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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOL. 17, NO. 97, JANUARY, 1876***
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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
January, 1876.
Volume XVII, No. 97
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. I.--GENERAL PROGRESS.
UP THE THAMES THIRD PAPER by EDWARD C. BRUCE.
LINES WRITTEN AT VENICE IN OCTOBER, 1865 by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE.
SKETCHES OF INDIA. I.
LADY ARTHUR EILDON'S DYING LETTER by THE AUTHOR OF "BLINDPITS."
THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH by REBECCA HARDING DAVIS.
A DEAD LOVE by F.A. HILLARD.
GENTILHOMME AND GENTLEMAN by G. COLMACHE.
SPECIAL PLEADING by SIDNEY LANIER.
THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON CHAPTER XVII. WHAT MUST COME. CHAPTER XVIII. RECKONING WITH LEAM. CHAPTER XIX. AT STEEL'S CORNER. CHAPTER XX. IN HER MOTHER'S PLACE.
FAMISHING PORTUGAL.
AT THE OLD PLANTATION. TWO PAPERS.--I. by ROBERT WILSON.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. '76. by LATIENNE.
THE KREUZESSCHULE. OBER-AMMERGAU, Bavaria, Oct. 4, 1875.
VARESE.
A STATE GOVERNOR IN THE RÔLE OF ENOCH ARDEN
THE PALATINE LIGHT.
NOTES.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.
ILLUSTRATIONS
HAMPTON COURT--WEST FRONT. HAMPTON COURT--LOOKING UP THE RIVER. ENTRANCE TO WOLSEY'S HALL. MIDDLE QUADRANGLE, HAMPTON COURT. ARCHWAY IN HAMPTON COURT. WOLSEY. PORTICO LEADING TO GARDENS. CENTRE AVENUE. HAMPTON COURT--GARDEN FRONT. GATE TO PRIVATE GARDEN. BUSHY PARK. GARRICK'S VILLA. RIVER SCENE, THAMES DITTON. WOLSEY'S TOWER, ESHER. CLAREMONT. CLIVE'S MONUMENT. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. WALTON CHURCH. KINGSTON CHURCH. A DWELLING AT MAZAGON. HINDU TEMPLE IN THE BLACK TOWN, BOMBAY. JAIN TEMPLES AT SUNAGHUR. THE VESTIBULE OF THE GRAND SHAÎTYA OK KARLI. SCULPTURED FIGURES IN THE VESTIBULE OF THE GREAT SHAÎTYA OF KARLI.
[Illustration: The CENTURY: ITS FRUITS and its FESTIVAL.]
THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.
I.--GENERAL PROGRESS.
This of ours is a conceited century. In intense self-consciousness it exceeds any of its late predecessors. Its activity in externally directed thought is accompanied by an almost corresponding use of introverted reflection. Its inheritance, and the additions it has made, can make or will make thereto, supply an ever-present theme. It delights to stand back from its work, like the painter from his easel, to scan the effect of each new touch--to note what has been done and to measure what remains. It is a great living and breathing entity, informed with the concrete life of three generations of mankind the most alert and the most restless of all that have existed. This sensation of exceptional endowments is self-nourishing and ever-growing; and our little nook of time is coming to view all the paths of the past, broad or narrow, direct or interlacing, straight or obscure, as so many roads laid out and graded for the one purpose of leading straight to its gate. It sounds its own praises and celebrates itself at all opportunities. But with all this there is a wholesome recognition of responsibility. Nobility obliges, it is prompt to confess, and to act accordingly. It sees flaws in its regal diamonds, spots that still sully on its ermine; and is not slow to address itself to the duty of their removal.
If the century understands itself, it may be said likewise to understand the others better than they did themselves. It collects their respective autobiographies and their mutual criticisms. The real truths, half truths and delusions each has added to the accumulating common stock it sifts and weighs, mercilessly piling a dustheap beyond Mr. Boffin's wildest dreams, and rescuing, on the other hand, from the old wastebasket many discarded scraps of real but till now unacknowledged value. Busy in gathering stores of its own, it is able to find time for digesting those bequeathed to it, and for executing both tasks with a good deal of care. It brings skepticism to its aid in both, and subjects new and old conclusions to almost equally close analysis. Each new pebble it picks up upon the shore of the Newtonian ocean it holds up
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber.
Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13116-h.htm or 13116-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/1/13116/13116-h/13116-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/1/13116/13116-h.zip)
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
January, 1876.
Volume XVII, No. 97
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. I.--GENERAL PROGRESS.
UP THE THAMES THIRD PAPER by EDWARD C. BRUCE.
LINES WRITTEN AT VENICE IN OCTOBER, 1865 by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE.
SKETCHES OF INDIA. I.
LADY ARTHUR EILDON'S DYING LETTER by THE AUTHOR OF "BLINDPITS."
THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH by REBECCA HARDING DAVIS.
A DEAD LOVE by F.A. HILLARD.
GENTILHOMME AND GENTLEMAN by G. COLMACHE.
SPECIAL PLEADING by SIDNEY LANIER.
THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON CHAPTER XVII. WHAT MUST COME. CHAPTER XVIII. RECKONING WITH LEAM. CHAPTER XIX. AT STEEL'S CORNER. CHAPTER XX. IN HER MOTHER'S PLACE.
FAMISHING PORTUGAL.
AT THE OLD PLANTATION. TWO PAPERS.--I. by ROBERT WILSON.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. '76. by LATIENNE.
THE KREUZESSCHULE. OBER-AMMERGAU, Bavaria, Oct. 4, 1875.
VARESE.
A STATE GOVERNOR IN THE RÔLE OF ENOCH ARDEN
THE PALATINE LIGHT.
NOTES.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.
ILLUSTRATIONS
HAMPTON COURT--WEST FRONT. HAMPTON COURT--LOOKING UP THE RIVER. ENTRANCE TO WOLSEY'S HALL. MIDDLE QUADRANGLE, HAMPTON COURT. ARCHWAY IN HAMPTON COURT. WOLSEY. PORTICO LEADING TO GARDENS. CENTRE AVENUE. HAMPTON COURT--GARDEN FRONT. GATE TO PRIVATE GARDEN. BUSHY PARK. GARRICK'S VILLA. RIVER SCENE, THAMES DITTON. WOLSEY'S TOWER, ESHER. CLAREMONT. CLIVE'S MONUMENT. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. WALTON CHURCH. KINGSTON CHURCH. A DWELLING AT MAZAGON. HINDU TEMPLE IN THE BLACK TOWN, BOMBAY. JAIN TEMPLES AT SUNAGHUR. THE VESTIBULE OF THE GRAND SHAÎTYA OK KARLI. SCULPTURED FIGURES IN THE VESTIBULE OF THE GREAT SHAÎTYA OF KARLI.
[Illustration: The CENTURY: ITS FRUITS and its FESTIVAL.]
THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.
I.--GENERAL PROGRESS.
This of ours is a conceited century. In intense self-consciousness it exceeds any of its late predecessors. Its activity in externally directed thought is accompanied by an almost corresponding use of introverted reflection. Its inheritance, and the additions it has made, can make or will make thereto, supply an ever-present theme. It delights to stand back from its work, like the painter from his easel, to scan the effect of each new touch--to note what has been done and to measure what remains. It is a great living and breathing entity, informed with the concrete life of three generations of mankind the most alert and the most restless of all that have existed. This sensation of exceptional endowments is self-nourishing and ever-growing; and our little nook of time is coming to view all the paths of the past, broad or narrow, direct or interlacing, straight or obscure, as so many roads laid out and graded for the one purpose of leading straight to its gate. It sounds its own praises and celebrates itself at all opportunities. But with all this there is a wholesome recognition of responsibility. Nobility obliges, it is prompt to confess, and to act accordingly. It sees flaws in its regal diamonds, spots that still sully on its ermine; and is not slow to address itself to the duty of their removal.
If the century understands itself, it may be said likewise to understand the others better than they did themselves. It collects their respective autobiographies and their mutual criticisms. The real truths, half truths and delusions each has added to the accumulating common stock it sifts and weighs, mercilessly piling a dustheap beyond Mr. Boffin's wildest dreams, and rescuing, on the other hand, from the old wastebasket many discarded scraps of real but till now unacknowledged value. Busy in gathering stores of its own, it is able to find time for digesting those bequeathed to it, and for executing both tasks with a good deal of care. It brings skepticism to its aid in both, and subjects new and old conclusions to almost equally close analysis. Each new pebble it picks up upon the shore of the Newtonian ocean it holds up
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