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done: but I can’t do them. I wasn't
properly endowed, -or hadn't, and
couldn't have got, the training for it.
Meantime I do what my hand finds to
do and try not to fret. For example,
I have just effected the organization of
a Library Association in this little man-
ufacturing town—which very likely will
prove to be the most valuable piece of
work I have ever done, or shall ever
do. Maybe one ought to say—for who
knows tendencies and subtleties of out-
come—the least harmful piece of work.
Anyway, the thing is not to spoil too
mucly time and brains trying to be sure
of the absolutely best work—but to use
all reasonable effort to see, and then—
even if in vexatious doubt—to strike into
the most probably sensible course, and
work like a locomotive. One can at
least fix his course for a year ahead,
and agree with his conscience to let him
alone to work at that for the year. And
so year by year, if no other way is pos-
sible to one’s temperament, one can get
through a fine stent of work in a life-
time.”
ABOUT BEING KNOWN.
Here is another good idea for a man
starting out in life or for a man who
is out. It is in the end of a letter to an
intimate—
“As to your thought that I have scat-
tered, and ought to make myself ‘favor-
ably known.’ My dear fellow, I like
your caring for me enough to say this
and wish this, but—if you knew about
my life of late years and my ideas of
life you would see. I am not and
haven't been trying to make myself
favorably known. The devil take any
one that 1s trying for it. I have been
working to educate, in some high sense,
successive classes of young people; and
meanwhile to know more about educa-
tion, and especially literature as a means
of it, and about education in its rela-
tion to society and life. I am contented
to die unknown, if I can arrive at the
truth about certain great matters and
can put others in the way thereof. If
there is anything which utterly disgusts
me and makes me howl aloud and swear,
it is these infernal fools who are fighting
to get their names abroad, and care for
no other work. That a man like Spen-
cer should be well known is a matter
of course and all right; but he has
not cared for that. Let a man work his
work in peace, and the devil take his
name—the less likely to get anything
more of him than that.”
But enough of quoting. One won't
stop reading the letters who starts on
them. Here is something pretty good
about the study of literature:
“The more you think of it the more
you will come to see that the moment
you drive the study of literature away
from the virile thought of modern men
and women, you drive it into the puerili-
ties of word-study, and mousing about
‘end-stopt lines’ and all that.” ;
As to the prose itself, some older
readers will recognize much of it. There
are such titles as these: “Principles of
Criticism,” “Our Tame Humming-
birds,’ “Should a College Educate?”
(a mighty good thing to read just now
when curricula are being torn up) “A
Rhapsody of Clouds,” “The Bread-and-
Butter Moments of the Mind,” “‘Right’
and ‘Ought,’” and so on and so on and
so on. Those who knew Sill will read
much of it, even for the second time.
Those who do not, will be a bit finer in
their thought and feeling, after they have
read it, and will have much pleasure too.
Lit. Poetry.
The poetry of the Lit. is not of a high
order. Thereisin “The Land of Pass-
ing Day” a somewhat remarkable pic-
ture of perhaps questionable propriety,
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which, we think, rather mars the piece,
“And lo, as the last faint flushes wane,
The bull-frog sobs his sad refrain,
To greet the silver moon.”
For centuries, in verse, the nightingale
has been made to greet the moon, and
perhaps it is time to provide a substi-
tute for her, but we hardly think the
bull-frog is the proper person. |
E. B. R. in Yale News.
College Stories Rich in Promise.
Smith College Stories.
Dodge Daskam.
College is a deliciously intricate jum-
ble of a world. No one person can see
all sides of it. Sympathies will uncon-
sciously lean toward one or the other
hemispheres.
were written by as many different con-
temporaries, their combined productions
might reflect a fairly accurate whole of
Smith or Wellesley or Vassar, or that
alma mater which exists in the mind of
the respective graduates as a body. It
has been a kind of fad to-emphasize the
trivial side of college life.
think, after reading the usual college
story, that college was either an ideal,
‘romantic four-years’ sojourn or a place
of three-parts fun, largely nonsense, a
grain or so of pain and “quantity suffi-
cient” of work. Hence college stories,
barring exceptions, have lacked the seri-
ousness, the natural truth, the simple
beauty upon which all substantial literary
work must abide.
And there is a seriousness to college.
I do not mean long-facedness. Amid all
the diversions and buoyancy and sun-
shine there is a deep underlying tone
of pathos. Here one takes the first
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