The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-09
There,s twenv Thousand Cornishmen

There's tWeny thousand Cornishmen
Will know the reason Why!'
have been, ever since the imprison-
ment of the seven Bishops-one of
them Sir Jonathan Trelawney-i,
popular proverb throughout Corn
wall"
Instead of ''There's" the correct
reading is Here's Otherwise the
above is all right. l do not believe
now that Robert Stephen Hawker is
the author of them. A note in Bart
lett states that he incorporated
these lines into 1.-THE Song of the West
ern Men," written by him in 1925. II
was praised by Sir Walter Scott. 1t
has been popular proverb through
out Cornwall ever since the imprison-
lnent referred to above. All this shows
how easy lines are perverted or mis-
quoted.
BE very careful in selecting the
looks you buy. Do not give attention
TO every supposed translation of the
Btble or Dictionaries of the Bible. An
extra volume is out of the Dictionary
OF the Bible edited by Rev. DR. James
hastings. CHANGING over a short re-
view of this extraordinary volume 7
found this reference to Christ's Ser
mon on the Mount" worth all of the
sermons of man. You may give this
work the 'gc-by," with safety Read
this:
There are a number Of eminent
scholars who regard the Sermon as a
compilation throughout, holding that
no such discourse was really delivered
by Jesus, and that the alleged occa-
sion was a we'll meant fiction of tradi-
ton or of the evangelists.''
Rot and poison. 1t is worse-de-
famation and biasphemy.
Some wiseacre has discovered thai
Poe's immortal Raven is a plagiar
ism from the Chinese. He says tina
more than 1000 years ago by ;
Chinese statesman, Kia vi, and emit
tied "The Funiao; or, Bird of Fate
Some crank Will be willing to swear
perhaps in the years to come that Ma
poleon got his wonderful science o
war from some unSpcaEabla japanese
A new seven-volume edition of Ten
nyson is to be published this month il
England. He is read yet more thar
any other English poet.
That rejecter of Christ, DR.. Hale, o
New England, prays in the United
States Senate for the gang, and hi
utterances being SO precious there, arr
published. 1t is curious. What die
he Fray about, for whom, to whom
and in whose name?
Mr.. Isidore G. Archer, an Englisf
writer in the London Academy" say!
that intellectual giants have tina
supreme imagination capable of deiin
eating the endless character, the di
versified aspects of humanity, tn,
multiform workings of the human
heart; the lesser minds soon exhaus
themselves. the fount becomes arid.
That explains the failures and condi
tons of the thousands of novels tina
have appeared in the last five years
more than ten thousand. What
tlOod OF the common and the medic
ere! But the readers do not find i
out They call them literature anC
think them fine. THE Academy" ha
this, and it is good, and timely: "Nt
parrot cry has wrought more hur
than that for Originality Give u
something new, and writer's injur'
themselves and their readers in strain
ing after novelty instead of combining
themselves to nature and her ways
which are not new, though ever fresh.
The London "Athenacum," the old
able, scholarly literary weekly of Lon
| don, that is still published, and re
| tains its fine qualities says this and i
IS pertinent, pointed, and fits the age