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Rh “No, I won’t come back—I won’t come back.” le was having a hard time to keep back the tears nd bit his trembling lip mercilessly. “Oh, Hugh,” e suddenly cried, “what will my mother say?” Hugh was deeply distressed, but he was startled y that “my mother.” It was the first time he had ver heard Carl speak of his mother except as the old lady.”

“She will understand,” he said soothingly. “How can she? How can she? God, Hugh, tod!” He buried his face in his hands and wept itterly. Hugh put his arm around his shoulder id tried to comfort him, and in a few minutes Carl as in control of himself again. He dried his eyes ith his handkerchief. “What a fish I am!” he said, trying to grin. “A xldamn fish.” He looked at his watch. “Hell, 've got to be going if I’m going to make the five teen.” He picked up his suit-case and held out s free hand. “There’s something I want to say you, Hugh, but I guess I ’ll write it. Please rn’t come to the train with me.” He gripped ugh’s hand hard for an instant and then vras out the door and down the hall before Hugh had ne to say anything. Two days afterward the letter came. The cusmary “Dear brother” and “Fraternally y**iirs” ire omitted.


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184 Dear Hugh:

I Ve thought of letters yards long but I’m not going tc write them. I just want to say that you are the finesi thing that ever happened to me outside of my mother, anc I respect you more than any fellow I ve ever known. I n ashamed because I started you drinking and I hope you 1 stop it. I feel toward you the way Harry Slade does, onh more I guess. You’ve done an awful lot for me.

I want to ask a favor of you. Please leave women alone Keep straight, please. You don’t know how much I wan you to do that.

Thanks for all you’ve done for me.

Carl.

Hugh’s eyes filled with tears when he read tha letter. Carl seemed a tragic figure to him, and h missed him dreadfully. Poor old Carl! Wha hell it must have been to tell his mother! “And h wants me to keep straight. By God, I will. . . I ’ll try to, anyhow.”

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186 Hugh went to his first conference with him noi entirely easy in his mind. Henley had a reputatior for “tearing themes to pieces and making a felloe feel like a poor fish.” Hugh had written hii themes hastily, as he had during his freshman year and he was afraid that Henley might discovei evidences of that haste. Henley was leaning back in his swivel chair, hu feet on the desk, a brier pipe in his mouth, as Hugl entered the cubbyhole of an office. Down came th< feet with a bang. “Hello, Carver,” Henley said cheerfully “Come in and sit down while I go through youi themes.” He motioned to a chair by the desk Hugh muttered a shy “hello” and sat down, watch ing Henley expectantly and rather uncomfortably Henley picked up three themes. Then he turnec his keen eyes on Hugh. “I Ve already read these Lazy cuss, aren’t you?” he asked amiably, Hugh flushed. “I—I suppose so.”

“You know that you are; no supposing to it.’ He slapped the desk lightly with the theme* “First drafts, aren’t they?”

“Yes, sir.” Hugh felt his cheeks getting warmer Henley smiled. “Thanks for not lying. If yo had lied, this conference would have ended rigl now. Oh, I would n’t have told you that I though you were lying; I would simply have made a few pc lite but entirely insincere comments about your wor


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PAGE Sonnets - Ernest McGaffey 108, 109

South Seas, Filming the - Edmund Mitchell 954

Stanford, The New - Everett W. Smith 494

Stars. Verse - Arthur Wallace Peach 926

Stately Homes of California—New Place - Porter Garnett 1198

Stranger in His Own Country, A. Cartoon - J. Scheuerle 376

Summer and Snow on Mt. Shasta. Photos - C. R. Miller 374

Sunset Service Bureau - Walter V. Woehlke 1246

Taylor, Thomas - C. L. Armstrong 978

Texan, The Story - Herman Whitaker 310

Three Thousand Miles on the Back Seat - Eloise Roorbach 486

Trailing Bret Harte by Motor - Peter B. Kyne 97

Tramping in California - Jessie Burness 558

Unclaimed, The. Verse - Arthur Wallace Peach 150

Under the Jolly Roger. Story - Peter B. Kyne 697

Undiscovered, The. Verse - Lillian H. Bailey 144

Vancouver Island Sonnets - Ernest McGaffey 108, 109

Vision of Balboa, The. Verse - S. E. Kiser 756

Vollmer, Gus - Harold French 546

von Schlichten, George William - Arthur Dunn 753

Wayson, James T. - Henrietta Goodnough Hull 153

What an Exposition is For—San Diego - D. C. Collier 145

When the Canal "Starts Something" - Arthur Street 940

When Pio Pico Went to War - Paul Gyllstrom 172

Why Capital is Coming to California - David Rich 402

Working Hypothesis, A. Cartoon - Clifton Meek 1008

Yosemite. Verse - Louise Culver 755

You Can't Beat the Dutch - Will T. Kirk 1000

Young, S. B. M. - Waldon Fawcett 350

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Anglin, Margaret 1004

Branner, John Caspar 498

Burbank, Luther 984

Cahill, Arthur 1203

Carson, Luella Clay 981

Champion, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. 1218

Collins, Ernest B. 324

Curtiss, Glenn 1220

Davison, Miss Rose 752

de Velasco, Emma 156

Erickson, Mrs. Meta J. 545

Haglund, Katherine 1006

Hilgard, Eugene Waldemar 152

Hill, Samuel 543

Hobbs, Miss Fern 349

Hunt, George W. P. 774

Johnson, Hiram 776

Jordan, David Starr 499

Lighton, William R. 1202

Lister, Ernest 776

McLaren, John 1216

Mullen, William 350

O'Gara, P. J. 750

Ray, L. V. 325

Sinclair, H. H. 347

Taylor, Thomas 979

Verdi 1004

Vollmer, Gus 547

von Schlichten, George William 754

Wayson, James T. 154

Young, S. B. M. 351

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Rh md let you go. Now I am going to talk to you !rankly and honestly.” “I wish you would,” Hugh murmured, but he yas n’t at all sure that he wished anything of the ort.

Henley knocked the ashes out of his pipe into a netal tray, refilled it, lighted it, and then puffed neditatively, gazing at Hugh with kind but specula¬ te eyes.

“I think you have ability,” he began slowly. You evidently write with great fluency and coniderable accuracy, and I can find poetic touches ere and there that please me. But you are care¬ ts, abominably careless, lazy. Whatever virtues here are in your themes come from a natural gift, ot from any effort you made to say the thing in the est way. Now, I’m not going to spend any time iscussing these themes in detail; they are n’t worth . »> He pointed his pipe at Hugh. “The point is xactly this,” he said sternly. “I ’ll never spend ny time discussing your themes so long as you turn 1 hasty, shoddy work. I can see right now that ou can get a C in this course without trying. If iat’s all you want, all right, I ’ll give it to you— id let it go at that. The Lord knows that I have lough to do without wasting time on lazy youngers who have n’t sense enough to develop their fts. If you continue to turn in themes like these,


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1. All programme proposals are to be handed in to the Executive of the Communist International or to a Commission appointed by the latter, for detailed study and elaboration. The Executive of the Communist International is to publish with the least possible delay all programme proposals submitted to it.

2. The Congress endorses the decision that all the national sections of the Communist International, which are as yet without a national programme, must at once take in hand the elaboration of such a programme which must be submitted to the Executive not later than three months before the Fifth Congress for endorsement by the next Congress.

3. The necessity of the struggle for the transition demands must be emphasised in the programmes of the national sections, with the reservation that such demands are dependent on the concrete conditions of time and place.

4. The theoretic basis for all transition and partial demands must be definitely laid down in the general programme, the Fourth Congress strongly condemning all attempts to represent the inclusion of the transition demands into the programme as opportunism, and also all attempts to gloss over or to replace the basic revolutionary task by partial demands.

35 [sic]. The basic historic types of the transition demands of the national sections must be clearly embodied in the general programme, due account being taken of the basic differences in the economic and political structure of the various countries, as, for instance, Great Britain on the one hand, India on the other.

The World Congress.

The World Congress will continue to take place annually. The date will be fixed by the Enlarged Executives. All the affiliated sections must send their delegates, the number of which will be determined by the Executives. The cost is borne by the parties. The number of votes for the respective sections will be determined by Congress in accordance with the membership and political importance of the respective countries. No binding mandates are permitted, and such will be declared


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188 I ’ll give you C’s or D’s on them and let you di your own shallow grave by yourself. But if yo want to try to write as well as you can, I ’ll give yo all the help in my power. Not one minute can yo have so long as you don’t try, but you can have houi i.f you do try. Furthermore, you will find writing pleasure if you write as well as you can, but yo won’t get any sport just scribbling off themes b cause you have to.”

