POPE 





POPLIN 



Swift, Gay and Arbuthnot. The craving for 

 approbation always drove him relentlessly, and 

 most of his acts were dictated by it. As a 

 poet he has been variously ranked by critics. 

 In his own age his worth was overestimated, 

 admirers declaring him the greatest of all Eng- 

 lish poets; in the following age of romanticisim, 

 he was as much underestimated. Certainly 

 his polished couplets, though they do produce 

 tin effect of monotony and artificiality, have 

 done much to make excellence of form a 

 necessity of verse. Pope is much quoted 

 more, perhaps, than any other English poet 

 except Shakespeare. A.MCC. 



Of his best-known sayings the following may 

 be given: 



Hope springs eternal in the human breast: 

 never is, but always to be blest. 



Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; 

 The proper study of mankind is man. 



Vice is a monster of so frightful mien 

 As to be hated needs but to be seen ; 

 Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 

 We first endure, thea pity, then embrace. 

 An honest man's the noblest work of God. 



Consult Dennis's The Age of Pope; Stephens's 

 Pope, in English Men of Letters Series. . 



POPE, SIR JOSEPH (1854- ), a Canadian 

 author and statesman, who first achieved promi- 

 " as the private secretary of Sir John A. 

 lonald and later served with distinction 

 in hiuh positions. Sir Joseph was bora at 

 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and was 

 educated at Prince of Wales College in that 

 In 1878 he entered the Dominion civil 

 service, and in 1882 became private secretary 

 to Macdonald. For the next nine years, until 

 latter's death, he retained this position, 

 h presented an unusual opportunity to 

 study the workings of the Canadian govern- 

 nf and gave him an intimate acquaintance 

 i most of the public leaders of the time. 

 Mti' Macdonald, although 



possibly prejudiced in Macdonald's favor, is 

 a standard work. In 1896 Pope was appointed 

 Undersecretary of Statr . and in 1908 UnuVr- 

 secretary for Foreign Affairs. He represent 1 

 tit tit the sessions of 



the joint H-h Commission at Washington in 

 irs 1898 to 1900, and in 1903 was secre- 

 the Alaska Boundary tribunal. In addi- 

 tion to various papers on historical and politi- 

 ;>ics, Sir Jewell i tten biographies 



lam and Cart: 

 POP'LAR, n family of rapidly-growing 



ng-etemmed, quivering leaves and grace- 



ful, yellowish-red catkins. The tiny seeds have 

 silky, cottonlike filaments which carry them 

 through the air. There, are eleven species na- 

 tive to America, and they grow in almost all 

 parts of the continent, supplying a light, soft 

 wood suitable for such articles as boxes and 

 packing cases, and valuable also for making 

 paper pulp. 



The cottonwood and aspen belong to the 

 poplar family, and an old legend tells that one 

 species of the latter, known as the Judas tree, 

 was the tree upon which Judas Iscariot hanged 

 himself and that thereafter it trembled and 



THE LOMBARDY POPLAR 

 Illustrating the form of the tree and appear- 

 ance of the leaves and flowers. The latter are 

 In the form of drooping catkins. 



shuddered with horror. From this character- 

 istic of poplars came the expression, "trembling 

 like an aspen leaf" (see JUDAS ISCARIOT, sub- 

 head Judas Tree). The real reason for the quiv- 

 ering leaves of all the poplars is that the long, 

 slight stems are flattened at right angles to the 

 blade and a slight breath of air sets them 

 fluttering with a sound like falling raindrops. 



The tall, gaunt Lombardy poplar, with its 

 close, upward-turning branches; the balm of 

 'id, with fragnint, I red buds, and 



the white poplar, of whose glossy green, silver- 

 lined leaves Oscar Wilde says 



the silver jrlonms when the poplar tree* 



Hustlr tiii-ir pale leaves listlessly 



an- all members of tin- interesting family. 



POP 'LIN, a fabric made of silk war 

 worsted weft, somewhat resembling bombazine. 

 except that it has the weft 

 its name -ieh) from the fact 



it was first made at Avignon, the seat of 

 th.- Popes from 1309 to 1376. Just how the 

 ! inea were made is not known, 

 but it is thought they were chiefly, if not 



