University Missourian., 1912-02-20

| think too little nowadays of balance.
symmetry and pOise, which Arnold
preached. There is hardly anything
In our modern life and thought which
We discount so much as repose and
dignity.
Not far from Fox Howe we NAV
enter the charming valley of the
Beatty. sacred to the memory of
Charles Lloyd. who maintained here
center or hospitality for all of the
distinguished literary folk of the
region. To this place during Lloyd's
happy days came night after night
quaint Thomas DeQuincey. unhappy
little opium eater with the quick
meek SOUL, as Carlyle called him, He
came to sit and talk with Lloyd some
times till | o'clock in the morning.
listening in the pauses of their talk
to the river Beatty rolling over its
rocky bed
Just above the Lloyds' was
Beatty Hall, the home of the Har-
dens, also an intellectual center of
this region. Here one afternoon in
1880 We might have met SOuthey
and COleridge and Christopher
North. discussing with their hosts, a
new volume of poems just published
by a young Cambridge man named
Alfred Tennyson.
Ruskin Unappreciative of Self.
"A few miles to the west of Win
dermere lies Lake COnistOn. Brant-
wood, the beautiful home of John
Ruskin. is situated on the shore of
this lake. In some respects life
seemed to him a failure. He had
spent large fortunes to help the poor.
but the poor We're more numerous
than ever. He had started various
cooperative and sOcialistic schemes
only to see them go to pieces without
apparent beneficial results. And so,
downcast and disappointed, Ruskin
came to the peaceful lake district to
spend the last part of his life. He
did not realize how influential he
had actually been in shifting the in
terest of thinkers from the problems
of the individual life to those of the
general life and in making the basis
of that interest not charity but JUS
tice.
I'VE must pass on now to the real
presiding genius of the lake region,
William Wordsworth. Wordsworth
was born at COkermOuth, on the
other side of the district, on Der
went River between keswick and the |
sea. When Wordsworth was 81
years old he was sent to Hawkshead
to attend the little village school
and to develop his calm and serene
nature under the quiet influences of |
the lovely valley around Esthwaite
water
The rest of Professor Tisdel's lect-
ure hinged around Wordsworth. He
him to COleridge and |
SOuthey, both of whom lived near
him. With his pictures and talk he
took his audience on a trip through
the whole district He took it quite
for granted that every one who
heard him was already planning a
similar trip for himself
''NOw When You Go There"
Now. when you go there he
would say. lit is well to do good
leal of walking and not depend en-
.irely on the coach in order thor
)ughly to appreciate the beauty of
he country
He ended with description of
Derwent Water, "rich in beauty
scenic pictures, not the least of
which is Friar's Craig"
There" he said, lis perhaps the
most beautiful spot in the lake re-
siOn. There is monument to Rus
lin on this crag and on one side of
t are his words, The first thing l
as an event in life was be-
ng taken by my nurse to the brow of
Eriar's Crag on Derwent Water On
he other side of the monument are
words expressing the sentiment of
10Th Wordsworth and Ruskin. which
phrase the impression which most
'isitOrs take away from the place:
THE spirit of God is about you
md in the air that you Breathe"