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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1896)
" ", b-jcr 4 1. f. ' THK COURIER. '"J ' 3 ST.. fc work though these may have been re produced by that process. Alfred Brennan, the artist, has read about "Phroso" before drawing her picture and bo far has made no mistakes. Anthony Hope's "Phroso" is lovelier than the princess of Zenda. Her eyes are violet, her hair is yellow and her figure is Greek. Anthony Hope does not exert himself when he portrays masculine, heroes. He endows them, with courage, chivalry, honor, high birth and a love of adventure as a matter of course Just as a painter of proscenium curtains gives George Washington top-boots, a buff coat and a cocked hat. It Is Anthony Hope's way of making a hero. Lord Charles Wheattey is not differentiated from the sham king In "The Prisoner of Zenda" by any mental characteristics They are both men of honor, brave, faithful, and chivalrous. Only, Rudolph, the king of a day or so, has red hair and the nose of the line from which he. sprung by mistake. At the beginning of both stories they are unattached and bored young Englishmen, ready for anything adventurous. But "Phro so" is not like, the princess. The prin cess was, is, for that matter, a lady bound by convention and ready to let her heart break for it. Phroso Is an island girl isolated from the world. She is not a princess and has not a court except the villagers, who con sider the Island heir's and theirs with out regard to the purchase of it by a foreign lord. Phroso is a little savage If her lord Is killed she will die with ' him, see if she does not. But Anthony Hope's forte is not the drawing of character or hewing of wooden castles in Spain .His stories are full of real guns that kill people and spears that jab clean through a man when pro voked; dark, underground passages blasted from solid rock, passages that end in a sheer descent into black water. He tells tales that the children of men have liked to listen to since the beginning, Homeric tales of brave men and lovely women in peril of their lives the men fighting to the last in front of the women. If It were not so Howells would have superceded the "Iliad." If Hamlet were not so full of device, incident, action, the character study would be enjoyed only by essay ists and those who read them. The children of men would hark back to Homer and color. "Chapters From a Life." by Eliza beth Stuart Phelps, Is the story of her own life, which has been running in McClure's for five or six numbers. There is a sly dig In the present in stallment at the Andover professors of theology, who gave Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe a scant welcome when she came to reside among them for a while. Mrs. Ward does not -know why except that "Andover was a heavily masculine place. She (And over) was used to eminent men and to men who thought they were so, or meant to be, cr were thought to be by the ladies of their families and the pillars of their denomination. At the subject of eminent women the hill had not arrived. Mrs. Stowe's fame was clearly a thing so apart from the tra ditions and from the Ideals that And over was puzzled by It. The best of her good men were too feudal in their views of women, in those days, to un derstand a life like Mrs. Stowe's. It should be remembered that we have moved on, since then, so fast, and so far, that It is almost as hard for us to understand the perplexity with which intelligent, even instructed men used to consider the phenomenon of a su perior woman, as It was then for such men to understand such a woman at all. Let us offer to them the width of sympathy and fineness of perception which they did not always know how to offer to the woman." Judging from Mrs. Ward, who Is perhaps, rather a hysterical witness, feudalism has lost a part of its control over the conduct of men to women on the north Atlantic coast. The middle west Is still influenced on this subject by the ideas that were strong est in the middle ages. The Chautaqua assembly from July 3 to the 15th has an unusually good program. President Jordan of Stanford university speaks on the 12th and on the 13th. He Is one of the eminent men of the country. Perhaps the affairs of no university have been more difficult to manage than Stan ford's. The loss of the endowment threatened by the suit against the Stanford estate, the newness of the plant, under which term is included all that constitutes a university, viz., the colleges, the faculties, the students, and the income, demand a man of finesse extraordinary. President Jor dan has been tried in the hottest fire it Is possible to make. A fire kindled and fed by the faculties, students and public He has been miraculously kept cool. A breeze from heights that most of us cannot see has blown the flames back and he is coming to Ne braska to prophesy. His name Is rare ly In the newspapers his business Is to keep the energy that runs one of the greatest schools in the country from being diverted. His work is as quiet as that of certain senators who are said never to have made a speech of any consequence, but on the other hand to have effected more appropri ations and things for their district than all the men put together who lay awake nights thinking of electrical combinations of words. Sometimes, though, men of action like Lincoln and Grant stop doing and thinking long enough to speak for a great cause and their words, at such a time, are never trivial. Prophesy is nearly a lost art. It once was and there Is nothing to show It will not be again, and of the same kind that all religious have ex amples of, that is the analysis of men who have studied history and who know where they are at. Knowing which, they can predict the next period of development without supernatural assistance. Not that President Jordan claims to be gifted. The Chautauqua grounds are being put Into good order, the grass cut and benches repaired. All the cottages have been rented for the season. Forty tenants occupy the lawyers" building and the other cottages are relatively as full. If you want to get acquainted over again with friends whose occupa tions and yours have kept you from meeting, go to Crete on the days be tween the 3 and the 15th, Lincoln's assassin, John Curry, has induced the people of Tennessee to send him enough marble to set his statue on. It has been suggested be fore that If John Curry must make a statue of somebody and set it up to mock and humiliate passers-by let it be of Mr. Thurston, who has probably offered to do more for this country and state than any other man alive. He might shrink from so painful an ex pression of the people's gratitude, but the stoicism he has shown before may stand him In good stead when his love for the people of .Lincoln is brought to this supreme test. Speaking of fakes, the prize mystery story in the Chicago Record called "Sons and Fathers Is related to the class. The mystery concerns the pa ternity of two young men. In the first chapter it Is stated that one of them is twenty-nine years old. In the last part of the story the age of the other young man is given as twenty-seven. But In the final chapter the mystery is explained by the statement that the two young men are twins. 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