"At the beginning of the month we left Kem mendine with Saya Po Sa, a Burmese deacon, to tour round as many of the villages where the hermit has disciples, as time would allow. "Because the hermit was absent, off on one of his crazy rambles." "But that hermit isn't quite right in his head, is he?" "But, papa, the hermit is different," persisted Alice. "Not far from hence, says the student in Don Quixote,e is an hermitage, where lives an Anchorite, who is said to have been a soldier.-Adjoining to the Hermitage is a little house, built by the labour of his own hands, which though narrow is large enough to receive travellers. "Do you know what we must do? She hurled 1 [ 54 ] LLL HELLE H.SEWELL When Mr. Hermit Crab was a baby. "For two years this venerable hermit was my only companion, and much I learned from his sage experience; but I never could draw from him the secret of his own life, nor the reason why he had become a solitary. "I thought the poor old hermit was merely wandering in his mind when he talked about men being after him, but, it seems he was right. "I was beginning," Carrie said, "to wonder why Alice stayed so long, and was really a little worried at last and wondering what to do, when a gentleman came, and introducing himself as Alice's cousin, Robert Atwood, said the hermit had an important communication to make to Alice and himself and begged she might keep me waiting just a little longer. "I wonder," he muttered, in sleepy tones, "if that's a f--fam--'ly Bible he's reading--or--or--a vol'm o' the En--Encyclopida Brit--" He dropped off at this point, but, feeling that he had given way to some sort of weakness, he struggled back again into wakefulness, and saw that the hermit was bending over the large book with his massive brow resting on the palms of both hands, and his fingers thrust into his iron-grey hair. "I wonder," he muttered, in sleepy tones, "if that's a f-fam-'ly Bible he's reading--or--or--a vol'm o' the En-Encyclopida Brit--" He dropped off at this point, but, feeling that he had given way to some sort of weakness, he struggled back again in to wakefulness, and saw that the hermit was bending over the large book with his massive brow resting on the palms of both hands, and his fingers thrust into his iron-grey hair. "If the hermit is not Old Nick himself, he must be a near relation. "No, of course not," Robert replied, impatiently, for somehow he was beginning to feel that perhaps the hermit was a good deal of a crank, and his talk about wealth all moonshine. "One is to find out who has been taking Mr. Jessup's stuff, and the other is to find out what the hermit is doing here." "Probably the hermit is inside." "Well, I don't propose," remarked Alice, "to act the part of a prophet; but now that Atlanta Guthrie is on the hermit's track, and Robert Atwood has been to see him, and Carrie and I are going, and Henry is in the wake of Atlanta, and Algy Maurice may accidentally happen in the neighborhood, why, I say, it seems to me that the hermit is likely to have a livelier time in the future than he has had in the past. "Yes, and we thought the hermit might be the counterfeiter, so we were following him to see if he went to the old house," said Bob. "Yes; the hermit is an uncle of mine." "You will be satisfied in two minutes that this old hermit is not your man," responded Martin, pleasantly. (The "Alten," to whom Balduin refers in this and the previous quotation, are, perhaps, the early Christian hermits who gave up all earthly goods to serve God through isolated devotion this hermit is motivated by a desire similar, in many respects, to that of Lessing's "Klosterbruder.") [Illustration: The hermit was much moved, as he took the boy in his arms and kissed him.] [Sidenote: _Peter Delivers Challenge_] [Sidenote: _Peter's Boldness_] Whether the Christian leaders felt that they could better spare Peter than a general we do not know, but we do know that, with the great revival of courage, challenge was sent to the Saracens for general engagement or single combat, and Peter the Hermit was the messenger. A blazing fire was on the hearth, and the hermit was quickly wrapped in the warm blankets, with the heavy bed-rug placed over him, then bottles of hot-water were placed at his feet, while the Yule bottle was cheerfully uncorked, and the warm mixture prepared as Peggy directed. A few Hermits have no machine. A hermit is more truly himself than any other man. A hermit would be no hermit without a skull. A hurried pattering overhead was accelerated to a 276 Three Girls and a Hermit I'll swift scampering, and then Katie, very fine and very breathless, appeared. After all, that may well be the case, for hermits are noted for the frugality of their fare." After his fathers death, the hermit was dispossessed, and, leaving Bethney, he retired to the desert places of the mountains. After we had addressed our prayers to God, and the hermits were proceeding to the refectory, Rousseau said to me, with his heart overflowing, At this moment I experience what is said in the gospel: Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Afterwards she removed to Hampole, where the body of the hermit was buried, and never again did she suffer that grievous torment. Although it is clearly not Klinger's intention, the violent and luridly described temptation of the hermit is likely to arouse the reader's sympathy for him. Although there seems to be no re cord of actual canonization, the hermit was universally regarded as a saint. Among men of religion, the hermit is foremost, although his garden has proved a stumbling-block; whilst the anchorite is kept back by sloth, represented by a bed} I. Among the material from the Hermit shale is the impression of a single scale shown in Plate 50, figure 5. An examination of the hollow trunk, however, showed that the hermit was not within, nor did the place disclose any signs of his having been there recently. An other hermit had many baskets and mands ready made for