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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-23

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Later advices state that the ice is
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river Is probably clear of ice only a
short distance above Dubuque.
The river, Observer Wall thinks.
will probably begin rising again at
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A rise of 0.5 foot is expected at Rock
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RIVER IS STILL RISING
Stsge shows . Steady Iuceease With
Prospect Of More.

Danger Line. Height. Oh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

ogy OF EliZabethan audiences. and that. after
all. is the very thing we want most to know
about. How far did contemporary sympathy
for Shakespeare's plays go? MIR. warner oD-
serves that the crowds at the Globe Theatre
were apt to be rough, and. though he surmises
they were responsive. he concludes That now
ever the people OF his day regarded Shakespeare
it is safe to say that they could not nave hau
any conception of the Importance OF the Work he
was doing" Perhaps not. but 1t Is Just mere tnat
the reader wishes Mr.. Warner could give more
help il Is just here that he frds him guilty. Oh
the same fault that has been laid at the noors
of his predecessors These historians paint the
Elizabethan audience wildly enough. but they
make no attempt to divine its point of view, 10
get at its spiritual side. No one thinks OF dis-
cussing the probable effect upon such an audi-
ence of the purely poetic felicit!es IN snake
speare The impression given is always that the
people responded to the emotional ana dramauc
crises. but there modern Interpretation stops
we hear nothing Of the murmur that must have
run round the house at
If thou hast ever held me in thy heart.
Absent thee from felicity awhile
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in
pain,
TO tell my story.
The picture is incomplete. 1t VIII rever be qlitc
satisfactory until some one mas Sot Ihto the shih
Of an Elizabethan and felt around his con-
seriousness not only the beat Of Shakespeare's
heroic dramatic tides. but the subtle play Of his
most lyrical raptures. Such an experience ought
not to be beyond the powers of critic.
1t Is surprising to find IT. however within the
reach of Miss Quincy. for her writings have
BEEN and to a certain extent still are. vitiated
by the literary sophistication of the contem-
porary decadent school. Rarely does a breath Of
air force it's way into her wordy pages. Pat
rims" which is named from "a Gypsy trail:
handfuls of leaves or grass cast by the Gypses
On the road. to denote to those behind the way
which they have taken is itself the very an
tithesis Of Gypsy freedom and freshness 1t is a
siflly written book. most Of it, with affectatons
rampant within its covers. But in the paper on
Charles the Second Miss Quincy contrives to
bring the very spirit of his time upon the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

scene To be sure she spols II by a sugary in
PRODUCTION. wherein she presents three artificial
individuals as going over the subject Of the
King in "clever" talk But once she settles
down to work she makes see the King his
Court and his people, and helps us to grasp the
temperamental significance Of them all. 1t is a
hrst-rate study. inspiring a sincere hope that
by -and-by Miss Quincy Will abandon the por-
tentous absurdiies caught from the poets and
"prosateurs" of THE Yellow Book" and the
"Bodley Head" and put her often preposscssing
enthusiasm into more prepOssessing form. There
is something refreshing in her earnestness. in
the uveliness of her impressions. For few of
The latter. sobcrly set forth, we would give all
ler pages and pages OF pretty literary illusions
when will the cs5lyists learn that artfully in
ierjectcd quotations are not learning. or schol-
&rshp or TASTE O.. anything but just crude lit
erary bounce? \ of humor would save
them
Nevertheless it has not saved Mark Twain
from making a dull book out of his How to Tell
a Story. And Other Essays The initial subject
is handled with surprising lack of resource. the
long defence of Harriet Shelley is reasonable,
but altogether too long and wearisome, the at
tack upon Fenmore Cooper is in bad taste-be-
sides showing abysma depths of insensibility-
and the five remaining papers are similarly I'M
cdifying. Essays are not for Mark Twain The
form is not unsuited to Mr.. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, whose rather scntmentally named
volume contains more than thirty brief. viva
cious sermons but. on the other hand this au-
thor does not rise higher than plane Of ordi-
nary common-sense. The essays are sane.
straightforward productions. very smoothly
written. and moving. in fact, at just that easy
gait which catches and holds and modcstly edi
ics the casual reader. But they lack originality.
lack moro than commonplace suggestiveness; in
short they also. for ell their animation of style,
are a little dull
We inclined 70 say that Mr.. Edmund
Gossc deserves the same criticism. yet we are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

