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Robots, or as some are better called Cobots, that respond to the commands of operators and participate interactively in collaboration sessions on the Webex Teams platform. They manage production, critical issues, and performance improvements are becoming a bigger part of the industrial ecosystem. The industry has entered one of the most important challenges of its path: changing the perspective in the innovation of the man-machine relationship. From a long and rich phase in which innovation has tried to make the "language of machines" more and more effective, the prospect of increasingly seamless integration between robots and operators have begun to "tear down" the walls that still separate the language of man from the language of machines. We are currently faced with the creation of Cobots and by implication scenarios that improve man-machine collaborations with due respect for Natural language. These articles give more context to Cobots and how they’re being used in different varying environments: and . You’ve Heard Of Robots; What Are Cobots (Forbes) COBOTS IN THE CLASSROOM: HOW THE UR ACADEMY UPSKILLS STUDENTS AND INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL (Universal Robots) This is an innovation plan that has played a key role in the ecosystem, of multidisciplinary innovation, the ability to manage all the levels that contribute to the development of solutions that are capable of being both innovative and stable at the same time. The opportunity is provided by Cisco's ecosystem work for Industry 4.0 and Enterprise 4.0. In this case, this path sees the involvement of one of the most important manufacturers of robotics and automation systems such as Fanuc and the system integrator Alascom, who added a commitment to technical consultancy services in the ICT sector and in the networks of TLC and IP technologies. In the development of solutions on the Internet, predictive maintenance associated with the IoT. Industry4.0 and collaborative design: is your company traditional, modern, or super smart? In this regard, I suggest reading the . It combines cloud, network intelligence, and advanced learning to manage predictive maintenance, reduce energy consumption and extend the average life of machinery. article on the collaboration between Cisco and Fanuc Realization of this collaborative logic is real and concrete (and has also been the subject of demonstrations within the Digital District of the latest edition of Sps Italia in Parma) and is based on three major components: the collaborative robot Fanuc CR-7iA / L the Alascom application of natural language processing based on ML neurolinguistic programming a series of Cisco solutions 3a) Webex Teams collaboration platform (evolution of Cisco Spark) 3b) cybersecurity solutions 3c) industrial security solutions 3d) Industry network management solutions 3e) solutions for data management Natural collaboration between machines, robots, and people The ecosystem is the term that best identifies the value of these projects. The goal of this partnership is the possibility of creating a collaboration that can be brought to production plants, to companies that make Industry 4.0. natural "between machines, robots, and people.” “The Cisco Webex Teams collaboration platform - he explains - also opens up to machines with the same collaboration method similar to the one that applies to people. Specifically, the collaborative robot Fanuc CR-7iA / L communicates with the operators, understanding the natural language of man and responding and providing valuable information, on its functioning, on its "state of health", on workloads, and on the quality itself.always in the natural language of the operator". "The Fanuc collaborative robot acquires a new level of cooperation with operators thanks to the development of applications that run on the Cisco Webex Teams infrastructure." In this way, the technological evolution of production environments takes advantage of a special acceleration, enabling value-added services and reducing commissioning times. Image Credits https://dribbble.com/shots/4675483-Cobot-Operation-with-VR-Headset Digitization and IoT reduce production downtime Articles from this series: Manufacturing Robotization: Drivers and Barriers Robotic Welding Process: Welding Applications, Systems and Techniques

