Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-24
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proudly made them cruel; she who,
whoever had her wish, had her Will,
and will to boot and will in overplus.
Certainly the fair group Of fashionable,
aristocratic young women OF his mid
die pericd-the Portia group lack the
dark-lady characteristic OF being dark
ufSdeed, for they, while Intelligent in a
high degree and full OF cunning and re-
source, are sound OF heart; their ends
are always worthy OF the high breeding
that the poet imagines them to possess.
To the ability OF Portia to enter into a
dramatic situation presenting the
lgreatest difficulty and risk, and to
work out a logical conclusion from
most illogical data. and to turn 1t all Off
with the dash of an artist this reverent
lpoet adds what was not found in the
lancient tale from which he took his
Iplot. the worshipful characteristic that
lmakes her linger along on the way as
ishe goes from Venice to Belmont,
straying by holy crosses where she Of
iIfers prayer.
For pure delight of companionship
my heart is divided between Beatrice
land Portia. For steady diet, / think /
might catch myself yielding the palm
Ito Cordella. II the treacherous are to
\ be placed as Dante directs, in the low
Test realm of the Inferno the quality
Iof it's absence should be enshrined in
1.-THE Hottest circle.
"Desdemona lies! II is glorious lie,
lbut it is a Lie for all that. Ophelia, we
4 believe, did not lie. She has been
Thought by many to have done so. yet
she is not made to suffer anything for
truth speaking; but Cordelia values
the quality of sincerity SO much. the
abhorrence of her nature against insin-
lcerity rises In such a tremendous force
\ that she resigns the things that are
dearest to her for the sake of this ideal.
From Cordeiia, Portia, Beatrice,
lJuliet, Rosalind and Hermione we GER
/ tsiinly can construct a conception sur
passing in charm and In spiritual inn
port anything the world had seen
| before the day of gentle Will. The Won
ider is where about the corrupt court of
pagan and almost dissolute Elizabeth
1.-THE poet found his models. The wonder
4 Is how he got the tough sinewed. ma
lterialistic audience at the Globe Theater
Ito sit quietly without guying or throw
Ling apples While those radiant visions
ef womanly iovelinesss were made to
\ pass before their imaEinations.
a LITERARY WOMAN.
\ Mrs. Martha Foote Crow Isl one of the
i strongest lecturers that has ever APP
4 psared before a MarShalal county nor-
na she being one Of the foremost lit
erarS women Of the land. In the later
4 Sos Mrs Crow was lady principal at
i Grinnell College, where che did much to
encourage the literary atmosphere that
I hangs about that place and made for
herself staunch frie s Of every Grinnell
graduate. She has recently been elect
Led successor of the late Anna NJ. Bowen
as5dean5 of women and professor of Eng
4 iish literature at Northwestern Univer-
sity
Since her graduation from Syracuse
University in 1876. Mrs Crow has de-
4 voted her life to writing teaching, lee
turing and studying. The degree Of Phi.
ID. was conferred upon her at Syracuse
4 in 49,
| During the intervening years she was
preceptress of Ives Seminary at Ant
swerp, n. Y, lady principal of Waynes-
burg (Pa.) College; teacher of English
4 literature and German in the Newton
ltMass'.D high school; lecturer on history
at Wellesley College and lady principal
at Iowa College. After taking the pur-
/ pie hood at Syracuse she was sent as a
4 commissioner Of the bureau of education
/ at Washing ton to investigate the matter
of university education of women in
Europe. She made some rare friend
ships among them George Meredith, the
novelist Theodore Watts Dunton, Israel
IGiollance and DR.. f. j. Furnivall, the
eminent Shakespearean Scholar
4 Since 1892 A1rs. Crow has been associ-
lated with the English department of the
4 University Of Chicago. Her classes in
4 the development Of the Elizabethan
4 period and the critical analysis of
Shakespeare drew. about her the best
land most serious minded students. Her
Interest in these students led to the for
nation Of the Mulberry Club. Its mems
bers are makers of Verse and its pur-
/ posa the reading of original Verse be-
fore small group5of congenial enthus-
asts Herself a poet. she has done much
70 foster the love Of expression in sem
sitive souls. Since 1855 she has written
and published four volumes OF poetry.
namely: The Thought and the Song. z
The Lady of Life. 49, rcanan and The
4 Ministry Of a Child. The first of these
bears an interesting history, for 1t was
1 brought out by the Old Corner Book
4 SAoIe4 II loOsAou.l - SeIleS Oh nine cLllZa-
lbethan sonnet cycles in four volumes
have been edited in a most scholarly
way, with an Introduction. by Mrs.
Grow. and published by kegan Pauls Of
l6London. She has edited the play of
King Lear for Black & Co. of Edin-
burgf for the Warwick edition under
the general editorship of Professor Her
ford Mrs. Crow is also we'll known as a
writer on educational topics in leading
/ Journals and magazines.
AT tone time during a trip to London
4 Professor CroWformed the acquaintance
Jsof Morris and visited his esta blishment
at Hammersmith. There she became in
fused with the Morris love for the beau
Ity of handicraft, which had become a
4 cult With him. And 50 Mrs Crow has
! procured a small hand printing press,
i which she has get up In her residence,
and here. With the assistance of her
Iequally cultured friend and collaborat-
lor, Harriet G. Brainard, many dainty
little volumes of prose and poetry are
4 turned out with the Imprint Of the
4 Wind tryst Press The typesetting
and making up of the forms are the
work Of their own dainty fingers.
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