He paused to toss the three themes across t? desk to Hugh, who was watching him with astonisl ment. No instructor had ever talked to him th; “You can rewrite these themes if you want to Henley went on. “I have n’t graded them, ar I ’ll reserve the grades for the rewritten theme and if I find that you have made a real effort, I discuss them in detail with you. What do y< Say?” “I’d like to rewrite them,” Hugh said soft know they are rotten.” “No, they are n’t rotten. I’ve got dozens tl are worse. That is n’t the point. They are i| nearly so good as you can make them, and only yc best work is acceptable to me. Now show me wl you can do with them, and then we ’ll tear them shreds in regular fashion.” He turned to his d< and smiled at Hugh, who, understanding that 1 conference was over, stood up and reached for
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Rh themes. “I ’ll be interested in seeing what you can do with those,” Henley concluded. “Every one of them has a good idea. Go to it—and get them back in a week.” i “Yes, sir. Thanks very much.” “Right-o. Good-by.” “Good-by, sir,” and Hugh left the office de¬ termined to rewrite those themes so that “they’d knock Jimmie Henley’s eye out.” They did n’t do exactly that, but they did interest him, and he spent an hour and a half discussing them with Hugh. That was merely the first of a series of long con¬ ferences. Sometimes Henley and Hugh discussed Writing, but often they talked about other subjects, not as instructor and student but as two men who respected each other’s mind. Before the term was out Henley had invited Hugh to his home for dinler and to meet Mrs. Henley. Hugh was enornously flattered and, for some reason, stimulated to do better work. He found his talks with Henley really exciting, and he expressed his opinions to him is freely and almost as positively as he did to his
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 invalid, because such mandates contradict the spirit of an international, centralised, proletarian world party.

The Executive.

The Executive is to be elected by the Congress. It shall consist of the President, 24 members and 10 substitutes. No less than 15 members of the Executive must be permanently domiciled in Moscow.

The Enlarged Executive.

Regularly every four months meetings of an Enlarged Executive shall take place. These sessions are to be composed in the following manner:—

(1) Of 25 members of the Executive.

(2) Of additional. three representatives from each of the following parties: Germany, France, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia, and Italy; also the Young Communist International and the Profintern.

(3) Of two representatives from England, Poland, America, Bulgaria and Norway.

(4) Of one representative from each of the other countries that are entitled to votes.

It is the duty of the Presidium to submit to the meetings of the Enlarged Executive all the more important fundamental questions that permit of delay. The first Enlarged Executive must take place immediately after the World Congress.

The Presidium.

The elected Executive, at its first meeting shall choose a Presidium, which is to include one representative each from the Y.C.L. and the Profintern, with consultative votes, and is to comprise the following departments:—

(1) An Oriental Department, to whose activities the Executive must devote special attention during the coming year; the Director of the Oriental Department must be a member of the Presidium. In its political activity this department is subordinate to the Presidium; its relations with the Organisation Bureau are regulated by the Presidium.

(2) A Department of Organisation (Org. Bureau), containing no less than two members of the Presidium. The Org. Bureau is subordinated to the Presidium.

(3) A Department of Agitation and Propaganda, under the guidance of one member of the Executive. Also this department is directly subordinated to the Presidium.

(4) A Department of Statistics and Information, subordinated to the Org. Bureau.

(5) The Executive has the right of establishing additional departments.

Division of Work among the Members of the Executive.

An exact division of work is to be made among the members of the Executive as well as of the Presidium. For the


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Rh for the college, but you have reached an ecstasy of
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poleon seem almost like contempt. “In the last batch of themes I got five telling me of the perfection of Sanford: Sanford is the greatest college in the country; Sanford has the best athletes, the finest equipment, the most erudite faculty, the most perfect location, the most loyal alumni, the strongest spirit—the most superlative everything. Nonsense! Rot! Bunk! Sanford has n’t anything of the sort, and I who love it say so. Sanford is a good little college, but it is n’t a Harvard, a Yale, or a Princeton, or, for that mat¬ ter, a Dartmouth or Brown; and those colleges still have perfection ahead of them. Sanford has made a place for itself in the sun, but it will never find a bigger place so long as its sons do nothing but chant its praises and condemn any one as disloyal who happens to mention its very numerous faults. “Well, I’m going to mention some of those faults, not all of them by any means, just those that any intelligent undergraduate ought to be able to see for himself. “In the first place, this is supposed to be an educational institution; it is endowed for that pur¬ pose and it advertises itself as such. And you men say that you come here to get an education. But vhat do you really do? You resist education with all your might and main, digging your heels into the


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192 gravel of your own ignorance and fighting any at¬ tempt to teach you anything every inch of the way. What’s worse, you are n’t content with your own ignorance; you insist that every one else be ignorant, too. Suppose a man attempts to acquire culture, as some of them do. What happens? He is branded as wet. He is a social leper.

“Wet! What currency that bit of slang has— and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long re¬ search I think that I know. A man is wet if he is n’t a ‘regular guy’; he is wet if he is n’t ‘smooth’; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he does n’t show at least a tendency to dis¬ sipate, but he is n’t wet if he dissipates to excess, A man will be branded as wet for any of these rea¬ sons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college; if he doesn’t, he will have a lonel} and hard row to hoe. It is a rare undergraduate who can stand the open contempt of his fellows.” He paused, obviously ordering his thoughts be fore continuing. The boys waited expectantly Some of them were angry, some amused, a few ii agreement, and all of them intensely interested. Henley leaned back in his chair. “What hor rible little conformers you are,” he began sar castically, “and how you loathe any one who does n’


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194 of fact, most of you like poetry very much. You never give me such good attention as when I read poetry. What’s more, some of you are writing the disgraceful stuff. But what happens when a man does submit a poem as a theme? He writes at the bottom of the page, ‘Please do not read this in class.’ Some of you write that because you don’t think that the poem is very good, but most of you are afraid of the contempt of your classmates. I know of any number of men in this college who read vast quantities of poetry, but always on the sly. Just think of that! Men pay thousands of dollars and give four years of their lives supposedly to ac¬ quire culture and then have to sneak off into a cornet to read poetry. “Who are your college gods? The brilliant men who are thinking and learning, the men with ideals and aspirations? Not by a long shot. They are the athletes. Some of the athletes happen to be as intelligent and as eager to learn as anybody else, but a fair number are here simply because they are paid to come to play football or baseball or wha not. And they are worshiped, bowed down to. cheered, and adored. The brilliant men, unless they happen to be very ‘smooth’ in the bargain, are considered wet and are ostracized. “Such is the college that you write themes aboui to tell me that it is perfect. The college is made up of men who worship mediocrity; that is theii


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 purpose of preparing the work for the individual sections, the Presidium appoints a responsible reporter for every one of the more important countries. As a rule, this reporter should be a member of the Executive, or, when possible, of the Presidium. Such reporters as are not members either of the Executive or of the Presidium shall work under the control of a member of the Presidium. The Presidium shall organise a General Secretariat, under the management of a General Secretary. The Executive shall appoint two assistants to the General Secretary. The Secretariat shall not have the function of an independent political organisation, but shall be only the administrative organ of the Presidium.

It is the duty of the Executive to influence all the parties to adopt a similar distribution of work, with due regard to the circumstances and the situation in every individual country.

The Representatives.

In exceptional cases the Executive may send representatives to the individual countries, who shall be appointed from among the competent comrades of the sections. These representatives shall be furnished by the Executive with the widest powers. The functions of these representatives, the rights and duties, as well as their relations to the respective parties shall be definitely laid down in special instructions.

It is the duty of the Executive to take particular care and to see to it that the conditions and the decision of the World Congress shall be really carried out. The representatives of the Executive must give all attention to the proper carrying out of these conditions. The representatives must report on the results of their work not less than once a month.

The International Controlling Commission.

The International Controlling Commission remains in force. Its functions are the same as were formulated by the Third World Congress. The World Congress appoints every year two neighbouring sections, whose central committees shall send three members each, to the Controlling Commission, whose members are to be endorsed by the Executive, for the ensuing year. The Executive entrusts this function to the German and French sections.

The Technical Information Bureau.

The Technical Information Bureau remains. Their function is to supply technical information, and their work is subordinated to the Executive.

"The Communist International."

The "Communist International" is the organ of the Executive: the editorial board is chosen by, and subordinated to the Executive.

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 (appeals, letters, resolutions, etc.) when the Executive so demands.

Minutes of National Parties.

It is the duty of the central committees of all sections to furnish regularly to the Executive the minutes of all their meetings.

Exchange of Representatives.

It is desirable, for the purpose of mutual information and for the co-ordinated work, that the more important sections of neighbouring countries shall mutually exchange representatives. The reports of these representatives shall be simultaneously furnished to the Executive.

It is further desirable that the appointment of such representatives should take place with the consent of the Executive.

Conference of Sections.

As a rule, prior to the World Congress of the Communist International, party conferences or enlarged national executives shall meet to make preparations for the World Congress and to elect delegates to the Congress. The party conferences of the individual sections shall take place after the World Congress.

Exceptions can be made only with the consent of the Executive.

