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THE    DIAL 


Semi-Monthly  Journal  of 


Literary  Criticism,  Discussion,  and  Information 


VOLUME  XXIII. 


JULY  i  TO  DECEMBER  16,  1897 


CHICAGO : 
THE  DIAL  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS 

1897 


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INDEX  TO  VOLUME  XXIII. 

FAOB 

ACADEMY  GAME,  THE 381 

AMERICAN  FICTION,  NEW  IDEAL  IN .     Margaret  Steele  Anderson  .     .  269 

AMERICAN  HISTORY,  MONOGRAPHS  IN Edward  E.  Sparks    ....  90 

AMERICAN  LITERATURE .     Anna  B.  McMahan  ....  87 

AMERICAN  REVOLUTION,  LITERARY  HISTORY  OF  THE  .     .     .     B.  A.  Hinsdale 143 

"  AMERICAN  STYLE  " Edmund  Kemper  Broadus       .  139 

ART  AND  LIFE .     .'.."•,     Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.     .     .     .  181 

BALKANS,  ETERNAL  PROBLEM  OF  THE Charles  H.  Cooper     ....  70 

BALLIOL,  THE  LATE  MASTER  OF C.  A.  L.  Richards     ....  8 

BARD,  AN  ENGLISH,  AND  HIS  SCOTCH  EDITOR    .     .     ...     Melville  B.  Anderson     .     .     .  113 

BIBLE,  FOCALIZED  ON  THE Ira  M.  Price 117 

BIRD  BOOK,  A  MONUMENTAL .     .     Sara  A.  Hubbard      ....  333 

BISMARCK  AND  THE  GERMAN  EMPIRE Charles  H.  Cooper     ....  250 

BOOKS,  DECORATIVE  ILLUSTRATION  OF    . Frederick  W.  Gookin      ...  68 

BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG,  1897       342,  398 

BOOKS  OF  THE  FALL  SEASON  OF  1897 137 

BOSWELL,  A  PENDANT  TO 142 

BRITISH  CENTRAL  AFRICA,  .SIR  HARRY  JOHNSTON  IN 178 

BRITISH  NAVY,  HISTORY  OF  THE Ill 

BROWNING,  MRS.,  LETTERS  OF Louis  J.  Block 274 

CARLYLE'S  MOST  CHARACTERISTIC  WORK,  FIRST  ANNOTATION  OF     D.  L.  Maulsby 88 

CHICAGO  PUBLIC  LIBRARY,  THE 207 

CONSTITUTION,  EVOLUTION  OF  A James  Oscar  Pierce  ....  67 

CONTINENTAL  LITERATURE,  A  YEAR  OF 61,     83 

DE  VERB,  AUBREY,  RECOLLECTIONS  OF Louis  J.  Block 248 

DRAMA,  PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN Albert  H.  Tolman      ....  389 

DRAMA,  VICTORIAN Tuley  Francis  Huntington  .     ,  247 

EAST,  SECRET  OF  THE Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.     .     .     .  42 

EDUCATION,  RECENT  STUDIES  IN Hiram  M.  Stanley     ....  219 

EGYPT,  CORRESPONDENCE  OF  Two  KINGS  OF,  1500  B.  C.     .     James  Henry  Breasted  .     .     .  116 

ENGLISH,  TEACHING  OF,  ONCE  MORE 35 

ENGLISH  WORDS,  STUDY  OF Margaret  Cooper  McGiffert     .  217 

EX-PRESIDENT'S  VIEWS  OF  HIS  COUNTRY Harry  Pratt  Judson  ....  386 

FAITH  AND  PHILOSOPHY John  Bascom 71 

FAITH  INSTINCTIVE John  Bascom 148 

FICTION,  RECENT WUliamMortonPaynel8.9l,282,389 

FRANCE  PREPARING  FOR  THE  REVOLUTION James  West/all  Thompson  .     .  277 

GREEK  LITERATURE,  MURRAY'S  HISTORY  OF Martin  L.  D'Ooye     ....  89 

HERO-WORSHIP 105 

HISTORY,  EARLY  NORTHWESTERN,  MORE  LIGHT  ON     .     .     .     B.  A.  Hinsdale 40 

HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS  OF  1897 334,  392 

JUBILEE  RETROSPECT,  A 5 

KNOWLEDGE,  FOUNDATIONS  OF Frank  Chapman  Sharp      .     .  215 

LINES,  MAGIC S.  R.  Elliott 239 

LITERARY  ANNIVERSARY,  A 173 

LITERARY  VALUES Charles  Leonard  Moore  .     .     .  175 

MAN  AND  CIVILIZATION,  STUDY  OF Frederick  Starr 86 

MAN  AND  DESTINY,  ESSAYS  ON Frederick  Starr 218 

MEDIAEVAL  LITERATURE,  STUDIES  IN William  Morton  Payne  ...  45 

MULLER,  MAX,  ANDREW  LANG'S  BOUT  WITH Frederick  Starr 388 

NATURE  AND  WILD  LIFE , Sara  A.  Hubbard       ....  12 

NAVAJOS,  LEGENDS  AND  Music  OF  THE Frederick  Starr 146 

NEW  TESTAMENT,  STUDIES  IN  THE Shatter  Mathews 251 

NIPPUR  AND  ITS  OLD  BRICKS Ira  M.  Price 281 

NOTHING  BUT  LEAVES Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.     .     ,     .  145 

PHILISTINE  WATCHWORD,  A 323 

POETRY,  RECENT William  Morton  Payne  .     .     .  183 

PUBLISHING  HOUSE,  A  FAMOUS,  ANNALS  OF 325 

PURITAN  NEW  ENGLAND,  A  GLIMPSE  OF Percy  Favor  Bicknell      .     .     .  328 

SCHOLAR  AND  THE  STATE John  J.  Halsey 279 

SHAKESPEARE  IN  CHICAGO,  II W.  E.  Simonds 37 

SOCIAL  STUDY,  FACT  AND  FICTION  IN •  .     .     C.  R.  Henderson 48 


IV. 


INDEX. 


SPITZBERGEN,  ACROSS  AND  ABOUND      ........          ..........       65 

STOWE,  MBS.,  LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF    ................... 

TEACHING  ENGLISH  FOB  A  LIVELIHOOD     .......     George  Beardsley  .....     27( 

TENNYSON  MEMOIBS,  THE  ....................... 

TOUCHSTONE  OF  FACT  IN  MATTERS  OF  STYLE     .....     Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.     ... 

TRAVELS,  NEW  BOOKS  OF   ............     Hiram  M.  Stanley     .     .     .15 

UNIVERSITY  INSTRUCTOR  AT  BERLIN,  MODERN  TYPE  OF       .     James  Toft  Hatfteld      .     .     . 
WAGNER  AND  THE  BAYREUTH  IDEA      ........     William  Morton  Payne  .     .     . 

WHEN  DOCTORS  DISAGREE  ............     William  Edward  Simonds  .     . 

YEBKES  OBSERVATORY,  THE 


330 
107 
242 
209 
237 


YUCATAN,  RUINED  CITIES  AND  MONUMENTS  OF 


Frederick  Starr     .....       44 


ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  FALL  BOOKS  OF  1897    ...................   152,  192 

BOOKS  FOR  SUMMER  READING,  CLASSIFIED  LIST  OF    ..................    25 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS   ..............     20,  51,  74,  93,  118,  149,  189,  220,  253,  287 

BRIEFER  MENTION  .................      23,  76,  97,  120,  151,  191,  224,  256,  290 

LITERARY  NOTES     .............  24,  52,  77,  97,  120,  160,  191,  224,  257,  290,  346,  403 

TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS  ....................     26,  77,  121,  258 

LISTS  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .........  26,  53,  78,  98,  121,  193,  225,  258,  291,  347,  404 


AUTHORS  AND  TITLES 

PAGE 

Abbott,  C.  C.  Fireside  and  Forest  Library  .  .  337 
Abbott,  Evelyn.  Life  and  Letters  of  Jowett  .  .  8 
Abbott,  Jacob.  Hollo  Books,  new  edition  .  .  .  346 
About,  Edmond.  King  of  the  Mountains  .  .  .  120 
Adams,  W.  I.  Lincoln.  Sunlight  and  Shadow  .  339 
Aflalo,  F.  G.  The  Literary  Year-Book  ...  76 
Alaska,  Rand-McNally's  pocket  map  of  ....  162 

Alger,  Abby  L.     In  Indian  Tents 399 

Allen,  Francis  H.     Nature's  Diary 289 

Allen,  Grant.  An  African  Millionaire  ....  391 
Alling-Aber,  Mary.  An  Experiment  in  Education  219 
Altsheler,  J.  A.  A  Soldier  of  Manhattan  .  .  .  285 

America  and  the  Americans 118 

American  Colonial  Tracts     .     .    24,  52, 121, 161,  224 

Amicis,  E.  de.     Cuore,  new  edition 346 

Amicis,  E.  de.     On  Blue  Water 340 

Anderson,  Jessie  M.  Study  of  English  Words  .  217 
Angot,  Alfred.  The  Aurora  Borealis  ....  76 
Argyll,  Duke  of.  Philosophy  of  Belief  ...  73 
Armour,  Margaret.  Fall  of  the  Nibelungs  .  .  338 
Arnold,  B.  W.,  Jr.  Tobacco  Industry  in  Virginia  91 
Asbjornsen,  P.  C.  Fairy  Tales  from  the  Far  North  398 
Atwell,  Henry.  Pense*es  of  Joubert  ....  397 
Austin,  J.  O.  Roger  Williams  Calendar  .  .  .  291 

Austin,  L.  F.     At  Random 23 

Baldwin,  Joseph.  School  Management  ....  220 
Balzac,  Dent-Macmillan  edition  of  .  .  77,  97,  257 
Banks,  Louis  A.  An  Oregon  Boyhood  ....  346 
Barlow,  Jane.  Irish  Idylls,  ill  us.  by  Clifton  Johnson  340 

Barnes,  James.     A  Loyal  Traitor 286 

Barnes,  James.  Commodore  Bainbridge  .  .  .  343 
Barnes,  James.  Yankee  Ships  and  Sailors  .  .  .  403 

Barr,  Robert.     The  Mutable  Many 19 

Baskett,  James  N.  Story  of  the  Birds  ....  14 
Baucus,  Georgiana.  In  Journeyings  Oft  .  .  .  333 
Baum,  L.  Frank.  Mother  Goose  in  Prose  .  .  .  399 
Baylor,  Frances  C.  Miss  Nina  Barrow  ....  401 

Bazin,  Rene".     Italians  of  To-Day 332 

Bede,  Cuthbert.     Verdant  Green,  new  edition      .  341 

Bellamy,  Edward.     Equality 49 

Belloc,  Hilaire.  Verses  and  Sonnets  ....  189 
Benham,  Charles.  The  Fourth  Napoleon  .  .  .  391 

Bennett,  John.     Master  Skylark 344 

Benson,  A.  C.     Lord  Vyet 189 


OF  BOOKS  REVIEWED. 

PAGE 

Benson,  E.  W.     Cyprian 96 

Berenson,  B.  Venetian  Painters,  holiday  edition  339 
Besant,  Sir  Walter.  A  Fountain  Sealed  .  .  .  389 

"  Bibelot  "  Series,  new  vols.  in 395 

Bigelow,  Poultney.  White  Man's  Africa  .  .  .  331 
Bigham,  Clive.  Through  Western  Asia  .  .  .17 

Blackmore,  R.  D.     Dariel 390 

Blaisdell,  A.  F.     Practical  Physiology    .     .     .     .151 

Blanchan,  Neltje.     Bird  Neighbors 340 

Blanchard,  Amy  E.  A  Dear  Little  Girl  .  .  .402 
BlashBeld,  E.  H.  and  E.  W.  Vasari's  Lives  .  .  339 
Bloundelle-Burton,  J.  The  Clash  of  Arms  .  .  390 
Boissier,  Gaston.  Cicero  and  his  Friends  ...  51 

Boix,  Emile.     Liver  of  Dyspeptics 161 

Bompiani,  Sophia  V.     The  Waldenses    ....  190 

Bonehill,  Ralph.     Gun  and  Sled 346 

Boothby,  Guy.  Fascination  of  the  King  ...  20 
Bouvet,  Marguerite.  Little  House  in  Pimlico  .  345 
Brigham,  J.  F.  Pellico's  Francesca  da  Rimini  .  161 

Brinton,  D.  G.     Maria  Candelaria 288 

Britton  and  Brown.    An  Illustrated  Flora,  Vol.  II.     23 

"  Brocade  "  Series,  new  vols.  in 395 

Brooke,  Stopf ord.  Old  Testament  and  Modern  Life  23 
Brooks,  E.  S.  Century  Book  of  the  Revolution  .  342 

Brown,  Kate  L.     The  Plant  Baby 400 

Browne,  Irving.     The  Book- Worm 340 

Browning  Society  Papers 253 

Bruce,  Alexander  B.  With  Open  Face  ....  251 
Bryce,  James.  Impressions  of  South  Africa  .  .331 

Buchan,  John.     Sir  Walter  Ralegh 291 

Buckham,  James.     The  Heart  of  Life    ....  185 

Bunner,  H.  C.     Three  Operettas 399 

Burlingame,  H.  J.  Hermann  the  Magician  .  .  340 
Burns's  Poetical  Works,  "  Cambridge  "  edition  .  388 
Burrage,  E.  Harcourt.  The  Vanished  Yacht  .  .  403 
Butterworth,  Hezekiah.  Over  the  Andes  .  .  .  345 
Butterworth,  Hezekiah.  True  to  his  Home  .  .  343 
Butts,  E.  L.  Manual  of  Physical  Drill  .  .  .191 
Cable,  G.  W.  Old  Creole  Days,  holiday  edition  .  336 

Caine,  Hall.     The  Christian 283 

Calendars  for  1898 341 

Cargill,  J.  F.     The  Big-Horn  Treasure  .     .     .     .345 

Carlyle,  Thomas.     Montaigne 256 

Carlyle's  Works,  «  Centenary  "  edition  .     .      77,  257 


INDEX. 


v. 


PAGE 

Carpenter,  F.  I.     English  Lyric  Poetry        .     .     .  223 
Carpenter,  F.  I.     Outline  Guide  to  Study  of  En- 
glish Lyric  Poetry 223 

Cams,  Paul.     Karma,  third  edition 346 

Central  Berkshire  Illustrated 397 

Chadsey,  C.  E.    Struggle  between  President  John- 
son and  Congress  over  Reconstruction    ...     91 
Chamberlain,  H.  S.     Richard  Wagner    ....  242 
Chamberlain,  N.  H.     Samuel  Sewall       ....  328 
Chamberlain  and  Clark.     Vocal  Expression      .     .  403 

Chambers,  R.  W.     With  the  Band 185 

Champney,  Elizabeth  W.  Pierre  and  his  Poodle  .  345 
Champuey,  Elizabeth  W.  Witch  Winnie  in  Venice  401 
Chapin,  Anna  A.  Story  of  the  Rhinegold  .  .  .  399 

Chapman,  Abel.     Wild  Norway 16 

Chapman,  Frank  M.     Bird-Life 13 

Chapman,  Mrs.  E.  R.    Marriage  Questions  in  Mod- 
ern Fiction 94 

Chatfield-Taylor,  H.  C.     The  Vice  of  Fools     .     .  286 

Chautauqua  Books  for  1897-98 97 

Christian  Worship 149 

Christison,  J.  S.     Crime  and  Criminals  ....  222 

Church,  A.  J.     Lords  of  the  World 343 

Church,  Samuel  H.  John  Marmaduke  ....  284 
Claghorn,  Kate  H.  College  Training  for  Women  220 

Claretie,  Jules.     Brichanteau,  Actor 287 

Claretie,  Jules.  Crime  of  the  Boulevard  .  .  .  287 
Clark,  Imogen.  Will  Shakespeare's  Little  Lad  .  344 
Clemens,  S.  L.  How  to  Tell  a  Story  ....  75 
Clifford,  Mrs.  W.  K.  Mrs.  Keith's  Crime,  new  ed.  161 
Clover,  Sam  T.  Paul  Travers'  Adventures  .  .  345 

Clowes,  W.  L.     The  Royal  Navy Ill 

Codman,  John.     An  American  Transport  in  the 

Crimean  War 94 

Colton,  Julia  M.     Annals  of  Switzerland     .     .     .  161 

Comstock,  John  H.     Insect  Life 224 

Connell,  F.  Norreys.  The  Fool  and  his  Heart  .  20 
Conway,  Sir  W.  M.  First  Crossing  of  Spitsbergen  65 

Coonley,  Lydia  A.     Singing  Verses 399 

Cooper,  J.  Fenimore.    Autobiography  of  a  Pocket- 

Handkerchief 74 

Corbett  Collection  of  Casts,  Catalogue  of  ...  290 
Corbin,  John.  School  Boy  Life  in  England  .  .  396 
Coues,  Elliott.  Henry  and  Thompson  Journals  .  40 
Courthope,  W.  J.  English  Poetry,  Vol.  II.  .  .  221 

Cox,  Jacob  D.     Battle  of  Franklin 288 

Craddock,  Charles  Egbert.  Young  Mountaineers  344 
Craik,  Henry.  Selections  from  English  Prose  .  97 
Crane,  Walter.  Decorative  Illustration  of  Books  68 
Craufurd,  A.  H.  Christian  Instincts  and  Modern 

Doubt 148 

Crawford,  F.  Marion.     A  Rose  of  Yesterday  .     .     18 

Crawford,  F.  Marion.     Corleone 284 

Creevy,  Caroline  A.     Flowers  of  Field,  Hill,  and 

Swamp 190 

Crockett,  S.  R.     Sir  Toady  Lion 403 

Crowe,  Eyre.     Thackeray's  Homes  and  Haunts    .     52 

Cruikshank  Fairy-Book 398 

Curtis,  Atherton.  Masters  of  Lithography  .  .  120 
Dallinger,  F.  W.  Nominations  for  Elective  Office  91 

Davids,  E.  Rhys.     Buddhism 74 

Davis,  R.  H.     Cuba  in  War  Time      .     .     *     .     .     76 

Davis,  R.  H.     Soldiers  of  Fortune 18 

Dawson,  A.  J.     Mere  Sentiment 92 

Dawson,  A.  J.     Middle  Greyness 92 

Deland,  Ellen  D.     Alan  Ransford 401 

Deland,  Ellen  D.  A  Successful  Venture  .  .  .  401 
De  Vere,  Aubrey,  Recollections  of 248 


MM 

Dickens,  Mamie.  My  Father  as  I  Recall  Him  .  190 
Dickens's  Works,  "  Gadshill "  edition  ....  291 
Diderot's  Rameau's  Nephew,  new  edition  .  .  .  191 
Dixson,  Zella  A.  Index  to  Prose  Fiction  .  .  .  253 
Dobson,  A.  English  Literature,  new  edition  .  .  121 
Dodge,  Mary  Mapes.  New  Baby  World  .  .  .  400 

Dole,  Edmund  P.     The  Stand-By 284 

Dole,  N.  H.  Matthew  Arnold's  Poems  .  .  .191 
Douglas,  Amanda  M.  Children  at  Sherburne  .  401 

Douglas,  Amanda  M.     Hannah  Ann 401 

Douglas,  Amanda  M.     Her  Place  in  the  World    .  401 
Dowden,  Edward.      French  Revolution  and  En- 
glish Literature 74 

Dowden,  Edward.     Selections  from  Wordsworth    391 

Doyle,  A.  Conan.     Uncle  Bernac 92 

Drake,  Samuel  A.     On  Plymouth  Rock       .     .     .  402 

Drummond,  Henry.     The  Habitant 394 

Drysdale,  William.  The  Beach  Patrol  ....  345 
DuBois,  W.  E.  B.  Suppression  of  Slave  Trade  .  90 

Du  Maurier,  George.     The  Martian 91 

Dunning,  E.  J.     Genesis  of  Shakespeare's  Art      .  288 

Durrett,  R.  T.     Bryant's  Station 93 

Edgren,  H.  Brief  Italian  Grammar  ....  403 
Elliot,  D.  G.  Gallinaceous  Game  Birds  .  .  .  394 

Ely,  Dean  of.     Ely  Cathedral 289 

Everett-Green,  Mrs.  E.     A  Clerk  of  Oxford    .     .  402 

Everett-Green,  Mrs.  E.     Sister 402 

Evil  and  Evolution      .     .     • 73 

"  Faience  "  editions,  new  vols.  in 161 

Fairbrother,  W.  H.  Philosophy  of  T.  H.  Green  .  120 
Farmer,  J.  E.  Essays  on  French  History  ...  96 

Farrar,  F.  W.     The  Bible 117 

Farrow,  G.  E.     The  Missing  Prince 398 

Field,  Eugene.     Lullaby-Land 399 

Field,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  M.  Muses  up  to  Date  .  398 
Fields,  Annie.  Life  and  Letters  of  Mrs.  Stowe  .  384 
Filon,  Augustin.  The  English  Stage  .  .  .  .247 
Fisher,  G.  P.  History  of  Christian  Doctrine  .  .  72 

Fiske,  Amos  K.     Myths  of  Israel 118 

Fiske,  John.     The  Critical  Period,  holiday  edition  336 

Fletcher,  J.  S.     Ballads  of  Revolt 189 

Fletcher,  J.  S.     In  the  Days  of  Drake    ....  283 

Flying  Leaves 397 

Foote,  Elizabeth  L.  Librarian  of  Sunday  School  224 
Ford,  Paul  L.  Story  of  an  Untold  Love  .  .  .  285 

Foster,  R.  F.     Complete  Hoyle 161 

Fouque",  De  la  M.  Undine,  illus.  by  Miss  Pitman  339 
Franklin  and  Marshall  College  Obituary  Record  .  291 

Frazer,  R.  W.     British  India 96 

Freeman,  E.  A.  In  Normandy  and  Maine  .  .  16 
Frost,  W.  H.  Knights  of  the  Round  Table  .  .  343 
Fuller,  Anna.  Pratt  Portraits,  holiday  edition  .  341 
Garrett,  Edmund  H.  The  Puritan  Coast  .  .  .  337 
Gavard,  Charles.  A  Diplomat  in  London  ...  21 
Gibbons,  H.  de  B.  Industry  in  England  ...  48 

Gibson,  Charles  Dana.     London 392 

Gibson,  William  Hamilton.  Eye  Spy  .  .  .  .289 
Gibson,  William  Hamilton.  My  Studio  Neighbors  289 
Giddings,  F.  H.  Theory  of  Socialization  ...  52 
Gilbert,  G.  H.  Student's  Life  of  Jesus  .  .  .  .251 
Gilder,  Richard  Watson.  For  the  Country  .  .  184 

Gladstone,  W.  E.     Later  Gleanings 148 

Gollancz,  I.  "Temple  Classics"  .  77,  97,  121,  256 
Gollancz,  I.  "Temple  Dramatists"  77,  97,  121,  256 

Gomme,  G.  L.     King's  Story  Book 402 

Goodwin,  Maud  W.  Romances  of  Colonial  Virginia  336 
Goodwin,  Maud  W.,  and  others.  Historic  New  York  337 
Gordon,  H.  R.  Pontiac,  Chief  of  the  Ottawas  .  285 


VI. 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Gosse,  Edmund.  Seventeenth  Century  Studies  .  95 
Graham,  P.  Anderson.  The  Victorian  Era  .  .121 
Griffin,  A.  P.  C.  Catalogue  Washington  Collection  151 
Guerber,  H.  A.  Stories  of  Famous  Operas  .  .  396 

Guiney,  Louise  Imogen.     Patrins 145 

Hale,  Edward  Everett.     Susan's  Escort      .     .     .  287 

Hall,  Bradnock.     Fish-Tails 20 

Hall,  Edith  K.  Adventures  in  Toyland  .  .  .  400 
Harding,  S.  B.  Contest  over  Ratification  in  Mass.  90 
Hardy,  W.  J.  Book- Plates,  revised  edition  .  .120 
Harland,  Marion.  Old-Field  School-Girl  .  .  .401 
Harland,  Marion.  Some  Colonial  Homesteads  .  336 

Harp,  Story  of  the 341 

Harraden,  Beatrice.  Untold  Tales  of  the  Past  .  402 
Harris,  J.  R.  and  Helen  B.  Letters  from  Armenia  17 
Harris,  Joel  C.  Aaron  in  the  Wildwoods  .  .  .  344 

Harris,  Samuel.     God  the  Creator 72 

Harrison,  Benjamin.  This  Country  of  Ours  .  .  386 
Hart,  A.  B.  Am.  History  Told  by  Contemporaries  95 
Hart,  Mrs.  Ernest.  Picturesque  Burma  .  .  .  330 

Harte,  Bret.     Three  Partners 284 

Hay,  Henry  H.  Trumpets  and  Shawms  .  .  .  186 
Hay,  John.  Speech  at  Unveiling  of  Bust  of  Scott  160 
Hayens,  Herbert.  An  Emperor's  Doom  .  .  .  402 
Hayens,  Herbert.  Soldiers  of  the  Legion  .  .  .  402 
Hazen,  C.  D.  Contemporary  American  Opinion  of 

French  Revolution 255 

H.  B.  and  B.  T.  B.     Book  of  Beasts 400 

H.  B.  and  B.  T.  B.     More  Beasts 400 

Henderson,  W.  J.  Last  Cruise  of  the  Mohawk  .  343 
Hendry,  H.  Red  Apple  and  Silver  Bells  .  .  .  399 

Henley,  W.  E.     Works  of  Byron 113 

Henty,  G.  A.  With  Frederick  the  Great  .  .  .343 
Higginson,  T.  W.  Procession  of  the  Flowers  .  .  13 

Higginson,  T.  W.     Book  and  Heart 183 

Hill,  G.  Birkbeck.  Johnsonian  Miscellanies  .  .  142 
Hillis,  N.  D.  Foretokens  of  Immortality  .  .  .  149 
Hinde,  Sidney  L.  Fall  of  the  Congo  Arabs  .  .  15 
Hobhouse,  L.  T.  Theory  of  Knowledge  .  .  .  215 
Hodges,  George.  In  this  Present  World  .  .  .  149 
Holmes,  William  H.  Monuments  of  Yucatan  .  44 
Hommel,  Fritz.  The  Ancient  Hebrew  Tradition  .  117 

Hopkins,  Albert.     Magic 347 

Hopkins,  Tighe.     Dungeons  of  Old  Paris    .     .     .  190 

Horton,  George.     Constantine 286 

Horton,  R.  F.     Oliver  Cromwell 150 

Hotchkiss,  C.  C.     A  Colonial  Free  Lance    .     .     .285 

Hough,  E.     Story  of  the  Cowboy 255 

Housman,  A.  E.     A  Shropshire  Lad 188 

Houston,  D.  F.  Nullification  in  South  Carolina  .  90 
Hovey,  H.  C.,  and  Call,  R.  E.  The  Mammoth  Cave  151 
Howells,  W.  D.  An  Open-Eyed  Conspiracy  .  .  284 
Hubbard,  Elbert.  Little  Journeys  for  1897  .  .  397 
Hughes,  J.  L.  Froebel's  Educational  Laws  .  .  220 
Humphrey,  Maud.  Little  Grown- Ups  ....  400 
Humphreys,  A.  L.  The  Private  Library  ...  76 
Huntington,  A.  M.  Note-Book  in  Spain  .  .  .  396 

Hurll,  Estelle  M.     Madonna  in  Art 393 

Ian  Maclaren  Year-Book 341 

"  Illustrated  English  Library  " 290 

Ingersoll,  Ernest.     Golden  Alaska 162 

Ingersoll,  Ernest.     Wild  Neighbors 402 

Inman,  Henry.     Old  Santa  F<*  Trail 393 

Irving,  Washington.  Astoria,  "  Tacoma  "  edition  °36 
Jackson,  Lady,  Works  of,  new  edition  ....  161 
James,  William.  Essays  in  Popular  Philosophy  .  149 

Janes,  Lewis  G.     Samuell  Gorton 91 

Jerrold,  Walter.     Bon-Mots  of  18th  Century  .     .  256 


PAGE 

Johnson,  Helen  K.  Sayings  of  Famous  Men  .  .  341 
Johnson,  Helen  K.  Woman  and  the  Republic  .  50 
Johnson,  Henry.  Exploits  of  Myles  Standish  .  .  402 
Johnston,  Harold  W.  Latin  Manuscripts  ...  75 
Johnston,  R.  M.  Old  Times  in  Middle  Georgia  .  287 
Johnston,  Sir  Harry  H.  British  Central  Africa  .  178 
Jones,  Chloe  Blakeman.  Lovers'  Shakspere  .  .  341 
Judson,  Harry  P.  The  Young  American  .  .  .  224 

Kemble,  E.  W.     The  Blackberries 400 

Kemp,  E.  W.  Outline  of  Method  in  History  .  .  161 
Kenyon,  F.  G.  Mrs.  Browning's  Letters  .  .  .  274 

Ker,  W.  P.     Epic  and  Romance 47 

King,  H.  M.  Baptism  of  Roger  Williams  .  .  .  151 
Kipling,  Rudyard.  Captains  Courageous  .  .  .  344 
Kipling,  Works  of,  "  Outward  Bound  "  edition  .  42 

Kitton,  F.  G.     Novels  of  Dickens 190 

Kuhns,  L.  Oscar.  Dante's  Divine  Comedy  .  .  256 
Kuhns,  L.  Oscar.  Nature  in  "  Divine  Comedy  "  .  256 
Lang,  Andrew.  Modern  Mythology  ....  388 

Lang,  Andrew.     Pink  Fairy  Book 398 

Lang,  Andrew.  Selections  from  Wordsworth  .  341 
Larned,  J.  N.  A  Talk  about  Books  ....  76 
Lamed,  W.  C.  Arnaud's  Masterpiece  ....  286 
Lathrop,  Rose  Hawthorne.  Memories  of  Hawthorne  96 

Lawrence,  Ruth.     Colonial  Verses 187 

Leask,  Keith.     Life  of  Boswell 51 

Leighton,  Robert.  The  Golden  Galleon  .  .  .  343 
Lesser,  M.  A.  Echoes  of  Halcyon  Days  .  .  .  186 
Lewis,  E.  H.  First  Book  in  Writing  English  .  224 

Life's  Comedy,  second  series 397 

Lincklaen,  John,  Journals  of 289 

Lincoln,  Jeanie  G.     An  Unwilling  Maid      .     .     .  402 

Locke,  William  J.     Derelicts 19 

Logan,  John  A.,  Jr.  In  Joyful  Russia  ...  16 
Longfellow's  Evangeline,  holiday  edition  .  .  .  392 

Love's  Messages 290 

Lummis,  Charles  F.  King  of  the  Broncos  .  .  .  403 
Lummis,  Charles  F.  The  Enchanted  Burro  .  .  403 
Lydekker,  R.,  and  others.  Natural  History  .  .  257 
Mabie,  H.  W.  Old  English  Love  Songs  .  .  .396 
MacCoun,  Townseud.  The  Holy  Land  ....  287 
Mach,  E.  The  Analysis  of  Sensations  ....  22 
MacMechan,  Archibald.  Carlyle's  Sartor  Resartus  88 
Macy,  Jesse.  The  English  Constitution  ...  67 
Magnay,  Sir  William.  The  Fall  of  a  Star  .  .  .283 
Manly,  J.  M.  Pre-Shaksperean  Dramas  .  .  .  389 
Manning,  Miss.  Mary  Powell,  new  edition  .  .  341 

Mansfield,  Richard.     Blown  Away 400 

Marchmont,  A.  W.  By  Right  of  Sword  .  .  .391 
Mason,  A.  E.  W.  Lawrence  Clavering ....  390 
Mason,  A.  E.  W.  The  Philanderers  ....  92 
Mason,  A.  J.  Principles  of  Ecclesiastical  Unity  .  52 
Masterman,  J.  Howard  B.  Age  of  Milton  .  .  224 
Mathews,  F.  Schuyler.  Features  of  the  Roadside  190 
Matthew,  J.  E.  Literature  of  Music  ....  76 
Matthews,  Washington.  Navaho  Legends .  .  .  146 
Maxwell,  Sir  Herbert.  Memories  of  the  Months  .  13 
McCarthy,  J.  History  of  Our  Own  Times,  Vol.  IV.  220 
McCarthy,  Justin.  Life  of  Gladstone  ....  393 
McDonald,  R.  A  Princess  and  a  Woman  ...  93 
McGiffert,  A.  C.  Christianity  in  Apostolic  Age  .  252 
Mead,  W.  E.  Selections  from  Morte  Darthur  .  346 
Mercer,  H.  C.  Researches  on  Antiquity  of  Man  .  120 
Meredith,  Owen.  Lucile,  illus.  by  M.  Lemaire  .  397 

Merriman,  H.  S.     In  Kedar's  Tents 391 

Miall,  L.  C.     Round  the  Year 13 

Mifflin,  Lloyd.  At  the  Gates  of  Song  ....  186 
Miller,  Olive  Thorue.  Upon  the  Tree  Tops  .  .  12 


INDEX. 


vii. 


Miller,  William.  The  Balkans 70 

Milman,  Helen.  In  the  Garden  of  Peace  ...  14 
Mitchell,  D.  G.  American  Lands  and  Letters  .  87 
Mitchell,  D.  G.  English  Lands,  Letters,  and 

Kings,  Vol.  IV 256 

Mitchell,  S.  Weir.  Hugh  Wynne 285 

Molesworth,  Mrs.  Meg  Langholme 401 

Molesworth,  Mrs.  Miss  Mouse  and  her  Boys  .  .  401 
Montgomery,  D.  H.  Students'  American  History  291 

Monvel,  Boutet  de.  Joan  of  Arc 342 

Moore,  F.  Frankfort.  The  Impudent  Comedian  .  19 
Moore,  F.  Frankfort.  The  Jessamy  Bride  ...  19 
Morgan,  T.  H.  Development  of  Frog's  Egg  .  .  254 

Morley,  John.  Machiavelli 290 

Morley,  Margaret  W.  Familiar  Flowers  .  .  .  222 
Morley,  Margaret  W.  Flowers  and  their  Friends  223 

Morris,  Robert  J.  Hopkins's  Pond 14 

Morris,  William  O'Connor.  Hannibal  ....  223 
Moulton,  W.  F.,  and  Geden,  A.  S.  Concordance  to 

Greek  Testament .  118 

Mulock,  Miss.  John  Halifax,  Crowell's  edition  .  224 
Munkittrick,  R.  K.  The  Slambangaree  .  .  .  398 

Munroe,  Kirk.  The  Painted  Desert 345 

Murray,  Gilbert.  Ancient  Greek  Literature  .  .  89 
Nash,  H.  S.  Genesis  of  Social  Conscience  ...  48 
Neville-Rolfe,  E.  Naples  in  the  Nineties  ...  15 
Newell,  W.  W.  Arthur  and  the  Table  Round  .  339 
Newton  and  Gadow.  Dictionary  of  Birds  .  .  .  333 

Nicholson,  William.  An  Alphabet 341 

Nicholson,  William.  Almanac  of  Sports  .  .  .  394 
Nixon,  Mary  F.  With  a  Pessimist  in  Spain  .  .  333 
Noble,  Harriet.  Study  of  Literary  Art  .  .  .  255 
Norton,  Charles  L.  Midshipman  Jack  ....  343 
Norwich,  Dean  of.  Ecclesiastical  History  .  .  .  255 

Ogden,  Ruth.  Little  Homespun 402 

"  Old  World  "  Series,  new  vols.  in 395 

Oliphant,  Mrs.  Annals  of  a  Publishing  House  .  325 
Orson,  S.  W.  Rousseau's  Confessions  ....  256 
Otis,  James.  Boys  of  Fort  Schuyler  ....  342 

Otis,  James.  Signal  Boys  of  '75 342 

Otis,  James.  Wreck  of  the  Circus 345 

"  Ouida."  The  Massarenes 20 

Page,  T.  N.  Social  Life  in  Old  Virginia  .  .  .  396 
Paine  and  Mayer.  Autobiography  of  a  Monkey  .  400 

Paine  and  Ver-Beck.  The  Dumpies 400 

Paine,  Timothy  Otis,  Poems  of 18£ 

Painter,  F.  T.  N.  Introduction  to  Am.  Literature  88 
Palgrave,  F.  T.  Landscape  in  Poetry  .  .  .  .119 

Palmer,  Lucia  H.  Oriental  Days 397 

Parker,  Gilbert.  Pomp  of  the  Lavilettes  ...  93 
Parker,  Gilbert.  A  Romany  of  the  Snows  ...  93 
Parkhurst,  H.  E.  Song  Birds  and  Water  Fowl  .  394 
Pasha,  Slatin.  Fire  and  Sword  in  Soudan,  new  ed.  290 
Pater,  Walter.  Essays  from  "  The  Guardian  "  .  395 

Paulian,  Louis.  Beggars  of  Paris 51 

Pearson,  Karl.  The  Chances  of  Death  .  .  .  .218 
Pemberton,  Max.  Christine  of  the  Hills  ...  20 
Pemberton,  Max.  Queen  of  the  Jesters  .  .  .  391 
Perkins,  J.  B.  France  under  Louis  XV.  .  .  .  277 

Peters,  John  P.  Nippur 281 

Phillips,  Mary  E.  Reminiscences  of  W.  W.  Story  397 

Piatt,  John  James.  Odes  in  Ohio 184 

Pierson,  Clara  D.  Meadow  People 400 

Plehn,  Carl  C.  Public  Finance 254 

Plummer,  Alfred.  Commentary  on  Luke  .  .  .  252 

Plympton,  Miss  A.  G.  Wanolasset 402 

Poems,  Ten  Noble 76 

Porter  and  Clarke.  Clever  Tales  .  .  191 


Porter,  Charlotte,  and  Clarke,  Helen  A.     Brown- 
ing's Ring  and  the  Book 191 

Potter,  H.  C.  Scholar  and  the  State  .  .  .  .279 
Powers,  Laura  B.  Missions  of  California  .  .  .  223 
Poyen-Bellisle,  R.  de.  Journe'es  d'Avril  .  .  .  187 
Praeger,  S.  Rosamond.  Three  Bold  Babes  .  .  400 
Prang's  1897  Christmas  Cards  and  Calendars  .  .  396 

Prince  Uno 398 

Princeton  Sesquicentennial  Lectures,  The  ...  24 
Putnam,  G.  H.  Authors  and  Bublishers,  7th  ed.  191 
Pyke,  Rafford.  Adventures  of  Mabel  ....  398 

Queen,  Private  Life  of  the 256 

Ramsay,  W.  M.  Impressions  of  Turkey  .  .  .  331 
Ratzel,  Friedrich.  History  of  Mankind  ...  86 
Raymond,  Evelyn.  Little  Red  Schoolhouse  .  .  401 

Read,  Opie.     Bolanyo 286 

Redway,  J.  W.     Natural  Elementary  Geography    161 

Remington,  Frederic.     Drawings 335 

Revolutionary  Tendencies  of  the  Age  ....  48 
Richards,  Laura  E.  Three  Margarets  ....  401 
Richardson,  O.  H.  The  National  Movement  .  .  51 
Rideing,  W.  H.  Boyhood  of  Famous  Authors  .  344 
Rivers,  George  R.  R.  Captain  Shays  ....  286 
Robinson,  Frederick  S.  The  Connoisseur  ...  21 

Rodney  G.  B.     In  Buff  and  Blue 285 

Rossetti,  D.  G.     The  White  Ship 395 

Saintsbury,  George.  Flourishing  of  Romance  .  .  45 
Sanford,  M.  Bourchier.  A  Jesuit  Mission  ...  19 
Saunders,  Marshall.  King  of  the  Park  ....  345 
Sawtelle,  Alice  E.  Spenser's  Classical  Mythology  22 
Schulz,  A.,  and  Hammar,  A.  The  New  Africa  .  330 

Scidmore,  Eliza  R.     Java 332 

Scott,  Hattie  M.  Organic  Education  ....  151 
Scott,  Hugh  M.  The  Nicene  Theology  ...  72 
Seawell,  Molly  E.  Twelve  Naval  Captains  .  .  403 
See,  T.  J.  J.  Evolution  of  Stellar  Systems  .  .  75 
Shakespeare's  Hamlet,  illus.  by  H.  C.  Christy  .  .  397 
Sheldon,  H.  I.  Note,s  on  Nicaragua  Canal  .  .  23 
Shelley,  H.  C.  Ayrshire  Homes  of  Burns  .  .  .  341 
Shelton,  W.  H.  The  Last  Three  Soldiers  .  .  .343 
Sherman,  Caroline  K.  Dante's  Vision  of  God  .  395 

Sherman,  F.  D.     Little-Folk  Lyrics 399 

Sienkiewicz,  H.  Quo  Vadis,  holiday  edition  .  .  334 
Skinner,  C.  M.  Nature  in  a  City  Yard  ...  12 
Sloane,  W.  M.  Life  of  Napoleon,  Vol.  IV.  .  .  335 
Smeaton,  Oliphant.  Life  of  Smollett  ....  51 
Smith,  F.  Hopkinson.  Gondola  Days  ....  340 
Smith,  Gertrude.  Ten  Little  Comedies  ....  401 
Smith,  Mary  P.  W.  Young  Puritans  of  Old  Hadley  343 
Smyth,  Newman.  Place  of  Death  in  Evolution  .  148 
Snaith,  J.  C.  Fierceheart  the  Soldier  ....  92 
Spahr,  C.  B.  Distribution  of  Wealth  in  the  U.  S.  254 
Spenser's  Faerie  Queene,  illus.  by  L.  F.  Muckley  .  338 
Spenser's  Faerie  Queene,  illus.  by  Walter  Crane  .  338 
Spenser's  Shepheard's  Calendar,  illus.  by  Crane  .  392 
Spofford,  Harriet  Preseott.  In  Titian's  Garden  .  187 
Stables,  Gordon.  The  Island  of  Gold  .  .  .  .403 
Staffer,  E.  Christ  during  his  Ministry  ....  149 
Steevens,  G.  W.  Land  of  the  Dollar  .  .  .  .  18£ 
Stephens,  Riccardo.  Mr.  Peters  .  .  .  .  . 

Sterne's  Sentimental  Journey,  illus.  by  Robinson  .  397 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.     St.  Ives 28S 

Stevenson  Song-Book 399 

St.  Leger,  Hugh.     The  Rover's  Quest    .     .     .     .346 

Stockard,  H.  J.     Fugitive  Lines 185 

Stockton,  F.  R.'  A  Story-Teller's  Pack  ....  93 
Stockton,  F.  R.  Pomona's  Travels,  new  edition  .  341 
Stoddard,  W.  O.  Lost  Gold  of  the  Montezumas  .  343 


Vlll. 


INDEX. 


Stoddard,  W.  O.  The  Red  Patriot 342 

Streamer,  Volney.  Voices  of  Doubt  and  Trust  .  290 
Sturgis  and  Krebbiel.  Bibliography  of  Fine  Art .  24 

Sullivan,  J.  F.  Here  They  Are  ! 398 

Sullivan,  J.  F.  The  Flame-Flower 398 

Sweet,  H.  Student's  Anglo-Saxon  Dictionary  .  .  23 
Sybel,  H.  von.  Founding  of  the  German  Empire, 

Vol.  VI 250 

Taine,  H.  A.  Journeys  through  France  .  .  .  331 
Tarr,  R.  S.  First  Book  of  Physical  Geography  .  76 
Tarver,  J.  C.  Observations  of  a  Foster  Parent  .  220 

Tennyson  Memoir,  The 212 

Tennyson's  In  Memoriam,  holiday  edition  .  .  .  338 
Thomson,  H.  C.  The  Outgoing  Turk  ....  17 

Thomson,  John  S.  Estabelle 187 

Thompson,  Francis.  New  Poems 188 

Thorburn,  S.  S.  His  Majesty's  Greatest  Subject  .  283 
Thoreau,  H.  W.  Walden,  holiday  edition  .  .  .336 
"  Thumb- Nail  Series,"  new  vols.  in  the  ....  341 

Tolstoi',  Lyof.  The  Gospel  in  Brief 52 

Tomlinson,  E.  T.  Guarding  the  Border  .  .  .402 
Tomlinson,  E.  T.  Washington's  Young  Aids  .  .  342 
Tracy,  Louis.  An  American  Emperor  ....  93 
Tyler,  C.  M.  Bases  of  Religious  Belief  .  .  .148 
Tyler,  Moses  C.  American  Colonial  Literature  .  143 
Tyler,  Moses  C.  Literary  History  of  American 

Revolution 143,  221 

Upton,  Bertha  and  Florence.  Little  Hearts  .  .  400 
Upton,  Bertha  and  Florence.  Vege-Men's  Revenge  400 
Urmy,  Clarence.  A  Vintage  of  Verse  ....  185 

Vaile,  Charlotte  M.  Sue  Orcutt 401 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.  Gospel  for  an  Age  of  Doubt  .  72 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.  The  Builders 184 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.  The  First  Christmas  Tree  .  337 
Venezuelan  Commission,  Report  of  the  .  .  23,  120 

Vincent,  Frank.  The  Plant  World 14 

Vincent,  M.  R.  Commentary  on  Philippians  .  .  252 
Voynich,  E.  L.  The  Gadfly 18 


Vuillier,  Gaston.  History  of  Dancing  ....  392 
Wagner,  Richard.  A  Pilgrimage  to  Beethoven  .  161 
Walker,  G.  L.  Religious  Life  of  New  England  .  149 

Wallis,  Alfred.     Works  of  Rabelais 191 

Warner,  C.  D.  Being  a  Boy,  illus.  by  C.  Johnson  .  344 
Warner,  C.  D.  People  for  Whom  Shakespeare 

Wrote 222 

Warner,  C.  D.  Relation  of  Literature  to  Life  .  181 
Warren,  Kate  M.  Spenser's  Faerie  Queene  .  .161 
Watson,  Augusta  C.  Beyond  the  City  Gates  .  .  285 

Watson,  John.     The  Cure  of  Souls 71 

Watson,  William.  The  Year  of  Shame  ....  188 
Watts-Dunton,  T.  Jubilee  Greeting  at  Spithead  .  188 

Webster,  Leigh.     Rich  Enough 402 

Wells,  H.  G.     The  Invisible  Man 390 

Wenley,  R.  M.     Outline  of  Kant's  Critique     .     .  346 

Wetterstrand,  Otto  G.     Hypnotism 119 

Wharton,  Anne  H.  Martha  Washington  .  .  .21 
Whiteley,  Isabel.  The  Falcon  of  Lange'ac  ...  18 
Whitney,  Mrs.  A.  D.  T.  The  Open  Mystery  .  .  149 
Wiedemann,  A.  Religion  of  Ancient  Egyptians  .  254 
Williams,  R.  O.  Questions  of  Good  English  .  .  334 
Williamson,  G.  C.  Portrait  Minatures  ....  394 
Wilson,  James  Grant.  Ulysses  S.  Grant  .  .  .  150 
Wiltse,  Sara  E.  Story  of  Jean  Valjean  .  .  .  256 
Winckler,  Hugo.  Tell-el-Amama  Letters  .  .  .116 
Windle,  B.  C.  A.  Life  in  Early  Britain  .  .  .  289 

Winfield,  A.  M.     Poor  but  Plucky 346 

Winfield,  A.  M.     Schooldays  of  Fred  Harley  .     .  346 

Winworth,  Freda.     Epic  of  Sounds 346 

Workman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Awheel  in  Iberia  15 
Wright,  Mabel  O.,  and  Coues,  E.  Citizen  Bird  .  223 
Wyllarde,  Dolf.  A  Lonely  Little  Lady  .  .  .  402 
Yeats,  S.  Levett.  The  Chevalier  d'Auriac  .  .  .  283 

Yechton,  Barbara.     Derick 345 

Yersin,  M.  and  J.  Phono-Rhythmic  French  Method  290 
Yonge,  Charlotte  M.  Founded  on  Paper  .  .  .  401 
Zogbaum,  R.  F.  All  Hands 335 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


Allen,  Grant,  and  College  Education.     Edgar  J. 

Ooodspeed 210 

"  Art  and  Life."  F.  L.  Thompson 241 

Art  in  a  Sordid  Age.  Lines.  Edith  M,  Thomas  .  384 
Authors  and  Publishers,  A  Proposal  to  Levy 

Tribute  on 403 

Bateman,  Newton,  Death  of 251 

"  Century  Magazine  "  Prizes,  The 77 

Congressional  Librarian,  The  New  ...  77,  97 

Crerar  Library,  The.  T.  V.  V. 241 

Crerar  Library,  The,  and  the  Wishes  of  its  Founder. 

G.  H. 272 

Dana,  Charles  A.,  Death  of 257 

Dante  as  a  Tonic  for  To-Day.  Oscar  Kuhns  .  .110 
Dante  Society  among  Fishermen,  A.  Katharine  M. 

Graydon 110 

Dawn.  Poem.  Emily  Huntington  Miller  ...  7 
English  Correspondence.  Temple  Scott  ....  383 
English,  Preparatory. —  A  Teacher's  Experience. 

A.  J.  George 64 

Fiske,  John,  and  Francis  Bacon.  TheronS.E.Dixon  272 
German  Translation,  Some  Questions  of.  C,  von 

Klenze 140 

Hutton,  Richard  Holt,  Death  of 191 

In  a  Volume  of  Lowell's  Letters.  Sonnet.  F.  L. 

Luqueer 138 

"  In  Memoriam,"  Metre  of.  W.  J.  Rolfe  ...  7 


Ingelow,  Jean,  Death  of 77 

"  Inquirendo  into  the  Wit  and  Other  Good  Parts  " 

of  Certain  Writers.  Emily  Huntington  Miller  177 

Inspiration.  Poem.  Charlotte  M.  Packard  .  .  273 
Japanese  Magazine  of  Foreign  Languages.  Ernest 

W.  Clement 141 

Japanese  Self-Taught.  Ernest  W.  Clement  .  .  64 

Logia,  The  Newly  Discovered 53 

Meilhac,  Henri,  Death  of 52 

Out  of  a  Thousand.  Sonnet.  Edith  M.  Thomas  241 

Palgrave,  Francis  Turner,  Death  of 257 

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JULY  1,  1897.       Vol.  xxm. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

5 


A  JUBILEE  RETROSPECT 

COMMUNICATION 7 

The  Metre  of  "  In  Memoriam."     W.  J.  EoJfe. 

DAWN.    (Lines.)    Emily  Huntington  Miller   ....      7 
THE  MASTER  OF  BALLIOL.    C. A. L.Richards  .      8 

NATURE  AND  WILD  LIFE.  Sara  A.  Hubbard  .  12 
Skinner's  Nature  in  a  City  Yard. —  Mrs.  Miller's 
Upon  the  Tree-Tops. —  Chapman's  Bird-Life. —  Hig- 
ginson's  The  Procession  of  the  Flowers. —  Maxwell's 
Memories  of  the  Months. —  Miall's  Round  the  Year. — 
Miss  Milman's  In  the  Garden  of  Peace. —  Morris's 
Hopkins's  Pond,  and  Other  Sketches. —  Baskett's 
The  Story  of  the  Birds.— Vincent's  The  Plant  World. 

TRAVELS  FAR  AND  VARIOUS.  Hiram  M.  Stanley  15 
Workman's  Sketches  Awheel  in  Modern  Iberia. — 
Neville- Rolfe's  Naples  in  the  Nineties. —  Hinde's 
The  Fall  of  the  Congo  Arabs.—  Chapman's  Wild 
Norway. —  Freeman's  Sketches  of  Travel  in  Nor- 
mandy and  Maine. —  Logan's  In  Joyful  Russia. — 
Harris's  Letters  from  the  Scenes  of  the  Recent  Mass- 
acres in  Armenia. —  Thomson's  The  Outgoing  Turk. 
—  Bigham's  A  Ride  Through  Western  Asia. 

RECENT  FICTION.  William  Morton  Payne  ...  18 
Voynich's  The  Gadfly.— Crawford's  A  Rose  of  Yes- 
terday.— Miss  Whiteley's  The  Falcon  of  Lange'ac. — 
Davis's  Soldiers  of  Fortune.— Sanford's  The  Ro- 
mance of  a  Jesuit  Mission. —  Barr's  The  Mutable 
Many.— Moore's  The  Jessamy  Bride.— Moore's  The 
Impudent  Comedian  and  Others. —  Locke's  Dere- 
licts.—  Ouida's  The  Massarenes. —  Boothby's  The 
Fascination  of  the  King. —  Council's  The  Fool  and 
His  Heart. —  Max  Pemberton's  Christine  of  the  Hills. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 20 

The  diversions  of  a  serious  man. —  A  satirical  French 
observer  of  London  life. —  Art  collectors  and  collect- 
ing.—  A  book  for  all  true  American  women. — 
Physics  and  psychology.  —  Spenser's  use  of  classical 
mythology. —  Some  attenuated  random  prattlings. — 
Criticism  and  preaching. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 20 

LITERARY  NOTES 24 

LIST  OF  BOOKS  FOR  SUMMER  READING    .    .  25 

TOPICS  IN  JULY  PERIODICALS  .  26 


LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS 


26 


A  JUBILEE  RETROSPECT. 

The  recent  celebration  of  the  longest  reign  in 
English  history  has  naturally  called  forth  a 
great  quantity  of  retrospective  writing,  and  the 
history  of  progress  during  the  sixty  years  of  the 
Victorian  period  has  been  discussed  in  all  of 
its  aspects.  In  such  a  review  of  an  eventful 
term  of  years,  the  history  of  literature  neces- 
sarily plays  a  considerable  part,  and,  in  this 
case,  the  delimitation  of  a  period  by  the  dates 
of  a  reign  is  somewhat  less  arbitrary  and  arti- 
ficial than  it  is  in  others.  It  has  often  been 
pointed  out  that  the  Victorian  age  is  one  of  the 
most  distinctly  defined  in  English  literary  his- 
tory, and  it  seems  as  certain  as  anything  of  the 
sort  reasonably  can  be  that  the  term  "  Victor- 
ian "  will  become  as  fixed  a  thing  in  our  literary 
annals  as  the  term  "  Elizabethan  "  has  been  for 
the  past  two  centuries.  In  point  of  fact,  as 
every  student  knows,  the  former  term  is  a  better 
fit  than  the  latter ;  for  what  we  call  Victorian 
literature  really  belongs  to  the  reign  of  the 
present  Queen,  while  a  large  part  of  what  is 
commonly  called  Elizabethan  is,  strictly  speak- 
ing, Jacobean,  being  seventeenth-century  work. 
Mr.  Saintsbury  goes  so  far  as  to  reckon  Milton 
and  his  contemporaries  within  the  Elizabethan 
period,  and  it  is  hardly  probable  that  future 
historians  will  call  Victorian  the  poets  (if  there 
are  any)  of  the  next  mid-century. 

Perhaps  the  most  astonishing  reflection  sug- 
gested by  the  subject  of  the  Jubilee  is  that  when 
Victoria  came  to  the  throne  in  1837,  Goethe 
and  Scott  had  been  dead  only  five  years.  The 
mood  of  Browning's  question,  "  Did  you  once 
see  Shelley  plain  ?  "  comes  upon  us  when  we 
realize  that  there  must  be  a  number  of  people 
living  to-day  who  have  seen  and  spoken  with 
the  poet  at  Weimar  or  with  the  novelist  at 
Abbotsford,  and  that  the  reign  of  one  monarch 
stretches  back  from  the  present  year  to  a  time 
when  the  loss  of  those  two  men  was  still  fresh 
in  the  heart.  They  seem  in  so  many  ways  so 
immeasurably  remote  from  us  —  even  if  we 
have  taken  from  them  daily  inspiration  all  our 
lives  long  —  that  it  is  difficult  to  imagine  a 
time  when  men  felt  about  them  as  we  of  to-day 
feel,  for  example,  about  Tennyson  and  Renan. 
When  we  note,  also,  that  Coleridge  and  Lamb 
had  died  in  1834,  and  that,  in  the  very  year 


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[July  l, 


of  Her  Majesty's  coronation,  the  fatal  bullet 
had  sped  to  Puskin's  heart,  while  Leopardi 
had  dashed  himself  to  death  against  the 
prison-bars  of  an  existence  that  ever  seemed 
to  him  intolerable,  the  mood  of  retrospection 
becomes  deepened  in  us,  and  we  wonder  that 
such  "  far-off  things  "  can  thus  be  linked  with 
our  own  lives. 

We  often  speak  of  "  books  of  the  year."  Let 
us  see  what  these  books  were  in  the  year  of 
grace  1837.  In  poetry,  there  was  Browning's 
"  Strafford,"  which  had  already  been  preceded 
by  "  Pauline  "  and  "  Paracelsus,"  but  the  poet 
had  not  yet  found  his  audience,  and  was  des- 
tined to  wait  for  a  full  generation  before  tak- 
ing his  place  in  the  temple  of  fame.  In  fiction, 
Bulwer's  "  Ernest  Maltravers  "  appeared,  and 
strengthened  the  hold  upon  the  public  already 
secured  by  "  Rienzi,"  "  The  Last  Days  of  Pom- 
peii," and  eight  or  nine  other  novels.  Far 
more  popular  than  these  works,  however,  were 
the  productions  of  a  young  writer  known  as 
"Boz,"  who  had  published  his  famous 
"  Sketches  "  the  year  before,  and  who,  in  the 
year  of  the  coronation,  completed  the  immortal 
"Pickwick,"  and  began  the  publication  of 
"  Oliver  Twist."  In  this  year,  also,  Disraeli 
published  "Venetian,"  and  stood  midway  in  his 
flamboyant  career  as  a  writer  of  fiction.  As  for 
Thackeray,  his  first  serious  appearance  in  lit- 
erature dates  from  this  same  year,  with  the 
publication  of  "  The  Yellowplush  Papers."  The 
more  solid  "  books  of  the  year  "  were  Whewell's 
"  History  of  the  Inductive  Sciences,"  Hallam's 
"  Literature  of  Europe,"  Lockhart's  biography 
of  Scott,  and  Carlyle's  "  French  Revolution," 
at  last  rewritten  after  the  heartbreaking  destruc- 
tion of  its  first  draft.  When  we  bring  together 
these  titles  that  mean  so  much  to  the  student  of 
English  literature,  we  cannot  help  wondering 
whether  any  books  of  pure  literature  produced 
in  the  year  1897  will  stand  as  high  "sixty 
years  hence  "  as  "  Strafford  "  and  "  Pickwick  " 
do  now ;  whether  the  year  has  produced  his- 
tories that  will  wear  as  well  as  Carlyle  and 
Hallam  have  worn,  or  a  biography  that  is  worthy 
to  be  ranked  with  Lockhart's  great  achieve- 
ment. 

We  have  singled  out  for  mention  nine  En- 
glish books  of  the  year  1837.  Let  us  make  the 
number  ten  by  adding,  merely  for  its  suggest- 
iveness,  Harriet  Martineau's  "  Society  in  Amer- 
ica." The  condition  of  English  literature  on 
this  side  of  the  Atlantic  may  be  outlined  by 
saying  that  Irving  had  produced  the  greater 
part  of  his  work,  that  rather  more  than  half  of 


Cooper's  tales  had  been  given  to  the  world, 
that  the  poetical  reputation  of  Bryant  was  well 
established,  while  the  foundations  were  laid  for 
the  reputations  of  Whittier  and  Longfellow, 
and  that  the  very  year  with  which  we  are  con- 
cerned was  that  in  which  Emerson's  address  on 
"  The  American  Scholar  "  was  heard  and  the 
"Twice-Told  Tales"  of  Hawthorne  collected 
for  publication.  While  the  showing  for  the 
year  is  not  a  remarkable  one,  even  when  we 
cast  Prescott's  "  Ferdinand  and  Isabella  "  into 
the  balance,  it  is  evident  that  American  litera- 
ture was  fairly  on  its  feet,  and  that  its  future 
was  promising  enough. 

It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  both  the 
foremost  American  writer  and  the  foremost 
English  writer  now  living  should  have  been 
born  in  the  same  year,  and  that  the  year  of  the 
accession  of  the  Queen.  With  all  his  critical 
vagaries  and  artistic  inequalities,  the  position 
of  Mr.  Ho  wells  as  our  leading  man  of  letters 
to-day  may  hardly  be  disputed,  while  the  place 
of  Mr.  Swinburne,  as  not  merely  the  greatest 
of  living  English  poets,  but  as  the  greatest  poet 
now  living  in  the  world,  is  beyond  any  possible 
question.  It  is  difficult  to  think  of  either  of 
these  men  as  venerable,  but  sixty  years  goes 
far  toward  making  up  the  normal  tale  of 
human  life,  and  both  novelist  and  poet  must 
henceforth,  for  as  long  as  they  shall  be  spared 
us,  take  their  places  among  the  .elders  of  the 
literary  hierarchy. 

Mr.  H.  D.  Traill,  in  a  recent  summary  of 
the  English  literature  of  the  Victorian  era, 
makes  a  rough  division  of  the  sixty  years  into 
three  periods.  The  first  score  of  years  was  a 
flowering  time  that  brought  into  prominence 
the  seven  great  names  of  Tennyson,  Browning, 
Carlyle,  Macaulay,  Dickens,  Thackeray,  and 
Ruskin.  During  the  second  period  the  tide  "  of 
high  literary  achievement  was  pretty  steadily 
receding,"  and  "  with  the  single,  if  the  splendid, 
exception  of  Mr.  Swinburne,  the  period  not 
only  produced  no  new  poet  of  supreme  genius, 
but  brought  forth  none  with  any  pretensions 
to  a  place  in  the  first  rank."  When  we  think 
of  Arnold,  Morris,  and  Rossetti,  it  is  impos- 
sible to  accept  so  rash  a  dictum  as  the  above, 
yet  it  is  no  doubt  true  that  these  names,  to- 
gether with  that  of  George  Eliot,  are  not  enough 
wholly  to  redeem  the  middle  Victorian  era  from 
the  charge  of  being  essentially  "  the  age  of 
Trollope  as  a  novelist  and  of  Martin  Tupper  as 
a  poet."  As  for  the  twenty  years  now  ended, 
the  principal  things  that  Mr.  Traill  finds  to  say 
are  that  the  art  of  the  novelist  has  displayed 


1897.] 


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great  vitality,  and  that  if  the  new  poets  are  but 
"  minor,"  they  are  far  better  than  the  minor 
poets  of  earlier  periods. 

An  examination  of  cisatlantic  English  litera- 
ture during  the  past  sixty  years  reveals  the  fact 
that  Mr.  Traill's  three-fold  division  applies  to 
our  case  also  —  roughly,  of  course,  because  all 
such  artificial  divisions  are  rough  —  but  well 
enough  to  deserve  employment.  That  is,  our 
greater  American  writers  accomplished  the 
bulk  of  the  best  work  during  the  first  twenty- 
year  period ;  during  the  second  period  there  was 
a  distinct  decline  in  productiveness,  although  a 
few  brilliant  names,  as  in  England,  redeem  our 
literary  annals  from  sterility  ;  and  during  the 
third  period  we  find  an  expansion  of  the  arts  of 
fiction  and  poetry  corresponding  to  what  Mr. 
Traill  finds  in  the  literature  of  his  own  country. 
All  of  which  facts  go  to  show,  what  a  good 
many  people  still  need  to  be  shown,  that  all  the 
deeper  forces  operating  in  the  development  of 
our  common  literature  operate  upon  both  sides 
of  the  Atlantic,  and  that  the  "  salt  estranging 
sea "  cannot  bring  about  any  real  separation 
between  the  literatures  of  two  nations  having, 
up  to  comparatively  recent  times,  a  common 
history  and  a  common  intellectual  and  social 
tradition,  while  they  still  have,  and  always  must 
retain,  a  common  unifying  speech. 


COMMUNICA  TION. 

THE  METRE  OP  "IN  MEMORIAM." 
(To  the  Editor  of  THB  DIAL.) 

Professor  C.  Alphonso  Smith,  in  his  interesting  article 
on  this  subject  in  THE  DIAL  for  June  16,  says  that  he 
cannot  believe  Mr.  Jennings  is  right  in  assuming  that 
Tennyson  "  thought  he  had  invented  the  metre."  The 
Professor  appears  to  be  misled  by  the  fact  that  Jennings 
makes  this  remark  in  commenting  upon  the  publication 
of  "  In  Memoriam  "  in  1850.  At  that  time  the  poet 
doubtless  was  "  too  well  versed  in  the  lore  of  versifi- 
cation to  consider  himself  the  inventor  of  so  simple 
a  metrical  combination";  but  in  1833,  when  he  first 
used  the  stanza  in  "  You  ask  me  why,"  etc.,  he  may  not 
have  seen  Herbert's  volume,  which  (as  I  have  said 
in  my  edition  of  "  In  Memoriam  "  )  is  very  rare  and 
scarcely  known  even  to  critical  students  of  early  English 
poetry. 

It  is  more  remarkable  that  Ilossetti  should  have  sup- 
posed, in  1844,  that  he  had  rediscovered  the  metre.  He 
had  probably  read  Tennyson's  early  poems  in  this  form, 
if  not  the  examples  of  it  in  Herbert  and  Ben  Jonson, 
but  had  forgotten  that  they  were  in  the  same  metre.  I 
have  personally  found  that  students  and  teachers  who 
were  well  read  in  Tennyson  had  never  noticed  that  these 
familiar  early  poems  were  in  the  metre  of  "  In  Memo- 
riam." I  have  known  more  than  one  college  teacher 
who  was  so  ignorant  of  the  elements  of  versification 


that  he  could  not  read  a  line  of  Shakespeare  correctly 
if  it  contained  any  peculiarity  of  accent  or  syllabication. 
The  study  of  versification  is  generally  neglected  in  the 
secondary  schools,  and  too  often  in  the  colleges. 

Apropos  of  the  verse  of  "  In  Memoriam,"  Mr.  Joseph 
Jacobs,  in  his  little  book  on  the  poem  (London,  1892), 
dwells  upon  the  "  poverty  and  inaccuracy "  of  the 
rhymes.  He  gives  in  an  appendix  a  list  of  the  "  false 
rhymes,"  which  he  makes  out  to  be  "  no  less  than  168 
in  1448  couplets."  The  actual  number  is  48  or  less,  a 
few  instances  being  open  to  question.  Mr.  Jacobs 
includes  many  "  eye  rhymes,"  like  love,  move,  which  all 
poets  use  freely;  and  rhymes  of  dissyllables  with  mono- 
syllables, like  flower,  hour,  that  are  absolutely  faultless, 
the  dissyllable  being  treated  as  a  monosyllable  in  rhythm 
as  in  rhyme  by  all  our  poets  at  will.  Rhymes  like  ear, 
hear,  the  words  differing  only  by  the  aspirate,  are  also 
reckoned  by  Mr.  Jacobs,  as  by  some  authorities  on  verse, 
among  his  bad  ones;  but  they  are  used  by  Milton  (who 
has  arms,  harms,  and  high,  I,  if  no  others  of  the  kind) 
and  by  many  other  poets.  Tennyson,  moreover,  occa- 
sionally uses  "identical  rhymes,"  like  here,  hear,  and 
ours,  hours,  which  are  allowed  in  Italian  and  certain 
other  languages,  and  are  admitted  by  sundry  English 
poets  familiar  with  Italian;  as  Milton  (who  has  ruth, 
Ruth,  etc.),  and  James  Russell  Lowell  (holy,  wholly, 
etc.).  Besides  here,  ear  (twice),  we  find  in  "  In  Me- 
moriam "  art,  heart  (twice),  hearth,  earth,  arm,  harm,  and 
here,  hear,  whirled,  world,  and  moor,  more.  In  the  first 
edition  there  was  another  instance  of  this  latter  class  of 
rhymes  in  cv.,  which  read: 

"  This  holly  by  the  cottage  eave, 

To-night  ungather'd  shall  it  stand ; 

We  live  within  the  stranger's  land, 
And  strangely  falls  our  Christmas  eve." 
It  now  reads: 

"  To-night  ungather'd  let  us  leave 

This  laurel,  let  this  holly  stand ;  "  etc. 

The  change  was  evidently  made  for  other  reasons  than 
getting  rid  of  the  "  identical  rhyme." 

Rejecting  all  these  rhymes  regarded  as  faulty  by 
Mr.  Jacobs,  we  still  have  left  some  very  bad  ones:  curse, 
horse;  is,  this;  seas,  peace;  Lord,  guard;  sphere,  there; 
I,  enjoy;  put,  short,  etc.  One,  on,  occurs  three  times,  to 
say  nothing  of  gone,  one,  and  one,  alone,  which,  though 
"  eye  rhymes,"  are  dubious  examples  of  their  class. 

Some  familiar  rhymes,  as  Mr.  Jacobs  notes,  are  often 
repeated:  Jlower,  hour,  eight  times;  good,  blood,  seven 
times;  while  love  is  rhymed  -with  prove  seven  times,  and 
with  move  or  remove  eight  times.  ,,T  ,  ,, 

W .  J .  ZiOLFE. 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  June  21,  1897. 


DAWN. 

[Figure  on  the  tomb  of  Lorenzo  de  Medici.} 

Unfinished  ?     Nay;  the  Dawn  is  but  a  soul 
That  hovers,  doubtful,  in  this  mortal  air; 

'T  is  we  who  mould  and  shape  the  perfect  whole, 
And  weave  each  day  her  garments  fine  and  fair. 

A  face  half  seen,  with  wistful,  kindling  eyes, 
That  woos  and  beckons  but  eludes  us  still; 

Out  of  the  brooding,  pulsing  dusk  she  cries, 
"  Lo,  I  am  born!  come  clothe  me  as  you  will !  " 
EMILY  HUNTINGTOK  MILLER. 


THE    DIAL 


[July  1, 


THE  LATE  MASTER  OF  BALLJOL,.* 

Benjamin  Jowett  has  had  many  pupils  who 
have  never  paced  Oxford  streets,  nor  dined  at 
Balliol's  table.  They  rejoice  to  have  his  biog- 
raphy in  their  hands  to-day.  It  is  well  printed, 
well  illustrated,  well  put  together.  Professor 
Campbell  has  narrated  the  early  life,  Dr.  Abbott 
the  years  of  the  Mastership.  They  have  left 
Jowett  mainly  to  speak  for  himself,  and  he 
speaks  significantly. 

No  period  of  religious  history  is  likely  to  be 
better  known  than  that  which  begins  with  "The 
Aids  to  Reflection  and  Guesses  at  Truth  "  in 
1825,  or  with  "The  Christian  Year"  in  1827, 
and  ends  with  the  close  of  our  century.  The 
materials  are  even  too  copious.  With  the  lives 
of  Dr.  Martineau  and  Archbishop  Temple, 
when  they  shall  be  written,  the  collection  for  the 
future  church  historian  to  consider  will  be  com- 
plete. The  life  of  Jowett  is  the  last  important 
addition.  Perhaps  its  authors  might  have  a 
more  sensitive  eye  for  local  color,  or  keener 
scent  for  an  illustrative  anecdote.  In  their 
scrupulous  exclusion  of  the  "  mythology  "  which 
springs  up  in  the  footprints  of  any  marked  per- 
sonality, they  have  perhaps  gone  too  far.  But 
we  are  in  no  mood  for  fault-finding.  There  is 
enough  to  enjoy  and  to  be  thankful  for ;  too 
much  easily  to  digest. 

It  was  at  the  beginning  of  the  long  peace 
that  followed  the  battle  of  Waterloo,  in  the 
year  of  the  death  of  Jane  Austen  and  Madame 
de  Stael,  that,  on  April  15,  1817,  Benjamin 
Jowett  was  born.  Through  two  previous  Ben- 
jamins, his  father  and  grandfather,  he  traced 
his  lineage  to  an  austere  patriarch,  a  convert  of 
Whitefield,  a  London  tradesman,  of  a  plain 
yeoman  stock,  two  of  whose  sons  had  been  men 
of  mark  at  Cambridge,  as  tutor  at  Magdalen, 
and  Professor  of  Civil  Law.  Jowett's  father 
was  associated  with  Lord  Shaftesbury  in  Fac- 
tory Eeform.  He  was  a  reserved,  disinterested, 
lovable  man,  unsuccessful  in  business  and  in 
journalism,  a  devotee  of  music,  a  stout  con- 
servative and  orthodox  churchman.  It  was  in 
a  sincerely  religious  household,  of  narrow  means 
and  modest  station,  bright  with  books  and 
music  and  the  air  of  liberal  culture,  that  Jowett 
passed  a  delicate  and  precocious  childhood. 

*THB  LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF  BENJAMIN  JOWETT,  M.A., 
Master  of  Balliol  College,  Oxford.  By  Evelyn  Abbott,  M.A 
and  Lewis  Campbell,  M.A.    In  two  volumes,  with  portrait 
and  illustrations.    New  York :  E.  P.  Button  &  Co 


When  his  companions  were  at  play  he  would  be 
stretched  on  the  hearth-rug  over  Pope's  Homer 
or  Rollins's  Ancient  History.  He  knew  his 
Cowper  almost  by  heart,  as  he  knew  Virgil  and 
Sophocles  and  Shakespeare  afterwards. 

At  St.  Paul's  school  from  the  age  of  twelve, 
a  round-faced,  bright-eyed  urchin,  clad  in  "  a 
perpetual  sort  of  green  sateen  jacket,"  not  at 
all  a  boy's  boy,  a  serious  student  and  voracious 
reader,  Jowett  held  his  own  as  the  best  Latinist 
of  the  school  and  as  one  who  could  speak  out 
what  he  chose  to  say.  It  was  a  power  that 
endured  with  him. 

The  decisive  incident  of  his  career,  "  the 
happiest  event  of  his  life  "  as  he  called  it,  was 
winning  a  Balliol  scholarship.  Beginning  at 
nineteen,  "  a  puny  chubby-faced  lad,"  he  went 
on  in  a  natural  scholastic  evolution,  from  under- 
graduate to  fellow,  tutor,  professor,  master  of 
his  college,  and  vice-chancellor  of  the  Univer- 
sity. Among  his  instructors  were  William 
George  Ward  and  Archibald  Tait,  the  future 
Archbishop.  Stanley  and  Temple,  John  Cole- 
ridge and  Stafford  Northcote,  Church,  Froude, 
Brodie,  and  John  Ruskin  were  among  his  con- 
temporaries. It  was  an  exciting  time  and  a 
stimulating  group.  Newman  was  still  preach- 
ing at  St.  Mary's  and  Arnold  still  sending  up 
earnest  students  from  Rugby.  Jowett  was  too 
busy  and  too  poor  to  indulge  himself  much  in 
society,  nor  was  he  swept  away  with  the  theo- 
logical whirlwinds  about  him.  Already  one  of 
his  distinctive  gifts  was  visible.  In  whatever 
stress  of  conflict,  he  preserved  "  a  characteristic 
calm,  a  passionless  tenacity."  Again,  as  among 
his  schoolmates,  he  "  held  his  own." 

Securing,  while  yet  an  undergraduate,  a  fel- 
lowship of  his  college  in  successful  competition 
with  maturer  men,  Jowett  settled  down  to  his 
university  life.  It  was  broken  only  by  brief 
vacation  journeys.  Family  cares  pressed  hard 
upon  him,  though  he  never  married  ;  there  was 
no  money  for  extended  travel  until  too  late. 
Latinist  as  he  was,  he  never  saw  Rome.  Trans- 
lator of  Plato  and  Aristotle  and  Thucydides 
as  he  was,  he  never  saw  Athens.  Far  and  wide 
ihrough  time  and  space  ranged  his  discursive 
ntellect,  but  his  outward  frame  kept  close  to 
Dxford  lawns  and  cloisters.  Early  responsi- 
bility came  to  him.  He  was  tutor  at  twenty- 
ive,  with  Arthur  Clough  and  Matthew  Arnold 
for  pupils.  The  reputation  of  his  college  quickly 
rose.  It  came  to  be  expected  that  his  pupils 
should  take  First  Classes.  He  was  a  teacher 
complete  to  the  finger-tips,  suggestive  in  all  he 
';aught.  He  stimulated  young  minds,  gave  them 


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methods,  not  results,  gave  them  a  wholesome 
distrust  of  the  words  that  override  things,  the 
terminology  which  so  often  obscures  truth.  He 
began  at  this  time  to  shed  some  of  his  tradi- 
tional evangelicalism,  while  always  clinging  to 
its  essential  verities.  For  a  time  Newman 
attracted  him.  He  was  ready  to  think  that  if 
Newman  and  his  friends  could  gain  in  charity 
toward  those  who  differed  from  them,  their 
work  might  be  "  almost  one  of  unmixed  good." 
It  was  a  vast  "  if,"  quickly  followed  by  an 
"  alas  "  upon  further  acquaintance.  Now  and 
always  Jowett  hated  religious  agitation,  while 
believing  it  sometimes  a  duty.  He  disliked 
religious  discussion  even  with  close  friends. 
In  later  years  he  grew  to  set  a  higher  value  on 
outward  expression,  and  was  willing  to  risk  cant 
rather  than  banish  religion  from  familiar  talk. 
He  was  anything  but  the  satisfied  rationalist, 
the  jaunty  liberal  that  Mallock  caricatured  in 
the  "  New  Republic."  In  every  letter  you  feel 
the  presence  of  a  profoundly  earnest  and  bur- 
dened believer,  whose  heart  repels  the  doubts 
that  his  reason  has  suggested.  Yet  for  all  his 
shrinking  from  doubt,  he  would  not  stifle 
inquiry.  The  vision  of  the  naked  truth  might 
be  ever  so  terrible,  Jowett  must  look  with  open 
eyes.  He  must  champion  the  truth  and  speak 
out  plainly.  But  he  will  insist  that  even  error 
shall  have  fair  play.  He  will  stand  with  Stanley 
for  Ward  in  a  moment  of  universal  panic,  until 
the  tragedy  dissolved  in  laughter  at  "  Hilde- 
brand  the  Married  Man." 

It  was  to  that  "  Socrates-Silenus,"  as  Jowett 
once  nicknamed  William  George  Ward,  that 
Jowett  owed  his  introduction  to  metaphysics. 
The  new  study  for  a  while  entranced  him,  but 
presently  he  weighed  it  and  found  it  wanting. 
It  lifted  him  out  of  the  fogs  of  tradition  into 
other  vaporous  regions  of  its  own.  Presently 
all  clouds  dispersed  and  he  saw  clearly.  He 
come  to  look  upon  metaphysics  as  intellectual 
exercise  rather  than  attainment,  "  a  necessity 
rather  than  a  great  good.  Its  air  is  too  rare- 
fied to  breathe  long."  His  study  of  Hegel  left 
behind  it  a  permanent  deposit  of  the  Hegelian 
attitude  and  method,  and  his  comment  on 
Hegelianism  in  the  introduction  to  Plato's 
"  Sophist  "  is  lucid  and  sympathetic.  Yet  he 
was  never  Hegel's,  nor  was  he  any  man's,  dis- 
ciple. 

It  was  about  1847  that,  with  Stanley  and 
Goldwin  Smith  and  others,  Jowett  undertook 
the  cause  of  University  Reform.  Always  a 
radical,  he  was  never  a  revolutionist.  Because 
he  went  to  the  root  of  things  he  understood 


that  time  must  be  a  factor  in  all  healthy  change 
and  permanent  progress.  "  Nothing  I  wish 
less  than  to  see  Oxford  turned  into  a  German 
or  a  London  University."  As  he  said  earlier, 
"  I  wonder  people  do  not  feel  the  curse  of  hav- 
ing no  old  to  entwine  with  the  new."  But  he 
felt  strongly  that  Oxford  needed  reform,  and 
that  only  fit  reform  could  forbid  revolution. 
In  comparison  with  foreign  universities,  Ox- 
ford still  remained  mediaeval.  "  We  are  so  far 
below  the  level  of  the  German  ocean  that  I  fear 
we  shall  one  day  be  utterly  deluged."  So 
Jowett  did  his  part  to  bring  his  university 
nearer  to  his  age. 

He  was  the  natural  successor  to  the  Master- 
ship, when,  in  1854,  Dr.  Jenkins  died.  Theo- 
logical prejudice  prevailed  and  a  "  safer  "  and 
more  learned,  but  less  able,  man  was  elected. 
It  was  not  what  Jowett  had  yet  done  which 
turned  the  scales,  but  what  he  was  felt  to  be 
capable  of  doing.  As  always,  he  would  speak 
out.  He  justified  the  anxieties  of  his  opponents 
by  publishing  his  volumes  on  certain  of  St. 
Paul's  Epistles.  The  work  was  most  original 
and  bold.  Before  it  was  quite  understood  how 
bold,  the  Greek  professorship  fell  vacant. 
Jowett's  fitness  for  it  was  beyond  question,  and 
he  was  elected  at  the  paltry  stipend  of  forty 
pounds  a  year.  Friends  came  forward  with  a 
gift  to  make  up  the  deficiency.  But  Jowett  re- 
fused it  and  waited  ten  years  for  the  authori- 
ties to  do  what  they  should,  and  raise  the  sal- 
ary to  the  fit  sum  of  five  hundred  pounds. 
Meantime  he  did  not  magnify  his  grievance, 
nor  waste  strength  in  bewailing  it.  With  or 
without  due  compensation,  he  would  work  as  if 
he  perceived  no  connection  between  work  and 
wages.  To  work  was  his  business,  to  see  that 
he  was  paid  was  Dr.  Pusey's  or  any  other  Doc- 
tor's responsibility.  It  was  "  heroic  industry  " 
with  him  at  all  times.  As  formerly  in  his 
tutorship,  so  now  in  his  professorship,  he  spent 
himself  for  his  pupils.  He  treated  his  relation 
to  them  as  a  pastoral  charge,  his  department 
of  Christian  ministry.  At  all  hours  his  door 
stood  open.  He  was  at  the  beck  and  call  of 
anyone  who  needed  him.  It  is  hard  to  see  how 
he  got  through  his  own  work,  thus  busy  with 
every  man's.  He  demanded  from  his  stu- 
dents their  best,  implied  a  belief  in  their  unde- 
veloped possibilities,  "  and  the  belief  seemed  to 
create  the  thing  believed  in."  Nor  did  his  in- 
terest end  with  the  days  of  their  pupilage. 
Letter  upon  letter  shows  how  faithfully  and 
lovingly  he  followed  them,  with  what  tact  and 
wisdom  he  counselled  or  chid  them.  He  would 


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not  cramp  or  enslave  them.  He  would  not 
rivet  their  growing  minds  upon  a  mould  of  his. 
He  would  only  help  them  to  be  most  and  best 
themselves.  He  had  doubtless  his  disappoint- 
ments, but  he  had  also  his  rich  rewards  in  a 
devotion,  an  affection,  as  he  said  with  tears, 
"  far  beyond  his  deserts."  They  judged  best 
of  that. 

The  two  stout  octavos  on  the  Epistles  to  the 
Thessalonians,  Romans,  and  Galatians  were  a 
contribution  to  a  Commentary  on  the  whole 
New  Testament  projected  by  Dr.  Arnold,  which 
Stanley  and  Jowett  long  hoped  to  complete. 
If  the  first  sample  of  Jowett's  method  had  met 
with  greater  favor,  perhaps  the  purpose  had 
been  more  fully  accomplished  and  the  Church 
yet  more  his  debtor.  The  time  was  not  ripe. 
"  I  thought  I  had  so  expressed  myself  that  re- 
ligious minds  could  not  be  wounded,"  Jowett 
wrote.  He  did  not  find  it  so.  He  had  not  only 
laid  aside  accepted  terminology,  but  he  had 
touched  to  the  quick  cherished  preconceptions, 
entangled  as  they  were  with  deep  religious  feel- 
ing. He  had  assumed  that  all  men  loved  the 
truth  as  purely  as  he  and  were  as  ready  to  wel- 
come any  frank  presentation  of  it.  He  had 
studied  St.  Paul  in  his  own  light,  and  refused 
to  subject  him  to  controversial  fires.  To  Jowett 
the  epistles  appeared  to  be,  not  dogmatic  trea- 
tises, but  occasional  letters  preserved  where 
others  had  been  lost,  revealing  the  mind  and 
character  of  their  author,  and  disclosing  the 
period  of  his  labors,  as  well  as  inspired  with  a 
precious  message.  Only  by  implication  could 
the  work  be  held  controversial.  It  argued  with 
nobody,  refuted  nobody.  It  asserted  principles, 
suggested  parallels,  appealed  to  reason  and  con- 
science, and  left  the  result  to  the  judgment  of 
open-minded  readers.  It  was  not  that  Jowett 
rejected,  but  that  he  ignored  as  irrelevant,  the 
authority  of  Greek  or  Latin  fathers  and  Angli- 
can divines.  What  said  St.  Paul's  Greek  in 
a  dialect  which  was  Hebraic  and  not  classical  ? 
What  did  such  words  from  such  a  man  at  such 
a  time  really  signify  ?  What  was  their  force, 
broadly  interpreted  in  the  spirit  rather  than 
the  letter,  not  as  a  legal  document  or  theolog- 
ical dogma,  but  as  impassioned  and  practical 
discourse?  What  lessons  of  immediate  duty 
had  they  for  men  to-day  ?  These  were  the  ques- 
tions Jowett  sought  to  ask  and  answer,  in  sim- 
ple notes  that  did  not  evade  difficulties  and 
luminous  disquisitions  which  marked  an  epoch 
in  English  theology.  Since  the  days  of  the 
Cambridge  Platonists,  if  we  except  Coleridge 
and  Arnold,  no  such  voice  had  been  heard  as 


this.  "  There  was  no  mistaking  what  this  man 
meant."  There  is  much  of  such  frank  discus- 
sion now ;  then  there  was  little.  Divines  were 
enlisted  in  party  camps  and  rarely  ventured 
beyond  them.  This  man  walked  in  the  open. 
His  neighbors  first  stared,  then  grew  pale,  then 
reddened  with  rage.  He  held  that  when  men 
were  inspired  they  still  remained  human.  It 
was  a  dangerous  proposition ;  it  was  no  better 
than  Milman's  calling  Abraham  an  Arab  sheik. 
It  meant  mischief,  nobody  knew  exactly  what 
or  how,  but  it  must  be  put  down  before  it 
should  go  farther.  Yet  this  was  not  the  worst. 
Jowett  had  ventured  upon  a  thorough  treat- 
ment of  the  great  theme  of  the  Atonement.  The 
subject  was  in  the  air.  Independently,  at  the 
same  period,  McLeod  Campbell  was  handling 
it  in  Scotland  and  Horace  Bushnell  in  Con- 
necticut. It  was  a  theme  so  interwoven  with 
the  most  sacred  memories  and  experiences  that 
it  could  not  be  touched  without  jarring  upon 
many  of  the  simple  and  devout,  as  well  as  upon 
all  the  bigoted  and  dogmatic,  spirits  of  the  time. 
To  use  Stuart  Mill's  luminous  distinction,  it 
was  not  what  it  denoted  but  what  it  connoted 
that  gave  occasion  for  alarm.  Jowett,  who  always 
dealt  with  truth  as  in  a  vacuum,  forgot  that 
others  saw  her  veiled  in  a  cloud  and  could  not 
distinguish  a  dispersion  of  the  vapor  from  an 
outrage  upon  the  form.  He  spoke  out  plainly 
and  gave  more  offence  than  there  was  need  to 
give.  To  remove  such  obstructions  the  essay 
was  rewritten  for  the  edition  of  1859.  Another 
essay  was  not  ready  for  either  the  first  or  the 
second  edition.  In  the  third  edition  of  1894 
it  has  found  its  place.  It  was  upon  the  inter- 
pretation of  Scripture,  and  formed  part  of  the 
volume  called  "  Essays  and  Reviews." 