About Cisco, Alascom and Fanuc's Progress on Building Collaborative Cobots 

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Message to readers: smoking sucks, f*#$ smoking. It's killing people. Case Study 1: How robots improve the efficiency of the packaging work Scandinavian Tobacco Group is constantly optimizing its pipe tobacco production to ensure a healthy working environment and competitive production. The giant of tobacco recently selected a robot from Universal Robots for a task that no other robot on the market is capable of performing. The world's largest producer of tobacco for pipes uses Universal Robots technology for avoiding its employees having to repeatedly make strenuous movements with serious back fatigue. A robot took over the management of metal box lids of tobacco in a tobacco packaging installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6QIhttHLc8 “This installation freed 1 or 2 people who previously did the job manually. Now they perform other duties in the factory, which means we don't have to spend as much on temporary workers, ”
says Henning Kristensen, Scandinavian line manager Tobacco Group. There was no room for protection of the robot in the factory installation. “We ultimately chose Universal Robots because their robots are the only ones approved for operation without the need for protection. Thus the costs were reduced and the installation was very simplified, ” says Henning Kristensen. The factory is located in Assens in Denmark. “We have to make sure that the owners are convinced that producing tobacco here is still affordable. For this reason, we are constantly striving to optimize our processes, ” says Henning Kristensen. Having self-confidence is a good thing. As for the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the factory must have resources installed to manage their machinery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay_J-k1FnKY “Who has never had a breakdown right when the programmer just came out? For this reason, we want to keep the know-how inside the building, so that we can guarantee fast and avoid operating times of having to pay expensive external consultants. -- explains Henning Kristensen. One of our technicians programmed the Universal Robots robot himself and the gripping tools were also designed by our technicians” A little bit of history: Scandinavian Tobacco Group sells its products in over 100 countries and is the largest manufacturer of pipe tobacco world and the second-largest producer of cigars. Globally, the Group has divisions in more than 15 countries, with a total of about 10,000 employees. Production began in 1750 when the first factory of the Group started operations in Denmark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh2B6G--_tM But what about costs? Scandinavian Tobacco Group reported that the costs recovery period was 330 days. Holly Molly, right? The robot was a prudent investment for the manufacturer of tobacco because it leaves free workers for other duties. Case study 2: The robot manipulates parts of microscopic size for Oticon company Rediscover the sounds of your life with Oticon hearing aids. Explore all our hearing aids & accessories, learn about hearing loss, and more. The hearing aids of today always are smaller, to the point that they are hardly noticeable when they are mounted in the ear of the person. This involves large requirements of precision at the production level. The high technology team of Oticon now uses few Universal Robots robots for manipulating parts only a millimeter long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAfWxc0hErQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMlWwJ4Oxsc Oticon has used robot technology for the past decade, but the innovative trend towards nearly invisible hearing aids means parts that need to be built and assembled very small. -- declares Arne Oddershede, supervisor of the maintenance department of one of the Oticon manufacturing facilities. “The parts of modern appliances acoustics are often about a millimeter in size, so we need a solution that can extract very small parts from a mold. It is not possible to do it manually " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJrcm_fTCPE The two large two- and three-axis robots that Oticon used in the past were no longer suitable. Movements that are limited to the inside / out and up / down are not effective enough. “If there is a small part in one mold, for example, maybe needed to tilt it, ” says Lars Gasberg, Sales Director by Amiga, the system integration specialist who distributes Universal Robots products. Wider range, shorter production cycles Another challenge faced by Oticon is that the company stands offering more and more variations and models, but doing it in cycles, which of course they were made in the most economical way possible. “We switched to Universal Robots because we have wanted a more flexible solution that is also financially viable for multiple small production lines. Important is that the robot is easily accessible and logically designed, as well as be easy to reprogram. Traditional robots require specialized personnel, while with this robot all our technicians are simply able to take it and show him the model of movement" Previous Articles https://hackernoon.com/manufacturing-robotization-drivers-and-barriers https://hackernoon.com/robotic-welding-process-welding-applications-systems-and-techniques https://hackernoon.com/about-cisco-alascom-and-fanucs-progress-on-building-collaborative-cobots

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Reify names with their rules Context When handling a single fileName or directoryPath, vague names like file or dirName create confusion. A file should represent a File
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} Detection [x]Semi-Automatic Look for generic names in code handling files or directory paths like file or dirName. Tags Naming Level [x]Beginner AI Generation AI models may default to ambiguous names like file or dirName without specific instructions. Adding descriptive naming and code extraction guidelines can improve the AI's output. AI Detection AI tools can fix this smell by using clear naming conventions and suggesting code extraction if prompted to avoid redundant code. Try Them! Remember: AI Assistants make lots of mistakes Without Proper Instructions

