast'sIntroduction to English Literature. Copyright, 1907, by Henry Holt and Company.[5]This and the following poem appear by special permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, the publishers of Mr. Aldrich's poems.[6]FromAlong the Trail, by Richard Hovey. Copyright, 1898, by Small, Maynard & Co., Duffield & Co., successors.[7]By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.[8]These following selections are taken from Harper & Brothers' edition ofAlice in WonderlandandAlice Through the Looking-Glass.[9]The "Good News" is that of the "Pacification de Gant," concluded in 1576. It was a treaty of union between Holland, Zealand, and the southern Netherlands, against Spain, under tyrannical Philip II. The treaty was greeted rapturously by the frontier cities, because it was expected to free the Netherlands from Spanish power."There is," writes Mr. Browning, "no sort of historical foundation about 'Good News from Ghent.' I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York,' then in my stable at home. It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf of Bartoli'sSimboli, I remember."While there is, then, no historical foundation for the "gallop," the verisimilitude of the situation is perfect. Aix might easily have resolved to set herself on fire at a given hour, rather than submit herself and her citizens piecemeal to the torch of the persecutor. The "horse without peer" might possibly have galloped the ninety-odd miles between Ghent and Aix, but the feat would be a marvelous one.This poem and "Hervé Riel," with the accompanying notes, are reprinted fromSelect Poems of Robert Browning, edited by William Rolfe, A.M., and Héloise E. Hersey, and published by Harper & Brothers.[10]"This spirited poem was sent to theCornhill, because Browning was asked for a subscription to the fund for sending food to Paris after the siege by the Germans in 1870-71. Though he condemned Louis Napoleon's war, he wished to help the French in their distress, and he sent to the fund the 100 pounds that Mr. George Smith gave him for 'Hervé Riel.' The subject of the poem and its generous treatment surely manifolded the good-will of the gift. An English poet restored to France its 'Forgotten Worthy.' An Englishman sang the praises of a French sailor's balking the English fleet. One of the nation whose boast it is that her heroes need no other motive for their noble deeds than 'England expects every man to do his duty' showed that in France, too—whose citizens were accused of seeking glory and vainglory as their dearest gain—was a man who could act out Nelson's words with no thought of Nelson's end—a 'peerage or Westminster Abbey'—but just do his duty because it lay before him, and put aside with a smile the reward offered him for doing it; a real man, an honor to the nation and the navy of which he was part.""The facts of the story had been forgotten and were denied at St. Malo, but the reports to the French Admiralty at the time were looked up and the facts established. Browning's only alteration is that Hervé Riel's holiday to see his wife, 'La Belle Aurore,' was to last, not a day only, but his lifetime.""Hervé Riel" was written at Le Croisic, the home of the hero. It is a small fishing village near the mouth of the Loire.[11]ReadThe Training of the Imagination, by James Rhoades; John Lane Publishing Company.[12]FromMonna Vanna. By Maurice Maeterlinck. Published by Harper & Brothers.[13]The extracts on pp. 279-287 are from Mr. Sidney Lanier's volume of "Poems," published by Charles Scribner's Sons.[14]The Technique of Speech, by Dora Duty Jones, published by Harper & Brothers.
[1]The Forms of Prose Literature, courtesy of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
[1]The Forms of Prose Literature, courtesy of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
[2]This sermon is published with the kind permission of the author and the publisher.
[2]This sermon is published with the kind permission of the author and the publisher.
[3]This selection from Prof. Arlo Bates'sTalks on Writing Englishis printed by permission of the author and his publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company.
[3]This selection from Prof. Arlo Bates'sTalks on Writing Englishis printed by permission of the author and his publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company.
[4]Reprinted by permission from Pancoast'sIntroduction to English Literature. Copyright, 1907, by Henry Holt and Company.
[4]Reprinted by permission from Pancoast'sIntroduction to English Literature. Copyright, 1907, by Henry Holt and Company.
[5]This and the following poem appear by special permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, the publishers of Mr. Aldrich's poems.
[5]This and the following poem appear by special permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, the publishers of Mr. Aldrich's poems.
[6]FromAlong the Trail, by Richard Hovey. Copyright, 1898, by Small, Maynard & Co., Duffield & Co., successors.
[6]FromAlong the Trail, by Richard Hovey. Copyright, 1898, by Small, Maynard & Co., Duffield & Co., successors.
[7]By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
[7]By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
[8]These following selections are taken from Harper & Brothers' edition ofAlice in WonderlandandAlice Through the Looking-Glass.
[8]These following selections are taken from Harper & Brothers' edition ofAlice in WonderlandandAlice Through the Looking-Glass.
