——wilt thou not haply saie
Truth needs no collour with his collour fixt,
Beautie no pensell, beauties truth to lay:
But best is best, if neuer intermixt
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee,
To make him much out-liue a gilded tombe:
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
Then do thy office ——
Contents of numbers 8–9 (not included in the original text)
Karen by Alexander Kielland, translated by Thyge Sógård
A Boston Criticism of Whitman by John Burroughs
Discouragement by Nathan Haskell Dole
Shelley's Faith: its Development and Relativity by Kineton Parkes
The Celtic Element in Tenyson's 'Lady of Shalott' by Anna Robertson Brown
The Religious Teachings of Aeschylus by Mary Taylor Blauvelt
Browning's 'Childe Roland' and its Danish Source by M. Sears Brooks
Newton's Brain by Jakub Arbes, translated by Josef Jiří Král
Shakespeare's Compliment to Brantôme by Charles Hugh Hunton
