January 11, 1911.
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THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY.
story, and in a vigorous, untrammeled
liteiary maimer not matched by any writ
er now living, he had produced nine vol
umes of tales which not only charm the
discriminating, but awaken the regretful
realization that they are all toO few for
one who was saying it with an increasing
skill, bringing him ever wider favor.
The untimely death of Mr. Jloody
two* years the junior of “0. Heniy ’
is an emphatic loss to American letters,
for he was endowed with a poetic quality
so rare as to have made itself felt and
win recognitioji while he was yet an un
dergraduate. Our present dearth of true
singers makes men’s ears keenly sensi
tive to the notes of a new lyre, and wheu
Moody’s Ode in Time of Hesitation and
his veises On a Soldier Fallen in the
Phillipines api>eared. there came to those
with ears to hear disiinctly, the thrill with
which men greet the first proofs of a
master mind. Not only did the poetic
quality of this writing speak for itself,
but there was in it much of-the lofty
patriotism of Lowell. If it is true that
none of his later verse leached the height
of these poems, there yet are many that
have found permanent place in our an
thologies.
Close to these, whose permanency of
value, each in his own field, must be ac
knowledged, should be placed Julia ard
Howe, F. J. Furnivall, W. J. Rolfe and
W. G. Summer, each of whom had gained
a more than local name for work of pe
culiar value.
]\Irs. Howe’s long years had been fill
ed full with noble endeavor, few women
' have beccmie more revered and loved than
she, yet she will be longest remembered
because of a single flash of genius; for
an instant the angel of inspiration touch
ed hir pen, and there sprang forth into
being a creation destined to endure. The
Battle Hymn of the Republic might lia\e
bcL-n set to paper in ten minutes; it was
no labored product of thought, yet it en-
shrin s the rare quality of summoning the
most exalted sentiment and quickening it
to action, ('ompare it with any other of
the so-called national songs of our land
and it stands supreme: America is la-
tiorious, if not commonplace; The Star-
Spangled Banner is grandiloquent, almost
flippant; Hail, Columbia! is stiff and stilt
ed. In dignity, impressiveness and the
fulness of a great and overwhelming pur
pose which moves to swift and righteous
action, nothing finier was ever written
than—
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men be
fore His judgment seat;
0 be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be
jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
The name of Julia Ward Howe stands
on the title-pag:s of fourteen volumes,
but her immortality ifl American letters
rests on a single perfection poem.
Dr. Furnivall was the English counter
part of tliis “Grand Old Woman,” if not
([uite in years, tlien yet in that he had
come to be so widely known and so gen
erally beloved. Ilis personality was in
domitably picturesque. In the sober pre
cincts of th? B:itish Museum his ruddy
face and silver hair and beard, surmount
ing a scarlet tie, were about the most
stimulating spectacle offered to a readier.
A lifetime s])ent largely in the close la
bor of reading proofs and collating man
uscripts had not subdued him, while he
had added to tbs diligence of the textual
critic the entluisiasm of one recalling to
us the faint, forgotten, far-off things and
th-j capacity of the born administrator.
Publishing Societies sprang up in his
wake: the Early English Text Society,
the New Shakesjieare Society, the Chau-
c. r. Browning, and Shelley Societies, re-
])i‘esent merely a part of his activities in
this sort. Great Shakespearean as he
was, his real monument is the publica
tion of tho Chaucer Society, the editing
of whose chief manuscripts he acconi-
jilished almost single-handed. In its kind
the work is definitive, and Federick Fnrn-
i\all's name will not bo f^)rgotten until
(lianccr himself fails to attract scholars.
The other v. teran editor of the Bard of
Avon, William James Rolfe,—more than
lialf a million copies of his Shakespeare
editions are said to have been sold,—and
Professor Sumner, of Yale, may perhaps
best be placed among educators; cer
tainly the latter, in his chosen field of
sociologj’ and political science, was one
of the great .educational forces of Ameri
ca. President Hadley has said of him:
“Among the many great teachers I know,
Sumner was in many respects the great-
■£st. He was one of the few who really
taught his pupils to think and to think
forcibly.’ ’
Seven women besides Mrs. Howe are
to be listed in the year’s necrology. In
its third month Miss M. 0. Nutting
(“Mary Panett”), thui in her eightieth
year, ceased those writings which have
brought nearer to us Holland and its his
tory. Within a few months of her age
was Rebecca Harding Davis, who laid by
lier facile pen in September, only a few
days after word had come of the passing
of Susan Hale, who had played no in-
oonsiderable part iu the lighter literary
laboi-s of her more famous brother. The
fjerman novelist Kathinka Sutro died in
August, and in May both Mrs. Charles
C. Waddell (“Ixuiise Forsslund’’) and
Mrs. F. Boyd Calhoun, whose Miss Miner
va and William Green Hill will long be
smilingly r membered. In March came
the sudden death of “Myra Kelly” (Mrs.
Allan MacNaugliton). who in such delight
ful books as Little Citizens had shown
us a hitherto unguessed side of the sor-
did-appearing tiny ones of the New \ork
slums. Mrs. MacNaughton and Mrs.