Such procedure ensures the best protection of the interests of the individual sections, and, at the same time, creates the possibility of taking advantage of the entire experiences of the international movement, from the bottom upwards.

At the same time, this procedure affords the possibility of constructing the Communist International as a centralised world party, "from the bottom upwards," by a system of democratic centralism which bases its directives on the sum total of international experiences.

Resignations.

The Congress in the most decisive manner condemns all cases of resignations tendered by individual comrades of the various central committees and by entire groups of such members. The Congress considers such resignations as the greatest disorganisation of the Communist movement. Every leading post in a Communist party belongs not to the bearer of the mandate, but to the Communist International as a whole.

The Congress resolves: Elected members of central bodies of a section can resign their mandate only with the consent of the Executive. Resignations accepted by a Party Central Committee without the consent of the Executive Committee are invalid.


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Rh ideal except in athletics. The condition of the foot¬ ball field is a thousand times more important to the undergraduates and the alumni than the number of books in the library or the quality of the faculty. The fraternities will fight each other to pledge an athlete, but I have yet to see them raise any dust over a man who was merely intelligent. “I tell you that you have false standards, false ideals, and that you have a false loyalty to the col¬ lege. The college can stand criticism; it will thrive and grow on it—but it won’t grow on blind adora¬ tion. I tell you further that you are as standard¬ ized as Fords and about as ornamental. Fords are useful for ordinary work; so are you—and unless some of you wake up and, as you would say, ‘get hep to yourselves,’ you are never going to be anything more than human Fords. “You pride yourselves on being the cream of the earth, the noblest work of God. You are told so constantly. You are the intellectual aristocracy of America, the men who are going to lead the masses to a brighter and broader vision of life. Merciful heavens preserve us! You swagger around utterly contemptuous of the man who has n’t gone to col¬ lege* You talk magnificently about democracy, but you scorn the non-college man—and you try pathetically to imitate Yale and Princeton. And I suppose Yale and Princeton are trying to imitate Fifth Avenue and Newport. Democracy! Rotl


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Rh angrily. “We may not be so hot, but we ’re a damn sight better than these guys that work in offices and mills. Jimmie Henley gives me a pain. He shoots off his gab as if he knew everything. He ’s got to show me where other colleges have anything on Sanford. He’s a hell of a Sanford man, he is.” They were walking slowly down the stairs. George Winsor caught up with them. “What did you think of it, George?” Hugh asked. Winsor grinned. “He gave me some awful body blows,” he said, chuckling. “Cripes, I felt most of the time that he was talking only to me. I’m sore all over. What did you think of it? Jimmie’s a live wire, all right.” “I don’t know what to think,” Hugh replied soberly. “He ’s knocked all the props from under me. I’ve got to think it over.” He did think it over, and the more he thought the more he was inclined to believe that Henley was right. Boy-like, he carried Henley’s statements to their final conclusion and decided that the college was a colossal failure. He wrote a theme and said so.

“You ’re wrong, Hugh,” Henley said when he read the theme. “Sanford has real virtues, a bushel of them. You ’ll discover them all right before you graduate.”


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ANFORD’S virtues were hard for Hugh t( find, and they grew more inconspicuous as th< term advanced. For the time being nothing seemed worth while: he was disgusted with himself the undergraduates, and the fraternity; he felt thai the college had bilked him. Often he thought oi the talk he had had with his father before he lef for college. Sometimes that talk seemed funny entirely idiotic, but sometimes it infuriated him What right had his father to send him off to colleg with such fool ideas in his head? Nu Delta, th perfect brotherhood! Bull! How did his fathe get that way, anyhow? Hugh had yet to lean that nearly every chapter changes character at leas once a decade and that Nu Delta thirty years earlie had been an entirely different organization fron what it was at present. At times he felt that hi father had deliberately deceived him, but in quiete moments he knew better; then he realized that h father was a dreamer and an innocent, a delicate] minded man who had never really known anythin about Sanford College or the world either. Hug often felt older and wiser than his father; and many ways he was.


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200 you can bet your bottom dollar that I’m not goinj to again.” “Bunk!” Tucker ejaculated contemptuously “Hooey! Anybody can act good enough for th Dramat. I tell you right now that you ’re turning the fraternity down; you ’re playing us dirt. Wha have you done in college? Not a goddamn thlnj except make the Glee Club. I don’t care abou track. I suppose you did your best last year though I know damn well that you are n’t doing i this year. What would become of the fraternit if all of us parked ourselves on our tails and gav the activities the air the way you do? You’r throwing us down, and we don’t like it.” “Well, I’m not going out for the Dramat, Hugh mumbled sullenly; “you can just bet on thai I ’ll admit that I have n’t trained the way I ougf to, but I have made the Glee Club, and I hav promised to join the Banjo Club, and I am still o the track squad, and that’s more than half the fe lows in this fraternity can say. Most of ’em don do anything but go on parties and raise hell ge erally. How come you ’re picking on me ? Wh don’t you ride some of them for a while? I don see where they ’re so hot.” “Never mind the other fellows.” Tucker’s bla< eyes flashed angrily. He was one of the “hell-rai ers” himself, good looking, always beautiful dressed, and proud of the fact that he was “rate


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248 "I know,” she replied. “But we’ve got to g( bacL Wait a minute, though. I must lool like the deviL” She straightened her hat powdered her nose, and then tucked her arm ii his.

After the tea-dance and dinner, Hugh left her tc dress for the Dramatic Society musical comedy tha was to be performed that evening. He returnee to Norry Parker’s room and prepared to put on hi: Tuxedo.

“You look as if somebody had left you a millior dollars,” Norry said to Hugh. “I don’t think. ever saw anybody look so happy. You—yoi shine.” Hugh laughed. “I am happy, Norry, happy a hell. I’m so happy I ache. Oh, God, Cynthia ’ wonderful. I’m crazy about her, Norry—plum crazy.” Norry had known Cynthia for years, and despit his ingenuousness, he had noticed some of her char acteristics.

“I never expected you to fall in love with Cyr ‘thia, Hugh,” he said in his gentle way. “I ’r awfully surprised.” Hugh was humming a strain from “Say it wit Music” while he undressed. He pulled off his trou sers and then turned to Norry, who was sitting o the bed. “What did you say? You said some thing, did n’t you?”


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religious literature of all periods of Egyptian history proves that the Egyptians believed in a resurrection and in immortality, and that from the earliest to the latest times they performed ceremonies at, or in, the tomb, and recited formulae, which were part incantations and part prayers, with the view of assisting the dead to renew their life, to enjoy their existence in the Other World, and to escape from “dying a second time.” We have already seen that so far back as the beginning of the IVth Dynasty, about 3800, it was customary to offer series of gifts of food, and drink, and raiment to the dead, and there is every reason to think that the presentation of such gifts was made by priests, who recited over them forms of words which were believed to sanctify the things offered, and to make them to become suitable for the needs of the dead. We know that certain kinds of food and drink were offered in certain quantities, and in a definite order, and that every detail of the ceremonies connected with their presentation was performed according to a system


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 which had then been in use for a very long time. The ceremonies and formulae of the liturgy of funeral sacrifice in their oldest forms belong, no doubt, to the earliest period of Egyptian civilization, and it is very probable that many of them were in existence in the Predynastic Period.

Among the oldest of the ceremonies which were performed for the benefit of the dead is that called the “Opening of the Mouth,” and its object is explained by its name. The Egyptians realized at a very early period that it was useless to load the tables for offerings in the tombs with bread, beer, meat, fruit, and vegetables unless the dead could in some way partake of them, and the priests invented a series of ceremonies and composed formulae which were intended to bring about this desirable result. The belief in the importance of “Opening the Mouth” for the dead has long been known to Egyptologists, in fact ever since the publication of the text of the Saïte Recension of the Book of the Dead by Lepsius in 1842. In the Saïte Recension, as in the Theban, the XXIIIrd Chapter is devoted to the opening of the mouth of the deceased, and in the Vignette a priest is seen standing before a statue of the deceased, to which he addresses certain words. In his left hand he holds a vase of unguent, which played a prominent part in the ceremony performed by the priest whilst he uttered the prescribed formula.

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 Khert,” or the Other World, and in the Vignette the priest is seen standing and holding the Ur-ḥekau instrument in his right hand, and a vase in his left. He holds out the instrument towards the face of the deceased, and is, as we know from other sources, about to touch his mouth. In the text of the XXIIIrd Chapter the deceased says, “Ptah hath opened for me my mouth with his instrument of iron wherewith he opened the mouth of the gods.” This is an mportant statement, for it shows that in the Ptolemaïc Period a legend was extant that at some time during their existence the mouths of the gods needed opening, that the origin of the ceremony of “Opening the Mouth” was divine, and that it was performed in the mythological period.

