| Show I h 41 I jP I I 1 i I 1 I j I i I f I 0 4 I V U i l il I is isU isI r I y 1 I j jI I A r HUMANITY 1 i ti From nil the tho wn nr wom world they cry cn tor light 1 I heir hear their voIces olce th silent night The people they who flutter they ther Tho i boar benr fl The weight ot of the labor and nd Iii Ita IiiI I care careS S H They The Cl cry aloud for tor justIce and for tor 4 peace They beir their portion ot of the worlds f increase e c Thero tired ot toil fired ot of producing for tor lj 4 Tired ot of the load lond ot of and of at torts 4 Tired ot of the kings the conquerors the then n courts I Tired ot of the tho hypocrites who k ode ado odeS r I S ChrIsts disciples but whose wage vago I Is paid From Frem cotter and who hold their llaco DIaco With the oppressors of at the human race 4 J Tired ot of the husks ot of creeds and dog i I mae old 1 T ed of at the tho hard unfeeling rule of at o gold j Tired of at the politician and his lies Tired ot of the knaves who walk In Vir Virtues tues guise I Tired ot of the want the tho hunger the die dieL I L tress Tired ot of the tho whole worlds hate and andI eI I i V l 1 In a 1 blind uncertain way It For something for tor II a better day dayI J I j ro 10 n a Juster era ern come to birth To see 0 Lord Thy kingdom upon gk earth I u My heart goes out to them my hopes hope 1 and ani dreams t Are all tor or their uplifting but It scams seems I it My efforts are arc so feeble and so few I 1 i Wh What t can I do 0 Lord what cnn can I do don doI I n d The Th fields are white to harvest all the 4 world t Is waiting till Th Thy banner Is unfurled Is ready at the signal to march on onI I 10 the New lime that now begins to dawn TB 8 listening until some voice olce of at power lH 4 In clarion I n shall proclaIm th thi t i t r r And nd at that magic and Inspiring call callI l I d J i Men Ien shall arise and to Its headlong tall fall f ti hurl burl the Old the reign j f ot of caste casteT T f evils we Inherit from the past And from the heights ot of Pro Progress ress they t S have hao won Shall hat han the light ot of Freedoms rising I f sun 1 1 j Is m my make mako that vision Is Ion IonI I true truet t or 1 n What can I do 0 Lord what can I do o ow w I u I li 4 NOTES I I I l t 1 t lt 4 4 Poe wrote nn an elaborate essay on hIs J I 1 methods In wrIting The Raven Ac 4 f erdIng to his story he built buill It up r on fixed prInciples takIng for fors s his corner stone the word nevermore J J It t was an ingenious no ono one f f i f believes it II hut many people have be I f S l that Poe drew his Inspiration for tor forThe t f The Raven from some other poem he 1 4 f has a even enn been accused or of translating t r l hl f It bodily from the Persian n a language f I In which he as proficient Current 1 Literature P points out n a probable source f i 1 Dt Df the Inspiration or of The Raven Ravon It I I i There III 15 a singular suggestion ot of i r I Shelley whIch no ono one seems to have t hitherto In the following lines 4 1 Eagerly I wished the morrow vainly I 2 had sought to borrow 1 I From Irom my books surcease or of sorrow It 1 it sorrow for tor the lost ost Lenore f i I i The earlier lines by Shelley which I i In A Lament are these I f 5 s Jr M My heart each day desires the morrow I Sleep Itself Is turned to sorrow t t I i Vainly would m my winter borrow t Sunny Bunny leaves from nn any bough I I It Is difficult to avoid the s suspicion t j that Poe received from this his first J I hInt ot of the metrical form torm ot of The t Raven It if not also an or of Its lis list w a J t I o I i 1 The literary business seems to bo be bof f 1 looking up In Canada A story Is told 1 5 ot of an author who recently visited To ToI Toa a I J J onto and was asked to Join the p j r I i Club ot of that citY lie Ht asked who ho belonged to the organization and II I was told proudly WhY all our nu au authors 1 J jr thors At the last we took In it al sIxt new Canada Is not t 4 1 Daly literary but she he Is ne Ite IteI I Ii cent W v D I discovered a poet I named Madison Cawein and Introduced ll a 1 him to the publIc As to Mr g In regard to there may ot of course COUNe be n a difference ot of 1 J I Ion between Mr and the ret rest I It f If af t the world nut But his Introductions are aret t a ala always graceful and people will read readI I them even cen It If they will wll not read tead the 4 a works ot of the poet whom he Introduces i So the London Academy noticed t I new find and called caUM a Canad 1 ti Inn Ian Then It apologized and said that I the new p poet t was an American Now Ii Literature points out the Academy 5 Is In danger danier ot of having all 1111 Canada about J t 4 b Its It ears asking how long since n a I ac a C Canadian ceased to he be an American I Here l is n a chance for tor n a discussion nt at the J of the tho Toronto Authors L A I U t Id III ju t to extensively Ingland where t who fur It at the tor uDa VI d harem The three thre great creat American successes ot of the year ear David When Knighthood Was In Flower and Carve Carvol so IQ tar far hose hlo not been conspicuous successes on the IJ ler side though narum hrs has a 11 there ot of SIlO a week Hoek and RIchard Carvel Carel Is making It Iti wa ta Ono One t the successes of the year yea In land Is the work of an American the lute luto Harold Frederic whoso