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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 3, August - 1895) - -Author: Various - -Release Date: June 23, 2022 [eBook #68383] - -Language: English - -Produced by: hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at - https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images - made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PHILISTINE: A PERIODICAL -OF PROTEST (VOL. I, NO. 3, AUGUST 1895) *** - - - - - - - The Philistine: - A Periodical of Protest. - - “_A harmless necessary cat._”—_Shylock._ - - [Illustration] - - Printed Every Little While for The Society - of The Philistines and Published - by Them Monthly. Subscription, One - Dollar Yearly; Single Copies, 10 Cents. - Number 3. August, 1895. - - - - -The Philistine. - -Edited by H. P. Taber. - - - - -CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1895. - - - JEREMIADS: - - A Word About Art, Ouida - - The Confessional in Letters, Elbert Hubbard - - The Social Spotter, William McIntosh - - OTHER THINGS: - - The Dream, William Morris - - Verses, Stephen Crane - - For Honor, Jean Wright - - The Story of the Little Sister, H. P. T. - - Notes. - -THE PHILISTINE is published monthly at $1 a year, 10 cents a single -copy. Subscriptions may be left with newsdealers or sent direct to the -publishers. - -Business communications should be addressed to THE PHILISTINE. East -Aurora, New York. Matter intended for publication may be sent to the same -address or to Box 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts. - -_Entered at the Postoffice at East Aurora, New York, for transmission as -mail matter of the second class._ - -_COPYRIGHT, 1895._ - - - - -AND THIS, THEN, IS THE THIRD OF THE BOOK OF THE PHILISTINE AND FIRST HERE -IS PRINTED THE LINES CALLED - -“THE DREAM” - -WRITTEN BY MR. WILLIAM MORRIS: TO WHOM BE PRAISE AND REVERENCE AND MUCH -THANKFULNESS FOR MANY DEEDS. - - - I dreamed - A dream of you, - Not as you seemed - When you were late unkind, - And blind - To my eyes pleading for a debt long due; - But touched and true, - And all inclined - To tenderest fancies on love’s inmost theme. - How sweet you were to me, and ah, how kind - In that dear dream! - I felt - Your lips on mine - Mingle and melt, - And your cheek touch my cheek. - I, weak - With vain desires and asking for a sign - Of love divine, - Found my grief break, - And wept and wept in an unending stream - Of sudden joy set free, yet could not speak: - Dumb in my dream. - - I knew - You loved me then, - And I knew, too, - The bliss of souls in Heaven, - New-shriven, - Who look with pity on still sinning men - And turn again - To be forgiven - In the dear arms of their God holding them, - And spend themselves in praise from morn - ’Till even, - Nor break their dream. - I woke - In my mid-bliss - At midnight’s stroke - And knew you lost and gone. - Forlorn - I called you back to my unfinished kiss, - But only this - One word of scorn - You answered me, “’Twas better loved to seem - Than loved to be, since all love is foresworn, - Always a dream.” - - - - -A WORD ABOUT ART. - - -[Sidenote: _Is there_] - -How can we have great art in our day? We have no faith. Belief of -some sort is the life-blood of art. When Athene and Zeus ceased to -excite veneration in the minds of men, sculpture and architecture both -lost their greatness. When the Madonna and her Son lost that mystery -and divinity, which for the simple minds of the early painters they -possessed, the soul went out of canvas and of wood. When we carve a Venus -now, she is but a frivolous woman; when we paint a Jesus now, it is but a -little suckling, or a sorrowful prisoner. - -[Sidenote: _a woman, even in_] - -We want a great inspiration. We ought to find it in the things that are -really beautiful, but we are not sure enough, perhaps, what is so. What -does dominate us is a passion for nature: for the sea, for the sky, -for the mountain, for the forest, for the evening storm, for the break -of day. Perhaps when we are thoroughly steeped in this, we shall reach -greatness once more. But the artificiality of all modern life is against -it, so is its cynicism. Sadness and sarcasm make a great Lucretius and as -a great Juvenal; and scorn makes a strong Aristophanes: but they do not -make a Praxiteles and an Apelles; they do not even make a Raffaelle or a -Flaxman. - -[Sidenote: _Boston,_] - -Art, if it be anything, is the perpetual uplifting of what is beautiful -in the sight of the multitude—the perpetual adoration of that loveliness, -material and moral, which men in the haste and greed of their lives are -everlastingly forgetting: unless it be that, it is empty and useless as a -child’s reed-pipe when the reed is snapt and the child’s breath spent. - -[Sidenote: _who can_] - -It must have been such a good life—a painter’s in those days: those early -days of art. Fancy the gladness of it then—modern painters can know -nothing of it. - -[Sidenote: _produce literature_] - -When all the delicate delights of distance were only half perceived; when -the treatment of light and shadow was barely dreamed of; when aerial -perspective was just breaking on the mind in all its wonder and power; -when it was still regarded as a marvellous boldness to draw from the -natural form in a natural fashion—in those early days only fancy the -delights of a painter! - -[Sidenote: _equal_] - -Something fresh to be won at each step; something new to be penetrated -at each moment; something beautiful and rash to be ventured on with each -touch of colour—the painter in those days had all the breathless pleasure -of an explorer; without leaving his birthplace he knew the joys of -Columbus. - -[Sidenote: _to this?