The illustrated papyri which contain the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead supply further details of the ceremony, and in the papyrus of Ani, in the Vignette of Chapter XXIII., we see a priest, clad in a panther’s or leopard’s skin, performing one portion of it on a figure of the scribe Ani. In front of him are unguents, three  instruments, and the instrument. In another Vignette in the same papyrus is a representation of the performance of the ceremony at the door of the tomb. The mummy of Ani is held upright by Anubis, and three priests are officiating; two hold the instruments to the face of the mummy, and the third reads the


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 formulae from a roll of papyrus in his hands. Between the mummy and the priests is a table loaded with offerings, and on the ground round about are the various objects which are used in the performance of the ceremony. Behind the priests are the cow and calf for sacrifice, and an assistant is seen bringing a leg of beef.

In the Papyrus of Hunefer this scene is repeated with some modifications and fuller details; these are illustrated by the accompanying block. In the upper register one priest presents to the face of the mummy four vases, and another holds in one hand the instruments  and presents with the other the Ur-ḥekau instrument, the head of which is in the form of that of a ram. The priest stands behind holding a libation jar in his right hand, and a censer in his left. In the lower register are the cow and calf for sacrifice, two ministrants, the one bearing the heart and the other the leg of a bull, a sepulchral coffer, a table of offerings, and a stand on which are spread out a panther’s skin or leopard’s skin, and the instruments, vases, &c., which were used in the performance of the ceremony. Above these scenes are several short lines of text, which are entitled, “The Chapter of performing the Opening of the Mouth of the statue” [of the deceased]. This chapter contains two extracts from the “Liturgy of Funerary Offerings.”

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 No. 3155 in the Louvre were identical in a large number of places with the text on the coffin of Butehai-Ȧmen,, in Turin. Butehai-Ȧmen was a priest who flourished under the XXth Dynasty, and he caused a copy of the Book of Opening the Mouth to be written upon the two covers of his coffin in red and black ink. Devéria had examined this papyrus many years before, and he stated in his Catalogue des Manuscrits Égyptiens (Paris, 1881, p. 171) that it “contained a liturgical text entirely different from the ordinary funerary works, and that it was noteworthy by reason of the mention in it of the priests of different orders who officiated, and the description of the part which each individual performed in the funeral ceremony.” In a valuable paper entitled “ Le Fer et l'Aimant en Égypte ,” he translated about a page and a half of the papyrus, and Sig. Schiaparelli believes that he cherished the thought of publishing the complete work.

The papyrus was written for a priestess called,  The lower portions of the first few leaves are wanting, and the writing is in places very difficult to read. Being convinced of the importance of the text, Sig. Schiaparelli spent a winter in copying it, and he devoted himself to the preparation of an edition of the text on the coffin in Turin, which dates from the


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 to break up their game. Commandeering a scow, he installed improvised machinery upon it and sheathed its sides with iron.

With a handful of dare-devils manning rapid-fire guns, he cruised up and down the river scaring and scattering the bushwhackers until he had completely pacified the pirates of the Pasig.

Shortly after his return from the wars he was given charge of the police department of Berkeley. The city was growing rapidly, new tracts were spreading all over the map, and as a consequence the slender force of police was unable to patrol the entire territory. Vollmer mounted his men on bicycles, which enabled them to come swiftly and silently wherever they were needed. He next arranged a system of signals whereby he could communicate with his patrolmen at a moment's notice. By touching a switch, an electric current flowing through wires in various districts flashed red signals at the intersections of certain streets, and when they winked their warnings the officer on that particular beat would catch this high sign and rush to the nearest police-telephone-box, where he would receive his instructions. This installation has proven to be such a signal success that many other municipalities have since adopted its features.

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 XXth Dynasty, and that of the Paris papyrus, which was written probably between 50 and 150. Neither text is accompanied by Vignettes, and many parts of them it is impossible to understand without illustrations. About this time, fortunately, his attention was called to a series of drawings of scenes in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes which Champollion had made and published. In these priests are represented performing ceremonies on the statue of the king, and the short texts which accompany them were quickly seen by Sig. Schiaparelli to resemble passages in the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings. From a paper by Professor Naville he was able to identify a passage in the text on the coffin of Butehai-Ȧmen, and with the help of the careful copy of all the scenes and texts in the tomb of Seti I., with which Professor Naville supplied him, he was at length able to give a rendering of the whole text, and to describe the ceremonies which were there illustrated.

The first part of his work, i.e., the plates, appeared in 1881, and the two volumes of text in 1882 and 1890 respectively. In 1882 Professor Maspero publiched in his Reveil (tom. iii., p. 171 ff.) the first parts of the texts from the Pyramid of Unȧs, which contains the oldest known form of the Liturgy of


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By is meant Right Hand.

Left Hand.

Second Entrance.

Upper Entrance.

Middle Door.

Door in Flat.

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Of your brief visit must be wholly mine; Let's leave our fathers to their grave discourse Of witch and wizard, ere we laugh outright.
 * Alice. It is a subject that the country round

Deems a most solemn one.
 * Mary. True: but to me,

'Tis not the less absurd on that account.
 * Alice. This levity 's misplac'd: your father claims

Your love and reverence
 * Mary. And I do revere him,

And love him dearly, Alice; do I not? How often have I striven to melt his sternness; And, when my heart was sick of its own cares, Lock'd up my selfish sorrows from his view, And tried, by every filial endearment, To win his smiles. E'en when his brow was darkest; I've brav'd it's terrors; hung upon his neck, And spoken of my mother: O how sweet It were methought, even to weep with him.
 * Alice. You're an enthusiast, Mary. Ah, beware,

Lest this impetuous current of your feeling Urge you, one day, against the perilous rock.

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 Funerary Offerings, with a French translation of a portion of it. Another copy of this early form is found in the Pyramid of Pepi II. Nefer-ka-Rā, and this Professor Maspero published, with a translation of the whole, in a later volume of the same work, and in his complete edition of the "Pyramid Texts" entitled, "Les Inscriptions des Pyramides de Saqqarah," Paris, 1894. In 1884-5 Dr. J. Dümichen published the first two parts of his monograph on the tomb of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt, a high priestly official who flourished under the XXVIth Dynasty, containing copies of the scenes and texts with descriptions, translations, &c., in German. The first part contains the complete text of the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings, and the second a version of the Book of Opening the Mouth; both works have Vignettes.

A year later appeared the first volume of the great French work on the Royal Tombs of Thebes, containing all the scenes and texts in the Tomb of Seti I. Among these were accurate copies of the texts of the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings, as they are found in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes, and the Bok of Opening the Mouth. In 1887 Professor Maspero published a valuable paper in the Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, tom. xv., pp. 159-188, in which he treated the Book of Opening the Mouth at con


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8 :Mary. I'm young, and youth is ardent, and should be Cheerful, and full of bright and sunny thoughts; I would be if I dared. You too are young. Yet may be happy; for you have a parent Who, tho' he guide you safely down the stream, Does not, like angry pilots, chide, e'en louder Than the loud storm.
 * Alice. His high and holy office

May, haply give to your good father's manner, A grave solemnity, perhaps, a harshness
 * Mary. And why a harshness? Sure, ah sure, Religion

Descends not like the vulture in its wrath; But rather like the mild and gentle dove, Emblem of peace and harbinger of joy. Love in its' eye and healing on its' wing; With pure and snowy plumage, downy soft, To nestle in the bosom of its votaries.
 * Alice. I cannot argue; I'm content to follow

Where e'er our fathers lead. For you, I fear You've learn'd too much from this mysterious stranger.
 * Mary. O Alice, join not you with the slanderous crowd.

Against a noble lady, whom you know not. For me, be satisfied I never more Perhaps, shall see her: I've obeyed my father; And must, tho' it should break my heart: tho, Charles
 * Alice. And what of Charles ?
 * Mary. Her son—
 * Alice. I know, her son,

And what of him?
 * Mary.This very day, 'tis said

He will be here—
 * Alice. Expell'd, they say, from college.
 * Mary. Disgraced—'Tis false: Charles cannot be disgraced;

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The following Portraits in the hands of Mr. Neagle, are in forwardness expressly for this Work.

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 siderable length, and explained the Vignettes and the texts of the version in the tomb of Seti I. Since that time the texts of several tombs at Thebes have been published, and the material available for the study of the texts and Vignettes has been greatly increased.

The principal versions of the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings and the Book of Opening the Mouth may now be summarized. For the Liturgy there are two copies of the period of the Ancient Empire, one in the Pyramid of Unȧs, and one in the Pyramid of Pepi II. Nefer-ka-Rā. Several Lists of offerings, more or less complete, from the maṣṭaba tombs at Ṣaḳḳârah are also available. Of the XIXth Dynasty there are the Lists in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes and in his temple at Abydos. Of the XXth Dynasty there is the List on the covers of the coffin of Butehai-Ȧmen; of the XXVIth Dynasty the List of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt; and of the Roman Period the List in the Papyrus of Sais, the priestess, in Paris. For the Book of Opening the Mouth there are: a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Rekhmȧrā at Thebes, of the XVIIIth Dynasty; a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes, of the XIXth Dynasty; a copy, without Vignettes, written for Butehai-Ȧmen on the covers of his coffin, of the XXth Dynasty; a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt, of the XXVIth Dynasty; a copy, without Vignettes, written for the priestess Sais in the Roman period.

