Ohio History Journal


    REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

    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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