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) THE SUNDAY CALL. 4 By Professor }*. B. Lathrop of Jtanford University. Privateers™ w by and ships reckless a persistence often in dacity, eers with men the busines mercha war ve: noble. A that old g of is s0 that a system end st privateering rom the point of organized mari- objections are that ble in the activ- eer may he v s work, T are efficient r b s of the enemy. A . never de- se a prepon- e tion in order e the ugh priva- demned, the nar- s naturally to destruction of an he seizure of mer- than Americ i n ot st the publ inte thor well, John Frederick 1glas Webst Paine, Farragut and Pl are the subjects of lives a The volumes which ha examined by the present reviewer—t of Haw- thorne, by Mrs, Fie f John Brown, by Josey r Chamberlin, and of Frederic D by Cha W Che are 11 =impl almc nver- sadionally written, accurate certainly in regard (o ma and moderate in tone. O Mr. Ch tt attempt > ver ided appreciation of the subject o k, the facts in the other books being left to speak for themselves. [ haps it is for this reason that Mr. Ches- nutt's book is the most interesting of the | three. This book and the *Life John Brown" afford pr ble matter for com- parison. On the whole, the lesson of the wo s ©0 be that suffering violence did more for the opposition w0 slavery than doing violence. It would seem to be a serioys omission in a life of John Brown to omit entirely a mention of the fact that several of those most efficient in colonizing Kansas with opponents of slavery and in supporting the colonists there main d that Brown's violence injured their cause far more than it helped it The lives of Brown and Dougla present interest and importance of the continuation under new forms the old evil. The horrible of lynciengs in the South, Governor Tanner's lawless ac- tions in Illinois, even more inexcusable than the lynchings, and the practical re- fusal to negroes everywhere of a fair show In free competition with the supe- rior race, must make a nlan with an in- stinct for justice welcome any instruction TTHE PIRATES FOUGHT WITH FRIGATE ST.LAWRENCE INKING THE CONFEDER. PRIVATEE R PETREL” TE THE. FEROCITY OF DESPAIR." ~~ CIENCE has enabled a man to go through life with an arti- ficial nose and limbs that often defy detection, but one of the most novel inventicns of modern surgery is a tongue mads of rubber and resting on a pivot set between teeth. There is a man in this city who can show this wonderful mechanism and who feels very happy becausz he has it. This man 1s Georges Henderson. He is 47 years old znd for many years had been an inveterate smoker, often using fifteen cigars a day. Excessive use of tobacco caused a cancer of the tongue, and the organ had to be re- moved. This operation was most dif- ficult and was performed in Bellevue Hospital last February. It was necessary to saw through the lower jaw at the center and re- move two lower front teeth, together with a portion of the jawbone on either side of these tceth. When b P (B N ‘L‘“ o / ; ; | | ‘ A-RUBBER TONGUE., B - B AL ToNGUE C = PIVOT. this was done the surgeons removed two-thirds of the anterior part of the tongue, leaving only the base of the organ. The severed ends of the jaw were united with wire. Henderson then ieft the hospital, the surgeons giving him little hope of ever being able to eat solid food. The base of the tongue healed in a few weeks, but in spite of the care with which the surgeons adjusted the wire about the two sides of the jaw the bone would not unite. The sides of the jaw began to move unevenly and the tissue to inflame. Mr. Henderson finally went to the New York College of Dentistry, where Dr. Frederick Bradley took charge of his case. He sawed through the jaw again and adjusted its sides evenly, bringing them in as close impact as possible. A metal cap was placed over all of the lower teeth and held in position by a clamp on either side of the mouth fastened OVERANING THE ENEMY under the chin. fter the patient had worn this for five weeks it was removed, and it was found that the severed parts of the jaw had united. Henderson was still unable to eat solid food, because he had no tongue to pass it back into the oesophagus. To overcome this difficulty the sur- geon constructed an artificial tongue. A rim of gold was made to fit the inner surface of the lower teeth. This was beveled off toward the lower edge and attached to a wire clasp which fitted over one of the back teeth on either sid A bar of German silver was fastened across the mouth from one of the back teeth to another opposite. This was in- closed in a tube of the same metal of sufficient size to permit it to rotate easily on the bar. A tongue of red vulcanized rubber was made to fit about the tube. The rear of the rub- ber tongue was beveled off toward the bottom