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THE POET SHELLEY.

INTERESTING LECTURE BY

MR. W. W. HORNELL.

In the St. John's Cathedral Hall on

Tuesday night, when Professor L Forster was in the Chair. a crowded audienet listened to an interesting lecture on the poet Shelley, given by Mr. W. W. Hornell Vice-Chancellor of the University, ander the auspices of the C.E.M.S. Alter giving a most interesting account of the life of the Puct, Mr. Hornell proceeded

Shelley once went to see Southey this is how Southey subsequently

to say

scribed him :-

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THE POET OF DESIRE.

4TH, 1924.

Shelley is the poet of desire. To him as to Blake, the promptings of desire wore the voice of divinity in man, and instinct mid impulse bore the stamp of the Godhead. His pure and clear and wonderfully simple spirit could hardly conesive of a duty" that travels by the dia light through difficult and uncertain" ways, still less of a duty that valgulates and balances and chooses. When he was fitted on the creat of soine overnustering emotion, he saw all clear; dropped into the hallow, he could only wait for another wave. It is as if he could not lives save in the keen and riefied air of some great

The

SUMMARY COURT.

INFORE THE PRISNE JUDGE,, (an.

JUSTICE COMPERTZ)).

CLAIM, AGAINST CO-PARTNERS.

PLAINTIFF'S CONFLICTING

EVIDENCE.

Sir Walter Raleigh imagines what a critic of the school of Johnson would have said to these lines. "Here, Sir," he might have said, he tells us merely, that in a place which does not exist, he met no- body. Whom did he expect to meet?""} But the spirit of romance will listen to no logic but the logic of feeling. kind of human experience that Shelley set himself to utter will not admit of chastened and exact language; the house less desires and intimations that seem to had paid on account of an action for loss have no counterpart and no cause among of goods visilde things must create or divine their Mr. X. 1. Brewer appeared for plaio-

one of the partnera.

Shing, who stated that he was proprietor A Chinese merchant named Ying Tak of a junk firm, sted four co-partners for contributions amounting to 400.98, being two terths shares of 32209.88, which ba

ten years

joy or heroic passion; and his large crigin and object by suggestion, by hyper.tiff and Mr. C. A S. Russ appeared for and capacity for joy made him the morresses denials. To Shelley life is the great an he had brea proprietor of the firm for

bole, by groping analogies, and fluttering

In the box plaintiff told His Lordship deceptible to all that thwarts or oppresses

or interrupts it. These two strains, of reality, a painted voil,, the triumpbal rapture and lament, of delight in love procession of a pretender. It is from the and beauty, and of protest against u

His Lordship then pointed out that images and thoughts that are least of a world where love and beauty are not fixed piece with the daily ecuromy of life, from when the original action, was heard he eternal forms, run through the whole, of the faithful attendants that hang on the denied that he was a partner in the firm. Shelley's poetry. Our life on earth seems footsteps of our exiled perceptions, and To Mr. Brewer, flis. Lordship said this

man swore he had no share in the busi to him a stormy vision, a wintry forest,

from the dwellers on the boundary of our "cold common hell"; but it has afinated world, from shadows and echoes, whatsoever, and asked him if he moments of exaltation which belle it, and dreanus and memories, fearnings and re did not think it unwise to bring him

into Court. by their power and intensity hold out agrets, that he would learn to give expres

sion to the hidden reality. Yet the very Mr. Brewer said he was there of his promise of deliverance.

attempt defeats itself, and is reduced to own wish. He had paid the money.

Mr. Russ said the claim was miscon the bare negation of appearances. The highest beauty, as he describes it, iscrived, and contended that the man had no right to bring four separate actions. always invisible: the liveliest emotion passes into swoon, and takes on the likesirst the partners. They each held news of death.

a” different number of shares, and con- "The One gemmins, the many change different. His client was entitled to take sequently the contributions would be

A strange creature, His greatest sorrow is to know himself the heir to a large fortaine, and he is as uneasy nhout his six thousand a year, as I was at his age a not possessing a penny. He believes himself to be an atheist: he is but a pantheist. It is a youthful malady through which we all pass. Well well: The world wants to be improved and the young gentleman has, to be convinced that he can do a great deal of gred with his £6,000 a year.' There never was anything approaching naughtiness in Shelley, nor can he be

TAKE A PEG dismissed as a feeble amorist. He took

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I love all that thou loveat

Spirit of delight!

The fresh earth in new leaves drëst,

And the starry night; Autumn evening, and the wom

When the goldon mista are born."

"I love snow, and all the forms

Of the radiant frost;

I love waves, and winds and storms

Everything almost »

Which is nature's, and may be Untainted by nian's misery."

and pas

Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's

shadows By:

-Life, like a dome of many coloured

glass,

Stains the white ruliance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to frg

nients.

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advantage of that.

Plaintiff recalled. looked around the Court and said that one of the partnera. of the firm was not present. When this man, who was present, was pointed out had known him for quite a long time. to him. he recognised him and said he

He then denied he was a partner in the froy'.

His Foulship pointed out that there wis no case against Mr. Russ's client, and gave judgment for defendant with

COSTH

BRITISH CO-OPERATION IN CHINESE EDUCATION.

