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"Perhaps," said I, "the eagle does not deal with his chicks, or the Lord with His creatures as the fable represents." "Let us hope at any rate," said the old gentleman, "that the Lord does not." "Have you ever seen this book?" said he, and put Smith's "Sean Dana" into my hand. "Oh, yes," said I, "and have gone through it.
Will you undertake to deliver his dishes into my hands, and leave it for me to pass his cup?" "Yes, in truth; by Father Ingulph's book!" the maid cried, wringing her hands. The page made her a magnanimous gesture. "In that case I will not be so mean as to refuse you," he consented. And he sat smiling to himself in sly content after she had hurried away.
The reader who will approach the book from this angle and who will honestly put aside moral prejudices and prepossessions will come away from the perusal of this book with a deeper understanding of this poor miserable soul of ours and a light will be cast into dark places that lie latent in all of us.
After Georgia left me, I reopened the book, and pondered its revelations, many of them new to us both; and most of them I marked for later investigation. Bryant found no human bones at Donner's camp.
What the book here alluded to was, I cannot with any accuracy ascertain. Among these there are a few political Letters, evidently designed for the newspapers; some of them but half copied out, and probably never sent.
All I knew about the world beyond our house and hisin, was from books, and from hearing him talk, and he convarsed better than any book I ever set eyes on. Well, in course I grew up unsophisticated like, and I think I may say I was as innocent a young man as ever you see." Oh, how they all laughed at that! "You ever innocent!" said they. "Come, that's good; we like that; it's capital!
Ashman's book is a little bewildering to an outsider who fails to distinguish the two vital forces. He says: "It is much rarer to find a high development of a temperament in which the psychical element prevails, than in which it is well blended with the vital-magnetic, or than in which the latter excels. In nearly all popular public men there is a blending of the two.
He did not complete the sentence, but blushing crimson at his own thoughts, he turned away and took refuge in his books; but the excitement and agitation of his soul were stronger than his will; the letters danced and glimmered before his eyes; his heart beat joyfully and stormily; and his soul, borne aloft on bold wings, could no longer be held down to the dusty and dreary writing-desk; he sprang up, threw the book aside, and hastened to the adjoining room.
In "Ghosts," Ibsen preaches a terrible sermon on the responsibility of one generation for the next, but not all his relentless logic can move you to the sharp throb of horrified sympathy you feel as you see Nelse Pettingrew's poor mother run down the street, her shawl flung hastily over her head, framing a face of despairing resolve, such as can never look at you out of the pages of a book.
By far the most luxurious book of this kind, however, in the English language, is Captain Johnston's Lives of Highwaymen and Pirates. It is rare to find it now complete.
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