The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-16
Old BOOK N NN DRESS
OTARRY THOU TILL COME" RE
PRINTED BY NEW YORK
HOUSE
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1927
Was the Predecessor of Number of
Historical Novels and Is C1assed
as One of the Great Works
of Literature

'"Tarry Thou TIL I Come "A reprint o.
George Croly's historical novel. first
published in 1927, with an introduction
by Gen. Lew Wallace, and illustrations
by T. de Thulstrup. New York and
London: Funk & Wagnalls Company,
st. Paul: St. Paul Book and Station
cry Company.
In bringing out a new and improved
edition of Mr.. Croly's great work, the
publishers have done a great service,
The work. which was in every respect a
remarkable one, was the predecessor of
a long line of historical novels, which,
while original in theme and treatment,
were probably suggested, if not inspired,
by Mr. Croly's work. The author has
woven about a classic figure-the Wan
dering Jew-inCidents of excitement and
of historic truth, and his skill in char
acter sketching and his power OF giving
ar Oriental richness to mis- natural de-
scrptiOns, have resulted in a novel Of
great strength, full of human interest
The story covers a period from the
crucifXior to The fall Of Jerusalem, a
period which, in the annals of history
stands out with great dramatic force
Salathiel, the hero, is doomed to wander
till the second coming of Christ. In a
moment of blind fury, he ads in bringing
the Master TO the cross, and Christ ut
ters against him the words of condemn
alton: "Tarry Thou Till l Come" which
doomed him to Immortality on earth
for the Wandering Jew still wanders.
1t is this ceaselesS Wsnde- er who tells
the story Of these years. reviewing the
successive and ever-de opening phases of
his life at this time Here are his
words as to his sentence of doom:
Immortality on Earth!-The compuls ION
of perpetual existence in a world made
for change; to feel thousands Of years
bowling down my wretched head; allen
ated from all the hopes, enjoyments and
pursuits Of man, TO bear the heaviness
of that existence which pals even with
all the stimulants of the most vivid ca
reer of man; life passionIess, exhausted,
melancholy, old. l was to be a wild
beast; and a wild beast condemned to
pace the same eternal cage! a criminal
bound to the floor of his dungeon for, ver.
I would rather have been blown about
on the storm of every region OF the uni
verse.
Immortality on Earth.-I was still in
the Vlgor of life; but must it be always
SO? Must not pain, feeblenesS, the loss
OF mind, the sad decay of all the re-
sources of the human beng, be the nat
ural result of time? Might [ not sink
into the perpetual sick-bed, hopeless de-
crepltude, pain without cure or relaXa-
ease, of madness yet this was to be
borne for ages of agesi
Immortality on Earth.-Separatiin from
all that cheers and ennObles life. l was
TO survive my country; to see the soil
dear to my heart violated by the feet
OF barbarians yet unborn, her sacred
monuments, her trophies, her tombs,
a scott and a spoil. Without a resting
SPOT for the sOleS Of my feet, I was TO
witness the slave, the man of blood, the
savage of the desert the furious infdel,
lar
bones of my fathers. tramplmg on the
holy ruins of Jerusalem!
Immortality on Earth.-I was to feel
the still keener misery of surviving all
whom / loved wife, child, friend, even
to the last being with whom N.Y. heart
cOuld imagine human bond; al that
pore a crop OF my blood IN their veins
were to perish in my sight. and I was
10 stand on the verge OF the perpetual
grave, without the power to sink into
its refuge. If new affections could ever
Wlnd their way into my frozen bosom,
1t must be only to fill it with new s0r-
rows; for those ! loved must still be torn
from me, In the world [ must remain,
and remain alone.
Immortality on Farlh!-The grave that
closes on the sinner closes on his sin.
His weight of offenSe is fixed. No new
guilt can gather on him there. But
was to know no limit to the weight that
was already crushing me. The guilt of
life upon life, the Surges of an unfath-
enable ocean Of crime. We're to roll in
CAEAAIdl lIO5IGSS over my H6du. II the
judgment of the great day was terrible
TO him who had passed but through the
common measure of existence what must
be its terrors to the wretch VINO was
to appear loaded with the accumulated
guilt of a thousand lives!
Salathiel, glowing with the pride of his
nation, thus wildly portrays his people:
To conceive the Jew as he was, we
should picture the stern and watchfuI
contraction of the dark eye expanded; the
fierce and ridgy brow lowering no more;
the lip no longer gathered in habitual
fear or SCOrn; the cheek no longer sal
low with want or pining, and the whole
man elevated by the returning conscious
ness that he has a rank among nations
Ali his deformities have been the birth
or his mlsfortunes. What beauty can
we demand from the dungeon? What
dignity of aspect from the heWers of
WOOD and the drawers of water for man
KIND! Where shall we seek the magnifi-
cent form and illUmined countenance Of
Ihe nero and the sage-from the heart
c9nkered by the chain, from the plunder-
ed, the enslaved, the prosecuted of 1000
years? -''0'
Of the daughters of my country have
IeVer seen the equals in beauty. Our
piood was Arab, sOftened down by va
Ilcus changes of state and climate. till
IT was finally brought to Derfectio, in
the most genial air and the most aen ~
erous sol! Of the globe. The vivid feat
ures OF the Arab countenance, no longer
attenuated by the desert, assumed in
the plenty of Egypt. that fulness and fine
proportion which still belongs to the
jewellers by the Nile but the true change
was on our entrance into the promised
iaHu. Peace, the possession of property
DAYS spent among the cheerful and
healthful occupations of rural life are IN