Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-10

when Fawcett is called to South
America to bufld u railroad she agrees
to accompany him.
Meanwhile, certain ominous indica,-
tons had revealed to an astute phySt-
clan who had become acquainted with
Lisle his actual condition. He felt
deep sympathy for the stricken au-
thor, whose days of triumph he knew
were ended, and he feared that his
princely income, also, would be az
fected by his inability longer to pro-
duce popular poetry and dramatic
work. He, therefore, determined to
induce Lisles estranged wife to re-
turn to him. He disclosed his plan to
priest, o faithful friend of LiSles
who agreed with him that 1t was the
only hope for the stricken man while
he lived.
When the physician finally meets
Margaret she is in London, having
gone there to join her lover for their
flight South. She had herself received
a plea from Lisle that she would re-
turn to him and had rejected 1t. The
physicians sudden appearance, the
blow he dealt to her newly-found hap
piness, the terrible alternative which
she must decide, all overwhelmed her,
but Margaret is woman to whom
the call of duty could never come UNI
answered. She chose what she re-
garded as her only path and went
back to the man in whom the hus-
band was dead, but whom she could
nurse and soothe in his decay.
Now, it may be submitted that such
theme Is not pleasant subject for
the mere novel reader, as l have init
mated, and as a picture of feminine
self-sacriflce 1t is unnecessary, for
women, inspired by their birthr.ght,
their divine pity. are doing what Mar
garet did every day n
THE WONDROUS WIFE" By
Charles Marriott. author of the Cat
fish," etc. The Bobbs- Merrill Co., In
Ind
Carducci.
The work of the Italian poet Car
ducci, who first won fame by his
Hymn to Satan," was some years
on the New York Herald, whose wife
was an Italian. She was a successful
novelist, and at last undertook to
translate some of the poems of her
fellow countryman. These transIa-
tons were very skilfully done, and
when compared with the original
showed no loss OF fire or spirit. They
were selected, also, with such excel
lent judgment that they indicated
PldlAly WHY Ills duJilOI was 50 lO11E
q powerful influence in the world OF
letters of Europe.
Carducci, while poet, was e5-
eentially a man of action, and he was
one of the greatest factors in the
in Italy and in the
triumph of the house of Savoy. He
was for fifty years professor OF
italian literature in the University OF
Bologna, and his profound learning
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his poetry that at times it is in
telligible only to the learned. To the
lovers of classical literature his verse
is a pleasure, because 1t reminds
such readers of their Virgil or their
Horace. The Hymn to Satan" which
was published In 1863, and was one
of the authors poems most perfectly
translated by Mrs c., the lady Of
whom I have spoken, Is, as might be
OF anarchy, destruction and revolt
and could only have been written by
an atheist, which Carducci most de-
cidedly was.
The gods of the poet were tina
Greek and Latin writer's of the Golden
Age, the great German poets. and
lastly, the romanticist, Victor Hugo
1t has been said of him that while
he hated Christianity. he was full OF
u cOlnPaoOtoA AL
humanity. His profound learning
seemed to fit him for the production
of great histories. yet he wrote
poetry.
Carducci's task, indeed, seems 90
have been to reconcile all that was
best in past ages with the new ideas
of his day, and 1t seemed as If the
quick intelligence of the italian peo-
pie understood this. Thus, as 1t is
declared he could adopt Impressions
taken from the classics or the German
lyrical poets for the theme Of poem
about railway express train.
There Is very popular journalist
now writing for New York evening
paper who has In O. modest way
perhaps unknowingly, adopted the
method Of Carducci in his para
phrases of Horatian odes or sa-
tires. Carducci combined incon-
gruities which, when rehearsed In
prose, sound ridiculous, but never
in his verse; he here has the sure
touch of the poet, whose verse is sup
piled by a spirit greater than him.
self
Carducci took the metres OF Horace
and made them sound the ideas Of
the new Italy. The New York jour
nalist, Franklin P. Adams. adopts
the Horatian metre, and most de-
lightfully illustrates the slang, the
argot of the street or expresses the
last fanciful conceit OF the cafe or
the playhouse. Is 1t too much to say
that the Journalist, In sense, ranks
with the poet?
with verse TRANSACTIONS and Introductory
essays. BY A. N. Bickersteth. Long
mans, London and New York.
SrnyHnmrnc
Miss L. Af-Hageby, the noble
Swedish woman who has taken up
the war upon the horrible practise OF
vivisection, has written a book upon
August Strindberg which is worthy
of notice. It was published in London
In 1913 by the firm of Stanley Paul.
AS every lover of literature now
knows, Strindberg is one of the great
writers Of the nineteenth century. IG
is even declared that he Is greater
figure than Ibsen, his Scandinavian
contemporary, and that he ranks with
Tolstoi. England and America did
not awaken to the Importance of
Strindberg's work until he passed
away, in 1912. Some people In this
country and England read Strind-
berg's plays In German or French
translations, but they never saw them
put upon the stage. They were. how
ever, performed at the Theatre Libre,
In Paris. before those Of Ibsen were
represented. Ihsen owed his advant-
age over his rival more especially to
the vogue he had gained in England,
where his methods agreed with those
OF coterie of writers and critics who
could not follow Strindberg In his ter
ribie spiritual search, as illustrated
and exploited in his photographed
novels, books which stir the heart of
man and leave him stranded and hor-