The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
MODERN MOTHS ANDTHE LAMP
w OF SHAKESpEARE'S GENIUS.
By DIR. T. b. KINGSBURY.

and says it islands on an eminence all
her own, in the realm of dishonesty
and treachery,' and still he lauds
Roosevelt. Writing Of the Boer war
he says the Beers equalled the British
regulars in every particular but "cour-
age" I had supposed that the Beers
with not over 10000 soldiers, fighting
for nearly two years 100000 British,
displayed always as high courage rs
the British regulars. Jebb thinks
England will be compelled to grant
the nations or colonies under her now
in a position-such as they demand,
be it independence or something else.
One Of the chief and most agrees
sive higher critics-Biblical sappers
and miners-is of the English Church
of England-an Episcopalian-is SO
sceptical as to the Holy Scriptures as
to believe but little, and even demands
proof for the existence of Moses and
Abraham. He writes: Il am myself
one of those who hold the historical
existence of a parsonage called Moses
to be improved and improbable" Elk
actly! Possibly he is equally >oblivious
of Adam and he may even go farther
and reject Jesus Christ. Does he even
believe in God? Such fellows are not
worth considering. 1t is stated that so
earnest, SO pertinacious and pugna-
cious are these sappers and miners in
their assaults upon Gods revealed
will to men, the Holy Bible, that they
have been very earnest, very elaborate,
very resolute in studying the Word of
God, and have undertaken to "analyze
every single line and word of the Old
and New Testaments in thousands Of
books, theses, essays and articles" To
follow these sceptics and assailants
would be indeed Herculean task, and
it would require a single life to be
prolonged to the Methuselah length
to be devoted solely to their purely
pathological, higher criticism of the
very learned German Biblical scholar.
Emil Reich, in concluding a paper on
1.-THE Bankruptcy of Higher Criticism"
in the British Contemporary Review,
says this, and it is worthy of consid-
Grafton:
Nov, what have the philologians
and the pathological historians done
these $50 years? They have, in the
most absurd manner, attempted to
shut out from classical history the
very essence thereof: Moses,
David, Lycurgus. Theseus. Romu-
lus, Homer, etc, etc--they are
all myths OF course. they are all the
most real beings in history. PhilolO-
gical or higher critics cannot see the
broadest plainest, and most important
fact of classical antiquity, that glori-
Gus Chain of Personalities from Moses
to Caesar, who by establishing cephalic
States made it possible that the Uni
versal Church was finally introduced
by one Personality greater than all
the rest"
1t is a waste Of time and energy to
be fooling over the infidels the enc
mics of the Truth and the allies Of
Satan. Give them the go-by, leave
them to their merited fate, and it will
be all adjudicated justly and thorough
ly in the world-to-come. For eighteen
centuries scepticism and sin have
sought to kill the Truth, to obliterdte
the records of the Bible, to curse hu-
mainly, and to aid the Unsuitable Satan
in his work of demolition and inter-
ment. So long as the world lasts the
enemies of God will combine in the
horrible assaults upon God and His
Truth.
Edward Burne-Jones was genius
of rare qualities. He wrote brilliantly,
and he was an English painter Of very
unique and exquisite gifts. In 1856,
he wrote an essay for the "OxfOrd
and Cambridge Magazine" and In it
he showed his high appreciation of
Tennyson, Carlyle, Kingsley and Rus
kin, four most extraordinary authors
the like of them not to be seen now
on this ball of earth. He also had
great admiration for Rossetti and Will
liam Morris. Ruskin had a fine per-
ceptiOn of the excellence of Burne-
Jones's work, and long before it had
caught the eye of artists and lovers
of art. In 1883, Ruskin went to OK
ford University, or rather returned to
become Slade Professor. SWinburne,
the splendid poet, now the first among
the living poets, heard the marvellous
Ruskin discuss in lecture the paint
ings of Burne-JOnes. He wrote of it:
81 do envy Ruskin the authority and
eloquence which give such weight and
see in a glass darkly that he brings
out and lights up with the very best
words possible, while we others, who
cannot draw, like Shakespeare, have
eyes for wonder but lack tongues to
praise"
Watts, the eminent English painter,
wrote of Burne-Jones that he "had
great intellect, vast fancy and rare i'm
agination. but fancy predominated
largely over all his other gifts" He
married Georgiana Macdonald, very
were lovers always. He was very
brilliant talker, and most fascinating.
He thought the French cathedrals the
grandest and noblest in all the world,
and admired very greatly Westminster
Abbey "as the first of English shrines.
but did not think much Of st. Paul's
seeing no beauty or grandeur in it.
Memorabilia:
The philanthropic people of sense in
the CITY of Vienna in Austria are