THE SCKAKTOX TRIBUNE SATUR DAT MORNTNG, JANUARY 18, 1890.
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Of and Abomit the
Makers of .Books.
Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Womett
. BIOGRAPHY.
ANDREW GREGU CURTIN: His Life
and Services. Edited cy William H.
Kgle. M. I. Philadelphia: Avll Print
ing oompany.
The experiment has been tried In this
large und handsome book of petting
eminent men to record from their per
gonal recollections those aspects of the
career of Pennsylvania's renowned war
governor with which they were, during
iloneral Curtin's lifetime, most fami
liar. Thus Instead of a single portrait
of the man, reflecting Its author' In
evitable limitations of vision, we havo
portraits of him from every conceivable
point of view, which, taken together,
give a true idea of tne subject aa he
was. Dr. Kgle has confined his pen to
a short biography of Governor Curtin,
together with papers on his first and
his second administrations. The re
maining chanters in the books are ns
follows: Curtin and Free schools." by
Henry C. Hlckok; "Curtin Klected Gov
ernor 1860," by Colonel A. K. Mi:Clure;
Curtin Re-Eleeted Governor 1863." by
Wayne MacVeagh; "Soldiers Organised
by Curtin." by ex-Governor Paulson;
"The Pennsylvania Reserves." by Will
lam Hayes Oricr; "Curtin and the Sol
diers' Orphans." by G. Harry Davis:
Curtin and the Altoona Conference."
by John Russell Young; "Curtin a Karly
War Trials." by FitxJohn Porter: "Cur
tin's First Military Telegraph." by
William Render Wilson; "Curtin's Care
of the Soldiers." by Senator M. S. Quay;
"Curtin and the Private Soldiers." by
Thomas V. Cooper; "Curtin's Personal
Attributes," by Governor Daniel II.
Hastings; "Curtin and His Home Com
munity," by ex-Governor Braver; "Cur
tin and the State Credit." by J. C. Bom
lierger; "Curtin and Clement B. Kar
oluy," by Craig BUidle: "Curtin as Min
ister to Russia." by Titian J. Coffey;
"Curtin's Gubernatorial Rattles," by
Thomas M. Marshall; "Curtin as a Civil
Administrator," by William H. Arm
strong; "Curtin and Pennsylvania at the
Ueblntilng of the War," by Galusha A.
Grow; and "Curtin in the Constitution
al Convention." by Harry White. Of
each of these authors a half-tone por
trait is given, and there are a number
of portraits of the subject, taken at
different periods of his eventful and
varied career.
One of the most readable chapters In
this list to our notion the most Inter
esting one, because touching those hu
man dualities which In any study of a
great career give the sense of kinship
nntl tap the springs of sympathy is
that wherein Governor Hastings con
siders "Curtin's Personal Attributes."
In the other papers, Curtin Is Htudled
as the executive official and master of
n trairs; here he is Presented to us as
Curtin, the man. Governor Hastings
first recollection of the war governor
was In the fall of '67. Mr. Curtin had
Just returned from a trip to Cuba, and
was standing upon the corner of. the
public square. In Bellefonte. conversing
with a dosen neighbors to whom, in
spite of official hnnor.i past and antici
pated, he was just plain "Andy." "1 re
member," says the present governor,
"that he closed his talk with the asser
tion that the peopl" of Cuba ought to
be as free as those of the I'nlteu States,
vand he believed that she sometime
would be." This Is General Hastings'
description of Curtin at this period:
The personality of Governor Curtin wa
admirable. If It were possible to leave
out of sight the lawyer, the war governor
the diplomat, the orator, the statesman,
and toconslderonly his personal character
i.itlcs, thxir charm would have been suffi
cient to make him famous in his genera
tion. In his youth his personal appear
ance was most marked and captivating
Several Inches above six feet In height,
broad shoulders, perfect symmetry o:
figure, smooth shaven face, black hair
jerfect teeth, blue eyes, large, well-shapei.
head smooth and symmetrical feature!
and an ungual grace and dignity of man
ner, he was the distinguished liuilvldua
in every assemblage in which he ap
peared. In him the .quality of personal
magnetism was largely developed, per
hup in a more marked degree than ir
any other public man of his time. Ther.
wns a charm about his presence, a quali
ty In his vciie, a something in his bearing
that seemed to attract all classes to him,
iniusuully. It was frequently said that
when "Andy" Curtin appeared on the
streets In Kellefonte, "every child smiled
upon him, and every dog wagged his tail."