That  very  unequal  volume  by  several  hands 
roused  a  violent  commotion.  The  orthodoxy 
of  the  church  was  morbidly  irritable.  Convo- 
cation lost  its  head.  Clamor  and  panic  ruled 
the  hour.  Scholars  like  Thirlwall,  recent  her- 
esiarchs  like  Hampden,  even  liberals  like  Mau- 
rice, joined  the  cry.  The  heresy-hunt  began. 
Jowett  had  spoken  out,  and  now  quietly  held 
his  own.  Pained  by  the  obloquy,  he  made 
no  complaint,  offered  no  apology.  Phillips 
Brooks  in  like  case  was  grandly  silent.  It 
was  a  wise  attitude  at  a  season  when  men 
thought  "  that  no  enlightened  person  should  be- 
come a  clergyman,  and  that  the  clergyman  who 
became  enlightened  should  be  unfrocked." 
American  opinion  reflected  English.  When 
our  one  Broad  Church  bishop  of  that  period 
denied  that  each  particle  of  the  buried  body 


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would  be  re-united  with  its  fellows  in  the  final 
resurrection,  an  able  layman  remarked  that  the 
denial  was  just,  but  dreadful  from  the  lips  of 
a  bishop.  Jowett  said  that  if  it  rained  mitres 
no  one  of  them  could  possibly  fit  him.  Cer- 
tainly no  mitre  could  have  muzzled  him  and  no 
storm  beating  upon  his  mitred  or  unmitred  head 
could  have  dismayed  him.  In  a  letter  to  Ten- 
nyson's children  he  gave  them  in  capitals  two 
golden  counsels,  Never  Fear  and  Never  Cry. 
He  had  tried  them  both  before  giving  them. 
He  stood  his  ground  and  scorned  to  whimper. 
He  liked  success,  owned  to  a  prejudice  against 
those  who  fail,  but  for  his  own  part  his  only 
recognition  of  failure  was  as  a  spur  to  effort. 
It  did  not  embitter  him,  if  it  left  him  sore. 
He  would  patiently  tolerate  even  the  intoler- 
ant. But  he  would  "wait  for  another  world 
before  joining  in  any  closer  union  with  them." 
It  is  the  very  instinct  of  self-preservation,  akin 
to  his  who  said  of  certain  troubling  spirits : 
"  They  are  good  people.  We  shall  meet  them 
in  heaven,  and  that  is  soon  enough." 

Jowett  was  seventy  years  old  when  a  serious 
illness  left  him  a  chronic  invalid,  compelled  to 
measure  his  tasks  and  reduce  his  hours  of 
working.  Still  he  made  great  plans  and  would 
toil  to  the  last.  "  What  a  fate,"  he  said,  "  for 
a  man  to  retire  for  contemplation,  and  then  to 
find  he  had  nothing  to  think  about.  But  per- 
haps he  would  never  find  out !  "  was  his  play- 
ful comment.  Such  hapless  lot  could  not  be 
Jowett's.  If  he  had  nothing  else  to  think  of 
there  were  always  the  affairs  of  his  friends  to 
interest  him.  He  had  a  marvellous  genius  for 
friendship  and  could  love  a  score  as  few  men 
can  love  anyone.  The  close  of  his  life  was 
shadowed  by  their  departure.  Stanley,  Lord 
Iddesleigh,  Matthew  Arnold,  Robert  Brown- 
ing, Lord  Sherbrooke,  Alfred  Tennyson,  were 
gone,  and  it  was  time  for  an  old  man  to 

41  Wrap  the  drapery  of  his  couch 
About  him  and  lie  down  to  pleasant  dreams." 

At  Hedly  Park,  on  a  visit  to  dear  friends,  the 
not  unwelcome  summons  came.  It  was  a  Sun- 
day afternoon,  the  first  day  of  October  in  the 
year  1893.  As  he  lay  in  his  last  sleep  "  the 
moon  shone  in  and  lit  up  his  beautiful  marble 
face  and  the  shining  white  hair.  There  seemed 
a  blending  of  the  dignity  of  age  and  the  sim- 
plicity and  radiant  freshness  of  youth."  Among 
his  last  words  were  :  "  Mine  has  been  a  happy 
life.  I  bless  God  for  my  happy  life." 

It  had  been  a  rarely  wise  and  useful  and  dis- 
tinguished life.  It  had  spared  no  labor  to  at- 
tain excellence,  it  had  spent  itself  on  others,  it 


had  kept  ever  before  it  noble  aims.  Jowett 
had  early  discerned  the  preciousness  and  ma- 
jesty of  truth,  and  had  followed  where  truth 
led  him  through  all  mazes  of  opinion.  If  he 
threw  down  idols  it  was  not  from  love  of  de- 
struction, but  to  make  room  for  the  living 
spirit  whose  place  they  had  usurped.  Nothing 
can  be  less  just  than  to  regard  Jowett  as  one 
who  sought  revolution  or  fostered  unbelief.  He 
encountered  and  brushed  aside  doubts  on  his 
way  to  positive  convictions.  "  Doubt,"  he  said 
in  one  of  those  earnest  sermons  which  he 
preached  to  the  young  men  with  whom  his 
days  were  spent,  "  is  not  some  great  exertion 
of  the  mind,  but  mere  weakness.  .  .  .  We  may 
hope  to  live  through  it  like  other  disorders." 
He  declared  indulgence  in  doubt  "  the  spirit 
most  alien  to  that  of  inquiry.  It  might  be  called 
the  ghost  of  inquiry."  He  bewailed  the  scep- 
tic mood  which  an  age  of  science,  not  yet  con- 
scious of  its  own  limitations,  had  bred  among 
the  young.  He  felt  that  it  was  a  mood  not  to 
be  argued  down  but  to  be  lived  down.  "  Our 
reason  is  in  great  measure  dependent  upon  our 
will."  "  Belief  must  radiate  from  life.  What 
we  are  in  a  certain  sense  we  shall  believe."  In 
his  sermons  and  in  his  letters  you  feel  that  this 
great  teacher  is  not  primarily  concerned  with 
thought  but  with  conduct  and  character,  that 
he  is  moralist  and  pastor  of  souls  even  more 
than  theologian  or  philosopher.  You  feel  that 
to  him  simple  goodness  is  the  soul's  chief  good. 
"  Let  us  know  no  other  watchwords  but  the 
life  of  Christ,  the  mind  of  Christ,  the  cross  of 
Christ,"  he  said. 

The  accusers  of  Ian  Maclaren  and  Bishop 
Sessums  might  perhaps  detect  flaws  in  Jowett's 
theology.  His  working  creed  was  more  brief 
than  the  Athanasian  symbol.  It  did  not  define 
miracles  or  state  the  precise  limits  of  nature 
and  the  supernatural.  It  did  not  sharply  dis- 
sever the  inspiration  of  the  Psalmists  and  St. 
Paul  from  that  of  Plato  and  Tennyson.  It  laid 
more  stress  on  holiness  than  upon  sin,  upon 
love  and  pity  than  upon  wrath  and  judgment. 
It  emphasized  the  ethical  elements  of  religion 
and  found  in  conduct  the  safest  criterion  of 
character,  and  in  character  the  surest  evidence 
of  life.  Jowett  was  a  man  of  faith,  though  he 
sometimes  saw  dimly,  of  hope  and  love  always. 
He  was  of  the  pure  in  heart,  who  may  be  blind 
to  many  things,  but  still  see  God.  However 
he  erred  in  opinion,  he  ever  sought  and  served 
the  truth.  That  is  the  orthodoxy  that  will  be 
worth  most  to  us  when  all  accounts  are  reck- 
oned up.  Meanwhile,  these  are  safe  watch- 


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words  :  "  the  life  of  Christ,  the  mind  of  Christ, 
the  cross  of  Christ." 

A  former  President  of  Yale,  Dr.  Woolsey, 
in  a  sonnet  of  great  beauty,  tells  us  how  St. 
John  found 

"  The  blindfold  Plato  trembling  at  the  door  " 

of  Heaven,  and  that  he 

" led  the  mild  enthusiast  on 

Towards  the  Eternal  Word,  Heaven's  source  of  Day. 
Then  loosed  the  bandage  and  the  sage,  no  more 
A  sage  but  saint,  beheld  and  knelt  to  adore." 

If  we  can  imagine  the  Master  of  Balliol  look- 
ing on  at  that  august  presentation,  we  may  see 
his  face  smiling,  yet  grave  with  a  dreamy  per- 
plexity, and  hear  from  him  in  that  "  cherubic 
chirp  "  which  his  friends  delight  to  remember, 
"I  thought  you  had  known  one  another  all 
along."  Where  wisdom  and  goodness  were, 
Jowett  believed  Christ  must  ever  be. 

C.  A.  L.  RICHARDS. 


NATURE  AND  WILD  LIFE.* 

"We  have  come  to  that  time,"  says  Mr. 
Charles  M.  Skinner,  in  the  volume  mentioned 
below,  "  when  we  begin  to  feel  as  well  as  to  see 
in  the  presence  of  woods,  hills,  oceans,  and 
stars  ;  there  are  hints  and  portents  in  them  that 
a  new  consciousness  tries  to  read."  It  is  finally 
dawning  upon  the  human  mind  that  there  is  a 

*  NATURE  IN  A  CITY  YARD.  Some  Rambling  Disserta- 
tions Thereon.  By  Charles  M.  Skinner,  author  of  "  Myths 
and  Legends  of  Our  Own  Land."  New  York :  The  Century 
Co. 

UPON  THE  TREE-TOPS.  By  Olive  Thome  Miller.  Illus- 
trated by  F.  Carter  Beard.  Boston :  Honghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

BiRD-LiFE.  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of  our  Common  Birds. 
By  Frank  M.  Chapman.  With  75  full-page  Plates  and  nu- 
merous Text  Drawings  by  Ernest  Seton  Thompson.  New 
York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

THE  PROCESSION  OF  THE  FLOWERS,  and  Kindred  Papers. 
By  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson.  With  an  Index  of  Plants 
and  Animals  Mentioned.  New  York:  Longmans,  Green, 
&Co. 

MEMORIES  OF  THE  MONTHS.  Being  Pages  from  a  Note- 
book of  a  Field-Naturalist  and  Antiquary.  By  Sir  Herbert 
Maxwell,  Bart.  New  York:  Edward  Arnold. 

ROUND  THE  YEAR.  A  Series  of  Short  Nature  Studies.  By 
Professor  L.  C.  Miall,  F.R.S.  With  illustrations,  chiefly  by 
A.  R.  Hammond,  F.L.S.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

IN  THE  GARDEN  OF  PEACE.  By  Helen  Milman  (Mrs.  Cold- 
well  Crof  ton).  Illustrated  by  Edmund  H.  New.  New  York: 
John  Lane. 

HOPKINS'S  POND,  AND  OTHER  SKETCHES.  By  Robert  J. 
Morris.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

THE  STORY  OF  THE  BIRDS.  By  James  Newton  Baskett, 
M.A.,  Associate  Member  of  the  American  Ornithologists' 
Union.  Appletons'  Home  Reading  Books.  New  York :  D. 
Appleton  &  Co. 

THE  PLANT  WORLD:  Its  Romances  and  Realities.  A 
Reading  Book  of  Botany.  Compiled  and  edited  by  Frank 
Vincent,  M.A.  Appletons'  Home  Reading  Books.  New 
York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


significance  in  the  life  which  animates  and  beau- 
tifies our  earth  which  it  is  worth  our  while  to 
consider,  not  only  for  the  widening  of  our  intel- 
lectual horizon,  but  for  the  continual  joy  it  may 
infuse  into  our  daily  experience.  There  are 
evidences  of  this  late  awakening  in  various  pop- 
ular movements  toward  nature-study  and  in  a 
rapidly  increasing  literature  aiming  to  promote 
the  same  useful  purpose.  The  array  of  books 
herewith  presented  testifies  to  the  growing 
interest  in  the  pages  of  Nature. 

Few  volumes  are  more  entertaining  than  that 
in  which  Mr.  Skinner  tells  of  the  health  and 
happiness  to  be  found  in  cultivating  "  Nature 
in  a  City  Yard."  The  portion  of  the  earth's  do- 
main lying  in  the  rear  of  the  author's  Brooklyn 
residence  is  only  eighteen  feet  by  fifty,  yet  from 
this  restricted  area  he  contrives  to  extract  mar- 
vels of  enjoyment.  In  the  height  of  the  flower- 
ing season  he  feasts  his  eyes  upon  nearly  sixty 
varieties  of  plants  in  bloom  at  the  same  time.  All 
the  pleasures  of  a  successful  gardener  are  his  ; 
but  to  these  he  adds  the  refinements  of  the  man 
of  culture,  the  humorist,  and  the  philosopher. 
As  he  digs  and  plants  and  waters  and  prunes 
in  his  tiny,  thrifty  precinct,  his  thoughts  are 
as  busy  as  his  hands,  and  every  circumstance 
connected  with  his  work  suggests  some  sage, 
shrewd,  genial,  or  merry  idea.  His  writing 
proclaims  him  a  man  of  versatility,  a  scholar, 
a  wag,  with  keen  insight,  a  light  heart,  and  a 
passionate  leaning  toward  nature.  "  Pessimism 
is  worse  than  tragedy,"  he  avers ;  "  it  is  a 
tragedy  of  the  soul ;  the  attitude  of  a  tired-out 
race.  When  we  keep  in  touch  with  Nature  we 
share  her  splendid  life.  For  Nature,  even  a 
yardf  ul  of  it,  makes  health  in  her  communicant. 
Get  away  from  self-consciousness.  Think  not 
of  your  mind  nor  of  your  fate.  Why  be  always 
thinking  on  your  end  ?  as  graveyard  literature 
hath  it.  We  are  here  to  live  ;  not  to  die."  He 
is  content  with  his  lot ;  and,  reflecting  on  the 
cares  and  miseries  of  the  rich,  cheerily  observes 
that  "  The  chief  blessing  of  poverty  is  that 
other  folks  do  n't  ask  you  to  help  them  to  live." 
His  pages  are  sown  with  wise  and  witty  sayings, 
and  provoke  many  a  welcome  laugh  as  well  as 
serious  moment  of  meditation. 

We  have  but  to  announce  a  new  volume 
by  Mrs.  Olive  Thorne  Miller  to  assure  the 
nature-lover  of  a  literary  treat.  Mrs.  Miller's 
writings  are  invariably  crisp  and  spicy,  and  are 
composed  of  substantial  as  well  as  appetizing 
substance.  "Upon  the  Tree  -  Tops  "  brings 
within  a  single  pair  of  book -lids  thirteen 
sketches  of  bird-life  which,  with  one  or  two  ex- 


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ceptions,  have  previously  attracted  attention  in 
the  pages  of  "  The  Atlantic  Monthly  "  and  sim- 
ilar periodicals.  They  will  bear  a  second  pe- 
rusal, and  in  their  present  pretty  setting  are 
even  more  engaging  than  in  their  original  form. 
They  are  accompanied  by  ten  full-page  engrav- 
ings by  Mr.  F.  Carter  Beard,  which  are  unus- 
ually interesting  in  design  and  are  exquisitely 
reproduced.  The  opening  sketch,  describing 
"  Tramps  with  an  Enthusiast,"  is  perhaps  the 
most  entertaining  of  the  entire  number,  from 
its  abundant  humor  and  lively  incident.  If 
there  be  a  specially  blissful  experience  in  this 
mortal  life,  it  is  that  which  comes  to  a  pair 
of  enthusiastic  ornithologists  out  in  the  field 
pursuing  the  objects  of  their  affection  under 
favorable  conditions.  Such  were  the  circum- 
stances depicted  in  this  opening  chapter.  Suc- 
ceeding portions  of  the  volume  relate  with 
piquant  grace  Mrs.  Miller's  observations  of  the 
humming-bird  in  nesting-time,  the  winter  wren 
in  its  Northern  home,  the  chat,  the  shrike,  and 
other  fascinating  members  of  the  feathered  race 
in  the  happy  relations  of  family  life.  The  au- 
thor is  one  who  looks  upon  nature  with  a  keen 
and  attentive  eye,  and  tells  us  little  that  she 
has  not  seen  and  studied  for  herself.  Her  con- 
tributions to  bird  -  literature  are  therefore  as 
trustworthy  in  substance  as  they  are  agreeable 
in  form. 

It  is  two  years  since  Mr.  Frank  M.  Chapman 
published  his  valuable  handbook  on  the  "  Birds 
of  Eastern  North  America,"  and  now  he  has 
followed  it  with  a  smaller  supplementary  work 
in  which  his  masterly  attainments  in  the  science 
of  ornithology  are  equally  well  shown.  This 
second  volume  does  not  aim  to  give  as  compre- 
hensive a  view  of  "  Bird  Life  "  in  the  United 
States  as  did  the  first,  but  it  contains  as  much 
of  the  choicest  information  regarding  a  hundred 
or  more  of  our  familiar  species  as  could  be 
compressed  within  its  limits.  The  opening  chap- 
ters present  a  clear,  concise  summary  of  the 
evolution  of  the  chief  features  of  the  bird,  of 
its  colors,  of  the  curious  phenomena  connected 
with  its  migration,  of  its  song  and  its  domestic 
habits,  together  with  directions  for  identifying 
and  classifying  it.  The  concluding  portion  is 
filled  with  attractive  descriptions  of  the  species 
we  are  most  likely  to  meet  in  the  woods  and 
fields  and  by  the  wayside.  The  illustrations 
with  which  the  book  is  generously  provided  are 
true  to  the  life  in  form  and  attitude,  and  higher 
praise  cannot  be  given.  The  student  who  selects 
this  work  as  a  guide  to  his  observations  of  bird- 
life  will  not  go  amiss. 


A  half-dozen  pleasant  Summer  sketches  by 
Mr.  T.  W.  Higginson  are  included  in  the  vol- 
ume entitled  "  The  Procession  of  the  Flowers." 
The  papers  do  not  now  appear  in  print  for  the 
first  time.  Some  of  them  bear  a  date  several 
years  back ;  but  they  well  preserve  their  early 
freshness  and  charm.  Their  author  has  truly 
said  :  "  No  person  can  portray  nature  from  any 
slight  or  transient  acquaintance."  Mr.  Hig- 
ginson has  loved  and  studied  the  phases  of  the 
out-door  world  throughout  a  long  life-time.  He 
knows  the  flowers,  the  insects,  the  birds,  and 
seldom  errs  in  writing  of  them.  Not  only  their 
names  but  their  individual  traits,  their  distinc- 
tive peculiarities,  are  familiar  to  him  ;  and  he 
characterizes  each  with  the  right  word  or  the 
felicitous  phrase.  Of  the  humming-bird,  "  the 
smallest  of  feathery  things,  and  the  loveliest," 
he  asks :  "  Did  gems  turn  to  flowers,  flowers 
to  feathers,  in  that  long-past  dynasty  of  the 
Humming- Birds  ?  "  And,  lost  in  surprise  over 
the  miracle  of  a  bird's  egg,  he  observes  won- 
deringly  :  "  That  one  may  bear  home  between 
his  fingers  all  that  winged  splendor,  all  that 
celestial  melody,  coiled  in  mystery  within  these 
tiny  walls  !  —  it  is  as  if  a  pearl  opened  and  an 
angel  sang." 

Such  books  as  "  Memories  of  the  Months," 
by  Sir  Herbert  Maxwell,  exemplify  the  full 
value  of  the  powers  of  observation  and  appre- 
ciation. Nothing  worthy  of  note  escapes  the 
author's  view  or  fails  to  yield  a  due  degree  of 
satisfaction.  The  precious  habit  of  looking  at 
things  attentively  and  of  transcribing  at  the 
instant  the  points  exciting  interest  has  put  him 
in  possession  of  a  mass  of  valuable  observations 
from  which  his  present  volume  is  drawn.  They 
relate  chiefly  to  objects  in  nature,  and  yet  in 
part  refer  to  the  works  of  man,  for  the  author 
is  an  earnest  antiquarian  as  well  as  field  natur- 
alist. Wide  culture  and  a  genial  frame  of 
mind  are  reflected  in  his  literary  style,  which 
is  unpretending  and  elegant.  The  "  Memories," 
having  an  intimate  connection  with  the  varying 
seasons,  are  ranged  in  sections  under  the  suc- 
cessive months  of  the  year,  and  thus  form  a 
coherent  whole.  With  the  embellishment  of 
pictures,  the  fine  letter-press,  and  the  dainty 
binding,  the  book  is  a  most  attractive  one 
throughout. 

The  volume  entitled  "  Round  the  Year,"  by 
Professor  L.  C.  Miall,  contains  a  series  of 
natural-history  sketches  suggested  by  incidents 
which  took  place  under  the  author's  observa- 
tion at  different  seasons  and  places  in  the  year 
1895.  He  is  a  man  of  science  and  a  trained 


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observer.  No  event  in  nature  escapes  his  notice, 
and  each  is  searched  with  a  careful  eye,  that  its 
origin  and  destiny  may  if  possible  be  discovered. 
His  sketches  cover  a  multitude  of  subjects  in 
astronomy,  botany,  meteorology,  ornithology, 
entomology,  and  various  other  ologies.  He 
leads  the  reader  into  studies  that  are  profound 
although  not  prolonged,  revealing,  as  he  goes 
along,  a  mass  of  curious  and  engaging  facts, 
such  as  lie  in  every  object  of  the  outer  world, 
ready  to  disclose  themselves  to  the  inquiring 
mind.  Some  of  his  most  interesting  investiga- 
tions are  connected  with  such  subjects  as 
"  Snowflakes,"  "Catkins,"  "The  Cuckoo," 
"  Gossamer,"  "  The  Structure  of  a  Feather," 
and  "  Tennyson  as  a  Naturalist."  But  his 
work  is  of  an  earnest  and  even  quality  through- 
out, blending  instruction  with  entertainment 
in  the  manner  of  an  adroit  expounder.  The 
book  is  very  handsomely  produced,  the  illustra- 
tions being  especially  minute  in  line  and  clear 
in  cut. 

"  In  the  Garden  of  Peace  "  is  a  winning  title, 
and  its  effect  is  fully  sustained  by  the  chapters 
it  binds  together  in  a  unified  construction.  The 
"  Garden  "  was  a  "  Paradise  of  Birds,"  as  its 
owner,  "  Helen  Milman,"  asserts  on  the  title- 
page  and  clearly  establishes  in  the  progress  of 
her  volume.  It  belonged  to  a  secluded  estate, 
remote  from  the  village,  almost  hidden,  indeed, 
by  surrounding  woods  ;  and  it  possessed  ideal 
charms  for  the  lover  of  Nature  in  her  more  quiet 
forms.  "  It  was  aglow  with  the  colors  of  a  thou- 
sand flowers  throughout  the  seasons  of  budding 
and  blooming,  gay  with  the  butterflies  sipping 
their  sweets,  and  joyous  all  the  year  round  with 
the  life  and  the  song  of  the  birds  which  made 
their  homes  in  every  tree  and  bush,  secure  of 
the  loved  protection  of  the  Adam  and  Eve  who 
dwelt  in  unalloyed  happiness  in  the  midst  of 
this  earthly  paradise."  The  chapters  severally 
depicting  the  flowers  and  the  birds  glorifying 
the  "  Garden  of  Peace  "  are  in  such  harmony 
with  their  spirit  that  one  is  soothed  and  de- 
lighted as  with  an  actual^  visit  to  the  lovely 
scene.  They  impart  a  fresh  sense  of  the  pos- 
sibilities for  the  culture  of  our  better  selves, 
which  the  beautiful  objects  of  nature  always 
possess. 

Mr.  Robert  J.  Morris  displays  a  decided  lit- 
erary gift,  as  well  as  a  keen  love  of  sport,  in 
the  collection  of  sketches  which  bear  the  name 
of  the  first  one  in  the  series,  "  Hopkins's  Pond." 
They  have  been  written  without  effort  and  with- 
out restraint,  a  fine  instinct  permitting  the  au- 
thor to  yield  himself  with  entire  abandon  to  the 


mood  for  description  or  reminiscence.  He  is  an 
animated  and  engaging  narrator,  and  has  a  gen- 
uine appreciation  of  nature,  gaining  our  hearty 
good-will  through  these  faculties,  despite  the 
lamentable  fact  that  he  rejoices  in  beguiling 
the  duck  to  his  death  by  means  of  a  base  decoy, 
and  delights  in  torturing  the  captive  trout  until 
its  last  breath  is  expired. 

Messrs.  Appleton  &  Co.'s  promising  series 
of  "  Home  Reading  Books,"  edited  by  Dr. 
William  T.  Harris,  gives  the  first  place  in  its 
Natural  History  division  to  a  valuable  little 
work,  by  Mr.  James  Newton  Baskett,  relating 
"  The  Story  of  the  Birds."  The  title  is  in  a 
slight  degree  misleading,  as  the  book  is  prac- 
tically a  history  of  the  evolution  of  the  birds  — 
of  their  structure,  pedigrees,  costumes,  and 
customs  —  as  far  as  this  can  at  present  be  un- 
folded. In  every  respect  it  deserves  commenda- 
tion, its  author  exhibiting  a  good  command  of 
his  subject  and  a  persuasive  way  of  presenting 
it.  His  readers  are  expected  to  be  largely  of 
the  juvenile  class ;  yet  the  older  students  of 
bird-lore  will  take  pleasure  in  the  volume,  and 
profit  also,  so  skilfully  are  its  contents  ordered, 
so  clearly  and  with  so  much  charm  of  manner 
are  they  set  forth.  There  was  room  in  the 
naturalist's  library  for  just  such  a  treatise,  and 
Mr.  Baskett  has  spared  no  pains  to  fit  his 
treatise  for  useful  service.  The  book  is  very 
neatly  printed  and  excellently  illustrated,  and 
to  aid  the  reader  in  easy  reference  to  its  myriad 
topics  a  compact  analysis  of  the  chapters  is  fur- 
nished at  the  beginning  with  an  ample  index  at 
the  close.  To  crown  the  merits  of  the  volume, 
it  is  offered  at  a  price  so  low  that  the  humblest 
home  may  lay  it  among  the  treasures  of  its 
reading-table. 

The  second  number  of  Appletons'  series  of 
"  Home  Reading  Books "  is  less  satisfactory 
than  the  first.  It  is  a  compilation  of  passages 
from  various  authors,  relating  to  strange  and 
striking  members  of  "  The  Plant  World."  In 
too  many  cases  the  extracts  are  not  as  simple 
and  engaging  in  style  as  they  should  be.  They 
lack  life,  and  give  one  the  feeling  that  they  are 
done  at  second-hand,  rather  than  from  personal 
knowledge  of  the  objects  described.  A  few 
evince  the  enthusiasm  of  the  botanist  who 
speaks  from  actual  experience.  Surely  the 
editor  could  have  found  abundant  material  for 
his  purpose  in  the  works  of  recent  writers  who 
depict  Nature  in  all  her  forms  with  an  intelli- 
gence and  eloquence  which  capture  the  heart  of 
every  reader. 

SARA  A.  HUBBARD. 


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TRAVELS  FAR  AND  VARIOUS.* 

The  wheelman  contributes  a  new  element  of 
interest  to  books  of  travel.  The  story  of  adventures 
of  the  steel  steed,  on  various  roads  and  in  peculiar 
situations,  takes  the  place  of  remarks,  critical  and 
otherwise,  on  horses  and  conveyances,  or  on  steam- 
ers and  railways,  to  which  we  have  become  accus- 
tomed in  the  older  literature  of  travel.  One  of  the 
latest  contributions  to  the  fast  increasing  books  of 
bicycle  travel  is  "  Sketches  Awheel  in  Modern 
Iberia,"  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Workman.  The 
tale  of  their  trip  will  hardly  encourage  imitators, 
for  our  authors  suffered  much  from  heat  and  from 
the  villainous  roads,  were  attacked  by  irate  mule- 
drivers,  and  were  stoned  by  malicious  children. 
However,  they  sometimes  had  their  reward,  as  in 
the  forty-mile  ride  from  Elche  to  Murcia,  of  which 
they  say : 

"  We  have  taken  grand  rides,  desolate  rides,  and 
lovely  rides,  but  never  one  so  intoxicatingly  beautiful  as 
this  through  African  Spain.  And  in  praising  we  echo 
the  words  of  a  German,  one  of  the  few  writers  on  Spain 
who  appear  to  have  visited  this  region,  « Why  is  this 
lovely  corner  of  the  world  so  little  known  ? ' " 

They  made  the  tour  of  the  principal  cities  of  Spain, 
and  varied  their  travels  by  a  mule-back  ride  from 
Tangier  to  Tetuan,  Morocco.  The  writers  have 
little  that  is  new  or  notable  to  tell,  and  the  style  is 
for  the  most  part  rather  commonplace,  though  an 
occasional  sketch,  as  that  of  their  stay  at  the  inn  of 
Tarancon,  shows  considerable  descriptive  power. 
Foreign  words  are  too  much  in  evidence  :  in  the 
space  of  three  sentences  we  notice  Spanish,  German, 
and  French.  The  book  contains  a  fair  map,  and 
the  photographic  illustrations  are  clear. 

In  "Naples  in  the  Nineties,"  Mr.  E.  Neville- 
Rolfe,  English  Consul  for  South  Italy,  gives  in 
attractive  style  some  instructive  chapters  on  the 
Naples  of  yesterday  and  to-day,  on  the  survivals  of 
ancient  paganism  and  mediaeval  witchcraft,  on  ex- 
cursions to  the  buried  cities  of  Campania,  to  a 
garden-farm,  and  to  various  places  of  interest  near 
Naples  and  its  famous  bay,  and  closing  with  an 

*  SKETCHES  AWHEEL  IN  MODERN  IBERIA.  By  Fanny 
Bullock  Workman  and  William  Hunter  Workman.  Illus- 
trated. New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

NAPLES  IN  THE  NINETIES.  A  Sequel  to  Naples  in  1888. 
By  E.  Neville-Rolfe.  Illustrated.  London :  A.  &  C.  Black. 

THE  FALL  OF  THE  CONGO  ARABS.  By  Sidney  Langford 
Hinde.  New  York  :  Thomas  Whittaker. 

WILD  NORWAY.  By  Abel  Chapman.  Illustrated.  New 
York :  Edward  Arnold. 

SKETCHES  OF  TRAVEL  IN  NORMANDY  AND  MAINE.  By 
Edward  A.  Freeman.  Illustrated.  New  York :  Macmillan  Co. 

IN  JOYFUL  RUSSIA.  By  John  A.  Logan,  Jr.  Illustrated. 
New  York  :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

LETTERS  FROM  THE  SCENES  OF  THE  RECENT  MASSACRES 
IN  ARMENIA.  By  J.  Rendel  Harris  and  Helen  B.  Harris. 
Illustrated.  Chicago :  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co. 

THE  OUTGOING  TURK.  By  H.  C.  Thomson.  Illustrated. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

A  RIDE  THROUGH  WESTERN  ASIA.  By  Clive  Bigham. 
Illustrated.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


eighteenth-century  diary  of  an  Italian  tour.  The 
book  seems  primarily  designed  for  the  tourist ;  and 
while  of  especial  value  to  him,  it  will  yet  be  of  ser- 
vice to  any  reader  who  wishes  to  understand  the 
Italy  of  to-day.  Naples  of  late  years  has  felt  the 
progressive  spirit  which  has  been  permeating  all 
Italy.  Streets  have  been  widened,  slums  removed, 
sewers  constructed,  new  industries  started,  and 
the  play  of  the  Nativity  suppressed.  Says  our 
author : 

"  The  time  is  coming  when  a  Neapolitan  will  answer 
a  letter,  keep  an  appointment,  have  some  little  regard 
for  truth  and  some  small  respect  for  the  feelings  of  his 
neighbors.  The  cabman  will  some  day  drive  with  whips 
which  do  not  rend  the  air  with  their  terrible  cracking; 
they  will  learn  kindness  to  animals,  and  the  use  of  soap 
and  water;  insect  life  will  be  kept  at  bay,  and  the  city 
will  fall  to  the  dead  level  of  Paris,  Berlin,  or  any  other 
civilized  town." 

Yet  we  are  glad  to  believe  him  when  he  elsewhere 
says  that  "  Naples  has  a  quaintness  and  charm  of 
her  own,  which  municipalities  cannot  destroy,  and 
civilization  cannot  altogether  wreck."  The  author 
has  long  been  resident  in  Italy,  and,  writing  from 
full  knowledge,  has  given  us  an  excellent  handbook 
to  Naples  and  to  Campania  in  general. 

Captain  S.  L.  Hinde  tells  us,  in  "  The  Fall  of  the 
Congo  Arabs,"  a  simple  but  graphic  story  of  the 
conquest  and  expulsion  of  the  Arab  traders  from 
Nyangwe  and  Kasongo  by  the  Belgians  of  the  Congo 
Free  State.  This  struggle  the  author  regards  as  "  a 
turning-point  in  African  history,"  in  that  it  crushed 
out  an  incipient  Mohammedan  Empire  of  slave 
raiders  in  the  Congo  Basin.  Besides  this  first-hand 
account  of  a  notable  conflict  between  European  and 
Arab,  we  find  in  this  book  many  entertaining  and 
instructive  remarks  on  the  country  and  its  inhabit- 
ants. For  instance,  the  author's  descriptions  of  the 
African  road,  of  the  "  water  people,"  and  of  the 
pigmies,  are  distinctly  interesting.  On  cannibals 
and  their  practices  he  gives  the  fullest  information 
we  have  come  across.  He  learned  that 
"  The  prisoner  or  slave  who  was  to  form  the  piece  de 
resistance  had  always  his  arms  and  legs  broken  three 
days  beforehand,  and  was  then  placed  in  a  stream,  or 
pool  of  water,  chin-deep,  with  his  head  tied  to  a  stick  to 
prevent  his  committing  suicide,  or  perhaps  falling  asleep 
and  thus  getting  drowned.  On  the  third  day  he  was  taken 
out  and  killed,  the  meat  then  being  very  tender." 

Again,  he  says  that 

"  When  the  chief  of  the  town  —  who  is  of  course  an 
absolute  monarch  —  decides  that  a  man  must  die,  he 
hands  him  over  to  the  people.  He  is  immediately  torn 
to  pieces,  and  disappears  as  quickly  as  a  hare  is  broken 
up  by  a  pack  of  hounds.  Every  man  lays  hold  of  him 
at  once  with  one  hand,  and  with  the  other  whips  off  the 
piece  with  his  knife;  no  one  stops  to  kill  him  first,  for 
he  would  by  doing  so  lose  his  piece." 

During  the  two  years'  war  with  Arabs,  cannibalism 
was  rife  after  battles  and  the  storming  of  towns ; 
the  "  human  wolves  disposed  of  all  the  dead,  leaving 
nothing  even  for  the  jackals."  Finally,  as  a  picture 


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of  African  savagery,  we  cannot  refrain  from  quoting 
Captain  Hinde's  description  of  N'  Gandu. 

"  The  village,  containing  from  ten  to  fifteen  thousand 
inhabitants,  was  oval  in  form,  and  strongly  fortified  by 
a  double  ditch  and  loopholed  earthwork,  the  whole 
being  surrounded  by  a  palisade.  The  top  of  every  tree 
in  this  palisade  was  crowned  with  a  human  skull.  Six 
gateways  defended  the  village;  and,  after  passing 
through  each  gate,  it  was  necessary  to  traverse  a  tunnel, 
some  thirty  yards  long,  made  out  of  piles  of  large  tim- 
ber, and  loopholed  throughout  its  whole  length.  On  the 
top  of  this  tunnel  was  a  guardhouse,  the  floor  of  which 
was  honeycombed  into  holes,  through  which  the  guard 
above  could  spear  an  unsuspecting  passenger  on  the 
road  below.  The  approach  to  each  of  these  six  gates 
was  ornamented  by  a  pavement  of  human  skulls,  the 
bregma  being  the  only  part  that  showed  above  ground. 
This  pavement  was  of  snowy  whiteness,  and  polished  to 
the  smoothness  of  ivory  by  the  daily  passage  of  hundreds 
of  naked  feet.  I  counted  more  than  two  thousand  skulls 
in  the  pavement  of  one  of  the  gates  alone." 

We  cordially  commend  this  volume  as  a  fresh,  enter- 
taining, and  valuable  account  of  a  very  dark  spot  in 
"  darkest  Africa."  The  book  contains  in  its  final 
chapters  a  description  of  an  exploring  trip  up  the 
Lualaba  River  and  into  the  Lukuga  River,  when  the 
author  was  forced  to  turn  back  by  serious  illness. 
An  elaborate  map  of  a  part  of  the  Congo  Basin  adds 
to  the  value  of  the  work. 

As  a  mighty  hunter  and  fisher,  Mr.  Abel  Chap- 
man has  ranged  Western  Europe  from  South  Spain 
to  Spitzbergen,  and  has  written  several  accounts  of 
his  experiences,  the  present  volume,  "Wild  Nor- 
way," being  the  fourth  and  last  of  the  series.  Mr. 
Chapman  is  of  the  best  type  of  English  big-game 
hunter.  He  is  no  butcher,  but  takes  an  intelligent 
interest  in  wild  animals,  and  is  a  close  student  and 
fervent  admirer  of  all  wild  life.  He  is  a  seeker  of 
trophies,  and  obtains  splendid  specimens  of  reindeer 
and  elk  heads ;  but  he  also  has  an  interest  in  smaller 
animals,  as  witness  this  account  of  the  lemming: 

"  If  his  powers  were  proportioned  to  his  pluck,  the 
lemming  would  make  things  lively  for  the  hunter.  Had 
the  bear,  the  lynx,  or  the  mighty  elk  but  a  thousandth 
part  of  the  lemming's  aggressive  ferocity,  the  relative 
position  of  hunter  and  hunted  would  be  reversed,  and 
an  expedition  to  the  f  jeld  would  require  an  advance 
guard  of  cavalry  and  a  support  of  Maxim  guns.  The 
lemming  attacks  with  reckless  fury  the  harmless  passer- 
by. One  small  creature  (smaller  than  a  rat)  will  assail, 
without  second  thought,  a  couple  of  human  beings 
weighing  a  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  apiece;  it  will 
spring  at  one's  knees,  biting  and  barking,  and  in  pur- 
blind fury  fall  back  all-ends-up  to  earth,  only  to  renew 
the  attack  again  and  again.  To-day,  while  one  lemming 
was  flying  at  me,  another  from  a  small  stream  joined  in 
the  demonstration,  presently  swimming  across  to  get  to 
close  quarters." 

The  author's  observations  on  birds  will  have  some 
value  for  the  ornithologist.  His  remarks  on  the 
Norwegian  peasantry,  on  the  Lapp,  and  on  Nor- 
wegian scenery,  are  frequently  of  interest.  The 
opening  of  the  Northern  summer  is  thus  mentioned  : 
"  Leaf  bursts  forth  on  tree  and  shrub  while  one 


watches  it ;  on  all  sides  is  heard  the  cracking  of  the 
buds  of  birch  and  plane-trees,  the  unfolding  of 
fern-fronds  is  well-nigh  visible."  The  greatest  de- 
fects of  this  book  are  its  fragmentary  character, 
and  also  that  lack  of  sentiment  and  imagination 
which  is  a  trait  of  most  English  travellers.  The 
illustrations,  which  are  drawn  from  life,  are  ex- 
tremely clear,  accurate,  and  interesting. 

Professor  E.  A.  Freeman's  "  Sketches  of  Travel 
in  Normandy  and  Maine,"  as  reprinted  from  the 
"Saturday  Review"  and  the  "Guardian,"  may  be 
considered  as  an  appendix  to  his  "  Sketches  of 
French  Travel,"  and  as  a  series  of  notes  illustrative 
of  "  The  Norman  Conquest."  Their  interest  is  not 
so  much  in  their  accounts  of  travels  as  in  their  anti- 
quarian description  and  discussion ;  and  hence  they 
will  hardly  appeal  to  the  general  reader.  But  the 
connoisseur  of  mediaeval  history  and  architecture 
will  find  these  brief  papers  very  suggestive  and  in- 
structive, being  saturated  with  lore,  and  always 
competent,  accurate,  and  incisive.  The  book  con- 
tains much  information,  not  easily  found  elsewhere, 
concerning  out-of-the  way  historic  places  in  north- 
western France.  In  this  work,  as  in  all  his  works, 
Mr.  Freeman  brusquely  speaks  his  mind  on  all 
occasions.  For  instance,  his  remarks  on  "  the  brutal 
work  "  of  architectural  restorations  is  full  of  sav- 
age denunciations.  Mr.  Freeman's  drawings  of 
ancient  buildings  will  appeal  more  to  the  architect 
than  the  artist.  The  volume  contains  an  index,  but 
has  no  map. 

Quite  in  contrast  to  "  In  Tolstoi  Land,"  lately 
noticed  in  THE  DIAL,  which  depicted  Russia  fam- 
ishing, we  now  have  a  book  giving  a  picture  of 
Russia  feasting.  "  In  Joyful  Russia,"  by  Mr.  John 
A.  Logan,  Jr.,  is  a  rather  highly-colored  narrative 
of  the  recent  coronation  proceedings,  and  a  very 
eulogistic  account  of  the  Imperial  family.  The 
author  also  gives  some  interesting  notes  on  Russian 
baths,  restaurants,  houses,  horses,  etc.  As  a  sample 
of  his  descriptions,  we  quote  his  account  of  the 
netting  of  the  famous  fish,  the  sterlet,  in  Moscow 
restaurants. 

"  The  perfection  of  the  sterlet  is  so  dependent  upon 
its  size  and  freshness  that  in  many  of  the  crack  res- 
taurants of  Moscow,  and  of  a  few  other  cities  that  are 
near  enough  to  the  Volga,  a  great  marble  basin  forms 
the  centre  of  the  dining-room.  This  basin  is  three- 
quarters  filled  with  limpid  water  —  water  in  which  great 
aquatic  plants  dwell  —  plants  between  whose  splendid 
leaves  magnificent  sterlet  dart,  lifting  now  and  again 
their  shapely  heads  to  catch  the  spray  falling  from  the 
fountain,  that,  with  a  slim,  straight,  and  then  gracefully- 
falling  shaft  of  water,  punctuates  the  small  pool's 
centre.  The  Russian  gourmet  who  is  old  enough,  and 
the  Russian  gourmet  who  is  young  enough,  to  take  a 
keen  satisfaction  in  the  display  of  his  gastronomical 
judgment  and  exquisite  taste  goes  to  the  marble  brink 
of  this  artificial  lake  and  nets  his  own  sterlet.  The 
waiter  hands  him  a  net,  fanciful  of  handle  and  silken 
of  web.  He  grasps  it,  looks  critical,  then  wise,  and 
thrusts  it  into  the  pool.  If  he  is  lucky  he  brings  up  a 
fish.  If  not,  he  tries  again.  When,  sooner  or  later,  he 


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captures  his  prey,  with  a  gesture  of  triumph  he  hands 
his  net  to  the  attendant  and  hies  to  his  potage.  Almost 
before  his  soup  is  removed,  the  sterlet  is  brought  to  him, 
dressed  in  any  way  he  has  ordered,  and  cooked  to  per- 
fection. I  noticed  that  most  of  the  travellers  dining 
at  the  Moscow  restaurants  liked  to  net  their  own  ster- 
let. I  did  it  once.  But  it  was  stupid  sport,  and  after 
that  I  always  left  the  selection  of  my  fish  to  the  waiter, 
who  understood  what  I  did  not  —  which  were  the  choice 
specimens." 

As  a  narrative  of  a  few  weeks'  trip  through  Rus- 
sia, by  a  young,  lively,  impressionable,  enthusiastic 
American,  who  was  most  magnificently  treated  by 
Russian  officialdom,  this  book  is  very  pleasant  and 
readable ;  but  it  cannot  well  be  taken  as  a  serious, 
impartial,  and  thorough  account  of  the  Russia  of 
to-day,  although  the  author  expresses  very  strongly 
his  decided  optimistic  opinions  on  Russian  society 
and  government.  The  style  sometimes  over-does 
itself  in  point  of  vividness,  and  the  way  in  which  the 
author  frequently  alludes  to  his  mother  can  hardly 
be  called  in  good  taste.  The  photographic  illustra- 
tions are  in  the  main  fresh  and  interesting,  and  the 
colored  pictures  are  fairly  successful. 

The  Armenian  massacre  has  been  somewhat  dis- 
placed in  popular  interest  by  the  Turko-Greek  war, 
yet  the  volume  of  "Letters  from  Armenia,"  by 
Professor  J.  Rendel  Harris  and  Mrs.  Harris,  will  be 
found  of  considerable  interest  by  many.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harris  went  to  Armenia  in  1896,  as  dispensers 
of  an  English  relief  fund,  and  these  letters  to  friends 
in  England  relate  some  of  their  experiences.  They 
fully  corroborate  other  accounts  of  the  Turkish  and 
Kurdish  atrocities  in  Ourfa,  Harpoot,  Eghin,  and 
other  towns ;  they  show  the  apostolic  unction  and 
fervent  piety  of  their  Quaker  authors,  and  make 
plain  how  in  Asia  Minor  to-day,  as  of  old,  "  the 
blood  of  the  martyrs  is  the  seed  of  the  church." 
The  writers  have  the  highest  praise  for  the  Ameri- 
can missionaries.  As  information,  the  letters  are 
only  very  brief  and  sketchy.  As  to  style,  they  have 
little  literary  quality,  being  mostly  familiar  and 
commonplace  in  tone,  and  sometimes  careless,  as 
"  nice  talks,"  '<  met  us  to  tea,"  etc.  Professor  Harris, 
who  is  best  known  as  a  specialist  on  ancient  Chris- 
tian manuscripts,  made  some  rather  ineffective 
search  for  treasures  in  this  line.  The  book  contains 
a  route  map,  and  some  photographic  illustrations. 

It  is  pleasant  to  turn  from  the  sufferings  of 
Armenia,  and  view  the  prosperity  of  a  country 
lately  Turkish,  but  now  under  Austrian  rule.  That 
country  is  Bosnia,  described  by  Mr.  H.  C.  Thomson 
in  his  book  entitled  "  The  Outgoing  Turk."  Twenty 
years  ago  Bosnia  was,  like  Armenia  to-day,  a  land 
of  extortion,  robbery,  and  massacre;  but  now,  thanks 
to  the  enlightened  administration  of  Austria,  she 
can  be  depicted  as  a  land  of  peace  and  prosperity. 
Our  author  visited  not  only  the  main  cities,  but  also 
the  remoter  districts,  and  gives  a  careful  and  trust- 
worthy account  of  the  social  and  industrial  status  of 
the  inhabitants,  throwing  much  light  on  the  former 
Mohammedan  government.  The  main  cause  of  the 


Turkish  misrule  everywhere  is,  as  he  points  out,  the 
autocratic  power  of  the  Sultan,  by  which  favorites 
are  appointed  to  govern  provinces,  and  a  thorough- 
going spoils  system  is  established.  A  subsidiary 
cause  is  the  fact  that  the  methods  of  modern  com- 
mercial success  are  debarred  the  true  Mohammedan, 
and  he  must  turn  to  brute  force  to  maintain  himself 
in  the  luxury  he  loves. 

"  And  there  are  many  things  to  make  it  hard  for  a 
conscientious  Mohammedan  to  succeed  in  business.  His 
religious  observances  alone  take  up  so  much  valuable 
time.  Five  times  a  day  he  must  go  to  the  mosque  to 
pray.  How  is  it  possible  for  a  man  to  compete  with 
others,  in  the  face  of  such  interruptions  as  that  ?  More- 
over, the  whole  teaching  of  the  Koran  is  against  the 
spirit  of  modern  trade.  So,  too,  is  that  of  Christianity. 
But,  as  a  rule,  in  commercial  matters,  Mohammedans 
conform  to  what  their  religion  teaches  them,  while  the 
Christians  frequently  do  not.  Certain  precepts  of  the 
Prophet  have  moulded  the  lives  of  his  followers,  and 
purified  their  every-day  dealings.  All  over  Bosnia,  a 
Mohammedan's  word  may  be  trusted  in  matters  of  buy- 
ing and  selling.  He  is  bloodthirsty  and  treacherous  and 
cruel,  but  he  will  not  lie  or  cheat  or  steal.  Go  into  the 
Carcija  in  Serajevo,  and  buy  from  a  Christian  or  a  Jew, 
and  you  must  haggle  with  him,  for  you  may  be  sure  that 
he  will  ask  you  three  or  four  times  the  proper  price; 
but  it  is  not  necessary  to  do  so  when  you  are  buying 
from  a  Turk,  for  he  will  ask  you  only  the  real  value  of 
what  he  is  selling." 

Mr.  Thomson  made  some  incursions  into  Herce- 
govina,  Dalmatia,  and  Slavonia,  and  gives  a  few 
observations  on  these  countries.  He  concludes  his 
valuable  work  with  a  general  review  of  the  Eastern 
question  and  a  vigorous  arraignment  of  English 
policy.  The  book  contains  some  good  maps,  and 
the  illustrations  are  admirably  clear,  serviceable, 
and  artistic. 

"A  Ride  Through  Western  Asia,"  by  Clive  Big- 
ham,  is  a  summary  sketch  of  a  rapid  trip  through 
Asia  Minor,  Persia,  Central  Asia  to  China,  and  back 
by  way  of  Siberia  and  Russia.  The  jottings  on  the 
earlier  journeys  seem  somewhat  perfunctory ;  but 
the  author  shows  greater  interest  in  his  Central 
Asian  travels,  and  gives  some  useful  information 
about  Russian  progress  there.  He  notes  that  "  Rus- 
sia does  not  colonize  in  the  sense  that  England 
does  ;  she  annexes  and  absorbs.  In  a  comparatively 
short  time  after  she  has  occupied  a  country  and 
subdued  the  inhabitants,  that  country  becomes  an 
integral  part  of  Russia  and  the  inhabitants  try  to 
become  Russians."  The  power  of  Russia  lies  in  its 
militiarism,  with  the  Czar  at  its  head,  who  is  prac- 
tically a  deity  to  his  people.  Away  to  the  northwest 
frontier  of  China,  at  Vierny,  Mr.  Bigham  and  com- 
panion attended  a  service  at  the  Basilica  on  the 
"  Imperial  Name-Day." 

"  We  went  into  the  church  with  an  officer,  and  found 
it  full  of  men  in  uniform.  The  Imperial  prayer  was 
being  sung.  The  Bishop  was  standing  on  the  altar 
steps  making  genuflexions,  while  a  priest  in  the  centre 
of  the  clmrch  was  chanting  the  prayer,  his  voice  rising 
higher  and  higher  as  it  proceeded.  When  he  reached 
the  last  triumphant  clause, '  Nicholas,  son  of  Alexander, 


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Emperor  of  All  the  Russias,'  the  choir  and  congrega- 
tion joined  in,  the  trumpets  blared,  and  outside  the 
field-guns  boomed  out  one  after  the  other.  The  effect 
was  so  splendid  that  one  felt  as  if  at  a  momentary 
glimpse  the  power  of  Russia  was  suddenly  revealed." 

Mr.  Bigham's  account  in  general  is  too  cursory, 
superficial,  and  matter-of-fact  to  be  distinctly  inter- 
esting; though  it  is  evidently  trustworthy  as  far  as 
it  goes.  The  book  is  provided  with  useful  maps 
and  illustrations.  HlRAM  M>  STANLEY. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 

It  has  often  seemed  surprising  to  us  that  the 
novelist,  in  his  eager  search  for  unexploited  romantic 
material,  should  have  made  so  little  of  one  of  the 
most  interesting  phases  of  the  history  of  nineteenth- 
century  Europe.  The  story  of  the  Italian  revolu- 
tionary movement,  from  the  intrigues  of  Young 
Italy  to  the  definitive  setting  of  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment upon  the  Quirinal,  is  full  of  such  incidents  as 
the  novelist  most  desires,  and  is  informed  by 
motives  of  the  sort  that  best  lend  themselves  to  the 
purposes  of  romantic  fiction.  The  subject,  as  a 
whole,  is  hardly  inferior  to  that  of  the  French  Revo- 
lution, yet  the  latter  has  furnished  forth  ten  times 
as  many  historical  novels  as  the  former.  The  author 
of  "  The  Gadfly,"  then,  in  taking  for  his  theme  the 
Italian  conspiracies  of  the  thirties  and  forties,  has 
had  the  advantage  of  dealing  with  comparatively 
unhackneyed  material,  and  we  trust  that  his  novel 
may  be  the  forerunner  of  many  others  that  shall 
deal  with  the  same  stirring  period.  Who  Mr.  E.  L. 
Voynich  may  be  we  cannot  say,  but  we  have  no 
hesitation  in  asserting  that  his  novel  is  one  of  the 
strongest  of  the  year,  vivid  in  conception  and  dra- 
matic in  execution,  filled  with  intense  human  feel- 
ing,  and  worked  up  to  a  tremendously  impressive 

*THB  GADFLY.  By  E.  L.  Voynich.  New  York  :  Henry 
Holt  &  Co. 

A  ROSE  OF  YESTERDAY.  By  F.  Marion  Crawford.  New 
York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  FALCON  OF  LANGEAC.  By  Isabel  Whiteley.  Boston: 
Copeland  &  Day. 

SOLDIERS  OF  FORTUNE.  By  Richard  Harding  Davis.  New 
York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

THE  ROMANCE  OF  A  JESUIT  MISSION.  A  Historical  Novel. 
By  M.  Bourchier  Sanford.  New  York :  The  Baker  &  Taylor 
Co. 

THE  MUTABLE  MANY.  A  Novel.  By  Robert  Barr.  New 
York :  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co. 

THE  JESSAMY  BRIDE.  By  F.  Frankfort  Moore.  Chicago : 
H.  S.  Stone  &  Co. 

THE  IMPUDENT  COMEDIAN  AND  OTHERS.  By  F.  Frankfort 
Moore.  Chicago :  H.  S.  Stone  &  Co. 

DERELICTS.  By  William  J.  Locke.  New  York :  John  Lane. 

THE  MASSARENES.  By  Ouida.  New  York :  R.  F.  Fenno 
&Co. 

THE  FASCINATION  OF  THE  KING.  By  Guy  Boothby.  Chi- 
cago :  Rand,  McNally  &  Co. 

THE  FOOL  AND  His  HEART.  By  F.  Norreys  Connell.  New 
York :  George  H.  Richmond  &  Co. 

CHRISTINE  OF  THE  HILLS.  By  Max  Pemberton.  New 
York :  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 


climax.  The  hero  is  a  person  whose  life  has  been 
hopelessly  embittered  by  deceit  practiced  upon  his 
youth,  and  whom  fierce  sufferings,  both  physical  and 
mental,  have  transformed  from  a  dreamy  and  confid- 
ing boy  into  a  reckless  and  cynical  man,  whose  watch- 
word is  the  Voltairean  ecrasez  I'infdme,  and  who 
throws  himself  heart  and  soul  into  the  struggle 
against  priestcraft  and  tyranny.  The  book  is  ex- 
tremely outspoken  at  times,  and  will  probably  give 
to  many  of  its  readers  the  same  sort  of  offence  that 
is  given,  let  us  say,  by  such  a  poem  as  Mr.  Swin- 
burne's "  Before  a  Crucifix."  The  note  of  revolt 
is  certainly  very  insistent  and  very  shrill.  Those 
who  have  a  sense  of  the  stern  realities  that  underlie 
even  the  most  traditionally  sacred  conventions  of 
life  will  be  able  to  enter  into  the  spirit  of  this  book 
and  share  the  mood  of  the  author ;  those  who  have 
not  that  sense  will  probably  read  it  with  suspicion 
and  shudder  at  its  denouement. 

In  "  A  Rose  of  Yesterday,"  Mr.  Crawford  pre- 
serves the  unity  of  time  in  a  rather  remarkable  way. 
The  entire  novel  of  more  than  two  hundred  pages 
is  concerned  with  the  happenings  of  a  single  day. 
These  happenings,  as  may  be  surmised,  are  mostly 
conversations,  and  Mr.  Crawford's  skill  in  the  man- 
agement of  dialogue  is  too  well  known  to  need 
further  emphasis.  The  subject  of  the  talk  is  divorce, 
and  the  book  is  little  more  than  a  lengthy  plea  for 
the  sanctity  of  the  marriage  relation,  sometimes 
made  by  the  heroine  herself,  sometimes  by  the  au- 
thor in  those  disquisitions  which  he  never  hesitates 
to  introduce  when  padding  is  needed.  Mr.  Craw- 
ford's facility  in  composition  sometimes  degenerates 
into  mere  carelessness,  as  in  his  description  of  "  a 
young  woman  in  black,"  who  "  received  the  pay- 
ments of  passing  customers  with  a  grieved  manner." 
The  book  is  a  very  tame  performance,  and  adds 
nothing  to  the  reputation  of  the  author  as  a  serious 
novelist. 

"  The  Falcon  of  Lange*ac  "  ( but  why  the  accent  ?) 
is  a  story  of  the  type  made  familiar  by  Mr.  Stanley 
Weyman  and  other  romancers  of  that  school.  The 
scene  is  partly  in  Brittany  and  partly  in  Mont  St. 
Michel,  the  time  that  of  Francis  I.  Historically, 
the  book  has  been  adorned  with  much  conscientious 
detail,  and  while  the  plot  shows  slight  powers  of 
invention,  the  general  effect  is  pleasing,  an  effect 
produced  in  large  measure  by  the  purity  of  the 
style.  Mrs.  Whiteley  is  to  be  congratulated  upon 
a  piece  of  honest  workmanship,  imbued  with  the 
true  romantic  spirit,  and  provided  with  the  most 
picturesque  of  settings. 

There  is  a  wealth  of  picturesque  and  romantic 
material  for  the  novelist  in  the  life  of  Spanish 
America,  and  the  field  is  as  yet  almost  wholly  un- 
worked.  Mr.  Richard  Harding  Davis,  in  realizing 
the  possibilities  of  this  field,  and  in  qualifying  him- 
self for  its  cultivation  by  personal  observation,  has 
been  enabled  to  produce  a  book  that  combines  fresh- 
ness of  interest  with  the  excellent  literary  qualities 
otherwise  to  be  expected  of  his  work.  His  new 
"  Soldiers  of  Fortune  "  is  one  of  the  most  readable 


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and  entertaining  books  of  the  season.  Its  chief 
characters  are  North  Americans  interested  in  a  min- 
ing concession  obtained  from  the  government  of 
Olancho,  which  lively  little  Republic  appears  to  be 
situated  somewhere  on  the  coast  near  Venezuela. 
There  is  a  fine  revolutionary  scrimmage  in  which 
the  American  hero  gets  mixed  up,  and  as  romantic 
a  love-story  as  the  youngest  of  readers  could  wish 
for.  Indeed,  the  book  appeals  to  uncritical  youth 
rather  than  to  adult  sobriety,  for  the  former  is  un- 
mindful of  flaws  that  might  easily  mar  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  latter,  and  a  sort  of  irrepressible  boy- 
ishness is  the  chief  note  of  the  narrative. 

Mr.  M.  Bourchier  Sanf ord  has  found  the  material 
for  an  interesting  narrative  in  the  history  of  the 
Jesuit  mission  to  the  Hurons  in  the  middle  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  The  scene  of  the  story  is  in 
the  region  which  includes  Sainte-Marie  and  St. 
Ignace,  and  the  authorities  for  the  historical  part  of 
the  romance  are,  of  course,  the  "  Relations  des 
Je'suites,"  as  filtered  through  the  pages  of  Parkman. 
The  story  is  full  of  sympathy  for  the  devotion  and 
the  heroism  of  the  Jesuit  fathers  who  spent  laborious 
lives  in  the  wilderness,  and  who  shrank  from  no 
hardship  and  no  danger  in  the  performance  of  their 
task.  In  its'  earlier  chapters,  the  book  is  deficient 
in  vitality,  and  it  is  not  until  near  the  close  that  the 
dry  bones  of  historical  fact  are  made  to  live  in  a 
narrative  that  engages  our  interests.  The  story  has 
the  same  sort  of  charm  that  we  find  in  Mrs.  Gather- 
wood's  work  dealing  with  similar  material,  and  is 
informed  throughout  by  the  loftiest  ideals  of  conduct. 

"  The  Mutable  Many  "  is  a  story  that  shows  the 
hand  of  the  trained  journalist  rather  than  the  hand 
of  the  man  of  letters.  There  is  no  style  to  speak  of, 
no  genuine  analysis  of  character,  and  but  slight 
sense  of  the  demands  of  literary  art.  But  there  is 
instead  abundant  action  that  does  not  flag,  and  a 
thoughtful  presentation  of  a  great  social  problem. 
There  have  been  many  other  novels  dealing  with  the 
conflict  between  labor  and  capital,  but  few  that  have 
done  such  even-handed  justice  to  both  aspects  of  the 
controversy,  or  that  have  produced  the  impression 
of  being  so  closely  in  touch  with  the  machinery  of 
production,  on  the  one  hand,  of  strikes  and  labor 
organizations  on  the  other.  It  is  a  far  cry  from 
"  Put  Yourself  in  His  Place,"  for  example,  to  this 
up-to-date  study  of  a  similar  subject.  The  funda- 
mental passions  concerned  are  much  the  same,  but 
the  conditions  and  the  methods  are  so  different  now 
that  Reade's  novel  is  a  matter  of  ancient  history. 
Perhaps  the  best  of  Mr.  Barr's  characters  is  the 
artist  in  his  own  conceit,  who  plays  but  a  minor  part 
in  the  narrative,  but  whose  appearance  the  reader 
soon  learns  to  welcome.  We  are  told  at  the  start 
that  Barney  is  a  cad,  and  he  probably  is,  but  the 
epithet  is  inadequate,  and  we  end  with  a  real  liking 
for  him.  Mr.  Barr's  method  of  story-telling  sug- 
gests that  of  Sir  Walter  Besant  in  its  breeziness 
and  its  actuality,  thus  deriving,  in  a  measure,  from 
Dickens  himself.  Entertainment,  at  least,  may 
safely  be  promised  the  purchaser  of  this  book. 


Mr.  Frankfort  Moore  has  been  studying  to  good 
effect  the  manners  and  literary  history  of  eighteenth- 
century  England,  and  has  turned  out  two  books  that 
are  honestly,  and  almost  brilliantly,  written.  "  The 
Jessamy  Bride  "  has  Goldsmith  for  its  central  figure, 
and  his  romantic  attachment  for  Mary  Horneck  for 
its  theme.  This  part  of  the  story  is  sweet,  tender, 
and  pathetic,  and  one  can  hardly  read  with  dry  eyes 
the  closing  pages,  with  their  record  of  Goldsmith's 
death.  The  famous  production  of  "  She  Stoops  to 
Conquer  "  forms  a  leading  episode  of  the  work,  and 
thereby  introduces  us  to  the  pleasant  company  of 
the  player-folk.  Besides  these — Garrick,  Colman, 
and  Mrs.  Abington — we  have  sketches  of  the  other 
people  in  Goldsmith's  immediate  circle,  of  Burke, 
Reynolds,  Boswell,  and  the  redoubtable  Dr.  Johnson. 
There  is  nothing  better  in  the  whole  volume  than 
the  scene  (in  one  of  the  early  chapters)  in  which 
Garrick,  disguised  as  a  country  clergyman,  imposes 
upon  the  little  group  of  Goldsmith's  friends,  and 
administers  such  a  snub  to  the  author  of  the  "  Dic- 
tionary "  that  we  cannot  help  sharing  in  the  awe- 
stricken  mood  of  the  hearers.  Mr.  Moore  has 
imitated  the  ponderous  Johnsonian  manner  with 
marked  success,  and  has  limned  the  other  historical 
characters  with  much  verisimilitude.  His  task  was 
a  daring  one,  but  it  is  at  least  not  so  ill-performed 
as  to  make  us  regret  the  attempt.  Mr.  Moore's 
other  book  is  a  collection  of  six  short  stories,  having 
for  their  leading  figures  such  historical  personages 
as  the  uxorious  Duke  of  Marlborough  and  his  wife, 
Nell  Gwyn,  Kitty  Clive,  Peg  Woffington,  and  Sarah 
Siddons.  The  stories  are  well-conceived  and  amus- 
ing, bearing  upon  every  page  the  impress  of  an 
intimate  study  of  the  fascinating  period  wherein 
they  are  laid. 

Mr. William  J.  Locke,  the  author  of  "  Derelicts," 
is  credited  upon  the  title-page  with  two  other  nov- 
els, which  we  do  not  remember  to  have  seen,  but 
which  we  should  certainly  be  glad  to  read  if  they 
in  any  measure  approach  his  present  performance. 
There  is  nothing  novel  about  "  Derelicts,"  either  in 
plot  or  construction,  and  merely  to  summarize  the 
story  would  give  no  notion  of  the  true  value  of  the 
book.  The  qualities  that  make  it  really  noteworthy 
are  the  crystal  purity  of  its  style,  the  strength  of 
its  characterization,  the  delicacy  and  refinement  of 
its  motives,  and  its  careful  poise  above  the  danger- 
ous depths  of  sensationalism  on  the  one  side,  and 
sentimentalism  on  the  other.  It  affords  a  sympa- 
thetic portrayal  of  warm  human  life,  neither  too 
idealized  to  lack  substance,  nor  led  too  far  astray 
into  the  thickets  of  realism  to  lose  its  distinctive 
character  as  artistic  work.  In  theme,  it  is  a  study 
of  guilt  and  expiation  —  of  a  guilt  that  derives 
from  weakness  rather  than  from  vicious  predispo- 
sition, and  of  an  expiation  that  is  not  merely  exter- 
nal, but  takes  the  form  of  a  gradual  and  genuine 
upbuilding  of  character.  It  is  not  as  strong  a  book, 
or  as  consummate  a  piece  of  workmanship,  as  Mr. 
Allen's  "The  Choir  Invisible,"  but  we  cannot  refrain 
from  bringing  the  two  books  into  juxtaposition,  for 


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the  author  of  one  would  understand  the  other,  and 
both  are  refreshing  and  purifying  in  their  influence. 
A  few  more  such  hooks  as  these  would  suffice  to 
turn  the  stream  of  current  fiction  into  channels  less 
muddied  than  those  in  which  it  has  been  running  of 
late  years. 

William  Massarene  was  an  American  from  Da- 
kota. He  was  described  in  the  vernacular  of  the 
northwest  as  "  a  bull-dozing  boss,"  and  enjoyed  the 
soubriquet  of  the  "  Blasted  Blizzard."  He  was  an 
Irishman  by  birth,  but  emigrated  to  "  the  States  " 
early  in  life,  and  amassed  a  colossal  fortune  by  dis- 
reputable means.  Having  made  his  "  pile,"  he 
crossed  the  Atlantic  and  set  about  the  conquest  of 
English  society.  Of  his  success  in  this  noble  ambi- 
tion we  may  read  at  great  length  in  the  latest  work 
of  fiction  to  bear  the  name  of  "  Ouida  "  as  its  author. 
"  The  Massarenes  "  is,  like  most  of  the  imaginings 
of  that  ingenious  writer,  a  curious  mixture  of 
strength,  cleverness,  vulgarity,  and  pretentious  igno- 
rance. Its  good  qualities  save  it  from  utter  condem- 
nation ;  its  bad  qualities  are  beneath  contempt.  In 
the  predominance  of  the  latter,  it  is  something  of  a 
reversion  to  the  author's  older  and  worse  manner, 
and  its  general  tone  of  exaggerated  sensationalism 
is  quite  unworthy  of  her.  No  one  will  be  convinced 
that  English  society  is  so  essentially  corrupt  as  she 
would  have  us  think,  and  no  one  will  take  very 
seriously  her  impossible  "  Mouse  "  and  her  equally 
impossible  Lord  Hurstmanceaux.  There  are  so 
many  misprints  in  the  book  that  we  must  be  care- 
ful about  ascribing  to  "  Ouida  "  all  of  the  curious 
things  that  meet  the  eye ;  it  is  possible  that  the 
printer  is  responsible  for  "  the  congenial  country  of 
mug-wamps  and  roarbacks,"  and  even  for  "smelted 
gold,"  but  even  the  printer  could  not  have  invented 
such  bad  French  as  "  des  bons  gens." 

"  The  Fascination  of  the  King  "  is  an  entertaining 
story  of  imaginary  politics,  the  scene  being  laid  in 
some  unknown  region  of  the  Far  East,  and  the  hero 
being  a  European  adventurer  who  has  created  a 
new  State  and  made  himself  ruler  thereof.  How 
his  throne  is  assailed,  and  how,  with  the  help  of 
some  English  friends,  he  quells  the  conspirator  and 
repulses  the  foreign  foe,  are  matters  that  are  made 
highly  exciting  by  Mr.  Boothby's  facile  and  prac- 
tised pen.  The  book  is  one  of  the  lightly  read  and 
easily  forgotten,  but  will  serve  for  the  occupation 
of  a  pleasant  hour  or  two. 

The  story  of  a  sensitive  nature,  given  up  alter- 
nately to  religious  aspiration  and  debauchery,  trying 
various  ways  of  life,  and  making  but  poor  success 
of  them,  is  what  we  are  given  in  "  The  Fool  and 
His  Heart."  The  story  has  neither  symmetry  of 
design  nor  distinction  of  style,  and  although  the 
hero,  in  his  better  moods,  appeals  to  our  sympathies, 
his  waywardness  and  weakness  of  will  prevents  us 
from  greatly  caring  what  becomes  of  him.  The 
book  derives  a  certain  interest  from  the  glimpses 
which  it  affords  of  the  Catholic  schools  in  which 
the  hero  is  educated,  and  from  the  semi-Bohemian 


episodes  of  his  subsequent  career  as  a  struggling 
novelist.  But  the  execution  as  a  whole  is  slovenly, 
and  the  ethical  tone  disheartening. 

"  Christine  of  the  Hills  "  is  the  story  of  a  girl  of 
Dalmatia,  endowed  with  beauty  and  musical  talent, 
who  marries  a  brutal  peasant  before  she  knows 
what  marriage  means,  and  afterwards,  believing 
her  husband  to  have  been  shot,  gives  her  heart  to  a 
nobleman  who  has  befriended  her.  Presently  the 
husband  reappears,  drags  his  reluctant  wife  away  to 
Vienna,  and  lives  upon  her  earnings  as  a  singer. 
Mr.  Max  Pemberton  has  told  this  story  prettily 
enough,  but  he  is  never  quite  successful  in  creating 
a  strong  situation,  or  in  giving  vitality  to  his  pup- 
pets. The  book  is  saved  from  insipidity  by  its 
romantic  atmosphere  and  by  the  fascinating  Dal- 
matian setting  of  its  scene. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ox  NEW  BOOKS. 


Mr.  Bradnock  Hall's  "Fish-Tails 
£.  °f  ~  and  Some  True  Ones  »  (Edward 

Arnold)  is  a  seasonable  little  book, 
wherein  the  author  tells  some  good  fishing  yarns 
and  chats  pleasantly  about  his  own  angling  experi- 
ences in  Great  Britain  and  Norway.  Mr.  Hall,  as 
we  gather,  is  an  M.P.,  with  a  distressing,  and,  as 
he  claims,  undeserved,  reputation  for  an  almost 
puritanical  sobriety.  To  this  reputation  he  is,  as  a 
public  man,  of  course  obliged  to  live  up.  In  sup- 
port of  it,  he  has  even  put  forth  a  book  on  "  Bimet- 
allism as  a  Panacea  for  Pauperism  " —  a  dreary  chef 
d'ceuvre  which,  he  believes,  nobody  has  ever  read, 
and  which  he  plainly  regards  with  loathing.  He  is, 
in  fact,  a  slave  to  his  reputation  as  a  serious  man. 
The  harmless  relaxations  of  others  would  be  re- 
garded as  breaches  of  propriety  in  him  —  lapses 
which  might  cost  him  his  reputation  and  his  seat  in 
the  House.  "  I  must  not,"  he  complains,  "  be  absent 
from  my  place  in  church,  I  must  not  play  golf  on 
Sunday,  I  must  eschew  clay  pipes  and  beer,  and 
books  which  others  read  with  interest  and  enjoy- 
ment must  not  lie  upon  my  table :  in  fact,  I  have 
to  eat,  drink,  smoke,  and  read  to  order,  and  to 
travel  three  hundred  miles  to  find  a  desert  place 
to  laugh  in."  In  this  country  we  do  not  regard  our 
legislators  so  seriously.  Fancy  anybody  here  re- 
garding his  "  Congressman,"  or  even  his  Senator, 
as  necessarily  and  ex  officio  a  paragon  !  Mr.  Hall 
admits  that  in  private,  and  when  he  feels  sure  no- 
body is  looking,  he  shakes  off  his  shackles.  In  the 
safe  retirement  of  his  library  he  relaxes,  indulges 
in  refreshing  and  unhallowed  pranks  —  as  Richard 
Swiveller  used  to  relieve  his  feelings  by  stealthily 
flourishing  a  ruler  over  the  head-dress  of  Miss  Brass, 
when  that  maiden  was  safely  engrossed  with  an  Eject- 
ment or  a  Writ  of  Replevin.  Mr.  Hall's  pranks 
have  usually  taken  a  literary  form.  "  Oh,"  he  ex- 
claims, "  that  you  could  have  seen  my  Post-obiter 


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Dicta,  or  my  Laughable  Lyrics,  by  a  Liliputian 
Laureate  !  "  Some  of  these  trifles  have  even  been 
surreptitiously  published  —  among  them  the  papers 
embraced  in  the  volume  before  us.  They  are,  says 
the  author,  "  some  of  the  least  trivial  and  the  least 
slangy  of  their  fellows."  We  find  them  crisp, 
readable,  and  chatty  enough,  and  well  suited  to 
leaven  the  writer's  undeservedly  grievous  reputa- 
tion. They  are  accompanied  by  some  passable 
washed  drawings  by  Mr.  T.  H.  McLachlan,  and 
there  is  an  etched  plate  by  the  author.  The  Amer- 
ican "  brother  of  the  angle  "  will  do  well  to  slip  Mr. 
Hall's  little  book  in  his  satchel  when  next  he  goes 
a-fishing.  

A  satirical  Very  chatty  and  piquant  is  the  little 

French  observer  book  entitled  "  A  Diplomat  in  Lon- 
«/  London  life.  don  »  (Holt),  translated  from  the 
French  of  M.  Charles  Gavard.  The  author  was, 
from  1871  to  1877,  a  member  of  the  French 
Embassy  at  London,  first  as  Chief  Secretary,  and 
then  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary  acting  as  Charge 
d1  Affaires.  M.  Gavard  was  a  notably  shrewd  and 
withal  slightly  satirical  observer.  His  official  posi- 
tion gave  him  opportunities  scarcely  second  to  those 
enjoyed  by  our  courted  fellow-countryman,  Mr. 
Smalley,  for  studying  at  close  range  the  smartest  of 
England's  "  smart  set."  That  he  made  good  use 
of  those  opportunities,  his  notes  and  letters  amus- 
ingly attest.  M.  Gavard's  attitude,  we  may  add, 
toward  what  "  Mr.  Guppy's "  fashionable  friend 
"  Mr.  Jobling  "  termed  a  "  swanlike  aristocracy  " 
is  by  no  means  so  deferential  as  is  Mr.  Smalley's. 
The  habitual  note  of  unctuous  reverence,  tinged  with 
respectful  familiarity,  which  pervades  Mr.  Smalley's 
reminiscences  is  not  apparent  in  M.  Gavard's 
sprightly  and  rather  caustic  pages.  Of  the  two 
writers,  it  is  seemingly  the  Frenchman  who  is  the 
better  republican.  Mr.  Smalley  displays  at  times 
a  strong  Tory,  almost  a  Jacobitical,  bias ;  M.  Gavard 
can  speak  of  Royalty  itself  in  a  most  unconcerned 
way.  He  glances  merely  en  passant  at  Mr.  Smalley's 
friend  the  Prince  as  "  a  man  of  pleasure,  a  heavy 
drinker,  a  great  eater,  impecunious,"  and  so  on. 
He  paints  the  Queen  as  "  fat  and  short,  with  a  dis- 
contented-looking face," — and  certainly  no  one 
familiar  with  the  stock  cuts  in  the  London  weeklies 
showing  a  stout,  dissatisfied  matron  looking  on 
crossly  at  the  laying  of  this  or  that  corner-stone 
or  the  genuflections  of  this  or  that  Lord  Mayor, 
will  impeach  the  truth  of  his  description.  M.  Gavard, 
like  most  Frenchmen,  is  disposed  to  make  merry 
over  English  art.  The  older  men  he  can  endure, 
despite  contrasts  of  color  that  remind  him  "  of 
toast-and-jam."  As  for  the  moderns,  he  says, 
"  molasses  candy  —  if  that  's  what  you  like,  there 
you  have  it,  and  there  the  mob  stays  ;  I  was  liter- 
ally sick."  At  an  "  afternoon  "  at  Lady  Burdett- 
Coutts's  M.  Gavard  saw  a  masterpiece  "  represent- 
ing two  thick-booted  legs  in  air,  incomprehensible 
and  mediocre  from  the  point  of  view  of  art."  As 
with  painting,  so  with  music.  At  one  entertainment 


M.  Gavard  records  that  he  was  regaled  with  the  bag- 
pipes. "  Nothing  is  impossible,"  he  concludes,  "  in 
this  absurd  country."  The  impressions  of  this  cul- 
tivated and  observant  Frenchman  as  to  English  poli- 
tics, art,  manners,  and  humors,  are  graphic  and  amus- 
ing, and,  in  their  light  way,  instructive.  M.  Gavard 
is  very  frank  —  the  more  so,  doubtless,  as  he  clearly 
had  no  idea  that  his  jottings  would  one  day  find  their 
way  into  print.  

There  are  many  matters  of  interest 
indCcMecHng.  that  cluster  about  art  which  really 
have  nothing  to  do  with  it  as  art. 
Just  as  an  immense  mass  of  scholarship  gathers 
around  every  great  name  in  literature,  so  there  has 
gathered  about  the  various  fine  arts,  in  the  narrower 
meaning  of  the  term,  an  immense  mass  of  anecdot- 
age  and  gossip  and  technical  information  that  is 
often  very  amusing  and  entertaining.  Mr.  Frederick 
S.  Robinson,  in  his  book  on  "  The  Connoisseur " 
(Longmans),  has  put  together  eighteen  interesting 
chapters  touching  artists  and  works  of  art.  The 
word  "  connoisseur "  is  a  good  one,  for  it  means 
"  one  who  knows."  Connoisseurs  are  the  cherubs 
of  art,  i.  e.,  the  second  order  in  the  hierarchy ;  the 
seraphs,  or  those  who  love,  coming  first.  Mr.  Rob- 
inson is  deeply  interested  and  widely  informed.  It 
is  true  that  he  does  not  seem  really  to  apprehend 
the  essential  character  of  his  subject,  for  he  begins 
with  the  inquiry,  "  What  do  lovers  of  art  collect?  " 
The  real  answer  is  that,  as  lovers  of  art,  they  collect 
nothing.  When  they  collect,  they  become  collectors 
or  connoisseurs :  not  those  who  love,  but  those  who 
know.  This  minor  matter  aside,  however,  Mr. 
Robinson  will  be  allowed  to  write  of  collecting  on  a 
good  large  scale ;  and  some  of  his  early  chapters 
arouse  a  fine  glow  of  pleasure.  When  he  comes  to 
Pliny  and  Vasari  he  seems  to  us  not  so  happy ;  for 
he  can  hardly  be  said  to  give,  even  remotely,  an 
accurate  idea  of  the  work  of  either.  If  one  is  going 
to  know  about  Pliny,  one  should  begin,  we  think,  by 
knowing  something  as  to  what  it  really  was  that 
he  got  together  in  his  chapters  on  art.  And  as  to 
Vasari,  it  is  well  to  know  that  although  he  was  a 
most  estimable  man,  his  work  has  drawbacks  as  a 
foundation  for  study.  The  chapters  on  Gems,  how- 
ever, on  Jewels,  and  on  the  Goldsmith  and  Silver- 
smith, do  give  us  something  of  an  idea  of  those  very 
attractive  minor  arts.  And  the  book  as  a  whole  is  one 
which  art-lovers  will  doubtless  read  with  pleasure, 
although  it  can  hardly  be  said  to  include  a  single 

artistic  idea.          

We  should  like  to  see  the  admir- 
able  little  series  of  biographies  of 
"Women  of  Colonial  and  Revolu- 
tionary Times,"  now  issuing  from  the  press  of 
Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  placed  within  reach 
of  every  American  woman.  The  books  have  the  right 
ring.  Their  tone  is  sympathetic,  yet  critical ;  they 
are  evidently  the  fruit  of  patient  reflection  and  re- 
search. They  present  in  a  concise  and  attractive 
way  facts  which  a  true  American  woman  should 


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[July  1, 


blush  to  be  ignorant  of.  Patriotism  needs,  as  it 
craves,  a  past  of  its  own  —  a  national  Golden  Age  of 
exemplary  deeds  and  virtues,  a  heroic  era  which  looms 
larger  through  the  mists  of  time.  It  is  not  enough 
to  feed  the  imagination  on  the  annals  of  Greece  and 
Rome.  That  America  too  has  a  past  to  be  proud  of, 
that  American  women  need  not  look  abroad  for 
patterns  of  high  conduct  in  the  day  of  trial,  these 
beautiful  little  volumes  abundantly  attest.  The 
latest  of  the  set  is  Mrs.  Anne  Hollingsworth 
Wharton's  "  Martha  Washington."  Mrs.  Whar- 
ton's  fluent  and  animated  pen  shows  no  signs  of 
flagging ;  and  she  has  really  succeeded  in  the  diffi- 
cult task  of  making  her  worthy,  if  not  in  herself 
very  brilliant  or  distinguished,  heroine  the  chief 
figure  of  her  own  biography.  One  closes  the  book 
with  a  clear  impression  of  Martha  Washington  as  a 
distinct  and  not  inconsiderable  personality  —  a 
stanch  and  devoted  Virginian  lady  who  decidedly 
counted  for  something  even  when  viewed  apart 
from  her  illustrious  husband.  To  the  high  enter- 
prise of  which  he  was  the  soul,  and  of  which  he  re- 
mains the  most  splendid  figure,  she  gave  ungrudg- 
ingly all  she  had  to  give.  Her  counsels  must  have 
assisted  in  shaping  his  conduct;  and  his  conduct 
was  singularly  beyond  reproach.  Mrs.  Wharton's 
portrait  of  her  is  painstaking  and  truthful  —  a  real 
portrait,  and  not  a  fancy  sketch  of  the  conventional 
"  Lady  Washington "  idealized  in  the  spirit  of  a 
certain  fad  now  prevalent.  In  following  her  hero- 
ine's career,  Mrs.  Wharton  gives  us  incidentally 
some  pleasing  pictures  of  the  manners  of  the  time, 
notably  as  exemplified  in  the  home-life  of  the  Wash- 
ingtons.  The  little  book  is  not  only  a  capital  one 
for  popular  reading :  it  cannot  fail  to  win  the  ap- 
proval of  the  more  critical.  There  is  an  attractive 
portrait,  after  the  original  painting  by  Woolaston. 

