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Literary JV etvs and Criticism
A French Scholar's llisiorif of
All ihr Religion*.
CBKPHfSra A Gencml HUIMy o* Ttellg-
Vnn^ . Fro:*i t'.e F*ren'!' of Salomon
Rpinu*. auttior of "Ap030." <tf. by
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low
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| ■ the i-irgrr share 9f
r • ■ • . : po ;■> tho^e faiths
H • '■•■•. • •<■ ,\,\nf,\ ;!i.> BJMBBM ptßCa !r.
I • • In these j-t •.:<liej,. off t red ;i« •"•
■ ' •• OglaM in central.
; • ; -Tories. «n «-r,t'r#» rhnpti-r 's
• ■ • ■ • • ;;. \ ni 1 , ■::!«. BaJBStaBIBDI
;• ' "(asai thr ?■• ad m Aryans,
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• . mars nnd the fourth to
. '• ■ mi rnrj Slavs The fifth
chapter. ■ f tueHo j.aprs. d"als with
< n v.p*!)''*!'. MoT.goMans. F:nrs.
a\MeaOMl «»"earl.in« an<] >meri«-ans Tho
Jklussulman? md th* Hebrews have a
<fhaSArr #>«• h .-.-iii < "ri'istlar.lty has five
•■-a WMhJ • r\<\ thf istiari
. ■ (i;.in »-n:r the i>a«es
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uliil^ ■ . -■ ■ -■■ ■ of rtjjna rr.d Japan
tr.K" Kens am' tWttj r» -;•< > live! . . Th*
«'■•;,,,• . oo pfWBBI ary very
i • l otrn principle of
f •- ■ i.t T) .:.-Ti;n) bn>--1s -f rrilpinn
> Bterior to tßataliiva
• : • DJ and
j-.hilr« .' knowledire of it.
Rr:th' •" ' ". ' IpUIVS "c\ orks of art.
I L B md attfl 1 I Icarly
t • ■ j n.? customs, of rit'-s
.. • ■, imrtivg t!-.- puDQBPtIXBi t
■ - :>r» Ihf h". that ih>- real
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• . t of «unrtvaJi and
;.•■■- • •■invrs nf CVtta
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' ■ . BtChf] •OH "tn.-T r< lici^rss.
tl • ■ .•-.•..-,•» tho
tQan native mnaterd. •■. Qraet
r ,, -o'v paiM*3 by. Tl.' stu-iv '
i v i , inu. th> n. a ■:; H^ie
... . • ,-t. we are
I ■••d ;ri th- ]■ •' vn'um" with *
• tfali thai e-.v.P row »!tnfss
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| . ■ . ■ • ;• ■••.«m 1n rillttW
n>t fllrrcU> - ai \ al Whatever
t .!i in quef-tion. some compact
f ■ I ffortl Tiing: but it is
Bating and lull accompaniment
. ■ . ■ : - ; „ • ■ BtoUB tl'.'it con
• • •■ - • -•'-.• Bm h'>"k. a v. r tV i
that Deed IM be imp:. ire Ibv th<- atithor's
.■.;•:• <n*<noo of rilipi<»us
| li-r'' are discus.' - 1 tB*3T
ry. ns to philological af-
Ehe Baa : <\ s< andi
mytbeSacleß. as to t!;< wMtwm of
Haa of the .^k.-'l'is. tho
Homar <-r- >:<'>: d^s^rij^
tkaUß of ar.imisiio Idolatries, Bacrifices,
■ • maßOTterades. incub.ittons.
nnd funereal r;t<« Such an as
•rniMajr^ nf CBf and civilise^ cults
• ■ : ;■;• •"■imn may
• - • • ' • it <if th< scorn -
J I I •■:;.' WiW pepMjoßß I
1 --MVe • ■ " • ■
* ■ ■ for Pr-v bw (WBaxß
• ' • ■ I.- :•:■:- Kxp« ■-
■ ■ ' the manr< <f that
■ he. once upon a time intro-
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tion. M. Keinaih propose.* to rail relipton
"a mm of scruple* which impede the
fro« ♦'xrrt-lvr of our faculties""; Its pri
mary element" arc animism and fin<H».
