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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03
TIE OLD rAnAnDnNN IN sourmwAnK.

or this great genius who was for his
own time, yet for all time. 1t is too
much 10 expect that a man saturated
with national prejudices should have
dissented from the feeling in the story
of the proress. Though Chaucer is
amazingly modern at times, he cannot
be judged by the philanthropic stand
ards of the nineteenth century. Chau-
Ger loved flowers and birds-above all
the little daisy and small "fowles"-
but the feeling for nature as of value
in itself with the human element is
absent in his poems. That he borrowed
II II Eseia tte i-iSAt and the Left
from the trouveres Che delighted in
France until he discovered the Ital-
ians), from Boccaccio. from Dante.
from tales told in country inns, in
farmhouses. by monks in their preach
inS-is evident. 1t is not hard to trace
most OF his stories to their sources.
But he Enslished them in more ways
than one: he colored them with the
hues OF art. and yet they remained
natures. The romantic side of things
touched him: how he fingers on the
picture OF the old knight in the Won
dcrful prologue and how he loves adj
venture and the trappings of the SOL
der.
regret that out Of regard of some of
the arguments of capable critics must
give up calling his the translation of
The Romaunt of the Rose" 1t ought
to be Chaucers; it is fine enough; but
the authorship is doubtful. The Court
of Love-" and the exquisite Glover
and the Leaf" probably written by a
woman in 1850, must go, too. Mr.. Fur
nivall. who deserves the respect of all
the lovers of Chauccr, cuts the literary
life of Chauccr into four part-Q TO
1871, THE y Is G of the Blessed Virgin"
The Complaint to Pity" THE Book
I 1. -.
of Mars" CD from 1872 to 1884, in
Guiding the "Troylus and Crissyde."
"Anelida" and The Former Age" (3)
the great time from 1881 to 1892 in
Guiding The Parchment of Fowles,"
The House of Fame" The Legend of
Good Women" and the best of the
Canterbury Tales" 90 from 1890 to
400, the latest Canterbury Tales" the
"Ballades" and reflective poems,
Chaucer's prose pieces. the unfinished
"Astrolabe" and the tales of "Melibeus
and the Parson." These hardly deserve
mention. Most poets write good prose;
Chaucer did not. Ii is not certain that
the prosy and prose Testament of
Love" was written by Chaucer
One cannot help regretting that to
many minds the name of Byron sug
gests only Don Juan" and the name
of Chaucer only such tales as that told
by the Wife of Bath and read from
mistaken modern view. AS Chaucer
himself implies. "If YOU do not like
coarse stories told by coarse persons
turn TO other things" \ little search
among the twenty-siX pieces which arc
undoubtedly his VIII reveal new visions
OF beauty ana his thought, Impressions
and words Will become the master in
strumcnts' Of higher culture Prof.
Lounsbury is inclined. against the ma
jority. to rank THE Romount OF the
Rose" as Chaucer's. The twenty-six IT,
ties on which all agree are: Canterbury
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

When Grosvenor of Ohio. charged
that those who now attacked the adj
ministra;ion's Philippine policy were
hrins into the rear of the American
troops lighting near Manila, Mr.. Cor
mack Of Tennessee. very justly replied
that that was the language of the
DemaSoSue. who sought to bring n
high question down to his low level;
and that the charge was false, believed
IN neither by those who made 1t, nor by
those who heard 1t. But the base talk
of Grosvenor's. like that of Cannons to
the effect that Mr.. Simpson should be
court martlaled and shot for criticising
the Philippine war of conquest and
subiugation is very significant OF the
rapid growth of the pandering, natter-
ing. fawning and obsequious clements
imperialism develops around it-lillc
magSots in army beef.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03
srUDENrs' No,Es AND QUERIES.

/. The standard edition of Chaucer is
the one by Skeat. published by Macmi-
Ian. But as 1t costs $24 few people can
afford 1t. The Canterbury Tales"
however. is all of Chaucer that most
people have time TO study. An excel
lent edition of the Tales" is the one
with introduction and notes by a. w.
Pollard. also published by the Macmi-
Ian Company and sold III two volumes
at s.. Tywhitt's canterbury Tales"
published by Appleton 80 is a low
priced work covering pretty much the
same ground. 1t has notes and gos-
sary.
Chaucer''s English is middle Eng
lish' and therefore too archaic to be
easily understood without some prelimi-
nary preparation. To those. therefore,
who wish to take up the study of Chau-
Ger seriously we would specially recon-
mend DR. Morris excellent little work
in the Clarendon Press series of publ
cations. 1t contains The Prologue"
THE Knightes Tale" and "The Nome
Prestes Tale" with introduction. very
full notes and GLOSSARY. The Chau-
Ger Primer" by Pollard (see aboVcl IS
also capital Introduction 10 the study
of the poet. (M2cmillan company: 80
ccntS).
8. The life of Chaucer that our stu
dents should read IS that by Il. w.
Ward In the English Men of Letters
series. CNew York: Harpers. 75 cents.)
4. II student has no time or oppor-
tunity for study of Chaucer in any
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Chnuccr's ronb.

