The times., 1898-04-17

look at her work because it was a girls.
AS mere servitor of harmony she was
very accomplished and made grand con-
cert tours with her little brother, We
know"
The dark demonstrating composer of
Sampson and Delilah," turned his quick,
bright eyes upon the blue of the Mediter-
ranean-we were at a villa on the Ri
viera's Cornice road-and then said in
his muSing way
Mature loves equilibrium, and muSi-
cal nature has not forgotten women
Depend upon it, whatever unique power
is given to Felix Mendelssohn and nev-
er to sister Fanny, TO Robert Schumann
and not to sweetheart Clara. is balanced
by a latent feminine faculty. hitherto
disused half despised. confused with
baser faculty. 1t is given to the male spe-
cies of the animal Kingdom TO generate
and create; il belongs to the female Spe-
cies alone to bear and to raise into per
feet life One imparts an impulse which
it can do nothing with; the other can
give no original impulse, but can util-
ize what is impaired 10 it in a way i'm
possible to the male. One is the steam,
, the other the engine--each ineffective
without the other. This is the principle
| of life-iust as real in the spiritual world
as in the physical, though the demarca-
| ton is less obvious and the parentage of
l
| ''Where a woman confines herself TO
| executing ideas impaired TO her by 9TH
| ers, she does them more faithfully and
| better than a man-other things being
equal Who sings with more consummate te
| faultessness than Lilli Lehman, for
| example? She does not pretend to any
| ensnaring originality, she is simply the
| faithful executive of the ideas of Wagner
| tho -tATS WI knows
| so we'll and whom we hear through her
| as clearly as we see through a perfect
| pane of glass. Where receptive woman
| photographs. creative man idealiZes.
| There are conditions where the infinite
| accuracy of the photograph Is preferable
| to inferior idealiZatiOn- Even superior
! idealiza ton is in the nature of untruth to
| facts. Photography can reproduce and
| the microscope discover. tinenesses and
| beauties which even Raphaers eye could
| never detect. One is the painting of Cod
| the other merely the hand of man. The
| term mechanical is not fairly applied To
the painting of the sun on sunset clouds.
| a photograph, spectrum, or a woman ;
| finely reproductive soul
1--WE have a practical demonstration of
the superiority of feminine insight for
| objective truth in the United States
Treasury at Washington" 1 said. as he
paused moment. There it is mainly,
or solely. women, L understand. who are
trusted to detect counterfeit currency, in
the final resort. among the rotten. mutiI-
lated. undecipherable bills coming in for
redemption In Il similar manner, you
would tell me, she can reject a counter
felt Beethoven from her playing. ii she
bends her energies advisedly?'
Yes" Saint-Saens continued, his del
icate. almost sharp features lighting up
with a betrayal of pleasure that he could
say so. beauty hat is objective can be
as absolutely re-,C Cguized by her as coun-
terfeit bills Eu she must learn to dis
entangle her divination. her clairvoy-
ance, her perceptiveness. from the juds-
ing. the logical. the reasoning faculty.
For this travels away from perceived
worlds into the imaginary. Wholly diff
ferent from her fancifulness is her in5ul-
tion. The latter resembles the spectre
| scopes power to record light inappreci-
| able by mans eye. Womans wit is a
scientific reality
Then he spoke of Plato's talk on the
! psychical shock of love- the souls vision
or half-remembTance OF the world oil
divine things. Woman's musical recep-