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    , AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES.

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    Tennyson On Plagiarism And Suggestion. I

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    * A wild wind shook— ' ' ' Poliow , follow , thou shalfc win . '

    Suggestion ; I was walking in the ^ ew Porest . A wind did arise and' Shake the songs , ; the whispers , and the shrieks J

    Of the wild wood together . ' ; to th The wind uth , and I deliere natural ,-was ly the a west wind wiod said , ' but Follow because / I I believe wished the the resemblance Prince to go whic south h , I turned note the is iust wind a 1

    e , you chan I iiiiist ce one have . read Shelley thorn ' s . lines are not familiar to me , thoug ¦ h of . course if they occur in the ' Prometheus . ' , multilinstancesbut will not bore and far indeed

    I well I as could Nature , 4 p re y not , and oug , ht I not to be , suggestive you , to the poet . I am am I from suro that asserting I myself that and books many , as the * others Ho creation nrAct find ion a of of peculiar aa . . bvarone bygone charm poet ooet in . and and those reclothe reclothe passages it it . more more of such op or great less less , according afteordinor masters as to tn Virg their thmr il or own nwn Milton fan f « . n < , where ir . . But " Rnf they , th thorfl ere adopt is i « , > I ;

    , , , cy I great fear , memories a prosaic and set growing no imagination up among , who us impute , editors themselves of booklets to the , book poet * , worm and s so , index believe hunters that , ho or too men has of no imagination ¦¦¦»¦»— - but is for ever poking his nose -mr -mr between the « f >» 1 of some fVMflV old >» # volume in order to see

    , > JLftV what A m ^* % he m * m ^~ m can - * - appropriate - ^ , j — -- . They — will j £ - — - —~ not ^ j ^^ allow . ^^ one - ^ vw - ^ to r v ww say ww *« ' Ring *^ ' pages v ^ r M the H ^^»^ bells ^^^ n ' without *^^ T ^ f JbW finding ^ ft ^ K ^ fWf that ^ # J > ^^»^^ we . » # ^ hare * i ^ l *^* taken it from Sir P . Sidney , or even to use such a simple expression as the ocean roars f ' without flnding

    out I the have precise known verse aa old in Homer fishwife or who Horace had from lost two which sons we at have sea clench plagiarised her fist it . at ( Fact the advancing ) tide on a stormy dayand cry out * Ay > roar ; do ! How I hates to see thee show thy whiter teeth ! ? > Nowif I

    had adopted , her exclamation , and put it into the mouth of some old woman in one of my poems , I , dare , the critics would have thought it original enoughbut would most likely have advised me to to

    say Nature for my old woman and not to my imagination , ; and , indeed , it is a strong- figure . Here go is another little anecdote about suggestion . When I was about twenty or twenty-one I went on & tour to

    sketched the Pyrenees it ( . according -Lying among to my these custom mountains then ) in before these a words waterfall : ' Slow that -dropping comes down veils 1 , 000 of or thinaest 1 , 200 feet lawn , / X : !

    When waterfall I printed , and graciousl this , a critic y added informed : ' Mr . me T . should that * lawn not go ' was to the the boards material of a used theatre in , theatres but to Nature to imitate herself a i : * for v *> ¦ his - w suggestions . ' ««^^<^/ BH r «^ B ^ rA «»^ / » And ^ . ^ aa-v ^ I A . had % « vv \ A gone gvuv to « - ^^ Nature A . n « wv « 4 «» # herself MVLlJV & lt . I A . think V 4 &»& A XW it IV is i | 7 a CM moot lU \/ wU point UV 1 UU | whether If AAVViAvJb , if ** * I h ** a M ^ d H

    I known how that effect was produced on the stage , I should have ventured to publish the line . thank I find you that for I your have interesting written , quite commentary ___ contrary . — _ . ! to Thanking my - —_— custom yon ., ^_ a again letter mi for , when itI beg I had you merel to believe w ^» y intended mmr me & c to . j

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    4 ~ - —•¦^•• - ••^ vsvs « a . » m . u ^ vuivugu , vuv & , C * V > VI > DVVIUIU M HU MM one UUC I / VS bllO VfW 4 ^\ 7 L , as Ct 9 L / UV ^ UIUUCODIUII ^ Mm Mm V »* the g irls ^ beard * moves on under the heiVlit the * ^ shade of « the . ' ruined And surel rnllar ' ^ y . the > m . ^ ' beard * . nm -blown ^ goat' involves ** a sense of the , wi nd blowing _ m— . , \

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    will Announcement not be delayed is by mad tRe e deat that h the of comp its proj letion ector of , the Mr . Supp Leypoldt lement , and to the that ' American the work Catalogue will appear * ; the autumn

    will m go to the estate , carrying of Mr the . Leypoldt entry of , titles for the from benefit July 1 of , 1876 his , wife to Jul and y 1 children , 1884 . . The Orders proceeds for t « lllR w volume VDIIlmA TMQ 1 T be Vt £ k sent ar \ -r % 4- to 4-rv Messrs "H / Tt-irmeiwrm £ l * % * -k- % * -t « v . / t <« - » Low T _ « - ««» & £ r Go f ^ ^

    may . Sampson . nature Mtu Englan Messrs ra . d , ' , a J popular ohn Wiley monograp & Sons h , by New Henry York Baldwin , have , with in preparation illustrations * , The most Orchids ly drawn of from New

    ; assa It ys is sai d d S that peeches Lieutenant of Jeremiah -Governor S . Black Black / which is about will to be publ a ish reproduction two volumes of , the entitled most "The im- ) , - portent addresses of the late distingished USjist and statesmanliterarypolitical and i

    ! I ; fore controversial nsic , together letters with . his most interesting u . magazine . ur articles and the , whole , series of his ,

    ; « Mi Messrs important 8 . Littl Baird work e , Brown on American , & Co ornithology ., Boston , , will entitled publish * The at Water once Birds the firs of t North volume America of a , new ' by i i

    1 f B " ? ^! " , ( Land F - Birds , ) T , . in M thre . Brewer e volumes , and , R published . Ridgway , in authors 1874 . of The the ' two History volumes of North on the American water , j ; \ ™ w are issued under the superintendence of ProfformerlStatGeologist

    j nurli * ™ t j erou 'aljfornia ^* 8 ? " * ^ with v " ° ^ uine the contains assistance many of Mr illustratio . J . A . . ns Allen J . of D . , heads Whitney of the , full , Museum -length y of figures Comparative e , besides , j j ( diagrams . The second and concluding volume will be ready in September !

    ooc ™ w . * Richard n / i $ preparing T . Ely , of a 4 the Histo Johns ry of H Political opkins Universi Economy ty , in author the United of * French States and . ' . German ¦ J

    I Ihteulf "Pt an pi 118 < ^ ^ Delaware aniblings in Bays Europe / by / Prof by CoL . J . W T . . C . Rothrock Falkner , , and are * Vacation nnounced Cruisings by Messrs in . Chesa J . B - . \\ u ncott

    I l ^ PP J ^ } * - & ^ Co ., of Barnes Philadel & Co phia . . New Yorkwill publish soon 'A Handy Anglo-Saxon | ^ 1

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1884, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061884/page/7/