_] - -And one can fancy nothing better than a life such as Spinello led for -nigh a century up on the hill here, painting because he loved it, till -death took him. Of all lives, perhaps, that this world has ever seen, the -lives of painters, I say, in those days were the most perfect. - -In quiet places such as Arezzo and Volterra, and Modena and Urbino, and -Cortona and Perugia, there would grow up a gentle lad who from infancy -most loved to stand and gaze at the missal paintings in his mother’s -house, and the coena in the monk’s refectory, and when he had fulfilled -some twelve or fifteen years, his people would give in to his wish and -send him to some bottega to learn the management of colours. - -[Sidenote: _No, not even_] - -Then he would grow to be a man; and his town would be proud of him, and -find him the choicest of all work in its churches and its convents, so -that all his days were filled without his ever wandering out of reach of -his native vesper bells. - -[Sidenote: _in Boston!_] - -He would make his dwelling in the heart of his birthplace, close under -its cathedral, with the tender sadness of the olive hills stretching -above and around in the basiliche or the monasteries his labor would -daily lie; he would have a docile band of hopeful boyish pupils with -innocent eyes of wonder for all he did or said; he would paint his wife’s -face for the Madonna’s, and his little son’s for the child Angel’s; he -would go out into the fields and gather the olive bow, and the feathery -corn, and the golden fruits, and paint them tenderly on ground of gold or -blue, in symbol of those heavenly things of which the bells were forever -telling all those who chose to hear; he would sit in the lustrous nights -in the shade of his own vines and pity those who were not as he was; now -and then horsemen would come spurring in across the hills and bring news -with them of battles fought, of cities lost and won; and he would listen -with the rest in the market-place, and go home through the moonlight -thinking that it was well to create the holy things before which the -fiercest rider and the rudest free-lance would drop the point of the -sword and make the sign of the cross. - -It must have been a good life—good to its close in the cathedral -crypt—and so common too; there were scores of such lived out in these -little towns of Italy, half monastery and half fortress, that were -scattered over hill and plain, by sea and river, on marsh and mountain, -from the daydawn of Cimabue to the after-glow of the Carracci. - -And their work lives after them; the little towns are all grey and still -and half peopled now; the iris grows on the ramparts, the canes wave -in the moats, the shadows sleep in the silent market-place, the great -convents shelter half a dozen monks, the dim majestic churches are damp -and desolate, and have the scent of the sepulchre. - -But there, above the altars, the wife lives in the Madonna and the child -smiles in the Angel, and the olive and the wheat are fadeless on their -ground of gold and blue; and by the tomb in the crypt the sacristan will -shade his lantern and murmur with a sacred tenderness: - -“Here he sleeps.” - - OUIDA. - - - - -FOR HONOR. - - -By a turn of chance a father and son were thrown together in one of the -Western frontier posts, the father as colonel in command, the son as a -second lieutenant in one of the four companies quartered there. When the -order came which had brought them together after the three years which -had gone by since the boy left West Point, it brought great, but silent, -happiness to the stern and gloomy old soldier, and a light-hearted -pleasure to the young man; once more he would be with “dear old dad,” and -besides, life must be rather exciting out there, and altogether worth -a man’s while. And so he packed his traps in double-quick time, as a -soldier must, and was off in twenty-four hours. The meeting between the -two was a strange one. Effusive and very gay on the part of the young -man, who made no effort to conceal his delight; stiff, even cold, on the -part of the old man, whose very heart quivered with joy; and on whose -stern and bronzed face a light came which the boy did not even see. - -The colonel was not a popular man, hard and cold, rigid in the -performance of his own duty, and with little