or the Night," Zangwill's few
pages can never be obliterated from the heart of a loving reader--by a
loving reader I mean a reader who loves men a little more than books.

You will remember that Crawford's Immortals appear at Sorrento where
Lady Brenda and Augustus and Gwendolyn Chard are enjoying the fine
flower of life. If Sir Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge could only bring
back to life, or induce to come back to life, King Francis I. and Julius
Caesar and Heinrich Heine and Doctor Johnson,[1] together with that
group of semi-happy souls who live on the "enamelled green" of Dante,
spiritism might have more to say for itself!

"'I call a cat a cat,' as Boileau put it," remarked Heine. "I would
like to know how many men in a hundred are disappointed in the
women they marry."

"Just as many as have too much imagination," said Augustus.

"No," said Johnson, shaking his head violently and speaking
suddenly in an excited tone. "No. Those who are disappointed are
such as are possessed of imagination without judgment; but a man
whose imagination does not outrun his judgment is seldom deceived
in the realisation of his hopes. I suspect that the same thing is
true in the art of poetry, of which Herr Heine is at once a master
and a judge. For the qualities that constitute genius are
invention, imagination and judgment; invention, by which new trains
of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed;
imagination, which strongly impresses on the writer's mind, and
enables him to convey to the reader the various form of nature,
incidents of life and energies of passion; and judgment, which
selects from life or nature what the present purpose requires, and
by separating the essence of things from its concomitants, often
makes the representation more powerful than the reality. A man who
possesses invention and imagination can invent and imagine a
thousand beauties, gifts of mind and virtues of character; but
unless he have judgment which enables him to discern the bounds of
possibility and to detect the real nature of the woman he has
chosen as the representative of his self-formed ideal, he runs
great risk of being deceived. As a general rule, however, it has
pleased Providence to endow man with much more judgment than
imagination; and to this cause we may attribute the small number of