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Indeed, as one critic declared, there is an insolence of security
in his attitude toward sorrow and death, which grates harshly when
brought into touch with reality. But this criticism is borne more by
his first than by his second volume, which is less spiritual and there-
fore more human, more real.
But Ian Maclaren's power unques-
tionably lies in his large sympathy and enthusiasm of humanity,
which is but another term for religious emotion. The transfiguring
touch in all his characters, commonplace in themselves, takes place
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nearer to
when the light of love and sacrifice falls upon them; (as when the
sun shines on a fallow field,”. to quote a passage of his own,-
“and the rough furrows melt into warmth and beauty. ” Then his
humor,— homely, strong, and flexible as the vernacular in which
much of it is clothed, — saves him on the whole from maudlin scenes,
and the excess of an essentially optimistic sentimentalism, as also
does his sturdy, shrewd common-sense. For pure and dry but not
ungenial drollery, there is nothing in the two volumes to match
Our Sermon Tasterand 'A Triumph in Diplomacy'; unless it be
parts of A Nippy Tongue,' where Ian Maclaren comes
Galt than any of his contemporaries, Mr. Barrie himself not excepted.
And it is the introduction of this perfect character, Jamie Soutar,
into A Servant Lass) which prevents it from becoming too depress-
ingly sad, and gives us Ian Maclaren at his best throughout one
whole story.
Popular favor however is not always guided by artistic principles;
and for obvious reasons the Doctor of the Old School' will prob-
ably continue to hold a first place, and in that section of the “Bon-
nie Brier Bush' the chapter entitled The Doctor's Last Journey'
will always stir the emotions most deeply. The pathos of the clos-
ing scenes is almost unbearable, and no Scotsman can read them
with a dry heart. A Doctor of the Old School' has been issued
in separate book form, with illustrations from drawings made at Drum-
tochty; and also contains a preface by the author.
A TRIUMPH IN DIPLOMACY
Reprinted by permission, from Days of Auld Lang Syne,) by lan Maclaren.
Copyright 1895, by John Watson and Dodd, Mead & Co.
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were held on lease in Drumtochty, and according to a
good old custom descended from father to son; so that some
of the farmers' forbears had been tenants as long as Lord
Kilspindie's ancestors had been owners. If a family died out,
then a successor from foreign parts had to be introduced; and
it was in this way Milton made his appearance, and scandalized
the Glen with a new religion. It happened also in our time that
Gormack, having quarreled with the factor about a feeding-byre
he wanted built, flung up his lease in a huff; and it was taken at
an enormous increase by a guileless tradesman from Muirtown,
who had made his money by selling pigs ” (crockery-ware), and
believed that agriculture came by inspiration. Optimists expected
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that his cash might last for two years, but pessimists declared
their belief that a year would see the end of the "merchant's ”
experiment; and Gormack watched the course of events from a
hired house at Kildrummie.
Jamie Soutar used to give him "a cry” on his way to the
station, and brought him the latest news.
"It's maybe juist as weel that ye retired frae business, Gor-
mack, for the auld fairm's that spruced up ye wud hardly ken it
wes the same place.
« The merchant's put ventilators intae the feedin' byre, and
he's speakin' aboot glass windows tae keep the stots frae weary-
in'; an' as for inventions, the place is fair scatted up wi' them.
There's ain that took me awfu’: it's for peelin' the neeps tae mak
them tasty for the cattle beasts.
“ Ye hed nae method, man; and a' dinna believe ye hed an
inspection a' the years ye were at Gormack. Noo, the merchant
is up at half eicht, and goes over the hale steadin' wi' Robbie
Duff at his heels, — him 'at he's got for idle grieve,- an' he tries
the corners wi' his handkerchief tae see that there's nae stoor
(dust).
"It wud dae ye gude tae see his library: the laist day I saw
him he wes readin' a book on Comparative Agriculture' afore
his door, and he explained hoo they grow the maize in Sooth
Ameriky: it wes verra interestin'; 'a never got as muckle in-
formation frae ony fairmer in Drumtochty. ”
"A'm gled ye cam in, Jamie,” was all Gormack said, "for I
wes near takin' this hoose on a three-year lease. Ae year 'ill be
eneuch noo, a'm thinkin'. "
Within eighteen months of his removal Gormack was again in
possession at the old rent, and with a rebate for the first year to
compensate him for the merchant's improvements.
“It 'ill tak the feck o'twa years," he explained in the kirk-
yard, "tae bring the place roond an' pit the auld face on it.
« “The byres are nae better than a pair o' fanners wi' wind,
and if he hesna planted the laighfield wi' berry bushes; an' a've
seen the barley fifty-five pund wecht in that very field.
"It's a doonricht sin tae abuse the land like yon, but it 'ill be
a lesson, neeburs, an'a'm no expeckin' anither pig merchant 'ill
get a fairm in Drumtochty. ”
This incident raised Gormack into a historical personage, and
invested him with an association of humor for the rest of his
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life; so that when conversation languished in the third, some one
would ask ormack what he hed dune wi' his ventilators, or
hoo the berry hairst wes shapin' this year. ”
One could not expect a comedy of this kind twice in a gen-
eration; but the arranging of a lease was always an event of
the first order in our commonwealth, and afforded fine play for
every resource of diplomacy. The two contracting parties were
the factor, who spent his days in defending his chief's property
from the predatory instincts of enterprising farmers, and knew
every move of the game, - a man of shrewd experience, imper-
turbable good-humor, and many wiles,-- and on the other side, a
farmer whose wits had been sharpened by the Shorter Catechism
since he was a boy; with the Glen as judges. Farms were not
put in the Advertiser on this estate, and thrown open to the
public from Dan to Beersheba; so that there was little risk of
the tenant losing his home. Neither did the adjustment of rent
give serious trouble; as the fair value of every farm — down to
the bit of hill above the arable land and the strips of natural
grass along the burns — was known to a pound. There were
skirmishes over the rent, of course; but the battle-ground was
the number of improvements which the tenant could wring from
the landlord at the making of the lease. Had a tenant been in
danger of eviction, then the Glen had risen in arms, as it did in
the case of Burnbrae; but this was a harmless trial of strength,
which the Glen watched with critical impartiality. The game
was played slowly between seedtime and harvest, and each move
was reported in the kirk-yard. Its value was appreciated at once;
and although there was greater satisfaction when a neighbor won,
yet any successful stroke of the factor's was keenly enjoyed, -
the beaten party himself conceding its cleverness. When the
factor so manipulated the conditions of draining Netherton's
meadow land that Netherton had to pay for the tiles, the kirk-
yard chuckled; and Netherton admitted next market that the
factor wes a lad,” - meaning a compliment to his sharpness, for
all things were fair in this war; and when Drumsheugh involved
the same factor in so many different and unconnected promises
of repairs that it was found cheaper in the end to build him a
new steading, the fathers had no bounds to their delight; and
Whinnie, who took an hour longer than any other man to get a
proper hold of anything, suddenly slapped his leg in the middle
of the sermon.
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No genuine Scotchman ever thought the less of a neighbor
because he could drive a hard bargain; and any sign of weak-
ness in such encounters exposed a man to special contempt in
our community. No mercy was shown to one who did not pay
the last farthing when a bargain had been made, but there was
little respect for the man who did not secure the same farthing
when the bargain was being made. If a Drumtochty farmer had
allowed his potatoes to go to “Piggie Walker at that simple-
minded merchant's first offer, instead of keeping “Piggie all
day, and screwing him up ten shillings an acre every second
hour, we would have shaken our heads over him as if he had
been drinking; and the well-known fact that Drumsheugh had
worsted dealers from far and near at Muirtown market for a gen-
eration, was not his least solid claim on our respect. When Mrs.
Macfadyen allowed it to ooze out in the Kildrummie train that
she had obtained a penny above the market price for her butter,
she received a tribute of silent admiration, broken only by an
emphatic “ Sall” from Hillocks; while Drumsheugh expressed
himself freely on the way up:
“Elspeth's an able wumman: there's no a slack bit aboot her.
She wud get her meat frae among ither fouks’ feet. ”
There never lived a more modest or unassuming people; but
the horse couper that tried to play upon their simplicity did not
boast afterwards, and no one was known to grow rich on his deal-
ings with Drumtochty.
This genius for bargaining was of course seen to most advan-
tage in the affair of a lease; and a year ahead, long before lease
had been mentioned, a cannie ” man like Hillocks would be pre-
paring for the campaign. Broken panes of glass in the stable
were stuffed with straw after a very generous fashion; cracks in
a byre door were clouted over with large pieces of white wood;
rickety palings were ostentatiously supported; and the interior
of Hillocks's house suggested hard-working and cleanly poverty
struggling to cover the defects of a hovel. Neighbors dropping
in during those days found Hillocks wandering about with a
hammer, putting in a nail here and a nail there, or on the top
of the barn trying to make it water-tight before winter, with the
air of one stopping leaks in the hope of keeping the ship afloat
till she reaches port. But he made no complaint, and had an air
of forced cheerfulness.
"Na, na, yir no interruptin' me; a'm rael gled tae see ye; a'
wes juist doin' what a' cud tae keep things thegither.
