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The article by Dr. Harrop, which was' reprinted recently <jn ibis page, _ was followed in the next issue of "Johno' London" by this letter from Aufred Tressid'er Sheppard, the novelist: Sir,—Did • not Macaulay'a: Now Zealander, referred to in an interesting! article in your issue of November 20th, pay an earlier visit, to a ruined. London! Mrs Barbauldj in her most notable poem, "Eighteen Hundred and! Eleven," writes of the ingenuous youth "from the.Blue Mountains, or » Ontario's Lakes," who "rants London, to find still, untrodden streets, crumbling turrets with broken-stairs, the Thames . wandering again through ' sedge and reeds, and St. Paul's desolate and deserted. • The poem, which is intensely pessimistic about the fat© of our Empire, ends by predicting i&e future greatness of America—Thy world, Columbus, shall bo free." Naturally, it did not add to the popularity of Its author in her own country, and it is a warning to-day against despondency. Macaulay's marvellous may have played, him false sometimes, though perhaps in this case his use of Mrs Barbauld's picture was legiti- > mate even if intentional. lam a little dubious what' to think about the stefjment made to jme by some. English ladies in Italy that some of Macaulay's most famous lays were literal translations from earlier, Italian poems* taught) in Roman • schools, and quite well known. Yours, etc., A preliminary flourish by Mr Hum* bert Wolfe to his review (in the "Observer") of the latest production of- the Brothers'Sitwell:— . For one reason or another books-by the 'Sitwell family- are not delivered .from the printing press so u much as fired from a gun;'. They'explodeon-the world, smashing-all sorts of carefullyprepared trenches, and distributing • splinters with, benevolent impartiality in all directions. The critics of the bluffer kind reach instinctively- for 1 helmets, whfle > the-'more; insidious snatch at their gas masks. 'lt still remains true; I mean > that a Sitwell work is received rather as a shell than as what after all it is—a book, and, not always a book very unlike anothw*
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18900, 15 January 1927, Page 13
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