Of Curtin as an orator, particularly
before juries, in days when the law and
evidence in a case were usually of sub
ordinate consequence to the foresenlc
ability of the opposing attorneys, the
governor speaks In terms of profuse
pruise. His command over the sympa
thies of judge. Jurors and auditors Is
described as incomparable In the circle
In which he moved prior to the accept
ance of political responsibilities. And
apropos thereof, this story Is given:
' A father denied the parentage of a child,
and witnesses were called in large num
ber lo establish a seemingly impregnable
alibi. To clinch the proof, a daguerreo
type wss offered in evidence to show that
be was in another place at the time of the
alleged offence. '"Daguerreotypes!" suid
Curtin, "establish this alibi with a daguer
reotype!" and seizing the babe In his arms
he carried it before the Jury and in a
voire of thunder said: "Gentlemen of the
Jury, bere is God's daguerreotype, which
no one can mistake!" The eftect was
electrical. The Jury rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff without leaving the box.
In the public affairs of Bellefonte
Curtin took, from the first, an active
part. He was the chief officer of the
volunteer Are company and captain of
the "State Fencibles." the first military
company of the town. The latter or
ganization was, as could be expected,
the pride of Bellefonte, and member
ship In it was a prima facie proof of dis
tinction. General Hastings recalls a
diverting circumstance which bears on
this phase of Curtin's popularity: .
The funeral of a member of the Fenci
bles was an important event and attracted
great crowds. A fife and drum corps fol
lowed the minister and preceded the
hearse, while the Fencibles, with solemn
tread, preceded the Immediate members
of the family of the deceased. Thus sol
emnly marshalled, they proceeded lo the
village graveyard, where the ceremony
was closed by the firing of volleys of blank
cartridges over the grave. Upon one occa
sion the procession halted In front of the
"Red Lion Tavern" (on the site of which
is now the home of the writer) to adjust
some difference that arose between the
sergeant of the company and the bass
Directory
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drummer. The difficulty could only be
adjusted In one way, and Captain Curtin
ordered them to follow him lo the rear
of the barn, where they wre allowed to
settle the question according to the pre
vailing rules of the prise-rim. after which
the procession re-formed, and the remain
ing solemnities of the niiktary funeral
were carried out In due form.
Much has been written since Andrew
Curtin's death about his unfailing gen
erosity, and this trait In his character
has, in fact, become proverbial. But
General Hastings In his contribution
to the present volume narrates a new
anecdote:
I was crossing the street near his home
one bitter cold winter evening, many years
ago. in company with Governor Curtin.
when the latter was halted by a feeble old
man. wearing nothing but the round
about clothes usually worn by wood-choppers.
He had been an old employe at the
Curtin Iron works.
"Is that you. Andy?" said the old man,
while, his teeth chattered with cold.
"Yes," said the governor; "Is that you,
Tom? What In the world are you doing
out on such a cold dny as this without
an overcoat? How are times with you?"
"Bud," said Tom: "mighty bad, noth
ing to do. I have no money to spare for
overcoats when meat is wanted at
home."
"Here, take mine;" .and suiting the ac
tion to the word. Governor Curtin re
moved his overcoat, anJ In a moment it
was comfortably wrapped around the
Shoulders of the old wood-chopper, who
walked off, showering bb-sslngs on his
benefactor.
After his return as minister to Russia,
Governor Curtin was importuned by
thousands of old soldiers to assist them
In getting pensions. To every request
which he thought deserving, he' re
sponded with all possible diligence, and
often would go to Washington to pre
sent their cases In person before the
commissioner. ;
On one occasion tho commissioner sent
for the papers of the claimant whose
rase the governor was urging, and after
Inspecting them, Informed him that the
claimant was unable to rile any proof ex
cepting his own affidavit that he had been
disabled In battle, that under the rules
there must be additional evidence, that
nothing could be found In the hospital re
ports or other records of the alleged
wound; and tho claim must therefore be
refused.
I will fill that gap myself," said Cur
tin. "I sent that boy to the army; he
came to me Immediately after the battle
of Gettysburg and 1 saw his wound. I
kept hlin at my house until he said he
hail recovered somewhat from his Injury
and was able to go back, but his health
had broken and 1 had to send him home.