in his pages at the follies and forgive
the sins OF men. He had n quiet and
true religion, much like that we con-
ceive Shakespeare to have had: nor was
he without high philosophic strain.
Both were kept in order by his ina 81
nation and his humor. He had a true
and chivalrous regard for women of
his own class, and his wife and he
ought to have been very happy if they
had fulfilled the ideal he had of mar
riage. he lived in aristocratic society.
and yet he thought him the greatest
gentleman vino was the most courtc-
Gus and the most vir;uous. He was n
keen observer OF the nature he cared
for, especially of color. He loved the
streams and the birds and soft, grassy
places and green trees and all sweet.
ordered gardens and flowers. He could
spend the whole day. he says, in gaz-
ing alone on the daisy. and though
what he says is symbolic. yet we may
trace through the phrase that lonely
delight in natural scenery which is so
special mark Of our later poets. He
lived thus 4 double life-n and out or
the World-but never 4 gloomy one.
His eye for color was superb and dis
tinctive. lie had very fine ear ior
the music Of verse. and the tale and
the verse so together like voice and
music. Indeed, so softly flowing and
bright are they that to read them Is
s"Occleve"; 1911.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

like listening in a meadow full of sun
shine to q clear stream ripping over
Its bed OF pebbles. The English In
which they are written Is almost the
English OF our time, and 1t is literary
English. Chaucer made our tongue
into a true means of poetry. He did
more-he welded together the French
and the English elements in our lam
guage and made them into one English
tool for the use OF literature. and all
our prose writer's and poets derive their
tongue from the language OF the Can
terbury Tales" Chaucer wrote because
he was full OF emotion and Joy in his
own thoughts. and thought that others
would weep and be glad with him, and
the only time he ever moralizes is in the
tales OF The Canon's Yeoman" and
The Manciple," written in his decay.
He has then, the best right to the
poets name. He is. within his own
range. the clearest OF English artists
Finally, his position In the history of
English poetry and toward his own
time resembles that of Dante. whom
he loved so well, in the history and
poetry OF Italy. Dante embodied all
the past elements OF the middle ages
In his work. and he began the litera-
ture, the thoughts and the power of n
new age. He was the evening star of
the medieval day and the morning star
OF the renaissance. Chaucer also rep
resented mediaevallsm, though in
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

The State of Matrimony. as repre
sented by MI. Roberts and three Mrs.
Roberts, Is exceeding its constitutional
rights and privileges. st. Paul says that
1t is better not TO marry at all; and
mat in any case, one wife is enough.
But here Is Roberts knocking for ad-
mission to the House of Representa-
tives with three wives; one on each arm
and another holding to his coat tails.
AS there is provision in the members
gallery for only one wife each,-the
door-keeper will be obliged to refuse
the Roberts quartet as in excess of n
fair family allowance. and in violation
of States rights and popular equity.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03
OPINIONS OFTlEEPRESs {.
"RELsuAzzAR.s rrAsr.

"BELSHAzzAR'S FEAST"
Just before President Mckinley spoke
at the Home Market Club dinner in
Boston the Springfield Republican pub
lished the following communication:
President Mckinley will sit as the
honorcd guest OF the Home Market
Club. The riches. the enterprise. the
solid citizenship of New Englands cap
ital city will be represented in that
company. Visions of increasing wealth,
of spreading glory will be painted by
eloquent speakers. The President him
SER VIII unfold some plan in which phi
lanthropy and profit shall advance hand
in hand. And all the brilliant assembly
VIII have only praise and congratulate
ton for the nations chief
Behind that scene another picture
opens. In the background of that COM
pany one sees the air filed with thou
sands of faces-pale, weeping. convuls-
ed. They are the faces OF Filipino wo-
men and children, whose houses have
been burned whose husbands and faith
ers have been slaughtered by the SOL
diers OF the United States, acting I'M
der the command OF the President. The
faces of the dead are there-thousands
of corpses on the battlefield, mangled
ard CHASTITY. They stood for their
homes and freedom they were in arms
to maintain as their own the land that
bore them. They were moved down by
the shot and steel of foreign invaders,
w 40 niu DouSHl LOT SOIu the title or
earlier tyrants. IT was the American
government that snatched the work of
subjugation from the palsied hands OF
Spain. 1t was the President of the
United States who set the army and
navy upon the work. Back of the suave
ana comfortable faces of the Home
Market Club lower the vsages of the
slain. the bercft, the homeless. the mar
tyrs of liberty.
And yet back Of these loom awful
forms. unseen by mortal eyes. but sur
Grand stronger than All We scc. They
are the eternal powers of Justice and
Right. who hold rulers and people to
final account. Alike to them are the
President of the United States and the
Filipino boy soldier writhing under n
death-stroke from our guns. Before
the great republic. before its elected
chief. before all its citizens they set
the issues OF life and death for our
choosing. And the face OF heaven grows
dark. and It's clouds are big with men,
ace. when we despoi and slaughter the
weak and veil our tyranny with hy-
procrisy.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03
TWELVE PAGES
THURSDAY. MARCH .. 1899.
ELECTION REFORM.

