The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-14
erest,nr ana valuable feature Of THE

terestfng and valuable feature Of this
book is the chapter in which the author
examines the paradoxes and problems
presented in Julian's religious and philo-
sophical opinions. paradoxeS and prob
lens by which historians have been per-
picked. How could il come to pass, I; has
been asked. that a man whose moral
standard was 20 say the least. higher
than that OF his contemporaries. had no
respect for the morals of the Sermon on
the Mount? How could the follower OF
a highly spirituahzed theology ana cos
rnology prefer in religious worship the
sacrifice OF hecatombs of oxen. which
some even OF the neo-Py-thagoreans felt
10 be brutal and disgusting. 10 the pray
ers and praises offered in Christian as
semblies? How could reforrner PAIN
fully alive 10 the religious and moral
degradation of his own times. be so oind
as he was 10 the real character or the
only forces by which healthier society
could be erected? His views OF life and
duty seem in some respects much more
like those which have grown up under
Christian teaching than like those OF the
life-ioving Paganism of the best days of
Greece. Yet nowhere is he more bitter
IN his denunciations of Christian deprav-
ity than where he is exhorring TO what
we are accustomed to regard as peculiar
ly Christian virtues.
Master and Man" is Count Leo Toll
stoi's latest contribution 20 literature.
This masterpiece" we are informed in
the introduction, is the drama OF the
race" 1t Is a marvellous work.
.'tranScending the farthest reach Of art. !"
and marked with sublime divination."
1t is also purely realistic. Nothing is
forced in the action without or within,
but all happens naturally. and because it
must And finally it is tremendous
arraignment OF the whole system Of
wage service, and of the relation of hire
hing and him that hires" For. while the
Man was serving the Master for wages,
both were miserable; but when the Mas
ter served the Man for love, both were
happy. The Master is a sensualist.
whose chief Joy is in cheating others
scarcely so much. perhaps. for the gain
to himself as for the wrong to his vic
tim The Man is a drunken ne'er-do-well,
who has not spirit enough to resent ILL
treatment. This pair set olrt on q long
sledge-rde. the Masters purpose being
to defraud a neighbor. Storm and night
come on. The Master is stubborn and
pig-headed; the Man shows the subser-
vience of a fool, or clod. Naturally
enough they lose their way On the plains.
drive in circle, and finally give UP the
struggle and decide to wait for morn
ing. They unhaTness the horse and tie
him beside the sledge. The Master.
wrapped luxuriously IN two fur coats. hes
down in the cosiest part of the sledge.
while the Man, in his thin. wet rags.
fares as best he can. A little later the
Master thinking the Man asleep. or per-
haps freezing 10 death, plans to desert
him and make good his own escape. He
gets up. mounts the horse and rides
away. He cannot, however, find the
road, but rides in a circle, falls off, foun-
ders back TO the sledge and finds the
Man still alive, but rapidly freezing.
Then, having been absorbed in cowarrily
fright lest he should lose his own life
and so never again have a chance to
cheat anybody, he becomes maudlin with
remorse, and lies down in his two fur
coats on top OF the Man, TO warm him
and keep him alive. An imaginary hero
of embarrassing romance would have
pulled off one coat and put it upon the
Man, reused him from lethargy, kindled
a fire and made fight for life. Not so
this entirely natural Master. He just
lay down. murmured 'Kismet" and fell
asleep. Next day the neighbors dug them
out The Master III his two fur coats.
was dead, frozen stiff. The man, I'm has
rags and tatters, was alive. though wish
ing he was dead when he found his toes
were frozen and he would have chilblains.
Published by F. Tennyson Nicely, New
York and Chicago.
"A Gender in Satin" by Rita. is publish
ed by CT. p. Putnam's Sons in their I'm
cognito Library" 1t is a story of mans
love for a woman who hasn't walked to
love- who don't know what love is when
she marries him-a gender in SATIN
But she discovers after her marriage that
she does love. not her husband, but an