sympathy for failure on the -part of his men, he was respected, and, in a certain sense, admired, -but not loved; sternly just according to his own light, but narrow and -intolerant. With two passions—the exaggerated, hide-bound honor of a -soldier who believes his profession to be the only one; the honor of a -strictly honest and very proud man, jealous of the slightest stain upon -his unimpeachable integrity. The other passion a carefully hidden but -almost idolatrous love for his son. There had been one other passion, but -she died. - -Within a month after his coming, the young lieutenant was the most -popular man at the post. He sang, he danced, he rode, and he played -cards; he also drank rather more than was necessary. - -Within two months it all palled upon him. Deadly ennui took possession -of him. The great sunlit barren plains stretched out interminable. -There were no Indians even to break the monotony. The iron routine of -one day followed upon another with what seemed to him a stupid, trivial -and meaningless regularity. So he stopped singing and dancing, and went -on playing cards and drinking. Another thing that annoyed him was his -father’s suppressed but uncompromising disapproval. Inward the colonel’s -soul writhed that his boy should blemish his record as a soldier in this -way; he did not doubt his courage should the time come for proving it, -but in the meantime to show himself a weak and foolish man was almost -unbearable. He could not understand the boy, and he said nothing, which -was perhaps unfortunate. - -Three weeks went by and the young lieutenant was deep in debt to the -captain of another company. A sneering, black faced fellow, who had -risen from the ranks; gaining his promotions during the last fifteen -years for acts of dare-devil bravery. He was not a pleasant man to owe -to; particularly if one was not too sure of being able to pay up when -the notes fell due. Another month, and things were no better. It was in -the early part of September, and the flat plains stretched out parched -and arid, the sun beat down pitilessly on the treeless little post, and -the money to the captain had to be paid to-morrow. It was certainly a -disagreeable situation. But they played hard and drank hard, and the -young lieutenant almost forgot that to-morrow was coming. - -[Sidenote: _Is cheating at cards so rare as this?_] - -But about one o’clock in the morning there was a row, and before many -hours the whole post knew what was the matter. It does not take long for -news to travel among a few hundred people, particularly so interesting -and exciting a bit as this. For this gay young fellow, this dashing young -soldier, this son of the stern old martinet of a colonel, had been caught -cheating at cards, and was disgraced forever. - -The news got round and finally reached the colonel. It was a brave man -who told him. He waited an hour, and then putting a pistol in his -holster, he went across to his son’s quarters. There was no answer to -his knock, so he opened the door and went in. The boy was sitting by the -table, with his head buried in his arms. He did not look up when his -father spoke, “My son, there is but one thing for you to do. You know -what it is,” and he laid the pistol on the table. There was no reply; -and the colonel stood silent, straight and stern, but his face was gray, -and his iron mouth was drawn. Presently the boy raised his head and -looked straight into his father’s eyes. For the first time in his life he -understood. “Yes, father,” he said. The colonel stood a moment, and then -went out and shut the door. When he was half way across the parade ground -he heard a pistol shot, but he did not go back. - - JEAN WRIGHT. - - - - -THE CONFESSIONAL IN LETTERS. - - -In the year 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., made a lecturing -tour through England. Among the towns he visited was Coventry, where he -was entertained at the residence of Mr. Charles Bray. In the family of -Mr. Bray lived a young woman by the name of Mary Ann Evans, and although -this Miss Evans was not handsome, either in face or figure, she made a -decided impression on Mr. Emerson. - -A little excursion was arranged to Stratford, an antiquated town of -some note in the same county. On this trip Mr. Emerson and Miss Evans -paired off very naturally, and Miss Evans of Coventry was so bold as to -set Mr. Emerson of Concord straight on several matters relating to Mr. -Shakespeare, formerly of Stratford. - -“What is your favorite book?” said Mr. Emerson to Miss Evans, somewhat -abruptly. - -“Rousseau’s _Confessions_,” said the young woman instantly. - -“And so it is mine,” answered Mr. Emerson. - -All of which is related by Moncure D. Conway in a volume entitled -_Emerson at Home and Abroad_. - -A copy of Conway’s book was sent to Walt Whitman, and when he read the -passage to which I have just referred he remarked, “And so it is mine.” - -Emerson and Whitman are probably the two strongest names in American -letters, and George Eliot