The herald., 1898-02-27
(Edited by Enoch KnIght.l


Mr.. RoRbert w. Chambers writes the
following stirring lines as preface to his
Lorraine which we fancy will live long
and quicken the French pulse for many a
year to come. Mr.. Chambers strikes some
false notes In his historical summing up
but this little poem is literary gem:
when yesterday shall dawn again,
And the long line athwart the hill
Shall quicken with the bugle's thrill,
Thine own shall come to thee, Lorraine!
Then in each vineyard. vale and plain,
The quiet dead shall stir the earth
And rise, reborn, In thy new birth
Thou holy martyr-maid, Lorraine!
''Is 1t in vain thy sweet tears stain,
Thy mothers breast? Her castle crest
Is lifted now! God guide her quest!
She seeks thine own for thee, Lorraine!
SO yesterday shall live again,
. And the steel line along the Rhine
Shall cuirass thee and all that's thine,
France lives-thy France-divine Lor-
raine!'
The New Time" is a slashing new mag
azine that makes its way with free think
Ing politicians, but Is over free In denun-
~ioeiOi VI tiOIc CONSERVATIVE views t1an 1tS
own. 1t contains, however much that Is
good, and some of it's hits are very force
ful. Its cartoon of Hanna and his famous
dispatch to the president will attract wide
interest
The Terrible Infant" is not to be un-
dertaken In New York. after all. Mr.. Ge-
lett Burgess and the others have con-
cluded That they cannot raise the required
capital to insure the enterprise, and all
nave gone to work in other ways BY the
way, nearly all of the coterie of ''literary
ieilers' who have made San Francisco
lively these few years have gone east to
grow up with the country Somehow lit
erary work finds small announcement or
the coast compared to reward in the great
cities on the other side of the continent.
o o O
Mr.. Gladstone sketch of Arthur Hal
lam, published simultaneously in the
Youths Companion of Boston and the
London Telegraph. Is Il striking piece OF
work, II for no other reason, as the Acad.
emy points out. than this: that II Is ian
old man of eighty-seven setting down
luminously and powerfully the praises of a
friend who has been sixty-four years In
the grave The paper was written last
year.
The Kashmirian bircll-bark manuscript
OF the AtharvaVcdu is one of the most
precious Oriental documents in existence
Ii was brought to light in 1876 by the re-
searches OF Professor Rudolph Won Roth
VINO guarded 1t until his recent dea tn. when
~ passed INTO the possession of the Univer-
sity or Tuebingen. 1t consists of PSI
leaves, written ON both sides, with dinen.
slohs OF 2Ox2o en-. Professor Maurice
bloomfield is about to prepare n photo.
graphic reproduction of this manuscript
ana invites subscriptions at twenty Ave
dollars for the proposed edition of two
hundred copies. Mr.. n. Murray. Johns
hopkins university. will receive appiica.
tions for the work
THE CRAZE IN LITERATURE
we have often warned the reader against
.ne habit OF reading all that q new style in
literature offers, or the practice of even
so'nS through any one authors beeLs
in case hfst venture has been found inter.
restins For instance. we saw, or Though,
we saw, that Crockett, Barrie. Watson
una the rest would overdo-or be compelled
~ oVerdo-the Scottish dialect matter. am
'i''s mas come to pass. Even George Nc.