and placed under the base George Henderson. of the real tongue, so that the least movement of the muscles pressed down on the rubber, throwing the tongue up. Henderson is now able to talk as distinctly and freely as he ever did and eats with ease and freedom. "PAUL. JONES"AND THEWRASSAN" — > ___’_’/ RPN oy v lilustrations From ‘“A History of American Privateers,” by Edgar Stznton Maclay, A. M. - > t ch the an ry agitation may give the sonnet form in Mr. Mifflin's first hook rolling him in the long list of thoss who In this c ountry and In England, it was the the present father Time is a good this return brings new pieasure 3ut it have made of the Engl sonnet th> judgme of those interested that the man will do much, but he neceds a brings no In his sonnets Mr. n lest and the most per but the most “poet had added nothing to his reputation. ping I, Maynard & Co., Mifflin was successful He had written exacting, form in lite In Mr. Mif- His stren 1 and his keen feeling for art Boston; 75 cents each.) the largest body of sonnet ver gince flin's second book, e Slopes of 1 - fit him for the sonnet—his return to it oo Wordsworth. “A glorious Imaginat he failed to make as deep an im- was predetermined, k Idyls,” a book of was Richard Henry Stoddard’s comment n as in Lis first book. The reascn Technically sonnets of hoes of rom Bion, Moschus and upon the new poet. Mr. Hopkins in Cur- ous, for although the sonnets were Greek Idyls” are superior to those of Mr. Lloyd Mifflin has returned to rent Literature, and critics elsewhs jece with those in the first be Mifflin’s earlier volumes. Alliteration is € who were charmed conferred on him the sonnet laureatest the lyries lacked ntaneity. Althoush not so obtrusive, and the delight in color by th pulence and the easy mastery of vacant since the death of Rossctli, en- the book was favorably mentioned, Loth ang sound, which to the taste of some oY " : BT il 2 SRR, S oSl | readers seemed to approach the barbarie, been refined As sonnets these poems are eminently su sful; but as ison with the eriginals. impossible to reproduce in another lan- guage a real piece of literature. All the subtile, associational force of words which gives it individuality must be lost. Lloyd Mifflin, in giving us first of all good Eng- lish literature, infusing into his work as much of the spirit of the Greek idyl as | may be, has chosen the only tolerable al- ternative to literal prose translation. There is one respect, however, leaving all subtler considerations, in which the | work before me differs noticeably from the original. This difference will appear even by comparison with a literal prose version. Notice this beautiful sonnet, a para- | phrase from Bion, the fourth of the se- | ries, from “The Lament for Adonis”t It is, of course, “Sorrow her sacred beauty now doth slay; Her cup of grief is fllled unto the brim; And Cypris’ loveliness is growing dim, ‘Which, while Adonls lived, knew no decay. 1 “Woe, woe for Cypris!’ all the mountains £a) 5 | While all the oaks from every anclent limb Make solemn answer. ‘Wos, ah, woe for him!" And mourning fills the groves and glooms the day. The murmurous rivers purling in the | vale Moan for lorn Aphrodite as they go, And weeping, too, are all the mountain wells. The flowers In anguish red and redder grow, While Cytherea through the upland dells Shrills on the listening air her piteous wail."” Compare with this a prose translation, almost literal, by Andrew Lang: “Falr was the form of Cypris while Adonis was living; but her beauty has died with Adonis. ‘Woe, woe for Cypris the mountains are saying, and the oak trees answer ‘Woe for Adonis!” The riv- ers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are weeping Adonis on the | mountains. The flowers flush red for an- guish, and Cytherea through all the | mountain-knees, through every dell, doth | shrill the piteous dirge: ‘Woe, woe for ll‘ytheren! He hath perished. the lovely 3 Adonis" and Echo cries in answer ‘He hath perished, the lovely Adonis! In both sonnet and prose transla lon the | same objects are named: there is in botl the same oscillation from Venus of the many names to Adonis, and from Adonis to Venus. By the movement of his verse the writer of the sonnet has even ob- talned the effect of the echo In the origi- nal. But they differ in this; in the prose translation as in the Greek, everything— the mountaln passes, the oak trees, the rivers and the mountain wells—in some CQlith the Literary Lights of the Book Tdorld In the prevailing aistinct. the somnet way stands ot they are subordinated to A mood, and only the | ire stands in classic The differen here is due its intertw . Tke differe in the quatrain fe ed. Here. howeve sonnet form; and her there appears the accent of jonnets, something seldom Mifin. “For when she saw the wound of A bleed— n