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“An auld buildin's a sair trachle, an' yir feared tae meddle
wi' 't, for ye micht bring it doon aboot yir ears.
“But it's no reasonable tae expeck it tae last for ever: it's
dune weel and served its time; 'a mind it as snod a steadin' as
ye wud wish tae see, when 'a wes a laddie saxty year past.
“Come in tae the hoose, and we 'ill see what the gude wife
hes in her cupboard. Come what may, the 'ill aye be a drop for
a freend as lang as a 'm leevin.
“Dinna put yir hat there, for the plaister's been fallin', an' it
micht white it. Come ower here frae the window: it's no very
fast, and the wind comes in at the holes. Man, it's a pleesure
tae see ye; and here's yir gude health. ”
When Hillocks went abroad to kirk or market he made a
brave endeavor to conceal his depression, but it was less than
successful.
(Yon's no a bad show o’aits ye hae in the wast park the
year, Hillocks; a 'm thinkin' the 'ill buke weel. ”
« Their lukes are the best o' them, Netherton; they're thin on
the grund an' sma' in the head: but 'a cudna expeck better, for
the land's fair worn oot; it wes a gude farm aince, wi' maybe
thirty stacks in the yaird every hairst, and noo a 'm no lookin'
for mair than twenty the year. ”
“Weel, there's nae mistak aboot yir neeps, at ony rate: ye
canna see a dreel noo. ”
“That wes guano, Netherton: 'a hed tae dae something tae
get an ootcome wi' ae crap, at ony rate; we maun get the rent
some road, ye ken, and pay oor just debts. ”
Hillocks conveyed the impression that he was gaining a bare
existence, but that he could not maintain the fight for more than
a year; and the third became thoughtful.
“Div ye mind, Netherton," inquired Drumsheugh on his way
from Muirtown station to the market, “hoo mony years Hillocks's
tack (lease) hes tae rin?
“No abune twa or three at maist; a 'm no sure if he hes as
muckle. ”
“It's oot Martinmas a year, as sure yir stannin' there: he's
an auld farrant (far-seeing) lad, Hillocks. ”
It was known within a week that Hillocks was setting things
in order for the battle.
The shrewdest people have some weak point; and Drumtochty
was subject to the delusion that old Peter Robertson, the land
steward, had an immense back-stairs influence with the factor and
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his Lordship. No one could affirm that Peter had ever said as
much, but he never denied it; not having been born in Drum-
tochty in vain. He had a habit of detaching himself from the
fathers, and looking in an abstracted way over the wall when
they were discussing the factor or the prospects of a lease, which
was more than words, - and indeed was equal to a small annual
income.
“Ye ken mair o' this than ony o us, a 'm thinkin, Peter, if
ye cud open yir mooth: they say naebody's word gaes farther
wi' his Lordship. ”
There's some fouk say a lot of havers, Drumsheugh, an' it's
no a' true ye hear,” and after a pause Peter would purse his lips
and nod. "A 'm no at leeberty tae speak, an' ye maunna press
me. ”
When he disappeared into the kirk his very gait was full of
mystery; and the fathers seemed to see his Lordship and Peter
sitting in council for nights together.
« Didna 'a tell ye, neeburs? ” said Drumsheugh triumphantly:
"ye ’ill no gae far wrang gin ye hae Peter on yir side. ”
Hillocks held this faith, and added works also; for he com-
passed Peter with observances all the critical year, although the
word lease never passed between them.
“Ye wud be the better o' new seed, Peter,” Hillocks remarked
casually, as he came on the land steward busy in his potato patch.
"A've some kidneys 'a dinna ken what tae dae wi'; 'a 'll send
ye up a bag. ”
“It's rael kind o’ye, Hillocks; but ye were aye neeburly. ”
“Dinna speak o't; that's naething atween auld neeburs. Man,
ye micht gie's a look in when yir passin' on yir trokes. The gude
wife hes some graund eggs for setting. ”
It was considered a happy device to get Peter to the spot,
and Hillocks's management of the visit was a work of art.
Maister Robertson wud maybe like tae see thae kebbocks
(cheeses) yir sending aff tae Muirtown, gude wife, afore we hae
oor tea,
“We canna get intae the granary the richt way, for the stair
is no chancy noo, an' it wudna dae tae hae an accident wi' his
Lordship's land steward," and Hillocks exchanged boxes over the
soothing words.
“We 'ill get through the corn-room, but Losh sake, tak care
ye dinna trip in the holes o' the floor. 'A canna mend mair at
it, an' it's scandalous for wastin' the grain.
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"It's no sae bad a granary if we hedna tae keep the horses'
hay in it, for want o' a richt loft.
Man, there's times in winter a 'm at ma wits' end wi' a'
the cattle in aboot, an' naethin' for them but an open reed
(court), an' the wife raging for a calves' byre; - but that's no
what we cam here for, tae haver aboot the steadin'.
“Ay, they're bonnie kebbocks; and when yir crops fail, ye're
gled eneuch tae get a pund or twa oot o' the milk. ”
And if his Lordship had ever dreamt of taking Peter's evi-
dence, it would have gone to show that Hillocks's steading was a
disgrace to the property.
If any one could inveigle Lord Kilspindie himself to visit a
farm within sight of the new lease, he had some reason for con-
gratulation; and his Lordship, who was not ignorant of such de-
vices, used to avoid farms at such times with carefulness. But
he was sometimes off his guard; and when Mrs. Macfadyen met
him by accident at the foot of her garden, and invited him to
rest, he was caught by the lure of her conversation, and turned
aside with a friend to hear again the story of Mr. Pittendriegh's
goat.
"Well, how have you been, Mrs. Macfadyen ? -as young as
,
ever, I see, eh? And how many new stories have you got for
But bless my soul, what's this? " and his Lordship might
well be astonished at the sight.
Upon the gravel walk outside the door, Elspeth had placed in
a row all her kitchen and parlor chairs; and on each stood a big
dish of milk, while a varied covering for this open-air dairy had
been extemporized out of Jeems's Sabbath umbrella, a tea-tray, a
copy of the Advertiser, and a picture of the battle of Waterloo
Elspeth had bought from a packman. It was an amazing spec-
tacle, and one not lightly to be forgotten.
"A'm clean ashamed that ye sud hae seen sic an exhibition,
ma lord, and gin a 'd hed time it wud hae been cleared awa'.
“Ye see oor dairy's that sma' and close that 'a daurna keep
the mulk in 't a' the het days, an' sae 'a aye gie it an airin'; 'a
wud keep it in anither place, but there's barely room for the
bairns an' oorsels. ”
Then Elspeth apologized for speaking about household affairs
to his Lordship, and delighted him with all the gossip of the dis-
trict, told in her best style, and three new stories, till he prom-
ised to build her a dairy and a bedroom for Elsie, to repair the
byrés, and renew the lease at the old terms.
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Elspeth said so at least to the factor; and when he inquired
concerning the truth of this foolish concession, Kilspindie laughed,
and declared that if he had sat longer he might have had to
rebuild the whole place.
As Hillocks could not expect any help from personal fascina-
tions, he had to depend on his own sagacity; and after he had
labored for six months creating an atmosphere, operations began
one day at Muirtown market. The factor and he happened to
meet by the merest accident, and laid the first parallels.
“Man, Hillocks, is that you ? I hevna seen ye since last rent
time. I hear ye're githering the bawbees thegither as usual: ye
'ill be buying a farm o'yir own soon. ”
“Nae fear o' that, Maister Leslie: it's a' we can dae tae get
a livin’; we're juist fechtin' awa'; but it comes harder on me noo
that a 'm gettin' on in years. ”
Toots, nonsense, ye're makin' a hundred clear off that farm
if ye mak a penny;” and then, as a sudden thought, “When is
your tack out? it canna hae lang tae run. ”
“Well,” said Hillocks, as if the matter had quite escaped him
also, "'a believe ye're richt: it dis rin oot this verra Martinmas. ”
« Ye 'ill need tae be thinkin', Hillocks, what rise ye can offer:
his Lordship 'ill be expeckin' fifty pund at the least. ”
Hillocks laughed aloud, as if the factor had made a successful
joke.
“Ye wull hae yir fun, Maister Leslie; but ye ken hoo it
maun gae fine. The gude wife an’ me were calculatin', juist by
chance, this verra mornin': and we baith settled that we cudna
face a new lease comfortable wi' less than a fifty-pund reduc-
tion; but we micht scrape on wi' forty. ”
“You and the wife 'ill hae tae revise yir calculations then:
an' a'll see ye again when ye're reasonable. ”
Three weeks later there was another accidental meeting, when
the factor and Hillocks discussed the price of fat cattle at length,
and then drifted into the lease question before parting.
“Weel, Hillocks, what aboot that rise? will ye manage the
fifty, or must we let ye have it at forty ? ”
"Dinna speak like that, for it's no jokin' maitter tae me:
micht dae wi' five-and-twenty aff, or even twenty, but 'a dinna
believe his Lordship wud like to see ain o' his auldest tenants
squeezed. ”
“It's no likely his Lordship ’ill take a penny off when he's
been expecting a rise: so I'll just need to put the farm in the
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Advertiser -- the present tenant not offering'; but I'll wait a
month to let ye think over it. ”
When they parted, both knew that the rent would be settled,
as it was next Friday, on the old terms.
