Show I II I iJ i A letter was received the I recelvecthe other day II In New York from Edwin Arnold ll I Eln who has blind In t I ha gone which he used these t words My condition t I cndlt would be a Bad i one without patience and resignation I I never despair and go on with my t work thanking heaven n for I or my unlm paired mental powers A pwor3 very mar velouo man Is Edwin Arnold mal Edwl f uia i Light of Asia has passages Got 113 times pages of about the pase about most ex I qulslte poetry that qulIe was ever written wrltel I When ono reads the great poems of l other men he can Imagine that the I lama excellence might be attained by years of study and practice but there are passages in tho Light of Asia Ala that seem almost unattainable by any I other mortal In his youth when t1ic 1 Mutlny was hot In India he wasMotig r a resident there and the pOem Mastlio i outgrowth not only oCrAuhathoMearneVl Dutpf what experienced tiie im ttL ± Ijr 1 pre lons given him that were finally woven In language We take It he has always been a little selfwlllqd nml that ho never cured very much about tho conventionalities of the world When a pretty old moji he went to Japan and there fell In i love and married mar-ried n Japanese lady aa bin thlrd wife She Is described as a typical Japanese i beauty her name signifying Jewel of tho Dark River He has had some domestic troubles One son has turned 1 out bad A great many friends drew I away from him when he married the Japanese woman We suspect that he I knows nothing of business and thtt ha Is wearing out He cannot oven sec tlfc pretty little Jap that caught his eyes and made him forget all the staid proprieties of his English training I |