stands first among women writers of all time; -and as they in common with many Lesser Wits stand side by side and salute -Jean Jacques Rousseau, it may be worth our while to take just a glance at -M. Rousseau’s book in order, if we can, to know why it appeals to people -of worth. - -The first thing about the volume that attracts is the title. There is -something charmingly alluring and sweetly seductive in a confession. Mr. -Henry James has said: “The sweetest experience that can come to a man -on his pilgrimage through this vale of tears is to have a lovely woman -‘confess’ to him; and it is said that while neither argument, threat, -plea of justification, nor gold can fully placate a woman who believes -she has been wronged by a man, yet she speedily produces, not only a -branch, but a whole olive tree when he comes humbly home and confesses.” - -Now here is a man about to ’fess to the world, and we take up the volume, -glance around to see if any one is looking, and begin at the first -paragraph to read: - -“I purpose an undertaking that never had an example and the execution of -which will never have an imitation. I would exhibit myself to all men as -I am—a man.... - -“Let the last trumpet sound when it will, I will come, with this book in -my hand, and present myself before the Sovereign Judge. I will boldly -proclaim: Thus have I acted, thus have I thought, such was I. With equal -frankness have I disclosed the good and the evil. I have omitted nothing -bad, added nothing good. I have exhibited myself, despisable and vile -when so; virtuous, generous, sublime when so. I have unveiled my interior -being as Thou, Eternal One, hast seen it.” Now where is the man or woman -who could stop there, even though the cows were in the corn? - -And as we read further we find things that are “unfit for publication” -and confessions of sensations that are so universal to healthy men that -they are irrelevant, and straightway we arise and lock the door so as to -finish the chapter undisturbed. For as superfluous things are the things -we cannot do without, so is the irrelevant in literature the necessary. - -Having finished this chapter, oblivious to calls that dinner is waiting, -we begin the next; and finding items so interesting that they are -disgusting, and others so indecent that they are entertaining, we forget -the dinner that is getting cold and read on. - -And the reason we read on is not because we love the indecent, or because -we crave the disgusting, although I believe Burke hints at the contrary, -but simply because the writing down of these unbecoming things convinces -us that the man is honest and that the confession is genuine. In short we -come to the conclusion that any man who deliberately puts himself in such -a bad light—caring not a fig either for our approbation or our censure—is -no sham. - -And there you have it! _We want honesty in literature._ - -The great orator always shows a dash of contempt for the opinions of his -audience, and the great writer is he who loses self consciousness and -writes himself down as he is, for at the last analysis all literature is -a confession. - -The Ishmaelites who purvey culture by the ton, and issue magazines that -burden the mails—study very carefully the public palate. They know full -well that a “confession” is salacious: it is an exposure. A confession -implies something that is peculiar, private and distinctly different from -what we are used to. It is a removing the veil, a making plain things -that are thought and performed in secret. - -And so we see articles on “The Women Who Have Influenced Me,” “The Books -that Have Made Me,” “My Literary Passions,” etc. But like the circus -bills, these titles call for animals that the big tent never shows; and -this perhaps is well, for otherwise ’twould fright the ladies. - -Yes, I frankly admit that these “confessions” suit the constituency of -_The Ladies’ Home Journal_ better than the truth; and although its editor -be a Jew, the fact that the writers of his confessions practice careful -concealment of the truth that they have hands, senses, eyes, ears, -organs, dimensions, passions, is a wise commercial stroke. You can prick -them and they do not bleed, tickle them and they do not laugh, poison -them and they do not die; simply because they are only puppets parading -as certain virtues, and these virtues the own particular brand in which -the subscribers delight. - -That excellent publication, _The Forum_, increased its circulation by -many thousand when it ran a series of confessions of great men wherein -these great men made sham pretense of laying their lives bare before -the public gaze. Nothing was told that did not redound to the credit of -the confessor. The “Formative Influences” of sin, error and blunders -were carefully concealed or calmly waived. The lack of good faith was as -apparent in these articles as the rouge on the cheek of a courtesan: the -color is genuine and the woman not dead, that’s all. - -And the loss lies in this: These