AMERICAN LITERATURE.-Th Thereares some
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AMERICAN Thereare some
sensible remarks IN the English Annu-
ais for 1888, in an article on the poetry of
Bryant, which, as they are in perfect accor-
dance with opinions we have formerly ex-
pressed on the same subject we present to
our readers. The writer rejects as unjust and
illberal, the opinion which ne says still lin
gers in some minds that there is "an lncom-
patibility between poetry and all elegant lite
rature, and the character and institutions OF
the American people," and expresses his own
sentiments on the subject as follows:


"That in America, as a new country,
where much remains TO be doue, and where
every mans hands are full of business the
useful should take the lead of the ornamental;
and thatthemechanical arts, with the sciences
that suggest aud perkctionate them, should
leave little time for the cultivation of the
graces Of the bellies lettres. we can readily adj
mit But the little the Americans have done
o! late years is good and instead Of wonder
ing they have not done more, we are surpris-
cdHnder the circumstances, they have done
50 much and we insist that they have done