The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-21


ruler, benevolent in disposition and emf
nently fair in spirit. The latter are a
pestiferous race, natural conspirators,
"ancharists. nihilists and bomb throw
ers." They incite riots and retaliations.
and have bureau for sending out to all
the world misinformation. Mr.. Halde-
man seems to be in no doubt that he
has the truth and the facts. 1t is very
unfortunate, to say the least, that there
should be such irreconcilable differ
ences of opinion as to the deserts of the
Armenians.
Thomas Dunn English is publish
ing in The Independent "Reminiscences
of Poe." He was moved thereto, in the
first instance. he says, by the desire to
defend himself from imputations under
which he had long rested. and by not
less strong desire to correct several mis-
statements damaging to Mr.. Poe, which
had been published on the alleged au
thority of English. The truth Of history
should be vindicated, we suppose; and
Mr.. English has the right, certainly, to
tell the truth about Poe whenever the
unpleasant tale is necessary to the ex-
culpation of himself But with the best
of intentions and kindly feeling for
one whom he once esteemed, now so
long dead, Mr.. English is not able to
produce any other than an extremely
unfavorable impression of Poe. In all
the qualities essential to manliness he
shows Poe to have been deficient to a
painful degree. We could wish the story
might have been withheld. But if it puts
period to the shallow adulation of
which Poe has been the object it may
not have been wholly mischievous.
In the discussion of kleptomania to
WI ich the Castle case has given rise,
some of the writer's are particularly en-
phatic against calling person klepto.
maniac who is not insane on other sub
iects than stealing. 1t issaid that there
is no evidence that Mrs. Castle is insane
on any other subject than taking what
does not belong to her. and if she were
not rich it would be called stealing,
simply and solely. Whether the unfor-
tunate woman has shown any other
signs of an unsound mind is not known
to the public. But there is confusion in
the supposed relation of riches to the
naming Of the crime. The true relation
is, that in the case of wealthy person
formly attaching to theft. Mrs. Castle
could have and did have whatever she
wanted. Many of the things she stole
she did not want. The irrationality of
her act in her circumstances, is what
gives it the name,-kleptomani
In the midst of the jealous activity
of the surgeons who stand. knife in
hand, eager to bisect and subcut the
precious literary remain called "The
Acts of the Apostles" it is steadying to
weak nerves to hear the voice of such
demonstrator of New Testament anato-
my as Prof. w. M. Ramsay, lifted up to
say: 1.-The exact historical authenticity of
the narrative is the great result of recent
discovery. 1t has already ceased to be
possible for rational criticism to
maintain that the narrative of these
journeyings is a free second century
composition; and it is rapidly ceasing to
be possible to regard it as series of
frst-century scraps, pieced together by
a second century compiler for his own
purposes. Only narrative written
with full mastery by an eye witness. or
by one who was in communication with
eye-witnesses. and able to use their &C
counts with delicate precision, could
stand the minute study that is now de-
manded and applied"
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.