The  most  noteworthy  characteristic 
°*  Professor  Mach's  "  Contributions 
to  the  Analysis  of  Sensations  "  (Open 
Court  Publishing  Co.)  is  the  point  of  view  by  which 
they  are  inspired,  rather  than  the  facts  therein  re- 
corded or  the  results  reached.  It  is  the  point  of 
view  prominent  in  the  writings  of  Helmholtz,  and 
insists  upon  the  essential  unity  of  the  underlying 
aspects  of  sensation  and  their  causes.  It  is  a  point 
of  view  at  once  physical  and  psychological ;  or,  still 
better,  it  is  the  analysis  of  the  essential  nature  of 
things  underlying  the  methods  and  scope  of  both 
these  sciences.  Because  physics  was  one  science 
and  psychology  another  and  in  many  ways  a  totally 
different  science,  men  seem  to  believe  that  the  prov- 
inces of  these  two  divisions  of  knowledge,  their  con- 
tent and  fact-material,  were  necessarily  diverse. 
Sensation  is  the  common  ground  of  physics  and 
psychology,  and,  indeed,  of  physiology  as  well.  The 
difference  between  these  sciences,  Professor  Mach 
insists,  is  not  that  they  deal  with  totally  different 
phenomena  but  that  they  deal  with  them  in  different 
ways.  When  we  are  discussing  the  objective  forms 
of  energy  by  which  our  senses  may  be  impressed,  we 


are  physicists  ;  when  we  are  analyzing  the  nature  of 
the  impression  thus  made  upon  us,  the  manner  of 
our  becoming  acquainted  with  our  environment,  we 
are  psychologists.  The  study  of  sensations  from  all 
possible  points  of  view,  the  union  of  physical  and 
psychological  methods,  holds  out  the  promise  of  a 
wider  and  deeper  insight  into  the  true  nature  of 
sensation  than  would  ever  be  possible  if  we  hold 
apart  what  should  be  brought  together.  This  domi- 
nant note  of  warning  was  more  necessary,  because 
less  familiar,  a  dozen  years  ago,  when  the  original  of 
the  present  translation  appeared,  than  it  is  now ;  the 
predicted  rejuvenation  of  interest  in  the  study  of 
sensation  has  in  the  main  come  to  pass,  and  along 
the  lines  suggested.  The  contents  of  Professor 
Mach's  contributions  will  interest  several  classes  of 
specialists,  and  it  is  a  merited  tribute  to  their  inher- 
ent value  to  present  them  in  an  attractive  English 
garb.  It  has  been  said  of  the  late  Professor  Sylvester 
that  in  writing  he  stood  very  close  to  his  subject, 
and  made  things  large  and  important  which  others 
might  be  inclined  to  consider  as  of  little  consequence. 
Professor  Mach  has  the  same  tendency  ;  and  in  both 
men  it  is  the  outcome  of  an  enviable  enthusiasm  for 
their  chosen  subjects,  which  gives  to  their  pages  a 
spice  that  is  often  lacking  in  works  of  pure  science. 
Both  in  manner  and  in  matter,  the  little  volume  is  a 
valuable  contribution  to  the  analysis  of  sensations. 

No  English  poet  is  more  steeped  in 
.  classical  mythology  JJpn  Spenser, 

and  nowhere  else  can  the  purely  E.n- 
glish  student  find  so  complete  and  attractive  an 
exercise-book  for  the  study  of  the  subject  as  is 
afforded  by  the  "  Faerie  Queene."  As  an  aid  in  such 
study,  Miss  Alice  E.  Sawtelle  has  compiled  a  dic- 
tionary to  the  "  Sources  of  Spenser's  Classical  Myth- 
ology "  (Silver,  Burdett  &  Co.),  as  her  thesis  for  the 
doctor's  degree  at  Yale  University.  The  work  seems 
to  be  very  carefully  done,  and  it  is  a  great  conven- 
ience to  the  student  of  Spenser  to  have  at  his  hand 
so  compact  and  orderly  a  presentation  of  the  sub- 
ject, although  little  seems  to  be  added  to  the  knowl- 
edge presented  in  scattered  notes  by  the  various 
commentators  and  editors  of  the  poet.  We  regret 
that  Dr.  Sawtelle  has  not  carried  out  further  the  too- 
brief  general  introduction  to  her  book,  even  at  the 
risk  of  repeating  in  part  some  of  the  generalizations 
of  Jortin,  Warton,  Percival,  and  other  critics.  Thus, 
it  would  be  interesting  to  hear  more  in  regard  to 
such  topics  as  the  artistic  methods  employed  by 
Spenser  in  handling  his  myths,  the  proportion  of  use 
and  the  sort  of  use  made  of  the  various  classical 
poets,  the  kinds  of  myths  he  particularly  affects  and 
which  he  loves  to  elaborate,  and  the  like.  A  serious 
omission  in  a  field  offering  room  for  profitable  re- 
search is  the  lack  of  investigation  in  the  thesis  into 
the  subject  of  the  coloring  and  the  transmission  of 
some  of  these  myths  to  Spenser  through  the  inter- 
mediary of  the  Italian  literature  of  the  Renaissance. 
We  conjecture  that  a  study  of  the  annotations  to 
Tasso,  Ariosto,  and  Boiardo,  as  well  as  of  the  writ- 


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ings  of  some  of  the  Italian  Platonists  and  humanists, 
would  contribute  to  the  rather  scanty  information 
now  supplied  us  in  relation  to  such  topics  as  the 
Garden  of  Adonis,  the  story  of  Hippolytus  and 
^Esculapius,  and  the  dreaded  name  of  Demogorgon. 
The  last  especially  is  a  mysterious  and  interesting 
figure  in  literature,  appearing  in  the  verse  not  only 
of  Spenser,  but  also  of  Milton,  Dryden,  Shelley,  and 
other  English  poets  ;  and  yet  the  classical  diction- 
aries and  Dr.  Sawtelle  give  us  very  little  help  in 
regard  to  him.  Besides  the  quotation  from  Dr. 
Jortin,  Dr.  Sawtelle  might  well  have  added  the  brief 
passage  on  Demogorgon  from  Milton's  Latin  writ- 
ings cited  in  Todd's  Milton  in  the  note  to  Paradise 
Lost,  Book  II.,  line  964. 

If  easy  writing  makes  hard  reading, 
£U  *  niay  be  that  what  is  written  at 

random  will  be  read  with  concen- 
trated interest.  The  reader  curious  in  the  question 
may  like  to  experiment  with  Mr.  L.  F.  Austin's 
"  At  Random"  (Ward,  Locke  &  Co.).  Our  own 
experience  in  this  case  was  that  we  read  the  book 
much  as  it  was  written.  In  the  last  essay  (if  they 
be  essays)  the  author  tells  how  he  met  Olivia,  a 
sparkling  journalist,  gazing  into  the  window  of  a 
print-shop.  She  used  to  go  there  to  look  for  ideas. 
Such,  we  fancy,  must  be  the  fate  of  anyone  who  has 
to  write  a  weekly  column  about  things  in  general. 
From  such  columns  Mr.  Austin's  book  is  made  up, 
but  we  do  not  feel  quite  sure  whither  he  went  in 
search  of  ideas.  Sometimes,  obliviously,  it  was  to 
the  theatre ;  sometimes  it  was  to  what  he  calls  Mr. 
Judson  of  the  Dog- Licensing  Department ;  often 
he  seems  to  have  merely  looked  out  of  the  window 
of  some  club.  A  few  ideas  he  has  got  from  America : 
American  cider  he  thinks  bad ;  American  after- 
dinner  speeches  begin  during  the  oysters ;  he  was 
once  cajoled  and  deceived  by  an  American  female 
interviewer.  But  practically  his  subject-matter  is 
whatever  you  choose ;  it  is  the  treatment  that  is 
really  the  thing.  Each  number  is  a  series  of  sections 
of  about  the  same  length,  commonly  of  one  para- 
graph each,  with  an  indented  heading  and  a  few 
leads  between  every  two.  This  literary  form,  as 
our  readers  are  aware,  allows  the  essayist  much 
opportunity  for  easy  badinage,  good-natured  satire, 
and  quaint  common-sense.  We  have  already  ex- 
pressed the  opinion  in  these  columns  that  such  con- 
versation, while  excellent  in  its  weekly  place,  is 
hardly  worth  preserving. 


Criticism  and 
preaching. 


In  "  The  Old  Testament  and  Modern 
Life  "  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.),  the  Rev. 
Stopford  Brooke  endeavors  in  a  se- 
ries of  sermons  to  show  that  the  modern  critical 
view  of  the  Old  Testament  is  not  incompatible  with 
its  use  as  a  moral  and  spiritual  guide  for  this  age. 
That  he  has  been  successful  in  this  attempt  is,  on 
the  whole,  questionable.  The  ideas  of  people  in 
general  about  the  application  of  criticism  to  the  Old 
Testament  are  so  indefinite  that  sermons  prepared 


from  this  critical  point  of  view  have  to  admit  too 
much  of  the  apparatus  of  the  scholar.  The  moral 
and  spiritual  emphasis  is  constantly  weakened  by 
acknowledgments  that  this  or  that  story  is  mythical 
or  legendary,  or  by  defence  and  exposition  of  crit- 
ical results.  The  hearer's  degree  of  appreciation 
and  the  impulses  toward  better  living  are  in  fact 
limited  in  such  a  case  to  the  influence  of  the  person- 
ality of  the  preacher.  When  all  this  has  been  said, 
it  remains  true  that  such  a  book  helps  toward  a  truer 
appreciation  of  the  Old  Testament,  and  thus  lays 
the  foundation  for  more  successful  achievements  in 
the  same  direction.  It  is  especially  interesting  to 
students  of  the  religious  life  of  our  time. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Mr.  Henry  I.  Sheldon's  "Notes  on  the  Nicaragua 
Canal "  (McClurg)  comprise  a  brief  descriptive  account 
of  this  project  by  a  man  who  has  evidently  made  a  care- 
ful first-hand  examination  of  the  route,  and  has  become 
thoroughly  convinced  of  both  the  desirability  and  feasi- 
bility of  the  canal.  This  book  discusses  the  subject  in 
all  aspects,  legislative,  sanitary,  and  financial,  and  con- 
veys much  useful  information  in  a  modest  way.  The 
volume  is  furnished  with  sketch-maps  and  some  good 
illustrations. 

With  commendable  promptitude  the  second  volume  of 
Messrs.  Britton  and  Brown's  "  Illustrated  Flora  of  the 
Northern  United  States,  Canada,  and  the  British  Posses- 
sions "  (Scribner)  follows  upon  the  first,  which  we  praised 
in  the  highest  terms  when  it  appeared  last  winter.  A  third 
volume,  soon  to  follow,  will  complete  the  work.  There 
is  little  to  say  upon  the  present  occasion  beyond  the 
reiteration  of  our  former  praises,  and  the  statement 
that  we  are  now  taken  through  the  Orders  of  the  Chori- 
petalfe  (polypetalous  flowers)  and  part  way  into  the 
Gamopetalse.  The  volume  before  us  include  Orders 
20  to  92  of  the  former  series,  and  Orders  1  to  16  of  the 
latter.  The  work  should  be  in  every  school  library,  as 
a  matter  of  course,  and  no  summer  house  in  the  country, 
the  home  of  an  educated  family,  can  afford  to  omit  it 
from  the  furnishings. 

Dr.  Henry  Sweet's  "  Student's  Dictionary  of  Anglo- 
Saxon  "  (Macmillan)  is  a  volume  of  about  two  hundred 
pages,  which  will  serve  as  a  makeshift  pending  the 
hoped-for  completion  of  the  exhaustive  Bosworth-Toller 
work.  It  comes  chiefly  into  competition  with  Dr.  Clark 
Hall's  dictionary,  which  Dr.  Sweet  pronounced  "  ter- 
ribly uncritical."  Condensation  and  trustworthiness  (as 
far  as  the  work  goes)  are  the  objects  chiefly  aimed  at 
in  the  preparation  of  the  present  work. 

The  Venezuelan  Commission  send  us  an  instalment 
of  their  "  Report  upon  the  True  Divisional  Line  between 
the  Republic  of  Venezuela  and  British  Guiana."  Two 
volumes  are  now  published,  one  of  text  and  one  of 
maps.  The  text  is  devoted  to  the  geography  of  the 
subject,  and  includes  six  papers,  by  expert  writers,  upon 
the  maps  of  the  territory  in  dispute.  The  accompanying 
atlas  contains  seventy-six  maps,  fifteen  of  which  are 
new,  the  others  being  facsimile  reproductions  of  old 
ones.  As  an  example  of  book-making,  this  work  does 
great  credit  to  the  Government  Printing  Office,  and 
stands  in  striking  contrast  to  most  of  the  productions 
that  come  from  that  source. 


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[July  1, 


IJITERARY  NOTES. 


Volume  III.  of  Professor  J.  B.  Bury's  new  edition  of 
Gibbon's  "  Decline  and  Fall  "  has  just  been  published 
by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

"Browning's  Verse-Form:  Its  Organic  Character," 
is  a  doctoral  dissertation  presented  to  Columbia  Uni- 
versity by  Mr.  Arthur  Beatty. 

The  Western  Association  of  Writers  is  at  present 
(June  28-July  2)  holding  its  twelfth  annual  meeting  at 
Winona  Park,  near  Warsaw,  Indiana. 

The  American  edition  of  the  Queen  Victoria  jubilee 
book  has  been  nearly  all  sold,  on  advance  orders,  by  the 
Century  Co.  It  is  published  at  $50  and  $15  a  copy. 

Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  are  the  publishers  of  Mr.  William 
H.  Mace's  "  Method  in  History  for  Teachers  and  Stu- 
dents," a  work  of  considerable  pedagogical  helpfulness. 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown,  &  Co.  are  about  to  issue,  in 
conjunction  with  the  English  publishers,  the  first  volume 
of  the  "  History  of  the  Royal  Navy,"  to  be  completed  in 
five  volumes. 

The  very  interesting  chapters  of  General  Horace 
Porter's  recollections  of  his  "  Campaigning  with  Grant," 
lately  running  in  "  The  Century,"  will  be  issued  in  book 
form  in  the  autumn. 

A  study  of  Simms,  by  Mr.  Samuel  A.  Link,  appears 
in  the  interesting  series  of  pamphlets  on  "  Pioneers  of 
Southern  Literature,"  published  by  Messrs.  Barbee  & 
Smith,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

"  Germany,"  by  Mrs.  Kate  Freiligrath  Kroeker,  and 
"  England,"  by  Miss  Frances  E.  Cooke,  are  two  volumes 
in  the  "  History  for  Young  Readers  "  series,  published 
by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

"  The  American  Journal  of  Archaeology,"  published 
by  the  Macmillan  Co.,  begins  a  second  series  this  sum- 
mer, and  will  be  published  six  times  a  year,  instead  of 
four  as  hitherto.  Professor  John  H.  Wright  is  editor- 
in-chief. 

"  A  Brief  Account  of  the  Establishment  of  the  Colony 
of  Georgia,  under  General  James  Oglethorpe,  Feb- 
ruary 1, 1733,"  is  the  second  in  the  series  of  "  Ameri- 
can Colonial  Tracts,"  published  by  Mr.  George  P. 
Humphrey. 

Publication  of  the  English  text  of  the  "  Polychrome  " 
Bible  will  be  begun  in  the  autumn.  It  is  stated  that 
Professor  Haupt  intends  to  secure  the  services  of  the 
Rev.  John  Watson  in  translating  certain  portions  of  the 
work  into  the  Scotch  dialect. 

"  The  Westminster  Press  "  is  the  style  of  imprint 
hereafter  to  be  used  for  those  publications  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Board  that  are  not  denominational  in  character. 
Mr.  John  H.  Scribner  remains  in  general  charge  of  the 
publishing  business  of  the  house. 

"  The  Theory  of  Electricity  and  Magnetism,  being 
Lectures  on  Mathematical  Physics,"  is  the  title  of  a 
voluminous  treatise  by  Dr.  Arthur  Gordon  Webster, 
Director  of  the  Physical  Laboratory  of  Clark  Univer- 
sity. The  work  is  published  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

An  "  Annotated  Bibliography  of  Fine  Art,"  in  which 
Mr.  Russell  Sturgis  has  the  subjects  of  painting,  sculp- 
ture, architecture,  decoration,  and  illustration,  while 
Mr.  H.  E.  Krebbiel  takes  the  department  of  music  is 
published  by  the  Library  Bureau  for  the  American 
Library  Association.  Such  books  as  these  are  of  the 
greatest  usefulness,  and  the  present  example  can  hardly 
be  commended  too  highly. 


Messrs.  Morton,  Bliss,  &  Co.,  38  Nassau  St.,  New 
York,  are  the  designated  American  agents  for  the 
Thomas  Hughes  Memorial  Fund,  and  subscriptions  from 
this  country  are  solicited  by  them,  as  well  as  by  a  dis- 
tinguished committee  of  educators  and  divines.  The 
objects  of  the  Fund  are  to  erect  a  statue  of  Judge 
Hughes  and  to  provide  endowments  for  the  Rugby 
School  Missions  in  London  and  Birmingham. 

The  poems  of  Mrs.  Anne  Bradstreet,  who  is  called 
"  the  first  American  authoress,"  are  about  to  be  repub- 
lished,  with  an  introduction  by  Professor  Norton,  by  the 
book  club  known  as  "  The  Duodecimos,"  whose  treasurer 
is  Mr.  Irving  Way,  Monadnock  Building,  Chicago.  The 
edition  is  to  be  limited  to  144  copies,  of  which  132  will 
be  offered  for  sale  at  $12.50  each.  A  previous  publi- 
cation by  this  club,  "  Poor  Richard's  Almanack,"  is  now 
quoted  at  $35  a  copy. 

The  June  number  of  the  "  Publications  of  the  Amer- 
ican Statistical  Association  "  will  contain  the  address  on 
Francis  Amasa  Walker,  delivered  by  Colonel  Carroll  D. 
Wright  at  the  Quarterly  Meeting  of  the  Association, 
April  16,  1897.  This  number  will  also  contain  a  care- 
fully prepared  bibliography  of  General  Walker's  writ- 
ings. Copies  may  be  had  from  the  Secretary  of  the 
American  Statistical  Association,  491  Boylston  Street, 
Boston,  at  fifty  cents  each. 

A  circular,  just  issued  by  the  Dante  Society,  sums  up 
the  work  done  by  that  organization  during  the  fifteen 
years  of  its  existence,  outlines  the  tasks  that  it  hopes  to 
perform  in  the  near  future,  and  appeals  "  to  lovers  of 
Dante  and  of  poetry  for  an  increase  in  the  member- 
ship." The  annual  fee  is  five  dollars,  and  any  person 
interested  in  the  objects  of  the  Society  may  become  a 
member  by  sending  his  name  and  one  year's  subscrip- 
tion to  the  Secretary,  Professor  A.  R.  Marsh,  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

The  recently  organized  Chicago  Society  of  Egyptian 
Research  appeals  to  the  public  for  annual  memberships 
at  five  dollars  each,  and  for  personal  subscriptions  of 
larger  amounts.  Each  member  will  receive  the  large 
illustrated  volume  to  be  published  annually  by  the 
Society.  The  Chicago  Society  will  also  come  into  pos- 
session of  a  share  of  the  antiquities  unearthed  by  Mr. 
Petrie,  in  whose  hands  the  expenditure  of  the  funds  will 
be  placed.  Mrs.  Hart  Rawson,  5854  Rosalie  Court, 
Chicago,  is  authorized  to  receive  subscriptions. 

The  Princeton  Sesquicentennial  has  already  borne  lit- 
erary fruit  in  the  shape  of  a  volume  containing  Profes- 
sor Dowden's  lectures  (which  we  shall  review  at  a  later 
date),  and  in  three  booklets  containing  other  lectures 
given  upon  that  occasion.  They  are  "  Two  Lectures 
on  Theism,"  by  Professor  Andrew  Seth;  two  on  "The 
Claims  of  the  Old  Testament,"  by  Professor  Stanley 
Leathes ;  and  one  upon  "  The  Descent  of  the  Primates," 
by  Professor  A.  A.  W.  Hubrecht.  Messrs.  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons  are  the  publishers  of  all  these  volumes. 

"  Dans  la  Brume,"  the  latest  novel  by  M.  Le*on  de 
Tinseau,  evinces  once  more  the  author's  frequently- 
declared  admiration  for  American  ways  and  American 
life,  and  will  on  that  account,  if  on  no  other,  find  many 
appreciative  readers  in  this  country.  The  heroine  is  a 
Chicago  woman,  and  it  is  interesting  to  learn  that  in 
delineating  her  the  author  had  constantly  in  mind  the 
late  Mrs.  George  Rowswell  Grant,  whose  acquaintance 
he  made  in  Paris  several  years  ago.  It  is  not  a  portrait 
that  he  offers  us,  but  a  sketch  that  is  at  least  in  many 
ways  suggestive. 


1897.] 


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BOOKS  FOR  SUMMER  READING. 

A  CLASSIFIED  LIST  OF  SOME  RECENT  PUBLICATIONS. 


[Fuller  descriptions  of  the  following  books  may  be 
found  in  the  advertising  pages  of  this  number  or  of 
recent  numbers  of  THE  DIAL.  Titles  appearing  in  this 
issue's  List  of  New  Books  (page  26)  are  not  given  here.] 

FICTION. 
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$1.50. 

Equality.  By  Edward  Bellamy.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $1.25. 
The  Martian.  By  George  du  Maurier.  Harper  &  Bros.  $1.75. 
The  Landlord  at  Lion's  Head.  By  W.  D.  Howells.  Harper 

&  Bros.    $1.75. 
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Scribner's  Sons.     $1.50. 

Lads'  Love.  By  S.  R.  Crockett.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $1.50. 
Uncle  Bernac :  A  Memory  of  the  Empire.  By  A.  Conan  Doyle. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.    $1.50. 

A  Story-Teller's  Pack.    By  F.  R.  Stockton.    Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.    $1.50. 

Mr.  Peters.  By  Riccardo  Stephens.  Harper  &  Bros.  $1.50. 
"  Bobbo,"  and  Other  Fancies.  By  Thomas  Wharton.  Harper 

&  Bros.     $1.50. 

The  Wheels  of  Chance.  By  H.  Q.  Wells.  Macmillan  Co.  $1.50. 
Old  Times  in  Middle  Georgia.  By  R.  Malcolm  Johnston. 

Macmillan  Co.     $1.50. 
The  Master-Beggars.    By  L.  Cope  Cornford.    J.  B.  Lippin- 

cott  Co.    $1.50. 
Brichanteau,  Actor.    From  the  French  of  Jules  Claretie. 

Little,  Brown,  &  Co.    $1.50. 
Susan's  Escort  and  Others.  By  Edward  Everett  Hale.  Harper 

&  Bros.     $1.50. 
The  Grey  Man.   By  Henry  Seton  Merriman.  The  Macmillan 

Co.    $1.50. 
In  the  Land  of  the  Snow  Pearls.    By  Mrs.  Ella  Higginson. 

Macmillan  Co.     $1.50. 
In  Buff  and  Blue,  being  Certain  Portions  from  the  Diary  of 

Richard  Hilton,  of  Haslet's  Foot.    By  George  B.  Rodney. 

Little,  Brown,  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Captain  Shays,  a  Populist  of  1786.    By  George  R.  Rivers. 

Little,  Brown,  &  Co.    $1.25. 

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Uncanny  Tales.  By  Mrs.  Molesworth.  Longmans,  Green,  & 

Co.    $1.25. 
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&Co.    $1.50. 
The  Red  Scaur.     By  P.  Anderson  Graham.     Longmans, 

Green,  &  Co.    $1.25. 
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Henry  Holt  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Thirty  Strange  Stories.    By  H.  G.  Wells.    Edward  Arnold. 

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Co.    $1.25. 
Patience  Sparhawk  and  her  Times.    By  Gertrude  Atherton. 

John  Lane.    $1.50. 
The  Pursuit  of  the  House-boat.    By  John  Kendrick  Bangs. 

Harper  &  Bros.    $1.25. 
Miss  Archer  Archer.  By  Clara  Louise  Burnham.  Houghton, 

Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.25. 
The  Wisdom  of  Fools.    By  Margaret  Deland.    Houghton, 

Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Sketches  in  Lavender,  Blue,  and  Green.     By  Jerome  K. 

Jerome.    Henry  Holt  &  Co.    $1.25. 
The  House  of  Dreams,  an  Allegory.    Anonymous.    Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.    $1.25. 

The  Third  Violet.  By  Stephen  Crane.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $1. 
Wayside  Courtships.  By  Hamlin  Garland.  D.  Appleton  & 

Co.    $1.25. 
The  Missionary  Sheriff.    By  Octave  Thanet.    Harper  &  Bros. 

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Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.25. 
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Lippincott  Co.    $1.25. 

Bolanyo.    By  Opie  Read.    Way  &  Williams.    $1.25. 
Constantino.   By  George  Horton.  Way  and  Williams.   $1.25. 


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When  the  Century  Was  New.    By  C.  C.  Abbott.    J.  B.  Lip- 
pincott Co.    $1. 
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Century  Co.    $1. 
Hopkins's  Pond.    By  Robert  J.  Morris.    G.  P.  Putnam's 

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Co.    $1.25. 
"Hell  for  Sartain,"  and  Other  Stories.    By  John  Fox,  Jr. 

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&Co.    $1. 
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&Co.    $1. 
The  Violet.    By  Julia  Magruder.    Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 

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Co.    $1.25. 
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&  Co.    $1. 

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The  White  Hecatomb,  and  Other  Stories.    By  W.  C.  Scully. 

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Higginson.    Longmans,  Green,  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Upon  the  Tree-Tops.    By  Olive  Thorne  Miller.    Honghton, 

Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Citizen  Bird.    A  Story  of  Bird  Life.    By  Mabel  Osgood 

Wright  and  Dr.  Elliott  Coues.    Macmillan  Co. 
Bird-Life,  a  Guide  to  our  Common  Birds.  By  F.  M.  Chapman. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.    $1.75. 

Insect- Life.   By  J.  H.  Comstock.   D.  Appleton  &  Co.   $2.50. 
Life  Histories  of  American  Insects.    By  C.  M.  Weed.    Mac- 
millan Co. 
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D.  Appleton  &  Co.    $1.75. 
Flowers  of  Field,  Hill,  and  Swamp.  By  Caroline  A.  Creevey. 

Harper  &  Bros.    $2.50. 

A  Book  about  Roses.  By  Dean  Hole.  Edward  Arnold.  $1.25. 
Lawns  and  Gardens.    By  M.  Jonsson-Rose.    G.  P.  Putnam's 

Sons.    $3.50. 

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Nature  in  a  City  Yard.  By  Charles  M.  Skinner.  The  Century 

Co.    $1. 
The  Plant-Lore  and  Garden-Craft  of  Shakespeare.  By  H.  N. 

Ellacombe.    Edward  Arnold.    $3.50. 

Nature  in  Dante.  By  L.  Oscar  Kuhns.  Edward  Arnold.  $1.50. 
Out-of-Door  Library,  new  volumes :  Mountain-Climbing,  and 

Athletic  Sports.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  Per  vol.,  $1.50. 

TRAVEL  AND  DESCRIPTION. 

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$3.50. 
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Sketches  of  Travel  in  Normandy  and  Maine.    By  E.  A.  Free- 
man.   Macmillan  Co.    $2.50. 
Sketches  Awheel  in  Modern  Iberia.  By  Fanny  B.  and  W.  H. 

Workman.    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    $2. 
A  Sunshine  Trip,   Glimpses  of  the  Orient.    By  Margaret 

Bottome.    Edward  Arnold.    $1. 
The  Land  of  the  Dollar,  an  Englishman's  Views  of  America. 

By  G.  W.  Steevens.    Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.    $1.50. 
On  Many  Seas.    Life  and  exploits  of  a  Yankee  Sailor.    By 

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Literary  Landmarks  of  Florence.    By  Laurence   Hutton. 

Harper  &  Bros.    $1. 
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ABros.    $1. 


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[July  1, 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

July,  1897. 

American  Drama.    I.  A.  Pyle.    Lippincott. 

American  Mood,  The.    W.  D.  Howells.    Harper. 

Burke,  Edmund.    Kate  H.  Claghorn.    Atlantic. 

California  Alps  WUd  Flowers.  Miss  B.  F.  Herrick.  Pop.Sci. 

Deaf -mute  Education  in  America.  A.W.  Qreely.  Rev.  of  Rev. 

Disloyal  Wife  in  Literature,  The.    Poet-Lore. 

Economy  in  Evolution.    E.  Noble.    Popular  Science. 

Fiction,  Recent.    W.  M.  Payne.    Dial. 

"  Homewood,"  a  Model  Suburb.  E.  R.  L.  Gould.  Rev.  of  Rev. 

House  of  Commons  Celebrities.    T.  P.  O'Connor.    Harper. 

Invention,  Forecasting.    W.  Baxter,  Jr.    Popular  Science. 

Jowett.    C.  A.  L.  Richards.    Dial. 

Jowett,  and  the  University  Ideal.    J.  Ashley.    Atlantic. 

Legislatures,  Decline  of.    E.  L.  Godkin.    Atlantic. 

Literature  of  Victoria's  Reign.    Dial. 

Low,  Seth.    Edward  Gary.    Review  of  Reviews. 

Natal.    Ponltney  Bigelow.    Harper. 

Nation,  The  Making  of  the.    Woodrow  Wilson.    Atlantic. 

Nature,  Studies  in.    Sara  A.  Hubbard.    Dial. 

New  England,  Future  of.    A.  F.  Sanborn.    Atlantic. 

Newspaper  Advertising,  Evolution  of.  O.  Herzberg.  Lip'coti. 

North  and  South.    S.  Trotter.    Popular  Science. 

Quarantine  for  Cattle.    H.  H.  Bowen.    Lippincott. 

Racial  Geography  of  Europe.    W.  R.  Ripley.    Pop.  Science. 

Saturn  the  Planet.    C.  A.  Howes.    Popular  Science. 

Shakespeare  as  Critic.    J.  W.  Bray.    Poet-Lore. 

Sheridan's  Ride.    G.  A.  Forsyth.    Harper. 

Suicide  among  the  Ancients.    L.  Irwell.    Lippincott. 

Sterling-Emerson  Correspondence,  The.  E.  W.  Emerson.  Atla. 

Travels,  Recent.    H.  M.  Stanley.    Dial. 

Wasps  and  Bees.    R.  W.  Shufeldt.    Popular  Science. 

Women  and  Freedom  in  Whitman.  Helen  Michael.  Poet-Lore. 


OP  NEW  BOOKS. 

[The  following  list,  containing  75  titles,  includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

FICTION. 

The  Meddling  Hussy.  Being  H  Tales  Retold.  By  Clinton 

Ross.    Illns.,  16mo,  pp.  400.    Stone  &  Kimball.   $1.50. 
Max.    By  Julian  Croskey.    16mo,  pp.  500,  gilt  top,  uncut. 

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CONTENTS. 


THE  TEACHING  OF  ENGLISH  ONCE  MORE  .    .    35 
SHAKESPEARE  IN  CHICAGO,  II.    W.  E.  Simonds    37 

COMMUNICATIONS 38 

"A   Philosopher   Decadent."  —  A   Reply.     Thomas 

Common. 
What  are  "Survivals"  and  "Archaisms"? 

W.  H.  J. 

Bibliography  of  the  World's  Congresses  of  1893. 
Charles  C.  Bonney. 

MORE    LIGHT    ON    EARLY    NORTHWESTERN 

HISTORY.    B.A.Hinsdale 40 

THE  SECRET  OF  THE  EAST.  Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.    42 

THE   RUINED    CITIES    AND    MONUMENTS    OF 

YUCATAN.    Frederick  Starr 44 

STUDIES  IN  MEDIAEVAL  LITERATURE.  William 

Morton  Payne 45 

FACT  AND  FICTION  IN  SOCIAL  STUDY.  C.R. 

Henderson 48 

Gibbins's  Industry  in  England. —  The  Revolutionary 
Tendencies  of  the  Age. —  Nash's  Genesis  of  the  So- 
cial Conscience. —  Bellamy's  Equality. —  Helen  Ken- 
drick  Johnson's  Woman  and  the  Republic. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 51 

Cicero  and  his  friends. —  A  fine  pair  of  un-Scottish 
Scots. —  English  politics  and  the  development  of  the 
national  spirit. —  Begging  as  a  fine  art. —  The  theory 
of  socialization. — Haunts  and  homes  of  Thackeray. — 
The  conditions  of  our  Lord's  life  on  earth. —  Tolstoi's 
gospel  in  brief. 

LITERARY  NOTES 52 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS   .  .    52 


THE  TEACHING  OF  ENGLISH 
ONCE  MORE. 

The  teaching  of  English  in  our  universities 
is  a  subject  that  has  reached  an  acute  phase  of 
discussion  of  recent  years,  and  in  that  discus- 
sion THE  DIAL,  as  our  readers  know,  has  had 
its  share.  Still  more  recently,  the  discussion 
seems  to  have  shifted  its  ground  from  the  field 
of  higher  to  that  of  secondary  education,  and 
pedagogical  interest  in  the  subject  is  now  cen- 
tred upon  the  work  of  the  preparatory  schools 
and  upon  the  admission  requirements  of  the 
colleges.  While  both  the  theory  and  the  prac- 
tice of  the  subject  are  still  in  a  tentative  and 
transitional  state,  it  may  be  affirmed  that  we 
are  at  last  on  the  way  toward  something  like 


uniformity  of  methods  and  ideals,  and  that 
from  the  now  seemingly  chaotic  condition  of 
affairs  something  like  a  definite  set  of  conclu- 
sions is  on  the  way  toward  emergence. 

In  "  The  School  Review  "  for  June  we  are 
provided  with  the  means  for  taking  as  distinct 
a  view  of  this  important  matter  as  it  is  possible 
at  present  to  gain,  and  we  propose  to  glance  at 
the  subject  in  the  light  of  the  documentary  evi- 
dence there  collected.  The  report  of  Dr.  A.  F. 
Nightingale  as  Chairman  of  the  Denver  Com- 
mittee on  College  Entrance  Requirements,  the 
report  of  Mr.  J.  E.  Russell  on  the  subject  of 
Requirements  in  English,  and  the  report  of 
Mr.  C.  W.  French  on  the  English  Conference 
of  May  31,  are  the  three  documents  upon  which 
we  have  drawn,  and  an  examination  of  their 
contents  will  be  found  both  helpful  and  sug- 
gestive. 

The  English  Conference  in  question  was 
held  in  New  York,  and  the  participants  were  a 
committee  of  fifteen  delegates  from  the  five 
associations  of  secondary  schools  and  colleges 
that  have  played  so  important  a  part  in  the 
educational  activity  of  recent  years,  and  that 
are  doing  so  much  to  make  us  hopeful  of  real 
progress  in  the  matter  of  intermediate  and 
higher  education.  Considerable  differences  of 
opinion  were  developed  in  the  Conference,  and 
adjournment  until  next  December  was  had 
without  outlining  any  permanent  policy.  It  is 
interesting,  however,  to  learn  that  "  the  speak- 
ers were  nearly  unanimous  in  the  opinion  that 
there  should  be  no  difference  between  the  reg- 
ular and  college-preparatory  courses  in  En- 
glish." The  discussion  was  for  the  most  part 
focussed  upon  a  series  of  resolutions  presented 
by  Mr.  French.  These  resolutions  called  for  a 
full  four  years  of  preparatory  work,  and  offered 
a  scheme  for  each  of  the  four  years.  The 
scheme  embodied  one  year  of  rhetoric  and 
composition,  one  devoted  to  the  history  of  the 
English  language,  and  two  devoted  to  a  histor- 
ical survey  of  English  literature.  It  also  pro- 
vided for  continuous  essay-writing  and  for  con- 
tinuous reading,  both  intensive  and  cursory,  of 
carefully  selected  books.  The  resolutions  also 
called  for  a  settlement  of  college  entrance 
requirements  upon  the  basis  of  the  work  called 
for  by  the  above  scheme,  and  urged  the  adop- 
tion of  a  list "  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  and 


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fifty  books  "  from  which  preparatory  schools 
might  select  the  required  reading  for  their 
courses. 

This  last  resolution,  which  is  perhaps  the 
most  important  of  all,  and  which  is  certainly  a 
step  in  the  right  direction,  seemed  to  meet  with 
scant  favor,  since  about  the  only  thing  defi- 
nitely done  by  the  Conference  was  the  adoption 
of  a  brief  and  narrow  fixed  list  for  1901  and 
1902,  this  being  substantially  the  list  hitherto 
adopted  for  1900.  Dr.  Nightingale,  who  was 
not  present  at  the  meeting,  sent  a  letter  in  ad- 
vocacy of  what  we  believe  to  be  the  wiser  policy 
of  elasticity  and  latitude  in  the  matter  of 
required  reading.  This  letter  urges  the  adop- 
tion of  long  lists  of  books  for  both  kinds  of 
reading.  Such  questions  as  the  following  will 
not  down,  however  conferences  may  try  to  sup- 
press them.  "  Why  designate  a  particular  set 
for  1897,  another  for  1898,  and  so  on  ?  Why 
not  present  a  list  good  until  1905,  for  '  read- 
ing '  and  for  '  study  and  practice  '  out  of  which 
selections  may  be  made  according  to  the  judg- 
ment of  the  school  ?  "  Why  not,  indeed  ?  The 
only  reason  which  the  partisans  of  rigidity  have 
to  offer  is  that  college  examiners  would  find  it 
difficult  to  shape  their  questions  with  reference 
to  such  an  extended  list.  "  Oh,  the  farce  and 
the  folly,"  Dr.  Nightingale  exclaims,  "  of  shap- 
ing requirements  for  admission  to  college  for 
the  purpose  of  facilitating  the  making  of  exam- 
ination questions !  " 

We  are  in  hearty  agreement  with  this  posi- 
tion, and  always  ready  to  share  the  indignation 
of  those  who  protest  against  rigid  uniformity  in 
anything  but  the  veriest  essentials  of  educa- 
tional policy.  As  for  this  particular  policy  of 
uniform  reading,  devised  solely  in  the  interest 
of  the  examiner,  and  almost  fatal  to  the  work 
of  the  instructor,  it  recalls  nothing  so  much  as 
the  puerile  plea  of  Mr.  Dingley  in  defence  of 
his  recent  atrocious  proposal  for  the  taxation 
of  knowledge.  It  will  never  do,  he  said  in  sub- 
stance, to  permit  books  of  any  kind  to  enter  the 
country  without  taxation,  because  we  cannot 
expect  our  overworked  customs  officials  to 
waste  their  energies  in  determining  whether 
books  are  more  than  twenty  years  old,  or  in 
what  language  they  are  printed.  It  is  much 
simpler  to  clap  a  tax  upon  them  all,  and  spare 
the  tax-collector  at  the  expense  of  all  the  stu- 
dents and  readers  in  the  land.  Or,  if  this 
parallel  be  not  sufficient,  another  may  be  found 
in  Lamb's  famous  essay  on  the  economical 
Chinese  method  of  roasting  pig. 

Mr.  Russell's  interesting  report  is  largely  in 


tabulated  form,  being  based  upon  the  replies  to 
two  circulars  of  inquiry  sent  to  about  three 
hundred  teachers  of  English  in  the  secondary 
schools  and  colleges.  A  few  of  the  results  of 
this  investigation  may  be  given.  The  first 
questions  called  for  an  opinion  concerning  the 
satisfactoriness  of  the  present  entrance  require- 
ments, which  are  considered  satisfactory  by 
large  majorities.  The  number  of  years  of  pre- 
paratory work  needed  to  meet  these  require- 
ments is  variously  estimated  at  from  one  to  four, 
the  term  of  two  years  receiving  the  largest 
number  of  votes.  These  replies  taken  together 
seem  to  indicate  a  lower  standard  than  should 
prevail.  The  preparatory  work  in  English 
should  certainly  call  for  three  or  four  years  of 
study.  An  overwhelming  majority  of  votes 
were  recorded  in  favor  of  the  proposition  that 
in  the  selection  of  books  for  the  required  work, 
the  governing  principles  should  be :  (1)  the 
representation  of  distinct  periods  and  types  of 
literature,  (2)  the  consideration  of  historical 
sequence,  and  (3)  the  equal  representation  of 
prose  and  poetry.  Opinions  were  solicited  con- 
cerning the  fitness  of  the  books  in  a  list  of 
forty-four,  compiled  from  the  actual  require- 
ments of  different  colleges.  Each  book  is 
marked  as  desirable,  very  desirable,  unsatisfac- 
tory, or  very  unsatisfactory.  "  The  Merchant 
of  Venice  "  is  the  only  book  in  the  list  that  does 
not  get  a  single  vote  under  the  two  adverse 
categories.  Those  that  come  next  in  accepta- 
bility are  "  Miles  Standish,"  "  Evangeline," 
"  Ivanhoe,"  "  Julius  Caesar,"  "  The  Lady  of 
the  Lake,"  "  Marmion,"  "  The  Sketch  Book," 
and  "  The  Vision  of  Sir  Launf  al."  Among  the 
very  desirable  books  are  also  "  As  You  Like 
It,"  " Macbeth,"  and  "Silas  Marner."  The 
most  unsatisfactory  book  in  the  list  is  Defoe's 
"  History  of  the  Plague,"  the  adoption  of  which 
by  the  colleges  has  always  been  a  dark  mys- 
tery. One  hundred  and  seventy-eight  votes 
are  cast  against  it,  and  only  thirty-seven  in  its 
favor.  Other  books  that  get  at  least  fifty  ad- 
verse votes  (out  of  from  three  to  five  times  that 
number)  are  "  Comus,"  Pope's  "  Iliad,"  "  Ly- 
cidas,"  Dryden's  "  Palamon  and  Arcite,"  and 
Macaulay's  "  Second  Essay  on  Chatham."  The 
majority  of  the  books  in  the  list  are  ratified 
by  decided  majorities.  A  question  calling  for 
additional  suggestions  elicited  two  hundred 
titles,  among  which  Tennyson's  "  Idylls  of 
the  King "  received  twenty-four  suffrages, 
Emerson's  "  Essays  "  twenty-one,  Franklin's 
"  Autobiography  "  thirteen,  "  The  Deserted 
Village,"  "  The  Essays  of  Elia,"  and  "  Henry 


1897.] 


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Esmond  "  each  twelve,  and  "  Hamlet  "  ten. 
A  second  circular  of  inquiry  sent  out  by 
Mr.  Russell  included  questions  of  more  gen- 
eral scope,  and  elicited  some  interesting  ex- 
pressions of  opinion.  The  vote  was  almost 
unanimous  that  English  should  be  pursued  by 
all  classes  in  the  high  school  during  the  entire 
course,  but  opinion  was  about  evenly  divided 
between  three,  four,  and  five  periods  per  week 
for  the  time  allotment.  A  large  majority  voted 
for  basing  composition  work  chiefly  upon  the 
required  reading.  Exercises  in  paraphrasing 
poetry,  correcting  bad  English,  and  condensa- 
tion were  all  recommended  by  fair  majorities. 
Opinion  was  rather  against  the  formal  study 
of  English  literary  history,  and  very  strongly 
against  courses  in  Anglo-Saxon  and  Early  En- 
glish. Rhetoric  and  formal  grammar  as  sepa- 
rate studies  received  large  votes,  but  again 
opinion  was  very  much  at  sea  when  it  came  to 
fixing  the  year  in  which  these  studies  should 
best  be  pursued.  Some  of  the  questions  were 
of  such  a  nature  that  the  replies  to  them  did  not 
admit  of  statistical  presentation.  In  one  case, 
for  example,  the  replies  "  show  a  widespread 
dissatisfaction  with  the  English  requirement 
even  by  those  who  accept  it  tentatively  as  the 
best  possible  at  the  present  time."  And  the 
question  which  called  for  a  statement  of  the 
main  objects  to  be  sought  in  the  teaching  of 
secondary  English  showed  so  great  a  diversity 
of  opinion  that  we  may  well  conclude  that  the 
real  difficulty  lies  just  here,  and  that  we  can- 
not expect  anything  but  chaos  in  our  work 
until  we  are  substantially  agreed  upon  what  it 
is  most  desirable  to  do.  The  answers  to  this 
question  ranged  all  the  way  from  "  the  analysis 
of  a  typical  English  sentence  "  to  a  "  famili- 
arity with  the  greatest  minds  of  all  times," 
although  from  them  all  five  ideals  emerged  in 
the  following  order  of  emphasis  :  *'  Habits  of 
good  expression,  oral  and  written,"  "  a  taste  for 
good  literature,"  "  an  acquaintance  with  the 
outlines  of  English  literature,"  "  culture  and 
discipline,"  and  "  the  ability  to  read  under- 
standingly."  These  are  all  worthy  aims,  no 
doubt,  and  if  agreement  can  once  be  had  upon 
their  relative  importance,  we  may  well  relegate 
to  the  limbo  of  the  unimportant  most  of  the 
other  questions  raised  by  the  investigation  now 
under  consideration.  "  If  the  main  objects  of 
teaching  English  are  attained,"  to  conclude 
our  discussion  with  Mr.  Russell's  most  perti- 
nent closing  inquiry,  "  what  matters  it  to  the 
colleges,  or  to  anyone  outside  of  the  schools, 
what  list  of  books  is  studied  ?  " 


SHAKESPEARE  IN  CHICAGO,  II* 

The  dramatic  record  of  the  past  year  in  Chicago 
is  an  average  one.  It  has  been  rather  interesting 
to  note  the  frequency  with  which  adaptations  of 
popular  works  of  fiction  have  held  the  stage,  and 
this  tendency  in  dramatic  productions  may  have 
some  significance  for  one  who  at  all  studies  the 
theatre  of  to-day.  Old-time  melodrama  of  the  type 
represented  by  "  Monte  Cristo  "  and  "  The  Man  in 
the  Iron  Mask,"  based  on  popular  French  romance, 
has  held  its  own  and  shows  some  new  development. 
To  the  unreasonable  popularity  of  "  Trilby  "  in  its 
barbarous  stage  version  of  the  past  two  seasons  is 
undoubtedly  due  the  attempt  of  Mr.  Clyde  Fitch  to 
reconstruct  "Bohemia"  out  of  Miirger's  romance. 
"  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda  "  has  pursued  its  triumphal 
course,  with  the  adaptation  of  Mr.  Townsend's 
"  Chimmie  Fadden  "  as  an  odd  competitor  for  pub- 
lic favor.  Miss  Phipps's  "  A  Social  Highwayman  " 
has  achieved  success  in  the  hands  of  the  Hollands, 
and  Mr.  Theodore  Hamilton's  work  in  "  Pudd'n- 
head  Wilson  "  has  won  public  approval.  Mr.  Stuart 
Bobson  has  also  made  a  success  in  the  dramatization 
of  Opie  Head's  "  The  Jucklins."  Most  interesting 
of  all  has  been  the  appearance  of  Mr.  Mansfield  in 
"  The  Scarlet  Letter,"  and  that  of  Mrs.  Marlowe- 
Taber  in  Mr.  Barren's  arrangement  of  "  Romola." 

In  comparing  the  season  just  closed  with  that  of 
1895-96,  we  find  an  apparent  lessening  of  interest 
in  the  Shakespearian  drama.  However,  the  season 
of  1895-96  was  a  remarkable  one  in  this  respect, 
and  the  mere  falling  off  in  the  number  of  plays 
presented  should  not  be  regarded  as  especially  sig- 
nificant. The  following  facts  are  noteworthy. 
While  in  the  previous  season  eighty-eight  Shake- 
spearian presentations  are  recorded,  such  presenta- 
tions number  sixty-eight  for  the  season  of  1896-97; 
the  number  of  plays  staged,  however,  is  the  same  in 
both  seasons  —  thirteen.  "Julius  Csesar,"  "  Two 
Gentlemen  of  Verona,"  "  Macbeth,"  and  "  Mid- 
summer Night's  Dream,"  included  in  the  repertory 
of  1895-96,  were  replaced  by  "  Much  Ado  About 
Nothing,"  "  Cymbeline,"  "  King  Lear,"  and  "  The 
Tempest."  "  Hamlet,"  which  received  twenty-six 
representations  in  the  season  before  the  last,  was 
given  but  six  in  1896-97.  "The  Merchant  of 
Venice  "  also  fell  from  a  record  of  eleven  to  one  of 
five.  "  Othello,"  presented  eight  times  in  1895-96, 
was  staged  but  once  the  past  season ;  a  similar  state- 
ment holds  for  "  The  Taming  of  the  Shrew,"  which 
in  1895-96  was  given  ten  times.  On  the  other 
hand,  "  Richard  III."  was  brought  out  seven  times 
in  each  season,  while  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  received 
fourteen  presentations  during  the  past  year  as 
against  four  in  that  preceding.  The  notable  fea- 
tures of  1896-97  were  undoubtedly  the  revival  of 
"King  Lear"  by  Frederick  Warde,  and  that  of 

*This  article  is  in  continuation  of  one  in  THE  DIAL  ol 
June  16, 1896,  giving  the  record  of  Shakespearian  representa- 
tions in  Chicago  for  a  year  preceding. 


THE    DIAL 


[July  16, 


"  The  Tempest "  by  Mr.  Daly's  company.  Courtesy 
demands  mention  also  of  the  spectacular  production 
of  "  Cymbeline,"  which  was  at  least  a  novelty  to 
our  stage. 

Following  is    the   tabulated   record   of   Shake- 
spearian productions  for  the  year. 


Plays. 


1    Richard  III. 


2    Hamlet. 


No. 


3    Romeo  and  Juliet.      14 


4    Merchant  of  Venice.     5 


Players.  Dales. 

("Otis  Skinner.  Sept.  21,  Oct.  3. 

Richard  Mansfield.  Nov.  2,  5,   Mar.  29, 

Apr.  9. 
Apr.  7. 

Sept.  22,  23,  25,  (2). 
Oct.  30. 
Mar.  5. 

Sept.  23,  26,  Oct.  1, 3. 
Dec.  28  — Jan.  2  (7 

times),  Jan.  16. 
May  15  (2). 
Sept.  24. 


Frederick  Warde. 
( Otis  Skinner. 
6   !  Robert  Mantell. 
( James  O'Neill. 
f  Otis  Skinner. 
i  Marlowe-Taber. 


10 
11 
12 
13 

13 


Taming  of  the  Shrew. 

Othello. 

As  You  Like  It. 

Twelfth  Night. 

Much  Ado. 

King  Lear. 
Henry  IV. 
Cymbeline. 
The  Tempest. 


1^  Margaret  Mather. 
( Otis  Skinner. 

]  Richard  Mansfield.  Nov.  4,  Mar.  30. 
(  Frederick  Warde.    Apr.  4,  10. 
1     Otis  Skinner. 

1  Robert  Mantell. 
3     Marlowe-Taber. 

2  Marlowe-Taber. 
-    (  Marlowe-Taber. 

0  JAdaRehan. 

3  Frederick  Warde. 

1  Frederick  Warde. 
5     Margaret  Mather. 
5     Ada  Rehan. 


Sept.  24. 

Oct.  31. 

Jan.  1,  11, 16. 

Jan.  18. 

Jan.  9, 12. 

May  28,  29  (2). 

Apr.  4,  6,  10. 

Apr.  9. 

May  2-13  (15  times). 

May  31,  June  1(2),  3. 


W.  E.  SlMONDS. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

"A  PHILOSOPHER  DECADENT."  — A  REPLY. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THIS  DIAL.) 

Mr.  Camillo  von  Klenze's  remarks  on  the  translations 
of  Volumes  VIII.  and  XI.  of  the  English  version  of 
Nietzsche's  Works,  in  THE  DIAL  for  June  16,  can  hardly 
be  allowed  to  pass  unnoticed.  When  approaching  the 
end  of  his  article,  he  seems  to  have  suddenly  bethought 
himself  that  it  is  always  the  proper  thing  for  a  reviewer 
to  portion  out  strong  doses  of  praise  and  blame.  He 
deals  out  these  articles  in  a  great  hurry,  like  a  person 
who  has  been  kept  beyond  his  hours,  and  is  anxious  to 
get  home.  I  happen  to  get  the  strong  dose  of  blame. 
Of  my  translation,  which  compares  at  least  favorably 
enough  with  the  one  he  praises,  he  says,  "It  is  bad 
throughout,  and  in  parts  ignominious";  and  after  fur- 
nishing what  purports  to  be  a  list  of  bad  and  ignominous 
passages,  he  adds,  "  Such  things  ought  never  to  be 
printed." 

But  none  of  the  four  errors  which  he  adduces  as  bad 
and  ignominious  are  errors  at  all,  except  in  the  imagina- 
tion of  a  person  in  a  flurried  state  of  mind.  He  errone- 
ously refers  to  a  passage  as  on  page  9  (it  is  on  page  19 
in  the  English  edition),  where  he  thinks  I  have  com- 
mitted the  terrible  blunder  of  putting  is  instead  of  are. 
I  insist,  however,  on  the  authority  of  grammarians  (e.  g.t 
Bain  in  his  "  Higher  English  Grammar  ")  that  is  is  per- 
fectly correct  in  the  passage, "  In  his  art  there  is  mixed, 
in  the  most  seductive  manner,  the  things  at  present 
most  necessary  for  everybody  —  the  three  great  stimu- 
lants of  the  exhausted."  (A  discussion  of  the  same 
trivial  question,  which  the  "  Saturday  Review  "  justly 
ridicules,  has  been  going  on  in  a  London  newspaper, 
with  reference  to  the  expression  used  by  Mr.  Jerome  K. 
Jerome, — "  A  good  woman's  arms  ...  is  a  life-belt.") 

I  am  further  blamed  for  translating  Romane  as  ro- 
mances, which  is  certainly  not  an  incorrect  rendering. 
Neither  is  it  erroneous  to  use  the  expression,  "prohibit 


themselves  every  '  if '  and  « for,' "  when  the  Germans  are 
spoken  of  in  contrast  to  the  "  aesthetic  gentlemen  "  who 
used  "  if  "  and  "  for."  (I  understand  that  themselves  is 
objected  to,  as  redundant,  which  it  certainly  is  not.)  In 
the  next  passage  I  am  blamed  for  preserving  a  metaphor 
by  translating  it  literally,  though  not  obscurely.  Besides 
preserving  the  metaphor,  the  literal  rendering  seems 
best  suited  to  the  context.  Here,  however,  Mr.  von 
Klenze  again  falls  into  an  incidental  mistake  when  he 
gives  the  original  as  "  Ich  weiss  nicht  wo  aus  noch  ein." 
The  wo  is  redundant,  and  is  not  in  the  original. 

I  know  only  too  well  that  there  are  sufficient  imper- 
fections in  my  translation,  but  in  being  the  first  to  un- 
dertake voluntarily  a  difficult  and  important  work  (Dr. 
Haussmann,  the  translator  of  the  "  Genealogy  of  Morals," 
was  the  second  to  voluntarily  undertake  and  complete 
a  translation  of  one  of  Nietzsche's  volumes),  I  do  not 
wish  to  be  blamed  for  things  which  are  not  real  errors. 

Apart,  however,  from  his  concluding  paragraph, 
which  is  a  curiosity  in  criticism,  Mr.  von  Klenze's  arti- 
cle on  Nietzsche's  philosophy  is  valuable  on  the  whole. 
It  is  an  immense  advance  on  the  criticism  in  Nordau's 
"  Degeneration,"  and  on  some  of  the  earlier  criticisms  of 
Nietzsche  which  appeared  in  English  (e.  g.,  the  dis- 
graceful attack  on  Nietzsche  which  appeared  in  the 
"  International  Journal  of  Ethics  "  for  July,  1892, 
p.  533).  Surely,  however,  Mr.  von  Klenze  insists  too 
dogmatically  on  Nietzsche's  lack  of  the  historical  sense. 
The  course  of  social  development  from  the  Renaissance 
to  the  present  time  is  far  too  brief  and  exceptional  to 
furnish  data  from  which  we  can  deduce  with  certainty 
the  permanency  of  democratic  institutions.  Others  than 
Mr.  John  Morley,  who  believe  in  democratic  institutions, 
would  do  well  to  study  Machiavelli,  to  whom,  along 
with  Thucydides,  Nietzsche  claims  to  be  nearest  akin. 

Nietzsche's  careful  distinction,  also,  between  hose 
(evil)  and  schlecht  (bad)  seems  hardly  to  be  grasped  by 
Mr.  von  Klenze.  The  word  evil  should  therefore  be 
substituted  for  bad  in  the  passage:  "'Good'  in  other 
words  is  tantamount  to  harmless,  '  tad '  to  strong,  pow- 
erful." We  find  Nietzsche  almost  continually  contem- 
plating moral  phenomena  of  one  kind  or  other  in  his 
voluminous  writings ;  it  is  therefore  not  at  all  correct  to 
say,  "  These  revolutionary  views  Nietzsche  does  not 
base  on  a  careful  comparative  study  of  morality,  but  on 
the  etymology  of  a  few  words."  THOMAS  COMMON. 

9  Caird  Drive,  Partickhill,  Glasgow,  July  1,  1897. 


WHAT  ARE  "SURVIVALS"  AND  "ARCHAISMS"? 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.  ) 

The  discussion  concerning  the  use  of  the  verbs  "learn" 
and  "  teach  "  reveals,  as  it  seems  to  me,  a  surprising 
lack  of  accurate  definition.  I  suppose  it  to  be  unques- 
tionable that  the  verb  "  learn  "  in  a  causative  sense  has 
had  a  widely  extended  and  uninterrupted  currency 
among  English-speaking  people  for  centuries.  It  is  only 
the  careful  who  consistently  avoid  it,  and  the  careful 
are  not  the  majority.  Where  one  writer  (as  Tennyson) 
employs  the  construction  with  the  English  of  an  earlier 
day  in  mind,  a  thousand  men,  women,  and  children,  of 
the  masses,  use  it  spontaneously,  because  with  them  it 
is  the  ordinary  expression  for  the  thought  in  mind.  To 
call  it  either  an  "  archaism  "  or  a  "  survival "  under  such 
circumstances  is  to  use  language  altogether  too  loosely 
for  the  purposes  of  philological  investigation.  May  we 
not  confine  the  term  "  archaism "  to  expressions  not 
handed  down  in  usage  from  age  to  age,  but  obtained 


1897.] 


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directly  from  an  older  time  across  an  expanse  of  gener- 
ations to  which  the  usage  was  not  known?  and  is  not  a 
"  survival,"  strictly  speaking,  an  expression  which  has 
been  handed  down  from  generation  to  generation  in 
spontaneous  usage,  but  within  such  narrow  limits  as  to 
have  escaped  general  attention  and  acceptance?  If  I 
am  wrong  in  this  restriction  of  the  terms,  I  am  willing 
to  be  corrected;  but  if  there  be  not  some  such  restric- 
tion they  should  be  dropped  from  the  vocabulary  of 
philology  as  of  no  scientific  value.  W  H  J 

Granville,  Ohio,  July  2, 1897, 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  THE  WORLD'S   CONGRESSES 

OF  1893. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

In  THE  DIAL  of  January  1,  1896,  was  published  a 
Bibliography  of  publications  growing  out  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  World's  Congresses  of  the  Columbian 
Exposition  of  1893.  The  list  numbered  102  titles;  and 
to  it  I  now  beg  to  add  23  supplementary  titles,  the  pub- 
lication of  which  in  your  journal  will  no  doubt  be  of 
interest  to  many  among  the  thousands  of  persons  who 
participated  in  the  Congresses,  and  will  also  show  the 
continued  and  world-wide  interest  in  the  results  of  those 
memorable  world-gatherings.  For  convenience  of  refer- 
ence, the  titles  are  numbered  consecutively  from  the 
previous  list.  CHARLES  C.  BONNET. 

President  of  the  World's  Congresses. 

Chicago,  July  1,  1897. 

SUPPLEMENTARY  BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
(Department  of  Agriculture.) 

103.  The  World's  Congress  on  Ornithology.  [Bird  Culture.] 
Papers  presented  to  the  World's  Congress  on  Ornithology; 
edited  by  Mrs.  E.  Irene  Rood,  under  the  direction  of  Dr. 
Elliott  Coues.    Chicago,  C.  H.  Sergei  &  Co.,  8vo,  gilt  top, 
uncut,  pp.  208. 

EDUCATION. 

104.  Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education  for  the  year 
1892-93,  Vol.  I.,  Parts  I.  and  II.;  Government  Printing  Office, 
1895,  8vo,  pp.  1224.   Part  II.,  containing  804  pages,  is  devoted 
to  "Education  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,"  and 
includes  a  part  of  the  proceedings  of  the  second  series  of 
Educational  Congresses. 

105.  Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education  for  1893-94. 
Chapter  XIX.  contains  the  General  Programme  of  the  World's 
Congresses  of  1893,  and  the  programme  for  the  first  series  of 
the  International  Edncational  Congress  of  that  year ;  also  a 
Summary  of  the  World's  Congress  Work ;  and  a  Bibliography 
of  World's  Congress  Publications ;  8vo,  pp.  26. 

106.  The  Philosophy  of  the  Tool ;  by  Dr.  Paul  Carus.    A 
lecture  delivered  on  Tuesday,  July  18, 1893,  before  the  Depart- 
ment of  Manual  and  Art  Education  of  the  World's  Congress 
Auxiliary.    Chicago,  The  Open  Court  Publishing  Co.,  1893, 
12mo,  pp.  25. 

GENERAL  DEPARTMENT. 

107.  The  Story  of  the  Congress  on  Africa,  by  Frederic  Perry 
Noble,  Secretary  of  the  Congress ;  Our  Day,  October,  18, 1893. 
Boston,  Mass.,  8vo,  pp.  39. 

GENERAL  PUBLICATIONS. 

108.  Appleton's  Cyclopedia,  1893 ;  World's  Congress  Aux- 
iliary, 768-772,  a  brief  account  of  the  Congresses  held  in  each 
department,  with  a  separate  article  on  the  Parliament  of 
Religions,  607-8 ;  8vo,  pp.  10. 

109.  Kirkland's  Story  of  Chicago ;  The  World's  Congresses 
of  1893.    Dibble  Publishing  Company,  Vol.  II.,  pp.  65-84. 

110.  The  World's  Congresses  of  1893  ;  Review  of  Reviews, 
New  York,  April  and  October,  1892 ;  April  and  July,  1893, 
and  March,  1894. 

GOVERNMENT. 

111.  Nationalism  and  Internationalism,  by  George  Dana 
Boardman,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  a  paper  read  before  the  Chicago 


Peace  Congress,  August  18, 1893.  Advocate  of  Peace,  Boston, 
December,  1893,  8vo,  pp.  12. 

112.  "The  White  City  by  the  Inland  Sea,"  by  Hezekiah 
Bntterworth ;  an  ode  read  at  the  opening  of  the  World's  Peace 
Congress  held  August  14,  1893;  also  "The  White  Bordered 
Flag,"  a  poem  by  the  same  author,  read  at  the  Representa- 
tive Youth's  Congress,  July  17,  1893.    American  Publication 
Society,  3  Somerset  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  8vo,  pp.  16. 

113.  The  World's  Congress  on  Jurisprudence  and  Law  Re- 
form, Chicago,  1893 :  Publication  of  papers  read  before  this 
Congress  commenced  in  the  American  Law  Register  for  April, 
1896,  Philadelphia ;  published  monthly  by  members  of  the 
Department  of  Law  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

LITERATURE. 

114.  The  World's  Library  Congress  of  1893.    The  papers 
read  at  this  Congress  are  printed  in  Part  II.  of  Vol.  I.  of  the 
Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education  for  1892-1893 ;  8vo, 
pp.  324. 

115.  The  World's  Congress  on  Philology  and  Literary  Arch- 
aeology :   Columbian  Exposition,  Chicago,  1893.    Papers  on< 
Literary  Archaeology  printed  in  "  Progress,"  the  magazine  of 
the  University  Association,  commencing  in  Vol.  I.,  No.  5,  and 
continued  in  Nos.  7,  8,  9,  10.    The  University  Association, 
Association  Bldg.,  Chicago,  1896. 

RELIGION. 

116.  The  Dawn  of  a  New  Religions  Era,  by  Paul  Carus, 
Ph.D.;  The  Forum,  November  18, 1893 ;  The  Monist,  April  18, 
1894 ;  8vo,  pp.  20. —  The  same  number  of  the  Monist  also  con- 
tains an  article  on  "  The  Parliament  of  Religions,"  by  Gen. 
M.  M.  Trumbull,  pp.  22. 

117.  Proposal  of  Two  Parliaments  of  Religion  in  1900,  by 
Bishop  John  P.  Newman,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
The  Independent,  New  York,  January  18, 1894.  —  The  same 
paper  contains  Words  of  Congratulation  to  the  Parliament  of 
Religions  by  Pnrnshottam  Balkushua  Joshi,  of  Bombay ; 
8vo,  pp.  6. 

118.  The  Parliament  of  Religions,  by  Rev.  F.  A.  Noble 
D.D.  The  Advance,  Chicago,  January  17, 1895,  8vo,  pp.  3. 

119.  The  Friendship  of  the  Faiths,  by  Louis  James  Block, 
inscribed  to  the  International  Congress  of  Religions.  Chicago, 
Charles  H.  Kerr  &  Co.,  1893,  12mo,  pp.  16. 

120.  Missions,  as  seen  at  the  Parliament  of  Religions  by 
H.  R.  Bender,  D.D.  Methodist  Review,  November-December, 
1895,  New  York  and  Cincinnati,  8vo,  pp.  6. 

121.  An  Essay  on  Religion  for  the  Parliament  of  Religious 
Thoughts  Regarding  a  Classification  of  Information  contained 
in  the  Religions  Books  of  the  World,  by  Ishar  Parshad.  Mitra 
Press,  Lahore,  India,  1893,  8vo,  pp.  20. 

122.  The  Parliament  of  Religions,  a  Retrospective  Survey, 
by  George  Dana  Boardman,  D.D.,  LL.D.    Philadelphia  Na- 
tional Baptist  print,  1893,  8vo,  pp.  20. 

123.  The  White  City  and  the  Parliament  of  Religions ;  two 
sermons  by  Rev.  M.  J.  Savage.   Boston,  George  H.  Ellis,  1893, 
8vo,  pp.  32. 

124.  Science  a  Religious  Revelation;  by  Dr.  Paul  Carus. 
An  address  delivered  on  September  19,  1893,  before  the 
World's  Congress  of  Religions.    Chicago,  The  Open  Court 
Publishing  Co.,  1893, 12mo,  pp.  21. 

SCIENCE  AND  PHILOSOPHY. 

125.  Our  Need  of  Philosophy ;  an  Appeal  to  the  American 
People ;  by  Dr.  Paul  Carus.    An  address  delivered  on  Au- 
gust 24, 1893,  before  the  World's  Congress  on  Philosophy,  at 
Chicago,  Illinois.    Chicago,  The  Open  Court  Publishing  Co., 
1893, 12mo,  pp.  14. 

126.  In  former  publication.    The  International  Meteoro- 
logical Congress,  Parts  I.  and  II.  previously  noted,  as  No.  85  : 
Part  III.  subsequently  issued  completing  the  publication ; 
8vo,  189  additional  pages  — total  pp.  772. 

127.  Mathematical  papers  read  at  the  International  Mathe- 
matical Congress  held  in  connection  with  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition,  Chicago,  1893 ;  edited  by  the  Committee  of 
the  Congress,  E.  Hastings   Moore,  Oskar  Boka,  Heinrich 
Maschke,  Henry  S.  White ;  New  York,  The  Macmillan  Co., 
for  the  American  Mathematical  Society,  1896,  8vo,  pp.  411.. 
(Previously  noted  as  in  press,  No.  100.) 


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00ks. 


MORE  IJIGHT  ON  EARLY  NORTHWESTERN 
HISTORY.* 

In  the  Henry  and  Thompson  Journals,  Dr. 
Coues  has  found  another  rich  store  of  materials 
such  as  he  loves  to  handle.  It  is  material,  too, 
that  he  is  admirably  qualified  to  handle.  No 
reader  who  has  looked  intelligently  into  the 
Doctor's  splendid  editions  of  what  he  calls  on 
his  present  title-page  "  Lewis  and  Clark  "  and 
"  Pike  "  can  doubt  his  perfect  competency  to 
edit  any  mass  of  material  relating  to  early 
Northwestern  affairs  that,  for  its  elucidation, 
demands  an  extensive  knowledge  of  geography, 
ethnography,  natural  history,  and  of  earlier  or 
contemporary  exploration  and  adventure  in  the 
same  region.  Lewis  and  Clark  ascended  the 
Missouri  River  to  its  headwaters,  crossed  the 
continental  Divide,  and  then  descended  by  the 
Columbia  to  the  Pacific  Ocean,  in  the  years 
1804-05.  Pike,  in  1805-06,  ascended  far  to- 
wards the  sources  of  the  Mississippi,  and  in 
1806-07  penetrated  the  region  southwest  of 
the  Missouri,  until  he  found  himself  in  Spanish 
territory  and  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  officers 
of  Spain,  who  carried  him  away  a  prisoner  into 
Mexico,  but  soon  set  him  at  liberty  and  per- 
mitted him  to  return  to  the  United  States. 
The  Henry  and  Thompson  explorations  and 
adventures  were  in  the  regions  of  the  Red 
River  of  the  North,  the  Saskatchawan,  the 
Missouri,  and  the  Columbia.  The  experiences 
of  all  these  explorers  and  adventurers,  with 
many  points  of  divergence,  agree  in  their  grand 
features :  they  all  extend  deeply  into  new 
regions,  and  lay  open  to  the  world  new  ter- 
ritories previously  known  only  to  aboriginal 
man.  It  will  be  seen,  also,  that  the  "  Henry 
and  Thompson"  to  a  degree  overlaps  the 
"  Lewis  and  Clark  "  territorially.  The  four 
men  whose  names  figure  in  these  titles  were 
on  the  Missouri  near  the  same  time,  and 
also  on  the  Columbia.  To  a  great  degree 
Dr.  Coues's  studies  of  Lewis  and  Clark  fitted 
him  directly  for  his  present  work  on  Henry  and 
Thompson. 

The  amount  of  exact  and  detailed  information 


*  NEW  LIGHT  ON  THE  EARLY  HISTORY  OF  THE  GREATER 
NORTHWEST.  The  Manuscript  Journals  of  Alexander  Henry, 
Fur  Trader  of  the  Northwest  Company,  and  David  Thompson, 
Official  Geographer  and  Explorer  of  the  same  Company, 
1792-1814.  Exploration  and  Adventure  among  the  Indians 
on  the  Red,  Saskatchawan,  Missouri,  and  Columbia  Rivers. 
Edited,  with  copious  critical  commentary,  by  Elliott  Coues, 
editor  of  "  Lewis  and  Clark,"  of  "  Pike,"  etc.,  etc.  In  three 
volumes.  New  York :  Francis  P.  Harper. 


that  the  editor  has  brought  to  the  elucidation 
of  these  Journals  will  not  surprise  those  persons 
who  are  familiar  with  the  "  Lewis  and  Clark  " 
and  the  "  Pike."  It  suffices  to  say  that  the 
same  patience,  the  same  unwearied  research,  the 
same  conscientious  thoroughness,  that  marked 
the  earlier  works  mark  the  present  one  as  well. 
Dr.  Coues  states  in  his  preface  that  when  he 
had  completed  his  researches  he  found  himself 
"  in  the  possession  of  some  4,500  memorandum 
cards,  alphabetically  arranged  by  subjects,  and 
collectively  constituting  a  sort  of  private  cyclo- 
pedia of  information  concerning  the  Northwest 
Company,  the  X.  Y.  Company,  the  fur-trade  of 
those  days,  the  bourgeoise,  their  voyageurs  and 
other  engages,  their  Indian  customers,  their 
trading  posts,  their  canoe  routes  —  and  what 
not.  in  the  way  of  biography,  geography,  eth- 
nography, and  natural  history."  This  vast 
amount  of  material  is  arranged  in  foot-notes  to 
the  text,  and  fills,  if  we  may  venture  a  hasty 
estimate,  about  a  third  of  the  total  amount  of 
space.  The  editor  is  so  conscientious  that  he 
holds  himself  responsible  for  the  antecedents 
and  consequents  of  every  person  who  is  even 
named  in  the  narrative.  It  is  only  rarely  that 
we  come  upon  a  confession  of  inability  to  give 
some  account  of  even  the  most  obscure  person. 
Indeed,  some,  if  not  much,  of  the  information 
that  is  presented  in  these  notes  can  never  be 
of  the  slightest  value  to  anybody,  save  to  those 
specialists  who  may  have  occasion  to  go  over 
the  ground  with  a  microscope.  But  these  spe- 
cialists, we  must  remember,  are  the  men  for 
whom  Dr.  Coues  is  writing.  The  work  can 
never  greatly  interest  the  mere  general  reader. 
This  is  not  because  it  does  not  contain  much 
interesting  matter,  but  because  it  is  too  minute, 
too  much  loaded  down  with  unimportant  things, 
and  is  wholly  wanting  in  attractiveness  of  style. 
Still,  for  what  it  purports  to  be,  and  what  it  is, 
the  work  has  great  value.  It  is  a  modest  state- 
ment to  say,  as  the  editor  does  on  his  title-page, 
that  it  sheds  new  light  on  the  early  history  of 
the  Greater  Northwest. 

Hitherto  it  has  been  easy  to  follow  the  steps 
of  the  explorers,  traders,  missionaries,  and  sol- 
diers, who  first  penetrated  the  country  lying 
between  the  Lower  Lakes  and  the  Ohio  River 
and  the  head  of  Lake  Superior  and  the  Mis- 
sissippi, and  let  in  the  light  of  day  ;  nor  has  it 
been  difficult  to  follow  the  main  lines  of  dis- 
covery and  adventure  that  led  from  the  Upper 
Lakes  and  the  Mississippi  to  the  Missouri,  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  and  beyond  the  mountains 
to  the  Western  ocean.  But  it  has  been  diffi- 


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cult  to  get  other  than  general  ideas  of  the  con- 
temporaneous explorations,  travels,  and  adven- 
tures by  which  the  vast  region  beyond  Lake 
Superior,  west  and  northwest,  was  laid  open  to 
the  knowledge  of  men.  Even  now,  it  is  not 
easy  for  well-read  men,  at  least  south  of  the 
international  boundary  line,  to  grasp  the  fact 
that  discovery  at  the  North  kept  even  pace 
with  discovery  at  the  South,  and  in  some  cases 
led  the  advance.  Civilized  men  crossed  the 
continent  from  Canada  before  they  crossed  it 
from  the  United  States.  In  1789  Mackenzie, 
starting  from  Lake  Athabasca,  followed  the 
great  river  that  bears  his  name  to  the  frozen 
ocean  ;  and  four  years  later,  having  crossed  the 
Divide  beyond  the  sources  of  Peace  River,  wrote 
in  vermillion  on  a  cliff  overlooking  the  Pacific  : 
"  Alexander  Mackenzie  —  from  Canada  by 
land  —  the  twenty-second  day  of  July  —  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  ninety- three." 
But  it  was  not  until  twelve  years  later  that 
Lewis  and  Clark,  having  disentangled  them- 
selves from  the  mazes  of  the  Rocky  Mountains, 
made  their  way  by  the  Columbia  to  the  ocean  ; 
and  it  was  not  until  thirty-nine  years  later, 
1832,  that  Schoolcraft  discovered  Lake  Itasca. 
These  remarks  prepare  the  way  for  a  proper 
appreciation  of  the  Henry  and  Thompson  Jour- 
nals. These  writings  will  assist  materially  in  pro- 
moting a  fuller  knowledge  of  the  history  of  the 
Greater  Northwest. 

The  Editor's  Preface,  while  comparatively 
brief,  tells  us  plainly  who  Henry  and  Thomp- 
son were,  gives  a  history  of  their  journals, 
with  their  present  location,  and  explains  the 
methods  that  the  editor  has  employed  in  pre- 
paring the  material  for  the  press.  Henry  was 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Northwest  Com- 
pany, and  a  trader.  He  is  sometimes  known 
as  Alexander  Henry  the  Younger,  and  was 
the  nephew  of  the  Elder  of  the  same  name 
who  is  associated  with  the  famous  massacre  at 
Mackinaw.  Thompson,  the  editor  explains, 
"  was  a  celebrated  astronomer,  geographer,  ex- 
plorer, and  discoverer  —  in  a  word,  the  scien- 
tist, first  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Company,  then, 
during  the  whole  period  covered  by  Henry,  of 
the  Northwest  Company,  and  later  still  of  the 
International  Boundary  Commission,  which  ran 
the  line  between  the  British  Possessions  and 
the  United  States."  Henry  alone  furnishes  the 
text ;  Thompson  goes  into  the  foot-notes  along 
with  the  editor  himself. 

Mention  of  the  preface  suggests  the  serious 
criticism  that  we  have  to  make  on  Dr.  Coues's 
editing.  This  is  that  he  should  not  have  prefixed 


to  his  work  an  introduction  giving  a  rapid  gen- 
eral account  of  the  progress  of  discovery  in  the 
Greater  Northwest  from  the  very  first  down  to 
1799,  or  at  least  have  given  a  view  of  the  exist- 
ing state  of  affairs  at  the  time  when  Henry 
comes  upon  the  scene.  It  is  true  that  much  of 
this  information  will  be  found  in  the  notes,  but 
in  a  scattered  form.  Such  an  account  or  view 
would  have  been  of  much  assistance  to  nearly 
every  reader  who  will  turn  these  pages. 

Part  III.,  "  The  Columbia,"  brings  us  upon 
the  headwaters  of  some  interesting  American 
history.  David  Thompson,  we  are  told,  was 
not  only  the  discoverer  of  the  Saskatchawan 
and  Athabascan  passes  over  the  Continental 
Divide,  and  of  the  sources  of  the  Columbia 
River  and  all  the  country  of  its  headwaters  and 
upper  tributaries,  but  he  was  the  first  white 
man  who  ever  descended  the  great  river  to  the 
confluence  of  Lewis's  Fork  or  Snake  River. 
On  arriving  at  this  point,  Thompson  took 
formal  possession  of  the  whole  region  in  the 
name  of  the  British  Crown.  Dr.  Coues  quotes 
the  following  memorandum  from  Thompson's 
Journal : 

"  July  9,  Tuesday,  [1811].  .  .  \  a  mile  to  the  Junc- 
tion of  the  Shawpatin  [Snake]  River  with  this  the 
Columbia,  here  I  erected  a  small  Pole,  with  a  half 
Sheet  of  Paper  well  tied  about  it,  with  these  words  on 
it  —  Know  hereby  that  this  country  is  claimed  by  Great 
Britain  as  part  of  its  territories,  and  that  the  N.  W. 
Company  of  Merchants  from  Canada,  finding  the  fac- 
tory for  this  people  inconvenient  for  them,  do  hereby 
intend  to  erect  a  Factory  in  this  Place  for  the  Com- 
merce of  the  Country  around.  D.  Thompson." 

Another  interesting  f  actis  that  Henry  arrived 
at  Astoria  about  a  month  before  it  was  trans- 
ferred, along  with  John  Jacob  Astor's  other 
property,  to  British  hands.  This  is  Henry's 
formal  account  of  the  transaction  : 

"  Dec.  13th.  [1813].  The  Dolly  had  anchored  oppo- 
site the  fort;  before  daybreak  we  got  the  powder  on 
shore,  and  at  8  a.  m.  saluted  the  captain  with  seven 
guns.  Mr.  Verdier,  midshipman,  four  marines,  and 
three  seamen  from  the  Raccoon,  came  ashore,  having 
hauled  the  Dolly  near  the  wharf.  At  3  p.  m.  we  fired 
three  guns  as  a  signal  to  the  Racoon,  and  then  hoisted 
the  Union  Jack  given  us  by  the  Captain.  We  collected 
all  our  men,  armed  with  muskets;  the  marines  were 
drawn  up  in  uniform  under  arms,  and  the  sailors  with 
Quartermaster  Hill  attended  to  the  guns.  The  captain, 
in  full  uniform,  broke  a  bottle  of  Madeira  on  the  flag- 
staff, and  took  possession  of  this  country  and  place  in, 
the  name  of  His  Britanic  Majesty,  calling  this  post  Fort 
George.  Three  cheers  were  given  by  us  all,  and  three 
rounds  of  musketry  were  then  fired  by  our  men  and  the 
marines.  One  of  the  latter  had  a  narrow  escape  from 
shooting  himself  in  the  face,  his  gun  having  flashed  and 
then  gone  off  on  being  grounded.  Eleven  guns  were 
fired  from  our  four-pounder.  We  drank  His  Majesty's 
health,  and  a  speech  to  Comcomly's  son  [was  made  by 


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Mr.  Franchere].   The  ceremony  ended  by  taking  a  few 
extra  glasses  of  wine."* 

Henry  was  not  a  traveller  or  an  explorer 
properly  so-called,  but  a  business  man  intent 
on  gain.  He  had  a  keen  eye  for  the  savage 
humanity  that  he  saw  around  him,  and  does 
not  mince  his  words  when  describing  the  miser- 
able beings  that  they  were.  Their  drunken- 
ness, filth,  thievery,  murders,  licentiousness, 
and  superstitions  are  told  in  the  most  realistic 
fashion.  Still,  justice  is  done  to  such  good 
qualities  as  the  Indians  had.  Such  a  passage 
as  the  following,  showing  to  what  an  acuteness 
the  human  senses  may  be  cultivated,  should 
delight  the  souls  of  some  of  our  sense-realistic 
educators. 

"  We  had  not  gone  far  from  the  house  before  we  fell 
upon  the  fresh  tracks  of  some  red  deer,  and  soon  after 
discovered  the  herd  in  a  thicket  of  willows  and  poplars ; 
we  both  fired,  and  the  deer  disappeared  in  different 
directions.  We  pursued  them,  but  to  no  purpose,  as 
the  country  was  unfavorable.  We  then  returned  to  the 
spot  where  we  had  fired,  as  the  Indian  suspected  that 
we  had  wounded  some  of  them.  We  searched  to  see 
if  we  could  find  any  blood;  on  my  part  I  could  find 
tracks,  but  no  blood.  The  Indian  soon  called  out,  and 
I  went  to  him,  but  could  see  no  blood,  nor  any  sign  that 
an  animal  had  been  wounded.  However,  he  pointed  out 
the  track  of  a  large  buck  among  the  many  others,  and 
told  me  that  from  the  manner  in  which  this  buck  had 
started  off,  he  was  certain  the  animal  had  been  wounded. 
As  the  ground  was  beaten  in  every  direction  by  animals, 
it  was  only  after  a  tedious  search  that  he  found  where 
the  buck  had  struck  off.  But  no  blood  was  seen  until, 
passing  through  a  thicket  of  willows,  he  observed  a  drop 
upon  a  leaf,  and  next  a  little  more.  He  then  began  to 
examine  more  strictly,  to  find  out  in  what  part  of  the 
body  the  animal  had  been  wounded;  and  judging  by 
the  height  and  other  signs,  he  told  me  that  the  wound 
must  have  been  somewhere  between  the  shoulder  and 
neck.  We  advanced  about  a  mile,  but  saw  nothing  of 
the  deer,  and  no  more  blood.  I  was  for  giving  up  the 
chase;  but  he  assured  me  the  wound  was  mortal,  and 
that  if  the  animal  should  lie  down  he  could  not  rise 
again.  We  proceeded  two  miles  further,  when,  coming 
out  upon  a  small  open  space,  he  told  me  the  animal  was 
at  no  great  distance,  and  very  probably  in  this  meadow. 
We  accordingly  advanced  a  few  yards,  and  there  we 
could  see  the  deer  lying  at  the  last  gasp.  The  wound 
was  exactly  as  I  had  been  told.  The  sagacity  of  the 
Saulteurs  in  tracing  strong  wood  animals  is  astonishing. 
I  have  frequently  witnessed  occurrences  of  this  nature; 
the  bend  of  a  leaf  or  blade  of  grass  is  enough  to  show 
the  hunter  the  direction  the  game  has  taken.  Their 
ability  is  of  equally  great  service  to  war-parties,  when 
they  discover  the  footsteps  of  their  enemies." 

Two  good  maps  are  found  in  the  pocket. 
The  principal  one  is  entitled  "Map  of  the 
Northwest  Territory  of  the  Province  of  Canada 
from  Actual  Surveys  during  the  years  1792- 

*The  "Dolly"  was  a  small  craft  that  Mr.  Aster's  people 
had  just  built  for  their  trade;  the  "Raccoon,"  a  British 
armed  vessel  that  had  come  into  the  river  a  few  days  before. 


1812,"  and  is  attributed  to  Thompson.  Some 
section  maps  introduced  into  the  body  of  the 
work  would  have  been  of  much  value  to  the 
reader.  The  carefully  prepared  Index  fills  a 
hundred  double-column  pages.  The  "  Henry 
and  Thompson  "  is  brought  out  by  Mr.  Harper 
in  the  same  admirable  style  as  the  "  Lewis  and 
Clark  "  and  «  Pike."  B<  A.  HINSDALE. 


THE  SECRET  OF  THE  EAST.* 

There  is  now  on  many  a  bookshelf  a  certain 
lot  of  tattered,  may  be,  and  well-thumbed  books 
of  various  appearance  which  is  gradually  being 
replaced  by  the  more  respectable  and  appro- 
priate set,  mulberry-covered  and  already  begin- 
ning to  be  well-known.  They  did  good  work, 
the  old  ones,  some  of  them  paper-covered, 
"  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills  "  in  a  roughly- 
printed  "Library,"  and  "The  Light  that 
Failed  "  No.  1  in  the  Heinemann  and  Bales- 
tier  collection ;  some  of  them  in  American 
editions,  the  two  Jungle  Books  or  "  The  Seven 
Seas  ";  perhaps  some  stray  Indian  Railway  edi- 
tion, "  Under  the  Deodars  "  or  "  Wee  Willie 
Winkie,"  or  Thacker,  Spink  &  Co.'s  "  Depart- 
mental Ditties  ";  —  a  motley  lot,  not  much  to 
look  at,  doubtless,  but  still  a  noteworthy  set  of 
books. 

It  seems  a  little  ungrateful  to  replace  them, 
but  the  new  ones  are  certainly  very  pleasing. 
Paper  and  print,  of  course,  of  the  best ;  other 
things  interesting,  too,  the  binding  of  the  color 
of  an  old  Bokhara  rug,  the  little  white  medal- 
lions on  the  side  with  the  elephant's  head  and 
the  lotus  flowers,  the  curious  pottery-pictures  of 
Mr.  Lockwood  Kipling,  and  here  and  there  the 
added  preface  of  the  author. 

