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ajjgpyS 7fT"mf ra "ViT nitF? r? -, 'g --. , tr j- - - T'-srysin-jti- . g ssp53te5?rTar :V7rrrr yip; W T U V - " I fr Gbe Ball? ttebrnehitft ""' . .fc.j-, k rf,,. Ao; ' r I I . tf fcfr t- r ( ft. 3 -" "i f -A -A ' "Ventures at Literary Criticism 4 Student Encroaches on the Prerogative of W. D. Howllls Our English literature today Is no longer its own master. It has been Invaded by the arts and sciences and has gone over bodily Into bondage. The greatest writer of our age was Ruskln, and he never produced a line that was written for Its literary sake. HIb bookB are simply magnificent pop ular text-books on art. So, too, In lower circles our short stories and magazine articles deal not with moral or spiritual truthB, but with the theories of sociology and psychology, or with the practical details of some social class. Through the medium of the story Flinf presents the world of graft; Spearman reveals the railroad; Kipling paints the sea and fisherman. The world strives for facts and not Ideas. We feed the understanding while we neglect the Intellect. In this ago of the specialist, men know only the tangible. If you make your life ob jective you will succeed not otherwise. Competition is fierce and men struggle to produce. Thought Is of value, not for Its own sake, but for the number of pounds it can get lifted up and replaced In the physical world. In its hot progress the age fails to be in trospecthe. As yet no strong man has had the courago and wisdom to sacri fice, success to power; to stand aside while life goes by and observe its true meanings. When we find a man who can contemplate without action, who can measure a( tion by Its purpose and not by its results, we shall have a re turn of powerful literature. I hae just finished reading I'hll- lips' Paolo and Francesca. It seems to me an excellent piece of work. The passion of the dim old story, with all Its far-brought mystery and Its aroma from centuries of retelling, reposes quite naturally in Its setting of clear modern English. Phillips has not tried strenuously to reproduce local color, or environment, or any such superficial thing, but has caught at the psychic factors, allowing all pettier things to take care of themselves; and it is sur prising how modern the story it in Its new dresB. When we think of It, that has been the procedure of all great writers they chose tales of sure foun dation. Shakespeare follows Uoccaclo, and Goethe rejuvenates Faust. It takes centuries to make a plot. A few lines dropped by Dante have furnished Pen I Doctor Yes, we repair pens, any make. Does your pen blot, flow too free ly, or not freely enough; la the point uneven, or does- 4t scratch, or Is there any other ailment to which pens are heir? Bring It in. Very likely It Is only a flat ter of adjustment or some sim ple defeat and we can remedy same here. If not, we can have work done elsewhere by experts. Prices reasonable. At the Co-Op the theme for loving hearts and quick brains, until today we have a dozen stories in Hie finished form. It Ib the old which Is eternally and Inevitably the new. , Last night I read a page or two In Madame Bovary. At first I was dis appointed. Having heard bo much of Flaubert's painful labors with tils won derful proBe rythm, I looked for sen tences which Bhould beat and pulse like changing music. I found nothing according with Btich a fancy, and soon growing tired of a critical attitude, I fell Into the train of the narrative and read with Interest. The composi tion dropped from my attention and the subject matter alone held me. I have now begun to see that this lack of attention to detail was the best com pliment I could pay to the style. This prose writing of Flaubert's Is a work of art, and like all true works of art, It acta without ostentation. JuBt as a sun-lit meadow or a lovely flower will lift your thoughts and feelings toward the divine thought and feeling which they embody, oven while you are think ing least of them, so does the style of Madame Bovary perform Its part. It is the proof of greatness In any work of art that it conveys with the nearest possible approach to perfec tion the idea which It was meant to convey, and no other Ideal than the purposo