The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-08
NEW BOOKS.
Brief Reviews of Important and Interest,"
ing New Publications


We have noticed the first part Of Mr.. L,afca-
do Hcarn's book. "Exotics and Retrospec-
tiyes' little. Brown 4 Coz. but not the Sec
ondrart~the part mado UP OF essays advance
ing the idea OF heredity and OF the force
OF unconscious experience gathered through
the ages. In First Impressions" the first OF
these essays, Mr. Hearn takes tho composite
photograph as an example and suggestion
Every human face. he says, is a living compos-
itc Of countless faces-generations and gem
erations of faces superilnposcd upon the
sensitive Him of Life for the great cosmic
developing process. In every normal face
whole generations of types do certainly by
turns OF mood. make fitting apparition. Any
mother knows this. Studying day by day the
frnturcs OF her child she finds in them varia-
tiuns not to be explained by simple growth
Sometimes thcre is n likeness to one parent or
Erandpnrcnt: sometimes a likeness to an
other OF To romotcr kindrcd and at rarcr in
tcrvals may appear pcculiartics Of EXPRESSION
that no member Of the family can account for
The NOR" familiar we become with any COM
mon face. the more astonishing the multi
tud"s Of the transformations we observe In it
th" more inhcscribabla and bewdcring it's
fugitive subtl"tcS of expression And what
are these, Mr.. Hparn asks, but the cbb
and flow of life anccstnl--undcr- rppngs In
that wrilsrrng OF life umfathomablc Of prrson-
atty whose food is Soul? pcrpctday be-
meath the fluid tissues Of flesh the dead are
moulding and moving. not sinEly. but in cur
rents and by surEings. MY friend Of this
hour" says the essavist. though no more
identical with his forcfathers than any single
ripple ot n current is identical with all the rip
pies that ever preceded It, is nevertheless 10y
soul composition one with myriadS known
and loved in other lands and in other livcs-in
m 1nl int In ,,it
that still remain and in cities that have ceased
TO hc-hy thousands Of my vanished solves"
In the ESSAY entitled Beauty l. Memory"
we hav" the idea that beauty is not inherent
i'm TIL" object. but dependent upon the emotions
inherited by the observer from the ages :" 1t
was because Of billions Of billions of memories
amasSed through trillious of lives. and blended
within you into one vague delicious image. that
you came to believe a certain being more beau
tful than the sun. The dClusion signiled that
she happened to- resemble this composite-
mnemOnir Swallowing Of all the dead women
related to the loves Of your innumcrabIc lives"
The cssayist puts in italics the proposition that
there is no such thing a. beauty in itself 1t is
all memory. all ghosts You think il is there.
in tn" other person, but it is really the
compost" opinion of your uncounted ancestors
disturbing the irresponsible heart of your
strictly initiative bosom 20 lover how slender
the beautiful WITCH the ghost within the ghost
of you. Yet the depth OF that ghost is the
drpth of the nebulOus Zone bespannng Night.
hoI,r,irous SboJnv tho, r,,,n, n,ro, -, ola
a. Nnthar ~ ,ho s,,, on, "a l.ndo our,.i,o
L,. LAM, ,rb;,o ,,o,,,,,,,. hody o,o. tho norld
,so',oror ~ ,bos,,h,rus orw,Lo Of n .bi,, in
tho ri,ht only co with roLed ova r,n wa ho-
hold it, But pierced by vision telescope it is
revealed as the further side Of the Ring
of Cosmos dim belt of millions OF suns
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