to go to the market withal. And from that time forthon/ the poor hermit was constrained to watch daily and nyghtely for to get the said woman's living/ and said unto himself. And now, seeing the hermit was disposed to talk, he forebore to ask questions, but aimed to draw the old man out and let him tell his own story as he would, if he would. Anybody who had any doubt as to who had killed the hermit must be a blamed fool! As in Goethe's play, the hermit is the embodiment of its spirit. As in other specimens, some of the pro41 42 DESCRIPTION OF THE FLORA OF THE HERMIT SHALE tuberances have the appearance of having been provided with small apical pores, sometimes faintly mammillate. As to the copes, the cosme of Hermits is a long gown with hood covering the whole body, with m-holes, a tunick, and rosary: beard ery long, but their dress was often gged. As was always the case, the hermit was pleased with the dog's intelligence, and said a kindly word. As we have seen, his first endeavour as a hermit was to attempt to reform the pastoral office, and the elaborate discussions of the virtues and vices of priests found in the Melum (ff. asked Ned, softly, as he saw the hermit was affected. At all events, he would get a little cooler before he started on, and he remembered, to his relief, the hermit must have water. At Henley, the hermit was under an official Bridgeman, who even supplied his clothes. At last, "When Mr. Hermit Crab was a > [53] MR. HERMIT CRAB never. At the blessed word the Hermit was well-nigh distraught with joy, for he felt this to be a sign from heaven that his prayers were heard, and that he had won the Wild Woman's grace as well as his own. At the outset it is to be remembered that the Hermit shale is a thin-bedded formation. Between it and the chapel is a quare perforation, with fome appearance of bars, or a lattice, thro' which the hermit might attend confeffion, or behold the ele. Both hermits are heard singing the songs which characterize their states of existence before they are seen. But it was good in the man to give me the great bearskin! The old hermit had pity on the poor being, seeing that he was either foolish or crazy; so he resolved to take care of him, and try if, by gentle dealing and kind treatment, he could not make him of some use, as a companion in his Bolitary home. But the angel staid inside the golden gates, and the hermit was all alone. But the Hermit being a boly Man, and being very sick, and at the Point of Death, sent for the Abbot, and desired him to send for the Gentlemen, who had wounded him to Deatli. But the old hermit was an enigma to him, and he was not able to conceive whom he could be. But they could only whisper together about that, for they feared to tell it to any one, the hermit was 80 solemn, when he told the story to them. But this did not solve the problem of where the hermit was, and Martin was as non plussed as ever. Chamisso's Schlemihl-hermit is a most opportune figure with which to conclude this chapter, for, just as Romanticism developed many of the themes of "Sturm und Drang", so Peter Schlemihl's development to hermithood embodies in its motifs most of the themes observed in the preceding hermit figures, together with the strong individualism typical of Romanticism (and of "Sturm und Drang"). Denis O'Donnel having thus unceremoniously taken his leave; and our worthy host having made every apology to those who he conceived might have been offended by the plain speaking of the old man, the conversation relative to the hermit was again resumed. Do you know, Kitty, that this hermit may be a ramfcallion ? Do you think, good reader, that Nigel and Winnie had much difficulty in coming to an understanding after that, or that the hermit was disposed to throw any obstacles in the way of true love? Does she think the hermit is a starving pauper? E Eat 154 Three Girls and a Hermit was room was a blue hazeand then tea was not enough when the officers' wives, who were friendly, asked the girls to dine or supper : they felt they must ask in return. father nor the hermit is likely to reveal it. Finally, the chances that the ancestral hermit crabs would use dextral shells rather than other objects at the time when they began to seek movable residences, are rendered very great by the age of the Gastropod Mollusca as a group, while the Pagurids are of comparatively recent origin. For a traveller like Brother Charles thirty miles was a walk, and when a French soldier fell seriously ill, the hermit was told of it. For a wonder, the hermit had a companion, not an exploring amateur or scientist, but a companion who said he meant to follow him into the desert. For he was neither a hundred years old with a bald pate and long white and long white whiskers like William Cullen Bryant or Father Time; nor did he mutter incantations over a seething caldron like the witches in Macbeth, or meander aimlessly about prattling to himself as conventional hermits are supposed to do. For Kerner, Wald is nature, a living, universal spirit, while "Vater" suggests the supremacy of this spirit and the intimate relationship of it to all beings; the "Waldvater," then, is the fatherly spirit governing and pervading all life the figure of the hermit is identified (more conclusively than in Brger's Der wilde Jger) with nature, itself. For over two months now Martin had been slowly reaching the conclusion that this old hermit must be the long-missing Amzi. For some moments the hermit was silent, then in a constrained voice he said slowly--"Because revenge burns fiercely in my breast. For some moments the hermit was silent, then in a constrained voice he said slowly-"Because revenge burns fiercely in my breast. For the foul of me I can't bide at home while thi3 delightful Mr. Tom the hermit is here. From his position in the rear of The Hermitage Phil could see the steamer, and, as his assistant had rolled up the curtains on each side of the machinery, he discovered him hard at work, unconscious