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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1896)
- - - -- .--4f. THE COURIER. '"'Ax,--- "X uaed tu after years as the founds tion ot a splendid fame. The only fault - the story baa is .its brevity. The translator, Abbey L. Alger has made herself of little account and rendered. Renan into English as pure and direct as the Hebraist's French. The little story can be read in an hour, more's the pity. A preface gives Lope of another volume soon to be pvblished containing Henrietta's letters. a Richard Burton in The Bookman ob jects to the frivolous treatment of shall and will. He says the delicate, sensitive use of these auxiliaries is the very touchstone of style and further that it is easy to gain a mastery of them by, five minutes study of this table: A STUDIO MONOLOGUE. r shall 1 1 will 1 Thou wilt . Thou shalt) g He will ' ! c He shall 1 Is We shall f S.2 We will f 5 You will ga You shall I g They will J They shall j Rudyard Kipling's story of J'Qui quern" in a recent number of McOlure's Magazine has a fascination as potent as eny of the jungle stories, .written in the pro-Vermont days have. Jt is a story of Eskimo life and introduces to the icebergs, it he pervading blubber, the dogs and the bitter cold better than Kane's two volumes of Arctic explora tions and all the diaries and records that explorers have written since. It is a hard saying, but this man who stays at.home or journeys to the South seas in the winter time is able to describe the north pole country better than the men who have frozen and starved and died to reach it. It is their experiences of Arctic silence, darkness and cold ar ranged by Rudyard Kipling that we read, but Mr. Kippling gets the credit. He is Paderewski and Beethoven in one. The Vermont people criticised his lack of sympathy and interest rn them, but probably he has them all in his note book and when he resides once more in he jungles of India or at the antipodes he will make them walk and talk before the natives of those distant places aud they will be as interesting to them as they are to us. Clay Clement has been playing "Ihe New Dominion' in Chicago, where they never heard of him before. He has played to splendid audiences and the critics have given him unstinted praise. The young man has a bright future be fore him. This is not a prophesy but a statement of fact. He has accomp lished his future. All that he needs is for the great to see him. New York will set its seal of approval on him. The Paris edition of the New York Herald has got itself into trouble by printing a criticism made by a voice trainer on a pupil who had deserted him for another teacher. The soprano whom be criticised is Miss Meyer, the critic Signor Tribadelo his special talent removing the tremolo from a pupil's voice. When Miss Meyer left him for Bouhy. Trabdelo told ber that if she should make a public appearance in Paris he would be near by and she should feel it. A few weeks ago Mi6s Meyer sang at a concert and Traba delo after sending ner a skull and cross bones warning wrote the criticism for The Herald: "She has such a ter rible tremolo that it is painful to hear her.r The American colony was veiy much excited and the Herald was forced to disavow any responsibility for the criticism. In view of the extent to which the tremolo insect baa infected Lincoln voices, Signor Trabadelo might do an evangelist's work here. S. B. H. Purple Pansy, Her Majesty's Per fume, is the gentlemen's favorite amongst the latest odors. At Biggs drugstore. Twelfth and O sts. But why try to set the limitation of art? Why try to say what the poet may not sing what the painter may not paint? There is no part of this great confusion that we.have made Life that is not available paintable that has not in it an interest that it it be not ennobling, but may be enlightening. See as you stir the fire it lights the Botticelli a fair copy "The Youug Man Introduced to the Munis' so we name it. An allegory, perhaps, of the individual lifeot high thought and de sire of a soul exquisitely passionate, exquisitely adjusted. The force it has, lies in Us life likeness the appreciation of the spiritual realities. But take down that roll from the mantel Kembrandt's "Anatomist," the smaller canvas at Amsterdam. A The grave scientist standing by the dead body of a man, lying feet to ub, the dark cavern of the opened body yawning at us. Here is all tho horror of mortality the grotesque end of a man's life on earth. The tragedy was heavy upon the painter; he saw of that more than he has rendered. But he knew, too, how much more real a thing was the living soul of the man of science, whom he painted these against it; the quiet, keen mind, in the temperate body its house. And you remember the "Ballet Girls" ot Degas? Now here is the artist with the endowment ot the higher imagina tionthe curious observer of life in its more sordid aspects. He saw these women.truly the devotees of an art, that, developing their bodies to an ab normal facility, grinds out the lite. We had seen the ballet girl painted frequently enough painted as the young man of twenty sees her, across the mist of the footlights. But Degas saw the tired, underfed woman in the very travail of art with the reek of th e sweat of its labor about her. He gave us life to ponder, rather than art to find amusing. He looked at it all serio usly then rendered his impression in this shorthand and flung it to us with "This interested me -so I set it down." Now, there perhaps, lies the solution in the attitude of the artist. "There are three games," you remem ber Latcadio Hearn says"at which, mortals may not play life and love, and death." I would add one other this business of art. We may be gay at all four (for gayety is becoming in a raan)but the goes will not have us triSers.- And living seriously, gener ously, and following an art with sincer itymust bring us, at last, to realism to seeing quite clearly the whole round of the circle; passion and sin, pain and death, love and self-forgettulness, inde pendence and joy the eternal reali ties. The Lark POINTS OF CONTRAST. The morning and evening papers read by purchaser alone, in part, because hastily, forgotten in ths rush of business, or thrown away as soon as glanced at THE WEEKLY PAPER, read throughout in he seclusion of the home after business hours, in the leisure of the reader, at ths club by family and friends. 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