The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-01

and mean 1t looks cheap. sorry. and
weak. and must be a continual eve.
sore to Shakespeare. If, in his present
condltion, he has any respect for his
personal appearance.
over the entrance door to lgttle
chapel / read the name of Oliver
Goldsmith. and was filed with holy
awe, not iInlnixed with a disposition, 10
challenge the very words OF the author
of the Deserted Village, who. upon WIS.,
ting Westminster. was heard To saw
Even humble as am, / possess more
consequences in the present scene than
the greatest of them ALL
Tnaf was rather egotisticaI of Colonel
Goldsmith Perhaps. however, he felt
so Just at that mornent--af least his
life was mere to him than their death.
do not think they have sorted the re-
mains in Westminster very closely.
Probably there will be ineongruities and
inharTnonies everywhere but in heaven
but since no prevailing taste is mani
fest hereabouts with respect to min
Cling the dust of poets and kings, why
is not the poet Dryden lying alongside
Charles the Second. since in life he not
only lied alongside OF him, but fail
ed 10 lit his Tyre above the siegeneracy
of that kings court? Why again
should the hero OF Trafalgar rest under
the stones in St Paul's when his words
at the battle of the Nile indicate his
unInistakable purpose in life and
DEATH Victory or Westminster Alb
bey. said Nelson. as he sailed to con-
quest, and yet not even tablet is laid
for him here.
{ wish could write more of the orna-
mental sculpture, of architectural beau
ty, OF artistic splendor everywhere
manifest, but no one detail arrested me:
the general effect or proportion. of light
and sh4-dow and infinitude, symbolicai
and actual. is eft with me, and that is
all, for was oyerpowered with recol-
lection and speculation. In passing
over the stones, in the corner dedicat-
ed to the singers, my eye was caught
by some shining letters upon the floor. |
and pausing, we read Charles Dick |
ems, and passed on with mute lips.
Words were dissertation, and I avoided |
the guide for fear of his unmeaHing |
and soulless gable. These men who
pilot strangers are showmen, and we
might better guess wrong than be
haunted by their presence in sacred /
places. The practice of delineating
character upon monuments seems to me
At best theatrical and half barbaric.
For example. over the warriors tomb
ne may be buried indeed in the Red
Sea, all the same, for tomb in West
Minister does not mean actual sculpture
here-we see figure blazoned and
and awfully gauntletted.
ushing fierceIy with terrible frown and
lpraised sword upon a piece of chill
marble, intent, seemingly, upon ami
lilating space, or otherwise embodying
ONE idea not TO be guessed at by the
intellect, while the actual
leeds of the departed go down to OBJ .
lvion without record or register. Again,
ne orator, with most ineloquent lump
f stone to represent his flashing eye,
tands with uplifted hands haranguing
rostrate queens in bronze, and kings
those silver heads were carried off by
troopers, or the Eighth
Ienry's dissolute reforming" court
ars. +
One symbolic specimen of sculpture,
lowever, did indeed seem impressive.