Now," fcaid Curtin, in a voire of thunder,
"if that is not evidence enough to give this
man a pension, I say lumn the rules of
the department." . The pension was grant
on the spot.
Two more anecdotes- from the Hast
ings chapter and we shall have done.
That Curtin was a man characteristic
ally alive to the spirit of things and op
posed to all Bupertlous accessories has
already been Indicated, but General
Hastings Is Informed of an incident
which brings this trait out In even
clearer relief:
In 1875, when the new had reached
Bellefonte of the great Urn which swept
out of existence the town of Osceoln,
situate on the boundary of Center county,
and left thousands of people homeless and
destitute, an alarm was sounded by the
ringing of bells, and the people rushed to
the court house, tilling it to overflowing,
.o take action with reference to helping
he sufferers. Some one moved that the
meeting should organise by the election
)f a president, vice-president and secreta
ries, whereupon Governor Curtin quickly
lumped to his feet ami exclaimed: "My
Joil, neighbors. It is not presidents, 'vice
presidents and secretaries of this meet
ing that the people of Osceola need. They
want bread and meat and clothing and
ihelter. Go to your homes and bring these
rhlngs to the railroad station as quick as
you can, and I will furnish the cars to
(end them forward at once." It Is Im
possible to describe the effect of these
words. The court house was emptied in a
ninute. People rushed to their homes for
their contributions, and soon the car
loads of relief were on their way to the
unfortunate people of the lire-swept town.
The last personal reminiscence of An
drew Gregg Curtin to which we shall re
fer is told by General Hastings In the
third person, but we shall take the lib
erty to repeat It as Mr. Curtin himself
related It to Colonel Harry Hall of the
Pittsburg Times, Just a few days prior
to his death:
"Immediately after the disastrous battle
of Fredericksburg, In December, 1862,"
said the war governor, "I went down to
Washington to look after such of my boys
from Pennsylvania as might need enrc.
Things were In a terrible condition. Ev
ery one was appalled and disheartened.
The wounded were coming in from the
battle, and. there being no means of curing
for so many, they were lying on the Poto
mac wharves, almost on the bare snow It
self. 1 went to work and did what I could,
and was In my room In the hotel one day
when word came that a woman wunted
to see me. She was brought In and proved
to be a woman 1 knew, the wife of m
farmer In the central part of Pennsylva
nia, who had come down to And out about
her son. Rumor suld he was wounded,
and a mother's love had brought her to
find him. She was poorly clad, and al
though It was In winter, I remember she
wore one of the old-fashioned sunbon
nets, stiffened with strips of pasteboard.
She had got to Washington that morning,
could get no tidings of her son, and now,
the hotels being all crowded, could llnd r.o
place to stay. She seemed almost heart
broken. "I told her I would endeavor to get
word of her son, and, learning from the
hotel-keeper where there was a reputa
ble boarding house, paid a hackman 12 to
take her there. Seeing her started, I
stoppd on the street to tnlk to Governor
Buckingham, of Connecticut, who was
In Washington on the same errand as my
self. While we were talking I heard a
rough voice ordering some one, with oaths,
to 'get out, and be quick about it!' I
looked around and saw the hackman I
had hired trying to get the poor woman
out of the carriage. Inquiring what it
meant, she told me, with tears, that after
he had driven her a little ways he had or
dered her to get out, and on her refusing
not knowing where she was, he had
brought her back. I asked him what he
meant by such conduct, but the fellow, a
big, burly ruffian. Just cursed and swore
and asked me what I was going to do
about it.
"I was at a loss, for I didn't want a
disturbance with him on the public street,
when I saw coming along a big, rawboned
soldier with a bucktnil in his hat. I called
on him, and found that he knew me. So I
told him the story.
" 'Come down off that coach,' he said
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to tbe hackman. "Come down or J'll poll
jou down.' - -
"The fellow climbed down and- they
went at I:. In lex than ilnt.d .itr.ut-
tne 'Buckiail' hud l:nwked hi opponent
all over the street au had lilin- yelling
for mercy, (living him a parting kick, ha
said: "There, goveruor, was that done to
your plsasemeiu?' 1 told hlin It.was. and
he muile the driver get up on his carriage,
and, climbing ur beside him, told hint,
with many threats, to drive the womau to
her destination.