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(Act 1.) If envy, persecution, drive him thence, They but disgrace themselves, and not poor Charles.
 * Alice. Mary?
 * Mary. Yes; take my secret; take it quickly,

Or it will burst my heart.
 * Alice. Nay, but be calm.
 * Mary. You shall know all—surely you'll pity, Alice,

And perhaps, pardon me. Three years ago When Charles's mother first came here to live; From England, was it not: The village then Had scarce begun to hate her, for as yet She had not lavish'd charities abroad. To purchase up ingratitude and envy. Being her nearest neighbour, (my dear mother Was then alive,) there rose at once between us That intercourse which neighbourhood compels At times, e'en with the most reserved. The lady I know not why, unless out of her goodness. Graced me with her regard, and when my mother Died, she took the desolate child to her bosom.
 * Alice. 'Twas kindly done.
 * Mary. O she was goodness all.

Her words so sweet and soothing; as she spoke, Alice, methought I saw my sainted mother Lean o'er the bright edge of a silvery cloud And smile upon her happy orphan girl,— And there was Charles, so busy still around me. Exhausting all his boyish gallantries. With brotherly affection.—
 * Alice. Charles, still Charles?
 * Mary. Can I forget it!—
 * Alice. Nay, go on.
 * Mary. The winter

Soon pass'd away, and then the spring came on With all its flowers, and still the earliest blossom Was cuU'd for me. O, we were then so happy— I always lov'd the spring. Young nature then Came to me like a play-mate. Ere the snows

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4. April 19, 1709 what these letters very positively assert, to wit, that a great part of the performance was done in Italian: and a great critic fell into fits in the gallery, at feeling, not only time and place, but languages, and nations confused in the most incorrigible manner. His spleen is so extremely moved on this occasion, that he is going to publish a treatise against operas, which, he thinks, have already inclined us to thoughts of peace, and if tolerated, must infallibly dispirit us from carrying on the war. He has communicated his scheme to the whole room, and declared in what manner things of this kind were first introduced. He has upon this occasion considered the nature of sounds in general, and made a very elaborate digression upon the London cries, wherein he has shown from reason and philosophy why oysters are cried, card-matches sung, and turnips and all other vegetables neither cried, sung, nor said, but sold, with an accent and tone neither natural to man or beast. This piece seems to be taken from the model of that excellent discourse of Mrs. Manly the school mistress, concerning samplers. Advices from the upper end of Piccadilly say that Mayfair is utterly abolished;


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 the various versions of the Liturgy and the Book of Opening the Mouth will find that, in all essentials, they remained unchanged from the IVth Dynasty to about the end of the first century of the rule of the Romans in Egypt. The Vignettes, though we owe them to the funerary artists of the XVIIIth, XIXth, and XXVIth Dynasties, illustrate faithfully ceremonies which had been performed for many centuries before they were drawn, and the evidence which they afford may be used as a sure guide in determining the exact meaning of many obscure points in the rubrical directions and texts.

We may now give an account of the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings, derived from the texts in Pyramid of Unȧs and the tomb of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt. The Liturgy was recited in a chamber of the tomb called “Ṭuat,”, and when the offerings had been brought there, the table for the offerings, or altar, was purified for the , or Double, of the deceased, and the service began. The formulae were recited by the Kher ḥeb priest, who held in his hands a roll of papyrus, on which was written a copy of the service, and who directed the assistant priests; the ceremonies were performed chiefly by the, or , priest, assisted by one or more ministrants. In the earliest times the ceremonies were probably performed over the mummy, but at a later period a statue of the deceased was substituted.


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The Tatler and we hear Mr. Pinkethman has removed his in genious company of strollers to Greenwich: but other letters from Deptford say, the company is only making thither, and not yet settled; but that several heathen gods and goddesses, which are to descend in machines, landed at the King's Head Stairs last Saturday. Venus and Cupid went on foot from thence to Greenwich; Mars got drunk in the town, and broke his landlord's head; for which he sat in the stocks the whole evening; but Mr. Pinkethman giving security that he should do nothing this ensuing summer, he was set at liberty. The most melancholy part of all, was, that Diana was taken in the act of fornication with a boatman, and committed by Justice Wrathful, which has, it seems, put a stop to the diversions of the theatre of Blackheath. But there goes down another Diana and a patient Grissel next tide from Billingsgate.


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34 Climbing Kagu-yama and looking upon the land

Upon the departure of Prince Otsu for the capital after his secret visit to the Shrine of Ise

• • In the sea of Iwami, By the cape of Kara, There amid the stones under sea Grows the deep-sea miru weed; There along the rocky strand Grows the sleek sea tangle.

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Rh But few are the nights We two have lain together.

Away I have come, parting from her Even as the creeping vines do part. My heart aches within me; I turn back to gaze— But because of the yellow leaves Of Watari Hill, Flying and fluttering in the air, I cannot see plainly My wife waving her sleeve to me. Now as the moon, sailing through the cloud-rift Above the mountain of Yakami, Disappears, leaving me full of regret, So vanishes my love out of sight; Now sinks at last the sun, Coursing down the western sky.

I thought myself a strong man, But the sleeves of my garment Are wetted through with tears.

My black steed Galloping fast, Away have I come, Leaving under distant skies The dwelling place of my love.

Oh, yellow leaves Falling on the autumn hill, Cease a while To fly and flutter in the air, That I may see my love’s dwelling place! Kakinomoto Hitomaro (Seventh Century)


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36 On the occasion of the temporary enshrinement of Princess Asuka

Across the river of the bird-flying Asuka Stepping-stones are laid in the upper shallows, And a plank bridge over the lower shallows. The water-frond waving along the stones, Though dead, will reappear. The river-tresses swaying by the bridge Wither, but they sprout again.

How is it, O Princess, that you have Forgotten the morning bower And forsaken the evening bower Of him, your good lord and husband— You who did stand handsome like a water-frond, And who would lie with him, Entwined like tender river-tresses?

No more can he greet you. You make your eternal abode At the Palace of Kinohe whither oft in your lifetime He and you made holiday together, Bedecked with flowers in spring, Or with golden leaves in autumntide, Waflcing hand in hand, your eves Fondly fixed upon your lord as upon a mirror, Admiring him ever like the glorious moon.

So it may well be that grieving beyond measure, And morning like a bird unmated, He seeks your grave each morn. I see him go, drooping like summer grass, Wander here and there like the evening star, And waver as a ship wavers in the sea.

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1765. The Emperor appoints the Company to the Fiscal Administration of Bengal.

1765-72. The Company collects the revenues by native agents.

1772-86. The Company's experimental efforts at rural administration by means of English officers.

1786-90. Lord Cornwallis' Provisional System.


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the 1st of January, 1877, the plains of Delhi were witness to one of the most strange and splendid pageants that the world has ever seen. The occasion was the assumption by the Queen of England of the title of Empress of India. Eighteen years had gone by since the weighty orb and sceptre of the East passed from the great Company who had so long ruled unchallenged in the name of England into the strong hands of the sovereign alone competent for so great a trust. She had now summoned the feudatory princes and chiefs to meet her Viceroy in solemn Durbar, and hear from him the announcement which ratified her direct assumption of sovereignty. On these famous plains many royal and imperial gatherings had, in ancient days, been called together. Fifteen centuries before Christ, the Rajput chiefs had built on the banks of the Jumna their capital of Indraprastha, with its fifty-two gates; and on this very spot were held the solemn assemblages of princes and heroes, Rajasayas and Aswamedhas, of which the pictures are still bright and fresh in the Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Here, in a newer city,


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26 it is quite clear that among the members of this rich and renowned family, Roghudeb, who alone held one-third share of the whole family estates, was the most important character, and that, as between his two younger brothers and the sons of his uncle, Basudeb, Mukunda, who got nine annas share of Mahomedameenpore, held the foremost phce. In no sense, therefore, could Monohar be equal, far less superior to Roghudeb, the fact being that he was inferior, in position, as well as in estate, not only to him, but also to his younger brother, Mukunda.