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Gemini Conclusion By using precise names like fileName and directoryPath and extracting reusable methods, you improve code clarity and maintainability. These simple practices help reduce redundancy and keep your code understandable. Related Reading https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-vii-8dk31x0 Disclaimer: Code Smells are my opinion. Credit(s): Photo by Gabriel Heinzer on Unsplash Code should be written to be read by humans first, and machines second. Don Laabs https://hackernoon.com/400-thought-provoking-software-engineering-quotes?embedable=true This article is part of the CodeSmell Series: How to Find the Stinky Parts of your Code Avoid Ambiguous Naming for Path Variables Avoid Ambiguous Naming for Path Variables Avoid Ambiguous Naming for Path Variables Problems Unclear variable purpose Bijection Fault Misleading context Repetitive code Harder maintenance Reduced readability Abbreviations Increased cognitive load Unclear variable purpose Bijection Fault Bijection Misleading context Repetitive code Harder maintenance Reduced readability Abbreviations Abbreviations Increased cognitive load Solutions Honor the Bijection Use precise names Avoid ambiguity Keep context clear Extract reusable code Follow naming conventions Reify names with their rules Honor the Bijection Bijection Use precise names Avoid ambiguity Keep context clear Extract reusable code Follow naming conventions Reify names with their rules Context When handling a single fileName or directoryPath , vague names like file or dirName create confusion. fileName directoryPath file dirName A file should represent a File A fileName should represent the name of a file fileContents should represent the content of a file A fileHandler should represent a pointer to an external resource dirName should be directoryPath A file should represent a File file A fileName should represent the name of a file fileName fileContents should represent the content of a file fileContents A fileHandler should represent a pointer to an external resource fileHandler dirName should be directoryPath dirName directoryPath Clear names like fileName for names and directoryPath for directories communicate each variable’s role. fileName directoryPath When you name a variable file, it can confuse others about its purpose. Does it store a file object or just the filename? When you name a variable dirName instead of directoryName it leads to ambiguity. dirName Clear and descriptive variable names improve code readability and maintainability, especially in collaborative environments. Sample Code Wrong function importBoardGameScores(file) {
  if (file) {
    const data = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf-8');
    // Process board game scores...
  }
}

function importDirectoryScores(dirName) {
  // 'dir' is an abbreviation
  const files = fs.readdirSync(dirName);
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    const data = fs.readFileSync(`${dirName}/${file}`, 'utf-8');
    // Process each file's board game scores...
  });
  }
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    // Process board game scores...
  }
}

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    // Process each file's board game scores...
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  }
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function importDirectoryBoardGamesScores(directoryPath) {
    const fileNames = fs.readdirSync(directoryPath);
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        const scores = importBoardGameScores(fullPath);
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class Filename {
    value;
    
    constructor(value) {
        this.validateFilename(value);
        this.value = value;
    }

    validateFilename(value) {      
        const invalidCharacters = /[<>:"/\\|?*\x00-\x1F]/g;
        if (invalidCharacters.test(value)) {
            throw new Error
              ('Filename contains invalid characters');
        }

        if (/^[. ]+$/.test(value)) {
            throw new Error
              ('Filename cannot consist only of dots or spaces');
        }

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              ('Filename is too long');
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    }

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        return this.value;
    }
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    // Process board game scores...
  }
}

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    const fileNames = fs.readdirSync(directoryPath);
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        allScores.push(scores);
   });
       
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// And avoid repeating the rules everywhere
  
class Filename {
    value;
    
