The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-27

guage rises to a noble height OF poetic
feeling and it's climax Is one OF overwhelm-
ing pathos-and 10 the play also the PUBIC
response was that OF eager interest ana
merOus after each act. and after the last
curtain Henry Irving responded In a orieL
address, gracefully expressing his sense or
the public favor and his pleasure IN once
more meeting an American audience.
"In delineating the character OF King
Charles 1 Mr. Wills has presented the roy
alst ideal. investing the monarch with
many virtues making his life an emblem OF
moral grandeur. his death an image OF
qusite type of refinement. dignity, chivalry
and simple herOism. Readers who derive
their views Of English history exclusively
from the pages of Macaulay VIII. or course,
dissent from this portrayal insisting that
King Charles was the incarnation OF tyran-
ny and falsehoOd, the Oppressor OF his
people, and the inVeterate Zoe or popular
rights and constitutional rule. Zealots or
abstract freedom are commonly quick 70
take Ofense at any good word that IS sara
for Charles /, yet every student knows that
the MacauIay view Of history is sometimes
more speciOusly rhetorical than scruPulous-
~ just, and that Charles Stuart, with au
his political indirection. his defects or VIII,
and his errors of weakness, was. IN many
ways, a royal admirable and lovable per-
son, and, 1T is to be considered that ne
fatally expiated his sins-the greatest or
which was the lamentably short-sighted,
ignominious and apparently panic-strlcken
sacrifice OF his best friend, the great EarI
OF SLFdUOIQ-duQ lildl It OltuS AAiOSb AAObis >
for his cause"
"A mere astute and polite ruler. such as
William ILL., perceiving the drift OF popu-
lar sentiment toward a larger CIVIL Tree
dom and a different religious faith, would
have fashioned and utilized Ii. Charles per-
ished because OF his blind and bigOted ad-
kerence to that principle of divine right TO
which he was born, which he had inherited
and according to which he had been reared.
The dFamatist has taken some liberty with
ascertained and established facts; his pOr-
trait Of Cromwell is untrue to life, and also
il is needlessly base-fOr the ruin of the
King would be just pathetic wrought by
a fair antagonist as by a foul one, but In
general this kind Of artistic liberty Is per-
MISSILE in a work OF the ina ginatiOn-and
here the object was, not an historical pre-
sentiment Of warfare between King and
Parliament. but a concrete image of regal
nagnanimity. supreme above betrayal and
disaster, and of majestic fortitude, tri-
umphant over anguish and serene in the
presence of death. The practical value Of
such an example to those who can really
feel and understand it, could scarcely be
which the doomed sovereign, on his way TO
the scaffold, takes his last farewell of his
wife and queen, sink into the heart and
remain there forever:
- To thee do consgn my memory.
o banish not my name from OF tiny lips
Because it pains awhile in naming il.
Harsh grief doth pass, In time, into far music.
Red-eyed regret that waits upon thy steps
WIN daily grow a gentle, dear companion.
And hold sweet converse with thee, Of thy dead.
l fear L may some time fade from thee
Lest, when thy heart expelleth gray-stoled grief,
That 1 may bide no longer in thy memory.
keep my place in II forever green,
All hung with the immOTtelles OF thy love-
That sweet abiding in thine inner heart
/ long for, more than sculptured monument
or proudest pomp among the tombs Of kings.
RememberI -