that the hermit's home had been invaded by outsiders. gasped Moses, who while the hermit was speaking had been working his body with mysterious and violent energy; "massa! Goethe's hermit has the profound world of nature, "Gottes Stadt", which he can substitute for that which he left. Grimaldi's wish to become a hermit is directed also toward Guelfo (p. 24), for, in his eyes, a fate similar to his own threatens his friend; Guelfo must look on in self-torture while Ferdinando reaps the blessing of a love which rightfully should be his rightfully, because Guelfo, and Grimaldi, himself, embody the capacity for deep, en64 nobling feeling and sensitivity lacking in Ferdinando and in the society which has no insight into their sphere of experience. Hams, Bacon, Lard ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM Cleveland Provision Co. 208 Webster put the "Loose" in Re-Cloose TO THE TUNE OF A VIENNA ROLL Now Old Danny Webster had something quite loose, When he said a hermit was but a "re-cluse." He also noted that, besides stuffed birds and other specimens and sea-shells, there were chisels, saws, hammers, and other tools, besides something like a forge and carpenter's bench in a side-chamber opening out of the large one, which he had not at first seen--from all which he concluded that the hermit was imbued with mechanical as well as scientific and literary tastes. He could see no other figure in the dim light, but fancied he heard voices, or else the hermit was talking to himself. He did not write, because he had promised his father there should 318 Three Girls and a Hermit be no engagement for a year He half told me. He felt that the hermit had a right to ask some questions of one whom he had saved. He had never wanted to 139 THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS have anything to do with the fellow when he was in the gutter, and he wanted nothing to do with him now. He had taken one trick in this game of justice by securing an option and preventing David from selling his property, for one year at least; the next was to take old Cy into the wilderness and secure proof conclusive that the hermit was Angie's father; that was trick number two in this game; the third and winning one, Angie herself. He had told his mates that the hermit was coming. He has then taken it for granted that the hermit was not even in minor orders or literate, and asserts that all his works were originally written in English (which is manifestly a gross error). He looked earnestly into his friend's face as he spoke, but the hermit was quite unmoved, and there was not a shadow of change in the sad low tone of his voice as he said-"Yes, she was indeed beautiful, like her mother. He pleaded with her until she consented to resign her school at Christmas, and then hurried away to tell Squire Phinney, to 389 390 THE HERMIT have another teacher engaged, and once a week a well-packed box of cut flowers was left at her dwelling by the stage driver. He turned to go; but the hand of the hermit was laid on his shoulder, "Thou Shalt remain, Major Percival!" He was really the hero of the hour, and his efforts to save Angie her heritage, now known to all, his wisdom in not even hinting his suspicions of who the hermit was until proved true, and forethought in taking old Cy into the wilderness to care for him, were all a matter of comment. He was so overjoyed at seeing his father, and the hermit was so excited at seeing his son once more, that neither had eyes nor ears for anything or any one except the other. He went in a carriage, because when he walked in the street crowds of people followed, thinking that the good hermit was insane. He went to the University of Oxford where, when he had made great progress in study, he desired more fully and more deeply to be instructed in the theological doctrines of Holy Scripture, rather than in physics or in the teaching of secular science The young hermit was no profound scholar, but he was well read. Here the young hermit is transcribing the orthodox manual Pars Oculi. Hermit Crab had an abiding charm and that I could chuckle over it again and again. His ultimate destination was Claremont, in Indiana, the place where the daughter of the hermit was understood to have died. Horstmann's work, however, was neither complete nor systematic, and any one interested in the hermit was at a loss to find satisfactory information on his life and writings. I have quoted these few instances, to show how long the custom lingered ; and doubtless hermits were to be found in the remoter parts of these realms when the sudden tempest of the Reformation swept away alike the palace of the rich abbot and the cell of the poor recluse, and exterminated throughout England the ascetic life. I have quoted these few instances, to show how long the custom lingered; and doubtless hermits were to be found in the remoter parts of these realms when the sudden tempest of the Reformation swept away alike the palace of the rich abbot and the cell of the poor recluse, and exterminated throughout England the ascetic life. I never heard the hermit say a word against my uncle, while only yesterday you called him a drunken vagabond. This so turned the tables on Mrs. Scott that she was unable to return to the attack. I said that the hermit would say grace before he would eat; and this leads me to speak of his character. I was walking on the beach this morning and I wondered what the ladder was for. He asked various questions about the hermit and his mode of life, which excited no wonder, as the curiosity about the hermit was shared by all. If it be a story, let it have a toui of human blood about it ; what I wa 24 OF A HERMIT is a real mind's battleground, with sweat and agony. If nothing came of it, no one would be the wiser; but now, if the hermit should prove a pauper to be buried by the county, he would be laughed at. If one or two facts suggest the contrary, the context leaves no doubt about the real meaning.... "Facere