Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-24
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Teachers and others Listen to q
Literary Lecture by Liter.
airy Woman.
Martha Foote Crew Discusses the
Heroines Of Litsrature-Her
Own Successes.
ORA Coulter and Sparks Will Be
on Hand Next Week-243
Enrolled.

The close of the first week OF the nor
NAL Institute shows a profitable week
work. County superintendent Norris
sey. who Is in charge. says he never
saw a better spirit manifested by the
attendants. The enrolment at the end
of the first week is S243. Next week DR..
JohnM Coulter. OF the chair of botany
of Chicago University, and Dr. Edwin
4 Erie Sparks, of the chair of American
history in the same institution, will be
on hand. DR.. Coulter will deliver four
4 lectures on Monday and Tuesday and
DIR. Sparks Will lecture daily during the
balance of the institute. The feature
of the weeks lectures by Martha
/ Foote-CroW was that delivered Thurs
day evening on The Heroines of Lit
4erature."
The storm last evening prevented
many from attending the fourth lee
lture in the series being given before the
normal institute by Mrs. Martha Foo,e
Crow. Those who We're fortunate
lenough to hear 1t were delightfully."- en-
tertained and instructed. The Heroine
lin Literature" was the evenings lee
|ture 1t is impossible to reduce to a
Isynopsls the analysis of character Of
4 the heroines, from Chaucer to Mary Will
kins An excerpt from the lecture can
sonly suggest the scholarship and deep
study of this shakespearean scholar.
Mrs. Grow said in part:
In the panorama of living forms that
sI,-c
Icreations of the myriad minded Shakes
peare. we have the same difficulty -and
/ a still greater one-that we did with
| Chaucer and his pilgrims, and what a
wonderful variety of Characterization
has he given ns: Beginning with those
Iunamiable and mannish women, those
viragos the blood-thirsty Tamora, and
the guilty and powerful Margaret Of
ANTON, the ambitious Lady Macbeth,
1.-The fanged and sharp taloned Gonerl
and Regain, he goes on TO those untamed
shrews. Adriana and katherine Then
There is the despicable and feeble mind
led Anne. of Richard H., type not re-
5peated elsewhere. Then follow the. in
tensely loving Julia In Two Gentle
men. Titania and Helena, and the pas
4 sonate star-crosaed' Juliet.
Then we see a wondrous group of
charmingly witty and frolicsome ladies
--aristocratir. delicate in their SENSIBLE
Isities. With pure Instincts, mischievous,
zloNable and tender hearted Rosaline,
Portia, Beatrice. Viola, Rosalind Then
come the great three Ophelia, Desda-
mona, cordel ia--simple-m minded ones are
they. They are not witty; they are not
slinischievous: they are all soul and ten
derness. They feel deeply; they say lit
tie They have the strength or the
4 silent: they would go to the stake for
what they believe and for their love.
4 The halosis on their heads. AT the same
thine there are women loW-born, but
Well-meaning-Do Tearsheet ard Mis-
4 stress Quickly, and those Merry Wives
of Windsor, the bourgeoise teaaera Of
4 Falstaff. Ard there is that great one
a whom have sometimes heard Prof.
i Hudson call a glorious old gifl'-cleo-
i 3loatra, the merely sensual: and there is,
i beside, Cressida, thererfectwanton But
sllet these visions of the.evil and the base
4 pass on. There follows the flill-grown,
4 mature woman. Imogen, the wife who
4 can not be made to believe in the faith-
.lessness OF an ambiguous husband and
4 Hermione who, besides being puregas a
4 woman, illustrates all the divine quail
4 tits OF justice, utter forgiveness, long
suffering patience.
BY and by, when the ripened man
has passed thru his wanderjahr. has
met the specters that haunt the soul OF
4 the human being, the Spirits of doubt,
s|sneEation, despair. and has downed
4 them; when he has come forth from I he
mists and shadows into a beauail land
4 of peace and serenity. whore all is re-
4 concillation and harmony, then it Is
4 that the forms that image Themselves
4 upon the visioning surface of his dream
Il are the sweet maidens Marina. Per-
dita and Miranda pure, soft. full Of
A wonder, delicate, sacred and holy.
The name of Shakespeare's heroines
is indeed legion!
Among all these various and widely
a differing characterizations is 1t possible
j TO let our personal judgment guide us
4 to any conception of what the poet
would have chosen for favorite
j type Certainly we could not accuse
our master poet of caring for one ~ pc
above others to such an extern; as to
warp his judgment. He is Catholic in
his taste. There is something to at
sItract him in high ard low, In fine and
coarse, in powerful and weak
I'VE may. however. perhaps consider
4 ourselves safe in crossing out from the
Hist of possible candidates for the
4 gsoise and the mannish virago the fee
i bic minded and the wanton. It is GER
tain that in the latest plays we find a
yfly beautiful and holy maidens The
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