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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Oh, Stefan, my dearest 'the little white bird'!" she cried. "Do you like it, darling?" he asked delightedly, his arms about her. "Mrs. Elliot told me about Barrie's white bird I hadn't known the story. But I wanted to show you I was glad about ours," he held her close, "and directly she spoke of the bird, I thought of this.
It was of Barrie's romance, Barrie's future, I thought most, as we wandered side by side through the haunted rooms where Mary danced and loved and suffered, where her grandson Charles I of England came, and left his ruby Coronation ring for remembrance, and where Prince Charlie, her far-off descendant, made hearts flutter at the great ball given in his honour.
A correspondent of The Nation calls attention to the use of "dagon" as Scotch dialect in Barrie's "Little Minister," a recent book. On examining that story, I find that the word has precisely the sense of our Hoosier "dog-on," which is to be pronounced broadly as a Hoosier pronounces dog "daug-on." If Mr. Barrie gives his a the broad sound, his "dagon" is nearly identical with "dog-on."
Because of Mrs. MacDonald's "taboo," Barrie's mother had become her ideal. The girl felt that whatever Grandma disapproved must be beautiful and lovable; and there had been enough said, as well as enough left unsaid whenever dumbness could mean condemnation, to prove that the old woman had detested her daughter-in-law.
There was a certain vague and very dim sense of gratitude in Barrie's heart toward Mrs. MacDonald for what she had just done. For Barrie did not want other ears to hear evil words spoken of her mother, and she was sure that they would be spoken. Not until the stairs had ceased to creak under the departing feet did Grandma again open her lips.
Chauffeurs are a strange race, and Vedder is the strangest of the lot. Drawing near Edinburgh, and encountering the first tram lines, it was pretty to watch Barrie's excitement. To understand, one had to remember that this was by far the biggest town the child had ever seen, so that even the outskirts impressed her as something stupendous. As if for her pleasure, the rain stopped.
The distinguishing trait of Mr. Barrie's genius is that he looks upon life with the simplicity of a child and sees it with the wisdom of a woman. He has a woman's subtlety of insight, a child's concreteness of imagination. He understands life not with his intellect but with his sensibilities.
"The Potentate" was written for the original volume of A Student in Arms, but was not published on account of its likeness in subject to Barrie's play, Der Tag, which, however, Donald had not seen or even heard of when he wrote his own. The POTENTATE is sitting at a table listening to his COURT CHAPLAIN. Where can we look for the Kingdom of God, Sire, if not among the German people?
I have read that it is, somewhere in one of Barrie's yarns, I think. I had never been in Scotland, or much of anywhere else, except the city I was born in, and my college town, and Boston and Cape Cod. "Um-hm" meant yes on the Cape, too, except when Dorinda said it; then it might mean almost anything. When Mother asked her to lower the window shade in the bed-room she said "Um-hm" and lowered it.
A reorganization of the Club in 1908 made membership dependent upon real ability, and since that time Farquahar's Recruiting Officer, ; Barrie's Admirable Crichton, ; Gogol's Inspector, ; Percy McKaye's Scarecrow, , and Barrie's Alice Sit by the Fire, , are fairly representative of the plays given.
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