The  first  reading  of  the  old  books  and  the 
re-reading  of  the  new  ones  are  two  different 
things.  At  first  there  was  a  sort  of  enchanting 
novelty ;  each  story  as  it  came  was  something 
new,  and  one  read  it  without  bother  of  criticism 
or  definition.  Rudyard  Kipling  is  now  a  per- 
fectly well-known  element  in  literature,  but 
even  now  not  easily  criticised  or  defined  for  all 
that. 

Nor  are  the  "  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills  "  an 
obvious  help  in  the  definition.  What  might 
be  their  impression  could  we  read  them  now, 

*THB  WRITINGS  IN  PROSE  AND  VERSE  OF  RUDYARD 
KIPLING.  Volume  I.,  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills ;  Volumes  II. 
and  III.,  Soldiers  Three,  and  Military  Tales ;  Volume  IV., 
In  Black  and  White;  Volume  V.,  The  Phantom  Rickshaw; 
Volume  VI.,  Under  the  Deodars,  The  Story  of  the  Gadsbys, 
Wee  Willie  Winkie.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


1897.] 


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knowing  nothing  of  the  others,  is  hard  to  say  ; 
as  it  is,  reading  them  with  the  others  in  mind, 
we  take  their  most  obvious  quality  to  be  smart- 
ness— a  careless,  carefully-concealed  knowing- 
ness,  that  is  well  acquainted  with  the  great 
things  of  the  world  as  well  as  the  little,  and 
which  can  therefore  tell  each  story  "  as  it  hap- 
pened "  with  a  clear  appreciation  of  the  signifi- 
cance of  it  all,  whatever  it  be,  and  often  with  a 
sort  of  pity  for  those  less  well  informed.  Some- 
times, in  "  Lispeth  "  or  "  Tod's  Amendment," 
it  is  a  story  of  that  native  life  of  which  the 
English  in  India  are  so  complacently  ignorant ; 
sometimes,  in  "  Thrown  Away,"  "  Bitters 
Neat,"  "  Consequences,"  "  Kidnapped,"  "  A 
Bank  Fraud,"  it  is  one  of  those  strange  things 
of  life  in  general  which  people  pass  over  with 
a  stare,  perhaps,  because  only  an  inner  ring 
know  the  facts  at  bottom  ;  now  and  then,  "  His 
Chance  in  Life,"  "  The  Other  Man,"  "In  Error," 
"  On  the  Strength  of  a  Likeness,"  it  is  one  of 
those  unexplained  ironies  where  no  one  really 
knows  why  it  should  not  have  been  otherwise  ; 
once  or  twice,  "  By  Word  of  Mouth,"  "  The 
Bisara  of  Pooree,"  it  is  a  frankly  mysterious 
matter  that  one  might  as  well  acknowledge 
without  attempt  at  explanation.  And  all  this 
strange  secrecy  with  which  Nature  veils  its 
matters  of  true  import  is  imitated  in  various 
absurd  satiric  grotesques,  in  which  the  con- 
cealed irony  is  nothing  more  than  the  exploita- 
tion of  a  germ-destroyer  or  the  consummating 
of  an  engagement,  while  the  secretive  and 
avenging  Nature  appears  in  the  guise  of  Lieu- 
tenant Hogan-Yale  or  the  unscrupulous  owner 
of  Lady  Regula  Baddun. 

All  these  matters  are  detailed  with  a  simple 
directness,  a  complacent  sententiousness,  and 
an  affectation  of  epigram  which  is  wholly  in 
keeping.  Generally  a  snatch  of  simple-hearted 
cynicism  ;  generally  a  shrug  of  the  shoulders  at 
the  end ;  never  any  exhibition  of  sympathy 
with  human  passion,  or  interest  in  any  indi- 
vidual human  heart.  And  yet  in  this  collection 
of  cross-purposes  and  tragedies  and  whimsical- 
ities and  clever  dodges,  melting  down  for  the 
time  the  curt  superiority,  the  unperturbed  ac- 
quaintance with  the  world,  the  impassive  inter- 
est in  the  event,  are  some  half  a  dozen  stories 
of  native  life,  "  The  Gate  of  the  Hundred  Sor- 
rows," "  In  the  House  of  Suddhoo,"  "  Beyond 
the  Pale,"  "  Muhammad  Din,"  which  show  that 
there  is  real  power  in  all  this,  although  not 
always  power  that  understands  itself. 

Still,  although  "  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills  " 
are  not  an  exhibition  of  Mr.  Kipling's  full 


strength  by  any  means,  the  book  does  much  to 
give  an  insight  into  some  of  his  later  work. 
Whatever  was  mere  smart  knowingness  passed 
away,  or,  more  accurately,  developed  into  a 
surer  and  truer  feeling,  the  feeling  that  the  real 
forces  in  life  are  not  spread  open  to  view,  that 
the  real  thing  is  hidden  from  us,  that  the  super- 
ficial is  for  fools  ;  that  these  hidden  forces,  the 
passions  beneath  the  surface,  which  influence 
all  men  or  many  men,  not  one  or  two,  are  the 
matters  of  real  fascination,  the  great  but  secret 
currents,  which  crop  up  here  and  there  but  are 
far  more  apt  to  work  unseen ;  that  few  men 
(and  fewer  women)  know  them,  but  that  those 
who  do  are  the  worthy  ones,  soldiers,  tramps,  old 
beggars,  outlaws,  officers,  or  no  matter  what. 
If  men  can  see  beneath  the  surface  they  are 
men,  and  brothers. 

Such  a  feeling,  at  least,  seems  to  be  at  the 
bottom  of  things,  as  we  read  the  later  volumes. 
Whence,  otherwise,  the  greatness  of  Mulvaney, 
with  the  unfaltering  melancholy  under  his  deep 
brows,  a  modern  Odysseus  without  the  youthful 
buoyancy  of  the  Greek  ?  Could  Ortheris  or 
Learoyd  have  been  friends  of  R.  K.  had  it 
not  been  for  Mulvaney  ?  Yet  being  friends  of 
Mulvaney  they  partook  at  times  of  his  high- 
souled  woes.  They  feel,  although  intuitively, 
subconsciously,  not  with  the  direct  assurance  of 
Mulvaney,  that  the  world  moves  on  in  its  own 
strange  ways,  not  those  mentioned  in  books. 
And  those  who  see  them  clearly  will  smile,  may 
be,  at  first,  but  after  the  first  will  rarely  smile 
again,  for  on  the  whole,  between  four  and  twenty 
soldiers  swimming  the  Irrawaddy  to  get  into 
Lungtungpen,  and  one  man  shooting  another 
for  interference  in  family  affairs,  there  is  only 
a  difference  of  circumstance  ;  the  fact  in  each 
case  is  that  the  true  springs  of  action  are  as 
usual  unknown  or  ignored,  and  that  people  play 
merrily  in  cooled  lava  which  they  think  is  rock. 

So  it  is  with  other  things.  Native  India  has 
its  charm,  aside  from  color  and  romance,  be- 
cause life  has  gone  on  unchangingly  for  twenty 
centuries,  according  to  its  own  unwritten  laws 
whereof  few  Europeans  know  or  care.  The 
jungle  fascinates  one,  too,  because  its  inhabi- 
tants, more  clever  than  humankind,  know  the 
laws  of  the  life  whereof  they  are  a  part.  So 
children,  understanding  nothing  perhaps,  take 
matters  far  more  simply  with  an  adequate  recog- 
nition of  the  springs  of  their  simple  action. 
Decent  conventional  society  is  futile  enough,  but 
those  who  fall  from  it  like  "  Love  o'  Women  " 
and  Mclntosh  Jellaludin  are  more  patent  ex- 
amples than  anyone  else.  Such  is  the  charm 


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of  any  life,  where  there  is  such  an  esprit  du 
corps  that  important  things  may  be  taken  for 
granted,  whether  it  be  the  mess  of  a  cavalry 
regiment,  the  guild  of  mendicants,  or  the  scat- 
tered confraternity  of  those  who  go  down  to 
the  sea  in  ships.  Those  who  know  —  and  who 
else  is  worth  bothering  about  ?  —  are  aware 
of  the  hidden  powers  of  life  and  are  thereby 
rendered  grave.  All  the  same,  on  the  surface 
—  for  men  who  know  how  to  take  it  —  life  is 
a  hustling,  breezy,  invigorating  affair.  Take  it 
all  in  the  day's  work,  be  your  task  to  personate 
an  Indian  God  or  make  friends  with  an  ele- 
phant, take  it  easily  as  it  comes,  and  you  will 
feel  the  blood  in  your  body ;  and  a  man  of 
sense  won't  ask  for  much  more.  And  if  he 
keep  a  stiff  upper-lip,  never  show  the  white 
feather,  and  be  always  fair  and  square,  no  one 
need  ask  any  more  of  him. 

Realising  this,  and  discarding  or  disowning 
the  futilities  and  ineptitudes  of  conventional 
goings  and  comings,  one  may  observe  the 
strange  things  "  of  Life  and  Death  and  men 
and  women  and  Love  and  Fate,"  and  take 
them  at  their  worth.  Hence  the  threescore  tales 
of  «  Soldiers  Three,"  "  Military  Tales,"  «  In 
Black  and  White,"  "  The  Phantom  Rickshaw." 
The  feeling  never  takes  direct  form  but  it  is 
never  absent,  in  the  rattling  soldier-scrapes  of 
Mulvaney,  Ortheris,  and  Learoyd,  in  the  charm 
and  color  of  the  native  episodes,  in  the  later 
wonders  and  wanderings  here  and  there  nar- 
rated by  soldier,  sailor,  or  traveller. 

There  is  always  a  story  or  an  event  or  a 
something  done,  save  in  half  a  dozen  like  "The 
Amir's  Homily,"  "The  Children  of  the  Zodiac," 
"  One  View  of  the  Question,"  "  The  Enlighten- 
ments of  Paget,  M.P.,"  there  is  always  the 
interest  in  life  in  action.  And  in  these  later 
volumes  most  of  the  futile  charms  of  the  "  Plain 
Tales  "  are  dropped  ;  the  mannerisms  of  "  other 
stories  "  and  shrugging  ending  are  mostly  gone, 
while  the  naive  cynicism  and  the  grandstand 
fireworks  have  merged  into  the  general  point  of 
view  and  a  confidence  in  the  general  power  of 
the  idea.  So  we  have  the  grateful  directness 
and  avoidance  of  immaterial  delicacies  of  dic- 
tion. Told  "  through  the  voice  of  one,  two,  or 
more  people,"  there  are  thousands  of  details, 
but  they  all  have  something  to  do  with  the 
matter,  and  we  get  the  story  and  are  satisfied 
with  it  as  a  story.  Then  when  we  think  about 
it  afterward,  it  seems  as  though  there  were 
something  more  to  it. 

As  to  the  real  value  of  all  this,  it  is  some- 
thing which  would  require  a  fresh  discussion. 


We  think  it  a  standpoint  which  enables  the 
story-teller  to  find  stories  and  to  compel  the 
hearer  to  listen  to  them.  We  think  it  one  of 
the  secrets  of  Mr.  Kipling's  hold  on  the  reader. 
But  we  must  be  content  with  the  suggestion, 
for  there  is  no  space  here  to  develope  it. 

And  even  such  as  it  is,  it  does  not  account 
for  Mr.  Kipling's  power  of  emotional  phrasing, 
as  we  might  call  it,  nor  for  his  power  as  a  poet, 
which  is  much  the  same  thing  thrown  in  a  dif- 
ferent direction,  nor  for  a  certain  discernment 
of  general  trends  of  emotion  in  this  world.  But 
these  matters  appear  in  the  volumes  now  in 
hand,  only  here  and  there,  and  in  a  rather  un- 
developed form,  so  they  need  not  be  commented 
upon  at  present.  EDWARD  E.  HALE,  JK. 


THE  RUINED  CITIES  AND  MONUMENTS 
OF  YUCATAN.* 

The  Field  Columbian  Museum  wisely  en- 
courages study  and  publication.  The  paper  on 
the  Monuments  of  Yucatan,  now  before  us,  is 
the  eighth  in  its  series  of  printed  documents, 
although  the  first  in  the  line  of  Anthropology. 
In  the  winter  of  1894-5,  Mr.  Allison  V. 
Armour  invited  certain  scientific  gentlemen  to 
make  a  trip  with  him,  in  his  yacht  "  Ituna,"  to 
Yucatan  and  Mexico.  The  three  months  were 
busily  employed  by  all,  and  in  this  book  Mr. 
Holmes  presents  some  of  the  archaeological  re- 
sults of  the  trip. 

Notwithstanding  all  that  has  been  written 
about  Yucatan's  archeology,  the  greater  part 
of  the  work  still  remains  undone.  No  single 
locality  has  yet  been  completely  investigated. 
Some  have  never  been  examined  since  John  L. 
Stephens  wrote,  as  carefully  as  they  were  by 
him.  Chichen-Itza,  thanks  to  Mr.  Thompson, 
has  been  much  studied  and  will  no  doubt  finally 
be  adequately  described.  Thorough  investiga- 
tion in  Yucatan  is  no  child's-play.  Conditions 
of  climate,  life,  surroundings,  render  it  difficult 
in  the  extreme.  Each  visitor  to  Yucatec  ruins 
ought  to  make  an  exact  and  accurate  statement 
of  his  observations  ;  thus  little  by  little  a  mass 
of  reliable  data  will  be  accumulated. 

Mr.  Armour's  party  visited  Mugeres,  Can- 
cun,  and  Cozumel  Islands,  and  the  mainland 
sites  —  El  Meco  and  Tuloom  in  Eastern  Yuca- 
tan ;  they  visited  Progreso,  Uxmal,  Izamal,  and 

*AKCH^;OLOGICAL  STUDIES  AMONG  THE  ANCIENT  CITIES 
OF  MEXICO.  Part  L,  Monuments  of  Yucatan.  By  William  H. 
Holmes.  With  plates  and  cuts.  Chicago :  Field  Columbian 
Museum. 


1897.] 


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45 


Chichen-Itza,  in  Middle  North  Yucatan.  The 
time  spent  at  these  localities  was  far  too  short 
for  systematic  observation.  Mr.  Holmes  pre- 
sents us  several  new  ground-plans  and  some 
new  descriptions.  His  book  also  contains  many 
plates  from  photographic  originals.  This  is  all 
good.  There  are,  however,  two  features  in  his 
work  which  deserve  special  mention  and  render 
it  one  of  the  most  important  contributions  in 
this  field. 

(a)  From  a  reading  of  the  literature  and 
from  his  field  work,  Mr.  Holmes  has  prepared 
a  valuable  comprehensive  study  of  the  archi- 
tectural details  of  Maya  buildings ;  this  material 
classified  suggests  the  line  of  architectural  evo- 
lution.   The  figures  in  illustration  of  this  study 
are  of  much  importance.    In  figure  1,  a  series 
of  outline  drawings,  showing  examples  of  ter- 
races and  pyramids,  illustrates  the  range  and 
variation  of  these  structures ;  the  cut  teaches 
more  than  a  hundred  descriptions  and  views 
would  do.    Once  seen  by  the  student,  it  renders 
such  descriptions  and  views  thereafter  compre- 
hensible.   The  cut  showing  a  series  of  ground- 
plans  of  Maya  temples  is  equally  helpful ;  the 
plans  are  arrayed  in  order  of  complexity,  be- 
ginning with  the  single  room,  with  one  simple 
doorway.    Study  of  this  cut  alone  will  do  more 
to  orientate  the  student  than  anything  before 
written.    There  is  danger,  however,  that  some 
readers  will  imagine  that  the  series  represents 
an  evolution,  which  must  always  pursue  the 
same  line  and  ever  pass  through  the  same  stages 
—  which  is  not,  of  course,  true. 

(b)  Notable  are  the  panoramas.    Few  who 
have  not  been  among  the  ruined  cities  of  Yuca- 
tan and  Central  America  can  conceive  the  dif- 
ficulties that  their  study  presents.     Most  of 
them  are  in  forest  or  thicket.    Often  one  may 
travel  within  a  few  rods  of  important  structures 
without  knowing  of  their  existence.    To  secure 
a  photograph  of  a  single  building  it  is  necessary 
to  employ  a  considerable  force  of  men  to  clear 
away  the  vegetable  growth  that  hides  it.    Fre- 
quently one  building  cannot  be  seen  from  a 
neighboring  building,  and  it  is  difficult  for  the 
student  to  keep  clear  ideas  of  orientation.    Of 
course,  carefully  made  ground-plans  give  the 
relation  in  position  of  the  different  structures, 
but  to  most  persons  ground-plans  mean  little. 
Mr.  Holmes  presents  ground-plans  of  Uxmal 
and  Chichen-Itza ;  but  he  does  more.   Opposite 
them  he  places  panoramic  views  of  the  two 
places,  as  gained  from  an  imaginary  standpoint 
above.    The  gain  in  definiteness  of  conception 
is    astonishing.      Study  of   the    ground-plan, 


indeed,  gives  the  idea  that  certain  buildings 
occupy  certain  positions  with  reference  to  each 
other.  Study  of  the  panorama  gives  the  feeling 
that  this  was  once  really  a  place  where  men 
lived,  and  thought  of  the  buildings  as  in  use 
and  hints  of  their  purpose  force  themselves  upon 
us.  In  these  two  features  —  in  the  clear  study 
of  architectural  details  and  in  the  panoramic 
views  —  Mr.  Holmes's  book  is  preeminently 
helpful.  FREDERICK  STARR. 


STUDIES  IN  MEDIAEVAL,  LITERATURE.* 

There  are  two  ways  of  dealing  with  the  his- 
tory of  general  literature.  One  of  them  is  the 
long-practised  method  of  treating  a  literature 
as  a  national  product,  and  studying  its  devel- 
opment with  but  slight  reference  to  the  parallel 
development  of  its  contemporaries,  ignoring 
the  fact  that  all  the  literatures  of  modern 
Europe  are  to  a  considerable  extent  spiritually 
cognate.  The  other  is  the  comparative  method, 
which  has  gained  much  ground  of  late,  and 
which  rests  upon  the  fundamental  assumption 
that  the  literature  of  one  country  may  best  be 
understood  when  we  take  into  account  the  con- 
temporary literature  of  the  others,  and  that 
the  conception  of  a  literary  species  held  by  one 
race  may  be  brought  most  clearly  into  view 
when  we  study  the  development  of  that  species 
under  other  conditions  of  race  and  historical 
environment.  It  is  in  this  comparative  spirit 
that  the  series  of  volumes  entitled  "  Periods  of 
European  Literature  "  has  recently  been  under- 
taken and  entrusted  to  the  general  editorial 
direction  of  Professor  George  Saintsbury,  who 
himself  provides  the  volume  which  covers  the 
literary  product  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth 
centuries.  For  the  series  as  a  whole  twelve 
volumes  have  been  planned,  and  assigned  to 
men  of  excellent  authority  in  their  respective 
fields.  Professor  W.  P.  Ker,  for  example,  will 
write  of  "  The  Dark  Ages,"  Mr.  Edmund 
Gosse  of  "  The  Romantic  Revolt "  of  the  close 
of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  Mr.  Walter  H. 
Pollock  of  "The  Romantic  Triumph"  of  the 
early  nineteenth  century.  Such  a  programme 
as  this  arouses  high  anticipations,  and  the  vol- 
ume first  to  appear  (which  is  the  second  in  the 
chronological  order)  invites  a  careful  scrutiny. 

*THE  FLOURISHING  OF  ROMANCE  AND  THE  RISE  OF 
ALLEGORY.  By  George  Saintsbury,  M.A.  New  York : 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

EPIC  AND  ROMANCE.  Essays  on  Mediaeval  Literature.  By 
W.  P.  Ker.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


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Mr.  Saintsbury  gives  to  the  book  which  deals 
with  his  particular  cross-section  of  the  literary 
tree  the  title  of  "  The  Flourishing  of  Romance 
and  the  Rise  of  Allegory."  In  an  editorial 
preface,  he  tells  us  at  considerable  length  how 
particularly  well  he  is  qualified  for  his  task. 
Lest  his  readers  should  still  be  in  doubt,  he 
afterwards  recurs  to  this  subject  upon  a  number 
of  occasions,  telling  us  how  much  he  has  read, 
and  how  diligently  he  has  devoted  himself  to 
the  literature  in  question.  This  writing  is 
mostly  superfluous,  for  the  test  of  a  work  is 
the  way  in  which  it  is  done,  not  the  volubility 
with  which  the  writer  professes  his  competence, 
and,  for  the  rest,  the  public  knows  tolerably 
well  what  are  Mr.  Saintsbury's  achievements, 
what  his  limitations,  and  what  his  idiosyn- 
crasies. It  knows,  for  example,  that  he  is  an 
enormous  reader  and  has  a  retentive  memory  ; 
it  knows  also  that  his  strength  is  in  the  depart- 
ments of  English,  French,  and  German  litera- 
ture, while  it  expects  from  him  only  second- 
hand information  concerning  most  of  the  other 
departments  that  come  within  the  scope  of  his 
survey.  It  knows,  moreover,  that  he  frequently 
indulges  in  obiter  dicta  that  are  more  plausible 
than  convincing,  and  that  he  is  capable  of 
writing  in  a  most  exasperating  style. 

After  an  introductory  chapter  upon  "  The 
Function  of  Latin  "  as  a  vehicle  for  the  mes- 
sage of  medieval  thought,  the  author  plunges 
into  his  subject  proper,  taking  Bodel's  familiar 
couplet  for  a  text. 

"  Ne  sont  que  trois  matte  res  k  mil  home  attendant, 
De  France  et  de  Bretaigne  et  de  Rome  la  grant." 

Each  of  these  three  "  matters  "  forms  the  sub- 
ject of  a  separate  chapter.  Of  the  chansons 
de  geste  he  writes  at  length  and  with  an  exag- 
gerated enthusiasm  which  calls  for  a  few  pages 
of  M.  Brunetiere  as  a  corrective.  He  charac- 
terizes the  chansons  as  "  the  half -million  or 
million  verses  of  majestic  cadence  written  in 
one  of  the  noblest  languages,  for  at  least  first 
effect,  to  be  found  in  the  history  of  the  world, 
possessing  that  character  of  distinction,  of 
separate  and  unique  peculiarity  in  matter  and 
form,  which  has  such  extraordinary  charm,  and 
endowed  besides,  more  perhaps  than  any  other 
division,  with  the  attraction  of  presenting  an 
utterly  vanished  Past."  In  a  later  passage  he 
writes  of  the  fabliaux  in  almost  equally  impas- 
sioned strain,  and  again  we  must  refer  to 
M.  Brunetiere  for  a  saner  sort  of  appreciation. 
In  discussing  "The  Matter  of  Britain,"  the 
author  shows  reasonable  familiarity  with  the 
latest  efforts  of  scholarship  to  bring  some  sort 


of  order  out  of  the  curious  tangle  of  fact  and 
surmise  that  surrounds  the  Arthurian  tale,  and 
makes  a  strong  argument  for  the  claim  of 
Walter  Map  to  be  considered  as  chiefly  respon- 
sible for  the  moulding  of  the  Legend  into  the 
form  which  gave  it  a  literary  vitality  so  great 
and  so  enduring.  Having  discussed  these  sub- 
jects, and  the  "  matter  of  Rome  "  (which  deals 
chiefly  with  the  tales  of  Troy  and  of  Alexander), 
Mr.  Saintsbury  proceeds  to  the  making  of  the 
English  language  and  the  settlement  of  its 
prosody.  Here  we  come  to  the  beginnings  of 
English  lyric,  and  the  refrain, 

"  Blow,  northerne  wynd, 
Send  thou  me  my  suetyng, 
Blow,  northerne  wynd,  blou,  blou,  blou," 

is  not  inaptly  described  as  "  Tennysonian  verse 
five  hundred  years  before  Tennyson." 

A  chapter  entitled  "  Middle  High  German 
Poetry,"  which  is  too  brief  to  consist  of  much 
more  than  a  series  of  phrases,  is  followed  by  a 
long  disquisition  upon  "  The  'Fox,'  the  'Rose,' 
and  the  Minor  Contributions  of  France."  The 
following  passage  upon  the  literary  predom- 
inance of  twelfth  and  thirteenth-century  France 
is  strikingly  put,  but  hardly  overdrawn: 

"  France,  if  not  Paris,  was  in  reality  the  eye  and 
brain  of  Europe,  the  place  of  origin  of  almost  every 
literary  form,  the  place  of  finishing  and  polishing,  even 
for  those  forms  which  she  did  not  originate.  She  not 
merely  taught,  she  wrought  —  and  wrought  consum- 
mately. She  revived  and  transformed  the  fable;  per- 
fected, if  she  did  not  invent,  the  beast-epic;  brought  the 
short  prose  tale  to  an  exquisite  completeness;  enlarged, 
suppled,  chequered,  the  somewhat  stiff  and  monotonous 
forms  of  Provencal  lyric  into  myriad-noted  variety; 
devised  the  prose-memoir,  and  left  capital  examples  of 
it;  made  attempts  at  the  prose  history;  ventured  upon 
much  and  performed  no  little  in  the  vernacular  drama; 
besides  the  vast  performance,  sometimes  inspired  from 
elsewhere  but  never  as  literature  copied,  which  we 
have  already  seen,  in  her  fostering  if  not  mothering  of 
Romance." 

In  still  another  passage,  we  are  told  more  suc- 
cinctly : 

"  It  is  the  simplest  truth  to  say  that  in  the  twelfth 
and  thirteenth  centuries  France  kept  the  literary  school 
of  Europe,  and  that  with  the  single  exception  of  Iceland, 
during  a  part,  and  only  a  part,  of  the  time,  all  the 
nations  of  Europe  were  content  to  do,  each  in  its  own 
tongue,  and  sometimes  even  in  hers,  the  lessons  which 
she  taught,  the  exercises  which  she  set  them." 

The  chapter  which  closes  up  the  French  section 
of  the  history  is  brought  to  an  end  by  a  few 
paragraphs  upon  Ruteboeuf,  the  chronicles  of 
Villehardouin  and  Joinville,  and  the  lovely  tale 
of  "  Aucassin  et  Nicolete." 

The  remainder  of  Mr.  Saintsbury's  work  is 
devoted  to  chapters  upon  "  Icelandic  and  Pro- 
ven9al  "  (thus  curiously  bracketed  together) 


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and  "  The  Literature  of  the  Peninsulas."  Here 
the  author's  knowledge  is  most  evidently  de- 
fective, and  he  gives  us  little  more  than  a 
meagre  compilation ;  but  he  is  hardly  to  be 
blamed  for  not  having  made  all  the  provinces 
of  mediaeval  literature  his  own,  and,  when  all 
is  said,  there  are  probably  few  men  living  who 
could  have  covered  the  two  centuries  as  satis- 
factorily as  he  has  done.  And  his  style,  in 
spite  of  its  mannerisms,  is  always  sprightly 
and  attractive,  lending  interest  to  the  dullest 
subjects,  and  carrying  the  reader  on  without 
much  jolting  from  theme  to  theme.  We  shall 
be  pleased  indeed  if  Mr.  Saintsbury's  collab- 
orators contrive  to  make  their  several  volumes 
as  readable  as  we  have  found  this  one  to  be. 

Published  almost  simultaneously  with  the 
book  just  now  under  review,  Professor  W.  P. 
Ker's  "  Epic  and  Romance,"  being  a  collection 
of  essays  on  mediaeval  literature,  calls  for  con- 
sideration at  the  same  time.  As  a  collection  of 
essays,  rather  than  a  continuous  history,  this 
book  does  not  have  the  unity  and  the  symmetry 
of  Mr.  Saintsbury's  volume,  yet  it  has  far  more 
of  these  qualities  than  might  be  supposed.  In 
scope,  it  is  somewhat  broader,  ranging  from 
the  earliest  productions  of  Teutonic  poetry  all 
the  way  down  to  the  finished  and  self-conscious 
art  of  Chaucer  and  Boccaccio.  In  the  arrange- 
ment of  its  material,  we  find  a  twofold  basis  of 
classification.  First,  there  is  the  division  sug- 
gested by  the  title,  and,  throughout  his  treat- 
ment, the  author  keeps  steadily  in  view  the  dis- 
tinction between  the  epic  and  the  romantic 
forms.  This  distinction  is  set  forth  as  follows  : 

"  Whatever  Epic  may  mean,  it  implies  some  weight 
and  solidity;  Romance  means  nothing,  if  it  does  not 
convey  some  notion  of  mystery  and  fantasy.  A  general 
distinction  of  this  kind,  whatever  names  may  be  used  to 
render  it,  can  be  shown,  in  mediaeval  literature,  to  hold 
good  of  the  two  large  groups  of  narrative  belonging  to 
the  earlier  and  the  later  Middle  Ages  respectively. 
Beowulf  might  stand  for  the  one  side,  Lancelot  or 
Gawain  for  the  other.  It  is  a  difference  not  confined 
to  literature.  The  two  groups  are  distinguished  from 
one  another,  as  the  respectable  piratical  gentleman  of 
the  North  Sea  coast  in  the  ninth  or  tenth  century  differs 
from  one  of  the  companions  of  St.  Louis.  The  latter 
has  something  fantastic  in  his  ideas  which  the  other  has 
not." 

The  other  division  of  the  author's  material 
causes  it  to  be  grouped  (after  the  preliminaries 
are  disposed  of)  under  the  three  heads  of  Teu- 
tonic Epic,  Icelandic  Saga,  and  Old  French 
Epic,  and  to  each  of  these  subjects  a  main  sec- 
tion of  the  work  is  devoted.  The  first  of  them 
lies  without  the  scope  of  Mr.  Saintsbury's  book, 
but  the  other  two  run  parallel  with  it,  and  a 


comparison  of  the  respective  treatments  is 
instructive.  Mr.  Saintsbury  is  at  his  best  on 
the  ground  of  French  epic,  and  at  his  worst  in 
the  domain  of  Icelandic  saga.  Professor  Ker, 
on  the  other  hand,  is  distinctly  at  his  best  in 
dealing  with  the  latter  subject,  and  the  inade- 
quacy of  Mr.  Saintsbury's  treatment  becomes 
very  apparent  when  we  compare  it  with  this 
work  of  a  real  scholar  in  Icelandic.  We  know 
of  no  better  treatment  of  the  subject  in  English 
than  may  be  found  in -these  chapters,  and  for 
them,  even  more  than  for  the  others,  Professor 
Ker  has  earned  our  gratitude.  No  truer  thing 
than  the  following  was  ever  said  of  Icelandic 
literature : 

"  Clear  self-consciousness  is  the  distinction  of  Ice- 
landic civilization  and  literature.  It  is  not  vanity  or 
conceit.  It  does  not  make  the  Icelandic  writers  anx- 
ious about  their  own  fame  or  merits.  It  is  simply  clear 
intelligence,  applied  under  a  dry  light  to  subjects  that 
in  themselves  are  primitive,  such  as  never  before  or 
since  have  been  represented  in  the  same  way.  The  life 
is  their  own  life;  the  record  is  that  of  a  dispassionate 
observer." 

We  might  say  many  other  things  in  praise  of 
these  essays  upon  mediaeval  literature.  They 
display,  for  one  thing,  a  happy  gift  of  tren- 
chant epigrammatic  expression,  as  in  this  state- 
ment :  "  Ulysses  quoting  Aristotle  is  an  anach- 
ronism ;  but  King  Alfred's  translation  of 
Boethius  is  almost  as  much  of  a  paradox."  Or 
in  this :  "  The  comprehensiveness  of  the  greater 
kinds  of  poetry,  of  Homer  and  Shakespeare, 
is  a  different  thing  from  the  premeditated  and 
self-assertive  realism  of  the  authors  who  take 
viciously  to  common  life  by  way  of  protest 
against  the  romantic  extreme."  As  here  ap- 
plied, "  viciously  "  is  a  genuine  critical  epithet. 
We  must  find  space,  also,  for  praise  of  the 
author's  fine  characterization  of  a  heroic  age, 
whether  exemplified  by  Homer  or  by  the 
chronicles  of  Njal  or  Kiartan  Olafsson.  Above 
all,  we  must  praise  the  scholarly  thoroughness 
of  the  entire  work,  and  the  mastery  with  which 
the  author  has  handled  his  intricate  and  diffi- 
cult subject.  WlLLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


RECENT  modern  language  texts  include  the  following: 
"Gotz  von  Berlichingin  "  (Holt),  edited  by  Dr.  Frank 
Goodrich;  «  Drei  Kleine  Lustspiele  "  (Heath),  by  Ben- 
dix  and  Zechmeister,  edited  by  Professor  B.  W.Weils; 
Baumbach's  "Die  Nonna "  (Heath),  edited  by  Dr. 
Wilhelm  Bernhardt;  Frey tag's  "Die  Journalisten " 
(American  Book  Co.),  edited  by  Dr.  J.  Norton  Johnson; 
«  Selections  from  Pierre  Loti"  (Holt),  edited  by  Dr.  A. 
Guyot  Cameron;  and  Labiche  and  Martin's  ever  mirth- 
inspiring  "  La  Poudre  aux  Yeux  "  (Heath),  edited  by 
Professor  B.  W.  Wells. 


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FACT  AND  FICTION  IN  SOCIAL,  STUDY.* 


Mr.  H.  de  B.  Gibbins,  the  author  of  a  popular 
"  Industrial  History  of  England,"  has  prepared  an 
enlarged  work  with  the  same  aim  and  outline,  to 
which  he  gives  the  title  "  Industry  in  England." 
The  purpose  of  the  author  was  to  relate  a  concise 
story  of  economic  history  which  might  serve  as  a 
preliminary  sketch  for  those  who  wished  to  gain 
the  essential  elements  of  the  subject  or  to  proceed 
to  more  elaborate  treatises.  The  materials  are 
divided  into  five  historical,  periods,  from  the  Nor- 
man Conquest  to  Modern  England.  In  each  period 
the  industrial  life  is  brought  into  the  foreground. 
Political,  military,  and  ecclesiastical  changes  are 
noted  only  as  they  affect  or  are  affected  by  economic 
activities.  The  productive  processes,  exchange, 
methods  of  agriculture  and  stock-raising,  internal 
and  foreign  traffic,  markets,  roads,  division  of  labor, 
regulative  institutions,  guilds,  corporations,  and 
industrial  laws,  are  among  the  chief  topics  discussed. 

The  book  is  written  in  the  spirit  of  Green,  Rogers, 
Cunningham,  and  Ashley.  The  common  daily  life 
of  the  people  is  brought  before  us  as  in  a  drama, 
and  is  shown  to  have  surpassing  interest.  As  the 
author  approaches  the  modern  time,  the  materials 
become  more  abundant  and  the  treatment  more 
vivid  and  partisan.  Sympathy  for  the  workers  is 
not  concealed.  It  is  the  modern  note  throughout. 
Those  who  were  once  ignored  by  princes,  historians, 
politicians,  poets  laureate,  and  ecclesiastics,  are 
coming  into  recognition.  Democracy  not  only  insists 
upon  the  rights  of  the  living  but  upon  the  rights  of 
the  dead.  The  proletarian  is  vindicating  the  per- 
sonal reputation  of  the  poor.  It  is  marvellous  how 
much  has  been  concealed,  stowed  away  as  insignifi- 
cant rubbish,  barely  alluded  to  in  the  effort  to 
glorify  the  great.  The  emphasis  falls  now  upon  a 
different  place.  Such  a  book  as  the  one  under 
notice  has  more  than  antiquarian  interest ;  it  reveals 
to  us  the  master-thought  of  our  own  age  while  it 
describes  the  past. 

The  maps,  while  few,  are  very  valuable  and 
instructive.  The  footnotes  furnish  a  bibliography 
which  directs  to  the  best  accessible  sources  and 
gives  suggestive  criticism  of  their  contents  and 
value.  It  would  be  a  good  book  to  put  in  the  hands 
of  a  University  Extension  class  during  the  progress 
of  a  course  of  lectures  on  the  labor  movement.  It 
is  more  special  than  Green's  "  Short  History,"  and 
brings  up  the  discussion  of  such  subjects  as  the 
manor,  village,  mark,  and  f  uedal  organization  to  our 
own  day.  The  factory  system,  factory  legislation, 

*  INDUSTRY  IN  ENGLAND.  By  H.  de  B.  Gibbins.  New 
York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

THE  REVOLUTIONARY  TENDENCIES  OF  THE  AGE.  New 
York:  G.  P.Putnam's  Sons. 

GENESIS  OF  THE  SOCIAL  CONSCIENCE.  By  H.  S.  Nash. 
New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

EQUALITY.  By  Edward  Bellamy.  New  York  :  D.  Appleton 
&Co. 

WOMAN  AND  THE  REPUBLIC.  By  Helen  Ken drick  Johnson. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


the  condition  of  the  working  classes,  and  agricul- 
tural depression,  are  carefully  treated,  and  the 
account  has  great  contemporary  interest. 

If  any  reader  can  learn  anything  new  from  the 
work  entitled  "  The  Revolutionary  Tendencies  of 
the  Age,"  his  knowledge  of  economics  and  social 
history  must  be  very  limited.  The  inequalities  of 
human  life  are  described  in  somewhat  florid  style 
and  with  numerous  dreamy  allegories.  Economic 
power  is  the  goal  of  Democracy.  Revolution  is 
inevitable  now  that  the  people  have  come  to  their 
senses  through  universal  education.  If  the  horse 
were  intelligent  he  would  let  no  man  ride  him.  But 
what  will  be  the  nature  of  the  revolution?  Not 
absolute  Socialism.  What  then?  It  is  not  quite 
clear.  But  we  needed  no  ghost  to  come  from  the 
abyss  to  tell  us  that  riches  give  power  and  that 
poverty  is  exceedingly  inconvenient.  Perhaps  this 
judgment  should  be  tempered  by  the  consideration 
that  the  author  earnestly  and  forcefully  urges  the 
responsibility  of  the  possessors  of  wealth,  and  places 
in  very  clear  light  the  central  aspiration  of  the 
working  classes  and  their  certain  control  of  the 
future.  He  will  not  consider  methods  of  violence, 
but  hints  at  limitation  of  inheritance  and  other  legal 
measures  of  redistribution  of  accumulated  fortunes. 

The  aim  of  the  interesting  little  volume  entitled 
"  Genesis  of  the  Social  Conscience  "  is,  as  indicated 
in  the  sub-title,  to  show  "  the  relation  between  the 
establishment  of  Christianity  in  Europe  and  the 
Social  Question."  The  method  is  the  exact  opposite 
of  that  followed  by  Loria  and  Marx  —  from  the 
economic  to  the  spiritual.  With  a  fixed  and  an- 
nounced purpose,  political  and  economic  history  "are 
passed  coolly  by."  The  germination  and  growth  of 
a  new  valuation  of  the  individual  man  are  traced 
through  the  ages  of  Christian  history.  Christianity 
set  an  infinite  price  upon  the  soul.  The  idea  of  the 
one  God  involves  the  unity  of  the  race,  since  all  are 
equally  made  in  the  divine  image.  Personality 
implies  freedom.  The  sense  of  sin  reduced  aristoc- 
racy to  a  level  with  the  lowest ;  "  all  equal  are  within 
the  Church's  gate."  The  notions  of  humanity,  the 
Kingdom  of  God,  duty,  help  to  furnish  "  the  Re- 
former's Conscience."  Out  of  these  beliefs  are 
born  the  French  Revolution,  Democracy,  universal 
suffrage,  care  for  the  "  downmost  man." 

The  book  is  more  than  a  tacit  protest  against  the 
materialistic  explanation  of  history.  It  takes  life  at 
a  higher  level  than  the  phrase  "  Man  is  what  he 
eats."  It  assumes  that  man  cannot  live  by  bread 
alone,  and  indicates  the  social  power  of  forces  which 
seem  small  and  dim  only  because  attention  is  not 
bestowed  upon  them.  The  pages  glitter  with  bright 
sayings,  and  there  are  many  attractive  passages. 
The  reader  may  find  some  difficulty  in  keeping  the 
thread  of  the  argument,  because  the  author  leaps 
back  and  forth,  from  Aquinas  to  Aristotle,  from 
Augustine  to  Rousseau,  with  alarming  agility.  He 
himself  says :  "  The  vast  bulk  of  events  is  untouched. 


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I  shall  seem  to  make  ideas  advance  to  the  sound  of 
the  trumpet,  like  the  things  that  happen  in  one  of 
Dumas'  novels."  The  absence  of  events  gives  at 
times  a  rather  unearthly  impression ;  but  the  mod- 
ern instances  quickly  remind  one  that  a  thoroughly 
practical  man  is  teaching  him.  Incidentally,  we 
wonder  what  the  author  means  by  saying  (p.  225), 
"  Lincoln's  Gettysburg  address,  without  the  name 
of  God  in  it,  is  religious  to  the  core."  Which  text, 
of  the  three  extant,  did  he  have  before  him? 

Mr.  Bellamy's  new  book,  "  Equality,"  is  written 
in  a  style  that  may  seem  to  many  tedious.  To  one 
acquainted  with  Socialistic  literature,  there  is  noth- 
ing in  its  principles  that  is  new.  The  book  is  a 
re-statement  of  ideas  already  made  familiar  by 
Marx,  Lassalle,  Proudhom,  Fourier,  "  Merrie  En- 
gland," and  all  the  rest.  But  for  all  that,  we  must 
not  ignore  the  message  it  bears.  One-sided  it  is ; 
often  unjust  and  exaggerated ;  concealing  the  good 
of  an  age  and  minifying  the  difficulties  of  Socialism ; 
but  honest,  searching,  earnest,  all  must  concede  it 
to  be.  The  sins  of  our  day  are  unsparingly  exposed 
to  view  ;  modern  instances  illustrate  many  pages  ; 
the  wrongs  and  cruelties  that  make  the  conscience 
of  all  good  cities  gnaw  at  the  heart  are  graphically 
set  forth. 

The  story  of  the  book  is  soon  told :  two  lovers 
talk  economics,  the  Socialist  always  coming  off  with 
easy  victory  because  the  capitalist  advocate  had 
already  given  up  his  cause.  This  is  kept  up  through 
four  hundred  pages.  It  will  not  pay  to  buy  the  book 
for  its  dramatic  interest. 

The  gallery  of  pictures  of  "  Looking  Backward  " 
is  here  somewhat  enlarged.  Marx  never  tried  to 
tell  what  a  socialistic  society  would  be  like.  Even 
Bebel's  "  Die  Frau  "  carefully  kept  out  of  the  proph- 
ecy business.  Kantzby's  "  Erfurt  Program  "  dis- 
tinctly asserts  that  a  Socialist  ought  not  to  try  to 
depict  the  future  state  of  the  terrestrial  New  Jeru- 
salem. The  weather  prophets,  dealing  in  their  high 
towers  with  relatively  simple  elements,  do  not  fore- 
tell the  meteoric  changes  of  the  next  week,  and  they 
are  in  luck  if  they  are  right  for  forty  hours  in  ad- 
vance. But  here  is  a  prophet  who  makes  a  pano- 
rama of  a  city  which  is  not  yet  to  exist  for  a  century. 
It  looks  like  courage. 

The  fundamental  doctrine  of  "  Equality  "  is  Com- 
munism. 

"  The  corner-stone  of  our  state  is  economic  equality. 
.  .  .  What  is  life  without  its  material  basis,  and  what 
is  an  equal  right  to  life  but  a  right  to  an  equal  material 
basis  for  it  ?  What  is  liberty  ?  How  can  men  be  free 
who  must  ask  the  right  to  labor  and  to  live  from  their 
fellow-men  and  seek  their  bread  from  the  hands  of 
others  ?  How  else  can  any  government  guarantee  lib- 
erty to  men  save  by  providing  them  a  means  of  labor 
and  of  life  coupled  with  independence  ?  .  .  .  What 
form  of  happiness,  so  far  as  it  depends  at  all  on  material 
facts,  is  not  bound  up  with  economic  conditions  ?  " 

The  Declaration  of  Independence,  therefore,  logic- 
ally leads  to  Socialism  of  a  communistic  type.  Lib- 


erty and  happiness  are  impossible  without  a  secure 
income. 

The  imaginative  writer  of  "  Equality  "  distributes 
promises  of  a  salary  of  $4000  a  year  to  all  citizens 
with  a  lavish  hand.  Why  that  particular  sum  was 
fixed,  and  out  of  what  annual  national  income  it  is 
to  be  paid,  are  questions  which  are  easily  waved 
aside.  The  poet  is  under  no  such  vulgar  obligations 
as  a  statistician  or  an  economist.  And  in  judging 
the  book  we  must  steadily  remember  that  we  are 
reading  a  poet,  like  the  author  of  Utopia,  and  not  a 
serious  work  on  economics. 

All  through  the  book  there  seems  a  protest  against 
the  law  of  competition,  as  being  cruel  and  unjust, 
as  immoral.  But  the  author  usually  fails  to  see 
that  it  is  a  simple  wnmoral  force,  which  can  be  used 
for  good  or  evil  according  to  human  intelligence, 
character,  and  social  organization.  He  does  catch 
a  glimpse  of  the  idea  that  this  blind  energy,  like 
gravity  and  lightning,  may  be  harnessed  and  driven 
when  he  writes  (p.  38)  about  "  ranking,"  by  which 
he  means  "  the  figure  which  indicates  his  previous 
standing  in  the  schools  and  during  his  service  as  an 
unclassified  worker,  and  is  supposed  to  give  the 
best  attainable  criterion  thus  far  of  his  relative  in- 
telligence, efficiency,  and  devotion  to  duty.  When 
there  are  more  volunteers  for  particular  occupations 
than  there  is  room  for,  the  lowest  in  ranking  have 
to  be  content  with  a  second  or  third  preference." 
The  horns  of  the  beast  of  competition  are  tipped 
with  gold  and  the  tail  is  decorated  with  ribbons, — 
but  they  are  there,  even  in  the  Communistic  Heaven. 

The  address  (p.  99)  to  the  Masters  of  the  Bread 
is  a  very  incisive  piece  of  irony.  It  is  an  appeal 
to  capitalists  for  permission  to  be  their  slaves  for  a 
morsel  of  bread. 

"  O  Lords  of  the  Bread  [say  the  laborers],  feel  our 
thews  and  sinews,  our  arms  and  our  legs;  see  how  strong 
we  are.  Take  us  and  use  us.  ...  Let  us  freeze  and 
starve  in  the  forecastles  of  your  ships.  .  .  .  Do  what 
you  will  with  us,  but  let  us  serve  you,  that  we  may  eat 
and  not  die." 

The  professional  men,  college  professors,  editors, 
and  lawyers,  cringe  before  the  same  potentates : 

"  O  Masters  of  the  Bread,  take  us  to  be  your  servant. 
.  .  .  Give  us  to  eat,  and  we  will  betray  the  people  to 
you,  for  we  must  live.  We  will  plead  for  you  in  the 
courts  against  the  widow  and  the  fatherless.  We  will 
speak  and  write  in  your  praise,  and  with  cunning  words 
confound  those  who  speak  against  you  and  your  power 
and  State." 
The  preachers  also  beg  of  the  capitalists : 

"We  must  have  bread  to  eat  like  others.  ...  In 
the  name  of  God  the  Father  will  we  forbid  them  to  claim 
the  rights  of  brothers,  and  in  the  name  of  the  Prince  of 
Peace  will  we  preach  your  law  of  competition." 

The  cry  of  the  women  and  the  children  is  almost 
too  pathetic  and  suggestive  to  repeat.  And  there 
is  only  too  much  truth  in  the  picture. 

When  we  come  to  look  closely  at  the  facts,  how- 
ever, things  are  not  so  bad  or  so  dark.  Not  all 
great  publishing-houses,  for  example,  are  dominated 


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by  heartless  Capitalism,  for  on  the  title-page  of  this 
vigorous  plea  for  Socialism  stands  the  name  of  the 
great  house  of  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  The  contrast 
starts  a  smile,  and  emphasizes  the  promise  that  the 
Revolution  is  to  he  bloodless. 

The  treatment  of  the  question  of  police  and  mil- 
itary force  (p.  318)  deserves  study  on  the  part  of 
all  who  desire  to  know  what  wage-workers  almost 
universally  feel  in  the  cities  of  this  country.  They 
regard  the  National  Guard  simply  as  a  Capitalist 
Guard. 

"In  1892  the  militia  of  five  States,  aided  by  the 
regulars,  were  under  arms  against  strikers  simultan- 
eously, the  aggregate  force  of  troops  probably  making 
a  larger  body  than  General  Washington  ever  com- 
manded. Here  surely  was  civil  war  already.  .  .  .  To 
this  pass  the  industrial  system  of  the  United  States  was 
fast  coming  —  it  was  becoming  a  government  of  bay- 
onets." 

This  state  of  things  is  rightly  regarded  as  full  of 
peril. 

The  morality  of  family  inheritance  is  absolutely 
denied,  but  general  social  inheritance  is  not  ques- 
tioned. According  to  the  author,  the  people  of  a 
county  or  state  or  nation  may  hold  as  their  own 
goods  which  their  ancestors  toiled  for,  but  the 
immediate  children  of  the  particular  persons  who 
earned  this  property  have  no  claim  as  members  of 
the  family.  This  discrepancy  seems  to  have  escaped 
the  attention  of  the  author.  He  says  : 

"  While  the  moralists  and  the  clergy  solemnly  justified 
the  inequalities  of  wealth  and  reproved  the  discontent 
of  the  poor  on  the  ground  that  those  inequalities  were 
justified  by  natural  differences  in  ability  and  diligence, 
they  knew  all  the  time,  and  everybody  knew  who 
listened  to  them,  that  the  foundation  principle  of  the 
whole  property  system  was  not  ability,  effort,  or  de- 
sert of  any  kind  whatever,  but  merely  the  accident  of 
birth,  than  which  no  possible  claim  could  more  com- 
pletely mock  at  ethics." 

When  the  Revolution  comes,  capitalists  will  not  be 
reimbursed  for  their  losses;  they  will  be  glad 
enough  to  escape  punishment  for  their  former 
oppressions. 

The  book  entitled  "  Woman  and  the  Republic," 
by  Helen  Kendrick  Johnson,  is  calculated  to  make 
summer  weather  in  some  quarters  pass  rapidly  from 
warm  to  hot.  A  man  who  has  for  many  years  advo- 
cated woman  suffrage  almost  feels  the  courage  ooze 
out  of  him  when  he  reads  this  woman's  book  accus- 
ing the  universal-suffrage  movement  of  being  un- 
just, undemocratic,  and  all  that  is  evil.  To  what 
are  we  coming?  Chivalry  is  at  a  discount;  the 
desire  to  be  fair  is  not  appreciated.  But  these 
vigorous  chapters  will  provoke  discussion.  One  can 
already  hear  the  champions  of  "  equal  franchise  " 
cutting  the  rods  with  which  to  chasten  this  "slave" 
who  dares  defend  her  oppressor,  the  tyrant  man. 
Just  imagine  a  woman,  one  who  has  studied  history 
and  law  books,  retailing  such  rank  heresy  and  trea- 
son as  this  book  contains.  "The  movement  to 
obtain  the  elective  franchise  for  woman  is  not  in 


harmony  with  those  through  which  woman  and  gov- 
ernment have  made  progress."  The  universal  suf- 
frage has  not  helped,  but  has  hindered,  the  anti- 
slavery  movement,  missions,  charities,  the  war  for 
the  Union,  the  opening  of  trades  and  professions  to 
women.  Woman  suffrage  is  at  war  with  democratic 
principles,  and  is  allied  with  monarchy,  aristocracy, 
and  ecclesiastical  oppression.  The  author  subjects 
to  criticism  the  claim  that  woman  suffrage  can  rest 
on  the  maxims  "  Taxation  without  representation  is 
tyranny  "  and  "There  is  no  just  government  with- 
out the  consent  of  the  governed."  The  laws  relating 
to  property,  it  is  claimed,  have  been  improved  by 
men  far  more  rapidly  than  if  women  had  votes. 
The  influence  of  women  on  political  life  is  great 
because  it  is  non-partisan.  The  Suffrage  Woman's 
Bible  is  declared  to  be  so  poorly  edited  that  the 
women  who  gave  it  to  the  world  have  no  claim  to  a 
respectful  hearing  on  educational  subjects.  In  rela- 
tion to  religious  preaching,  it  is  said  :  "  While  the 
possibilities  of  her  nature  tend  to  make  her  supreme 
in  capacity  to  point  the  way  to  higher  regions,  it 
also  contains  qualities  that  may  render  her  pecu- 
liarly dangerous  as  a  public  leader." 

The  disabilities  of  sex  are  such  that  women  can- 
not perform  the  duties  of  a  voting  citizen,  and  there- 
fore ought  not  to  be  clothed  with  power  to  get  the 
country  into  trouble  when  force  is  required  to  de- 
fend it.  "  To  attempt  to  put  it  [the  ballot]  into  the 
hands  of  those  who  are  not  physically  fitted  to  main- 
tain the  obligations  that  may  result  from  any  vote 
or  any  legislative  act,  is  to  render  law  a  farce,  and 
to  betray  the  trust  imposed  upon  them  by  the  con- 
stitution they  have  sworn  to  uphold."  The  privi- 
leges of  a  voting  citizen  imply  police,  jury,  and 
military  duty,  and  it  is  not  enough  to  "  distribute 
tracts  and  hold  conventions." 

In  relation  to  the  Home,  the  author  believes  that 
"  the  Suffrage  movement  strikes  a  blow  squarely  at 
the  home  and  the  marriage  relation."  And,  to  sum 
up  all : 

"  The  greatest  danger  with  which  this  land  is  threat- 
ened comes  from  the  ignorant  and  persistent  zeal  of 
some  of  its  women.  They  abuse  the  freedom  under 
which  they  live,  and  to  gain  an  impossible  power  would 
fain  destroy  the  Government  that  alone  can  protect 
them.  The  majority  of  women  have  no  sympathy  with 
this  movement;  and  in  their  enlightenment,  and  in  the 
consistent  wisdom  of  our  men,  lies  our  hope  of  defeating 
this  unpatriotic,  unintelligent,  and  unjustifiable  assault 
upon  the  integrity  of  the  American  Republic." 

C.  R.  HENDERSON. 


THE  following  books  for  school  reading  have  lately 
been  published  :  "  Lord  Chesterfield's  Letters  "  (May- 
nard),  selected  by  Dr.  H.  H.  Belfield;  Dr.  Johnson's 
"  Alexander  Pope "  (Harper),  edited  by  Miss  Kate 
Stephens;  "Bible  Readings  for  Schools"  (American 
Book  Co.),  edited  by  Dr.  N.  C.  Schaeffer;  "  Stories  of 
Long  Ago  in  a  New  Dress  "  (Heath),  by  Miss  Grace  H. 
Kupfer;  and  "  In  Brook  and  Bayou;  or,  Life  in  the  Still 
Waters  "  (Appleton),  by  Miss  Clara  Kern  Bayliss. 


1897.] 


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BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


Cicero  and 
his  friends. 


One  is  not  surprised  to  see  the  name 
of  a  new  translator  on  the  title-page 
of  "  Cicero  and  His  Friends,"  the 
third  volume  of  Boissier's  works,  which  the  Putnams 
have  put  forth  in  English  dress,  and  the  change 
proves  on  examination  to  be  a  decided  improve- 
ment. We  find  none  of  the  glaring  blunders  in 
classical  names,  references  to  classical  literature, 
Latin  quotations,  etc.,  which  marred  the  other  two 
volumes,  and  the  thought  of  the  original  seems  to 
have  been  reproduced  with  a  fair  degree  of  accuracy 
as  a  general  thing.  To  the  latter  point,  however, 
some  surprising  exceptions  will  be  noticed,  as  the 
reversal  of  the  sense  of  a  passage  on  page  328  by 
the  reproduction  of  a  double  negative,  and  the 
weak  "  all  that  he  wills  he  means,"  page  309,  for 
"  tout  ce  qu'il  veut,  il  le  veut  bien."  Perhaps  it  is 
too  much  to  ask  a  translator  to  correct  inaccuracies 
in  his  original,  but  one  who  takes  up  such  a  work 
as  this  for  translation  ought  to  know  the  twenty- 
first  book  of  Livy  well  enough  not  to  let  omnibus 
take  the  place  of  omnis  in  the  words  "  Qucestus 
omnis  patribus  indecorus  visus"  The  faults  of 
this  translation  are  irritating  to  the  reader  because 
they  are  faults  which  might  easily  have  been  re- 
moved had  the  translator  (Adnah  David  Jones^ 
taken  a  little  time  for  revision.  A  sentence  here 
and  there  shows  that  he  can  place  the  word  "  only  " 
in  a  fitting  position,  but  we  have  counted  more  than 
fifty  passages  in  which  he  has  failed  to  do  so.  He 
splits  infinitives  with  the  barbarous  glee  of  an 
Indian  splitting  skulls,  and  does  not  care  enough 
for  accuracy  of  expression  even  to  avoid  such 
bungling  as  "  Cicero  was  perhaps  more  indebted  for 
this  union  ...  to  Catiline  rather  than  to  himself." 
And  yet  the  reader  will  find  that  the  charm  of 
Boissier  rises  above  all  these  infelicities,  and  makes 
the  book  well  worth  the  time  necessary  for  its 
reading.  

The  "Famous  Scots  Series"  (im- 
tnfiScoPt£rh°Lts.  Parted  by  Scribner)  has  pretty  well 

established  its  reputation  by  this 
time,  so  that  we  have  now  a  good  idea  as  to  what 
to  expect  of  new  volumes.  The  last  two  to  reach  us 
—  that  on  Smollett,  by  Mr.  Oliphant  Smeaton,  and 
that  on  Boswell,  by  Mr.  Keith  Leask  —  are  as  good 
as  the  volumes  already  published.  Mr.  Smeaton 
gives  a  brisk  hearty  account  of  the  great  novelist, 
in  a  good  broad  style,  and  succeeds  in  keeping  the 
sympathy  of  the  reader  with  his  rather  difficult  sub- 
ject. We  are  a  little  puzzled  at  his  thinking  that 
Smollett  died  in  his  fifty-second  year,  when  he  has 
given  the  dates  of  his  birth  and  death  as  1721—1771, 
and  also  at  his  saying  that  Thackeray  achieved  with 
rare  effect  "  the  evolution  of  character  through  the 
medium  of  letters."  Probably,  however,  there  are 
letters  in  some  of  Thackeray's  novels,  and  certainly 
a  year  more  or  less  in  a  man's  age  is  a  minor  matter. 
As  for  Boswell,  Mr.  Leask  rescues  him  from  the  pil- 


lory of  Macaulay  only  to  gibbet  him  anew.  His  con- 
ception of  Boswell,  more  complete  and  accurate  than 
Macaulay's,  differs  from  it  chiefly,  we  are  inclined 
to  think,  as  1831  differs  from  1897.  The  present 
Boswell  is  nearly  as  contemptible  as  Macaulay's  ;  he 
seems  more  natural  to  us,  because  some  of  his  traits 
—  an  exaggerated  sensibility  and  versatility  and  an 
exaggerated  self-importance  —  are  rather  common 
to-day.  Boswell  seems  also  to  have  been  quite 
lacking  in  principle  and  in  power,  so  that  we  under- 
stand his  being  able  to  write  Johnson's  life  no  better 
after  we  have  read  his  own.  Both  Smollett  and 
Boswell  are  men  worth  writing  of.  But  in  a  series 
of  Famous  Scots  they  are  in  curiously  incongruous 
company.  Taking  them  all  in  all,  they  were,  we 
suppose,  as  lacking  in  Scotch  characteristics  as  any 
Scots  one  would  readily  think  of. 


English  politic*  and  subject  of  English  politics  of 
the  development  of  eight  hundred  years  ago  is  not  of 
the  national  spirit.  itgel£  very  interesting,  yet  when  set 
forth  to  show  the  development  of  national  character, 
and  the  danger  of  permanent  deterioration  that  was 
then  escaped,  it  takes  on  both  interest  and  value. 
Professor  O.  H.  Richardson  has  rewritten  the  his- 
tory of  the  middle  portion  of  the  thirteenth  century 
in  his  monograph,  "  The  National  Movement  in  the 
Reign  of  Henry  III.  and  its  Culmination  in  the 
Barons'  War  "  (Macmillan),  in  such  a  way  as  to 
present  clearly,  first,  the  denationalization  of  En- 
gland under  the  exactions  and  aggressions  of  the 
papacy,  the  swarm  of  foreign  favorites,  and  the 
weak  wilf  ullness  of  the  King  ;  then  the  reaction  of 
these  upon  the  national  spirit  in  church  and  people, 
resulting  in  the  rise  of  a  strong  national  spirit  and 
the  firm  establishment  of  the  fundamental  rights  of 
the  people.  It  is  a  thoroughly  creditable  piece  of 
work,  based  on  an  independent  study  of  the  sources, 
yet  steadied  by  the  work  of  the  master  in  this  field, 
Bishop  Stubbs.  It  is  not  without  a  spice  of  hero- 
worship  in  the  sympathetic  account  of  the  great 
earl  Simon,  yet  this  is  not  so  strong  as  to  vitiate  the 
work,  while  adding  zest  to  it.  It  is  interesting  to 
note  that  the  publication  of  the  book  is  followed 
immediately  by  the  election  of  its  author  to  a  pro- 
fessorship at  Yale. 

From  the  press  of  Edward  Arnold 
comes  "  The  Beggars  of  Paris," 
written  by  Louis  Paulian.  Lady 
Herschell's  name  is  on  the  outside,  but  she  is  merely 
the  translator.  The  author  turned  beggar  and  ex- 
plored Paris.  He  lived  by  begging,  and  beat  his 
way  with  delightful  success.  He  discovered  that 
begging  is  a  lucrative  profession  which  thrives  on 
thoughtless  almsgiving.  One  stands  by  a  wall,  rubs 
his  eyes  till  they  smart,  and  collects  twice  the  wages 
of  a  mechanic  simply  by  holding  out  his  dirty  cap. 
All  the  tricks  of  the  trade  are  here  exposed  in  de- 
tail, and  the  story  is  enlivened  by  anecdote.  The 
records  of  the  Bureau  of  Associated  Charities,  or 
of  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society,  would  furnish  par- 


Segging  as 
a  fine  art. 


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allels  for  nearly  every  type.  The  social  need  is  a 
radical  treatment  of  the  whole  class ;  an  offer  of 
work  to  the  able-hodied,  prompt  arrest  of  every 
beggar,  humane  hiding  from  publicity  in  suitable 
almshouses  of  those  whose  infirmities  and  friendless 
condition  make  it  impossible  for  them  to  be  self- 
supporting.  This  lesson  applies  to  America  as  well 
as  to  France.  The  story  is  so  interesting  that  it  is 
a  good  book  for  charity  workers  to  circulate. 

Professor  Giddings  of  Columbia  has 
rendered  no  small  service  in  prepar- 
ing, under  the  title  "  Theory  of  So- 
cialization" (Macmillan),  a  syllabus  of  his  larger 
work  on  "The  Principles  of  Sociology,"  already 
noticed  in  THE  DIAL.  It  is  a  great  advantage  to 
have  the  argument  outlined  by  the  author  himself, 
apart  from  the  vast  mass  of  material  by  which  he 
illustrates  and  establishes  his  vital  ideas.  The  sylla- 
bus is  enriched  with  some  new  examples,  and  cer- 
tain propositions  about  appreciation,  utilization,  and 
characterization  appear  here  for  the  first  time.  The 
definition  of  his  famous  phrase,  "  consciousness  of 
kind,"  as  now  given  is,  "  the  state  of  consciousness 
in  which  a  perception  of  resemblance,  sympathy, 
and  liking,  and  a  desire  for  recognition,  are  com- 
bined." The  statement  of  the  modes  of  equality 
(p.  35)  is  very  suggestive,  and  helps  to  give  defi- 
niteness  to  a  word  which  expresses  the  aspirations 
of  the  democracy,  but  is  misleading  and  hurtful 
unless  it  is  explained  and  its  limits  accurately  and 
rationally  bounded. 

The  volume  entitled  "Thackeray's 
Haunts  and  Homes"  ( Scribner ) 
allures  in  the  first  place  by  its  title, 
and  in  the  second  place  by  the  beauty  of  the  illus- 
trations, which  occupy  the  larger  part  of  the  space 
in  the  volume.  The  illustrator  is  also  the  author, 
and  was  Thackeray's  personal  friend, — Eyre  Crowe, 
A.R.A.  His  book  consists  of  a  sheaf  of  sketches 
made  for  the  sake  of  preserving  the  outward  look  of 
Thackeray's  habitations  before  the  inevitable  house- 
wrecker  shall  sweep  away  these  literary  vestiges. 
The  text  follows,  in  approximate  chronological  se- 
quence, the  connecting  links  in  the  chain  of  events 
which  led  to  the  various  changes  of  Thackeray's 
surroundings.  The  book  is  welcome  both  for  its 
artistic  and  biographic  value,  since  it  brings  one 
quite  near  to  the  immortal  Thackeray  "  in  his  habit 
as  he  lived." 


The  conditions 
of  our  Lord't 
life  on  Earth. 


The  questions  involved  in  a  discus- 
sion of  the  life  of  Jesus  while  on 
earth  are  again  in  the  front  rank. 
Professor  Mason  delivered  five  lectures  on  this 
theme  before  the  General  Seminary  in  New  York 
in  1896,  on  the  Bishop  Paddock  foundation,  and 
they  are  now  published  in  book  form  by  Messrs. 
Longmans,  Green,  &  Co.  Though  somewhat  over- 
grown with  verbiage,  the  lectures  reveal  a  careful 
study  of  the  Gospels  and  of  the  literature  of  the  topic. 
Of  the  five  lectures,  the  most  strikingly  new  in  inan- 


Tolstoi't 
Gotpel 
in  brief. 


ner  is  that  on  "Our  Lord's  Knowledge  upon  Earth," 
though  the  position  is  practically  the  same  as  that 
held  by  the  most  illustrious  of  the  Church  Fathers. 
While  the  book  is  modern  in  construction  it  is 
ancient  in  position,  and  adds  next  to  nothing  to  our 
weapons  of  warfare. 

Count  Lyof  N.  Tolstoi  has  crowned 
his  literary  works  with  one  which, 
though  a  condensation  of  a  larger 
work,  should  be  entitled  "  My  Gospel  in  Brief." 
It  is  a  fusion  of  the  four  New  Testament  gospels 
into  one,  but  into  the  one  that  the  author  conceives 
to  be  the  true  one.  He  omits  "  all  passages  relating 
to  the  life  of  John  the  Baptist,  Christ's  birth  and 
genealogy,  his  miracles,  his  resurrection,  and  the 
references  to  prophesies  fulfilled  in  his  life."  With 
these  expunged,  Christ's  teaching  is,  according  to 
Count  Tolstoi,  the  most  conventional  presentment 
of  metaphysics  and  morals,  the  purest  and  most 
complete  doctrine  of  life,  and  the  highest  light 
which  the  human  mind  has  ever  reached.  (Pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.) 


LITERARY  NOTES. 


The  third  of  Mr.  G.  P.  Humphrey's  "  American 
Colonial  Tracts "  is  a  reprint  of  "  A  State  of  the 
Province  of  Georgia,  Attested  upon  Oath,  in  the  Court 
of  Savannah,  November  10,  1740."  The  date  of  the 
original  is  1742. 

The  most  northern  paper  in  the  world  is  printed  at 
Godthaab,  in  Greenland,  and  is  called  "  Lsesestof ."  It 
is  a  missionary  sheet,  made  for  the  Eskimos,  and  has 
been  the  means  of  teaching  many  of  them  to  read  the 
Danish  language. 

The  New  Amsterdam  Book  Co.  announce  for  imme- 
diate publication  "  Women  Novelists  of  Queen  Victoria's 
Reign,"  and  a  new  revised  edition  of  "  Lady  Hamilton 
and  Lord  Nelson,"  an  historical  biography  by  Mr.  John 
Cordy  Jeaffreson. 

Daniel  Greenleaf  Thompson,  of  New  York,  the 
author  of  "  The  Philosophy  of  Fiction  in  Literature  " 
and  other  works,  died  at  his  home  on  the  tenth  of  June. 
He  was  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  was  for  a  term  of 
years  President  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  Club. 

Henri  Meilhac,  who,  both  by  his  own  unaided  pen 
and  in  collaboration  with  M.  Hale"vy,  has  contributed 
so  much  to  the  gaiety  of  theatre-going  people,  died  in 
Paris  on  the  sixth  of  June,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five.  He 
succeeded  Labiche  in  the  Academy  about  ten  years  ago. 

Mr.  Edward  Arnold  will  shortly  publish  Sir  Harry 
Johnston's  "  British  Central  Africa,"  and  announces 
for  immediate  publication  Mr.  Grant  Allen's  new  book, 
"  An  African  Millionaire."  The  same  firm  will  also 
issue  in  sumptuous  form  the  unique  work  on  which  Mr. 
Albert  Hartshorne  has  been  engaged  so  many  years, 
"  Old  English  Glasses." 

"  The  American  Monthly  Review  of  Reviews  "  is  the 
new  title  of  the  popular  periodical  edited  by  Mr.  Albert 
Shaw.  In  course  of  time,  it  will  doubtless  come  to 
be  known  more  briefly  as  "  The  American  Monthly," 
which  reminds  us  (obsit  omen)  that  a  magazine  thus 
entitled  was  once  published  in  Chicago,  and  came  to  an 


1897.] 


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early  end.  We  are  glad  that  the  change  has  been 
made,  although  for  a  time  it  may  be  found  a  little  con- 
fusing, but  the  magazine  in  question  is  so  different  from, 
and  so  vast  an  improvement  upon,  its  English  prototype, 
that  it  ought  to  have  a  distinctive  name  of  its  own. 

We  have  received  the  first  four  numbers  of  "  La 
Diplomatic,"  a  new  semi-monthly  review  published  in 
Paris,  and  edited  by  M.  Rene"  BreViaire.  Its  special 
field  is  that  of  diplomatic  affairs  and  international  poli- 
tics, but  it  has  also  departments  of  musical  and  theat- 
rical affairs,  of  society,  sport,  and  finance.  It  thus 
appeals  to  a  considerable  range  of  interests,  and  we 
have  found  it  very  readable.  It  is  attractively  printed 
and  well  illustrated. 

Mr.  Henry  Frowde  of  the  Oxford  University  Press 
is  about  to  publish  for  the  Egypt  Exploration  Fund 
part  of  a  papyrus  book  found  at  Behnesa,  on  the  edge 
of  the  Libyan  desert,  by  Mr.  Bernard  P.  Grenfell  and 
Mr.  A.  S.  Hunt  of  Oxford.  There  will  be  much  con- 
troversy as  to  the  antiquity  of  these  "  Logia,"  but  it  is 
not  improbable  that  the  collection  was  made  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second  century,  or  even  earlier,  and  the 
writing  of  the  sentences  may  date  from  the  second  cen- 
tury. The  sayings  are  detached,  without  context,  and 
each  begins  with  the  words  "  Jesus  saith."  In  addition 
to  reproducing  the  leaf  by  collotype  process,  it  has  been 
decided  to  print  a  cheaper  edition  for  a  few  cents  so 
that  the  treasure  may  be  brought  within  the  reach  of 
everyone. 


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Present.  By  William  Laird  Clowes.  5  vols..  profusely 
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Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 

A  History  of  Our  Own  Times,  from  1880  to  the  Diamond 
Jubilee.  By  Justin  McCarthy,  M.P.  Illus.,  8vo,  pp.  473. 
Harper  &  Bros.  $1.75. 

The  Dungeons  of  Old  Paris :  Being  the  Story  and  Romance 
of  the  most  celebrated  Prisons  of  the  Monarchy  and  the 
Revolution.  By  Tighe  Hopkins,  author  of  "  Kilniainham 
Memories."  Illus.,  large  8vo,  pp.  265,  gilt  top.  Q.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.75. 

BIOGRAPHY. 

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Household.  Illus.,  12mo,  pp.  306,  gilt  top,  uncut  edges. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Hannibal  and  the  Struggle  between  Carthage  and  Rome.  By 
William  O'Connor  Morris.  Illus.,  12mo,  pp.  376.  "  Heroes 
of  the  Nations."  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.50. 

Bertrand  de  Guesclin,  Constable  of  France :  His  Life  and 
Times.  By  Enoch  Vine  Stoddard,  A.M.  Illus.,  12mo, 
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GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

Johnsonian  Miscellanies.  Arranged  and  edited  by  George 

Birkbeck  Hill,  D.C.L.    2  vols.,  large  8vo,  gilt  tops,  uncut 

edges.    Harper  &  Bros.    In  box. 
English  Lyric  Poetry,  15OO-17OO.  With  Introduction  by 

Frederick  Ives  Carpenter.    12mo,  pp.  276.    Imported  by 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    $1.50. 
Ten  Noble  Poems  in  English  Literature :  Suggestions  for 

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Co.    Paper,  25  cts. 


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$1.50. 

Machiavelli.  The  Romanes  Lecture  delivered  in  the  Shel- 
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Mary,  Queen  of  Scots:  A  Historical  Drama.  By  Bjorn- 
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NEW  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

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belong  in  the  general  class  of  Teachers'  Bibles,  THIS  is  EASILY 
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of  that  sequacious  compilation  which  is  based  on  works  once 
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attempts  to  bring  an  old  thing  up  to  the  gauge  of  a  new  one. 
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any  that  have  hitherto  appeared.  This  is  evident  in  the  log- 
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CONTEXTS. 


A  YEAR  OF  CONTINENTAL  LITERATURE  —  I.    61 

COMMUNICATIONS 64 

Japanese  Self -Taught.    Ernest  W.  Clement. 
Preparatory  English  —  A  Teacher's  Experience. 
A.  J.  George. 

ACROSS  AND  AROUND  SPITSBERGEN.   E.  G.  J.    65 

THE  EVOLUTION  OF  A  CONSTITUTION.    James 

Oscar  Pierce 67 

THE  DECORATIVE  ILLUSTRATION  OF  BOOKS. 

Frederick  W.  Gookin 68 

THE  ETERNAL  PROBLEM  OF  THE  BALKANS. 

Charles  H.  Cooper 70 

FAITH  AND  PHILOSOPHY.  John  Bascom  ...  71 
Watson's  The  Cure  of  Souls.  —  Van  Dyke's  The 
Gospel  for  an  Age  of  Doubt.  —  Scott's  Origin  and 
Development  of  the  Nicene  Theology. —  Harris's  God 
the  Creator  and  Lord  of  All.  —  Fisher's  History  of 
Christian  Doctrine. —  Evil  and  Evolution. —  Duke  of 
Argyll's  The  Philosophy  of  Belief. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 74 

English  literature  as  affected  by  the  French  Revolu- 
tion.—  Revival  of  a  forgotten  work  by  Cooper. —  All 
by  Mark  Twain. — Evolution  of  the  stars. — Buddhism 
sympathetically  expounded. —  Latin  classics  in  origi- 
nal manuscript. —  Literature  of  music. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 76 

LITERARY  NOTES 77 

TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS 77 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS   .  .  78 


A   YEAR  OF  CONTINENTAL 
LITERATURE  —  I. 

Following  our  custom  of  several  years,  we 
print  in  this  and  the  following  issue  of  THE 
DIAL  a  summary  of  the  literary  activity  of  the 
past  twelvemonth  in  the  principal  European 
countries,  based  upon  the  invaluable  series  of 
special  reports  contributed  to  the  "  Athenaeum  " 
for  July  3.  Thirteen  countries  are  covered 
altogether,  and  we  follow  the  alphabetical 
arrangement  of  our  English  contemporary.  ' 

Professor  Paul  Fredericq,  writing  from  Bel- 
gium, records  a  considerable  achievement  in 
the  department  of  national  history,  noting 
many  monographs  and  collections  of  import- 
ance. Among  books  of  travel  there  is  "  En 


Congolie,"  by  M.  Edmond  Picard,  who  went 
out  to  Africa  to  scoff  and  remained  to  pray  ; 
and  a  posthumous  volume  of  "  Lettres  de 
Voyage,"  by  Emile  de  Laveleye.  In  literary 
criticism  there  is  "  Dante  et  Ses  Precurseurs," 
by  M.  Zanardelli,  and  a  "Discours  sur  le 
Renouveau  au  Theatre,"  by  the  M.  Picard 
already  named.  In  belles-lettres,  the  "  original 
and  extravagant "  M.  Emile  Verhaeren  has 
produced  two  volumes  of  verse,  and  M.  Mae- 
terlinck a  collection  of  "  Douze  Chansons." 
The  same  M.  Maeterlinck  has  also  printed 
the  prose  drama  "  Aglavaine  et  Selysette," 
which  certainly  has  an  enticing  title.  "  While 
the  Flemish  movement  agitates  all  Belgium 
violently  in  view  of  a  law  which  is  to  place  the 
Flemish  language  on  a  complete  footing  of 
equality  with  French,  which  has  been  recog- 
nized as  the  official  language  of  the  kingdom 
since  1830,  Flemish  literature  does  not  share 
in  the  polemics  and  the  agitation  of  French 
literature  in  Belgium.  It  is  in  a  state  of  dull 
placidity."  The  most  noteworthy  Flemish  pro- 
ductions are  M.  Cyriel  Buysse's  novel,  "  Op't 
Blauwhuis,"  and  a  few  historical  studies. 

Professor  V.  Tille's  Bohemian  report  may 
be  illustrated  by  the  following  extracts : 

"  Bohemian  literature  during  the  period  1896-7  has 
not  shown  so  much  vigour  as  in  the  preceding  twelve 
months,  although  the  number  of  publications  is  still 
very  large.  Many  collections  of  verse  have  appeared, 
but  few  of  them  rise  above  mediocrity.  .  .  .  One  of 
the  most  beautiful  and  powerful  collections  of  patriotic 
verse  is  Neruda's  posthumous  « Friday  Songs,'  which 
sprang  from  passionate  love  of  his  country  and  people, 
and  show  anew  what  a  mind  was  lost  to  the  Bohemian 
nation  by  his  death.  ...  In  fiction  Bohemian  litera- 
ture still  lacks  the  modern  novel  of  character  —  a  want 
not  compensated  by  some  attempts  at  shorter  tales  of 
this  class.  Stories  of  all  kinds  and  shades  are  coming 
out  as  numerously  as  poems,  but  the  majority  of  them 
do  not  rise  above  the  average,  and  many  of  the  produc- 
tions of  even  older  story-tellers  follow  the  beaten  path, 
without  attempting  to  be  artistic.  The  best  of  them  are 
still  those  that  delineate  minutely  the  life  of  the  Bo- 
hemian country  people,  as  the  subject  itself  secures 
attention." 

Denmark,  whose  literary  affairs  are  chroni- 
cled by  Dr.  Alfred  Ipsen,  has  a  somewhat  more 
interesting  story  to  tell.  "  Our  sesthetic  liter- 
ture  appears  to  have  reached  a  point  where 
form  has  been  developed  to  the  highest  perfec- 
tion, but  it  would  also  now  and  then  seem  as  if 
we  were  at  a  loss  for  the  material  to  fill  in  the 


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form."  Herr  H.  F.  Ewald,  "the  Nestor  of 
Danish  authors,"  has  published  "  Liden  Kir- 
sten,"  a  new  historical  novel  which  combines 
the  romantic  feeling  of  Ingemann  with  the 
more  exacting  scholarship  of  the  present  day. 
«  Mollen  "  ("  The  Mill  "),  by  Herr  Karl  Gjel- 
lerup,  is  "a  big  novel  of  country  life,"  and 
"  Ludvigsbakke,"  by  Herr  H.  Bang,  shows  its 
author  to  be  possessed  of  "  some  of  Charles 
Dickens's  keen  perception  of  the  small  things 
in  character  and  human  life."  Herr  K.  Larsen, 
in  "  Uden  for  Rangklasserne  "  ("  Outside  the 
Upper  Classes"),  "  sketches  certain  sections  of 
Copenhagen  life  and  their  Copenhagen  slang, 
for  which  he  has  a  very  sharp  ear."  He  has 
also  begun  publication  of  an  intimate  history  of 
the  War  of  1864,  based  upon  contemporary 
letters  and  journals.  "  Herr  Holger  Drach- 
mann,  our  brilliant  poet,  celebrated  in  October 
last  the  completion  of  twenty-five  years  of  lit- 
erary work,  and  received  recognition  from 
many  quarters.  From  the  King  and  the  Court, 
however,  he  received  no  sign  of  sympathy  or 
regard,  owing  to  the  unsatisfactory  character  of 
his  domestic  life.  The  inspired  and  rich  quality 
of  his  work  is  a  feature  of  our  literature  in  these 
times  of  spiritual  decline  and  mannerism.  Gen- 
erally so  fertile,  he  has  not  this  year  produced 
any  new  volume,  but  has  only  revised  and  altered 
one  of  his  plays  of  earlier  years."  An  important 
undertaking  in  a  more  serious  field  is  the  great 
subscription  history  of  Denmark,  upon  which 
seven  of  the  foremost  Danish  historians  are 
now  engaged. 

M.  Joseph  Reinach  opens  his  interesting  ac- 
count of  the  year  in  France  with  some  remarks 
upon  the  effects  of  free  trade  in  literature. 
"  It  is  probable,"  he  says,  "  that  the  second  half 
of  the  nineteenth  century  will  seem  to  future 
history  chiefly  characterized,  from  this  special 
point  of  view,  by  the  activity  of  the  literary 
exchanges  between  France  on  the  one  side,  and 
on  the  other  certain  foreign  countries,  notably 
Russia,  the  Scandinavian  peoples,  England, 
and  even  Germany.  No  one  can  doubt  that 
Tolstoy  owes  much  to  Balzac  and  George  Sand  ; 
but  Tolstoy,  in  his  turn,  has  exercised  a  con- 
siderable influence  on  several  of  our  country- 
men of  to-day.  Ibsen,  he  too,  derives  from 
George  Sand,  and  above  all  Alexandre  Dumas 
the  younger.  ...  I  am  ready  to  believe  that 
the  French  novel  has  for  several  years  past  left 
its  mark  on  the  English  novel,  which  now  attacks 
subjects  before  which  it  once  recoiled."  M. 
Zola,  we  are  told  by  M.  Reinach,  is  losing  his 
prestige  in  France.  "  All  his  old  disciples  have 


deserted  him  to  enter  on  other  paths,  and  he  is 
visibly  outliving  his  reputation."    M.  Bourget, 
also,  has  less  vogue  than  heretofore.    "  It  would 
be  too  much  to  say  that  adultery  has  ceased  to 
take  a  chief  place  in  the  French  novel ;  but  its 
place  is  growing  less  year  by  year.    People  are 
decidedly  tired  of  this  sort  of  story."    The  one 
masterpiece  of  the  year  is  the  Basque  story  of 
"  Ramountcho,"  by  "  Loti."     Other  works  of 
fiction  that  have  attracted  much  attention  are 
the  "  Jardin  Secret  "  of  M.  Prevost,  the  "  Jean 
d'Agreve  "  of  M.  de  Vogue,  the  "  Image  "  of 
M.  Emile  Pouvillon,  and  the  "  Orme  du  Mail  " 
of  M.  France.     The  latter  book  "  is  a  succes- 
sion of  sketches  of  administrative,  ecclesiastical, 
and  political    life  in  the    provinces.      These 
sketches  are  lively,  witty,  and  their  style  recalls 
at  once  Renan  and  Voltaire  ;  but  I  really  must 
ask  readers  not  to  believe  that  all  our  prefects 
and  all  our  bishops   resemble  the  figures  in 
M.  France's  book."    As  for  poetry,  "  M.  Cop- 
pee  has  deserted  it  for  journalism,  M.  Sully- 
Prudhomme  for  philosophy  and  science.   M.  de 
Heredia  has  never  written,  as  the  world  knows, 
more  than  one  volume  of  sonnets ;  Leconte  de 
L'Isle  and  Banville  are  dead,  and  have  left  no 
heirs  to  their  places."     Two  new  writers  of 
verse,  MM.  F.  Gregh  and  Rivoire,  show  signs 
of  promise.    Literary  criticism  and  history  are 
in  a  flourishing  condition,  and  are  illustrated 
by  many  good  books.    The  Due  de  Broglie  has 
written  on  Malherbe,  and  M.  Hallays  on  Beau- 
marchais,  for  the  "  Grands   Ecrivains  Fran- 
9ais."     M.  Petit  de  Julleville's   monumental 
history  of  French  literature  is  making  satisfac- 
tory progress.     M.  V.  Rossel  has  written  an 
important  book  on  the  literary  relations  be- 
tween France  and  Germany.     M.  Henry  Har- 
risse  has  left  Columbus  for  the  Abbe  Prevost, 
and  has  brought  the  author  of  "  Manon  Les- 
caut "   into  the   clear    light   of    history.     M. 
Duclaux's  "  Pasteur  "  attempts  "  a  history  of 
this  great  spirit,  the  genesis  of  his  discoveries, 
the  outcome  of  his  struggles."    The  celebrated 
history  of  "  Elle  et  Lui "  has  been  revived,  and 
has  resulted  in  the  publication  of  much  new 
material   concerning   both   George  Sand   and 
Alfred  de  Musset.  "  The  controversy,  it  seems, 
is  lasting  long  enough  to  provide  still  a  theme 
of  animated  discussion  at  literary  dinners.     I 
am  not  at  all  clear  whether  it  would  not  have 
been  better  to  let  these  dead  people  sleep  undis- 
turbed in  their  graves."     Among  the  more 
solid  publications  of  the  year  are  M.  Fouillee's 
work  on  "  The  Positivist  Movement,"  the  "  Car- 
nets,"  written  in  1863-64  by  Taine  ("  there 


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is  in  this  small  volume  almost  all  the  substance 
of  the  *  Origines  '  "),  the  Vicomte  d'Avenel's 
researches  on  "  Le  Mecanisme  de  la  Vie  So- 
ciale,"  Leon  Say's  posthumous  "Les  Finances," 
M.  Block's  "  Petit  Dictionnaire  Politique  et 
Social,"  M.  Perrens's  "Les  Libertins  en  France 
au  XVIIme.  Siecle,"  the  tenth  volume  of  MM. 
Lavisse  and  Rambaud's  "  Histoire  de  France," 
and  endless  books  and  memoirs  relating  to  the 
First  and  Second  Empires.  This  documentary 
literature  includes  the  "  Correspondance  Ine- 
dite  "  of  Merimee,  the  "  Correspondance  "  of 
Victor  Hugo,  and  the  "  Derniers  Me  moires 
des  Autres,"  by  Jules  Simon.  Even  the  real 
history  of  the  Third  Republic  is  "  beginning  to 
emerge  from  the  farrago  of  occasional  publica- 
tions," and  is  in  a  way  summed  up  in  the  single 
volume  of  Challemel-Lacour's  speeches,  "  a 
manual  of  philosophy  from  which  all  students 
of  public  affairs,  whatever  their  country,  can 
draw  equal  profit." 