obedientiam soli Deo" cannot be translated "to obey only God," but means "to make the vow of obedience only to God", and not to any man, which is quite natural in this case, since the hermit has no immediate regular Superior. If the hermit is the man I think, we A NIGHT JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS 267 must keep him out of these officers' hands if we have to tie him hand and foot and carry him off bodily." If you think," continued Matlack, when the two had reached the woodland kitchen, "that your bein' a hermit is goin' to let you throw all the work on me, you're mistaken. In both the epic of chivalry, Parzifal, and the baroque novel, Simplicissimus, the hermits are closely related to the characters upon whom they exercise decisive influence. In fact, Lessing's hermit is as much the butt of his creator's wit as is the society with which he unfortunately comes into contact. In fact, the hermits were pioneers of philanthropic works which in these days are under taken and carried out by public bodies. In Lessing's Nathan der Weise, the hermit is not involved in a conflict with specific classes of society, as are the various "Sturm und Drang" hermits; nor does a conception of nature, itself, with which the hermit is associated, figure in it as a way of life opposing the "Unnatur" of social shallowness (as in Klinger's play) or that of a bestial nobility (as in Brger's ballad). In memory of the various incidents of his remarkable career, the attributes in art of the famous hermit are a buffalo, a barrel, and a pile of gold pieces. In Satyros, Goethe's hermit is the protagonist of a procreative nature as the revelation of divine purpose, which can be grasped only through individual experiencing nature and religion are, in a sense, one. In Satyros, the hermit is the exponent of nature as "Gottes Stadt"; he who trammels it violates divine order. In the first compartment a hermit is looking out of a window, and there are some fragmentary portions of the devils just visible: the second represents the death-bed of the emperor, at the foot of it appear the demons: in the next, the angel and the demons are contending; the soul of the emperor clasps the knees of the angel as if for refuge in the fourth appears St. Laurence to the rescue, one of the fiends has fallen on his knees before him. In the midst of these occupations they spent the morning happily enough, but at dinnertime Miss Gray announced her intention of going to Henley that afternoon to get several things, amongst which [63] MR. HERMIT CRAB was Lucia's brush. In the which was no more but three loves only/ & suffered him fast three days/ during the which time/ the said hermit said no thing ne died to him. In these lines the hermit is made to represent 20 the revolt of the almost divine individual against a defective world. In Uhland's fragment as in Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen, the hermit is characterized by the sense of timelessness. In v. 5 and 6 it evidently means some pet animal such as hermits were wont to have about them. In Wackenroder's Ein wunderbares morgenlndisches Mrchen von einem nackten Heiligen, the relationship of art (here, music) to madness as a theme connected with the hermit is developed in a manner basically different from the conception in Werdo Senne (Wackenroder's tale pre-dates Brentano's Godwi); here, the treatment is, to an extent, allegorical a treatment more compatible, also, with the "Mrchen" technique. Indeed, hermits were regarded as heroes, because of the physical hard ness they endured. Indeed, no one, except Robert, knew that the hermit was so well provided with comforts. It all happened too quick for me. "Same here, laughed Bob.Now I wonder if we can get " out of here? It was not as easy as it seemed at first, for the little valley into which the boys had been pushed by the angry hermit was filled with snow, and they sank in it above their waists. It had been very much the same sort of an afternoon that the hermit was killed; there had been the 204 The Hermit of Turkey Hollow same softness in the air, the same flooding sunlight shining gold-red on the trees and fields against the blue-gray of the rainclouds. It is alfo certain, that the memory of the firt hermit was held in uch regard and veneration by the Percy family, that they afterwards maintained a chantry priet, to refide in the hermitage, and celebrate mas in the chapel: whoe allowance, uncommonly liberal and munificent, was continued down to the diffolution of the monateries: after which the whole falary, together with the hermitage and all its dependencies, reverted back to the family, having never been endowed in mortmain. It is even possible that the recluse Dame Margaret', whose long friendship with the hermit is described in the 1 The Month, Jan. 1926, p. 1. It is said that the first inquiry of the older hermit was, ' Are there still any left who do not believe in Christ ?' It is the nature of some parts of their country to be woodless, and they have large tracts well suited for corn, where wood does not naturally grow, but the English, not satisfied with adopting their system of agriculture where suitable to the locality, have, in the spirit of close imitation, ploughed up good pastures and destroyed a great deal of valuable wood of native growth, which was, without question, the principal charm of landscape scenery," and which he wished the Hermit could find agricultural arguments for retaining. It was high up on the sides of the last cone that the residence of the hermit was situated. It was not as easy as it seemed at first, for the little valley into which the boys had been pushed by the angry hermit was filled with snow, and they sank in it above their waists. It was their opinion that there was no such hope ; and those who know best the facts which surrounded them, its utter frivolity, its utter viciousness, the deadness which had fallen on art, science, philosophy, human life, whether