Poets' Corner
THE, in Westminster Abbey, the S. corner. This is merely a popular name. The poets represented are: Addison, Beaumont, mont, S. But ler, Campbell, Cowley, Davenant venant, Drayton, Dryden, Gay, Goldsmith, Gray, Dr. Johnson, Ben Jonson, Longfellow, of dreds of others. The word is almost equivalent to "massacre." Russian pogroms, however, first took place in 1881, after the assassination of Czar Alexander II., when the reactionary officials of the government, to divert the dicontent of the people away from the evils of the government, stimulated race hatred against the Jews. A secret propaganda was promulgated among the ignorant peasants, putting the blame for their economic sufferings on the Jews, who had monopolized most of the small trade of the towns. Out of this agitation sprang a secret organization, officially known as the Union of the Truly-Ru sian People, but more popularly called the Black Hundreds. This organization, backed by the secret support of the more reactionary officials, not only carried on a persistent anti-Semitic propaganda, pogroms, of which that in Kishinew was only the first to attract world-wide attention. The result of these violent attacks was to drive hundreds of thou- America, Macauley, Mason, Milton, but actually instigated thousands of Philips, Prior, Rowe, Shakespeare, Shadwell, Sheridan, Spenser, and Thomson. But there is no memorial to such poets as the following: Akenside, Mrs. Browning, Byron, Burns, Carew, Cartwright, sands of the Russian Jews out of the Chaucer, Churchill, Coleridge, Collins, country, most of whom eventually found Cotton, Cowper, Crabbe, Denham, Donne, refuge in the United States. Pogroms Fletcher, Mrs. Hemans, Herbert Her- have also been extensively practiced in rick, Hogg, Hood, Keats, Miss Landon, Lee, Lovelace, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger, Moore, Parnell, Pollock, Pope, Raleigh, Ramsay, Rossetti, Scott, Shelley, Shenstone, Southern, Southey, Waller, Wither, Wolfe, Wordsworth, Young, and several others.