and thcaa are accompanied by toteml*in
i and mairic H» cntinues:
Tr> the natural. I might alm-»M fay th«
pV.yni.-ilosi'Jil. ««t!"«n .1 animism a-* tiu«
the conception" of thn«e Invisible irenil
with ■ hi.-h nature teem*. fririTa ..f IIM *>»m
:.v<\ of the nvmn, of tiM tree* anil water*.
of th':n<ler anil I'.K^TninK. of mountain*
and rocky not to «.irak of the spirits of
t^e dead, v ::<-?) nrc f>vj!», and the spirit
of Kririis, ?hci 1i» ...1 To the influence
of tal>r><»*-. whirh cre«t»- the idem» of s*cr«si
and ; T(if»r;r. o* il. '.nc>- or action* forhlJ
<l«." or permitted, relistoaa law* and pl^ty
ar* tea. Tt.r Jehova'i of the rock* a^>l
rl..ucl* <f Kinat is a lad of animism,
thr I "-i~a.lng-.ie i* a revision of an old c.-d«
of tabonp
Tcterr.lsm. an obvious consequence of
j believing that all th!np<« are animated
by Faints. If the worship of the animal.
1 plant, mineral or oo'eotial body In which
; tho clan acknowlodees a protector and a
rallying »s(prn. M«ta"|c. the fourth ele
ment, m'.pht lw> railed the ntrate»?y of
animism A* an attempt to subdue
i nature in man's interest. It Is an an
ticipation of true science A priestly
ma*rl< lan in Babylonia pondering a
nViee>p > liver is doina; more than to
satisfy an Immediate need of the »or
! shipper; he is, unwittingly pointing the
, may toward anatomy, Just as by seek-
Ir,* f-itcnn in the heaven* he In whin* an
initial Impulse In the direction of as
• tronomy. Similarly, it 1? the attempt
1 by ma*:lr to fascinate comestible and
• <I<-siraHe animals that leads to th- pris
; Una ••• Iff 111 fl by carvings, enicrnv
1-iKs and Unpra on the wall? of caves
In Perigroril and the Pyrenean region. In
Gaul.
L«?*a we should Imagine his fourfold
ai-rount Of don (a? animism, taboo,
totrmiism and marie) to be but the dingy
outcome ,-.f a sort of «-lnrr.in!nK «Bpa4t
tion in the end!" of the earth. M. Reira< h
pHO ■ with examples of these very
clement^ amonc enllgtitcned and highly
r«'Fpe~u<l religions Animism indelibly
; trac<<] Di the cults of Epypt and Baby
' lan, of India and <*hlna and of Oreece
an.J Home has left Its impress on our
own time*. Kven the personifications of
our poetry are an inheritance from that
' primeval moment when those distant
relatives r.f ours were fain to invest
< very object ivith a living: spirit. And
what ?reat Rulf is there, we are asked.
battPMß the stat<- of mind of the redskin
| who Bays of the rivers flow. "It is the
■pbtt .f th • water taking flight" and
T 1,,. state of mind of Lamartlne when
.-;:.c'.nK to his Lac dv Bounret?
With hi.- t'.ur f.»r anything like a sur
vival (tan early or prehistoric forms,
the author is never happier than hen
<k-lvinK for relics of pagan worship and
showing m treasures like the heifer's
h<ai IB silver exhumed at Mycenae. The
hea.d recalls the -ox-eyed Hera" of
Homer, and it seem? to indicate animal
worship resembling that prevalent in
r.trvjt. where divinities with animal
heads and human bodies were long rep
resented by art. A bronze group dis.-ov
. rr d mm* Rerr.e and dating from the
first or se. •nd < -entury of -•• Christian
«ta RflMta the cult of Artio. the bear
1 4HiI<V— From time immemorial the
•«.wn of Bmmm has kept V.ears. and the
practi-e has not lackfd the usual ex
jlanatory lrgend Than' sto the fortu
nate diiMovery of the bronte group, we
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are now able to discern in the municipal
custom a Wgacy from the prehistoric
worship of the bear ss a totem. A more
patent Instance X offered In the fact
that the Hebrews abstained from killing
or eating animals such as the pig. whose
ancestors. wi!d boars, had been the to
tem? of their forefathers. In the person
laams belabored and somewhat
overworked assistant our author comes
upon r. precious find, an echo, of course.