family, social, or political ; the prevalence of slavery, in forms altogether hideous and unmentionable ; the insecurity of life and property, whether from military and fiscal tyranny, or from perpetual inroads of the so-called "Barbarians:" those, I say, who know these facts best will be most inclined to believe that the old hermits were wise in their generation ; that the world was past salvation ; that it was not a wise or humane thing to marry and bring children into the world ; that in such a state of society, an honest and virtuous man could not exist, and that those who wished to remain honest and virtuous must flee into the desert, and be alone with God and their fellows. It was their opinion that there was no such hope; and those who know best the facts which surrounded them, its utter frivolity, its utter viciousness, the deadness which had fallen on art, science, philosophy, human life, whether family, social, or political; the prevalence of slavery, in forms altogether hideous and unmentionable; the insecurity of life and property, whether from military and fiscal tyranny, or from perpetual inroads of the so-called "Barbarians:" those, I say, who know these facts best will be most inclined to believe that the old hermits were wise in their generation; that the world was past salvation; that it was not a wise or humane thing to marry and bring children into the world; that in such a state of society, an honest and virtuous man could not exist, and that those who wished to remain honest and virtuous must flee into the desert, and be alone with God and their fellows. JAMES was not without his share of curiosity, and he was strongly desirous of seeing with his own eyes the pot of gold, and so learning how rich the hermit was. Just as the hermit was musing on this singular illustration of what scientific men call Pyromancy, another brand fell down and disclosed two smaller ones behind it, and nearer the centre of the fire. Knowing now that happiness had suddenly wrapped his sunlit cloak about here, and that the Hermit was the sun of that happiness. Lenz's hermit has no substitute in nature, but only his great soul and he almost compromises its salvation. LITERARY RECLUSES 171 composed an English hymnd It is possible that the simple hermit was at heart a poet like Caedmon, and that as he knelt in worship, some songs in the mother-tongue rose to his lips. Lying in a backwater does not age one," he said again, and had his musings rudely broken in upon by the determined attempt of the roan horse to come in at the window, and the subsequent remark of James Dunne's friend that there wouldn't " 294 Three Girls and a Hermit be a bit of the "cyar together if they didn't go soon. Mark wondered whether the hermit was in his right mind. Mark would have been surprised, had he known that Mr. Collins was going up to the city to call upon the person with whom the hermit had business. Mr. Hermit (Laughs) Oh, yes, dear, but every Hermit is a Boraxite now, you know. Nevertheless, once you got there, you found that the hermit was a genuine up-to-date her8 The Hermit of Turkey Hollow mit, with most of the modern improvements. Nigel roused himself to consider this, and in doing so again dropped off--not yet soundly, however, for curiosity induced one more violent struggle, and he became aware of the fact that the hermit was on his knees with his face buried in his hands. Notable features of the Hermit type are the absence of bifurcation, although the molds vary somewhat in size, and the apparent penetration of one mold by another. Now it 'pears to me as if this clock must ha' stoppedno one knows when,-an', if it wasn't goin', of course Emerson couldn't say when it was that he went into the shanty, and nobody knows when the hermit was kilt. Of all men, only the wretched hermit is aware of its fateful turning; in fear that it may cease, he becomes the victim of enraged, frustrated anxiety and his solitude is marked by frenzied torment peace is unknown to him. Of all these results, Peter the Hermit was the unconscious forerunner and prophet. Of course the hermit was released from custody, and there was not a person in the village who did not acquit him of all wrong except Mrs. Scott, who could not forgive him for proving her suspicions groundless. Of course the hermit was the .center of attraction, with his long, gray hair, his strange dress, and, above all, his Wonderful Lamp. Of course, he felt now the hermit was incompetent to make a will. On the night of June 28, 1911, he was murdered by Tony Umbrello, an Italian, who thought that the old hermit had money. one er dese yeah funny Hermits dat was visitin' down yeah Said it was a 'lectric currant. One is to find out who has been taking Mr. Jessup's stuff, and the other is to find out what the hermit is doing here." Only the hermit is intimately acquainted with the timelessness 106 of the retreat. Our first object was to call on a family (to whom the Hermit had an introduction), who were then living in a quinta up the hills, and who gave us a kind reception. Perhaps the birds had told the rabbit that the hermit was a friend. Road and bridge hermits were still doing useful work, and were popular objects of charity. Robert did not move a muscle while the hermit was speaking, nor after until he finally realized that he was alone in the cabin, and then, slowly turning his face towards the window, he saw the old man standing on the smooth lawn, looking steadily into the woods. Robert has really lost his heart, I believe, over in Jersey; and Atlanta says that this hermit is a humbug of the rankest description." Saint Iherom in going to the hermitages was vii times in danger/ And in the eight god delivered him/ On a time he & his fellows were five days and five nights in going. Since Sphenophyllum stouckenbergi belongs higher than the Artinsk, the question as to whether the migration of Sphenophyllum gilmorei was from the Ural region to Arizona, or vice versa-ignoring its possible