The Yale Literary Magazine Volume 60, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...chances are that the average reader of the morning paper is not a personal acquaintance of Mr. Brown, and cannot easily secure the information desired. Had the article been worded in the old style, " Mr. Brown was seen by a reporter last evening," little or no curiosity would have been aroused. It may be that the signature was originally appended to the piece, and was dropped when it had been duly credited with a "penny a line," before arriving at the printing press. However that may be, the newspaper reader is quite certain to come upon that flaunting "I " day after day, and to glance absent-mindedly twice or thrice to the foot of the article, where the question he would ask is never answered. A. R. T. The Father Superior was worried about Fra Sabantine. Twice of late he had come upon him dreamily lounging in his cell, when he should have been down on his knees before the altar. Another time he had seen him absently telling his beads with one hand, and looking cautiously from the corner of his eye to direct the other hand in cleaning a paint brush. Old Fra Sabantine was an artist monk and many were the painters whom he had trained while novices, and then sent out from the cloister walls to become famous artists. Through all these years he had kept his soul as pure as any in the monastery, and none had been more attentive to their devotions than he. But now in his old age, when his long beard was white, and his round face had many deep wrinkles, he had given the reverend father cause for suspicion. The walls of the cloister were rich in the paintings of Fra Sabantine, and now he was putting his grandest efforts, his whole artist soul, into the one picture which he felt would be his last. He wanted it his...