. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sufficient glimpses only servedto reveal; and, pretending sensual jjleasureas the serious purpose of life, only divertedhimself with the speculative problems of Deity, [Cop>Tight, 1884, by The Centirv Co. All rights rcsened.] 4 VEDDERS ACCOMPAXIMEXT TO THE SOXG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. destiny, matter and spirit, good and evil, andother such questions, easier to start than torun down, and the pursuit of which becomesa very weary sport at last I For all that, Mr. Fitzgeralds own versionaffords quite sufficient excuse for any one toread into Omars
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sufficient glimpses only servedto reveal; and, pretending sensual jjleasureas the serious purpose of life, only divertedhimself with the speculative problems of Deity, [Cop>Tight, 1884, by The Centirv Co. All rights rcsened.] 4 VEDDERS ACCOMPAXIMEXT TO THE SOXG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. destiny, matter and spirit, good and evil, andother such questions, easier to start than torun down, and the pursuit of which becomesa very weary sport at last I For all that, Mr. Fitzgeralds own versionaffords quite sufficient excuse for any one toread into Omars Rubaiyat an interpretationwhich would make a mask where Mr. Fitz-gerald sees a face, and a face where he sees amask. Indeed, one may safely question hisown or his neighbors western way of readingan Oriental poem, and accept the possibilitythat thev are all merely using an antique coinas an instrument of exchange. Be this as it may, our purpose here is notto seek an authoritative rendering into the cssE^xi^^a^^mo^^^^^^^^^Q ■■iwr ■ ■ ^ ■Nl^. HOU<MTONi\tFrilN-AN0C^ RIVERSIDE PRCSS-18 8 5 terms of modem thought of this ancient par-able,— that would suppose a final answer tothe Sphinxs riddle,— but to call attention toa ver) notable work, happily entitled an ac-companiment to the Rubaiyat. As Mr. Fitz-gerald used the material which he found inthe Persian poets stanzas for the constructionof a noble English poem, and thereby offeredboth an interpretation of the Rubaiyat and anew projjounding of the enigma of humanlife and destiny, so Mr. Elihu Vedder has re-produced Mr. Fitzgeralds quatrains in a seriesof designs, mainly of a decorative character,which restate the problem in line and shadewith such variations as spring from the intro-duction of another personal efjuation. AnAmerican artist has joined the Persian poetand the English translator, and the result is a trio which presents the original strain in aricher, profounder harmony. The form in which the Rubaiyat ar
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