Of the worship of the ass considered as
an oracular tsnlmal. The Idea of taboo
OBSSSaon t.. ;♦'' primitive ra -es has left
numerous veSthjSS in the religion of
IsraoL The tre«- of Paradise was tabo<*.
Ood loroodo ssaa t«. oat the fruit thereof
•with. >ut sajrtssj wh\ and tMe pensJty of
Manfeossonos was death If we find thnt
after disrega-ding the taboo, did
ant «!ii it is because the present text in
Oenessi 's a eonssJlmtaMi from earlier
<:■•. ;n.\ent«-. one .-f whlc' probably re-
UWJaViI tbe sudden death of the first
man. Isaaorathrai sf tab"<> applted li'Kc-
W%M to the ark sf the covenant SS s]>oi'.s
Of war. to parturients .md corpse* The
S.ifl.ath nls.» was tnhOO, a«i unlucky day.
much as FTiday is to some sui>erstltious
moderns H-^ie. says the author, we are
at the genesis of m^ralf. and if taboo is
tli»- principle sf morality and decency,
all honor to taboo!
When We r'Jtch the chapters dealing
with Ju']i<i«m and Christianity It is the
« i.cyclopa-«list rather than the antiquary
who attempts to guide us There is the
same alert imagination as before, with
'he difff>ren<-o that the material is leas
under control, for, while the biblio
graphical references are many, the
sources from which the author draws
aro comparntivcly few. The heartiness,
with which be acknowledges ths moral
prectoosneaa of the Hebrew prophata
poes well with his regard for the fine
inteprrtatlve insight of James I>arm
stetcr, The Bible, he thinks, has done
■inch harm by fortliei fttfj fanaticism.
Yet. on he whole. It has done more
pood than harm "It W^s the Hibi<=.
not the Buuwwhat disdainful philoo
ophy of Greec, which was the first
filtwallTfi force i:< Burope, which pre
jared her to aaabnlhUe Hellenism after
the Renaissance, which by opening
wld"! vistas before her. has gradually
enable her to dispense with its guid
anei ' Touching on the vicissitude? of
the Hebrews through th" latest rigors
of anti-semitism, the author deplores
the fact that, in France, after the re
habilitation of Captain Dreyfus, preju
dice has reappeared in all classes of so
ciety, and now a Jew who aspires to
position of any sort requires greater
talent and more strenuous efforts than
his fellows of other confessions.
The upshot of M. Roinach's inquiry
regarding the New Testament and other
early Christian literature it that not
< v«n th.- elements <>f a reliable biography
of Jesus are available. This is to for
sake the consensus of critical scholar
ship, but it is the most radical opinion
tnat usually gets the vote, and any fail
ure on th*- part of a book in the Bible
to substantiate «ome traditional claim
about Its authorship is quite enough to
I rand the document a forgery. True.
I rand the documents scattered through
out the Roman Empire by I<N> A. IV. and
the religion remains not only a great
institution, but "the mightiest spiritual
force which has ever transformed souls.
a force which continues to evolve them."
As for St. Paul, having superimposed
theology on life he can be awarded only
Fcatit praise, the porpetttatOT of archaic
errors of redemption and expiation, and
the promoter of eighteen centuries of
.-rid discussion. Nor is there any lyr
ical expansion over ecclesiastical Chris
tianity with its councils and forged
decretal?, Us fanatical crusades and san
guinary inquisitions, Its burning of
witches and harrying of heretics and Its
persistent diffusion of dogmatic dark
ness, on th*" contrary, M. Rf-inach
quickly turns toreador at th.- mention of
a Papal hull, and his chronicle is ever
much mixed with indictment, Of the
orthodox church responsible for thr de
terioration of th»- <Jreek people, he says:
"It familiarizes them from their earliest
youth with horrible color daubs which It
calls Icons, with drawling and nasal
voices, with stories of the saints which
are an outrage on reason. The modern
«;r" ks are no artists; they cannot sing
hi tune and they have not yet given
a man of genius to the world." To
deny, entirely, the excellence of the
BMdteval church would, he says, be
making a miracle of its duration. The
church did proclaim a gospel whose
principles, without much support from
Christian practice, served as a check on
barbarism; It gave to Europe the ex
ternal forms of Christianity. It f<>s-
red art; it affirmed, in words at least,
the- superiority of the spirit to mere
brute force and it upheld the doctrine
of the equalit\ of all men before Hod.
