Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. Judith 1-3 The Influence of Bj ron ' s Life Upon His Works ... 3-7 The Colonial Period in Virginia 7-13 Camping-Out Adventures 13-17 A Dream of Wise Men 17-21 In China 21-26 Mardi Gras In the Crescent City 26-28 Cotton Raising In Louisiana 28-29 Scene In a Dentist ' s Office 30-31 From Harvest Season 32-33 The Mystery of Spring 33-34 Das Lied Von Der Glocke 35-37 Ein Verlobungsring 37 4° Etudes Sur Chateaubriand -41-49 Les Roses Rouges 46-48 Editorial 49 News From Old Girls . . 50 - 53 Rhyme and Reason 53 - 54 Familiar Quotations 55 Results of an Actual Vote 55

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THE ANNUAL — OF — The Alary Baldwin Seminary Vol. VI. Staunton, Va., May, 1896. No. i. JUDITH. Of all the wealth of poems which we have received from our old Anglo-Saxon forefathers, not one has given us a higher or a truer idea of the poetic powers of our ancestors than this noble fragment, Judith. And, in scanning its pages, we find that the one thing in it which attracts us most strongly, is not the polish and bril- liancy of its language and metre, nor its well-rounded plot, nor its dramatic interest, but the charming way in which its author has displayed his own thoughts aud feelings, and has given us glimpses of his own heart-life, as he recounts the in- cidents of this old Apocryphal narrative. As Mr. Taine expresses it : Power in spiritual produc- tions arises only from the sincerity of personal and original sentiment. And if our old Anglo-Saxon forefathers could re- late reliirious tragedies, it was that their very souls were tragic, that their very souls were religious, and in a degree, bibli- cal. Like the old prophets of Tsrael, they introduce into their verses their fierce vehemence, their murderous hatreds, their fanaticism, and all the shudderings of their flesh and blood. And like the old Hebrew prophets they were also in the simplicity and energy of their conception of the Deity.