"  The  imaginative  literature  of  Germany," 
says  Hofrath  Robert  Zimmermann,  "  is  arrayed 
under  the  banners  of  realism  and  symbolism. 
Its  strength  lies  in  the  drama.  .  .  .  On  the 
other  hand,  lyric  and  narrative  poetry  is  de- 
clining." The  dramatic  "  prize  juries  "  have 
awarded  the  honors  of  the  year  to  Herr  Haupt- 
mann  and  Herr  von  Wildenbruch.  Probably 
the  most  important  work  of  the  year  is  Herr 
Hauptmann's  fairy  drama,  "  Die  Versunkene 
Glocke."  Here  "  the  writer  transports  himself 
and  his  audience  to  the  realm  of  fairyland  ;  the 
supernatural  weapons,  the  elfs,  the  spirits  of 
the  water  and  the  wood,  who  take  part  in  the 
action,  possess  the  same  reality  as  the  human 
beings,  the  bell-founder  Heinrich  and  his 
family,  with  whose  destiny  elfs  and  mortals 
interfere,  mingling  in  the  play  as  in  '  A  Mid- 
summer Night's  Dream.'  "  Other  dramatic 
productions  of  the  year  are  Herr  Sudermann's 
three  one-act  pieces  called  "  Morituri,"  Herr 
Fulda's  "  The  Son  of  the  Caliph,"  also  a  sort 
of  fairy  tale,  with  a  Nietzschean  Uebermensch 
for  a  hero,  Herr  Hirschfeld's  "  Die  Mutter," 
Herr  Hango's  "Nausicaa,"  and  Herr  Eber- 
mann's  "  Die  Athenerin."  The  two  works  last 
mentioned  are  Viennese  productions,  deriving 
from  Grillparzer  and  Munch -Bellinghausen. 
In  poetry,  a  new  volume  by  Herr  Detleff  von 
Liliencron,  including  "  Poggfred,"  styled  by 
the  author  "  a  topsy-turvy  epic  in  twelve  can- 
tos," occupies  the  place  of  first  importance.  In 
this  lyric-narrative  work,  "  descriptions  of  na- 
ture, sketches  of  moor  and  heath,  literary  out- 
bursts of  indignation  and  enthusiasm,  Ariosto- 


like  pictures  of  love,  and  Verestschaginesque 
pictures  of  battles  alternate  with  pessimistic 
reflections,  passages  of  mystical  devotion,  and 
references  to  the  world's  history."  The  author, 
we  are  told,  "  is  deemed  by  his  admirers  the 
first  lyric  poet  of  the  age,"  while  "  by  many 
others  he  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  gifted." 
The  most  important  novel  of  the  year  is  Herr 
Spielhagen's  "  Faustulus,"  a  Pomeranian  story, 
having  for  its  hero  "  a  doctor  transferred  from 
the  over-intellectual  atmosphere  of  a  large  town 
to  a  small  one,"  and  playing  therein  the  parts 
of  both  Faust  and  Mephistopheles.  "There 
are  few  novels  which  afford  the  reader  such  a 
feeling  of  a?sthetic  contentment  through  scenic 
excellence  and  living  characterization,  of  eth- 
ical satisfaction  through  the  dramatic  conse- 
quentially and  impartial  justice."  Other  works 
of  fiction  that  have  attracted  considerable  atten- 
tion are  "  Das  Rathsel  des  Lebens,"  by  Herr 
Heyse  ;  "  Herbstreigen,"  by  Herr  von  Saar  ; 
"  Die  Siegerin,"  by  Frau  Clara  Sudermann ; 
"  Der  Zauberer  Cyprianus,"  by  Herr  von 
Wildenbruch ;  "  Friihschein,"  by  Herr  J.  J. 
David;  "Heimkehr,"  by  "  Ossip  Schubin "; 
« Schleichendes  Gift,"  by  Herr  Adolf  Wil- 
brandt ;  "  Im  Chiemgau,"  a  historical  novel 
by  Herr  Felix  Dahn ;  and  a  narrative  of  old 
Ratisbon,  by  Dr.  Georg  Ebers.  The  historical 
literature  of  the  year  centres  mainly  about  the 
Emperor  William  I.,  whose  centenary  was  cele- 
brated in  March.  Professor  Oncken's  "  Unser 
Heldenkaiser  "  is  an  "  inspired  "  account  of  the 
career  of  the  restorer  of  the  Empire.  Herr  von 
Strautz's  "  Illustrirfce  Kriegschronik  "  pictures 
the  wars  of  1864, 1866,  and  1870.  The  death 
of  the  three  great  historians,  Treitschke,  Sybel, 
and  Ernst  Curtius,  has  given  a  heavy  blow  to 
historical  scholarship.  The  quater-centenary 
of  Melanchthon's  birth  has  also  called  forth  a 
considerable  literature.  Gottfried  Keller's  let- 
ters is  the  most  important  book  of  the  year  in 
the  way  of  literary  memoirs.  There  are  several 
noteworthy  books  in  philosophy  and  aesthetics, 
among  them  being  Alfred  von  Berger's  volume 
of  critical  essays,  a  monograph  on  the  Greek 
philosophers  by  Herr  Gompertz,  a  work  on  the 
esthetics  of  tragedy  by  Herr  Johannes  Volkelt, 
and  Herr  von  Hartmann's  "  Kategorienlehre," 
which  forms  the  tenth  volume  of  the  philoso- 
pher's collected  works.  "A  publication  at 
once  original  and  symptomatic  of  the  tendencies 
of  thought  among  the  present  generation  in  the 
field  of  literature,  and  more  especially  of  the 
pictorial  arts,  is  the  periodical  "  Pan,"  which 
is  now  in  the  second  year  of  its  existence,  and 


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may  be  regarded  as  the  organ  of  the  modern 
school." 

Greece,  represented  in  this  symposium  by 
Professor  Lambros,  contributes  few  items  of 
interest  to  the  year's  chronicle.  "  The  Muses 
are  no  friends  of  Mars."  Dr.  Kerameus  has 
published  some  unedited  letters  of  the  Patriarch 
Photius  from  manuscripts  preserved  at  Mt. 
Athos,  and  Professor  Lambros  has  printed  from 
the  same  source  the  fables  of  George  -ZEtolos, 
a  Greek  author  of  the  sixteenth  century.  More 
important  for  the  history  of  modern  Greek  cul- 
ture is  the  following  announcement : 

"  The  chief  event  in  literature  is  the  beginning  of  a 
project  due  to  the  generosity  of  a  rich  Greek  who  is 
settled  at  Odessa,  a  former  burgomaster  of  that  town. 
Gregor  Maraslis  has  undertaken  to  make  the  Greeks 
acquainted  with  masterpieces  of  the  historical,  philo- 
logical, archaeological,  and  philosophical  literature  of 
other  countries  by  means  of  the  best  possible  translations. 
The  series  will  be  printed  at  Athens,  and  arrangements 
provide  for  the  appearance  of  a  part  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  large  octave  pages  every  month;  the  get-up  is  excel- 
lent, the  price  very  low.  From  another  point  of  view 
also  the  collection  is  of  interest  even  for  foreigners,  as  it 
will  supply  the  best  materials  for  the  study  of  modern 
Greek.  Later  on  the  yearly  parts  will  be  doubled  in 
number,  and  the  library  will,  in  accordance  with  the 
founder's  design,  also  include  original  works,  perhaps 
even  pay  attention  to  jurisprudence  and  medicine." 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

JAPANESE  SELF-TAUGHT. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

I  have  already  called  your  attention  to  the  increasing 
popularity  of  the  English  language  in  educational  and 
journalistic  enterprises  in  Japan.  This  renewed  interest 
in  that  well-nigh  "  universal  language  "  has  arisen,  of 
course,  from  the  fact  that,  in  about  two  years  from 
now,  when  the  new  treaties  go  into  effect,  this  entire 
Empire  will  be  thrown  wide-open.  In  view,  therefore, 
of  the  near  approach  of  "  mixed  residence,"  the  Japanese 
people  realize  the  necessity  of  becoming  familiar  with 
that  language  which  will  be  spoken  by  the  largest  num- 
ber of  foreigners  coming  to,  or  resident  in,  Japan.  But 
mixed  residence  will  not  impose  a  duty  on  the  Japanese 
alone;  it  will  also  bring  upon  the  foreigners  the  neces- 
sity of  knowing  more  or  less  of  the  vernacular. 

This  shows  to  us  the  raison  d'etre  of  a  book  recently 
published,  under  the  ambitious  title  of  "  Japanese  Self- 
Taught,"  by  Messrs.  Kelly  &  Walsh,  of  Yokohama. 
The  author  is  a  European,  who  has  become  a  natural- 
ized Japanese,  has  taken  a  Japanese  name,  and  has  a 
good  practical  knowledge  of  the  Japanese  language. 
He  says  in  the  preface:  "The  book  is  not  intended  for 
learned  sinologues,  but  for  persons  who,  while  having 
only  a  limited  time  at  their  disposal,  desire  to  gain  some 
insight  into  the  construction  of  Japanese  colloquial  sen- 
tences, and  to  familiarize  themselves  with  words  useful 
to  them  in  their  vocations  without  wading  through  an 
intricate  mass  of  confusing  grammatical  rules." 

The  book  is  not,  therefore,  a  grammatical  treatise  or 


a  scientific  exposition  of  this  peculiar  language ;  nor  is 
it  ungrammatical  or  unscientific.  It  is  preeminently  a 
practical  handbook,  of  which  one  special  feature  is  a 
collection  of  five  hundred  colloquial  phrases,  given  in 
both  the  "  familiar  "  and  the  "  polite  "  styles  of  speech. 
This  distinction  is  a  very  important  one,  and  is  also 
very  difficult;  but  it  is  very  carefully  expressed  and 
explained  in  these  colloquial  exercises.  The  commercial 
vocabulary  is  especially  comprehensive  and  valuable. 
On  the  whole,  the  book  seems  to  be  one  which  will 
prove  very  useful  to  travellers  and  business  men  in  giving 
a  good  working  knowledge  of  the  Japanese  language. 
ERNEST  W.  CLEMENT. 
Tokyo,  July  7,  1897. 

PREPARATORY  ENGLISH.  — A  TEACHER'S 

EXPERIENCE. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

After  reading  your  interesting  editorial  on  "  The 
Teaching  of  English  Once  More,"  I  am  tempted  to  give 
a  bit  of  my  own  experience  in  preparing  pupils  for  col- 
lege in  English, —  an  experience  covering  fifteen  years. 

When  I  began  the  work,  I  found  that  by  keeping  my 
eye  upon  the  examination  likely  to  be  set  it  was  not  a 
difficult  task  to  prepare  the  pupils  to  pass  "  with  credit "; 
but  I  soon  found  also  that  this  method  was  not  devel- 
oping any  literary  taste  or  love  of  the  study;  and  I  con- 
cluded that  it  would  be  better  to  give  up  the  study  en- 
tirely than  that  such  results  should  follow.  From  that 
time  I  have  valued  the  student's  disposition  toward  his 
work  —  his  enthusiasm  and  love  of  reading  —  far  more 
than  his  ability  to  reproduce  the  story  of  which  he  read. 
The  former  I  consider  a  much  better  preparation  for 
doing  the  English  work  in  college.  I  have  been  con- 
firmed in  this  opinion  by  the  testimony  of  my  pupils 
and  the  opinion  of  the  best  teachers  of  English  in  the 
colleges, —  Harvard,  Yale,  the  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  and  the  smaller  colleges  generally. 

I  do  not  imply  by  this  that  I  make  less  of  written 
work  than  formerly ;  as  a  matter  of  fact,  written  work  i& 
much  more  frequent;  but  after  there  has  been  created 
an  interest  in  the  subject  this  work  loses  its  terrors  and 
is  done  with  pleasure  and  profit. 

Again,  when  properly  related  to  written  work,  as  a 
means  and  not  an  end,  rhetoric  becomes  one  of  the  most 
interesting  of  studies.  Instead  of  having  the  pupil  cor- 
rect the  bad  English  of  others,  I  set  him  to  work  upon 
his  own.  When  I  return  his  themebook  with  marginal 
signs  indicating  faults  of  diction  or  construction,  he  is 
required  to  rewrite  the  sentence  in  which  such  errors 
occur  and  to  make  a  reference  to  the  rhetoric  where  the 
error  is  discussed.  This  literary  study,  composition, 
and  rhetoric  are  correlated  in  such  a  way  that  the  pupil 
sees  at  once  the  organic  relation  of  one  to  the  other. 
The  pleasure  and  profit  of  this  work,  both  to  teacher 
and  pupil,  may  not  admit  of  the  test  by  the  formal 
examination,  but  it  is  as  real  as  life  itself,  and  gives  to 
every  exercise  its  most  enduring  quality. 

The  question  which  I  would  now  ask  is  this :  Is  it  not 
possible  to  order  the  examinations  in  English  for  en- 
trance to  college  so  that  the  student  may  reveal  some- 
thing of  these  essentials  for  college  work,  —  literary 
taste  and  love  of  the  subject;  ability  to  write  clear,  con- 
cise, and  vigorous  English,  which  in  itself  is  evidence  of 
a  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  rhetoric  ?  I  believe 
that  there  are  many  classrooms  where  this  is  being  done 
every  day.  A-  j.  GEORGE. 

High  School,  Newton,  Mass.,  July  23,  1897. 


1897.] 


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ACROSS  AND  AROUND  SPITSBERGEN.* 

The  gratification  of  the  (to  most  of  us)  rather 
unaccountable  impulse  which  periodically  drives 
men  like  Sir  William  Martin  Conway,  Mr. 
MacCormick,  and  Mr.  Whymper  from  the 
snug  security  of  their  "  ain  firesides  "  to  the 
uttermost  parts  of  the  earth  in  quest  of  wastes 
unexplored  and  peaks  unclimbed,  is  becoming 
a  matter  of  some  difficulty.  To  people  with  a 
taste  for  real  pioneering,  an  up-to-date  map 
offers  a  comparatively  barren  and  perplexing 
prospect.  The  once  vast  areas  which  the  old 
cartographers  used  to  embellish  with  figures  of 
griffins  and  other  then  not  incredible  monsters 
have  shrunk  to  an  insignificant  stretch  or  two 
near  the  Poles.  Africa  is  no  longer  a  Dark 
Continent  —  save  in  respect  of  the  alleged 
"  shadiness  "  of  its  stock-jobbing  and  land- 
grabbing  operations  ;  and,  since  Nansen,  people 
have  already  begun  speaking  of  the  North 
Pole  in  that  tone  which  Jeffrey  was  charged 
with  using  toward  the  Equator. 

Sir  William  Martin  Conway  could  hardly, 
one  would  think,  have  been  beset  with  an  em- 
barrassment of  riches  in  the  way  of  alluring 
fields  for  exploration  and  adventure  when  he 
elected  to  go  to  Spitsbergen  last  summer.  The 
island  was  not  inaptly  described  by  the  sport- 
ing member  of  Sir  William's  party  as  a  land 
"  botched  in  the  making  and  chucked  aside 
unfinished."  Being  the  most  accessible  of  all 
Arctic  lands,  Spitsbergen  is  the  one  that  has 
been  most  frequently  visited.  The  Gulf  Stream, 
pushing  its  warm  waters  northward,  melts  in 
the  ice-covered  polar  sea,  an  open  bay  extend- 
ing in  summer  to  the  80th  and  sometimes  even 
to  the  82d  parallel  of  north  latitude.  This 
bay  forms  a  convenient  avenue  of  approach  to 
Spitsbergen,  which  skirts,  through  several  de- 
grees of  latitude,  its  eastern  side.  The  com- 
parative accessibility  of  the  island  has  marked 
it  as  a  goal  of  the  summer  tourist.  The  ubi- 
quitous "  trippers  "  are  already  carrying  droves 
of  cockneys  of  all  nations  to  its  ice-girt  shores 
—  a  fact  that  was  once  brought  home  to  our 
author  and  his  companions  in  a  rather  amusing 
way.  They  discovered  in  a  particularly  bleak 
and  desolate  spot  on  the  coast  what  appeared 
to  be  the  grave  of  a  sailor,  a  lone  mound 


*  THE  FIRST  CROSSING  OF  SPITSBERGEN.  By  Sir  William 
Martin  Conway,  M.  A.,  with  contributions  by  J.  W.  Gregory, 
D.Sc.,  A.  Trevor-Battye,  and  E.  J.  Qarwood.  Illustrated. 
New  York  :  Imported  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


framed  in  a  ring  of  stones,  and  bearing  the 
legend :  "  KAPT.  VOGELGESANG.  S.  S.  Colum- 
bia. Hamburg.  D.  29,  7, 1893."  Much  valu- 
able sentiment  was  bestowed  on  this  tumulus, 
and  the  fate  of  the  apparently  ill-starred 
"  Vogelgesang  "  was  duly  deplored  :  but  it  was 
learned  some  weeks  later  that  the  monument 
was  one  raised  to  commemorate  a  gigantic  beer- 
drinking  bout  or  Kneipe  enjoyed  by  a  party  of 
tourists  who  had  come  up  in  the  big  Hamburg- 
American  liner  on  the  date  given.  "  Assur- 
edly," says  the  narrator,  "  the  vulgarization  of 
Spitsbergen  has  begun." 

While,  however,  the  coasts  and  outlying 
islands  of  Spitsbergen  have  been  pretty  fre- 
quently visited  and  partially  explored,  its  in- 
terior was,  up  to  the  date  of  Sir  William's 
expedition  last  summer,  practically  unknown. 
To  reveal  the  character  of  this  unknown  in- 
terior was  the  main  object  of  his  journey,  the 
expense  of  which  was  partly  borne  by  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society.  With  Sir  William  went 
Dr.  J.  W.  Gregory  (author  of  the  "  Great  Rift 
Valley  of  Africa  "),  Mr.  A.  Trevor-Battye,  and 
Mr.  E.  J.  Garwood,  each  of  whom  contributes 
a  special  chapter  to  the  present  work.  The 
results  of  the  venture  in  some  respects  sur- 
passed, in  others  fell  short  of,  expectations. 
The  party  crossed  overland  from  Advent  Bay 
(their  base  of  operations)  to  Klok  Bay,  from 
Klok  Bay  to  Sassen  Bay,  and  from  Sassen  to 
Agardh  Bay,  on  the  east  coast,  and  back  to 
Advent  Bay.  Thirteen  mountain  ascents  were 
made.  A  sketch  survey  of  a  specimen  area  of 
about  six  hundred  square  miles  in  the  heart  of 
the  middle  belt  of  the  country  was  brought 
home,  besides  a  more  rapid  outline  chart  of  the 
hills  bordering  Wijde  Bay.  In  addition  to  the 
main  cross-country  expedition,  a  subsidiary  one 
was  made  in  the  little  touring  steamer  "  Ex- 
pres,"  chartered  for  the  purpose,  round  the 
coasts  of  Spitsbergen.  The  main  island  was 
(the  condition  of  the  ice  proving  exceptionally 
favorable)  nearly  circumnavigated,  this  trip 
thus  forming  the  most  complete  voyage  of 
reconnaissance  ever  accomplished  in  a  single 
season.  Almost  all  the  great  fjords  that  pen- 
etrate Spitsbergen  were  entered  to  their  heads. 
The  west,  north,  and  south  coasts  of  North- 
East  Land  were  viewed,  from  Cape  Platen 
round  to  Cape  Mohn.  Landings  were  made 
at  the  Seven  Islands,  and  Wiches  Land  (King 
Carl's  Land)  was  closely  approached.  Some 
six  hundred  photographs  of  all  parts  of  Spits- 
bergen were  brought  back.  Such  were  the 
topographical  results.  The  scientific  ones,  says 


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the  author,  "  were  more  important,  and  will  be 
duly  chronicled  hereafter."  About  two  months 
in  all  were  spent  at  Spitsbergen,  of  which  time 
thirty-six  consecutive  days  were  employed  in 
the  journey  into  the  interior.  More  could  have 
been  accomplished  had  the  weather  been  less 
persistently  foggy,  and  had  the  party  not  been 
handicapped  by  their  Nansen  sledges.  These, 
says  the  author,  "  while  excellent  for  ice-work, 
are  the  worst  for  boggy  and  stony  places.  .  .  . 
Our  combination  of  ponies  with  Nansen  sledges 
was  about  the  worst  possible."  The  practical 
results  of  the  journey  were,  however,  as  we 
have  said,  on  the  whole  satisfactory ;  while, 
adds  Sir  William,  "  even  had  we  accomplished 
no  exploration  nor  added  aught  to  scientific 
knowledge,  the  journey  would  have  been  worth 
while  for  the  mere  pleasure  of  it."  Among  the 
"  pleasures "  may  be  reckoned,  we  presume, 
the  spectacle  of  the  vagaries  of  certain  tourists 
found  disporting  themselves  at  Advent  Bay. 
One  of  these  especially,  a  gentleman  who  had 
come  up  from  Trondhjen  to  see  Herr  Andree 
and  his  balloon,  added  much  to  the  general  joy. 

"  His  costume  was  most  picturesque  —  long  boots,  a 
long  ulster,  a  great  fur  cap,  a  revolver  slung  round  his 
waist,  a  horn  over  one  shoulder,  and  a  camera  over  the 
other.  The  horn,  he  explained,  would  be  valuable  if 
he  were  to  be  lost  on  the  mountains  —  whose  gentlest 
sloping  foot  he  never  approached.  He  walked  up  and 
down  the  beach  with  dramatic  gait,  then  turned  towards 
the  bay  and  solemnly  fired  off  all  the  chambers  of  his 
revolver,  after  which  he  blew  a  blast  on  the  horn. 
Then  he  fired  off  his  camera  in  all  directions,  and  so  re- 
turned to  the  ship  and  vanished." 

Most  of  the  tourists  brought  rifles  with  them, 
under  the  impression  that  "  bears,  or  at  least 
reindeer,  herded  at  every  point  along  the 
shore."  Many  were  the  narrow  escapes  from 
the  stray  shots  of  these  "  Nathaniel  Winkles." 

"  A  bullet  came  close  over  the  tent  of  one  of  my 
companions.  Others  whizzed  near  the  heads  of  the  sal- 
vage men  working  at  the  winterers'  wreck.  One  fool- 
ish creature  is  said  to  have  mistaken  a  photographer  with 
his  head  under  the  cloth  of  his  camera  for  a  reindeer, 
and  put  a  bullet  through  his  hat.  Another,  when  we 
were  away  in  the  little  steamer  on  the  north  coast, 
stalked,  and  I  believe  fired,  upon  our  inoffensive  ponies." 

In  August,  while  circumnavigating  Spits- 
bergen in  the  "  Expres,"  Sir  William  touched 
at  Danes  Island,  the  scene  of  Herr  Andree's 
preparations  for  his  proposed  aerial  voyage  to 
the  Pole.  The  invitation  of  this  intrepid  (some 
say  rash)  aeronaut  to  go  over  his  balloon-house 
with  him  was  eagerly  accepted. 

".  .  .  We  were  shown  how  the  gas  was  made,  and 
the  long  silk  pipe  meandering  among  the  stones  to  con- 
vey it  into  the  balloon.  The  great  distended  sphere 


filled  the  roofless  wooden  house  and  bulged  out  above. 
Like  all  balloons,  when  seen  near  at  hand,  it  appeared 
surprisingly  large.  It  is  related  of  a  shy  curate,  who 
had  sat  in  absolute  silence  throughout  a  dinner  at  the 
squire's  house,  that  with  the  coming  of  desert  he  sud- 
denly remarked,  apropos  of  nothing,  '  The  cuckoo  is  a 
larger  bird  than  you  'd  suppose.'  The  same  general 
statement  I  maintain  to  be  true  of  balloons.  They  are 
all  larger  than  you  would  suppose.  .  .  .  No  one  could 
see  Andre*e  and  not  be  struck  by  the  evident  force  and 
capacity  of  the  man.  In  his  presence,  the  idea  that  any 
wavering  of  intention  found  place  in  his  mind  was 
inconceivable.  Pestered,  as  he  had  been  for  weeks,  by 
inquisitive  visitors,  he  seemed  on  the  defensive,  and 
suspicious  of  criticism  in  every  question.  He  had  been 
told  that  his  scheme  was  in  every  respect  impracticable. 
'  They  said  I  could  not  set  up  and  inflate  my  balloon  in 
this  place.  I  have  set  it  up  and  inflated  it.  They  said 
it  would  not  hold  the  gas  for  a  sufficient  time  without 
leakage.  It  has  now  been  inflated  for  ten  days  or  more, 
and  it  does  not  leak.  There  were  two  little  needle-point 
holes  only,  and  those  were  easily  mended.  We  have 
considered  everything  and  provided  against  every  acci- 
dent, and  now  we  are  certain  that,  whenever  the  right 
wind  blows,  we  can  start  without  a  hitch.  It  is  not 
enough  for  me  that  the  wind  should  be  from  the  right 
quarter.  I  must  have  a  chance  of  decent  weather,  so 
that  we  may  be  able  to  see  something.  .  .  .  There  is 
always  plenty  of  wind  early  in  the  season.  Three  days 
of  a  moderate  wind,  blowing  approximately  from  the 
south,  is  all  we  need.  After  that  the  wind  may  blow 
how  it  pleases,  it  cannot  help  taking  us  toward  some  of 
the  land  that  encircles  the  polar  ocean.  We  can  re- 
main afloat  for  three  weeks,  and  in  that  time,  with  any 
luck,  we  ought  to  be  carried  down  to  some  habitable 
country.' " 

It  seems  clear  that  good  luck,  no  less  than  good 
management,  is  relied  upon  by  Herr  Andree  to 
bring  his  venture  to  a  successful  issue. 

While  Sir  William's  adventures  in  the  frozen 
north  were  not,  comparatively  speaking,  of  a 
specially  thrilling  or  novel  order,  the  story  of 
them  is  pleasantly  told  and  affords  a  clear 
impression  of  a  considerable  specimen  tract  in 
the  hitherto  unknown  interior  of  Spitsbergen. 
The  descriptions  of  Arctic  scenery  are  notably 
graphic,  supplemented  as  they  are  by  a  profu- 
sion of  excellent  pictures,  comprising  eight 
large  colored  plates  reproduced  in  facsimile 
from  Mr.  H.  E.  Conway's  drawings,  and  about 
one  hundred  full-page  and  text  illustrations 
from  photographs  and  sketches.  There  are 
two  maps  (engraved  originally  for  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society),  one  a  sketch  map  of 
the  mountains  along  the  shores  of  Wijde  Bay, 
the  other  a  sketch  map  of  the  interior  tract 
traversed  by  the  author.  The  volume  is  a 
notable  specimen  of  sound  and  elegant  English 
book-making,  and  forms  a  handsome  addition 
to  Messrs.  Scribner's  Sons'  creditable  list  of 
recent  importations.  E>  G>  j. 


1897.] 


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THE  EVOLUTION  OF  A  CONSTITUTION.* 


The  American  concept  of  a  Constitution 
differs  radically  and  fundamentally  from  the 
British  concept.  The  difference  is  so  great 
that  the  ordinary  student  of  his  own  system  is 
constantly  embarrassed  in  his  efforts  to  under- 
stand the  corresponding  features  of  the  trans- 
Atlantic  system.  The  American  constitution 
is  established,  surrounded  by  a  protective  en- 
vironment, made  independent  of  legislative 
changes,  and  has  an  appearance  of  fixity.  The 
British  constitution  seems,  to  an  American 
versed  in  the  principles  of  his  own  system,  to 
be  so  variable,  so  transitory,  and  so  illusive,  as 
to  scarcely  deserve  the  name  of  "  constitution." 
Yet  the  Briton  prefers  his  own  system,  believes 
it  a  true  "  constitution,"  and  deems  the  Amer- 
ican plan  to  be  straight-laced,  repressive,  and 
tyrannical,  and  therefore  less  fitted  than  his 
own  to  the  genius  of  a  free  people.  So  variant 
from  each  other  are  these  two  systems  of  gov- 
ernment, that  the  provisions  of  the  one  are 
scarcely  "  thinkable  "  to  those  immersed  in  the 
ideas  and  concepts  which  distinguish  the  other. 

It  is  the  object  of  Professor  Macy's  treatise 
on  "  The  English  Constitution  "  to  make  its 
peculiar  principles  "  thinkable  "  to  the  average 
American.  By  this  means,  he  seeks  to  enable 
students  in  our  colleges  more  fully  to  contrast 
the  British  institutions  with  our  own,  and  thus 
to  understand  more  clearly  the  features  which 
distinguish  the  American  constitution.  Such  a 
treatise  naturally  takes  a  popular  form,  which 
will  commend  it  to  the  attention  of  a  wide  circle 
of  readers.  Very  properly,  the  author  presents 
it,  not  as  a  substitute  for  the  treatises  of  English 
jurists  on  their  own  constitution,  but  as  an 
introduction  to  those  treatises  for  American 
students. 

The  period  of  the  estrangement  and  separa- 
tion of  the  American  colonies  from  the  mother- 
country  was  one  of  protracted  discussion  con- 
cerning the  nature  and  character  of  the  British 
constitution.  The  plan  of  artificial  alterations 
of  that  constitution,  to  conform  to  modern 
views,  had  been  proposed,  only  to  be  rejected, 
in  England.  With  the  exception  of  the  changes 
introduced  by  the  Bill  of  Rights  and  the  Suc- 
cession Act,  the  development  of  the  constitution 
of  the  empire  was  allowed  to  "  drift."  That 
changes  in  that  constitution  were  imminent, 
was  apparent  to  the  colonists ;  indeed,  it  was 

*THE  ENGLISH  CONSTITUTION.  A  Commentary  on  its 
Nature  and  Growth.  By  Jesse  Macy,  M.A.  New  York: 
The  Macmillan  Co. 


their  unalterable  opposition  to  the  changes  pro- 
posed by  the  parliamentary  party,  and  their 
adherence  to  the  constitutional  principles  under 
which  they  had  built  up  their  colonial  govern- 
ments, that  brought  upon  the  colonists  the  mil- 
itary power  of  England,  resulting  in  the  war  of 
the  Revolution  and  the  withdrawal  from  the 
empire.  The  Atlantic-wide  isolation  of  the 
colonies,  and  the  extent  of  their  reliance  on  the 
provisions  of  their  charters,  naturally  developed 
a  disposition  toward  written  constitutions. 
Given  this  disposition,  joined  to  a  conservatism 
which  adhered  to  the  principles  of  the  old  con- 
stitution of  the  empire,  —  given,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  laissez-faire  disposition  in  the  islands 
to  allow  the  constitution  to  be  changed  by  leg- 
islation, as  occasion  might  arise, —  and  we  have 
two  distinctive  theories  of  government,  which 
in  a  little  more  than  a  century  have  developed 
into  the  two  types  of  constitution,  so  radically 
diverse  that  each  has  its  own  vernacular,  which 
must  be  studied  by  itself,  and  for  a  thorough 
comparison  of  the  two  there  must  be  transla- 
tion of  the  terms  of  the  one  into  the  language 
appropriate  to  the  other.  Mr.  Macy  furnishes 
the  key  for  such  a  translation  of  the  principles 
of  the  unwritten  British  constitution  into  the 
American  vernacular. 

The  first  part  of  his  treatise  sets  forth  the 
powers  of  the  several  governmental  agencies  of 
the  British  system, —  namely,  the  two  houses  of 
Parliament,  the  Crown,  the  Ministry,  and  the 
Courts,  —  and  explains  the  "  checks  and  bal- 
ances "  of  that  system.  The  essentials  of  these 
several  agencies,  in  the  constitution  as  now 
operative,  are  tersely  stated,  and  their  points  of 
difference  from  their  American  correlatives  are 
sharply  accentuated.  The  "checks  and  bal- 
ances "  which  in  America  inhere  in  the  written 
constitution  are  in  England  found,  not  in  the 
law,  but  in  what  Mr.  Dicey  happily  calls  "  the 
conventions  of  the  constitution."  Says  Mr. 
Macy : 

"  The  constitution,  viewed  simply  as  a  combination  of 
the  forces  which  centre  in  the  House  of  Commons,  con- 
sists of  certain  habits,  customs,  and  understandings,  in 
accordance  with  which  the  separate  parts  are  harmonized 
and  prevented  from  mutual  encroachments." 

And  how  are  these  understandings  enforced 
and  these  encroachments  prevented  ?  Not  by 
appeal  to  the  courts.  Following  Mr.  Dicey  in 
his  "Law  of  the  Constitution,"  Mr.  Macy 
explains  in  more  condensed  form  the  mode  in 
which  the  English  "  conventions  "  check  and 
balance.  The  conservatism  of  old  political 
habits  has  as  full  sway  in  government  as  the 


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conservatism  of  old  fashions  has  in  the  cus- 
tomary dress  of  the  people.  He  says  : 

"  I  once  tried  to  point  out  to  a  Birmingham  Radical 
the  perils  of  the  English  Constitution.  He  replied  that 
every  Englishman  was  at  heart  conservative;  that  this 
was  as  true  of  the  laboring  man  as  of  the  nobility.  The 
checks  which  the  American  expects  to  enforce  by  judi- 
cial process,  the  Englishman  expects  to  maintain  by  the 
state  of  mind  of  the  citizen." 

And  what  is  the  office  of  the  English  courts  ? 
Do  they  not  enforce  the  principles  of  Magna 
Charta,  and  protect  the  liberty  and  rights  of 
the  free  man  ?  Yes  ;  but  not  against  the  legis- 
lature. It  is  against  encroachments  by  the 
ministerial  officers  that  the  courts  set  them- 
selves. The  judiciary  do  not  undertake  to  check 
the  legislative  department,  as  under  the  Amer- 
ican system.  Hence  there  is  no  such  vast 
growth  or  development  of  constitutional  juris- 
prudence as  in  this  country. 

How  the  present  governmental  agencies  have 
been  evolved  out  of  those  which  distinguished 
the  earlier  constitution  of  England,  is  enter- 
tainingly shown  by  Mr.  Macy.  The  old  prin- 
ciples which  were  thought  to  be  essential  to  that 
constitution,  have  been  ostensibly  preserved ; 
but  how  transformed  !  The  prerogative  of  the 
Crown,  that  relic  of  despotism,  that  ready 
weapon  of  the  tyrant,  that  bulwark  of  "  the 
divine  right  to  rule,"  has  not  been  abolished, 
but  has  been  perpetuated  as  a  power  of  the 
cabinet,  and  transmuted  in  their  hands  into  the 
active  agent  of  modern  democracy.  To  illus- 
trate in  these  columns  the  details  of  the  evolu- 
tion, in  this  and  other  features  of  the  British 
constitutional  system,  would  be  to  reprint  here 
page  after  page  of  Mr.  Macy's  treatise. 

The  second  part  of  his  work  is  a  commentary 
upon  the  constitutional  history  of  England. 
Here  the  processes  of  political  evolution,  which 
have  given  to  the  majority  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons the  extensive  powers  of  government  which 
were  once  exercised  by  Tudors  and  Stuarts,  are 
traced  with  sufficient  detail  to  make  them  clear 
to  non-British  readers.  The  revolution  is  shown 
to  have  been  more  evolutionary  than  revolu- 
tionary, the  principal  change  effected  thereby 
having  been  the  final  rooting  up  and  destruc- 
tion of  the  old  pretense  of  a  divine  right  to  rule, 
while  the  Tudor  and  Stuart  idea  of  a  unified 
and  concentrated  government  has  been  retained 
as  a  distinguishing  feature  of  rule  by  the  House 
of  Commons.  The  genesis  and  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Cabinet ;  the  rise  of  political  par- 
ties ;  the  continuing  antithesis  of  the  "  conserv- 
ative "  and  "  liberal "  party  principles ;  the 
respective  offices  of  cabinet,  ministry,  and  par- 


ties, in  the  work  of  government ;  the  general 
tendency  toward  democracy,  and  the  increase 
of  that  tendency  under  the  Reform  Act,  —  all 
these  are  illustrated  in  running  commentary  by 
Mr.  Macy.  The  present  English  idea  of  a 
"  Constitution  "  as  a  something  fundamental  in 
the  government  of  the  empire,  is  of  modern 
origin  ;  and  its  genesis  and  evolution  are  traced 
by  our  author.  The  puzzle,  the  mystery,  as 
that  constitution  appears  to  be  to  numerous 
Americans,  is  analysed  and  explained :  it  is 
shown  to  inhere  largely  in  the  conservative  re- 
tention of  old  forms  and  doctrines  of  govern- 
ment put  to  new  uses.  The  powers  once  exer- 
cised by  tyrants  are  harnessed  to  the  plough  of 
modern  democracy,  and  are  made  to  prepare 
the  fallow  fields  for  the  growth  of  progressive 
ideas.  A  stubborn  conservatism  adheres  to  old 
forms,  while  it  fills  them  full  of  radical  ideas. 
"  The  Queen,  the  Lords,  and  the  Commons  " 
profess  to  unite  in  enacting  measures  that  work 
the  will  of  the  Commons  only ;  and  the  Com- 
mons find  it  easier  to  work  their  own  absolute 
will  by  the  employment  of  what  seem  to  Amer- 
icans to  be  merely  effete  fictions  in  government. 
If,  after  all,  the  system  still  appears  to  us  to  be 
an  anomaly,  Professor  Macy  helps  us  to  see 
how  it  happens  that  the  anomalous  can  have  a 
normal  and  useful  operation. 

JAMES  OSCAR  PIERCE. 


THE  DECORATIVE  ILLUSTRATION 
OF  BOOKS.* 


The  history  of  the  fine  arts  is  everywhere, 
among  civilized  peoples,  a  record  of  the  influ- 
ence of  a  succession  of  ideas,  each  in  turn  dom- 
inating for  a  longer  or  shorter  period  the  char- 
acter of  what  is  produced.  As  soon  as  an  idea 
becomes  commonplace  it  ceases  to  yield  full 
aesthetic  satisfaction  to  cultivated  minds.  In 
the  search  for  novelty  some  one  among  the 
many  seekers  happens  upon  a  conception  that 
captivates  popular  fancy  ;  other  artists  lay  hold 
of  it  also,  work  it  over,  develope  and  extend  it, 
until  it  too  becomes  commonplace,  and  some 
new  notion,  or  an  old  one  resurrected,  attracts 
attention  instead.  Time  was  when  these  move- 
ments were  of  sufficient  duration  for  the  forma- 
tion of  schools  and  of  styles.  But  with  the 
increased  knowledge  of  past  achievement  placed 
before  us  through  the  invention  of  numerous 

*  OF  THE  DECORATIVE  ILLUSTRATION  OF  BOOKS,  OLD  AND 
NEW.  By  Walter  Crane.  Illustrated.  New  York:  The 
Macmillan  Co. 


1897.] 


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cheap  reproductive  processes,  and  the  restless 
craving  for  constant  change  which  is  so  con- 
spicuous a  feature  in  modern  life,  they  tend 
to  become  shorter  and  shorter  and  to  degen- 
erate into  mere  passing  fads  ;  nor  is  it  unusual 
for  more  than  one  to  be  in  progress  at  the  same 
time. 

The  closing  decades  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury have  witnessed  many  such  movements. 
Among  them  none  is  more  noteworthy  than 
the  development  of  what  bids  fair  to  reach  the 
dignity  of  a  distinct  school  of  decorative  book 
illustration.  The  pioneer  in  this  movement, 
and  for  many  years  almost  its  sole  exponent, 
was  Walter  Crane.  It  seems,  therefore,  pecu- 
liarly fitting  that  a  book  treating  u  Of  the  Dec- 
orative Illustration  of  Books,  Old  and  New  " 
should  come  from  his  hand ;  it  is  all  the  more 
disappointing  that  the  result  should  be  meagre 
and  unsatisfying.  Mr.  Crane  takes  pains  to 
state  that  his  book,  which  owes  its  origin  to 
three  Cantor  Lectures  delivered  by  him  before 
the  Society  of  Arts  in  1889,  was  written  "  in 
the  intervals  snatched  from  the  absorbing  work 
of  designing."  While  this  in  a  measure  ac- 
counts for  its  deficiencies,  it  hardly  explains 
why  so  much  should  be  left  unsaid.  Instead 
of  carefully  tracing  out  the  causes  of  the  move- 
ment and  following  its  development  from  year 
to  year  and  from  hand  to  hand,  as  we  should 
naturally  expect,  he  has  given  us  merely  a  con- 
siderable number  of  pictures,  accompanied  by 
a  collection  of  rather  disconnected  remarks 
upon  illuminated  manuscripts  and  the  illustra- 
tion of  early  printed  books ;  some  appreciative, 
if  not  always  discriminating,  comment  on  the 
work  of  contemporary  artists ;  and  here  and 
there  a  few  words  upon  decorative  principles. 
What  he  says  is  for  the  most  part  sound  and 
well-considered,  but  it  falls  far  short  of  consti- 
tuting a  comprehensive  survey  of  his  subject. 
It  may  be  noted,  also,  that  the  English  is  occa- 
sionally slipshod,  as  in  the  following  sentence  : 
"  Although  the  designs  have  no  Persian  char- 
acter about  them  which  one  would  have  thought 
the  poem  and  its  imagery  would  naturally  have 
suggested,  yet  they  are  a  fine  series." 

The  movement  now  in  progress  Mr.  Crane 
calls  a  "  revival,"  but  this  is  true  in  a  limited 
sense  only.  There  is  a  world  of  difference 
between  the  purely  adventitious  qualities,  the 
crude  simplicity  and  naivete  resulting  from 
inability  to  overcome  technical  difficulties, 
which  the  works  of  the  early  designers  exhibit, 
and  the  deliberate  self-restraint  that  distin- 
guishes the  designs  of  the  modern  men.  In 


spite  of  superficial  resemblance,  the  difference 
is  not  merely  one  of  degree  or  of  process :  it  is 
a  difference  in  kind.  Imitation  being  much 
easier  than  invention,  with  but  few  exceptions 
the  general  tendency  of  graphic  art  in  all  coun- 
tries and  in  all  times  has  been  toward  as  much 
realism  as  the  artists  were  able  to  represent. 
The  earlier  designers  of  book  illustrations, 
although  dominated  by  conventional  ideas  in 
regard  to  treatment,  achieved  decorative  effect 
less  through  conscious  aim  in  that  direction 
than  from  inability  to  compass  greater  realism. 
Concurrently,  with  increased  command  of  the 
resources  of  expression  came  a  decline  in  per- 
ception of  the  higher  qualities  of  harmonic  rela- 
tion of  line,  mass,  and  light-and-dark,  which  are 
distinguishing  characteristics  of  all  enduring 
achievement.  The  reopening  of  our  eyes  to 
these  fundamental  qualities  is  directly  attribu- 
table to  the  influence  of  the  art  of  Japan  —  the 
one  country  in  the  world  where  they  have  never 
been  lost  sight  of,  but  on  the  contrary  have 
ever  been  insisted  upon  as  prime  essentials. 
Perhaps  the  most  interesting  item  of  informa- 
tion which  Mr.  Crane  gives  is  the  statement 
made  in  speaking  of  his  early  designs  for  chil- 
dren's books  which  have  made  his  name  a 
household  word  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic : 
"  It  was,  however,  the  influence  of  some  Japanese 
printed  pictures  given  to  me  by  a  lieutenant  in  the  navy, 
who  had  brought  them  from  there  [sic]  as  curiosities, 
which  I  believe,  though  I  drew  inspiration  from  many 
sources,  gave  the  real  impulse  to  that  treatment  in 
strong  outlines,  and  flat  tints  and  solid  blacks,  which  I 
adopted  with  variations  in  books  of  this  kind  from  that 
time  (about  1870)  onwards." 

In  spite  of  this  admission,  it  is  apparent  from 
what  he  says  a  few  pages  further  on  that  Mr. 
Crane  has  never  really  learned  to  understand 
Japanese  art  nor  to  appreciate  its  higher  qual- 
ities. Why  this  should  be  so,  considering  his 
accomplishments  as  a  designer,  it  is  difficult  to 
comprehend.  When  he  says  that  "  They  may 
be  able  to  throw  a  spray  of  leaves  or  a  bird  or 
fish  across  a  blank  panel  or  sheet  of  paper, 
drawing  them  with  such  consummate  skill  and 
certainty  that  it  may  delude  us  into  the  belief 
that  it  is  decorative  design ;  but  if  an  artist  of 
less  skill  essays  to  do  the  like  the  mistake  be- 
comes obvious,"  it  is  plain  that  he  does  not 
perceive  that  the  controlling  idea  in  the  mind 
of  the  Japanese  artist  is  composition  —  compo- 
sition of  line  in  which  each  leaf  or  branch  or 
smallest  detail  must  be  right  in  its  harmonic 
relation  to  every  other  detail  without  violating 
truth  of  form  or  of  structure,  and  composition 
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the  blank  spaces  and  the  value  of  the  contrast 
afforded  by  them  is  as  much  a  matter  for 
thoughtful  consideration  as  any  other  element 
that  enters  into  the  result.  If  this  is  not  deco- 
rative design,  then  what  is  it?  Surely  it  is 
widely  removed  from  what  Mr.  Crane  aptly 
denominates  "  the  art  of  pictorial  statement." 
As  if  further  to  emphasize  his  misunderstand- 
ing, he  reproduces  as  examples  of  Japanese 
decorative  illustration  a  drawing  (divided  into 
two)  by  Hokusai,  from  the  "  Mangwa,"  a  book 
of  miscellaneous  sketches  entirely  pictorial  in 
their  intention.  It  is  true,  as  Mr.  Crane  says, 
that  Japanese  books  "  do  not  furnish  fine  ex- 
amples of  page  decoration  as  a  rule."  But,  on 
the  other  hand,  neither  do  English,  French, 
German,  or  American  books  ;  in  Japan,  as 
elsewhere,  we  must  turn  to  the  works  of  par- 
ticular men  for  that.  Were  Mr.  Crane  familiar 
with  the  range  of  Japanese  book- illustration, 
he  would  have  had  no  difficulty  in  finding  ex- 
amples in  which  the  design  is  arranged  so  as  to 
fill  the  space  completely — a  point  he  lays  much 
stress  upon,  but  which  is  far  easier  to  accom- 
plish than  the  subtle  balancing  of  form  and 
blank  space  that  he  does  not  seem  to  appre- 
ciate. 

The  real  value  of  the  book  lies  in  the  pictures, 
which  fill  nearly  two- thirds  of  its  335  pages. 
For  the  most  part  they  have  been  selected  with 
excellent  judgment,  but  are  distributed  through- 
out the  text  in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  the 
book  a  troublesome  one  to  read  ;  while  their  con- 
nection with  the  author's  remarks  is  so  slight 
that  they  cannot  in  any  exact  sense  of  the  word 
be  said  to  illustrate  them.  With  scarcely  an 
exception,  however,  each  one  is  interesting  for 
itself,  and  while  some  of  them  suffer  from  too 
great  reduction  and  others  from  inharmonious 
setting,  they  are  on  the  whole  very  well  repro- 
duced. Taken  together,  they  form  a  service- 
able collection  for  students  of  decorative  illus- 
tration. While  it  cannot  be  said  of  the  examples 
given  of  works  by  contemporary  artists  that 
they  furnish  an  adequate  representation  of  the 
aims  and  tendencies  of  the  school,  it  is  perhaps 
inevitable  that  a  collection  made  up  from  the 
works  of  a  considerable  number  of  men  of  vary- 
ing merit  should  reveal  the  weakness  inherent 
in  the  movement  rather  than  its  strength,  to 
show  which  it  should  be  limited  to  the  best 
works  of  the  leading  men.  And  this  is  espe- 
cially true  of  a  movement  which  as  yet  has 
been  more  fruitful  of  promise  than  of  matured 

performance.          -n,  m   ^ 

FREDERICK  W.  GOOKIN. 


THE  ETERNAL,  PROBLEM  OF  THE 
BALKANS.* 


A  book  that  throws  light  on  the  Eastern 
Question  is  always  timely,  for  the  question  is 
eternal ;  but  the  present  complications  in  the 
peninsula  give  special  interest  and  value  to 
Mr.  William  Miller's  work  on  Roumania,  Bul- 
garia, Servia,  and  Montenegro.  Each  of  the 
petty  divisions  is  a  sensitive  spot,  and  the 
interests  of  no  one  of  them  can  be  touched 
without  an  instant  disturbance  in  the  others. 
There  are  the  conflicting  race  feelings,  first  of 
Turk  and  Christian,  then  of  Slav  and  Greek ; 
there  are  the  mighty  plans  and  jealousies,  racial 
and  commercial,  of  Russia  and  Austria,  and  the 
petty  race  and  national  animosities  of  Bulgaria 
and  Servia  and  Greece.  Anything  that  ex- 
plains the  historical  origins  of  these  animosities, 
and  lays  bare  their  roots,  has  interest  for  the 
reading  public  in  its  inquiries  into  present  con- 
ditions and  its  forecasts  of  the  future. 

Mr.  Miller's  book  is  a  collection  of  four  brief 
outline  histories  of  about  a  hundred  pages  each, 
written  in  a  straightforward  way  without  pre- 
tense and  without  special  literary  skill,  cover- 
ing the  whole  period  in  each  from  the  times  of 
the  Roman  sway  to  the  present  day.  It  is  not 
easy  to  find  pleasure  in  the  long  series  of  brawls, 
assassinations,  raids,  and  treacheries  that  make 
up  most  of  the  annals  of  these  countries.  But 
for  the  present  interest  in  the  relations  of  these 
states,  few  would  read  them  whose  patriotism 
did  not  glorify  them.  But  the  book  explains 
so  much  in  which  we  have  an  interest  that  it 
commends  itself  to  students  of  current  politics 
for  its  matter  as  well  as  for  its  impartiality. 

It  is  the  author's  belief  that  "  the  only  true 
settlement  of  the  mutually  conflicting  claims  of 
these  historic  states,  which  periodically  endan- 
ger the  peace  of  Europe,  is  a  Balkan  Confed- 
eration, such  as  was  sketched  by  the  late 
M.  Tricoupis."  Yet  he  lets  the  facts  speak 
for  themselves,  and  hints  at  no  method  of 
bringing  about  this  hoped-for  settlement.  And 
the  facts,  one  must  admit,  offer  little  promise 
of  a  settlement  based  on  any  compromise  of 
national  claims,  or  of  any  firm  union  of  the  hos- 
tile races.  There  is  not  yet  developed  enough 
of  political  self-control  or  of  practical  political 
sense  among  these  new  nations  to  permit  such 
a  settlement  or  such  a  union  for  a  long  time  to 
come.  And  yet,  increasing  familiarity  with 

*THE  BALKANS:  Roumania,  Bulgaria,  Servia,  and  Mon- 
tenegro. By  William  Miller.  ("Story  of  the  Nations" 
Series. )  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


1897.] 


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modern  political  methods  and  increasing  pres- 
sure of  financial  and  political  conditions  may 
bring  about  the  subordination  of  sentimental 
considerations  and  the  compromise  of  opposing 
claims  sooner  than  might  be  expected. 

The  individuality  of  these  several  peoples  is 
brought  out  by  Mr.  Miller  in  an  interesting  way. 

"  It  has  been  truly  said  that  the  Montenegrin  is  the 
exact  opposite  of  the  Bulgarian.  Put  both  in  a  drawing- 
room,  and  the  Montenegrin,  who  has  never  bowed  his 
neck  to  a  foreign  master,  will  look  and  behave  like  a 
gentleman,  while  the  Bulgarian,  but  lately  set  free  from 
the  Turkish  bondage,  will  look  and  behave  like  a  boor. 
Put  the  two  upon  a  waste  plot  of  ground,  and  the  Bul- 
garian will  convert  it  into  a  garden  of  roses,  while  the 
Montenegrin  will  look  on.  This  is  the  result  of  the 
national  history." 

This  history  is  Homeric,  as  are  the  political 
institutions  of  the  people.  The  author  quotes 
with  approval  Mr.  Gladstone's  extravagant 
utterance :  "  In  my  deliberate  opinion,  the 
traditions  of  Montenegro,  now  committed  to 
His  Highness  (Prince  Nicholas)  as  a  sacred 
trust,  exceed  in  glory  those  of  Marathon  and 
Thermopylae,  and  all  the  war-traditions  of  the 
world."  But  this  Homeric  glory  gives  less 
promise  of  prosperity  under  twentieth-century 
conditions  than  the  common  plodding  virtues  of 
their  plebeian  neighbors.  Yet  even  the  Mon- 
tenegrins are  abandoning  the  patriarchal  and 
predatory  life  for  a  constitution  and  trade. 

Full  justice  is  done  in  this  work  to  the  states- 
manship of  M.  Stambuloff,  but  his  serious 
faults  are  not  covered.  Prince  Alexander  is 
portrayed  with  enthusiastic  admiration.  His 
military  prowess,  his  organization  of  the  army 
of  Bulgaria,  and  his  social  charms,  made  him 
"  the  best  possible  ruler  of  a  country  like  Bul- 
garia in  time  of  war ;  but  he  was  lamentably 
deficient  in  the  arts  of  a  statesman."  And  this 
was  the  cause  of  his  undoing  at  the  hands  of 
Eussia,  whose  plans  for  the  absolute  control  of 
Bulgaria  his  patriotism  had  brought  to  naught. 
This  story  of  Alexander's  reign  and  fall  is  the 
most  spirited  portion  of  the  book.  As  to 
Alexander's  Machiavellean  successor,  Mr. 
Miller  is  non-committal,  giving  a  negative 
description  that  is  much  more  favorable  to  him 
than  is  the  current  opinion.  Prince  Nicholas 
of  Montenegro  is  evidently  a  favorite  with  the 
author,  and  King  Charles  of  Roumania  receives 
high  praise  for  his  civic  and  military  virtues. 

The  way  in  which  Eussia  has  wrested  one 
Balkan  state  after  another  from  the  Turks,  only 
to  turn  gratitude  to  hostility  by  her  domineer- 
ing and  grasping  policy,  is  one  of  the  interesting 
points  of  the  book.  Russia's  position  in  the 


peninsula  was  a  few  months  ago  hardly  stronger 
than  at  the  beginning  of  the  century ;  while 
broader  statesmanship  would  have  put  her  at 
the  head  of  a  group  of  loyal  dependent  states, 
and  thus  in  virtual  control  of  the  whole  pen- 
insula. CHARLES  H.  COOPER. 


FAITH  AND  PHILOSOPHY.* 

Some  time  since,  in  commenting  on  a  group  of 
religious  books,  we  drew  attention  to  the  increasing 
force  of  the  historical  element  in  the  interpretation 
of  religion.  We  have  occasion  to  renew  the  obser- 
vation in  connection  with  the  books  now  before  us. 
A  thorough  study  of  doctrine,  in  its  historical  de- 
velopment, is  sure  to  carry  with  it  a  new  estimate 
of  its  value  and  its  relation  to  human  life.  It  is  in 
the  record  of  events  that  the  potency  and  the  impo- 
tency  of  beliefs  finally  declare  themselves. 

To  this  statement  we  add,  as  an  associated  truth, 
the  ultimate  identity  of  faith  and  philosophy.  A 
sound  philosophy  gives  us  the  basis  of  faith ;  and 
faith,  in  pushing  its  inquiries,  encounters  constantly 
the  reasons  for  and  against  its  conclusions  found  in 
the  underlying  philosophy.  Whatever  objections 
or  confirmations  science  may  offer  to  faith,  the  ulti- 
mate tribunal  is  that  higher  reason  which  we  desig- 
nate as  philosophy.  Philosophy  is  sure  to  renew 
itself  with  every  generation.  It  is  the  unfailing 
effort  of  the  mind  to  understand  itself  —  of  the 
reason  to  complete  itself,  returning  to  its  own  centre 
with  all  its  stores  of  knowledge.  This  fellowship 
of  faith  and  philosophy  has  always  been  apparent, 
and  is  the  more  apparent  as  the  capricious  elements 
involved  in  the  supernatural  are  eliminated.  The 
thought  of  faith  is  the  strength  of  reason  in  the 
highest  range  of  our  experience  —  the  conjoint  edu- 
cation of  the  mind  and  heart  in  apprehending  and 
comprehending  the  spiritual  world  in  which  we  are. 
Science  deals  with  the  world  as  physical ;  philosophy 
deals  with  it  as  spiritual ;  and  religion  works  the 
results  of  both  into  the  most  comprehensive  and 
vital  experience. 

"  The  Cure  of  Souls  "  is  a  volume  containing  a 

*THE  CURE  OF  SOULS.  Lyman  Beecher  Lectures  at  Yale 
University.  By  John  Watson,  M.A.,  D.D.  (Ian  Maclaren). 
New  York :  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

THE  GOSPEL  FOB  AN  AGE  OF  DOUBT.  Yale  Lectures.  By 
Henry  Van  Dyke,  D.D.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

ORIGIN  AND  DEVELOPMENT  OF  THE  NICENE  THEOLOGY. 
Lectures,  by  Hugh  M.  Scott,  D.D.  Chicago:  Theological 
Seminary  Press. 

GOD  THE  CREATOR  and  Lord  of  All.  By  Samuel  Harris, 
D.D.,  LL.D.  Volumes  I.  and  II.  New  York :  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons. 

HISTORY  OF  CHRISTIAN  DOCTRINE.  By  Prof.  George  Park 
Fisher,  D.D.,  LL.D.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

EVIL  AND  EVOLUTION.  By  the  Author  of  "The  Social 
Horizon."  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  BELIEF  ;  or,  Law  in  Christian  The- 
ology. By  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  K.G.,  H.G.  New  York : 
Imported  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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course  of  the  Lyman  Beecher  Lectures  at  Yale. 
These  lectures  have  usually  been  of  a  sprightly 
character,  growing  directly  out  of  the  experience  of 
some  large-minded  preacher,  and  delivered  under  the 
stimulus  of  being  directed  to  those  about  to  engage 
in  the  same  form  of  service.  They  have  been  stim- 
ulating rather  than  instructive,  and  practical  in  a 
large  rather  than  in  a  narrow  way.  The  nine  lec- 
tures before  us  are  a  favorable  example  of  their 
kind.  They  are  on  such  themes  as  "  The  Genesis 
of  a  Sermon,"  "  Problems  of  Preaching,"  "  The 
New  Dogma,"  "  The  Minister's  Care  of  Himself." 
They  are  full  of  the  inner  life  of  the  speaker,  are 
clear  and  pleasing  in  style,  and  are  sustained  by  a 
constant  and  light  play  of  the  imagination.  They 
cannot  fail  to  interest  all  who  hold  in  high  esteem 
the  work  of  the  minister.  They  are  the  expression 
of  successful  service,  and  enter  in  a  familiar  man- 
ner into  the  secrets  of  its  power. 

"  The  Gospel  for  an  Age  of  Doubt "  is  also  a 
volume  of  Yale  Lectures.  It  does  not  stand  for 
quite  as  spontaneous,  free,  and  varied  a  personal 
experience  as  the  previous  volume ;  but  it  flows  none 
the  less  with  a  strong,  full  current,  from  the  heart 
of  the  man.  It  is  an  excellent  representation  of 
what  we  are  having  manifold  examples  of  —  an 
effort  to  make  the  words  and  character  of  Christ 
the  centre  of  belief  and  persuasion.  "  The  deep 
question,  the  important  question,  the  question  of 
widest  interest,  is  what  to  preach  to  the  men  and 
women  of  to-day,  to  cheer  them,  to  uplift  them,  to 
lead  them  back  to  faith  and  through  faith  to  a  brave, 
full,  noble  life"  (page  VI.).  The  volume  has  a 
finished  form.  The  thought  is  quickened  by  a  wide 
familiarity  with  stimulating  religious  literature,  and 
supported  by  a  voluminous  appendix  of  excerpts. 
The  author  has  spared  no  pains  to  make  the  lectures 
a  suitable  utterance  of  the  overruling  idea.  They 
have  a  deep  inspiration  of  faith  which  adapts  them, 
not  merely  to  those  who  preach  Christ,  but  to  all 
who  believe  in  him. 

The  volume  on  "  The  Nicene  Theology  "  is  com- 
posed of  lectures  given  in  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  by  Professor  Scott  of  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary.  Their  purpose  is  to  establish  the  essen- 
tial soundness  of  that  Christian  development  of  doc- 
trine which  issued  in  the  Council  of  Nice  and  the 
Nicene  Creed.  The  discussion  is  especially  influ- 
enced by  the  distinctive  criticism  of  Schultz  and 
others,  separating  the  words  of  Christ  from  the  doc- 
trinal and  historical  facts  associated  with  them. 
'•  A  recent  critic  of  this  position  maintains  that 
Bitschl  lands  in  only  three  fundamental  doctrines, 
namely,  trust  in  God,  faithfulness  to  duty,  and  uni- 
versal love  to  man"  (page  17).  The  cry  in  the- 
ology, Back  to  Christ,  has  much  the  same  difficulty 
as  the  cry  in  philosophy,  Back  to  Kant.  Neither  of 
them  is  profitable  as  an  exact  direction.  Both  of 
them  should  mean  a  divesting  of  the  mind  of  un- 
profitable subtleties,  and  returning  to  more  practical 
spiritual  ideas.  Our  wisdom  lies  not  so  much  in 
going  back  to  Christ,  trying  once  more  to  construct 


the  doctrinal  force  and  exact  historical  settings  of 
His  words,  as  in  going  forward  with  Christ,  appre- 
hending and  fulfilling  His  regenerative  purpose. 
We  are  to  arrive  at  the  heart  of  His  doctrine  by 
doing  His  will.  A  discussion  which  critically  undoes 
past  work  in  theology  or  critically  does  it  over 
again  is  not  going  back  to  Christ  as  a  spiritual 
power,  but  is  a  fresh  casting  of  lots  over  His  vest- 
ments. Christ  becomes  the  plaything  of  philosophy, 
as  a  doll  is  the  plaything  of  children  who  dress  and 
undress  it  in  endless  sequence.  Professor  Scott  is 
erudite,  and  full  of  material,  but  he  does  not  show 
much  analytic  and  condensing  power  in  presenting 
his  subject.  The  less  learned  pupil  would  be  quite 
sure  to  lose  his  way  in  this  accumulation  of  state- 
ment and  criticism.  We  are  at  a  loss  to  understand 
why  the  opinions  of  every  German  —  every  blessed 
one  of  them  —  should  be  regarded  as  a  new  and 
important  fact  to  be  dealt  with  in  theology.  A 
generation  so  superheated  by  scholarship  yields  a 
good  deal  of  very  volatile  matter. 

The  two  volumes  entitled  "  God  the  Creator  and 
Lord  of  All "  are  made  up  of  eleven  hundred  and 
thirty  compact  pages.  They  discuss  the  nature  of 
God,  His  creation,  His  government,  physical  and 
moral.  The  attitude  of  the  author  is  one  of  mild 
orthodoxy.  Reason,  with  him,  underlies  the  entire 
framework  of  thoughts  and  things.  The  basis  of 
his  philosophy  is  intuitional.  The  work  is  carefully 
elaborated,  and,  without  being  brilliant  or  impres- 
sive, is  full  of  sober  thought.  It  neither  goes  astray 
nor  leads  astray.  The  work  is  a  philosophy  of  our 
higher  spiritual  conceptions.  While  one  would  not 
venture  to  say  that  these  volumes  are  the  last  of 
this  species,  he  cannot  but  feel  that  the  species  is 
one  soon  to  disappear.  It  has  already  much  fallen 
off  since  the  twenty  sound  volumes  of  Gerhard. 
Like  some  noble  form  of  life  that  frequented  the 
mountains  or  abounded  on  the  plains,  and  in  its  own 
era  drew  at  once  the  attention,  but  is  now  hard  to 
be  found,  the  systems  of  systematic  theology  which 
have  followed  each  other  in  prolific  generation  no 
longer  express  the  power  nor  claim  the  position  that 
once  fell  to  them.  They  are  too  much  elaborated 
from  within ;  they  are  too  exact  and  rigid  in  their 
conclusions ;  they  give  more  attention  to  the  pro- 
cesses of  thought  than  to  the  ever-growing  data  of 
thought,  and  often  overlook  data  because  they  have 
found  no  sufficient  place  for  them.  The  practical 
empirical  side  of  life  is  nearer  to  us  than  ever,  mak- 
ing its  own  demand  on  our  speculative  processes. 

The  "  History  of  Christian  Doctrine  "  belongs  to 
the  "  International  Theological  Library."  This 
itself  is  a  promise  of  careful  and  adequate  work,  a 
promise  the  volume  fulfils.  A  history  of  doctrine, 
like  a  history  of  philosophy,  though  the  doctrines 
and  the  systems  may  disappear,  always  remains  an 
intensely  interesting  record  of  human  life.  Such  a 
history  calls  for  keen  insight  and  wide  sympathy. 
The  volume  before  us  is  comprehensive  and  com- 
pact. It  is  exceedingly  full,  and  at  the  same  time 
very  concise.  It  is  thus  better  fitted  for  reference, 


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and  less  fitted  to  make  a  single  and  forceful  impres- 
sion. It  treats  of  ancient,  mediaeval,  and  modern 
theology.  The  last  division  is  especially  complete 
and  interesting.  The  author  enters  into  his  narra- 
tive as  one  of  living  experiences,  and  gives  it  a 
biographical  cast.  The  personal  side  attracts  him 
quite  as  much  as  the  speculative  side.  Professor 
Fisher  makes  a  distinction  between  theology  and 
philosophy  which  is  hardly  satisfactory,  and  which 
affects  somewhat  his  own  presentation.  "  The- 
ology discusses  the  facts  of  Christianity.  Philos- 
ophy begins  with  the  data  of  consciousness,  and 
builds  them  into  a  system  by  a  process  in  which 
historical  events  have  no  place."  We  should  hold, 
rather,  that  the  explanatory  process  is  essentially 
the  same  in  theology  and  in  philosophy.  The  facts 
of  Christianity  must  be  rendered  on  their  rational 
side  as  the  basis  of  doctrine,  and  the  data  of  con- 
sciousness must  be  interpreted  as  the  experiences  of 
mind  in  contact  with  the  world,  or  they  can  give  no 
safe  footing  to  thought.  Neither  set  of  data  can  be 
separated  from  their  historic  evolution. 

"  Evil  and  Evolution  "  is  a  noteworthy  book.  It 
is  a  piece  of  well-reasoned  philosophy  on  the  origin 
of  evil.  The  presentation  is  clear,  comprehensive, 
and  penetrating.  The  author  justly  feels  that  the 
central  idea — the  idea  most  of  all  to  be  watched  over 
in  a  rational  construction  of  the  spiritual  world  —  is 
the  conception  of  the  character  of  God,  the  good- 
ness of  God.  If  we  lose  or  obscure  this,  all  is  doubt, 
confusion,  fear.  The  writer  returns  to  the  concep- 
tion which  has  been  so  prevalent  in  faith,  that  of  a 
perverse  principle  —  a  Satanic  Personality  —  as  the 
source  of  evil ;  thus  relieving  the  character  of  God 
from  a  burden  not  otherwise  to  be  escaped.  The 
point  is  argued  with  much  fulness  and  large  re- 
sources of  physical  knowledge.  It  is  not  made  to 
rest  on  Christian  faith  or  any  phase  of  faith.  The 
volume  is  one  fitted  to  deeply  interest  those  whose 
minds  linger  about  such  inquiries.  It  is  in  many 
ways  suggestive,  and  is  a  good  antidote  to  a  dog- 
matic and  flippant  temper.  Its  conclusions  are, 
however,  so  directly  against  the  entire  drift  of 
speculative  thought  at  present,  that  it  will  hardly 
do  more  than  make  a  ripple.  While  there  are  many 
points  of  which  one  would  desire  to  speak,  we  must 
satisfy  ourselves  with  referring  to  two  or  three. 
The  author,  in  common  with  a  good  many  others, 
seems  to  us  to  misrender  the  omnipotence  of  God. 
Omnipotence  can  only  mean  the  power  to  do  what 
is  capable  of  being  done.  It  looks  to  physical  re- 
sources. Omnipotence  cannot  make  one  scheme  of 
action  to  include  the  advantages  of  all  schemes,  nor 
enable  it  to  escape  the  evils  incident  to  it.  A  scheme 
is  to  be  judged  by  its  entire  makeup  of  tendencies. 
These  are  not  capable  of  every  combination,  but 
only  of  certain  combinations.  The  question  con- 
cerning the  Spiritual  Universe  is  not  whether  it 
includes  evil,  but  whether,  taken  as  one  whole,  it  is 
an  inadmissible  combination  of  good  and  evil.  The 
evil  must  in  every  case  be  weighed  with  the  good  with 
which  it  is  associated.  The  author  would  not  deny 


this  assertion,  but  he  has  not  felt  its  full  force.  Nor 
does  the  writer  feel,  as  fully  as  he  ought,  the  present 
entire  coherence  of  the  spiritual  world,  rendering 
any  intervention  of  Satan,  any  conflict  between  the 
two  Principles  of  Evil  and  Good,  inadmissible.  The 
world  is  being  rid  of  evil,  but  by  exactly  the  same 
processes  as  those  which  include  it.  The  author 
makes  too  much  of  happiness  as  happiness.  He  is 
in  the  empirical  slough  on  that  subject.  Selfishness 
and  love  extend  down  to  the  vegetable  kingdom. 
His  new  adjustments  would  primarily  make  the 
world  more  pleasurable,  not  more  spiritually  power- 
ful ;  would  give  it  an  instinctive  and  organic  cast, 
not  a  free  and  holy  one.  The  dramatic  power  of 
the  spiritual  world  is  not  adequately  rendered  by 
him. 

"  The  Philosophy  of  Belief  "  is  the  most  imposing 
volume  of  our  present  series.  It  stands  associated 
with  and  in  completion  of  "  The  Reign  of  Law " 
and  "  The  Unity  of  Nature  "  by  the  same  author. 
The  characteristic  of  all  three  books  is  their  vigorous 
hold  of  the  physical  world  on  the  one  hand,  and  of 
the  spiritual  world  on  the  other.  Very  few  authors 
pursue  so  unswerving  a  path  between  science  and 
faith ;  few  so  well  apprehend  the  unity  of  the  world  as 
a  physical  and  spiritual  product.  The  present  vol- 
ume lays  emphasis  on  the  spiritual  side  of  life,  dis- 
closes it  as  thoroughly  interwoven  in  the  framework 
of  things,  and  as  immutable  in  its  leading  principles 
as  are  the  physical  laws  with  which  it  is  associated. 
The  spiritual  world  is  as  much  a  part  of  the  entire 
world  as  are  the  atmosphere  and  sunlight  and  clouds 
of  the  earth  they  enclose.  The  topics  of  the  volume 
are  intuitive  theology  —  in  which  the  interlock  of 
perceptive  and  intuitive  truths  is  traced, —  the  the- 
ology of  the  Hebrews  and  Christian  theology  —  in 
which  spiritual  principles  find  fullest  expression, — 
and  Christian  belief  in  its  relation  to  philosophy. 
The  style  of  the  author  is  voluminous  and  discur- 
sive, but  the  thought  is  easily  intelligible,  and  gains 
great  cumulative  power.  To  those  who  at  all  share 
the  convictions  of  the  writer,  the  unmistakable  and 
eternal  foundations  of  truth  seem  to  be  disclosed. 
He  thus  defines  the  purpose  of  philosophy : 

"  But  we  must  never  forget  that  the  original  meaning 
of  the  word  denotes  no  less  than  the  love  and  desire  of 
knowledge  in  that  largest  sense  which  is  identified  with 
the  pursuit  of  Wisdom.  It  represents  the  constant 
struggle  and  desire  of  men  to  bring  their  own  thoughts 
and  conceptions  more  and  more  into  conscious  corre- 
spondence with  the  system  of  the  universe  in  which  they 
live.  There  can  be  no  higher  aim  than  this.  It  affords 
room  for  the  exercise  of  all  the  most  powerful  faculties 
we  possess.  It  is  an  aim  which  not  only  must  include 
theology,  but  must  regard  it  as  the  central  and  ultimate 
object  of  attainment.  If  there  be  a  universe  at  all,  the 
great  endeavor  of  philosophy  must  be  to  conceive  how 
its  unity  can  be  made  intelligible,  and  on  the  other 
hand  to  understand  how  it  is  that,  in  some  aspects,  it  so 
often  appears  as  if  it  were  divided." 
Philosophy  and  religion  both  rest  on  the  intelligi- 
bility —  pervasive  and  complete  —  of  the  world  in 
which  we  are.  JOHN  BASCOM. 


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BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

lish  literature  Professor  Edward  Dowden's  Prince- 
a*  affected  by  the  ton  lectures  upon  "  The  French  Revo- 
French Revolution.  lution  and  English  Literature"  have 
been  published  in  a  neat  volume  (Scribner),  and 
make  interesting  reading,  although  they  traverse 
exceedingly  familiar  ground,  and  bring  to  their  sub- 
ject in  the  way  of  illumination  little  that  is  new. 
In  this  respect  they  are  something  of  a  disappoint- 
ment ;  for  we  have  a  right  to  expect  much  of  Pro- 
fessor Dowden  in  the  way  of  interpretative  comment 
and  philosophical  treatment.  We  get,  however, 
little  of  these  things,  but  instead  a  straightforward 
history  of  revolutionary  thought  in  England,  begin- 
ning with  the  precursors  and  theorists  of  the  move- 
ment, with  Cowper  and  the  author  of  "  Sandf ord 
and  Merton,"  with  Godwin  and  Mary  Wollstone- 
craft,  going  on  with  the  conservative  reaction  so 
eloquently  championed  by  Burke,  and  finally  dis- 
cussing the  effect  of  the  new  ideas  upon  Burns, 
Southey,  Coleridge,  Wordsworth,  Shelley,  and 
Landor.  The  subject  is  of  so  intense  an  inherent 
interest  that  a  dull  book  could  hardly  be  made  of  it, 
and  nothing  akin  to  dulness  may  be  predicated  of 
the  book  before  us.  It  is  simply  sober  rather  than 
brilliant,  although  it  now  and  then,  in  some  epi- 
grammatic sentence,  almost  partakes  of  the  latter 
quality.  It  is  pleasant  to  be  told  of  eighteenth 
century  sentimentalism  that  "  the  first  of  duties  was 
no  longer  to  act  aright,  but  to  be  touched  by  a  deli- 
cate distress."  Likewise  there  is  point  in  saying 
that  "  the  gospel  of  Rousseau  is  translated  by  Cow- 
per into  the  gospel  according  to  St.  Paul,"  and  in 
the  statement  that "  whether  Burke  help  us  to  under- 
stand the  Revolution  or  not,  assuredly  the  Revolu- 
tion should  help  us  to  understand  Burke."  Here  is 
a  very  judicial  estimate  of  Byron  :  "  To  acquire  a 
right  feeling  for  Byron  and  his  poetry  is  a  discipline 
in  equity.  It  is  easy  to  yield  to  a  sense  of  his  power, 
to  the  force  and  sweep  of  his  genius  ;  it  is  easy  to  be 
repelled  by  his  superficial  insincerity,  his  license,  his 
cynicism,  his  poverty  of  thought,  his  looseness  of 
construction,  his  carelessness  in  execution."  And 
there  is  food  for  ample  reflection  in  such  a  passage 
as  the  following,  which  contrasts  the  Eastern  heroes 
and  heroines  of  Byron  —  once  so  very  much  alive 
and  now  so  completely  dead  —  with  certain  popular 
figures  in  recent  works  of  fiction,  such  as  Robert 
Elsmere  and  Dodo.  "  Perhaps  Nora  Helmer  and 
Hedda  Gabler  may  by  and  by  repose  in  the  old 
marionette  box,  and  the  wires  by  which  their  limbs 
are  convulsed  may  have  grown  rusty ;  perhaps  the 
sawdust  already  escapes  from  a  clerical  garb  that 
was  so  fresh  a  few  years  since ;  perhaps  a  sprightly 
heroine  of  two  or  three  seasons  ago  is  no  longer  so 
atrociously  sprightly."  There  is  little  in  the  main 
line  of  Professor  Dowden's  thought  that  will  not 
find  general  critical  acceptance,  but  we  are  some- 
what surprised  to  find  him  saying  that  "  Shelley, 
unlike  Wordsworth,  and  unlike  Coleridge,  was  defi- 
cient in  the  power  of  original  thought."  Can  one 


be  so  sure  of  that,  when  we  consider  how  rare  a 
thing  "  original  thought  "  must  always  be?  Strictly 
speaking,  is  there  so  very  much  of  it  in  Wordsworth 
and  Coleridge?  And  is  it  fair  to  say  that  Shelley 
does  not  produce  the  impression  of  a  forceful 
thinker  (setting  aside  as  practically  insoluble  the 
question  of  originality)  in  almost  as  marked  a  de- 
gree as  either  of  the  others?  He  was  less  than 
thirty  when  he  died,  to  be  sure,  while  the  others 
lived  on  into  the  time  of  ripeness,  and  this  fact  alone 
makes  the  comparison  a  trifle  unfair  ;  but  the  real 
difficulty  seems  to  be  that  some  people  find  exact 
thought  incompatible  with  melodious  utterance. 
One  gift  should  be  enough  for  a  poet,  and  the  poet 
who  presumes  to  think  should  remain  rugged  in  his 
utterance.  The  same  preconception  has,  in  our  own 
day,  discredited  the  intellectual  force  of  Mr.  Swin- 
burne, and  given  rise  to  the  curious  notion  that 
Browning  was  a  more  profound  and  exact  thinker 
than  Tennyson.  _ 

Buddhism  A-  voluntary  association  of  gentlemen 

sympathetically  interested  in  the  study  of  religions 
expounded.  invited  Professor  Rhys  Davids  to 

deliver  a  series  of  lectures  upon  Buddhism,  which 
have  been  printed  in  a  neat  volume  of  230  pages, 
under  the  title,  "  Buddhism,  Its  History  and  Liter- 
ature" (Putnam).  The  keynote  of  the  exposition 
is  a  thorough  sympathy  with  the  Buddhistic  explana- 
tion of  the  universe  and  Buddha's  panacea  for  all 
its  woes.  This  fact,  coupled  with  Professor  Davids's 
ample  and  exact  knowledge  of  his  field,  makes  the 
contents  of  the  book  interesting  and  profitable  read- 
ing. The  treatment  is  somewhat  too  brief  to  be 
altogether  satisfactory  —  who  could  present  Chris- 
tianity adequately  in  two  hundred  pages?  But  the 
writer  has  succeeded  in  putting  forth  with  clearness 
and  force  his  own  conception  of  the  salient  features 
of  this  fascinating  religious  system.  He  is  an 
advocate  of  the  originality  of  Buddha  in  his  psy- 
chological and  ethical  positions,  and  contrasts  the 
traditionalism  of  the  rest  of  the  world,  which  is  still 
bound  in  the  fetters  of  the  primitive  "  soul  "  theory. 
Of  course,  one  does  not  look  for  criticism  of  Bud- 
dhism in  these  lectures,  though  they  are,  so  far,  it 
would  seem,  defective.  How  anyone  can  trace  the 
history  of  Buddhism  without  a  critical  estimate  of 
its  defects  is  hard  to  understand.  But  Professor 
Davids  successfully  accomplishes  even  this.  He  is 
an  optimist  with  respect  to  both  the  past  and  the 
future  of  Buddhism. 

Cooper  is  at  his  best  in  out-of-door 
stories.  When,  in  an  ill-advised  hour, 
jje  set  himself  to  berating  the  Amer- 
ican people  for  their  imperfections  as  judged  by 
European  standards,  he  was  repaid  with  the  outcry 
of  disturbed  complacency,  an  outcry  which  might  be 
to-day  translated,  without  losing  force,  into  a  crit- 
ical dictum  against  these  damnatory  works  as  litera- 
ture. Similar  treatment  has  been  accorded  "Martin 
Chuzzlewit,"  and  might  well  be  extended  to  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's "  American  Notes,"  both  of  which  sketches  of 


Revival  of  a 
forgotten  work 
by  Cooper. 


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American  life  lack  that  essential  part  of  truth  which 
lies  in  observing  facts  in  their  due  proportion.  And 
so  some  persons  may  question  whether,  after  all, 
the  reprinting  of  the  "  Autobiography  of  a  Pocket- 
Handkerchief  "  (The  Golden  Booke  Press,  Evans- 
ton,  111.)  is  worth  while.  Certainly  Mr.  Walter  Lee 
Brown  has  done  his  full  duty  in  his  laborious  foot- 
notes of  the  variant  readings  found  in  the  three 
printed  forms  of  1843 ;  and  corrected  by  compari- 
son with  the  original  manuscript,  fortunately  at 
hand.  It  is  evident  from  these  foot-notes  that 
Cooper  was  more  painstaking  in  his  revision  than 
he  is  usually  given  credit  for.  It  appears,  however, 
that  the  first  half  of  this  volume  was  more  carefully 
re-read  than  the  somewhat  slovenly  and  hurried 
remainder.  One  asks  if  there  was  a  "  period  of 
French  influence  "  in  American  letters  at  this  time, 
for  the  characters  affect  French  terms  in  their  con- 
versation, and  even  the  descriptive  passages  are  be- 
spattered with  French  phrases.  Yet  the  story  is 
distinctly  better  than  many  amateur  compositions 
or  similar  subjects,  and,  as  the  publishers  say  in 
their  advertisement,  here  is  an  opportunity  to  com- 
plete your  set  of  Cooper  —  an  opportunity  never 
before  offered  by  an  American  publisher.  It  is  but 
just  to  add  that  the  book  is  made  attractive  enough 
in  appearance,  and  handsome  enough  in  its  heavy 
paper,  to  open  the  purse  of  any  bibliophile  suscep- 
tible to  such  blandishment. 


All  by 
Mark  Twain. 


The  eight  pieces  in  Mark  Twain's 
"How  to  Tell  a  Story,  and  other 
Essays  "  (Harper)  may  be  classified 
as  follows :  Two  are  professional  recollections  of  a 
professional  humorist ;  two  are  appropriations,  by 
the  same  humorist,  of  material  which  the  literary 
critic  has  commonly  thought  of  as  his  own  property ; 
one  is  a  seizing  of  that  inestimable  privilege  of  the 
humorist,  the  utterance  of  true  wisdom ;  one  is  a 
collection  of  material  for  the  Society  for  the  Pro- 
motion of  Psychical  Research  ;  two  are  subversions 
of  the  opinions  of  M.  Paul  Bourget  and  Mr.  Max 
O'Rell.  Of  these,  "  Travelling  with  a  Reformer  " 
has  long  been  sealed  with  the  seal  of  universal  ap- 
proval :  the  essay  is  a  good  thing,  and  a  service  to 
the  American  people.  It  is  also  very  funny  in 
places,  as,  indeed,  are  the  other  essays,  —  though 
why  "  essays  "  it  would  be  hard  to  say.  The  two 
rambles  of  the  professional  humorist  are  of  course 
humorous,  but  they  have  so  much  professionalism 
about  them  as  to  be  a  trifle  wearisome,  at  least  to 
such  as  like  to  have  a  little  spontaneity  in  life.  The 
two  invasions  of  literary  territory,  "  In  Defence  of 
Harriet  Shelley  "  and  an  indictment  of  James  Feni- 
more  Cooper,  will  suffer,  we  fear,  from  being  found 
in  company  with  the  "  Jumping  Frog  "  and  the 
"  Golden  Arm."  They  will  not  generally  be  regarded 
as  contributions  to  critical  literature,  although  the 
first,  we  think,  holds  the  right  ground,  and  the 
second  says  some  very  sensible  things.  The  articles 
on  Paul  Bourget 's  book  throw  light  on  what  is 
already  the  most  ancient  of  history,  that  of  the  day 


before  yesterday.  The  examples  of  mental  tele- 
pathy should  be  filed  away  for  future  reference  and 
further  information  on  the  subject.  Such  are  the 
separate  parts  of  a  book  which  is  all  by  Mark  Twain, 
a  matter  far  more  important  than  the  particular 
facts  just  communicated.  We  hope  that  the  author 
will  soon  offer  us  a  companion  volume  entitled  "  How 
to  Write  an  Essay,  and  other  Stories." 


Evolution 
of  the  stars. 


