The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-13
THE LYRICAL DInLis.
Wonderful Eject of poeticnt Form
Given 10 tho Good hook.

Given 10 the Good nook.
marvellous effect OF literary form has
been produced by the recent serial edition
OF biblical !dyls ana Apocryphai poems
edited by Professor Moulton OF Chicago
university.
one sees. ma few other books have given
him ou opportunity to zee. how much the
beauty and charm OF any literary work may
be lost or marred by its typographical ar
rangemont, Imagine what Tcuuyson ot
Shakespeare would be were they trans
posed into unlined prose, separated into
arbitrary paragraphs. called verses. and
numbered and one can sec how much has
been lost by those who know the Bible ouly
In the antauntod costume fashioned Tor IL
centuries ngo.
Professor Moulton has been rcarranglng
and bringing into attractive literary form
the books of the Old Testament aud having
them published I'm a nunbor OF small, con
vcnIcut volumes like the popular Shakes
pearc editions. The instantaneous appeal
which this new form makes TO the eye and
understanding Of the intelligent reader may
be gathered from remark made by clever
young woman who was examining one Of
these llillN NulHintA OF Lyrics. II snail
have TO read the Bible myself" she ex-
claimed ~ that's the way It can he made
! 10 look" She had opened the book at tho
following meirichl arrangement from Solo
mons Song;
| For 10. the winter Ia past.
| The rain is over and gone.
| The flowers appear on the earth;
| The time OF the singing of birds Is come.
! And the voice of the turtle Is heard In
our land.
The fig tree ripcneth her green figs.
And tho vines are In blossom.
They give forth their fragrance.
Arise. my love. my fair one. and come
away.
Equally effective In It's orderly revisiou
| into prose essays and sonnets is the Apoc-
ryphai book OF Ecclcslasticus. from which
the following sonnet is taken
o Death.
How bitter IN the remembrance Of thee
To a man that is at peace In hia possess
| sionr,
Unto the man that has nothing to distract
him,
And hath prosperity In all things,
And still hath strength to receive meat
o Death.
Acceptable is thy sentence
Unto man that is needy and that faileth
IN strength.
That Is In cxtrome old age.
| And IN distracted about all Things,
Aud Is perycrse and hath lost patience.
The Book OF Proverbs Is also recast Into
a volume Of logically connected couplets
and aonnets like the following
THE sLUGGARD.
Go to the ant. thou sluggard;
Consider her ways and he Wise;
Which having no chief.
Oversccr
Or ruler,
Proyideth her meat in the summer.
And ga,hcroth her food in the harvest.
How long wilt thou sleep. o slusgardf
When wilt thou arise out Of thy sleep!
Yet a little sleep.
A little slumber
A little folding OF the hands TO rieep'
; SO shalt thy poverty come as robpcr'
And thy want az an armed man.
Those TO whom literary form makes no
appeal will, OF course. look upon TINS ne"
departure with scant Justice; but the num-
, Der OF students. ever Increasingly larse,
and OF cultivated readers who VIII gain
new delight from this modern readers bipie
ought to make the attempt triumrnan.
! success in many ways, both tangible ana
otherwise. 81 49,
Prince Bernard. Of Sake weImar, who Ia
, frequently named ns a probable consort Tor
the queen OF the Netherlands, Is the sec
, ond son OF the eldest son and heir OF tho
, Grand duke OF SAKE Welmar. He was born