"I went back to Governor Buckingham,
who, pointing to the crowd the scene had
drawn, ssld:
" 'Governor, governor, what r terrlbli.
example you have set to the puJTi at this
time when the government Is lighting for
its very existence. Why didn't you invoke
the law to punish that man?'
" 'Well,' 1 said, "that way may do for
you people from the land or steady habits,
but at a time like this we Pennsylvania!!
take the short cut.'
"Tho next day I called on President Lin
coln. After we hud talked a while he
snld, with his quaint smile. Curtin. 1 hear
you've taken a new duty on yourself.'
What's that? 'Regulating the hackmcn
of the city.' Then I knew he had heard of
it, and told htm the story. He laughed,
but said: 'The city authorities have com
plained of It and your man may be arrest
ed. You had better look after him.'
"As I left the white house I saw an
other Kucktall and asked him where his
regiment was camped and how they were
geting along. He said they were camped
in the city and that everything was ull
right. 'Except,' he added, 'Andy Curtin
got one of our fellows to thrash a hack
man yesterday and the police are coming
to camp today to arrest him for It.'
. " 'Ho right to camp.' said I, 'and tell
them not to let them take him.'
" 'Why, who are you?' says he.
" 'Andy Curtin,' I replied. He gave me
one look and started lor ramp on the
run. And 1 heard after," said the gover
nor, with a laugh of keen enjoyment,
"that when the ollicer came with the war
rant they ran him out of cump, yelling for
help."
That the publication of this book will
afford gratification to all admirers of
one of Pennsylvania's greatest, most
versatile and most original sons does
not need statement. Dr. F.gle, In his
own direct composition and In bis even
more difficult tusk as editor, has suc
ceeded uncommonly well, and the vol
ume of which he was the Inspiration
will properly take rank among those
standard works of vital biographical
Interest without which no library can
be considered complete. L. S. R.
FICTION.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA OF A NORTH
ERN ZONE. From the Danish of Holger
Drachmann. Translated by Thorklld A.
Schovelln and Francis F. Browne. Blue
cloth. V.'mo.. hand-made paper, S1.1U.
Chicago: Way A Williams.
The thought which is in one's mind
as one first take this book in hand Is
that there must be something of assur
ance In Its challenging comparison with
the Immortal classic of St. Pierre. But
If one should be guided by this prema
ture Impression to lay the book aside,
unread, one would make a sacrifice as
needless as it would be great. For,
with due allowance for differences In
environment, this Idyll of the Northern
land is certainly not unworthy to stand
on terms of equality beside Its more fa
mous predecessor. It, too, deals in pim
ple, direct manner with the loves and
foibles of plain peasant folk. A strip
of sand on the bank of the Danish sea,
with a streak of forest for a background
and some few small houses of fisher folk
or sailors scattered throughout the
foreground, ever In view of the restless
waves, forms it site and supplies what
crltlca would call its "atmosphere;"
while a gloomy old blacksmith, with
his sturdy young son, a drink-fond sea
captain with his pretty but spirited and
motherless daughter, and a precise and
punctual old coast signalman, with a
few Incidental additions, comprise the
whole of the story's human element. One
could not. imagine withal a more com
monplace setting for a romance of the
heart, and it Is to the author's distin
guished credit that, sculptor-like, he has
moulded from this crude clay figures of
flawless verisimilitude. His picture of
Tonnes, the great hulk of a bashful boy,
who, under the influence of a modest
passion, awakens gradually to man's
emotional estate and. under this spur,
goes forth undaunted to conquer the
world. Is excelled only by his fine de
lineation of the young maiden Nanna,
In whom alternating coquetry and re
morse, pride and tlutmt sympathies, the
kaleidoscopic surface-play of ever
changing moods and fancies which veils
the depths of loyalty and of love below
give piquancy and enduring charm. Hol
ger Drachmann. with kindly humor, has
caught the life-like view of "the eternal
feminine." His Nanna pulsates with
human vitality and is creation tit to live.
Moreover, unlike some writers of his
clline, this Danish -St. Pierre has no
hobbles to ride, no crazy theories to ex
ploit and no Problems to solve. Ho Is
content with the artist's function alone,
and cares not a fillip of his finger for all
,the diseased decadents or Incipient male
and female paretics since pathology be
gan. We look with eagerness for fur
ther translations of Holger Drachmann's
works. To the publishers of this pres
ent translation a word of praise is due
for the book's neatness and Judicious
putting together. Few recent volumes
have equalled it In the various details
of mechanical excellence.
STRANGERS AT LI3CONNBLL: A Se
ries of Irish Idylls, liy Jane Barlow.
Cloth, 12mo, 11.25. New York: Dodd,
Mead ft Co. ,
One of the few genuine literary tri
umphs of last year was that won by
"Irish Idylls,' a work which quickly
ran through four editions and received
praise without stint from critics and
laymen both here and in Europe. It
was a group of sketches depicting with
fidelity and with ever-manifest sym
pathy and tenderness the humor, pa
thos and temperamental versatility of
the Irish character. Unlike Lever or
Carleton. Miss Barlow made no endeav
or to heighten her effects by gro
tesqueness or exaggeration, but kept
patiently and with artistic sincerity to
the limits of truth, the result of which
was a vein of literary achievement
wholly new to the discriminating pub
lic, and as welcome as it was novel. The
present volume is a continuation of
these charming studies, with the pleas
urable characteristics of the earlier
work quite as prominent In the new.
Its Interest is wholly In Its human ele
ment, for at Llsconnel humanity is ev
erything and natural phenomena are
nil.
"Thus," the author tells us, at the
opening, "the generations as they suc
ceed one another, wave-like preserve a
well-marked .rhythm In their coming
and going play, work, rest not to be
interrupted by anything less peremp
tory than death or disablement. This
wag-by-the-wall swings and swings its
bobbed pendulum without pause, but
one swing is much like the other, and
their background never varies. Little
Pat out stravading of a fine morning on
and Retail City and Suburban Representative -Business Houses.
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the great hrewn-wlgged her. and. It
may be !:!, enjoying lnnivlf. tlior-t-ughly.
is taking l:e itm ru-st-aietts'ln
lilt: as youtig Put. its rather, now bury
t'jttlitg turf-soda, and' old Pat, lite
grandfather. Idly watching them burn,
with u pipe. If in luck, to keep ullght."
What can be a more deft bit of descrip
tion than this, or a leas distracting can
vass for a fulthf ut picturing of racial
Idiofv ncrasies, mannerisms, and types
of diameter? We should like very
truch to take the reader on a. pilgrim
age to Llsconnel. with Miss Barlow for
a keen-eyed but always sympathetic
guide; and to show him, under her
chaperonago, how much real art may
d'rter in Us treatment of Irish themes
from the spurious chromo work which.
In most plays and novels, distorts and
intuitu the Irish character. But time
and space deny us that privilege. We
can, however, indulge ourselves in one
recommendation; and that Is that the
reader of these lines, if ho would ex
perience a real treat, hie him to the
nearest book stalls and take Llsconnel
by barter.
LITERARY GOSSIP.
Mary Abbott, the accomplished reviewer
of the Chicago TImes-Herahl, has fears
lor literature because of the growing ten
dency even among the best ot writers, to
ward pot boiling. "Men," she says,
"whose fame is at the Mow can'; pour out
their brains fast enough; page alter puge
of syndicate matter wells forth, and some
of it. It is needless to remark. U pretty
bad. But 'It goes." as the expression is,
and the money comes, and in the firet
flush of fame many a splendid writer is
going on toboggan runners to his euriy
doom. Rich, fut and played out the whole
society of authors of the present day will
be soun. Barrle, whose tlrst writings wore
Inimitably excellent, tixxled out with pot
boilers, and the end early and sudden la
miserable silence; a silence that Is prob
ably golden, but not in the scriptural
sense. Ian .Macluren is following down
the path, overproducing, hurrying, scram
bling to rake up idioms anil histories of
those poor uld hidden Drum toe hty folk,
who should be dealt with as daintily us
glass niunikins. Kven they are smirk and
agog now. it Is said, eager to reel off their
very peculiarities for gain. Crockett Is
writing too fust and too much: Klppllng,
either from hints of threatening prostra
tion or plethora, or some sense of mod
esty. Is staying his pen a little, and writ
ing better for the pauses. There was a
time when ho emptied himself ull over
Sunday papers, and was hideously cyni
cal, from desperation or confusion. Zsug
will, the cleverest of all the London lot, la
suffering from the common itch; he write
and writes, and In one column now there
may be two Ideas. For a master of stylo
and a real thinker, such a fate la peculiar
ly sad, and Irritating to a lartfe band of
admirers now mourners as well. His hy
perboles bear marks of haste and his se
rious comments on current matters are
trivial In themselves, often, and Stupidly
put. So much for the Influence of prema
ture prosperity in the nineteenth century
nineties."
