Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-05
TWO RARE TREATS
Entertaining and Instructive Lee
lures by Miss Marie A, Walsh.
sho T"its 90 tho Literary clubs of
Norfolk and Portsmouth about
orionta, Literature. aud to Lnrse
Audience on Echoes FROM Oricns.

A rare treat was enjoyed by the
members of the literary clubs of, Nor
folk and Portsmouth yesterday morn
ing, at the Y. NJ. c. A. building. when
Miss Marie a. Walsh lcctured upon
Oriental Literature"
Miss Walsh has been prominent
speaker in the far West for Il number
of years. and is one of the most DIS
tinguished speakers in the Philosophical
Society. She is English by birth, but re-
ceived her education in France. Her
home for many years has been in Cali
fornia. Her lecturing tour has included
Boston. New York. Brooklyn and
Washington.
Miss Walsh handled her subject in a
most charming manner and won her
audience at once. She opened by giving
an insight into Hindoo life. Following
arc the subjects she touched upon:
/. Drama-Sahoontala; romantic; au-
thor Kalidcrcr.
2. Toy Cart-Episode from real life.
3. Krishana and Rudha-Indan song
of songs, written by Jayad ma.
a. Notwithstanding wars of
Kuravas and Pandana, between solar
ard lunar dynasty.
s. Northumberland Veedas; four in
number
C. Upanshads. 2o3-song Celestial;
Bhagavat Vitc.
She paid Il high tribute to Sir Ed
win Arnold. whom she believes under
stands the nature OF lIindoo literature
better than any other living writer.
The lecture ended with the reading Of
portion OF the Mahabharata, called
The Lords Lay, or the Song Celcs
tial."
Never the spirit was born.
The spirit shall cease to be. never:
Never was time. ii WAS not,
End and beginning are dreams
Birth IS and Il att less and change ess
Rcmaincth the spirit for ever:
Death hath not touched il III all
Dead though the house of il seems.
ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT"
The fact that Il very large and highly
fashionable audience gathered in the
Academy OF Music last night for the
fourth number of the Protestant Hospi-
tai course and listened attcntivcly and
interestedly for an hour to Miss Maria
a. Walsh OH the subject, Echoes from
the Orient, or Some Modern Discoveries
Of Latent Powers in Man." is Il high
compliment 10 the advanced intellec-
tuality of Norfolk. True, the enter
tainment opened and closed With that
gem in rare setting, the song cycle, IN
a Persian Garden" the words of which
are from the Rubaiyat OF oman 1<hay-
yam, set to music by Liza Lehman, and
presented by the eXquisitcly harmonizcd
~ n
Observation-Disclosures Ethel Nicely and Alice
j. Oliver and Mcssrs. r. G. Tupman
and William Richards-yet even this
delicious threat was but as q sauce or
relish to the highly intellectual and
semi-mystic food presented by Miss
Walsh i'll her lecture.
The lecture might aptly have been
termed "Theos Asleep and Theos Awak-
cning," for it was, in choicest English,
the sketching Of the gradual realization
by the Occidcnt OF the dreamy mysti-
cism OF the Orient, reduced TO practical
uses and made subseryicnt to the needs
and growth scientific progression.
The key to her talk she announced in
the old saying. THE West expounds
the East" which she improved by stat
ing that the East was the land of
dreams. while the West is the land of
action. and proved her statement by the
growth of scientific knowledge, begin
ming With Mesmcrs crude deductions
and reaching down to to-day's accept
ance by platform. college, laboratory
and hospital of tclcpathy, suggestive
hypnotism, introspeciive hypnctism and
sensing of color taste and feeling with
and without thought projection and
mental forcing: of the intimate relation
between thought and electricity. be-
tween thought and physical condition
and between suggested thought and the
sciences. of medicine and surgery.
She gave numerous illustrations OF
the simplest character Ia illuminate her
talk, and quoted many learned authors
Ties OF the present and past to sub
stantiate her claims, closing Il charming
hour OF high thought with the claim
that the greatest discovery of this nine
tcenth century was the power Of human
mind. which discovery was still in it's
crudescence. claiming that in time the
West should know by practical exposi-
ton what the East in dream had long
since seen. Quoting Omar Khayyar1's
beautiful lnes):
II sent my soul into the invisible,
Some secret of the after life to spell.
And bye and bye my soul came back to
me
And answered: Il myself am Heaven
and HE'LL"
The beautiful solo, Duet and quar-
tette work of the four, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Laura dc Russy Berry.
won encorcs after encore, and it will be