The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-19
PUNAhOU GRADUATES
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Gives back the shaggy banks more
Than every free-born glance con-
fessed
| The quiteless movements of her
breast
Though girlish, she at the same time
| is mature and womanly. She scorns
dishonor with a lofty scorn, and is true
TO herself, even when such truth may
/ cost the life of father and of lover.
She is equal to occasions. and whether
it be the companion of her exiled faith
er on the Island or in the Convent
bereft of all she holds dear. or, ac-
companied by the loyal minstrel, makes
her way to the unknown Kings castle
TO intercede for her fathers life, she
is the fearless, devoted daughter of the
Douglas, whose soul
Though feminine and weak,
Can image his; cen as the lake,
Itself disturbed by slightest stroke,
Reflects the invulnerable rock.
Then there is the beautiful Jewess.
Rebecca cannot look to her father with
the admiration held by the Scotch
daughter, but with pride, she boasts
of the ancient glories of her race:
Such, We're the princes of Judah, now
such no more! ...........Yet there are
those among them who shame not such
high descent, and of such shall be the
daughter of Isaac!"
We greatly admire her fortitude and
self-reliance in rising above the posi-
ton she was again and again placed in,
by the abuse and indignity shown to-
ward her people. Situated as she was
in the castle of Front-de-Boeuf, power
less to command help, barred from all
means of escape, and threatened by the
Templar, with high and firm resolve,
and dignity almost superhuman, she
prepares to- plunge over the precipice.
Life may be sacrificed, but honor never.
In making a character so worthy, so
lovable, and so possible, Scott was the
first writer to speak for the despised
race and to show that even Nazareth
may furnish a prophet. Hitherto, in
poetry and in prose, the Jew had been
represented as worthy the hatred and
persecution of the Christian world;
since, have followed portraitures, if less
beautiful, at least attesting the hu-
mainly of the Hebrew and the long
tragedy of his race.
Edith boards the lion in his den, hurls
defiance in the teeth of fierce King
Richard, yet she will yield the activity
that her proud spirit loves, and go into
a convent rather than violate feminine
deIicacy and reserve. She is proud, but
very gentle.
Diana Vernon is as fearless in the
chase as her huntsmen cousins, leap
ing fences and bitches, and racing with
the foremost. She is as safe in the
Council as her Jesuit cousin, guarding
state secrets that risk her life and
nearly wreck her happiness; yet, she is
as playful as a kitten, as sweet as
rose.
The Fair Maid of Perth is intelligent
beyond her time. She has a martyr
like resolution, royal delicacy and
fineness of nature; still, she is obedient
and humble, and has no ambition above
her lowly station.
Anne of Guirstein climbs the noun
tain like a chamois-hunter, leaps from
rock to rock like the chamois itself, yet
in womanliness is behind none of the
others.
Jeanne Deans, the best of Scotts
heroines, is hardy and sturdy and
homely, stubbornly resolute, stubbornly
conscientious, yet so tender, so large in
heart, so thoroughly woman, that a
Duke does her homage; a Queen, over
come by the eloquence of love, makes
the very law bend to the prayers of the
peasant girl.
These instances may serve to illus
trate the type of womanhood Scott has
given to us, a type that combines
strength and beauty, and which, in the
union, makes a just balance of qualities
that seem opposite. In real life there is
a tendency to the development of one
side of character at the expense of the
other side. The firm are stubborn, the
are violent, the conscien-
tious are severe, the soft are weak. The