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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1895)
" --irj n THE COURIER. I- 3 A CC((CCCCC(CC((C(CCCCC0 1 THE PASSING SHOW TO A VOICE. "Rossini ami BeotlioTcn and Mozart, Anil all tho other men of mighty nnmr. Together joined thair prfcvious work to shame; Tho subtlest mystery of their kcmI liko art To that most macic voice they ilid import. Oh, from that kiuctlom of rnro music came That voice on which alone might rest such fame As never yet made glad ono mortal's heart? A star of sound, set far above tho din And dutt of life, a shado wherein to lio Faint with a sudilcn ecstasy of bliss, A voice to drown remembrances of tin, A roirn to hear and for tho hearing die As Anthony lor Cleopatra's kissl" That 6onuct is not initio It's Philip Burko Marston's. JDo Musset said it all much hotter in his wonderful verses to Mnlibran, hut this will do, and it is in English. Just read it over and you will see lights and a crowd and a stage, and on tho stage you may see any ono of a dozen things; Marguerite in the garden hedging Faust t" leave her, Desdemona singing that love duo in Cyprus, Xttccm ile Lammcrmoor gone mad, Juliette in the balcony, drowning the nightingales and flooding tho glittering Italian night with song. And they are all Melba, and Philip Burke Marston must have heard her or dreamed of her when he wrote that sonnet. The friends and acquaintances of Chimmie Faddcn will be pleased to know that he is being dramatized and that Charley Hopper will play him this season. It ought to make a very clever bit of character acting. The Lily comcth not. She will not be with us at all this season. She has declaied her contract with Henry French "off," and there is nothing left Mr. French but to sue. The cause of it is this, that Langtry has made up with Shrewsbury and he is feeling that need of a change of air and re fuses to come to America. This is not the first time that the Lily has cancelled her American season. She did it two years ago when Abing don Baird was tho particular object of her adoration, and he gave her $100,000 for doing it. Langtry's American move ments are a sure barometor of the state of her affections. Whenever she has had a rupture with one of her admirers she comes to us. "When she has a recon ciliation she gives us the cold shoulder. The curse has come upon us. Was there ever such a season for dramatizing novels. "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "The House of Tho Wolf" and "Romola" and "Chimmie Fadden' and a dozen others. Now they have gone a step fur ther and arc turning novels into operas. Gaetano Orefice has actually turned Con6uelo into an opera. How much of Consuelo pray, how many of its thous and pages and how man threads of its complicated plot does the opera pretend to handle? elo and its interminablo sequel for- ail her greatness.Myseir,I prefer hcrllistoire de ma vie. It is'nt always frauk, but if ono reads between tho lines one gets near to a wonderful personality, much greater than auy she ever created in her books, and like Chopin I can forgivo her her Consuelo for herself. Of courso tho novels aro all masterly and the pas toral ones supremely beautiful, but sometimes tho workman is above his works. Marie Tempest left London in a huff and shooK the dust of England from her dainty feet because while she was ill Louise Beaudet played her part in the Artist's Model with greater success, than sho herself had done it. Miss Tempest will be first or nothing; sho is one of the most vain and jealous of women and 6he cannot endure a rival. She and Lillian Russell always remind me of tho wicked queen in the fairy tale who used to go to her mirror every day and say, "Looking glass upon the wall, "Am I not fairest of them all?'' and if tho looking glass answered nay, it was tho worse for tho world. In the last five years two youngmen of great promise have como to light in English fiction; Rudyard Kipling and Anthony Hope Hawkins. Two men who have not trod in the accepted paths nor walked in usual ways, nor shown any very great respect for the examples of the masters. They have preferred, it seems, to strike off through Bypath meadow and take their chances, and leave the company of well ordered pilgrims of fame to go rejoicing on their way to the celestial city. They can afford to be original; they have talent rich and brilliant, unlike that of other men, and they have other things, youth, future and possibilities. A few monthago Mr. Hawkins pub lished "The Prisoner of Zenda;' a romance that was withal so realistic, so modern in tone and feeling that it made one see a new hope in fiction, made one dream for the moment that the world had not outgrowa tho possibilities of romance. Wo have had, God bo XBRASICA COLLEGE of ORATORY GEO. C. WUMLIAArS, Principal 'I FACULTY Geo. C Williams Miss Minnow Gillcm L. A. Torekxs Dr. H. 51. Gaetes w OPENS Sept 5 Y. M. C. IX THE A. BUILDING INSTRUCTION ELOCCTIOX DRAMATIC and LYRIC ART ORATORY PHYSICAL CULTURE FEN-CISG, ETC. Sendfor acatalogue 1032 P St. CO. foincoln Neb. This is tho place you aro going to stop at and order