writers—mostly able men—sell their souls -for a price, and produce a literature that lives the length of life of a -moth, whereas they might write for immortality. Instead of inspiring the -great, they act as clowns to entertain the rabble. - -Of course I know that Rousseau’s _Confessions_, Amiel’s _Journal_ and -Marie Bashkirtseff’s _Diary_ have all been declared carefully worked out -artifices. And admitting all the wonderful things that scheming man -can perform, I still maintain that there are a few things that life and -nature will continue to work out in the old, old way. I appeal to those -who have tried both plans, whether it is not easier to tell the truth -than to concoct a lie. And I assiduously maintain that if the case is to -be tried by a jury of great men, that the shocking facts will serve the -end far better than sugared half-truth. - -When Richard Le Gallienne tells us of the birth of his baby and for weeks -before how White Soul was sure she should die; and Marie Bashkirtseff -makes painstaking note of the size of her hips and the development of her -bust; and poor Amiel bewails the fate of eating breakfast facing an empty -chair; and Rousseau explains the delicate sensations and smells that -swept over him on opening his wardrobe and finding smocks and petticoats -hanging in careless negligence amid his man’s clothes; and all those -other pathetic, foolish, charming, irrelevant bits of prattle, one is -convinced of the author’s honesty. No thorough-going literary man, hot -for success, would leave such stuff in; he would as soon think of using a -flesh brush on the public street; these are his own private affairs—his -good sense would have forbade. - -A good lie for its own sake is ever pleasing to honest men, but a patched -up record never. And when such small men as Samuel Pepys and James -Boswell can write immortal books, the moral for the rest of us is that a -little honesty is not a dangerous thing. - -And so I swing back to the place of beginning and say that while even -a sham confession may be interesting to hoi polloi, yet to secure an -endorsement from such minds as that of Emerson, George Eliot and Walt -Whitman the confession must be genuine. - - ELBERT HUBBARD. - - - - -THE SOCIAL SPOTTER. - - -“Why don’t the young folks marry?” continues, in the intervals of -other jeremiad problems, to puzzle the good people who call themselves -publicists, having a brevet authority to set everything right in the -world. It is assumed that if the young people would only marry up to -the full proportion, most of the ills that afflict an over-civilized -and over-sensitized society would cure themselves. The young people -would have something else to do besides “dabbling in the fount of -fictive tears” and inventing new wants. The old ones would suffice, when -multiplied in kind after the usual fashion. - -It is an old story that young men are afraid of the cost of marriage. The -girls are less simple than their mothers and complexity in matters of -taste means expense. A clever verse writer has told of the hardships of -a pair who wooed on a bicycle built for two and afterwards tried to live -on a salary built for one. It is funny in the telling but tragic in the -living. It is a trying business to keep up to concert pitch in these days. - -[Sidenote: _But is she warranted harmless?_] - -The complexity of social expression is not the only dragon in the way. -We have adopted from abroad something French. It came via England, but -France is its origin. It is the Chaperone. She is usually harmless -personally, but she means a great deal. She stands for a state of society -where marriage is always a failure. Ask Emile Zola if you don’t believe -it. “Modern Marriage” has the specifications. We have good women and -manly men in America. The grisette isn’t an institution with us. Neither -is the man who supports her until he is rich enough to make a French -marriage. We have him and we have her, but neither is universal. The -_mariage de convenance_ and the institution which precedes it in France -are not general with us. The chaperone is part of the system with them. -The chaperone implies the others. She is a standing notice that young man -and young woman are not to be trusted together. In some of our cities -it is such very good “good form” to send a guardian with young people -that a woman of over twenty-five has been known to cancel an engagement -to attend a company which she had anxiously wanted to enjoy and for -which she had made great preparation, because a married sister could not -accompany her. She would not go without a chaperone. It was not “good -form.” - -O ye gods, Good Form! What was good form, and who promulgated its laws, -when the father and mother of us all, better than any of us, walked with -the Creator of the universe in the garden in the cool of the day? But -“evil came into the world” and changed it. Yes, the evil of “good form,” -the embodied self-consciousness which chains all the virtues and makes -the decencies compulsory