she who loved him knew that he had died With her the hi mourned and sigh The end deploring of that Following ts Lang’s translation W heart had “When she saw, when unstaunched wound of Ador saw the bright red bloed about his lan thigh, she cast her arms abroad 1 wept.” Here Lloyd Miffin reflects; Blon sees. In this contrast appears mu difference between the Gr the modern. Blon, with all ance of fancy and his sentime of the classic temper: LI with all his love for beau In his sonnets from Mos fiin seems to me to come « to the original. Moschus than Bion. His pi utlined and h On the paraph: able to comme! please with the! sometimes they ance of the rhetorical Mr. Mifflin’s poems are are far more than the ech names them. They have in sonality of the a fortune, not hat w eaders famillar who will reft reach, for the most with Bion and Mosch to let the sonnets merits. This disadvantage they most translations. Few transla had the good fortune enjoyed by Fiuz Gerald in dealing with Omar Khayyam stand on thefr a practically unknown original. Ar without this good fo e no tra gets tull justice. C. K. BINK (Houghton, Miffin & Co., Boston). Books Received. “Two Children of the Elizabeth Harrison Company, St. Lov “The Knights of th Stenkiewicz. author ¢ tle, Brown & ( “The Memo Charles Joh physical Pub avenue, New York “Woman, Church an tilda Jos Company, 75 cents. “Jack ( G. W. DI ty-third > Yor . Odd JSuperstiions. ot all na >untable that prevail perhaps, are Throughe especiaily in r is firm that bees & when misfortune w ‘Wheneve tain low of the hive, never a doubt hand for hir fu a house, in th anxlous wa hi One family will cree what the bee the un erst s there they seem incl that is the w that there that “John Metcalf"—or whatever the person’s name may be—"John Metcalf is dead, and I am come to tell the bee: He—or often it is she—repeats the words times, and then hastens back to hous a piece of crape must be found and tied top of the hive before su mors set. If the bees are not toid of the deat: of their ow with due ¢ t00, or if their badge of mour hoisted at the proper time, die within a month—so at least the Dales- folk and their northern kith and kin be- lieve firmly. There are some superstitions that are fairly universal, as, for instance, that of the death tick. In England, F Germany and Austria— other countries, too—whenever t le tick ing is heard, the ticking as of a watch in the distance, women, and men, too, sometimes, look at one another with fe in their eyes and wonder whose doom It is that is being sounded. Then sailors all nations pin their faith to e dles, as they call the St. Elmo o play around the masts of ships ia stor: weather. Any one on w lights they regard as a man marked for drowning: and if the candle down on the deck, the ship, too, the on as doomed—doomed never again to e: ter harbor. The superstition with rega to magpies is also one that seems to pre- vall throughout Europe, and always precisely the same form; north, gouth, east and west the peasants belleve that it fs unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two; that to see three means a wedding, and to see four a birth On the other hand, many of these pop: lar belief® are peculiar to some special district. For instance, in East Angilia and apparently nowhere else an odd s perstition prevalls with regard to s pers. There no prudent mother ever think of allowing her daug! work a pair of slippers for any man whom she wishes her to man above all, not for one to whom engaged. For it is a saying that “He who is given slippers slips away.” There is much the same feeling with regard to giving or receiving scissors or k such presents are popularly supp be used by the fates as intruments with to sever the ties between tr ers and friends. Not so very long an East Anglian farmer's a y cal, common sense wom. ough many respects, burst into tears wher husband brought home from the mar! & black sheep; for black sheep. she main- tained, between her sobs, always brirg with them bad luck. There, too, and also in Canada, for a cow to lose its cud is regarded as a sign of coming misfortuns In some parts of England, strange to sa robins ar rded as harbingers of wo If “‘keening™ be heard in Killarne natives believe that there oTe troul at hard for the d rhap: all Ireland. For * a sort of low, pit —the dead are supp to utte: mourning over the fate of the Ii that part of the world peopla thy nay, thrice, before goi moon is shining, as the: they do, <hey may fall in w The peasanis there almo: the existence of fairies, and no matte sorely they may be in need field, nothing would induce ossession of a Danish fort sh forts—certain patches of —are supposed to belong to tha . and to e their favorite Eflur'fl,harsiall“l‘ ter for a man to die tarvation, tey will tell you, th 2 Selrten. ¥ an risk offending the