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...your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case may be, perhaps I ought rather to say be caught by it. Let that be honest, manly and sincere. Then the problem is, like that of the girl with the water jar, to bring it home to your reader without spilling over. Now the study of literature is in great measure a study of style, and this if followed on true principles will react upon the character-will make us less tolerant of extravagance of mind, of loose statment, of inaccurate thought and of that faulty expression which...
...give from German poetry. Examples enough you can give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language, simple language, passionate language, eloquent language, with harmony and melody; but not of the peculiar effect exercised by eminent power of style. Every reader of Dante can at once call to mind what the peculiar effect I mean is; I spoke of it in my lectures on translating Homer, and there I took an example of it from Dante, who perhaps manifests it more eminently than any other poet. But from Milton...
...monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories...
...Advocate for March 2, the reader comes upon the eighth Harvard type, "The Semi-Religious Man." As described by H. H. Chamberlin, Jr., he will form a worthy addition to those who have gone before him; but it is to be hoped that he will complete their number. Without doubt there are more than eight Harvard types, yet many of them must prove less interesting on paper than they are in reality. It needs a very skillful pen to make attractive a description of that with which all are supposed to be familiar...
...Henry VIII. There has been a great deal of dispute as to the real authors of these plays and the times when they were written; but such questions, though perhaps interesting to scholars, are of no great concern to one who reads Shakespeare for pleasure. To such a reader, too, it makes but little difference whether or not the plays are historically accurate...