and puts on them the brand of the police blotter. - -In the name of all that is good why should we watch the young people? The -middle-aged need it more. Youth is chivalrous. Middle age is commonplace. -It is not youth that - - Eats for his stomach and drinks for his head, - And loves for his pleasure—and ’tis time he was dead. - -Chaperon the married victims of the French system. Put the spotter on the -track of the woman who was taught she couldn’t trust herself when she -was young and the man was complacently branded a roue when his heart was -fresh and warm. - -It is time for a new declaration of independence, and the youth of our -land should make it. Let Young America say this: “The woman I cannot -honorably woo, whose care at a social gathering is denied me without a -policeman and a spy, may find another knight.” Let the maidens of our -day, better cultured than their mothers, broader in their training, surer -of their social footing, stronger in their poise and presence of mind, -bar out the man who comes into their presence under a ban. - -How long would the hollow mockery of “good form” endure such a strike? -As many minutes as it should take to show its utter falsehood and the -cruel slander it implies. Until the young people so assert themselves -the imitated bars sinister of the most corrupt social heraldry of -Europe will be ours—worn with an affectation of pride in the dishonor -they blazon. Till then men will be equalized down, not up; and the talk -of “emancipated woman” will be an insult. When it is done there will -be more marriages of the kind to be desired—the union of true men and -self-respecting women. - - WILLIAM MCINTOSH. - - - - -THE CHATTER OF A DEATH-DEMON FROM A TREE-TOP. - - - BLOOD—BLOOD AND TORN GRASS— - HAD MARKED THE RISE OF HIS AGONY— - THIS LONE HUNTER. - THE GREY-GREEN WOODS IMPASSIVE - HAD WATCHED THE THRESHING OF HIS LIMBS. - - A CANOE WITH FLASHING PADDLE, - A GIRL WITH SOFT, SEARCHING EYES, - A CALL: “JOHN!” - - ... - - COME, ARISE, HUNTER! - LIFT YOUR GREY FACE! - CAN YOU NOT HEAR? - - THE CHATTER OF A DEATH-DEMON FROM A TREE-TOP. - - STEPHEN CRANE. - - - - -THE STORY OF THE LITTLE SISTER. - - -When I first knew her she was a very little girl in a white -dress—starched very stiff—and she might have reminded me of Molly in the -diverting story of _Sir Charles Danvers_. - -I was devoted to her sister and I remember her galumphing into the room -at a most inopportune time, and staring for a moment with eyes very wide -open. Then she ran away and I heard her outside giggling quietly all by -herself. - -When the big sister went away for the summer I went out to the house to -tell her good-by. The great trunk stood in the hall waiting for Charlie -Miller’s man. Seated on top of this was the little sister with two round -bottles held close to her eyes. She said she was playing theater, and -that the bottles made a lovely opera glass. - -I asked her what the play was and she said about a pretty lady who was -pursued by lions and dragons and things. Then there was a man—a big, nice -man—who came with guns and swords and spears and killed all the dragons -and lions and then he married the pretty lady. - -This was her imagination. - -Then I went away—I forget where—and was gone many years. I came back to -be best man at the wedding of my cousin Anthony. I found that the little -sister was to be the maid of honor, and at the various functions before -the wedding I saw much of her. - -After the ceremony we walked down the aisle together, and as she took my -arm her hand trembled. When we reached the entrance I turned and looked -square into her glorious eyes. They told me many things that I was glad -to know. - -Now—after a year—I am trying to live up to the ideal man she imagined me -to be. - -And that’s what makes it hard. - - H. P. T. - - * * * * * - -Many of the newspapers which have noticed THE PHILISTINE have expressed -their inability to find East Aurora on the map. All the map makers are -hereby authorized to print a large red ring around the name of the home -of THE PHILISTINE hereafter, but for the benefit of those who pine for -immediate knowledge, I clip the following from _Bradstreet’s_: - - EAST AURORA, Erie Co., pop. 2000, 1880. Bank 1, newspapers - 2, Am. Ex., W. N. Y. & P. R. R., 17 miles fr. Buffalo. - Headquarters Cloverfield combination of cheese factories. Home - of Mambrino King.