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scholar, and mystic, he also wrote on the exegesis of the Koran, the traditions and lives of the Saints, on Arabic grammar, rhyme, and prosody, and music. His poetical output in itself was enormous, com- prising three Diwans of lyrics and The popular notion of Persian seven romatle, or didactic, math- poetry is summed up in the nawia. quatrains of Omar Khayyam; this world is the only reality; the existence of the soul extremely doubtful; therefore eat, drink, and love while the moment is present and occasion offers, while breath is in the nostrils, and the senses are alert.. To-morrow-not even next hour death may come
ond snatch one away into oblivion.
There was no one in his day to equal him; he was considered to be beyond all praise. Among his many gifts was also one of repartes. An example of the readiness and aharpness of his tongue has come down to us. He was repeating with much fervour the line:
"So constantly art thou in my stricken saul and sleepless eye That whosoever should appear from afar should I think that it was thou
The beauty of His visage. From
the rose
of unique interest to students of English literature in that it clearly showed the steady development of Tennyson's mind, and the influences
under which he wrote from the age of about 14 up till the time he left Cambridge.
The collection will include the only valuable oxample of Tennyson's early work in Heroic couplets, writ- ten at a time when he was lost in admiration of. Pope's "Homer." It consists of a translation of the
Flashed forth His beauty, and the
nightingale, Beholding it, loved madly. From
that light The candle drew the lustro which
beguiles The moth to immolation. On the "Proserping" of Claudian, a little-
sun
1.
His beauty shone, and straight-remembered Latin poet, and is of especial. Interest as having been written not long before the writer cama under the influence of the
away from the wave The lotus reared its bead....
Whatever heart
Doth yield to love, He charms it,
In His love
The heart hath life, -Longing, for
Him the soul'
Hath victory. That heart, which
seems to love
The fair oues of this world, loves
Him alone."
One must not allow oneself to be disheartened by the much in Per-
Elizabethans and produced his "The
Devil and the Lady."
A number of early sonnets will. also be published, as well as exam- ples of the poet's early blank verse style and several pieces in the form of the ode. In addition, some inter- eating lyrics will see the light for the first time.
Not all the werk to be published during Tennyson's
Was written
Epigrams written when he was well! advanced in years and which have no counterpart in his published works. "These are very remark able, since most of them appear to have been written down just as they occurred to my grandfather when he was in every kind of mood," said Mr. Tennyson.
But this popular notion is untrue and unfair to the abiding great- ness of Persian poetry, where scop- ticism is more than balanced by, when a bystandór was unluckily mysticism, and cynicism by ideal- moved to interrupt him-"Suppose ism. Against Omar may be con-! It were an ass?" Jami replied. at sian poatry that. is. extremely arli youthful days. There is a series of
ficial and inspid, conventional and trasted Abu Sa'id ibn Ab'il-Khayr, ance, "1 should think that it was Avicenna (Ibri Sina), Jalau'd-Din thou..
tasteless. If the conceita are, at Rumi, Jami, and many others.
He, too, exercised a deep in- times, further fetched than those of It is true that in some of the fluence on his successors; nor was a Donne or a Crashaw, they can be poets delight in the mere outward, his influence confined to Persia; it easily avoided, and the bulk of work that remains that is, the pure semblance of things for their own spread quickly to Turkey. sakea the same as one finds in, Another poet who became wide-verses of poetry-be found of im- say, the English Robert Herrick. ly known in Turkey was the six-nosing dimanalons.
He died at But generally at bottom there is teenth century Urf.. the Idea that these things have the early age of thirty-six; never- their hidden roots elsewhere, deep- ly struck in some spiritual country of which the soul has had intui- tional tidings. In the work of Hafiz of Shiraz, the Incomparable (fourteenth century)-one of the greatest of Persia'g' names; supreme lyrist and profound scholar--both the material and the spiritual have their place, and neither seems to oust the other, They are in fact inextricably mix- ed. He sings of the rose and the
nightingale, youth and the spring and it is difficult to be sure at times whether these are not sym: bols. Here and there, obviously they are; but lacking the key them, we cannot discover the pur- port of the poems.
