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    "title": "Records relating to Polar Exploration",
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    "ocrText": "March 23, I9II\nThe Nation\n289\ncal quality is suggested rather by the\ncussion of the distinction between fancy and\nspirit than the form of the work. His\nCorrespondence\nimagination, Wordsworth proceeds to illus-\n\"Schwache Helden\" (Egon Fleischel &\ntrate his meaning by instances, drawn, as\nCo.) treats a variety of themes with\nit happens, from various uses of the word\nTHE CRIMINAL'S PRIVILEGE.\ngrace and simplicity, one of the most\nhang:\nenjoyable being the story of a worthy\nTo THE EDITOR OF THE NATION:\nA parrot hangs from the wires of his\npedagogue who has turned out an able\nSIR: The letter of Mr. H. E. Kelly in\ncage by his beak or by his claws; or a\nyour issue of March 2 cites the universality\nmonkey from the bough of a tree by his\ntranslation of \"Manfred,\" and, laboring\npaws or his tail. Each creature does so\nof the \"third degree\" as a reason for not\nunder the delusion that he is a great\nliterally and actually. In the first Eclogue\nabolishing the constitutional safeguard\nof Virgil, the shepherd, thinking of the\npoet, undertakes to rewrite the end of\nagainst self-incrimination. As a matter of\ntime when he is to take leave of his farm,\nthe work. Hans von Hoffensthal's new\nthus addresses his goats:\nfact, it would rather seem the other way\nbook, \"Hildegard Ruh's Haus\" (Egon\nabout. Provide an orderly judicial proce-\nNon ego vos posthac viridi projectus in antro\nFleischel & Co.), contains among oth-\ndure for the arraignment of persons accused\nDumosa pendere procul de rupe videbo.\ners a group of Tyrolese sketches, hap-\nof crime-one that will not, as on the Con-\n-half way down\npily blending humor and pathos, and\ntinent of Europe, be secret, but one in which\nHangs one who gathers samphire,\ntold with refreshing spontaneity and\nthe accused can have counsel but must tes-\nis the well-known expression of Shake-\ntify-and you will have gone a long way\nspeare, delineating an ordinary image upon\nsimplicity. In the collection of stories\nthe cliffs of Dover. In these two instances\nentitled \"Allerlei Volk\" (Imported by\ntoward minimizing the extra-legal activity\nis a slight exertion of the faculty which\nof police, the zeal of reporters, the inquisi-\nG. E. Stechert & Co.), Bernardine\nI denominate imagination, in the use of one\ntorial efforts of neighbors, and the officious-\nword: neither the goats nor the samphire-\nSchulze-Smidt proves, as in her novels,\nness of others whose enterprise is now\ngatherer do literally hang, as does the par-\nher strong grasp of reality, her power\nrot or the monkey; but, presenting to the\nstimulated by the existence of a privilege\nsenses something of such an appearance,\nto visualize a psychological situation\nthat has outworn its usefulness and has\nthe mind in its activity, for its own gratifi-\nand her gift of delineation. The first of\nvirtually ceased to be an effective protec-\ncation, contemplates them as hanging.\nthe three stories is a Florentine village\ntion.\nBENJAMIN\nTUSKA.\nAs when far off at sea a fleet descried\nidyll with a genial old priest as guar-\nOmaha, Neb., March 15.\nHangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds\nClose sailing from Bengala, or the isles\ndian angel of a pair of lovers; the sec-\nOf Ternate or Tidore, whence merchants bring\nond is the story of a young teacher who\nTHE UNQUIET GRAVE.\nTheir spicy drugs; they on the trading flood\nbrings sunshine into the lives of two\nThrough the wide Ethiopian to the Cape\nmotherless children; the third is a tale\nTo THE EDITOR OF THE NATION:\nPly, steaming nightly toward the Pole: SO seemed\nof jealousy in a town on the Bosporus,\nSIR: The belief that excessive mourning\nFar off the flying Fiend.\nwhere vengeance flies swift and the cry\nfor the dead destroys their peace, that tears\nHere is the full strength of the imagina-\n\"blood for blood\" is taken up even by\nmay even burn the shrouds of those de\ntion involved in the word hangs, and ex-\nparted, is a well-attested folk superstition-\nerted upon the whole image, etc.\nthe children and the children's chil-\nsee, for instance, Professor Child's notes to\nIn Goldsmith's essay on \"Poetry distin-\ndren. Luise Algenstaedt is a newcomer\n\"The Unquiet Grave,\" in volume two of his\nguished from other Writing\" (No. 15) OC-\nwhose stories of Jewish life, \"Die\n\"Ballade.