Opinion in the kirk-yard was divided over this part of the
bargain,-a minority speaking of it as a drawn battle, but the
majority deciding that Hillocks had wrested at least ten pounds
from the factor; which on the tack of nineteen years would
come to £190. So far Hillocks had done well, but the serious
fighting was still to come.
One June day Hillocks sauntered into the factor's office, and
spent half an hour in explaining the condition of the turnip
«breer” in Drumtochty; and then reminded the factor that he
had not specified the improvements that would be granted with
the new lease.
“Improvements! ” stormed the factor. “Ye're the most bare-
faced fellow on the estate, Hillocks: with a rent like that ye can
do yir own repairs," — roughly calculating all the time what must
be allowed.
Hillocks opened his pocket-book -- which contained in its
various divisions a parcel of notes, a sample of oats, a whip-lash,
a bolus for a horse, and a packet of garden seeds,—and finally
extricated a scrap of paper.
"Me and the wife juist made a bit note o' the necessaries
that we
maun hae, and we're sure ye're no the gentleman tae
refuse them.
“New windows tae the hoose, an' a bit place for dishes, and
maybe a twenty-pund note for plastering and painting: that's
naething
"Next, a new stable an' twa new byres, as weel as covering
the reed. ”
“Ye may as well say a new steadin' at once and save time.
Man, what do you mean by coming and havering here with your
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“Weel, if ye dinna believe me, ask Peter Robertson, for the
condeetion o' the oot-houses is clean reediklus. ”
So it was agreed that the factor should drive out to see for
himself; and the kirk-yard felt that Hillocks was distinctly hold-
ing his own, although no one expected him to get the reed cov-
ered.
Hillocks received the great man with obsequious courtesy, and
the gude wife gave him of her best; and then they proceeded
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to business. The factor laughed to scorn the idea that Lord
Kilspindie should do anything for the house; but took the bitter-
ness out of the refusal by a well-timed compliment to Mrs. Stirton's
skill, and declaring she could set up the house with the profits of
one summer's butter. Hillocks knew better than try to impress
the factor himself by holes in the roof, and they argued greater
matters; with the result that the stable was allowed and the
byres refused, which was exactly what Hillocks anticipated. The
reed roof was excluded as preposterous in cost, but one or two
lighter repairs were given as a consolation.
Hillocks considered that on the whole he was doing well; and
he took the factor round the farm in fair heart, although his
face was that of a man robbed and spoiled.
Hillocks was told he need not think of wire fencing, but if he
chose to put up new palings he might have the fir from the Kil-
spindie woods; and if he did some draining, the estate would pay
the cost of tiles. When Hillocks brought the factor back to the
house for a cup of tea before parting, he explained to his wife
that he was afraid they would have to leave in November, - the
hardness of the factor left no alternative.
Then they fought the battle of the cattle reed up and down,
in and out, for an hour; till the factor, who knew that Hillocks
was a careful and honest tenant, laid down his ultimatum.
“There's not been a tenant in my time so well treated; but
if ye see the draining is well done, I'll let you have the reed. ”
"'A suppose,” said Hillocks, “a'll need tae fall in. ” And he
reported his achievement to the kirk-yard next Sabbath in the
tone of one who could now look forward to nothing but a life of
grinding poverty.
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CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. .
President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT, D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
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UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
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Professor of Literature in the
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XXVII
LIVED
PAGE
WILLIAM WATSON
The Turk in Armenia (The
Purple East)
Repudiated Responsibility
(same)
England to America (same)
A Birthday (same)
1856–
15705
The Plague of Apathy (same)
A Trial of Orthodoxy (same)
A Wondrous Likeness (same)
Starving Armenia (same)
From "The Tomb of Burns
The Father of the Forest
ISAAC WATTS
1674-1748
15717
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
Jesus shall Reign Where'er the Sun
Joy to the World, the Lord is Come
Thou Whom My Soul Admires Above
Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest
Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove
There Is a Land of Pure Delight
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite
How Doth the Little Busy Bee
DANIEL WEBSTER
1782-1852
15725
BY CARL SCHURZ
The American Idea (Oration on Laying the Corner-Stone
of the Bunker Hill Monument)
Massachusetts and South Carolina (Speech in the Senate,
1830)
Liberty and Union (same)
The Drum-Beat of England (Speech in the Senate, 1834)
Imaginary Speech of John Adams (Discourse on Adams
and Jefferson, 1826)
The Continuity of the Race (Discourse at Plymouth, De-
cember 22d, 1820)
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PAGE
JOHN WEBSTER
Seventeenth Century
15758
From The Duchess of Malfi
Dirge from Vittoria Corombona'
JOHN WEISS
1818-1879
15769
Constancy to an Ideal ('American Religion')
1807-1873
15779
JOHN SEBASTIAN CAMMERMEYER WELHAVEN
A Sonnet from Norway's Dawn'
The Revolution of 1848
Goliath
Protesilaos
The Paris Morgue
JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY
1703-1791
1708-1788
15790
BY WILLIAM POTTS
From John Wesley's Writings:
The New Birth ( The New Birth')
Our Stewardship (“The Good Steward')
The Kingdom of Heaven ('The First Discourse upon the
Serinon on the Mount')
The Love that Hopeth and Endureth All Things (“Second
Discourse upon the Sermon on the Mount')
A Catholic Spirit (Discourse Entitled Catholic Spirit')
The Last Judgment (Discourse on (The Great Assize ))
Thou Hidden Love of God, Whose Height (Translation
from Tersteegen)
From Charles Wesley's Hymns:
Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee
Light of Life, Seraphic Fire
Love Divine, All Love Excelling
Eternal Beam of Light Divine
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
Thou Very Present Aid
Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
A Charge to Keep I Have
And Have I Measured Half My Days
Jesus, Lover of My Soul
Jesu, My Strength, My Hope
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PAGE
THOMAS WHARTON
1859-1896
15819
BY OWEN WISTER
Bobbo
Edwin PERCY WHIPPLE
1819-1886
15839
Domestic Service (Outlooks on Society, Literature, and
Politics)
ANDREW DicKSON WHITE
1832-
15851
Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism (“History of
the Warfare of Science with Theology')
Mediæval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends (same)
GILBERT WHITE
1720-1793 15867
Habits of the Tortoise (“The Natural History of Selborne')
The House-Swallow (same)
The House-Cricket (same)
RICHARD GRANT WHITE
1821-1885
15876
The Bacon-Shakespeare Craze (“Studies in Shakespeare')
Big Words for Small Thoughts (Words and Their Uses')
WALT WHITMAN
1819-1892
15885
BY JOHN BURROUGHS
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Song of the Open Road
Dirge for Two Veterans
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed
O Captain! My Captain!
Hushed be the Camps To-day
Darest Thou Now, O Soul
A Noiseless Patient Spider
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
1807-1892
15911
BY GEORGE R. CARPENTER
Skipper Ireson's Ride
Telling the Bees
Maud Muller
Barbara Frietchie
In School Days
The Eternal Goodness
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PAGE
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - Continued :
Ichabod!
The Barefoot Boy
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daugh-
ters Sold into Southern Bondage
Barclay of Ury
Centennial Hymn
Winter In-Doors (“Snow-Bound')
Child-Songs
The Yankee Girl
The Angels of Buena Vista
The Seer
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom)
The Summons
The Last Eve of Summer (Written when the Poet was
Nearly 83)
1733-1813
15954
ChrisTOPHER MARTIN WIELAND
Managing Husbands
The Deities Deposed
15969
WILHELMINE VON BAYREUTH
1709-1758
Visit of Peter the Great to Frederick William the First
Pictures of Court Life
MARY E. WILKINS
1855? -
15983
The Revolt of Mother »
NATHANIEL PARKER Willis
1806-1867 16001
When Tom Moore Sang Pencillings by the Way')
David and Absalom
Dedication Hymn
André's Request to Washington
The Belfry Pigeon
Unseen Spirits
Dawn
Aspiration (Yale College, 1827)
The Elms of New Haven
Lines on the Burial of the Champion of his Class at
Yale College
Love in a Cottage
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PAGE
ALEXANDER Wilson
1766-1813
16017
BY SPENCER TROTTER
The Bluebird (American Ornithology)
The Wild Pigeon (same)
The Fish-Hawk, or Osprey
The Fisherman's Hymn
JOHN WILSON
1785-1854
16032
In Which the Shepherd and Tickler Take to the Water
(Noctes Ambrosianæ ')
1856-
16047
WOODROW WILSON
The Truth of the Matter
The West in American History
WILLIAM WINTER
1836-
16061
Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle (Life and Art of Joseph
Jefferson')
A Pledge to the Dead
Edwin Booth
Violet
The Golden Silence
1828–1861
16075
THEODORE WINTHROP
A Gallop of Three (John Brent')
WILLIAM WIRT
1772-1834 16090
Personal Characteristics of Henry (“Sketches of the Life
and Character of Patrick Henry')
Patrick Henry's First Case (same)
Burr and Blennerhassett: Argument in the Trial of Aaron
Burr
!
