The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-09-19
EDWARD GILLIAN,
The Wilson Mirror pays High Trib=
ute to the Talented Eeditor of the
ReidsviIle Review.
Wilson MirrOr.l

Praise is grateful and sweetly bene-
fetal, We like to bestow it upon
worthy and merltorious objects, for we
know how 1t brlghtens ones life, how
it invigorates the wasted energies, how
it stimulates the tagging spirits, and
how beautifully and brilliantly it paints
with its glorious brush and opulent
colorlngs the opening avenues of a
hopeful existence. And for that reason
we never lose an opportunity Of show
ing our hearty recognition of conspic-
uous merit, and wreathing it with the
sweetest garlands of enthusiastic COM
mendatiOn. And so, it gives US gen.
une pleasure to write Of the merits of a
brother Journalistic gentleman, a
scholar, poet, We refer to Edward
Gillian, the brilliant and versatile
editor OF the Redsville Reeiew, who is
spending the week in Wilson. Mr.
Gillian is a true poet, and has entwined
many heart throb in the beauteous
wreath of fadeless song. And while we
know that it is his special gift to enslavc
the senses with the witchery of beau
teous and opulent and gorgeous diction,
still it is in his power to convict tho
sober reason by the force of a ratiocin-
alton which cannot be shaken by any
breath OF sophistry; for he can in one
minute lay down the well tuned lutte of
poetic fancy, from which the soul doth
pour in sweetest rills its glorious streams
OF rhetorical elegance and beauty, and
| IN the nest he can take up the sledge-
hammer of steel faced logic, and with
the brawny muscles of we'll developed
Vulcan he can beat out truths and facts
that will stand the judgment of eter-
nifty. And so, with mind admirably
trained and logical. with style original
and piquant, with expressions felic-
itously graceful and winning, he stands
among thc most entertaining writers of
our acquaintance, and we have never
yet seen anything from him that did
not breathe an air of freshness and
fragrance waited from some flowery
gr0tto of beauty and poesy in a new
found Florida of thought and fiction.
And as such Mr. Gillian 5 emanatiOus
receive our warmest admiration. for we
love the sentimental, the beautiful and
suDiliIt "c iONc l'otttS. W love
it for its softening and refining intlu-
ences. its elevated thought and tender
pathos. 1t is and ever has been tho
great civilizer of man, Long before
letters were invented or mnsic, as in
tae story of Urpheus, charmed the pas
slons, or painting caught the fieeting
visions, poetry trembled from the lips
of the wandering bard and softened the
heart of the rude barbarian. The po-
etic angels of Hebrew song first told us
in majestic verse of Gods wondrOus
love. The poet has passed through
the unfolding veil of tuturity, and fey
humanity's sake has written ctr names
on the brow of e.ayIitt. lie has wan
le,eG with Teri through the bowers of
nature, moved with the suns and spheres
through space. watched the rosy light
of Aurora, viewed the gorgeous cloud
pictures, wrapped himself in the sunset
draperies of eve, walked mid worlds of
golden fire, and, rising still higher, has
opened the gates of the Celestial city
and tloated back to earth on the melo-
dies of his song.