| Show T TR GI I L 8 r Of l KI Splendid Illustration of the Rela Relation tion lon of Literature to Daily Dai Life TEST OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP Mao Manis is Wih GodIe Is the Master of Ills 15 Own atc the Cap Captain tain of or Ills Ils Own Soul Another largo audi audience ence enee greeted Prof Prot Clark yesterday to 10 hear his lecture on The Tragic Ideal This Is 1 probably the best besl word that the tho professor hM to give glo the public on tho relation of literature to life and ald It sums up pretty prel well wel his doctrine 1 on the drama On this occa occasion oc sion there a n larger of ot students ot or tho Iho various city elY schools In li attendance than thun nt the recital r Mr Clark Clarl began by II asking skin why h peo people plo should be Ie required to 10 so much attention to literature especially tho Iho tragic drama al a athing thing which It would seem might bet better better ter bo be left to clubs cubs and soft softheaded soC headed h n ed professors he h answer answered ed cd literature h I not merely mere literary but social moral The Tho of ot our Intellectual and very er largely our moral life If l hy what we 0 read Not he ho would woula undervalue tho ninny Inn excellent works on science lelce philosophy and history hut but these do 10 not nol have hlo n a ag general g circulation Most people leOllo buy bu the Iho books they the like Ik to read tOI without Inquiring HO so much Into Inlo the quality of ot them Every I ety book demands a Judgment of ot the tho reader ra er he h cannot escape orrl Ing nt a IL conclusion of or some Rome kind re regarding garding It I HOce even tho highest most ephemeral literature pushed pIh to lo Its ls last analysis Involves n a moral question Usually we the book that ends well well Anyone Anone he ho remarked can wind up n hook book satisfactorily Tho ho problem In n life le Is II to 10 see th proper between small Imal things big That literature there tore fore la 18 the thc greatest which shows ui tl the proportions of ot life the he best The grent artist a n bit of or life 10 Ild puts It Il forever tOt ver on for UH Ili lie he points out what Is essential e what Is II not How does doeu the great writer estimate the values alues of ot life tha t Is 1 the tho supreme question queston lo to of ot the book you rend Now ow tragedy dy 1 the emphasis on the Values of or life le better than other forms of literature In other words in life le the worth of character Is brought out by the tho success it hns In rising I above tho tragedies of oC life l no M thlu Ihl form torm of ot the Ihl Moma calls call Into proper proportion those events In life le that are of ot most worth In developing diameter It 1 li II easy to 10 offer ofer money mone to 10 your our friend when you ou know lie ho does not need It but the test of or friendship lien Iea In your our I offering It when he In 18 In distress Only In Is our moral oral fiber Hence lence till the Iho grout Sut artists arc nt their best beal In tragedy Whoever heard of n n play or n a novel nOel with a millionaire for tor u hero It 1 Is not the 1 that attracts the tho artists notice hut bil rather the stranded vessel essel There Theo Is always n spiritual Idea dom dominating a I great plot Interpreting 11 I a spir spiritual In II Its Is widest sense Macbeth would woul not be a 1 rent ploy play If It the thane thon of were we merely arrested tried Illel ld punished for tOI the tho murder of at the thu gracious Duncan Duncon And thin spirit un Idea finds access to the tho loul of at tho render through the Iho emotions Hence Henc HencIn In n great creal plot you ou experience an ni uplift which Is IR totally lacking Icking In Inferior literature The fhe only on that tho spiritual can suffer la I to be false to the highest Ideal ot of love loc duty tU and honor There arc not many great grat pieces ot literature sculpture or architecture in the world but those do exist have done more for tOI the of the race than nil al the merely lold practical things put pUI together though wo wu have often orten been heln unconscious of this Influence of ot Tragedy Is II not to be avoid avoided ed el It 1 l 19 not tint la 18 merely and alt bloody blody U I always works however through tin feelings of pity lil terror teror Hut no 10 many people II shun the th tragic In literature because there IH IR enough elough tragedy they think In life and ull when they the rend of O feo FlO a 0 tragedy they do not appreciate It I on al account of ot tho ho attitude they bear henr to towards wards It H If I a 1 person peton dous do 1 not learn leur that entertainment should excite the tho intellect If t ho doas lla not when the author Is honest when wh n ho la I merely playing upon the emotions hu ht i II In II a 1 bad HI state Biltl Tho lending of oC a I great once a 1 month would prove the salvation of ot anyone If I HIO tro done don we WI might ht risk our OU chances on the rest Iut for tUI tho thoi i fading of every eer good book hal tends to zest cst for tOl Inferior literature Prof Clark explained hem that he had hlll no objection to 1 a 1 reading of oC even on tho most 10 t trivial literature hut the til paint fn which he II Insisted on 01 won QI that you YI know kno what you 01 are raiding not when whan you OU reading tho worst wor t you 01 1 Retting the best besl The Tho deeper dellel tho tragedy in life u tho Io more strength thero th ro comes corel to UH UI If It wo tlc It Hut But we cOlnot often oren get tho 11 Until out Olt of ot life le wo w so II Impulsive Wo can cannot tl not tell lel tho between thing everything Ims ho to tobo bo ho written large before wo We will wi It I One page a year of advertising the man tells us Is worth n R RIno lino Ino it I day du for tor 12 months month Wo 0 I grad losing tho Iho power of 1110 things I The fhe question Ille tol Ilos often been ben asked why wh tho HInt Brent are re attracted to Shakespeare n Goethe Dante nante Tennyson and 1111 tho rest all ni had a n I 1101 e n IO to a 1 bargain and would have hao been In II business Yet they not nt only attracted by h tho Iho tragic In II life hut but nto nt best hest In tragedy Tho ho IH clear Only in does man find tho Iho supreme test of oC 1111 liln being A tragedy In II n 1 curried oi 01 between n 1 but Imperfect t tho forces of life great tragedies Thelo teach h hUI us UI aro 10 great In proportion tion lon to the Iho trials overcome Only groat cnn a 1 groat fall fl l Yet Yot It I Is not nol the that tha Is II defeat but buttil til staying fallen One On of the tho deepen deepe t bits bis of reasoning In Mr Ir lecture was wal In II that port patt ho referred to tha tho need thero ther Is Isor of or nn Imperfect world In a perfect world thoro cnn bo n nn no freedom of the will wi no 10 choice therefore no 10 no 0 possibility mh r vo 0 art coequal CO with Hod fol or wo 0 ure mere mero pup 1111 pots Tho very cry mistakes wo 0 Inke though wo WI do not lot try to make mako them th I I bring 8 In 1 our Ho 0 our possibilities Tragedies therefore tha th speaker lit concluding con us to 10 look tho tragic straight In tho 11 put putting ting our past t behind us a U I Is I well wel for tor torII tm II to remember ho h Ha Id man Is muster of his hla tl and captain of liU II 11 1011 o This Professor theor Clark gives un 11 Interpretative recital of ot George and ald In 11 the Iho evening n a dramatic recital lo lul of or Julius beon determined will The fhe latter It wi l 1 i created nn U of tr trAe seventh Ae children students of tho schools Achols generally On Only Onh ly h thoe will be he however hOW er who Khali 1 purchased their tickets In advance nd nn |
