The herald., 1896-03-01
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EDITED BY ENOcH KNIGHT

book, though it did not at fret attract
the attention it deserved. The realism
OF Gissing's creations is the realism
that pictures life in its strong and
striking phases; and although it IS
harsh and terrible in its intensity at
times, the basis of it all is truth and
justics. The Paying Guest, just now
out, Is short but excellent story, and
ths public will await the next one with
interest, which, by the way, is to bear
the title, Sleeping Fires.
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According to the New York Tribune,
s. II. Crockett, the novelist, has bsen
telling hoa hard up he was when he
was student in Edinburgh. He lodged
with friend over great coal station,
and he used to 20 out in the evening
and pick up the Goals which the carts
had dropped in the streets. Some
times," he says, II grew so bold as to
chuck lump of coal at a driver, who
invariably looked for the biggest lump
on his load to hit back with, which was
what 1 wanted. Thus the exercise
warmed me at the time and the coal
warmed we after ward. And occasion
ally we got large enough stock to cell
to our companions and buy book or
CWOs DuU L WlSu, uoI0 aau AOWS w uOA-
emnly state that I never, never conde-
scended to lift a lump off cart. at
least hardly-well, unless it was mani
festly inconvsniencing the safety OF the
load or overburdening the safety of the
horse, you know!"
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Perhaps the best bit of work in Mr..
William Lindsey's little volume is his
sonnet entitled The Gross.
"rwo rough-hewn timbers. crossed agai INST
An awful form outside the city gate:
a CHASTITY sign OF vengeance and oi hate,
10 frig the Grant slaves averted eye;
The last harsh couch. whereon pale Crime
doth lie,
Seeking in vain glance compassionate:
symbol OF death most dreadful dealt by tate,
Until, one April day. they lift OH high
"a thorn-crowned King who dies upon cross.
Thea bows world bofore the sign OF death,
The curse is changed to blessing in breath;
Its cleaning red lines knigh tly shields ON boss
On womans breast 1T lies; no day dawns
brignt.
But eiids a cross-crowned temple with its
light"
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The Pail Mall Gazette describes Mr..
Hall Caine's style as combination of
the "Bible and Daily telegraph" The
Gazette ia delighted to find that its
surmise is confirmed by Mr.. Caine
himself He says in McClure's Maga-
zine, "Whatever strong situations I
have in my tales are not of my crea-
ton, but are taken from the Bible.
The Deemster is the story of The Prod
igal Son. The Bondman is the story of
Esau and Jacob. The Scapegoat is the
story of Eli and his sons, bnt with
Samuel as little girl; and The Manx-
man is the story of David and Uriah"
The Gazette adds: Samuel as a little
girl suggests infinite possibilities in
the way of the Bible turned into
fiction"
The late Eugene Field, despite much
hasty work, had vein of conscien-
tiousuess which is we'll illustrated in
novel now about to be published. Mr..
Field wrote the story twelve years ago,
but was dissatisfied with it's condition
when he had finished it. He rewrote
it after the space of year and laid it
aside again. The following year he re-
wrote it again, and up to his death had
returned to it several times. There
were eleven versions in all. It is for
tunate that the last one pleased him.
The story is called The Werewolf.
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Here is simple rhyme that is very
forcible in it's way:
Deep is the heart of human kind;
Vain are the thinkers who would find
perfect symbol for its thought;
Vainly the final word is sought.
There is no line of human creeds
But tells its tale OF human needs,
Yet still, from age to age, they change.
The future to the past is strange,
And the yearnings OF Zach day,
New doubts that stir, new hopes that sway,
Shall be embodied, endlessly,
In creeds to be. and yet to be.
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In Professor Hugh Walkers study
of three Great Victorian Poets the
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