Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-06-10

NVNtihu EhNOIitDss
With no foreign country has The
literary America such friendly
feeling at present as with Scot
land. Even Dickens and Tenny-
toD and Shakespear have not made
us feel as much at home in Eng
land, as Burns and Scott and VIM.
Black have In their beloved Scot
land.
How we'll Scott has pictured the
beauty of bills and lakes; William
Black tells us Of occasional bleak
hills and marshes, and great deal
about the coast life. When we
read Scott we feel like going hunt
ing; when we read Black we feel
like going boating, but when we
read Burns we feel like studying
humanity. What poet of any
country has come nearer the SYM
pathics Of the people than the
large, tender hearted, lovable,
reprehensible Burns. With sad
ness we think Of his designations
and early death, but we love him
for the good that was in him
Side by side with the favorite
negro melodies Of our own country,
we place the Scotch songs of Burns
and others.
But il is of DR.. Watson, Ian
McClartn, u. NJ. Barrie and Henry
Drummond, want TO speak par.
ticularly. Any of us who have
persevered Though the first few
pages of Scotch dialect in, BESIDE
the Bonnie Brier Bush" will soon
find ourselves more than paid for
our perseverance. We will give it
Scotchy mental pronunciation
satisfactory TO ourselves, and then
fully enjoy this series Of Scotch
pictures. When we come to the
account of the doctor, and feel his
nobleness, aud then his tenderness,
and then witness his beautiful and
simple death, what wonder that we
raise the book little higher so
that no one may see the moisture
in our eyes. We can hardly real
ice that the doctor is merely a
creation of Ian McClaren's and
not one of our personal friends.
But a glimpse Of this ideal is good
enough for us, and Ian McClaren,
though he bad never visited Amer.
lea would have been one of Amer.
ica's favorites.
j. NJ Barrie has made friends oI
all classes of Americans, children
as well as grown people. lie
seems TO he capable of making
himself a little boy, a little girl, a
weary woman, a bachelor or a
prim little o,d maid.
In many lltces in his "Senti.
mental Tommy !" our first impulse
is to laugh, but we see the hidden
pathos, and the result is a smile
on the lips, and tears in the eyes
Now we do not think that the
American people are going to suf
fer from too much OF the "tearJ
round the lashes" kind Of emotivr
and we think this talented Scotch
man will do us good. Barrie il
now in America and is being wei
coined right heartily.
Henry Drmmond travelled ex
tensively in America some years
ago and among his American
friends were Emerson and Moody
He was student of science anC
theology and became an ample
forceful writer and lecturer.
wealth of good reading is found in
his two little books, "Natural law
in the Spiritual World" and hi'
little volume OF addresses. AnC
now the man who wrote, "Tbt
Greatest Thing in the World" tn,
man whose works have been trans
lated into many Languages, tn,
man whose life and words have
been an encouragement and inspi.
ration to multitudes, the mar
whom Americans admired, re-
spected and loved is dead. Afte.
long illness patiently endured
the soul of Henry Drummond
passed home to the spiritual
world he used to talk TO us about
Long will we Americans hold his
memory in loving appreciation.