Fame's Partiality.--Inspiration was kind to both poets, but fame has been somewhat partial. Some day, when bigotry is dead and prejudice no longer has power to blind men's eyes to the truth and pervert their judgment, the just claims of all inspired teachers will be recognized, if not recompensed. Meanwhile the world will go on glorifying one and crying down another, as it always has done. It will continue "tossing high its ready cap" in honor of Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, for the beautiful truths set forth in his sublime symbolic drama; little realizing that the American prophet, Joseph Smith, and some who sat at his feet learning wisdom from his lips, taught the same and greater truths long before Maeterlinck was born. Communications from the Departed.--Many instances might be given of the action and influence of "the other world" upon this world The experiences of the Latter-day Saints alone would fill volumes. I refer particularly to those connected with the gathering up of genealogies for use in temple work, and the work itself done vicariously for the benefit of the departed. By dreams and visions, by voices and other manifestations, spirits "behind the veil" have made known their wishes to surviving relatives in the flesh, so that their left-over tasks might be done for them, the records of their ancestors secured, and they in like manner redeemed through sacred ordinances performed in their behalf and necessary to their progress and happiness in spheres beyond. Footnotes 1. Gospel Doctrine, pp. 15, 16. "Columbus." 2. J. R. Lowell's Poems, "A Glance Behind the Curtain." 4. 1 Nephi 11:11; 13:10:19. 5. D. & C. 130:22. 6. John 16:13. 7. Wordsworth's Poems, "Intimations of Immortality," first published in 1807. 8. John 17:5. 9. Ib. 1:1-14. 10. Eliza R. Snow's "Invocation," L. D. S. Hymn Book. ARTICLE THIRTY-NINE. Do the Dead Return? Hamlet and the Ghost.--I had always thought it strange that a great Christian poet like Shakespeare, after portraying, as he does in "Hamlet," an interview between the Prince of Denmark and his father's ghost, should refer to the spirit world as "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." Had not the ghost returned from that very "country," for the special purpose of this interview?