The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-14


from beginning to end, an to regard the
destructives, called falsely 1.-The higher
critics." but who are really disconnected
ambitious sappers and miners and lower
Ierities as very dangerous teachers, and
especially to the young and receptive
Give me the sanity, judgment, loyalty,
wisdom and scholarship of our foremost
men to the superior knowledge and
great cock-suredness of the men of "big
ideas" who are swift to speak, and to
condemn. / bought within twenty years
or so, three New England books bearing
upon religion. They were specially well
written full of a certain sort of ''ideas. -
but through them all there was running
a decided faint. They were heterodox and
poisonous to youthful. ingenious minds
These books, with the English LUX
Mundl, I put aside as unworthy because
| they were false and heretical however
| scholarly, charmingy veneered, and rhe-
| toncally enticing. That greatest of Eng
lish writer's as well as of poets, with an
| inspiration majestic and supernal, long
time ago now, wrote this: Truth came
once into the world with her Divine Mas
ter, and was a perfect shape most glo-
rious to look on: but when He assembled,
and His Apostles after him were laid
asleep, then straight arose wicked race
of deceivers From that time ever
since. the sad friends of Truth, such as
burst appear, initiating the careful search
that Isis made for the mangled body of
Osiris went up and down gathering up
limb by limb still as they could find-them
We have not yet found them all, nor ever
shall do, till her Masters second coming;
He shall bring together every joint and
member and shall mould them into an
immortal feature of LONELINESS and Per-
fiction" / am persuaded that Truth is
immortal. and that Time is the greatest
friend of Truth" and that ''her constant
companion is Humility" A writer in the
past, Amman. wrote that Truth is vio-
lated by Falsehood. and it may be equally
outraged by Silence" Truth is often vio-
lated and silenced for the time by Imita-
ton, and it meets sometimes with tenn
porary defeat by Silence. A Latin senti-
ment has come down to us that contains
something to think of-that "there is no
doctrine so false as not to contain some
truth" 1t Is the part of wisdom and duty
to discover the false, lay it bare, shut it
in its own mean, repellant garb, and mag
nifty and exalt the Truth, 1t is an age
of scepticism and false learning. Sakes-
peare in his own inimitable way put it
thus Truths Dog that must to ken
mel; he must be whipped out when Lady. |
the brach, may stand by the fire and
stink
care very little for the five or six new
novels that appear every day the year
round. 1t is estimated that 1000 are print |
ed every year and mostly-trash. / like |
to keep up in part with the issue Of good /
and useful books, and with those of |
especial value so | can inform my readers I
now and then of some few of them. I |
call attention to a recent translation by |
a rare classical scholar. Gilbert Murray, /
LII. D., (English) of the great Greek |
dramatic poet Euripides. 1t is a transla- /
tion in English Rhyming verse Al
notice of it in the New York |
Critic is most favorable as to its high |
merits, and says the translator possesses
extraordinary felicity" He imparts to
his work real lyric and dramatic qualities
THE ease and marvellous speed of the /
original iambic have been reduced into
rhymed metre which is varied, resource
full and impressive" There can be hardly
anything more desirable than such rem
dering of the complete work of the splen-
did Grecian including Helena, the "Sup-
plants" and tHeracles'
Lorenzo Sears, LII. D., has just pub
lished a work entitled American Litera-
ture in its Colonial and National Periods"
in over 500 page volume, at the low price,
for these hight times, of $3.50. 1t is use
full and desirable, and is we'll endorsed.
An English writer, w. b. Worsefold,
NJ. A, has produced an inviting volume
he calls 1.-THE Principles of Criticism" It
Study Of Literature" 1t is said to be
well done. have not seen these books.
ought to say the price is $1.20. 1t is
highly praised by the New York Critic.
Another work of interest and value is
Augustus Caesar and the Organization of
the Empire of Rome" by John B. Firth.
A work of this kind, if well executed, is
needed. This new book (price
s1.35) is the result of large gathering of
which has been handled with
scholarly care and efficiency.
1t is reported that Charlotte Bronte's
novel, "Jane Eyre" is still very popular in
England, and appears to more than hold
its own. But is that first potential book
really her best book? Is it not less ar
Listic and not more interesting than
i'villette"?
The tremendous war between the South