origin in some intermediate region-depends on whether the Hermit shale is the older deposit. So the hermit was known by his clock; although regularly once a week he walked to Pottsville to get his mail and buy groceries. So this last remark of his servant came as comes a reviving breath from fresh fields to the dying; and he exerted himself once more, and with all his energy, just as the hermit was saying "Noise? Some hermits were, who dwell'd within a rock Hollow, indented in a sloping ground, Above, an ancient tree's inclining stock Spread branchy arms, that shaded all around, Its crooked roots for beams the loose roof bound; Before the entrance rude, a gentle stream Adown the vale its serpent courses wound, Seen here and there through breaks of trees to gleam, Gilding their dancing boughs with Noon's reflected beam. Some people, probably, have said that the life of a hermit is not the life of a Christian; but it may not be amiss to suggest to the reader, that PREFACE. Such a thorough understanding existed between them that the mere action of the hermit was sufficient to induce the negro to support him by a similar movement on the opposite side, and the canoe glided as quickly backward as it had previously advanced. Sure you must think that Hermits had no hearts, Or else had power to repel the darts, "" That flew from eyes of blue so "purely bright,' As shed a lustre o'er those hours of Night,. Talking earnestly together, the hermits were presently aroused to notice the flight of time by the arrival of St. Paul's old friend the raven, who had brought with him a whole instead of half a loaf of bread, which he dropped at the feet of the two old men, an incident alluded to in the Breviary in the following words, put into the mouth of the hermit : ' For sixty years I have daily received half a loaf; now at thy arrival Christ has doubled His gift to His soldiers.' That of the hermit is based upon deep personal experience of a specifically individual kind which cannot readily be imparted to the people collectively. That poor old hermit isis your father." That's what hermits are for--to guard a treasure." That's what hermits are forto guard a treasure. Well, maybe," said Bob, slowly. The Abbot so doing, the Gentlemen came, and the Hermit being sore sick, said, I am sure to die of these Wounds, The Abbot answered, They shall die for thee. The absolute lack of any ground for basic understanding between Satyros and the hermit is made clear by the thankless, arrogant behaviour of the former (1. The Christian hermits were, however, by no means the first to withdraw from the world with a view to leading a life of solitary meditation and prayer. The complaint made by the angry baron that the 42 HERMITS AND ANCHORITES OF ENGLAND hermit was a receiver of thieves had some truth in it. The doctor and I had a trip full of unusual and mysterious experiences last spring," he said, "and it's only a surmise on my part, even now, who the hermit was. The essence of the poem is rather in the attack upon false piety and the empty display of virtue; the hermit is the instrument of this attack. The fact that (as the Office tells us) Richard's first act as a hermit was to preach in a parish church, and that his sermon at this time was of the utmost eloquence, may give us a hint that at the time of his 'conversion' he even felt drawn to preach himself to the people, as well as to contemplate in solitude. The favourite subjects from the lives of the two first hermits are the Temptation of St. Antony, his Meeting with St. Paul, the Death and Burial of the latter, and the Funeral of St. Antony. The figure of the hermit is made typical rather than individual; he has a symbolic value. The figure of the hermit is the protagonist of Goethe, himself, while Satyros, the antagonist, is, perhaps, the Herder of Goethe's Strassburg period (Max Morris, Der junge Goethe, Vol. The first Christian hermit was a young man named Paul, a native of Thebes, who was born in the second half of the third century, and was left an orphan before he was sixteen. The first meeting between St. Mary and the hermit is the subject of a celebrated picture by Ribera, in which she appears as an old woman with short white hair, clothed in rags, and in another work from the same great hand, she is seen crossing the Jordan with the aid of angels, whilst St. Zosimus awaits her coming on his knees. The first of the many pilgrims to the hermitage is a trembling, elderly woman on crutches. The good hermit was astonished, but he was not frightened; for the look of love, on the countenance of the angel, gave him confidence. The headquarters and some of the principal plants of the Continued 188 STEARNS The Hermits at Play Mr. Frank B. Meade driving his Stearns-Knight Toy Tonneau Runabout For recreation, the Hermits are Automobilists. The Hermit flora is the latest Paleozoic flora yet known in America. The Hermit had a great deal to say. THE Hermit had a great horror of a feather bed, which, he said, had been caused by observation of the dreadful consequences to invalids, or those who were bedridden, of lying in a hot hollow, instead of having a flat cool elastic surface to repose upon, and likewise from knowing that feathers caused, absorbed, and retained 352 The Traveller's Note Book. The Hermit had a little building on purpose, where there was a good fireplace, and a long beam for the feather-bags; the contents of which were perfectly sweet, and as downy and fluffy, as if they had never been wetted. The hermit had a provision of wheat: he quickly raided it and gave it out to the poor women who held out their empty porringers; he arranged little dinners for the children, and each day brought the little ones together to satisfy their hunger. The Hermit had a wooden gauge for the widows with points at equal distances, and each pudding was thus marked in a * These Plum Pudding Caskets are to be had of Richard Jones, Tinman, Abergavenny, South Wales. The Hermit had both kinds, and