Show Slit sin Inns i St Paul Globe Had the author of or The Light of or i Asia died ten len years enu ngo his passing I would undoubtedly have ho caused some same stir In the literary world Sir Edwin I Arnold suffered the fate inte ot or no so many Inn literary ar people a o ohe he witnessed si time the death of or his his own vogue Ills His demisa wll 11 probably cause ly n a ripple of ot Interest In Interest terest so no far nr as 01 the tho general public IB Is concerned lie He exploited Japan parr par particularly the Japanese women In his hili two best beat known work works The rho Light of ot Asia Ada and The Light of oC the World and was responsible for Cor the Japanese craze which took of oC smart English society n few CeW years carH ago San Francisco Chronicle Sir Edwin J Arnold will be remembered mainly for tor Tho The Light of oC Asia a n poem which gives a n remarkably clear and readable exposition of or Buddhism It Is not great gretH poetry but It If has hns served sered to Interest and Instruct thousands Sir SirI Edwin I also wrote well of oC India and his India Revised Is III one ono of oC the best but books booles bookson on Iho the subject that Is In print prima ills work on Japan was wall always colored by b his strong partiality for tor the Japanese which found Cound expression In his marriage to a 0 Japanese lady lad Transcript The Tho late Sir Edwin Arnold occupied ft a 1 peculiar literary position finding time lime t tIn In tho the prosecution of oC duties Incident to his profession of ot editor of or a n dally paper Imper to delve Into the Oriental languages and line make the tho concepts of oC the ancient Intelligible to English I read ers Most of or his work wits was published translations although that he was Oft not lacking tacking In originality orl was manifested when he essayed the tho work which made his name known to thousands of oC read road readers readers ers who had before known 1 nothing of or him Tho Light of Asia As The remarkable remark remarkable able power and the singular beauty of or passages of oC that work stamped It nu ns a 1 great literary production and Its pow was instant I Chicago Through his ids combination of or gifts girts Un In poetical religious he hI brought the soul of or the tho Orient Into touch super superficial no doubt but Jut still 1111 Into touch with tho the souls of oC myriads of or men and ami women of oC the Occident Ills His gifts he used again for the lands and tom for Ja Jo Japan JaPan pan as he hind hall used usell them for or India and amid Buddhism It is III difficult enough to en enter enter enter ter Into Inlo the Inner lite of ot men of ones onon own In race It la is vastly n more to 10 comprehend the tho Inner life of oC other races lAces whoso whose miles of or value for tor all 1111 that man does doe and Is hi and line differ BO so 0 widely wide widely ly Iy from our own And yet yel ns liB this world shrinks year by b year under mans ex expanding Intelligence that sympathetic thello understanding ot or other races must be bewon bewon won troll Without It contact can moan mean only conflict With It alone Is there hope for Cor the solution of or the problem of ot the races |