THB COURIER.
the same imposing strain. I am grow
ing to loathe the word "art," though the
thing itself I have seldom seen. 1 never
heard an actress of taicnt say that she
lived for art. One did, indeed, frankly
tell me that she lived for love, but even
that was better than art.
Marie Corelli is Queen Victoria's
favorite novelist. Any one who has
read her novels can easily understand
why, though I doubt if the Queen's ap
proval is due to Marie's tlorid and ex
aggerated style so much as to the dinner
parties that Walas has given the fair
novelist.
T
I wish that elephantine poet,
Mr. William Dean Ho wells, who writes
such dreary librettos to Mr. Pyle's wierd
and powerful drawings, would tune his
lumbering calliope to sing a dirgo for
Harper's Magazine. If over a maga
zine degenerated that ono has in the
last jear. It has become a regular
tourist'sguide book. It publishes nothing
btitartidesof travel. Of the one hundred
and tiftr-tive pages in the October num
ber, ninety-five aro consumed by weari
travel sketches, and the rest of the book
is devoted to two of the most weary
some continued 6tories that ever wasted
printer's ink and public energy. There
is that thorougly stupid "Recollec
tions of Joan of Arc' by no less
an historical and literary authority
than Mark Twain. Its only Tom Saw
yer and Huckleberry Finn in very tran
sparent sixteenth century dress and
talking the barbarous English in which
school boys write their first historical
novels, As a literary production it is
thoroughly ludicrous, written by a man
who knows almost nothing of French
history, absolutely nothing of French
feeling, literature or thought. It is as
full of breaks and as free from guile as
a child's production. That it should be
accepted in one of the best magazines
in the country and endHred by the
populace is the worst possible slam on
American taste.
Then there is that crowning piece of
arrint madness and drivelling idiocy.
"Hearts Insurgent." I admire Thomas
Hardy; I admire the lofty conception of
"Tess of the d'UberviIIes," the finished
execution of "A Pair of Blue Eyes,'
the beautiful simplicity of "Far From
The Madding Crowd." But Tor "Hearts
Insurgont" I have no forgiveness. If
Mr. Hardy ever had any serious purposo
or intention in writing the thing, I sup
pose he meant to show what idiots a
little learning makes of people of the
downwright plebeian stock. Analytical
powers are a great misfortune to work
ing people, for they take them too
seriously, as children take Byron and
Carlyle. But on the whole I doubt
whether Mr. tlardy ever had any pur
pose at all. Like the brook, he simply
goes on forever, from one mad less into
another. That whole tale is one series
of epileptic fits, or what ever kind of tits
those are in which people continually
fall down. He absolutely runs the
gauntlet of all possible relations be
tween men and women. If there is any
possible combination in this line that
he has left undone I should like to know
it.
The tenth edition of Oscar Wilde's
"Dorian Gray" has 6oId out in France.
Tho French were the first people to ap
preciate Wilde and probably they will
give him his rank and place in litera
ture as they did Poe. His prison record
will make no difference to them; their
own Paul Verlaine was a jail bird and
a tramp and a general vagrant. Ho was
as dirty and unkepmt as any other tramp,
yet he wrote some of the most wierdly
delicate and aesthetic poetry in the
French language. Wilde's plays too
have been successful in France. It's
unfortunate that he was born in the
British Dominions. Across the channel
he would have been in his proper at
mosphere, but in England ho wasulwajs
an abnormal monstrosity. Ho wrote
French fully as fluently as English
Somo of his best poems were written in
French.
English girls are objecting. They
have been for some time, but the Marl-borough-Vanderbilt
marriago has
brought things to a climax. They object
to all their most elegible young men
marrying Americans. It leaves them
dead stock on tho market. The London
papers say that English girls have learn
ed to play poker and billiards and drink
foreign wines and sing broad tongs and
yet it is all in vain. Tho only remedy
that 1 can suggest is to put a heavy
duty on imported wives and that per
haps would bring the young baronets to
time.
There is such a thing as fatality, an
influence which guides a man all his
life, that sticks to him cl:ser than a
brother, that sits above his grave when
he is dead. Paganinni's bones have
been exhumed for the fourth time since
his death. Paganinni died uurecon
ciled to tho Roman church and bitterly
hostile to tho priests. His body was
not allowed to rest in consecrated
ground and for years was moved about
from one place to another until his son
at last obtained special permission from
the Pope to bury his father in a ceme
tery. About two weeks ago it was
moved again, iud to tho astonishment
of all present at the opening of the
tomb that great demon face was in an
almost perfect state of preservation,
those features worn by genius and sin
were still tho same. It is strange that
Le can not rest even in I'eath, that
great restless soul who wandered the
world over frightening and enchanting
tho nations. Now fleeing from his ovn
great career and lounging in the villa
of his Tuscan Princess, a riband in his
coat, twanging a guitar to accompany a
woman's singing. Now silent ar.d
gloomy, living the life of z. monk of the
fifth century. Always from ono ex
treme to the other. Always dreading
loneliness, yet always tiring of love,
weary of hi, roses before they were
withered, sick of his wine as soon as the
chalice had touched his lips. He hated
Italy, et was unhappy out of it, he
distrusted men, jet was driven to seek
them. Ho never found rest on earth
except during those long heavy slum
bers which followed his concerts. Even
then perhaps his soul was out on the
wings of the tempest, with the demons
of darkness and spirits of storm. When
he grew tired of the Grand Duchess of
Tuscany and neglected her and insulted
her beyond all forgiveness, she said to
him, "it is your game here, God only
knows why women love you, but they
do. Here great women lose their souls
for you and you trample them like dirt.
But in the next world it will be ours.
Those of us who are in Heaven will
never let you enter there, and those of
us who are in Hell for you will stand all
day at the gates infernal and hold them
shut againct your scul." It looks as
though the Duchess rhetoric were
coming true, and that great Franken
stein can not rest even in tho grave.
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