of Its maker will serve to mcasuro It by. God meant the flower to lift you unconsciously to Him; that It does so Is a proof of its perfection. Thus Flaubert's writing eradicates Itself whllo It performs the one sole duty in which it can be meaflured-the powerful conveyance of thought. You may Btudy it for Itself, just as the botanist or the poet studies the flower, but In Its highest meanings It Is a thought-conveyer, and It Is the surest sign of Its power that It performs Its duty organically and with least ob trusion of self. Dante Address Tonight. A large attendance of members of the graduate school and resident alumni Is looked for at the address by Rev. Strltch upon "Dante.' The meet ing of the Graduate club, under whose auspices the address will bo given, Is to be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sawyer, 5 Floral Park. Below will be found a very valuable Dante bibliography contributed by Rov. Strltch, for the benefit of University people Interested In literature bearing upon the great Italian's life and work: r T. Stories from Dante Norley Ches ter. 2. A Shadow of Dante Maria Fran cesca Rossettl. 3. A Companion to Dante Scartaz zini. (Translated by A. J. Butler.) 4. Dante's Ten Heavens Edmund Gardner. 5. Life and Works of Dante J. F. Hogan, XT. D. C. Introduction to the Study oj Dante J. A. Symonds. 7. Italian Literature: cc. I and II, Vol. I. J. A. Symonds. 8. Dante's Dlvlna Commedia Het tinger. (Translated by H. S. Bowden.) 9. The Teachings of Dante Charles Allen Dinsmore. 10. Dante and Catholic Philosophy Ozanam. 11. TJhe Spiritual Sense of the Dlvlna Commedia W. T. Harris. 12. The Spiritual Sense of the Dlvlna Commedia Azarias In his Phases of Thought and Criticism. 13. James Russell Lowell's Essay on Dante, 14. Danto and Other Essays Dean Church. IB. Studies and Estimates of Danto Dean Plumptre. 16. StudleB in Dante, 1st and lnd Series Dr. Moore (Oxford). 17 Dante'B Dlvinr Commedy, A Commentary. 2 Vols. D. J. Snider. 18. Some Modern Readings from Dante H. W. Mable. In hlB Es8,ayB in Literary CrIHIclsm. 19. The Notes to Longfellow's Translation of the Divine Comedy. . 20. Readings on the Inferno, the Pur gatorlo and tho Paradlso, In C VoIb. The Hon. W. W. Vernon. 21. Carlyle'B Heroes and Hero-Wor-Bhip. Lecture: Tho Hero as Poot. 22. Contribution to the Texual Crit icism of Dante's Dlvlna Commedia Dr. Edward Moore. 23. Concordance of the Dlvlna Corn media Dr. E. A. Fay. 24. An English Commentary on Danto's Dlvlna Commedia H. F. Tozer. 25. The Dante Dictionary Paget Toynbee. 27. Tutte le Opere dl Dante Allghlerl (The Oxford Dante). N. B. Tho four volumes Immediately procodlng are valuable particularly for students of Dante in the original. 28. The Physical System of St. Thomas Carnoldl Translated by E. H. Derlng. 29. Pastor'B History of tho Popes from the GIobo of the Middle Ages. Vol I. 30. Salisbury's History of Criticism, Vol. I. Bk. III., cc. 1st and 2nd, 31. Critical. Historical, and Philo sophical Contributions to the Study of the Divine Comedy H. C. Barlow. 32. The Holy Roman Empire James Bryce. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. The Divine Comedy has been trans lated: 1. Into verse by Boyd, Cary, Wright, Longfellow, Haselfoot, Plumptre, Wll- Btach. These translations are complete. ParBoiiB. Musgrave, 8hadwell, and others have translated the Commedia In part. 2. The minor poems have been trans lated by Plumptre. 3. The New Life, or Vita Nuova, by Charles Eliot. . I Tho Convlto. by K. Hlllard. 5. Dante's Letters, translated with notes, by C. S. latham. This Is not an exhaustive list of works which the English speaking stu dent of Dante may use with profit, but It is fairly representative of the ever growing volume of Dante literature In EngllBh or by English-speaking scholars. The young students that are particu lar about that broad shoulder and full chest effect In clothes and want tho real eastern cuts are the kind of cus tomers we are best able to suit for our cutter Is no common mechanic. The Toggery, 1141 O. Eat at Don's Cafe. The Bully cigar students' delight. Dr. Aley, chronic diseases, 1318 O. Lincoln Shining Parlor.cor. 11th &0. Halrdresslng and manicuring ut tho Famous. 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