The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-30
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The publishsrs' notice oT Mar,Hn Cox's
stoy &C The Crowds and the Yelled
Woman dunk A wAGnAlls Comp any)
says thai this 10 "A romance oT tia in
tslleCt with q mystical symbolistic thu ne. .
A often a. Ne approach symbolism No
feel ourselves insecure. We are noe
- ignorant OF course a. not To know thai
10 was intended that We should have thia
feeling. The author has 10 and gsnsr-
O':slv xhares ~ with IN. Il 10 reasonable
Co suppose that what n mystical 10 at
its best when IL n thoroughly inserutAbls.
Ne have been Interested by a number
% the expressions in this tale.
We do not hesitate tn say that Il was
temsrariOus In 0aspard the portrait
painter to expose himself 60 the wlamoura
Of the lady who AIT to him. She had
just discovered that the particular sig
nificance in her being was beauty The
story tells N: "A dim fiyah dawned and
deepensd upon her thrlat and face and
brow. In the fash Of n second 10 fiut-
tered IN the warmth like the direct rays
&C the sun. Never before had Gaspari
seeN that whitenesa inundated by the
cOurNing tides of life: never before had
he seen her invaded by the aaaRuinary
waves from the deep core Of mortality. .
In other and more immediate words.
he had never seen her blush before.
A We make out. her heart was weak.
She could not blush very much nor very
long. -Subsiding as swiftly a. IL had
come. says the story. the ensuing pailor
seemed more white and aakelike than
before. a. tho-too frail as yet 60
hear even that svaneEc@nt fiush-it had
exhausted her like hemorrhage- To
have the word though sheared OF it's
three final letters. and the word -hemor-
rhAge' left intact seems 20 Us likean avoid
@nce q the strong and an attack upon the
feeble. hut We suppose that the assault
can be justified by impressive authority
Turning the page We come upon
some further account 81 the manife--
tations of the 'ady and Of Gaspard's
. understanding % them. Says the story;
"He had made her know herself And
from that moment he watched for the
confederation % the change his revela-
tion had wrought in her. Al the first he
could only be certain of that invasion in
her OF vitality like the tentntives Of an
enlarginG ego He was rewarded a.
he watched. He was presently aware Of
ian Unforeseen animation dispersing
itself throughout her personality a. 10
indeed some innermost congestion OF
hidcen forces was unraveling. spreading.
expanding-to manifest itself upon the
surface In q medley OF subtle mercurial
tokens. such a. q reader smile. a more
swift glance. a quick ening Of expression.
q suppleness % gesture. a fluent grace
and mobility in all her liubs and features
add attributes. Like = suffusion Of life
flowing from some trenchant stroke Of
felicity. 10 permested her and made
itself obvious 10 him thereafter even in
her silence and repo@e-
Was OaNpard made happy by his per-
ception that the Lady wG@ AliveP II seems
not. We read that what he perceived
created in him "a vague dismay- lie
vas not prepared for - RTeRt a change.
accustomed To her "a the unsentient
and pAa-ionlerz creature. he all az once
saw her receptive Ia Yery circumambi-
ence@ This might have been enough
but there was more. Her being. freed
from its secret. Was opened 90 the en-
trance az every tributary Of life. stretch
ing endlepaiy. 20 gather its afinitive
cortege from everyw here.
What did she do AT this juncturep
HnG PlFENguCu utAlh nNf nuns DOtlN ann
gaxeh silently ~ her hands Drcss against
the glass panes % the windows- u will
Re noticed that her hands were "pre~t-
instead of pressed Plainly she had
the wish 10 recommend herself 20 Prof
Matthews The sin was an X-rRy IN her
case. AZ she lay regarding her hands the
sunlight streaming through them made
the spaces between the fingers rossats
and showed tiny shadows 81 bones which
might have been the ribs holding to-
gseher tao small fans Of gauHe.-
she and the painter spoke upon this
paint. She said that she loved the feel
Of the gun. He warned her not TO love il
too much. While 10 Rrieved IL did not
surprise u that she should have died
What was exactly the significance and the
explanation Of the blue color Of her eye?
Science We read. has not yet ascsr-
tainsd all the causes OF the senae q light
and vision. There are slIk@t ances In the eye
% whose function We remain ignorant.
Among them In the substance called visual
purple, which has received its name from
lie color and which II diffused upon the
outer PARTS % the rods NJ the retina.-
The conclusion % the story. dealing spe-
officially with the mysterious fart ~ tbs
visual purple. 10 horrible. The pub
hshsrs generously send Ne picture Of
Marian Cor She IN very good looking
Il 10 difficult to believe that she could
have furnished a conclusion - shocking
II 10 our wish TO preserve in memory a
number 81 her mystical parases and Co
forge. the finish ths. IN too painful and
too plain. We cannot help being sorry
that Enc teutatives Of an ego should have
reached such q pass. that the receptivity
OF circumambiences should have 20 re-
suited and that there should have hem
a failure Of the trenchant strokes of fs-
betty st the last.
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