A Good Time. Poem by Mounce Byrd
A reflective verse recounts a life filled with romance, joy, and loss by the sea. The speaker recalls love's arrival, playful days, a distant dream, and an angel presence at evening by the shore, all framed as a Harper's Magazine August publication excerpt.
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Love
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Monument appeals to children for Harris tribute and Coleridge shrine plan
The Atlanta Journal champions a national fundraising monument to Joel Chandler Harris funded by children. It notes Coleridge cottage as a proposed memorial with royal and noble backing and a $600 purchase goal. It covers Drake’s neglected grave and the high income of poet James Whitcomb Riley, contrasting with classic poets.
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Atlanta Journal
Joel Chandler Harris
Georgia
Uncle Remus
Harris
Brer Fox
Jedge Bar
Coleridge
Nether Stowey
Christabel
Mariner
Andrew Lang
Milton
Chalfonte St. Giles
Burns
Wordsworth
Carlyle
Bronx
Hunt's Point
Joseph Rodman Drake
Drake
Bryant
Halleck
Little Hunt’s Point
The World Fails Yet Genius Finds Expression
The Springfield Republican discusses a young writer who laments neglect and poverty as editors pass his stories, noting many editors praise him yet offer little support. It argues that artists must endure hardship and that true genius finds a way to express itself despite lack of public acclaim.
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Springfield Republican
Poe
Republican
Doomsday for fiction warned by leading New York house
A publisher representing a prominent New York house with a history of successful novels predicts fiction is in decline. He argues that novelists are abundant but have exhausted the field and offer less vigor and originality, driving readers toward the classics of the last generation. The publisher has included almost no new titles for the coming season.
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Charles Lamb
Colnaghi
Pall Mall
Munden
Coleridge
Southey
Wordsworth
Goodwin
Lamb
Leonardo da Vinci
Paul Colnaghi
Martin
New York
Together. A Modern Tragedy of Marriage by Herrick
Herrick's extensive study of marriage follows John and Isabelle Lane from their wedding through disillusionment. Isabelle's failure to love yields a tour through social dissipation in St. Louis and New York as she becomes a neurasthenic, flirting with infidelity before being redirected by her brother Vickers.
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Mr. Dooley
Mr. Herrick
White House
Alice
Steve” Johnston
John
Isabelle Lane
Isabelle
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
St. Louis
New York
Vickers
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Mounce Byrd
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Rockefeller
British National Gallery
Fogether
Robert Herrick
the Macmillan Company