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 in his observation of conduct is conveyed in these expressions:—the dropping of the eyelid for the purpose of reflective scrutiny indicates a determination to look through disguises, and rightfully to interpret whatever may wear a semblance of falseness. This is a truth to be thought of by those who accustom themselves to repeat the prayer, "Search me and try me, and see what evil way there is in me:" it is a truth for those who submit themselves willingly to the severest conditions of the spiritual discipline. As for men of another class, who desire no such schooling, it is said of them that—"The Lord knoweth them afar off"—what they are it needs no careful observation to discern.

Parallel instances are abundant in the Psalms, and throughout the prophetic books; but this is not all that should be said, for instances of a contrary kind nowhere occur. The Hebrew writers, in long series, not only teach the same theology; but they teach it always, and only so, in metaphoric terms; and more than this—it is always under the condition of connecting their affirmations of the Divine attributes with the purposes and the needs of the spiritual training of the individual soul.

There is before us then a method—invariably adhered to;—there is a rule that is never violated; but it is a method and a rule of which we become cognizant only when we look back from the latest to the earliest of a long series of writers, each of whom has his own manner, his individual characteristic


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 style. Not one in the series gives evidence of his personal consciousness of the law which, nevertheless, he is silently obeying; and it is a law which is far from obvious in itself, and it is by no means such as would spontaneously offer itself, even to minds of the highest order; much less to the fervent and the inartificial. We—of this late age—trained as we are in, and familiar with, the habitudes and the phrases of abstract thought, easily recognize the principle which gives continuity to the writings of the Old Testament; and we are able to put an abstraction of this kind into words. But it is certain that no such enunciation of an occult law would have been intelligible to the writers themselves, who nevertheless, each in his turn, implicitly and always conforms himself to it. Here indeed—as throughout the material world—there is —there is an intention which gives coherence to a complicity of parts; but it is—as in the material world, so here—an intention which was unperceived and unthought of, while it was in course of execution.

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 turn of one of the angles of the path Lake Inawashiro is seen in a hollow, shining like a mirror in the last rays of the setting sun. But the steepness of the slopes which lead to the foot of the valley soon eclipses this panorama, and after three ri of easy walking we arrive at the village of Nakiji, close to Lake Inawashiro.

Nakiji is about three kilometres from the eastern extremity of Lake Inawashiro. Taking boat on the lake it may be traversed towards the N. E. as far as the point where it flows into the basin of Aidzu, from whence Wakamatsu may be reached on foot. But strong westerly winds are frequent on the lake, and at such times the passage is almost impossible in the wretched boats ordinarily employed. Under these circumstances the route to Aidzu must be regained by crossing from Nakiji to Fukura.

Inawashiro is one of the largest and most picturesque lakes in Japan. It is fed by two streams which flow from the East and North-east and measures about 4 ri in all directions. It is surrounded by mountains of no great elevation, except that of Bardaisan on the North shore, one of the highest in Aidzu. On the same shore there are a few villages where salmon and masu are caught, and a fish, peculiar to certain lakes in Japan, called the akahara (red-belly). A small trade is carried on between Wakamatsu and the different points of the lake. But the total absence of roads in the neighbouring regions renders all commercial movement difficult, and it may be said of this place, as of the whole of the interior of Japan, that the growth of public wealth would derive considerable impulse from the opening of good roads. The main roads (called on’kaido), like that of Aidzu, are the only ones laid out and these are only intermittently repaired. These even are detestably bad in respect of the inequality of the surface and the steepness of the slopes. Their reform is a work of paramount necessity to the Japanese Government and would be productive of the best results.

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 as an agreeable summer resort, although it should be stated that they are entirely destitute of all resources for European life. The temperature is cool, and in winter the streams are frozen for several weeks.

If desirous to regain the Tokaido, the traveller must take the route from Nakiji to Fukura which is undulating and picturesque. From Nakaji to Harajika, by Fukura, there are five ri to traverse, over a good country. The mountains assume a bolder character as you approach Wakamatsu.

The slopes from mount Kanehori and Takizawa are steep. Towards the North lie the vast plain of Aidzu and its capital Wakamatsu which is reached after a march of 8 or 9 ri from Nakiji,—a fatiguing walk on account of the disintegrated filex which forms the soil from Ojukaido for several kilometres before reaching Wakamatsu.

Wakamatsu is the capital of the ancient province of Aidzu. It is a considerable town, but possessed formerly a far larger population than at present. The Castle of the Princes of Aidzu, situated on a hill at a short distance from the town, has been destroyed and razed to the ground. The town is situated nearly in the centre of a great oval plain, of from 10 to 12 ri in its longest diameter, and constituting what is properly called the Aidzu country. This plain is fertile, cultivated with rice, and watered by many rivulets which descend from the surrounding mountains, and which unite in the principal stream which flows out of the Lake Inawashiro.

Besides Lake Inawashiro, there are in the basin of Aidzu, two other lakes or lagoons; the waters of these three lakes uniting to form the river which flows towards Niigata. A fourth lake named Kosemura, which is said to be situated on the N. E. slope of the mountains of Nikko also discharges its waters into the same basin, which also carries a large volume of water in the Japan Sea.

The mountains which surround the plain of Aidzu are majestic, and many are very lofty, among others the Bandaisan to the Northeast, the form of which is remarkable; Miyojingatake to the South; and the Itoyosan

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 to the West. This latter mountain, even in summer, is not exempt from snow, and furnishes ice which is cried about the streets of Wakamatsu.

At a distance of one ri from the the town there is a very celebrated place of resort, named Shigashiyama. It is a collection of tea-houses in a deep ravine formed by a stream of considerable volume. From the clefts in the rocks which form the right bank, streams of hot water flow; and many resort to the spot to enjoy the cool air and take the benefit of the warm springs, which are of a temperature of about 50-55° C; but they have neither taste nor smell, and do not appear to contain any salt.

On leaving Wakamatsu for Niigata, the western route must be taken, which is a metalled road running through rice fields, and in as detestable a condition as can be imagined.

From Wakamatsu to Bangé—a considerable commercial town—is 3 ri 10 cho.

From Bangé to Funato, 1 ri, 20 cho. At the latter place a bridge of boats must be passed, constructed similarly to those used in Europe. The aspect of the river is picturesque. On leaving it the neck of the mountain called Tabanematsutogé has to be attacked by a very steep ascent of from 5 to 7 kilometres. From the summit, on which there are two tea-houses, a fine view may be enjoyed. The descent is by an abrupt and picturesque path towards Nozawa, a large town which must formerly have been much frequented. The road, which preserves a generally western direction, passes over the remarkable shoulder called Karumatogé.

In all these mountains the lacquer tree (urushi-no-ki) is found, which is tapped by horizontal incisions in the trunk. It is almost useless to say that the aspect of the country from WakametsuWakamatsu [sic] is picturesque in proportion to the badness of the roads, and the steepness of the slopes. These conditions are unfortunately universal throughout the whole of the interior, and if the eye is pleased the lower limbs are tortured. The tourist should therefore be well shod, and fortified with a patience which does

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 not belong to all Europeans. From all these points of view the country situated between Nikko, Aidzu and Niigata deserves special mention.

The river becomes navigable at Tsagawa, which, in virtue of this position, has become the important centre of a commerce and carrying trade. From this point Niigata can be reached by water in a day when the stream is strong. The distance by land between the two places being from 18 to 20 ri, an estimate may be formed of the rapidity of the stream, here called the Tsagawa. When the water is slack, a halt must be made for the night and Niigata reached the next day, the native boatmen being justly unwilling to descend the river during the dark hours. The rapidity of this form of locomotion is not without some disagreeables. For 4 or 5 ri after leaving Tsagawa a number of rapids must be passed, and the river, being hemmed in by steep rocks, is much of torrent, studded with rocks, and all the skill, coolness and constant practice of the boatmen are required to avoid grave and frequent accidents. The boats are long and narrow (7 ken by 3 to 4 shaku broad,) a kind of canoe in which it is well not to indulge in any unnecessary movements, and two men, standing, one in the stem the other in the stern, direct a course in which the smallest error may cause the wreck of the whole freight upon a rock. After three or four hours of this exercise, the mouth of the defile is reached, the river becoming broader and more calm as its mouth is reached; but the sand-banks and eddies render the navigation dangerous at night.

