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"Oh; had ( the wings of a dove I
would fly far, far away," expresses the
daily mental endeavor of all of us. Oh.
to get away from hod carrying and
brick-laying and the heavy things that
hit us oa the head all the time. Who
would not give up a few things classi
fied as luxuries for an island of the sea
oaly partially inhabitated by unsophis
ticated natives? A place overrun with
vises and wild scentless flowering things
thkt do not cloy nor tire, where all you
meet are strange dark people with no
social traditions, no clothes to speak of,
hence no anxieties of style to bother
them or you. How like a morning walk
is Paradise to wander over the fields
that are sot worth much because corn
and wheat and greed will not grow there
BBd when yeu meet only people you do
sot Icbow. The last condition is the
one, that, being never gratified, grows
more alluring from the beginning to the
end of the chapter called by your name.
To escape from old jokes, weather chest
nuts, quondam friends whom we have
disgusted and who are, in consequence,
themselves uoiadurable. is a dream that
makrs the island of the sea an enchanted
spot. When the island fades, death m a
aattsfsctkt). Annihilation will wipe out
other things at the same time that it
abolishes you. If you cannot die the
day after your eeemy it is better, to die
the day before than to live embittered
by his memory. That memory gives
him a sort of immortality which, speak
ing for myself, I begrudge to him on hk
own account and because of the dis
comfort of hate.
I believe Anthony Hope's popularity
is due, ra great measure, to his mak
ing this "Island of the Sea" a reality.
"The Prisoner of Zeada" gave the least
imaginative a pass to Ruritaoia where
Boaeof their relations, queer friends,
or creditors couid yer get in. It was
as good as having six feet of earth,meas
uriag perpendicularly, between you and
Lincoln, Nebraska. In McClure's for
April Mr. Hope begins a continued Btory
celled 'Phroeo,' a tale of brave deeds
and perilous ventures. The hero, a
young Englishman, buys an island in
the Mediterranean, "nine miles long and
live broad, a hundred miles from the
nearest laBd, Rhodes, off the steamship
tracks aBd equally remote from any sub
maris cable. Neopalia k extremely
rugged and picturesque, it grewB, cot
tea, wise, oil, a little corn' (much would
make it an undesirable refuge for the
werld-wearr.) The people are quite un
sophisticated, but very good hearted"
You see how lovely the spot k and how
it satisfies half a century's indrawn
breaths of tortured desire? When his
lordship arrives he finds the people
surly. They give him ten hours to get
back into hk steam yacht and leave the
island which they say k theirs not his,
la case he refuses to leave they will kill
him. CM course ho stays and gets into
hk citadel or caeUe with three friends,
some pistols, a rifle.two goats, a cow and
a water supply. The April eostallmeot
eads with the villagers approaching in
a mob and singing a death chant. The
style k as matter of fact andcoavinc
isgasaU of Mr. Hope's impossible ad
Tsaturesare. "That's what' 'makes me
say what I does" that Mr. Hope re
freshes fhechUdres of duet by opening
a window that the sodden and ungifted
caa leek oat of, and breathe and live
happily for a while.
uRudyard Kipling has a poem about
the British borse-mariBea, "Soldier and
Sailor Too," in McClures.
As,I was spitiia into the Ditch, aboard
' the 'Crocodile',
I seed a man oa a maa-o'-war got up in
the Reglars style.
' was acrapin' the paint from off of 'er
plates, an' I sez to him: "Oo are
you?"
Sez 'e: "I'm a Jolly "er Magesty's
ati' Sailor too!"
New ' werk bagta by Gawd know when, .
And 'is werk is nerer through
'E isn't one of the Reg'lar lino, nor o iot ono
oftheerew, " -'
E' a kind of a giddr lieramfrodite soldier and
Sailor too!
We've fought m on trooper, we've
fought 'em iu dock, 'an drunk with
'em in betweens.
When they called us the sea-eick scull'ry
maids, 'an we called "em the Ass
marines; '
But when we was down for a double -fatigue,
from Woolwich to Ber
nardmyo. We sent for the Jollies, 'er majesty's
Jollies soldier 'an sailor too!
They think for-'esaselreg, an' they steal for 'em.
selves an' the never ask what's to do.
Bat they're camped an' fed an' they're up an'
fed before oar bugle's blew.
Ho! they ain't no liraptn pracrastitudes sol
dier an sailor too."
The lines sing like Ihe chorus of a
comic opera or like a lot of men accus
tomed to simultaneous and harmonious
action such as singing reefing, march
ing or cannoneer work. The words
bawl themselves from twenty or thirty
throats, enoBgh to set the air in mo
tion in a well. There is not a man alive
today with the power of Rudyard Kip
ling. For the price of a story or a poem
he will sit you down anywhere you
like or in what company you may
choose, providing ycur taste is not too
bloomin refined and literary.
McClure's magazine puts its money
where it does the most good, i. e. they
give it to authors whose work is the re.
8ult of forever mysterious genius. They
do not put it into pictures delightful,
but of transitory value. The illustra
tions of Harpers magazine are the best
that engraving can do in this or any
other country. The text is no better
than .McClure's and when the latter has
Anthony Hope and Kipling, not so good.
'McClures" illustrations are photo
gravures ugly and disappointing at best.
The shadows are heavy and opaque
daubs of black ink. An engraving or
etching, and line picture, keeps the
values, it lets light iuto the shadows, it
has atmosphere, which a photogravure,
because it k what it is, can not have.
The man who invented the process
was not a benefactor though the mul
tiplication of the results of it may seem
so for a while.
Sol Smith Russell at the Lansing
Thursday evening a week ago filled the
house. A Lincoln audience always treats
Mr. Russell as though it were hk foster
father. The stage and pit are en famille.
When the actor makes a speech he tells
it how dear it k to him. He says "I
remember when I was but a little lad and
lived upon thy smiles and caresses. Now
the world k at my feet but still, still, I
love thee best." AnJ then the audi
ence and the orator are so snaked in
good feeling it k difficult to proceed for
fear of taking more cold.
Mr. Russell ka good man and a good
actor, but I have never seen him in a
play that was satisfactory. "An Every
day man" has an intrusive, ungraceful
moral. I know, a man can be good and
interesting. Roues are interesting to
Zola asd a few scientkts. The rest cf
the world was sick and tired of them
long ago. Society k thinning them out
as fast as it can. On the other hand a
man need Bot be "Little Jack Horner,"
or a "I do not smoke tobacco said little
Tommy Reed" in 'order to please his
Beighbors. 'The most beautiful statue
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