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lessor of Sanscrit at Oxford Univer
sity. Though German by birth and
education, all but one of his many
books were written in English in a
style so lucid and charming that the
most abstruse, recondite and erudite
subjects treated are rendered fasci
nating as any romance. His prose
poem (called “Memories” in the Eng
lish translation), embodying, as does
Mrs. Browning’s “Aurora Leigh,” the
author’s highest conception of life and
love and duty, is said by competent
critics to be the most beautiful Ger
man prose ever written.
With him, in “Auld Lang Syne” we
are in goodly company. “There were
giants in those days” one is inclined
to think when introduced by him to
Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann,
Liszt, Alexander von Humboldt, the
poets, Heine, Uhland, Ruckert, and
other German celebrities.
Then, in England, among his many
friends were counted Tennyson,
Browning, Matthew Arnold (whom he
called “Mat”), Stanley, Froude and
Charles Kingsley. It was for Mrs.
Muller, when she was a girl, that
Kingsjey wrote the lines that have
become the property of all girls:
"Be good, sweet maid, and let all who
will be clever;
Do noble deeds, not dream them, all
day long;
And thus make Life, Death, and that
vast forever,
One grand sweet song.”
Jenny Lind sang for Max Muller a
song-cycle, called “Die Schone Muller
in,” the words to which had been
written by his father, Wilhelm Mul
ler, Who, as a lyric poet, was ranked
by Goethe next to Heine.
There are delightful recollections
of his American friends, Lowell,
Holmes, and Emerson. Os the latter
he said, “Socrates or Plato, in our
times, would have talked as Emerson
did.”
A paraphrase of Thackeray’s enthu
siastic estimate of Cooper’s hero,
Leatherstocking, would have express
ed fully my sentiments when I read
Mary Johnston’s last book, “Amo
‘Lewis Rand’ —book and author!” With
the single exception of Hawthorne’s
prose epic, “The Scarlet Letter,” I
feel that it is the greatest fictional
work ever produced by an American,
and that it deserves to rank with the
great fictions in all literature. There
is with me admiration for the great
genius that conceived —the consum
mate art that bodied forth —both of
these American masterpieces; but,
about the maturel brain-children of
the young Southern writer there is,
in addition, a tender, appealing lov
ableness that the creations of the
morbid, analytical New Englander do
not possess. “Lewis Rand” tugs at
our heart strings.
The commander of the far-famed,
marching TJ,en Thousand, was wont to
send wine to his friends with the mes
sage, “Cyrus found this pleasing to
his taste, may it please yours also!”
Something beter than wine I com
mend to my friends —the product of
magicians’ pens. But might not that
be called, “The Wine of Wizardry”?
MARY PETTUS THOMAS.
THE CUP OF CONSOLATION.
From the stricken souls of the be
reaved there naturally arises the cry,
Why has Death taken our dear one?
Why could he not have spared for
more years the friend, whose useful
ness, perhaps, was at its height,
whose hands held many golden
threads as yet unspun? Why should
the daughter—the only daughter,—be
taken from the home of which she
was the light and joy? Why was the
wife torn from the husband, the moth
er from her children?
“God’s plans, like lilies pure and
white, unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves
apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of
gold.”
Perchance, not until the dawn of
that perfect tomorrow in God’s white
land of light, when all mysteries of
earth and hte designs of the Master
concerning us are disclosed —when we
shall know even as we are known —
will these questions be wholly an
swered; or, the golden chalice of the
lily—that beautiful symbol of heaven’s
enduring love towards earth-dwellers
—be fully shown.
But let us not think of these who
left us as having been lulled into a
dreamless sleep; although to many
way-worn wanderers nothing could
be more alluring than the psalmist’s
song: “He giveth His beloved sleep.”
More inspiring, however, to many a
valiant, courageous soul is the thought
that the life, which now is, is not end
less rest —but a preparation for that
larger, fuller, completer life which is
to come.
And —what is Death? The falling of
the flower, one has said, that the in
ner life and hidden fruit may blossom
and ripen. “Why be forlorn? Death
only husks the corn.” Or, think of it
thus: For a moment life stops in its
singing to. take breath for endless
song, and, in that moment, O won
drous change! all the jarring discords
heard in the earth-music are merged
into the deep-toned, transcendent
melodies of eternity.
Our friends have awakened “from
the dream, the probation, the prelude,
to find themselves set clear and safe
in the new light and new life —a new
harmony yet to be run and continued.”
For them the hand of the Christ has
opened the gates—of gleaming pearl,
we like to think —into that sweet and
fair and vast Beyond,
“Whose crystal bars shine faint be
tween
The souls of child and mother,”
and into which has been brought, as
John the beloved tells us, the glory
and honor of the nations. There, love
ensphered and safe —talismaned from
all evil, are the dear ones whom our
yearning eyes can no longer see —the
very same as they were when here,
save in the deathless garments of the
perfect flesh; for have they not, now,
right to the tree of life on which grow
the leaves of healing?
There they walk now on shores to us
unknown
Mid glories never yet to mortals
shown,
With the Redeemed they stand; they
are His own,
For God took them.
In joyful service there they spend the
hours;
In happy use of their perfected pow
ers,
The gcod they did remains as fadeless
flowers,
And God took them.
MARY PETTUS THOMAS.
Baylor College, Belton, Texas.
The Golden Age for March 18, 1909.
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