THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
totho lamented Dr. .1. G. Holland. Ho wits 11 sculptor
who wiourIiI in human destinies, hewing away tho
evil, roumlliig out and embellishing tho good an artlat
whoso canvas was. the btoad background of human lllo
on which ho brought out In purest harmony, tho lights
and shadows of truth, purity and Integrity.
His largo and varied experience, together with his sus
cop'ablo nature, gave him a knowledge- of humanity
rarely paralleled, ami eminently fitted him for tho part ho
waB to play In tho world's drama, He saw In his follow
man nobler possibilities than he attained, and taught
him how to conquer his faults and make them stepping
stones to higher thing. Ho saw, in the popular vices
of the day, blighted hopes and crushed ambition; and
uo hero on the field of battle ever displayed greater brav
ery than Holland in sustaining honor against Ihu poi
soned darts of her foes. To luce tho bayonet requires a
ItBs exalted degree of courage than to face a popular sin.
From a teacher In the public schools, he became the
school-master of America in tho department of moral In
tegrity; and no educator ever had a more consumate
knowlcdgo of tho defects And capabilities of his pupils.
As journalist, Holland was poet, novelist, essayist and
historian in one. . In the style and character of his essays,
he bears a marked resumblauco to Matthews. Both are
bold, earnest and concise; both guide tho foot-steps of
aspiring youth iu the road to success; both are pro
eminently educators, Iu the works of Matthews, while
wo may bo more deeply impressed with tho profound
scholarship of tho author, wc miss the whining grace, and
tho gentle reverence which pervado the works of Holland.
In this quality of his writings ho is not unlike Longfel
low. Although his fame has been won chiefl as an
essayist and novelist, few poems have acquired a wider
popularity limn some of his. In the realm of American
poetry, Kalhrina is second, only, in the extent of its
circulation to the Hiawatha of Longfellow. Tills work,
the story of two beautiful lives, is the gem of his poetic
writings. Replete wl'h pleasing figures, it lures the read
er on willi a fascianliou peculiarly its own. One be
comes interested at once in the child-life of little Paul,
who, on his fourteenth birthday, is led by his mother for
a rumble into the country While she is chatting with a
frieinti, tho child-heart is touched by the piteous cries of
u thethered lambkin. He loosens it for a little while,
when tho lamb slips his grasp, leaps the garden fence ami
ilees away. The child frightened at what ho has done
hastily pursues. On and on the playful lamb gambols
among tho bushes, wending its way up the mountain side,
Paul following the tinkle of its silver bell, till out of
breath, the child pauses, and with a thrill of surprise
finds himself ai the summit. Gazing over the magnifi
cent expanse of couutry, the town and .valley beneath
new and strange impulses thrill him. Ho feels his child
hood vanish, and in its place the budding aspirations of
manhood. Relating his novel advcnluro the quick moth-cr-heart
detects tho lire of aroused ambition, and gently
seeks to give it wise direction,
"My Paul has climbed tho uoblcst mountain height
lu all his littlo world, and gazed on scenes
As beautiful an rem beneath the sun.
1 trust ho will remember ull his life
That, to his beet nchloemcut. and the spot
Closest tohuaen his youthful feet have trod,
Ho has been guided by a guileless lamb.
It is an omen which his mother's heart
Will trcosuio with her Jewels."
words which in after life resounded in his cars with
prophetic meaning, when his dying wife, his "g titleless
lamb," Kalhrina was about to slip tho mortal leash and
flco away to tho mountain height of heavon, and In
pleading tones, the tlnklo of tho silver boll, besought
her 8oriowing Paul to follow her thither.
In the early history of Arthur Bonnlonstle, one of
his finest characters, are ginphlcally portraed his own
o arly struggles with poverty. Tho tender love of tho do
votcd father Is but tho repetlton of his own gentle fath
er's tender love lor him. It was ever tho greatest grlof
of this indulgent parent's llfo that ho was ttnablo to glyo
his aspiring son the llbeinl education lie fo much waved.
But talent, fired by ambition, struggles to tho surface,
despite all obstacles, and Holland was no exception to
the rule.
Ihu udvciit of this gifted man into the ranks of the
editorial piofctslon, marks the beginning of a new era in
the 1 Istory of secular journalism. Ho was ono of the
first to Introduce into this department of literature, tho
discussion of social, moral, philanthropic uud religious
topic.
IIollui.il never bowid at Ihe shrine of nrt; but art,
moved by his noble mission, lent her wings to bear his
wholesome lessons to the heart of humanity; and much
of the secret of his popularity may be found in that ho
gives definite ulttiance to our purest instincts, and flndB
an echo in our hearts. lie has thus definitely expressed
his own lolly purpose in life, "I account tho honor of
occupying a pine place in the popular heart, of being
welcomed, in God's name, into tho affectionate confi
dence of those for whom life has high meanings, and
high issues, of being recognized as among the benefi
cent forces of society, the highest honor to bo woiked
for and won benealh tho stars."
01 puiilan lintage, he was tho living verification of
his own words that "Manliness :s godliness expressed
in human character." The author's own pure character
is breathed again in his creations.
America may have produced men of greater
genius, men who have dazz'cd their time
more brilliantly, but who shall say they have
rendered their age more effective service? An upright
character noble ambition is the corncrstouu of all
true progress; and the highest tribute we can pay to the
worth of this most eminent moralist and phihnthopist,
and that which would find the warmest echo iu his heart,
may bu expiessed iu these simple words, He has given
mo broader views of life, lie has made mo better.
G. E. N.
A NATION WITOUT A PATRIOT.
Piofessoi Swing says that if there were a sufllclcu
dtmuml for honest men he thinks thoy could
be hud even in Chicago. Wo have come to believe that
a demand will always find a supply. Wo are accustomed
to say that our Revolutionary struggle pioduced a
Washington, the debate on the Constitution a
Webster, theneeds or the slave a Garrisoji
and a Mrs. Stowe and the struggle with
tho South a lender like Lincolu and generals who woro
at least great enough to do what it was needful should bo
done. Speaking more revorntly wo would say with
Whittier that,
