The herald., 1897-04-11
EDITED BY ENocn KNIGHT

White angel 'twixt blue depth and height;
From heart to heat, from home to home.
From Greece to where her children fight.
Tell thou our brothers not more fast
Stand their eteranl rocks than they;
The future presses back the past
And night Is Fastening to the day.
Take thou our love to those dear hills
Where soul of man ne'er yet was cowed |;
Where a Greek hand Greek land tills.
Where chains are worn but heads un-
bowed;
That once our fathegs fought and won
When they the whole worlds freedom
bought
Upon thy sands, Marathon!
Our fathers-e'en the same that gave
The equal clasp of hand and hand
Who scorned the earthward bending slave
And bade the man in manhood stand.
Fly, o our Flag, since thou canst fly
As mans unconqeuered spirit freel
Each sea-bird thou, against the sky,
And thou each sail upon the sea.
Blue and White.
Publishers have learned to their sur
prise that the tariff bill presented to
the house of representatives by Mr..
Dingley, chairman of the ways and
means committee, treats books, so far
at least as the free list is concerned,
in O very reactionary manner. While
the tariff on "books, including blank
hooks Of ell kinds, pamphlets and CT
cravings, bound or unbound, photo
graphs, etchings, maps, charts and ali
printed matter not specially provided
for" is left at % per cent, as in the
Mckinley and Wilson laws, the free
list includes only books. engravings.
photographs. etchings, bound or un-
bound, maps and charts imported by
authority or for the use of the United
States or for the use of the library of
congress-"
The April number of the Atlantic con-
tains an article by Prof. Frederick ].
Turner Of Madison, Wis, on Dominant
Forces in Western Life" wherein he
traces the origin of the institutions and
ideas which make the great northwest
what it is. Especially interesting is his
tracing of Populism to New England
beginnings. Mr.. Turner's paper follows
a corresponding study of southern in
stitutions by w. p. Trent. which few
months ago attracted much attention,
and which was reviewed in these col
umns.
MARK TWAIN A TYPE.
His life has been typically American,
says Mr.. Thompson in the April Allan
tic There is something delightfully."- ma
tional in that ''two-story brick with
large tree.in front" in which 1t had its
beginnings. To attain fame and for
tune is supposed to be the delightful
privilege of the poor, self-educated
American boy. American versatility.
which has long been our doubtful boast,
is strikingly exemplified in this mans
variety of occupation-printer pilot,
private secretary, miner reporter, lee
turer, inventor Chat is especially Amer
ican!), author. publisher 1t all re-
calls the biographies-less likely, one
may guess, to be written in the future
than in the past-of the 'From the Tow
Path to the White House" sort. 1t is
American through and through. And
having lived this life. how could Mark
Twain fail to go straight to the hearts
of his countrylen, attracting them to
himself first through their sense of hu-
NOR, and holding them afterward
through their sense of kinship? If a
man thoroughly expresses the individu-
ality of a nation, he may fairly be called
great. We may lament the artist lost,
but we may rejoice in the man. He
has drawn the national type, interpret
ed the national character. For that SER
vice we may be grateful. And he has
taught unobtrusively, but none the less
powerfully, the virtues of common
sense and honest manliness. If 1t comes
to choice, these are better than refine
ment,
The English journals have discovered
In Pietari Paivarinta, the Finnish nov
elist, writer of remarkable power.
They compare him with Ibsen, Tur-
geneff and Tolstoi. believing him the rep
resentative portrayer of a people still
farther to the north than those depicted
by his contemporaries.
Therefore we shall all doubtless soon
be reading "Pentti and Juka," which is
the first Of the authors works to be in
troduced to literary London.
The London Academy thinks that Col.
Hays appointment is happy one, in
that, being a man of letters as well as
politician. he will keep alive the tradi-
tion that has gathered about the Office
hlled by Charles Francis Adams, Mr..
Motley. Mr.. Lowell. Mr.. Phelps and Mr..
Bayard. The Academy, also with The
Spectator. seems to have eyes for little
hut the pike County Ballads" which
"alone convict him of being a poet and
humorist." In addition to "Jim Bludso"
C'who does not know Jim Bludso p" II
ssks) and "The Mystery of Gilgal" it
quotes. with comments. from Little
Breeches."
Even Frenchmen can make Irish bulls
An article in the Revue des Revues.
1.-The Lapse of Writer'S" cites many
amusing blunders into which even writ.
ers of repute have been betrayed. Thus
Francisque Sarcey once declared that
I'm Mademoiselle Ugalde's voice one
IS reminded of the hane hf her mother"
Paul de Saint-Victor had a personage
remarkable enough to have It said Of
him: with one eye he reads, with the
other he writes" Even Flaubert, Ed
mond de Goncourt, Jules Claretie, are
cited for lapses Of this unconscious kind.
IA TRANSATLANTIC CHATELAINE.
A novel. BY Helen Choate Prince,
author of THE Story of Christine
Rochefort." 16mo. SIS. Houghton,
Miffiin & Co., Boston.