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BY A CECROPIAN.

 

White for the spotless robe

That the helmeted Pallas wore.

Red for the wine that flowed from the vine
That the hills of Cecropia bore.

White for the marble pure

That the peerless Phidias wrought.
Red for the dying rays of the sun
That the rugged Acropolis caught.

White for the lily so fair

That bows to old Attica’s gales, a

Red for the rose whose perfume blows
Through all of her classic vales.

White for the snowy foam

That crests the ngean waves,
Red for the coral lips of the shells
That they rock in storied caves.

White for the shining palm

That Athens for learning claims,

Red for the blood that poured like a flood
From her countless heroes’ veins.

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Stop, beloved reader! \Ve cannot so far misuse
the honest sunlight of this gracious morning and
outrage the dictates of our own rare and saintly
equity, as to act the literary inquisitor before the
heresy of our victim has been fairly established
Sub judice, therefore, let this case remain, until in
the sixteenth number of this famous periodical,
you have carefully re—read the leading article “Im-
itation, as leading to Servility.” And, in the peru-
sal, may the freshness of unworn energies invigor-
ate thy thought and the wisdom of all life’s decen—
m'u direct thy understanding.

And, now we crave the grace of thy attention
while in the name of blue-eyed Minerva, we im-
peach this man of high crimes and misdemeanors.

“Imitation, is an effort on the part of

 

 

a writer or speaker to assimilate his style,
diction and manner of expression to that of
some other writer, who may have gained
some eminence and distinction among his
fellows.” Does imitation lie in the eifort, or in
the success of the efi‘ort,‘in the attempt to assimi-
tate, or in the fact of assimilating? Does one’s
veracity consist in his effort to observe the truth,
or in its actual observance? A regicide is not the
man. who shoots at the King and misses him.
Again, what have“eminence and distinction among
his fellows” to do with imitating a writer? A man
may imitate whom he pleases—great Shakespeare,
or lesser Tennyson, or—nosmet ipsos, who are
known to be some degrees humbler than ‘Uriah
Bicep- .

“As thus defined, however, Imitation is pronoun-
ced—dishonest. Aye, it is dishonest to assimilate
one’s style of writing to that of another; and Were
you cognizant of‘the fact, sir, that all the days of
your life you have been violating the eighth com~
mandment? Is the cut of your coat an original
conception withyou? No? Then how you griev—
ously sinned in rudely appropriating the style of
your neighbor. Did you create that pattern for
vest and shirt front? Then, uninspired by the as-
pirations of the humblest honesty, you have stolen
the prescriptive right of your fellow—creature. Do
you remain indoors, until, “in the sufficiency ofyour
own endowments,” you hit upon a style unsugges-
ted by any thing worn from the era of the fig—leaves
downward. Then issue forth clothed with
originality, and remand to justice the first villian
that dares assimilate his style to yours.

Imitation is not assimilation merely, but appro-
priation, says the writer; and here we can no long-
er keep pace with him in actual thought, but lose
him in the anxious outreachings of imagination.
\Vithout difficulty we can understand how one
sportsman might appropriate another-’s bullet-
moulds and turn out his lead in the size and shape
desired, but, 0 spirits of Olympus, help us to see
how a writer would set about appropriating another
writer’s style! He not only shuts out all others
trom a share in the same, but denies all its emolu-
ments to the very owner whom with high handed
violence, he has just plundered.

Imitation is not only morally reprehensible, but
philosophically vicious, and the writer with con-
scientious fidelity delineates the excruciating re—
sults that are inexorably entailed upon its practice.
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hurling his thunderbolts at the Titans makes quite
a lively scene; but what is the clangor and din of
immortal warfare, when compared with the frenzy
of human effort and the agony of human martyr-
dom? Listen: .

“This man, in his reading, finds an author whose style capti-
vates 'm. He feels that could he but write in that same cap-
tivating style, earth could afford no greater boon, his ambi-
tion would be satisfied, his desires of greatness satiated, and
his aspirations could rise no higher.

From this hour he becomes the slave of an admired style,
his soul is chained down to the Servile practice ofimitation, and
his every thought is cent»: red upon the degrading purpose of
crushing his own capacities. As a result, his mental energies
are broken and subdued, all the essential principles of his na-
ture are dwarfed and sliriveled, and his own individuality is
lost or absorbed in the allengrossing idea of mimicry and as-
similation.” . .

Pray, O merciful reader, that the poor wretch,
who clings with such superhuman pertinacity to
life, may soon find rest in the grave. Erect over
him then the monumentum acre pcremztas, with the
epitaph, “Died of Imitation.”