men as De Quincy and Lamb, say, who cannot
help giving you gmpses Of human life ana
vitality through their bookishness; or to others
like Pater and Symonds who if they give YOU
any life at all are somehow conscious of Their
behavior and make entirely obvious EFFORTS To
show YOU that they really have warm blood in
their veins The distinction arrived at through
such study would yield at least one profltapie
sidelight on the theory OF the essay. When II Is
written out Of an artless sympathy for books
and men, as for themes indissouby connected,
it will be good. as witness the work Of the two
old masters we have mentioned and the work
of Matthew Arnold and Ste Beuve. If it springs
from a hookworm's conscious resolve to peer
outside of his library upon the active world 1t
will have no lasting life-it will incur the re-
proach lcveled at Walter Pater. that he wrote
English as if it were dead language.
1t is this second kind of essay which is most
in vogue nowadays, and there is accordingly
peculiar pleasure in choosing first from hand
full Of new volumes the little book in which Mr..
Warner has sought to describe the life of THE
People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote" II Is
readable, and it ought to be a useful. work.
There is no artifice here and, along with GER
tain amount of erudition, there is no archRO-
logical dryness. Mr.. Warner has simply realized
in few rapid pages the familiar life of the
seventeenth century, the manners of the people.
their primitive household customs, their conduct
at Court, in the country and in the theatre their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

provided against every accident, and now we
are certain that, whenever the risht wind blows.
we can start without hitch. Unfortunately,
since July - 0his August 6. 1856. there
has been no south wind. 1t is not enough for
me that the wind should be from the right GUAR
ter. | must have a chance Of decent weather.
so that we may be able TO see something. Now
it is getting late. Our work, however,
has not been wasted. The experience we have
gained will be valuable when come back
again next year, L hope to DO. We shall
come earlier and shall be able TO set the balloon
ready quicker. There is always plenty or south
wind early in the season. Three days # a moder-
ate wind, blowing approximately from tie
south, is all we need. After that the wind may
blow how 1t pleases, it cannot help taking US
toward some OF the land that encircles the
polar ocean. We can remain ail0at for three
weeks. and in that time, with any luck. we
ought to be carried down to some haonnuie
country"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

II Prep - which he withdrew himself from
very TASTY situation"
Nothing more exciting than this befeil the
travellers, and as there nothing Of very
great picturesqueness in their explorations. the
volume may be relinqushed with bat one more
citation. That is important since the very re-
cent departure Of Ardrec upon his balloon trip
to the Pole lcrds interest to every fragment
concerning his venture. Sir William Martin
Conway and his companions visited the now
celebrated balloon house and talked with the
acronaut. The author says HE had been told
that his scheme was in every respect imprac-
ticable. They said could not set up and initiate
my balloon in this place. | have set it up and
inflated it. They said it would not hold the gas
for sufficient length Of tine without leakage.
1t has now been inflicted for ten days or more,
and it does not leak. There were two little
needie-point holes only. and these we easily
mended. We have considered everything and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

