The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-11-24

persisted and Increased In poiEnarcX
and aloofness: so that In later work
1t is frankly. and without the palliation
of pictorial or symbolical setting, this
speech and vision of the dreaming
mind that is offered us. Ono will miss
the essential note Of this writing II
one fails to see In 1t, as its prime pos-
session, tho confessions and aspira-
tions OF u spirit swayed, beyond any
other impulse, by a passionate con-
seriousness and a special revelation OF
all beauty. Beyond any other nation
whom ono may allege for the compare
son, this nation of ancient dreams has
chosen to saturate It's work In beauty.
The sense OF 1t is Il perpetual touol1-
stone---a touchstone for the appercep.e
ton of sheer natural presences, Of
dream and vision and intimation, OF
that miraculous and supra -sensuous
world i'll which the spirit Of the cs-
sential mystic has it's intensestt life.
Ono may read the avowal in that
haunting preface which Introduces the
version Of tho tale of Deirdre and the
Sons of Ssna:
Il know you will find a. compelling
beauty In these old tales Of the Gael,
a beauty of thought against which to-
lay your thought, beauty
OF desire against which to lay your
desire. For they are all more than
tales OF beauty than tales Of wonder.
Shall the day come when tho tale of
Deirdre shall be no more told?
Jf SO, 1t is not merely beautiful chill
dren OF legend VIC shall lose. not tho
lovely raiment, but the very beauty
and love themselves /" tho old
wandering ecstasy, the lost uplifted~.
ness"
10 achieve r. deep and continuous
beauty in any art would seem to irs
sure a fairly certain measure Of rscox-
milton. For the admittedly small body
who do know and esteem It, that II
not a. matter for inconsolable regret;
perhaps they await the coming Of that
Spirit Of Delight" which. wrote Alice
Meynell, lifts upon an orbit ellipti-
cally or periodically or hyperbolically
curved. keeping no man knows what!
trysts with time"
The governor mads a distinctly xoed'
impression.
Boston has been enriched by the
Celtic strain. Respectability-foun
upon patenr-leather pumps and q GUS
tom of taking dividends from. the
seven seas-has affected to regard thsE
Celt as rather impossible. Tho tin,sjs
has gone by, as intimated by Mayors
Fitzgerald and elect
O'Connell, when such an attitude could
assume to bo based upon fact. Evenf
warmed-over prejudices will not I'd q
just themselves satisfactorily, and
looking at the Irish-American from
the reversed-end Of a telescope is to-
day rather tasteless sport. Prejudice
sooner or later crumbles upon the hard
bottom of fact. a~ i.
In the altered condition in which
the 1rish-American people stand, past
struggles sink out of view in compari-
son with the splendid industrial and
economic triumphs that lay in: store
for the Irish people. The republic.
accepting Congressman sullivan's ad-
dress as prophetic, views. with exul-
tation the future that is. glittering be-
fore the talent and the energy Of the
1rish-Amerlcan.
Just look at the elements Of the
Irish characterize large and flnda-
mental elements that the most impair
tial observer and historians agree
upona
Conservatism moderation, thought
fulness and poise. ThoroughnessssS
conscientious performance, to the min
utest detail, Of any work which W. s,s
individuals OF people may have ins
hand. Justice-that spirit. sshiclSsS
Ns f4sy