If M. inach prefers the frank athe
ism of Diderot to the opportunist deism
of Voltair«. and dissents roundly from
tha view h» -Id by the latter of religion as
due to priestly imposture, he neverthe
less frequently recalls thai lvguillng
penman in wizardry of phrase and in a
slightly mischievous Inadequacy of de
tail. Could anything be more in th«
master's manner than this comment on
the priority In composition of the code of
Hammurabi over that of the Ten Com
mandments "If, then, this latter was
uici.vtel by Ood to Moses. God must
bave plagiarized from Hammurabi."
The prophecy of Daniel ie called a it
erary fraud, with no mention of the fact
that the Booh of Danini belongs to a
group of Jewish apocalypses whose liter
ar> form required the Invoking of ven
erable r.prr.e*. much in the way that M
Rdnach'i taadnatlng book is tailed
nfter Orphans. St. AUKuotlne i« ma ■ to
absolve the Mantcheans of all Immoral
pmcUceai slid the later sect of Paullcians
Is erroneously assimilated to the Mani-
ChoanS The rhlhUhlll Trinity Is on
fi-e-l with a trio of deities that is. with
polytheism. The extension of Method-
Ism In America is credited f> the c,,!
\inist. George Wliltetield, nn<l it Is
charged that the great meetings of this
se. t have besj i!«i<>tia!iy BOKffvdltod
by a I NMh of con\uls!\«r charlatanism.
Deaptte the mcontaatabla • i r.tribution of
I rot- st; lit missions to the higher life of
China iiring the last century, the entire
iriition of Chrlftiaatty to ths smntra is
Mapooi ■) of iti a entenco or two, to tho
effect thnt the Chinese «So not Ml tha
< ' i t i !••••.:• 1 1 ntaatooartea, vho r.i»w dJacord
among them and protad ssanj converted
crtmtnala Trlflaa these ait to ba aura,
but In their limited setting tt:e>- i., ,i „
travestlea of th>ir aubjecta.
The Christian retision, to whcoi maal<
Csotations bo hus devoid B o much ... bis
•ipßce, is wry closely I. Minified In the
authors mind with .m Institutional, ..i>
rcurantlst orthodoxy bavhlg its bach t<»
the ,'ut nee. Accordingly, he ha* a deep
feeling of i.xr.tl t. i .•nslblllly in pre
venting for the tirHt time an aorount of
religions oanaMerad as natural phenom
ena ar.<i nothing more F<ir the reader,
the solemnity ul the ••:-.■ may It mill
rated by the remembrance thut such ra»J
ports have been published before, and*
that not only In matters of textual ,
criticism but also In the wider field of
comparative religion our author could i
111 afford to dispense with the aid of
Christian scholarship. As for th*. at
tempt to reduce religion to the limits of |
definition!! based on a scrutiny of ori- j
*lns. the endeavor Is futile In a day
when psychology rather than anthropol
ogy is the chief witness to religion. It
would indeed be a poor confession for
our human nature to suppose that be
yond animism and totemism there bad
been no essential ndvance. and no spirit- j
ual earnincs for the race from its
tumultuous Joys and through Its un
counted years of pain. FeeinK. neverthe- !
less, thnt In the life of our time rollpion ,
Is In no aspect entirely nnßlitdHn. there ;
can lie nothing Hit welcome for such ■
li^ht as M. Relnach has brottgbt to boar
on r^Mpious antJQMItBWL
THE CLOWN
A Vivid Story of a Happy, Hard
working. Useful Life.
