St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-08-30
CLASSIC HEROlNES In MODERN
STORY.

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$Hur," books that are stirring panoramas
of the life and times of which they tell.
Ebers found many new treasures Of
Thought during his stay in Egypt, and
seems to have agreed with Flaubert that
very material thing the description of
which is permanent in literature, must
lave been seen, grappled with, lived to
ave Immortality to an authors work. To
laubert's long wandering in PhGnecia, it
said, is due much of the strength of the
lasterly realism in the story of ''Sal-
nmbo." Chevalier Bunsen, who de-
GIFTED in "Hypatia" as wonderful pic
lre of the inward and outward life of the
~ which produced such characters as
pat of Hypatia and Raphael, said be could
t quite get over the hardships against
9 ancestors in being barbarians for
cture of the early centuries represents
Try hideous though great age, where
virtue and vice present themselves side by
tide. Kingsley said he dare not tell chow
SvifspeopIe were, and it would not be be-
Eeved now good they were"
~ AS illustrative pictures of these books,
ere is an ever returning charm in read
sof the various heroines whose beauti-
faces shine through these romances,
Id around whose lives there hovers all
re subtle charm of antique poesy.
Hypatia is introduced in the lecture hall,
Se, like a goddess, she ascends the
sAne amid the shouts of her audience,
ksNhole attitude expressive of maiden
interpolation of the truths of philosophy.
be addressed the students of Alexandria
a noble and elevated language, and
hen she paused after the close of her
ctuTe her eyes were glistening with tears,
Pr whole figure trembled with the rap
s re of her theme. The exquisite human
~ of the picture is the alteration of her
nng pupil, Philammon. her.moment
Aspell of her voice was taken from him
hurried through the corridor into the
W Yet. $50 beautiful so enthusiastic to-
Nd all which was nobel" he thought
s. had spoken of the unseen world, of
hope of immortality, of the conquest
The spiri. over the flesh as Christian
Int have done. Was the gulf between
S % SO infinite? If SO, why had her as
Rt1ons awakened echoes in his own
,rt2 "1t was surely light, purity, SIM
ity, courage, earnestness, tenderness. |
Sch flashed out from eye, lip, gesture"
Rpatia's voice haunted his ears like a |
lin of music, and would not die away. |
st lofty enthusiasm, so sweet and mod |
g was shining. There was no jealousy |
M hat pure love of his Her very beauty,
On his first flush of wonder was passed,
ceased to mention. 1t was her right
natural complement of her other
ses. 1t was the sunlight to the sky
1.-THE mountain breeze to the hunter,
III aspiring element on which he fed"
81 sallace, in the story of "Ben Hur,"
81 vs us in the tsnder retrospect of Simon
q .tfor his lost Rachel, the mother of his
liter Esther, picture of exquisite
81 srness.
lonides was guest in the house of
ii master at Jerusalem at the time of the
j fover. The maiden Esther entered,
81 ing sliced bread on platter, and it
81 then that Simonides carried her away
# Is secret heart, and in order to win her
is wife he became her bond-servant.
@ hou didst love my mother" answered
SCI fveet-voiced daughter.
Eove her, Esther She was to me
than the Shulamite to the Singing
fairer, more spotless fountain of
sns, a well of living waters, and
81 ms from Lebanon. Thy heart is good,
lr, good as thy mothers was and
Lit have not the fate of most good
ks-to be trampled upon by the I'M
Eiful and blind"
81 10 you believe he will Gomez" Esther
j, thinking of Ben Hur.
Anless he has been carried to the sea
s e desert"
know if he had not been able to come
4 sou1d have dispatched letter. He
III come"
hope So" she said, very softly.
2mething in the utterance attracted
attention it might have been the
it might have been the wish The
lest bird cannot light upon the great
sree without sending shock to its
distant fibre; every mind is at
no less sensitive to the most trifing
answer to her fathers inquiry Esther
a: ''The pleading of his voice drew
S him, and | shudder to think of him
lger. Yes, father, | would be more {
lad to see him again. Still the love ,
unrequited cannot be perfect love,
fore / will never leave thee though l
lie my love will be thy handmade /
es now" I
are first presented to Salammbo, the
Ter of Hamilcar, where the grand i
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s of Carthage, among the fig, pome- s
3, rose and plane trees of Hamilcar's i
built of yellow spotted Numidian r
Here were gathered the men of
Il sns. The feast became drunken
vertigo of diabolical influences and
naddened the armies. 6
MY salammbo, robed in black ap-
coming down the many stairways
III 80 xnIooa i11urninn6 | L
lsense light. She stands on the '
of the galleys motionless, head =
III. looking on the soldiers. They Z Z
|# Ger seen her before, except when :
in pious practices, kneeling to 9
4 amid the smoke of incense on the =,
lie palace, for she has grown up =
@stinences and fasts, surrounded Z
site and solemn things. She has =
s,ted wine nor eaten meat, and her :,
been filled with prayers. Pro- :,
of pale men in white robes J
with scarlet, bearing enormous :.
JIM round and follow her. They Z
aA jupich priests of the Temple y
Wfwho sing the divinity of Car :.
# KAabo's hair is powdered with vio- y
Strands of pearls and luminous
IN attached to her brow, and her
tunic of black tissue is starred
flowers, decked with diamonds
g lie of purple trails behind her, o.
ach step a wide billow. The p
"A his moment increased the pallor tt
ntenance, and subtle mist like b
s. ice of the gods seemed to envalop b
eyes, with penetrating power, n
bking beyond terrestrial space. "
s. anded the clamor of Infatuated I
q a GID IRE wounded lions roared and p
trumpeted through the dark 8
lmmbo, to quiet the tornado of A
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