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THE DIAL

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No. 170.

Rh THE TOWER OF FLAME. ( July, 1893.) THE CONGRESS OF AUTHORS. (With Extracts from the Papers Read) THE PUBLIC CAREER OF CHARLES SUMNER. CHURCH HISTORY RE-EDITED. THE “HERO OF NEW ORLEANS” AND “OLD ROUGH AND READY.” RECENT BOOKS OF POETRY. BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS

BRIEFER MENTION LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS LIST OF NEW BOOKS

THE TOWER OF FLAME. I.
 * July 10, 1893.

II. 

THE CONGRESS OF AUTHORS.

It is hardly possible, at a date when the Literature Congresses have but just completed their work, to take anything like a philosophical survey of the week's proceedings. We have, however, thought it best, even at the risk of offering our readers an incomplete and imperfectly digested report, to summarize the series of events that have made the week just ended noteworthy in the intellectual history of Chicago. If we may not tell the whole story, and if our coign of vantage be too near the object for realization of the proper perspective, our report may at least embody the salient features of the Congresses, and point a possible moral here and there. As has already been stated in these pages, Congresses to the number of five were planned for the week ending July 15, their subjects being Literature proper, Philology, Folk-lore, History, and Libraries. They have provided an intellectual repast bewildering in variety, and quite beyond the assimilative powers of such rash mortals as may have attempted to partake of all the courses. They have been characterized by many notable contributions to both general and special culture, as well as by many of those discussions and comparisons of diverse views from which a subject often receives more light than from some more formal method of treatment.

The Congresses were happily opened on Monday evening, July 10, by a general