The overland route from Tsugawa to Niigata at first follows the left bank, crossing the very difficult pass of Iwaya. It crosses the river afterwards at a ford, and winds about in a bend on the right bank. This road is only taken in going from Niigata to Tsugawa; the ascent of the river by water occupies from five to seven days, and it is impossible to pass its rapids without great trouble. This part of the basin of the Niigata river is contiguous to coal and copper mines, rich enough, it is but not productive on account of the want of good said, roads.

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 The approach to Niigata is dull and desolate, the open plains and environs being sandy and uninteresting. The town is very regularly built, the streets are clean, well-kept and rectilinear, and a number of canals keep the town in communication with the river. The population is estimated at over 50,000, and represents the entire commercial importance of all the West. It is at the same time the centre of pleasure and recreation for the whole of the district. The climate seems to differ sensibly from that of the other side of the Pacific; the heat is very great in summer, and the winter is cold and long. As is usual on this side of the Japan Sea the houses are all fronted with a covered verandah, which allows of exercise when the snow covers the streets. The roofs are built at very open angles and weighted with heavy stones. The typhoon which passed over Nagasaki and the South on the 20th August 1874 ended its course northwards, appearing in Niigata on the 21st from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. The maximum intensity was during the hour between 8 and 9 p.m. Every house was more or less injured, but the destruction was less severe than at Nagasaki on the night of the 20th. The typhoon swept the whole coast from south to north on the 20th and 21st.

The most serious bar to the ultimate development of Niigata is the existence of a very dangerous sand-bank at the mouth of the river. Besides the waters which come from Aidzu, which, on account of their volume, bring down vast quantities of sand, the river Shinano, the largest in Japan, flows through Niigata, gathering on its course all the waters of the central chain of the West, which again by their vast volume contribute to the blocking up of the port of Niigata. An attempt has been made to remedy this condition of affairs by the construction of a canal, which, however, has been abandoned or account of its defective plan.

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 into port at Teradomari, south of Niigata, to escape the dangers of the bar.

A detailed description of the island of Sado and of the works there, which are under the direction of Europeans, will shortly be given by recent explorers. Although Niigata is an open port it contains very few European residents (5 or 6 in 1874.) There is no doubt that the making of carriage roads from this point to Aidzu would contribute greatly to the extension of business.

From Niigata to Takeno-machi the road follows the shore, passing sometimes through sand, sometimes through paddy-fields or pine woods, and offering little worthy of note.

From Takeno-machi the road, diverging from the South, runs through rich paddy fields towards the East, skirting a bold ridge which projects into the sea, and the very steep declivity of which does not admit of an easy road by the shore. The sea is again struck to the West and South-west, the road traversing the remarkable pass called Saigatabatoye, from the summit of which a splendid view of the rich plains of Echigo in the back-ground can be enjoyed, while the Sea of Japan and the island of Sado lie in the foreground. On emerging from this pass the little port of Teradomari may be seen, a fishing village about two kilometres in length and well situated. (It would make an agreeable watering place.) From Takano-machi to Teradomari the distance is 5 ri.

Leaving Teradomari there is no other road than the sea-shore, which is of fine sand with a gentle slope more agreeable to the bather than the pedestrian. According to circumstances the tourist can follow the coast on foot, or engage a small vessel to go southwards coasting along with a fair wind. Idzumozaki (4 ri) may thus be reached, a very large fishing village, 4 kilometres long, and of considerable commercial activity. There are some pleasant tea-houses near the shore, and the beach is very agreeable.

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Hello and thanks very much for your contributions. However, we need some more information about the added works Arbitration Award on Clipperton Island Sovereignty Dispute and Boundary Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Afghanistan, especially: the translator(s), years of publication of the translations, source of the added translated texts, and their licence, so that we are sure that they are in accordance with the US copyright laws. See also Copyright policy and Help:Copyright. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:59, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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Where was this translation published? Can it be legally hosted here? We need information about where it came from to determine this.

Regarding your deletion request, we don't delete one translation to host a different one. If multiple translations have been published, we'll host all of them that are in public domain and meet our publication requirements. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:00, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

 * Hey @EncycloPetey, I translated it but after seeing all the work that I would need to do I just didn't feel like going through with the rest of it the process. Dr vulpes (talk) 00:13, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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 * There is one problem that needs to be solved if you want to add your own translation. According to Wikisource policy, it is necessary to upload a scan with the original language publication to Commons, proofread the work in the appropriate language Wikisource (Italian in this case) using the proofread extension, and only then it can be translated for the English Wikisource. Unfortunately, I cannot give any advice about adding works to Italian Wikisource, it would be necessary to ask people there. General advice can be found at Help:Adding texts and Help:Proofread. In fact it is really a lot of work and it might be quite difficult for a newbie contributor. So I also strongly recommend to add a published translation which is in the public domain in the United States (applies mostly to translations published until 1928, with some exceptions, see Help:Public domain). It is preferred when such a published text is added here using the proofread extension too (i. e. upload the scan, create the index page and then proofread it page by page). If you needed any help with this, you can ask e. g. at WS:Scriptorium/Help, there is always somebody willing to help. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 01:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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 . To Hiza, 3 ri, where an important annual horse-fair is held in the fifth month of the year. In 1874 2,000 horses were brought there.

To Arabama (2 ri) a considerable fishing village, with a miscellaneous trade. To Kashiwazaki, 2 ri, an important commercial town with a populatonpopulation [sic] of 12,000. There was a sharp skirmish here in 1868, and many houses still bear marks of the strife.

It is better to go by sea from Kuji tanami (the shipping port of Kashiwazaki) to Imamachi, if the weather be favourable.

On arriving at Imamachi, there is a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river, which can only be crossed when the wind is in any other direction than northerly. In good weather this voyage is pleasant and rapid, and in the distance may be seen the peaks of Tateyama in the province of Echu. The foot of the Yoneyama is passed, a mountain of fair altitude, on the summit of which there is a temple which can be very distinctly seen from the sea. This temple is only frequented or inhabited from the 4th to the 8th month. Near Kujiranami there are some deep caverns in the cliffs, which may be entered by boats. All this coast, from Teradomari to Imamachi, is well populated, commercial, and possesses a good climate. The nights are cool, and the shore well adapted for sea-bathing. The beach is soft and remarkable for the absence of shells. The men are vigorous, tanned by the sun and sea-air, and devoted to fishing. The women are strong and capable of the hardest toil such as is usually undertaken by men. Immamachi is a large town with a population of from 6,000 to 8,000 souls, built on the left bank of a river which conduces to a flourishing trade.

From Imamachi to Tokata 2 ri. Leaving the coast, the road opens towards the south, crossing a vast and fertle valley and leaving to the right in a south-easterly direction three peaks rather remarkable for their form and dimensions, and known as Migokosan, Shuchisan and Yakeyama, the ascent of all which appears difficult.

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 the ancient seat of a daimio, and still important from a commercial point of view. It is one of the great centres of production and supply of the west side of the main island, and particularly of the province of Echigo.

From Bakata to Sekigawa.—Route by causeway in the middle of the rice-fields from Bakata to Arai 3 ri. Arai is a large village of from 4 to 5,000 souls. From Arai the road rises by gentle but continuous slopes. Passing Mihogi you cross the very picturesque torrent of Sekigawa, of which the two steep banks must be climbed by a zig-zag path which has a pretty effect. Sekigawa is a wretched village, but the honjin is good.