Under  the  title,  "  Researches  on  the 
Evolution  of  Stellar  Systems  "  (Nich- 
ols Press,  Lynn,  Mass.),  Professor 
T.  J.  J.  See,  of  the  Lowell  Astronomical  Observa- 
tory, presents  a  compilation  of  researches  valuable 
to  the  student  of  physical  astronomy,  but  not  to  be 
recommended  to  the  layman  for  seaside  reading. 
Prefacing  with  a  general  account  of  double-star 
investigations  "  from  Herschel  to  Burnham,"  and 
an  acute  mathematical  discussion  of  the  methods  by 
which  delicate  observations  are  translated  into  de- 
lineations or  orbits,  Professor  See  has  collated  the 
observations,  wherever  made,  upon  forty  binary 
stars,  and  presents  the  diagrams  of  their  orbits.  In 
each  case,  a  star  in  the  remote  heavens,  found  to  be 
separable  into  components  only  by  telescopes  of  the 
finest  definition  when  used  by  eyes  of  the  acutest 
perception,  has  been  by  various  persons  separately 
observed,  and  the  relative  distances  of  the  com- 
panion from  its  central  sun  have  been  determined, 
as  well  as  its  corresponding  angular  positions. 
These  data,  duly  discussed  and  accurately  platted, 
show  that  the  companion  moves  in  a  planetary  orbit 
about  a  masterful  central  body,  and  that  the  laws 
of  gravitation,  as  discovered  by  Newton  and  form- 
ulated by  Kepler,  are  dominant  at  those  remote 
distances  in  the  celestial  universe  as  certainly  as 
where  the  moon  cycles  its  monthly  circuit  about  the 
earth,  and  the  planets  weave  their  annual  tracery 
upon  the  Zodiac.  Conclusions  of  this  sort  produce 
the  prof oundest  impression  upon  the  unprofessional 

reader.  

Professor  Harold  W.  Johnston,  of 
the  University  of  Indiana,  has  done 
a  very  timely  service  to  the  cause  of 
classical  study  by  the  preparation  of  a  volume  on 
"Latin  Manuscripts"  (Scott,  Foresman  &  Co.). 
It  is  true  that  the  pupils  in  our  secondary  schools, 
and  even  in  our  colleges,  can  come  into  contact 
with  Latin  literature  only  in  printed  editions,  but 
many  questions  arise  in  the  minds  of  such  pupils  as 
to  the  production  and  transmission  of  Latin  books, 
and  it  is  well  that  the  answers  to  such  questions 
should  be  put  into  accessible  form.  The  subject  is 
treated  under  three  heads,  the  History  of  the  Man- 
uscripts, the  Science  of  Palaeography,  and  the 
Science  of  Criticism.  The  book  is  copiously  illus- 
trated by  reproductions  of  pages  from  famous 
manuscripts,  among  them  the  "  Codex  Romanus  " 
of  Catullus,  which  had  lain  hidden  from  the  learned 
world  under  a  mistaken  classification  in  the  Vatican 
Library,  and  was  brought  to  light  during  the  past 
year  by  Professor  Hale  of  the  University  of  Chi- 


Latin  classict 
in  original 
manuscript. 


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[Aug.  1, 


cago.  Perhaps  the  book  would  have  been  im- 
proved if  a  larger  number  of  the  critical  processes 
described  had  been  illustrated  by  concrete  ex- 
amples ;  but  it  is  sufficiently  plain  to  serve  a  good 
purpose  in  the  hands  of  Latin  teachers,  and  no  such 
teacher  should  be  without  it  unless  he  is  provided 
with  something  more  extensive  in  the  same  line. 


Literature 
of  mutic. 


Although  music  was  the  first  of  the 
arts  to  possess  a  special  dictionary 
of  its  own,  no  classification  of  the 
works  most  useful  to  the  student  in  the  principal 
departments  of  musical  literature  has  been  in  ex- 
istence. This  want  has  now  been  supplied  by  Mr. 
James  E.  Matthew  in  his  work  on  "  The  Literature 
of  Music  "  (Armstrong).  The  first  five  chapters 
of  this  work  trace  the  principal  objects  with  which 
musical  literature  occupied  itself  in  the  different 
countries  of  Europe  down  to  the  end  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century.  The  remaining  six  chapters  con- 
sider some  of  the  special  branches  into  which  it  has 
been  directed,  under  the  headings  :  Histories  of 
Music,  Dictionaries  of  Music,  The  Literature  of 
Sacred  Music,  The  Literature  of  the  Opera,  The 
Literature  of  Musical  Instruments,  The  Literature 
of  Music  as  a  Science.  Thus  an  inquirer  in  any 
one  of  these  fields  is  furnished  with  an  admirable 
guide  showing  how  and  where  to  go  for  the  books 
which  are  of  special  interest  and  up-to-date,  as  well 
as  those  which  are  notable  either  for  their  curiosity, 
their  scarceness,  or  for  the  important  influence  they 
have  exercised  in  a  past  age. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


The  average  buyer  and  reader  of  books,  even  when 
he  imagines  himself  an  ardent  "  book-lover,"  is  too  apt 
to  be  ignorant  of  the  proper  methods  of  handling  and 
caring  for  his  volumes.  He  will  handle  a  book  as  he 
does  his  newspaper,  and  care  for  it  as  he  might  for  a 
brick  or  a  block  of  wood.  In  an  attempt  to  dispel  some 
of  this  ignorance,  Mr.  Arthur  L.  Humphreys,  a  member 
of  the  great  London  bookselling  firm  of  "  Hatchards," 
has  written  an  excellent  little  volume  entitled  "  The 
Private  Library  — What  we  Do  Know,  What  we  Do  n't 
Know,  What  we  Ought  to  Know,  about  our  Books " 
(London:  Strange  ways  &  Sons).  In  addition  to  much 
sound  practical  advice  on  the  care  and  treatment  of 
books,  the  arrangement  of  libraries,  etc.,  Mr.  Hum- 
phreys writes  pleasantly  on  many  such  subjects  as  "  Book 
Values,"  "  The  Art  of  Reading,"  "  Old  Country  Libra- 
ries," "  Book  Hobbies,"  etc.  In  print,  paper,  and  bind- 
ing, the  volume  should  please  the  most  fastidious. 

In  "  Cuba  in  War  Time  "  (R.  H.  Russell),  Mr.  Richard 
Harding  Davis  expresses  his  contempt  for  the  numerous 
"  Cuban  war-correspondents  "  so-called,  who,  while  pop- 
ularly supposed  to  be  in  the  midst  of  the  fray  on  the 
island,  are  in  reality  turning  out  their  "  copy  "  from  the 
security  of  Florida  hotel  piazzas.  There  are  rumors 
afloat  that  Mr.  Davis's  own  war  sketches,  contained  in 
the  present  volume,  were  produced  in  this  way ;  but  we 
think  any  impartial  reader  of  his  book  will  readily 
acquit  him  of  the  charge.  Although  nothing  more  than 


a  collection  of  newspaper  sketches,  Mr.  Davis's  book  is 
graphic  and  interesting,  and  from  it  may  be  gained  a 
very  good  idea  of  the  present  condition  of  affairs  on  the 
ill-fated  island.  Mr.  Frederic  Remington,  who  accom- 
panied Mr.  Davis  on  his  trip  to  Cuba,  contributes  a 
number  of  illustrations  to  the  volume,  which,  with  a 
few  exceptions,  are  sensational  and  poorly- drawn. 

In  "  The  Aurora  Borealis  "  (Appleton),  M.  Alfred 
Angot,  of  the  Central  Meteorological  Office  of  France, 
gives  a  concise  resume  of  the  history  of  these  always 
interesting  and  often  strikingly  beautiful  phenomena, 
illusive  and  evanescent  meteors  of  the  upper  air.  Facts 
are  stated  and  illustrated  and  explanatory  theories  are 
discussed.  With  most  modern  physicists,  the  author 
prefers  that  which  recognizes  in  the  aurora  a  mani- 
festation of  electric  energy,  active  in  the  upper  atmos- 
phere and  most  frequently  in  polar  latitudes,  but  ad- 
mits that  much  remains  in  this  field  to  be  explained  or 
discovered.  The  volume  closes  with  a  list  of  all  re- 
corded auroras  since  1700. 

Mr.  J.  N.  Lamed,  editor  of  the  successful  "  History 
for  Ready  Reference  "  and  Public  Librarian  of  Buffalo, 
has  printed  "A  Talk  about  Books"  (Peter  Paul  Book 
Co.)  originally  addressed  to  a  body  of  high  school  stu- 
dents. It  is  pleasantly  written  and  contains  much  sound 
and  sensible  advice  about  reading.  It  may  be  warmly 
recommended  to  the  attention  of  young  persons  and  their 
parents,  being  the  same  sort  of  thing,  in  spirit  if  not  in 
eloquence,  as  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison's  "  The  Choice  of 
Books "  and  Mr.  Ruskin's  lecture  "  On  King's  Treas- 
uries." 

Rev.  Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones,  who  some  years  ago  pub- 
lished a  pamphlet  entitled  "Ten  Great  Novels,"  the 
outcome  of  correspondence  with  a  number  of  critical 
readers,  has  now  sought  to  obtain  a  similar  consensus  of 
opinion  in  the  field  of  poetry.  "  Ten  Noble  Poems  "  is 
the  title  of  the  pamphlet  now  issued,  and  it  contains 
lists  and  explanatory  letters  from  sixty-seven  corre- 
spondents. The  poems  were  to  be  measured  by  "  the 
test  of  poetic  form,  ethical  insight,  and  spiritual  inspira- 
tion." Wordsworth's  "  Intimations  "  gets  the  largest 
vote,  followed  by  "  In  Memoriam,"  "  Saul,"  and  Gray's 
"Elegy."  No  less  than  two  hundred  and  thirty-eight 
poems  are  named  altogether.  The  pamphlet  makes  very 
interesting  reading. 

Professor  Ralph  S.  Tarr  publishes,  through  the 
Macmillan  Co.,  a  "  First  Book  of  Physical  Geography," 
a  treatise  for  still  younger  students  than  those  for  whom 
the  author's  "  Elementary  Physical  Geography "  was 
designed.  This  is  the  third  text-book  produced  recently 
by  Professor  Tarr,  and  has  the  admirable  qualities  of 
clearness  and  strictly  scientific  method  that  characterize 
its  predecessors.  The  illustrations  are  numerous  and 
attractive,  helping  out  the  text  in  a  highly  satisfactory 
way. 

«  The  Literary  Year-Book  "  (Dodd),  edited  for  1897 
by  Mr.  F.  G.  Aflalo,  is  a  venture  of  a  new  sort,  and 
must  be  judged  leniently.  Its  contents  consist  of  liter- 
ary causeries,  alternating  with  portraits  and  biographical 
sketches  of  writers  who  have  recently  come  to  the  fore. 
This  reading-matter  is  distinctly  readable,  although  any- 
thing but  profound.  The  reference  features  of  the  book 
include  a  literary  calendar  for  the  year,  lists  of  public 
libraries  and  literary  clubs  in  England,  and  very  useful 
(although  far  from  complete)  directories  of  British 
authors,  publishers,  and  booksellers.  Altogether  it  is  a 
useful  compendium  and  one  to  be  recommended  to 
bookmen  of  all  sorts. 


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LITERARY  NOTES. 

Mr.  E.  W.  Porter,  of  St.  Paul,  publishes  a  pretty  text 
of  FitzGerald's  "  Omar,"  with  the  various  readings  of 
the  four  editions. 

Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  publish  an  "  Elementary  Arith- 
metic," by  Mr.  William  W.  Speer,  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Chicago  public  schools. 

Two  new  volumes  in  the  "  Centenary  "  edition  of  Car- 
lyle  have  just  been  published  by  Messrs.  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons.  They  are  two  of  the  four  which  will  contain 
the  complete  "  Cromwell." 

It  is  said  that  Professor  W.  I.  Knapp's  long-expected 
life  of  George  Borrow  will  be  ready  for  publication  in 
the  Autumn.  Dr.  Knapp  is  probably  the  most  learned 
of  living  Borrovians,  and  has  traced  the  wanderings  of 
his  scholar-gypsy  all  over  Spain. 

The  doctoral  dissertation  of  Miss  Ellen  C.  Hinsdale, 
daughter  of  Professor  B.  A.  Hinsdale  of  Ann  Arbor,  is 
entitled:  "  Ueber  die  Wiedergabe  der  Lateinischen 
Futurums  bei  den  Althochdeutschen  Uebersetzern  des 
8.-10.  Jahrhunderts."  It  is  printed  at  Gottingen,  at 
which  university  Miss  Hinsdale  took  her  degree. 

The  Macmillan  Co.  have  sent  us  Volume  III.  of 
Montaigne  and  Volume  IV.  of  the  "  Morte  d' Arthur  " 
in  their  "Temple  Classics,"  Heywood's  "A  Woman 
Killed  with  Kindness  "  in  their  "  Temple  Dramatists," 
"  Lost  Illusions  "  in  their  edition  of  Balzac,  "  Snarley- 
yow  "  in  their  collection  of  standard  English  novels,  and 
"  Dream  Tales  "  in  their  edition  of  the  novels  of  Tour- 
gue"nieff. 

The  death  of  Mrs.  Oliphant  last  month  has  been  fol- 
lowed by  the  death,  on  July  20,  of  Miss  Jean  Ingelow, 
a  woman  whose  poetical  reputation  was  once  consider- 
able, but  seems  to  have  declined  of  recent  years,  although 
a  few  of  her  pieces  are  still  among  the  most  generally 
familiar  in  the  English  language.  Her  several  novels 
once  had  a  considerable  vogue  but  are  now  almost 
wholly  forgotten. 

Several  scholars  in  Japan  are  now  making  a  special 
study  of  Dante.  Among  them  is  the  Rev.  Masahisa 
Uyemura,  who  is  said  to  have  under  contemplation  the 
composition  of  an  essay  on  the  great  Italian  poet.  A 
society  under  the  title  of  "  Danate  Kenkyukwai,"  an 
association  for  studying  Dante's  writings,  is  likely  to  be 
organized  by  the  admirers  of  the  poet.  These  interest- 
ing facts  are  furnished  by  the  "  Japan  Times." 

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be  displaced)  a  politician  with  no  qualification  whatever 
for  the  work  is  chosen,  presumably  at  the  dictation  of 
some  local  "  boss."  We  did  not  expect  that  President 
McKinley  would  deal  civil  service  reform  such  a  slap  in 
the  face  as  this,  and  his  protestations  of  friendship  for 
the  movement  must  hereafter  be  taken  subject  to  a 
considerable  discount. 

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Dingley  tax  upon  education  was  first  bruited,  and  in  this 
matter,  at  least,  the  law  has  not  taken  a  step  backward. 
The  shameful  tax  upon  art,  however,  has  been  made  a 
part  of  the  law,  and  refutes  any  idea  that  our  latest 
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A  YEAR  OF  CONTINENTAL  LITER ATURE  -  II.    83 

THE    STUDY    OP    MAN    AND    CIVILIZATION. 

Frederick  Starr 86 

AMERICAN  LITERATURE.    Anna  B.  McMahan     .    87 

THE  FIRST  ANNOTATION  OF  CARLYLE'S 
MOST  CHARACTERISTIC  WORK.  D.  L. 
Maulsby 88 

MURRAY'S  HISTORY  OF  GREEK  LITERATURE. 

Martin  L.  JfOoge 89 

MONOGRAPHS  IN  AMERICAN  HISTORY.  Edward 

E.  Sparks 90 

DnBois's  The  Suppression  of  the  Slave  Trade. — 
Harding's  The  Contest  over  the  Ratification  of  the 
Federal  Constitution  in  Massachusetts.  —  Houston's 
A  Study  of  Nullification  in  South  Carolina.  —  Dal- 
linger's  Nominations  for  Elective  Offices  in  the  U.  S. 
— Chadsey's  The  Struggle  between  President  Johnson 
and  Congress  over  Reconstruction.  —  Arnold's  His- 
tory of  the  Tobacco  Industry  in  Virginia.  —  Janes's 
Samuell  Gorton. 

RECENT  FICTION.  William  Morton  Payne  ...  91 
Du  Manner's  The  Martian.  —  Snaith's  Fierceheart 
the  Soldier. — Doyle's  Uncle  Bernac. — Dawson's  Mid- 
dle Greyness. —  Dawson's  Mere  Sentiment. —  Mason's 
The  Philanderers. — Stephens's  Mr.  Peters. — Parker's 
The  Pomp  of  the  Lavilettes.  —  Parker's  A  Romany 
of  the  Snows.  —  Tracy's  An  American  Emperor.  — 
McDonald's  A  Princess  and  a  Woman.  —  Stockton's 
A  Story-Teller's  Pack. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 93 

Historical  sketches  of  the ' '  dark  and  bloody  ground . ' ' 

—  A  Yankee  skipper  in  the  Crimean  war. —  Marriage 
questions  in  literature.  —  The  original  materials  of 
American  history. —  Early  critical  work  of  Mr.  Gosse. 

—  A  converted  pagan  of  the  third  century.  —  Memo- 
ries of  Hawthorne. —  Monographs  on  French  history. 

—  The  history  of  British  India. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 97 

LITERARY  NOTES 97 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS   .  .    98 


A   YEAR  OF  CONTINENTAL 
LITERATURE  —  II. 

Mr.  H.  M.  S.  van  Wickevoort  Crommelin, 
in  summarizing  the  literary  activity  of  the 
twelvemonth  in  Holland,  remarks  that  "  some 
of  our  younger  novelists  are  more  struck  by  the 
problems  which  life  offers  than  by  their  influ- 
ence on  man.  They  attempt  to  analyze  doubt, 
dejection,  hereditary  crime ;  they  show  the  wan- 
ing influence  of  moral  and  religious  principles, 
and  the  great  mass  of  superficial  thinkers,  of 
which  the  reading  public  largely  consists,  revels 
in  this  very  modern  work,  which  is  recom- 
mended by  its  agreeable  form."  He  instances 
in  support  of  this  thesis  such  books  as  Mr. 
Adema's  "  Wormstekigen,"  Miss  Lohman's 
"  Vragensmolde,"  Mr.  van  Doorne's  "Twij- 
fel,"  and  Mr.  Coenen's  "  Een  Zwakke."  This 
last  work,  the  gloomy  and  depressing  tale  of  a 
cowardly  suicide,  is  said  to  be  "  the  last  word 
of  realism."  To  the  question,  "  Will  romanti- 
cism revive  ?  "  the  writer  replies  :  "  I  have  to 
chronicle  two  novels  and  one  dramatic  poem 
which  are  all  but  romantic."  In  "  Drogon,"  by 
Mr.  van  Schendel,  "  we  meet  with  the  man  who 
scorns  worldly  power,  and  whose  ideal  is  to  find 
the  '  Ring  of  Jesus.'  The  wisdom  this  ring 
carries  with  it  he  hopes  to  impart  to  mankind." 
In  "  Irmenlo,"  by  Mr.  van  Oordt,  "  the  conflict 
between  heathenism  and  Christendom  in  the 
Middle  Ages  is  treated  with  singular  dramatic 
power."  The  poem  referred  to  is  "  Lioba,"  by 
Mr.  van  Eeden.  The  author  "  has  with  this 
work  captivated  once  more  the  hearts  of  his 
countrymen.  It  marks  a  considerable  advance 
in  his  artistic  development,  being  much  more 
truly  poetical  and  less  philosophical  than  his 
recent  works.  The  influence  of  the  great  mas- 
ters, of  Swinburne  and  Shakespeare,  is  unmis- 
takable ;  the  descriptions  of  nature  are  equal 
to  those  of  our  best  modern  poets,  and  in  many 
parts  the  writer  surpasses  our  great  seventeenth 
century  poet  Vondel,  of  whom  he  often  reminds 
us."  On  the  whole,  Dutch  poetry  keeps  rather 
ahead  of  Flemish,  and  "  the  literary  regenera- 
tion in  the  north  has  been  followed  by  no  equal 
movement  on  the  part  of  our  southern  neigh- 
bors." Other  works  of  fiction  are  "  Jeanne  Col- 


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lette,"  described  as  "  a  big  anti-Semitic  novel 
in  two  volumes,"  by  Mr.  Willem  Paap;  and 
"  Metamorfose,"  a  "  dissection  of  a  modern  nov- 
elist," by  Mr.  Couperus,  "  whose  delicate  writ- 
ing is  one  of  the  features  of  to-day."  The  most 
important  of  learned  works  are  Dr.  van  Deven- 
ter's  "  Hellenic  Studies,"  and  Professor  Mul- 
ler's  "  Onze  Gouden  Eeuw  "  of  Dutch  history. 

Herr  Leopold  Katscher's  article  on  Hungary 
begins  with  a  long  list  of  publications  called 
forth  by  the  millennial  celebration.  These 
include  Mr.  Szilagyi's  "  Millennial  History  of 
Hungary,"  Mr.  Beothy's  histories  of  Hungarian 
literature,  Mr.  Laurencic's  "  The  Mellennium 
of  Hungary  and  the  National  Exhibition,"  and 
Mr.  Ferencczi's  life  of  Petbfi.  In  fiction,  Mr. 
Jokai  has  been  silent,  but  Mr.  Herczeg  has  pub- 
lished two  volumes,  "  Szabolcs'  Marriage,"  and 
"  The  First  Swallow."  There  are  also  the  "  Sep- 
tember" of  Mr.  Ambrus,  "our  bitterest  scep- 
tic," and  books  by  Mr.  Szomahazy,  "  one  of  the 
best  among  our  lighter  storytellers,"  Mr.  Brody, 
"our  leading  realist,"  and  Mr.  Timar,  "a 
young  and  able  writer."  As  for  poetry,  Mr. 
Endrbdi's  "  Kurucz  Songs  "  come  first.  "  None 
of  our  poetry  since  Petbf  i's  has  appealed  to  our 
patriotism  with  such  force  and  perfection  as  this 
splendid  production."  There  are  young  poets 
in  Hungary  as  elsewhere,  and  among  them  are 
mentioned  Baron  Nikolics  de  Rudna,  Mr.  Fer- 
encz  Martos,  and  Mr.  Emil  Makai.  The  most 
popular  play  of  the  year  has  been  a  translation 
of  "  Trilby  " !  Scholarly  publications  include  a 
history  of  Italian  Literature  by  Mr.  Antal 
Rado,  a  collection  of  essays  by  Mr.  Diner- 
Denes,  and  an  "  Old  Hungarian  Library  "  of 
critical  annotated  texts,  started  under  the  edi- 
torship of  Professor  Gustav  Heinrich. 

Signer  Giuseppe  Giacosa,  writing  of  Italy, 
says  that  during  the  year  "  most  of  our  greatest 
writers  have  either  produced  little  or  nothing, 
or  published  works  not  of  a  purely  literary  char- 
acter." Despite  this  fact,  however,  the  article 
proves  to  be  of  considerable  interest,  and  tempts 
to  fuller  illustration  than  we  have  space  here 
to  give.  "  In  poetry,  the  influence  of  Carducci 
and  d'Annunzio  is  less  marked  than  formerly. 
Nor,  notwithstanding  the  vogue  of  the  French 
and  Belgium  symbolists,  has  the  lily  of  mystical 
aspiration  hitherto  flourished  among  us.  Faith- 
ful in  this  respect  to  its  traditions,  the  lyric 
poetry  of  Italy  has  no  affinity  for  the  occult." 
Among  volumes  of  new  poetry  may  be  men- 
tioned Signer  Vitali's  sonnets  on  the  "  Epopea 
del  Risorgimento,"  Signer  Rossi's  "  Ore  Cam- 
pestri,"  and  the  "Nuovi  Versi"  of  the  late 


Contessa  Lara.  A  very  recent  small  volume 
of  verse  entitled  "  Madre,"  by  Signer  Cena, 
impels  the  writer  to  hail  a  new  poet,  and  to  say : 
"  For  some  years  past  I  have  read  no  verses  of 
such  pure  and  continuous  inspiration." 

"  The  novel  is  developing  in  two  different  directions 
under  the  influence  of  two  powerful  minds.  D'Annun- 
zio has  founded  a  school  ;  Fogazzaro  has  inspired,  not 
disciples,  but  followers.  The  formal  qualities  of  the 
first  are,  in  part  at  least,  of  a  kind  easily  acquired,  while 
the  intense  inward  fevour  of  the  second  attracts  to  him 
none  but  spirits  already  kindled.  Both  are  idealists  : 
Fogazzaro  through  his  passion  for  the  ideal,  d'Annun- 
zio through  the  habit  of  idealization.  Fogazzaro  contem- 
plates life  in  its  reality  and  complexity  ;  there  is  no 
person  too  insignificant,  no  action  too  trifling  for  him  to 
regard  it  as  material  for  art ;  yet  there  breathes  through- 
out every  one  of  his  writings  a  vivid  transcendentalism, 
indicating  that  he  yearns  and  strives  after  an  unseen 
world  —  after  some  supersensual  good,  D'Annunzio 
thinks  nothing  worthy  of  artistic  treatment  but  himself, 
and  himself  not  in  as  far  as  he  resembles  the  rest  of 
humanity,  but  in  those  points  wherein  he  differs  from 
them.  By  dint  of  collecting  and  refining  with  wonderful 
mastery  his  own  sensations,  and  making  of  them,  as  it 
were,  the  pivot  of  the  universe,  he  has  attained  to  an 
idealized  sensuality,  a  wantonness  of  the  intellect,  in 
which  he  places  the  quintessence  of  life  and  the  nobility 
of  human  nature,  as  shown  by  his  .recognizing  in  those 
so  endowed  the  right  of  ruling  over  other  men.  D'An- 
nunzio will  take  a  permanent  place  in  our  literary  his- 
tory, but  his  literary  influence  will  have  benefited  those 
only  who  admire  him  without  wishing  to  take  him  as  a 
model.  It  is  a  good  thing  to  have  noted  in  his  verse  and 
in  his  prose  the  capacity  of  the  Italian  language  for 
renewed  and  genuine  freshness  and  for  the  most  inti- 
mate actuality,  but  only  so  far  as  it  encourages  every 
one  to  carry  on  for  himself  the  task  of  linguistic  puri- 
fication, seeking  for  himself  at  first  hand,  guided  by  his 
own  inclinations  and  his  own  aims." 

The  new  works  of  fiction  chiefly  noted  are  "  La 
Morte  di  Orfeo  "  and  "  Roberta,"  by  Signor 
Zuccoli;  "  L'Incantesimo,"  by  Signor  Butti; 
"  La  Signorina  X.  di  X,"  a  philosophical  novel 
published  anonymously  ;  "  La  Prova,"  by  Sig- 
nora  di  Luanto ;  and  "  L'Arauleto,"  by  the 
writer  who  signs  herself  "  Neera."  The  "  most 
interesting  book  of  the  year  "  is  stated  to  be 
"  L'  Europa  Giovane,"  by  Signor  Ferrero,  the 
sociologist.  In  this  book  "  he  collects  the  im- 
pressions and  observations  gathered  on  a  jour- 
ney through  Europe,  and  especially  during  his 
stay  at  Berlin,  London,  and  Moscow.  Though 
not  fond  of  diffuse  word-painting,  which,  on 
the  contrary,  he  avoids  as  far  as  possible,  his 
delineation  of  things,  actions,  and  people  is  clear 
and  definite.  Ferrero  possesses  in  an  eminent 
degree  the  artistic  faculty  of  seizing  on  salient 
points,  of  marshalling  them  in  brief  and  effec- 
tive sentences,  and  of  embodying  them  in  vivid 
images."  Other  works  of  a  serious  character 
are  a  continuation  of  the  facsimile  reproduc- 


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tion  of  Leonardo  da  Vinci's  "  Codex  Atlanti- 
cus  ";  Dr.  Ridella's  "  Una  Sventura  Postuma 
di  Giacomo  Leopardi,"  clearing  the  poet's 
memory  from  the  calumnies  of  Ranieri ;  the 
two  volumes  of  the  work  entitled  "Per  Antonio 
llosmini  nel  Primo  Centenario  dalla  Sua  Nas- 
cita  ";  and  Signor  Negri's  "  Meditazioni  Vaga- 
bonde,"  a  volume  of  religio-philosophical  es- 
says, which  "  treat  metaphysics  pretty  much  as 
Eenan  treated  the  character  of  Christ." 

The  Norwegian  "  books  of  the  year  "  have, 
of  course,  been  Dr.  Nansen's  account  of  his 
Arctic  expedition  and  Dr.  Ibsen's  "  John 
Gabriel  Borkman."  Herr  C.  Brinchmann,  who 
is  our  annalist,  takes  these  two  books  as  too 
well  known  to  need  any  description.  Herr 
Bjornson  has  published  nothing,  but  Herr  Lie 
has  produced  "  Dyre  Rein,"  and  Herr  Garborg 
"  Laeraren,"  both  of  these  works  being  dis- 
tinctly problem-novels.  Other  fiction  includes 
Herr  Obstfelder's  "Korset,"  Herr  Krag's 
«  Ada  Wilde,"  Herr  Kinck's  «  Sus,"  and  Herr 
Tryggve  Andersen's  "  I  Kancelliraaden's 
Dage,"  "  a  grand  historical  novel."  The  re- 
mainder of  this  article  is  devoted  chiefly  to 
Dr.  Bing's  "  Tider  og  Idealer,"  a  treatise  on 
French  ideals  in  painting  and  literature ;  a  new 
edition  of  Wergeland,  edited  by  his  latest 
champion,  Herr  Naerup  ;  a  new  translation  of 
Snorre  Storlasson,  the  work  of  Professor  Storm ; 
and  a  monograph  on  "  Helge-Digtene  i  den 
^Eldre  Edda,"  by  Professor  Sophus  Bugge. 
"  Following  his  revolutionary,  and  hence  much- 
impugned,  opinions  on  the  origin  of  the  Norse 
myths,  he  has  also  in  this  instance  employed 
his  vast  learning  to  place  the  very  core  and 
centre  of  Northern  heroic  myths  among  the 
settlements  of  the  Norsemen,  surrounded  by 
Kelts  and  Anglo-Saxons,  in  the  British  Isles." 

Contemporary  Polish  literature,  for  most 
readers  outside  of  Poland,  is  summed  up  in  the 
one  name  of  Henryk  Sienkiewicz.  This  name, 
however,  does  not  occur  in  Professor  Adam 
Belcikowski's  summary  of  the  year,  but  we  have 
instead  the  unfamiliar  names  of  Mr.  Boleslaw 
Prus,  author  of  "The  Pharaoh,"  Mr.  Przy- 
borowski,  author  of  "  The  Knight  Mora,"  Mr. 
Choinski,  author  of  "  The  Last  Romans,"  Mr. 
Gawalewicz,  author  of  "  Belonging  to  Nobody," 
and  a  long  list  of  other  writers  with  other  works 
of  fiction.  The  remainder  of  the  paper  is  little 
more  than  a  catalogue  of  the  more  noteworthy 
books  of  poetry,  drama,  history,  and  biography. 

The  annals  of  literary  Russia  are  told  at 
great  length  by  Mr.  L.  A.  de  Bogdanovitch, 
who  mentions  few  names  of  which  English 


readers  have  ever  heard.  Most  contemporary 
literature  in  Russia  sees  the  light  in  the  monthly 
reviews,  on  account  of  the  special  conditions  of 
the  book-market  and  the  risks  involved  in  any 
more  permanent  form  of  publication.  Among 
the  few  actual  books  described  are  the  follow- 
ing :  "  The  Russian  Novel  and  Russian  So- 
ciety," by  Mr.  K.  Golovin ;  some  extremely 
pessimistic  "  Thoughts  on  the  Essential  Points 
of  Public  Activity,"  by  Professor  Kareieff ; 
and  the  "  splendid  "  biography  of  A.  S.  Kho- 
miakoff,  the  theologian,  by  Mr.  V.  N.  Lias- 
kovsky.  Various  novels,  published  as  serials 
in  the  reviews,  are  discussed  in  the  closing  half 
of  the  paper. 

Spain  is  the  last  country  in  the  "Athenaeum  " 
list,  since  Sweden  is  for  some  unexplained  rea- 
son ignored,  and  works  in  history  and  other 
departments  of  serious  scholarship  form,  as  in 
past  years,  the  substance  of  the  report.  Don 
Rafael  Altamira  writes  the  article,  and  singles 
out  the  following  three  historical  works  as  being 
of  the  greatest  importance :  The  "  History  of 
the  Social  Institutions  of  Gothic  Spain,"  by 
D.  Eduardo  Perez  Pujol ;  "  The  Despatches  of 
the  Pontificial  Diplomatists  in  Spain,"  by  D. 
Ricardo  de  Hinojosa ;  and  the  second  volume 
of  the  "  Spanish  Navy  from  the  Union  of  the 
Kingdoms  of  Castile  and  Aragon,"  by  Senor 
Fernandez  Duro.  Two  works  of  great  interest 
to  the  student  of  literature  are  thus  described : 

"  Senor  Perez  Pastor's  '  Documentos  Cervantinos 
hasta  ahora  IneMitos'  contains  more  than  fifty  docu- 
ments, notes,  various  facsimiles,  and  an  index  of  proper 
names.  Some  of  the  documents  refer  to  the  private 
life  of  Cervantes  and  his  family,  in  particular  his 
daughter,  and  others  to  the  writings  of  the  immortal 
author,  from  '  Don  Quixote '  to  '  Persiles  and  Sigis- 
munda.'  All  of  them  throw  fresh  light  upon  the  biog- 
raphy of  Cervantes  and  the  bibliography  of  his  writings, 
and  although  the  critics  may  perhaps  find  matter  for 
dispute  in  the  significance  and  interpretation  of  some  of 
the  documents,  there  can  be  no  doubt,  generally  speak- 
ing, of  their  historical  value.  .  .  .  Quite  as  important 
as  the  volume  of  SeHor  Pastor  is  that  of  Don  Ramdn 
Mene*ndez  Pidal, '  La  Leyenda  de  los  Infantes  de  Lara.' 
The  writer  studies  this  famous  legend  in  the  chansons  de 
geste,  in  the  ancient  chronicles,  in  histories  and  ballads, 
in  the  drama,  in  modern  poetry,  finally  in  the  folk-lore 
of  to-day,  paying  special  attention  to  the  philological 
and  critical  examination  of  ancient  documents." 

Senor  Cotarelo's  "  D.  Enrique  de  Villena :  du 
Vida  y  Obras  "  and  Senor  Yxart's  "  El  Arte 
Escenico  en  Espana  "  are  two  critical  works  of 
value.  In  fiction,  the  chief  items  chronicled 
are  D.  Juan  Valera's  "  Genio  y  Figura,"  Senor 
Galdos's  "  Misericordia,"  and  Senor  Una- 
muno's  "Paz  en  la  Guerra,"  a  story  of  the 
Carlist  struggle  in  the  north  of  Spain. 


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THE  STUDY  OP  MAN  AND  OF 
CIVILIZATION.* 


"  When  the  first  edition  of  Katzel's  VolJcer- 
Jcunde  was  published  in  1885-8,  it  at  once  took 
its  position  as  a  guide  book  to  the  study  of 
Man  and  Civilization."  So  says  Mr.  Tylor  in 
his  introduction  to  the  translation  of  that  work, 
which  appears  in  English  under  the  name  "  The 
History  of  Mankind."  This  translation  is  made 
by  Mr.  A.  J.  Butler,  from  the  second  German 
edition.  The  later  edition  differs  somewhat  in 
arrangement  from  the  earlier,  and  is  more  con- 
densed, being  in  two  volumes  instead  of  three. 
Mr.  Tylor's  commendation  is  none  too  high ; 
every  student  is  under  real  obligation  to  Pro- 
fessor Ratzel  for  his  work. 

"  The  History  of  Mankind  "  is  really  a  man- 
ual of  general  ethnography.  It  is  a  descrip- 
tion of  peoples :  a  study  not  only  of  their  phys- 
ical characters,  but  also  —  and  even  more  fully 
—  of  their  life  and  institutions.  In  many  of 
his  positions  the  author  is  a  conservative.  He 
emphasizes  somewhat  strongly  the  common 
humanity  of  all  races,  and  minimizes  racial  dif- 
ferences. He  appears  to  attribute  much  of  phys- 
ical racial  difference  to  difference  in  form  of 
culture.  He  seems  to  consider  all  races  capable 
of  easily  acquiring  civilization  if  they  are  placed 
within  reach  of  civilized  life.  In  fact,  he  says : 
"  The  introduction  of  the  so-called  lower  races  into 
the  circle  of  the  higher  civilization,  and  the  overthrow 
of  the  barriers  which  once  were  raised  high  against  such 
introduction,  is  not  only  a  brilliant  feat  of  humanity  but 
at  the  same  time  an  event  of  the  deepest  scientific  inter- 
est. For  the  first  time,  millions  of  what  was  considered  the 
lowest  race — the  blacks — have  had  all  the  ad  vantages,  all 
the  rights  and  duties,  of  the  highest  civilization  thrown 
open  to  them;  nothing  prevents  them  from  employing 
all  the  means  of  self -formation  which  —  and  herein  lies 
the  anthropological  interest  of  the  process  —  will  neces- 
sarily be  transformation.  If  we  could  say  to-day  with 
approximate  certainty  what  will  become  in  the  course  of 
generations  of  the  12,000,000  of  negro  slaves  who  have 
within  the  last  thirty  years  been  freed  in  America,  and 
who  will,  in  the  enjoyment  of  freedom  and  the  most 
modern  acquisitions  of  culture,  have  multiplied  to 
100,000,000,  we  could  with  certainty  answer  the  ques- 
tion as  to  the  effect  of  culture  upon  race  distinctions." 

And  before  the  ink  is  dry  on  the  page,  Hoff- 
man's book  appears,  giving  a  searching  analy- 
sis —  the  first  adequate  study  so  far  —  of  the 
race  traits  and  tendencies  of  the  American 
negro.  There  are  not  to-day  even  12,000,000 

*THB  HISTORY  OF  MANKIND.  By  Friedrich  Ratzel. 
Translated  by  A.  J.  Butler,  with  Introduction  by  E.  B.  Tylor. 
In  two  volumes.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


of  them;  there  never  will  be  100,000,000. 
They  are  not  being  hopefully  affected  by  our 
civilization,  and  it  looks  as  if  their  last  state 
might  be  worse  than  their  first.     As  for  the 
distant  future  —  what  is  their  outlook  ?     Is  it 
not  extinction  ?   And  why  ?    Because  they  are 
negroes,  and  race  traits  are  terribly  strong. 
Ratzel's  position  is  always  one  of  happy  optim- 
ism, curiously  blind  to  the  reality  and  pro- 
fundity of  race  unlikeness.    Of  course  all  men 
are  human ;  of  course  human  brains  everywhere 
and  always  are  capable  of  great  achievement. 
We  believe  that  the  apparently  simple  inven- 
tions of  early  man  were  as  great  victories  of  the 
intellect  as  are  our  complex  inventions  of  to-day. 
But  to  give  a  white  man's  civilization  to  the  negro, 
and  to  have  him  assimilate  it,  is  no  easy  task. 
Many  generations  of  time  and  constant  action  of 
many  influences  changing  the  whole  man — phy- 
sical, mental,  moral — are  necessary.    And  dur- 
ing the  experiment  the  lower  race  is  like  to  die. 
Ratzel's  work  as  it  now  appears  is  handsomely 
printed  and  illustrated.     The  illustrations  are 
chiefly  portraits  of  peoples  made  from  direct 
photographs  and  pictures  of  museum  speci- 
mens ;  while  not  always  exactly  fitting  the  text, 
they  are  interesting  and  instructive.    There  are 
nine  colored  plates,  which  show  groups  of  na- 
tives, habitations,  or  carefully  arranged  masses 
of  their  art  products.    The  work  is  divided  into 
"  books,"  of  which  the  first  and  part  of  the 
second    are   contained    in    the   first   volume. 
Book  I.  in  144  pages,  presents  the  "  Principles 
of   Ethnography."     In   thirteen    chapters    it 
sketches  the  field  and  makes  a  comparative 
study  of  human  achievements  and  institutions. 
How  civilization  rises  and  spreads,  and  some  of 
the  elements  of  culture,  are  discussed.     This 
book  issued  separately  would  make  a  good  text 
in  ethnography  for  class  use.    It  shows,  as  no 
other  book  in  our  language,  the  value  of  ethno- 
graphic specimens  and  the  mode  of  using  them 
in  study.    The  author  believes  in  migration  of 
arts  and  borrowing  between  tribes.     Two  sets 
of  opinions  are  urged  at  present  in  this  matter. 
The  one  claims  that  the  finding  of  a  given  art 
or  object,  just  the  same  among  widely  separated 
peoples,  proves  contact  and  mutual  influence 
between  these  in  the  past,  or  community  of 
descent.     The  other  asserts  that  mankind  is 
psychically  a  unit,  and  that  everywhere,  given 
a  certain  need  or  certain  conditions,  men  widely 
sundered  will  independently  invent  the  same 
things  and  think  the  same  thoughts.    As  a  con- 
crete illustration,  some  authors  find  the  begin- 
nings at  least  of  native  American  art  in  some 


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other  district,  and  look  upon  it  as  an  importa- 
tion ;  others  find  nothing  here  that  suggests  a 
foreign  origin,  and  assert  that  North  American 
art  has  grown  up  here  from  the  beginning. 
Our  author  is  one  of  the  former  class.  He 
believes  that  the  geographical  distribution  of 
an  art,  of  a  decorative  style,  of  a  peculiar  belief 
or  custom,  is  often  a  means  of  tracing  relation- 
ships and  contact  between  peoples  and  of  fol- 
lowing lines  of  migration.  Just  at  the  present 
in  our  country  the  contrary  view  is  carried  to 
an  astonishing  extreme  ;  the  principle  is  a  good 
one,  but  may  be  easily  carried  too  far.  Ratzel's 
book  is  then  particularly  important  here  at  this 
time.  While  a  whole  culture  may  not  be  readily 
assimilated  by  a  race  far  below  those  to  whom 
it  belongs,  elements  of  arts  and  industries  may 
easily  be  borrowed  and  are  sure  to  be  carried  to 
new  homes  by  tribes  in  migration. 

The  second  part  of  this  volume  is  devoted  to 
the  American  Pacific  Group  of  Races.  Three 
clusters  of  peoples  are  studied  —  the  races  of 
Oceania,  the  Australians,  the  Malays  and 
Malagasies.  In  the  study  of  these,  the  same 
course  practically  is  pursued  for  each.  The 
physical  geography  of  the  area  occupied  is  ex- 
amined, the  flora  and  fauna  are  described  in 
their  human  relationships,  and  the  races  them- 
selves characterized.  Then  follow  descriptions 
of  the  houses,  dress,  weapons,  and  other  belong- 
ings, the  mode  of  life,  the  social  structure,  the 
government,  the  religion.  The  mass  of  ma- 
terial presented  is  enormous,  and  it  is  extremely 
condensed.  It  is  not  easy  reading,  but  is  care- 
fully put  and  of  great  importance.  The  work 
deserves  a  great  success  in  America,  both  among 
special  students  and  more  general  readers. 
FREDERICK  STARR. 


AMERICAN  LITERATURE.* 


Two  books  about  American  literature,  quite 
different  but  each  very  good  in  its  way,  are  evi- 
dence that  America  has  produced  a  literature 
that  is  more  than  an  echo  of  English  literature, 
since  it  is  filled  with  American  scenery,  Amer- 
ican thought,  American  character,  and  that  this 
literature  is  well  worthy  of  consideration. 

Our  old  friend  Donald  G.  Mitchell  talks 
about  this  literature  in  his  book  entitled  "Amer- 
ican Lands  and  Letters  ";  and  when  he  talks, 

*  AMERICAN  LANDS  AND  LETTERS.  By  Donald  Q.  Mitchell. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

INTRODUCTION  TO  AMERICAN  LITERATURE.  Part  I.  By 
P.  T.  N.  Painter,  A.M.,  D.D.  Boston:  Leach,  Shewell  & 
Sanborn. 


who  does  not  love  to  listen  ?  Indeed,  no  one 
with  less  gifts  as  a  raconteur  could  hope  to  take 
a  period  seemingly  so  barren  for  letters  as  that 
which  began  with  the  arrival  of  the  "May- 
flower" and  ended  with  Irving's  "Rip  Van 
Winkle,"  and  make  a  book  of  four  hundred 
pages  without  a  dull  line  in  it.  What  he  says 
of  Benjamin  Franklin  and  his  "  Poor  Richard  " 
sayings  may  with  truth  be  applied  to  himself : 
"  Whoever  can  put  new  force  and  new  beauty  into  an 
old  truth  by  his  method  of  re-stating  it,  is  doing  good 
work  —  doing  indeed  what  most  of  the  good  sermonizers 
are  bent  upon.  No  matter  what  old  metal  you  may  use, 
if  you  can  put  enough  of  your  own  powder  behind  it 
't  will  reach  the  mark." 

Only  those  authors  whose  birth-date  falls 
before  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  are 
included  in  this  survey,  the  three  names  of 
principal  importance  being  Cooper,  Irving,  and 
Bryant.  Of  all  these,  Mr.  Mitchell  can  speak 
from  personal  friendship,  or  at  least  acquain- 
tance, and  the  touches  of  personal  reminiscence 
are  very  happy.  It  makes  us  realize  how  near 
our  past  really  is  when  we  read  our  author's 
personal  recollections  of  the  memorial  meeting 
at  the  death  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  a  meet- 
ing which  was  called  to  order  by  Washington 
Irving  and  presided  over  by  Daniel  Webster, 
and  where  eulogistic  speeches  were  made  by 
Bancroft  and  Bryant. 

Mr.  Mitchell's  characterization  of  Cooper's 
powers  and  limitations  may  be  cited  as  an  ex- 
ample of  the  happy  art  with  which  he  can  put 
a  bit  of  sound  criticism  in  a  taking  form. 

"  There  are  writers  to  whom  the  details  are  every- 
thing; and  to  whom  elaborate  finish,  happy  turns  of 
expression,  illustrative  streaks  of  humor,  give  largest 
value  and  most  consequence.  With  Cooper  't  is  far 
otherwise;  there's  little  finish,  there's  no  humor;  no 
ingenious  turn  of  a  sentence  or  a  thought  brings  yon  to 
pause  —  either  to  weigh  it  or  enjoy  it.  He  is  making 
his  way  to  some  dramatic  end  by  bold,  broad  dashes  of 
descriptive  color,  which  he  may  multiply  or  vary  with 
tedious  divergencies,  without  spoiling  his  main  chance. 
Hence  there  is  no  American  author,  scarce  any  popular 
author,  who  loses  so  little  by  translation.  The  charm 
that  lies  in  light,  graceful  play  of  language  about  trifles 
is  unknown  to  him." 

As  the  guest  of  Washington  Irving  at  Sunny- 
side,  Mr.  Mitchell  has  visited  Sleepy  Hollow, 
— the  creator  of  "  Rip"  and  "  Ichabod  Crane  " 
pointing  out  the  exact  route  of  the  memorable 
night-ride  of  a  certain  headless  horseman,  and 
dwelling  with  roguish  delight  on  his  own  boyish 
escapades  in  the  region  afterwards  made  famous 
by  his  pen.  Irving  was  doubtless  the  best  loved 
by  his  contemporaries  of  any  of  this  early  group. 
He  was  not  one  of  those  strenuous  souls  who 
delve  new  channels  for  thought ;  but  his  charac- 


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ter  was  so  clean,  his  language  so  full  of  grace,  his 
sympathies  so  true  and  noble,  his  humor  so  genu- 
ine and  abiding,  that  his  books  beam  with  a  kind- 
liness that  should  not  and  will  not  be  forgotten. 
The  illustrations  in  Mr.  Mitchell's  book  are 
of  great  value,  including  pictures  taken  from 
rare  portraits  or  engravings,  facsimiles  of  old 
manuscripts  or  fragments  of  scarce  books,  maps, 
and  a  chronological  chart  showing  the  sequence 
of  events  having  relation  to  development  of 
American  lands  and  letters.  Like  the  three 
volumes  of  "English  Lands,  Letters,  and 
Kings  "  previously  published,  this  book  and  its 
probable  successor  bringing  the  story  into  the 
present  time,  may  be  commended  especially  for 
young  persons  as  a  stimulus  to  further  study. 

Professor  Painter's  "  Introduction  to  Amer- 
ican Literature  "  begins  with  John  Smith  and 
includes  the  present  day.  The  classification  is 
into  five  periods  :  First  Colonial,  Second  Colo- 
nial, Revolutionary,  First  National,  and  Second 
National.  Quite  properly,  the  "  First  National " 
period  occupies  the  principal  space,  including 
as  it  does  all  of  our  greatest  names  —  Emerson, 
Hawthorne,  Longfellow,  Lowell,  Whittier, 
Holmes.  It  would  be  difficult  to  better,  in  an 
equal  number  of  pages,  the  characterizations  of 
these  men,  and  their  respective  parts  in  the  life 
of  the  times  are  well  differentiated.  The  Tran- 
scendental movement,  the  founding  of  the 
"Atlantic  Monthly,"  the  formation  of  the 
Saturday  Club,  the  publication  of  "  The  Dial," 
the  Brook  Farm  experiment,  are  all  given  a 
place,  but  no  more  than  their  due  place,  as  fac- 
tors in  the  evolution  of  American  thought  and 
letters.  The  book,  though  primarily  designed 
for  the  use  of  schools,  has  a  critical  value  and 
a  largeness  of  treatment  entitling  it  to  a  wider 
audience.  ANNA  B.  McMAHAN. 


THE  FIRST  ANNOTATION  OF  CARLYI/E'S 
MOST  CHARACTERISTIC  WORK.* 

In  the  sixty-three  years  that  have  passed 
since  Carlyle's  most  characteristic  book  was 
reluctantly  admitted  in  instalments  to  the  pages 
of  "  Eraser's  Magazine,"  this  "  prose  poem  " 
has  steadily  grown  in  importance,  until  now  it 
marks,  perhaps  better  than  any  other  single 
work,  the  transition  in  English  thought  from 
the  sense-philosophy  of  Locke  to  the  faith  in 
spiritual  realities  that  followed  in  due  time. 
At  last  a  worthy  annotated  edition  of  "  Sartor 


*SABTOK  RESARTUS.  Edited  by  Archibald  MacMechan, 
Professor  in  Dalhoosie  College.  ( Athen;eum  Press  Series.) 
Boston :  Ginn  &  Co. 


Resartus  "  has  appeared,  and  Professor  Mac- 
Mechan, the  editor,  is  to  be  congratulated  upon 
the  industry,  sympathy,  and  erudition  with 
which  his  task  has  been  accomplished.  Of  the 
four  sources  of  the  original  work,  copious  ex- 
tracts from  Carlyle's  journal  are  here  given  in 
the  notes,  revealing  a  surprising  fidelity  of 
transcription  in  the  process  by  which  the  au- 
thor thus  turned  the  product  of  his  private 
meditation  to  account.  The  use  made,  too,  of 
his  unfinished  novel,  "  Wotton  Reinfred,"  is 
striking  in  its  ready  adaptation,  sometimes  with 
very  slight  changes,  to  the  new  purpose  in  hand. 
As  to  the  parallelism  discovered  between  "  Sar- 
tor "  and  on  the  one  hand  the  earlier  essays,  as 
well  as  on  the  other  the  translations  from  the 
German,  there  is  doubtless  room  for  some 
further  work  to  be  done,  although  the  editor 
has  also  tilled  this  field  faithfully.  The  inter- 
esting query,  "  Who  was  Blumine  ? "  is  an- 
swered with  a  triple  reference  to  Margaret 
Gordon,  Catherine  Fitzpatrick,  and  Jane 
Welsh,  with  convincing  data  in  each  case,  leav- 
ing the  reader  in  agreement  with  the  editor  that 
the  "  flower  goddess  "  is  a  composite  portrait. 
But  why  should  not  the  same  liberal  view 
prevail  touching  Carlyle's  style  ?  In  general, 
the  editorial  analysis  at  this  point  is  distinctly 
a  service  ;  yet  there  is  an  apparent  jealousy  for 
the  author's  originality  that  will  not  suffer  ad- 
mission of  any  palpable  degree  of  indebtedness 
to  the  Germans,  and  in  particular  to  Richter. 
It  is  declared  that  Carlylese  is  the  product  of 
early  years  at  home,  showing  itself  in  letters 
antedating  German  influence.  There  is  not 
space  for  an  extended  argument  upon  this  dis- 
puted question,  but  a  few  facts  may  be  stated 
and  left  to  show  their  own  bearing.  Professor 
MacMechan  regards  the  use  of  Germanisms  as 
artfully  designed  to  give  the  book  an  atmos- 
phere. But  the  earlier  essays  also  are  dotted 
with  capitalized  nouns,  and  show  a  gradual 
approach  from  an  ordinary  style  to  that  with 
which  later  readers  are  familiar.  Also,  when 
the  translation  of  "  Wilhelm  Meister "  ap- 
peared, it  was  blamed  for  its  too  frequent  Ger- 
manisms, a  fault  that  received  censure  again  on 
the  appearance  of  the  specimens  of  German  Ro- 
mance. Moreover,  there  is  at  least  an  attempt 
in  "  Sartor  "  to  write  in  two  different  styles, 
that  of  the  professor  and  that  of  the  editor. 
That  of  the  former,  by  a  singular  coincidence, 
is  characterized  by  Carlyle  in  almost  the  same 
language  as  he  had  formerly  employed  in  de- 
scribing the  eccentricity  of  Richter's  literary 
manner.  Which  of  the  two  styles  is  Carlyle's 


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own  ?  Both  are  his,  in  so  far  as  he  is  unsuc- 
cessful in  differentiating  the  two.  He  confesses 
such  failure  by  repeatedly  using  the  device  of 
apology,  because  the  editorial  style  has  been 
contaminated  by  contact  with  the  professional 
metaphor  and  crabbedness.  Is  not  the  truth, 
in  this  instance  as  in  the  case  of  Blumine,  that 
Carlylese  is  a  composite  product,  the  result  of 
a  tendency  plus  an  influence  ? 

The  Notes  contain  many  grateful  rays  of 
light,  from  a  variety  of  sources.  It  is  here,  if 
anywhere,  that  the  results  of  collaboration  are 
manifest.  Many  recondite  allusions  are  satis- 
factorily traced  to  the  fountain-head,  while 
many  other  quotations  are  given  that  are  chiefly 
illustrative  of  the  similar  products  that  the 
time-spirit  may  evoke  from  different  men. 
About  a  dozen  hard  nuts  are  left  uncracked,  to 
tempt  the  teeth  of  future  editors.  The  indebt- 
edness of  Carlyle  to  the  Bible  and  to  Shake- 
speare appears,  to  the  degree  of  the  assimilation 
of  these  two  books  into  the  very  flesh  and  bone 
of  his  diction.  The  long  passage,  afterward 
suppressed,  from  the  first  edition  of  "  Pelham," 
shows  on  how  firm  a  basis  of  fact  rests  the  pro- 
fessorial satire  against  the  luckless  dandiacal 
body.  But  was  there  any  need,  one  asks,  for 
striving  to  identify  the  alleged  defect  in  the 
Latinity  of  the  famous  Swiftian  epitaph,  a  de- 
fect alleged  as  excuse  for  not  carving  these 
muddy  sentences  upon  the  Zahdarm  tombstone? 

The  only  serious  omission  from  the  body  of 
editorial  contribution  is  an  apt  discussion  of  the 
place  held  historically  by  "  Sartor  "  in  the  devel- 
opment of  English  thought.  There  are  hints 
of  such  relations,  here  and  there  ;  but  it  would 
seem  that  a  work  of  so  great  significance  should 
be  accompanied  by  some  formal  account  of  the 
larger  causes  and  conditions  out  of  which  it 
grew.  The  fact  still  remains  that  the  first  anno- 
tated edition  of  Carlyle's  most  original  work  is 
a  valuable  aid  to  the  study  of  nineteenth-century 
literature.  D.  L.  MAULSBY. 


MURRAY'S  HISTORY  OF  GREEK 
LITERATURE.* 


A  history  of  Greek  literature,  well  written, 
concise  yet  full  enough  to  give  the  reader  an 
appreciative  sense  of  its  spirit  and  form,  would 
be  a  real  boon.  Of  this  not  too  high  ideal,  the 
volume  before  us  falls  short.  The  book  might 
more  properly  be  called  a  critique  than  a  his- 

*  A  HISTORY  OF  ANCIENT  GREEK  LITERATURE.  By  Gilbert 
Murray,  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University  of  Glasgow. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 


tory  of  Greek  literature.  The  writer  has  mani- 
festly a  close  and  large  acquaintance  with  his 
subject,  and  a  just  appreciation  of  many  ele- 
ments of  Greek  life  and  thought.  But  some- 
how he  fails  to  give  that  account  of  the  litera- 
ture of  the  ancient  Hellenes,  and  that  insight 
into  the  forces  and  ideas  that  made  it  what  it 
was  and  still  is,  that  we  have  a  right  to  expect 
from  an  historian. 

After  reading  the  first  chapter,  which  treats 
of  Homer,  one  must  still  ask  what  are  the  char- 
acteristic features  of  the  Greek  epic,  and  what 
is  Homer  as  literature  ?  A  good  deal  that  is 
instructive  is  said  about  the  Homeric  Question, 
but  one  not  familiar  with  the  discussion  would 
hardly  get  a  distinct  idea  of  the  chief  theories 
and  points  at  issue. 

With  Professor  Murray's  characterization  of 
Pindar,  the  admirers  of  the  "  Theban  Eagle  " 
are  likely  to  find  fault,  and  the  opinion  of  the 
rest  is  not  worth  considering. 

The  chapter  on  Herodotus,  while  giving  a  just 
estimate  of  the  scope  and  credibility  of  the  his- 
tory, fails  to  do  justice  to  the  style  and  diction 
of  this  delightful  story-teller. 

In  the  chapter  on  ^Eschylus,  the  author 
speaks  of  Thespis'  own  deme  Icaria  as  being 
near  to  Eleusis,  evidently  in  ignorance  of  the 
brilliant  discovery  of  the  true  location  of  this 
deme  by  the  late  Professor  Merriam.  It  is 
rather  a  novel  view  to  hold  that  JEschylus  is  in 
religious  thought  generally  the  precursor  of 
Euripides.  The  chapters  on  Sophocles  and 
Euripides  are  perhaps  the  most  satisfactory  of 
the  book,  though  both  writers  are  not  closely 
enough  related  to  the  trend  and  tendencies  of 
their  own  times. 

In  spite  of  the  caveat  in  the  Preface,  Aris- 
totle's rank  and  influence  as  a  writer  entitle 
him  to  more  space  than  is  allowed. 

There  is  plenty  of  fine  writing  in  the  book ; 
occasionally,  indeed,  there  is  an  attempt  at 
"  smartness."  No  one  will  find  it  dull  reading. 
But,  as  was  said  at  the  outset,  the  layman  still 
needs  a  clear,  objective,  reasonably  complete 
outline  of  the  history  of  Greek  literature  within 
the  compass  of  a  single  octavo  volume. 

MARTIN  L.  D'OoGE. 


THE  October  number  of  "  The  Atlantic  Monthly  "  will 
complete  forty  years  of  publication  of  that  most  distinc- 
tively literary  and  characteristically  American  of  all  our 
magazines.  The  occasion  will  be  fitly  and  brilliantly 
celebrated  in  the  pages  of  the  number,  which  will  con- 
tain contributions  by  Henry  M.  Stanley,  M.  Brunetiere, 
John  Fiske,  and  many  other  well-known  writers. 


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MONOGRAPHS  IN  AMERICAN  HISTORY.* 

The  facility  and  economy  of  modern  printing 
have  made  possible  the  preservation  of  all  worthy 
results  of  investigation  in  every  field  of  human  ac- 
tivity. Formerly,  the  fruit  of  perhaps  years  of  study 
and  patient  inquiry  was  embodied  in  a  "thesis," 
which,  after  presentation  and  as  careful  reading  as 
the  penmanship  would  allow,  was  carefully  filed 
away  in  some  dusty  drawer  as  a  counterweight  in 
the  balance  against  the  diploma  which  was  issued 
upon  its  authority.  At  the  present  day,  the  "  thesis  " 
is  presented  ready  for  the  printer,  and,  indeed,  fre- 
quently comes  to  the  examiner  in  the  desirable  form 
of  print.  Thus  issued,  it  is  ready  for  exchange  and 
for  general  distribution,  carrying  its  information  or 
message  to  the  bounds  of  the  reading  world.  Nor, 
indeed,  is  such  publication  confined  to  the  student 
body.  The  modern  teacher  feels  the  pressure  from 
a  class  larger  than  the  one  within  his  classroom ;  he 
responds  to  the  demand  for  the  utilization  of  his 
time,  aside  from  teaching,  in  investigation  and  sum- 
ming of  results.  In  addition  to  these  classes  of 
contributors,  professional  men  who  find  the  ardor  of 
student  days  returning  to  them  give  the  benefits  of 
their  trained  powers  of  examination  to  some  subject, 
often  in  close  touch  with  the  teacher,  and  finally 
entrusting  to  the  medium  of  the  university  the  pub- 
lication of  the  results. 

In  this  way  has  grown  up  the  present  extensive 
system  of  monograph  publication  through  regularly 
established  channels.  No  university  can  now  afford 
to  be  without  its  "  Studies  "  or  "  Annals."  So  rapidly 
these  accumulate  and  so  far  they  extend  that  one 
may  picture  the  future  investigator  buried,  like  the 
maiden  of  old,  beneath  a  mass  of  treasure,  or  imagine 
him  lamenting  the  preemption  of  the  last  bit  of  un- 
occupied ground.  Many  of  these  efforts  show  the 
cramped  hand  of  the  student ;  many  of  the  conclu- 
sions reached  exhibit  the  callowness  of  youthful 
minds ;  the  larger  number  of  them  would  be  much 
improved  by  being  allowed  to  ripen  in  the  sun  of  a 
few  post-doctorate  years.  But  as  "  contributions  to 
knowledge,"  as  sometimes  being  the  fruit  of  ma- 

*  HARVARD  HISTORICAL  STUDIES.  The  Suppression  of  the 
Slave  Trade,  by  W.  E.  Burghardt  DuBois,  Ph.D.,  Professor 
in  Wilberforce  University.  The  Contest  over  the  Ratification 
of  the  Federal  Constitution  in  Massachusetts,  by  Samuel 
Bannister  Harding,  A.M.,  Assistant  Professor  of  History  in 
Indiana  University.  A  Study  of  Nullification  in  South  Caro- 
lina, by  David  Franklin  Houston,  A.M.,  Adjunct  Professor  of 
Political  Science  in  the  University  of  Texas.  Nominations 
for  Elective  Office  in  the  United  States,  by  Frederick  W. 
Dallinger.  New  York :  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 

THE  STRUGGLE  BETWEEN  PRESIDENT  JOHNSON  AND  CON- 
GRESS OVER  RECONSTRUCTION.  By  Charles  Ernest  Chadsey, 
Ph.D.  (Columbia  University  Studies.)  New  York:  The 
Macmillan  Co. 

HISTORY  OF  THE  TOBACCO  INDUSTRY  IN  VIRGINIA,  from 
1860  to  1894.  By  B.  W.  Arnold,  Jr.,  Ph.D.,  McCabe's  Uni- 
versity School,  Richmond.  Baltimore :  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity. 

SAMUELL  GORTON,  the  First  Settler  of  Warwick,  Rhode 
Island.  By  Lewis  G.  Janes.  Providence :  The  Preston  & 
Rounds  Co. 


ture  judgment,  and  as  frequently  clearing  the  ground 
for  subsequent  work,  they  are  worthy  of  a  promi- 
nent place  in  the  literature  of  their  respective  sub- 
jects. 

The  field  of  American  History,  with  the  adjacent 
grounds  of  Political  Science,  has  been  occupied 
with  publications  which  compare  favorably  with 
other  subjects  both  in  number  and  quality.  The 
materials  are  to  be  found  on  every  hand,  the  sub- 
ject is  inviting,  and  in  probably  no  people  of  the 
world  will  the  history  of  its  growth  and  develop- 
ment be  so  fully  described  as  in  our  own. 

Harvard  University,  under  the  skilled  direction 
of  Professor  Albert  Bushnell  Hart,  began  several 
years  since  a  series  of  studies  in  History  and  Polit- 
ical Science  which  were  described  at  the  time  in 
THE  DIAL.  He  has  recently  revived  the  plan  under 
the  certainty  of  the  Henry  Warren  Torrey  fund. 
The  four  numbers  issued,  bearing  the  title  "  Har- 
vard Historical  Studies,"  are  the  largest  and  most 
scholarly  set  of  monographs  given  out  by  any  insti- 
tution. The  first  is  from  the  pen  of  a  negro,  Mr. 
William  E.  Burghardt  DuBois,  of  Massachusetts, 
now  conducting  a  special  investigation  into  the  con- 
dition of  the  negro  people  of  Philadelphia,  under  the 
direction  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
presents  a  history  of  the  "  Suppression  of  the  African 
Slave  Trade  to  the  United  States  of  America,  1638- 
1870,"  with  copious  references,  an  exhaustive  chron- 
ological conspectus  of  slave-trade  legislation,  and  a 
very  full  bibliography. 

The  second  volume  of  the  series,  "  The  Contest 
over  the  Ratification  of  the  Federal  Constitution  in 
the  State  of  Massachusetts,"  by  Professor  Samuel 
B.  Harding  of  the  Indiana  University,  is  in  line 
with  the  many  recent  investigations  into  the  birth- 
years  of  American  political  parties.  The  frequently 
discussed  attitude  of  Hancock  toward  the  Constitu- 
tion is  here  shown  to  be  that  of  a  politician  who 
lends  his  influence  for  the  sake  of  being  supported 
as  a  possible  candidate  for  the  presidency  or  the 
vice-presidency.  Samuel  Adams  is  described  as  also 
wishing  to  make  some  political  popularity  out  of  the 
struggle.  Such  revelations,  together  with  the  de- 
scription of  the  haste  of  these  patriots  to  be  favor- 
able to  the  new  instrument  when  the  Boston 
mechanics  had  declared  for  it,  must  prove  an  icono- 
clastic shock  to  the  old  style  eulogistic  conception  of 
our  political  fathers  and  bring  nearer  the  day  when 
we  shall  study  our  men  of  affairs  as  they  were. 

The  third  volume,  "  A  Study  of  Nullification  in 
South  Carolina,"  by  Professor  David  F.  Houston  of 
the  University  of  Texas,  is  devoted  largely  to  refut- 
ing the  statement  in  Draper's  "  Civil  War "  that 
Calhoun  fostered  and  led  the  Nullification  movement 
of  1828-32.  The  economic  and  political  changes 
occurring  soon  after  1820,  and  the  consciousness  of 
the  coming  danger  to  slavery,  produced  a  revulsion 
and  a  discontent  in  the  people  which  Calhoun  simply 
followed.  The  author  finds  no  direct,  and  but  two 
indirect,  results  of  the  Nullification  agitation :  a 
deepened  conviction  of  the  conflict  of  interest  be- 


1897.] 


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tween  the  North  and  the  South,  and  a  hastening  to 
the  belief  that  secession  was  the  only  remedy  left 
for  the  state  against  the  Federal  government.  The 
investigation  has  been  broad,  the  results  are  clearly 
stated,  but  the  collocation  is  rather  desultory. 

The  fourth  volume  of  the  series,  on  "  Nominations 
for  Elective  Office  in  the  United  States,"  departs 
from  the  purely  historical  ground  which  the  preced- 
ing numbers  assume.  It  comes  from  the  hand  of 
a  scholar  who  has  had  later  training  in  the  practical 
aspect  of  the  subject  under  consideration.  Mr.  Dai- 
linger  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Senate,  and  his  opinion  upon  the  growth  of  nomina- 
ting machinery  in  the  United  States,  its  present 
status,  its  defects,  and  especially  upon  the  remedies 
to  be  applied  to  existing  evils,  will  be  worthy  of  a 
hearing  even  from  those  who  complain  that  the  ordi- 
nary "  studies  "  of  the  seminar  are  remote  from  the 
bounds  of  practicability.  "  Three  reforms  "  says 
Mr.  Dallinger,  "are  urgently  needed:  a  diminution 
in  the  number  of  elective  offices ;  the  absolute  sep- 
aration of  national  and  State  politics  from  local 
affairs;  and  above  all,  the  radication  of  the  spoils 
system  in  the  public  service,  and  the  consequent  de- 
struction of  the  class  of  professional  politicians."  In 
connection  with  the  sketch  of  the  growth  of  the  nom- 
inating system,  Mr.  Dallinger  gives  a  number  of  re- 
productions of  ballots,  blanks,  etc.,  which  are  most 
interesting  and  commonly  inaccessible. 

A  recent  number  of  the  "  Columbia  University 
Studies  in  History,  Economics,  and  Public  Law " 
deals  with  "  The  Struggle  between  President  John- 
son and  Congress  over  Reconstruction."  In  follow- 
ing the  well-known  lines  of  "The  Congressional 
Globe,"  this  monograph  furnishes  a  fresh  illustra- 
tion of  the  difficulty  in  making  a  broad  estimate  of 
an  event  so  recent  as  Reconstruction.  When  occur- 
rences fresh  from  the  mould  of  time  shall  be  allowed 
to  cool,  and  additional  evidence  be  brought  from 
reserved  papers  and  material  added  from  private 
resources,  a  clearer  crystallization  of  facts  may  re- 
sult. The  author  finds  it  "a  fortunate  thing  for  the 
country  that  the  attempt  [to  convict  Johnson]  failed." 
Lincoln  had  been  sustained  in  his  assumption  of 
powers ;  but,  with  Johnson  in  the  chair,  Congress 
determined  to  resume  its  powers.  In  the  violence 
of  the  reaction  with  which  the  country  responded, 
the  pendulum  went  too  far  and  "our  institutions 
were  in  greater  danger  than  they  were  before.  But 
just  as  the  Civil  War  had  settled  the  question  as 
to  the  indissolubility  of  the  Union,  so  no  less  em- 
phatically did  the  failure  of  the  impeachment  trial 
confirm  the  equality  of  the  three  departments  of  our 
government." 

The  tobacco  industry  of  Virginia  was  so  intimately 
connected  with  the  slavery  question  before  1860  that 
it  was  an  object  of  frequent  and  comprehensive 
study.  Its  later  development  and  present  conditions 
form  the  subject  of  a  monograph  by  Professor 
B.  W.  Arnold,  Jr.,  published  in  the  series  of  "  Johns 
Hopkins  Studies."  Although  the  tobacco  industry 
declined  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  Civil 


War,  owing  to  the  necessary  diversion  of  labor  to 
food-producing  crops,  the  loss  of  slave  labor,  the  rise 
of  competing  manufactures  and  the  growth  of  urban 
population,  yet  in  1894  the  state  added  over  two 
and  a  half  millions  of  dollars  to  the  internal  revenue, 
and  "  the  finest  residences,  hotels,  chambers  of  com- 
merce, educational  institutions  and  public  buildings 
have,  for  the  most  part,  been  built  by  profits  from 
tobacco."  The  conclusion  reached  in  the  paper  is 
that  only  fine  tobacco  will  repay  the  cultivator,  that 
the  farmer  must  be  educated  to  more  skilful  pro- 
duction, and  that  the  evils  of  unrestricted  competi- 
tion seem  quite  as  pernicious  as  those  of  trusts. 

Rather  remote  from  the  intensive  studies  of  the 
universities  is  a  set  of  monographs  most  daintily 
gotten  up  by  the  Preston  &  Rounds  Co.,  of  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.  This  Rhode  Island  series  treats  of  the 
early  colonial  history  of  that  state,  the  last  number 
being  the  life  of  the  pious  Samuell  Gorton,  the  first 
settler  of  Warwick,  who  rejoiced  in  bestowing  upon 
his  daughter  the  remarkable  Scriptural  name  of 
Mahershallalhashbaz,  and  contested  all  his  life  for 
the  privilege  of  independent  thought. 

EDWARD  E.  SPARKS. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 


Mr.  Du  Maurier  is  a  writer  who  must  be  taken 
upon  his  own  terms.  Judged  by  any  of  the  tests 
ordinarily  applied  to  works  of  fiction,  his  three 
novels  are  everything  that  they  should  not  be.  They 
have  no  organic  structure,  and  lack  even  coherency. 
Their  style  exhibits  a  garrulous  disregard  of  the 
rules.  To  expect  from  them  delineation  of  character 
in  any  true  sense  is  like  expecting  figs  of  thistles. 
And  yet  their  charm  is  undeniable,  whatever  their 
technical  shortcomings,  and  we  cannot  help  wonder- 
ing what  the  author's  talent  might  have  accom- 
plished for  him  had  he  taken  it  seriously,  and  set 
about  writing  early  enough  to  allow  it  to  develope 


*  THE  MARTIAN.  A  Novel.  By  George  Du  Maurier.  New 
York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

FIERCEHEART  THE  SOLDIER.  A  Romance  of  1745.  By 
J.  C.  Snaith.  New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

UNCLE  BERNAC.  A  Memory  of  the  Empire.  By  A.  Conan 
Doyle.  New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

MIDDLE  GREYNESS.  By  A.  J.  Dawson.  New  York :  John 
Lane. 

MERE  SENTIMENT.  By  A.  J.  Dawson.  New  York :  John 
Lane. 

THE  PHILANDERERS.  By  A.  E.  W.  Mason.  New  York : 
The  Macmillan  Co. 

MR.  PETERS.  A  Novel.  By  Riccardo  Stephens,  M.B.,  C.M. 
New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

THE  POMP  OF  THE  LAVILETTES.  By  Gilbert  Parker. 
Boston :  Larason,  Wolffe,  &  Co. 

A  ROMANY  OF  THE  SNOWS.  By  Gilbert  Parker.  New 
York :  Stone  &  Kimball. 

AN  AMERICAN  EMPEROR.  A  Story  of  the  Fourth  Empire 
of  France.  By  Louis  Tracy.  New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

A  PRINCESS  AND  A  WOMAN.  A  Romance  of  Carpathia. 
By  Robert  McDonald.  New  York :  Frank  A.  Mnnsey. 

A  STORY-TELLER'S  PACK.  By  Frank  R.  Stockton.  New 
York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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for  a  score  of  years.  "  The  Martian  "  is  a  rather 
more  harum-scarum  performance  than  either  of  its 
predecessors.  The  hypnotic  nonsense  of  "  Trilby  " 
was  had  enough,  in  all  conscience,  hut  the  astral 
influence  nonsense  of  the  new  novel  is  even  more 
pitifully  puerile.  The  story  is  made  up  of  tags, 
reminiscent  and  reflective,  and  only  the  fact  that 
they  come  from  a  genial  mind  and  a  warm  heart, 
and  that  somehow  they  produce  in  their  scrappy 
way  the  impression  of  superabundant  life,  do  they 
save  the  hook  from  inanity  and  encourage  the  reader 
to  persevere  to  the  end.  The  first  chapters  of  the 
hook  are  much  the  best,  and,  taken  by  themselves  as 
a  picture  of  French  schoolboy  life  half  a  century 
ago,  they  are  a  fitting  pendant  to  the  story  of  Tom 
Brown  at  Rugby.  The  famous  construction  of 
"  triste  lupus,"  for  example,  is  at  least  equalled  by 
the  achievement  of  the  youth  who  makes  "  J'estime 
les  Danois  et  leurs  dents  de  fer  "  out  of  "  Timeo 
Danaos."  We  are  sorry  when  Barty  leaves  school, 
for  he  becomes  far  less  interesting,  and  the  people 
with  whom  he  associates  bore  us  not  a  little.  Of 
course  the  book  is  attractive  in  spots  throughout, 
made  bright  by  sparkling  bubbles  of  humor  and 
serious  by  touches  of  poignant  pathos,  but  in  spite 
of  these  things  it  drags  undeniably — especially  from 
the  time  when  Martia  begins  to  get  in  her  uncanny 
work — just  as  "  Trilby  "  drags  after  the  ill-advised 
introduction  of  the  hypnotic  motive.  "  The  Mar- 
tian "  will  doubtless  have  many  readers,  just  as 
"  Trilby  "  had  them,  but  we  cannot  predict  for  it 
any  measure  of  enduring  fame,  however  brilliantly 
the  author's  talent  flashes  out  here  and  there. 

When  a  writer  starts  out  to  cultivate  a  Mere- 
dithian  style  he  should  at  least  be  equipped  with  an 
elementary  knowledge  of  English  syntax.  Mr.  J.  C. 
Snaith,  to  whom  this  observation  refers,  mars  what 
would  otherwise  be  a  good  piece  of  work  by  the 
grossest  of  solecisms.  He  repeatedly  uses  "  like  " 
as  a  conjunction,  and  is  so  enamored  of  split  infini- 
tives that  he  seems  to  go  out  of  his  way  to  make 
them.  As  for  the  Meredithian  quality  of  his  style, 
an  extract  may  serve  as  illustration.  "  Softly,  softly ! 
she  twisted  the  knob  within  her  cunning  palm,  she 
made  no  sound,  she  let  no  faint  creak  arise,  but 
there  it  was  unlatched  with  a  secrecy  excelling 
feline.  Now  she  jammed  one  taut  finger-tip  against 
the  panel's  face,  applied  the  most  expert  nicety  of 
pressure,  and  the  door  opened  one-eighth  of  an  inch, 
nor  made  no  sound.  A  thread  of  lamplight  curled 
out  and  made  love  to  her  sparkling  face.  It  ad- 
mired her  nostrils  most,  it  saw  the  throb  of  battle 
in  them.  Success  was  now  piping  to  her  blood ;  it 
swelled  on  the  martial  song  and  incited  her  eyes  to 
flash  rebellion."  Not  a  bad  imitation,  surely,  and 
"  Fierceheart  the  Soldier  "  is  written  throughout  in 
this  sort  of  English.  It  purports  to  be  a  romance 
of  the  Forty-five,  and  it  really  is  concerned  in  a  way 
with  the  events  from  Prestoupans  to  Culloden.  But 
its  chief  interest  is  domestic,  and  lies  in  its  extremely 
strong  and  subtle  characterization  of  some  half- 
dozen  persons.  Fierceheart  himself  is  a  character 


not  unlike  the  Nelson  of  history  and  the  Volodyovski 
of  fiction,  a  brave  soldier  and  an  exceeding  fop, 
equally  concerned  with  love  of  country  and  the  curl- 
ing of  his  wig,  and  inexorable  when  some  point  of 
honor  is  in  question.  And  he  is  only  one  of  the 
several  strong  and  vital  figures  by  which  this  book 
is  made  something  distinctly  out  of  the  common. 

In  Dr.  Doyle's  recent  novels  we  look  in  vain  for 
the  qualities  that  won  for  "Micah  Clarke"  and 
"  The  White  Company  "  such  deserved  admiration. 
In  "  Uncle  Bernac,"  the  latest  of  these  productions, 
there  is  a  fair  degree  of  interest  and  a  certain  vigor 
of  handling,  but  one  would  never  think  of  reading 
the  book  a  second  time.  The  story  is  of  Napoleon 
at  Boulogne,  about  to  set  out  for  the  conquest  of 
England,  and  is  concerned  chiefly  with  the  adven- 
tures of  the  son  of  a  French  refugee  royalist,  who 
returns  to  France  to  offer  his  sword  to  the  Emperor. 
The  figure  of  Napoleon  is  sketched  in  a  theatrical, 
"  Madame  Bejane  "  sort  of  fashion,  and  one  gets 
from  it  no  impression  of  vitality.  It  portrays  a  few 
of  the  man's  humors,  but  not  the  man  himself.  The 
whole  narrative,  in  fact,  is  sketchy,  written  currents 
calamo,  and  hurried  to  a  tame  conclusion. 

"  Middle  Greyness  "  is  a  novel  whose  scenes  are 
laid  alternately  in  Australia  and  in  England.  It 
tells  of  a  man  who  has  make  a  wreck  of  his  own 
life  (although  we  are  not  told  just  how),  and  who 
relinquishes  his  two  sons  to  a  wealthy  relative,  who 
agrees  to  provide  for  them  on  condition  that  the 
father  shall  disappear  completely.  So  the  father 
takes  to  the  Bush  and  the  sons  are  sent  to  the  Uni- 
versity. How  the  father,  despite  his  agreement, 
does  come  into  the  lives  of  his  sons,  unknown  to 
them,  and  how  the  latter  go  their  several  ways  — 
the  one  to  degradation  and  the  other  to  fame  —  is 
set  forth  with  much  prolixity.  The  father,  con- 
scious of  "  the  black  streak  "  in  his  own  character, 
hopes  to  find  it  subdued  to  "  middle  greyness  "  in 
the  characters  of  his  sons.  This  is  the  explanation 
of  the  title,  and  it  must  be  said  that  the  author  harps 
upon  these  and  some  other  favorite  phrases  with 
undue  persistence.  The  book  is  not  very  well  writ- 
ten, and  its  best  passages  are  those  which  relate  to 
Australia.  Here  we  have  pages  of  description  which 
fairly  glow  with  color,  and  which  are  filled  with 
what  may  be  called  the  passion  of  the  Bush.  On 
the  whole,  the  book  is  not  a  strong  one,  although  it 
has  flashes  of  genuine  power.  Similar  characteristics 
must  be  ascribed  to  the  collection  of  a  dozen  sketches 
that  the  author  of  "  Middle  Greyness  "  has  brought 
into  a  volume  entitled  "  Mere  Sentiment."  Some  of 
these,  also,  are  Australian  in  theme,  and  all  of  them 
lie  rather  without  the  usual  rut  of  the  teller  of 
stories.  They  are  not  very  carefully  worked  out, 
and  are  brought  to  somewhat  abrupt  conclusions. 

Mr.  A.  E.  W.  Mason's  thrilling  story  of  "  The 
Courtship  of  Morrice  Buckler  "  gave  us  a  taste  for 
its  author  which  is  hardly  satisfied  by  his  new  book, 
"  The  Philanderers."  He  is  better  at  intrigue  and 
adventure  than  in  the  analysis  of  character  which  he 
attempts  in  the  present  work,  and  the  reader  feels 


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but  a  languid  interest  in  his  London  society  figures 
—  the  fickle  maiden  who  adds  conquest  to  conquest, 
the  vain  and  petty  litterateur,  and  even  the  late 
leader  of  an  African  expedition,  now  turned  pro- 
moter and  busied  with  the  floating  of  a  new  enter- 
prise. We  should  have  liked  him  better  had  he 
remained  in  Africa  where  the  beginning  of  the  story 
finds  him. 

"Mr.  Peters"  is  a  novel  that  begins  with  a 
lynching-bee  in  Western  America,  and  ends  by  drop- 
ping the  hero  into  the  sea  at  Leith.  This  hero  is  a 
gentleman  of  Swiss-Italian  extraction,  the  son  of  the 
innocent  victim  of  the  lynchers,  and  a  child  at  the 
time  of  the  fatal  occurrence.  When  he  grows  up, 
his  one  object  in  life  is  to  track  the  two  men  who 
were  chiefly  responsible  for  the  tragedy,  and  to 
avenge  upon  them  his  father's  death.  The  scene  is 
mostly  laid  in  Edinburgh,  to  which  the  two  men  find 
their  way,  and  the  tedium  of  the  motive  above  out- 
lined is  relieved  by  the  introduction  of  a  number  of 
minor  characters  none  of  whom  turn  out  very  inter- 
esting. The  book  has  some  touches  of  grim  humor 
and  a  few  fairly  animated  scenes,  but  it  undoubt- 
edly drags  in  many  places,  and  the  general  effect  is 
one  of  incoherency.  Nearly  every  one  of  the  char- 
acters is  blurred  in  the  delineation,  and  we  search 
in  vain  for  some  clean-cut  and  vividly-conceived 
figure  with  an  unmistakable  personality  of  its  own. 
On  the  whole,  one  is  glad  when  the  victims  of  Mr. 
Peters  are  out  of  the  way  and  he  himself  is  drowned, 
for  he  might  have  gone  on  fumbling  indefinitely  with 
his  ineffectual  plans  for  revenge. 

Mr.  Gilbert  Parker's  work  is  always  carefully 
conceived  and  elaborated  with  much  artistic  finish. 
He  has  recently  added  two  books  to  his  lengthening 
list.  One  of  them,  "  The  Pomp  of  the  Lavilettes," 
is  the  story  of  a  French  Canadian  village  at  the  time 
of  Papineau's  abortive  rebellion  (1837-8).  It  is  a 
strong  piece  of  work,  dramatic  and  stirring,  per- 
haps not  quite  as  good  as  "  Valmoml,"  but  holding 
the  attention  absorbed  in  the  fortunes  of  its  leading 
characters,  and  brought  to  a  finely  tragic  ending. 
"A  Romany  of  the  Snows,"  Mr.  Parker's  other 
new  book,  is  a  volume  of  nine  short  stories,  in  many 
of  which  our  old  friend  Pierre  figures.  It  has  the 
crisp  atmosphere  of  the  Northern  wilderness,  the 
mystery  and  the  romance  of  life  among  a  simple 
people  who  live  close  to  nature,  and  are  none  the 
worse  for  being  without  the  trappings  of  a  sophis- 
ticated civilization. 

Some  months  ago  our  readers  were  informed  of 
the  fund  of  entertainment  awaiting  them  in  Mr. 
Louis  Tracy's  "  The  Final  War."  No  less  auda- 
cious in  conception,  and  fully  as  beguiling  for  an 
idle  day,  is  Mr.  Tracy's  new  romance  of  "  An  Amer- 
ican Emperor."  Just  why  the  book  should  be  fur- 
ther styled  "A  Story  of  the  Fourth  Empire  of 
France  "  is  not  altogether  clear,  and  we  fear  that 
the  author  has  got  the  two  historical  empires  mixed 
up  with  the  three  republics.  Be  that  as  it  may,  this 
story  of  an  American  multimillionaire,  who  makes 
himself  Emperor  of  France,  without  shedding  any 


blood  in  the  attempt,  is  what  unconventional  youth 
would  call  "  a  rattling  good  book,"  and  what  sober 
reflection  is  bound  to  admit  to  be  animated  and 
exciting  in  a  very  marked  degree.  It  is  a  sort  of 
compound  of  the  daring  of  Dumas,  Sue,  and  Jules 
Verne,  with  no  style  to  speak  of,  and  with  nothing 
that  could  be  called  delineation  of  character,  but 
with  inventive  and  narrative  qualities  that  do  some- 
thing to  make  up  for  the  lack  of  more  serious  ones. 

