1892 Oct. 1 - Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897, poet and critic. Little Park, Lyme, Dorset , [England]. To "Dear Sir." Describes his methods of compiling anthologies of poetry, standards for selection, etc. Criticizes American lyric and religious poetry as not being up to British standards of merit and as suffering from the "blight" of national vanity. The United States is "touchy & vain in a morbid degree." Public Deposited