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the text OF many proposed amend
ments, and Which would find gnnnr.'I
favor, Is the suggestion thar nn,,s',.
snould pc given the President 10 voto
any particular Item in an anrornria
ton bill without his being cor, ,,p,it-,
TO give executive approval TO thig ns,n
Item with the alternative OF rc5on,,.o v'o
the entire budget There is sIso
Widespread opinion in Congress ill.,
only majority and not a two-thIrds
vote should be necessary to enact intc
law measure which has not receiveS
Presidential sanction. An amendment
changing The date OF the inauc,,ra
ton OF President to a more sca-
sonable reriod than the fourth or
March might also be expected to gain
universal support. while the PROPOSE
ton to elect United States Senators
by the direct vote Of the people would
IL the expression of State legislatures
accurately reflect public opinion. be
unquestionably adopted Henry
Litchfield West in the November
Forum.
Emerson And scarcely less nosa-
a Master BILE than the method that
Genius. gives it such vitality rs
the material of the Es-
says Emerson's mind is as spacious as
it is active, and as stored as il is
spacious. Not scholar in any strict
ScHot, nc Tttu dS Inucn dS NC Te1lCcteO.
and, owing to his extremely catholic
appreciativeness. as widely. His OK
traordinary power of assimilation and
conversion somewhat obscures the opu-
lence OF his spols. Whatever his de-.
probation of culture and its results tu'
his philosophy, the tapestry of tho
Essays is wonderfully figured with 1t.
DIR. Holmes gives the number of cita-
tionS they contain at 1893, taken from
S6S writer's. And the abundance OF this
harvest of his reading is less impress
siye than the aptness and fecundity of
everything-eyerythin quoted. One
almost sees 1t In Its process of trans
formation into the proverbial manifold
enrichment Of good seed. and views
as seed the grain but freshly reapcd
from the ripest fields of the worlds
thought He dips into the bins of eyerv
storehouse and draws on all treasures
though with an eclecticism SO personal
and a usage so prompt that one fairly
loses sight of the origin of the material
With which he sows and builds. II ~
there nevertheless-an encyclopaedia OF
others thought, however mbined. de-
Veloped, refined, and utilized by AZ
well as embedded in. his own. And the
lessons or experience he drew from
every source. from the most familiar as
well as the most recondite AS he said
of Plato he kept "the two vases. one of
ether and one OF pigment. at his side"
and illustrated his own assertion:
Things used as language are inex-
haustibly attractive" Consider merely
the titles of the ten volumes of ESSAYS
Ihey form catalogue raisonne of wis
dom. Of wisdom OWNED and wisdom
garnered, and the whole beautifully and
MinninSly as we'll as pungently alem-s
picated by an indisputably great mind
And II the Essays are. as they seemed
TO the wisest English critic OF the
nineteenth century. the most important
work IN English prose of that century.
1T Is because they are the work of the
master genius of wisdom among the
writer's of his time
From Emerson. by w. c. BrowneIl
in the November Scribncr.