The Days of a Man 1892 



"The Man and placed him permanently in the literary class. 



with the of its poetic merit there is no question; its historic 

 justice may, however, be doubted. "The Man 

 with the Hoe," "brother of the ox," as painted 

 by Millet, was not brought to his low estate by 

 centuries of industrial oppression. He was rather 

 primitive and aboriginal, persisting in a competitive 

 world mainly because wars had destroyed gener- 

 ations of self-extricating, freedom-loving peasantry. 

 He represents "the man who is left." 



Cheney, in his fine response to Markham's poem 

 (for which he used the same title) deals with an 

 entirely different type of peasantry from that 

 conceived by either Millet or Markham. His is 

 the vigorous, unspoiled, independent man of the 

 fields, 



Long-wrought and molded with a mother's care 

 Before she set him there. 



Of his rude realm, ruler and demi-god, 

 Lord of the rock and clod. 



No blot, no monster, no unsightly thing, 

 The soil's long-lineaged King; 



His changeless realm, he knows it and commands; 

 Erect enough he stands. 



Edward Robeson Taylor, the versatile head of 

 the Hastings Law School, physician and lawyer 

 alike, was the author of numerous sonnets, serious 

 and artistic, his translations of the Spanish poet, 

 Heredia, being especially admired. 



Charles Warren Stoddard, the author of "South 

 Sea Idyls," was a gracious writer both in prose and 

 verse, and a man of most winning personality, who 



4563 



