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But it did not take you with it, for you are not a poet; you have not kept the holy fire burning, you are not still "strenuous for the bright reward." And so you found it monotonous! Some men find nature monotonous. And some men find music monotonous. January 5th. Two days ago I was reading Menschen und Werke, by Georg Brandes.
There is, you must know, in that region a species of very juicy mushrooms which live only a few days and then shrivel up and emit an insufferable odor. Brandes thought he smelt some of these unpleasant neighbors; he looked around him several times, but did not feel like getting up; meanwhile his dog leaped about, scratched at the trunk of the beech, and barked at the tree.
This may not be the secret of his power, but it is a partial explanation of it. Brandes shows that not even men of genius have invariably succeeded in making the reader take their own attitude to the characters they have created. Thus, we are often bored by persons that Balzac intended to be tremendously interesting; and we often laugh at persons that Dickens intended to draw our tears.
I predict that we shall be great chums, if I manage to get you a place in our establishment." "Is Mr. Brandes a good man to work for?" "Yes, he is easy and good-natured. He is liberal to his clerks. What salary do you think I get?" "I couldn't guess." "Forty dollars a week, and I am only twenty-five. Went into the house at sixteen, and worked my way up."
Brandes, to speak the name of Bjoernson in any assembly of his countrymen is like "hoisting the Norwegian flag."
Mummed in names: A. E., eon: Magee, John Eglinton. East of the sun, west of the moon: Tir na n-og. Booted the twain and staved. How many miles to Dublin? Three score and ten, sir. Will we be there by candlelight? Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing period. Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name is, say of it?
Might it not, however, be possible that it would appear under another form that a star-shower might have sprung from and would commemorate its dissolution? An unusually large number of falling stars were seen by Brandes, December 6, 1798.
Brandes was lying on his back, looking up; suddenly he jumped up with a bound and sprang into the thicket like one possessed. Pale as death he reached the castle; a man was hanging in the "Jew's Beech-tree"; he had seen his limbs suspended directly above his face. "And you did not cut him down, you fool?" cried the Baron.
But our imaginative writings, at all events, have of late been profoundly modified by the Russian novel, that current in literature far more potent than any of those traced out in Georg Brandes' monumental study.
What Maeterlinck wrote: Maurice Maeterlinck wrote thus of James Huneker: "Do you know that 'Iconoclasts' is the only book of high and universal critical worth that we have had for years to be precise, since Georg Brandes. It is at once strong and fine, supple and firm, indulgent and sure." The Evening Post of June 10, 1915, wrote of Mr. Huneker's "The New Cosmopolis": "The region of Bohemia, Mr.
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