The election reform, so necessary In
this cricis of our State and National
affairs. may be commenced by any re-
spectacle citizen. WIN can associate
other good men with him. until n body
be formed that will be able to under
take public operations and command
public attention and respect. Or any
existing organization, or any commit
tee of reputable gentlemen, may call n
mass meeting of citizens, of all par
ties. and soon THE Society to Secure
Honest Elections" Cor let it be cared as
1t may) will be a power for salvation
In the land.
And 1t is remarkable how Difficult
ties disappear before n resolute 'front.'
particularly when the difficulties are
criminal aggressions." and the reso-
Lutte front. that of an aroused and mill
tant public opinion in behalf of right
and truth. honesty and law. Now. too.
Is the accepted time for this work to he
entered upon. and prosecuted vigorous
1y. SO that next year. in the Presidcn-
tial election. the will of the people as
OF right 1t should. may defy tho Devil
md all the workers of iniquity now i'm
patiently awaiting the opportunity to
betray the land.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

His tales cover the whole field of me-
diacval poetry-the legend Of the priest.
the knightly romance. the wonder tale
of the traveller. the broad humor of the
fabian. alleGory and apologize are all
there. He finds q yet wider scope for
his genius in the persons who tell these
stories-the thirty pilgrims who start
In the May morning from the Tabard i'm
Southwark-thlrty distinct figures rep
rescntatives OF every class of English
society from the noble to the plowman
We see the 'verray perhght gentil
knight" in cassock and coat of mill,
with his curly-headed squire beside
him fresh as the May morning and be-
nina them the brown-faced ycoman in
his coat and hood of green. with the
good bow in his hand. 4 group of &C.
ciesiastics light up for us the medieval
church-the brawny, hunt-loving monk,
whose bride jingles rs loud and clear
as the chapcl-bell the wanton friar
first among the beggars and harpers OF
the countryside; the poor parson.
thread-bare. learned and devout
cChrsts lore and His apostles twelve
he taught. and first he followed it him
self); the summoner with his fiery
face; the pardoncr with his wallet
"bret-full of pardons come from Rome
all hot'-the lively prioress with her
courtly French lisp, her soft little red
mouth and Amor Vincit Omnia" grav-
en- on her brooch. Learning is there in
the portly person of the doctor Of phys
ic, rich with the profits of the pesti-
lence; the busy sergeant of-law, that
ever seemed buster than he was" the
hollow checked clerk OF Oxford. with
his love of books and snort. sharp SEN
fences that disguise a latent tenderness
which breaks out IL last in the story
of Griscldis. Around them crowd types
of English irdustry-thc merchant: the
franklin. in whose house ''it showed
meat and drink" the sailor, fresh from
trays in the channel: the buxom wife
of Bath: the d-shou!dered miller;
the haberdasher. carpenter, weaver.
dyer. tapestry maker. each in the livery
of his craft and, last the honest plow-
man. who would dixie and delvc for the
poor without hire. II is the first time
in English poetry that we are brought
face to face. not with characters or al
legOrics or "reminiscences of the past
but with living and breathing men
men distinct in TEMPER and sentiments
as in face or costume or mode of speech,
and with this distinctness of each
maintained throughout the story by n
thousand shades OF expression and ac-
ton. 1t is the first time. too that we
meet with the dramatic power which
not only creates each character but
combines ii with its fellows, which not
only adjusts each tale or jest to the
temper of the person who utters il but
fuses all into a poetic unity. II IS life
in its largeress, its variety, its COM
pieNity, which surrounds us in the
Canterbury Talcs."-John Richard,
Green.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