The fate of this man enables us to endorse the
statistics in the writer’s following statement, that
not one in a thousand imitators meets with any
remarkable success; they all die in the attempt!
Nor can :we suffer to pass unnoticed his exhorta»
tion to be original, “to exhibit our marks of God——
given and inherent domination” ‘not to uproot
every principle of independence and self-sufficien-
ey’ ‘to consider any departure from originality of
thought or purpose an outrage to our own minds and
an insult to God.’ ” it is because these things are
neglected that we “chatter like parrots and mag-
pies, and thus stand in mortifying contrast with
the writer, who is one of“the few great spirits that
control the literary werlc .” The day may be com
ing, but' not yet is, when thaumaturgical infants,
scouting the idea of borrowing,” can make choice
of a vernacular; when by the powers of inherent
domination, and without the superfluities of teach-
ers, text-books, etc., they may bestow upon them-
selves a collegiate education, and finally,without any
acquaintance with the facts of Biblical and secular
history, or the laws ofrersification, can produce a
Paradise Lost; or if zesthically disposed, chisel out
the Apollo; or still, being scientifically minded,
construct the telescope of Lord Rosse and resolve
the sword—hilt of Orion into clusters of stars.

In the meanwhile you and I know, 0 reader, that
throughout all Christendom, from time immemorial,
the study—the early and late, careful, prolonged,
and devoted study of models, with a direct view of
acquiring habits of thought and methOds of execu-
tion similar,thereto, has been inculcated, upheld and
enforced as profitable, necessary, and right. We
know that the youthful artist, having received the
fullest instruction from masters living, goes to the
land where he may be taught by the works of mas-
ters dead; hoping that by long study of the
magical effects of light and shade in Correggio, the
powerful drawing of Angel, the tender beauty cf
Raphael, and the amber and crimson glories breath-
ed over the canvas of Titian, the spirit of buried
art may be awaked Within his bosom and the Gra~ I

 

ces b‘e woed to wait upon_ his pencil. We know
that the musician seeks the celestial symphonies of
Haydn, Mozart and Glueck; and that with the
sculptor, criticism may almost be said to originate
with the Apollo, the'. Venus, the Laocoon and Dy-
ing Gladiator. We know that in literature no one
is original, no not ONE' We know that the quan-
tum of human energy, in direction and intensity,
is a resultant; one component being the sum of in-
born tendencies, the other, being a series of out-
ward influences, in continuous operation from the
very era of existence itself; that absolute original-
ity is possible only by destroying the latter com-
ponent, and since this cannot be done, absolute
originality is an impossibility; that our entire con-
stitution, in reason, taste, virtue, and faith, has
been slowly and silently built up from a thousand
nameless elements, and that no one is original—no
not one, Not Virgil, nor Shakespeare, nor Milton,
nor Chancel“, nor Spencer, nor Dante, nor anybody!
unless ourimmortal contemporary whom we, for
a few moments forgotten. And if THOU
art original, 0 great literary spirit, the world
will forgive thy dishonesty in appropriating some
one’s style, for fear that, ill-heeding thy advice,
others may imitate thee. And if thou wantest-au-
thority, listen to Dante’s address to Virgil: "
“Glory and light of all that tuneful train!
May it avail me, that I long with zeal
Have sought thy volume, and with love immense
Have chonned it o’er. My master thou, and guide-l
Thou befrom whom- alone I have clarinet . '
That style, whichfor its beauty tntofamc-
Exalts me.”

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“The lives of great men all remind us
We can nrake ours sublime,

And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of Time.”

 

 

This stanza, from one of the best poems Long- A

fellow ever wrote, beautifully embodies the doc-
trine “That every man is the architect of his own
fortune,” and is both extremely beautiful, and sets
forth in the most expressive and comprehensive
language the vieWs of this great American poet,
as to how a man :z/mst become great, if he does be-
come great.

He'eertainly bi lieved that the secret of success
lay in self-exertiengz,iand that we are able to con-
trol circumstance.- “ .a considerable extent, and
to shape them to our support, or he could never
have created the Q‘Bsalm of , g.”

Then the secret fitment? eess of great men is
in their own persélt’flérlii'g energy. “There is no
excellence without labor”—is not the peculiar sen-
timent of one man, or class of men, but is found-
ed on the experience of a world.

All men are to a wonderful extent born equal in
mental as well as physical capacity. It is the
habits of industry and perseverance that, con-

tracted by a man, lead him so far above his fel- _

lows as to induce mankind to think him the fa-
vorite of fortune—something superior to other
men. ',

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CECflOflfl/V fflWfl/DEZZS.

The annals of the Cecropian Society commence
with the first session held by Kentucky University
in Lexington, after the removal of the institution
from Harrodsburg. A provisional organization of
the Society was effected in Morrison College, on
Friday, October 6, 1865, but this gave way to a
complete government on Friday evening, Novem-
ber 17, 1865, when the present Constitution, with
the Cecropian name, shield, motto, colors, &c., was
adopted, and the first regular election of officers
took place. It has been the custom of the Society
to celebrate, by an “open session,” or other literary
entertainment, the anniversary of the adoption of
its Constitution. The first Cecropian President
was George W. Ranck, who wrote most of the Con-
stitution, suggested the name and colors of the
Society and the name of its paper. The motto was
selected by W. L. T. Price, from the Eneid, ixth
book, 6—11 line.