\" Yet the particular case which I\ncurs a paragraph which I shall quote in\ngrosse Sehnsucht\" (Imported by Lemcke\nwish to record possesses a certain unique\nfull:\n& Buechner), sympathetically picture\ninterest as having come immediately from\nThere are certain words in every lan-\nJewish customs and reflect the senti-\nthe Chicago Ghetto, and ultimately from the\nguage particularly adapted to the poetical\nments of the race.\nvillage traditions of a colony of Jews liv-\nexpression; some from the image or idea\ning in central Russia.\nthey convey to the imagination, and some\nThe most remarkable book of short\nfrom the effect they have upon the ear. The\nstories, however, is that of Gabriele\nA story written by a Chicago newsboy\nfirst are truly figurative; the others may\n\"Frauenseelen\"\n(Fischer's\nwas submitted to me for revision. Briefly,\nbe called emphatical. Rollin observes that\nReuter,\nthe plot ran as follows: A Jewish rabbi and\nVirgil has, upon many occasions, poetized\nBibliothek zeitgenössischer Romane).\n(if we may be allowed the expression) a\nschoolmaster, angered at the pranks of a\nIt is a book of psychological conflicts\nwhole sentence by means of the same word,\ncertain young scapegrace, punishes him\nwhich is pendere.\nbearing evidence of the author's insight\nbrutally, and finally, when the boy is com-\nIte mex, felix quondam pecus, ite capellae;\ninto the inner life of her sex and of\npletely exhausted, frightens him so that he\nNon ego vos posthac, viridi projectus in antro,\nher grip upon vital problems. A young\ndies. Immediately the rabbi is overcome\nDumosa pendere procul de rupe videbo.\nwoman who has divorced her husband\nwith remorse; he attempts to expiate his\nAt ease reclined beneath the verdant shade,\nand is just about to obey the call of a\nsin by fasting, and spends a year in misery.\nNo more shall I behold my happy flock\nnew love, realizes by her husband's\nOn the anniversary of his pupil's death he\nAloft hang browsing on the tufted rock.\nclaim upon the child that she is not\nis praying in the cemetery, when the ghost\nHere the word pendere wonderfully im-\nfree. A husband returns from the in-\nof the dead boy approaches and speaks as\nproves the landscape, and renders the whole\nfollows: \"Why have you been wetting my\npassage beautifully picturesque. The same\nsane asylum to await the end at home\nshrouds with your tears these many months,\nfigurative verb we meet with in many dif-\nand unbalances the mind of the young\nferent parts of the AEneid.\nand thus prevented me from peaceful rest?\"\ndaughter who had never seen him. A\nThe author of the tale assured me that\nHi summo fluctu pendent, his unda dehiscens\nhappily married woman has a husband\nTerram inter fluctus aperit.\nhe had never seen anything like this in\nwho is so absorbed in his legal prac-\nprint, and was surprised to learn that it was\nThese on the mountain billow hung; to those\nThe yawning waves the yellow sand disclose.\ntice that he is utterly ignorant of her\nmore than a local village superstition.\nloneliness. But beside these unrelieved\n\"When my mother died, before I came to\nIn this instance the words pendent and\ntragedies there are stories with a de-\nAmerica,\" he explained, \"I was six years\ndehiscens, hung and yawning, are equally\npoetical. Addison seems to have had this\nlightful vein of humor, and others with\nold. My friends stopped my crying by say-\npassage in his eye when he wrote his\na streak of brilliant satire comparable\ning, 'Your tears burn the mother,'-and we\nHymn, which is inserted in the Spectator:\nall believed it, too,\" he concluded.\nto that of Maupassant. Such a story is\n-For though in dreadful worlds we hung\nFRANKLYN BLISS SNYDER.\nHigh on the broken wave.\n\"Das Opernglas,\" giving a daring yet\nEvanston, Ill., March 6.\ndiscreet glimpse of the many and divers\nAnd in another piece of a like nature in\nthe same collection:\nloves a dashing young officer on a sail-\nThy providence my life sustain'd,\ning vessel can harbor in his manly\nWORDSWORTH AND GOLDSMITH.\nAnd all my wants redress'd.\nbreast whenever he has shore-leave.\nTo THE EDITOR OF THE NATION:\nWhen in the silent womb I lay,\nA. VON ENDE.\nAnd hung upon the breast.\nSIR: I do not recall that any one has\npointed out the rather curious parallel that\nShakespeare, in his admired description\nfollows between a famous passage in\nof Dover cliff, uses the same expression:\nWordsworth's preface to the edition of\n-half way down\n1815, and a paragraph in one of Gold-\nHangs one that gathers samphite-dreadful trade!\nsmi \"Essays.\" In the well-known dis-\nNothing can be more beautiful than the"
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