Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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Mr. and Mrs. Heme in Drifting Apart. Act II. See page 545. with the same wide and thorough range of thought. Intheir home oft-quoted volumes of Spencer, Darwin, Fiske,Carlyle, Ibsen, Valdes, Howells, give evidence that theynot only keep abreast but ahead of the current thought ofthe day. Spencer is their philosopher, and Howells is theirnovelist, but Dickens and Scott have large space on theirshelves. All this does not prevent Mr. Heme from beingan incorrigible joker, and a wonderfully funny story-teller.All dialects come instantly and surely to his tongue. The Digitized by VjOOQIC 552 THE ARENA.
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Mr. and Mrs. Heme in Drifting Apart. Act III. See page 546. sources of his power as a dramatist are evident in his keenobservation and retentive memory. Mrs. Hemes poet isSidney Lanier, and she knows his principal poems by heart. Sunrise is her especial delight. But to see her radiantwith intellectual enthusiasm, one has but to start a discus-sion of the nebular hypothesis, or to touch upon the atomictheory, or doubt the inconceivability of matter. She is per-fectly oblivious to space and time if she can get someone todiscuss Flammarions supersensuous world of force, Mr.Georges theory of land-holding, or Spencers law of prog-ress. Her enthusiasms bear fruit not only in her own phenom- Digitized by VjOOQIC MB. AND MBS. HEBNE. 553 enal development, but in her power over others, both as anartist and friend. Wherever she goes she carries the mag-netic influence of one who lives and thinks on high planes.Her earnestness is tremendous. They are both individualists in the sense of being for

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