1860-
16101
基
OWEN WISTER
Specimen Jones
GEORGE WITHER
1588-1667
16123
A Rocking Hymn
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
A Christmas Carol
For Summer-Time
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PAGE
Mary WollSTONECRAFT
1759-1797
16129
Modern Ideal of Womanhood (A Vindication of the Rights
of Women')
1855-
16145
(
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
At Gibraltar
From My Country
Lines
Sodoma's Christ Scourged?
Song (“Agathon')
MARGARET L. Woods
1859-
16153
Esther Vanhoinrigh's Confession to Dean Swift (“Esther
Vanhomrigh)
1848-1894
16165
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
Rodman the Keeper
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
1770-1850
16193
BY FREDERIC W. H. MYERS
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal
A Poet's Epitaph
The Fountain: A Conversation
Resolution and Independence
The Sparrow's Nest
My Heart Leaps Up when I Behold
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
London, 1802
It Is Not to be Thought Of
To Hartley Coleridge — Six Years Old
She Was a Phantom of Delight
The Solitary Reaper
To the Cuckoo
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
To a Young Lady who had been Reproached for Tak-
ing Long Walks in the Country
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WILLIAM WORDS WORTH - Continued :
The World Is Too Much with Us
Ode to Duty
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood
To the Small Celandine
SiR THOMAS WYATT
1503-1542
16230
A Description of Such a One as He would Love
An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake
Him
The Lover's Lute Cannot be Blamed though It Sing of
his Lady's Unkindness
How the Lover Perisheth in his Delight as the Fly in
the Fire
A Renouncing of Love
The Lover Prayeth Not to be Disdained, Refused, Mis-
trusted, nor Forsaken
16235
John Wyclif
1324? -1384
Luke xv. 11-32; Same - Modern Version
1 Corinthians xiii.
John xx. 1-31
Apocalypse v. 1-14
XENOPHON
430 B. C. ? -355 B. C. ?
16243
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
The Training of a Wife (Economist')
Xenophon's Estate at Scillus ('Anabasis')
Hardships in the Snow (same)
The Education of a Persian Boy (Cyropædeia')
ARTHUR YOUNG
1741-1820 16261
Aspects of France before the Revolution ('Travels in
France)
EDWARD YOUNG
1684-1765 16277
From Night Thoughts! : Procrastination; The Death of
Friends; Aspiration; Silence and Darkness; Formalism,
The Better Part
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PAGE
ÉMILE ZOLA
1840-
16283
BY ROBERT VALLIER
Glimpses of Napoleon III. (La Débâcle')
The Attack on the Mill
1817-1893
16325
JOSÉ ZORRILLA Y MORAL
To my Lyre
In the Cathedral of Toledo
To Spain
The Dirge of Larra
Aspiration
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Isaac Watts
Daniel Webster
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Edwin Percy Whipple
Andrew Dickson White
Richard Grant White
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Christopher Martin Wieland
Mary E. Wilkins
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Alexander Wilson
John Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
William Winter
Theodore Winthrop
William Wirt
Owen Wister
George Wither
Mary Wollstonecraft
George E. Woodberry
William Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Wyatt
John Wyclif
Xenophon
Arthur Young
Edward Young
Émile Zola
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WILLIAM WATSON
(1856-)
He work of William Watson, who is now distinctly a leader
among the younger poets of England, has an artistic stand-
ard, a dignity and a beauty, which set him apart from the
rank and file of aspirants. Mr. Watson's poetry is in the line of tra-
dition: it stands for culture and reflection, it is strongly intellectual.
There is in it nothing of sensational appeal, or the striving after
originality by strained posturing. Mr. Watson has thought and moral
earnestness, as well as art and imagination. It is not surprising his
verse has received governmental recogni-
tion, and won an audience among the dis-
criminating. In his poems of patriotism or
of national import, Mr. Watson reminds us
that a high function of the bard is to arouse,
reprove, and inspire his countrymen and
those who steer the ship of State.
William Watson, still a young man but
just turned forty, was born at Wharfedale,
Yorkshire, in 1856, and is the son of a Liv-
erpool merchant. As a boy his health was
so delicate as to exclude him from public-
school life, and he was taught privately at
home. When he was twelve the family WILLIAM WATSON
moved to the Lancashire watering-place of
Southport; and there William gained fast in health, read literature,
and drank in the beauties of the surrounding country,— for some of
the choicest of England's scenery lies thereabouts. Books and nature
thus ministered equally to his development. He made excursions
into Wordsworth's land, and the spirit of the master interpreter stole
deep into his being: it was the poem Wordsworth's Grave,' in 1892,
that first drew the attention of the English people to an authentic new
voice. Shelley and Keats were passions with him in boyhood, and
their molding influence can be traced in his writing. Mr. Watson
resides with his mother at Southead, a London suburb. A recent
nervous illness due to overwork brought on an unbalanced mind; but
the poet rallied from the attack, and has done some of his finest work
since. This affliction is nobly, touchingly alluded to in the lovely
Vita Nuova.
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WILLIAM WATSON
It was not until his third volume that William Watson received
substantial acknowledgment of his ability. His first work, “The
Prince's Quest' (1880), made no stir, nor did “Epigrams of Art, Life,
and Nature (1884); though the discerning recognized in both books
the sure technique and the purity of quality which denote the true
poet. In the latter volume Mr. Watson's gift for saying much in
little, and giving crystallized and perfect form to some single thought,
was happily illustrated. But when Wordsworth's Grave and Other
Poems) appeared in 1892, it was conceded that here was a poet to
reckon with. The Wordsworth tribute was declared, not without just-
ice, to be the strongest thing on the great nature-poet written of
late years.
Another memorial piece, Lachrymæ Musarum, of which
Tennyson is the subject, and which is a stately and finely conceived
lyric, attracted Gladstone's attention, and resulted in his securing for
the young poet a governmental pension of two hundred pounds, which
has since been increased. This official favor seemed to point towards
the laureateship, and Mr. Watson's chances as a candidate were
regarded as good; many being disappointed at his failure to get the
appointment. In 1893 was published 'The Eloping Angels,' an at-
tempt at the satiric-humorous which was hardly successful. Watson's
forte lies in quite another kind. 'Odes and Other Poems, The
Father of the Forest and Other Poems,' (The Purple East,' and 'The
Year of Shame,' are subsequent volumes which have strengthened
his position and exhibited a healthy growth in power and art. The
title-piece in “The Father of the Forest' is a noble poem, in which
the idealist is plainly published, and Mr. Watson's ability for sus-
tained flight proved once more beyond peradventure. (The Year of
Shame,' which is an amplification of The Purple East,' is devoted
almost exclusively to the poet's arraignment, in a sonnet-sequence, of
the English for their Eastern policy, especially with regard to the
Armenian question. Such leonine, ringing verse has seldom come
from a young poet. Mr. Watson has a notable control of the son-
net form; his indignation is like that of Milton in its resonant ethical
appeal, its impassioned sincerity. Some of these poems are of really
splendid strength and sweep. The poet has not hitherto given the
world anything so striking, and these patriotic poems have much
enhanced his reputation. In them Mr. Watson is a singer of national
significance; and with his age in mind, his future looks big with
promise. He writes verse that will stand the test of time because it
is grounded upon a careful art, inspired by a pure purpose, and vital-
ized by a normal, wholesome feeling.
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15707
[The sonnets
(The Purple East) are copyright 1896, by John Lane. ]
THE TURK IN ARMENIA
From The Purple East)
WH*
AT profits it, О England, to prevail
In camp and mart and council, and bestrew
With argosies thy oceans, and renew
With tribute levied on each golden gale
Thy treasuries, if thou canst hear the wail
Of women martyred by the turbaned crew,
Whose tenderest mercy was the sword that slew,
And lift no hand to wield the purging flail ?
We deemed of old thou held'st a charge from Him
Who watches girdled by his seraphim,
To smite the wronger with thy destined rod.
Wait'st thou his sign? Enough, the unanswered cry
Of virgin souls for vengeance, and on high
The gathering blackness of the frown of God!
REPUDIATED RESPONSIBILITY
From The Purple East)
I
HAD not thought to hear it voiced so plain,
Uttered so forthright, on their lips who steer
This nation's course: I had not thought to hear
That word re-echoed by an English thane,
Guilt's maiden speech when first a man lay slain,-
"Am I my brother's keeper ? ) Yet full near
It sounded, and the syllables rang clear
As the immortal rhetoric of Cain.
“Wherefore should we, sirs, more than they — or they -
Unto these helpless reach a hand to save ? »
An English thane, in this our English air,
Speaking for England? Then indeed her day
Slopes to its twilight, and for Honor there
Is needed but a requiem and a grave.
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WILLIAM WATSON
ENGLAND TO AMERICA
From The Purple East)
O
TOWERING Daughter, Titan of the West,
Behind a thousand leagues of foam secure;
Thou toward whom our inmost heart is pure
Of ill intent: although thou threatenest
With most unfilial hand thy mother's breast,
Not for one breathing-space may Earth endure
The thought of War's intolerable cure
For such vague pains as vex to-day thy rest!
But if thou hast more strength than thou canst spend
In tasks of Peace, and find'st her yoke too tame,
Help us to smite the cruel, to befriend
The succorless, and put the false to shame.