"  A  Princess  and  a  Woman  "  is  a  romance  of  the 
"Zenda"  type,  and  tells  how  a  dashing  young 
American  officer  won  the  heart  and  the  hand  of  a 
princess,  in  spite  of  the  determination  of  the  Rus- 
sian court  to  force  her  marriage  with  the  ill-favored 
Prince  of  Carpathia.  It  is  a  fairly  clever  and  well- 
managed  book,  written  by  Mr.  Robert  McDonald, 
and  published  as  the  first  of  a  new  copyright  series 
of  cloth-bound  volumes  to  be  sold  at  the  very  low 
price  of  twenty-five  cents  each.  The  projector  of 
this  commendable  enterprise  is  Mr.  Frank  Munsey, 
the  proprietor  of  a  well-known  monthly  magazine. 

When  one  of  Mr.  Stockton's  books  has  been  de- 
scribed, the  epithets  needed  for  the  rest  of  them  are 
exhausted.  "A  Story-Teller's  Pack,"  containing 
eleven  tales,  exhibits  the  whimsical  humor  with 
which  we  are  so  familiar,  the  ingenuity  of  invention, 
and  the  cheery  outlook  upon  life.  The  stories  are 
certainly  amusing,  particularly  those  called  "  The 
Staying  Power  of  Sir  Rohan,"  "As  One  Woman  to 
Another,"  and  "The  Widow's  Cruise."  Perhaps  it 
is  because  this  latter  title  was  already  preempted 
that  the  author  did  not  give  it  to  the  story  of  "  Mrs. 
Cliff's  Yacht,"  which  it  would  have  fitted  so  admir- 
WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

Historical  sketch    Reuben  T'  Dttrrett»  LL'D" 

of  the  "dark  and  of  the  Filson  Club  of  Kentucky,  has 
bloody  ground."  prepared  for  publication  Number 
Twelve  of  the  Publications  that  bear  the  name  of  this 
organization.  It  is  entitled  "  Bryant's  Station  and 
the  Memorial  Proceedings  held  on  its  Site  under  the 
Auspices  of  the  Lexington  Chapter  D.A.R.  August 
the  18th,  1896,  in  Honor  of  its  Heroic  Mothers." 
The  contents,  which  are  contributed  by  different 
authors,  are  entitled  "The  Lexington  Chapter, 
D.A.R.,"  "The  First  Act  in  the  Siege  of  Bryant's 
Station,"  "The  Women  of  the  Station,"  an  original 
poem,  "The  Story  of  the  Station,"  "The  Battle  of 
the  Blue  Licks,"  and  an  "  Historical  Sketch  of  the 
Filson  Club."  The  "dark  and  bloody  ground," 
strange  to  say,  was  not  inhabited  by  Indians  at  the 
time  when  the  men  from  Virginia  and  the  Carolinas 
began  to  enter  in  and  take  possession ;  it  was  the 
bone  of  contention  between  the  tribes  lying  to  the 
south  and  the  north,  and  the  familiar  name  was 
given  to  it  for  this  very  reason ;  still,  the  northern 
savages  held  the  region  in  a  firm  grasp,  and  it  was 
rescued  from  them  only  by  bloody  and  desperate 


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contests  like  those  of  Bryant's  Station  and  the  Blue 
Licks.  It  is  difficult  to  make  students  of  old-world 
history  believe  that  these  conflicts  in  the  western 
wilderness  rank  in  importance  with  the  battles  that 
brought  the  countries  of  central  and  northern 
Europe  under  the  dominion  of  civilized  man ;  but 
time  is  showing  that  such  is  the  fact.  The  Kentucky 
stories  are  the  more  important  because  they  fre- 
quently show  British  officers  from  Canada  leading 
the  Indians  on  their  forays.  It  was  at  Bryant's 
Station,  the  reader  will  remember,  that  the  women 
and  girls,  twenty-eight  in  number,  when  the  garrison 
was  on  the  point  of  perishing  for  water,  issued  from 
the  gate,  covered  as  it  was  by  the  rifles  of  the  war- 
riors in  hiding,  proceeded  to  the  spring,  filled  their 
pails  and  piggins,  and  returned  in  safety  to  their  hus- 
bands, fathers,  and  brothers  who  were  standing  to 
their  guns  behind  the  stockade,  the  savages  refrain- 
ing from  firing  upon  them  or  seizing  them  because 
their  white  commander  had  ordered  them  to  wait 
until  guns  were  heard  on  the  other  side  of  the  station. 
A  Kentucky  orator  has  compared  the  act  to  the  deed 
of  David's  three  mighty  men  of  war  who  broke 
through  the  ranks  of  the  Philistines  and  brought 
water  for  their  chieftain  from  the  well  at  Bethlehem. 
The  act  was  in  fact  a  more  daring  one.  "  The  basin 
of  the  spring  was  not  deep  enough  to  plunge  the 
vessels  and  thus  fill  them  at  once.  They  had  to  dip 
the  water  with  gourds,  and  thus  tediously  and  slowly 
fill  their  vessels.  During  this  slow  process,  which 
lengthened  moments  into  hours,  a  glance  to  the  right 
or  left  might  have  met  the  glittering  black  eyes  of 
bloodthirsty  savages  peeping  from  behind  trees  or 
from  among  the  undergrowth  which  concealed  them. 
.  .  .  The  girls  were  not  probably  fully  aware  of  the 
danger  incurred,  but  the  women  comprehended  the 
situation  fully,"  says  one  of  the  writers,  "  and  by  an 
act  of  cool  and  deliberate  courage  won  for  them- 
selves a  name  which  should  never  pass  from  the 
memorial  page  of  our  history."  The  present  num- 
ber is  one  of  the  largest  of  the  Filson  Club  Publica- 
tions, and  appears,  in  the  same  sumptuous  style  as 
its  predecessors,  from  the  press  of  Messrs.  John  P. 
Morton  &  Co.,  of  Louisville. 

An  entertaining  little  book  that  comes 
with  a  certain  timeliness,  after  recent 
events  in  the  East,  is  Captain  John 
Codman's  "  An  American  Transport  in  the  Crimean 
War  "  (Bonnell,  Silver  &  Co.).  Mr.  John  Codman 
Ropes,  the  author's  cousin,  has  supplied  a  brief 
commendatory  introduction.  The  book  forms  at 
once  a  capital  sailor's  yarn  and  an  instructive  foot- 
note to  the  history  of  the  Crimean  war.  Captain 
Codman  sailed  for  Marseilles,  May  20,  1854,  in 
command  of  the  "  William  Penn,"  a  small  steam 
freighter  with  accommodations  for  twenty  odd 
passengers.  The  "  Penn  "  was  a  pioneer  vessel  of 
her  class,  and  her  experimental  venture  proved  a 
failure.  After  lying  idle  at  Marseilles  for  a  time, 
she  was  chartered  by  the  French  government  for 
transport  service,  and  sent  to  the  Crimea  with  a 


A  Yankee 
skipper  in  the 
Crimean  war. 


cargo  of  stores  and  ammunition  and  a  detach- 
ment of  troops.  The  author's  account  of  this  trip, 
and  of  the  "  Penn's  "  subsequent  adventures  as  a 
transport  plying  between  the  scene  of  hostilities 
in  the  Crimea  and  the  various  bases  of  supplies, 
is  decidedly  readable.  After  the  expiration  of  his 
contract  with  the  French,  he  took  service  with  the 
Turks,  the  runs  being  mostly  between  Constanti- 
nople and  Varna  or  Eupatoria.  His  experiences 
with  the  Turks  were  on  the  whole  agreeable.  In 
their  service,  he  says,  "  we  had  an  exceedingly  easy 
time.  The  French  idea  of  putting  off  nothing  for 
the  morrow  that  could  be  done  to-day  was  exactly 
reversed.  ...  I  honestly  think  there  was  a  great 
deal  of  pay  for  very  little  work."  Captain  Cod- 
man's account  of  Turkish  officials  and  their  ways  is 
amusing  and  not  unfavorable.  His  first  encounter 
with  the  Turk,  officially,  was  at  Nagara  Point  in 
the  Dardanelles,  where  the  "  Penn  "  went  aground 
"  on  the  very  spot  where  Leander  landed  when  he 
swam  the  Hellespont."  The  reigning  official  of 
the  place,  Suleyman  Pasha,  was  most  kind  and 
attentive  to  the  stranded  "Giaours,"  and  it  was 
mainly  through  his  aid  that  the  "  Penn  "  was  finally 
floated.  When  the  question  of  remuneration  was 
delicately  broached  to  this  good  Samaritan,  he 
seized  Captain  Codman's  hand,  and  placing  it  upon 
his  heart,  replied :  "  God  pays  me,  my  brother." 
Could  (or  would)  a  Christian  have  said  more? 
Suleyman  Pasha  was  a  strict  (if  literal)  observer 
of  the  forms  described  by  the  Prophet.  When  he 
dined  on  board  the  "  Penn,"  Captain  Codman,  on 
the  principle  of  not  tempting  one's  brother  to  offend, 
carefully  excluded  wine  from  the  table.  "  Think, 
then,"  he  says,  "  of  my  astonishment  at  a  gentle 
hint  from  the  Pasha  as  to  champagne !  It  was  of 
course  immediately  produced.  Upon  my  remark- 
ing that  it  had  not  been  offered  before  on  account 
of  what  I  supposed  to  be  his  religious  scruples,  he 
replied  with  an  air  of  perfect  sincerity,  '  Wine  was 
forbidden  by  the  prophet ;  not  champagne.  Cham- 
pagne did  not  exist  in  his  day ;  how  then  could  he 
have  forbidden  it  ?  Marshallah !  God  is  great,'  con- 
tinned  Suleyman,  smoothing  his  beard  and  soothing 
his  conscience.  '  Pass  the  bottle.'  "  Captain  Cod- 
man's little  book  is  well  worth  reading. 

The  essay  which  gives  title  to  Mrs. 
Marriage  question*  E  R  Chapman's  "Marriage  Ques- 

in  literature.  .  .         /    ,  _.     .  •,        •, 

tions  in  Modern  fiction,  and  other 
Essays  "  (John  Lane)  is  recent ;  the  others  belong 
to  different  years  in  the  past  decade,  although  all 
have  been  carefully  revised  for  publication.  The 
book  is  therefore  interesting,  if  only  as  giving  some 
idea  of  the  increase  of  a  tendency  which  most  of  us 
have  got  so  used  to  that  we  hardly  appreciate  it. 
Yet  it  certainly  is  remarkable  that  the  chief  novels 
of  the  last  few  years  should  so  often  deal  in  one  way 
or  another  with  what  may  be  vaguely  called  "  mar- 
riage questions."  And  this  larger  sphere  —  the 
sphere  of  "  Tess  of  the  d'Urbervilles,"  of  "  Trilby," 
of  "  Lord  Ormont,"  of  "  The  Manxman  " —  is  only 


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the  nebula  (so  far  as  this  matter  is  concerned)  of 
the  more  intense  core  furnished  by  such  books  as 
"  The  Story  of  an  African  Farm,"  "  The  Heavenly 
Twins,"  "  The  Woman  who  Did,"  "  Jude  the  Ob- 
scure." Books  like  these  latter  are  more  or  less 
propogandist ;  but  even  books  like  the  former  show 
the  workings  of  the  thought  of  our  time.  In  view 
of  all  this,  Mrs.  Chapman  argues,  simply  enough, 
and  sensibly,  for  indissoluble  marriage  and  no 
divorce  at  all.  The  conclusion  is  a  difficult  one  to 
avoid,  if  one  accepts  the  idea  of  a  life-union  of  one 
man  and  one  woman  as  being  the  ideal  to  be  ulti- 
mately attained.  We  need  not,  however,  give  Mrs. 
Chapman's  arguments  nor  our  own  commentary ;  it 
is  enough  here  to  mention  her  rational  tone  and  her 
success  in  avoiding  the  absurdity  and  tediousness 
one  sometimes  finds  in  discussions  on  the  subject. 
Beside  the  title-essay,  and  four  others  on  marriage 
and  divorce,  there  are  two  on  literary  topics :  one 
on  "  The  Disparagement  of  Women  in  Literature," 
and  one  on  u  St.  Paul  and  the  Woman  Movement," 
both  interesting.  The  first  amazes  us  (trained  as 
we  were  to  an  opposite  view  by  Mr.  Ruskin  in  his 
monograph  on  "  Queen's  Gardens  "  )  by  the  devel- 
opment of  the  thesis  that  Shakespeare  arrogantly, 
and  in  a  domineering  way,  regarded  women  as 
inferior  to  men.  The  second  essay  shows  that  St. 
Paul  emphasized  the  inferior  position  of  women, — 
a  matter  of  very  slight  importance,  since  there  are 
few  wives  who,  however  sound  on  the  question  of 
verbal  inspiration,  regard  the  word  "  obey  "  as  other 
than  an  empty  conventionality.  This  matter  of  the 
inferiority  of  woman  does  not  appear  to  us  to  be  one 
to  be  settled  by  present  argument.  There  can  be 
little  doubt  that  woman  was  the  inferior  sex,  phys- 
ically and  mentally.  Without  inquiry  into  the  rea- 
son, such  was  the  fact,  and  on  that  fact  arose  tradi- 
tion and  convention.  Now,  we  understand,  the  fact 
is  otherwise,  or  at  least  ought  to  be.  New  traditions 
and  new  conventions  will  doubtless  accommodate 
themselves  to  the  new  fact.  Meanwhile,  why  not 
let  St.  Paul  and  Shakespeare  rest  in  peace? 

The  original  Prof  essor  Hart's  "American  History 

materials  of  Told  by  Contemporaries  "  (Macmil- 

American  history.     lan)  J8  ft  contribution  to  the  Source, 

or  laboratory,  method  of  teaching  history.  Stated 
in  its  extreme  form,  this  method  puts  the  pupil,  as 
soon  as  he  is  furnished  with  any,  even  the  slender- 
est, thread  of  historical  narrative,  at  the  sources,  or 
documents,  and  leaves  him,  with  more  or  less  help, 
to  elaborate  his  own  history  from  the  materials. 
Stated  in  a  more  conservative  manner,  it  introduces 
the  student,  when  he  has  made  a  certain  rather  indef- 
inite degree  of  progress  in  the  study  of  historical 
text-books,  to  original  material,  and  leaves  him, 
under  competent  direction,  to  check  and  work  out 
results  for  himself,  and,  what  is  more  important, 
to  master  the  method  of  historical  investigation.  At 
the  core,  the  two  forms  of  statement  do  not  disagree ; 
the  only  open  question  is,  How  soon  the  pupil  shall 
be  introduced  to  the  source  method  ?  The  truth  is, 


this  question  cannot  be  answered  in  term ;  sources 
will  be  so  gradually  introduced  in  good  history  teach- 
ing, and  text-books  so  progressively  laid  aside,  that 
there  is  no  abrupt  passage  from  the  one  method  to 
the  other.  Carried  to  an  extreme,  the  new  method 
will  do  much  harm  ;  used  judiciously,  it  is  capable 
of  accomplishing  great  good.  In  fact,  it  is  not  so 
"  new  "  as  it  seems  to  be ;  to  read  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  Washington's  Farewell  Address,  or  Lincoln's 
Inaugural  Addresses,  is  to  study  history  in  its 
sources ;  so  that  what  is  really  new  is  the  enhanced 
emphasis  and  the  new  methods  of  providing  and 
handling  material.  Professor  Hart  holds  to  the 
source  method  in  its  more  conservative  form,  and 
has  undertaken  to  prepare  a  series  of  volumes  of 
sources  to  promote  its  use.  Volume  I.  ("Era  of 
Colonization,  1492-1689  "),  now  before  us,  is  the 
first  of  the  series.  The  selections  are  well  made, 
well  arranged,  and  well  printed ;  and  the  volume, 
like  those  that  are  to  follow,  cannot  fail  to  receive 
a  warm  welcome  from  all  teachers  and  students  of 
American  history.  We  have  heard  a  very  competent 
professor  of  American  history  express  regret  that 
the  apparatus  of  annotation  and  criticism  is  not  more 
abundant;  and  the  point  seems  to  be  well  taken. 
Still,  considerable  assistance  of  this  kind  is  afforded 
the  reader.  The  book  takes  its  place  at  once  on  the 
shelf  as  indispensable. 

Early  critical  The  "  Quarterly  Review  "  was  once 
work  of  much  vexed  at  Mr.  Edmund  Gosse 

Mr.  GO***.  because,  while  Clark  Professor  of 

Poetry  at  the  University  of  Cambridge,  he  prefaced 
his  learned  work  "  From  Shakespeare  to  Pope  "  with 
a  poem  in  which  he  represented  himself  as  a  spar- 
row sitting  on  a  clothes-line  in  Mr.  W.  D.  Howells's 
back-yard.  We  think  that  this  was  a  harmless  fancy 
on  the  part  of  the  amiable  critic,  and  we  regret  that 
he  has  not  prefaced  the  revised  edition  of  his 
"Seventeenth  Century  Studies"  (Dodd,  Mead  & 
Co.)  with  a  little  poem  representing  himself  as  a 
lark,  disdaining  the  earth  in  the  roseate  dawn  and 
blithely  singing  of  divine  things  while  lost  in  the 
empyrean.  Such  a  conception  would,  we  think, 
attune  the  mind  of  the  reader  to  the  "  criticism  "  in 
the  book,  which  is  called  "  a  contribution  to  the  his- 
tory of  English  Poetry."  Mr.  Gosse  himself  has 
elsewhere  expressed  his  idea  of  the  advantage  to  the 
writer  of  literary  history  of  "  a  rare  combination  of 
exact  knowledge  with  the  power  of  graceful  com- 
position." The  fact  that  he  does  not  mention  sound 
judgment  as  another  useful  possession  will  not  sur- 
prise those  familiar  with  his  work.  This  book  cer- 
tainly shows  graceful  composition :  Mr.  Gosse  has 
the  gift,  or  art,  of  writing,  in  a  way  that  interests 
one.  But  as  for  exact  knowledge  and  sound  judg- 
ment, these  are  things  that  no  one  need  expect  from 
him.  This  book  has  been  before  the  public  fourteen 
years,  in  part  more.  In  that  time  it  has  been  criti- 
cised for  absurdities  of  judgment  and  statement, — 
not  so  much  as  some  of  the  works  of  Mr.  Gosse, 


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it  is  true,  but  still  enough  to  be  noticed.  In  the 
present  edition,  some  additions  have  been  made, 
but  not  a  single  correction ;  nor  is  there  any  allu- 
sion to  any  criticism,  except  a  letter  from  Mr.  Lowell 
in  regard  to  one  of  his  poems,  concerning  which 
Mr.  Gosse  appeared  to  have  a  false  idea.  The  book 
is  the  same  charming  composition  which  has  attracted 
so  many  to  various  half-forgotten  poets  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  that  its  sins  of  omission  and  com- 
mission are  doubtless  often  forgiven  it. 

A  converted  Thirty  years  of  recreative  study  fill 

pagan  of  the  the  fat  volume  containing  Archbishop 

third  century.  Benson's  "Cyprian,  his  Life,  his 
Time,  his  Work  "  (Appleton).  The  author  found 
peculiar  fascination  in  the  story  of  this  converted 
pagan.  As  a  sort  of  mental  athletics,  and  retreat 
from  the  duties  of  his  church,  be  has  pursued  for 
thirty  years  a  very  minute  investigation  of  the  lit- 
erature on  this  ancient  church  father,  and  his  book 
represents  monumental  and  scholarly  and  loving 
sympathetic  industry.  The  period  of  history  whose 
story  is  told  here  covers  fifteen  years  (246-260 
B.  C.)  in  the  third  century.  The  charming  city  of 
Carthage,  the  queen  of  Northern  Africa,  is  the 
principal  scene  of  the  Cyprianic  trials,  triumphs, 
and  tragedy.  Cyprian's  heathen  education,  his  con- 
version to  Christianity,  his  promotion  in  the  Church, 
his  sacrifices,  his  sufferings,  his  theological  beliefs, 
his  persecutions,  and  his  martyrdom,  are  all  fol- 
lowed out  with  such  nicety  of  detail  and  keenness  of 
discrimination  as  to  leave  nothing  further  to  be  de- 
sired. The  persecutions  of  Roman  emperors,  the 
Church  councils,  the  dogmas  of  leaders,  are  analyzed 
and  set  forth  with  scholarly  exactness.  Though  he 
was  a  close  imitator  and  admirer  of  Tertullian,  we 
are  led  to  see  that  Cyprian  occupies  a  unique  place 
in  the  African  Church.  It  is  refreshing  to  see  that 
the  author  has  utilized  the  best  and  latest  literature 
on  the  subject;  the  Index  gives  the  titles  of  ninety- 
four  works,  in  Latin,  German,  and  French,  quoted 
and  referred  to  in  the  body  of  the  book.  Foot-notes 
abound,  as  they  should,  in  confirmation  of  the  views 
advanced  by  the  author.  Ten  appendices  deal  with 
special  themes  touching  the  times  of  Cyprian.  A 
few  woodcuts  and  three  elegant  maps  add  to  the 
attractiveness  of  the  volume.  Though  not  easy  read- 
ing for  other  than  Church  historians  and  similar 
specialists,  this  sumptuous  volume  will  not  for  long 
years  cease  to  be  the  standard  life  of  the  great 
African  churchman. 


Memories  of 
Hawthorne. 


No  American  author  has  achieved  a 
reputation  more  secure  than  that  of 
Hawthorne.  Hence,  perhaps,  it  will 
be  with  many  that  of  no  American  author  would 
they  more  gladly  see  a  volume  of  Memories.  It  is 
pretty  certain,  however,  that  the  real  interest  in 
Hawthorne  concerns  itself  more  with  his  work  than 
with  his  personal  character,  and  it  is  very  probable, 
too,  that  no  matter  how  many  volumes  of  reminis- 
cence might  appear,  we  should  never  know  much 


more  of  him  than  we  might  now.  Hawthorne  would 
seem  to  have  been  more  or  less  like  the  man  in 
"  Wakefield  ":  he  habitually  lived  in  the  next  street 
from  his  family.  Still,  they  sometimes  saw  him,  and 
these  little  snatches  make  Mrs.  Rose  Hawthorne 
Lathrop's  "  Memories  of  Hawthorne  "  (Houghton) 
an  exceedingly  interesting  book,  as  indeed  every- 
one would  imagine.  It  is,  as  Mrs.  Lathrop  says, 
really  written  by  her  mother,  being  largely  made  up 
from  Sophia  Hawthorne's  letters.  The  interest  in 
the  book  is  partly  domestic:  it  is  the  picture  of 
Hawthorne  playing  blindman's  buff  with  the  "  Old 
People  "  (as  he  called  his  children),  or  of  Hawthorne 
cultivating  incomparable  vegetables  in  the  garden  of 
the  Manse,  or  harvesting  water-lilies  on  the  Assahet ; 
and  it  is  partly  historical :  as  with  the  skating-party, 
for  instance,  of  Hawthorne  wrapped  in  a  cloak, 
skating  like  a  Greek  statue,  Thoreau  figuring  dithy- 
rambic  dances  and  Bacchic  leaps,  and  Emerson  all 
tired  out  coming  to  rest  by  Mrs.  Hawthorne.  Lit- 
erary the  book  is  not,  in  the  sense,  that  is,  that  we 
do  not  learn  from  it  much  of  Hawthorne  the  man 
of  letters.  It  is  as  well  that  we  do  not :  Hawthorne 
the  genius  is  to  be  found  sufficiently  in  what  he 
wrote.  In  this  volume  Hawthorne  the  man,  amid 
his  surroundings,  comes  to  view  cordially  and  even 
intimately.  He  was  a  man  rather  different  from 
what  any  reader  of  his  books  would  imagine,  and 
although  in  this  book  he  is  always  in  the  background, 
yet  even  though  he  be  not  clearly  presented,  we  get 
probably  a  truer  idea  of  his  personality  than  we 
could  from  a  more  definite  presentation. 

Mr.  J.  E.  Farmer's  "Essays  on 
French  History  "  (Putnam)  are  two 
in  number,  and  they  make  but  a 
slender  volume.  The  author  has  not  burrowed 
very  deeply  into  the  sources  of  history,  and  his  style 
is  somewhat  crude  ;  yet  he  has  got  together  many 
details  in  the  history  of  two  important  periods  that 
even  careful  readers  could  find  only  with  some  dif- 
ficulty. The  opening  essay  is  on  "  The  Rise  of  the 
Reformation  in  France  and  its  Relation  to  Martin 
Luther ; "  the  other,  which  is  a  stronger  piece  of 
work,  is  a  sketch  of  the  history  of  "  The  Club  of 
the  Jacobins."  The  description  of  the  methods 
used  in  controlling  the  Assembly  and  directing  the 
current  of  affairs  by  organized  mob  violence  is  of 
special  interest. 

The  history  of  British  India,  as  told 
by  R.  W.  Frazer  in  his  recent  addi- 
tion to  the  "  Story  of  the  Nations  " 
series  (Putnam),  is  a  most  interesting  narrative  and 
a  good  piece  of  popular  history-writing.  Beginning 
with  the  early  history  of  Indian  commerce,  Mr. 
Frazer  traces  the  rise  of  English  influence  through 
the  founding  and  growth  of  the  East  India  Company ; 
England's  bitter  struggles  with  the  Portuguese, 
Dutch,  and  French;  the  gradual  conquest  of  the 
vast  country ;  and  the  later  history  of  the  organiza- 
tion and  strengthening  of  the  government.  In  the 


The  hi-slory  of 
British  India. 


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final  chapter  the  author  discusses  the  moral  and 
material  progress  under  British  rule.  The  thrilling 
events  associated  with  the  names  of  Dupleix,  Clive, 
Hastings,  Havelock,  and  Lawrence,  are  described 
briefly  but  with  spirit.  England's  policy  in  seizing 
the  principalities  and  appropriating  the  wealth  of  the 
princes  is  not  upheld  from  the  strictly  moral  point 
of  view,  but  the  author  significantly  likens  it  to  her 
present  policy  in  South  Africa  and  Russia's  policy 
in  the  Northern  Pacific  —  which  he  regards  as  justi- 
fiable aggressions  for  the  sake  of  trade  and  imperial 
influence. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 

The  fifth  volume  of  Henry  Craik's  "  Selections  from 
English  Prose  "  (Macmillan)  concludes  an  important 
work,  which  was  reviewed  at  length  in  THE  DIAL  of 
Sept.  1,  1893.  The  volume  includes  passages  from 
forty-six  different  writers,  beginning  with  Scott  and 
ending  with  Stevenson.  The  original  plan  for  four  vol- 
umes only  has  been  enlarged  to  include  a  fifth,  owing  to 
the  riches  of  our  prose  literature,  so  that  the  number 
and  variety  of  the  examples  chosen  have  been  corre- 
spondingly increased.  The  selections  have  been  well 
made,  the  introductions  are  by  the  same  well-known 
critics  and  men  of  letters,  and,  owing  to  its  nearness  to 
ourselves,  the  last  volume  of  the  set  surpasses  in  interest 
and  value  any  that  have  preceded.  The  complete  work 
is  now  published  in  a  handsome  library  edition,  in  the 
same  number  of  volumes. 

The  Chautauqua  books  for  the  coming  year,  five  in 
number  as  usual,  have  just  been  published  by  Messrs. 
Flood  &  Vincent,  and  are  as  usual  well-chosen  and 
attractive.  "  Roman  Life  in  Pliny's  Time,"  by  M.  Mau- 
rice Pellison,  is  translated  from  the  French  by  Miss 
Maud  Wilkinson.  "A  Short  History  of  Mediseval 
Europe,"  by  Dr.  Oliver  J.  Thatcher,  is  an  abridgment 
of  the  larger  "  Europe  in  the  Middle  Age,"  by  the  au- 
thor and  Dr.  Schwill.  This  work  is  also  published  by 
Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  "  Imperial  Germany," 
by  Mr.  Sidney  Whitman,  is  a  new  edition  of  a  work 
nearly  ten  years  old.  Mr.  W.  H.  Goodyear's  "  Roman 
and  Mediaeval  Art "  is  also  the  revision  of  an  earlier 
publication.  Last  of  all,  we  have  a  volume  upon  "  The 
Social  Spirit  in  America,"  by  Prof.  C.  R.  Henderson, 
whose  name  is  very  familiar  to  our  readers,  and  whose 
work  forms  an  admirable  introduction  to  the  subject  of 
social  science. 


LITERARY  NOTES. 

"The  Story  of  the  Atmosphere,"  by  Mr.  Douglas 
Archibald,  has  been  issued  by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  & 
Co.  in  their  «  Library  of  Useful  Stories." 

Madame  Sarah  Grand's  new  novel,  the  first  that  she 
has  published  since  "The  Heavenly  Twins,"  will  be 
issued  in  November  by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

A  new  one-volume  edition  of  the  perennial  "  Boswell's 
Life  of  Johnson,"  edited  by  Mr.  Percy  Fitzgerald,  will 
be  published  early  in  September  by  Mr.  Thomas  Whit- 
taker. 

"The  Public  School  Arithmetic,"  by  Messrs.  J.  A. 


McLellan  and  A.  F.  Ames,  based  on  Messrs.  McLellan 
and  Dewey's  »  Psychology  of  Number,"  is  issued  by  the 
Macmillan  Co. 

Mr.  Hall  Caine's  new  novel,  «  The  Christian,"  has  just 
been  published  by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  The 
first  London  edition,  published  by  Mr.  William  Heine- 
mann,  consisted  of  50,000  copies. 

Carlyle's  "  French  Revolution,"  in  three  volumes,  has 
been  added  to  the  Dent-Macmillan  series  of  "  Temple 
Classics."  A  welcome  feature  of  this  beautiful  little 
edition  is  the  special  biographical  index  prepared  by  the 
editor,  Mr.  G.  Lowes  Dickinson. 

"  The  Merry  Devil  of  Edmonton,"  edited  by  Mr. 
Hugh  Walker,  is  the  latest  addition  to  the  series  of 
"  Temple  Dramatists,"  published  in  this  country  by  the 
Macmillan  Co.  The  same  publishers  send  us  "  A  Distin- 
guished Provincial  at  Paris,"  in  their  handsome  edition 
of  Balzac. 

Biographical  dictionaries  seem  to  be  a  feature  of  the 
closing  years  of  the  century.  The  latest  one  announced 
is  "Lamb's  Biographical  Dictionary  of  the  United 
States,"  in  six  large  volumes,  edited  by  Mr.  John 
Howard  Brown  and  published  by  the  Cyclopaedia  Pub- 
lishing Co.  of  Boston. 

We  are  glad  to  note  such  excellent  appointments, 
under  the  new  Librarian  of  Congress,  as  those  of  Mr. 
Spofford,  Mr.  Solberg,  and  Mr.  Hutcheson,  to  leading 
and  responsible  positions  in  the  library.  While  it  must 
be  a  matter  of  regret  that  the  selection  of  a  chief  for 
our  national  library  was  not  made  from  among  profes- 
sional library  managers,  rather  than  made  on  political 
grounds,  yet  it  is  to  Mr.  Young's  credit  that  he  under- 
stands so  well  the  kind  of  men  needed  for  the  successful 
working  of  the  great  institution  under  his  charge. 

Baron  Pierre  de  Coubertin  is  a  young  French  writer 
who  is  rapidly  making  his  mark  in  serious  literature. 
We  received  some  time  ago  his  valuable  work  on 
"  L'Evolution  Franchise  sous  la  Froisieme  Re'publique," 
which  is  now  soon  to  appear  in  an  English  translation. 
Still  more  recently,  his  "  Souvenirs  d'Ame'rique  et  de 
Grece "  has  been  published,  and  we  have  found  the 
sketches  of  travel  which  it  contains  interesting  without 
being  frothy.  The  author  is  a  keen  observer  of  men 
and  manners,  and  his  style  has  an  agreeable  animation. 
The  London  "  Review  of  Reviews  "  announces  that 
the  seventh  volume  of  the  valuable  and  exhaustive 
"  Annual  Index  to  Periodicals,"  covering  the  year  1896, 
is  now  ready.  The  indexing  and  compilation  of  the 
volume  is  the  work  of  Miss  E.  Hetherington. —  In  this 
connection  we  may  repeat  our  commendation  of  the 
u  Cumulative  Index  "  to  a  selected  list  of  periodicals,  a 
publication  which  is  searchingly  thorough  for  the  ground 
it  covers,  and  has  the  distinctive  feature  of  embodying 
in  each  monthly  issue  all  the  matter  printed  in  previous 
issues  since  the  beginning  of  the  year.  It  is  published 
by  the  Cleveland  Public  Library. 

An  important  movement  for  the  higher  education  of 
Catholic  young  women  in  this  country  has  been  under- 
taken under  the  direction  and  control  of  the  Sisters  of 
Notre  Dame,  who  announce  the  purchase  of  twenty 
acres  of  land  in  Washington,  adjoining  the  site  of  the 
Catholic  University,  on  which  they  will  establish  an 
institution  to  be  known  as  Trinity  College  for  Catholic 
Women.  It  will  be  devoted  to  post-graduate  work 
exclusively,  and  will  offer  three  regular  courses,  extend- 
ing through  four  years.  The  requirements  for  admis- 
sion are  already  issued. 


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The  Genesis  of  Shakespeare's  Art:  A  Study  of  his  Son- 
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Speech  of  John  Hay  at  the  Unveiling  of  the  Bust  of  Sir 
Walter  Scott  in  Westminster  Abbey,  May  21, 1897.  With 
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NEW  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

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HERO-WORSHIP. 

Two  or  three  years  ago,  Professor  John  W. 
Burgess  made  some  suggestive  remarks,  which 
we  are  about  to  quote,  upon  the  ethics  of  hero- 
worship.  Their  immediate  application  was  to 
the  American  anti- slavery  agitation  and  the 
John  Brown  cult,  but  they  convey  a  lesson  and 
a  warning  that  should  be  taken  to  heart  in  con- 
nection with  many  other  subjects,  not  only  in 
the  department  of  political  history,  but  in  all 
the  fields  of  human  endeavor.  "  I  consider," 
he  said,  "  that  the  highest  responsibility  resting 


upon  an  historian  is  the  right  selection  of  those 
personalities  which  he  holds  up  for  the  worship 
of  after  generations.  The  morals  of  the  age 
are  determined  most  largely  by  the  character 
of  its  heroes.  No  amount  of  precept,  religious 
or  ethical,  will  have  one  tithe  of  the  influence 
in  forming  the  ideals  of  our  youth  that  hero- 
worship  possesses.  If  there  is,  then,  one  mo- 
ment more  solemn  than  another  in  the  life  of 
the  historian,  one  when  he  should  seek  more 
earnestly  than  at  another  to  be  delivered  from 
all  prejudice,  error,  and  weakness,  it  is  when 
he  essays  the  role  of  the  hero-maker.  If  he 
fails  in  this,  he  may  well  question  if  all  the 
other  good  he  may  have  accomplished  has  not 
been  over-balanced.  There  is  a  mawkish  notion 
prevalent  among  the  members  of  a  certain  very 
advanced  class  of  people  in  almost  all  parts  of 
the  world,  that  if  you  add  cant  to  crime  you 
lessen  the  crime.  Some  of  them  think  that  the 
outcome  of  such  a  combination  is  the  most 
heroic  virtue.  All  of  us  judge  crime  more 
leniently  when  committed  by  persons  who  have 
views  in  common  with  us  upon  some  important 
subject,  and  against  persons  whom  we  regard 
with  feelings  of  hostility.  But  the  moralist,  the 
historian,  and  the  inventor  of  epics  are  under 
bonds  to  civilization  to  rise  above  such  weak- 
ness." 

The  false  kind  of  sentiment  that  is  here  con- 
demned in  such  impressive  terms  has  done 
much  mischief  in  perverting  the  ethical  judg- 
ments passed  by  mankind  upon  the  conspicuous 
figures  of  history.  In  ancient  times,  it  deified 
Alexander  the  Great  and  Julius  Caesar,  to  say 
nothing  of  a  long  line  of  lesser  conquerors 
and  leaders  of  victorious  hosts.  In  our  own 
century,  it  has  made  of  Napoleon  a  subject  for 
eulogy  rather  than  for  execration,  it  has  in  a 
measure  justified  the  career  of  the  man  of 
"  blood  and  iron  "  who  looms  so  large  in  the 
history  of  modern  Germany,  and  it  is  now  en- 
gaged in  glossing  over  the  unscrupulous  methods 
of  the  ambitious  adventurer  who  has  come  to 
regard  South  Africa  as  his  own  personal  ap- 
panage. It  would  seem,  indeed,  when  we  con- 
sider these  and  the  many  similar  cases  which 
history  presents  to  our  view,  that  success,  by 
whatever  means  achieved,  is  too  often  taken  by 
the  public  as  the  adequate  test  of  greatness, 
and  that  a  man's  career  passes  for  heroic  if 


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only  it  be  sufficiently  brilliant  to  attract  wide- 
spread attention,  and  sufficiently  daring  to 
impose  upon  the  imagination  of  men.  The 
ethical  philosopher,  of  course,  bases  his  judg- 
ment upon  other  criteria  than  these,  for  he 
knows  that  failure  is  often  more  heroic  than 
success,  and  that  many  a  mute  inglorious  ca- 
reer, with  which  only  the  few  are  acquainted, 
may  offer  a  finer  example  for  the  emulation  of 
mankind  than  is  offered  by  the  lives  of  those 
who  shine  in  the  fierce  light  that  beats  upon 
the  seats  of  the  mighty. 

Carlyle  has  done  much  to  glorify  the  type 
of  man  who  succeeds  by  sheer  strength  of  will, 
and  the  gospel  of  brute  force  has  collected  a 
singular  company  in  his  gallery  of  heroic 
figures.  Yet  it  is  from  Carlyle  himself  that  we 
have  chosen  a  passage  which  emphasizes,  better 
than  it  has  often  been  emphasized,  the  eternal 
distinction  between  the  strength  that  should 
command  our  admiration  and  the  strength  that 
is  perversely  employed.  "  A  certain  strong 
man,  of  former  time,  fought  stoutly  at  Lepanto ; 
worked  stoutly  as  Algerine  slave ;  stoutly  de- 
livered himself  from  such  working  ;  with  stout 
cheerfulness  endured  famine  and  nakedness 
and  the  world's  ingratitude ;  and,  sitting  in  jail, 
with  the  one  arm  left  him,  wrote  our  joyfullest, 
and  all  but  our  deepest,  modern  book,  and 
named  it  '  Don  Quijote ':  this  was  a  genuine 
strong  man.  A  strong  man,  of  recent  time, 
fights  little  for  any  good  cause  anywhere  ;  works 
weakly  as  an  English  lord ;  weakly  delivers 
himself  from  such  working  ;  with  weak  despon- 
dency endures  the  cackling  of  plucked  geese  at 
St.  James's ;  and,  sitting  in  sunny  Italy,  in  his 
coach- and-f our,  at  a  distance  of  two  thousand 
miles  from  them,  writes,  over  many  reams  of 
paper,  the  following  sentence,  with  variations  : 
'  Saw  ever  the  world  one  greater  or  un happier? ' 
This  was  a  sham  strong  man.  Choose  ye." 
While  this  comparison,  in  its  straining  for 
antithetical  effects,  is  not  altogether  fair  to 
Byron,  whose  life  was  at  least  closed  by  a  piece 
of  genuine  heroism,  yet  in  the  main  it  enforces 
a  lesson  that  should  be  taken  to  heart.  The 
Byronic  cult  was  undoubtedly  in  its  day  respon- 
sible for  a  great  deal  of  sickly  sentimentalism, 
and  its  influence  still  lingers  in  English  litera- 
ture. As  contrasted  with  Shelley's  ardent  and 
high-souled  devotion  to  great  causes  and  fine 
ideals,  the  passion  of  Byron  at  its  best  seems 
theatrical  and  insincere,  and  the  gospel  of 
"  Childe  Harold  "  is  but  a  poor  thing  when 
viewed  in  the  glowing  light  of  the  "  Prometheus 
Unbound." 


In  literature,  as  in  other  departments  of  hu- 
man activity,  there  are  sham  heroes  as  well  as 
genuine  ones.  This  statement  is  not  meant  to 
imply  that  a  writer  whose  private  life  will  not 
bear  the  closest  scrutiny  is  for  that  reason  un- 
heroic  as  a  literary  figure,  for  the  weakness  of 
will  by  which  personal  conduct  is  so  often  mis- 
shapen may  coexist  with  an  intellectual  life  of 
the  rarest  distinction.  And  since  the  essential 
thing  about  a  writer  is  his  work,  he  has  a  right 
to  be  judged  by  that  work,  almost  irrespective 
of  the  life  that  lies  behind  it.  The  figure  of 
Schopenhauer,  for  example,  is  one  of  the  most 
heroic  in  literature,  although  the  character  of 
the  man,  as  apart  from  the  writer,  left  much 
to  be  desired.  But  the  noble  sincerity  of  his 
work,  and  its  exaltation  of  fine  ideals  in  both 
thought  and  conduct,  are  qualities  so  marked 
that  we  are  quite  justified  in  ignoring  the  un- 
lovely aspects  of  the  personal  biography.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  most  conspicuous  of  literary 
figures  may  fail  to  assume  heroic  proportions 
if  the  work  for  which  it  stands  have  any  sug- 
gestion of  pose  or  insincerity.  We  may  be  very 
indulgent  to  the  infirmities  of  the  flesh,  pro- 
vided only  they  do  not  fetter  or  drag  down  the 
spirit.  There  is  a  false  ring,  which  no  sound- 
ing rhetoric  can  altogether  deaden  to  the  dis-. 
cerning  ear,  in  the  work  of  many  masterful 
writers,  and  when  that  ring  is  once  detected, 
the  power  of  the  voice  to  shape  our  intellectual 
ideals  becomes  sadly  weakened.  This  false 
note  may  be  caught  over  and  over  again  in 
Byron ;  it  makes  the  Whitman  cult  seem  a 
strange  phenomenon  to  minds  entirely  well- 
balanced  and  sane,  and  it  lessens  the  effect- 
ive appeal  of  even  such  giants  as  Hugo  and 
Carlyle. 

When  we  think  of  certain  figures  in  litera- 
ture as  peculiarly  heroic,  we  do  not  usually  stop 
for  analysis,  but  are  content  to  rest  the  judg- 
ment upon  a  mixture  of  impressions,  in  part 
derived  from  the  life,  and  in  part  from  the  work. 
Scott  and  Balzac  are  good  examples  of  this,  for 
both  are  heroic  figures  in  a  very  genuine  sense, 
and  we  hardly  know  whether  to  admire  them  the 
more  for  their  courageous  struggle  against  ad- 
verse material  conditions  or  for  their  resolute 
pursuit  of  a  great  creative  purpose.  Instead 
of  taking  these  men  for  our  illustration,  let  us 
take  instead  a  man  who  was  a  hero  of  litera- 
ture pure  and  simple,  a  man  whose  career  has 
for  the  literary  worker  the  same  sort  of  lessons 
that  the  career  of  Spinoza  has  for  the  philoso- 
pher, of  Gordon  for  the  soldier,  or  of  Mazzini 
for  the  statesman.  The  man  is  Gustave  Flau- 


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bert,  and  our  task  is  made  easy  by  borrowing 
from  the  eloquent  address  made  at  Oxford  last 
June  by  M.  Paul  Bourget.  "  No  man  was  ever 
more  richly  endowed  with  the  higher  virtues  of 
a  great  literary  artist,"  says  M.  Bourget.  "  His 
whole  existence  was  one  long  struggle  against 
circumstances  and  against  himself,  to  live  up 
to  that  ideal  standard  as  a  writer  which  he  had 
set  before  himself  from  his  earliest  years.  .  .  . 
He  remains  ever  present  among  us,  in  spite  of 
the  new  developments  assumed  by  contempo- 
rary French  literature,  for  he  gave  to  all  writ- 
ers the  most  splendid  example  of  passionate, 
exclusive  love  of  literature.  With  his  long 
years  of  patient  and  scrupulous  toil,  his  noble 
contempt  of  wealth,  honours,  and  popularity, 
with  his  courage  in  pursuing  to  the  end  the 
realization  of  his  dream,  he  looms  upon  us  an 
intellectual  hero." 

And  yet,  with  all  his  passion  for  the  imper- 
sonal, with  all  his  striving  to  view  life  from  the 
outside,  holding,  or  at  least  expressing,  "no 
form  of  creed,  but  contemplating  all,"  the  final 
lesson  of  Flaubert's  life  is,  as  his  eulogist  ad- 
mits, that  no  man  may  wholly  exclude  himself 
from  his  writings.  Had  the  author  of  "  Madame 
Bo  vary  "  really  done  so,  "  they  would  not  have 
reached  us  all  imbued  with  that  melancholy 
savour,  that  subdued  pathos  which  makes  them 
so  dear  to  us.  ...  This  gift  of  expressing  in 
their  writings  more  than  they  themselves  sus- 
pect, and  of  achieving  results  exceeding  their 
ambition,  is  only  granted  to  those  courageous 
and  sincere  geniuses  whose  past  trials  have 
gained  for  them  the  priceless  treasure  of  wide 
experience.  Thus  did  Cervantes  write  '  Don 
Quijote,'  and  Defoe  '  Robinson  Crusoe,'  little 
dreaming  that  they  infused  into  their  writings, 
the  former  all  the  glowing  heroism  of  Spain, 
the  latter  the  dogged  self-reliance  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon.  If  they  had  not  themselves  for  many 
years  practised  these  virtues  of  chivalrous  enter- 
prise in  the  one  case,  of  indomitable  endurance 
in  the  other,  their  books  would  have  been  what 
they  intended  them  to  be — mere  tales  of  adven- 
ture. But  their  souls  were  greater  than  their 
art,  and  imbued  it  throughout  with  that  sym- 
bolic power  which  is  the  efficient  vitality  of 
books.  In  the  same  way  Flaubert's  soul  was 
greater  than  his  art,  and  it  is  that  soul  which, 
in  spite  of  his  own  will,  he  breathed  into  his 
writings,  gaining  for  them  a  place  apart  in  the 
history  of  the  contemporary  French  novel." 
Thus  we  come  back,  after  all,  to  the  position 
that  heroism  in  literary  production  is  somehow 
the  outcome  or  reflex  of  something  heroic  in 


the  character  and  the  temper  of  the  writer. 
It  may  be  only  a  streak,  so  blended  with  others 
as  to  be  almost  undiscernible  to  observers  of 
the  man  apart  from  his  books,  yet  it  is  the 
deepest  and  truest  part  of  him,  and  a  noble 
book  of  any  sort  may  well  give  pause  to  the 
judgment  that  too  hastily  condemns  a  man's 
life  because  it  is  visibly  flawed.  But  those  men 
are  the  fittest  subjects  for  hero-worship  in  whom 
the  life  and  the  word  are  the  most  fully  conso- 
nant, whose  lives  are  poems,  and  whose  words 
are  acts.  Such  a  hero  was  Goethe,  with  his 
life-long  devotion  to  the  ideal  that  held  the 
whole  of  life  to  be  even  more  important  than 
its  separate  elements  of  the  good  and  the  beau- 
tiful ;  such  was  Milton,  whose  "  soul  was  like 
a  star,  and  dwelt  apart,"  and  yet  whose  heart 
"  the  lowliest  duties  on  herself  did  lay  ";  such 
was  Dante,  whose  exiled  soul  still  "  possessed 
the  sun  and  stars,"  and  whose  divine  poem  was 
wrought  not  as  a  poem  merely,  but 

"  With  close  heed 

Lest,  having  spent  for  the  work's  sake 
Six  days,  the  man  be  left  to  make." 


A  MODERN  TYPE  OF  UNIVERSITY 
INSTRUCTOR  AT  BERLIN. 

The  treatment  of  German  literature  in  universi- 
ties has  been  as  varied  as  the  philosophical,  political, 
aesthetic,  philological,  and  psychological  ideals  of 
those  who  have  represented  it.  During  recent  years, 
the  "  Young  Grammarian "  school,  to  which  the 
monuments  of  literature  have  served  chiefly  as  a 
medium  for  the  exhibition  of  organic  processes  in 
language,  has  exercised  great  influence  in  America. 
The  attractiveness  of  this  school  is  not  hard  to  ex- 
plain: it  had,  while  still  "young,"  the  freshness  of 
all  beginnings,  and  it  was  a  field  in  which  a  given 
amount  of  specialized  research  was  rewarded  by  a 
maximum  quantity  of  material  and  new  results. 
Whether  the  school  has  already  reaped  its  best 
fruits,  is  a  fair  question,  though  one  which  does  not 
properly  belong  here.  Certain  it  is  that  its  methods 
of  research  have  intruded  entirely  too  much  into  the 
field  of  literary  history ;  and  the  inquiry  cannot  be 
avoided,  especially  in  the  United  States,  whether  the 
great  widening  of  the  scope  of  Germanic  courses 
has  been  accompanied  by  a  corresponding  deepening 
of  their  contents. 

The  most  successful  and  popular  among  the  pro- 
fessors of  the  humanities  in  the  University  of  Berlin 
is  one  who  deals  with  the  broadest  realities,  and 
who  lays  the  chief  accent  upon  the  aesthetic  element. 
I  have  not  been  able  to  get  figures  as  to  the  attend- 
ance upon  the  three  courses  given  by  Professor 
Erich  Schmidt  during  the  winter  semester,  but  they 
were  all  crowded  ;  the  "  private  "  course  on  Faust 


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must  have  included  five  hundred  enthusiastic 
hearers.  The  underlying  conception  of  Professor 
Schmidt's  influential  position  in  this  central  uni- 
versity is  that  he  stands  as  a  guardian  of  the  na- 
tional literary  treasure,  and  has  the  duty  of  being 
fully  acquainted  with  it  himself,  of  preserving  it 
unimpaired,  and  of  demonstrating  it  to  others.  His 
ideal  of  criticism  aims  at  arriving  at  the  sum-total 
of  all  those  factors  which  have  united  to  produce 
literature :  on  the  one  hand,  the  historical  and  philo- 
logical treatment  of  national  culture,  of  the  "  spirit 
of  the  times,"  and  of  general  intellectual  move- 
ments ;  and,  on  the  other  hand,  the  sharpest  possible 
characterization  of  the  individual  author.  His  chief 
virtuosity  lies  in  tracing  the  historical  genesis  of  a 
given  work  after  the  method  of  natural  science, 
following  the  sources,  with  much  elegance  of  demon- 
stration, back  to  their  earliest  germs,  and  controlling 
for  this  purpose  an  immense  store  of  information, 
embracing  the  ancient  classics  and  the  literature  of 
France,  England,  Spain,  and  Italy. 

The  most  convincing  impression  which  Professor 
Schmidt's  lectures  have  made  upon  me  has  been 
that  of  the  absolute  interdependence  of  the  peoples 
of  culture,  the  emphasis  of  the  fact  that  no  author 
or  period  can  be  conceived  of  as  standing  alone, 
unconnected  with  a  long  chain  of  preexisting  influ- 
ences ;  that  a  pedantic  conception  of  "  plagiarism  " 
is  most  irrational.  Particularly  has  he  placed  in 
the  light  of  a  new  revelation  the  enormous  influence 
of  the  great  and  noble  English  national  literature 
upon  Germany.  In  the  treatment  of  this  matter, 
as  in  many  other  ways,  he  shows  absolute  candor, 
fearlessness  of  results,  and  disregard  of  popular 
prejudices  in  dealing  with  scientific  truths.  The 
treatment  is  throughout  objective  rather  than  dog- 
matically philosophical.  He  is  equally  masterful  in 
estimating  the  total  tendency  of  a  period,  in  an 
appreciation  of  the  entire  personality  of  an  author 
or  of  a  single  work  ;  as  a  rule,  such  concrete  judg- 
ments disclose  the  larger  points  of  view.  Every 
product  is  scrupulously  tested  and  stamped  with  its 
exact  value, —  a  very  different  thing  from  a  reca- 
pitulation of  its  contents.  These  estimates  are  the 
perfection  of  condensed  expression ;  each  word  is 
weighed  on  the  gold-balance,  and  produces  its  full 
effect.  One  lively  epithet  sometimes  fixes  for  good 
the  final  worth  of  an  elaborate  work.  In  these 
judgments,  with  all  their  directness  and  finality, 
there  is  to  be  noticed  the  self-restraint  and  reserve 
of  a  large  nature,  and  an  abstinence  from  arbitrary 
personal  bias.  In  treating  of  a  period,  while  much 
attention  is  paid  to  the  workings  of  international 
influence,  there  is  also  a  consideration  of  the  force 
of  political  life  upon  literature.  In  dealing  with 
an  author,  an  estimate  is  made  of  the  various  sides 
of  his  personality,  his  growth  and  development,  his 
methods,  his  merits  and  limitations, —  how  far  he  is 
the  child  of  his  age,  and  how  far  he  reaches  beyond 
it ;  his  biography  is  considered  as  far  as  it  is  con- 
nected with  his  literary  activity,  and,  especially,  an 
estimate  is  given  of  his  permanent  contribution  to 


the  national  literary  stock.  In  the  discussion  of  an 
individual  work,  there  is  the  consideration  of  its 
relation  to  the  times  in  which  it  was  written,  of  its 
structural  technique,  style,  movement,  and  psycho- 
logical workings  ;  of  its  nearer  and  remoter  sources, 
especially  the  history,  as  far  as  it  can  be  traced,  of 
its  chief  motif.  The  influence  of  the  work  upon  its 
own  and  later  times  is  weighed.  In  matters  relating 
to  form  and  metrical  values,  Professor  Schmidt 
shows,  what  all  professors  do  not  possess,  the  finest 
feeling  for  rhythm  and  delicate  internal  harmo- 
j  nies.  Not  less  admirable  than  these  positive  critical 
|  deliverances  are  the  wise  omissions :  the  throwing 
j  overboard  of  merely  microscopic  details  in  linguis- 
tics, biography,  and  bibliography.  The  last  matter 
is  usually  disposed  of  by  naming  the  best  edition  of 
the  text,  and  perhaps  the  titles  of  one  or  two  new 
books  ;  and  then  come  the  words,  "  for  the  rest,  see 
Goedeke."  Professor  Schmidt,  as  was  also  the  case 
with  Scherer,  has  made  Goethe-studies  the  crown  of 
his  work ;  and  it  is  particularly  in  the  presentation 
of  the  results  of  his  detailed  researches  in  this  field 
that  one  notices  a  favorable  contrast  with  that  phi- 
lology which  of  late  years  has  lavished  such  elabo- 
rate pains  upon  the  publication  of  Unedited  Scraps 
from  Goethe's  Waste-basket. 

I  cannot  speak  too  highly  in  praise  of  Professor 
Schmidt's  own  literary  style :  it  is  clear,  direct,  and 
penetrating ;  not  a  word  is  to  be  spared,  and  yet  it 
is  wrought  out  to  a  finished  perfection  of  form  not 
unworthy  of  one  who  in  literary  criticism  stands  in 
direct  succession  to  Lessing  and  Herder,  Goethe 
and  Schiller.  This  praise  must  often  be  withheld 
from  eminent  critics :  one  needs  only  to  mention 
the  choppy,  English-Channel  style  of  the  admirable 
Herman  Grimm,  which,  over  here,  is  usually  as- 
cribed to  the  influence  of  our  own  Emerson,  but 
which,  in  my  opinion,  stands  about  as  near  to  that 
of  Walt  Whitman.  There  is  lively  movement, 
trenchant  diction,  brilliant  wit,  and  unreserved  hu- 
mor, but  no  cheap  embellishment ;  though  occasion- 
ally metaphorical,  the  style  is  always  chaste.  At 
the  same  time,  Professor  Schmidt  by  no  means 
abhors  the  crisp,  forcible,  idiomatic  phrases,  bor- 
dering on  the  very  colloquial,  in  which  the  German 
language  is  so  rich,  and  which  often  hit  the  mark 
squarely  in  the  centre.  I  note  with  less  enthusiasm 
occasional  touches  of  the  distinctively  national  Ger- 
man flavor  of  Derbheit,  a  term  which  Anglo-Saxons 
are  prone  to  translate  by  the  very  rude  word  "  coarse- 
ness." Now  that  co-education  has  become  estab- 
lished in  Germany,  this  feature  is  at  times  trying. 
I  partly  sympathize  with  the  standpoint,  and  prefer 
it  to  that  of  another  professor,  who  excluded  all 
women  from  his  courses  this  term  because  he  felt 
that  their  presence  would  lay  some  restraint  upon 
his  freedom  of  treatment.  In  the  academic  field, 
if  anywhere,  plain  facts  must  be  handled  without 
circumlocution,  and  Professor  Schmidt  resolutely 
asserts  "  das  gute  Recht  der  Kritik  "  in  this  direc- 
tion. Good.  This  is  quite  different,  however,  from 
a  gratuitous  amplification  of  Aristophanic  features, 


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which  has  more  than  once  been  accompanied  by 
hilarious  merriment  and  rapturous  applause  on  the 
part  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  audience,  who  looked 
around  gleefully  to  see  how  the  young  women 
present  were  "  taking  it,"  in  an  unchivalrous  way 
which  made  one's  blood  boil, —  but  then,  chivalry  is 
perhaps  not  the  most  strongly  emphasized  trait  in 
Bismarck's  Germany.  The  delivery  is  in  a  power- 
ful, resonant,  dramatic  voice,  and  the  lecturer  looks 
his  audience  squarely  in  the  face,  although  he  fol- 
lows his  manuscript  closely. 

Among  the  select  group  of  young  scholars  who 
make  up  the  Seminar,  one  has  a  freer  opportunity 
of  coming  to  know  the  resources  which  are  at  the 
disposal  of  its  leader,  to  become  more  and  more 
impressed  with  his  broad  grasp  of  general  relations, 
joined  to  an  immense  mass  of  detailed  information, 
and  to  see  what  demands  of  actual  work  the  great 
scholar  lays  upon  himself  and  his  students.  Woe  to 
the  youth  who  attempts  by  "  brilliancy  "  to  cover  up 
any  negligence  in  scientific  research !  Still  more 
intimate  is  the  circle  of  the  "  Germanistic  Kneipe," 
which  comes  together  every  Monday  night  at  the 
"  Great  Elector."  The  group  includes  some  of  the 
most  brilliant  men  in  Berlin  literary  circles,  as  well 
as  a  small  number  of  advanced  students.  Professor 
Schmidt  is  always  there,  even  when  he  has  to  come 
late  after  lectures  or  receptions,  and  dominates  the 
conversation,  which  is  lively  and  free  and  darts  with 
most  unexpected  bounds  into  new  paths.  The  whole 
tone  of  the  gatherings  is  that  of  harmless,  entirely 
informal  good-fellowship,  and  the  talk  is  less  on 
professional  questions  than  on  those  of  general 
interest  in  a  highly-cultured  society.  Now  and  then 
the  evening  is  given  over  to  pure  fun  on  the  part  of 
the  students,  which  the  Professor  enters  into  and 
enjoys  more  heartily  than  anyone  else.  At  Christ- 
mas-time there  was  a  tree,  with  presents,  poems, 
music,  and  a  Bierzeitung ;  at  the  close  of  the 
semester  there  was  resurrected  and  presented  an 
ancient  comedy  of  Holberg's,  with  all  its  archaic 
accessories.  Professor  Schmidt's  influence  on  the 
students  is  a  goodly  thing  to  witness  :  a  free  asso- 
ciation, free  imparting,  and  the  great  stimulus  of 
personal  contact. 

A  few  words  as  to  Professor  Schmidt's  career 
may  not  be  unwelcome.  He  was  born  in  Jena, 
where  his  father  was  a  well-known  professor  of  zo- 
ology. From  his  early  days  in  the  gymnasium,  his 
chief  interest  has  lain  in  modern  German  literature. 
In  Strassburg  he  became  an  intimate  disciple  of 
Scherer.  He  began  teaching  in  Wttrzburg,  was  for 
three  years  decent  in  Strassburg,  and  later  became 
professor  in  Vienna.  In  1885,  when  the  Goethe 
archives  were  made  public,  the  Grand  Duchess  of 
Weimar  invited  him,  along  with  Loeper  and  Scherer, 
to  take  charge  of  them,  and  he  has  had  a  responsi- 
ble share  in  the  Weimar  edition  of  Goethe's  Works. 
It  was  during  this  period,  about  ten  years  ago,  that 
his  discovery  of  Fraulein  Gochhausen's  copy  of  the 
"  original "  text  of  Faust  opened  up  a  new  era  in 
the  criticism  of  that  work.  After  the  death  of 


Scherer,  in  1886,  Professor  Schmidt  was  called  to 
Berlin  to  succeed  that  unequaled  master  in  the  field 
of  the  history  of  German  literature.  He  is  one  of 
the  youngest  members  of  the  Royal  Academy  of 
Sciences.  His  great  work  on  Lessing,  and  his  fre- 
quent essays  in  the  field  of  literary  investigation 
and  criticism,  show  his  fertility  in  production  as 
well  as  in  exposition.  Personally,  he  is  very  hand- 
some :  in  the  prime  of  life,  with  a  commanding 
presence,  a  superb  physique,  and  overflowing  vigor 
and  energy.  I  fancy  that  I  recognize  in  him  vari- 
ous points  of  resemblance  to  Goethe.  A  rapid, 
intense  worker  in  the  study,  he  allows  himself  to 
throw  off  its  constraints  completely  and  to  enjoy  the 
rich  and  varied  social  life  which  Berlin  affords ;  and 
he  is  a  much-sought  guest  in  that  upper  world  which 
unites  the  leaders  of  society,  the  statesmen,  thinkers, 
artists,  musicians,  and  men  of  letters,  and  especially 
where  that  large  group  of  brilliant  and  cultured 
women  is  to  be  encountered  who  lend  a  fineness  and 
elegance  to  social  life  which  are  missed  in  regions 
where  the  Kneipe  of  the  men  is  practically  the  only 
form  of  intercourse,  but  which  have  been  a  distin- 
guishing ornament  of  Berlin  for  generations.  For 
music  and  the  drama,  especially,  he  has  the  liveliest 
appreciation.  Like  Helmholtz,  he  has  broken  com- 
pletely with  the  traditions  of  the  pedantic,  distraught, 
slipshod  "  typical "  German  professor,  and  offers  an 
instance  of  that  particularly  modern  type  —  a  uni- 
versity instructor  of  highest  rank  who  is  at  the  same 
time  a  finished  man  of  the  world  in  all  that  con- 
cerns outward  appearance,  sense  of  form,  social 
facility,  and  address.  In  this  may  perhaps  be  traced 
some  influence  of  his  Vienna  period. 

Probably  no  Germanic  scholar  would  question 
the  value  and  legitimacy  of  any  of  the  points  of 
view  from  which  Professor  Schmidt  approaches  the 
treatment  of  literature :  the  difficult  question,  as  in 
most  of  the  practical  philosophy  of  life,  is  one  of 
proportions.  It  is  in  his  successful  harmony  of  com- 
bination that  I  find  most  to  admire.  An  adequate 
discussion  of  the  whole  theme  would  require  an  ex- 
act estimate  of  the  relative  treatment  of  the  different 
factors  involved.  To  dismiss  the  subject  with  a 
word,  I  would  say  that  there  is  perhaps  at  times 
too  much  dwelling  upon  that  which  must  be  sub- 
tracted from  an  author  before  the  essence  of  his  own 
personality  is  to  be  considered.  In  following  the 
elaborate  demonstration  of  external  sources,  I  have 
sometimes  thought  of  Goethe's  sharp  criticism  of 
Herder  for  venturing  to  mention,  in  a  discussion  of 
"  The  Diver,"  the  old  chronicle  in  which  Schiller 
had  found  the  tale.  The  lines  laid  down  by  Pro- 
fessor Wetz  of  Giessen  in  his  interesting  and  sug- 
gestive tract  on  the  study  of  the  history  of  litera- 
ture, in  which  he  maintains  that  the  chief  emphasis 
must  always  be  laid  upon  the  psychology  of  the 
author,  seem  to  me  correct. 

At  a  time  when  militarism  and  industrialism  have 
more  than  ever  before  drawn  men's  thoughts  away 
from  the  intellectual  inheritance  of  the  past,  it  is 
most  encouraging  that  the  perennial  mission  of  lit- 


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[Sept.  1, 


erature  in  its  highest  and  deepest  sense  is  being  so 
successfully  demonstrated  in  the  great  centre  of 
German  civilization.  Nor  is  this  fact  without  its 
wholesome  lesson  of  humility  to  those  who  have  been 
entrusted  with  the  duty  of  representing  and  expound- 
ing literature,  in  view  of  the  emphasis  which  it  lays 
upon  the  demand  for  the  fullest  equipment  on  the 
part  of  those  who  attempt  to  carry  out  this  respon- 
sible task.  jAMEg  TAFT  HATFIELD. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

DANTE  AS  A  TONIC  FOR  TO-DAY. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.  ) 

I  have  been  unpleasantly  surprised  lately  at  some  dis- 
paraging remarks  on  Dante  made  by  well-known  writers. 
One  of  your  contributors,  in  a  recent  communication  to 
THE  DIAL,  speaks  rather  proudly  of  the  fact  that  the 
dust  on  his  copy  of  Dante  is  undisturbed  from  year  to 
year;  and  a  professor  of  English  literature  in  one  of 
our  largest  universities,  lecturing  on  the  world's  great 
poets,  denies  (according  to  the  statement  of  one  of  his 
students)  to  Dante  the  highest  rank  in  poetry,  —  the 
basis  of  his  criticism  being  that  the  Divine  Comedy  is 
too  grotesque  and  too  mediaeval  to  appeal  to  the  modern 
reader. 

Without  desiring  to  enter  into  a  (surely  unnecessary) 
discussion  of  Dante's  claims  to  greatness,  I  should  like 
to  indicate  briefly  why, —  contrary  to  the  implications  in 
the  above  remarks, —  the  Divine  Comedy  is  of  especial 
value  to-day  as  an  antidote  to  many  morbid  tendencies 
in  literature. 

1.  The  poem  is  a  practical  one, —  it  is  the  work  of  an 
ardent  reformer.     Many  of  his  ideas  on  bartering  and 
corrupt  politics  remind  us  irresistibly  of  Dr.  Parkhurst 
and  the  Lexow  Commission.    His  remarks  on  the  evils 
of  indiscriminate  and  unrestricted  immigration  might 
furnish  our  own  congressmen  with  arguments  on  this 
live  question  of  the  day.    His  contemptuous  and  indig- 
nant rebuke  of  the  vanity  of  sensational  preaching  might 
be  read,  studied,  and  inwardly  digested  by  many  a  pop- 
ular preacher  of  the  present  time.    His  religious  ideals 
are  high,  and  as  sound  as  those  of  to-day  (due  allowance 
being  made  for  the  difference  of  the  times).     In  many 
respects  they  coincide  with  those  of  Luther  himself. 

2.  There  has  been  a  great  deal  of  discussion  in  recent 
years  on  the  conflict  between  realism  and  idealism.    It 
is  interesting  to  note  how  Dante  illustrates  and  com- 
bines both  of  these  theories.     Many  of  his  pictures  of 
Hell  are  repulsive  —  almost  disgusting  —  and  photo- 
graphic in  their  minuteness.    He  never  hesitates  to  call 
a  thing  by  its  right  name.     He,  as  well  as  the  modern 
novelists,  saw  the  grossness  of  life  —  the  sensuousness, 
the  lust  for  power  and  wealth,  and  all  the  meanness  of 
the  heart  of  man;  yet  he,  unlike  them,  saw  also  the 
noble,  the  sweet,  and  the  tender  side  of  life.     Balzac 
and  Zola  have  written  only  Infernos ;  Dante  has  given 
us  a  Purgatory  and  a  Paradise. 

3.  One  of  the  noblest  qualities  of  Dante  is  his  indom- 
itable optimism,  in  spite  of  sorrows,  injustice,  hardships; 
and  his  unfailing  belief  in  the  inherent  goodness  of  man 
and  the  final  triumph  of  right.      Throughout   these 
scenes  of  sin  and  vice,  of  violence  and  of  spiritual  wick- 
edness in  high  places,  we  hear,  as  it  were,  a  clear,  sweet 


voice,  like  that  in  Browning's  "  Pippa  Passes  "  singing 
the  words, 

"  God 's  in  his  heaven, 
All 's  right  with  the  world.1' 

There  is  no  moral  weakness  in  the  Divine  Comedy,  no 
whining  despair,  none  of  that  melancholy  which  brooded 
over  the  early  nineteenth  century  literature,  and  which 
still  lingers  on  in  the  form  of  a  cynical  pessimism. 

4.  But  the  greatest  of  all  benefits  to  be  derived  from 
the  study  of  Dante  lies  in  his  deep  and  all-pervading 
spirituality.  Endowed  with  marvellous  intellectual 
power,  with  an  ardent  interest  in  all  kinds  of  science 
and  learning,  a  practical  politician  and  man  of  affairs, 
he  yet  saw  all  earthly  things  against  the  background  of 
eternity.  No  poem  ever  written  has  left  the  reader  so 
impressed  with  the  reality  of  the  unseen  world.  Surely 
never  were  such  lessons  needed  more  than  in  the  present 
materialistic  age. 

I  believe,  with  Mr.  Frederic  Harrison,  that  the  lover 
of  books  should  first  of  all  seek  to  become  intimate  with 
the  great  poets  in  the  world's  literature;  and  I  have 
endeavored  to  carry  out  this  theory  in  my  own  case. 
I  trust  that  I  do  not  undervalue  the  genius  and  power 
of  Homer,  Shakespeare,  Goethe,  and  Milton;  but  were 
I  to  be  asked  "  What  one  book  outside  of  the  Bible 
would  you  recommend  as  a  life-long  companion,  not 
merely  from  an  intellectual  or  literary  standpoint,  but 
as  a  moral  and  spiritual  aid  ?  "  I  should  unhesitatingly 
answer,  "The  Divine  Comedy  of  Dante."  It  is  a  de- 
lightful thing  to  yield  to  the  charm  of  the  sensuous 
beauty  of  Keats,  to  drink  in  the  elegant  music  of  Ten- 
nyson, to  penetrate  the  spirit  of  Nature  with  Words- 
worth. The  joy  thus  inspired  may  be  compared  to  that 
inspired  by  moonlit  summer  nights;  or  by  long  golden 
afternoons  spent  beneath  forest  trees  or  in  sunny  glades 
touched  with  the  magic  beauty  of  fairy-land;  or  by 
those  hours  of  quiet  reflection  when 

"  Even  the  motion  of  our  human  blood 
Almost  suspended,  we  are  laid  asleep 
In  body,  and  become  a  living  soul.'' 

But  how  inferior  are  even  such  elevated  joys  as  these  to 
the  exultation  felt  by  the  mountain  climber,  when  after 
long  hours  of  toil  and  hardship  and  escape  from  danger, 
in  which  every  faculty  of  mind  and  body  has  been  called 
into  action,  he  reaches  the  summit  and  experiences  what 
Mr.  Whymper  calls  "one  glorious  hour  of  life."  Such 
is  the  joy,  deep,  lasting,  ennobling,  that  fills  the  soul  of 
the  patient  student  of  Dante;  this  is  the  reward  of  him 
who  reads  the  Divine  Comedy  "  with  the  spirit  and 
with  the  understanding  also."  QgCAR  KuHNS< 

Wesleyan  University,  August  17,  1897, 


A  DANTE  SOCIETY  AMONG  FISHERMEN. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

In  your  issue  for  June  1,  the  article  upon  "  Dante  in 
America "  suggests  the  publication  of  an  interesting 
fact. 

About  San  Francisco  Bay  is  a  settlement  of  Italian 
fishermen  whose  condition  is  apparently  without  an  aspir- 
ation other  than  to  have  a  supply  of  the  black  bread  they 
eat  and  the  sour  wine  they  drink ;  yet  these  people  sup- 
port a  society  for  the  study  of  Dante. 

One  wonders  whether  a  similar  organization  could  be 
found  among  English  miners,  for  a  knowledge  of  their 
great  Shakespeare! 

KATHARINE  MERRILL  GRAYDON. 
Berkeley,  Cal.,  August  15,  1897. 


1897.] 


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A  HISTORY  OF  THE  BRITISH  NAVY.* 

The  initial  volume  of  Mr.  Laird  Clowes's 
History  of  the  Royal  Navy  gives  abundant 
assurance  that  the  completed  work  will  satis- 
factorily supply  what  has  been  a  long- felt  want. 
The  work  is  planned  upon  a  sufficiently  liberal 
and  comprehensive  scale.  It  is  to  be  divided 
into  fifteen  historical  sections  (of  which  six  are 
included  in  the  opening  volume),  each  corre- 
sponding either  with  the  duration  of  a  dynasty, 
or  of  a  political  period,  or  of  a  great  war.  The 
first  section  covers  the  period  previous  to  1066, 
beginning  with  the  primitive  and  partly  conjec- 
tural maritime  activities  of  the  early  Britons ; 
the  second  covers  the  Norman  Age  — 1066  to 
1154  ;  the  third,  the  Angevin  Age —  1154  to 
1399  ;  the  fourth,  the  Lancastrian  and  Yorkist 
Age  — 1399  to  1485  ;  the  fifth,  the  Tudor  Age 
— 1485  to  1603 ;  the  sixth,  the  first  Stuart 
Age  — 1603  to  1649  ;  the  seventh,  the  time  of 
the  Commonwealth — 1649  to  1660 ;  the  eighth, 
the  age  of  the  Restoration  and  the  Revolution 
— 1660  to  1714  ;  the  ninth,  the  early  Han- 
overian Age  — 1714  to  1763  ;  the  tenth,  the 
period  of  American  Revolution — 1763  to  1793 ; 
the  eleventh,  the  wars  of  the  French  Revolu- 
tion—1793  to  1802;  the  twelfth,  the  Napo- 
leonic and  American  wars  — 1802  to  1815 ;  the 
thirteenth,  the  period  from  1815  to  the  build- 
ing of  the  first  ironclads  in  1856  ;  the  four- 
teenth and  last  section,  the  period  since  1856. 
Each  section  is  subdivided  into  chapters  deal- 
ing respectively  with  the  civil  and  the  military 
sides  of  British  naval  history  and  with  the  his- 
tory of  voyages  and  maritime  discovery  during 
the  period  under  review.  The  work  will  be 
completed  in  five  royal  octavo  volumes,  appear- 
ing at  the  rate  of  a  volume  every  six  months. 
The  volumes  are  to  be  separately  indexed. 
Warned  by  the  example  of  his  too  sanguine 
predecessor,  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  (who  undertook 
single-handed  a  work  of  considerably  more  than 
Gibbonian  proportions,  and  died  at  the  outset 
of  it),  Mr.  Clowes  has  planned  his  book  upon 
a  liberal  yet  feasible  scale,  and  has  availed 
himself  to  a  judicious  extent  of  the  advantages 
of  cooperation.  An  ample  corps  of  assistants 
has  aided  him  in  the  preparatory  work  of  mak- 
ing researches,  copying  documents,  hunting  up 
portraits,  plans,  and  so  on.  Besides  these  sub- 

*  THE  ROYAL  NAVY  :  A  History  from  the  Earliest  Times 
to  the  Present.  By  William  Laird  Clowes.  In  fire  volumes, 
illustrated.  Boston :  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 


altern  helpers,  eminent  writers  especially  qual- 
ified for  their  respective  tasks  have  aided  Mr. 
Clowes  in  the  treatment  of  those  periods  into 
the  records  of  which  his  own  researches  have 
been  confessedly  relatively  imperfect.  Sir 
Clements  Markham  has  contributed  ten  chap- 
ters on  the  history  of  voyages  and  discoveries 
from  1485  to  present  times ;  the  very  important 
chapter  on  the  major  naval  campaigns  of  1763- 
1793  falls  to  the  share  of  Captain  A.  T.  Mahan 
— to  whom,  we  fancy,  is  mainly  due  the  newly- 
awakened  interest  of  our  English  friends  in 
the  comparatively  neglected  maritime  history 
of  their  country ;  Mr.  H.  W.  Wilson  (author 
of  "  Ironclads  in  Action  ")  contributes  chapters 
on  the  history  of  voyages  and  discoveries  up  to 
1485,  and  upon  that  of  the  minor  naval  opera- 
tions from  1763  to  1815  (except  those  of  the 
War  of  1812)  ;  the  story  of  the  War  of  1812 
is  magnanimously  entrusted  to  Mr.  Theodore 
Roosevelt ;  Mr.  Edward  Fraser  writes  the  two 
chapters  on  the  military  history  of  the  Navy, 
from  1603  to  1660.  It  will  be  noticed  that 
the  delicate  task  (Mr.  Clowes's  book  being  of 
course  intended  scarcely  less  for  the  use  of 
American  readers  than  of  English  ones)  of 
treating  of  the  periods  of  active  hostilities  be- 
tween this  country  and  England  has  been 
entrusted  to  two  American  writers.  On  this 
point  Mr.  Clowes  feels  constrained  to  add  a 
word  or  so  incidentally,  though  he  does  it  "  a 
little  unwillingly." 

"  When  it  became  known  in  the  United  States  that 
my  friends  Captain  Mahan  and  Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt 
were  to  contribute  to  the  book  chapters  dealing  with 
our  unhappy  conflicts  with  America,  a  certain  New  York 
literary  journal,  which  generally  displays  better  taste, 
congratulated  itself  that  at  last  English  readers  would 
be  told  the  whole  truth  about  those  wars.  It  went  on 
to  insinuate  with  gratuitous  offensiveness  that,  although 
Captain  Mahan,  being  perhaps  spoilt  by  British  appre- 
ciation of  his  books,  might  hesitate  to  speak  out,  Mr. 
Roosevelt  might  be  trusted  to  reflect  American  opinion 
in  its  most  uncompromising  form,  and  that  I  might  live 
to  be  sorry  for  having  secured  the  cooperation  of  that 
distinguished  writer  and  administrator." 

Trusting  that  the  offending  journal  will,  "  if 
only  for  the  sake  of  international  and  personal 
comity,"  refrain  from  repeating  the  observa- 
tions in  question,  the  writer  goes  on  to  say : 

"  The  point  that  struck  me  as  being  most  ungenerous 
in  the  attack  of  the  New  York  paper  was  the  sugges- 
tion directed,  not  against  us  Britons,  but  against  Captain 
Mahan  and  Mr.  Roosevelt.  To  insinuate  that  one  of 
these  is  capable  of  deliberately  subtracting  from  the 
truth  in  order  to  pander  to  English  vanity  and  that  the 
other  is  capable  of  deliberately  adorning  the  truth  in 
order  to  pander  to  American  Chauvinism,  is  surely  to 
outrage  the  honor  of  both  and  to  besmirch  the  dignity 
of  American  history." 


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Mr.  Clowes  takes  this  matter  altogether  too 
seriously ;  and  it  was  certainly  unwise  to  devote 
an  entire  page  or  more  of  what  is  meant  to  be 
a  durable  and  authoritative  historical  work  to 
a  casual  newspaper  fling  that  would  have  other- 
wise escaped  general  notice.  The  New  York 
allusion  to  Captain  Mahan  certainly  seems  ill- 
advised,  if  not  ill-natured  ;  and  it  may  perhaps 
be  construed  as  hinting  an  opinion  that  that 
distinguished  author  has  been  guilty  of  grow- 
ing suspiciously  warm  over  the  achievements  of 
British  valor  and  seamanship,  in  a  book  whose 
success  was  largely  conditioned  upon  its  fav- 
orable reception  at  the  hands  of  the  British 
public.  But  it  must  be  remembered  that  Captain 
Mahan  is  himself  a  seaman.  He  has  written 
of  his  profession  with  professional  enthusiasm. 
The  annals  of  Trafalgar,  Lepanto,  and  Mobile 
Bay,  of  the  exploits  of  Nelson,  De  Euyter,  and 
Jean  Bart,  of  Farragut  and  Decatur,  are  alike 
the  muniments  of  his  calling.  Captain  Mahan 
undertook  the  task  of  demonstrating  the  his- 
torical glory  and  importance  of  that  calling ;  of 
making  clear  the  potent  influence  of  Sea  Power 
upon  history.  A  moment's  reflection  ought  to 
show  any  American  mentally  above  the  "jingo  " 
stage  of  patriotism  that  it  would  have  been 
impossible  for  Captain  Mahan  to  do  justice  to 
his  thesis  without  dilating  somewhat  warmly 
upon  the  achievements  of  that  nation  whose 
annals  afford  him  by  far  the  most  cogent  proofs 
of  the  soundness  of  it  —  that  is  to  say,  without 
producing  a  book  that  English  readers  would 
find  especially  palatable.  No  one  conversant 
with  Captain  Mahan 's  works,  and  capable  of 
appreciating  their  characteristically  candid  and 
philosophical  spirit,  will  doubt  for  a  moment  that 
his  promised  contribution  to  Mr.  Clowes's  book 
will  be,  whatever  the  international  issues  he  is 
called  upon  to  discuss,  as  free  from  the  appre- 
hended tendency  to  "  pander  to  British  vanity," 
on  the  one  hand,  as  from  that  to  defer  to  Amer- 
ican "  jingoism,"  on  the  other.  If  there  be  in 
England  or  America  a  writer  upon  whom  intel- 
ligent and  liberal  people  of  both  countries 
would  be  likely  to  cordially  unite  as  a  specially 
desirable  expositor  and  judge  of  those  issues, 
that  writer  is  undoubtedly  Captain  Mahan. 

Mr.  Clowes's  not  unrighteous  indignation 
over  the  innuendo  at  Captain  Mahan's  expense 
leads  him  perhaps  into  some  misconception  of 
his  critic's  comfortable  prediction  as  to  Mr. 
Roosevelt.  To  predict  that  in  the  forthcoming 
history  the  honeyed  words  of  the  former  would 
be  duly  offset  by  the  plain  truths  of  the  latter, 
is  not  necessarily  to  brand  Mr.  Roosevelt  as  a 


"  good  American  "  of  the  obstreperous  type  so 
distressing  to  "  The  Nation,"  for  example,  or 
to  insinuate  that  he  is  morally  capable  of  re- 
garding the  task  entrusted  to  him  by  the  con- 
fiding Mr.  Clowes  chiefly  as  a  splendid  oppor- 
tunity to  advance  his  political  prospects  at 
home  by  treating  his  countrymen  to  an  ener- 
getic display  of  "  tail-twisting."  Probably  all 
that  the  New  York  writer  meant  to  convey  as 
to  Mr.  Roosevelt  was  his  conviction  that  that 
plain-spoken  and  somewhat  positive  gentleman 
might  safely  be  looked  to  for  a  more  forcible 
and  explicit  statement  of  the  American  side  of 
the  standing  disputes  arising  out  of  the  unlooked- 
for  results  of  the  naval  engagements  of  1812 
than  our  English  friends  have  been  accustomed 
to  find  in  the  accounts  of  their  own  historians. 
That  the  British  Navy  can  be  worsted,  is  a 
proposition  the  average  Briton  finds  next  to 
impossible  to  entertain ;  that  the  British  Navy 
was  worsted,  disastrously  and  almost  uniformly, 
by  the  American  in  1812,  is  the  plainest  of 
historical  facts,  and  is  no  more  to  be  denied 
than  that  the  French  were  beaten  at  Trafalgar, 
or,  we  may  say  (with  some  misgivings),  than 
that  the  American  land  forces  were  pretty  gen- 
erally and  rather  ignominiously  beaten  by  the 
British  at  the  outset  of  the  war  in  question. 
The  fact,  then,  of  British  naval  defeat  in  1812 
being  sun-clear  and  undeniable,  it  has  obviously 
remained  for  British  patriotism  to  solace  and 
reassure  itself  by  accounting  for  that  fact  in  a 
way  that  may  not  only  save,  but  even  redound 
to,  the  credit  of  the  vanquished.  Essentially, 
these  explanations  amount  to  the  plea  that  in 
nearly  every  one  of  the  famous  sea-duels  of 
1812  the  British  ship  was  at  the  outset  so 
greatly  overmatched  in  point  of  tonnage  or 
armament  or  general  condition,  that,  even 
though  defeated,  she  bore  off  the  real  honors 
of  the  day,  while  her  antagonist  was  entitled 
only  to  that  dubious  sort  of  glory  a  big  or  a 
strong  man  may  claim  as  the  victor  in  a  phys- 
ical encounter  with  a  small  or  a  weak  one. 
Such  is  the  relatively  comfortable  view  most 
English  authorities  incline  to  of  the  actions 
between  the  "  United  States  "  and  the  "  Mace- 
donian," the  "  Constitution  "  and  the  "  Guer- 
riere,"  the  "  Constitution  "  and  the  "  Java," 
and  so  on.  The  view  taken  of  them  in  England 
at  the  time  they  occurred  was  hardly  so  cheer- 
ful, judging  from  the  tenor  of  some  extracts 
from  the  press  given  in  Mr.  Maclay's  interest- 
ing work.  Even  the  "  Times  "  seems  to  have 
been  wrought  up  into  a  state  bordering  on  hys- 
teria, as  the  tidings  of  successive  British  defeats 


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came  in.  The  loss  of  the  first  frigate  is  an- 
nounced with  grave  surprise,  as  a  passing 
instance  of  the  inscrutable  ways  of  Providence, 
and  is  duly  deplored  in  a  tone  of  funereal  de- 
corum. But  when  the  news  of  the  loss  of  the 
second  frigate  came  in,  the  "  Thunderer  "  was 
moved  to  exclaim  : 

"  In  the  name  of  God,  what  was  done  with  this  im- 
mense superiority  of  [British]  force!  Oh,  what  a  charm 
is  hereby  dissolved  !  The  land  spell  of  the  French  is 
broken  [alluding  to  Napoleon's  retreat  from  Moscow], 
and  so  is  our  sea  spell !  " 

Still  deeper  and  more  genuine  is  the  note  of 
consternation  in  the  "  Times's  "  comments  on 
the  loss  of  the  "  Java,"  the  third  frigate  in  suc- 
cession beaten  in  single  fight  by  the  vessels  of 
the  young  Republic  that  had  dared  question 
the  right  of  the  Mistress  of  the  Seas  to  rule 
her  empire  with  the  irresponsible  sway  of  a 
Turkish  pasha : 

"  This  is  an  occurrence  that  calls  for  serious  reflec- 
tion —  this,  and  the  fact  stated  in  our  paper  of  yester- 
day, that  Lloyd's  list  contains  notices  of  upward  of  five 
hundred  British  vessels  captured  in  seven  months  by  the 
Americans.  Five  hundred  merchantmen  and  three  fri- 
gates! Can  these  statements  be  true  ?  And  can  the 
English  people  hear  them  unmoved  ?  Anyone  who  had 
predicted  such  a  result  of  the  American  war  this  time 
last  year  would  have  been  treated  as  a  madman  or  a 
traitor.  He  would  have  been  told,  if  his  opponents  had 
condescended  to  argue  with  him,  that  long  ere  seven 
months  had  elapsed  the  American  flag  would  have  been 
swept  from  the  seas,  the  contemptible  navy  of  the  United 
States  annihilated,  and  their  marine  arsenals  rendered 
a  heap  of  ruins.  Yet  down  to  this  moment  not  a  single 
American  frigate  has  struck  her  flag." 

