Dr. Holmes is catching it from the religious papers for his poem at the Harvard celebration. The Evangelist declares that -

"Of the historic accuracy, the theological quality, the bad taste, the gross impertinence of such a poem as this, delivered in such circumstances, there can be but one opinion among considerate men; the affair belongs to that class of performances which has been wittily described as an indecent exposure of private opinions."

But then nobody expects "historic accuracy" in a poem any more than in a religious newspaper, and as to "theological quality, bad taste, and gross impertinence," they are the last things in the world to which religious newspapers should wish to allude, if the accounts which these journals give of each other be at all correct. - Evening Post.