(now of the University of Chicago); poetic tributes by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull,
Miss Edith M. Thomas, and Messrs. James Cummings, Richard E. Burton,
and John B. Tabb; and letters from Messrs. Richard W. Gilder,
Edmund C. Stedman, and James Russell Lowell -- all of which may be found
in President Gilman's dainty `Memorial of Sidney Lanier'. Again,
a replica of the above-mentioned bust, the gift also of Mr. Charles Lanier,
was unveiled at the poet's birthplace, Macon, Ga., on October 17, 1890;
on which occasion tender tributes*4* were again poured forth
in prose and verse, by Messrs. W. B. Hill, Hugh V. Washington,
Charles Lanier, Clifford Lanier, Wm. Hand Browne, Charles G. D. Roberts,
John B. Tabb, H. S. Edwards, Wm. H. Hayne, Charles W. Hubner,
Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Dudley Warner, and Daniel C. Gilman.
But more significant than these demonstrations, perhaps,
is the steadily growing study devoted to Lanier's works.
Mr. Higginson*5* tells us, for instance, that, when he wrote his tribute
in 1887, Lanier's `Science of English Verse' had been put
upon the list of Harvard books to be kept only a fortnight,
and that, according to the librarian, it was out "literally all the time.
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