THE AT-TORIOGRAPHY OF A CLOWN.
Af Told to Isaac F. Marcnsson Illus
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This brief and uncommonly interest
ing narrative closes with a sentiment
•which mtuht well have been placed upon
the title pajfe--'"lt is jcood to bo a
rli»wn." Mr. Marrosson's modest friend.
Jules Tumour, has hardships lo relate,
but his is a happy autobiography, and
this not simply because it embraces one
spt-ciflc matter of cheerfulness or an
other, but because there shines through
it a rare sweetness <<f charncter The
story Is told, too, with a very winning
and sometimes touching simplicity. It Is
an BOOM! little book, which readers
Who are interested in the homely virt
ues of humankind will not neglect.
Mr. Tournotir was fortunate in bis
birth. He first taw the light In a cir
cus wagon, the child of an acrobat and
a dancer. Thenceforth he travelled with
the show managed by his parents until.
at the age of six, his thrifty French
father took him to London and handed
him over to a "Mr. Conrad." The mo
ment, of transcendent Importance in his
life, is thus tersely described:
H«> and my father talked a long time
Every once in a while I heard my name
mentioned. Finally the man came ovr to
me. picked me up In one hand (lie was a
plant In strength), and flung me up In the
air. He caught me easily, and then let
me slide to th* floor. After he left my
fnther said: "Jules, henceforth you are to
live with that man. He is to be your
father and teacher. Be a good boy." Then
he told me that I had been apprenticed to
th«» Conrads, ho were a famous acrobatic
family.
The Conrads proceeded to turn him
into a good contortionist. On* took him
by the arms and another by the feet
and bent him back and forth until some
times he thought he should die from
weariness and ache. When he wept
they would Jeer and say. "Only babies
cry. He a man." The boy had pluck
and pulled himself through. Ten years
later his apprenticeship, during which
he had received not a cent of pay, came
to an end and he was at liberty, being
b\ this time a clever performer, to form
an acrobatic "family" of his own. He
earned now $100 a week, but after a
year of this prosperity he collapsed.
Repeated stays in hospital only left him
if. his twentieth year t > face the fact
that his career as a contortionist was
ended. There Is a quiet pathos about It.
He had gone through a "'ttle lifetime of
pain and struggle and had had to admit
defeat. But there is no self-pity in his
story. That In one of its charms.
Beginning over again, with only the
world of the circus to explore for a liv
ing, he was presently advised by a
friendly ringmaster to "try clowning."
and proceeded to study what he char
acterizes as "a serious and difficult busi
ness." The true clown is born, not
made, but there is much <or him to
Warn. For example, the ridiculous fall
which so often makes the children laugh
requires the most elaborate kind of
preparntion. "It may look very easy."
he says, "to take a tumble in the saw
dust. Uut I assure you it Is only done
after long pr. itlve. Every step of it
must be rehearsed. Unless the funny
fall is natural. It fails utterly." How
Mr. Turnnur came to jractlse tumbling
as an art, how he wandered far and
wide as a i inus performer how he saw
his mother apaln after many years. h<>w
he fell In love and was cured, and ROW
all the time the fascination of clowning
grew upon him, we l*ave the reader to
find out for himself. We would note
further only the genuineness, the force
of character, the kindly feeling and the
essential dignity belonging Io this be
getter of innocent mirth. It is good, he
says, to be a clown, and we beMeve him,
for he shows us what a true and helpful
life a clown may lead.
MAITRE__BORONALI
The Founder of Excessivism, a
New School of Art.
Paris. April 1.
The utmost sensation has been created
in Parti by the sudden appearance in
the world of French art of a new great
painter. He has leaped into fame at
one bound, and his reputation now bids
fair to become universal. Ail the town
hi talking of him, and certainly it falls
rarely. If ever, to an art'sfs lot to
achiava Mich, phenomenal anecaai with a
■tattle picture, and that his first. The
name of the exceptionally gifted person
.,!• is Joachim Raphael Boronall, ami it
is at lie- Baton of the Independents that
he. das yon his imperishable renown.
