LITERARY CORNER.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14729, 6 August 1921, Page 3

LITERARY CORNER.

GLEANINGS. The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars and the pale moonlight’s beams; Alone the sun uprises and alone spring the great streams. —Matthew Arnold.

IN THE HILLS. “I had awakened to the beauty of the world. My horizon was no longer England. I had discovered thefromance of movement. All the realms of art remained closed, but Nature had opened wide her doors. The mountain world had become, and was long to remain, the home of my fancy. Though it was no longer a vague fairyland, it retained its mystery, and had gained in magnificence. I had touched only the fringe of its garment, but that contact had given me life. I returned to the duties of every day as to a strange country, leaving my heart behind me in the hills.” — Sir Martin Conway. LOVE OF BEAUTY. “There has never been anything to prevent the millennium except the nature of the human being. There are not enough loiters of beauty among men. It all comes back to .that. Not enough who want the green hill far away— L wlio naturally hate disharmony, and the greed, ugliness, restlessness, cruelty, whic.i are its parents and its children. “Will there ever be more lovers of beauty in proportion to those who are indifferent to beauty? Who shall answer that question? And yet on it depends peace. Men may have a mint of sterling qualities, be vigorous, adventurous, brave, upright, and self-sacrificing; be preachers -and teachers: keen, cool-headed, just, and industrious; but if they have not the love of beauty, they will still be making wars. Man is a fighting animal, with sense of the ridiculous enough to know that he is a fool to fight, but rot sense of the sublime enough to slop him.—John Galsworthy.