The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-13

S EVELYN uNDERHn1,, 81
s Author Of 1.-THE Gray World" 81
Some such question as that seems to
have been in the mind Of Evelyn Under
hill in the writing of The Gray World.
That the assumption may be realistic she
has made the protagonist Of the story die
at the age of ten, having known nothing
but the desires Of the flesh as felt by a
boy Of London slums. His soul goes into
even a grayer world than he has known
In life. He finds it shivery place and
is seized with 81 wild longing to get back
to earth. His longing seems to work a
miracle, for he is born again in the body
of an infant of the we'll to- do middle class.
But as he grows older he retains his
knowledge Of his former existence and of
his glimpse Of the bodiless existence. It
Is a knowledge he retains, not a dim and
uncertain impression as of an elusive
| memory. : He is educated, taught, that Is,
Ito take everything for granted, to grasp
fringes and avoid fundamentals, to think
only of the obvious, and to refuse to con-
slider the unimportant incident called
DEATH" But he never gets far from his
knowledge of that other Life which he
knows Is the permanent, the real.
7 With the knowledge Of the other life
constantly before him, the ever insistent
question is, how shall he live; like those
Of the gray world had lived on earth,
spending "all their energies, all their op-
portunities for the sake of few years
Of getting on; knowing lone world,
and that the cheapest and most obvious;
| CONFORMING clearing OUT?
In other words, knowing absolutely that
life survives bodily death and that that
surviving life is modified by the govern
ing mood Of this, what will he do with
this? 1t is the same question we all face,
doubt. ,'' I'D
The boy growing to manhood finds he
simply cannot live indifferently and con-
tent himself with what he knows to be
the mere husk ,of life He is called a
'lunatic" and is regarded as "queer."
His father Is an ultra materialist and
i looks with pity on what he considers the
boys vagaries. Tha hey, in a trying mo-
ment breaks out .ssitlsst his:sS rss
=. Listen, father!- oh, you shall listen be-
the shadow for the real, and the veil for
the limit, like this? Can't you see, on
your theory, what senseless, unreason-
able performance existence is? Isn't 1t
arrogance to think that there's nothing
more beyond the little scale of vibrations
your senses and your instruments can
pick up? That's what your view seems to
AScao W. 1A1SA OAA LAC Lace VI IL IL LOOKS a
silly lie.''
The boy finds that '1ts only when
you've entered into loving alliance with
the universe that you are making the
most Of life," and that is a part Of his
answer to the problem Of living this life
In the light Of another.
The story is not a religious tract Or
treatise in any sense Of the word, tho il
is an argument for future life and for q
modification. Of this life in the light Of the
other It is true that the boys quest
does take him churchward, but the church
! Tor him only proves a sort Of a hating
, place wherein he may withdraw from the
heat and noise of the day.
The author has made her ''hero" and
his environment fit. His story and his
surroundings are not overdrawn or high.
ly colored. The story repeats here and
there and some Of the incidents are unnec.
essarily prolonged. Nevertheless the
story-for it Is a story-deals with vita
problems and deals with them in move
way, which one is not likely soon to for.
, get, and 1T is told in a style we'll adapted
to the matter in hand
The Century company New York: 81 no
DEFIANCE.
"Take what you can, sirs" (thus the story
i runs),
Said poor scholar, who for dearest
Had loved his Virgil; and the wretche,
The book away from him, and thought his
suns T
Light was put out. But he had ba,ke,
: their rage,
Learning by heart the Mantuan's loft,
rhyme,
-, So, 'gainst all spite Of theirs or en,,,o,,,
l time, 0AA'1oo'
| HOLDING it fa-o a,
80, dearest, since have you in nv heart
/ Like that poor scholar I those power,
:, \ defy
Which threat to rob me: You may liv,
.- or die, - 49, '
But nevermore from ME shall you depart
l nave you safe; ''Take what you can.
say; '
t here she abides and will abide alwav.
a -1ohn White Chadwick, in the Januar,
When Marie CoreIIl Heard Frank cri+I
c'sm.-Ihere Is a story now going ~
ROUNDS OF London Of an amusing nassap
: at arms between Miss Marie CorelH, tn
K noVelst, ana certain Miss Goals.
+ scnoolmlstress who presided over the in
.ellectua1 shooting Of a score Of youn,
ideas Immediately across the street frn,,
tne mucn- neralded writer's home, say
The Criterion for January Part Of tn
t scnool exercises, it seems, consisted i,
+ me study OF music, and agreeable tn
this proved to the children. 1t proved mar
: tlcularly dlsagreeable to Miss Corelli. s
II happened that the following note wa
sent across to the music teacher:
Miss Corelli presents her compliments 70 Mic
Goals, and begs that she will be good enono
to arrange SO that there may be no singing clas
between tne hours OF 10 and 1. these being Mis-
: Corellfs working hours, when distractions ar
e peculiarly distastefrl. -, =
The white -aproned maid who bore thi
rather unusual missive was detained Ion
enough to bring back the answer II ran
Miss Goals presents her compliments to Mis-
Corelli. and begs to state that if such cours
is likely to prevent the writing of such books !
70 1.-THE Sorrows of Satan she would rejoice
: arranging singing program FOR every day fro1
Is 8 to 2.
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