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        this.validateFilename(value);
        this.value = value;
    }

    validateFilename(value) {      
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} Detection [x]Semi-Automatic [x] Semi-Automatic [x] Look for generic names in code handling files or directory paths like file or dirName . file dirName Tags Naming Naming Level [x]Beginner [x] Beginner [x] AI Generation AI models may default to ambiguous names like file or dirName without specific instructions. file dirName Adding descriptive naming and code extraction guidelines can improve the AI's output. AI Detection AI tools can fix this smell by using clear naming conventions and suggesting code extraction if prompted to avoid redundant code. Try Them! Try Them! Remember: AI Assistants make lots of mistakes Remember: AI Assistants make lots of mistakes Without Proper Instructions

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Gemini Without Proper Instructions With Specific Instructions Without Proper Instructions Without Proper Instructions With Specific Instructions With Specific Instructions ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Perplexity Copilot Copilot Copilot Copilot Copilot Copilot Copilot Copilot Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Conclusion By using precise names like fileName and directoryPath and extracting reusable methods, you improve code clarity and maintainability. fileName directoryPath These simple practices help reduce redundancy and keep your code understandable. Related Reading https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-vii-8dk31x0 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-vii-8dk31x0 Disclaimer: Code Smells are my opinion. Disclaimer: Code Smells are my opinion . opinion Credit(s): Photo by Gabriel Heinzer on Unsplash Credit(s): Photo by Gabriel Heinzer on Unsplash Gabriel Heinzer Unsplash Code should be written to be read by humans first, and machines second. Code should be written to be read by humans first, and machines second. Don Laabs Don Laabs https://hackernoon.com/400-thought-provoking-software-engineering-quotes?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/400-thought-provoking-software-engineering-quotes?embedable=true This article is part of the CodeSmell Series: How to Find the Stinky Parts of your Code This article is part of the CodeSmell Series: How to Find the Stinky Parts of your Code How to Find the Stinky Parts of your Code