His canvas, which is not large. and
might be described up a cacOOhontc dis
ci.rd In ochre, blue, vermillion, grc»uj
yellow and violet, represents m sunset
on the Adriatic. Such is the originality
of M. Horonall's genii's that he caused
his one picture to bo catalogued as
three, and it is. therefore, index, ,>
«»». "And th<» Sun Wept;* 1 ioo. "On the
Adriatic;" Bo6\ Sea piece Rut the Initi
ated pfjsetntof will rightly read these
thrre titles Into one poetical descriptive
phrase. To represent his one picture
its three is. in fact, in ItaeptaHj with the
principles of the new school of "a
ceostvtasa*" which M DoronalJ bos
founded
iron ths tir-t his work attracted the
attention of th«- Part* art critics
opinion was of course, dHrtdod, ai h
• ■!•.• a) ■ is • ben the vtawa of prufeastona!
experts ! ire concerned, and then wore
fcim •.< 'in hesitated ti> accept wlthoul
raaanra the thoorloi propomded m If.
BoronaJl'a proclamation, cupies <-f which
\\«-re distributed to ail the thlel news*
paper ofAoss "i Paris ahortl] before
tha Baton i>f the Independents opanad
its d.Ktr« In till?- document tha mas
ter called upon his brother point sis
to "l.re.ik up the old pnlettsa, BJkahs
a bonfire of the falsa chefl d*OfwVfOi
and to law down uncu ami for all
the eternal principle* of art. An ass j
las satil that 'excess is a fault j
In everything.' On the contrary. we ,
proclaim that excess in everything is :x j
force, the only force. The sun Is never (
too ardent, the sky never too gFOBB,
the distant sea never too red. obscurity j
i.i ver 100 deeply black. ... No more j
lines, no more flu.-t nations, no more
m'rlrr." nothing but bedazslemcnt:" .
Here. Indeed, was a voice crying !n the '
artistic wilderness, and curiosity as to j
whence exactly it came and what '
might be the personality of its owner
was keenly aroused The technique of the ,
picture was. moreover, entirely in ac- i
<.ir<l with th> ilo'frines enunciated by j
the brilliant founder of the ex<-ess»vlst
hool hp-ad bands and «plashes of the
most h-Hliant colors alternating «nd
contrasting with one another to pro
dine an effect suggestive of the ex- ,
plosion of a dynamite bomb in an aniline ;
dye works. A hottfe at interviewers
promptly overran the Bohemian quarte'-s
of Paris seeking for thr whereabouts "
If. Rorop.-'li. and th.v tlnnlh ran him
to earth »it the famous artistic "cabaret"
in the Ktie l^p.ic. al Montniartrf. which J
carries the slcn of "An I.ipin Agile" J
"The N'lml.le Kabl.lt."
Then it was discovered that M r.oro- j
rail was neither more nor less than a
real. li\e_donkev. The "cabaret" "MM
Lapin Agile" possesses an elderly, small
and unusually docile squirrel colored ass
named L/>lo. But In Frnn-e all d'.nkeys '
have. in addition to their individual
nam«\ the traditional cognomen of
"Maitre Aliboron." It occurred to cer
tain young ••raplns," or struggling paint
ers, living at Montmartre. who were db>
ousted with the meretricious success ob
tained by even the most farcical repre- .
amtattvea Of the impressionist school at ,
the Salon of the IndependCStaj that the
Dame AUboron might be conveniently
trririsposed Into Boronali. and that
"Maltre Aliboron" himself, if a brush
dipped in color were to N? tied to his tail
and the tail made to dab and slap and
brush itself upon a canvas, could pro
duce a picture which would exceed In
originality and Impudence the most '
brilliant efforts of the Impressionists,
and pave the way to the foundation of
an entirely new school of technique, the
school of "excessivism." In any case, it
would re the real work of a donkey
Encouraged by the satirical paper "Fan
tasio." the plan was promptly carried
out A notary and a photographer were
requisitioned. "Maltre Aliboron" was
brought into the bar of the "cabaret." a
brush was tied to his tail: Frederic, the :
host, dipped the brook into oil color, and
by dint of tempting Lolo with lumps of
BiiK«r CSMOSd lilm to make surh move
ments as to daub a canvsis, suitably ad-
Justed to the extremity of the donkey's
tail, with all ports of multi-rolored
pplashe«s and smears. The masterpiece
had been created!