[9]The "Good News" is that of the "Pacification de Gant," concluded in 1576. It was a treaty of union between Holland, Zealand, and the southern Netherlands, against Spain, under tyrannical Philip II. The treaty was greeted rapturously by the frontier cities, because it was expected to free the Netherlands from Spanish power."There is," writes Mr. Browning, "no sort of historical foundation about 'Good News from Ghent.' I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York,' then in my stable at home. It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf of Bartoli'sSimboli, I remember."While there is, then, no historical foundation for the "gallop," the verisimilitude of the situation is perfect. Aix might easily have resolved to set herself on fire at a given hour, rather than submit herself and her citizens piecemeal to the torch of the persecutor. The "horse without peer" might possibly have galloped the ninety-odd miles between Ghent and Aix, but the feat would be a marvelous one.This poem and "Hervé Riel," with the accompanying notes, are reprinted fromSelect Poems of Robert Browning, edited by William Rolfe, A.M., and Héloise E. Hersey, and published by Harper & Brothers.
[9]The "Good News" is that of the "Pacification de Gant," concluded in 1576. It was a treaty of union between Holland, Zealand, and the southern Netherlands, against Spain, under tyrannical Philip II. The treaty was greeted rapturously by the frontier cities, because it was expected to free the Netherlands from Spanish power.
"There is," writes Mr. Browning, "no sort of historical foundation about 'Good News from Ghent.' I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York,' then in my stable at home. It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf of Bartoli'sSimboli, I remember."
While there is, then, no historical foundation for the "gallop," the verisimilitude of the situation is perfect. Aix might easily have resolved to set herself on fire at a given hour, rather than submit herself and her citizens piecemeal to the torch of the persecutor. The "horse without peer" might possibly have galloped the ninety-odd miles between Ghent and Aix, but the feat would be a marvelous one.
This poem and "Hervé Riel," with the accompanying notes, are reprinted fromSelect Poems of Robert Browning, edited by William Rolfe, A.M., and Héloise E. Hersey, and published by Harper & Brothers.
[10]"This spirited poem was sent to theCornhill, because Browning was asked for a subscription to the fund for sending food to Paris after the siege by the Germans in 1870-71. Though he condemned Louis Napoleon's war, he wished to help the French in their distress, and he sent to the fund the 100 pounds that Mr. George Smith gave him for 'Hervé Riel.' The subject of the poem and its generous treatment surely manifolded the good-will of the gift. An English poet restored to France its 'Forgotten Worthy.' An Englishman sang the praises of a French sailor's balking the English fleet. One of the nation whose boast it is that her heroes need no other motive for their noble deeds than 'England expects every man to do his duty' showed that in France, too—whose citizens were accused of seeking glory and vainglory as their dearest gain—was a man who could act out Nelson's words with no thought of Nelson's end—a 'peerage or Westminster Abbey'—but just do his duty because it lay before him, and put aside with a smile the reward offered him for doing it; a real man, an honor to the nation and the navy of which he was part.""The facts of the story had been forgotten and were denied at St. Malo, but the reports to the French Admiralty at the time were looked up and the facts established. Browning's only alteration is that Hervé Riel's holiday to see his wife, 'La Belle Aurore,' was to last, not a day only, but his lifetime.""Hervé Riel" was written at Le Croisic, the home of the hero. It is a small fishing village near the mouth of the Loire.
[10]"This spirited poem was sent to theCornhill, because Browning was asked for a subscription to the fund for sending food to Paris after the siege by the Germans in 1870-71. Though he condemned Louis Napoleon's war, he wished to help the French in their distress, and he sent to the fund the 100 pounds that Mr. George Smith gave him for 'Hervé Riel.' The subject of the poem and its generous treatment surely manifolded the good-will of the gift. An English poet restored to France its 'Forgotten Worthy.' An Englishman sang the praises of a French sailor's balking the English fleet. One of the nation whose boast it is that her heroes need no other motive for their noble deeds than 'England expects every man to do his duty' showed that in France, too—whose citizens were accused of seeking glory and vainglory as their dearest gain—was a man who could act out Nelson's words with no thought of Nelson's end—a 'peerage or Westminster Abbey'—but just do his duty because it lay before him, and put aside with a smile the reward offered him for doing it; a real man, an honor to the nation and the navy of which he was part."
"The facts of the story had been forgotten and were denied at St. Malo, but the reports to the French Admiralty at the time were looked up and the facts established. Browning's only alteration is that Hervé Riel's holiday to see his wife, 'La Belle Aurore,' was to last, not a day only, but his lifetime."
"Hervé Riel" was written at Le Croisic, the home of the hero. It is a small fishing village near the mouth of the Loire.
[11]ReadThe Training of the Imagination, by James Rhoades; John Lane Publishing Company.
[11]ReadThe Training of the Imagination, by James Rhoades; John Lane Publishing Company.
[12]FromMonna Vanna. By Maurice Maeterlinck. Published by Harper & Brothers.
[12]FromMonna Vanna. By Maurice Maeterlinck. Published by Harper & Brothers.
[13]The extracts on pp. 279-287 are from Mr. Sidney Lanier's volume of "Poems," published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[13]The extracts on pp. 279-287 are from Mr. Sidney Lanier's volume of "Poems," published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[14]The Technique of Speech, by Dora Duty Jones, published by Harper & Brothers.
[14]The Technique of Speech, by Dora Duty Jones, published by Harper & Brothers.