. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY (1816-) ,N Bailey we have a striking instance of the man whose rep-utation is made suddenly by a single work, which obtainsan amazing popularity, and which is presently almost for-gotten except as a name. When in 1839 the long poem *Festusappeared, its author was an unknown youth, who had hardly reachedhis majority. Within a few months he was a celebrity. That sodignified and suggestive a performance should have come from soyoung a poet was considered a marvel of precocity by the literaryworld, both English and A
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY (1816-) ,N Bailey we have a striking instance of the man whose rep-utation is made suddenly by a single work, which obtainsan amazing popularity, and which is presently almost for-gotten except as a name. When in 1839 the long poem *Festusappeared, its author was an unknown youth, who had hardly reachedhis majority. Within a few months he was a celebrity. That sodignified and suggestive a performance should have come from soyoung a poet was considered a marvel of precocity by the literaryworld, both English and American. The author of ^ Festus * was born atBasford, Nottinghamshire, England, April22d, 1816. Educated at the public schoolsof Nottingham, and at Glasgow University,he studied law, and at nineteen enteredLincolns Inn. In 1840 he was admittedto the bar. But his vocation in lifeappears to have been metaphysical andspiritual rather than legal. His < Festus: a Poem,* containing fifty-five episodes or successive scenes,—somethirty-five thousand lines, —
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