A SAD ENDING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2282, 16 November 1889, Page 3

A SAD ENDING.

There la something exceedingly touoh!ng about the death 0? Mlc« Amy Levy, the young Jewess who htJ succeeded Iv winning a lolertbly bipb 'tocary ie?nt»-i tlon as a novelist. < : kif Tißde one m^takff, and has paid far It with her life. Bhe forgot that even In toe nineteenth oentury the days of persecution ara not p»st. Freedom of thought does not yet exist. Id plaoln? one's views b?foro «he publlo, blgory must not be forgotten. Tbe objections wb'oh oreed and national! y ate far tooo of'.ea testdy to advance must be taken Into acaouot. Tho truth dees not count for everything. Mlbb Lnvy Ignored these facts, and ehe now rests m her grave. In an Indisare9t moment, the converted tbe WfaUhy cf her own people into subjaoU for her literary iketohes, and she found that this was an unpardonable sin. In the Syuagogne sbe was denounoed as a traitor, and was ostracised by her community, jilted by her lover, and exiled from her father's home. There was but little left for her to do but die. It is sad to think that genius should be treated In thin way, and (bit Iti Influence should be hampered by uotarlan vlawa of any kind Posthumous fan?© can be of no benefit to her, but it will be to others, for her death cannot be without effect In the way of widening homao sympathies, and maklug peoplo of •II oreeds a little more tolarant than they Often sre.— Ohnstchnrch " Telegraph. "