SHORTFELLOW SUMS UP LONGFELLOW.
MILES STANDISH, old Puritan soldier, courts gal Priscilla by proxy;
Gal likes the proxy the best, so Miles, in a rage, takes and hooks it.
Folks think he's killed, but he ain't, and comes back, as a friend, to the wedding,
If you call this ink-Standish stuff poetry, Punch will soon reel you off Miles.
Shirley Brooks on "The Courtship of Miles Standish."
THE WAGNER FESTIVAL.
(By an admirer of Longfellow's "Evangeline," who sorrowfully sat through the six concerts.)
This is the music primeval. The festival singers from Bayreuth,