| Show rI i t 4 r I TilE SPIRIT i T OF F LITERATURE u u il ilu I J i 1 ft The Ing had willed that the children or of the Fallen Star should hose have the II t ministry ot of the tho three Chosen through t Whose right cherishing all things I be brought to their rance j In the Great Star the Chosen were I known IlS as Spirits on earth they were called Ot Of the three Art had the theL L most thankless task Her nature WIl vas and she could only stand sl a 1 lent behind the veIl ell ot of mist which g mens thoughts had drawn between k them and the lI light ht ot of the Great Star and walt wait tor some to 4 fl catch the gleam or of her eyes eres burning burnings s steadfastly through the vapor apor folds afar lIer vigil was wear weary Even Een the f few tew Who vho caught sight ot of her supernal face could not clearl read the tho mes message 5 1 sage sace her ller dumb Ups framed and there thero i yere many who lost reason renson and life lICe In L l vain aln ert rt to seize her meaning and mit l It Into form torm I It Music was vas bolder She he lifted the veil ell l t behind whoso whose folds Art hid and l her way to the hearthstones of tho thoL i I L fallen tallen Star taking up her dally daily life lICe and p r talk with men nen lEer Her pulses were quick r ened often orten with dizzying hope born ot of I I the feeling awakened by her brooding I g j that rose sometimes I f to the vibrations which made mad the J 1 1 t white and ot of the J tt Great Star from Crom whose sweet sweat VA the they had been long estranged But Dut II v Ij the hl high h beats too slowed and Id t J When at the named times time she sho returned to the Great Star and stood before th thu l KIng ing vho questioned her she could not notI I say u that the strayed planet had hadI I swerved n a rod rods length lenth from her false falset t s orbit for tor her presence 4 I 8 men through her tones tonu had caught and andS S kt i thrilled nt at snatches of tho diapasons 5 which are the voice murmurs of the tho i I Great Star I Cl 1 Ot Of the thIrd ot of the Chosen most woos was wasI I iz te expected breath of Intel It the Beginning and End of all 4 the Secret ot of Being and was to tobe i be clothed with her so IO made madeI I tk l h t to walk the mazes i of the estranged Star and with torches 1 lit with mens IllumIne a the wa way with the clear shining llama flame ot of 1 Vt 5 Truth Her toward the Star was her herL L f r aIded with stron strong and clear as asp p 1 I t the songs the happier Stars sung aung when p the ne new planet swung apace In its Ils tl i 1 J marked path lit at the beginning f While a tow tew would Glean hi hints Tits of Truth 1 r I Gh Arts Art silently moving mavin lIps ti nd many would nth catch through I I rl OLe olee melodies like heartbeats 1 a n the bosom bOlom of the Great Star Litera Literas I s i ture tur vu to be the mouthpiece ot of Truth I i i l through whose minIstry I J j i l th were to be lifted that hung 9 e dark a para above the Fallen Star ad d bir presence wu was wasS 2 S 1 to see ace the wa way the King Cing had appointed and steer Its journey In that course It seemed at al that this was soon to bt be The early arly messages the Spirit brou brought ht were tuned with murmurs ot of I harp and and prophecy voicing th the praIses or of the King and ot of the Great Star of whose un Unseen I seen place on In the high point ot of the meridian theIr astronomers hud had told them Later Lalor her witness was ot of 1 lessor themes the 11 keen en clear notes ot of great combat whore where chariot and spear and mali whirled and spun and and gods mingled In battle batUe and women fair and stron strong as al goddesses who blessed ot or cursed thorn them moved as Immortal heroes and heroines of oC the tale But Dut no ray of that true lIht the Spirit lived to give shone as the prizes ot of the lists She return returned d always to the Questioner only with her brow bound ith laurel such as made the crowns ot of triumph for tor human honors In the time Afterward she told ot of thrones to which some som courtliest knight ht with grace crace of Im gift had led her even een her own Ups lips trained as aR the they were with the graces that dwell In thought and language in the Great Star trem trembled bled with the telling ot of honors brought broucht her b by the stalwart souls rho wore hex her colors In the lists of oC effort Then there were long times Umes between her back from the fallen Star When she came her eyes were vere downcast from shame for tor her neglect Than once she he came with head bead erect and eyes ees Her step stepas as hurried but proud lIer breath came fast tast so that she could not Mt speak Dut she wore bound about her brow a fillet with Do a word Inscribed upon on It The rho word was ns Libert There were ot of blood upon uon the fillet filet The Ring rut put forth his hand and touched her brow tenderly They are beginning to remember ber he said When she conic came they did not know her Her bloodstained robe and fillet were wre gone cone She Sho wore trailing robes of pink gauze and her fingers Upped tipped with ith dainty tinted nails shone with flashing jewels her curled tresses WM was n a whose twin twining Ins buds spelled a motto Art for tor Arts Sake Her gait Colt was not She waned walked with nn an air and talked mincingly h The King did dl