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AN ANCIENT HOOK PREFACE.
Among literary curiosities there is
nooo perhaps more interesting than the
introductions with which writers of the
olden time prefaced their books. A
case in point is the old Persian Shaikh
Sa'di's profaco to hisQulistan, or Oarden
of Rosbb, which has been translated
from the Persian by Sir Edwin Arnold,
and is now published by Harper &
Brothers in America for the tirst time.
It was written over b!x hundred years
ago, and has long been considered the
greatest of the Persian classics. The
preface is a gem of literature, and 1b not
marred by the false modesty which
characterises the majority of latter-day
prefaces. It is as follows:
"By Allah's help now is concluded
this my book, entitled The Garden of
Roses. From beginning to end I have
shunned that evil habit of authors who
collect from by-gone scriptures the
things they write:
"Better wear rags that are entirely
thine
Than falsely in a borrowed garb to
shine."
"These words of Sa'di shall be found,
in the larger part, mirthful and mixed
with pleasantry, for which reason
certain of the more purblind folk shoot
out a tongue of reproach, saying that to
tickle the marrow of the brain foolishly,
and to swallow smoke of the lamp un
profitably, is not the part of the wise.
Yet will men of light and learning, from
whom the true countenance of a dis
course is not concealed, be well aware
that herein the pearls of good counsel
which heal are threaded on strings of
right sense; that the bitter physic of
admonition is constantly mingled with
the honey of good humor, so that the
BpiritB of listeners grow not sad, and
that they remain not exempt from
blessings of acceptance.
"Oh thou that readest this book, im
plore for its author the mercy of God,
and pardon for him that did transcribe
it, It is finished through the might and
succor of that King of all Kings who
alone bestoweth what is good.''
WHY MADAME DREYFUS PUB
LISHED HER HUSBAND'S
LETTERS.
For many weeks a most infamous
campaign was kept up in the columns
of L'Echo de Paris, Le Petit Journal, Le
Gauloie, and L'IntranBigeant against
Dreyfus. So varied in character and bo
ingenioud in conception were these
libellous tales that it became impossible
for the friends of the condemned man
to make any adequate defence. Drey
fue's counsel, Maitre Deruango, heard
the stories, and could do nothing. The
verdict of the court martial closed t up
door to legal tedress. The devoted wife
of Dreyfus at first attempted to reply to
them in Lo Figaro. Parisians laughed
ut her naivete, She was not the only
deceived wife in tho world, they Baid.
At length, wearied of the unequal com
bat ono woman against a horde of
anti-Semitic vilifiers sho gave to the
world a volume of letters written by her
husband to herself. It wbb her desire
simply to show him as be was, to re
habilitate the prisoner as a husband
and a father in the eyes of Fronchmen.
But "Lea Lettres d'un Innocent" have
done more than this. To the women of
Frauce, at least, they have established
the innocence of the man. No one can
read these letters without being struck
by the absolute sincerity of the writer;
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by his love for his wife and his family
and for his country; by his devotion to
duty and to the traditions of the army
whose headp had bo remorselessly sacri
Heed him; by the utter hopelessness of
his position. When, in the papers of
January G, 1805, the story of his dramat
ic degradation was published to the
world, the French people pretended to
see in his proud, fearless demeanor, bb
his uniform was stripped of insignia and
his sword broken before him, a criminal
stoicism that would have been impossi
ble in an innocent man. Many Eoglieh
and American readers recognized simply
the final desperate appeal of an entirely
innocent man. The sentiment that was
then aroused outside of France will be
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he judicial and logical weight of the
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