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Authors:
(1) Chathuranga Sirimanna, Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration;
(2) Yasuki Tachibana, Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292, Japan and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Simulating photon triggered jets using JETSCAPE framework 3 Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References 3 Results and Discussion Since CMS results for both p-p and Pb-Pb are smeared, the same smearing function is applied for a proper comparison, as illustrated in Figure 3. Similarly, in this case, results from full events exhibit better agreement with the experimental results. Although the isolated photons mainly consist of prompt photons, these findings suggest a significant contribution to the transverse momentum imbalance from other photons, including those produced in the partonic shower and fragmentation photons. JETSCAPE results for the majority of photon-triggered jet observables provide an excellent description of the experimental results without requiring additional parameter tuning. While current theoretical knowledge is insufficient to fully understand certain observables like isolated photon and multi-jet correlation, JETSCAPE, with its multistage evolution, offers an excellent description of all stages of jet evolution — a significant improvement over single-stage jet evolution. This analysis was conducted without further modification of the previous PP19 and AA22 parameter tunes. Therefore, this study serves as a parameter-free verification of multistage evolution. Acknowledgments These proceedings are supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) within the framework of the JETSCAPE collaboration, under grant numbers ACI-1550300 OAC2004571 (CSSI:X-SCAPE) and in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under grant number DE-SC0013460. References [1] X.N. Wang, Z. Huang, I. Sarcevic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 231 (1996), hep-ph/9605213 [2] A. Kumar et al. (JETSCAPE), Phys. Rev. C 102, 054906 (2020), 1910.05481 [3] A. Kumar et al. (JETSCAPE), Phys. Rev. C 107, 034911 (2023), 2204.01163 [4] C. Sirimanna (JETSCAPE), PoS HardProbes2020, 051 (2021), 2009.04407 [5] M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS), Phys. Lett. B 789, 167 (2019), 1809.07280 [6] A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS), Phys. Lett. B 785, 14 (2018), 1711.09738 [7] Tech. rep., CERN, Geneva (2023), all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLASCONF-2023-008, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2854837 This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. Authors: (1) Chathuranga Sirimanna, Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration; (2) Yasuki Tachibana, Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292, Japan and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration. Authors: Authors: (1) Chathuranga Sirimanna, Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration; (2) Yasuki Tachibana, Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292, Japan and for the JETSCAPE Collaboration. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Simulating photon triggered jets using JETSCAPE framework 2 Simulating photon triggered jets using JETSCAPE framework 3 Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References 3 Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments, and References 3 Results and Discussion Since CMS results for both p-p and Pb-Pb are smeared, the same smearing function is applied for a proper comparison, as illustrated in Figure 3. Similarly, in this case, results from full events exhibit better agreement with the experimental results. Although the isolated photons mainly consist of prompt photons, these findings suggest a significant contribution to the transverse momentum imbalance from other photons, including those produced in the partonic shower and fragmentation photons. JETSCAPE results for the majority of photon-triggered jet observables provide an excellent description of the experimental results without requiring additional parameter tuning. While current theoretical knowledge is insufficient to fully understand certain observables like isolated photon and multi-jet correlation, JETSCAPE, with its multistage evolution, offers an excellent description of all stages of jet evolution — a significant improvement over single-stage jet evolution. This analysis was conducted without further modification of the previous PP19 and AA22 parameter tunes. Therefore, this study serves as a parameter-free verification of multistage evolution. Acknowledgments These proceedings are supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) within the framework of the JETSCAPE collaboration, under grant numbers ACI-1550300 OAC2004571 (CSSI:X-SCAPE) and in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under grant number DE-SC0013460. References [1] X.N. Wang, Z. Huang, I. Sarcevic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 231 (1996), hep-ph/9605213 [2] A. Kumar et al. (JETSCAPE), Phys. Rev. C 102, 054906 (2020), 1910.05481 [3] A. Kumar et al. (JETSCAPE), Phys. Rev. C 107, 034911 (2023), 2204.01163 [4] C. Sirimanna (JETSCAPE), PoS HardProbes2020, 051 (2021), 2009.04407 [5] M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS), Phys. Lett. B 789, 167 (2019), 1809.07280 [6] A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS), Phys. Lett. B 785, 14 (2018), 1711.09738 [7] Tech. rep., CERN, Geneva (2023), all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLASCONF-2023-008, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2854837 This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv

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Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . INTRODUCTION here INTRODUCTION. It is customary to regard Mary Shelley’s claims to literary distinction as so entirely rooted and grounded in her husband’s as to constitute a merely parasitic growth upon his fame. It may be unreservedly admitted that her association with Shelley, and her care of his writings and memory after his death, are the strongest of her titles to remembrance. It is further undeniable that the most original of her works is also that which betrays the strongest traces of his influence. was written when her brain, magnetized by his companionship, was capable of an effort never to be repeated. But if the frame of mind which engendered and sustained the work was created by Shelley, the conception was not his, and the diction is dissimilar to his. Both derive from Godwin, but neither is Godwin’s. The same observation, except for an occasional phrase caught from Shelley, applies to all her subsequent work. The frequent exaltation of spirit, the ideality and romance, may well have been Shelley’s—the general style of execution neither repeats nor resembles him. Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s voice, then, is not to die away as a mere echo of her illustrious husband’s. She has the claim to a hearing due to every writer who can assert the possession of a distinctive individuality; and if originality be once conceded to , as in all equity it must, none will dispute the validity of a title to fame grounded on such a work. It has solved the question itself—it is famous. It is full of faults venial in an author of nineteen; but, apart from the wild grandeur of the conception, it has that which even the maturity of mere talent never attains—the insight of genius which looks below the appearances of things, and perhaps even reverses its own first conception by the discovery of some underlying truth. Mary Shelley’s original intention was probably that which would alone have occurred to most writers in her place. She meant to paint Frankenstein’s monstrous creation as an object of unmitigated horror. The perception that he was an object of intense compassion as well imparted a moral value to what otherwise would have remained a daring flight of imagination. It has done more: it has helped to create, if it did not itself beget, a type of personage unknown to ancient fiction. The conception of a character at once justly execrable and truly pitiable is altogether modern. Richard the Third and Caliban make some approach towards it; but the former is too self-sufficing in his valour and his villainy to be deeply pitied, and the latter too senseless and brutal. Victor Hugo has made himself the laureate of pathetic deformity, but much of his work is a conscious or unconscious variation on the original theme of . prima facie Frankenstein Frankenstein None of Mary Shelley’s subsequent romances approached in power and popularity. The reason may be summed up in a word—Languor. After the death of her infant son in 1819, she could never again command the energy which had carried her so vigorously through . Except in one instance, her work did not really interest her. Her heart is not in it. contains many passages of exquisite beauty; but it was, as the authoress herself says, “a child of mighty slow growth;” “laboriously dug,” Shelley adds, “out of a hundred old chronicles,” and wants the fire of imagination which alone could have interpenetrated the mass and fused its diverse ingredients into a satisfying whole. Of the later novels, excepted, it is needless to speak, save for the autobiographic interest with which Professor Dowden’s fortunate discovery has informed the hitherto slighted pages of . But demands great attention, for it is not only a work of far higher merit than commonly admitted, but of all her works the most characteristic of the authoress, the most representative of Mary Shelley in the character of pining widowhood which it was her destiny to support for the remainder of her life. It is an idealized version of her sorrows and sufferings, made to contribute a note to the strain which celebrates the final dissolution of the world. The languor which mars her other writings is a beauty here, harmonizing with the general tone of sublime melancholy. Most pictures of the end of the world, painted or penned, have an apocalyptic character. Men’s imaginations are powerfully impressed by great convulsions of nature; fire, tempest, and earthquake are summoned to effect the dissolution of the expiring earth. In pestilence is the sole agent, and the tragedy is purely human. The tale consequently lacks the magnificence which the subject might have seemed to invite, but, on the other hand, gains in pathos—a pathos greatly increased when the authoress’s identity is recollected, and it is observed how vividly actual experience traverses her web of fiction. None can have been affected by Mary Shelley’s work so deeply as Mary Shelley herself; for the scenery is that of her familiar haunts, the personages are her intimates under thin disguises, the universal catastrophe is but the magnified image of the overthrow of her own fortunes; and there are pages on pages where every word must have come to her fraught with some unutterably sweet or bitter association. Yet, though her romance could never be to the public what it was to the author, it is surprising that criticism should have hitherto done so little justice either to its pervading nobility of thought or to the eloquence and beauty of very many inspired passages. Frankenstein Frankenstein Valperga The Last Man Lodore The Last Man The Last Man When is reprinted it will come before the world as a new work. The same is the case with the short tales in this collection, the very existence of which is probably unknown to those most deeply interested in Mary Shelley. The entire class of literature to which they belong has long ago gone into Time’s wallet as “alms for oblivion.” They are exclusively contributions to a form of publication utterly superseded in this hasty age—the Annual, whose very