The ideal and emblematical combination of the
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Minerva, the patron of the liberal arts, standing
upon the summit of the Acropolis, and protecting
Cecropia or Athens, the home of literature, with
her shield, while she directs the toilers up the rug-
ged path of learning to the stars of immortality.
The names of those who organized the Society are
displayed under year, “1865,” on the Cecropian
roll of members, which is kept hanging in the So-
ciety hall.

The Society commenced the formation of a libra-
ry, from books apportioned to it from a collection
left by extinct societies of ’lli‘ansylvania and Ken-
tucky Universities. Additions are made to it
every year. Part of the furniture of the Society
was bought with cash donations from F. K. Hunt,
M. C. Johnson, J. B. Bowman, Lighter Huffman,
and other liberal gentlemen.

The first public entertainment given by the So-
ciety was in conjunction with the Pericleans. It
took place in the College Chapel, Friday evening,
December 8, 1865, and its object was to raise funds
to aid in furnishing the Society balls. The debate
on this occasion was an exteinporaneous .one be—
tween the Presidents ot‘ the respective Societies.
The Cecropian charter, which now adorns the Soci-
ety hall, was passed by the Kentucky Legislature in
February, 1866. In June, 1866, the Society res-
pectfully protested against the restrictive action
of the Faculty in regard to the Literary Societies,
and declined to give its regular public entertain~
ment. The Annual Cecropian Reunion, consist~
ing of all who are and have been members of the
Society, was organized June 24, 1868. This asso-
ciation holds a meeting at the close of every ses-
sion. Its objects are to promote the interests of
the Society and perpetuate the'fricndships formed
during College days. The Cecropian roll of mem-
bers, which is annually printed at the expense of
some “old members,” was first gotten up in 1868.
The banner now used by the Society was purchas—
ed in 1870.

'30011' NOZZCES.

'Wn have received and, though briefly, have exam-
ned with pleasure Prof. Kendrick’s "First Four Books
of the Anabasis,” from the publishing house of Shel-
don & Co, In preparing this edition, which is mainly
designed to aid the elementary study of the work, the
author has made free use of the editions of Kuhner,
Kruger, Ilertlein, ltehdantz, and Vollbrecht, Dindorf’s
Oxford Edition, together with the commentaries of Au-
thon, Owen and Boise.

Thetext is mainly that of the latest Teubner edition
of Dindorf, preference being given to the readings of
other critical texts, however, when there seemed to be
good manuscript authority for the change.

Among the particulars which commend this edition
to especial attention are to be found an excellent color—
ed map (Kiepart‘s), delineating the route of the Ten
Thousand. an Itz‘nerari’um from the edition of Macmi-
chael, and a complete vocabulary. The notes, though
condensed, are clear, critical, and, to the extent of our
examination, satisfactory. We know of no other edi-
tion of the work that combines so many points of ex-
cellence.

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HAMMOND—“7e with pleasure aeknowled 01e our indebt-
edness to D. Appleton & 00,8419 and 855 b1011dway,N.
Y. for the above book. We have given it a careful
reading, and find it unusually interesting, as well as 1'11-
91:; active No doctor 01' lawyer should do without it,
while to the intelligent juror it is almost a necessity.
Rarely have we read 11 1110111 which we so gladly recom-
mend to every one. l‘he mechanical execution of the
book is almost faultless.

THE Annual Catalogue of Kentucky University has
made its appearance, band is in a style connnensurate
with the importance of the University to which it be-
longs. Its appearance has been improved by the addi-
tion of pictures of all the buildings belonging1 to the
University, which old students cannot but take pleas—
ure in recognizing. It also contains the announcement
ot the new Medical College, which has been 01 g :mized
since June, and which will begin the second Monday in
September.

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The following poetry, from the Harvard 1:11.ZUUC/ll8, we
think worthy of being re-published in our columIN, as
it appears to be peculiarly adapted to the case of so
many of our intimate friends:

How oft, amid the scenes of pleasure,
Sadly our hearts are beating 1111115111111;
And though rare beauties greet the ey (1,
Our lips can scarce repress a sigh!
Though giddy fortune smile in favor,
And friends press round 11s blithe and g 11,
Our sweetest joys must lose their 11111111,
If those we love are faraway.

Surrounded by the ball— —’sroom 1 graces,
By flowers and fans and lovely; aces
When smoothly. dreamily I gii 111
Upon the music’ s 1911].: ing tide,

My thoughts with secrei 11'1e1s111e 111111112,
Are roving from the bright an my.

And picturing a da1l1eved maiden
More fair than 1111, but fai away.

While turning o’er the musty 1) 1ges

That hold the