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There is plenty of fine open country between Fresh and Spy ponds and toward Watertown, Belmont, Arlington and Mystic Lake, where the best advantages of cross-country running may be had without injury to anyone. Nor would the distance be too great if the hares would start directly for the open country...
Eckhart is one of the most noteworthy examples of the believers in early German mystic ideas. He was born about 1260, and after receiving a good education he entered the Dominican order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken...
...good illustration of what I mean. In life, as in a meanly-appointed theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
...Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things in the picture-like sense that Keats does. Almost all of these gifts are found however in a less degree in both these poets. Browning has far less of the picture-like sense than Tennyson. Whatever of these gifts these poets...
...rest of the Monthly suffers somewhat from being too entirely devoted to literary subjects. Four of the five articles treat of the writings of different authors in their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following...