Were our father living, it would please him, we think, to see his sons collaborating as versifiers of the Pagan Lyrist whose songs he admired; it would please him, too, we are equally certain, to see us dedicating the result of our enthusiastic toil to so good a man and to so good a friend as you.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The "Lyrist of Chautauqua" was born in Manchester, N. Y., August 10, 1841. As a child she began to reveal artistic tendencies.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
In their clean-cut, abrupt, epigrammatic force there is something different from the work of any other musical Lyrist.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris