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10 THE GOLDFN AGE. The Golden Age has passed away, So sings the pessimistic sage;
He calls his hours of
youthful play
The Golden Age.
Ana was he happy? I'll engage, No happier than he is to-day, He grumbled in his narrow cage. The Past lies rotting in decay: Thero let it lif\ and turn the pag
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1903. At the annual ladies' dinner recently given by tte Authors' Club, Sir Conan Doyle classified authorship amoDg the dangerous trades, declaring that "an old novelist was as rare as an old worker in white lead." The pronouncement pounds well, and perhaps some one with plenty of time on his hands and a leaning toward statistics in his mm.i might draw up a list coniirming, or. rather, seeming to confirm. Sir Conan Doyle's remark. But we confess that we have small taste for these cocksure and
AN UNHAPPY PEOPLE,
The Trials of Poland Sympathetically Recounted. AND. POI W'D- A STUDY OK THE I.
PEOPLE
in this Dr. Brandes is not content to analyze book the nature of the Polisn temperament, and present. to review Polish literature, past and the He also sounds a clarion note in behalf of people of Poland, dwellers in a land of disorder. He preaches, in no uncertain words, the gospel the of freedom, preaching, more especially, that freedom of Poland is synonymous with the victory of culture over 'modern, military barbamiserable, hoperism in Europe." It is a sad, less, yet ever hopin? Poland that Dr. Brandes presents to our view, and we have no reason to picture. With believe that he has overdrawn the proud him we can feel the heart of the once Rusnation palpitating under the oppression of peoples, sia and Germany; we, of all other flushed in the joy of cur American independence, brutality of can echo his protests against the
They are always generalizations. specious being made, but somehow they always fail to -any conviction. Here is Mr. Stopford Brooke throwing off, in the course of an essay on Turner, some observations on the continuity of power in men of great genius. "The sword of the genius of the second rank wears out its .-cabbardV he says. "The sword of the imperial
genius vitalizes the scabbard to the end." The trouble with this pretty contribution to the subject, as with Sir Conan Doyle's notion about old novelists being rare, is that in these matters v.c necessarily grope, and must ever grope, iv the dark. Genius is imponderable, and we cannot lay down laws about it Scientists like lyombroso have done no good in seeking to weigh genius in their scales. On the contrary, they have done harm, inasmuch as they have persuaded a number of people to snatch irreverently at the veil that hides the great secret from us, forgetting that spirituality which is at genius. once the source and the crown of true
Especial interest attaches to Mi that even if the Poles were to regain by nature unfitted to surby means their freedom they are dom. It is perhaps best accomplished separate state in these bustling days. vive as a into the of the censorship, deadening as that is several Itmust go against the grain to say this, but day tellectual life. Dr. Brandes. who in his it he does, and forcefully: experience visits to the country had personal Every Southerners, unmercifully. it censorship, scores The Poles are as vivacious as of the they are not \u25a0 politically prudent people, newspaper which comes into the censor's office but of In Machiavelli. like the school taken educated whotheunderstood how to make the Italians, —and all newspapers must go there-is at everything of the examined, fire for French pull the chestnuts out legions Napoleon out of its wrapper and are a people whose which the authorities take offence being black- them Theyshed blood on a hundred battle:s to their induced Kvery book en, -d until it is undecipherable. holding the white eagie before interesting fields merely by is It page page. by battalions Steinmetz. people whose opened and read them, and a ad- in 1870, induced to storm the terrible heights at to note that of foreign books the censor will allowing the Prussian bands to by but sciences, Spicheren mit many dealing with the natural melody of the national song. "Jesr*the Greek and play the works. Even prohibited which Is in zglnela," historical few nic scrutiny, Polska Such a youthful or Posen in time of peace. Roman classics must undergo close sustaining lengths certainly not a childish enthusiasm is and the examination is carried to such of the a element in th*> great struggle for life ages. that the censor has been known to erase from It mihtarian in industrial and nations free over a thrift, incookbook the words "to be boiled flourish in conjunction with dOCS notdiscipline, was prudence, "free" and civil adjective dustry, moderation fire" simply because the for qualities which insure the continuance of the used. Again, manuscripts for lectures, texts of the stateindividual and recitations and songs for concerts have to be chapter Dr. Brandes show 3that, was in it conneccensor, and In another submitted to the proceed- although oppression has resulted in the unification with this phase of the ridiculous own troubles occurred. tion of the Poles of Austrian. Russian and Prusings that Dr. Brandes's Warsaw sev- sian Poland, so far as the national sentiment is He had been invited to deliver in and had sue- concerned, there is not the slightest political coeral lectures on Polish literature, operation between the three provinces; that they have not even common measures, coins cr stamps; that they have not a man who. as a politician, is popular in all thre^ countries; in short, that it would be impossible for them to from tha act in concert. The unfortunate thing, standpoint of the veteran patriots, is that th» younger generation, seeing this strange diversity, tends to grow sceptical, to become Indifferent to the fatherland's future, a:. 1 to lose all hope of the Mill II ultimate restoration. But the veteran patriots need not be alarmed. More than offsetting this is the influence of llfl mothers of Poland. Despite all political disunion, so long as a Polisii woman lives the love of ill— and hatred of the oppressors must flourish throughout the country. Bismarck regarded the women of Poland as far more dangerous than the men. and went so far as to issue certain decrees which, in his opinion, would undermine their influence to a large extent. Always gallant.Dr.Brandes rings true in his eulogy of the women of Kosciusko's country- "la a that relates to the contest for the preservation of the national spirit," we find him saying, "they are the marrow of the land." Of the women of the aristocracy he says: "They are women who are born to rule, and who even in narrow and The suppression
of the Poles has
been
the steady progress since the partition of
king-
charge
'^
to Itis hateful to the sincere lover of literature have to witness attempts at profaning the central mystery of the thing he loves.
preserve the grand straitened circumstances self-esteem which runs in their blood." They are proud, they are beautifuL They pass their days in this fashion: The lady of position rises between 11 a: 1 12 4 o'clock in the forenoon and goes to bed at o'clock in the morning; she drives from -one visit
English booksellers have long been supposed
appears to form a rather imposing body, but it so and not numerous they are not half that buyers half so competent as a great many book
in England would like them to be. That, at all events, is what might be inferred from the remark a London journal that "it seems extraordinary that at this time of day so few good book shops exist out of London and two or three large provincial towns." A new comtrouble, pany has been started to remedy the pioneer shops 'a few through enterprise its and of are to be opened under the management something about men who really do know books." Mr. 11. (I. Wells is prompt in expressing his approval, writing thus to the managing director: "My wannest good wishes for your" admirably planned scheme. The troubles of book buying are one of the chief woes in my essentially querulous life. At the present moment Iam just giving up the hope of being able to buy a pleasant edition of an English version of the 'Utopia'- and there are no doubt trying to at least three publishers in London sell me what Iwant to buy! Ican't find out about them." Americans may sometimes suffer in the same way, yet we venture to say that in the main wo are better off in this country than may Mr. Wells appears to be. Our booksellers want, but they not always have everything we show, as "a rule, intelligence and promptitude in securing the publication desired.
to another and from one party to another. But in reality she labors every day for public and national interests. Everything— the most inno-a cent enterprises, the founding of a library, hospital, a sewing school, no matter what it is is made to strengthen the Polish cause. Four ladies do not meet on a charity committee without promoting the national cause under its cover. Itis small wonder that, although clearly recognizing the terrible force of the blows dealt on the anvil of Toland by the hammers of Europe, Dr. Brandes cannot but exhale, from first to last "It is not yet all over the national sentiment: with Poland, not so long as we live!" Turning from the people, the Copenhagen critic proceeds to discuss the literature of Poland, and in this GEORGE BRANPES. respect the book must be looked upon as a valu(From a Photograph.) able addition to his series, "Main Currents in Century Literature." Scholarship Nineteenth diplomacy, deal of in ceedr-d, by gTeat have never what It dint of a Czar and Kaiser. We known every line. We quote at revealed in this tabooed stands securing permission speak have to on by foreign spies, means to be hounded to our language, our customs, our dress prohibited, subject. The difficulty then was to prepare the random: and our whole manner of life prescribed for us, lectures in such a way that they would not be The Polish literature of this century b^ars a. but we can, nevertheless, sympathize with the obnoxious to the authorities, and at the same peculiar stamp, apart from the peculiarities issuing from the national character, in this respect, recognized Poles, rankling under burdens s.uch as these. time would show his auditors that he that it developed in a country which had rePoland, as Dr. Brandes shows it to us, is not the true import of the works of Poland's liter- cently ceased to exist as an independent st a.t-\ merely a land of disorder; it is also a land of ary masters. Finally he submitted his addresses The literature, and especially the poetry, silence, where even social gatherings are marked to the censor, and in much fear and trembling on this account to supply, as it were, the pl;i.-e of all the organs of a national life which v.-rby a solemnity appalling to foreigners. There is awaited the decision of that august dignitary. lost at the partition of the state. It grWn* always present the phantom of the terrible When the first of the lectures was again in his thereby in spiritual exaltation, but necessarily Mr. Andrew Lang is wrathful over the self- "system" whose workings have wrought so hands he hardly knew it for the child of his loses in variety. ishness of the people who write to him and to much desolation in what was one of the bright- brain! books, Here, indeed, is a far reaching analysis, tersely other authors begging for copies of their est kingdoms of Europe. The Poles suffer in They had been very thorough. The conclusion, expressed. All through this section of the work writing inscriptions. "I hate autograph with silence, but they likewise plot in silence, and the several pages, was struck out. and in various we find similar characterizations. Speaking of inscriptions," he complains. "I "system" has had autograph places the erasures which were numerous. Even a effect, signal Dr. the would rather write another book. Again, IBrandes is not slow to point out, of consoli- well known quotation from Schiller, '"the living the three great romantic poets. Dr. Branded men is right," was stru-k out. Words like "resigna- terms Mickiewicz the eagle, Krasinski the swan never keep my own works in stock— into one tion" or "tristesse," used as characteristic dating the whilom rival provinces of and Slowacki the peacock "among the winged (I as much just costs me buy to them do—and nationality with a common ideal the freedom of Polish literature, were blotted out. In one place spirits of Poland." Equally keen are the criticonceive) as it costs the public." It is useless spoken of the "Catholic piety" of had the fatherland The "system" has also been the where I the poets these words were erased. In another cisms of Rzewuski. Kraszevvski, Asynk, Prus. fcr him to argue. People will go on begging indirect means of fostering the national spirit in place where ihad spoken of the life which is Swientochowski and Sienkiewicz. Dr. Brande3 authors for their books and autographs until the boys and girls of the country, and thus described in the most celebrated work of willhave the sympathy of many In his parting trying is no use in time, and there end of Mickiewicz the rod pencil had gone over these the keeping it alive and vigorous generation after "Iam sorry to say that of unceasby foiest, dint of "The perhaps But words. Lithuanian the natural set- shot at the latter: stop them. to generation. According to the Russian law, chil- ting of this life"; and in "For the first time, late years he has been absorbed in the producing effort something may some day be done to dren, like their elders, must not speak in Polish, since the partition of the kingdom." the last tion of endless historical novels, in the style of suppress certain other parasitical individuals at must not wear the Polish national costume, and phrase was obliterated. the elder Dumas, which have made his nama scorn, bores flings "the his whom Mr. Lang must always consider themselves Russians. The T>r. Prandes was in depair, for he foresaw that widely popular, and produce a.large income." sepublish to let them ask a man daily who result of these inhibitions Dr. Brandes de- there would be nothing left of the second lecture, lections from his books for their own private scribes thus' which was more daring than the first. As luck THE MOTHER. paste-and-seissors their benefit in volumes of concerned, the parents So far as education is would have it. however, the censor suddenly Edward Wright in The Speaker. "Why indeed. exasperating They are work." keep their little boy or girl at home and out of di.il. and. thank.s to the intervention of the GovShe sends her wild an.i noisy swarm cannot they write their own books?" We do school as lons as possible, teach them them- ernor General, Gurko, the Of children out of sight to play. doctor was enabled to noththey selves, or have them taught, in order to give the have ;know, unless it is because Careless, it seems, of any harm D and, if they had, would lirst elements of knowledge in Polish and in the deliver the promised course without much fursay, to That might befall them on their way. ing of their own Polish spirit. The child sucks in with his ther delay, using almost the phraseology he had nut know how to say it. There are occasions mother's milk contempt for the Russians and submitted to the authorities. Doubtless the hosBut she has weaker lives to rear hatred for them. Everything which on which an anthology of prose or of verse is passionate Babes at her breast and at her knee years of his life pitality shown him by Poles of the three provlegitimate, occasions on which even the most the child hears in the first And toiling on. unmoved by fear. its impress on the present strengthens contempt. this hatred and lie inces has left work. She lets her children wander free. harassed of authors feels that it is perfectly learns so much that is great and good about the for Dr. Brandes himself tells us how difficult it courage of his was for him to write Impartially proper for him to grant the privilege requested superior culture and exalted everything Untended in the rain and sun. people of the that ho attributes gre.it They fight and play and dream and roanv of him by a compiler. Bat in recent years the countrymen and the Poles. "Is it possible that with whom he-typifying, a* he did. the br.nlto Poland Till, mercenary antholo- Columbus was not a Pole?" asked a little boy of est freedom— was so deservedly tired and listless, one by one altogether superfluous and popular. But if With lagging feet they make for hcrr.e. On the other hand, he lays str< ss on the string traits of the Poles gists hive enormously increased in number. his mother in my presence. which the child learns or They ought to be frowned upon with the ut- as a rule, everything does not forget to indicate their weaknesses, And there, forgetting grief and m!rth. experiences with regard to the Russians un- he Into their mother's arms they creep; most severity, aixl be compelled really to earn favorable, or it receives an unfavorable isinterand it is in dealing with their national charAnd on the cool, soft breast of Earti) pretation. their living. acteristics that we lind his critical acumen best Her weary children fall asleep.
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10 THE GOLDFN AGE. The Golden Age has passed away, So sings the pessimistic sage;
He calls his hours of
youthful play
The Golden Age.
Ana was he happy? I'll engage, No happier than he is to-day, He grumbled in his narrow cage. The Past lies rotting in decay: Thero let it lif\ and turn the pag
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1903. At the annual ladies' dinner recently given by tte Authors' Club, Sir Conan Doyle classified authorship amoDg the dangerous trades, declaring that "an old novelist was as rare as an old worker in white lead." The pronouncement pounds well, and perhaps some one with plenty of time on his hands and a leaning toward statistics in his mm.i might draw up a list coniirming, or. rather, seeming to confirm. Sir Conan Doyle's remark. But we confess that we have small taste for these cocksure and
AN UNHAPPY PEOPLE,
The Trials of Poland Sympathetically Recounted. AND. POI W'D- A STUDY OK THE I.
PEOPLE
in this Dr. Brandes is not content to analyze book the nature of the Polisn temperament, and present. to review Polish literature, past and the He also sounds a clarion note in behalf of people of Poland, dwellers in a land of disorder. He preaches, in no uncertain words, the gospel the of freedom, preaching, more especially, that freedom of Poland is synonymous with the victory of culture over 'modern, military barbamiserable, hoperism in Europe." It is a sad, less, yet ever hopin? Poland that Dr. Brandes presents to our view, and we have no reason to picture. With believe that he has overdrawn the proud him we can feel the heart of the once Rusnation palpitating under the oppression of peoples, sia and Germany; we, of all other flushed in the joy of cur American independence, brutality of can echo his protests against the
They are always generalizations. specious being made, but somehow they always fail to -any conviction. Here is Mr. Stopford Brooke throwing off, in the course of an essay on Turner, some observations on the continuity of power in men of great genius. "The sword of the genius of the second rank wears out its .-cabbardV he says. "The sword of the imperial
genius vitalizes the scabbard to the end." The trouble with this pretty contribution to the subject, as with Sir Conan Doyle's notion about old novelists being rare, is that in these matters v.c necessarily grope, and must ever grope, iv the dark. Genius is imponderable, and we cannot lay down laws about it Scientists like lyombroso have done no good in seeking to weigh genius in their scales. On the contrary, they have done harm, inasmuch as they have persuaded a number of people to snatch irreverently at the veil that hides the great secret from us, forgetting that spirituality which is at genius. once the source and the crown of true
Especial interest attaches to Mi that even if the Poles were to regain by nature unfitted to surby means their freedom they are dom. It is perhaps best accomplished separate state in these bustling days. vive as a into the of the censorship, deadening as that is several Itmust go against the grain to say this, but day tellectual life. Dr. Brandes. who in his it he does, and forcefully: experience visits to the country had personal Every Southerners, unmercifully. it censorship, scores The Poles are as vivacious as of the they are not \u25a0 politically prudent people, newspaper which comes into the censor's office but of In Machiavelli. like the school taken educated whotheunderstood how to make the Italians, —and all newspapers must go there-is at everything of the examined, fire for French pull the chestnuts out legions Napoleon out of its wrapper and are a people whose which the authorities take offence being black- them Theyshed blood on a hundred battle:s to their induced Kvery book en, -d until it is undecipherable. holding the white eagie before interesting fields merely by is It page page. by battalions Steinmetz. people whose opened and read them, and a ad- in 1870, induced to storm the terrible heights at to note that of foreign books the censor will allowing the Prussian bands to by but sciences, Spicheren mit many dealing with the natural melody of the national song. "Jesr*the Greek and play the works. Even prohibited which Is in zglnela," historical few nic scrutiny, Polska Such a youthful or Posen in time of peace. Roman classics must undergo close sustaining lengths certainly not a childish enthusiasm is and the examination is carried to such of the a element in th*> great struggle for life ages. that the censor has been known to erase from It mihtarian in industrial and nations free over a thrift, incookbook the words "to be boiled flourish in conjunction with dOCS notdiscipline, was prudence, "free" and civil adjective dustry, moderation fire" simply because the for qualities which insure the continuance of the used. Again, manuscripts for lectures, texts of the stateindividual and recitations and songs for concerts have to be chapter Dr. Brandes show 3that, was in it conneccensor, and In another submitted to the proceed- although oppression has resulted in the unification with this phase of the ridiculous own troubles occurred. tion of the Poles of Austrian. Russian and Prusings that Dr. Brandes's Warsaw sev- sian Poland, so far as the national sentiment is He had been invited to deliver in and had sue- concerned, there is not the slightest political coeral lectures on Polish literature, operation between the three provinces; that they have not even common measures, coins cr stamps; that they have not a man who. as a politician, is popular in all thre^ countries; in short, that it would be impossible for them to from tha act in concert. The unfortunate thing, standpoint of the veteran patriots, is that th» younger generation, seeing this strange diversity, tends to grow sceptical, to become Indifferent to the fatherland's future, a:. 1 to lose all hope of the Mill II ultimate restoration. But the veteran patriots need not be alarmed. More than offsetting this is the influence of llfl mothers of Poland. Despite all political disunion, so long as a Polisii woman lives the love of ill— and hatred of the oppressors must flourish throughout the country. Bismarck regarded the women of Poland as far more dangerous than the men. and went so far as to issue certain decrees which, in his opinion, would undermine their influence to a large extent. Always gallant.Dr.Brandes rings true in his eulogy of the women of Kosciusko's country- "la a that relates to the contest for the preservation of the national spirit," we find him saying, "they are the marrow of the land." Of the women of the aristocracy he says: "They are women who are born to rule, and who even in narrow and The suppression
of the Poles has
been
the steady progress since the partition of
king-
charge
'^
to Itis hateful to the sincere lover of literature have to witness attempts at profaning the central mystery of the thing he loves.
preserve the grand straitened circumstances self-esteem which runs in their blood." They are proud, they are beautifuL They pass their days in this fashion: The lady of position rises between 11 a: 1 12 4 o'clock in the forenoon and goes to bed at o'clock in the morning; she drives from -one visit
English booksellers have long been supposed
appears to form a rather imposing body, but it so and not numerous they are not half that buyers half so competent as a great many book
in England would like them to be. That, at all events, is what might be inferred from the remark a London journal that "it seems extraordinary that at this time of day so few good book shops exist out of London and two or three large provincial towns." A new comtrouble, pany has been started to remedy the pioneer shops 'a few through enterprise its and of are to be opened under the management something about men who really do know books." Mr. 11. (I. Wells is prompt in expressing his approval, writing thus to the managing director: "My wannest good wishes for your" admirably planned scheme. The troubles of book buying are one of the chief woes in my essentially querulous life. At the present moment Iam just giving up the hope of being able to buy a pleasant edition of an English version of the 'Utopia'- and there are no doubt trying to at least three publishers in London sell me what Iwant to buy! Ican't find out about them." Americans may sometimes suffer in the same way, yet we venture to say that in the main wo are better off in this country than may Mr. Wells appears to be. Our booksellers want, but they not always have everything we show, as "a rule, intelligence and promptitude in securing the publication desired.
to another and from one party to another. But in reality she labors every day for public and national interests. Everything— the most inno-a cent enterprises, the founding of a library, hospital, a sewing school, no matter what it is is made to strengthen the Polish cause. Four ladies do not meet on a charity committee without promoting the national cause under its cover. Itis small wonder that, although clearly recognizing the terrible force of the blows dealt on the anvil of Toland by the hammers of Europe, Dr. Brandes cannot but exhale, from first to last "It is not yet all over the national sentiment: with Poland, not so long as we live!" Turning from the people, the Copenhagen critic proceeds to discuss the literature of Poland, and in this GEORGE BRANPES. respect the book must be looked upon as a valu(From a Photograph.) able addition to his series, "Main Currents in Century Literature." Scholarship Nineteenth diplomacy, deal of in ceedr-d, by gTeat have never what It dint of a Czar and Kaiser. We known every line. We quote at revealed in this tabooed stands securing permission speak have to on by foreign spies, means to be hounded to our language, our customs, our dress prohibited, subject. The difficulty then was to prepare the random: and our whole manner of life prescribed for us, lectures in such a way that they would not be The Polish literature of this century b^ars a. but we can, nevertheless, sympathize with the obnoxious to the authorities, and at the same peculiar stamp, apart from the peculiarities issuing from the national character, in this respect, recognized Poles, rankling under burdens s.uch as these. time would show his auditors that he that it developed in a country which had rePoland, as Dr. Brandes shows it to us, is not the true import of the works of Poland's liter- cently ceased to exist as an independent st a.t-\ merely a land of disorder; it is also a land of ary masters. Finally he submitted his addresses The literature, and especially the poetry, silence, where even social gatherings are marked to the censor, and in much fear and trembling on this account to supply, as it were, the pl;i.-e of all the organs of a national life which v.-rby a solemnity appalling to foreigners. There is awaited the decision of that august dignitary. lost at the partition of the state. It grWn* always present the phantom of the terrible When the first of the lectures was again in his thereby in spiritual exaltation, but necessarily Mr. Andrew Lang is wrathful over the self- "system" whose workings have wrought so hands he hardly knew it for the child of his loses in variety. ishness of the people who write to him and to much desolation in what was one of the bright- brain! books, Here, indeed, is a far reaching analysis, tersely other authors begging for copies of their est kingdoms of Europe. The Poles suffer in They had been very thorough. The conclusion, expressed. All through this section of the work writing inscriptions. "I hate autograph with silence, but they likewise plot in silence, and the several pages, was struck out. and in various we find similar characterizations. Speaking of inscriptions," he complains. "I "system" has had autograph places the erasures which were numerous. Even a effect, signal Dr. the would rather write another book. Again, IBrandes is not slow to point out, of consoli- well known quotation from Schiller, '"the living the three great romantic poets. Dr. Branded men is right," was stru-k