The notar;- drew up an authentic le^al
document In due form, certifying every
detail of the scene, and the photographer
tooh pictures of the frroup. Then arose
the question tt naming the picture.
"A C>clone." "The Tall of the Comet
Touching the Earth" and "Portrait
of President Failures" were vari
ously suggested. but finally "And
the Sun Slept on the Adriatic" was
decided on. The humorists who have
perpetrated this mystification, to the
endless amusement of the Parisians,
are hugely pleaded with the success
.rf their joke Frederic, the landlord
of the 'Nimble Rabbit." is specially
proud of hnving d»>nlt so severe a blow
to the pretentious charlatanism of the
Independents. "It is all very fine." he
remarked to an Interviewer, "to be Inde
pendont, but between the unconventional
sct-ker after new forms of beauty and
the quack there Is a vast abysm, and
this truth my donkey, Ifaltre AafooronV
has successfully demonstrated." The
council of the Independents maintains,
nevertheless, an unruffled countenance
"One ass exhibits this year at the Sal><n
of the Independents." ?ays M. Lepage, a
mouthpiece of the council, "but who
can const the number of a.««seß who ex
hibit at the other saloni It would he
unjust to close the doors of our Salon t.
asses when all the others are wide open
to them" C. I. B.
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A volume dealing with "Governmental
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Mrs. Humphry Ward has found an
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which is coming out in Kngland under
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Merton— Colonist." It is stated that the
heroine of this tale has t.. do what is
done by a qnoen- she proposes marriage
to 'he chosen swain.
Mr. Robert Herrlck's new novel. 'A
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Together." a boon which merited ih>
cvssl
News In France under the anrini
?«•;»//»> did got itself told, though there
were BO newspapers MM. Paul d'Kstr-V
iind Franz Funck-Bnntano have been
des< ribing the way in which this was
accomplished. Many of the xnlnnx. says
"The Author," were like academies of
j<'U.nallsni
The delight of the hostess *■*■ ••vh-n a
Kue»t broiiKhl BOOM start ling piece of
newa it was n->t t.> N wondered at that,
with mi. ii >tirrin».- tinier in the alston of
France, every <>ne should want to b.> Weil
posted Tils tldrat f..r InfarnuUkHi led t,.
trie establishment of bureaus, where news
•MM copied and distributed to subscriber*
There w»re Bfl many «•< sixty or seventy
suliscril>«T» t<> Home ..r thf— bureau** In
1731 Mm. Doublet started a lit*!,. society
In ii« - *il;n •ii led "La l*.iri>lss»- " S!ie
had ■-■ r. t \ nine sjembsrs, sad at a fixed
hour iliev all used to meet arid •lamtnc
the .•iii'V't.M.it of the news which each
in. ml ' rontrlbotcd Mm d*Aritratal
who v. .<* admitted is .i mcml ■ ..c || \m
little aortety, look roplei ..f the i.. •.. -. .ir
misted it and obtatiwd nobarfiben Hum
Itouble! wm ti.i. -.it. -tied i.\ the pollre If she
• ••r.tt tni'-.i lo . II i (.late i he ii- <v -. brou \ t.>
i>M <(.•;•. m As m|,.- had fri • mis at > ijurt,
she look ti« lioti.'- <.f the tlif it uiiil . on
tlnued her Information bur*as until |»>r
dr. ah. al the BBJfl of nltwty-t hie.-.
There hi a curious luck of warmth In
the tonunenti on DmmoH to be found In
the itiitish mensolrs of his time it is
worth lit I*- to quote this e.Htin,.!' net
down after his death l>\ Cathorne
Hard] (Lord Ctanbrook) and pnsomosd
only the OthSff d. i\ :
Me wax a rare and rt-nmrktthlc character
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