whose In the Marl darket et Place met Inet with Instant popularity Man any English critics are readIng D DavId Harum to try to fint out the entice of at Its In the tho States One critic It Is because of oC its pictures ot of horse halll II sales and another arrives nt at the conclusion that the books booles American success us duo due to religious Interest j 4 V I q 4 Hearn III ia isaki to have be become become come Japanned so RO thoroughly that nothing American Is left lett ot of him except his c minand ot of the tho En language lie dresses In Japanese costume lives after the manner of the Japanese and seems scorns to be one or of them Hearn never had strong ties tics and he has little blood lie He Is ot of rece IncludIng Greek and his mint mind S seemus to be fitted peculiarly peculiar to comprehend and a appreciate ate lite the tho Japanese and their literature 1 i O i ci 4 Sir Charles DUke has hns announced hIs Intention ot of bequeathing to the vestry of England the Keats ret rei In his Sir Charless cot col collection lection ot of Keats Kents relics reliC 1 Is large and vat nl Ills HIs grandfather was a close frIend ot of the poet aJ and besides the ret reI los Ics which he inherited Sir Charles has hns hasman man which were given to him by Major Drown Brown n a son ot of friend Charles I Drown Brown DurIng the life lite of SIr Charles the relics will remain In the Chelsea Chelsen Fr Free Library but It at his death tho they will ill be placed In the Fr Frei at has had nall Illustrious among them Sir Richard mchard Steele Dr Johnson Keats Leigh Hunt l Lord rd Lord Erskine Lord Constable William Blake S Pettie and Frank hell among the JtB Dickens used to put up at Jack Straws Slums Castle Tennyson u d to walk up UI the hill from Camden Town to see hIs mother r Mrs Darb Barbauld Joanna and Lucy Alkin AIkin are among the women who have lIved there It If the l Free ree Library there thero could secure r relics ot of alt all of oC these It would become II a place for literary pilgrimages 4 4 D Byron ron was one ot of the few tew men who had his wishes respected In the tho matter ot of his hll epitaph M My name namo my only and Crede rc e Byron Dyron Is III all that I no hO has tany great grent men nave naw their own epitaphs and some have hae had them written for tor them For the great beacon which looks out over the tho stormy northern seas Archibald Campbell has Isas written this epItaph for tor William Black TO WILLIAM BLACK DIACK InscrIption for tor the Beacon We faIn would M let thy memory dwell Where rush the UIO or of the sea Ilea Where will moan mann or calms will tell ro fo all the world our love loe for tor th thee Whom oil 01 men loved loed In this old land lamI And nfl men loved 1000 across neross the sea We well ma may clasp our hand And lIght the tho beacon light for tor thee It Is rather lame and surely would prove proe both as a inscription tion for tor a beacon and as an epitaph Lo Long before he died LouIs Stevenson wrote his own epitaph which appears on his monument In San 1 Francisco Under the wide Ide and starry sky Dig 01 my grave and let me die Glad did I 1 live lle anti gladlY die And I Is me down n a will This be the verse ore yo 0 shall grave me be the eise ye e shall for tor me here he lIes lIet where he to Ui be Home Is the sailor home from the sea And nd the hunter botne the bIll hili 4 4 SIr Walter Beunt has taken up lie tho Idea or of solItude In the tho of at n a JIg big city which was spoken of In this cot col column recently lie nays ot of Landun The best belt place for tor a Saturday halt holiday at this tIme 1 find to be the city the streets are quiet the tho shops are shut Rhut there N Is nh always s something new to tolee lee and something new to remember One ran can wAlk about treel freely and stand tand at the cor s anti gaze and meditate Shall I tell teU you 00 ot of n a little walk that I took teak laM IMI Saturday afternoon You ou will think It II rather dull perhaps hut It if you OU have hae thIngs In your our head to recall It Is Isn Isa n a walk that is hi anythIng but dull Ot Of It began with lunch I always take m my ChOP chOI at the tho George and Yul uI Cure close clore to lane Inne partly be Mr Ir k used the house because the things are good the they servo your our chop On ona a 1 hot bot pewter pIa plate te and nOO partly because I 1 lo do not oot think that the hOuse hM ha been altered since It was rebuilt after atter the fire Luncheon dIspatched I 1 walked leisurely through courts and alleys alley Into Grace Irace Church street aM b by the wa way ot of the the best market In Inthe time the street This Is Isn isa n a most Interesting street here were the first the ho s second ond and the third East India IoU ou can see them tham all with a mental lr the way Is surely the Kings Tavern Ii 4 44 0 Under lYnder the peculiar title Une ot of The Pow Powers ers ems nt at Pia Play taken from n a line ot of DrowninG BlIss PelT Perry lisa haa grouped a ahalt halt half dozen short hort stories which are ot of 1 high rank because or of their finished lit literary I I style and their skillful f I character These stories ha have e all aIl af In Scribners Magazine but they Veru vere well worth reproduction In book form torm The Tho longest tale Ills Word Of t honor Is a line IIno sketch kelch or of 1 a young