not qu question her lIe only looked lit at the rose wreath on her brow Very soon her ber lIPS began to moe and she went away When next shO came caine the Watchman nt at the sates gates signalled her ber to stand afar There Thero were wen no eyes In the tho Gr Great at Star to bear the sight ot of her dIshevelled lie only knew her when sho had torn ort oft the bandage with which her eyes ere were verc soiled strip of lInen with Realism written tn in black 1 letters across the tho front 11 l H lIr r once fair robe hung In shreds about her shrunken form torm Her hair was coarse rind and Her brow was smeared with tho tha touch ot of unclean hands Watchman who heard her story shuddered They had bound the tho rag acron hor ho eyeL and thus blinded had led her Into the Only otice did her hoarse voice olee swell Into Its native sweetness lix In telling her stor story It was WIlS when her steps had been led Into the abodes ot at Po Porty For erty and seeing there what she sho had seen she had raised her voice olce In pas protest against the horror ot of human selfishness and greed teed through which the torn on ona s suffered Then her herol Voice ol took on the Ure cadence by which she sho was known know as being ot of the tho or of the Great Grent Star When she came again her raiment WaS vas white She Sho came with erect head and clear eyes that looked upward A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A V Ills It Is sate to aver oer that barring the tOY shops perhaps the book stores have reaped the giant portion ut of the holiday trade The popular novels noels ot of the day have a large list ot of bue buethe buyers the spur ot of the season aug aUb the sates of tho those e ta ot literature which since their publication have been Into successive edl with breakneck speed leed as a steady seller Richard Carvel Is now In the lend leall When Knighthood wallin was in Flower follows and David Dald Barum Is third Janice Meredith however has them oil all 11 as a 11 holiday choIce the attractive binding as well as the excel excellent excellent lent story making It a favorite In the therace race with the others for Cor Christmas Ca a avor vor vorA or orA A short hoTt time ago Bleak House was sold at auction last week tys Hut changed ownership and no now It Is announced that Abbottsford once the home of oC Sir Walter Scott Is for tor sale Ill It Is situated on the Tweed near Melrose Scott Sc tt bought the house hOlse In the year ear that he wrote The Lady ot of the Lake arid and there also lie he dl died The number ot of pilgrIms to this literary shrine shows no tailing falling oft orr anti and the caretaker whose dut duty It Is to show the library the armor armory and the au authors authors thors study at a shilling a head Isone ot of this thO hardest worked men In the Unit l td d Recently the oh dwell dwellIng dwelling Ing has been rented by a Selkirk but It Is still the property Of br Mr and Mrs Irs Coincidentally wIth the announce announcement announcement ment concerning Sir Valters former home comes the sews news ot of the death ot of a woman who as n a child wa 1118 one of oC the favorites This Is the Skene whose teats eats on horse horseback horseback back across the plains of Athens the wonder ot of admiring Greeks fifty years back She It WAS whose whOle attract attractIveness made Prot Professor Jewett forget I that he vas a cynic She was on terms ot of Intimacy with and likewise Sir lUchard Church leader ot of the In their war ot of Independence and under whom Byron Uron the poet nr ar ardently dently to fight She as a chibi was Scotts little he d dl ClUed a canto of Marmion to her father tather and It was to them that he annie for tor consolation when he could se see rioth lag before him him but ruin Andrew Lan Lang the distinguished Scotch ho he Is called In a recent Issue or La do de deJeanne Jeanne two bool read ready for Cor publication and as usual their subjects have hae no earthly kin Cor or the first Is Volume I of his History ot of Scotland rom th the Roman and the second a volume lume ot of animal stories for tor children The last laet book Is dedicated delicately to Miss Sibyl Cor Corbet Corbet bet whose fantastIc In her Animal Land not be forgotten Mr Langs Ings dedication is III In graceful verse the first stanza of which runs Sibyl the we bring to rou are arc not so friendly not so odd L she he Was tras and a alon lon song was on her lIer lips She aho carried a bunch ot of which one Had thrust Into her hand at the tho outer gate ato While she sho was as tar ort off they saw Jewels They were on her brow und and them tr n wreath or of the same flowers het he hand bore bor made the crown which men had set upon her head They rhey looked to see seo the word Jewels spelled It was human The Ring smiled It will not be Jon long ho said This Spirit said Bald eagerly shall I It always or will It bl be torn from mo me to bo be replaced b bIt by It shah not bo be taken from Crom you the tho King said laid save for tor that brighter one which their hands shall ahall fashion for tor YOU whoa when this dream they have writ upon your brow shall have hae come to PASS JOS JOSEPhINE SPENCER A Y T TAs As those that all 1111 we the brutes created b by your nod The the the then our tales are true has hils been heen expressed sed as to the authorship of that lint