which for the present work has been courteously granted.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

_W.R. Alger; Mrs. Amelia E. Barr; Henry A. Blood_ (Mrs. R.E. Whitman);
_Robert J. Burdette; John Burroughs; Mary A. De Vere; Nathan H. Dole;
William C. Gannett; Dr. Silas W. Mitchell; Mrs. Sarah M. Piatt; Walt
Whitman_ (H. Traubel, Literary Executor).

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AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE.

BY LYMAN ABBOTT.



Poetry, music, and painting are three correlated arts, connected not
merely by an accidental classification, but by their intrinsic nature.
For they all possess the same essential function, namely, to interpret
the uninterpretable, to reveal the undiscoverable, to express the
inexpressible. They all attempt, in different forms and through
different languages, to translate the invisible and eternal into
sensuous forms, and through sensuous forms to produce in other souls
experiences akin to those in the soul of the translator, be he poet,
musician, or painter. That they are three correlated arts, attempting,
each in its own way and by its own language, to express the same