The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-08


own standard of efficiency.
"A food of other material was sup
piled: the greater mortality of the
moderate drinker as compared with
the abstainer. his greater tendency Co
mental disorder and to crime But
alas how great is the power of hab-
it, how deaf are those who will NOT
heart"
A Boston publishing house has I'M
dertaken the production of a series Of
volumes that will interest many lovers
of good literature no doubt 1t is to
be composed of monographs each con
tining itself to one theme, showing the
development Of one kind Of literature.
1t is to be a critical work. by several
writer's connected mainly with the
higher institutions of learning. The
Ballad, the Novel the Tragedy. the
Essay, Literary Criticism, the Pastoral
and other themes or branches. will be
considered. The editor is Prof w. A.
Nelson, of Columbia College. Each vol
Gme will contain a photography.
There is an ass in England who
wishes to dig up Shakespeare bones
lat Stratford to ascertain if he really
wrote his plays or Lord Bacon. who
could not write respectable verse. See
his samples in Lord Campbell's Lives
of the Lord Chancelors." It is fool
the mover 1t is absolutely the most
scnseleas shing ever hearG Of this
doubling Of the authorship of the
greatest works in all literature. The
editor of the ~ Y saturday Review
says correctly: but if it were not for
I'acoHians like Ignatius E2n-
nelly and this person who wants
! to dig up poor Shakespeare's bones,
the public would take no notice at all
of Baconism. These folks are anus
| ing. They are more contemplate than
amusing.
Here is a stanza that will do for your
scrap book and if you have none then
get one and begin with this. A we'll
selected scrapbook is both interesting
and valuable. I wish in old age | had
begun one when / was eighteen, and
grace. 1904. Rev. G. l.. Banks. an
| English clergyman, wrote this:
For the cause that lacks assistance
For the wrong that needs resistance.
For the future in the distance.
And the good that | can do?''
Here is couplet BY an unknown 70
me English writer:
"Keats, if thy cherished name be writ
in water,
| Each drop is fallen from some maurp-
| er's cheek.
Some months ago. read a long ex-
| tract from a highly-gifted English
| knight, but the name now escapes me-
who discussed certain poets or genuine
gifts who wrote and because they
really had something to tell: They
Iwere writers before the Victorian
4 l.. - -
| cgonsidered of great rank. the equal of
any in the reign SO rich i'm men of SUI
operative genius. He recited selections
from the works of several poets.
which served to show how great, how
fertile was the Victorian era in poetical
achievements. He thought if Scott
and Byron had been included in the
| time signifed. that the era would have
been hardly inferior to the great reign
of Elizabeth. so rich in genius, and TO
which shakespeare gave. in all COM
parsons, SO tremendous an advan-
| tage. / clipped passage from
his lecture which read with
sympathy as it expressed much Of
my own conviction, as / have afora-
time set forth in the columns Of the
News and Observer. / give it here:
The reaction which had set in
against the ridiculous undertaking
| of Byron was of good omen. Byron
/ might have had no technique. as a
foolish critic once remarked, but al
lleast he had something to say, and
! he said it with a vengeance. We
lshould not be surprised if thirty years
Thence it had become an article of or
Ithodox poetical faith that the fourth
lcanto of Childe Harold was the great
est non-dramatic poem in English"
l---
We learn from the New Testament
that on one occasion, the Disciples of
Jesus Christ were "sorrowful." The
account reads: And they We're exceed
ing sorry" Christ had just reminded
His disciples that He must be DE
| trayed into the hands of men, and
they shall kill Him, and the third day
he snail be raised again" He had
told them of this before but they APP
peared reluctant to believe that real
" He should suffer these things.
| Hence He repeated it. and was the
Imore anxious to impress it upon their
memories. It is very noticeable
throughout the Gospels how very slow
1.-THE disciples were in understanding
| Him. They appeared unable to COM
arehend correctly His ref
| Himself, and the real meaning of HIS
tadvent into this world, and the kind
| of Kingdom He was about to esta biish
1 And they were exceeding sorry -
Isorry for Him no doubt-possibly sorry
| for themselves alone When the Shep-
| herd is taken away what shall become
of the sheep? They were both perplex-
ed and grieved, perpexed because they
could not understand how He was 20
give them eternal life by dying HIM
,self--that indeed was a great mystery
to them as they groped and Stun
| bled: they were grieved, because their
| great expectations of immediate earth
| ~ glory and felicity were thereby COM
ipletely overthrown. They are about to
/ quaff the cup of honor and prosperi-
/ ty, when it is violently dashed to the
I earth They are about to eat the gol-
den apples of a glad fruit, when sud
| denly, like theN fabied Dead Sea fruit
/ they turnsto ashes on their lips. Such
| is life--fuil of awakened anticipation
to be followed by a gloomy disap-
pointmen. In the morning the sky
is clear. all nature is serene, in the
evening storm clouds lower and pes
/ thence is borne on the breeze
We may learn a lesson from this
| sorrowing of our Savior'S immediate
! disciples--those that followed Him
through the years and knew Him Sc
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