The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-20


sc ssitstios the dweIers in the spas workers IN
sRsm could iI Sss hope % foF in
peace II al least adventure which viii lift them Of their
dull lives The fascination Of uniforms and concerted
ment march, the byouac, the battle, is always strong
Anyhow the dream Of universal and perpetual peace may
well be banhed The world had something like such peace when
III hay the foot Of the Roman enpeand the record is Of
the in human history We had better recognize that
will always be nations groups Of single
eonquerors who will strive for the headshp Of the world In
uceys essays there Eastern apologize about
which be pardoned for quoting In an Asian city he
there block Of polished granite several eub in each dimension
protected by temple and the legend goes every hum
dred years. angel desends and the top Of the block
wings When the granite shall be entirely by this
visiting until then shall peace reign the
world Certainly behooves in america not to live in Fools
Paradise dreaming of an impossible peace We are
for the but do know when It will eddy around
The saying sage Croes haeyed but does
not lose its ph 20 Coesu when happens along who
has better iron than you, he will have all this gold
Things be they been when this tornado which
has burst Europe has spent force Among other interests
literature will suer change For thing shall have change
heroes From the beginning Of literature has been dominated BY
the of the In Homer and Virgil in the Bible and the
books Of the East the epcs Of the Middle Ages in Shakes.
he has been the central figure War and
Poetry and ndssoube But something like hundred
years ago divorce decreed The delights OF doesc the
diversions of low life began to be exclusively pictured The
unimpoant person into his The new, reading
public print and authors who held
Ito the exceptional and significant figures the humanity
Eschylu age Eurpides
One evidence Of the truth Of all this the cult Of Jane Austen the
attempt years claim for her the pmacy of the
ae forward the mighty masterpieces Of Scott
Jane Austen lived in the time of the Napolecnc wars but Their
greatness and erom and terrors have the et reflection
in her novels In Persuasion group OF girls discuss prize mon
ey like many white-throated sharks Their only conception
that might provide establishment for Of them
But have gone farther aed than the social world in
search for character types We have plunged ptQhe Sums The
prisons the azaretts in search of effective characters We have
traded the king the WARRIOR the thinker for the village cren
the city tough Criminals indeed furnishing large proportion
Of book population and with them the detective who follows
their trail Judging by our novel literature there faint no ten
he a
orywing unredeemed by any CLEAN Of nobility high pupo
spendor of fate pick instances But there so
series which have had erahat in which Ge
Rich Quick Wallngfofd figures and the Potash and Perlute
set They aeundniaby clever and funny but nobody
realize that they horribly IMMORAL and still horribly vulgar
with all its seriousness and terror will deliver from sc
base conceptions of life voiced in such ersy work. vii
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If the present world influences literature int will
may possibly also deliver novels andpays female dom
nation For fifty years it has been the queen egna To TAX
English literature greatest nbvests
dth and Hardy have devoted their genius depicting
Of the feminine mind and character To them merely
unct TO woman They have reversed the Biblical story Of the
And great line Of popular wtesMrs Ward Mr. Hall Caine
Miss Marie Corel, ehave followed suit Playwright
have given the with past the who did and
other varieties of assey females Woman undoubtedly the
popular institution the world agans
her lorcaton but believe m gent
capable of holding the great passions thoughts wc
need be exhibited in literary OF the
ever English literature has been all feminine revelation
Stevenson kept alive the spirit of manly adventure He had
thing OF boy contempt for Tigers proper but girl
are proper Says Bevs in Richard es excellent boys
and that Steyensons spirit Mr. Kpng Sir Rider Haggad
Sir Conan Doyle t piece irony greatest
should lack the e have done the the fighting
England They have all been Cassandras warning their
the evils OF commecasm and bodng forth figures Of the hero
mood Mr. Wells have been essentially unheroi
There is OF fear think in all his ingenious and nerestn
literary inventions He seems to dread caacysm comm
mankind We do believe this dread warranted Man h;
always been equal his fate and has eaess confronted he hi
not controlled the elements SO far God
anything greater than the human soul Mr. Wells has believed TIN
the progress q invention will finally do away with il wi
become too deadly Now the deadest invented II
Roman short sword In Caesars battles four hundred
and human beings said to have been slain If Mr. Wells is
heroic Mr. Bernard Shaw is antheroal He has poured dcu
upon erosm myrads Of Of all classes d
playing today the bate6eld of Europe. Sss pie
Man does live by bread The commercial troue
(which we have been passing practically declared that he could
the result the Get Rich Quick Walngords and the potash
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