Waddell were yet in their thirties, and
of so true a promise that their early
deaths aie the more poignantly regret
ted.
Of the names already given, only that
of Rod may be associated with France
(though a Swiss citizens all his days, he
had dwelt for years in Paris), but
seven other Frenchmen of literary
achievement joined “the great majority”
as the months of lUlO measured out their
span. Four were Academicians: Albert
Vandal, an autliority on the history of
European diplomacy; the Vicomte Eu
gene Melchior de Vogue, Orientalist as
well as historian; Leopidd Delisle, the
historian; and Jules Renard, poet, nov
elist and essayist, but, beyond this re
cognized as a “stylist” of the intensely
polished school of Flaubert. Then there
as romancer Louis Bousssenard; and
the young symbolisi-iH)et Jean Moreas,
a Parisian of Parisians, thougli his ac
tual name, Papadiamantopoulos, pointed
unmistakably soutiiward to his native
land. General de Beylie, though active
in his military calling, was also widely
known for scholarly writings on archae
ology.
De Beylie was drowned in July, the
second (Barrel Eastman bthig the first)
of the four authors who met violent
deaths during the twelvemonth. The
other two were Alfred Nutt and Frank
Podmore, both Englishmen; the one a
student of folk lore and Celtic letters, and
the other a prolific contributor to the
literature of Spiritualism. Dr. Nutt was
drowned in July, attempting to save his
son; Podmore committied suicide a month
later. (
The chronicle holds four names of
rather unusual interest; two because of
the amount of writing they had accom
plished. William Gordon-Stables. a
“boy's author” for nearly filly of his
sevsnfy years, had set his signature to no
less than one hundred and fifty manu
scripts, first and last; the Yiddish play,
wright, Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz, though
four years Dr. Gordon-Stables’ junior,
had suipassed his output by full two doz
en titles—and though “the literary
vvorld,” so called, knew littl9 if anything
of the latter, the mourning for his death
through all the Eastern cities of this
country showed the love he had stirred
among his fellows and the influence he
had exerted for their betterment. And
something of a like tribute was paid in
August to the memory of the “Nestor
of Iceland,” as they termed him there—
Tal Talson Melsted, the historian of that
far northern people, who laid by his pen
when ninety-seven. Wlien Orville .1.
Victor died, in March, mention was made
of his editorial work and of his histor
ies, but, and curiously, scarcely a line
was printed of that part of his labor which
enjoyed the widest vogue, and which was
indeed almost unique, for, in the sev
enties, Mr. Victor was editor of the “Bea
dle Dime Novels”; and if the name has
come to have a sound not wholly to be
endorsed, it should be remembered that
its ill savor has come to it within the
])ast two decades; the thousand-and-one
stories which bore the Beadle imprint and
which passed under Victor’s blue pencil
were of a far better ilk. melodramatic
“to the limit,” it may be, qualities which
stamp the vicious pamphlets which nowa
days keep alive the name “dime novel.”
With journalism and literature (“pro
pel”) no longer separated by the wide
chasm which once divided callings really
akin the one to the other, a final word
is to be said of some of the newspaper
writers who have been called from their
desks as the year has rolled along. A.
Fraser Walter, of the London “Times,”
has been named. Even more prominent
in the British “Fourth Estate” was Sir
George Newnes, founder of “Tit-Bits”
and a pioneer of “modern” journalism
in “the tight little, right little island,”
who died in June. The United States has
lost Robert W. Patterson, editor-in-chief
of the Chicago “Tribune”; David A.
Munro, of “The North American Re
view Charles J. O’Malley, Stephen V.
Ford, and E. P. xVlexander—the first, poet
as well as editor; the second, a critic of
clear judgment and leady pencil; and
■ the third, a valued contributer to the
annals of our Civil War period.
Six names are left of the fifty-six; Al
bert White Vorse, of the younger school
of American writers; John A. Kasson,
the aged essayist; Professor L. A.
Rhoades, of the Ohio Stale University, an
authority on Germanic literature; John
Sibre, the English translator of Hegel;
and the Biblical students and writers,
Louis Lambert and Theodore Mungei'.
SUNDAL SCHOOL REPORT FOR
SUNDAY JAN. 8, 1911.
Class No. 1. Dr. J. U. Newman,
Teacher. Present, 17; collection, 38c.
Class No. 2. Prof. T. C. Amick, Teach
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Class No. 3. Mr. A. L. Lincoln, Teach
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Class No. 4. Mrs. R. J. Kernodle,
Teacher. Present, 19; collection, 19cts.
Class No. 5. Teacher-Training Class.
Mr. E. T. Hines, Teacher. Present, 8;
colkction, 20 cents.
(’lass No. 6. Mission Study Class. Mr.
R. A. Campbell, Teacher. Present, 22;
collection, 57 cents.
Class No. 7. Mrs. J. W. Patton, Teach
er. Present, 23; collection, 8 cents.
Class No. 8. Miss Ethel Clements,
Teacher. Present, 14; collection, 7 cts.
Class No. 9. Mrs. J. M. Saunders,
Teacher. Present, 20; collection, 6cts.
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Teacher. Present, 20; collection, 13 cts.
Citizens’ Bible Class. Prof. W. A.
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