. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... back so radiantlythat they smiled in respc nse lo her smile. She passeddown the broad stairway, between the two receding col-umns, from which was reiected joy in response to herjoy, and beauty in response to the beauty which radiatedfrom her. There are times when the beams of light in ourown souls become so brilliant that they make everything BJORjVSTJERNE BJORNSON 249 about us bright, though we
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... back so radiantlythat they smiled in respc nse lo her smile. She passeddown the broad stairway, between the two receding col-umns, from which was reiected joy in response to herjoy, and beauty in response to the beauty which radiatedfrom her. There are times when the beams of light in ourown souls become so brilliant that they make everything BJORjVSTJERNE BJORNSON 249 about us bright, though we ourselves be unconscious otit. This is earths grandest triumphal procession—tobe announced, borne onward, and followed by ones ownglowing thoughts. When Petra, not knowing how she came there, reachedhome, she inquired what it was she had seen. Therewere several persons present who were able to under-stand her and give her a helpful answer. And after ithad been fully explained to her what a drama was, andwhat great actors had in their power to do, she startedup and said : This is the noblest calling on earth ; this is what Imean to be.—The Fisher Maiden^ Translation of Ras-mus B. Anderson,. BLACK, William, a Scottish novelist and jour-nalist, born at Glasgow, in November, 1841 ; diedat Brighton, England, December 10, 1898. Hecommenced literary life as a journalist in his na-tive city, and at the age of twenty-three took uphis residence in London. In the Franco-Austrianwar of 1866 he was a war-correspondent of a Lon-don newspaper, and during the next five yearswrote several novels, first achieving a decided suc-cess by A Daughter of Heth, which appeared in1871. After that he wrote one or more novels ayear. The principal of these are: Strange Ad-ventures of a Phaeton, A Princess of Thule, TheMaid of Killena, The Monarch of Mincing Lane,Three Feathers, Madcap Violet, Green Pastures andPicadilly, Sha?idon Bells, Maclcod of Dare, Sunrise,White Wings, That Beautiful Wretch, Yolan
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