Lauds and libels

Lauds and libels

[A volume has recently appeared under the title of The Value of the Classics, in which three hundred competent observers, representing the leading interests of modern life in America, and including three living Presidents of the United StatesWilson, Taft, and Roosevelttestify their conviction that classical studies are of essential value in the best type of liberal education.] [In the new History of American Literature it is stated that Robert Treat Paine, the Boston poet (1773-1811), enjoyed such a reputation that he could command five dollars a line for his verse, a price never before approached in America, and perhaps never since equalled.] [Dr. Arthur Shadwell, in the Nineteenth Century for January, 1917, in his article on Ordeal by Fire, after denouncing idlers and loafers and shirkers, falls foul above all of the young girls called flappers, with high heels, skirts up to their knees and blouses open to the diaphragm, painted, powdered, self-conscious, ogling: Allus adallacked and dizened oot and a unting arter the men.] [The Daily Chronicle, writing on women farmers, quotes the tribute of Hutton, the historian, to a Derbyshire lady who died at Matlock in 1854: She undertakes any kind of manual labour, as holding the plough, driving the team, thatching the barn, using the flail; but her chief avocation is breaking horses at a guinea per week. She is fond of Pope and Shakespeare, is a self-taught and capable instrumentalist, and supports the bass viol in Matlock Church.] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57467
Author: Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
Release Date: Jul 8, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English