So shall the ages laud thee, and thy name
Be lovely among nations to the end.
in his attitude toward sorrow and death, which grates harshly when
brought into touch with reality. But this criticism is borne more by
his first than by his second volume, which is less spiritual and there-
fore more human, more real.
But Ian Maclaren's power unques-
tionably lies in his large sympathy and enthusiasm of humanity,
which is but another term for religious emotion. The transfiguring
touch in all his characters, commonplace in themselves, takes place
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nearer to
when the light of love and sacrifice falls upon them; (as when the
sun shines on a fallow field,”. to quote a passage of his own,-
“and the rough furrows melt into warmth and beauty. ” Then his
humor,— homely, strong, and flexible as the vernacular in which
much of it is clothed, — saves him on the whole from maudlin scenes,
and the excess of an essentially optimistic sentimentalism, as also
does his sturdy, shrewd common-sense. For pure and dry but not
ungenial drollery, there is nothing in the two volumes to match
Our Sermon Tasterand 'A Triumph in Diplomacy'; unless it be
parts of A Nippy Tongue,' where Ian Maclaren comes
Galt than any of his contemporaries, Mr. Barrie himself not excepted.
And it is the introduction of this perfect character, Jamie Soutar,
into A Servant Lass) which prevents it from becoming too depress-
ingly sad, and gives us Ian Maclaren at his best throughout one
whole story.
Popular favor however is not always guided by artistic principles;
and for obvious reasons the Doctor of the Old School' will prob-
ably continue to hold a first place, and in that section of the “Bon-
nie Brier Bush' the chapter entitled The Doctor's Last Journey'
will always stir the emotions most deeply. The pathos of the clos-
ing scenes is almost unbearable, and no Scotsman can read them
with a dry heart. A Doctor of the Old School' has been issued
in separate book form, with illustrations from drawings made at Drum-
tochty; and also contains a preface by the author.
A TRIUMPH IN DIPLOMACY
Reprinted by permission, from Days of Auld Lang Syne,) by lan Maclaren.
Copyright 1895, by John Watson and Dodd, Mead & Co.
ARMS
F
were held on lease in Drumtochty, and according to a
good old custom descended from father to son; so that some
of the farmers' forbears had been tenants as long as Lord
Kilspindie's ancestors had been owners. If a family died out,
then a successor from foreign parts had to be introduced; and
it was in this way Milton made his appearance, and scandalized
the Glen with a new religion. It happened also in our time that
Gormack, having quarreled with the factor about a feeding-byre
he wanted built, flung up his lease in a huff; and it was taken at
an enormous increase by a guileless tradesman from Muirtown,
who had made his money by selling pigs ” (crockery-ware), and
believed that agriculture came by inspiration. Optimists expected
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(
that his cash might last for two years, but pessimists declared
their belief that a year would see the end of the "merchant's ”
experiment; and Gormack watched the course of events from a
hired house at Kildrummie.
Jamie Soutar used to give him "a cry” on his way to the
station, and brought him the latest news.
"It's maybe juist as weel that ye retired frae business, Gor-
mack, for the auld fairm's that spruced up ye wud hardly ken it
wes the same place.
« The merchant's put ventilators intae the feedin' byre, and
he's speakin' aboot glass windows tae keep the stots frae weary-
in'; an' as for inventions, the place is fair scatted up wi' them.
There's ain that took me awfu’: it's for peelin' the neeps tae mak
them tasty for the cattle beasts.
“ Ye hed nae method, man; and a' dinna believe ye hed an
inspection a' the years ye were at Gormack. Noo, the merchant
is up at half eicht, and goes over the hale steadin' wi' Robbie
Duff at his heels, — him 'at he's got for idle grieve,- an' he tries
the corners wi' his handkerchief tae see that there's nae stoor
(dust).
"It wud dae ye gude tae see his library: the laist day I saw
him he wes readin' a book on Comparative Agriculture' afore
his door, and he explained hoo they grow the maize in Sooth
Ameriky: it wes verra interestin'; 'a never got as muckle in-
formation frae ony fairmer in Drumtochty. ”
"A'm gled ye cam in, Jamie,” was all Gormack said, "for I
wes near takin' this hoose on a three-year lease. Ae year 'ill be
eneuch noo, a'm thinkin'. "
Within eighteen months of his removal Gormack was again in
possession at the old rent, and with a rebate for the first year to
compensate him for the merchant's improvements.
“It 'ill tak the feck o'twa years," he explained in the kirk-
yard, "tae bring the place roond an' pit the auld face on it.
« “The byres are nae better than a pair o' fanners wi' wind,
and if he hesna planted the laighfield wi' berry bushes; an' a've
seen the barley fifty-five pund wecht in that very field.
"It's a doonricht sin tae abuse the land like yon, but it 'ill be
a lesson, neeburs, an'a'm no expeckin' anither pig merchant 'ill
get a fairm in Drumtochty. ”
This incident raised Gormack into a historical personage, and
invested him with an association of humor for the rest of his
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life; so that when conversation languished in the third, some one
would ask ormack what he hed dune wi' his ventilators, or
hoo the berry hairst wes shapin' this year. ”
One could not expect a comedy of this kind twice in a gen-
eration; but the arranging of a lease was always an event of
the first order in our commonwealth, and afforded fine play for
every resource of diplomacy. The two contracting parties were
the factor, who spent his days in defending his chief's property
from the predatory instincts of enterprising farmers, and knew
every move of the game, - a man of shrewd experience, imper-
turbable good-humor, and many wiles,-- and on the other side, a
farmer whose wits had been sharpened by the Shorter Catechism
since he was a boy; with the Glen as judges. Farms were not
put in the Advertiser on this estate, and thrown open to the
public from Dan to Beersheba; so that there was little risk of
the tenant losing his home. Neither did the adjustment of rent
give serious trouble; as the fair value of every farm — down to
the bit of hill above the arable land and the strips of natural
grass along the burns — was known to a pound. There were
skirmishes over the rent, of course; but the battle-ground was
the number of improvements which the tenant could wring from
the landlord at the making of the lease. Had a tenant been in
danger of eviction, then the Glen had risen in arms, as it did in
the case of Burnbrae; but this was a harmless trial of strength,
which the Glen watched with critical impartiality. The game
was played slowly between seedtime and harvest, and each move
was reported in the kirk-yard. Its value was appreciated at once;
and although there was greater satisfaction when a neighbor won,
yet any successful stroke of the factor's was keenly enjoyed, -
the beaten party himself conceding its cleverness. When the
factor so manipulated the conditions of draining Netherton's
meadow land that Netherton had to pay for the tiles, the kirk-
yard chuckled; and Netherton admitted next market that the
factor wes a lad,” - meaning a compliment to his sharpness, for
all things were fair in this war; and when Drumsheugh involved
the same factor in so many different and unconnected promises
of repairs that it was found cheaper in the end to build him a
new steading, the fathers had no bounds to their delight; and
Whinnie, who took an hour longer than any other man to get a
proper hold of anything, suddenly slapped his leg in the middle
of the sermon.
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No genuine Scotchman ever thought the less of a neighbor
because he could drive a hard bargain; and any sign of weak-
ness in such encounters exposed a man to special contempt in
our community. No mercy was shown to one who did not pay
the last farthing when a bargain had been made, but there was
little respect for the man who did not secure the same farthing
when the bargain was being made. If a Drumtochty farmer had
allowed his potatoes to go to “Piggie Walker at that simple-
minded merchant's first offer, instead of keeping “Piggie all
day, and screwing him up ten shillings an acre every second
hour, we would have shaken our heads over him as if he had
been drinking; and the well-known fact that Drumsheugh had
worsted dealers from far and near at Muirtown market for a gen-
eration, was not his least solid claim on our respect. When Mrs.
Macfadyen allowed it to ooze out in the Kildrummie train that
she had obtained a penny above the market price for her butter,
she received a tribute of silent admiration, broken only by an
emphatic “ Sall” from Hillocks; while Drumsheugh expressed
himself freely on the way up:
“Elspeth's an able wumman: there's no a slack bit aboot her.
She wud get her meat frae among ither fouks’ feet. ”
There never lived a more modest or unassuming people; but
the horse couper that tried to play upon their simplicity did not
boast afterwards, and no one was known to grow rich on his deal-
ings with Drumtochty.
This genius for bargaining was of course seen to most advan-
tage in the affair of a lease; and a year ahead, long before lease
had been mentioned, a cannie ” man like Hillocks would be pre-
paring for the campaign. Broken panes of glass in the stable
were stuffed with straw after a very generous fashion; cracks in
a byre door were clouted over with large pieces of white wood;
rickety palings were ostentatiously supported; and the interior
of Hillocks's house suggested hard-working and cleanly poverty
struggling to cover the defects of a hovel. Neighbors dropping
in during those days found Hillocks wandering about with a
hammer, putting in a nail here and a nail there, or on the top
of the barn trying to make it water-tight before winter, with the
air of one stopping leaks in the hope of keeping the ship afloat
till she reaches port. But he made no complaint, and had an air
of forced cheerfulness.
"Na, na, yir no interruptin' me; a'm rael gled tae see ye; a'
wes juist doin' what a' cud tae keep things thegither.