II II II ,
Fad-following In typography. Just now
so exuberant, calls from the Chicago
Journal a timely rebuke. Says It: "He
fore William Morris undertook to print
ills own works and was content that the
world phould read what he wrote In good
round Roman type, the world read what
he wrote. But from the day he conceived
the Idea that what he wrote must bo pre
sented In grotesque, black-letter type, on
specially-prepared paper, with lamp-black
Ink, the world has ceased to be Interested
in what he wrote. From being a writer of
books Mr. Morris became a printer of
bric-a-brac. If the effect of Mr. Morris
Idiosyncrasy, lo hide his literary light un
der and archaic style, printed in eye-killing
tpye, had been confined to his own
works und the Kelmscott press the world
might have shunned them and saved Its
sight for more attractive and readable
books. But printers and publishers are an
imitative trine and prone to run after new
things. So the Kelmscott press has been
Imitated all over the world and type
founders have outdone themselves to pre
pare variations of old English black let
ters, with disastrous effect upon the clear,
plain typography of the decade. De Vlnne,
ono of the best printers in America, has
fallen a victim to the fad for printing
books with bisarre typographical effects.
This was all right so long as he confined
his experiments to bonks primarily In
tended for the cabinets ot collectors of the
rare, the odd, and the antique. But his
use of a lean, measly, hybrid type for such
a widely-read magasine as the Century Is
nothing short of a crime against the eye
sight of America and England. Tbe love
of old books because of the wise or beau
tiful thoughts that are In them, the admir
ation for old books because of their clear,
round, readable print and their strong,
enduring paper, the buying of old books
as curiosities these are natural and ra
tional tastes of intelligent persons. But
what justification can be urged for hark
ing back to the black-letter period for
type In which to print popular modern
periodicals passes the comprehension of
any one not in cahoots with oculists and
opticians."
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Messrs. Way & Williams, the Chicago
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Rossettl, reprinted from The Germ by
William Morris at the Kelmscott Press,
In golden type, Kimo, bound in vellum,
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advanced.
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Pope, when translating Homer, consid
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clay's work. The completion of the Iliad
required over three years.
Balzac considered that he was wasting
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to any ono of his longer Btorle.. He fre
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De Qulncy commonly wrote one of his
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self, and wrote slowly to avoid what to
him was the disgraceful task of revision.
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and was particular in tho choice of words,
his manuscript showing frequent eras
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The manuscript of Gray's "Klegy" re
mained in the author's hands seven years,
receiving touches hern and there, and
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Frank Vincent's Actual Arfica, published
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Stephen Crane's rtlrring novel of war,
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Nlmes. France. Jan. I-. This is hov
the guide book tells one to go from
Avignon to Nlmes, taking the train ut
Pont du Avignon, Across the Rhone from
the town. "Beyond Aramon the line
quits the Rhone and enters the valley
of the Gordon, passing Thcsiers and
Rcmoullns. The Pont du Card lies
about two miles to the west of Remou
llns, and Is reached by crossing the sus
pension bridge and then turning to, the
right by the Lafous road. Can Inge for
1-3 persons four francs there and back."
A word about guide, books. They are
almost indispensable in Europe to give
one the names of hotels, rates of car
riage fare and slse and history of
towns, but there Is one golden rule to
follow with them. It is always keep
ahead of the guide book. Don't go
through Europe following a title red
covered in every particular. If you
really wish to see a country, to be able
to stop and enjoy any fine bit of ccenery
or interesting thing you may come
across, the best way is to walk through
parts of It. and bo I decided to walk
from Avignon to Nlmes.
Old Port St. Andre.
An early start a very Important
thing for a long walk took me across
the river Villeneuve les Avignon, and
by 8 o'clock I was In front of the very
Interesting old Fort St. Andre, which
looms above the town, and which was
built by the popes In the time when they
held their court at Avignon, between
the years 1305 and 1377. Seven popes
reigned there and the country round
about remained a papal dependency un
til the French Revolution. v
The entrance to the fort is). between
two massive battlemented towers and
is very well- preserved, as are the walls.