Immediately after passing this village you climb a stiffish pass called Kumasakatoge, and on descending from this pass come upon the pretty village of Nojeri, on the border of a little lake of the same name.

The lake of Nojeri is very picturesque and well situated. The form of it is somewhat curved and its length appears to me not to exceed a ri and a-half. It is embellished with little well-wooded islands, and has but few fish. On its banks tower the three summits of Kuroshime yama.

From Nojiri to Murei (3 ri) the road traverses some pleasant woods, and redescends to Murei with tolerably rapid slopes. You then find yourself by the side of a great torrent which empties itself into the river of Shinano.

Leaving Murei you enter the mountainous part of the pass called Koda mazaka. From the top of this pass you behold the vast panorama of the basin of the Shinanogawa, peopled with numerous and rich villages, and the view is bounded to the south by the high mountains of the Shinano district. The whole of this region appears rich and cultivated.

As soon as you descend into the valley you meet a long succession of villages, nearly contiguous, which end at the temple of Zenkoji, 4 ri 20 chô from Murei. This temple, which has no other merit than that of being very large and situated upon a rather towering hill, is one of the most celebrated and most frequented in Japan. The

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HE mere use of any such phrase as this—The Hebrew Poetry, or the speaking of the Prophets as Poets—is likely to give alarm to Bible readers of a certain class, who will think that, in bringing the inspired writers under any such treatment as that which these phrases seem to imply, we are forgetting their higher claims, and thus disparage them as the Bearers of a message immediately from God to men.

Alarms of this kind arise, either from a misapprehension of the facts before us; or from absolute ignorance of those facts; or, it may be, from some inveterate confusion, attaching to our modes of thinking on religious subjects. The remedy must be found in the removal of this ignorance—in the clearing up of these confusions, and especially—and most of all—in the attainment of a thorough and deep-felt confidence in the Divine origination and authority of the Canonical writings. Those religious alarms or jealousies which impede the free


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 course of thought on this ground—if they do not spring from stolid and incurable prejudices, are yet the indication of a shaken and variable belief in the Bible, as the medium of a supernatural Revelation.

It will be in no dread of the imputation of unbelief that we enter upon the field now in view. A tremulous tread on this ground would be sure sign, either of incertitude as to first principles, or of a treasonable cowardice; and probably of both: we here disclaim the one as well as the other of these sinister restraints. If indeed there be dangers on our pathway, let them be manfully encountered, and they will disappear, as do always the phantoms of superstition when boldly looked at. The risks to faith that haunt this subject are factitious, and have had their origin in an ill-judged modern eagerness to conform our doctrine of Inspiration to the arbitrary conditions of a logical or pseudo-scientific system. No such attempt can ever be successful; but the restless and often-renewed endeavour to effect a purpose of this kind breeds perplexities—it feeds a bootless controversy, and it furnishes disbelief with its only effective weapons.

If unwarranted and unwarrantable modern schemes, as to the nature and the extent of Inspiration, are put out of view, and if interminable argumentation be cut short, then the Bible will return to its place of power and of benign authority, yielding to us daily its inestimable treasures of instruc-


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 tion, admonition, and comfort; but so long as we adhere to a theory of Inspiration, whether it be of better quality or of worse, we shall be open to disturbance from the inroads of textual and historical criticism, and shall be haunted by the grim suspicion that the Scriptures are confusedly constituted of heterogeneous elements—some of which are purely divine, while some are merely human: or we shall accept the comfortless hypothesis that the divine substance in Holy Scripture has become flawed or intergrained with the grit and débris of human inadvertence, accident, ignorance, or evil intention; and that thus the Bible is a conglomerate of materials, precious and worthless. Under the influence of suppositions of this kind, and in proportion to our personal candour and intelligence, we shall be asking aid from any who can yield it, to inform us, at every section, and verse, and line, what it is that we may accept as "from above," and what it is that should be rejected as "from men." A Bible-reading method less cumbrous than this, and less comfortless too, and less embarrassing, is surely attainable.

When we accept a mass of writings as a gift from God, in a sense peculiar to themselves, and which is their distinction, as compared with all other human compositions, we do so on grounds which we think to be sufficient and conclusive. Already therefore we have given in our submission to the Book, or to the collection of books, which we are willing to re-


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 gard as rightfully determinative of our religious belief, and as regulative of our conduct and temper. If it be so, then no other, or middle course can, consistently with undoubted facts, be taken than this; we must bring ourselves to think of these writings as, in one sense, wholly human; and read them as if they were nothing more than human; and, in another sense, as wholly divine; and must read them as if they were in no sense less than divine.

Endless confusions, interminable questionings, come from the mitigative supposition—That, in any given portion, page, or paragraph, certain expressions, or separate clauses, or single words—here five words, and there seven words, are of human origination; while other five words, or seven, or other clauses or sentences or paragraphs, are from heaven; and that thus a perpetual caution or marginal indication is needed, by aid of which we may, from line to line, discriminate the one species of writing from the other—sifting the particles of gold from out of the sand and clay in the midst of which we find them. It is manifest that the better instructed a Bible reader may be, and the more intelligent and conscientious he is, so much the deeper, and so much the more frequent will be his perplexities, and so much the less comfort and edification will he draw from his Bible daily: it will be so if a notion of this kind has lodged itself within him.

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 dium of its conveyance to us, although never separated therefrom. That which we find, and which "finds us" also, is not the parchment and the ink, nor is it the writing, nor is it the Hebrew vocables and phrases, nor is it the grammatical modes of an ancient language; nor is it this or that style of writing, prosaic or poetic, or abstract or symbolical; for as to any of these incidents or modes of conveyance, they might be exchanged for some other mode, without detriment to the divine element—the ulterior intention, which is so conveyed. We all readily accept any, or several of these substitutions—and we moderns necessarily do so—whenever we take into our hands what we have reason to think is a trustworthy translation. It is not even the most accomplished Hebraist of modern times (whoever he may be) that is exempted from the necessity of taking, from out of his Hebrew Bible, a meaning—as to single words, and as to combinations of words—which is only a substitute for the primitive meaning intended to be conveyed by the Hebrew writer to the men of his times. Thought, embodied in words, or in other arbitrary signs, and addressed by one human mind to another human mind, or by the Divine mind to the human mind, is subjected to conditions which belong to, or which spring from, the limitations of the recipient mind. The question is not of this sort, namely, whether Thought or Feeling might not be conveyed from mind to mind with unconditioned purity, in some occult


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 mode of immediate spiritual communion. This may well be supposed, and, as we are bound to believe it possible, it may be accepted as a truth, and as a truth that has a deep meaning in Religion.

But the position now assumed is this—that Thought or Feeling, when embodied in language, is, to its whole extent of meaning, necessarily conditioned, as well by the established laws of language, as by all those incidental influences which affect its value and import, in traversing the chasms of Time. Statements of this kind are open to misapprehensions from various sources, and will not fail to awaken debate. So far as such misapprehensions may be precluded, this will best be done in submitting actual instances to the reader's consideration.

Take, as an instance—one among many that are equally pertinent to our purpose,—the Twenty-third Psalm. This is an ode which for beauty of sentiment is not to be matched in the circuit of all literature. In its way down through three thousand years, or more, this Psalm has penetrated to the depths of millions of hearts—it has gladdened homes of destitution and discomfort—it has whispered hope and joy amid tears to the utterly solitary and forsaken, whose only refuge was in Heaven. Beyond all range of probable calculation have these dozen lines imparted a power of endurance under suffering, and strength in feebleness, and have kept alive the flickering flame of religious feeling in hearts that were nigh to despair. The divine element


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 herein embodied has given proof, millions of times repeated, of its reality, and of its efficacy, as a formula of tranquil trust in God, and of a grateful sense of His goodness, which all who do trust in Him may use for themselves, and use it until it has become assimilated to their own habitual feelings. But this process of assimilation can take place only on the ground of certain assumptions, such as these—It is not enough that we read, and often repeat this composition approvingly; or that we regard it as an utterance of proper religious sentiments: this is quite true; but this is not enough: this Psalm will not be available for its intended purpose unless these expressions of trust in the divine beneficence be accepted as warrantable. May not this confident belief in God as the gracious Shepherd of souls be a vain presumption, never realized?—May it not be an illusion of self love? Not so—for we have already accepted the Psalms, of which this is one, as portions of that authentic Holy Scripture which has been given us from above. Thus it is, therefore, that throughout all time past, and all time to come, this Psalm has possessed, and will possess, a life-giving virtue toward those who receive it, and whose own path in life is such as life's path most often is.

