The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-04-07

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standard for the ofice.by her bril-
liancy and wit, the graciousness ant
charm with which she presided.
The gayest Of companions, Miss
Repplier is also the warmest Of
friends, and few people possess 50 ex
allied conception Of friendship IS sht
or respond 50 generously to it's de-
mands. To her friends she is never
1 failing fount OF, sympathy and saffec-
1 ton. She will take the most incon.
ceivable amount Of trouble on theil
4 behalf and to any. length to- serve
them. Her morning hours are the
4 only ones in which she can work with
any comfort, yet she is more than
| patient under interruptions.
| In 1888 came her first book, Books
and Men" and since that time hel
essays, goodly in number and scatter
! ed through many magazines, have be-
come a well-known feature Of the
ktirne. Up to the present date we find
! her essays in the following maya
zines: Catholic World, Century
Weekly Review. Atlantic Monthly
Yale Review, Woman's Home Com
Ipanion, Spectator, Nation, New ke-
public, American Magazine, Nc
Clure's, North American Review
Harper's Monthly, .Scribners, and the
Saturday Evening Post.
Themes she takes to suit her fancy
apparently at random as in her book
"a Happy Half Century" published in
E1918; "a Short Defense Of Villains
Benefits of Superstition" "The
Deathless Dairy" "The Accused An
nual," Marriage in Fiction"
Her books may be safely placed in
the trunk when one starts on his sum-
mer's vacation and can take but Few
they are wise. still books that one may
live with. She adds not much to our
knowledge and she comes not often to
any new conclusions, but she is so
companionable, so sparkling and witty:
that we can read on with delight to
the end. Following her last book in
1883 she has given US Points of View:
1891; Essays in Miniature, 1892;
Book of Famous Verse, 1892; Essays
in Idleness, 1892; In the Cozy Hours
and Other Papers, 1894; Varia, 1897;
Philadelphia: The Place and the Peo-
Die, 1898; The FHeside Sphinz, 1901;
Compromises, 1904; In Our Convent
Days, 1905; A Happy Half Century,
1908: Americans and Others, 1912:
The Cat, 1912.
In "A Book Of Famous Verse" pub
lished in 1892 Miss Repplier has gath
cred together many well-loved poems:
her one regret was the exclusion OF
quite as many more.
Our Convent Days published 1905 is
for Miss Repplier an excursion into
entirely fresh fields, being quite diff
ferent in subject-matter from any
thing else she has written. is made
up from her "reminiscences OF her lie
in a convent school near Philadelphia,
and though the name of the school IS
not given it is easily recognizable as
the picturesque Eden Hall at Torres
dale, where so many well-known wom-
en- have received their education. Mrs
Joseph Pennell who Mr.. Aldrich intro
duced to the reading world, for her pa
per on mischief in the Middle Ages"
is the original of Elizabeth in Miss
Repplier's "Our Convent Days"
Miss Repplier in 1911 was awarded
the Laetare Medal from the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame custom con-
tinued every year since 1884 of pre-
senting to some member of the Cath
olicj laity, who has done unusual SER
vices for God and country.
In 1916 Miss Repplier .lectured at
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Few persons have put their criticism
into more attractive form. 1t is pene-
trating and true and in addition it has
sparkle and wit about it that makes
it anything but dry reading. VINO mas
written more sympathetlcaiiy. more
Understandings, more delightfully."-
about Charles Lamb than she II one
takes her work all together. Here IS
a glimpse, yet how illuminating.
"Truest of all, is Charles Lamb, who,
more than any other humorist, more
than any other man Of letters, belongs
exclusively to his own land, and IS
without trace or echo of foreign intiu-
ence. France was to Lamb. not place
where the finest prose is written, but
a Mace where he ate frogs-the incest
little delicate things-rabbity flavor.
I'd. Imagine a Lilliputian rabbit. :" :,
Germany was little or nothing, and
America was less. ;e
n The Child on London streets,
sMothier Of mightier,
Nurse IL none more DEAR"
rich in the splendid literature OF Eng
land, and faithful lover both Of the
teen1ing city and ripe old books. Lamb
speaks of English hearts'in a language
they can understand. And we, his
neighbors, whom he rocked not Of, hold
him just as dear, for his spleenless
hurmor is an inheritance of our moth
err tongue. one Of the magnificent gifts
which England shares with us. and for
which no payment is possible save
the frank and generous recognition of
pleasure that is without a peer"
The March 1921 Independent says
of Miss Repplier and her latest book:
"There are few minds in this country
today as keen and clear, as Miss
Repplier; she has an unerring in
stinct in. the choice Of words; she has
a wide background Of literary and his
torical knowledge which she uses for
effective illustrations but never for
effect and she has that infinite capac-
ity for taking pains of which we see
so little in this generation of rapid
informal writer's. Consequently all
that needs to be said Of Points Of Eric