21 AUGUST 1897, page 13

Painful Poetry.

T HE merits and demerits of painful poetry—of poetry;.. that is, which wounds, lacerates, and depresses the human heart instead of raising or satisfying or ennobling— form a......

Two Types Of Self-made Men.

W HEN on one occasion President Johnson declared him- self to be a "self-made man," it was said by a Member of Congress that the "Almighty was relieved of a great......