name seemed to prophesy that it would not be perennial. For the creations of the intellect, however, there is a way back from Avernus. Every new generation convicts the last of undue precipitation in discarding the work of its own immediate predecessor. The special literary form may be incapable of revival; but the substance of that which has pleased or profited its age, be it Crashaw’s verse, or Etherege’s comedies, or Hoadly’s pamphlets, or what it may, always repays a fresh examination, and is always found to contribute some element useful or acceptable to the literature of a later day. The day of the “splendid annual” was certainly not a vigorous or healthy one in the history of English . It came in at the ebb of the great tide of poetry which followed on the French Revolution, and before the insetting of the great tide of Victorian prose. A pretentious feebleness characterizes the majority of its productions, half of which are hardly above the level of the album. Yet it had its good points, worthy to be taken into account. The necessary brevity of contributions to an annual operated as a powerful check on the loquacity so unfortunately encouraged by the three-volume novel. There was no room for tiresome descriptions of minutiæ, or interminable talk about uninteresting people. Being, moreover, largely intended for the perusal of high-born maidens in palace towers, the annuals frequently affected an exalted order of sentiment, which, if intolerable in insincere or merely mechanical hands, encouraged the emotion of a really passionate writer as much as the present taste for minute delineation represses it. This perfectly suited Mary Shelley. No writer felt less call to reproduce the society around her. It did not interest her in the smallest degree. The bent of her soul was entirely towards the ideal. This ideal was by no means buried in the grave of Shelley. She aspired passionately towards an imaginary perfection all her life, and solaced disappointment with what, in actual existence, too often proved the parent of fresh disillusion. In fiction it was otherwise; the fashionable style of publication, with all its faults, encouraged the enthusiasm, rapturous or melancholy, with which she adored the present or lamented the lost. She could fully indulge her taste for exalted sentiment in the Annual, and the necessary limitations of space afforded less scope for that creeping languor which relaxed the nerve of her more ambitious productions. In these little tales she is her perfect self, and the reader will find not only the entertainment of interesting fiction, but a fair picture of the mind, repressed in its energies by circumstances, but naturally enthusiastic and aspiring, of a lonely, thwarted, misunderstood woman, who could seldom do herself justice, and whose precise place in the contemporary constellation of genius remains to be determined. The Last Man belles-lettres The merit of a collection of stories, casually written at different periods and under different influences, must necessarily be various. As a rule, it may be said that Mary Shelley is best when most ideal, and excels in proportion to the exaltation of the sentiment embodied in her tale. Virtue, patriotism, disinterested affection, are very real things to her; and her heroes and heroines, if generally above the ordinary plane of humanity, never transgress the limits of humanity itself. Her fault is the other way, and arises from a positive incapacity for painting the ugly and the commonplace. She does her best, but her villains do not impress us. Minute delineation of character is never attempted; it lay entirely out of her sphere. Her tales are consequently executed in the free, broad style of the eighteenth century, towards which a reaction is now fortunately observable. As stories, they are very good. The theme is always interesting, and the sequence of events natural. No person and no incident, perhaps, takes a very strong hold upon the imagination; but the general impression is one of a sphere of exalted feeling into which it is good to enter, and which ennobles as much as the photography of ugliness degrades. The diction, as usual in the imaginative literature of the period, is frequently too ornate, and could spare a good many adjectives. But its native strength is revealed in passages of impassioned feeling; and remarkable command over the resources of the language is displayed in descriptions of scenes of natural beauty. The microscopic touch of a Browning or a Meredith, bringing the scene vividly before the mind’s eye, is indeed absolutely wanting; but the landscape is suffused with the poetical atmosphere of a Claude or a Danby. The description at the beginning of is a characteristic and beautiful instance. The Sisters of Albano The biographical element is deeply interwoven with these as with all Mary Shelley’s writings. It is of especial interest to search out the traces of her own history, and the sources from which her descriptions and ideas may have been derived. has evident vestiges of her residence near Windsor when was written, and probably reflects the general impression derived from Shelley’s recollections of Eton. The visit to Pæstum in recalls one of the most beautiful of Shelley’s letters, which Mary, however, probably never saw. Claire Clairmont’s fortunes seem glanced at in one or two places; and the story of may be partly founded on some experience of hers in Russia. Trelawny probably suggested the subjects of the two Greek tales, , and is a variation on the theme of , and on that of . These are the only tales in the collection which betray the influence of Godwin, and neither is so fully worked out as it might have been. Mary Shelley was evidently more at home with a human than with a superhuman ideal; her enthusiasm soars high, but does not transcend the possibilities of human nature. The artistic merit of her tales will be diversely estimated, but no reader will refuse the authoress facility of invention, or command of language, or elevation of soul. The Mourner Alastor The Pole The Pole The Evil Eye Euphrasia. 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