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“An auld buildin's a sair trachle, an' yir feared tae meddle
wi' 't, for ye micht bring it doon aboot yir ears.
“But it's no reasonable tae expeck it tae last for ever: it's
dune weel and served its time; 'a mind it as snod a steadin' as
ye wud wish tae see, when 'a wes a laddie saxty year past.
“Come in tae the hoose, and we 'ill see what the gude wife
hes in her cupboard. Come what may, the 'ill aye be a drop for
a freend as lang as a 'm leevin.
“Dinna put yir hat there, for the plaister's been fallin', an' it
micht white it. Come ower here frae the window: it's no very
fast, and the wind comes in at the holes. Man, it's a pleesure
tae see ye; and here's yir gude health. ”
When Hillocks went abroad to kirk or market he made a
brave endeavor to conceal his depression, but it was less than
successful.
(Yon's no a bad show o’aits ye hae in the wast park the
year, Hillocks; a 'm thinkin' the 'ill buke weel. ”
« Their lukes are the best o' them, Netherton; they're thin on
the grund an' sma' in the head: but 'a cudna expeck better, for
the land's fair worn oot; it wes a gude farm aince, wi' maybe
thirty stacks in the yaird every hairst, and noo a 'm no lookin'
for mair than twenty the year. ”
“Weel, there's nae mistak aboot yir neeps, at ony rate: ye
canna see a dreel noo. ”
“That wes guano, Netherton: 'a hed tae dae something tae
get an ootcome wi' ae crap, at ony rate; we maun get the rent
some road, ye ken, and pay oor just debts. ”
Hillocks conveyed the impression that he was gaining a bare
existence, but that he could not maintain the fight for more than
a year; and the third became thoughtful.
“Div ye mind, Netherton," inquired Drumsheugh on his way
from Muirtown station to the market, “hoo mony years Hillocks's
tack (lease) hes tae rin?
“No abune twa or three at maist; a 'm no sure if he hes as
muckle. ”
“It's oot Martinmas a year, as sure yir stannin' there: he's
an auld farrant (far-seeing) lad, Hillocks. ”
It was known within a week that Hillocks was setting things
in order for the battle.
The shrewdest people have some weak point; and Drumtochty
was subject to the delusion that old Peter Robertson, the land
steward, had an immense back-stairs influence with the factor and
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his Lordship. No one could affirm that Peter had ever said as
much, but he never denied it; not having been born in Drum-
tochty in vain. He had a habit of detaching himself from the
fathers, and looking in an abstracted way over the wall when
they were discussing the factor or the prospects of a lease, which
was more than words, - and indeed was equal to a small annual
income.
“Ye ken mair o' this than ony o us, a 'm thinkin, Peter, if
ye cud open yir mooth: they say naebody's word gaes farther
wi' his Lordship. ”
There's some fouk say a lot of havers, Drumsheugh, an' it's
no a' true ye hear,” and after a pause Peter would purse his lips
and nod. "A 'm no at leeberty tae speak, an' ye maunna press
me. ”
When he disappeared into the kirk his very gait was full of
mystery; and the fathers seemed to see his Lordship and Peter
sitting in council for nights together.
« Didna 'a tell ye, neeburs? ” said Drumsheugh triumphantly:
"ye ’ill no gae far wrang gin ye hae Peter on yir side. ”
Hillocks held this faith, and added works also; for he com-
passed Peter with observances all the critical year, although the
word lease never passed between them.
“Ye wud be the better o' new seed, Peter,” Hillocks remarked
casually, as he came on the land steward busy in his potato patch.
"A've some kidneys 'a dinna ken what tae dae wi'; 'a 'll send
ye up a bag. ”
“It's rael kind o’ye, Hillocks; but ye were aye neeburly. ”
“Dinna speak o't; that's naething atween auld neeburs. Man,
ye micht gie's a look in when yir passin' on yir trokes. The gude
wife hes some graund eggs for setting. ”
It was considered a happy device to get Peter to the spot,
and Hillocks's management of the visit was a work of art.
Maister Robertson wud maybe like tae see thae kebbocks
(cheeses) yir sending aff tae Muirtown, gude wife, afore we hae
oor tea,
“We canna get intae the granary the richt way, for the stair
is no chancy noo, an' it wudna dae tae hae an accident wi' his
Lordship's land steward," and Hillocks exchanged boxes over the
soothing words.
“We 'ill get through the corn-room, but Losh sake, tak care
ye dinna trip in the holes o' the floor. 'A canna mend mair at
it, an' it's scandalous for wastin' the grain.
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"It's no sae bad a granary if we hedna tae keep the horses'
hay in it, for want o' a richt loft.
Man, there's times in winter a 'm at ma wits' end wi' a'
the cattle in aboot, an' naethin' for them but an open reed
(court), an' the wife raging for a calves' byre; - but that's no
what we cam here for, tae haver aboot the steadin'.
“Ay, they're bonnie kebbocks; and when yir crops fail, ye're
gled eneuch tae get a pund or twa oot o' the milk. ”
And if his Lordship had ever dreamt of taking Peter's evi-
dence, it would have gone to show that Hillocks's steading was a
disgrace to the property.
If any one could inveigle Lord Kilspindie himself to visit a
farm within sight of the new lease, he had some reason for con-
gratulation; and his Lordship, who was not ignorant of such de-
vices, used to avoid farms at such times with carefulness. But
he was sometimes off his guard; and when Mrs. Macfadyen met
him by accident at the foot of her garden, and invited him to
rest, he was caught by the lure of her conversation, and turned
aside with a friend to hear again the story of Mr. Pittendriegh's
goat.
"Well, how have you been, Mrs. Macfadyen ? -as young as
,
ever, I see, eh? And how many new stories have you got for
But bless my soul, what's this? " and his Lordship might
well be astonished at the sight.
Upon the gravel walk outside the door, Elspeth had placed in
a row all her kitchen and parlor chairs; and on each stood a big
dish of milk, while a varied covering for this open-air dairy had
been extemporized out of Jeems's Sabbath umbrella, a tea-tray, a
copy of the Advertiser, and a picture of the battle of Waterloo
Elspeth had bought from a packman. It was an amazing spec-
tacle, and one not lightly to be forgotten.
"A'm clean ashamed that ye sud hae seen sic an exhibition,
ma lord, and gin a 'd hed time it wud hae been cleared awa'.
“Ye see oor dairy's that sma' and close that 'a daurna keep
the mulk in 't a' the het days, an' sae 'a aye gie it an airin'; 'a
wud keep it in anither place, but there's barely room for the
bairns an' oorsels. ”
Then Elspeth apologized for speaking about household affairs
to his Lordship, and delighted him with all the gossip of the dis-
trict, told in her best style, and three new stories, till he prom-
ised to build her a dairy and a bedroom for Elsie, to repair the
byrés, and renew the lease at the old terms.
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Elspeth said so at least to the factor; and when he inquired
concerning the truth of this foolish concession, Kilspindie laughed,
and declared that if he had sat longer he might have had to
rebuild the whole place.
As Hillocks could not expect any help from personal fascina-
tions, he had to depend on his own sagacity; and after he had
labored for six months creating an atmosphere, operations began
one day at Muirtown market. The factor and he happened to
meet by the merest accident, and laid the first parallels.
“Man, Hillocks, is that you ? I hevna seen ye since last rent
time. I hear ye're githering the bawbees thegither as usual: ye
'ill be buying a farm o'yir own soon. ”
“Nae fear o' that, Maister Leslie: it's a' we can dae tae get
a livin’; we're juist fechtin' awa'; but it comes harder on me noo
that a 'm gettin' on in years. ”
Toots, nonsense, ye're makin' a hundred clear off that farm
if ye mak a penny;” and then, as a sudden thought, “When is
your tack out? it canna hae lang tae run. ”
“Well,” said Hillocks, as if the matter had quite escaped him
also, "'a believe ye're richt: it dis rin oot this verra Martinmas. ”
« Ye 'ill need tae be thinkin', Hillocks, what rise ye can offer:
his Lordship 'ill be expeckin' fifty pund at the least. ”
Hillocks laughed aloud, as if the factor had made a successful
joke.
“Ye wull hae yir fun, Maister Leslie; but ye ken hoo it
maun gae fine. The gude wife an’ me were calculatin', juist by
chance, this verra mornin': and we baith settled that we cudna
face a new lease comfortable wi' less than a fifty-pund reduc-
tion; but we micht scrape on wi' forty. ”
“You and the wife 'ill hae tae revise yir calculations then:
an' a'll see ye again when ye're reasonable. ”
Three weeks later there was another accidental meeting, when
the factor and Hillocks discussed the price of fat cattle at length,
and then drifted into the lease question before parting.
“Weel, Hillocks, what aboot that rise? will ye manage the
fifty, or must we let ye have it at forty ? ”
"Dinna speak like that, for it's no jokin' maitter tae me:
micht dae wi' five-and-twenty aff, or even twenty, but 'a dinna
believe his Lordship wud like to see ain o' his auldest tenants
squeezed. ”
“It's no likely his Lordship ’ill take a penny off when he's
been expecting a rise: so I'll just need to put the farm in the
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Advertiser -- the present tenant not offering'; but I'll wait a
month to let ye think over it. ”
When they parted, both knew that the rent would be settled,
as it was next Friday, on the old terms.