Dr. R. P. Scott, late Assistant Secre

SHELLEY'S EARLY, DEATH. Shelley died young, and the accumu- lated wisdom of experience was never within his reach. Yet, before he died, he bad graduated in the school of suffering. and had there learned lessons that only the wise heart learns. His" Prometheus Cnbound is something more than a coн- vert of sweet sound; it is a record of spiritual experience, subtle in its analysis torture of Prometheus inflicted by the Furies comes to him in the form of doubt address to members of the China Society, which is reported elsewhere, advocated doubt fest his age-long sufferings should very strongly that the China Indemaity be all in vain, and worse than vain. The Fund should be applied to the further. Furies who darken the dawn with their ance of higher education in Chiru fear, of mistrast and hate. Of all the ines this,dacation as covering, in addi- multitude are the ministers of pain and

a pamphlet or the subject, Dr. Scott de-. passions, the ugliest of all in Shelley's tien to the promotion of medical work,. eyes is Hate; the most terrible and male the following institutions and activities, cent is Fear, But Prometheus through whether ander China or British manage. his long agony feels no fear and no rament-Universities and colleges, espe cour: the pity and love that emlures in

of mysterious and benevolent forces were spread throughout the Universe.

It is sometimes charged against Shelley, that the ideal which he sets before these forces can be apprehended in ab-humanity is not a practical or possible. struct fashion, but that for the human one, This is nonsense? It is true, that no exact political programme is deducible Individual they are best realized in con-

frogs his works. It is also true that no (crete, shape, as incarnated in a beautiful coherent or satisfactory account can be face. So to Shelley love was not a mere given of the changes that would be neces. carnal desire but a call for admiration sary to bring in the lyllis society that mocks his vision. But if the aspirations and self-sacrifice. Behind his feelings of a poet are to be tethered to what is there was always the vision of perfect demonstrably attainable, then, as Sir physical beauty blended with perfect Walter Raleigh points out, the loftiest moral beauty of a woman charming and legitimate ambition ever breathed in Eng- and profound in its insight. The supreme tary of the Bourd of Education, In an

lish verse would perhaps be found in those lines of Wordsworth's Excursion. where an earnest wish is expressed for a system of National Education, universally established by the Government." The creed of the Revolution was a noble red and although Liberty, Equality aád Fraternity have bem sadly battered by political artillery, they have not yet he come so completely disgraced that it is forbidden for a poet desire them. The earlier Christians too were deceived in their hopes of the millennium, but they, like the early alchemists, went not un- rewarded by fair ansought discoveries by the way.'

uppressed whose champion he just be come. The vision was strauge vot- pound of elements some of which he did not recognize, and sex was certainly one of these elements. But his portie genius purified and exalted the vision. Shelley from early years could not resist a beauti ful woman, but he could always construe to himself his growing adoration, as a purposed net of will and not as weak emotional surrender. He might construe as he willed, but the result was the same —a fresh exhibition of congenital weak mes, followed by irresistible weariness and disgust." This was the tragedy of Shelley's tortured life. And yet

"He has outsoared the shadow of our

night,

Envy and calumy and hate and

HIS CHARMING VAGUENESS, On the 16th August, 120, the great reform meeting held in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, was, dispersed by yeomanry and fusiars. A special constable and one of the yeomanry

were killed and four Can touch him not and torture not other persons died of their injuries.

again.

pain, And that unrest which men miseall

delight

For now

thinkers,

He is a portion of the loveliness

Which once he made more lovely." HEIGHTS OF INVECTIVE.. Like other revolutionary ahelley hoped for the salvation and per- fection of mankind by way of an abse- late breach with the past - History was to him at best a black business, a orgy of fantastic and luxurious cruelty. Com- лістве із the venal interchange of all that art and nature" yield." Gold-how far would gok! have enthralled the im agination of poets, if it had been a dull black substance with a slightly unpleasant well I Gold is a god, or demon, of dread- ful strength. Education and tradition, institution and customs are made the marks of the same impassioned invective, In Lon and Cythua," British parental authority is ibus described:

The land in which 1 lived by a fell

bane

Was withered up. Tyrants dwelt side

by side

And stalled in our home:

This invective sometimes rises to heights

of grave denunciation

Li

The queen of "alaves,

The hoodwinked angel of the blind

and dead, Customs, with iron mice points to the

graves

Waves

When he heard about this Shelley, then at Leghorn, wrote The Mask of Anar chy. But listen to this extract:-

"Let a great Assembly be

Of the fearless and the free: On some spat of English ground Where the plans stretch wide around.

Let the blue sky overhead The green earth on which ye tread All that must eternal be

Witness the solemnity.

From the workhouse and the prison Where pale is corpses newly risen, Women and children, young mud old Groan for jain and weep für cold.

