Escapings

Yes, the nostalgia lives in us, but there lives also the hope to drown that uneasiness in the serenity of some bright illusion. Such a hope and such a serenity arise calmly from the pages of Henry Dwight Sedgwick’sPro Vita Monastica — and this has been recognized to be so by the homesick of all creeds.

There is also the escape which lies In the sounds of words. Those who read these columns in July will perhaps have already Felt the spell of those three words, which Charles Boardman Hawes has chosen for the title of his new adventure-story. The Dark Frigate. They reverberate suggeslively in that region of our spirits which has not yet become so old and hard as to disbelieve that a frigate can be dark in more ways than one.