out. Words like "resigna- terms Mickiewicz the eagle, Krasinski the swan never keep my own works in stock— into one tion" or "tristesse," used as characteristic dating the whilom rival provinces of and Slowacki the peacock "among the winged (I as much just costs me buy to them do—and nationality with a common ideal the freedom of Polish literature, were blotted out. In one place spirits of Poland." Equally keen are the criticonceive) as it costs the public." It is useless spoken of the "Catholic piety" of had the fatherland The "system" has also been the where I the poets these words were erased. In another cisms of Rzewuski. Kraszevvski, Asynk, Prus. fcr him to argue. People will go on begging indirect means of fostering the national spirit in place where ihad spoken of the life which is Swientochowski and Sienkiewicz. Dr. Brande3 authors for their books and autographs until the boys and girls of the country, and thus described in the most celebrated work of willhave the sympathy of many In his parting trying is no use in time, and there end of Mickiewicz the rod pencil had gone over these the keeping it alive and vigorous generation after "Iam sorry to say that of unceasby foiest, dint of "The perhaps But words. Lithuanian the natural set- shot at the latter: stop them. to generation. According to the Russian law, chil- ting of this life"; and in "For the first time, late years he has been absorbed in the producing effort something may some day be done to dren, like their elders, must not speak in Polish, since the partition of the kingdom." the last tion of endless historical novels, in the style of suppress certain other parasitical individuals at must not wear the Polish national costume, and phrase was obliterated. the elder Dumas, which have made his nama scorn, bores flings "the his whom Mr. Lang must always consider themselves Russians. The T>r. Prandes was in depair, for he foresaw that widely popular, and produce a.large income." sepublish to let them ask a man daily who result of these inhibitions Dr. Brandes de- there would be nothing left of the second lecture, lections from his books for their own private scribes thus' which was more daring than the first. As luck THE MOTHER. paste-and-seissors their benefit in volumes of concerned, the parents So far as education is would have it. however, the censor suddenly Edward Wright in The Speaker. "Why indeed. exasperating They are work." keep their little boy or girl at home and out of di.il. and. thank.s to the intervention of the GovShe sends her wild an.i noisy swarm cannot they write their own books?" We do school as lons as possible, teach them them- ernor General, Gurko, the Of children out of sight to play. doctor was enabled to noththey selves, or have them taught, in order to give the have ;know, unless it is because Careless, it seems, of any harm D and, if they had, would lirst elements of knowledge in Polish and in the deliver the promised course without much fursay, to That might befall them on their way. ing of their own Polish spirit. The child sucks in with his ther delay, using almost the phraseology he had nut know how to say it. There are occasions mother's milk contempt for the Russians and submitted to the authorities. Doubtless the hosBut she has weaker lives to rear hatred for them. Everything which on which an anthology of prose or of verse is passionate Babes at her breast and at her knee years of his life pitality shown him by Poles of the three provlegitimate, occasions on which even the most the child hears in the first And toiling on. unmoved by fear. its impress on the present strengthens contempt. this hatred and lie inces has left work. She lets her children wander free. harassed of authors feels that it is perfectly learns so much that is great and good about the for Dr. Brandes himself tells us how difficult it courage of his was for him to write Impartially proper for him to grant the privilege requested superior culture and exalted everything Untended in the rain and sun. people of the that ho attributes gre.it They fight and play and dream and roanv of him by a compiler. Bat in recent years the countrymen and the Poles. "Is it possible that with whom he-typifying, a* he did. the br.nlto Poland Till, mercenary antholo- Columbus was not a Pole?" asked a little boy of est freedom— was so deservedly tired and listless, one by one altogether superfluous and popular. But if With lagging feet they make for hcrr.e. On the other hand, he lays str< ss on the string traits of the Poles gists hive enormously increased in number. his mother in my presence. which the child learns or They ought to be frowned upon with the ut- as a rule, everything does not forget to indicate their weaknesses, And there, forgetting grief and m!rth. experiences with regard to the Russians un- he Into their mother's arms they creep; most severity, aixl be compelled really to earn favorable, or it receives an unfavorable isinterand it is in dealing with their national charAnd on the cool, soft breast of Earti) pretation. their living. acteristics that we lind his critical acumen best Her weary children fall asleep.
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