Just underneath the hill on which the
fort stands la a very quaint old quar
ter of the town, built amid the ruins of
the Carthusian monasteries. The houses
are built around the old cloisters, the
corridors form the streets of the section
and the effect is necessarily pictur
esque. After a cup of coffee and a roll at the
Cafe d'la Universe It's a poor French
town that husn't its Cafe do Paris, its
Cafe de France and its Cafe d'la Uni
verse I started from Villeneuve. The
road wound around a hill, en reaching
the top of which a magnificent view is
obtained. Olive groves, dotted with
red tiled houses, slope down to the
river Rhone, across which stands the
picturesque town of Avignon, the huge
palace of the popes rising high above
It. Then back of the town level plains
stretching to the Alpines, and back of
them and filling in the picture, the Alps,
lifting their summits high Into the
heavens.
Outside the walls of Avignon some
thousands of French soldiers were go
ing through their morning exercise, and
although the distance must have been
several miles, the sound of their voices
as they counted "Un, Deux, Trols,
Quatre," was easily distinguishable.
Interesting Zoological Phenomena.
From this point the road led across
a table land, richly cultivated, and I
passed a number of peasants driving
Into town on their high two-wheeled
carts. If the cart Is of average size a
horse draws It, but if It Is unusually
large they procure the smallest donkey
obtainable and hitch him to it.
Some of these little almals are so
small that one feels like buying a cou
ple for souvenirs. They are, perhaps,
the most Interesting feature of the
French roads, and I never tire of watch
ing them. To one of these peasants I
Intrusted a key which I had absent
mlndedly carried away from my hotel
at Avignon. He promised to deliver it,
and it Is to be hoped he did. Otherwise
they may be charging me for the room
yet.
Leaving the table land and the road
I climbed a little hill, and here I had
what might be termed an adventure. I
was going through a little bit of wood
Just before the summit was reached,
when I heard something scrambling
down the side of the road, and looking
up saw a bear making for tne. If we
did not have the word nervous in the
language I think I should be compelled
to say I was frightened, but having that
word, I will say that I felt somewhat
nervous, and gripped my umbrella my
sole defense somewhat hopelessly.
When climbing the hill I had heard
what seemed to be the bark of 4 dog,
and was prepared for him, but a bear
was an entirely different thing.
And there was no doubt about this
being a real live bear, if growls count
ed for anything. He had taken several
steps In my direction, and I was con
templating an ignominious flight, when
he stopped, and to my intense relief, I
saw tie was chained to a tree. If I had
discovered the chain a little earlier it
would have saved me a bad quarter of
a minute.
Afonl of a Gypsy Cstnp.
Deciding that where there was a
chain there must be a man. and keep
ing well on the other side of the road,
I passed his bearish majesty and dis
covered, around a bend of the road, a
gypsy camp. A number of beautiful
brown-skinned children were rolling
over each other on the green In front
of the tents, and a monkey leaped
chattering from tree to tree. The mo
ment they saw me, they all, children
and monkey, made a rush for mc and
begged for coppers. All the older gyp
sies seemed to be not at home, and tho
children were running the camp.
The Pennells, in their study of the
gypsies, have made the observation
that these nomadic folk always choose
a site for their camps commanding a
fine view, and this ramp was no excep
tion. The table land over which I hud
Just passed was spread out below mc
like a carpet bounded on the hori
zon by the mountains. The camp it
Belf was a small one of only two tents.
I should have liked to examine it a
little more closely than I did, but the
children were importunrte, the monkey
Jumped at me continually, and I had
not any too great faith In the strength
of that bear's chain, and so I came on.
Another Roman Rnin.
From the cimn th road descended to
Rcmoullns which I found to be a small
town of no great Interest. Crossing
the garden, which runs by the town,
the road turned to the north and a walk
of perhaps two miles brought me to the
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An Adventure with a Bear ..and '
Other Noteworthy Wayside Incidents.
Roman ruin I vas In search of. the
Pont du Uard. Now we fail back on
the omniscient Hcdeker for the tacts.
The Pont du Oard. spanning the Gar
don at the bend of the valley, is one
of the most Imposing monuments of
the Romans which remain to us. It
forms part of an aqueduct twonty-flvo
and a half miles lorsr. built to convey
to Nimes the water of two springs in
the neighborhood of Alzea, und is
ascribed to Agrtppa, son-in-law of Au
gustus (B. C. 19). The bridge is about
880 feet long and 160 feet high, and Is
composed of three tiers of arches, each
less wide than the one below. The
first two tiers corwitst respectively of
six and eleven arches of equal span, the
third of thirty-five smaller arches. The
whole is admirably constructed of large
stones, and no cement has been used
except for the canal on the top.
