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Miss Elizabeth Bisland, who went around the world for the Cosmopolitan a few months ago, contributes an article on the "Passion Play at Oberammergan." More interesting is Rear-Admiral T. H. Stevens' "Cruise of the Sonoma." The Sonomo was a United States cruiser which did good service in intercepting blockade runners in West India waters...
...Phillips Brooks preached an eloquent sermon last evening from Exodus 14; 30. "And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things...
...astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time off there in the distance on its shrine shines pure and white the real ultimate desire of your nature, adored and treasured, but too far away and cold to draw to it the tides of passion, love and hate, which spend their force upon the trifles of the day. Sometimes it seems almost as if so strange a state of things produced its strange result in the discrediting of eager passion and desire; as if they were too coarse and common for the higher interests of life...
...Baptiste" a Central American is also worthy of high commendation A story of passion and a dramatic eabisode are skillfully told without exceeding the bounds of moderation. The descriptive passages are often excellent...
...gives us Mr. Story's idea of true art and shows that he does not believe with ruskin that a perfect reproduction is a work of art. True art, the author says, is "nature reflected in the spiritual mirror, and tinged with all the sentiment, feeling, and passion of the spirit that reflects it." It is neither real or illusory; it is the embodiment of the inmost being of the artist. For, if the artist cannot feel his own work and infuse into it his own spirit, how can he expect his work to move others? Moreover, each work...