Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . Omit the negativepropositions. Nerve us with incessant affirma-tions. Dont waste yourself in rejection, norbark against the bad, but chant the beauty ofthe good. A thoughtful reading of Thackerays lec-ture. Charity and Humor. will be a fit in-troduction to the open-hearted study of thecharacters of Ernest, Old Scrooge, and SirLaunfal as portrayed, respectively, by Haw-thorne, Dickens, and Lowell. As to Thack-eray, he himself is worthy of the kindly, gen-erous tribute he pays to the memory of SirWalter Scott: What a good gentleman ! Whata friendly
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . Omit the negativepropositions. Nerve us with incessant affirma-tions. Dont waste yourself in rejection, norbark against the bad, but chant the beauty ofthe good. A thoughtful reading of Thackerays lec-ture. Charity and Humor. will be a fit in-troduction to the open-hearted study of thecharacters of Ernest, Old Scrooge, and SirLaunfal as portrayed, respectively, by Haw-thorne, Dickens, and Lowell. As to Thack-eray, he himself is worthy of the kindly, gen-erous tribute he pays to the memory of SirWalter Scott: What a good gentleman ! Whata friendly soul, what a generous hand, what anamiable life! Says Fields: He was a mostgenerous critic of the writings of his contem-poraries and no one has printed warmerpraise of Dickens, in one sense his great rival,than he. The one who reads the last threepages of Charity and Humor will have nodifficulty in convincing himself that Fieldsscharacterization of Thackerays manly andgenerous recognition of the literary merit of OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 141. The Livingston Boarding Club the writings of his contemporaries is not over-drawn. A brief outline of the three master-pieces,to which reference has been made, will serveto show the lessons they inculcate. These les-sons may be summarized as follows: 1. We grow into the likeness of that whichwe love. 2. The emptiness of a life devoted toavarice, greed, over-reaching, and selfishness;the fullness of a life of cheerfulness, helpful-ness, and sympathetic regard for others—alife of courage, faith, and optimism. 3. The homely near-at-hand duties are:ver the most important and pressing. Intheir right ordering is the souls uplift andlltimate salvation. Charity should begin athome, but it need not end there. TheVision of Sir Launfal is a fine, literary para-phrase of the story of the Good Samaritanas recorded in St. Luke, x., 25-37 inclusive. In describing the simple life of Ernest,Hawthorne says: Not a day passed by, thatthe world was not bett
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