Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-04
STORY OF MY HEART.
A SPIRITUAL DRAUGHT FROM THE
WRITINGS OF RICHARD JEFFRIEs.
DANCING IN The OLDEN TIME.
Description of Private Function
Amoue the Ancient Greeks-The
Dances of Modern society Nonseh-
steal to the HelleDes.

IIe that is fond Of books looks FORWARD
70 the comparative leisure OF summer
months and says: Come, now l snail
ar least have time to improve or delight
nv mind. II go into the country there
viii be long sunlighted hours and quiet.
And so | pulled at random some DOCKS
from the shelves. But when one mas the
onportunity to watch the growth OF grass
and study the sincerity and unconscious
ness OF trees and admire the irahAhess
# animals, the printed pages seems aru-
ecial and unreal. French wit Is tnen
like revolving pin-wheels in pine forest
German thoughtfulness like the digging
n an unseemly trench in fiower-spotted
field.
one hook on which l furtively Toasted
,,as "Tbe story of My Heart by Hlch-
ard Teffries. II is over ten years Ola put
rot need not deter even the searcher LOT
ooveltv from drinking the spiritual
drauo6t of this writer. II is so restiul
80 encounter a soul that has oatned
ool,ed in the blue like the sun-the image
is Tieck's-and STEPPED itself In the
ii,e Of the moor and lofty headland:
Ieefries's soul. with its many spiritual
TentacIes. sought to touch truth anu
beauty. 800. a,s,,, ard
parched for want of the ram Vi ueep
feeling: my mind arid and dry' ior tneie
is a dust which settles on the healt "a
III 90 that which falls upon ledge.
~, .,,ot ond do not suppose by music
-, man or woman can be saved.
~ unduly emphasize this point IL Is
because | hear that tiresome cry so
otten art is sufficient" Art Is not SUM
ciart Art needs good, warm rlciI
NOD in it's veins. and II II does not get
Il ~ bacomes palid and artificial one
reason that Duse has appealed 50 niaI-
,, ei'1 70 ms is. because OF her human
Wagner's humanity was enormous,
and Beethoven-ah, Messiah! sdiut9
nee alone-triumphant surveying "a
,ther composers with sad eyes MI.
wen was a greater man thah aIlS t A
5 why he holds US forever III
,,,,. .o,,p saws Jeffries, has never
' "a never can be, dipped in Time
,s' zen 49, lever existed, and never VIII; |
, &C. nurely artificial arrangement. II
; eternity ip"' -
md always will be- ,,sic |
r., srits a. an awesome idea. Even music
,,ttoh 7 fancied was in the hantean ca'S
w.. 30 Time must belong 10 space
. :. mass of particles-a sort OF auulple
,. toar raw. There Is no past OF luture'
atsrnttv 10 come; eternity Is now
~ lint of the second, the Keen IN
tont az present self-eonsclousnSss
=, ,..v,fful and II
, beautiful with all its sorrows anu s .,ia
is an glow. color, and tone; anu " a',ar
dream out OF which re never
fishes TO emerge. ~. ,ha shore
- The faint blue pebbles are Tapped
me- a.,aen wave. where the wind
~ toan, is 10th TO leave the lashed
- Sweet Is the bitter sea, and the
49, eraen in which the gaze seeks inc
l.'I ,eoLino through the glass into itselt.
~" "a thinks for me as L listen ana
ardari The sea thinks, and every Dopih
= - wave repeats my prayer
,,o,,d rather have written tnat than
chonin nocturne. IL IS just as great ana
. oonsoline Yet. Jeffries had misera-
!. r,a noor and unknown; but great
-, ,,sined as is the pomegranate, with
sweet humanity 49,.
yyhsr Won read such prose you UNDER
"a The sentence OF George Moore con-
, ~ Pater's "Marius. the Epicurean." I
rhIs book was the first in English prose
had come across that procured for me
Nv genuine pleasure in the language II I
n in the combination OF words Tor sill
sr or gold. chime ana uneonseh',ohai
aanca and for all those lurking half
nan,ngs and that evanescent sugges- ,
On IKE the odor OF dead roses. THAI 1
ords retain to the last, Of other times 4
I'd elder usage"
Now here Is a singular thing about !
GORE: When ne wrote his delightfully."- I
-itating Confessions OF Young Man."
remembered the phrase OF Baudelaire-l
at a vocabulary Is palette he reveled $
splashes OF color. in nerve-exciting or
tints and tones When ne C
rota .sEsther Waters he used a dull J