making a dust and getting dirty and sweating in old tombs, delving out stuff that never stales, and not caring at all how stained his copy is. Why should he, when the effect is provocative of agitation in the languid ranks of American poets?
A long and splendid career to you and Poetry!
A PLEA TO THE COLLEGES
My Dear Poetry: I have seen a deal of the colleges and universities during the past year, and have been pleased to find the English departments echoing the cries and countercries heard loudest in the little editorials in the back of this publication. There is no doubt that here they take their point of departure for discussion. Such being the ease, I wish to urge upon any professor or advanced student of English reading this letter—that he take measures that the magazine be more openly recognized; that it be subscribed for and circulated more systematically; that it be present nor only as an atmosphere and influence, but as much in evidence in its physical form as that great American influence—the Saturday Evening Post. At present I find the magazine oftener in the brain of the professor than on his table.
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