Opinion in the kirk-yard was divided over this part of the
bargain,-a minority speaking of it as a drawn battle, but the
majority deciding that Hillocks had wrested at least ten pounds
from the factor; which on the tack of nineteen years would
come to £190. So far Hillocks had done well, but the serious
fighting was still to come.
One June day Hillocks sauntered into the factor's office, and
spent half an hour in explaining the condition of the turnip
«breer” in Drumtochty; and then reminded the factor that he
had not specified the improvements that would be granted with
the new lease.
“Improvements! ” stormed the factor. “Ye're the most bare-
faced fellow on the estate, Hillocks: with a rent like that ye can
do yir own repairs," — roughly calculating all the time what must
be allowed.
Hillocks opened his pocket-book -- which contained in its
various divisions a parcel of notes, a sample of oats, a whip-lash,
a bolus for a horse, and a packet of garden seeds,—and finally
extricated a scrap of paper.
"Me and the wife juist made a bit note o' the necessaries
that we
maun hae, and we're sure ye're no the gentleman tae
refuse them.
“New windows tae the hoose, an' a bit place for dishes, and
maybe a twenty-pund note for plastering and painting: that's
naething
"Next, a new stable an' twa new byres, as weel as covering
the reed. ”
“Ye may as well say a new steadin' at once and save time.
Man, what do you mean by coming and havering here with your
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papers ?
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“Weel, if ye dinna believe me, ask Peter Robertson, for the
condeetion o' the oot-houses is clean reediklus. ”
So it was agreed that the factor should drive out to see for
himself; and the kirk-yard felt that Hillocks was distinctly hold-
ing his own, although no one expected him to get the reed cov-
ered.
Hillocks received the great man with obsequious courtesy, and
the gude wife gave him of her best; and then they proceeded
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to business. The factor laughed to scorn the idea that Lord
Kilspindie should do anything for the house; but took the bitter-
ness out of the refusal by a well-timed compliment to Mrs. Stirton's
skill, and declaring she could set up the house with the profits of
one summer's butter. Hillocks knew better than try to impress
the factor himself by holes in the roof, and they argued greater
matters; with the result that the stable was allowed and the
byres refused, which was exactly what Hillocks anticipated. The
reed roof was excluded as preposterous in cost, but one or two
lighter repairs were given as a consolation.
Hillocks considered that on the whole he was doing well; and
he took the factor round the farm in fair heart, although his
face was that of a man robbed and spoiled.
Hillocks was told he need not think of wire fencing, but if he
chose to put up new palings he might have the fir from the Kil-
spindie woods; and if he did some draining, the estate would pay
the cost of tiles. When Hillocks brought the factor back to the
house for a cup of tea before parting, he explained to his wife
that he was afraid they would have to leave in November, - the
hardness of the factor left no alternative.
Then they fought the battle of the cattle reed up and down,
in and out, for an hour; till the factor, who knew that Hillocks
was a careful and honest tenant, laid down his ultimatum.
“There's not been a tenant in my time so well treated; but
if ye see the draining is well done, I'll let you have the reed. ”
"'A suppose,” said Hillocks, “a'll need tae fall in. ” And he
reported his achievement to the kirk-yard next Sabbath in the
tone of one who could now look forward to nothing but a life of
grinding poverty.
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Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
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Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
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Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XXVII
LIVED
PAGE
WILLIAM WATSON
The Turk in Armenia (The
Purple East)
Repudiated Responsibility
(same)
England to America (same)
A Birthday (same)
1856–
15705
The Plague of Apathy (same)
A Trial of Orthodoxy (same)
A Wondrous Likeness (same)
Starving Armenia (same)
From "The Tomb of Burns
The Father of the Forest
ISAAC WATTS
1674-1748
15717
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
Jesus shall Reign Where'er the Sun
Joy to the World, the Lord is Come
Thou Whom My Soul Admires Above
Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest
Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove
There Is a Land of Pure Delight
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite
How Doth the Little Busy Bee
DANIEL WEBSTER
1782-1852
15725
BY CARL SCHURZ
The American Idea (Oration on Laying the Corner-Stone
of the Bunker Hill Monument)
Massachusetts and South Carolina (Speech in the Senate,
1830)
Liberty and Union (same)
The Drum-Beat of England (Speech in the Senate, 1834)
Imaginary Speech of John Adams (Discourse on Adams
and Jefferson, 1826)
The Continuity of the Race (Discourse at Plymouth, De-
cember 22d, 1820)
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PAGE
JOHN WEBSTER
Seventeenth Century
15758
From The Duchess of Malfi
Dirge from Vittoria Corombona'
JOHN WEISS
1818-1879
15769
Constancy to an Ideal ('American Religion')
1807-1873
15779
JOHN SEBASTIAN CAMMERMEYER WELHAVEN
A Sonnet from Norway's Dawn'
The Revolution of 1848
Goliath
Protesilaos
The Paris Morgue
JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY
1703-1791
1708-1788
15790
BY WILLIAM POTTS
From John Wesley's Writings:
The New Birth ( The New Birth')
Our Stewardship (“The Good Steward')
The Kingdom of Heaven ('The First Discourse upon the
Serinon on the Mount')
The Love that Hopeth and Endureth All Things (“Second
Discourse upon the Sermon on the Mount')
A Catholic Spirit (Discourse Entitled Catholic Spirit')
The Last Judgment (Discourse on (The Great Assize ))
Thou Hidden Love of God, Whose Height (Translation
from Tersteegen)
From Charles Wesley's Hymns:
Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee
Light of Life, Seraphic Fire
Love Divine, All Love Excelling
Eternal Beam of Light Divine
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
Thou Very Present Aid
Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
A Charge to Keep I Have
And Have I Measured Half My Days
Jesus, Lover of My Soul
Jesu, My Strength, My Hope
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LIVED
PAGE
THOMAS WHARTON
1859-1896
15819
BY OWEN WISTER
Bobbo
Edwin PERCY WHIPPLE
1819-1886
15839
Domestic Service (Outlooks on Society, Literature, and
Politics)
ANDREW DicKSON WHITE
1832-
15851
Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism (“History of
the Warfare of Science with Theology')
Mediæval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends (same)
GILBERT WHITE
1720-1793 15867
Habits of the Tortoise (“The Natural History of Selborne')
The House-Swallow (same)
The House-Cricket (same)
RICHARD GRANT WHITE
1821-1885
15876
The Bacon-Shakespeare Craze (“Studies in Shakespeare')
Big Words for Small Thoughts (Words and Their Uses')
WALT WHITMAN
1819-1892
15885
BY JOHN BURROUGHS
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Song of the Open Road
Dirge for Two Veterans
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed
O Captain! My Captain!
Hushed be the Camps To-day
Darest Thou Now, O Soul
A Noiseless Patient Spider
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
1807-1892
15911
BY GEORGE R. CARPENTER
Skipper Ireson's Ride
Telling the Bees
Maud Muller
Barbara Frietchie
In School Days
The Eternal Goodness
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - Continued :
Ichabod!
The Barefoot Boy
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daugh-
ters Sold into Southern Bondage
Barclay of Ury
Centennial Hymn
Winter In-Doors (“Snow-Bound')
Child-Songs
The Yankee Girl
The Angels of Buena Vista
The Seer
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom)
The Summons
The Last Eve of Summer (Written when the Poet was
Nearly 83)
1733-1813
15954
ChrisTOPHER MARTIN WIELAND
Managing Husbands
The Deities Deposed
15969
WILHELMINE VON BAYREUTH
1709-1758
Visit of Peter the Great to Frederick William the First
Pictures of Court Life
MARY E. WILKINS
1855? -
15983
The Revolt of Mother »
NATHANIEL PARKER Willis
1806-1867 16001
When Tom Moore Sang Pencillings by the Way')
David and Absalom
Dedication Hymn
André's Request to Washington
The Belfry Pigeon
Unseen Spirits
Dawn
Aspiration (Yale College, 1827)
The Elms of New Haven
Lines on the Burial of the Champion of his Class at
Yale College
Love in a Cottage
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ALEXANDER Wilson
1766-1813
16017
BY SPENCER TROTTER
The Bluebird (American Ornithology)
The Wild Pigeon (same)
The Fish-Hawk, or Osprey
The Fisherman's Hymn
JOHN WILSON
1785-1854
16032
In Which the Shepherd and Tickler Take to the Water
(Noctes Ambrosianæ ')
1856-
16047
WOODROW WILSON
The Truth of the Matter
The West in American History
WILLIAM WINTER
1836-
16061
Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle (Life and Art of Joseph
Jefferson')
A Pledge to the Dead
Edwin Booth
Violet
The Golden Silence
1828–1861
16075
THEODORE WINTHROP
A Gallop of Three (John Brent')
WILLIAM WIRT
1772-1834 16090
Personal Characteristics of Henry (“Sketches of the Life
and Character of Patrick Henry')
Patrick Henry's First Case (same)
Burr and Blennerhassett: Argument in the Trial of Aaron
Burr
!
