El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-10
Some weeks ago we wrote a
few words of praise for the lite
ON SIMPLICITY

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whose name was Elbert Hubbard.
No doubt those of thoughtful readers who followed
our advice and acquired the Little Journeys will only
regret one thing in they have already read those
masterpieces that they can't be forgotten in order to
read them again eve don't like to steal from any
body and we wish explain that this last thought is not
ours, but Votaires some other French writer, who
spoke thus about "Don Quijote'O.
Today we wish to recommend to our readers another
fine book It's title is The Simple Lfe and the author is
a Frenchman named Charles Wagner. The volume weI
have was printed by the J. S. Ogilve Publishing Company
5Rose Street. New York City, but the work so popular
in the North that no doubt any welapponted bookstore
will have in it's Shelves and consequently those Of our
readers interested in buying it. should experience diff
fcuty in finding it. Furthermore the original was writ
ten in French and although not certain, we preSu
me it's translation into Spanish made long ago.
This standard book should be read by everybody inf
Porto Rico. We frankly declare that we never read any
thing better in life. The old, eternal truth, things
that the human conscience knows and feels said to us
once in clear, convincing manner Nothing like
rhetoric there: wisdom open before our soud with sub
ugating planness Remember that the title of the book
is "The Simple Life So read the book if you please We
recommend it to you on the the authority OF the late heo
dore Roosevelt whose message to the author was Il am
preaching your book to my countrymen"
We shall write several articles commenting lhe SIM
pie Life which, forgot to tell you read by for
the first time ten twelve years ago. but somehow
it covered up by later strata in our library, and the
treasure remained hidden until redscovery few days
ago. Listen to the golden words of Wagner in the
n the of simplicity must watch word and
pen Let the word be simple, like the thought and that
q" may be sincere and that may be sure THINK JUST
"LY; SPEAK FRANKLY"
Now reader do us the favor of remembering if in
anything spoken written by Porto Ricans nowadays
there is the required simplicity We shall let the phioso
pher find out the for popos overcharged and
pedatc Speech don't whether is the academic
fools the unversary education acquired by the unde
serving but simply point out the fact The obs
piece Of literature is nowadays and the one
has to hunt in the dictionary after words the more
the farrago will dazzle the next fool and the more unin
tellgbe will be his imitation We to be going mad
about it.
We would like poets, artists of the alexandrne
verse; full of strange terms and empty OF deas to read
Literature poetry HAVE THEIR OBJECT, in Porto
Rico like in every other country but OUR L1TERATURE
and OUR POETRY do not to have any object at ALL
because the people for whom they supposed to be
written do not understand them in many We do
not profit by and sincerely doubt if the adirer who
claps when the piece read aloud profits at all by
the aesthetic fruton pretended. All humbug!
Yes Sir Take any piece of real poetry and you will
"the simple word spoken of by Wagner Here are
two examples, one from Byron and the other from Es
pronceda seconds to in England and Spain during
the 10TH Century Please compare not the thought but
the way it is expressed with the manner Of poets:
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crowned him long ago
On throne Of rocks in robe of clouds,
With diadem of snow.
Have you need of any interpreter to understand that?
Any word there that requires the dictionary in order to
tell it's meaning?
E aa aaasIsa ~
Hoas del arbol caidas
juguete del vento son;
las iusones perdidas
Jay! son hojas desprendidas
del arbo del corazon.
Any thing simpler than that? Is there anybody in the
faStness of mountains who could have difficulty in
understanding THIS poetry? Is there anyone there who
understand brand of poetry? Don't you think
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