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 whether textual or historical, might rob him of his treasure, or might diminish its value to him. In its relation to the religious life, and to the health of the soul, this Psalm is wholly divine; and so every particle of it is fraught with the life-giving energy; nor need religious persons—or more than one in ten thousand of such persons—concern themselves in any way with any questionings or considerations that attach to it as a human composition.

But the Psalm now in view is also wholly human, as it is also wholly divine in another sense—every particle of it being of the same stamp as other human compositions; and therefore it may be spoken of, and it may be treated, and analysed, and commented upon, with intelligent freedom, even as we treat, analyse, and expound, whatever else has come down to us of ancient literature. Let it be remembered that neither in relation to classic literature, nor to sacred literature, does free criticism include any right or power to alter the text, or to amend it at our pleasure. The text of ancient writings, when once duly ascertained, is as fixed and as unalterable as are the constellations of the heavens: and so it is that the Canon of Scripture, if it be compared with the inconstancy and variableness of any other embodiment of religious belief or feeling, is a sure foundation—abiding the same throughout all time to the world's end.

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 IN WASHINGYON,. 432 KATE'S WINTER

A little error in time, that was all—the boy was being dispatched by Lily with the note at that moment; but it wae wonderfully near the truth for either of the Marsdens to come.

“Very well,” said Kate: “then I must go back, I suppose you will both be at Mrs. Gregory's this evening.”

“Lily will, I may possibly have to go to New York tonight.”

“Indeed! For long?” Kate asked, rising from her seat.

“Some days—a week, perhaps. So, please don’t grudge me five minutes. I am sure there is nothing very dreadful in your sitting still, even if the lady of the house is not keeping guard—I believe that sort of prudishness went out with our grandmothers.”

Like most girls of the present generation, there was nothing Kate detested more than being considered a prude—so she sat down again.

“I meant to come round and bid you good- by,” he went on.

“You did not speak of going last night,” she said.

“No. I received news this morning that de cided me.

“Lily will be quite alone.”

“Yes, I could have wished her to be with you. Indeed, f am not sure but I should have asked the favor, she is such a timid puss, if it had not been for last night.”

“How do you mean?” asked Kate, not be- cause she had failed to understand, but because it was easier to ask a question than to say anything else.

“I think you must know—you must have seen. It was quite evident that your uncle was displeased with her from some cause—perhaps with me.”

“I have not seen him this morning,” Kate said, evasively.

Marsden was silent for a little, then he said, hurriedly,

“Kate, you must feel that something menaces our friendship—you know what a grief that would be to Lily; but you don’t know, you can’t, what it would be to me.”

“I am not in the habit of giving up my friends without good cause,” Kate answered, loftily.

“I don't know what it is,” Philip continued, “but I am certain your uncle has become prejudiced against us. I am quite aware that I have powerful enemies, and Lily is so dread- fully imprudent.”

“As I told you, I don't know at all, for I have had no conversation with my uncle.”

“But I am right.”

“Yes, I am afraid so, from his manner and the few words he said as he bade me good- night."

Philip struck his hand against his forehead with a low exclamation of pain; then leaned his elbow on the table to support his head, ond looked straight before him at a bust of Clytie, sufficiently elevated to give his eyes their most telling expression.

“Heaven knows my life has not been an easy one,” he went on, in the studied monotone that was so effective. “I have borne a great deal that was very hard, but fate has never aimed a blow that went home so close as this.”

Kate was greatly moved, and felt the tears so near her eyes that she dared not raise them.

“It may be all a mistake,” she said, forcing herself to speak calmly. “I am sorry that I did not see my uncle this morning, At least, you know that I have the fullest confidence in both you and Lily—that you are the dearest friends I have on earth.” “God bless you for those words!” exclaimed Marsden, with a sudden burst of enthusiasm. “Whatever comes, I shall remember them.”

“You speak as if some serious trouble menaced you,” Kate said. “I hope it is only because you are out of spirits this morning.”

“Yes, without doubt, that must be it,” he answered, with a tragic laugh.

“If there is any annoyance or trouble hanging over you and Lily, you must know how grieved I am,” Kate said,

“Yes, I believe that, I am past believing many things in this world—but I do believe that,”

“I am sure neither you or she could doubt it.”

“Not for an instant, my dear little sister. I should be a more wretched man even than I am if I could.”

“And please, don’t think me impertinent, but tell me if you have some business anxiety that makes you so sad.

“None of importance—nothing that I am thinking of now,” he answered, with a deeper, gloom in his voice, more troubled shadow in his eyes.

Kate's next thought was that Lily had com mitted some greater imprudence than ordinary, and that either he was annoyed and jealous, or pained on her account, lest her conduct should expose her to the comments and animadversions of the world.

“If Lily has done anything to annoy you, she will be the first to grieve,” she said. “You know how impulsive she is, how easily carried �

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HE conditions under which literature began in Denmark—and every general remark on this subject, applies essentially to Sweden also — and by which its character and quality were for some time determined, differed widely from the conditions under which the Norwegian-Icelandic scaldic poetry and saga writings had been developed. Both in Norway and in Iceland, and indeed especially in the latter country, there existed, as we have seen, many circumstances which of necessity made the literature, when once it had attained the stage of self-consciousness, assume a marked national stamp, and remain intimately connected with the heathendom of the past, in which it was so deeply rooted; while in both the other northern countries it acquired a far more cosmopolitan character, and became more closely identified with Christian culture. Christianity had been introduced from Germany. During a long time it had been preached by foreign, partly German and partly Anglo-Saxon clergymen, and even after the inhabitants had accepted the new doctrine, and begun to choose its future apostles from among themselves—a fact which did not, however, prevent a number of foreign monks from immigrating throughout the middle age, nor even whole monastic colonies from being introduced from abroad—even after the establishment of the new faith, the clergy, as the


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96 sole representatives of culture, still continued to form a caste separate and distinct from all other social orders, with which they were frequently engaged in violent and bitter controversy, as, indeed, was also the case in the countries from which Christianity had been brought. The inevitable result of this state of things was that the clergy not only lacked sympathy with, but also the requisite knowledge of the ancient records, the preservation of which was indispensable for the production of a national and popular literature. As a matter of course, the language of the Roman church, the Latin, became the learned clergy's sole medium of communication, but it was also employed in matters of general and national interest, and thus it absolutely obstructed the road to any free and natural intellectual development. In other words, while in the Icelandic literature, the popular element had vindicated its own rights, the conditions in the rest of the North were of such a kind that they could give birth only to a learned literature, a literature created by and for the use of scholars, and thus the influences which had their origin in the people, and which had been transmitted from the heathen time, were completely interrupted by Christianity, and could only at a much later period find their way back into the literature.