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his heart, are at last victorious, and the gially in China, in respect of the train- ing of teachers and the promotien af Furies, baffled, 'take themselves way. The concept of love and life as a dualism, fie research: and, is Great Britain, of life as the sole principle of freedom Chinese literature, history, economics and spect of study connected with. joy, beauty and harmony, in Nature and in Man, appears in Shelley's earlier and trade schools; scholarships, whether philosophy; secondary schools, technical. poes, and strengthens with his growthheld in sclleges or universities, in China. until it reaches its most magnificent ex pression in the closing rhapsody of

Adonais."

That Light whose smile kindles the

Universe,

That Beauty in which all things work

and move,

That Benedicting which the eclipsing

curse

Great Britain Chinese students in Great Britain, for a central institute and for hostel purposes. The need for British co-operation in such developments wAR urged ns, imperative by Dr. Scott, Writing of it in the Chinese Student recently he says it is the crux of the proposal. Griess the Chinese are willing fully and effectually to co-operate no system. of the kiad contemplated can come into being, much less become operative. In this the first stage would be to set up at Commission to administer the Indemnity Peking or Shanghai a Central, Education

Funds in connection with local or Pro- vincial Education Committees in the chief centres in China. On these bodies. The fire for which all thiraf'; now central as well as local, foreigners und

'heams on me

Of birth can quench not, that sustain

ing Love Which through the wel of being

hlindly wove

By man sad beast and earth and air

and sea,

Burns bright or dim, as each are mir

rors of

Chinese should sit in equal, rumbira, 2nd

Consuming the last clouds of cold with equal powers.

mortality."

Of the results, of such a scheue, which Shelley's early death, though it endear- would be spread over 20, years, Dr. Scott ed him the more to his lovers, has also says Twenty years of mutual co- deprived him of a full meed of critical operation between Chinese and English appreciation The bulk of reputable en in a work of supreme national, import- ticism is written by middle-aged men, who since would afford a searching test of this have made their peace with the world on experiment int national friendship. Which sows the human heart with reasonable and honourable terms-bot Success here may be anticipated, since no

From the haunts of daily ble Where la waged 'the daily strife With common wants and common

enres

tores.

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Lastly from the palaces

Where the nuriour of distress, Echoes, like the distant sound". Of a wind; alive around.

not without concessions. How should more helpful media exists for the re- they do full justice to the young rebels, moval of misunderstandings and ther the Marlowes and the Shelleys, who died cultivation of friendships between in.“. under the standard of revolt? They are dividuals than work of a joint nature tender to them and tolerant, as to their undertaken for the common good; and, younger selves. But they have accepted, if success be attained in this direction, where these refused, and they cannot mutual confdence would make a fresh always conceal their sense of the head start, and would, at no distant date strong folly of the refusal. Their judg favourably affect the commercial and the

Those prisons of wealth and fashion Where some few feel such compassion For those who groan and toil and wailment cannot be disabled; for they have social relations between two reasonable knowledge on their side, and experience, and practical communities. In that case and the practical lore of life. Yet, there both nations would benefit on The very vagueness of Shelley's poetry is an essential part of its charm. He is wisdom that is not horn of accept

As must make their brethren pale.

Beile and..

Where her own standard desolately speaks the language of pure emotion. acce; and the spirit that is to be tamed to a degree difficult to over-estimate""""

Oven the dust of Prophets "and" of

• King"

And this multiplied oppression is con- ceived of by the revolutionary theorists, and at least in his earlier poems by Shelley himself a thing separable from man, a burden laid on him by some dark unknown power, a net weaved round him by foreign enemies. One resolute act of inspired insurrection, and the burien might be cast off for over, the net severed at a blow, leaving man free, innocent and happy, a dweller in a golden world. In his Jater and naturer poems we delect Shelley's growing suspicion that the bur den of man is none other than the weight of the superincumbent hour," or of the atmosphere that he breathes. Yet he never faltered, never repeated. He had learned

the mood, they generate. Possessed by to learn, has something also to forget where definite perceptions are melted in to the uses of this world, if it bas mach the desire of escape, he gazes cakaly and The severest criticism that the world, and steadily on nothing of earthly build. Like the uses of the world, are called, upon his own poet

to undergo, is that which looks out on them, ever afresh, from the surprised and troubled eyes of a child:

"He will watch,from dawn to gloom

The lake reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed. nor see what things they be But create frgin these he can

Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of Immortality." His thoughts tinvel incessantly from what he sees to what te desires, and his goal is no more distinctly perceived than his starting-place. His desire leaps forth towards its mark, but is consumed, like. his fancied arrow, by the speed of its own fight. His devotion is to something from the sphere of our sorrow; the voices that he hears bear him vague messages To hope, till hope creates and hints From its own wreck the thing it con

templates";

and if the tyrant that oppresses mankind is Reality," which none can mitigåte, be will be a rebel against 'Reality in the name of that fairer and no less immortal power the desire of the heart.

Ah Love! could you and I with Him

conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Thinga

entire

Would not we shatter it to bits-and

then

Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's

Desire !"

given by Professor Sraith on December The next lecture of the series will bo 18th. The speaker will take as his subject the poet Browning...

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In his poeni

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Epipaychidion," he tells of the Being who communed with him in his youth; it is in this world that they

rdet:

...

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on an imagined share, Under the grey heak of sane pro-

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glory, That I Beheld her not."

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