THE CONNECTING MEDIUM What to cement the lofty and the mean Does Nature?What?Place vanity between? * * * *

Their tears, their laughter, you command with ease, The lofty still they honor, the illusive love.

" Into that old Homeric world we enter through the portals of the "Ilias" and "Odusseia," and see the peaks of Olympus shining afar off in white splendor like silvery clouds, not looking for or expecting either a loftier or a purer heaven.

Mortimer indicated the Success to Commerce with a sweep of the hand "A loftier Argo cleaves the main Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheusyou'll excuse the comparisonsings again, And loves, and weepsand dies.

Do you hear that?" Mr. Lorimer, who had been waving a protesting hand throughout this vigorous denunciation, here interposed a lofty: "Sir!

He was of another sphere, the highest heaven of song, who "Waked his lofty lay To grace Eliza's golden sway; And called to life old Uther's elfin-tale, And roved through many a necromantic vale, Portraying chiefs who knew to tame The goblin's ire, the dragon's flame, To pierce the dark, enchanted hall Where Virtue sat in lonely thrall.