[1] Product: ginger. - -[1] _Mambrino King is a horse._ - - - - -[Illustration: THE BLUFF. - -DRAWING BY PLUG HAZEN-PLUG.] - - - - -SIDE TALKS WITH THE PHILISTINES: BEING SUNDRY BITS OF WISDOM WHICH HAVE -BEEN HERETOFORE SECRETED, AND ARE NOW SET FORTH IN PRINT. - - -If I had seen it announcing a special feature in the _World_ or _Herald_ -for a coming Sunday, I would not have been surprised, but to find the -following paragraph in the editorial columns of _The Land of Sunshine_ -fills me with wonder: - - Up to date _The Land of Sunshine_ is the only periodical in the - world whose cover is embellished with drawings by the Almighty. - -It would be interesting to know what the Recording Angel thinks of Mr. -Lummis’s coupling of the High Court of Heaven and Aubrey Beardsley. Now -if Mr. Lummis could only get his editorials from the same source—— - - * * * * * - -When Shem Rock, Ham Garland and Japhet Bumball conspired to spring on -an unsuspecting world that three-cornered story entitled _The Land of -the Straddle Bug_, they bought two whole bushels of hyphens. In one -chapter, by actual count, forty-seven compound words are used. They have -even hyphenated such words as dod-rot, dodd-mead, slap-jack, goll-darn, -do-tell and gee-whiz. Ham’s own pet “yeh” is used in the story -sixty-four times, which does not include four plain “you’s” and three -“ye’s,” where the Only Original Lynx-eyed Proof-reader nodded. - - * * * * * - -It is published that the _Post_ contemplated a change in the appearance -and make-up of the paper, but gave up the scheme lest it shock the -readers of Mr. Godkin’s _Evening Grandmother_. What would shock the -readers more would be the appearance of life somewhere about the sheet. I -would respectfully call the attention of the editors of the _Post_ to the -fate which befell the Assyrians. It is written in Isaiah XXXVII—36: Then -the angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians -a hundred and four score and five thousand; and when they arose in the -morning: behold, they were all dead corpses. - - * * * * * - -THE PHILISTINE’S plea is for the widest liberty to individual genius. -Perhaps no living man has presented this plea so strongly in his life and -work as William Morris. The poem herein printed is a taste of this strong -man’s quality. It is taken from that dainty bundle of beautiful things -entitled, _Love Lyrics_. - - * * * * * - -In that very charming article by Mr. Zangwill in the last _Chap Book_, -mention is made of the utter impossibility of stating a truth so that -the majority will remember or recognize it when they see it again—so -shallow is human wit. In THE PHILISTINE for July I made bold to insert -an extract from the Bible. No credit was given, however, and the matter -was re-paragraphed. And now, behold, a Chicago paper arises and calls -the quotation rot; several other publications refute the scriptural -statements and a weekly that is very wise in its day and generation -refers to my irreverence in writing in Bible style. - - * * * * * - -In the _Popular Science Monthly_ for July a Dr. Oppenheimer announces the -interesting discovery why children lie. It has been supposed that they -lie, as a general thing, because they want something, but it appears that -it is because they have something, in the French sense. It isn’t inherent -viciousness but disease. The doctor says: - - The children usually are suffering from disorders of mind or - body, or both, which radically interfere with the transmission - of conceptions and perceptions from the internal to the - external processes of expression, so that they really are - unable to be more exact than they seem. - -This seems to explain several things about our good friends Landon and -Townsend—G. A. - - * * * * * - -The London _Athenæum_ says “Stephen Crane is the coming Boozy Prophet of -America; his lines send the cold chills streaking up one’s spine, and -we are in error if his genius does not yet sweep all other literary fads -from the board.” - -All of which strikes me as a boozier bit of cymbalism than any of Mr. -Crane’s verses. - - * * * * * - -On the authority of the New York _Sun_, afternoon teas are growing more -and more realistic. That arbiter of etiquette says: - - The formality of bidding adieu to the hostess at an afternoon - tea is now dispensed with; the omission is considered - with favor and in good taste. No after calls are made in - acknowledgement of a tea. - -The little trifle of ceremony that stood for courtesy is about all cast -aside. The program now is—Greet, Eat and Git. - - * * * * * - -I observe that Mr. Andrew Lang is to write some verses to be read at a -dinner of the Omar Club in London “on some future occasion.” I shall -watch for these with much interest, remembering, meanwhile, these verses -recently read before that remarkable organization: - - We envy not the saint what bliss he hath: - Still let him cheer his puritanic path - With what of joy his joyless rules permit: - The beer of ginger and the bun of Bath. - - We plunder not the Pharasaic fold - Whose drinks are new, whose jests and maidens old; - Content to cherish what the Dervish hates, - The cup of ruby and the curls of gold. - -It is noted that Mr. W. Irving Way of Chicago was present at the last -Omar club dinner. He should give us some notable reminiscences of the -feast. - -Speaking of Way, I hear that he has gone into the publishing business -in Chicago. As a critic of the mechanical construction of books he is -supreme, but I wonder will his publishing be that of literature or wool -from the wild west. - - * * * * * - -“You have us down one dollar for dog tax. I’d have you know