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...Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist" by Charles Kent...
...board of editors, the interests of the paper will not be neglected. The articles are well written and are worthy of publication. The number as a whole, however, is not as interesting to the general reader as some of its predecessors. The work and thought of the essayist is given prominence almost to the exclusion of the writers of fiction. We have little fault to find with the matter presented but we think that if something in a lighter vein had been introduced among the sober products of the essayist the magazine would have been improved...
...more willing to admit that he who really can express himself rhymetically and with pleasure giving words, has a right to expect from them more than sneers of indifference. The trouble now is that the poets are too few in number. We write essays in abundance and the essayist meets with no slander. If, then, more poems were written and required to be written, we claim that the poet would be treated differently, and his productions would be received with the favor they deserve. Why not have themes for poems as well as for essays? The writers need not soar...
...thought probable that Edmund Gosse, the British essayist and poet, will lecture in New Haven sometime this month...
...fifty-first annual convention of the Psi Upsilon fraternity will be held at Cornell, next week. An elaborate program has been prepared. Charles Dudley Warner will lay the cornerstone of the new hall of Chi chapter. Professor W. W. Goodwin, orator; Professor Goodwin Smith, essayist; Professor Alpheus S. Hardy, poet; and the Hon. Francis M. Finch, author of "The Blue and the Gray," ode-writer. Judge Albion W. Tourgee will preside at the banquet...