St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
"Mask and

the hardness of the
Domino" present age - hard
hess in love, religion
and work-did not affect our national
poetry and change the early world
songs of joy into pessimistic signs.
Your pOetical pessimist finds where
gold makes the standard of living and
doing an audience quick to respond
to his sad melody. For this the MASK
and Domino" of David l.. Prrudft
PORTER IL Coates, Philadelphia will
have its say and make its impression.
At the best, this sad world; and for
SOOth, because the sadness has become
unbearable the poet must speak and
find relief in the response of the heart
strings upon which he strikes.
Thou soareSt upward, thinking. sooth,
'Tc grasp Unreasonable truth;
Tomorrow thou art bent and worn;
Spaces and ages in their youth
Laugh thee 10 scorn."
Not the words of great poet, but in
them some caution, some warming
some calling on self to protect self and
thereby to attain the highest end. 1t is
somewhat curious that Mr.. PrOudft
should have dedicated the work to My
Three Boys"
Wallack's The October Scrib-
ner's might be called
Memories. a theatrical number.
so much of its space
being devoted to Lester Wallack's
Memories Of the Last Fifty Years"
and Hobbies behind the Scenes of an
Opera House." Wallark's death, COM
ing so close to the publication of these
memories, lends additional interest to
them.
The Tin Soldiers, ""Rag Babies and
other silly trash encumbering the
mind so far away from the true drama
and the great names that sought to
perpetuate it, that the Wallack articles
come most oppOrtune to check tide
running into the worship of idiOcy.
He writes charmingly and with in
herent modesty. Charlotte Cushman
said after her first meeting with him as
MercutiO, ''Wallack is the coming
young man of the day." That was
fOrty-three years ago, and Wallack and
CuShman are both dead now.
He does not cOnfine himself to mere
dry dramatic details about when Soc
and-So went On" and SO-and-So went
off," but runs to the anecdotal style, as,
for instance, this bit of fun: The old
Broadway theater in the first days of
management of William Rufus Blake.
Mr.. Blake found the best part of life to
be the fun he got out of it by cracking
joke at the expense of another. In the
company playing there then was Ger
tain pOmpOuS Mr.. Hind. To Mr.. Blake
came Mr.. Hind one day, complaining
that in the play bill his initials had
been omitted. Replied Mr.. Blake, very
Solemnly:
.'Mr: Hind, the omission shall be rec
titled"
And so it was, the bill the next day
appearing as follows:
1.-The character of So-and-So by Mr.. B.
Hind"
McCulioch's Hugh McCulloch's
problems in Ameri-
Problems. can Politics." in this
number of the Serb
ner's, concludes valuable essay on cur
rent political evils with the prophecy:
IF the republic is to be shOrt-lved,
like those which have heretofore eX-
listed, unrestricted manhood suffrage
will be the cause. 1t is the only really
grave danger that threatens the life of
the republic"
~
Social Life There is just one OBJ
JecUlOn 10 social Lie
and Litera- and Literature of Fifty
Years Ago." and that,
ture. that the author with
holds his name. We
have keen interest in knowing the
name of an author of such happy SEN
tence as this.
The stage then offered us no such
attractions as 'PinafOre' and The Pr
rates of PenZance.' We had to content
ourselves as best we might with such
Sic operas as La Sonnambula,' I'll
TroyatOre," with old COM
edes like The School for Scandal
or try to obtain a conception
of Shakespeare'S characters through the
interpretations of the KembleS, father
and daughter of Kean, Macready, and
the elder Booth" Oh, that is capital,
and as keen and gallant a thrust at the
foliies-dramatic and literary.of the
day as ever true knight gave. Listen to
this, you frothy admirers of puny age:
Newspaper literature now comprises
a world of interest which was undreamt
of half a century ago. We had THEN
no such appreciation of the prize ring
and It's heroes" Or this:
1--WE had FEW authors then"
The book is refreshing, full of breeze,
and delicately exposed frankness as
to the literary sins of to-day that tiays
while it amuSes. Cupples d Hurd,
Boston.
r."
The Hath not a Jew eyes?
hath not a Jew organs,
American dimensions, senses,
affections, passions?
Jew. fed with the same food,
hurt with the same
weapons, subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means, warmed and
cooled by the same winter and summer,
as Christian iS?"
the Minerva Publishing company, New
York, the warrant for publishing, as
they are a series of ScandalOuS attacks
upon the Jews of America. Scandal
Gus, because the intelligence Of the
world has not sunk to that depth that it
will not fail to do homage to all JeWry
for its part in past history. The Jew
has bis faults; let us amend our own
before attacking them; least of ali be-
tore lending c0untenance to so shameful
an attack upon them. The publishers
of the work Soiemnly announce that eff
forts will not be spared in urging the
passage of laws that will afford society
In general protection (?l from the Jew.
Far better let all honest men have laws
that will protect them from slanderers
such as these. The grave has not So
completely swallowed up all that was
great and good in Emma Lazarus,
Disraeli or Montefiore that the world
will not uncover to them; and to their
race-the inexhauStible, time-hall0Wed
grant the glory that is their inherit
ance.