Since writing the foregoing article we have received a copy of the Indianapolis News containing the following able article from the pen of the Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk, Ex-Attornev-General of Indiana:—
To the Editor of The News.
Sir:—Your issue of October 26 contains an editorial which severely assails Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science. You criticise her poetry. Were it not for the supercilious way in which you declare that "bad grammar is, of course, no crime," and indulge in similar sneers, I might pass this by. But one who is acquainted with such high and beautiful poetry as her "Christ my Refuge." "Shepherd, show me how to go." etc., cannot well refrain from pointing out how your critique deserves criticism. Opinions as to the merits and demerits of poetry, as you know, vary widely. For example, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Emerson, Whitman, and numerous others whose poems are now a priceless part of the music of the world's thought, have each and all been violently assailed as very poor poets. Even Poe, in one of his critiques, sneers at Longfellow as not entitled to a place on Parnassus. The apparent ease with which any would-be critic can climb, as he thinks, to the topmost of literary loftiness, is cleverly shown in Byron's famous lines:—