Roghudeb who, as we have already stated, got one moiety of the property left by his father, Rameswar, rendered himself more famous by a very remarkable act of generosity. Murshid Kuli Khan was then Nawab of Bengal. He was a very energetic Governor and ruled the country with an iron rod. He curtailed the powers of the Foujdars of the several districts and made them subservient to his authority. The Zamindars of Bengal had become very powerful and it was high time that they should be put down, or at least reduced to a lower level. The Nawab in the exercise of his superior authority ousted them all from their

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Bansberia House occupies a very high place in the peerage of Bengal. Indeed, it yields to none in the antiquity of its origin, and may well be traced back at least to the time of Adisur, the last of the founders of independent Hindu dynasties. Its grand old parent was held in esteem by that famous king and was consulted on all important occasions. The family fared well during Hindu supremacy, but when like a bolt from the blue the 'canny' Afghan dealt a death-blow to the Sen dynasty, it removed to a safer place and having lurked there in dim obscurity for centuries together again emerged into light with the dawn of Mogul rule. While the family was still living at Patuli, in the district of Burdwan, it was ennobled by Emperor Akbar the Great who decorated it with the title of Rai, which in those days bore much higher significance than it does now. But this distinction, high as it was, was only an earnest of greater honors which were soon to come. Shortly after Akbar's demise, the next Emperor, Jehangir, raised the status of the Patuli family by conferring upon its then chief the title of Mazumdar. This was undoubtedly a much higher distinction than Rai or Zamindar, for while there were a goodly number of Rais and Zamindars, there were only four Mazumdars in all Bengal. Of this sacred Vedic number was Bhabananda the reputed founder of the Nadia Raj.

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2 Thus, by the then Lord of India from whom flowed as from a fountain all honors and decorations was the Patuli family placed on the same level with the Premier House in Bengal. But the family was destined to rise still higher. This climb almost to the topmost rung of the ladder, however, was made after the original family had broken up, and Rameswar, the fortunate recipient of the very noble title of Rajah Mahasai, had settled down for good in Bansberia. The merit of this distinction, however, lies not merely in its glorious uniqueness but also in its moral excellence. Thus, the Bansberia House possesses a rare peculiar eminence of its own, and, to compare great things with small, takes as much pride in it as the royal House of England does in what is called the brightest jewel on its diadem. No other branch of the Patuli family can as a matter of right lay claim to it, in as much as it originated at a time when not only the family had separated in estate, but the several branches had left their ancestral abode and settled down in different localities. The social annals of Bengal would be incomplete without an account of this family which has such a long brilliant record to show. The fame of the family is as resplendent now as it was "in the brave days of old", only that its fortune has to a certain extent suffered in the rough atid tumble of the battle of life. The Bansberia House is the only relic of the grand old Patuli family that is worthy of special notice, the other branches having been relegated to the cold neglected region of want and indifference. Like some commanding hill it has borne its majestic head high above the walks and ways of ordinary humanity for centuries together and is likely to bear it equally high, if not higher still, for centuries more.

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Rh Only your name and your deathless fame, Let me remember to the end of time; Let the Asuka River, your namesake, Bear your memory for ages, O Princess adored!

Even the flowing water Of the Asuka River— If a weir were built, Would it not stand still?

O Asuka, River of Tomorrow, As if I thought that I should see Her name always lives in my mind.

My Princess on the morrow, After the death of his wife Since in Karu lived my wife, I wished to be with her to my heart’s content; But I could not visit her constantly Because of the many watching eyes— Men would know of our troth, Had I sought her too often. So our love remained secret like a rock-pent pool; I cherished her in my heart, Looking to aftertime when we should be together, And lived secure in my trust As one riding a great ship. Suddenly there came a messenger Who told me she was dead— Was gone like a yellow leaf of autumn. Dead as the day dies with the setting sun, Lost as the bright moon is lost behind the cloud,


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38 Alas, she is no more, whose soul Was bent to mine like bending seaweed!

When the word was brought to me I knew not what to do nor what to say; But restless at the mere news, And hoping to heal my grief Even a thousandth part, I journeyed to Karu and searched the market place Where my wife was wont to go!

There I stood and listened, But no voice of her I heard, Though the birds sang in the Unebi Mountain; None passed by who even looked like my wife. I could only call her name and wave my sleeve.

In the autumn mountains The yellow leaves are so thick. Alas, how shall I seek my love Who has wandered away? I know not the mountain track.

I see the messenger come As the yellow leaves are falling. Oh, well I remember How on such a day we used to meet— My wife and I!

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Rh Thick with spring leaves. Abundant as their greenery Was my love. On her leaned my soul. But who evades mortality? One morning she was gone, flown like an early bird. Clad in a heavenly scarf of white, To the wide fields where the shimmering kagerō rises She went and vanished like the setting sun.

The little babe—the keepsake My wife has left me— Cries and clamors. I have nothing to give; I pick up the child And clasp it in my arms.

In our chamber, where our two pillows lie, Where we two used to sleep together, Days I spend alone, broken-hearted: Nights I pass, sighing till dawn.

Though I grieve, there is no help; Vainly I long to see her. Men tell me that my wife is In the mountains of Hagai— Thither I go, Toiling along the stony path; But it avails me not, For of my wife, as she lived in this world, I find not the faintest shadow.

Tonight the autumn moon shines— The moon that shone a year ago, But my wife and I who watched it then together Are divided by ever widening wastes of time.


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The mallards call with evening from the reeds And float with dawn midway on the water; They sleep with their mates, it is said, With white wings overlapping and tails asweep Lest the frost should fall upon them.


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Rh As the stream that flows never returns, And as the wind that blows is never seen, My wife, of this world, has left me, Gone I know not whither! So here, on the sleeves of these clothes She used to have me wear, I sleep now all alone!

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On and after February 24, 1942, all public bodies, banks, corporations, companies, partnerships and other institutions of like nature, shall, in case they make payment of dividend, surplus, interest and/or repayment of bond, debentures, etc., to the nationals of hostile countries, deposit the total amount therefor with the designated banks in the name of the representative of such paying institutions.

The distribution of liquidated assets of dissolved or insolvent institutions shall also be governed in the same way as provided above.

Provided that there is no representative available nor any representative determinable, the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines shall designate such person or persons to represent the paying institution in accordance with the petition to be made by the parties concerned.

A statement duly signed by the representative of paying institutions showing the full particulars of individual payees of the money to be paid or dividend shall be attached to the applications of the deposit as provided in article 1.

In case those who are mentioned in the statement above referred to wish to withdraw their own portion from the deposit in the name of the representative of paying institutions, they shall apply for a license to the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines authorizing them to do so, the forms and procedures being identical with that of ordinary withdrawals of bank deposit except that the signature of the representative who made the deposit shall appear on the application form jointly with the applicant's signature. Provided, however, the applicant has his own deposit account with any bank and wishes to transfer the money thereto, no prior permission shall be necessary but a report to that effect shall be filed with the Department of Military Administration of the Imperial Japanese Forces.

Whoever violates any of the above provisions shall be punished in accordance with the Military Laws —

In the case of corporate body: either the corporate body or its representative or person who actually violated the provisions or all of them;

In the case of individual: the offender.

In the above Military Ordinance, the term "the nationals of hostile countries" shall mean:

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(b) Partnership, association, corporation or other commercial organization which has been organized under the laws of the following countries, or a substantial part of the capital of which is owned or controlled by hostile nationals or organizations as defined hereunder:

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In determining, among the above, the nationals of the exiled government of Poland, Czech, De Gaulle or Chungking Government, any one who has any of the above-mentioned nationalities and is suspected to be hostile, shall be prima facie presumed to be nationals of the hostile countries.

The above Military Ordinance shall be put into effect within the limit of the City of Greater Manila for the time being.

The designated banks in the City of Greater Manila are two banks as follows:

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• • In obedience to the Imperial command, Though sad is the parting from my wife, I summon up the courage of a man, And dressed for journey, take my leave. My mother strokes me gently; My young wife clings to me, saying, “I will pray to the gods for your safekeeping. Go unharmed and come back soon!” As she speaks, she wipes with her sleeves The tears that choke her. Hard as it is, I start on my way, Pausing and looking back time after time; Ever farther I travel from my home, Ever higher the mountains I climb and cross, Till at last I arrive at Naniwa of wind-blown reeds. Here I stop and wait for good weather, To launch the ship upon the evening tide, To set the prow seawards, And to row out in the calm of morning. The spring mists rise round the isles, And the cranes cry in a plaintive tone, Then I think of my far-off home— Sorely do I grieve that with my sobs I shake the war arrows I carry Till they rattle in my ears.


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Owing to the isolated position of their country, to concentration of their energy on the campaigns against their internal enemy, to their youth, and to their undeveloped class consiousness, the Japanese Trade Unions have taken no part in international affairs, except a mere fraternal relation of the Yuai-kai with the American Federation of Labour, some personal connections with Chinese and Korean workers and Socialists, and the accidental intercourse of a few Japanese workers with the Western champions of yellow Unions at the International Labour Conference (at Washington and Genoa).

Recently we learned the Amsterdam Trade Union International is trying to create some relationship with the Japanese Trade Unions.

At any rate, it is of great importance that the huge land of the Far East has been not yet stained by the yellow colour of Internationalism.

