Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-04

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But on that day to death, to death be
Without a country's worse than in q
Antistrophe b.
Mine eye hath seen, nor do muse
On others history,
Nor home nor friend bewails thy nameless
panRs.
Perish dismally
The friend who fails
To cherish friends. turning the gu,ldless
OF cahdors gate, Such friend be far from
A selection from the scene in which
Medea's determination wavers is this:
Farewell my plans
And yet what am i thinking Of? Wish
10 be the laughing-stock OF enemies
Unpublished left? The deed It must be
dared.
Shame on my. weakness. that soft words
Ny spirit Co. my sons. into the house.
TO whom II is profane my sacrifice
TO witness, let him look out: my hand
Not weaken. But alasi alas!
DO not my soul, pray. not thou attempt
This deed. Let them alone. o wretch.
and spare
Thy sons There shall they live with US.
Bring thee delight-nay, by the Internal
furles OF Pluto's reign, II shall neer be
That afford my sons to enemies
lnsulis! The lots are cast and shall not
And now upon her brow the crown. prin-
And bride she perishes within the robes.
Well do l know. But since most gloomy
tread. and these by gloomier still shall
send,
] wish to lid my sons farewell. Children,
Extend extend, your right hands to your
mothers
Kisses. o dearest hands and dearest lips
TO me, and form and noble fountenance
or my children! be prosperous but-there,
All here your father hath bereft. = sweet
Embrace o tender skin. most fragrant
Away! Away! No longer am fit
TO look upon you, but am overcome
by woes. / know. It's true, the evils
Shall dare, and yet m!< wrath Is master OF
NV better judgment: and this IL the cause
Which probes the quick OF human misery.
And then when she has firmly decided.
and just before the murder of the chill
dren, we have:
My friends. this course hath firmly been
BY me. with utmost speed to STAY my
sons,
And put forth from this land. nor lead
delay.
TO give my children to more hostile hand
To murder: for al all events they die.
Since such their fate. then l who gave
them life
Shall XIII them. So. my spirit, arm thy
Why do we falter 70 perform this deed
OF dread, yet OF necessity?
Come. o unhappy hand. grasp thou the
Grasp, and bend thee to the bitter post
OF lie.
Play not the coward, nor reflect how dear
Thy children are, and that thou art a
For this brief day forget the sons Of thee:
The long to-morrows mourn: for even If
Thou siayest them, still are they dear.
and |
A woman made acquaint with SORROWS!
The shorter dialogue, such as that be-
tween Aageus and Medea, and which in
the original constitutes the weakest point
H. the tragedy, presents no feature from
which we may judge Of the merits OF the
translation, but we give for purposes Of
comparison another ode:
Strophe n.
o Earth, and thou Pellucid Glance
OF the Sun. look look thou down upon
This desperate woman: hold the hand
The suicidal murder of Its own.
These streams have sprung from the
And there is fear that blood divine will
by mortars stroke
But thou, . God-born Light, her hand
Environ her: expel from the house this
or frenzy, by the Furies' lash blood-mad.
Antistrophe a.
Lost strays thy vain guardan-care -,
OF the children vain hast thou gendered
thou who didst pierce the inhospitable
Where the symplegades' darkling crass
hung.
Dread princess, why snoulu the weight vi
wrath
O'erwheim thee. and malignant murder
turn
Upon thy head?
For grievous are human iiis' commehsu-
With stains of kindred blood diffused in
the slate 40 ~.
Vengeance OF gods on house with guilt
replete!
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OLD EUROPEAN JEWRIES. BY David
Phillpson, ID. d.. author OF 1.-THE Jew
In English Fiction" etc. Philadelphia:
The Jewish Publication Society or
America. 2d pages.
Among the many interesting volumes
that have been issued by the jewish
must take prominent place. 1t is MS
toric. philoSophic, and discriminating IN
the opening chapter, which deals with the
early settlement of the Jews In Europe
the author rejects the legend that there
were Jews In Spain as early as the time
OF Solomon and also sets down as hte-
rary fiction the tradition that syna-
socues had been established In Ulm ana
Worms before the birth of Christ Out
eide Of Rome" he says. 1T Is not liAeiy
mat there were Jewish settlements III
Western Europe before the beginning Oh
the Christian era" The Ulm and worms
tradition. however, he accounts ioi 0
very logical grounds.
Until the era OF the crusades. when was
,a,,,d the cry "exterminate the enc
80 of Christ at home before lighting
AGAINST them in the far East" the con-
di,ion of the Jews In Europe was pear
ahle nut after that their terrible woes
hepan. ana the centuries OF bloody perse-
cution opened. ~.
mr. Philipson's work IL o study OF INC
external and internal history and the oe-
vs,opment OF the Ghetto--the more Inou-
EN- accepted term for the Jewish quar-
ter which was known as Judengasse'
yudenstrasse, or Judenviertel In Ger
many. Judlaria In Portugal, Juverie IN
Francs. &c. Ghetto Is the Italian forn'
aut In etymology is not very clear. -.
Originally the congregation OF the jew
IN separate quarters was not compuisoIy'
but upon their own motion. ana =" c soro
s,'s,ances the inhabitants OF the Ghetto
Ia very happy life. This was noticably
~, case under the act of Rudiger, Bisnop
80 speyer. 1854, which DR.. Philipson
"a IN full. In other instances the
i isws were taken under the immediate
oro,sction OF the Emperor. and though
stsv enjoyed comparative quiet they wess
nsas"y phiiIpson traces the Church ieGi:-
,s,,nu which resulted in the colnpus.
1,rw Ghetto, cites a number Of the ed,cs.
irtsuded to degrade the Jew: ana 49,
taxes up In detail several os sns '''s'