The herald., 1897-07-18

And will be; 1t Is never more nor less.
Nor glad, nor sad. Its name is Nothing
ness.
Power walketh high: and Misery doth
crawl:
And the clepsydra drips: and the sands
Down in the hour-glass: and the shadows
sweep.
Live, strive. regret. forget. and love, and
hate,
And know it not. This specter saith. I
walt
And at the last it beckons and they pass.
And still the red sands fall within the
glass:
And still the shades around the dial sweep:
And still the water-clock doth drip and
weep:
| And this Is ALL"
OWEN MEREDITH.
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| A monument for Heine's neglected grave
in the cemetery of Montmarches, Paris
has been prepared in Rome by the Danish
sculptor, Hessebril. 1t has not been or
dered. however. and whether or not It will
be erected over the grave sens to be a
| matter for future decision.
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Jefferson's writings, as shown in Paul S.
Ford's volumes, are attracting great at
tention. The surplus, as an incentive to
jingoism. he thus refers to:
Sound principles will not justify our
taxing the industry of our fellow-citizens
to accumulate treasure for wars to happen
we know not when, and which might not,
perhaps, happen but from the temptations
offered by that treasure" Like
Darwin Jefferson lost his relish for poetry
as he grew older. but he records the fact
in language amazingly f1owery. THE
purist Of New England" made him nervous
as to the style of his first message, which
he begs Madison to revise for him SO as to
observe strictness of grammar where 1t
does not weaken expression. But" he
adds. where by small grammatical negli-
genoes the energy of an idea is con-
densed, or q word stands for a sentence,
hold grammatical rigor in contempt" This
has not prevented Jefferson from being
quoted more frequently in the Oxford die
tionary than. we believe. any one. If not
all his critics. We remark, finally, that
there is suggestion of Montaigne in the
confession Prospecting speculations con-
corning future life), IT have for many
years 4. :. . reposed my head on
that pillow Of ignorance which benevo-
lent Creator has made so soft for US, know
ing how much We should be forced to use
it."
A DAUGHTER OF JUDAS BY Richard
Henry Savage. Rand. Mentally & Co.
Mr.. Savage, the tireless writer Of fiction,
has here written another very lively story
of today, full of smart sayings and doings
Of the smart American social and business
set. 1t is No. 9 of the well-known Orient
al Library" SERIES Price. 25 cents.
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DEAR FAUSTINA. BY Rhoda Broughton.
author Of "A Beginner" etc. D. Apple
ton & Co.
This is No. 21s Of tho justly famous
Town and Country Library novels,
bound both in cloth and in paper, and al
ways worthy to be read There is no other
series Of cheap novels that equals this one
in general excellence. The present volume
is story of London social life. and they
who remember Coming Up AS Flower
will be, willing to trust themselves to a
careful reading of this newest product of
Mrs. Broughton's pen.
CAPTAIN Ef1AYS: A POPULIST OF 1885,
By George D. Rivers, author of 1.-THE
Governors Garden. 16mo. Cloth extra,
gilt top, SLIPS. Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston.
Mr.. Rivers new story deals with the dis
content of the farmers in Massachusetts,
after the Revolution, and the noted Shays
rebellion which arose from 1t. 1t is uni
form in size and type with Mrs. Good
wins charming romances of Colonial Vir-
ginia. white Aprons" and 1.-THE Head Of
Hundred"
One of that mass of disconnected men
who Joined the forces of Daniel Shay to
obstruct the collection of debts and even
break up and scatter the courts, was
Deacon Isaac Brown, the blacksmith and
small farmer of Petersham, Mass. Deacon
Brown states the case to his daughter
Ruth after shoeing the young lawyers
mare. "He give me these three shillings.
Them's British Ruth, but they're worth
more than a peck of potatoes, and that's
what Joe Reed pays me in. Its all very
well for the like Of this STRIPPING to have all
the silver he wants, buckles and money
too, but how about the poor folks who
do the work? There's got to be change
and there are signs of it already. If one
revolution amt enough, then we'll have
another" Then follows the story of Shay's
organized band of malcontents, who became
the terror of the law-abiding people of old
time Western Massachusetts. Poor old
Isaac Brown was crazed and found a sad
end, as did so many others. But Ruth
came to know the truth about his affairs
at the last, and learned to love the young
lawyer, whom the father had feared and
naleO, anu the Two came together dl Tic
end of the strife. 1t is simply told story,
that interprets in a strange way the cold
storical facts of that time, facts that only
few who read history Alright have ever
understood. We have been accustomed to
look back upon the actors of the Revoiu-
tionary time as patriots all, who gathered
up and cherished the fruits of the struggle.
But the fact is that the whole compress
that had bound men together because of a
common danger was removed when the
British troops sailed out of New York
harbor. Then the pent-up passions born
| of discordant interests and ruined cur
rency, burst forth. There was no basis OF
| common belief or a common pride. There
| was a craze for tariffs against neighbors
and a cheap money to pay all debts and
taxes. Staid old towns, like Worcester and
Springfield, were ruled by mobs that took
possession of property and defied the
courts. New Jersey could not sell her farm
products in New York, and they rotted ir
! the ground, while the latter city forbade
the general government to collect taxes
| from her, and declared that no federal Off.
Ger should rummage about her wharves
Indeed, the whole country was torn BY
strife. a strife that inf1amed Patrick Henry
to declare against national integrity and t.
plead and work for southern confeder
acy.
such volumes as the one before us be
come of value much beyond the mere mat
ter of the romance. for they illustrate and
illuminate passages in our history as M
other agencies can do.
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