The Independent . ms to illustrate hisgenius. None of these is patriotic in thenarrower sense of the word, but twoof them are full of a love of countrythat strikes its roots from his own re-membered experience and the lives ofhis ancestors into the very heart of theSwedish soil. The poem on Froding isnotable for its direct presentation ofhis own philosophy. Note that in The Forest of Tive-den, tho the scene described is un-canny and forbidding, we feel a strangeassurance that the poet loves it morethan if it were the loveliest vision of atropical paradise. This is shown more•dearly in Home, a
The Independent . ms to illustrate hisgenius. None of these is patriotic in thenarrower sense of the word, but twoof them are full of a love of countrythat strikes its roots from his own re-membered experience and the lives ofhis ancestors into the very heart of theSwedish soil. The poem on Froding isnotable for its direct presentation ofhis own philosophy. Note that in The Forest of Tive-den, tho the scene described is un-canny and forbidding, we feel a strangeassurance that the poet loves it morethan if it were the loveliest vision of atropical paradise. This is shown more•dearly in Home, a lyric in everySwedish anthology. The Burial ofGustaf Froding is a succession ofvivid pictures, apparently disconnectedbut in reality merely the changingthoughts in the poets mind. The con-clusion is a superb epitome of Heiden-stams belief in immortality. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 27 THE INDEPENDENTS THIRD ANNUAL CONTEST EIGHT GREAT SHORT STORIES From American Literature With Introductions by FREDERICK HOUR LA W. HE Lady or the Tiger has all thefame that any short story can de-sire. Like the hero of StocktonsVizier of the Two-Horned Alexan-der it has gained eternal and re-read, it never loses in-terest, never needs apology, is alwaysnew, and always awakens it the Lady or was it theTiger? The question was asked ofStockton from the time he wrote the story in 1884 untilhis death in 1902, but however cleverly it was put he evadeda direct answer and left an interested world still asking:Was it the Lady or the Tiger? The author of this ingenious story, Francis RichardStockton, was born in Philadelphia in 1834. With only ahigh school education he set out as a wood engraver, littleby little gained success as a writer, and filled editorial posi-tions on The Philadelphia Morning Post, Hearth and Home,Scribners Monthly, and St. Nicholas. In his last twenty-two years he wrote independently, living in New Jersey,and, for a time, on his West Virginia estate, once
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