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Mrs. Mary Ruth Brooke, J.P., of Rugby, who died on October 13, widow of William Parker Brookë, inte assistant master at Rugby School, and mother of the late Rupert Brooke, the poet, left pro- perty of the gross value of £22,052, with net personalty £20,759. bequeathed all the manuscripts of Rupert Brooke contained in the| theless he had matured early; his
bound volume stamped "Rupert loftiness of tone and stateliness of
Like his potential clients, this Brooke MSS,” to Edward Marsh, of language placed him in the fore-bookseller has adopted the habits of London, for life, and then to King's front of his day and age.
the bat and the owl. He does not College, Cambridge for the library. great Perslan open his shop until 7 o'clock at The remainder of the manuscripts The last of the
who night, and after having closed it at of her son Rupert, and the rest of poets, however, was died in 1670. Other names have dawn he goes to sleep for the day. his papers and books-subject as He sometimes makes mention of their place such as. Sahabi and Asked if he found this system good, hereinafter mentioned and the various scholars and statesmen; Shifa-I; but they are of fur less he replied that he was doing splen- copyright in Schells' photographs of sometimes stands in contemplation dominance and importance. The did business since he was fulfilling him, are left to Geoffrey Keynes, of Eternal Beauty; but quickly re- eighteenth century, barren poetical a long-felt want in Montparnasse. Dudley Ward, John Sheppard, and turns again to the "rose-hauntedly as it was in Europe, was barren Bear and books in this quarter must Walter de la Mare, upon trust to walks," where the nightingale also in Fersin. But since the mid-be available for 24 hours a day, and sell the same and hold the net pro- sings and youth is at play. · dlo of the nineteenth century in he finds that there is profit to be ceeds in trust for some one or more His style is clear and simple: awakening has taken place, and gained from the spiritual as well as of the institutions or societies for and he wears his scholarship with the standard, fallen so low, has from the physical appetites of the the relief of poor or distressed au- an extremo of lightness and grace | arisen consistently higher!
thors as they may decide.
'Mrs. Brooke also left $1,000 to His influence on his contemporaries One can only feel that with Hafiz and successors was profound. In & and his successors the · strong Further details regarding the im Herbert Julian Brooke in con- country where practically every straits of mysticism and idealism portant collection of hitherto un- aideration of the injuries he receiv¶¶|||||||||||||||||||||||| well-educated citizen can produce in Persia's poetry, have become published works by Alfred Lorded in the late war, resulting in the verse of some kind Hafiz enjoys a more cultivated and pronounced. Tennyson, many of which were loss of one of his legs"; £600 to special veneration. His Diwan is The clarity of the diction wedded written when he was an under John Tressider Sheppard and Ed- even now opened at random, and to the languorous idea of complete graduate at Cambridge, were given ward Dominick Spring Rice, to counsel, sought with a pin-point surrender to the unity of things, of to a Morning Post representative found a memorial to her two sons, put down on the page by those who passionate awareness of the one-recently by Mr. Charles Tennyson, Rupert Brooke and Alfred Brooke, are in doubt as to a course of nc- ness of deity produces such rare grandson of the poet. Mr. Tenny-at King's College, Cambridge; £600, tion to be adopted.
beauty as one ânds, for example, son is arranging for the early pub in the following poem of Jamii: lication of a large number of those "Each speck of matter did He con- works.
stitute
.
Jami. Perhaps the most Illustrious figure after Hafiz is Jamil (fifteenth century). He was remarkable for his astonishing versatility. Poet
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The Boy Scouts Association will hold their Seventh Competitive At the Annual Conference of the Musical Festival at the Royal Col- BREWERS Congregational Union of New Zea-lege of Music, Kensington, on Satur
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September 19. has been provision-The following unclaimed tele ally fixed for the presentation by the grams are lying at the office of Boy Scouts Association of the stone the Great Northern Telegraph statue to the Mayor and Council of Company (Limited) of Den Birkenhead to perpetuate the mark
"We thus regard you and Lady memory of the Boy Scouts coming. Honabootco, from Shanghal. Baden-Powell as comrades-in-arma of-age World Jamboree in 1920, G. P. Jaudahk, Post Offles; from whose labours have been inspired The statue will stand In Arrowe Kanova by a common faith and loyalty to Park, the scene of the Jamboree, Sk. Lam, from Shanghai. Him whose call to the young was to where the five main roads of the
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