The, and that means, then, the intellectual culture of Denmark, in general, throughout the entire middle age had not only been originally introduced from abroad, but it continued to be closely connected with the centres of learning in foreign countries. All clergymen who desired to acquire a higher culture at first visited the German universities of Cologne and Heidelberg, and later the renowned universities of Paris, Bologna, Padua, etc., until the close of the middle age, when spiritual interests had considerably declined, and men again contented themselves with visiting the neighboring German universities. During the golden period of Denmark, the age of the Waldemars, from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century, the country enjoyed a high degree of power,


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Rh prestige and prosperity, and the national culture unfolded its fairest mediæval flowers, and during this period the Danish youths were particularly fond of going to Paris to study. The university of that city was at that time the most comprehensive and in all respects the most excellent scholastic institution in Europe. Youths from all lands gathered there in large numbers. From the North and especially from Denmark there came many a young man eager to secure the highest degree of scholastic culture that the age afforded. Not unfrequently they would attain high honors abroad and then return to their native country to fill the highest places in the church. This was the case with the renowned archbishops Absalon and Anders Suneson, of whom the latter was for a long time a professor, perhaps even the rector of the University of Paris, a position which on several occasions was filled by Danes. Prom the fourteenth century we know the names of at least four rectors of the University of Paris, who were "de Dacia." That the number of Danes in Paris was comparatively large and conspicuous may be inferred from various circumstances, and among them from the fact that about the middle of the twelfth century there was founded the "Collegium Danicum," the first of its kind, and it continued to exist for more than two hundred years.

Theology and its kindred subjects, particularly philosophy and canonical law, were well nigh the only studies pursued. It was the age of mysticism and scholasticism, and at the universities the scholastic researches, to which the Italian Anselm and the Frenchman Abalärd, the two most eminent ecclesiastical teachers of the middle age, had given the impulse, engrossed the attention of all students. As a matter of course these studies could be of no great benefit either to the heart or the mind. They accepted the doctrine of the church as infallible, established once for all, one in regard to which there was no room for doubt, and they only exerted themselves to secure a sort of external harmony between free thought with Aristotle as the basis and their accepted


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98 system of dogmatical formulas. While the scholastic investigations were pursuing these formulas down to the most subtle deductions, they can only be regarded as mental exercises, in which definitions and distinctions were of primary, and the living and essential contents of merely secondary importance. The instruction imparted in the convents and cathedral schools in Denmark was of course of the same kind and quality, as far as it was not limited to the Latin and to the poorest elementary training needed for the service of the church. It is hardly necessary to add that the Latin language was cultivated in a manner corresponding to the general intellectual life of the clergy. During the best period of the church, learning was held in high honor and the study of the Roman authors was pursued with great zeal, and both in the convents and by private individuals there were made valuable collections of books. But in a later period of the middle age there occurred in this as in all other matters a sad collapse.

It is a most characteristic fact in regard to the part which the church and all that is connected with it played in Denmark from the beginning of the middle age, that the oldest work of any importance, of which we are certain that it was written in Denmark, contains the apotheosis of a man whose whole life had been devoted to the advancement of clerical interests. It is a biography of Knud the Saint (Historia ortus, vitae et passionis S. Canuti, regis Daniæ), written by the English monk Ælnoth, who lived in Denmark from the close of the eleventh to the beginning of the twelfth century. He was preacher to St. Alban's church in Odense, in which the afterward canonized King Knud was murdered by rebellious peasants.

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Rh ligious domain. A number of eminent churchmen are named as authors of learned theological works; poems were also written in honor of saints, legends were produced, etc., all of course in Latin, although there are traces to be found which seem to indicate that some of them at least were written in the national vernacular in order that they might find a larger circle of readers. Psalms, hymns, and other similar productions were of course mostly written in Latin, since the divine service was performed in that language exclusively.

The most considerable work produced by the scholastic learning of that period was 's poem, the "Hexaëmeron." This notable man, the successor of Absalon on the archiepiscopal seat of Lund (1201-22) stood at the head of the learning of his time, and during his prolonged stay in Paris, England and Italy, he acquired a very high reputation, which, as has already been mentioned, secured him the eminent position in the University of Paris. This reputation was further enhanced by his great poem which was universally extolled by all his contemporaries. The poem contains 8,093 hexameters, which, from a metrical point of view, are in nowise masterly, nor does the work as a whole betray any very great poetic talent. In the preface the author states that the poem is chiefly intended for the instruction of the youth in the Latin language without exposing the pupils to the corrupting influences that beset them when they peruse "those sirens," the heathen poets. Through the instrumentality of this poem they were rather to be beguiled into loving the Christian religion. As the title indicates, the work describes the creation of the world in six days; yet it does not confine itself to this, but also contains a number of allegories and of scholastic comments on various points of ecclesiastical doctrine. Moreover, it furnishes liberal abstracts from the author's theological system, and affords upon the whole substantial evidence of Suneson's great learning and dialectic acumen.


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KATE'S WINTER IN WASHINGTON. away by her high spirits; but she is good and true at heart.” She—she has no heart!” he exclaimed, bit- terly. But what matters it? I was not think ing of her! I wish I was away from it all! I have three minds to break loose, to take myself off to some distant land and begin life over, and see if fate can’t grant me, at least, a little of the happiness she so freely lavishes on other men.”

“Go away—leave Lily?”

“Do you suppose Lily would grieve? Bah! She would be delighted to assume the role of the injured wife! Don’t talk about her—I don’t want to think.”

“You must not speak in that way, Mr. Marsden,” said Kate; ‘it is not right for you to talk so, or me to listen.”

“Mr. Marsden!” he repeated; ‘‘it has come to that! You used to call me Philip—you used to say you regarded me as your brother.”

“So I have, Philip; so I do,” she cried, im- pulsively, too much touched by his apparent suffering to think of herself, or weigh her words. ‘You know there is nothing that could disturb my friendship for you. It pains me so much to see you so unhappy—I wish you would tell me the cause.”

“Is it possible you do not know, that you do not suspect!” he exclaimed. ‘Can you be so blind, after all these weeks, after all that you have seen me suffer——.”

His voice died in a sob. Kate sat staring, pale and frightened, but even yet not compre- hending what he meant.

“Kate! Kate!” he groaned.

She actually believed that some great anxiety, which he had kept from her, was driving him temporarily insane. She did not dream of being afraid; she only thought of soothing and quiet- ing his paroxysm of distress.

“Only try to be calm, Philip—brother!” She? rose from her seat and laid her hand on his’ arm.

He broke away from the light clasp of her fingers, crying,

“Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me! Oh! this is too much—too much! I can bear no more!

Kate shrunk back aghast at the pallor on his cheek, the fire in his eyes; the animal was so thorough an actor, and entered so completely into his part that, for the moment, it was ear- nest to himself.

Kate sunk into her chair again, almost wild with fear that he was going out of his senses, wondering if Lily would never come, afraid to leave him, conscious that she ought not to re- main; loath to call one of the servants to see him in that state, and in the whirl and confu- pleading voice,

Oh, Philip! Philip!”

As the words left her lips, he fell on his knees at her feet, and clasping her hands so tightly that she could not release them, exclaimed,

I must speak—I will! I love you—I love you! Kate, Kate! have mercy! “T mad!”

It was the first time in all her petted life that anything approaching insult, or rudeness even,  had ever come near the girl. She started to her feet; he sprung up, still holding her hands,  and repeating those insane words.

How dare you!” she exclaimed. hands go. Oh, you coward!” At that instant the door burst open, and in rushed Lily, careful to close the door behind her, and at sight of the tableau she gave a melodramatic shriek.

Deceived! betrayed!” she moaned. ‘My husband! My friend! The girl I called sister— loved better than my own life! Oh, heaven! that I had been struck dead on the threshold before I saw a sight like this.”

Marsden groaned, and covered his face with his hands. Between rage and fright Kate was pale as a ghost, and shaking from head to foot.

“Speak!” shrieked Lily. “Say something, one of you! Explain this, or be merciful and kill me where I stand! Kate, I command you to speak!”

‘Let your husband explain, if he can!” ex claimed Kate; and amid all her terror and anger, she was conscious of a vague wonder that her voice should sound so cold and unmoved. ‘Perhaps, he may do so to your satisfaction. All I ask is to leave this house.”