he made a point of keeping as many as he could without horns, because they were not dangerous to the numerous peasant children who were continually playing with them. The Hermit had no idea of the almost unlimited application of basket work until he walked about the city of Funchal-where nearly all the requisite furniture for a house of moderate pretensions, may be found manufactured in the neatest and strongest manner by the use solely of peeled twigs ; chairs, tables, sofas and baskets, of great variety and beauty, are to be had for very little money. The Hermit had the good fortune to fall in company with a few travellers who had come on a long journey from the far North, and who appeared to be jaded, weary, and exhausted from protracted travel. The Hermit had the misfortune to receive a severe hurt one day, as after his usual bath he was returning from the JJmrna, his right foot, which had trod on one of the many fragments of quartz scattered profusely about the place, slipped, and his ankle had by that accident, received a severe sprain, and was cut with their sharp edge. The Hermit has a horror of what is now called centralization. THE Hermit has a large establishment of bees, to which industrious insects he is not only particularly partial, but he has a sort of respect, I might almost say reverence, for them, which is very general among his countrymen, and which surprised me, although he appeared to be as much surprised at my knowing so little about their habits or their treatment; but still I was able to inform him that there were in England many scientific Apiarians, who had made the treatment of bees their especial study. The hermit is Arthur Bloomfield, papa, and he's given me, oh! The hermit is as poor as Job's turkey." The hermit is of a different order from the plowman and herdsman; he stands for divine institutions, not human (How much higher he stands than e.g. The hermit is saved by Hermes' wife, the clearsighted Eudora, who tempts Satyros into the temple. The hermit is singled out as the apotheosis of virtue, simplicity, and devotion to God; through his destruction, the devil wishes to demonstrate to Faust the sham which underlies all apparent reverence and faith among men; there is no virtue so constant that it will not ultimately succumb to temptation. The hermit is splendid. The hermit is the exponent of a true understanding of nature and Satyros is the false prophet of an exaggerated primitivism; he dupes the people into deifying him. THE HERMIT OF NOTTINGHAM "All right, then; and now I'll see if the hermit is at home." The Hermit said nothing. The hermit should make obedience to God alone, because he himself is abbot, prior, and prefect in the cloister of his heart. To Almighty God he may, if he so desire, vow poverty and chastity before the bishop, but not by any mans commandment. The hermit was allowed pasturage for horses and cattle, and received twenty marks a year and twenty loads of firewood. The hermit was going to receive another visit. The hermit was greatly astonished to see a young female at the entrance of his grotto at the dead of night, but seeing me amusing myself with throwing the flowers I had plucked on my way, into the flowing stream, and watching the r floating, he asked me from whence I camel I pointed to the tower: he seemed lost in thought, whilst I, un perceived by him, entered farther into the grotto. The hermit was in hell, and the king in heaven. The hermit was much moved, as he took the boy in his arms and kissed him. The hermit was no longer reclining, but was seated in a rocking-chairthe only article of luxury which the poor dwelling contained. The hermit was revered by all. The hermit was the first to speak. The Hermit was unaisy." The Hermit would be master of these treasures ; husband to the cold, treacherous love he was about to forgive. The hermit would have several hostelries in the desert. The hermithood of Alfonso, then, represents the most remote station of life, one attained only after a wealth of experience and suffering and in advanced age, when the innermost being has been directed toward the realm beyond; hermithood is that phase in which the final stages of spiritualization through nature take place and in which the soul of the hermit is ultimately reunited with the pervading spirit. The hermits were at first bound by no very strict rules. The hermits were believed to have returned, by celibacy and penitence, to "the life of angels ;" to that state of perfect innocence which was attributed to our first parents in Eden : and therefore of them our Lord's words were true : " He that believeth in me, greater things than these (which I do) shall he do." The hermits were believed to have returned, by celibacy and penitence, to "the life of angels;" to that state of perfect innocence which was attributed to our first parents in Eden: and therefore of them cur Lord's words were true: He that believeth in me, greater things than these (which I do) shall he do." The hermits were believed to have returned, by celibacy and penitence, to "the life of angels;" to that state of perfect innocence which was attributed to our first parents in Eden: and therefore of them our Lord's words were true: "He that believeth in me, greater things than these (which I do) shall he do." The hermits were reciting the Litanies of Providence, which are remarkably beautiful. The hour comen that the said hermit was accustomed to go for to sell his mats/ he said to his disciple. The journey from Genoa through Milan to Turin was performed after sunset, for by far the greater part of the way, therefore the Hermit has nothing to say about it beyond this, that he enjoyed a nap, which went to the credit of his nights rest. The lots were caft the Hermits was the charge He must prepare to tell the firt dicoure When I did thinke that I hould heare at large His loue-fick paffions fighed with remore: But he as one that reueld in difpaire Began his Romaine ftorie to declare. The