Show A Q r r VICTORIAN ERA WORTH WHILE r Deserved Rebuke for forat Those Who Smile at Epoch Which Had Many Good Points Why do the heathen rage the Victorian epoch 1 Men who ho lived through a great part of at It found toun It exciting Interesting amusing and aud sometimes terrible Talleyrand once said eald that nobody could un understand the thereal thereal thereal real delights of society unless he ha had lived before belore the Fr French revolution Similarly what young person or near- near young person of at today todar can cnn experience the delights of the Uie time when It was possible po to begin at ease case the first chapter ch chapter chap chap- p- p ter teT of a volume of at Dickens or Thackeray Thack Thack- cray eray to walt wait impatiently for George Eliot's new novel noyel or even en to bear the thet f t shock of Robert Buchanan's famous review of ot There were too the terrors occasioned by Mrs rs Han Harriet let Beecher Deecher Stowe when hen her fierce Puritan friendship induced her to print the confidences of ot Lady Byron Our eyes were turned towar towards s En England land it is true 3 yet et Hawthorne and Emerson were wem not only discussed but rca read Among the lesser Jesser lights there were Gall Gail HamIlton Hamilton Ham Ham- ilton and James Fields whose very satisfying literary essa essays s were great features of ot the Atlantic Monthly People really did not spend their time In singing Juanita or In reading Ouida on the sl sly nor did all th tha women dress In the magentas and sol- sol in which contemporary satirists clothed the ladles ladies of the middle periods of Victoria and Eugenie Eugenic The Crimean and Civil wars so microscopic to the careless young the Prussian Franco struggle le which the chaos of at 1914 1919 were events that kept our minds from stagnating and there were doers and thinkers In Europe worth our constant con COIl stunt stant consideration Maurice Maurice Francis Egan In Yale Review Re I |