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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
21
The poem opens with dawn birdsong and September dew over a lawn. It celebrates travel longing and distant lands, recalling olive hills, marble terraces, and cypress torches as the speaker dreams of an overseas palace and a waiting beloved. The Athenaeum marks it.
A weekly column urges the Superintendent of Public Speaking and the Board of Education to back University Extension plans for voice production classes. It notes New York’s poor spoken English compared with London and England and suggests public lectures to encourage correct speech.
A commemorative volume marking Darwin's birth centenary and the 50th anniversary of The Origin of Species is being prepared at Cambridge. It will feature essays on natural history, embryology, geography, heredity, instinct, and Darwin's botanical work. The Cambridge Syndicate press also issues two volumes of Sandy's History of Classical Scholarship. Canon Doyle confusion noted in a Irish convent purchase.
The article notes Waldstein's view that Herculaneum hides far richer literary treasures than Pompeii and urges Italian–international cooperation to resume excavation. It then reports that only three English poets receive civil list pensions, with Watson, Davidson, and Dobson named and amounts listed, while Alfred Austin remains Poet Laureate.
A biography of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Ferris Greenslet outlines his life as a man of letters and his influence on American literature. It surveys Aldrich's literary career, friendships, and the era he helped shape within the American literary scene.
Ferris Greenslet profiles Thomas Bailey Aldrich as a retiring yet influential figure in American letters. The biography praises his pure English, broad literary range, and lasting impact through letters and Atlantic Monthly tradition. Aldrich’s youthful vitality, humility, and private life contrast with the public gaze of contemporaries like Lowell and Howells.
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