The herald., 1896-12-20

Guy Fawkes day, as usual, the general
orders declared that, "as the command
er in chief has been appraised of de-
sign, formed for the observance of that
| ridiculous and childish custom of burn
ing the effigy of the pope, he cannot
help expressing his surprise, that there
should be officers and soldiers in this
army so void of common sense as not to
see the impropriety of such a step
When trying to secure some servants
too, he wrote that ''if they are good
workmen, they may be from Asia, At
RIGA, or Europe: they may be Mahome-
tans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or
they may be Atheists" Again, in let
ter he says: "Of all the animosities
which have existed among mankind,
those which are caused by difference of
sentiments in religion appear to be the
most inveterate and distressing, and
ought most to be deprecated:'
A PROFESSIONAL LOVER. By Gyp,
author of Bijou's Courtship, etc. F.
Tennyson Nicely. For sale by c. G..
Parker.
1t is never a bit of use to quarrel with
or seriously criticise so bright and
breezy body as Gyp is known to be.
| She writes always of gossip, and it is
gossip, just this, and nothing more. But
spun out series of talks into volumes,
and volumes into SERIES until she is now
becoming known as prolific writer in
field she has cultivated as no other
modern writer has done. Whatever
form she adopts she makes alive with
the frolic of her fancy. 1t bristles with
little bits of smart talk that take the
| readers fancy and makes him read the
little volume through-for she knows the
Ina nf 10 raj nt np1
the buyer. In the present volume she
| has assumed the dialogue form, as in
| Those Good Normars. which is not easy
to account for There is small occasion
TO say that Gyp's books are worse than
frivolous or better than literary banter.
She is TO real litera ture what the magpie
is to the whole body of bird melody.
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
The Great American Novel must be
no mere setting of philosophical abstrac-
tions. 1t must,' it is true, strike deep
root in the soil that the centuries have
| prepared for our civilization, but it
must at the same time be concrete and
vital presentation of certain individual
| lives as they are lived, or corceivably
| might be lived, at the present day. Such
a novel is under bonds to be an epic of
| individualism. for democracy,i If it means
| any thing. means la carr1ere OuVerte aux
talens, means the fullest opportunity for
the development of the individual. Our
| imagined work must have a hero and q
! heroine, each typical figure; ard ii
would be fascinating task to attempt
their characterization in outline. But
| this task would SAVIOR Of creation. and
/ is not for the critic to assume. Yet we
will go so far as to borrow from the
| poets two suggestions, one for the man
| the other for the woman. 1t is too much
to say that Emerson adumbrated this
hero of our search when he wrote the
simple lines that stand as motto fQi
! the essay on "Culture"-
"Can rules or tutors educate
| The semigod whom We await?
| He must be musical
! Tremulous. mpressonal,
| Alive to gentle influence
| OF landscape ard of sky,
| And tender to the spirit touch
| OF mans or maiden's eye:
| But. TO his native center fast.
! Shall into Future fuse the Past,
I And the worlds flowing fates in his own
! mould recast"
, And may we not fancy our heroine tc
| be the realization of such Il type as il
] foreshadoWed In the closing pages o1
| Tennyson's Princess, such a woman as
shall set herself to the hero like perfect
music unto noble words" yet remain
as distinctly woman as he is distinctly
man?-The DIAL