| Show L I f c O kl r V V VA tf 11 A New Trai sl tor I I JL 1 O f Omar n i on m n S S v seems to bo be a wavy I sWE across lie literary oC l n nat of at the United StuttS At least it score rore of talented have coma Into prominence In iii the last lut five years yel nr The In Intact In the lie list and one ot of the most moat striking is II II a Hartford girl young youn I and lIz I abeth Alden hlen Curtis Curti She Sho came Into Inlo two years ears ago when about is 18 years of at Rile age b by having a number ot of ox appear In various at about the same limo then hen she has hall been a regular con to the periodical prose and has displayed a talent In verso remarkable lo for tor or lIty variety and finish This work worle which would have been enough alone aloM to have given her dis distinction the world of letters appears to hate been n a mere relaxation Her HerI real work was nn an undertaking worthy I ot of a 11 scholar This we was a no new En English version ot of the by b bOmar y Omar Khayyam The Tho attention which thIs new trans has awakened Is all the ma m re remarkable In view o of the tho tact fact that th the ree e rec recent nt renaissance In haYam t literature has hils flooded fi the market with I new edition of the great Persian pod t and astronomer The Qt q t the spirit of Omar hanam his de anti ant halt half pessimistic view of th tho e world his grave wit and bonhomie his hl e good cheer heer and quiet have hav e united to make this troubadour of a appeal to a 11 very ver wide circle e ae ot of nineteenth century readers Suc Such h renders readers find In his lines tOda today on an echo ech ho o of oC their own doubts and V Vv y y v V V t for tor this old time Insor ainger seems scorns to hav ha vo e anticipated In his own th p spirit ot of the tho nineteenth century just BH a s Shakespeare mIght be said to hays have done In his play In fact the ot of the tho two works is II no not t unlike Yet the whimsical p poet t o ot t loved to In I land paradoxes delighted IJ mystifying tying and confusing his renders U II e also In drawing upon his tit s careless mead head the tho ever ready roady vials ot o f wroth wrath of his sun opponents and then lid n retorting with his Ioen flashes ot of wit Su So this Is why moderns can y tell hother Omar wM wad at heart a cynic or an epicurean Not Nor cnn can It be Ile de determined whet whether cr or not the wino cup rup rupho ho talks of stands aft as a symbol of the tho divine or merel merely IS as a 1 tavern beaker What was the cypress slender minis tor of at wine Was It nn an earth earthly sylph ot of Inn or did It stand as 09 the expression ot of some mystic symbol sym symbol bol of the soul The Tho immortal quatrains of the tent tentmaker maker havo accordingly afforded un unlimited limited stud study to literary since Edward put Into En tug lieu form tonn Mccarthy All Allen n le Gal Oal lionne lIenne and n a score ot of lesser lights have followed In footsteps and have met with niece moro or less success It was therefore wonderful for or a mere girl to undertake that which lad had battled tile the ablest men still Is the with which MIsO Curtis performed the task taskA A comparison ot of her work with that at t the other greAt translators shows no n trace of Imitation nor even of at echoing Where the Persian figures of speech t inu must be Into those Of th the thew e western w torn races In order to be copi pre she has not employed one oni that has been used usell by b other othor writers but In Ine e r Instance has taken one ot of her own or el site e coined c one from th the d rles es ot of her own or laJ ey eyHer Her Id virile r than feminine She reproduces the massive thought the att and the dauntless doubts of at the tho as If sho ahe orp a Whitman or n a rather than IL a and I woman It may be u a mental organization of n a masculine type mil may be that hl high h hart art which h rues all sox BOX but In either elthe case caso the tho upon the readers mind is Is the tho same ame It Is the voice of a strong man heard full ot of force orce music and defiance o of The workmanship w II Ice admirable In every respect It Is 10 on a par the sonnets Idyls and lyrIcs WhiCh sh she already published Each word seems to have been picked out far tor ItS flit pl place ce and Into the qUatrain of the coat enst havo been worKed the the tho resonance the line rhyme and halt rhyme of modern Here It if Is the tho only place where there ther may bo be a departure from I the original model yet reL If It tie be n de dc departure I pasture It has Increased the and the charts charm of oC the composition The work has been printed arid bound in beautiful style hy by the Brothers of the tho Book Dook that quaInt organization of Iv hay Ivera ors era of at tine fine type nn not noble paper and I makes as S delicious a morsel for the IS as any Caxton or Beyond the tho poet Is the personality Miss Mils Curtis n a capital type ot of the tho Now New girl father tather tho late Into Dr Da Jonathan S B Curtis of Hartford was a physician or of high and on both sides Ides ot of her family are many mint men Inen Her uncle Is II Attorney G On n oral Griggs of New Jersey And nd her lIer first ancestor In New England was r 1 John Alden Aldan ot of Plymouth She It is of medium height and sIze shapely In contour graceful In our stage In 8 speech She has n a welt rounded nature and has been W Oil f with rat rare She ploys slugs lings sketches sketch palate paints and rides with noted ability and without beIng n a bookworm b is I a woman of rare ran culture and She has haa a striking face the ey ayes being brown largo large amt lea trans trous and the hair a gold In some lights fades Into a Madonna brown brawn No young oung woman ot of tb fist pres i ont ant generation has hili displayed greater promise or surpassed her In achieve anent ment n I t r I Ii i I I t i iII I i f t I II IIi J I r i j I i r 43 I j I r I IiIi 11 t iIi I sa 1 Aft II III I r 1 h i la I 0 i S 1 I Ii h I i I a i t I n 1 r r 1 It I I II I JI JIn n e 11 1 1 I a t 1 j I I I 1 11 cr crIn crt t In ELIZABETH ALDEN CURTIS 11 |