‘‘Not yet—not yet!” cried Lily, springing between her and the door, and suddenly changing from the heart-broken wife to an infuriated Medea. “You don’t leave this house yet!’ I know all—I heard enough! You called him Philip, dear Philip! He was on his knees be- fore you—your hands in his—your face close to his lips! Oh, fiend! wretch! and I live—I live!”

“If you heard anything,” returned Kate, struggling against the deathly faintness that was coming over her, you know that your husband grossly insulted me.’

“I know that he told you he loved you. A man does not do that unless a girl has given him encouragement No, no, you can’t deceive me.”

“Silence, woman!” exclaimed Marsden, sud-

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100 Still, even when Latin language and culture flourished most luxuriantly, there was fortunately not an entire lack of historical taste in Denmark. Several Danish kings of the middle age took the deepest interest in the history of their country, and were themselves well versed in it. Thus Svend Estridson, for instance, was able to contribute to Adam of Bremen many of the facts incorporated by the latter in his chronicle of the Bremen bishopric concerning Danish affairs, which had happened before his time, and King Valdemar I also studied the past and its monuments with the deepest interest. But the chief credit for diffusing a taste for national history and for securing to it at least some exquisite fruit belongs to Archbishop (1128-1201), the great servant of that great king. This man, equally eminent as a prelate and as a warrior, made his powerful influence felt in the establishment and propagation of foreign science in Denmark, but he was none the less impressed with the necessity of preserving the ancient monuments. Thus at his orders the monks in Sorö compiled annals of the most remarkable events in Denmark. This chronicle writing, which also was enjoined on other convents, was however chiefly limited to dry annals, a few biographies, stories of convents, etc., but matters of historical value they did not furnish. We are also indebted to Absalon's zealous efforts for the two most important works that were produced in Denmark in the middle age, namely the chronicles of Svend Aageson and of Saxo, the latter of which is a work of the highest value, and would be an ornament to the literature of any country. Both of these men wrote at the direct request of Absalon.

belonged to one of the richest and noblest families descended from Palnatoke. Archbishop Eskild in Lund (1137-1178) was his father's brother. But little is known concerning him, beyond the fact that he was a clergyman, and probably a "canonicus" in Lund. His book, ," is the first attempt at a connected presentation of the history of Denmark, and em-


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 aggregate of the villages of Mina, Naganomura &c., which surround it, may furnish a population of 50–60,000 souls. This agglomeration of people seems to be flourishing and the superstition which attracts devotees to this sanctuary is more earnest than ever.

From Zenkoji to Sakaki.—From Zenkoji to Tanpagima, 1 ri 12 chô, the road traverses the plain and river Shinano. This river as has already been said, empties at Niigata into the Japan sea. It has its source to the south of lake Suwa, runs there from S. to N., afterwards turning towards the N. W. to Niigata. One may follow the right bank as far as Niigata, but this which is called the Nagasaki route, is very bad, and for this reason it is preferable to proceed down the shore from Niigata to Takata, according to the itinerary here indicated.

From Tanpajima we may shape our course either towards Matsmoto or directly to the east in order to reach Lake Suwa. This latter route is preferable because we thus avoid three very difficult passes, which are in the direction of Matsmoto.

We turn consequently to Shinonoi, 2 ri 10 chô, and, thence, following the valley of the Chikumagawa and affluent of the Shinanogawa, arrive at Sakaki, 4 ri, by a picturesque road, traversing fertile and well-peopled districts.

The plain before Shinano has been the theatre of battles famous in the history of Japan (about 1520?) between the Princes of Echigono Kenshiu and Takeda Shingiu. Two ri further on than Shinonoi and about 1 ri from the road and on the right, a series of pretty high mountains called Obasuke-yama may be seen, at the foot of which is a remarkable, large stone, about 20 in. high at the side of a little pond, which tradition represents as guarded by a fantastic dragon, and other absurdities which merit no further mention. Before Sakaki the river Chikumagawa makes a way for itself across the mountains, by a vertical fissure very remarkable and having a fine effect.

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General works

 * A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, by Friedrich von Wenckstern (two vols.: 1859–1893 (1895), 1894–1906 (1907))
 * Bibliography of the Japanese Empire (1928), by Oskar Nachod (covers 1906–1926)
 * A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
 * Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols., (1901), by Francis Brinkley
 * Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
 * Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene

Collections of literature

 * Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan (1930), translated by Eric S. Bell and Eiji Ukai
 * Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
 * Modern Japanese Literature (1956), by Donald Keene
 * Modern Japanese Stories (1961), by Ivan Morris

Works about poetry

 * The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi

Collections of poetry

 * Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan (1915), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
 * Hyakunin Isshū · Portal:Hyakunin Isshu
 * The Voice of the Valley (1897), by Yone Noguchi

Songs

 * Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross
 * Kimi ga Yo, Japanese national anthem, lyrics based on a waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), 1880 melody by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi, supervised by Hiromori Hayashi (partly based on the original 1870 melody by John William Fenton)

Drama

 * Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards
 * Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori

Folklore

 * In Ghostly Japan (1899), by Lafcadio Hearn
 * The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
 * Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), by Lafcadio Hearn

Novels

 * Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
 * A Daughter of the Samurai (1925), by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
 * The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
 * The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
 * Tayama Katai and His Novel Entitled Futon (1971), by Motoko Reece

Short stories

 * Five Short Stories (1904), by John Luther Long
 * Four Japanese Tales (1919), by Jan Havlasa
 * Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Essays

 * Through the Torii (1922), by Yone Noguchi

Journals and Diaries

 * Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi
 * The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
 * The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
 * Three Years in Tibet (1909), by Kawaguchi Ekai
 * Tosa Nikki, by Ki no Tsurayuki

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 right bank of the Chikumagawa taking a straight direction to the east. After three ri we arrive at Weda, a very great centre of the production of silk, and containing from 40,000 to 50,000 souls.

From Weda to Hoya, 2 ri 18 chô, we follow the last offshoots of the groups of Asamayama. On leaving Hoya the road returns to a southerly direction, following the valley of the torrent called Yodagawa. On this very picturesque road one may in returning enjoy the view of Asamayama, the crater of which emits (and did so notably in 1874) abundant vapours. Finally we rejoin the Kisokaido at Nagakubo, after a march of 4 ri, which though interesting, is painful, the soil of all these roads being always denuded (at least in 1874.)

From Nagakubo to Shimonosuwa.—We proceed from Nagakubo to Wadajiku, and thence to Shimonosuwa (total 8 ri 18 chô) surmounting the passes of Weda and Waga by a picturesque road; but one of the most difficult that one can travel, excepting the last part, which is good for about 1 ri before reaching Shimonosuwa. At about this distance, one has a delightful view of the lake.

Stay at Shimonosuwa.—The village of Shimonosuwa is built at a short distance from the lake, which unfortunately is not seen from the larger of the houses. In this village are found hot springs, and three principal sources may be mentioned, which are:

1.—Wata noyu, near the principal post-house (Gohungin); the baths are clean, and are even closed to the public, the temperature is 43°. The inhabitants pretend that these waters contain silver, and they call them Ginyu.

2.—Koyu, containing alum. Temperature very high.

3.—Tangayu, temperature very high; there are also the sources of the Kunuwosowa at the other end of the lake. These are also much frequented by the inhabitants. The climate of the borders of the lake is always fresh; on the 27th in the morning the thermometer indicated 12° 5 at 6 o’clock. One might make a summer visit here in circumstances favourable to health. In winter, according to the statements of the inhabitants, the cold is very

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title: The Scots Magazine


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 severe, and one might cross the lake upon thick ice for 30 or 40 days (January and February.) The fishing is excellent and it is said that the country abounds in game. On fine days one may see from the middle of the lake Fujiyama, which appears in all its height through a large opening formed at the S. E. by the mountains which encircle the lake.