we keep no -dog,” said the man to the tax gatherer. - -“I understand,” answered the publican, “but you subscribe to the Albany -_Argus_!” - - * * * * * - -Buffalo, N. Y., has a _Young Ladies’ Magazine_. It has a beautiful -picture of a skirt dance on the cover of its prospectus, which is ever -so much more interesting than Mr. Bok’s Bermuda lily gatherer seven feet -tall. - - * * * * * - -Now that Robert Louis Stevenson’s will has been published in full text -as a feature story, perhaps Mr. So So McClure may desist. The will is -almost as thrilling as a market report. Its publication explains in part, -however, how the cheap magazine movement is founded. Next we shall -see the weather and a Congressional debate among the contents of the -cheap-books. - - * * * * * - -Prizes are offered in Judge Tourgee’s _Basin_ to preachers, women and -“colored writers,” for short stories. The Judge is bound to keep solid -with the three sexes as he understands them. - - * * * * * - -It is matter of record in _McClure’s_ that Edmund Goose’s poem on Samoa, -which it prints, “reached Robert Louis Stevenson three days before his -death.” There is a horrible suggestion in the little nonpareil footnote -that the poem may have hastened that sad event. It’s bad enough. - - -A LYRIC OF JOY. - - Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune - I saw the white daisies go down to the sea. - - —Bliss Carman, in July _Century_. - - * * * * * - - Over the ballast, the ropes and the chairs, - I see the fat picnicers clamber galore, - And struggle for seats by the rail near the stairs, - To fry in the sun when they steam from the shore. - The barker has rallied them out of the town - To sands stretching white in the pitiless glare; - And all of their talk as the calm night comes down - Is the crush going back and the bargain day fare. - - M’LISS COWBOY. - - * * * * * - -Ham Garland has gone up the coulee to his farm near La Crosse and is -writing another novel. He is daily in receipt of letters and telegrams -from people in all parts of the country asking him to pull the coulee up -after him. - - * * * * * - -In a recent number of the _Chip-Munk_ it is said the intelligent -compositor set it Charles G——d— Roberts; and the Only Original Lynx-Eyed -being on a journey the whole edition was printed. It was one of those -very aggravating mistakes that will occasionally occur even in printerys -which print things on the finest paper. - - * * * * * - -I greet with exceeding joy the name of a new writer of stories which -appeal to me as being above the plane of universal grayness which we have -viewed for many months, and for this reason I am glad to see _A Very -Remarkable Girl_ in the quarterly issued by _Town Topics_. The author -of this story is Mr. L. H. Bickford of Denver, and the editor of _Town -Topics_ says that he has heretofore been unacquainted with Mr. Bickford’s -work. For many years I have watched the development of this young author, -and if I am not much mistaken he will yet be heard from in no uncertain -way. I do not believe that the public has any business with the private -life of writers, but it may be said that Mr. Bickford is twenty-six, -and was born in Leadville, Colorado. For a half hour’s entertainment, -reading aloud in a hammock, I know of nothing better than _A Very -Remarkable Girl_. It is suggestive of the signs of the times. - - * * * * * - -Good form has determined that special attentions at a time of bereavement -are to be recognized by sending engraved cards. Some people used to send -letters of thanks for sympathy, but of course cards are more impressive. -A coupon scheme has been suggested, the thanks to be attached to a ticket -to the funeral. - - * * * * * - -And furthermore be it known that the marginal notes opposite articles in -THE PHILISTINE are never supplied by the authors thereof. - - * * * * * - -A man in Paris sends me the following delicious bit clipped from the -Paris edition of the New York _Herald_ of April 1: - - NEW YORK, March 31.—The _Herald’s_ leading editorial to-day - says that many surprises await us in heaven. - -I regret not seeing this editorial of March 31. I imagine, however, that -it related to Reginald de Koven and his surprise—when he gets there—at -finding he cannot write all the choir music. - - * * * * * - -But then—is Egotism Art? - - * * * * * - -_MEDITATIONS IN MOTLEY._ - -By WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE - -“Meditations in Motley” reveals a new American essayist, honest and -whimsical, with a good deal of decorative plain speaking. An occasional -carelessness of style is redeemed by unfailing insight.—I. ZANGWILL in -_The Pall Mall Magazine_ for April, 1895. - -A series of well written essays, remarkable on the whole for observation, -refinement of feeling and literary sense. The book may be taken as a -wholesome protest against the utilitarian efforts of the Time-Spirit, -and as a plea for the rights and liberties of the imagination. 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