The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-22
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In the lapse of years there fingers yet
a fair and free extent
or sl.adowy turret and parapet-
'rls the Castle Of Content.
Fl no, Eli no! the Castle Of Content.
With tlrowsy music drowning merriment.
Where Dreams and Visions held high
carnival,
And Love, vine-crowned, sat laughing
over all.
Ell no! FL no! tho vanished Castle of
Content.
Small heed had we OF the fleet. sweet
hours.
TIL the aroops OF Time were sent
To seize the treasures and take the lowers
OF the Castle of Content.
ri no! III no! the Castle of Content
With flaming tower and falling battle
ment;
Prince Time hath conquered. and the
freight streams
Above the wounded Loves. the dying
Dreams
Ell no! FL no! the vanished Castle OF
teat.
The towers are fallen; no laughter rings
Through the raftcrs. charred and rent;
The ruin is wrought of all good!y things
In the Castle Of Content.
Eli no! III no! the Castle Of Content.
Beyond the Land or Youth, where nlrth
was meant!
The walls are ashes now, and all In vain
Hand shadowed eyes turn backward and
regain
-nly the memory ~ that dear domain.
El no! FL no! the vanished Castle OF
JAMES Ess' BRANCH cABELL. in August
Harper.
The gorgeous frontispiece for the mid
summer Harper's is Howard Pyles color
full illustration of James Branch Cabells
story. 1.-THE Castle Of Content" to which
the place d'honneur in the magazine has
been assigned. The drawing shows
dusky background, with the figure Of
fool in his motley of crimson and green.
with his cap and bauble. standing In the
forefront, The FOOLS fingers are stray
ing among the strings Of his lute his
lips are parted. and one seems to hear
issuing from them the words quoted
above:
"small heed had we Of the fleet. sweet
hours"
Tht second illustration. and one OF the
finest of the five which illuminate Mr.
CabelYs pages, discloses the interior or
a cottage, where the fool Is seated be-
side the couch of a dying peasant woman.
The fifth reveals the poor fool in the
night after his Castle Of Content has
vanished, The shrouded form of Sorrow
crouches near him and her skeleton fin
GER outstretched, touches his shoulder
Light and hope have died out of his
face. only a shrinking dread and sub
mission are left with which the world
must be faced, mixed with pathetic
dignity which inspires and compels re-
spect.
behind 1t lies tho inspiration of an au-
thor Who makes the artists task an easy
one. "The Castle of Content Is one of
Mr., Cabell's best and completest efforts.
and as such furnishes every advantage
to an interpreter of his meaning.
His hero--yVill Allonby, the fool--learns
at the outset from his Aunt Ellinor, who
tells him the story In dying, that he is
the lepit,mate son of Tom Allonby. the
MARQUIS az Falmouth. and of his mother.
a tanner's daughter. whom the MARQUIS
secrctIv married. The proofs are put into
his hand. and his aunt, who has always
hated INA Allonbys, ard hates him even
in death Thlds him farewell and sends him
from her presence. jeering and fouting
The foo, goes. dazed with what he has
lust heard. hardly realizing his sudden
accession 10 fortune. His feet take him
straight 10 I,iyerton Manor, to the window
OF the Lady Adeliza, the daughter OF
Monsie,,r de Puysange, and the betrothed
of stenhen Allonby, whose marquisate
the fool has ii in his power to take away.
Knowing nothing OF her love for STEPHEN
Az, - tLa ssibi1ities of his