In conclusion I wish to consider an important issue that in Japan the Trade Unions should play by far the principal role in the future development of Communism more than in European countries. The reason is rather plain. In our country most of the leading Unions sprang up for, or as as [sic] a result of, the fighting against the employer, and not for the mere friendly benefit nor protection of their craft privileges. Therefore, they are comparatively free from narrow-minded and exclusive spirit, free from such a superstition as draws the futile line of demarcation between industry and politics, between industrial and political action—the political „neutrality“—as British Trade Unionists like to do. In other words, from the very beginning the Japanese Trade Union has been fulfilling both industrial and political functions; and the Trade Union constitutes by itself a Political or Socialist body.

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 are under the extreme watch of the authority, and this not because o any moderation of Trade Union leaders but because it is backed by the powerful mass forces. Consequently, it is obvious that there is no other way to influence, to capture the mass of the workers for Communism than through existing (more or less legal) Trade Union organisations, whether they are not revolutionary enough or are so.

In short, the Japanese Trade Union is not merely in a position exceedingly sensible to revolutionary ideas, but also constitutes the sole school of the masses for Communism. Nothing is more absurd, more harmful, more criminal than to neglect, to desert the proletarian mass organisations: particularly so in Japan.

The Japanese government pays a great deal of attention to the national education. The official record tells us that more than 98 per cent of the children of school age go to school; (the elementry school is compulsory—6 to 12 years of age—and, as a rule, free). Since 1920, the regular lectures on the social, economic, and political subjects for the workers were started by the Yuai-kai in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe.


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''Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed.'' 14. ''Murr. p.'' 722. ''Ait. Kew. v.'' 3. p. 134.

CHONDRILLA cærulea cyani capitulo. ''Bauh. Pin.'' 130.

The Catananche cærulea is a native of the South of France, where it grows in hilly fituations that are stony: it is a perennial herbaceous plant, moderately hardy, and has long been cultivated in our gardens, Mr. fays, by {{sp|{{sc|Parkinson}} in 1640: {{sc|{{sp|Mille|r,}}}} who treats of it in his Dictionary, describes it as a pretty ornament to a garden, and one that is easily kept within bounds; there is certainly much about it to excite our admiration, more especially in the structure of the calyx, and the florets: the flowers, which are of a pale blue colour with a dark eye, make their appearance from July to October.

It is propagated by seeds, which {{sc|{{sp|Miller}}}} recommends to be sown in the Spring; the seedlings should be transplanted in the Autumn, into the borders where they are to remains; it may also be increased by slips: the plant requires a situation moderately dry, and is most productive of flowers and seeds when it stands long in one spot.

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Rh Property, insecurity of, 332

Prosecute, an invitation to, 294

Pulo Way, 87

Pulo Condore, 88

Punishments, 264, 309, 486

of heaven, 59, 99, 122

Queen of earth, 108

Rebellion at Leen-chow, 29, 78, 111, 158, 206, 246, 291, 470

Rebellion in Formosa, 342, 380, 423, 471

Religion, its influence, 147

of my father, 452

Repudiation, 80

Revenue, 12, and 159

Review of Renaudot, 6, 42

Review of Le Ming-che's map, 33, 113, 170

Review of Encyclopædia Americana, 161

Review of Osbeck, 209

Review of voyages to Siam, 224

Review of Le Comte, 249

Review of the Sac. Edict, 297

Review of an historical sketch, 398, 425

Review of Semedo, 473

Ricci, see Romanists.

Rivers of China, 37

of Mantchou, 115

of Mongolia, 119

of Soungaria, 171

of Thibet, 176

River, the Martaban, 38

the Meinam, 84, 230

the Yellow, 292

Rites, pagan, 499

Roads, 256

Romanism in China, 61, 308

Romanists, 377, and 430

Rumors, 78

sleeve-gem, 422

Sacred Edict, see reviews, and also songs of three characters, 244

Saigon, see Camboja.

Saints, the communion of, 496

Salt, stacks of, 136

Sandwich Islands, 283

San-shan island, 399

Savior, neglecting the, 150

Schools, 15, 104, 305, 311

School, Chinese, at Naples, 458

Scripture Lessons, 77

Scull, 260

Seay, a lady, 293

Sects, the three, 306

Sect, a new one, 294

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Sensus communis, 330

Serra, bishop elect, 379

Shamans, see catechism.

Shantung promontory, 125

Shipwrecks, 384

Siam, 336, 412, 466

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Siamese New Testament, 233

Siberia, 243

Singapore, 107

Sink, doctor, 343, 382

Slavery, 159, 292, 344

Societies, secret, 31

Soldiers, 264

Songs of three characters, 244

Soungaria, 170

Spanish, trade at Macao, 403

Spirituous liquors, 314

Strangulation, 159

St. Joseph's college, see Macao.

St. Thomas, 448

Suicides, 80, 511

Superstitious delusions, 408

tree, 259

Taxes, 12, 312

Tea, 12, 383, 477

Teen-tsin, 180, 512

Teen-fung, a rock, 90

Thieves, 79, 295

Thibet, 173

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Thunder, 344

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That is, according to this preceding discussion, we are given a lesson to do precisely as the idolaters are doing, but to remember certain dialectic distinctions, as here expounded.

“It is well known that the pagans personified all human passions and in this shape deified them; we do not personify the passions in order to deify them; we know how to value them, but, unfortunately, Christians frequently serve their passions as though they were gods, though they themselves do not notice that. One is so given to belly service and in general to the sensual pleasures that for him, according to the expression of the apostle, God is his belly (Phil. iii. 19); another is so zealously concerned about acquiring treasure and with such love guards it that his covetousness can, indeed, not be called otherwise than idolatry (Col. iii. 5); a third is so much occupied with his deserts and privileges, real and imaginary, and places them so high that he apparently makes an idol of them and worships them and makes others worship them (Dan. iii.). In short, every passion and attachment for anything, even though it be important and noble, if we abandon ourselves to it with zeal, so as to forget God


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 and act contrary to his will, becomes for us a new god, or idol, whom we serve; and a Christian must remember firmly that such an idolatry can never be coextensive with the service of the one God; according to the words of the Saviour: No man can serve two masters; ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. vi. 24).” (pp. 90 and 91.)

What is this? Where is this taken from? What a lot of things have been said and connected with the unity of God! How do they all result from it? There is absolutely no answer to that.

“Second lesson, in respect to our relation to our neighbours. Believing in the one God, from whom we all have our being, through whom we live and move and are (Acts xvii. 28), and who alone forms the aim of all of us, we are naturally incited toward union among ourselves.”

And still more texts and still less connection with the preceding. If there is any connection, it is only a verbal one, like a play of words: “God is one,—we must strive after oneness.”

“Finally, the third lesson, in respect to our relation to ourselves. Believing in God, one in substance, let us see to it that in our own being we may reestablish the primitive union which has been impaired in us through sin. To-day we feel the cleaving of our being, the disunion of our forces, abilities, strivings; we delight in the law of God after the inward man: but we see another law in our members, warring against the law of our mind, and bringing us into captivity to the law of sin which is in our members (Rom. vii. 22-23), so that in each of us there are, not one, but two men, an inward and an outward, a spiritual and a carnal, man. Let us see to it that we put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and that we put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephes. iv. 22-24), and that we


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And so forth. Without the least connection with the dogmas about the unity of God, but with a play on the word “unity,” there proceeds a discussion on the moral application of the dogma, but not a word is there for the solution of the question about the unity and trinity. I proceed to the next division of Chapter I.


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158 connoisseur, let him be a connoisseur in women." He, indeed, was accustomed in the most characteristic phrase of his type to describe "the Rhymers" as lacking in "blood and guts," and very nearly brought us to an end by attempting to supply the deficiency by the addition of four Scotchmen. He brought all four upon the same evening and one read out a poem upon the Life Boat, evidently intended for a recitation, another described how, when gold-digging in Australia, he had fought and knocked down another miner for doubting the rotundity of the earth; while of the remainder I can remember nothing except that they excelled in argument. He insisted upon their immediate election, and the Rhymers, through that complacency of good manners whereby educated Englishmen so often surprise me, obeyed, though secretly resolved never to meet again; and it cost me seven hours' work to get another meeting, and vote the Scotchmen out. A few days later I chanced upon Davidson at some restaurant; he was full of amiability, and when we parted shook my hand, and proclaimed enthusiastically that I had "blood and guts." I think he might have grown to be a successful man, had he been enthusiastic instead about Dowson or Johnson, or Horne or Symons, for they had what I still lacked, conscious deliberate craft, and what I must lack always, scholarship. They had taught me that violent energy, which is like a fire of straw, consumes in a few minutes the nervous vitality, and is useless in the arts. Our fire must burn slowly, and we must constantly turn away to think, constantly analyse what we have done, be content even to have little life outside our work, to present, perhaps, to other men, as little as the watch-mender shows his magnifying glass caught in his screwed-up eye. Only then do we learn to conserve our vitality, and to get our mind enough under control and make our technique sufficiently flexible to express the emotions of life as they arise. A few months after our meeting in the Museum, Davidson had spent his inspiration. "The fires are out," he said, "and I must hammer the cold iron." When I heard a few years ago that he had drowned himself, I knew that I had always expected some such end. With enough passion to make a great poet, through meeting no man of culture in early life he lacked intellectual receptivity, and, anarchic and indefinite, lacked pose and gesture, and now no verse of his clings to my memory.

