Show HENRIK IBSEN Ih I n Is I dead Of oc th tie three threet I mo most t wrIters writer of or this g n m Ih I en and Tolstoi ulon remains WAS tac the Iho Ih gr ni st of ot Ih he three thre If It liter nry at art rt alone In Is II Hut lut finch each ono One of ot them has hac had a 1 of oC his hIli own I wn II u lit hit hll own and ami has therefore tilled u II unique position II M n hl him hili literary lito Ij career In III l iSO J Sill nt at the th ago age of ot 2 22 of oC the gr at generally divide his works storks ork In lit 11 three periods till thi I he ro romantic roo mantle mantic II e th the historic tho the social nodal To the first of it thet o periods belong Th The Tomb Tenth St tt Johnn sight Night The Tho Feast Mt at nt which wa wac nt set the Salt snit Theater In tho the original hy by h Mr lr Monson Munson Ion cn amid company nUo Brand am anti Pei Peor r To 10 time tho th historic period bulong bolong I Inger of or The limo of ot Tho ers mimi l n r and To American Ibs Ibsen n IH I bout best known through hU hili hi problem plays 1111 such euch fin RI lolls tolis Hou lions OhP Ghosts AntI ansI other othor ploys This Thle U is unfortunate for tor thee thoe do o nut not It r reflect n t a Ii complete Imago Image of nt the Ihl author Ills HIli themes In theM arc too tel new t I the lime public rind his treatment Is 11 too drastic tar for our nUr averie e Only by following Ibsen Ib n throughout his hll literary Hemry career flint and perceiving p the tops by which he gradually a at tho the philosophy ot of his hll later Inter year turnip c nn an h lie b be understood Ibsen dealing v s I social problems problem remains a 3 I j II lem himself elf if It 4 from tron his bite his bis historic tone arid romantic work Few ew authors have had so iso much OPIO utIon lIlon to meet m ct an nH nun hunu Ibson Ibsen Out flat f tow ow w have been better prepared to conquer r opposition IMS itac ne lr Men licen n able fible to cow him hint When tho the l b tad fad struck England In the tho cerly earl gOs the hue press exhausted Its itA store of oe silo Ola epi epithets bets th upon him anti dramatic critic In this country have hn been Iw iss Inimical or has ho lie at fared particularly better hettel In liln own country Hut when Ibsen Ib on tho the th of March MarchI Set I hi his 70 th 11 II ho lie such H ii O nc Lu no 0 other Scandinavian writer ever received Ib lb Ibin in I had hall reached the tho pinnacle of ot sue suc success cess The Tha hON hopet ant anil an of at hits his hl Cluth hinti heon realIzed And niI when we wo wesee see JIM from rom rain whit small IH h he arose nrose see sen with what fidelity he hI labored for tor mastery how host h he lie never swerved front tho tIme puth of ot If duty duo Iut UN us ho It II then we t shall discover much In him to admire even 1111 though many things timings In Iii hh his writings do not hot strike a n art responsive rt chord In UH us Ibsen seems to have arrived slowly at the conviction that our social nodal structure ture turp I is r In many man respects re weak ellk and that this Is I the cause catie of oC the sin I ricy and misery no so often otten encountered I The rhe remedy he proposes propose IH he radical With he seeks Individual ual responsibility ultimately In the will willot of ot the Individual and anil he belIeves that human will If It not nol hampered by con coit conventionalities nail conventional Ideals l will trill naturally u accord with the tho Will tIll of ot the Infinite The he whole teaching may maybn mayti bl ti summed up lip In ii the tho words of o Nicholas and Earl Skule In The Pre Ire Pretender tenders tender The Ul hop describes describe lle an as the saga of ot wise wille moan man Fulfil J your Our craving Ay y sa B for or that which Is good Hut lint by b good the author does not mean that which Is IA commonly held to tobe be he 1 1 good goot but what the Individual him himself himself self pelt by br his leading of at what whal the tho Inn mu Infinite cute nite Good OoM Is IB working for tor In human af At affairs affairs fairs shall determine Is good gaud for tor him hum With this title doctrine Itie we SC may nta mn Justly ju tl take exception for man apart apan front from revelation does not know what U lie good Conventionality may IlIa he be wrong In many man of ot Its enactments but hut Intuition Intuition tion Is la not u a safer guide guille It Jl Is Ic reve revelation revelation lation that man needs Hut Ibsen vain Willi aie nevertheless a 1 great philosopher a careful and student I of at human nature the Ih most moat accomplished pushed dramatic writer of hula liln time Coming w WI we believe Je will willfully wIllfully fully tullY appreciate him |