Tales" "Troylus and Crissyde," THE
Legend of Good Women 1.-The Trans
lation of Boethius." THE Dream OF
Chaucer," My Master. When of Christ
Our King" The Assembly of Fowls"
How Pity Is Dead and Buried in "
Gentle Heart" "Of Queen Anelida and
the False Arctic" The Conclusions of
the Astrolabe." The House of Fame"
The Complaint of Mars" "Of Venus"
"Scogan Unto the Lords and Gentlemen
of the Kings House. Sometime the
World So Steadfast Was and Stable"
Good Counsel of Chaucer," Fortune"
81 Envoye," "Chaucer Upon His
Empty Purse" Proverb Against Covet-
BUSINESS" "Proverb Against Negli-
gence." The Complaint of Pity"
"Chaucer's Words Unto His Own
scrlvener," "a C Prayer to Our
Lady" "Merciless Beauty" The For
mer Age"
If in our colleges and higher schools
Chaucer were seriously studied during
at least two of the years now almost
useleSsly given up to the classics the
grasp of Americans on their own Ian
guage would be surer. The rules OF
Chaucerian grammar are few and now
easy of access. Every man of cduca-
ton should make it his duty to discover
for himself whether
~"The flower of eloquence"
deserves his fame or not.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03
Ugh AOoER
THE DAWN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
(Concluded.)
Bf MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, AM,
LII. D.
catholic University of America.

The most delightful of all Chaucer's
WORKS is the Canterbury Tales" 1t
Is not only well of English undefled
put one OF the most important, histori-
cal documents of its time. Ii is a vita
scope OF life in the fourteenth century.
Inc prejudices. the passions. the pa
thos, the wit. the human, the super
stitions. the deep religious feeling of
the time are reproduced by an artist
VINO, while he felt the seriousness of
lie. believed that life was very much
worth living. II women and the friars
come in for some very hard knocks we
are not 10 believe that all women and
iriars deserved them. Each epoch has
It's stock jokes. The mother n-law, the
Jew anu the ireful old man With heavy
poots have succeeded in our decade
the overworked Vassar girl and the
connecticut Yankee. The Canterbury
tales must be read with humorous
sympathy and not too gravely. The
reader who has been repealed hitherto
VIII be aStOnished at the .'nodarrpees',
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

Suppose the Tampa Militia system be
adopted? The Militia becomes Nation
al Militia. under the immediate cons
mand of the President of the United
States; the States have no military
force: the Governors will have to ap-
ply To the President for any military
help they may need in Keeping the
peace. enforcing the law. &c. and the
States. as separate and Independent
bodies. are practically functus oficio,-
the Governors being merely powerless
subordinates of the President.
But suppose that some State, with
men In 1t. should resolve to arm, uni
form and drill at least a portion of its
citizens not already enrolled in the Ma
tional Militia. in despite of the Hun
Standing Army and the Tampa Ma
tonal Reserve? What would happen?
Would the President issue his Procla-
nation ordering the State Militia to
djsband. under penalties of revolt,
treason. lese majesty. &c? We want
to know.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-03

OF the ways suggested above he will find
very representative selection OF pass
ages from the chief poems of Chaucer
and very capital. though short, "in-
PRODUCTION" to them, with very helpful
criticisms and suggestions, in the first
volume of Wards English Poets"
(Macmillan & Co.; four volumes.) The
"Chaucer" of this work Is done by the
editor CThomas Humphry Ward, nj. A.
lOxford) and is one Of the best things
in the whole four volumes. The work
no doubt may be obtained in any good
circulating library.
QUESTIONS.
i. BY what poet and in what work of
the poet were the following lines writ
ten?
Dan CaIcer. well of English undo
On flames eternal bead roll worthy to
be fyled."
What does Dan" as here used mean?
z. great English poet said of Chau-
Ger: How few there are who can read
C sa,i so as to understand him per-
iectiy|, and accordingly translated"
him. Who was this English poet?
Which of Chaucer's works did he trans
late?
3. Chaucer It is said, 'had the rare
fortune of coming in upon an uniformed
language and. SO far as one man could.
or forming it," A great italian poet
had similar fortune. Who was this
Italian poet?
4. Chaucer was much Influenced bv
and much indebted both directly. to
three great Italian poets. One of these
poets is referred to in question 3 above
second of these poets 1t is supposed
Chaucer once met in Padua when he
visited Italy. The third of these poets.
though he is indebted to him for two
of his greatest poems and even, so It
Is taught. for the scheme or idea OF
his Canterbury Tales" he did not
know by name. Who were these three
Italian poets?
5. a great English poet called Chau-
Ger the father OF English poetry"-a
name that has ever since been
used of Chaucer Who was this poet?
E. a modern and we'll known English
poet has thus referred TO Chaucer's sur
roundings and to Il passage In Chau-
GERS life:
The clear Thames bordered by its gar
dens green.
While nigh the thronged wharf Godfrey
Chauccr's pen
Moves over bills OF ladlng."
Who Is this modern English poet?
What Is the name of the poem in which
| these lines occur? To what passage in
Chaucers life do tho lines refer?
The above is the second installment
in the HOME STUDY CIRCLE''
| COURSE in "POPULAR STUDIES IN
LITERATURE which will be pub
lished in the Virginian- Pilet every
Thursday and Friday for seventeen
| weeks.