Rapid method of Neo

work being in itself a cardinal source of happiness. In thus choosing the path leading to Light and Joy, we put ourselves beyond the reach of being splashed by those who can only croak in their gloom and mud. (free translation into English by D.S.B.) A.

WALT WHITMAN

Many authors of the past make a strong appeal to some persons while they repel the attentions of others. But there is one author who has the peculiarity of being attractive or repulsive to the same persons at different periods of life, or condition, or even weather. There can be no consistency in the attitude to Walt Whitman; those who approach his work are thrilled by him today and disgusted by him tomorrow. It depends not so much on him as on themselves ; on whether they are young and eager or weary of life; on whether they are passing through certain moods or have ceased to have a particular experience ; on whether the sun is shining and they are out of doors or whether they sit in an armchair before the fire. Whitman is himself so various within definitely recurrent outlines, so uncompromisingly violent, that, as he stands before the reader in his blank nudity, it depends not on him so much as on the reader whether the aspect of him pleases or annoys, and in consequence we have the phenomenon of careful judges inspecting Whitman to-day and giving him the first prize, when tomorrow they will indignantly eject him from the category of competitors. It all depends on the reader himself — on his mood, on his physical state, on his accidental attitude to life. I know of no other writer who depends so much on our nerves and our digestion for the mode in which we welcome or repulse him.

Edmund Gosse.

PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF ENGLAND

On November 6, 1817, died Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never possessed it. She had been brought up among violent family quarrels, had been early separated from her disreputable and eccentric mother, and handed over to the care of her disreputable and selfish father. When she was seventeen, he decided to marry her off to the Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced ; but, suddenly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she determined to break off the engagement. This was not her first love affair, for she had previously carried on a clandestine correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus was already married, morganat-ically, but she did not know it, and he did not tell her. While she was spinning out the negotiations with the Prince of Orange, the allied sovereigns

Ко oxar akontre al cinika ? Etun of tala in kontredico kon sa intima natur, pe un duma konformismo kol med ki I’umar. Pe pav de sa ,,kompa-nos”, il raligar lo negeros e lo nilferos. Van il no endar pe suicidi — lo ki po il fonde lo plu logika — il deskadar idide e jar 1’imago selfa de ladeso, gronande matinsere e kirande in obsheneso, van no in krim, un dispera rifugo.

Optimismo e pesimismo sar reale un opto, un elgo ke l’om far sape van il nok yuna. Et elgo decidar l’oryentazo de la viv. Lo pesimist jar cinika e delera; 1’optimist sar konstruifa e realar lo maxim d’ix po soself e po sa proxun.

Goethe dicir ke lo prim dov d’un om ver sa proxun sar si ixa.

Un korespondent ne ramemar ke les Eraklit lo mond sar tala ke lo mal shar ye koexisti kon ben. II en dedukar ke lo pesimistos shar ye koexisti kol optimistos.

Es ete, nos barmu lo pov pesimistos, kondanat groni e sekreli vinagro.

E nosself siu joya, nos laboru — labor lo prim sorgo d’ix — e nos fiu lo ben. Elgande Lum e Joy, nos sor exe portado del klabos del qasheros ki se delektar in skuro e fango.

A.

WALT WHITMAN

Mul pasea autoros sedukar somunos dun zi provokar lo ripulso d’osunos. Mo existar un autor ki ar lo pekuleso de plazi о diplazi al sam person in def periodos de viv, de kondis, uske de ved. Nil konsisto posibla nel atitud ver Walt Whitman ; zi ki abordar la opro sar tica po il oje e disgustat pe il kras. Eto dependar no tan da il qam da ziself; per zi yuna e sefa о lasa de vivi; per zi pasanda sert umoros о zi ju subir un sert erfaro; per lo solyo lucar e zi fridaere о zi sidat on un polto nir lo fok. Whitman ilself tan varya les oxa cirkonsos, tan notransigeme violenta, ke, van il star in sa blanka nudeso antel lekter, dependar no tan da il qam dal lekter ke la aspo plazar о nugar, e konseke nos ar lo fenomen de zorga jugeros exa-manda Whitman oje e danda a il lo prim premyo, e ki kras le ejekor indigne dal kategorio del kompeteros. To dependar dal lekter selfa, da la umor, da la fizika kondis, da la oxa atitud ver viv. Mi konar nilosa skriber ki tan dependar da na neuros о da na digest pol modo kom nos le benvenar о le ripushar.

Edmund Gosse.

PRINSIN SHARLOT D’ANGLO