New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-06
Else were not so dazzled by thy face.
Thy voice, too, mounts into TINS nead OF mine,

" Co much that II thou saidst, Il want star,
There is no stream wild. no sea so far,
But would cross; no headsman steei OF nfc,
Tbat conId withhold me- Yea, could climb higher
Than peaks that kiss the sky, that star 10 seek
And Sunday thou shouldst wear IL ON thy nccA'
have stolen much space for this Fascinating ioVc-
scene that have little left In which to follow tho ro-
mantle story TO its close, through the interference OF
murderous rivals the and bitterness OF mpacaoo
parents the hearbreak and despair; I'LL the very ast
when Mireios dying eyes see "a Dark WITHOUT si',
upon % " sea like glass;" and in IT the pesseu ones III
robes Of grace These things she saw, while the others
beheld only the red sunset on the sea-" Ano as she
died she looked at the many stars shining, ana
WHISPERED "Among those worlds one surely may DO
found where may love In peace" thihh IL saio
prediction that NewYork and Boston Will indorse inc
verdict OF Paris and that before the summer Is over
whoever cares for what is true and tender ana peau
full will have read Miss Preston's "Mireio." koperts
BROTHERS are also TO publish, the first of May. Pau
OF Tarsus" uniform with "Ecce Homo" IL Is an lh-
curry into times and the Gospel OF mo Apostle W o
Gentes and is written in style which VIII be iRey 10
win for il as universal hearing as was ACCORDED 10 io
seeley.
ho,o ,ro literary events TO chronicle in the way OF
lectnres: the debut of Miss Virginia Vaughan, ana the
reading at Miss sargents, Of MIR. Henry Jan'ess
brilliant paper Emerson. Pldce deI d""tS' "n
this case the lady certainly deserved ner pace Inv
upper Horticultural Hall was the scene oi MISS
yaughan's triumph for triumph it was. Uniortunates
aware probably what a dainty hall TINS Is IL was
made for flowers and women, win ltS many
mirrors its light and festive frescoing It's countess gus
lets and its general look of freshness ana g"9e'S
II the Hall became Miss Vaughan why so uu ,,'''.
Vaughan become the Hall. She dressed IN SILK Oh
rool Tvron nurple made with a sweeping train ike that
~ Cour lady She had bright eyes 10 match ner OrSht
words; and her manner of speaking was worthy Vi
especial MENTION for it differed very widely RON 'at
of any other woman 1 have seen upon the pat
form. Her delivery was something moro thah ,'c
eloonent rendering of eloquent lectures 1t was the
artistic and dramatic expression of powers not usually
called into use by speaker. Her recitation, In parc-
MAR of an old Vedc hymn thrilled her audience as the
finest actress does in her finest points" "Why she
looks and speaks like sbyl" said one lady; addlng
have heard woman lecture before; but am con-
verified" Her subject the Poetry OF the Future.
She led ND TO IT, however, through the poetry of the past
The shades of the great singers Of all time marched
by u.s. in grand triumpha procession, chanting as they
went She took the strongest ground against the IDEA
that poetry must decline civilization advances anu
showed us that all true development OF nation OF
world must pay tribute to this highest form OF art
Mature" she said, the great mother Of the universe
is not DOOR is not nlccardy she who sows the INFINITE
fields of space with countless consultations OF stars ana
tho lonely wilderness by with considerations
of flowers she WHO delights in surenderng her secrets
\ TO all those who rcyorently question her; thls
| great teeming bountifu mother OF the uni
|
| with Shakespeare Homer: with genius -
in word with great able TO give expression to IT'S
highest thoughts" If genius seems at any epoch to fa
il is because Natures leadings are disobeyed
she reviewed the great steps of the worlds art progress
| the vedic hymns chanted in its early dawnng the
poetry Of the Hebrews feryd with religious inspirations
| Homer-to whom Gods but somewhat larger and
stronger men-snging with simple realism and yet with
heroic grandeur in the prang childhood of the Greek
race Eschylus and sophOcles who wrote the tragedy
and passion Of Grecian maturity; Dante, the first
poet who above the dense fog that settled upon
| the human mind during the night Of the middle ages
who Overooks his contemporaries like some huge noun
tain rising from barren plain, solitary, desolate, snow
clad mountain, but whose brow piercing the heavens
catches glory of the sunrses and the roseate flushing
of the sunsets above ALL who gave to the world the
chivaric conception Of love existing between man
| and woman and a ideal Of womanhoOd'-all these
| passed in review before u.s. at her summons With
| some Of the moderns she made longer pause.
She called to look at Shakespeare with more cr
cism and less absolute surrender than is the worlds
wont in presence of her mightest mind She confessed
superative greatness his iinsght cquaed by that of
| none other, into the hidden workings OF the human
heart his similar insight into the very soul of nature
and its relations with man. but she claimed that " he
never entered the highest domain of thought, never
penetrated by chance into the serene realm where
dwell the immortas, the world Of universal hOpes
aspirations, principles He walks the earth god, but
If his spirit eye ever fastened upon the Utmost
sanctuary of the heavens II that vail was ever lifted
him. does not at least disclose the vision. Although
| the most objective of writers, he has never drawn
single character carried away by impersOnal enthus-
asm dstinctivey devoted to idea He is the poet of
| human nature, but Of human nature devoid OF its
| highest inspiration Shakespeare docs not to
have written under the inspiration Of any
! lgious faith this is OF his most
striking pecuarities. He is neither Pagan or
Christian; nor anticipating the inspiration OF modern
times does his heart hrob with the great religion Of the
brotherhood of man." 1t Shelley who took mp the
prophet cry OF humanity and Of him the exact
Of what has been said Of Shakespeare is true. OF all
poets that ever lived they offer the striking CON
rast and are the remarkable degree others
complement. Having followed the grandy flowing
river of song thus far from its source Miss Vaughan
concluded with the portrayal or the Poetry OF
the Future. Her sentences were almost rhythmic,
and they glowed with the impassoned fcrvOr of her
conception OF the Great Singer yet come who is to
chant the unguessed gories OF purer and more
perfect civilization. hoer religion, human brother
shall fill the ideal world with forms Of eternal beauty,
srew its armament with spiritual consultations, with
glorious and stars of which the splendors OF the
material universe are but passing symbol"
Few invitations OF the past Winter have awakened
keen an interest as those which this week given
a select few TO listen Henry James Ralph
Waldo Emerson The two differ so widely in faith
in manner. in method Of thought; in short each
individual that there plenty of for conjecture
to what the one would about the other The paper
by which this questioning interest satisfied Was one
Of the most sincere, sweettempered, and rev.
erent essays in personal criticism to which !
have listened Mr. James began with the impress
sion which the Concord seer produced upon him when
hey frst IN full in York