WAS nearly lost over the brink THE torrent
s.vs our author. with its floor and walls or
unrest ice and its dark waters, was a peau'hu'
th,hg Garwood fingered behind 10 'h'e'''sao
the structure Of the ice. where, at one Poi"' ~
roo,te crystalline structure was displayed. no
almost lost his life in consequence The corh'ceo
hank gave way beneath his feet as ne aP
preached the edge to take photograph ~
a fortunate chance he did not fall into the ra''
of waters. whence ne could not possibly nave
emerged alive for the floor was ice the tor'eh'
was IN food and the walls overhung "He .
funnel He was facing the stream and ne went
straight down. but his elbows behind ms paoN
caught on the newly broken edge ana there "e
hang suspended, unable to get any purchase
with his feet. for they went right back against
the slippery and still overhanging wall. he
believes he remained in this dreadful posi'ion
for ten minutes, before, by some twisting ar
ra ngement. he balanced himself on one mana
and reached his geological hammer with the
other He ultimately dug this in. and made OK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

not sorry to see the third edition Of his Seven
teenth Century Studies brought out in a hand
some volume. with carefully compiled index.
Mr. Gosse's scholarship always wears more
or less manufactured air. and the laws he lays
down in matters Of taste are not. fortunately.
ike the laws OF the Modes and Persians. He is
a lightweight among critics. But ne Is one Of
the most Industrious OF them all; what he does
he does with eager care, and his sketches OF
Lodge Webster Herrick Crashaw and Ether
edge will do no harm to the student on his way
to a close study of those writers. The book is
1ord but il Is sympathetic. ard in minor way
it useful purpose. So also does Mr.
DObson's "IIandbook of English Literature" a
compilation which is thoroughly welcome in its
substantial new dress. with It's revisions and eX-
tensions. The work is an admirable example Of
compression The field covered is immense, and
his limitations prevent d the author from giving
free swing to his pen. but his briefest para
graz hs are adequate, Instructive vignettes, and
the whole book is written in an attractive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

economic and social condition. All this is highly
serviccab. Read If the E!izahcthan belief in
fantastic things and the sympathy Of The people
for Shakcs peare is the clearer to our modern
minds. 1T was for age Of faith" says Mr..
Warner, for people whose credulity was fed
On such prodigies and whose Imagination glOwed
at such wonderful portents that Shakespeare
wrote. weaving into the realities Of sense those
awful mysteries Of the supernatural which hoy
cred not far away from every Englishman OF his
time" Having gone far as this, however, tell
inl, us how Shakespoare's contemporaries ate,
dressed slept and felt about comets or colossal
whales. Mr. Warner dissppOints by landing his
reader at q station far ThOrt Of complete kno"l-
edge. He has nothing = say about the psychoi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
SOME ESSAYISTS.
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS AND MEN.

THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM sHAKEsPEARE
WROTE by Charles Rudley rN warne Rrobn qs
PATRINs: TO WHICH IS ADDED AN AN IN NDh
RENDO INTO THE WIT AND OTHER GOOD
PARTS OF HIS LATE MAJESTY King
CHARLES TIE SECOND Written by LOUISE Innse
Imogen Quincy. Octave. PIP. 334 Boston: Cope
land d Day.
HOW TO TELL A STORY And Other Essays.
BY Mark Twain Octave PIP. 2S3. Harper a.
Brothers.
BOOK AND HEART. Essays on Literature anil
Life. BY Thomas Wentworth Higgnson. Oc-
tavo, PIP 81 Harper & Brothers.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 81 UDIES. Con-
tributon to the History OF English Poetry. 10y
Edmund Gosse. New Edition Octave. PIP. XIV
$50 Dodd. Mead a. Co.
A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH L!TERATURE:
Originally Compiled by Austin Dobson. New
Edition. Revised with New Chapters, ana IN
tended to the Present Time. By w. Hall Griffin.
b. A. Octave. PIP. XIV. ISL Lorgmans Green
Co.
The essayist in all times. but above all In our
own. has struggled between two impulses: either
he has been bookish or he has set his heart on
"life" An interesting chapter might be written
on this struggle. with special reference TO such
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

style. The arrangement is convenient ard, we
think. discreet, giving honor where honor is
due. The publishers have made comely vol
ume out of the work, and their enterprise viii
be appreciated in schools and in private libra
ri
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
SPII,SBERGEN.
SIR WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY IN THE
ARCTIC CIRCLE.

