REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
APPRECIATION OF MISS MACNEILAN'S
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE AND POETRY
OF COATES KINNEY.
An Interpretation of the Life and
Poetry of Coates
Kinney. By Debora M. MacNeilan. (Columbus: Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society. 1931. pp.
88. Cloth $1.00; paper 50 cents.)
No publication of The Ohio State
Archaeological and
Historical Society in recent years has
been followed
more promptly by appreciative comment
from the press
than Miss MacNeilan's work entitled An
Interpretation
of the Life and Poetry of Coates
Kinney. It was issued
from the press early last April and its
reception clearly
indicated that perhaps the Society has
been neglecting
somewhat the literary achievement of
the state. Emi-
nence in statesmanship and war and
growth in wealth
and population naturally afford the
themes of major im-
portance. Literary progress, however,
helps to build and
sustain the state and contributes much
to education
and progress. In fact, a state's
attainments in literary
culture is a safe index to its
educational progress.
Among the poets who have made material
contribu-
tions to Ohio is Coates Kinney. Without
entering upon
any account of his life or criticism of
his literary work
we shall here reproduce some estimates
of both and their
portrayal by Miss MacNeilan, as
expressed in reviews
from the Ohio press.
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