terrible piece ot of realism A Paying Concern In Mc McClures dares Magazine for tor December It pur purports ports to be true and It Is certainly very ery lifelike In Its ironhanded account of how 1 a usual and nd even on the whole beneficent proceeding that ot of making a concern out or of ora ofa a losing the thi weaker workers lut hut who t al all the known American authors knows or could gain by merely looking the as knowledge of fac factory tor tory which Gertrude Roscoe displays The fhe name flame Is a pseudonym Gertrde Gertrude actual identity Is not The writers pow power r of ex expresion und and knowledge of construction are aio very er remarkable md and promIse fiction a new and strong force Coree When Michael Angola Wol Woolf died suddenly ot of heart last March thee there wa was lost to the world an artist whose peculiar place 1 not easily be tilled Mr Woolf ol hl years eal devoted himself to depicting child life In the poor quarters ers of at New York City ani unit whether the wa humorous or pathetic there was In every line a qualIty quam touche touched the he hent even een when provoking smiles les A memoria memorial volume ot of Sketches of Lowly IMo In a Great CI City hM has ben been corn pled milled b by Mr Joseph from the contributions ot of Mr r Woolf to Life an Julge Judge with the addition of a number of d drawings Mr r Hennis 61 says that In the tenderness sin sincerity and aM simplicity of his wor York t are arc areto to be found the elements which yere vere most conspicuous in the personality ot of the artst artist together with the unostentatious tous charity and a humor unique In contemporary art which alas manly man and honest the power to trove tS as wel well to tears us as to laughter There are arc man many hundreds ot of sketches In Inthe Inthe the volume olure ever every one wih with a stor story In a araw afew raw few lne lines of the pencil and a brief graph 1101 below There Is I a whole volume of In the series sores ot of sketches of time the children ot of the slums and he must hOe a cul cui lous loused heat heart who Is not moved moed by the tragedy ot of Th Empty Stocking The Macmillan n under the tte title ot of The That Walk In with the ot of a helLo Trae Tragedies dies lies hos n a collection of eleven short tale tale b by Mr Ir Irae Israel Zang Zangwill wi will who Informs us In a short preface I that the contents ot of the little volume published b by him six sIc years ers since under the subtle subtitle have hae llen been ell In the present col lection md and that two bio talea Included herein were wHiten one ten years ago ngo and the other In this thi yer a statement I which we interpret to mean that we I hue hare now In hand an of ten 1 years u of his s beat writing In the I or short mica he II is wl wit hag to tD be Judged by them lie He eec eer ought to bt be for tor however care leSly read the they impress ono one with tho th novelty or of his talent merely as rend read t aS they should bt be carefully critically and sympathetically they are act as a revelation ot of the Jew feb Ih mind min and heart heult nn an intellectual racial confidence sue such I a only a simple earnest suffering tian of genius couI be moved IMM to snake writing ot of thing ho has hos sern seen an and known which he cot could not help seeing and knowing thie he pity of It It al unconscious exposure ot of the Jewish 19 as we flad It In the tho theold old 11 Jewish t In their grandeur nail and gloom al as I it exl exists ls In the antipathetic Christian world to today a when rhen the inherited hatred of oC ignorant elicits In lotion lation al all ls Its greed Its avarice nO and Is its arrogance Us Its ages ot of and andIs Is Its sublime patience In waitIng for tor reo cc Only ono one great man ot of the early brood of r English poets the lie nature ot of the Jew In hil his verse erso and he was as so 1 Ill understood b by his own whom bear and WM rare mor more than a cen centry century try tury after hiM hii leath only another Eng Bag EngIsh poet w iv Macklin ns as Ish Shylock and 1 the tragic Import of the part lUl hiatt the the wit 11 or the wisdom or orthe tire the courage to perceive and declare In hii his doggerel cou let This Is tIre the Jew That Shakespeare drew Mr ha has not had to wal wait as Shakespeare did for tor his art to bo Cel felt fox tOl here and there th there e are thoe whom It fills wih with admiration and moves move to tot t tears ars Jo lie I is u Irea great tragic wrier writer I It hall baa just been boen recorded that John hud had I a great crent affection for Cor young people and hind had taken great creat lit In rendering them n a service ento however vere barrel barred b by him no for thorn them whatever lie ho writeS lii In one lel letter to 1 a yount young and proud mother mother like pIgs ever eer so much bettor betor You really e expect me met meto t to care for tor beings It Is understood that Ian Life Lite of oC Christ Christ Is to be profusely I II b by color process with pictures especially scoured In and Cron from tha grEat great European galleries The sum ot of 1000 has been palt paid Cor or the aerial rights Dr Birkbeck 11 In his John soil Bon club paper two passages from Dos Boa description of th the good doctor wels which Hozzy Bozzy himself 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