Hand Browne,
of the University, and by the Rev. Dr. William Kirkus, of Baltimore,
and a letter*1* was read from the poet-critic, Edmund C. Stedman,
of New York. In 1883 `The English Novel' was published,
and in 1884 the `Poems', edited by his wife, with the excellent `Memorial'
by Dr. Wm. Hayes Ward, who declared that he thought Lanier
would "take his final rank with the first princes of American song."*2*
Numerous reviews of his life and works were published, notably those
by Mr. Wm. R. Thayer, Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Professor Charles W. Kent,
and by the London `Spectator'. On February 3, 1888,
the Johns Hopkins University held another memorial meeting in Baltimore,
attended by many from other cities. "A bust of the poet, in bronze
(modelled by Ephraim Keyser, sculptor, in the last period of Lanier's life,
at the suggestion of Mr. J. R. Tait), was presented to the University
by his kinsman, Charles Lanier, Esq., of New York. It was also announced that
a citizen of Baltimore had offered a pedestal, to be cut in Georgia marble
from a design by Mr. J. B.
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