lots were cast the Hermits was the charge He must prepare to tell the first discourse When I did think that I should hear at large His lovesick passions sighed with remorse: But he as one that rueld in despair Began this Roman story to declare. The material of the fragment is drawn from a folk tale, included by the Grimm brothers in their Deutsche Sagen (p. 204, footnote) and the figure of the hermit is taken over by Uhland from the traditional legend (cf. The mighty monarch reveres the hermit as a holy man, begging him to grant long life and health the hermit is described as (p. 253) a fool who has lived on the peak of a cliff from his fourteenth to his fortieth year, torturing his body by fasting and denying his spirit all nourishment ("aber der Schein des Heiligen bedeckte den Dummkopf und er sah bald die Frsten wie den Pbel zu seinen Fssen"). The occasional stranger that had called had sometimes gone away thinking the hermit was a hunter. The passage just discussed is probably a veiled narrative linking up what Rolle was to tell in later life more plainly in the Canticles (as occurring in the beginning of my conversion'), with that told in the Incendium (where his mystical development during his first four years as a hermit is carefully described in chapter 15). The pathological emotion of the hermit is evident in the last attempt to persuade himself that his long life as a recluse has not been in vain und doch freut es mich einen Bruder damit glcklich gemacht zu haben, einen Bruder, der feuriger als ich, sein Elend so kalten Bluts wie ich nicht ertragen haben wrde. The penetrating eye of the hermit was fixed steadily on his face. The professor thought that a rather cool manner in which to reply to accusation of murder, but, he reflected, if the hermit was as bad as the woman made him out to be, he would naturally, be rather a bold sort of person. The red beds of the Supai proper and the Hermit shale are the great sources of paint from which the lower formations have received their redness. The same night, or rather the next morning the hermit was greatly surprised at a loud knocking at the door of his hut, and upon rising from his couch, and demanding who was there, the answer he received was, 'Albert Arlington.' . The sole motivation for life in Lenau's hermit is his desire, as we have said, to reexperience the past which has broken his life; this is evident, too, in his drive to tell his story, to bring it to life for the wanderer (the "Vermittler" of a horror tale in a manner similar to that of the monk in Grillparzer's Das Kloster bei Sendomir). The tall tree, that was long known as the "sentinel oak," was known to many an oriole and restless vireo that often lived among its branches all the summer, and soon learned that the hermit was their friend. The theory that the flexor muscles of the hermit crab are a crowded series of "chevron" muscles is scarcely tenable in face of this evidence from the study of their structure and metamorphosis. The thought that his friend the hermit was so very near his long-lost Lelah, and yet not to know it, nor be able to receive the intelligence, was overwhelming, and every moment seemed an age, until the happy meeting should take place. The tone of the verses seems to reveal that the acts of religious devotion which the hermit performs are nothing more than sham entirely devoid of any deeper meaning (1. The Traveller said he could not understand how the Hermit could have time to attend to both species of cooking, as he had always understood that cookery for the sick was a separate branch altogether, which was scarcely ever professed, much less understood, excepting by nurses; and he had often heard it remarked that it was very little use for doctors to give lists of permissible articles of diet, which were generally called "slops "-a horrible name, the sound of which was enough alone to make people ill, while at the same time there was not one of these medical authorities that could tell, 88 The First Principles or did tell, how such "slops" ought to be prepared, or to define the difference between bad and good, wrong and right, although they generally agreed that when the patient was quite unable to take any more physic, his life would depend upon his being able to take properly prepared food. The vagrancy statute of 1388 exempts approved hermits having letters testimonial of their ordinaries.^ Such approval is frequently entered in episcopal records, e.g. The very pope of hermits was the Hermit of Bellyfulle. The young hermit is apparently studying Scripture (' que latet carnales '), and his enemies are watching to take him in some indiscreet speech or writing ('ut me mergerent in multiloquio et deprehenderent in documento indisciplinato'). Then he told, as if pleading for himself, what manner of man this hermit was, and beyond that, whom he surmised him to be. Then the pangs of approaching death come upon him "meine Brust hebt sich, ungewhnliche Zuckungen, Leiden, die ich noch nie erfahren, folgen blitzschnell aufeinander" and in this state of supersensitivity he feels the judgment of God (and in this respect 23 Lenz's hermit is also traditionally Christian). Thenne he heard by revelation that by his hermitage was an herdsmen/ that which should counsel him which he had to do/ that done the angel went to the said herdsman & said to him how the said hermit should come to him for to have counsel of his health. There were plenty who remembered the stranger who had spent a part of the previous evening in the barroom of the tavern, and his evident curiosity as to the wealth of the hermit was also remembered. Therefore on the eve of the Assumption they [35] ft; i' THE HERMIT will mrswiipT III lliiHermit, Mijing tliiil iit clnvliKlil on the mcirniw Iho to,i..|K-,i|)le uikI uII the i,v\U-n in the valley woiil.l come forth, ll by their Bishop, who bore the Pope's bleuiiif; to the two Soliluric-n, anil who wb miiideil to i-elebrulc the Mnsi of tin; Assiiinplion in the II