The lake is not large, 2 ri by 1 ri, but it is well situated and surrounded by remarkable mountains; it empties its waters into the Pacific, by the large river Tenriyukawa, which runs towards the S.E. and has its outlet at Hamamatsu (province of Enchiu) into the Pacific.

This river is one of the most important in the island of Nippon. It traverses mountainous regions almost impassable; its course is torrent-like, and presents rapids which are descended with some danger. The navigation on it is considerable.

From Shimonosuwa to Kamitsutahi.—From Shimonosuwa to Kaminosuwa 1 ri 18 chô, we follow the north bank of the lake. The view of the lake and surrounding country is picturesque; to the east the far off summits of Hidanotakayama, which may be seen, preserve the traces of show in their fissures.

Kaminosuwa is a moderate sized village, situated at the end of the lake, where is still to be seen the castle of the Prince who formerly lived in the district. From Kaminosuwa to Kanagawa (3 ri 18 chô) a pretty route, through a moderately well-cultivated country. From Kanagawa to Kamitsutaki (3 ri) a hilly road with fine horizon. Fusiyama, which commands the whole landscape, is nearly always visible.

From Kamitsutaki to Kōfu.—From Kamitsutaki to Tsuburai (5 ri 10) the road, which is very hilly, follows almost entirely the course of a torrent (an affluent of the Fujikawa.) The fields are traversed by streams of water, very rapid and beautifully clear.

After leaving Tsuburai near Nizazaki the road goes into the bed of the torrent, itself and becomes very often impassable (2 ri, 18 cho.)

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The Scots Magazine/Volume 94

 * /July 1824/
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 CHAPTER XXXIV

Time to think

About ten days I lay in that tent, suffering a bodily weakness which made my animal self crawl away and hide till the shame was passed. As usual in such circumstances my mind cleared, my senses became more acute, and I began at last to think consecutively of the Arab Revolt, as an accustomed duty to rest upon against the pain. It should have been thought out long before, but at my first landing in Hejaz there had been a crying need for action, and we had done what seemed to instinct best, not probing into the why, nor formulating what we really wanted at the end of all. Instinct thus abused without a basis of past knowledge and reflection had grown intuitive, feminine, and was now bleaching my confidence; so in this forced inaction I looked for the equation between my book-reading and my movements, and spent the intervals of uneasy sleeps and dreams in plucking at the tangle of our present.

As I have shown, I was unfortunately as much in command of the campaign as I pleased, and was untrained. In military theory I was tolerably read, my Oxford curiosity having taken me past Napoleon to Clausewitz and his school, to Caemmerer and Moltke, and the recent Frenchmen. They had all seemed to be one-sided; and after looking at Jomini and Willisen, I had found broader principles in Saxe and Guibert and the eighteenth century. However, Clausewitz was intellectually so much the master of them, and his book so logical and fascinating, that unconsciously I accepted his finality, until a comparison of Kuhne and Foch disgusted me with soldiers, wearied me of their officious glory, making me critical of all their light. In any case, my interest had been abstract, concerned with the theory and the philosophy of warfare especially from the metaphysical side.

Now, in the field everything had been concrete, particularly the tiresome problem of Medina; and to distract myself from that I began to recall suitable maxims on the conduct of modern, scientific war.


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Author:Robert Welsted

Works

 * De Ætate vergente Liber (London, 1724)
 * De adulta Ætate Liber (London, 1725)
 * De Medicina Mentis Liber (London, 1726)
 * Tentamen de variis Hominum Naturis (London, 1730)
 * Tentamen alterum de propriis Naturarum Habitibus (London, 1732)

title: Author:Robert Welsted


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434 KATE'S WINTER IN WASHINGTON. denly assuming a Roman attitude. ‘No more of this!”

“I will not be silent!" retorted she. Don’t: think you have a child to deal with! I will!  expose you both! I'll have a separation—a divorcee! The whole world shall know what I have endured—shall see this girl for what she is,”

All Kate thought of waa to get out of the house before she was completely insane. She raade another attempt lo reach the door. Lily rushed to a table, snatched a dagger that lay there, and was accustomed to doing duty as a paper-cutter, and sprung toward her, uttering wild imprecations—calling on heaven to nerve her arm and give her strength to avenge her wrongs, and then deal death to herself, that she might die cursing both. “Death! Death!” she howled, and made an other dash at Kate, but Marsden caught her in his arms. She dropped the dagger, and with a prolonged moan in a minor key, she sunk back apparently insensible in his hold.

“Go—go!” cried Philip. ‘“‘Escape while you; can,” t

Kate needed no second bidding; she flew out! of the room, down the hall. Never, in all her life, was there so welcome a sound to her ears as the closing of the outer-door behind her. How she got into the carriage, or gave the order to drive home, she never could tell; she only knew that she must live to get there. After that, no matter—there was nothing but death left for her.

CHAPTER VIII.

Tin moment the house-door closed, Lily raised herself and stood up.

“You oughtn’t to have let her go,” said she, “My plan was to send for old Wallingford.”

“Then what did you tumble into my arms for?” growled her husband. “Never mind—I’m going to the house. it’s Saturday, so there’s no session—he’s sure to be home. He's got to pay at least ten thousand to settle this; he'll do anything rather than have an expose.’

“Say I've gone, left you penniless; that you will, at least, have moneyed satisfaction——”

“Bah! teach your grandmother!” interrupted Lily, irreverently. «Ring the bell for a car- riage! I thought you never would came to point, you were so long about it! You're good al theatricals, but it’s the old-fashioned, slow sort. I go in for a rush myself,”

Philip laughed, and as he rang the bel! he called her a name that most women would have considered an unpleasant epithet; but he did it in an admiring tone, and Lily seemed to take   it as a compliment, for she laughed, too, and  pirouetted away to the mirror to arrange her  hair, which had tumbled about her shoulders  in the fervor of her histrionic efforts. The carriage stopped before her home, and Kate darted out and got into the house. What she meant to do she could not have told—meet  her uncle, tell him, was impossible. There was some vague idea in her mind of dying, or run- ning away and hiding herself forever; for that there, could be any release, any hope of extricating herself from this horrible strait she did not once dream; and to remain, to bear the exposure, the disgrace, was out of the question.

It all came up before her during that drive, which had seemed endless—her uncle’s grief, the trial, the crowd, she forced before it; the horrible talk, the newspaper paragraphs going over the length and breadth of the land. No hope, no way out; if she could only die—fall dead then and there, and so end it.

She was in the house, and instinctively turned toward the little room where she was accus- tomed to sit during the day, certain to be un- tenanted.

She opened the door; as it closed she gave a groan, which was answered by a quick exclamation. She looked up, and found herself face to face with Harry Everett.

“Kate! Kate! In heaven’s name, what is the matter?”

She was past speech now—the sight of him was the crowning blow. Her features worked fearfully—with one long, gasping breath she fell at his feet in horrible convulsions.

He raised her and placed her on a sofa, in- stinctively feeling that she had brought some dreadful catastrophe upon her head. Having sense enough not to call for assistance, and for all he was frightened, and only a man, retain- ing sufficient self-possession to get her bonnet off and sprinkle water in her face, and do his best to restore her.

Kate was perfectly conscious all the while, but she could not speak or open her eyes; the nervous spasm made such a sense of weight on her chest, such an oppression in her throat, that she believed herself suffocating. She hoped so, she was mentally praying that it might be depth; and through it all she could hear Harry Everett’s voice calling her by every tender epithet, assuring her of his love, only urging her to be calm, and to tell him everything.