1860-
16101
基
OWEN WISTER
Specimen Jones
GEORGE WITHER
1588-1667
16123
A Rocking Hymn
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
A Christmas Carol
For Summer-Time
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Mary WollSTONECRAFT
1759-1797
16129
Modern Ideal of Womanhood (A Vindication of the Rights
of Women')
1855-
16145
(
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
At Gibraltar
From My Country
Lines
Sodoma's Christ Scourged?
Song (“Agathon')
MARGARET L. Woods
1859-
16153
Esther Vanhoinrigh's Confession to Dean Swift (“Esther
Vanhomrigh)
1848-1894
16165
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
Rodman the Keeper
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
1770-1850
16193
BY FREDERIC W. H. MYERS
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal
A Poet's Epitaph
The Fountain: A Conversation
Resolution and Independence
The Sparrow's Nest
My Heart Leaps Up when I Behold
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
London, 1802
It Is Not to be Thought Of
To Hartley Coleridge — Six Years Old
She Was a Phantom of Delight
The Solitary Reaper
To the Cuckoo
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
To a Young Lady who had been Reproached for Tak-
ing Long Walks in the Country
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WILLIAM WORDS WORTH - Continued :
The World Is Too Much with Us
Ode to Duty
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood
To the Small Celandine
SiR THOMAS WYATT
1503-1542
16230
A Description of Such a One as He would Love
An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake
Him
The Lover's Lute Cannot be Blamed though It Sing of
his Lady's Unkindness
How the Lover Perisheth in his Delight as the Fly in
the Fire
A Renouncing of Love
The Lover Prayeth Not to be Disdained, Refused, Mis-
trusted, nor Forsaken
16235
John Wyclif
1324? -1384
Luke xv. 11-32; Same - Modern Version
1 Corinthians xiii.
John xx. 1-31
Apocalypse v. 1-14
XENOPHON
430 B. C. ? -355 B. C. ?
16243
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
The Training of a Wife (Economist')
Xenophon's Estate at Scillus ('Anabasis')
Hardships in the Snow (same)
The Education of a Persian Boy (Cyropædeia')
ARTHUR YOUNG
1741-1820 16261
Aspects of France before the Revolution ('Travels in
France)
EDWARD YOUNG
1684-1765 16277
From Night Thoughts! : Procrastination; The Death of
Friends; Aspiration; Silence and Darkness; Formalism,
The Better Part
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ÉMILE ZOLA
1840-
16283
BY ROBERT VALLIER
Glimpses of Napoleon III. (La Débâcle')
The Attack on the Mill
1817-1893
16325
JOSÉ ZORRILLA Y MORAL
To my Lyre
In the Cathedral of Toledo
To Spain
The Dirge of Larra
Aspiration
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. XXVII
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William Watson
Isaac Watts
Daniel Webster
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Edwin Percy Whipple
Andrew Dickson White
Richard Grant White
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Christopher Martin Wieland
Mary E. Wilkins
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Alexander Wilson
John Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
William Winter
Theodore Winthrop
William Wirt
Owen Wister
George Wither
Mary Wollstonecraft
George E. Woodberry
William Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Wyatt
John Wyclif
Xenophon
Arthur Young
Edward Young
Émile Zola
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WILLIAM WATSON
(1856-)
He work of William Watson, who is now distinctly a leader
among the younger poets of England, has an artistic stand-
ard, a dignity and a beauty, which set him apart from the
rank and file of aspirants. Mr. Watson's poetry is in the line of tra-
dition: it stands for culture and reflection, it is strongly intellectual.
There is in it nothing of sensational appeal, or the striving after
originality by strained posturing. Mr. Watson has thought and moral
earnestness, as well as art and imagination. It is not surprising his
verse has received governmental recogni-
tion, and won an audience among the dis-
criminating. In his poems of patriotism or
of national import, Mr. Watson reminds us
that a high function of the bard is to arouse,
reprove, and inspire his countrymen and
those who steer the ship of State.
William Watson, still a young man but
just turned forty, was born at Wharfedale,
Yorkshire, in 1856, and is the son of a Liv-
erpool merchant. As a boy his health was
so delicate as to exclude him from public-
school life, and he was taught privately at
home. When he was twelve the family WILLIAM WATSON
moved to the Lancashire watering-place of
Southport; and there William gained fast in health, read literature,
and drank in the beauties of the surrounding country,— for some of
the choicest of England's scenery lies thereabouts. Books and nature
thus ministered equally to his development. He made excursions
into Wordsworth's land, and the spirit of the master interpreter stole
deep into his being: it was the poem Wordsworth's Grave,' in 1892,
that first drew the attention of the English people to an authentic new
voice. Shelley and Keats were passions with him in boyhood, and
their molding influence can be traced in his writing. Mr. Watson
resides with his mother at Southead, a London suburb. A recent
nervous illness due to overwork brought on an unbalanced mind; but
the poet rallied from the attack, and has done some of his finest work
since. This affliction is nobly, touchingly alluded to in the lovely
Vita Nuova.
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WILLIAM WATSON
It was not until his third volume that William Watson received
substantial acknowledgment of his ability. His first work, “The
Prince's Quest' (1880), made no stir, nor did “Epigrams of Art, Life,
and Nature (1884); though the discerning recognized in both books
the sure technique and the purity of quality which denote the true
poet. In the latter volume Mr. Watson's gift for saying much in
little, and giving crystallized and perfect form to some single thought,
was happily illustrated. But when Wordsworth's Grave and Other
Poems) appeared in 1892, it was conceded that here was a poet to
reckon with. The Wordsworth tribute was declared, not without just-
ice, to be the strongest thing on the great nature-poet written of
late years.
Another memorial piece, Lachrymæ Musarum, of which
Tennyson is the subject, and which is a stately and finely conceived
lyric, attracted Gladstone's attention, and resulted in his securing for
the young poet a governmental pension of two hundred pounds, which
has since been increased. This official favor seemed to point towards
the laureateship, and Mr. Watson's chances as a candidate were
regarded as good; many being disappointed at his failure to get the
appointment. In 1893 was published 'The Eloping Angels,' an at-
tempt at the satiric-humorous which was hardly successful. Watson's
forte lies in quite another kind. 'Odes and Other Poems, The
Father of the Forest and Other Poems,' (The Purple East,' and 'The
Year of Shame,' are subsequent volumes which have strengthened
his position and exhibited a healthy growth in power and art. The
title-piece in “The Father of the Forest' is a noble poem, in which
the idealist is plainly published, and Mr. Watson's ability for sus-
tained flight proved once more beyond peradventure. (The Year of
Shame,' which is an amplification of The Purple East,' is devoted
almost exclusively to the poet's arraignment, in a sonnet-sequence, of
the English for their Eastern policy, especially with regard to the
Armenian question. Such leonine, ringing verse has seldom come
from a young poet. Mr. Watson has a notable control of the son-
net form; his indignation is like that of Milton in its resonant ethical
appeal, its impassioned sincerity. Some of these poems are of really
splendid strength and sweep. The poet has not hitherto given the
world anything so striking, and these patriotic poems have much
enhanced his reputation. In them Mr. Watson is a singer of national
significance; and with his age in mind, his future looks big with
promise. He writes verse that will stand the test of time because it
is grounded upon a careful art, inspired by a pure purpose, and vital-
ized by a normal, wholesome feeling.
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WILLIAM WATSON
15707
[The sonnets
(The Purple East) are copyright 1896, by John Lane. ]
THE TURK IN ARMENIA
From The Purple East)
WH*
AT profits it, О England, to prevail
In camp and mart and council, and bestrew
With argosies thy oceans, and renew
With tribute levied on each golden gale
Thy treasuries, if thou canst hear the wail
Of women martyred by the turbaned crew,
Whose tenderest mercy was the sword that slew,
And lift no hand to wield the purging flail ?
We deemed of old thou held'st a charge from Him
Who watches girdled by his seraphim,
To smite the wronger with thy destined rod.
Wait'st thou his sign? Enough, the unanswered cry
Of virgin souls for vengeance, and on high
The gathering blackness of the frown of God!
REPUDIATED RESPONSIBILITY
From The Purple East)
I
HAD not thought to hear it voiced so plain,
Uttered so forthright, on their lips who steer
This nation's course: I had not thought to hear
That word re-echoed by an English thane,
Guilt's maiden speech when first a man lay slain,-
"Am I my brother's keeper ? ) Yet full near
It sounded, and the syllables rang clear
As the immortal rhetoric of Cain.
“Wherefore should we, sirs, more than they — or they -
Unto these helpless reach a hand to save ? »
An English thane, in this our English air,
Speaking for England? Then indeed her day
Slopes to its twilight, and for Honor there
Is needed but a requiem and a grave.
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WILLIAM WATSON
ENGLAND TO AMERICA
From The Purple East)
O
TOWERING Daughter, Titan of the West,
Behind a thousand leagues of foam secure;
Thou toward whom our inmost heart is pure
Of ill intent: although thou threatenest
With most unfilial hand thy mother's breast,
Not for one breathing-space may Earth endure
The thought of War's intolerable cure
For such vague pains as vex to-day thy rest!
But if thou hast more strength than thou canst spend
In tasks of Peace, and find'st her yoke too tame,
Help us to smite the cruel, to befriend
The succorless, and put the false to shame.
So shall the ages laud thee, and thy name
Be lovely among nations to the end.