The hills bordering: the river are very
pretty but for ones at least the work
of man dwarfs the -work of nature, and
the only thing tho eye dwells on is the
old Pont. In such good preservation Is
it that it scarcely seems old, and It
looks good for another nineteen hundred
years. Of course, parts of It have been
restored, but bo blgr Is It that like the
arena at Aries, restoration cannot affect
Onward To its r J Ximcs.
The sight of this bridge made me
wish more than ever to see the city that
In olden times was of sufficient impor
tance to have such a massive aque
duct built for it. and so, after an hour's
stay I started again fur Nlmes. A sign
board at Remoulins reads "A Nimes 20
kilometres," and If I was to get there
before dark It behooved me to hurry.
After leaving Remoulins the way led
over a level agricultural country with
nothing of especial Interest In the way
of scenery. Notwithstanding tho fact
that I passed through several very
picturesque old towns the latter half ot
my day's walk resolved Itself Into a
counting of the kilometres, which the
excellent system ot distance posts en
ables me to do very readily on a French
road. At 6 o'clock, just as the Btreet
lamps were being lit. I reached Nlmes.
The next day one Is likely to think that
perhaps the guide book's way of get
ting from Avignon to Nlmes has some
merits after all. One doesn't have
quite so much of that tired feeling if he
goes by rail. But then, he doesn't see
o much. Wlnford J. Northup.
BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE.
Longing.
The hills slope down to the valley, the
streams run down to the sea,
And my heart, my -heart. Oh, fur one! sets
and strains toward thee.
But only the feet of the mountain are felt
by the rim of the plain.
And the source and soul of the hurrying
stream reach not the calling main.
The dawn Is sick for daylight, the morn
ing yearns for the noon.
And the twilight sighs for the evening star
and the rising of the moon.
But the dawn and the daylight never were
seen In the self-same skies,
And the gloaming dies of its own desire
when the moon and the stars arise.
Ths Springtime calls to the Bummer: "Oh,
mingle your life with mine;"
And the Summer to Autumn 'plalneth low:
"Must the harvest be only thine?"
But the nightingale goes when the swal
low comes, ere tbe leaf Is the blossom
' fled.
And when the Autumn sits on her golden
sheave, then the reign of the rose
is dead.
And hunger and thirst, and wail and want,
are lost in the empty air,
And the heavenly spirit vainly pines for
the touch of the earthly fair.
And the hills slope down to the valley, the
streams run down to ths sea.
And my hoart, my .heart, Oh, far one! sets
and strains toward thee.
::
Swtst Love Is Dead.
Sweet Love Is dead :
Where shall we -bury hlmt
In a green bed.
With no stone at his head
And no tears nor prayers to worry him.
Do you think he will sleep
Dreamless and quiet?
Yes, if we keep
Silence nor weep
O'er tho grave where the ground worms
riot.
By his tomb let us part.
But, hush! he Is waking!
Ha hath winged a dart
And the mock-cold heart
With the wos of want is achln;.
Feign we no more.
Sweet Love lies breathless.
All we foreswore
Be as before.
Death may die but Love is deathless.
:jj:
Sines We Mast Die.
I.
Though we must die. I would not die
When yearlings blindly bleat,
When wild geese stream across the sky,
And the cart-lodge timbers creak.
For it would be so lone and drear
To sleep beneath the snow.
When children carol Christmas cheer.
And Christmas rafters glow.
ir.
Nor would I die, though we must die.
When yeanlings blindly bleat,
When the cuckoo laughs and lovers sigh,
And oh, to live Is sweet!
When cowslips come again, and spring
So winsome with their breath
And Life's In love with everything
With everything hut Death.
III.
Let me 'not die, though we must die.
When bowls are brimmed with cream,
When milch cons in the meadows lie
Or wade amid the stream;
When dewy-dimpled roses smile
To see the face of June.
And lad and lass meet at the stile
Or roam beneath the moon.
IV.
Since we must die, then let me die
When Hows the harvest ule,
When the reaper Iayx the sickle by
Andtaketh down the flail:
When ail we prised and all we planned
Is ripe and stored at last.
And Autumn looks across the land
And ponders on the part
Then let me die.
Alfred Austin.
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