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...horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard...
...Beethoven", writes Mr. Hale, "was profoundly impressed by Hindu and Egyptian religious thought." and in the Symphony program he quotes at some length passages which Beethoven transcribed from Hindu literature and from Egyptian temples and tombs. All this goes to prove precisely nothing at all; for all these quotations find a place in Catholic thought. Mr. Hale, like a great many other people, is unaware of the fact that Catholics believe that all great world faiths, possess part of the whole truth and that their principal tenets may be found in the all-embracing tenets of the Catholic Charch...
...finally, Mr. Hale asks: "Would it be irreverent to say that this Mass as a whole is not a sacred opus, but an ecclesiastical opera?" My reply is that perhaps it is not irreverent for Mr. Hale to say so, but I believe it is untrue. J. W. Wood...
Neithor Mr. Hale nor any other writer can change the fact that Beethoven used to the utmost his great dramatic, poetic and musical genius in the compositior, of the "Missa Solemnis" in order to bring out the great spiritual significance and beauty of the Catholic Mass...
...Beethoven" writes Mr. Hale, "was a Catholic by profession, he was brought up a catholic: dying, he welcomed the administration of the Sacrament, but during his life he was negligent in his religious duties...nor was he a man to be bound by ritual or creed." If this were true, it would seem strange that Beethoven spent four years on this stupendous musical composition which so clearly and so beautifully expressed the words of the Mass...