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Contents.
Poems by Two Brothers.—The Earl of Lytton's King Poppy.—Watson's The Eloping Angels.—Brown's Old John.—Block's El Nuevo Mundo.—Fawcett's Songs of Doubt and Dream.—Cawein's Red Leaves and Roses.—Under the Scarlet and Black.—Cap and Gown.—Under King Constantine.—Hovey's Seaward.—Appleton's Greek Poets in English Verse.—Sargent's Horatian Echoes.—Rhoades's The Æneid of Vergil in English Verse.— Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Mr. Leslie Stephen as an Apologist.—Some delightful burlesques on the plays of Ibsen.—Statistics of crime and poverty in the United States.—Poland in history.—A readable and practical guide for amateur photographers.—Appreciative chats on American artists.—Interpretations of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.—A sailing-voyage from New York to Cape Town.—A good summary of the French Revolution.
THE TOWER OF FLAME.
The White City : July 10, 1893.
I.
Here for the world to see men brought their fairest;
Whatever of beauty is in all the earth:
The priceless flower of art, the loveliest, rarest,
Here by our inland ocean came to glorious birth.
II.
Yet on this day of doom a strange new splendor
Shed its celestial light on all men's eyes:
Flower of the hero-soul,—consummate, tender,—
That from the tower of flame sprang to the eternal
skies.
THE CONGRESS OF AUTHORS.
It is hardly possible, at a date when the Literature Congresses have but just completed their work, to take anything like a philosophical survey of the week's proceedings. We have, however, thought it best, even at the risk of offering our readers an incomplete and imperfectly digested report, to summarize the series of events that have made the week just ended noteworthy in the intellectual history of Chicago. If we may not tell the whole story, and if our coign of vantage be too near the object for realization of the proper perspective, our report may at least embody the salient features of the Congresses, and point a possible moral here and there. As has already been stated in these pages, Congresses to the number of five were planned for the week ending July 15, their subjects being Literature proper, Philology, Folk-lore, History, and Libraries. They have provided an intellectual repast bewildering in variety, and quite beyond the assimilative powers of such rash mortals as may have attempted to partake of all the courses. They have been characterized by many notable contributions to both general and special culture, as well as by many of those discussions and comparisons of diverse views from which a subject often receives more light than from some more formal method of treatment.
The Congresses were happily opened on Monday evening, July 10, by a general recep-
