The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-29

was once held to be really one of the
great novels in literature. II is called not
by its old famous name, but by it's most
famous character, "llttiebat Tltmouse."
To show the impression 1t made in the
way-Dack, 4 reproduce two contemporary
oplmons:
rrom The Dictionary of National Bio.
grapny: The first chapt~r, III blackwood,
at once excited a powerful interest.
w Il.e noseI Was coDple.eu II mad an
ENORMOUS sac, was Translated Into treaca,
ttussialI, ana otiler languages, ana was ap-
2lauued in the Revue des Deux Mondes,
well DIS III the husnsn reviews. Ine
cievelness OF the tarcIal portral ,s-Tlttie-
LAT litlnouee, oily o1anmon, ana AIR,
Quicksilver, estauilsned the book as one
OIL the most popular novels OF the cen
Jury
From The Morning Post, London, De-
cemDer ., l841: AS 1t came out IN monCn-
~ parts IN Blackwood'S Magazine, 1t Was
GevOuled by the general run OF readers
with surprising aNldity. Go where one
would, hon Spacious drawing rooms To
the narrow contlnes OF crowded omnl-
buses, PEI SONS were 10 be found reading 1T
and talking OF its incidents
! repeat my advice Is, II you wish to
read II, get the original, unabreviated
Ten Thousand Year Think OF reading
"Pickw.ck" or David Copperfied" or
Martin Chuzzlewlt,' with two, hIris OF
each OF these great novels torn away. To
a true Tnackerayan it would be almost
sacr4ege to have Vanity Fair" or Hen
~ ks.nond or The Newcomes' cut down
TO ole third or even one-haH of their orr
ginal zes, as they came from the hand OF
the gledtt master. Who would read
SUES great novels or Hugos immortal
LES Miserabiles." if given in only one
half or one-third of their original proper
tions 1t is an outrage to so treat the
works of genius, and the authors in their
gray es Some one will be publishing
severely cut edition of Don Quixote" af-
ter a while, with new title-perhaps
The Trials and Sayings of eancho
Panza' If q book of genius is worth
reading it is worthy of complete edition.
The Moravians take their name from
their country, Moravia, in Europe. They
were profoundly relig Gus in the time OF
the illustrioLs John Wesley, who visited
MolavIa. and taught the ''Heavenlies"
the higher life, the consecrated life, the
sinless life. 1 do not know what they
profess and teach now as to the Bible
doctrine of holiness and the baptism of
fire. They made their first appearance in
North Carolina on 18th November. 1853.
Twelve men came from Pennsylvan a and
settled on land of the celebrated Lord Gran
vile, bought at 10c ali acre, by the
Moravian church. This was the extent
Of the Moravian Colony in the Salem
section in Forsyth county. In 11S5,
church was built, that is still well pre-
served, and is known as the Bethabara
Church. The Charlotte Presbyterian
Standard published picture of that old
church and said:
1.-The Moravians now living in Forsyth
county, remembering the faith and cOur
age of those earlier days, have outlined
series of services, beginn ng November 13
when granite monument to the twelve
pioneers will be unveiled at Bethabara. On
Friday, the 14th. the Wachovia Historical
Society will hold its annual meeting. On
Saturday a service will be held at the
Salem Home Church and tho archives will
be opere1
"In the same church memorial SER
mon will be preached on Sunday For the
actual anniversary day no single gathering
=
vince the pastors will gat. er their congre-
cations at three o'clock to hold a quiet
hour of prayer, so that there may ascend
to heaven a thanksgiving for mercies of
the past and prayer for the future"
I began some thirty or more years ago
to paste in book some useful, out-of-the-
way quotations in verse, of from two lines
to half dozen or So l had met with
these selections IN my journalistic HE.
finding them mostly in newspapers, but
sometimes in books and pamphlets and
magazines. l do not purpose now to use
them, but to copy some lines I have met
with in my re-reading Of the English p re S
within in the last eighteen mouths. !
make short incursions among the older
poets, who are less known to twentieth
century readers. have been reading
good deal beginning with Chaucer, then
Spen. er up to Alexander Pope, covering
several hundred years. I only purpo e IN
a few of my many contrlbui IONS to the
News and Observer to copy some lines
taken here and there, also perhaps to =
male few comments sometimes on GER
tain lines. You may perhaps find some OF
them REPRODUCED in large volumes OF
"Poetical Quotations. 1ut / will take I
them directly from the authors They may
entertain some and prove useful to few 7
readers / seek to We variety in my long
series of weekly discussions. l begin with
but ore citation from a great poet, the
Father of English poetry:
Her cheare was simple as BIRD In bower,
AS white as lilly or rose in rise.
The word s'cheare'' is behavior. Chaucer :
was born in or about 1923, and died in +.
400.
Yea, virgils verse and Tullys truth do !
That tire flieth, and never claps her
wings;
But rides on clouds, and forward still she
filings.
George Cascigne. t
He was born about 1880. and died N !
KIT