The Speaker Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Scott had no small knowledge of human nature. English candidates for the representation of Scottish constituencies, when they find how this inconsiderate misuse of terms offends Scotsmen, do not dare to persist in a habit which a Scottish audience soon corrects, but amend their manners, which would otherwise inevitably lead to "rejected addresses." Ought they not to feel ashamed to concede to fear what they will not grant spontaneously from a generous motive P Englishmen boast of their magnanimity. In this matter they nowadays show none. Let the writers in the Speaker--hitherto among the greatest offenders--initiate a more generous practice and they will thus do more to conciliate Scottish and Irish feeling than by any amount of advocacy of the political causes which Scotland and Ireland have at heart, which, if not accompanied by respect for Scottish and Irish sentiment, may be accepted for what it is worth, but will evoke no gratitude.--Yours, etc., March 24th, 1894. John Stuart Fraser. WHITE SOUL. WHAT is so white in the world, my love, As thy maiden soul, The dove that flies Softly all day within thine eyes, And rests within thine heart at night?--Nothing so white. What is so sweet in North or South As that honey-comb, Thy mouth? In East or West As that home, thy breast, Where the white hills meet?--Nothing so sweet. Richard Le Gallienne. A LITERARY CAUSERIE. "esther Waters." HEIGH-HO I It is good, after all, to come across a novel written by a man who can write a novel. We have been much in the company of the Amateur of late, and I for one am very weary of him--weary of his preposterous goings-out and his ridiculous comings-in, of his smart ineptitudes, of his solemn zeal in reforming the decayed art of fiction, of his repeated fail...