your goods when down town or have our solicitor call on you Why? Because you get better quality of goods for your money. Don't forget to order a sack of our Anchor patent flour, l'ou should try our Teas and Coffees. They are absDlutely pure. A trial will convince you. PHONE 224 R0yyL QR0GERY GO. j222ES3S OE2 H22i F. C. ZEHRUNG, Mgr. (Jcdl gpoonep THE SPOOONER COMEDY GO. 10- Last appearance P wonders all the while one is reading tho book just where in Europe the kingdom of Ruritania is, and feels as though thanked, even in this generation writers some shrewd traveler might discover it . of pure romance; Doyle and Weyman The illusion of intense modernness and and the king and father of them all, presentness is never once dispelled. In Robert Louis Stevenson, whoso harp is that masterly last chapter I was afraid sounding now to finer ears than ours, horribly afraid that Rudolph might But all these are romancers of the past. They dress their characters in hose and doublets and gird them with swords, give them the manners of other times gather his Princess up bodily and flee with her like the knights cf old and make an old time romance after all, or that he might be weak enough to stay By the way isn't George Sand just a little paste now? She wa? great, great as no other woman has been or will be, but who. would now wade through the .nine hundred and nine pages of Consu- and other people. Even the deeds and an 'ove ad eP'"l the whole chivalrous men in "Kidnapped"' and "David Balfour' 6eem immeasurably distant and far away. But Rudolph of the Elphbergs is a man of our own world and of our time, like us a "victim of civilization,' and the civilization that cost him his love is our own, our own cherished, complicated civilization that costs us so much, upon whose altar we lay half of all that is dearest to us, while every year we make its demands more cruelly exacting, its requisitions more impossible. Just as the Chinese have devoted their national existence to making a language so ponderous that their own scholars can not learn it and a religion so intricate that their own priests can not remember it. One tone of the book. But Mr. Hawkins did not fail us; tho impossibilities of our complicated life and the night train ended it. Not a ship or a fiery steed, but the night train. "Rudolph, Rudolph, Rudolph!'' that was all. That to my mind. Is the real wonder of the book, that it put a romance into a dress suit, a real romance with war and blood and love and honor, like the romances of the Grail or the Holy Sepulchre. And all this comes about so naturally and simply that it seems as if it might happen to any of us. Only, instead of faith and fanaticism standing for the liko it quite so well, but that may bo a matter of personal taste merely. It is certainly a study in life as it is lived. Dale Bannister, a revolutionary poet from London goes to live down at Den. borough, a quiet English town and falls into the hands of the Philistines. Falls very much into their hands, indeed he falls in love with one of them. He has brought with him a little colony of Bohemians to solace his exile, but when he mingles with the townsfolk and tho fair daughters of the townsfolk he wearies of his colony, the little 6inger and all, and wants to be rid of them. It is the old story of the eagle who plucks out his feathers that he may become a domesticated bird. And the strange and admirable part of it is that Mr. Hawkins does not lament the lost eagle and hold him up as a terrible example to all eagles and warn them to remain on their eyrie heights. He lets him pluck himself and sajs no more about it. Indeed, Mr. Hawkins seems to sympathize very little with his genius. His heart goes out to the common people, people less gifted and warmer hearted whom Dale Bannister foVljlVlS., VflMSES, ELEGANT LINE OF POCKET BOOKS-CARD CASE8 pad LEATHER NOVELTIES. far summer tourists sod others. Repairing a Specialty. Old Trunks jn Exchange Tor New Onea ukn im mm. W 0 SM. C. L WRICK, prop opposing element, the forbidding fate, makes supremely miserable; the poor there are all those hundred little pre- little soprano who breaks her heart for cautions with which. we have hedged him, and erratic Dr. Roberts who goes ourselves about to make life easy, but mad over Dale's apostacy. I suspect which have in reality made it so hard, apropos of tho sorrows of genius that so hard to live, so hard to lay aside. Mr. Hawkins thinks those expensive gentlemen cause a good deal more Mr. Hope has written a new book. He suffering than they ever experience, calls it "A Change of Air.' In plot and The principal episoae of the book is not purpose it is entirely unlike "The "P to its general standard. It seems im Prisoner of Zenda" which is encourag- possible and far fetched and melo ing, for it shows that his head is not dramatic. Pistols are dangerous turned by success and that he is too weapons to handle in fiction sometimes, strong to repeat himself even when the And the ending of the book is undoubt public demands it. I do not edly careless, a mere resort to get the - -,-:m - - '. . T-S ' J '... H a ""V-; " -' -V'A V