Vermont doctor who has hIlS been engaged to n a girl hIs country town sown for or lIve JIve years ears et whoP who almost forgets ts Iter In the n ot n a Now York damsel amsel the dal l of a great surgeon lie ho It ar arranged 1 ranged to 10 meet th the N New York girl near hIs horne home iii it d I spend n few tew days hr coaching Party Ilary nit although hough he knows that this I wiLt ho bo bothe the end or of his hili to the girl who hM lia been loyal loal to him for tor lse Ie years The Tho Incident which turns him from his purpose and brings hIm bak to his hili first love lore Is very cr lie Jle meets n a cue cUs tam family II and In ministering to lo the IhO husband who hils I a collar collarbone bone hoM he sets gets from the wife the lion to remain faithful to his engage engagement ment Ot Of the other stories the tho best are TIme Tho Incident ot of the British Em and Third tire tle There will be no books ot of stet stor ice this season bettor better worthy worth ot of n a place on the literary shelf than there tales by the tho now new editor ot of the tho Atlantic Monthly New York S Sons price 4 1 4 henry WorthIngton on Idealist by Margaret Sherwood Is I a quiets quiet s schol hol arty story with a and persistent claIm upon the attention of the lie reder The idealist Is in a young oung college professor sur sor In the department ot of political econ economy economy omy who objects to the acceptance b the Institution of at a large endowment for tor tIm Iole reason that the wealth of the donor onor ras evil Is through do dc advertising schemes mes and lug Ing wages to employee To be assured ot of this th the young professor via Is Its one of the large department stores of the donor and questions the tho girls behind the counters He Ie receives but lIttle information however he finally a handsome youn yoting attendant who learns the purPose r his visit and unreservedly explains the questionable business ot of the concern so ro tar far as her goes poes young youn lad lady the tho learns Is the da daughter ot of the tho owner or of time the duro dur lug Ing his absence has entered It ni s an e with A view ot of ascertaining the extent to which her father tather Is Ising ing Ith human misery mIser This Is the ground plan ot of the stor story which ends with a union of the two both or of whom are Idealists and noble New York The lan company prIce 10 1 4 44 oi Charles Dudley Dudloy Warners Backlog Studies clever cleer Incisive and new are Invested with holiday hoUda Houghton Co o bring brIne out n a choice edition with thus and b by Edmund Hr H Garrett f 4 1 of 4 The Keats Keate whIch Co add to their Cambridge poets with all the scholar scholarly edlUn and scrupulous printing which the nanie ot of fence has come to imply contains contain besides beside the tho poems poem Keats Kents many ways n a remarkable collection and ot of great literary value valueS 4 S 1 1 A Confident Tomorrow by Brander Matthews recently finished as a 1 serial In one of at Harpers periodicals has been issued In a volume olum with the orJi mat It Is 1 a storY or of a aoun ayoung young oun man from the West Vest who goes to New York with tI a story wIth which he expert expects to begin a literary career that will bring him Caine and fortune IU In finds the road to success a hard one but when the story ends enas he be Is well on his wa way towards It with 10 love and reputation tation ns aa the tho rewards ot of his Harper Brothers New York t It was Inevitable the great creat sug cess of Edmond drama Cy Cyrano Cyrano rano De Dc should call thou to previoUs dramas by thIs author which not attaining the cess cesa ot of hlll his latest work orl et hAve sonic ot of Its merits murlle La In the Princess Far A Away ny is d a poetic drama In tour four acts the time beIn lit III the twelfth century which was pro produced at th the Theater De Ln La founts sance Paris In April 1895 It WaS fairly well receIved the leading chaa ter being played by B Bernhardt The drama was more ot of n a than a perfect work the liU thor was feeling his WilY vay rather than with assured step steD Its move moe ment Is Irregular and It gives evIdence or of the tho author being swaYed now b by one dramatic and no now b by another er cr It lacks the action necessary to suc success su cess on an American stage e but a l a dramatic poem Is worth The translator Charles Renaud Benaud explains that tha t he has ims endeavored to render faith faithfully full fully the oddities neologisms natural naturalness ness and swing ot of the this statement being male made not as an ex cx cuse for tor his but In j jus s Ice to the author whose hose con conception he has endeavored to Frederick A Stokes Co 0 New York 4 l I That entertaIning and helpful paper for tor American renders readers anti students or of French the tho Boston I Echo cho De Be Ln La So Se maine recently ge gave In Iii weekly Install An amusing little drama by Ed Edmond Edmend mend mond ot of C Cyrano rano Do Tier ner gorse fame This artistic little corn com cd edy Les Ies has been by Mary Man with the sanCtIon ot of the author and Is Issued In Ina a dainty little volume as The noma cers It is III the story stor ot of I a of oC romantic young lovers loers who lived In ad houses anti mode made love loe 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