The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-24

made thousnnds. sohe prostituteAh his divins aifk
and, hinginG garbage IN the face Of the people,
settled down 10 an income Of ten thousanda
year. Instant feme-that n, daily mention In
the penny and half-penny newspaperp-came to
him. He stil makes 10000 year in, year out,
but last night he awoke and groanod. for thero
had suddenly flashed upon him this lovely pas
sage from the Walter Pater he had once wor-
shipped and hoped TO follow: "A white bird
. . . q bird which he must carry In his bosom
across q crowded public place-his own soul was
like that Would 1t reach the hands Of his good
genius on the other side unrufiled and I'M
soiledf His punishment IL oven now upon
him for. though 1t is still given to him to con-
ceive lovely imaginations, yet the power to con-
ceivo those lovely imaginations is denied to
him. And so. though possessing an imagination
still untarnishcd, all his printed writings bear
the burden OF his infamou sin. and 30 delight
tho two-logged asses who turn up their noses at
the provonder provided for them by tho
masters"
It IL n little difficult to understand, with re-
gard TO the gentleman from Aberdeen, Just how
1t happens that, while IL Is still given to him to
conceive "lovely imnginations," yet tho power
TO conceive those lovely imaginntions" Is de-
MED to him; yet evidently his mind Is as an open
book to this most accomplished Of editors, since
oven his dreams are known TO the latter, who,
further on, claims a cognition that Is still moro
wonderful.
IF part OF the money raised for the Stevenson
memorial is yearly given to tho professor of
English at Edinburgh University to he used at
his discretion for the purpose Of helping every
pupil with the literary instinct to devote that
divine instinct to a divine end. then Louis Stow
enson will no longer be 90 sad, for he will no
longer hear so often Of ill-paid Scotch ministers
who desert from the service of their God to serve
the world. the flesh. and tho devil for 10000
a year. For Louis Stevenson does hear Of these
infamics. and 1t does sicken him to hear of
them"
There can DO little doubt as to tho superior
qualifications Of an editor whose knowledge OK
tends not only TO tho hidden thoughts of the
dwollers on this world, but also to an easy famil-
iarity with those OF the jewellers in tho world
above, but we should feel moro confidence In
him IL we know just how and whero he gets his
information. Cdstigdre Ridendo is the singu-
larly inappropriate motto set upon the title page
OF this publication, of which such original mat
ter as thore is alternates between the extremes
OF ill-natured abuse and hysterical adulation,
many pages being devoted TO an outpouring Of
gush over Robert Louis Stevenson OF tho kind
that his true admirers most deplore and that he
himself would have been tho first to resent. In
fact, most Of the Objectionable features of philis-
tinlsm are conspicuous in The Anti-Philistine."
In the preface to his Impressions OF Tur-
key During Twelve Years WanderinRs"
PutnamsI, Prof. w. NJ. Ramsay. @ scientist
Of worldwide reputation, and ono Of the
greatest living authorities on tho arch
geology and history OF Asia Minor, expresses
the hope that his book may do something to
produce in America an adequate conception of
the great educational organization built up in
Turkey by the American missionaries. BE
ginning" says he, with n prejudice against
their work, l was driven by the force OF facts
and experience to the opinion that the mission
has been the strongest as well as the most bene-
tlcent influence in causing the movement toward
civilization which has been perceptible in vary.
ing degrees among all the people Of Turkey, but
which has been zealously opposed and almost
arrested by the present Sultan with the support
Of the Six European Powers" Twelve years
experience among the peoples Of whom he
writes, and an appreciation OF the impossible
gulf that divides the Occidental and the ORR
entail, have taught this author tho futility OF
making broad and sweeping assertions and
congratulations, and hence his volume differs
materially from that Of the average globe trot
ter In tho East. who. after a few months So
journ, Is prepared to offer a solution OF the
Eastern Question:" and feels competent to dis
entangle and make clear all the subtleties and
COuIpiCNitiCo VI liz Z iui. Sa1l
say, who went to Asiatic Turkey as an archeol-
ogist, and with no intention of studying tho
Eastern Question" Is chary Of expressing any
too positive opinions. His method has been to
take the reader into the heart OF Turkey and let
him look for himself. the author doing little
more than explain the facts which he sees. He
sympathizes with the Turkish peasant and be-
lieves in his capacity for development, while for
the sluggishness and weakness Of the official
class he has nothing but contempt
" In one respect" he says. strong contrast
between tho average Turkish and Greek villages
impressed me. In Turkish villages the women,
80 far as l can Judge from sight and report, are
feebler and poorer in both physique and mind
lowing to their hard lot in childhoodl; whereas
the Greek women struck me as being better and
morally higher than the mon. physically good.
and intellectually well developed. Therein lies
tho future OF the two races. In the one case you
have a rich soil from which future generations
acquire strength and moral vigor; on the other
a stunted and impoverished motherhood pro-
duces Q poor and diminishing people. In the
condition Of the Turkish women lies the reason
for tho steady degeneration Of the Turkish
people"
On the other hand. he believes that q
blending Of the qualities Of tho Turk and the
Greek is needed to make O strong and self.
~suflcing nation in Asia Minor. Each seems
to possess some good qualities which are lacking
in the other. Take tho best among each race
and compare them. The Greek may be bravo,
but you can never trust him to die at his post OF
to fight TO the bitter end in the face of discour.
agement and despair. The Turk will maintain
his trust till he Is cut in pieces. and will stand
at his post till he falls; but he 10 devoid of rr
source and ingenuity. 1t has always
seemed 10 me that the Turks and the Greeks
will, united. make a happier country than either
race could by ITSELF So 1 wrote In 1890 and %
! still think"
Ouids's "Muriella or Re selve" IL c. Page &
Coz is a tragic idyll OF modern Italian peasant
life-a sombre and powerful study OF the Italian
character and temperament that Is free from
the exagxeration and extravaganza by which &c
much OF her work 10 diSfgured. LIE Selye
is q vast tract OF forest and pasture land
l lying between tho lakes OF Braciano and
Vico. in the neighborhood of viterbo. The