The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-05

On matters American his word s,ill goes
Doth ia ihis country and abroad
mother Englishman. Lord Cromer
an authority on Egyptian matters
You have To think ~ Egyptian Affairs
to-day IN the same moment with Lord
Iromer because Lord Cromer has vir-
tuAlly made modern Egypt He has
created TO his own liking an Egypt Of
sound finance and sucCessfil industry.
OF drained and irrigated h.lds, Of rail
roads and smooth highways an Egypt
~ Just law and administration. Of Judges
aboN" corruption and Of Magistrates
WITHOUT fear Of tho powerful or the rich,
an Egypt of material prosperity and moral
regeneration
So II IL no moro than tn he expected
that the volume Modern Egypt by the
man often termed the greatest Pro-
Consul ~ this age should he generally
accepted as the foremost II indeed not the
only work Of authority on that country
anu It's every condition to-day He ought
To know IL has lrsen said that he has
never taken advice from anybody that
he Conslders himself infallibie and IL -
AZ any rate true that he regulated the
whole machinery OF administration by
himself The anecdote of how he treated
with the young khedive Abbas II. Illus
trates his method
lie heard that Ahhas had dismissed
has Prime Minister. and 40 hurried into
the long frock coat and elk hat thai made
his tall figure seem all the more impo--
lnRly tall To the Egyptians. and in fave
minutes was seeking admittance TO the
Abdin Palace II did not happen to be-
one Of his HighneSs's receiving days and
his l,ordship was constrained TO push
aside the master OF ceremonies In tho
hhediNe's presence he demanded infor-
nation concerning the ministerial change,
hut his Highness haughtily declined to
discuss the matter and ordered his Lord
shlp out OF his presence Lord Cromsr
IN answer hanged his stick down upon
the table
Il am here to give my advice he made
known; and you are here 10 take that
Then, hourishing his finger in the face
ot the khsdive. he went on TO inform him
that within forty eight hours a British
squadron would appear OF Alexandria
will call again when the ships come.
said Cromer as he dashed out 81 the room.
and e by that time YOU have not taken
my advice
But AbhAs took It
LSfcadio Hearn was an American
journalist. Greek by birth. son 81 a British
infantry Officer who had passed most OF
his life IN India and OF an ChsTigoan
mother, and was born in santa Maura,
vet his name ~ famous as Of the one who
could tell and has told more Of the rea
Japan than any other, whether Oriental
or Occidental Indeed the japanese took
HIM for their own. and when he died. in
isol. one Of them wrote
Truly he was a delicate easily broken
Japanese vast. old a. the world, beaut if'Il
~ cherry blbesom Alas. that wonderful
vase was hroken' He II no more with tIs
Surely We could lose two or three battle
shlns AZ Port Arthur rather than Iafcadio
Hearn
There - no other foreigner who has
hsen buried with the Buddhist rite But
IafCadtp tearn was a Japanese through
and through How satisfied will his
spirit ne IN having his funeral sanctifed
N the kohudera and the priests his own
personal frieuds 10 read the sacred book
How - loved the Buddha books He
was STUDYING them under Prof MurakH M.
W. had iooked forward 10 having hS
own Fnglish version He NAV not have
been Buddhist or Christian m the
worldly meaning. In his heart he WAS a
ddrist 80 well a. Christian
-Jaian did q great thing IN welcoming
lin aud making him feel at home Japan
gained the greatest writer and the raresi
soul IN the world Their" - nc doubt
that hrs work will he eternal His work
will live With japan
On the wreath II laurel yIaced on his
comm was the inscription. In memory
" IaafCad Hearn whose Ten was mighIIeT
than the sword ~ the victorious nation
whose highest honor n shall ever he To-
nav" gwen him cIti1~nship and ALA a
grave
~ vt- h- regarded IN spirit hv the r....-
all uatIru~ 80 hay" interpreted. though
born 10 G-'.'c, # an IRISH fa'h.- educated
ul~'ly M Ireland. partly ia England
partly IN France and having passed
fnuch uf Gts lt" % the United states
he ), hum" entitled Lord CIryun
.u India cont. .uIug s.'laC'i nfIz from his
,,.,., "'- 40 ICsruy and Governor Gene al
pf India between tn" wears l~1N and 1919
= materially taken A. the chief authority
IN modern India. lust a. the book - Lord
4 (. nh t.
Lord CUrzon was the man beet fitted '"
tell because ha knew most Nhet her
u - a matter 81 ia'n'r" ~ at Dr l-r!g1-
ton. frontier policy. cnmmerc" ~ in
d iztry. the word - the former adrninI--
traitor can we'll lie taken first. a. indeed
u -
The philosophy Of the old Persian pot
might s'ill remain forgotten had not
Edward titzGerald met IN lN@ X
Cowsll sfterwari professor ~ SlnEcrrt
az Cambridge He was student II Ian
gtiqze.. and Prof Cowell induced HIM
- taae up the - Idy q Persian and intr,-
iuc.-d him - Omar Khayvam Prof
{ DWELL discovered among the mann
scripts q the Ouseley collections BE- rhs
EodlsIan Library a written scroll con
tanning IJS qnatr aims e the date 20 IGD
and made a copy which he sent 10 fitz-
Gerald
FitII;erald worked for soms years
in his deSultorv fashion attempting -
put the qIatrsins into LATIN and 70 re-
produce the peculiar rhyme, hut NJ length
turned IN English When he sent the
nRlish manuscript 20 FrdssT's Mage
Strc in 1855 he heard nothing from II for
a wear. and then. having demanded 10
return. he himself m 1859 publishei tn"
quatrains in a small quarto with brown
wrapper. and there - now as-urance
that the names ~ both Omar khsyyam
and Edward FitzGerald will last ~
long a. the English language even after
the PersIan has passed away There
L. no doubt that FitlGerald felt hIs ft-
ness as interpreter from a sense Of kan
shin He wrote tn Cowell
In truth | take old Omar n rather
more INV property than you're lie and
are more akin. are we mott You see
ali his beauty. bu, you don't feel with
him m some reapects as | do.
4 think you would almost feel Obliged
10 leave OUT the part of Hamlet IN repre-
.sntinR hun ~ your audience for fear
n mischief Now lido not want q show
Hamlet az his maddsst. but mad he must
be shown or he - no Hamlet AZ all
4 think these free Opinions are less
lar gerous IN an Old MahOmetan or an .
ph Roman luke IucT~titIsi than when