Being an an Account 9f an Inland Journey Of TX;
ss~tra Monnas ASCENT W Of Boat ERPedioH
in Ice Ford Of Voyage to North, East Land
Nearly to wiches Land. and into Most Of the
Fjords OF sptsbergen, and Of an Almost Con. Com
BY Sir William Martin Conway. N. A., +. 5;
A.. +. II. G.. S.. Sometime Roscoe Professor OF
r5utons se by w ? Gfegdiy B. &c. A. Trevor
Battye. and L. J: Garwood. Together with
from from sketches by H. f. conway. Two Maps,
and about one qndTed InIlP snd Tiki
Octave PIP. xii. 81 Charles Scribners Sons
It is bulky title and p bulky book. For the
rest. it is hard to shake off the remembrance Of
"Farthest North" and to give Sir William
Martin Conway due credit for his work. Nansen
has made things difficult for his followers for
wears TO come. His book is so brilliant and so
fascinating a record of Arctic exploration that
ANYTHING else seems tame. Certainly the pres
cnt volume is pitched in far less inspiring
key and it celebrates an infinitely less mpor-
tant exploit But Sir William Martin Conway
did some good work in Sptsbergen, and his book
will be valued. Strangely. this not inaccessible
region has never before been thoroughly eX-
plored or surveyed. 1t is true that its fauna has
been lamentably reduced by the trappers who
the country can still yield interesting fruits to
science is implied by the contributions to spe-
cialized literature which are to come from the
geologist ard other members of the Conway
PARTY. 1t was left for them to make the hrSt
inland trip of any serious consequence, and the
text of this volume. If not marked by much adj
venture or much picturesque discovery, is prac-
teal and interesting.
Sir William Martin Conway has himself been
50 Impressed by the characteristics or Splts-
bergen that he urges other explorers to spend
their time there when they have chance but
he confesses that they will have hard work to
do even with the best equipment. He took the
wrong kind Of sledges and only got the right
kind of ponies after annoying experiments Much
of the island is composed Of horrible ice bog
in which men and ponies stick constantly, only
freeing themselves at the cost of much time and
effort That the ice at its best is quite as
trcacherous there as anywhere else in the North
is shown by the single incident of adventure
recounted. Such torrents as that shown In the
illustration are frequently met
ami upon one occasion member OF the party
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
Martel Notes.

Special Correspondence Ocaia Banner
| The farmers are looking hopeful over
the heavy yield of their oat crops in
| this section.
| We understand the B. Y. z. u. at
Fellowship was well attended at the
last meeting, and splendid pro-
gramme read for next meeting, which
will be held next Sunday. Let every
one who can attend visitors are cor
/ daily welcomed.
! Wonder what's holding off pienics
this season. Haven't heard of any in
our section yet
Our railroad agent, J. Fl. Smith,
aud wife, visited relatives at Welsh
ton last week, and reports having
spent most pleasant vacation. Jo-
seph Smith acted as agent in our
agents absence, but says he don't like
| to bach.
Mrs. w. n. Long is visiting in the
Brick City this week.
"Calliopean" seems to be grumbling
about the rates on vegetables. Why.
our rates from MarteI are reasonable.
We an put your stuff through to
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Boston, from twenty to thirty-six
hours, for rates as follows: New York.
81 cents; Washington, "a cents; Balti-
| more, 81 cents; Philadelphia, IS cents.
and Boston, n cents per crate. Is not
this reasonable enough?
wonder why some of our vegetable
shippers haul their truck to Martin. in
preference to Martel. Martin being a
much longer and rougher haul, it
can't be for the one cent less in the
express rate. There must be fairer at
fractions for that young man.
Mr.. Halle Seckinger is visiting at
Fort Mccoy the past few days. We
wish you pleasant trip and a good
time, Halle.
Miss Maggie Brown is spending a
few days with Mrs. Smith at Martel
thl'' week. BETsIE BoBoLINK.