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Rh work." "What, already?" "I work an hour a day—I cannot work longer without exhaustion, and even as it is, if I meet anybody and get into talk, I cannot write the next day; that is why I loaf when my work is finished." No one had ever doubted his industry, he had supported his wife and family for years by "devilling" many hours a day for some popular novelist. "What work is it?" I said. "I am writing verse," he answered. "I had been writing prose for a long time, and then one day I thought I might just as well write what I liked, as I must starve in any case. It was the luckiest thought I ever had, for my agent now gets me forty pounds for a ballad, and I made three hundred out of my last book of verse."

He was older by ten years than his fellow Rhymers; a national schoolmaster from Scotland, he had been dismissed, he told us, for asking for a rise in his salary, and had come to London with his wife and children. He looked older than his years. "Ellis," he had said, "how old are you?" "Fifty," Edwin Ellis replied, or whatever his age was. "Then I will take off my wig. I never take off my wig when there is a man under thirty in the room." He had endured, and was to endure again, a life of tragic penury, which was made much harder by the conviction that the world was against him, that he was refused for some reason his rightful position. Ellis thought that he pined even for social success, and I that his Scots jealousy kept him provincial and but half articulate.

During the quarrel over Parnell's grave a quotation from Goethe ran through the papers, describing our Irish jealousy, "The Irish seem to me like a pack of hounds, always dragging down some noble stag." But I do not think we object to distinction for its own sake; if we kill the stag, it is that we may carry off his head and antlers. "The Irish people," O'Leary used to say, "do not know good from bad in any art, but they do not hate the good once it is pointed out to them because it is good." An infallible Church, with its Mass in Latin, and its mediaeval hilosophy, and our Protestant social prejudice, have kept our ablest men from levelling passions; but Davidson with a jealousy, which may be Scottish, seeing that Carlyle had it, was quick to discover sour grapes. He saw in delicate, laborious, discriminating taste, an effeminate pedantry, and would, when that mood was on him, delight in all that seemed healthy, popular, and bustling. Once when I had praised Herbert Horne for his knowledge and his taste, he burst out, "If a man must be a

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I. Of the essence of God.

Of the essence of God? It was said that God is incomprehensible in his essence. Then it was said that he was a trinity. But I receive no reply to my answer, and get a new problem: God, who is incomprehensible in his essence, will be disclosed to me in his essence.

“The question of what God is in his essence (οὐσία, φύσις, essentia, substantia, natura), became, even in the first centuries of Christianity, a subject of especial attention for the teachers of the Church, on the one hand, as a question in itself of great importance and close to the mind and heart of each man, and, on the other hand, because at that time the question was taken up by the heretics, who naturally provoked against themselves the defenders of Orthodoxy.”

Again, in order to disclose the truth to me, I am introduced to discussions and to the exposition of the opinion of this man and of that, and all of them are false, and:

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78 Banford had gone upstairs. He hoped he could touch her soft, creamy cheek, her strange, frightened face. He hoped he could look into her dilated, frightened dark eyes, quite near. He hoped he might even put his hand on her bosom and feel her soft breasts under her tunic. His heart beat deep and powerful as he thought of that. He wanted very much to do so. He wanted to make sure of her soft woman's breasts under her tunic. She always kept the brown linen coat buttoned so close up to her throat. It seemed to him like some perilous secret, that her soft woman's breasts must be buttoned up in that uniform. It seemed to him moreover that they were so much softer, tenderer, more lovely and lovable, shut up in that tunic, than were the Banford's breasts, under her soft blouses and chiffon dresses. The Banford would have little iron breasts, he said to himself. For all her frailty and fretfulness and delicacy, she would have tiny iron breasts. But March under her crude, fast, workman's tunic, would have soft white breasts, white and unseen. So he told himself, and his blood burned.

When he went in to tea, he had a surprise. He appeared at the inner door, his face very ruddy and vivid and his blue eyes shining, dropping his head forward as he came in, in his usual way, and hesitating in the doorway to watch the inside of the room, keenly and cautiously, before he entered. He was wearing a long-sleeved waistcoat. His face seemed extraordinarily a piece of the out-of-doors come indoors: as holly-berries do. In his second of pause in the doorway he took in the two women sitting at table, at opposite ends, saw them sharply. And to his amazement March was dressed in a dress of dull, green silk crêpe. His mouth came open in surprise. If she had suddenly grown a moustache he could not have been more surprised.

"Why," he said, "do you wear a dress, then?"

She looked up, flushing a deep rose colour, and twisting her mouth with a smile, said:

"Of course I do. What else do you expect me to wear, but a dress?"

"A land girl's uniform, of course," said he.

"Oh," she cried nonchalant, "that's only for this dirty mucky work about here."

"Isn't it your proper dress, then?" he said.

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Rh me that Wilde got, perhaps, an increase of pleasure and excitement from the degradation of that crowd of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics and I remember too his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter. Did the austerity, the melancholy of his thoughts, that spiritual ecstasy which he touched at times, heighten, as complementary colours heighten one another, not only the vision of evil, but its fascination? Was it only Villon, or did Dante also feel the fascination of evil, when shown in its horror, and, as it were, judged and lost; and what proud man does not feel temptation strengthened from the certainty that his intellect is not deceived?

I began now to hear stories of Dowson, whom I knew only at The Rhymers, or through some chance meeting at Johnson's. I was indolent and procrastinating, and when I thought of asking him to dine, or taking some other step towards better knowledge, he seemed always to be in Paris, or at Dieppe. He was drinking, but, unlike Johnson, who, at the autopsy after his death, was discovered never to have grown, except in the brain, after his fifteenth year, he was full of sexual desire. Johnson and he were close friends, and Johnson lectured him out of the Fathers upon chastity, and boasted of the great good done him thereby. But the rest of us counted the glasses emptied in their talk. I began to hear now in some detail of the restaurant-keeper's daughter, and of her marriage to the waiter, and of that weekly game of cards with her that filled so great a share of Dowson's emotional life. Sober, he would look at no other woman, it was said, but, drunk, desire whatever woman chance brought, clean or dirty.

Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting. His poetry shows how sincerely he felt the fascination of religion, but his religion had certainly no dogmatic outline, being but a desire for a condition of virginal ecstasy. If it is true, as Arthur Symons, his very close friend, has written, that he loved the restaurant-keeper's daughter for her youth, one may be almost certain that he sought from religion some similar quality, something of that which the angels find who move perpetually as Swedenborg has said, towards "the dayspring of their youth."

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152 represent them at some convention in the United States, and I went to consult Johnson, whom I found sitting at a table with books about him. I was greatly tempted, because I was promised complete freedom of speech; and I was at the time enraged by some wild articles published by some Irish American Newspaper, suggesting the burning down of the houses of Irish landlords. Nine years later I was lecturing in America, and a charming old Irishman came to see me with an interview to write, and we spent, and as I think in entire neglect of his interview, one of the happiest hours I have ever spent, comparing our tales of the Irish fairies, in which he very firmly believed. When he had gone I looked at his card, to discover that he was the writer of that criminal incitement. I told Johnson that if I had a week to decide in, I would probably decide to go, but as they had only given me three days, I had refused. He would not hear of my refusal, with so much awaiting my condemnation; and that condemnation would be effective with Catholics, for he would find me passages in the Fathers, condemning every kind of political crime, that of the dynamiter and the incendiary especially. I asked how could the Fathers have condemned weapons they had never heard of, but those weapons, he contended, were merely developments of old methods and weapons; they had decided all in principle; but I need not trouble myself about the matter, for he would put into my hands before I sailed the typewritten statement of their doctrine, dealing with the present situation in the utmost detail. He seemed perfectly logical, but a little more confident and impassioned than usual, and I had, I think, promised to accept—when he rose from his chair, took a step towards me in his eagerness, and fell on to the floor; and I saw that he was drunk. From that on, he began to lose control of his life; he shifted from Charlotte Street, where, I think, there was fear that he would overset lamp or candle and burn the house, to Gray's Inn, and from Gray's Inn to old rambling rooms in Lincoln Square, and at last one called to find his outer door shut, and the milk on the doorstep sour. Sometimes I would urge him to put himself, as Jack Nettleship had done, into an Institute. One day when I had been very urgent, he spoke of "a craving that made every atom of his body cry out" and said the moment after "I do not want to be cured," and a moment later, "In ten years I shall be penniless and shabby, and borrow half-crowns from my friends." He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to

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