The force of the paroxysm spent itself at last. She was shaking and icy cold still, but

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text: Category:Monthly Challenge (January 2024)


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Wells (Volume 10)", flag = "UK", subject = {"Fiction"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 3).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 3)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 4).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 4)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 7, flag = "France", status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 5).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 5)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Tristram.djvu"] = { year = 1927, title = "Tristram", author = {"Edwin Arlington Robinson"}, subject = { "Poetry", "Pulitzers" }, cover = 9, flag = "United States", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf"] = { year = 1918, title = "The Return of the Soldier", author = {"Rebecca West"}, subject = { "Novella" }, cover = 1, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The New Centurion - Eastwick - 1895.pdf"] = { year = 1895, title = "The New Centurion", author = {"James Eastwick"}, subject = { "Novels", "Requested texts" }, cover = 6, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Next Naval War - Eardley-Wilmot - 1894.djvu"] = { year = 1894, title = "The Next Naval War", author = {"Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot"}, subject = { "Military history", "Requested texts" }, cover = 7, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu"] = { year = 1826, cover = 7, title = "Vivian Grey (vol 2)", author = "Benjamin Disraeli", flag = "United Kingdom", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The records of the Virginia company of London - Volume 1.djvu"] = { year = 1906, cover = 11, title = "The records of the Virginia company of London (vol 1)", flag = "US", subject = {"American history", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu"] = { year = 1796, cover = 5, title = "Horrid Mysteries (vol 3)", author = "Carl Friedrich August Grosse", flag = "Germany", subject = {"Gothics", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Celtic twilight. Men and women (IA celtictwilightme00yeat).pdf"] = { year = 1894, cover = 5, title = "The Celtic Twilight", author = "William Butler Yeats", flag = "Ireland", subject = {"Poetry"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Following the Equator (Mark Twain).djvu"] = { year = 1897, cover = 9, title = "Following the Equator", author = "Mark Twain", flag = "US", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Black Moth.pdf"] = { year = 1921, cover = 7, title = "The Black Moth", author = "Georgette Heyer", flag = "US", subject = {"Novels", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Illustrations of the history of medieval thought and learning.djvu"] = { year = 1920, cover = 7, title = "Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning", author = "Reginald Lane Poole", flag = "UK", subject = {"Medieval history"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Unclos e.djvu"] = { year = 1982, cover = 1, title = "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea", flag = "United Nations", subject = {"Treaties"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["A chambermaid's diary.djvu"] = { year = 1900, cover = 7, title = "A Chambermaid's Diary", author = "Octave Mirbeau", flag = "France", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["A history of Hungarian literature.djvu"] = { year = 1906, cover = 7, title = "A History of Hungarian Literature", author = "Frigyes Riedl", flag = "Hungary", subject = {"Literature", "History"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis (1897 Curtin translation).djvu"] = { year = 1897, title = "Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero", author = "Henryk Sienkiewicz", subject = "Novels, Christianity", cover = 11, flag = "Poland", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },        },        [2] = {            ["ISC-China.pdf"] = { year = 2023, title = "China", author = "Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament", subject = { "Current affairs", "CCP", "Espionage" }, cover = 1, flag = "United Kingdom", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },			[ 'History of Woman Suffrage Volume 4.djvu' ] = { year = 1888, title = 'History of Woman Suffrage (Volume 4)', author = 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton', flag = 'USA', cover = 7, subject = { 'Women\'s Rights'}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },			["Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 2.djvu"] = { cover = 15, year = 1911, author = 'Jules Verne', title = 'Works of Jules Verne (vol 2)', flag = 'France', subject = {'Novels', 'Adventure'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },			['The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 6).pdf' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1760, author = 'Laurence Sterne', title = 'The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 6)', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction'}, status = { initial = 'proofread', }   	    },    	    ['The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 7).pdf' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1760, author = 'Laurence Sterne', title = 'The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 7)', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = 'proofread', }   	    },    	    ['The Wreck of a World - Grove - 1890.djvu' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1890, author = 'William Grove', title = 'The Wreck of a World', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction', "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = 'proofread', }   	    },    	    ['The Bard of the Dales.djvu' ] = { cover = 5, year = 1850, author = 'John Castillo', title = 'The Bard of the Dales', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction', "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }   	    },    	    ["Treaty of Peace - Versailles (1919) Ottawa.djvu"] = { year = 1919, flag = "the League of Nations (1939–1941)", title = "Treaty of Versailles", subject = {"World War I", "Treaties"}, cover = 1, status = { initial = "proofread", },			},   	    ['Mosquitos (Faulkner).pdf' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1927, author = 'William Faulkner', title = 'Mosquitos', flag = 'USA', subject = {'Fiction', "Celebrating the Public Domain"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }   	    },    	    ['Religion and the rise of capitalism.pdf' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1926, author = 'Richard Henry Tawney', title = 'Religion and the rise of capitalism', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Religion', "Celebrating the Public Domain"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }   	    },    	    ['The Moon Maid.pdf' ] = { cover = 9, year = 1926, author = 'Edgar Rice Burroughs', title = 'The Moon Maid', flag = 'USA', subject = {'Fiction', "Celebrating the Public Domain"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }   	    },    	    ['The Painted Veil - Maugham - 1925.djvu' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1925, author = 'W. Somerset Maugham', title = 'The Painted Veil', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction', "Celebrating the Public Domain"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }   	    },    	    ["The lay of the Nibelungs; (IA nibelungslay00hortrich).pdf"] = { year = 1901, title = "The Lay of the Nibelungs", author = {"Alice Horton", "Edward Bell", "Thomas Carlyle"}, subject = { "Poetry" }, cover = 7, flag = "Germany", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 1).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 1)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 2).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 2)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["Little Lord Fauntleroy.djvu"] = { year = 1886, title = "Little Lord Fauntleroy", author = {"Frances Hodgson Burnett"}, subject = { "Children's Literature" }, cover = 13, flag = "US", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },			["Chapters on Jewish literature (IA chaptersonjewish00abra).pdf"] = { year = 1899, title = "Chapters on Jewish Literature", author = "Israel Abrahams", subject = "Jewish literature", cover = 7, flag = "United Kingdom", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Innocents Abroad (1869).djvu"] = { year = 1869, cover = 15, title = "The Innocents Abroad", author = "Mark Twain", flag = "USA", subject = {"Travel", "Humor"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },	            ["Principlesofpoli00malt.djvu"] = { year = 1836, title = "Principles of Political Economy (Malthus)", author = "Thomas Malthus", subject = "Economics", cover = 7, flag = "United Kingdom", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.djvu"] = { year = 1919, title = "Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918", author = "Rudyard Kipling", subject = {"Children's", "Poetry"}, cover = 7, flag = "United Kingdom", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The life of Charlotte Brontë (IA lifeofcharlotteb01gaskrich).pdf"] = { year = 1857, title = "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", author = "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell", subject = "Women Writers", cover = 13, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["The life of Charlotte Brontë (IA lifeofcharlotteb02gaskrich).pdf"] = { year = 1857, title = "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", author = "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell", subject = "Women Writers", cover = 13, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },			["The last of the Mohicans (1826 Volume 3).djvu"] = { cover = 5, year = 1826, author = "James Fenimore Cooper", title = "The Last of the Mohicans (Volume 3)", flag = "USA", subject = {"Novel"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }       	},			["Following darkness (IA followingdarknes00reid).pdf"] = { cover = 5, year = 1912, author = "Forrest Reid", title = "Following Darkness", flag = "UK", subject = {"LGBT"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }       	},    		 -- giving a few an extension ["Lucian (IA lucianlucas00collrich).pdf"] = { year = 1873, cover = 7, author = "William Lucas Collins", title = "Lucian", flag = "Rome", subject = {"Classics"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread", },           },            ["The Music of the Spheres.djvu"] = { year = 1926, cover = 3, title = "The Music of the Spheres", author = "Beatrice Hart Slaight", flag = "United States", subject = {"Celebrating the Public Domain", "Astronomy"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Volume 09).pdf"] = { year = 1903, flag = "Philippines", page = "Portal:The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803", author = "Emma Helen Blair", title = "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Volume 9)", subject = "Western Colonialism", cover = 7, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },		},	}, }

title: Module:Monthly Challenge/data/2024-01


text: Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/January 2024