It  would  be  ungenerous  to  grudge  our  En- 
glish friends  any  reasonable  lenitive  to  the 
smarts  of  their  admitted  maritime  reverses  of 
1812  ;  but  we  fervently  hope  that  Mr.  Roose- 
velt, in  his  forthcoming  chapter  on  those  events, 
will,  while  doing  full  justice  to  British  valor 
and  seamanship  (to  belittle  which  would  be  to 
belittle  our  own  achievements),  at  least  politely 
but  firmly  insist,  with  due  marshalling  of  admis- 
sible evidence,  that  the  American  victories  were 
not  on  the  whole,  what  some  English  writers  in 
effect  labor  to  show,  rather  discreditable  than 
otherwise  to  the  victors.  To  recur  to  and  widen 
the  application  of  our  former  Biblical  illustra- 
tion, it  was  assuredly  the  navy  of  the  infant 
Republic,  not  that  of  Great  Britain,  that  in 
1812  paralleled  the  conduct  of  the  Hebrew 
stripling  who  braved  the  might  of  Goliath  of 
Gath. 

Mr.  Clowes's  work  is  not,  of  course,  to  be, 
what  usually  passes  for  naval  history,  a  mere 
narrative  of  sea-fights.  In  addition  to  giving 
the  more  familiar  story  of  military  exploits  and 


great  voyages  of  exploration  and  discovery,  it 
will  deal  extensively  with  what  may  be  called  the 
natural  history  of  the  Navy.  The  evolution  of  the 
Navy  as  a  national  establishment  will  be  traced 
in  reasonable  detail,  as  will  the  development  of 
naval  architecture,  from  the  pinnace  (picta), 
or  great  British  war-canoe  of  Caesar's  day, 
down  to  the  huge  and  complex  constructions  of 
modern  times.  The  later  chapters  of  the  work 
are  to  contain  copious  accounts  of  the  evolution 
of  modern  ships  and  armament.  The  social 
life  of  the  Navy,  a  rather  promising  topic,  will 
not  be  neglected.  Judging  from  the  profusion 
of  interesting  specimens  before  us,  the  illustra- 
tions are  to  be  precisely  what  they  should  be  — 
real  lights  on  the  text,  and  not  mere  embellish- 
ments. They  cannot  be  better  or  more  com- 
plimentarily  characterized  than  by  likening 
them  to  the  invaluable  plates  in  Mrs.  J.  R. 
Green's  admirable  edition  of  her  late  husband's 
magnum  opus.  Mr.  Clowes's  undertaking  is  a 
very  important  one,  largely  and  liberally  con- 
ceived, and,  thus  far,  carried  out  in  a  way  upon 
which  he  and  his  publishers  are  to  be  warmly 
congratulated.  As  the  only  complete  history 
of  the  British  Navy,  the  work  can  scarcely  fail 
of  the  substantial  success  it  now  bids  fair  to 
deserve. 


E.  G.  J. 


AN  ENGLISH  BARD  AND  HIS  SCOTCH 
EDITOR.* 


Mr.  Henley's  edition  of  the  Letters  of  Lord 
Byron  form  the  initial  volume  of  what  ought  to 
prove  a  work  of  prime  importance  in  its  kind : 
a  definitive  edition  —  or  at  least  an  amply  anno- 
tated edition — of  the  works  in  prose  and  verse 
of  one  of  the  greatest  of  English  poets.  Mr. 
Henley's  purpose  in  writing  these  very  full  and 
excursive  notes  may  best  be  set  forth  in  his  own 
words : 

"  I  have  written  on  the  theory  that  to  know  something 
of  Byron,  one  should  know  something  of  the  aims  and 
lives  and  personalities  of  contemporary  men  and 
women,  with  something  of  the  social  and  political  con- 
ditions which  made  his  triumph  possible.  I  cannot 
believe  that  this  first  instalment,  for  all  its  bulk,  will 
go  far  towards  the  accomplishment  of  such  an  end.  But 
I  confess  to  cherishing  a  hope  that,  by  the  time  I  have 
finished  my  task,  I  shall  be  found  to  have  formed  a  col- 
lection of  facts  and  portraitures,  which,  by  making  for  a 
juster  apprehension  of  the  quality  and  temper  of  Byron's 
environment,  will  make  for  a  more  intimate  understand- 
ing of  Byron's  character  and  Byron's  achievement.  Both 
these  are  extraordinary  ;  neither  can  be  explained,  or 

*  THE  WORKS  OF  LORD  BYRON.  Edited  by  William  Ernest 
Henley.  Volume  I.,  Letters,  1803-1813.  New  York:  The 
Macmillan  Co. 


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shouted,  or  sniffed  away ;  and  it  is  merely  futile  to 
attempt  an  estimate  of  either  till  one  can  do  so  with  some 
knowledge  of  revelant  and  significant  circumstances, 
and  with  a  certain  sympathy  (or  the  reverse,  if  it  must 
be  so),  with  the  influences  under  which  the  character 
was  developed  and  the  achievement  done." 

From  these  prefatory  remarks  it  is  evident 
that  Mr.  Henley  has  formed  a  clear  and  bold 
conception  of  his  duty  as  an  editor ;  and,  from 
this  first  completed  volume,  it  is  equally  evident 
that  he  is  competent  to  the  energetic  carrying- 
out  of  this  considerable  enterprise.  Indeed, 
whatever  editorial  defects  Mr.  Henley  may  ex- 
hibit, deficiency  in  energy  is  certainly  not  one 
of  them.  If  sympathy  with  his  author,  and  an 
energy  and  vivacity  scarcely  second  to  the  en- 
ergy and  vivacity  of  his  author,  were  the  only 
qualifications  of  an  editor,  then  might  Mr. 
Henley  be  pronounced  an  almost  ideal  editor 
of  Byron.  In  one  respect  these  notes  to  Byron's 
letters  may  be  considered  a  greater  achievement 
than  the  letters  themselves.  Mr.  Henley  in  his 
notes  is  as  far  from  being  dull  as  is  Byron  in 
the  letters.  Considering  how  much  rarer  a  lit- 
erary product  than  a  body  of  interesting  letters 
is  a  body  of  interesting  notes  about  equal  in 
bulk,  Mr.  Henley's  performance  is  certainly 
remarkable,  perhaps  unprecedented.  After 
reading  one  of  Byron's  racy  letters  one  learns 
to  turn  with  something  like  instinctive  eagerness 
to  the  notes,  which  are  seldom  disappointing, 
after  the  usual  manner  of  notes,  and  which  fre- 
quently surprise  by  their  fulness  and  apposite- 
ness  of  illustration.  As  might  be  expected  from 
the  programme  laid  down  by  Mr.  Henley  in  his 
Preface,  a  large  portion  of  the  notes  is  devoted 
to  biographical  comment  upon  Byron's  friends 
and  acquaintances.  The  material  for  this  por- 
tion of  the  notes  is  evidently  selected  for  the 
illustration  it  furnishes  of  those  characteristics 
in  which  Byron's  times  differ  from  our  own,  and 
it  is  put  together  with  great  literary  skill. 

We  shall  look  forward  with  unusual  interest 
to  the  volumes  of  this  edition  which  are  to  fol- 
low. We  would  not  say  one  word  that  might 
tend  to  do  aught  but  encourage  Mr.  Henley  in 
his  enterprise.  But  a  Scotchman  is  not  easily 
discouraged  ;  and  no  harm  is  likely  to  come  of 
a  frank  statement  of  the  defects  of  an  editor 
who  has  already  scored  so  signal  a  success.  In 
a  word,  then,  Mr.  Henley's  defect  is  a  defect  of 
temper.  He  annotates  a  passionate  author  pas- 
sionately. His  confident  and  minatory  attitude 
excites  suspicion  or  irritation.  He  fails  to  treat 
persons  who  in  any  way  incurred  Byron's  dis- 
pleasure with  anything  of  what  the  French 
nicely  term  menagement.  As  an  example  of  a 


note  which  is  probably  as  untrue  as  it  is  brutal, 
take  this  upon  Byron's  mother : 

"  In  person  she  was  dumpy  and  plain,  in  disposition 
passionate,  in  temper  furious  and  tyrannical,  in  mind  a 
superstitious  dullard,  and  in  manners  a  naturally  awk- 
ward and  untrained  provincial." 

The  notes  upon  Byron's  sporting  proclivities 
are  full  of  curious  information.  In  1807,  Byron 
mentions  to  Miss  Pigot  a  swim  of  three  miles 
"  in  the  Thames  from  Lambeth  through  the  two 
bridges,  Westminster  and  Blackfriars."  Mr. 
Henley  notes : 

"  This  was  Leigh  Hunt's  first  glimpse  of  Byron.  He 
witnessed  the  performance  in  part,  and  he  '  noticed  a 
respectable,  manly-looking  person,  who  was  eying  some- 
thing in  the  distance  '  (Byron's  head).  The  <  manly- 
looking  '  one  was  Gentleman  Jackson." 

Upon  this  worthy  there  is  a  long  and  entertain- 
ing note,  from  which  we  make  an  excerpt  or  two : 
"  Yet  for  over  thirty  years  he  was  the  most  picture- 
esque  and  commanding  figure  in  the  sporting  world,  and 
exercised  an  influence  unique  in  its  annals.  The  truth 
is,  he  was  a  vast  deal  more  than  an  accomplished  boxer 
and  teacher  of  boxing  and  a  brilliant  all-round  athlete. 
He  was  also  a  man  of  character  and  integrity  —  polite, 
agreeable,  reputable,  a  capital  talker,  a  person  of  tact 
and  energy  and  charm.  .  .  .  Byron  had  always  a  great 
regard  for  Jackson  ;  walked  with  him  at  Cambridge, 
and  told  an  excited  remonstrant  that  '  Jackson's  man- 
ners are  infinitely  superior  to  those  of  the  fellows  of 
my  college  whom  I  meet  at  the  high  table.' " 

After  a  good  deal  more  about  Jackson,  the 
annotator  goes  on  to  relate  how  Moore  went 
with  him  in  1818  to  see  the  fight  between  Tur- 
ner and  "  the  Nonpareil  "  at  Crawley  Downs  : 
"  It  lasted  two  hours  and  twenty  minutes,  and  Keats, 
who  saw  it, '  tapped  his  fingers  on  the  window  pane,'  to 
give  Cowden  Clarke  an  idea  of  the  rapidity  of  the  Non- 
pareil's hits." 

Had  Byron  been  in  England  at  the  time,  there 
would  have  been  three  poets  among  the  spec- 
tators. In  the  still  longer  and  not  less  inter- 
esting note  apropos  of  "  '  Bob  Gregson,  P.P.' 
('Poet  of  Pugilism'),"  Mr.  Henley  reminds  us 
that  Byron  was  "  a  member  of  the  Pugilistic 
Club  —  one  of  the  hundred  and  fifty  Corin- 
thians, that  is,  with  whose  countenance  and 
inside  whose  ropes  and  stakes  all  decent  mills 
were  done."  This  note  —  after  a  long  digres- 
sion containing  a  Scotch  laird's  account  of  a 
fight  (at  which  Byron  must  have  been  present) 
between  Cribb,  the  renowned  "  glutton,"  and 
Jem  Belcher,  "  the  man  of  genius  who  had  re- 
inspired  and  renewed  the  art," —  concludes  as 
follows : 

"  A  dreadful  age,  no  doubt:  for  all  its  solid  founda- 
tions, of  faith  and  dogma  in  the  Church,  and  of  virtue 
and  solvency  in  the  State,  a  fierce,  drunken,  gambling, 
'  keeping,'  adulterous,  high-living,  hard-drinking,  hard- 
hitting, brutal  age.  But  it  was  Byron's;  and  Don  Juan 


1897.] 


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and  The  Giaour  me  as  naturally  its  outcomes  as  Absalom 
and  Achitophel  is  an  expression  of  the  Restoration,  and 
In  Memoriam  a  product  of  Victorian  England." 

It  is  in  the  note  of  five  pages  in  small  type 
upon  Leigh  Hunt  that  Mr.  Henley  gives  the 
freest  play  to  his  satirical  vein.  For  Hunt's 
book  on  "Lord  Byron  and  his  Contemporaries  " 
there  can  be  no  forgiveness :  accordingly  Mr. 
Henley  pursues  Hunt  with  a  ferocity  which 
the  good-natured  Byron  would  himself  have 
been  the  first,  at  least  in  his  cooler  moments,  to 
deprecate.  The  reputation  of  Hunt  is  macer- 
ated in  a  caldron  containing  all  the  most  spiteful 
things  ever  said  about  him,  the  whole  steeped 
in  the  vitriol  which  is  Mr.  Henley's  peculiar 
product.  This  "  character  "  (as  they  used  to 
say  in  the  seventeenth  century)  concludes  as 
follows : 

"  It  is  fair  to  add  that  Hunt  wrote  with  true  piety  of 
Shelley  —  (but  if,  as  Trelawney  says,  he  really  did  pre- 
fer his  own  Muse  before  Shelley's,  the  density  of  his 
conceit  is  not  to  be  expressed  in  terms  of  words)  —  and 
Keats ;  that  he  lived  to  a  green  old  age ;  that  he  num- 
bered Carlyle  among  his  many  friends ;  and  that  another 
of  them,  Charles  Dickens,  was  severely  taken  to  task 
for  presenting  him  as  the  Harold  Skimpole  of  Bleak 
House.  A  person  of  parts,  no  doubt  —  of  parts,  and  a 
certain  charm,  and  a  facile,  amiable,  liquorish  tempera- 
ment. But  there  was  no  clearer,  keener  vision  than 
Keats's;  and  I  fear  that  Keats's  word  about  Leigh  Hunt 
must  be  remembered  as  the  last." 

It  is  evident  that  the  fear  expressed  by  Mr. 
Henley  in  the  last  sentence  is  not  very  distress- 
ing to  him.  Keats's  remark  that  Hunt  was 
"  vain,  egotistical,  and  disgusting  in  taste  and 
morals  "  was  probably  born  of  a  passing  mood 
of  suspicious  irritability.  That  it  could  not 
have  been  his  settled  conviction  seems  to  be 
shown  by  his  friendly  relations  with  Hunt  be- 
fore and  after.  To  quote  such  a  remark  as  a 
final  judgment  is  something  more  than  uncrit- 
ical,—  it  is  malicious.  Keats's  vision  was  un- 
doubtedly at  times  clear  and  keen,  although  apt 
to  be  colored  by  his  moods  ;  Carlyle's  vision  — 
especially  his  eye  for  a  charlatan  —  was  cer- 
tainly "  clearer  and  keener  ";  and  Carlyle,  after 
the  searching  test  of  a  house-to-house  intimacy 
with  Hunt  for  many  years,  wrote  of  him  and  to 
him  with  warm  and  reverent  admiration.  Our 
own  Lowell,  whose  fault  was  certainly  not  lack 
of  clearness  and  keenness  of  vision,  found  it  in 
his  heart  to  pronounce  Leigh  Hunt  "  as  pure- 
minded  a  man  as  ever  lived."  A  good  rule  is 
to  distrust  a  critic  of  Mr.  Henley's  acerbity 
when  he  begins  with  a  profession  of  fairness 
("  it  is  fair  to  add  ")  :  it  means  mischief.  Had 
Mr.  Henley  really  meant  to  be  fair,  he  would 
have  added  that  Dickens  earnestly  disclaimed 


any  intention  of  portraying  Leigh  Hunt  in  the 
character  of  Harold  Skimpole.  "  He  was  in  all 
public  and  private  transactions  the  very  soul  of 
truth  and  honor,"  said  Dickens.  While  not 
one  of  the  masterful  minds  of  his  time,  Leigh 
Hunt  was  one  of  the  most  educative  writers. 
Few  men  have  exhibited  in  the  profession  of 
letters  more  genuine  heroism.  Happy  would  it 
be  for  the  world  if  some  men  of  more  vivid 
genius  had  set  an  example  of  equal  magnan- 
imity and  equal  purity  in  the  exercise  of  the 
literary  craft. 

Even  Moore,  the  devoted  friend  of  Byron, 
does  not  wholly  escape  Mr.  Henley's  lash.  His 
translation  of  the  "Odes  of  Anacreon,"  to 
which  he  owed  the  nickname  of  Anacreon 
Moore,  is  done  "  as  it  were  into  scented  soap." 
His  "  Loves  of  the  Angels  "  is  "  a  mild  Whig 
Paradise,  done  by  a  tame,  suburban  Byron." 
As  to  character,  —  "  For  all  the  smirk  in  his 
love-songs  and  the  sting  (as  of  nettles)  in  his 
satire,  he  was  a  worthy  and  magnanimous  little 
man."  (And  such  we  trust,  little  or  big,  is 
Mr.  Henley !) 

In  Francis  Jeffrey,  Mr.  Henley  has  a  fair 
mark,  which  he  hits  square  in  the  bull's-eye : 

"  At  the  time  of  Byron's  writing,  Jeffrey,  a  sound 
enough  critic  according  to  his  lights,  had  edited  The 
Edinburgh  Review  (1802)  for  some  ten  years,  and  had 
made  it  the  first  periodical  in  the  world.  His  chief  faults 
as  an  editor  were  (1)  a  trick  of  mixing  politics  with  criti- 
cism, so  that  your  Tory  seldom,  if  ever,  got  fair  play  at 
his  hands;  and  (2)  a  tendency  to  be  '  high-sniffing'  and 
superior,  which  prevented  him  from  considering  anybody, 
or  anything,  excepting  from  his  own  peculiar  point  of 
view,  which  was  that  of  a  flippant  (because  divinely 
gifted)  Whig.  Hence  some  enormous  blunders  and  an 
influence  which  made  on  the  whole  for  mischief,  and  was 
not  more  bitterly  resented  than  it  deserved." 

If  Mr.  Henley  carries  out  his  undertaking 
in  the  spirit  and  with  the  verve  of  the  present 
volume,  he  is  likely  to  produce  the  most  vivid 
and  interesting  body  of  notes  with  which  the 
life  and  works  of  any  English  author  have  been 
illustrated.  But  Mr.  Henley,  like  Byron  him- 
self, has  the  defect  of  his  quality.  He  is  either 
too  kindred  in  spirit  to  Byron,  or  else  he  is  too 
opinionated  a  Scotchman,  to  be  a  critic  of  dis- 
crimination. He  is  over-vigorous,  over-confi- 
dent, over-much  in  sympathy  with  his  author. 
All  his  portraits  are  sharply  etched  in  black- 
and-white,  —  his  penchant  for  black  has  been 
sufficiently  exemplified.  He  pays  court  to 
Clio  in  much  the  same  cavalier  way  in  which 
John  Byron  paid  court  to  Miss  Gordon  of 
Gight.  Having  possessed  himself  of  her  ma- 
terial treasures,  he  leaves  her,  little  dreaming 
that  the  Muse  of  History  never  yields  her  most 


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precious  secrets  either  to  the  cajoler  or  to  the 
bully.  It  is  not  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Truth 
that  it  was  said  that  men  of  violence  take  it  by 
force.  The  Truth  most  frequently  lies  in  the 
nuance,  the  delicate  distinction,  the  fleeting 
glimpse,  the  anxiously  qualified  phrase ;  and 
in  these  your  men  of  violence, —  your  Byrons, 
Macaulays,  and  Henleys, —  deal  not.  To  say 
this  is  not  to  deny  their  usefulness,  but  to  de- 
termine their  limitation.  Writers  of  this  class 
may  be  interesting  in  a  thousand  ways :  they 
may  whip  us  into  wholesome  activity  with  their 
passion,  sting  us  with  their  satire,  move  us  with 
their  eloquence,  melt  us  with  their  pathos,  en- 
ergise us  with  their  power.  But  one  function, 
at  least,  is  reserved  for  writers  of  a  more  con- 
templative cast,  of  a  quieter  style  :  and  that  is, 
to  make  us  give  ear  to  the  "  still  small  voice  " 
of  Truth.  MELVILLE  B.  ANDERSON. 


THE  CORRESPONDENCE  OF  Two  KINGS 
OF  EGYPT,  15OO  YEARS  B.C.* 

Ten  years  ago,  on  the  shores  of  the  Nile,  at 
Tell-el-Amarna,  two  hundred  miles  above  Cairo, 
the  natives  accidentally  happened  upon  a  large 
number  of  clay  tablets,  containing  cuneiform 
writing  which  had  previously  been  found  only 
on  the  banks  of  the  Tigris  or  Euphrates.!  Late 
in  1887  many  of  these  tablets  were  offered  for 
sale  in  Cairo ;  and  it  was  then  discovered  that 
the  natives  had  ruthlessly  broken  the  larger 
tablets  in  order  to  conceal  and  carry  them  more 
easily.  Of  their  content,  nothing  was  known. 
In  the  London  "Academy"  of  February  18 
and  March  24,  1888,  Professor  Sayce  offered 
an  account  of  some  of  the  tablets  in  the  pos- 
session of  M.  Bouriant  in  Cairo.  He  stated 
that  the  tablets  contained  "  despatches  sent  to 
the  Babylonian  King  by  his  officers  in  Upper 
Egypt "  (sic  !)  ;  he  dated  these  despatches  in 
the  time  of  Nebuchadnezzar ;  and  added :  "The 
conquest  of  Egypt  by  Nebuchadnezzar,  so  long 
doubted,  is  now,  therefore,  become  a  fact  of 
history."  Herr  Graf  had  already  secured  from 
the  natives  a  large  number  of  pieces  of  the  tab- 
lets for  the  Royal  Museum  of  Berlin.  Of  course 
the  Germans  soon  discerned  the  real  character 
and  correct  date  of  the  letters,  and  the  facts 

*  THE  TELL-BL-AMABNA  LETTERS.  By  Hugo  Winckler. 
New  York :  Lemcke  &  Buechner. 

t  With  the  trifling  exception  of  three  cylinders  bought  in 
1883  by  Maspero,  and  found  by  the  natives  near  the  Suez  Canal . 
They  were  stereotyped  documents  of  Nebuchadnezzar,  refer- 
ring to  his  western  campaigns.  (Cf.  Sayce,  Proceedings  of 
the  Soc.  of  Biblical  Arch.,  1887-1888,  p.  490.) 


were  published  on  May  3,  1888,  in  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Royal  Prussian  Academy  by 
Erman.  Then  for  the  first  time  the  world  was 
informed  of  the  most  remarkable  archaeological 
discovery  of  modern  times,  being  the  corre- 
spondence of  two  kings  of  Egypt,  Amenhotep 
III.  and  IV.,  in  the  fifteenth  century  before 
Christ  (nine  hundred  years  before  Nebuchad- 
nezzar !),  with  various  kings  and  officials  of 
Western  Asia.  The  names  of  the  two  Pharaohs 
written  in  cuneiform  were  identified  with  their 
hieroglyphic  forms  by  Erman  ;  and  thus  at  once 
it  was  clear  why  the  letters  were  found  at 
Tell-el-Amarna,  the  capital  built  by  Amenho- 
tep IV. 

Such  a  find  as  this  has  necessarily  brought 
out  an  extensive  literature  of  the  subject  (see 
Bezold-Budge,  "  Tell-el-Amarna  Tablets,"  pp. 
Ixxxvii.-xcii.)  ;  but  it  is  only  in  Dr.  Winckler's 
book  on  "  The  Tell-el-Amarna  Letters  "  that 
all  the  texts  have  been  collected  and  transla- 
ted. It  therefore  forms  the  most  convenient 
source  for  this  material  which  the  historian 
can  find. 

The  letters,  of  which  there  are  two  hundred 
and  ninety-six,  fall  into  two  main  classes,  ac- 
cording to  Dr.  Winckler :  I.,  "  Letters  from 
Kings  of  Western  Asia,"  thirty-six  in  number  ; 
and  II.,  "  Letters  from  Phosnician  and  Canaan- 
ite  Princes,"  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  in 
number  ;  the  remaining  three  are  catalogues  of 
presents.  These  letters  are  all  transliterated 
carefully  and  accompanied  by  page-for-page 
translations,  both  occupying  404  pages.  A 
series  of  registers  at  the  end  include :  a  com- 
plete vocabulary  (34  pages)  ;  a  complete  list  of 
proper  names  (8  pages)  ;  and  a  special  vocab- 
ulary of  the  last  three  letters. 

The  work  is  very  well  done,  and  every  Ori- 
entalist will  be  grateful  to  Dr.  Winckler  for 
making  this  important  material  so  conveniently 
accessible.  Space  will  not  permit  any  detailed 
criticism  of  the  translations,  or  any  account  of 
the  content  of  this  remarkable  correspondence. 
The  translation  from  the  German  very  notice- 
ably shows  the  influence  of  the  German  idiom, 
especially  in  the  preface ;  and  a  few  misprints 
are  also  present,  e.  g.,  Rainapa  for  Rianapa 
(p.  337),  and  "  loin  "  for  loan  (on  p.  413). 
JAMES  HENRY  BREASTED. 


MESSRS.  Harper  &  Brothers,  who  are  the  sole  pub- 
lishers in  the  United  States  of  Dr.  Nansen's  "  Farthest 
North,"  caution  the  public  against  certain  infringements 
that  have  been  made  upon  their  rights. 


1897.] 


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117 


FOCALIZED  ox  THE  BIBLE.* 

The  versatile  mind  and  pen  of  Dean  Farrar  have 
brightened  and  lightened  many  a  page  within  the 
past  quarter- century.  Biblical  literature  and  Chris- 
tian history  have  received  rich  bequests  from  the 
fertility  of  his  brain  and  the  deftness  of  his  hand. 
His  latest  volume  contains  a  collection  of  some  of 
his  choicest  thoughts  on  the  meaning  and  supremacy 
of  the  Bible.  The  book  contains  twenty-three  chap- 
ters on  a  wide  scope  of  themes.  But  these  may  be 
classified  as  treating  (1)  of  biblical  introduction, 
(2)  of  methods  of  interpretation,  (3)  of  the  effects 
of  the  Bible  on  the  lives  and  literature  of  great  men. 
To  one  already  familiar  with  the  books  of  the  au- 
thor, this  volume  contains  nothing  new.  Its  pages 
abound  with  references  to  his  earlier  books,  and 
exhibit  the  same  breadth  of  learning  and  fullness  of 
culture.  The  style  is  strikingly  Farrarian,  and  for 
the  most  wins  the  confidence  of  the  reader  by  the 
mere  force  of  rhetoric.  The  views  presented  are  in 
the  front  ranks  of  the  most  progressive  churchmen ; 
in  fact,  they  often  overstep  the  bounds  of  the  pro- 
gressive conservative  school.  Too  much  space  is 
wasted  in  showing  the  irrationality  of  positions  long 
ago  left  in  the  rear.  Even  "  the  allegorical  method" 
of  interpretation  —  now  employed  by  no  reputable 
interpreter  —  covers  nearly  twenty  pages.  Then 
farther  on  in  his  book  (p.  238),  the  author  himself 
suggests  that  the  allegorical  interpretation  of  Lot's 
actions  in  the  mountain  is  the  most  reasonable.  The 
"  verbal  dictation  "  chapter  (p.  104  sq.)  is  equally 
a  skeleton  of  past  beliefs.  "  Plenary  inspiration  " 
(p.  114  sq.)  is  merely  a  "  general  inspiration  "  such 
as  inspires  Christians  to-day.  The  chapter  (XVIII.) 
on  the  "  Supremacy  of  the  Bible  "  is  a  collation  of 
the  opinions  of  sixty-five  prominent  litterateurs, 
philosophers,  scientists,  statesmen,  generals,  and 
philanthropists,  as  gathered  from  their  writings  on 
the  value  of  the  Bible  as  literature  and  as  a  guide 
to  right  living.  The  whole  book  is  peculiarly  mis- 
cellaneous to  be  from  the  pen  of  Dean  Farrar.  It 
is  full  of  good  things,  mingled  with  obsolete  and 
exploded  views  of  other  days.  It  adds  nothing  to 
the  wide  reputation  of  the  author,  but  may  be  the 
means  of  arousing  and  stimulating  the  minds  of  new 
readers  of  his  works. 

The  apparent  lethargy  of  the  conservative  school 

*THE  BIBLE:  ITS  MEANING  AND  ITS  SUPREMACY.  By 
F.  W.  Farrar,  D.D.,  F.R.S.,  Dean  of  Canterbury.  New  York : 
Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 

THE  ANCIENT  HEBREW  TRADITION,  as  illustrated  by  the 
Monuments:  A  Protest  against  the  Modern  School  of  Old 
Testament  Criticism.  By  Dr.  Fritz  Hommel,  Professor  of 
Semitic  Languages  at  the  University  of  Munich.  Translated 
from  the  German  by  Edmund  McClure  and  L.  Crossle*.  New 
York :  E.  &  J.  B.  Young  &  Co. 

THE  MYTHS  OF  ISRAEL  :  The  Ancient  Book  of  Genesis,  with 
Analysis  and  Explanation  of  its  Composition.  By  Amos  Kidder 
Fiske.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

A  CONCORDANCE  TO  THE  GREEK  TESTAMENT,  according  to 
the  Texts  of  Westcott  and  Hort,  Tischendorf ,  and  the  English 
Revisers.  Edited  by  Rev.  W.  F.  Moulton,  M.A.,  D.D.,  and 
Rev.  A.  S.  Geden,  M.  A.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


of  Old  Testament  criticism  is  quickened  to  action  by 
the  accession  of  such  recruits  as  Professor  Hommel. 
This  protest,  though  uttered  in  sharp  terms,  is  com- 
paratively mild.  The  author  does  not  sever  his 
connection  with  the  analyst  school,  for  in  the  early 
part  of  his  book  he  says,  in  apparent  sincerity,  "  At 
the  present  time,  students  of  the  Old  Testament  are 
almost  unanimous  in  recognizing  the  existence  of  four 
different  main  sources  "  of  the  Pentateuch,  namely, 
the  Priestly  code,  the  Jehovist,  the  Elohist,  and  the 
Deuteronomist.  Also  in  his  treatment  of  the  texts 
(e.  g.,  Gen.  14)  is  reconstructed  on  a  purely  subjective 
basis,  with  as  much  positiveness  as  would  be  done  by 
any  disciple  of  Wellhausen.  On  the  basis  of  style  and 
language,  he  conceives  that  we  can  separate  chapters 
and  parts  of  chapters  and  assign  them  to  their  proper 
sources.  The  only  noteworthy  difference  between 
the  radical  school  and  Professor  Hommel  lies  in  the 
value  attached  by  the  latter  to  Hebrew  tradition. 
Our  author  traverses  in  the  main  the  field  of  per- 
sonal names,  and  on  the  philological  composition  of 
these  attempts  to  trace  the  origin  of  the  language, 
the  people,  and  the  religion  of  old  Babylonia  and 
Palestine.  The  names  in  Babylonian,  Egyptian, 
Arabian,  and  Palestinian  documents  are  analyzed 
with  a  distressing  amount  of  detail,  such  as  can  be 
followed  out  only  by  an  expert  in  oriental  learning. 
These  tests  precipitate  for  the  author  two  important 
facts :  (1)  the  Arabian  origin  of  the  Hammurabi 
dynasty  of  Babylonia  and  the  Hyksos  dynasty  in 
Egypt,  (2)  the  purely  mionotheistic  character  of  the 
early  religion  of  Arabia  —  there  being  no  traces  of 
either  Fetishism  or  Totemism.  The  identifications, 
though  often  convincing,  are  now  and  then  exceed- 
ingly questionable.  The  palaeographic  methods  of 
Professor  Hommel  in  his  earlier  works  have  fore- 
warned scholars  against  his  frequent  phrases,  "  ab- 
solutely proved,"  "unquestioned,"  etc.,  appended 
sometimes  to  purely  hypothetical  cases  (e.  g.,  p.  39 
and  129, 157  top,  199  bottom,  etc.).  The  author, 
too,  dashes  ahead  with  conjectures  where  caution 
should  suggest  silence.  The  material  is  not  new, 
except  in  a  few  cases,  but  has  received  large  atten- 
tion from  archaeologists  during  the  past  score  of 
years.  The  endless  wrangle  over  the  order  and  date 
of  dynasties  whose  discovered  remains  are  as  yet 
mere  fragments  is  next  to  a  waste  of  time.  The 
contested  results  are  at  best  conjectures,  and  any 
scheme  based  thereon  is  insecure.  The  position  of 
the  author,  in  antagonizing  extremists,  is  this :  the 
Priest's  Code  is  preexilic  ;  Deuteronomy  was  known 
to  Hosea,  and  was  not  a  pious  fraud  of  Josiah's  day ; 
the  law  and  the  account  of  its  origin  arose  in  Moses's 
day ;  and  the  parables  of  Balaam  and  the  Song  of 
Deborah  were  contemporary  documents.  These 
conclusions  are  reached  chiefly  through  the  use  of 
personal  names.  The  book  is  almost  wholly  tech- 
nical ;  it  is  popularly  uninteresting,  and  of  value 
only  to  Orientalists.  It  reads  almost  like  a  Hebrew 
lexicon,  and  will  yield  its  best  results  in  the  fields  of 
philology  and  ethnology.  There  was  no  gain  in 
translating  it  into  English,  for  all  who  can  follow 


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[Sept.  1, 


the  author  to  profit  are  acquainted  with  the  German 
language. 

Mr.  Amos  Kidder  Fiske,  the  author  of  "The 
Myths  of  Israel,"  has  made  his  debut  too  late  in 
history.  His  mythical  scheme  for  Genesis  has  re- 
ceived an  archaeological  blow  from  which  it  can 
never  recover.  Even  admitting  a  documentary  ori- 
gin of  the  book,  there  is  still  enough  of  archaeolog- 
ical evidence  to  drive  him  from  the  field.  Does  the 
monumental  testimony  set  before  us  within  the  past 
quarter-century  pass  for  nothing  ?  For  example :  he 
sees  simply  a  legend  in  the  fourteenth  chapter  of 
Genesis,  "  The  picture  of  Melchisedek  is  a  device 
for  giving  an  ancient  sanctity  to  Salem,"  etc.  But 
Professors  Sayce,  Hommel,  and  others  could  point 
out  on  the  monuments  to  Mr.  Fiske  the  names  of 
the  legendary  kings  here  mentioned,  as  well  as  con- 
firmation of  some  of  the  facts  connected  with  the 
description  of  Melchisedek.  A  disregard  of  the 
best  and  latest  results  of  archaeological  research  nul- 
lifies the  value  of  this  beautifully  printed  book. 

Since  the  appearance  of  the  critical  editions  of 
the  Greek  text  of  the  New  Testament  by  Tischen- 
dorf  and  Wescott  and  Hort,  scholars  have  had  no 
up-to-date  Greek  Concordance.  The  great  work  of 
Bruder  has  served  its  day  with  distinction.  Neither 
the  original  work  nor  the  repaired  edition  of  1888 
has  made  it  what  scholars  need  and  demand  in  order 
to  do  the  most  effective  work  in  New  Testament 
lexicography  and  exegesis.  The  new  Concordance, 
edited  by  Dr.  W.  F.  Moulton  and  the  Rev.  A.  S. 
Geden  will  therefore  be  welcomed.  The  real  author 
of  the  book,  Mr.  Geden,  has  done  a  work  monu- 
mental in  character  and  amount.  He  has  embodied 
in  this  Concordance  all  the  critical  results  of  three 
of  the  best  critical  editions  of  the  New  Testament, 
namely,  Tischendorf  (8th  edition),  Westcott  and 
Hort,  and  the  English  Revisers.  The  Westcott  and 
Hort  Greek  text  has  been  assumed  as  the  standard, 
and  with  it  have  been  compared  the  other  two  texts. 
Marginal  readings  also  have  in  all  cases  been  in- 
cluded. It  is  thus  seen  that  this  work  includes  all 
the  marginal  critical  material  of  three  great  editions 
of  the  Greek  New  Testament.  These  are  each  indi- 
cated by  appropriate  abbreviations.  Differences  of 
reading  are  set  forth  in  a  line  immediately  beneath 
the  text  concerned,  but  to  avoid  unnecessary  repeti- 
tion or  useless  bulkiness  only  such  variations  are 
noted  as  affect  the  form  or  construction  of  the  word 
under  consideration.  Care  has  been  exercised  to 
secure  in  the  form  of  the  quotation,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, grammatical  completeness.  Special  usages 
and  constructions  are  indicated  by  small  prefixed 
numerals,  whose  significance  is  noted  at  the  head  of 
each  article.  Every  attempt  has  been  made  to  re- 
duce the  element  of  personal  preference  in  these 
cases  to  a  minimum.  Abbreviations  have  been  em- 
ployed in  the  text  only  in  the  case  of  indeclinable 
words  and  of  the  article.  Another  important  fea- 
ture of  the  Concordance  is  that  in  which  the  usage 
of  words  in  the  New  Testament  is  compared  with 
the  Greek  of  the  Old  Testament  and  of  classical 


writers.  These  variations  are  noted  by  asterisks 
and  a  dagger ;  and  are  based,  regarding  the  Sep- 
tuagint,  for  the  most  part  upon  the  new  Oxford 
Concordance.  This,  we  do  not  hesitate  to  say,  is 
the  part  of  the  work  which  must  be  tested  before 
adoption.  It  opens  a  field  that  few  scholars  are 
able  to  enter  with  any  great  familiarity,  and  one  in 
which  fewer  can  put  forth  decisions  of  real  value. 
Mr.  Geden,  however,  has  done  his  part  cautiously 
and  carefully,  and  would  no  doubt  claim  slight  credit 
for  originality  in  his  announced  opinions.  Still  one 
more  point  adds  to  the  efficiency  of  this  Concord- 
ance as  a  tool  for  New  Testament  workmen.  "  Of 
all  direct  quotations  from  the  Old  Testament,  the 
Hebrew  text  is  given  immediately  beneath  the 
Greek ;  occasionally  also  of  passages  in  which  only 
an  indirect  or  disputed  reference  is  present."  The 
Hebrew  text  followed  is  that  of  Baer  (as  far  as 
published)  and  Theile.  But  a  question  arises  here 
which  will  not  down,  namely  :  Why  cite  the  Hebrew 
text  of  the  Old  Testament,  when  the  majority  of 
the  quotations  in  the  New  Testament  are  from  the 
LXX.?  Why  would  it  not  have  been  better  to  give 
us  the  LXX.  where  it  agrees  with  the  quotation,  or 
the  Hebrew  where  the  same  result  is  apparent,  or 
both  where  neither  exactly  agrees?  Such  a  pre- 
sentation would  have  materially  aided  the  user  of 
the  book,  and  would  have  imposed  no  great  burden 
on  the  editor.  The  volume  is  beautifully  printed, 
with  but  few  Greek  and  Hebrew  accents  broken  off 
in  the  presswork.  Errors  are  rare  compared  with 
the  immense  care  necessary  to  secure  correctness. 
The  book  is  a  boon  for  every  biblical  scholar  who 

wil1  use  it-  IRA  M.  PRICE. 


BRIEFS  ox  NEW  BOOKS. 


A  doubtful 
French  critic 
of  America. 


"  America  and  the  Americans  from 
a  French  Point  of  View"  (Scribner) 
is  not  a  very  easy  book  to  deal  with, 
for  it  is  full  of  sharp  criticism  of  Americans  and  of 
American  life.  Now,  where  such  criticism  is  well- 
founded,  the  thing  to  do  is  to  get  some  good  out  of 
it ;  and  where  it  is  not  well-founded,  the  thing  to  do 
is  to  do  nothing.  But  there  is  always  a  difficulty 
in  determining  whether  adverse  criticism  is  well- 
founded.  It  is  always  easy  for  a  traveller  to  pick 
faults  with  the  life  he  happens  to  observe,  and 
travellers  are  very  apt  to  do  so.  Our  reception  of 
a  work  on  America  is  very  apt  to  be  influenced  by 
the  spirit  in  which  the  author  observes  and  the  sin- 
cerity with  which  he  writes,  and,  it  may  be  added, 
by  the  value  of  the  positive  suggestions  he  makes. 
In  the  present  case  there  are  no  positive  suggestions, 
so  that  that  matter  may  be  passed  over  :  the  author 
does  not  affect  to  be  able  to  rearrange  matters  and 
make  them  better  than  they  are, —  he  merely  points 
out  where  there  are  possibilities  of  improvement. 
Unfortunately,  however,  it  is  obvious  that  the  writer 
got  together  his  material  with  a  mind  quite  set  on 


1897.] 


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119 


making  the  sharpest  attack  possible.  It  is  true,  he 
says  a  great  deal  about  kindly  feeling  for  America, 
and  about  the  kindly  manner  in  which  he  was  there 
received.  We  have  no  doubt  that  he  may  have  been 
received  with  kindness,  but  there  is  no  reason  to 
suppose  that  he  has  any  kind  feeling  in  return.  The 
tone  of  the  book  is,  from  beginning  to  end,  carping  ; 
now  and  then  it  is  malicious,  now  and  then  it  is 
hypocritically  benevolent.  So  one  cannot  think  the 
book  the  work  of  an  open-minded  observer :  it  is 
the  work  of  a  man  on  the  lookout  for  flaws.  Nor 
is  it  a  sincere  book.  Although  said  to  be  the  diary 
of  a  Frenchman  which  he  wrote  for  the  pleasure  of 
his  sister,  but  which  he  permits  to  be  translated  at 
the  suggestion  of  two  American  friends,  it  seems 
much  more  like  the  original  work  of  an  American. 
Without  going  into  particulars,  there  is  a  good  deal 
that  seems  to  us  inconsistent  with  the  chosen  char- 
acter. It  seems  to  us  that  the  author  would  have 
done  better  had  he  pretended  he  was  a  Russian  who 
knew  the  English  language.  Since  it  would  seem, 
then,  that  the  book  is  written  by  someone  who  has 
adopted  a  silly  mask  for  the  pleasure  of  saying 
sharp  things,  it  is  hard  to  take  just  the  right  atti- 
tude about  it.  It  certainly  does  note  many  points 
about  our  national  life  which  deserve  adverse  criti- 
cism, —  as,  for  example,  that  we  are  too  confident 
that  machinery  can  do  everything ;  that  we  are  too 
devoted  to  seeming  to  be  busy  ;  that  our  politics  are 
not  worthy  a  great  republic  ;  that  we  have  too  great 
admiration  for  money  and  material  comfort,  and  so 
on.  These  criticisms,  which  we  must  acknowledge 
to  be  well-founded,  though  not  especially  new,  give 
the  book  a  sort  of  value.  Probably,  however,  they 
will  not  have  much  more  effect  on  America  and  the 
Americans  than  usually  attends  the  efforts  of  an 
anonymous  fault-finder. 

Dr.  Otto  Georg  Wetterstrand  is  a 

Hypnotism  as  a         o       j  •  v.        u      •   •  t.       v.         •    A 

curative  agent.  Swedish  physician  who  has  intro- 
duced into  the  countries  of  the  far 
north  the  methods  of  treating  disease  by  suggestion, 
which  has  been  so  completely  and  successfully  de- 
veloped in  the  south,  notably  in  Paris  and  Nancy. 
His  experience  with  hypnotic  suggestion  as  a  thero- 
peutic  agent  he  has  recorded  in  a  volume  recently 
translated  into  English  by  Dr.  H.  G.  Petersen,  with 
the  title  "  Hypnotism  and  its  Application  to  Prac- 
tical Medicine"  (Putnam).  The  volume  is  largely 
composed  of  extracts  from  a  physician's  case-book, 
properly  classified  and  annotated.  The  claims  made 
for  this  agency  are  modestly  urged,  and  with  no 
straining  to  exhibit  it  as  infallible,  as  supernatural, 
or  as  a  panacea.  Like  all  legitimate  forms  of  treat- 
ment, it  has  its  successes  and  failures,  is  better 
adapted  in  some  cases  than  in  others,  and  is  based 
upon  well-recognized  principles  of  physiological  ac- 
tion. Almost  the  entire  gamut  of  ills  that  flesh  is  heir 
to  is  represented  in  the  record  of  cases  successfully 
treated,  from  insomnia  and  neuralgia  to  paralysis 
and  epilepsy  ;  from  stuttering  and  neurasthenia  to 
hysteria  and  blindness  ;  from  anaemia  and  rheuma- 


tism to  asthma  and  heart  disease,  —  on  the  whole, 
an  array  of  evidence  which  no  unprejudiced  reader 
can  afford  to  ignore.  It  is,  however,  in  nervous 
complaints  of  functional  origin  that  hypnotic  sug- 
gestion finds  its  most  potent  application,  acting  in 
other  troubles  by  influencing  general  conditions  of 
recuperation  rather  than  directly  upon  the  parts 
affected.  Dr.  Wetterstrand  allows  the  facts  to  speak 
for  themselves,  and  indulges  in  no  theories  or  strained 
explanations.  He  is  an  adherent  of  the  Nancy 
school  of  hypnotism,  and  thus  regards  the  essential 
nature  of  suggestion  as  a  purely  psychical  process, 
which  the  physician  should  utilize  advisedly  and 
judiciously,  and  not  leave  to  the  ill-considered  and 
pernicious  manipulations  of  charlatans.  The  trans- 
lator has  added  to  the  volume  a  few  essays  on  kin- 
dred topics,  which  detract  from  rather  than  add  to 
the  value  of  the  work.  His  remarks  on  hypnotism 
and  other  topics  are  mere  random  observations, 
furnishing  the  author  an  opportunity  of  gathering 
about  them  quasi-philosophical  discussions  in  which 
the  scientific  method  is  conspicuously  absent. 

To  the  art-student  and  the  speculator 

a?p££d  on  art'  the  8ub3ect  of  Landscape  in 

Poetry  is  a  singularly  interesting  one. 
There  are  various  ways  of  looking  at  the  matter. 
The  most  useful  way  is  to  consider  how  far  poetry 
can  deal  with  landscape  and  how  it  does  deal  with 
it, —  to  attempt  something  of  the  task  of  Lessing  in 
the  light  of  a  hundred  years'  observation  of  Nature. 
The  landscape  of  the  last  century,  in  poetry  and  in 
painting,  is  worth  all  the  landscape  in  the  world,  in 
all  preceding  centuries.  So  if  one  wished  to  talk  about 
something  that  would  really  count,  one  would  revise 
the  conclusions  of  the  "  Laokoon  "  in  the  light  of  Tur- 
ner and  Monet  on  the  one  hand,  and  of  Wordsworth 
and  Tennyson  on  the  other.  This  Mr.  Palgrave  has 
not  done  in  his  "  Landscape  in  Poetry  "  (Macmillan). 
He  remarks  that  "to  trace  landscape  in  colour 
through  its  parallel  course  to  landscape  in  words 
would  be  a  most  interesting  study  ";  but  he  has  him- 
self been  content  to  trace  historically  the  sense  of 
nature  in  the  poetry  of  the  world  from  Homer  down. 
This  treatment,  we  think,  rather  misconceives  the 
subject.  Nature  in  Poetry  is  one  thing ;  Landscape 
in  Poetry  is  another.  One  may  conceive  of  Nature 
in  a  philosophic  way ;  the  word  Landscape  connotes 
an  artistic  apprehension.  And  the  study  of  an 
artistic  apprehension  necessitates  the  study  of  pos- 
sibilities and  methods,  and  the  comparison  of  dif- 
ferent arts.  Mr.  Palgrave  attempts  to  conceive  of 
landscape  philosophically ;  but  when  he  says  "  land- 
scape "  he  means  what  is  commonly  called  "  nature," 
though  in  a  somewhat  restricted  sense.  We  cannot, 
however,  think  it  right  to  call  Wordsworth  a  "poet- 
landscapist,"  when  one  really  means  to  explain  his 
sense  of  the  "pre-ordained  secret  harmony"  be- 
tween Nature  and  the  heart  of  man.  Mr.  Palgrave's 
view  is  probably  of  more  general  interest  to  the 
student  of  human  thought  than  our  own,  but  our 
view  is  the  one  that  is  interesting  to  the  artist  and 


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the  lover  of  poetry  as  poetry.  Taking  his  book  for 
what  he  meant  it  to  be,  however,  and  not  despising 
it  for  what  it  might  better  have  been,  it  will  be  found 
a  very  good  work  on  the  subject.  It  is  a  little  too 
much  of  a  golden  treasury  of  pictures  in  poetry,  and 
too  often  leaves  the  reader  to  make  his  own  general- 
izations. Still,  the  English  reader  has  not  anywhere 
else  such  a  view  as  is  here  given,  and  Mr.  Palgrave's 
book  must  be  valued  accordingly. 

m*',  antiquity  A  8eries  of  papers,  varying  greatly  in 
in  the  Eastern  character  and  value,  upon  the  Arch- 
United  state*.  geology  of  the  Eastern  United  States, 
by  Mr.  Henry  C.  Mercer,  appear  in  the  publications 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  the  title 
"  Researches  upon  the  Antiquity  of  Man  in  the 
Delaware  Valley  and  the  Eastern  United  States  " 
(Ginn  &  Co.).  In  the  leading  paper  Mr.  Mercer 
investigates  the  question  of  the  argillite  "turtle- 
back  "  and  other  rudely-chipped  implements  which 
Dr.  Abbott  claims  to  have  found  in  undisturbed 
glacial  gravels.  He  analyzes  the  material,  showing 
that  actual  finding  in  situ  is  claimed  for  compara- 
tively few  specimens.  Mr.  Mercer's  own  investiga- 
tions have  yielded  no  truly  glacial  relics.  On  the 
other  hand,  they  have  brought  to  light  a  quarry 
where  argillite  was  taken  out,  and  a  site  where  it 
was  worked  up  into  form,  —  both  plainly  modern. 
Mr.  Mercer,  while  finding  no  evidence  of  Quater- 
nary man  in  the  Delaware  Valley  gravels,  does  find 
evidence  at  one  site  of  two  periods  of  occupancy  by 
early  peoples.  During  the  older  of  these,  argillite 
was  used  almost  to  the  exclusion  of  chert,  jasper, 
etc.,  in  the  manufacture  of  implements  ;  during  the 
later,  it  is  relatively  an  uncommon  material.  This, 
though  an  interesting  fact,  is  not  new.  The  other 
papers  in  this  volume  deal  with  ossuariez,  shell- 
heaps,  and  cave  exploration.  The  material  has 
little  general  interest,  but  well  deserves  record.  The 
present  interest  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  archaeology  is  most  fortunate,  and  may  be  ex- 
pected to  yield  important  additions  to  the  science. 

The  late  Professor  T.  H.  Green— the 
"Professor  Gray"of  Mrs.  Humphry 
Ward — was  unquestionably  the  most 
influential  philosophical  thinker  of  this  generation 
in  England.  As  an  interpreter  of  certain  of  the 
great  masters  of  the  past,  he  pointed  out  the  real 
nature  and  the  bearing  of  the  problems  they  were 
dealing  with,  and  the  extent  and  the  grounds  alike 
of  their  successes  and  failures,  with  an  insight  and 
skill  such  as  we  find  in  no  professed  historian  of 
philosophy ;  while  as  a  constructive  thinker  he  ranks 
among  the  leaders  of  the  idealistic  school.  For 
these  reasons,  no  student  of  the  subject  can  afford 
to  neglect  his  writings ;  but  as  these  are  by  no  means 
easy  reading,  a  connected  statement  of  Professor 
Green's  views,  with  the  grounds  on  which  they  are 
based,  will  be  of  obvious  value  at  least  to  the  begin- 
ner. Such  a  service  Mr.  W.  H.  Fairbrother  has 
aimed  to  perform  in  his  volume  entitled  "The 


Philosophy  of  T.  H.  Green"  (Macmillan).  In  a 
comparatively  short  space  he  has  given  a  clear,  sys- 
tematic, and  accurate  presentation  of  Green's  meta- 
physical, ethical,  and  political  theories.  Some  por- 
tions of  the  work,  indeed,  will  hardly  be  intelligible 
except  when  read  in  the  light  of  the  text  they  are 
intended  to  explain.  But  this  cannot  be  urged  as 
an  objection,  since  the  aim  of  the  book  is  distinctly 
stated  to  be  "  to  help  the  younger  student  to  read 
Green  for  himself."  This  useful  mission  it  is  admir- 
ably adapted  to  fulfil. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 

Both  amateurs  and  artists  interested  in  lithography 
will  admire  the  handsome  quarto  volume  entitled  "  Some 
Masters  of  Lithography  "  (Appleton),  containing  twenty- 
two  representative  lithographs  reproduced  in  photogra- 
ure,  with  full  descriptive  text.  The  author,  Mr.  Atherton 
Curtis,  has  made  such  selections  from  the  plates  of  the 
greatest  lithographic  artists  as  would  best  set  forth  the 
resources  and  the  highest  achievements  of  the  art,  from 
Senefelder  to  Gavarni.  The  twelve  artists  whose  careers 
and  work  are  presented  include  Ge'ricault,  Bonington, 
Isabey,  Delacroix,  Daumier,  and  Raffet.  These  critical 
studies  are  the  results  of  careful  work,  which  has 
included  the  examination  of  over  15,000  prints  at  the 
Bibliotheque  Nationale ;  and  the  plates  may  be  regarded 
as  successful  reproductions  of  the  original  lithographs. 

A  revised  and  enlarged  edition  of  Mr.  W.  J.  Hardy's 
well-known  work  on  "  Book- Plates "  is  imported  by 
Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  The  number  of  per- 
sons interested  in  this  subject  has  largely  increased,  says 
Mr.  Hardy,  since  the  work  first  appeared,  in  1893;  and 
these  will  welcome  this  improved  edition,  which  con- 
tains considerable  additional  matter  and  at  least  one 
interesting  new  plate.  We  glean  the  curious  bit  of 
information  that  in  America  the  taste  for  book-plates 
seems  to  prevail  chiefly  among  lawyers. 

Messrs.  Rand,  McNally  &  Co.  have  published  a  trans- 
lation, made  by  Mrs.  C.  A.  Kingsbury,  of  About's  "  The 
King  of  the  Mountains."  We  do  not  recollect  any  pre- 
vious translation,  and,  if  this  be  indeed  the  first,  it  cer- 
tainly was  high  time  for  the  work  to  be  done,  for  in  the 
"  Rod  des  Montagues  "  About  is  at  his  best,  and  the  story 
has  a  perennial  interest,  to  say  nothing  of  its  timeliness 
just  now  when  the  Greeks  are  getting  so  much  attention. 
The  satire  of  the  tale  is  somewhat  extravagant,  but 
events  have  justified  a  great  deal  of  it,  and  there  is  at 
least  no  doubt  of  the  entertaining  qualities  of  the  ro- 
mance. 


LITERARY  NOTES. 

Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  are  to  publish  an  English 
translation  of  "  The  Pharaoh,"  a  remarkable  historical 
novel  by  Mr.  Boleslaw  Prus,  a  Polish  writer. 

Volumes  2  and  3  of  the  report  of  the  Venezuelan 
Boundary  Commission  have  been  issued  from  the  Gov- 
ernment Printing  Office,  completing  that  very  thorough, 
although  hardly  very  valuable,  work. 

The  "  Examination  Bulletin  "  for  June  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  State  of  New  York  is  devoted  to  the  subject 
of  "  College-Entrance  English,"  and  is  a  document  of 
great  value  to  all  engaged  in  that  department  of  educa- 


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tional  work.  It  is  edited  by  Dr.  Richard  Jones,  and 
contains  articles  by  a  number  of  competent  specialists, 
as  well  as  a  great  variety  of  specimen  examination 
papers  sent  by  colleges  all  over  the  country. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  have  just  published  three 
of  Mr.  Hamlin  Garland's  novels  in  a  neat  uniform  edi- 
tion. The  titles  are:  "  A  Spoil  of  Office,"  "  A  Member 
of  the  Third  House,"  and  "  Wayside  Courtships." 

The  "  Graduate  Courses  "  for  1897-98,  just  issued  by 
the  Macmillan  Co.,  is  the  fifth  annual  publication  of 
that  useful  work.  It  is  both  concise  and  accurate,  and 
wisely  conservative  in  its  definition  of  "  graduate  "  work. 

The  third  volume  of  Mrs.  Martha  Foote  Crow's 
"  Elizabethan  Sonnet-Cycles  "  contains  Michael  Dray- 
ton's  "  Idea,"  Bartholomew  Griffin's  "  Fidessa,"  and 
William  Smith's  "  Chloris."  The  complete  series  will 
consist  of  four  volumes,  and  is  published  by  Messrs. 
A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 

The  first  of  six  volumes  to  contain  Boswell's  "  Life 
of  Johnson,"  edited  by  Mr.  Arnold  Glover,  is  published 
by  the  Macmillan  Co.  in  their  «  Temple  Classics."  The 
same  publishers  have  added  Sheridan's  "  The  School  for 
Scandal,"  edited  by  Mr.  G.  A.  Aitken,  to  their  series  of 
"  Temple  Dramatists." 

"  The  Victorian  Era,"  by  Mr.  P.  Anderson  Graham 
(Longmans),  is  a  well  printed  and  richly  illustrated 
book,  designed  for  the  reading  of  young  people.  It 
states  briefly  and  clearly  the  history  of  England  during 
the  past  sixty  years,  and  makes  an  admirable  gift  for 
any  intelligent  boy  or  girl. 

Messrs.  Small,  Maynard  &  Company  is  the  style  of  a 
new  Boston  publishing  firm  that  will  begin  operations 
this  fall.  The  members  composing  the  firm  are  Messrs. 
Herbert  Small,  Laurens  Maynard,  and  Bliss  Carman, 
and  the  first  work  to  bear  their  imprint  will  be  a  new 
edition  of  the  works  of  Walt  Whitman. 

Number  four  of  the  "  American  Colonial  Tracts  " 
(Humphrey)  is  a  reprint  of  the  "  True  and  Historical 
Narrative  of  the  Colony  of  Georgia  in  America,"  printed 
in  Charlestown  in  1741,  for  the  three  landholders  whose 
names  appear  as  those  of  the  authors.  It  is  a  thick 
pamphlet  of  nearly  a  hundred  pages,  sold  at  the  mod- 
erate price  of  twenty-five  cents. 

Mr.  Nathan  Haskell  Dole's  variorum  edition  of  the 
"  Rubaiyat "  will  be  published  this  fall  in  holiday  form 
by  Messrs.  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.  of  Boston.  The  new  edi- 
tion will  be  revised  and  somewhat  enlarged,  and  will 
contain  some  Danish  and  Italian  versions,  selections 
from  Mr.  Le  Gallienne's  recent  translations,  and  a  num- 
ber of  drawings  by  Mr.  E.  H.  Garrett. 

The  ever-lengthening  list  of  periodicals  sent  forth 
from  the  University  of  Chicago  is  now  made  to  include 
a  "  Zoological  Bulletin,"  edited  by  Professors  Whitman 
and  Wheeler.  The  new  publication  is  a  bi-monthly, 
and  intended  as  a  companion  serial  to  the  "  Journal  of 
Morphology."  It  will  publish  the  shorter  papers  that 
do  not  require  to  be  illustrated  by  plates. 

About  twenty-five  years  ago  Mr.  Austin  Dobson  com- 
piled a  "  Handbook  of  English  Literature  "  which,  while 
intended  primarily  to  assist  candidates  in  the  English 
Civil  Service  examinations,  met  with  a  good  deal  of 
success  in  other  fields  than  the  one  for  which  it  was 
originally  planned.  With  the  author's  consent,  the  work 
has  now  been  carefully  revised  and  extended  to  the 
present  time  by  Professor  W.  Hall  Griffin  of  Queen's 
College,  London,  and  published  in  a  handsome  new  edi- 
tion by  Messrs.  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 


TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS. 

September,  1897. 

Astronomical  Experience  in  Japan.  Mabel  L.Todd.  Atlantic. 
Bible,  Recent  Books  on  the.    Ira  M.  Price.    Dial. 
Books  that  Girls  have  Loved.    Erin  Graham.    Lippincott. 
Botany,  The  Scope  of.    George  J.  Pierce.    Popular  Science. 
Browning's  Summers  in  Britany.    A.  M.  Mosher.     Century. 
Byron  in  the  Greek  Revolution.    F.  B.  Sanborn.   Scribner. 
Byron,  Henley's  Edition  of.    M.  B.  Anderson.    Dial. 
Character,  Forming  of.    M.  V.  O'Shea.    Popular  Science. 
Chicago  Drainage  Canal,  The.    John  L.  Wright.  Lippincott. 
Coinage,  Spanish  Experiments  in.    H.  C.  Lea.    Pop.  Science. 
Congo  Free  State,  Cruelty  in.    E.  J.  Glave.     Century. 
Du  Maurier,  George.    Henry  James.    Harper. 
Electricity  during  Last  Five  Years.  F.  Bendt.    Chautauquan. 
Equality,  American  Notion  of.    H.  C.  Merwin.    Atlantic. 
European  Housekeeping.    Frances  C.  Baylor.    Lippincott. 
Gladstone,  Glimpses  of.    Harry  Furniss.     Century. 
Gold  Seeker  in  the  West,  The.    Sam  Davis.   Chautauquan. 
Hero-Worship.    Dial. 

Horticulture,  The  Trend  of.    George  E.  Walsh.    Lippincott. 
Human  Quality  in  Literature.    Woodrow  Wilson.    Atlantic. 
London,  Around,  by  Bicycle.  Elizabeth  R.  Pennell.  Harper. 
Mignan  Seigniory,  Shores  of  the.    Frederic  Irland.    Scribner. 
Milkweed,  The.    William  Hamilton  Gibson.    Harper. 
Mormons,  The.    William  T.  Lamed.    Lippincott. 
Musical  Mexico.    Arthur  Howard  Noll.    Lippincott. 
New  York  Police  Force,  Reform  in.  Theo.  Roosevelt.  Ada. 
Navy,  American,  Beginnings  of  the.  James  Barnes.  Harper. 
Navy,  British,  History  of  the.    Dial. 

Navy,  The  New,  Organization  for.    Ira  N.  Hollis.    Atlantic. 
Paris  Exposition  of  1900,  The.  Theodore  Stanton.  Lippincott. 
Peloponnesian  War,  A  Southerner  in  the.    Atlantic. 
Plato  and  his  Republic.    Paul  Shorey.     Chautauquan. 
Polar  Research.    George  Gerland.    Popular  Science. 
Prisoners  of  State  at  Boro  Boeder.  Eliza  R.  Scidmore.  Century. 
Rich  and  Poor,  Present  Status  of.    C.  D.  Wright.    Atlantic. 
Royalists  and  Republicans.    Pierre  de  Coubertin.     Century. 
Samoa.    John  H.  Wagner.    Harper. 

San  Sebastian,  the  Spanish  Newport.  W.  H.  Bishop.  Scribner. 
Schmidt,  Professor  Erich.    James  T.  Hatfield.    Dial. 
Sculpture,  American,  A  New  Note  in.    A.  Hoeber.    Century. 
Tell-el-Amarna  Letters,  The.    J.  H.  Breasted.    Dial. 
Tenement- House  Reform  in  New  York.     Chautauquan. 
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Twentieth-Century  Outlook,  A.    A.  T.  Mahan.    Harper. 
Washington,  Life  in.    W.  E.  Curtis.     Chautauquan. 


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12mo,  pp.  215.    F.  A.  Stokes  Co.    $1.25. 
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quote  many  of  Miss  Guiney's  clever  sayings,  but  it  is  a  pity  to  tear  them  from  their  settings.  We  leave  them  for  her  readers  to  enjoy  with 
the  pleasure  of  private  discovery." 

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The  poems  here  gathered  are  eminently  representative  of  the  author's  genius.  To  many  readers  they  will  recall  and 
justify  the  cordial  words  with  which  Mr.  Stedman  greeted  one  of  Mrs.  Spofford's  earlier  works. 

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69  CORNHILL    BOSTON 


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ASTORIA; 

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SOME  COLONIAL  HOMESTEADS  AND 
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A  Tale  of  the  Boyhood  of  Franklin.  By  HEZEKIAH  BUTTER- 
WORTH,  author  of  "  The  Wampum  Belt,"  "  The  Boyhood  of  Lin- 
coln," "The  Patriot  Schoolmaster,"  etc.  Illustrated  by  H.  WIN- 
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THE  RED  PATRIOT. 

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author  of  "The  Windfall,"  "  Little  Smoke,"  "On  the  Old  Frontier," 
etc.  Illustrated  by  B.  WEST  CLINBDINST.  12mo,  cloth,  $1.50. 

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COMMODORE  BAINBRIDGE. 

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CONTENTS. 


BOOKS  OF  THE  COMING  YEAR 137 

IN  A   VOLUME    OF    LOWELL'S    LETTERS. 

(Sonnet.)    Frederic  L.  Luqueer 138 

WHAT   IS    "AMERICAN    STYLE"?     Edmund 

Kemper  Broadus 139 

COMMUNICATIONS 140 

Some  Questions  of  German  Translation.     Camilla 

von  Klenze. 
A  Japanese  Magazine  of  Foreign  Languages. 

Ernest  W.  Clement. 
The  Lack  of  Scientific  Work  in  Rhetoric.     Selden 

F.  Smyser. 

"PATRINS."     (Poem.)    Emily  Huntington  Miller  .     .141 
A  PENDANT  TO  BOSWELL.    E.  G.  J.     .    .    .    .142 

THE  LITERARY  HISTORY  OF  THE  AMERICAN 

REVOLUTION.    B.  A.  Hinsdale 143 

NOTHING  BUT  LEAVES.    Edward  E.  Hale,  Jr.    .  145 

LEGENDS    AND    MUSIC    OF    THE    NAVAJOS. 

Frederick  Starr 146 

FAITH  INSTINCTIVE.    John  Bascom 148 

Gladstone's  Later  Gleanings.  —  Craufurd's  Christian 
Instincts  and  Modern  Doubt.  —  Smyth's  The  Place 
of  Death  in  Evolution.  —  Tyler's  Bases  of  Religious 
Belief.  —  Whitney's  The  Open  Mystery.  —  Hillis's 
Foretokens  of  Immortality. — Hodges's  In  the  Present 
World. — Staffer's  Jesus  Christ. —  Christian  Worship. 
— Walker's  Religious  Life  of  New  England. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 149 

A  volume  of  essays  by  Professor  James.  —  Two  por- 
traits of  Cromwell. —  General  Grant. — Inside  of  Mam- 
moth Cave.  —  The  baptism  of  Roger  Williams. — 
Organic  Education. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 151 

ANNOUNCEMENTS  OF  FALL  BOOKS      ....  152 
(A  classified  list  of  over  1100  books  announced  for 
publication  during  the  coming  season. ) 

LITERARY  NOTES  .  161 


BOOKS  OF  THE  COMING  YEAR. 

The  rich  and  varied  list  of  publications  an- 
nounced for  the  coming  season,  which  appears 
in  the  present  number  of  THE  DIAL,  com- 
prises well  over  a  thousand  titles,  and  is  the 
most  extensive  that  we  have  ever  published. 
To  call  especial  attention  to  a  few  of  these 
forthcoming  books  is  a  somewhat  invidious 
task,  except  in  the  case  of  the  small  number 
of  those  whose  appearance  has  long  been  await- 
ed, and  which  are  sure  to  command  a  wide 
circle  of  interested  readers.  These,  at  least, 
may  properly  be  singled  out  from  the  mass  for 
special  notice,  and  with  them  a  few  others  that, 
either  from  the  standing  of  their  authors  or  on 
account  of  the  inherent  importance  of  their 
subject-matter,  seem  to  deserve  a  word  of  at- 
tention in  advance  of  their  publication.  But 
there  will  doubtless  be  many  others,  of  no  less 
importance,  that  we  shall  fail  to  mention,  and 
the  coming  months  will  doubtless  bring  the 
usual  number  of  surprises  in  the  shape  of  im- 
portant publications  that  will  come  to  our  table 
unheralded. 

It  is  not  difficult,  upon  this  occasion,  to 
name  the  work  which  will  unquestionably  stand 
as  "  the  book  of  the  year."  The  biography 
of  Lord  Tennyson,  to  which  the  son  of  the  poet 
has  devoted  five  years  of  pious  toil,  will  appear 
on  October  6,  the  anniversary  of  Tennyson's 
death.  It  will  be  a  handsomely-illustrated 
work  in  two  volumes.  We  cannot  help  regret- 
ting the  rather  noticeable  tendency  of  publish- 
ers, during  recent  years,  to  produce  works  of 
such  universal  interest  as  this  in  so  expensive 
a  form  as  to  place  them  beyond  the  reach  of 
purchasers  with  modestly-lined  purses.  The 
authoritative  life  of  Tennyson  is  a  work  that 
every  reader  will  wish  to  possess,  but  that  few 
will  be  able  to  acquire  on  account  of  the  cost. 
Most  book-lovers  and  literary  students  will 
have  to  go  without  it  until  the  publishers  see 
fit  to  prepare  a  popular  edition.  In  this  case, 
and  in  such  others,  say,  as  those  of  Dr.  Nan- 
sen's  book,  Lowell's  letters,  and  the  life  of 
J.  A.  Symonds,  it  seems  ill-advised,  even  from 
the  business  standpoint,  to  produce  them  in  a 
style  that  makes  necessary  a  price  that  is  almost 
prohibitive.  Another  case  in  point  is  that  of 


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the  most  important  book  upon  Richard  Wag- 
ner yet  produced  in  English.  Mr.  H.  S. 
Chamberlain's  forthcoming  biography  of  the 
great  composer  is  a  work  so  necessary  for  the 
library  of  both  the  musical  student  and  the 
general  reader  that  many  hearts  will  be  made 
heavy  by  the  price  that  is  set  upon  it.  In  this 
case,  however,  our  complaint  is  perhaps  not 
wholly  reasonable,  for  the  value  of  the  work 
(as  we  can  testify  from  inspection  of  an  ad- 
vance copy)  depends  largely  upon  the  illustra- 
tions, and  such  plates  are  expensive  things  to 
prepare.  The  book  will  certainly  be  cheap  at 
its  price,  although  the  fact  will  hardly  console 
the  many  who  cannot  afford  to  place  it  upon 
their  shelves. 

After  naming  the  above  two  works  of  pre- 
eminent importance,  we  may  call  attention  to 
a  few  others  in  the  department  of  literary 
biography,  history,  and  criticism.  We  are 
promised  the  life  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  by 
Mrs.  James  T.  Fields;  the  recollections  of  Mr. 
Aubrey  de  Vere;  and  a  volume  upon  Thomas 
and  Matthew  Arnold  as  educators,  by  Sir  J.  G. 
Fitch.  We  are  also  to  have,  at  last,  Mr. 
Archer's  translation  of  the  important  Shakes- 
pearian work  of  Dr.  Georg  Brandes.  The  let- 
ters of  Mrs.  Browning  and  a  second  series  of 
letters  by  Victor  Hugo  are  among  the  most  in- 
teresting of  our  announcements.  We  must  also 
mention  Professor  Palgrave's  new  "  Golden 
Treasury "  of  modern  English  poetry,  Dr. 
Skeat's  "Chaucerian  and  Other  Pieces"  (a 
volume  supplementary  to  the  Oxford  Chaucer), 
Professor  Dowden'ja  "  French  Literature,"  Mr. 
David  Hannay's  volume  on  "  The  Later  Re- 
naissance," and  President  C.  W.  Eliot's  col- 
lection of  essays  and  addresses  entitled  "  Amer- 
ican Contributions  to  Civilization."  Mr. 
Mosher's  charming  reprints  will  appear,  as 
heretofore,  just  before  Christmas,  and  will  add 
ten  choice  numbers  to  his  catalogue. 

In  the  domain  of  pure  literature,  mention 
must  first  be  made  of  "  The  Water  of  the 
Wondrous  Isles,"  one  of  the  two  romances  left 
by  William  Morris  for  posthumous  publica- 
tion. No  announcement  of  the  other,  "  The 
Sundering  Flood,"  is  made  as  yet.  American 
song  will  be  worthily  represented  by  Mr.  E.  C. 
Stedman's  "  Poems  Now  First  Collected." 
The  output  of  fiction  promises  to  be  of  great 
and  varied  interest.  Among  the  more  import- 
ant titles  are  the  following  :  "  St.  Ives,"  by 
R.  L.  Stevenson;  "  Light  Shineth  Through  the 
Darkness,"  by  Mr.  Henryk  Sienkiewicz ; 
*'  Captains  Courageous,"  by  Mr.  Rudyard  Kip- 


ling ;  "  Hugh  Wynne,  Free  Quaker,"  by  Dr. 
S.  Weir  Mitchell;  "The  Days  of  Jeanne 
d'Arc,"  by  Mrs.  M.  H.  Catherwood;  "  Cor- 
leone,"  by  Mr.  Marion  Crawford  ;  "  Paris,"  by 
M.  Zola  (completing  the  trilogy  of  Lourdes, 
Rome,  Paris);  "  Dariel,  A  Romance  of  Sur- 
rey," by  Mr.  R.  D.  Blackmore ;  "  The  Jug- 
gler," by  Miss  Mary  N.  Murfree;  "  The  Story 
of  an  Untold  Love,"  by  Mr.  Paul  Leicester 
Ford ;  and  "  Three  Partners  ;  or,  The  Big 
Strike  on  Heavy-Tree  Hill,"  by  Mr.  Bret 
Harte. 

From  the  numerous  titles  belonging  to 
books  of  the  more  solid  and  erudite  classes 
we  hardly  know  what  to  choose.  In  history, 
there  are,  besides  some  important  continua- 
tions, such  works  as  "  Old  Virginia  and  Her 
Neighbors,"  by  Professor  John  Fiske  ;  "  The 
Westward  Movement,"  by  Mr.  Justin  Win- 
sor ;  "  France  under  Louis  XV.,"  by  Mr. 
James  Breck  Perkins ;  "  The  Evolution  of 
the  Aryan,"  by  Rudolph  von  Ihering ;  and 
"Sea  Power  and  the  Future  of  the  United 
States,"  by  Captain  A.  T.  Mahan.  There  is 
to  be  a  sumptuous  illustrated  translation  of 
Pausanias,  and  several  volumes  in  an  import- 
ant series  of  "  Handbooks  of  Archaeology  and 
Antiquities."  "  The  English  Stage,"  by  the 
acute  and  ingenious  French  critic,  M.  Augus- 
tin  Filon,  will  be  a  very  interesting  book. 
"  The  Meaning  of  Education,  and  Other  Es- 
says," by  Dr.  Nicholas  Murray  Butler,  will 
deserve  and  get  the  attention  of  all  educators. 
Mr.  Oscar  Fay  Adams's  "  Dictionary  of  Am- 
erican Authors,"  an  entirely  new  work,  will 
be  a  valuable  aid  to  the  bibliographer,  as  will 
also  the  third  supplement  (1892-96  inclusive) 
to  Poole's  "  Index  to  Periodical  Literature." 


IN  A  VOLUME  OF  LOWELL'S  LETTERS. 


Lowell,  I  never  met  thee  while  on  earth  ; 
Yet  thou  so  livest  in  these  words  of  thine 
That  thy  rich  nature  friendly  seemeth  mine 
While  musing  on  their  golden-freighted  worth 
In  these  thou  speakest,  and  my  heart's  deep  dearth 
Is  springing  with  sweet  flowers,  and  new  wine 
Of  Cyprus  gladdens,  while  o'erhead  entwine 
Leafy  traceries  'gainst  the  blue  ;  and  mirth 
Draws  smiles  that  soften  into  deeper  look, 

As  closer  breathes  thy  soul's  most  dear  aspiring 
For  life  beloved  and  finely  truthful  art. 
Thou  yearnedst  after  love  :  grateful  I  took 
The  hand  thou  openedst  here,  silent  desiring 
Thou  knewest  the  winning  of  thy  reader's  heart. 
FREDERIC  L.  LUQUEER. 


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WHAT  IS  "AMERICAN  STYLE"? 

In  attempting  dispassionately  to  analyze  our  lit- 
erary characteristics,  we  are  met  at  the  threshold 
by  a  difficult  and  fundamental  question  — What  is 
style  ?  Style  is  as  difficult  to  define  as  it  is  easy  to 
recognize ;  but  only  by  getting  a  conception  of  it,  at 
least  approximately  clear,  can  we  intelligently  dis- 
cuss a  distinctively  national  style. 

And  first  let  us  see  what  it  is  not.  Style  is  fre- 
quently confused,  to  a  degree  at  least,  with  subject- 
matter  ;  for  example,  it  is  thought  that  Whittier, 
having  written  much  concerning  the  subject  of 
Slavery,  would  therefore  possess  a  distinctively 
American  style.  Such  an  opinion,  however,  is  too 
easily  susceptible  of  a  reductio  ad  absurdum  to  be 
tenable.  Keats's  fruitless  attempt  to  enter  into  the 
spirit  of  the  majestic  Greek  myths;  Corneille's  in- 
ability to  put  into  the  mouth  of  Horace  or  his  two 
brothers  other  than  XVII.  century  Frenchisms,  and 
other  examples  innumerable,  demonstrate  the  im- 
possibility of  reproducing  the  style  of  an  author  or 
a  period  by  mere  skilful  use  of  subject-matter.  It  is 
true  that  subject-matter,  in  proportion  as  it  is  trivial 
or  ennobling,  weakens  or  elevates  the  style;  but,  in 
jest  or  earnest,  the  same  distinctive  qualities  inhere. 

Nor  is  style  dialect  —  a  proposition  by  no  means 
so  self-evident  as  the  first.  For  we  are  accustomed 
to  determine  a  writer's  style,  more  or  less,  by  his 
phraseology  and  trick  of  expression ;  not  only  by 
his  accustomed  sequence  of  words,  but  by  his 
methods  of  constructing  the  words  themselves ;  that 
is,  by  his  "  form  of  language,"  or  dialect.  But  dia- 
lect is,  essentially,  local  spoken  language  or  patois ; 
written  dialect  being  therefore  only  an  attempt  to 
reproduce  that  external  form,  the  shell,  rather  than 
its  internal  essence,  or  kernel.  This  kernel,  the 
true  style,  is  what  we  are  seeking  to  examine.  There- 
fore, to  say  that  the  "  Yankeeisms "  of  Lowell's 
"Biglow  Papers,"  or  the  military  jargon  of  Kip- 
ling's soldier-ballads,  constitutes  the  one  American 
or  the  other  English  national  style,  is  to  stigmatize 
our  language  as  vulgar  and  ridiculous. 

It  is  true  that  the  ideal  style  is  said  to  be  "the 
speech  of  the  people  in  the  mouth  of  the  scholar," 
but  it  must  be  the  rough  pig-iron  of  the  people's 
speech  worked  into  the  tempered  steel  of  the  schol- 
ar's pen,  not  pedantic  but  symmetrically  simple. 
Mr.  Brander  Matthews  struck  the  key-note  when 
he  called  this  "the  wild  flowers  of  speech  plucked 
betimes  with  the  dew  still  on  them." 

But  if  style  is  neither  matter  nor  dialect,  is  it 
then  grammar  and  rhetoric  ?  Plainly  not ;  a  man 
may  be  minutely  accurate  in  grammar,  and  struc- 
turally perfect  in  phrase,  yet  lack  the  individuality 
of  thought  and  facility  of  expression  which  stamp 
the  hall-mark  of  "  self "  upon  every  sentence  of  an 
Emerson  or  a  Carlyle.  Clearly,  then,  we  must  go 
deeper  than  matter  or  dialect,  grammar  or  rhetoric, 
down  to  the  man  himself.  "  Le  style,  c'est  1'homme," 
said  Buffon.  This  definition,  so  terse,  so  strik- 
ing, so  famous,  is,  like  most  epigrams,  the  truth, 


but  not  the  whole  truth.  If  by  the  man  we  mean 
the  character  of  the  man, —  and  what  else  could  we 
mean?  —  character  and  style  are  not  always  in  ac- 
cord. The  gross  sensuality  sometimes  displayed 
by  Poe,  the  man,  is  strangely  out  of  tune  with  the 
refined  delicacy  of  "Anabel  Lee."  The  weakness 
and  immorality  of  Jean  Jacques  Rousseau,  the  man, 
make  the  subtle  eloquence  of  Jean  Jacques  Rous- 
seau, the  author,  hard  to  explain. 

A  man's  style  is  frequently  not  what  he  is,  but 
what  he  thinks  he  is.  He  may  reverse  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson's  description,  and  by  a  sparkling  goblet 
of  imagination,  become  temporarily  a  Dr.  Jekyl  in 
what  he  writes,  but  in  character  be  still  Mr.  Hyde. 

Nor  are  thoughts  ever  the  "  self  "  alone.  "  Ideas 
cannot  go  about  naked,"  said  Bui  veer  Lytton.  They 
must  wear  the  apparel  of  the  national  clothing- 
house,  so  to  speak, — the  garments  of  Race,  Sur- 
roundings, and  Epoch. 

It  is  evident,  then,  that  style  is  the  man,  yet 
more  than  the  man ;  it  is  the  dynamic  of  the  ma- 
chine, whose  parts  are  the  material  characteristics 
into  which  language  can  be  analyzed. 

From  another  point  of  view,  Lowell  defines  it 
charmingly,  but  in  a  fashion  too  poetic  to  be  scien- 
tifically exact,  as  "that  exquisite  something  called 
Style,  which  makes  itself  felt  by  the  skill  with 
which  it  effaces  itself,  and  masters  us  at  last  with 
a  sense  of  indefinable  completeness." 

Having  attempted  to  reach  some  comprehension 
of  what  style  is,  viewed  from  the  standpoint  of  the 
scientist  and  of  the  poet,  we  are  next  led  to  inquire 
what,  if  there  be  such  a  thing,  is  a  national  style? 
This  has  been  defined  as  "an  average  style  de- 
duced from  the  examination  of  many  or  most  of  a 
nation's  authors";  but  such  a  definition  is  super- 
ficial. If  a  style  is  personal,  it  partakes  of  the 
character  of  the  person,  as  evidenced  in  his  daily 
life.  If  a  style  is  national,  it  partakes  of  the 
character  of  the  nation  as  evidenced  in  its  daily 
life.  In  other  words,  it  is  not  the  "  average  of  the 
best  styles  "  which  constitutes  a  national  style,  but 
it  is  rather  the  style  of  those  who,  be  they  great 
or  small,  most  truly  voice  the  national  character. 

There  is  as  much  individuality  in  a  nation  as 
there  is  in  an  individual.  If  we  can  analyze  these 
national  characteristics,  and,  taking  them  as  a  test, 
try  the  writers  of  a  nation  by  them,  we  shall  arrive 
thus,  and  only  thus,  at  a  true  conception  of  the  lit- 
erary style  of  that  nation. 

Let  us  take  the  French  as  an  example.  For  a 
just,  even  though  a  French,  analysis  of  their  psy- 
chological process,  let  us  turn  to  Taine:  "When 
the  Frenchman  conceives  an  event  or  an  object, 
he  conceives  quickly  and  distinctly.  ...  At  once 
and  without  effort  he  seizes  upon  his  idea.  But  he 
seizes  that  alone.  ...  He  is  only  moved  super- 
ficially; he  is  without  large  sympathy;  he  does  not 
perceive  an  object  as  it  is,  complex  and  combined, 
but  in  part,  with  a  discursive  and  superficial  knowl- 


The  style  that  could   be  called   "distinctively 


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French  "  would  be,  speaking  broadly,  that  possess- 
ing the  characteristics  described  above. 

So,  in  solving  the  problem  of  a  distinctively 
American  style,  we  would  first  ask  ourselves 
whether  there  is  a  distinctively  American  charac- 
ter, and  if  so  what  are  its  essentials.  That  there 
is,  universal  opinion  attests.  From  England  to 
Japan,  from  Norway  to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope, 
none  is  so  easily  recognizable  as  the  American  type. 
Though  Englishmen,  at  least  sensible  Englishmen, 
have  ceased  to  expect  the  typical  American  to  pass 
his  waking  hours  —  and,  for  that  matter,  most  of 
his  sleeping  hours  —  with  trousers  in  boots  and 
pistols  in  belt,  Jonathan  has  still  every  whit  as 
much  individuality  as  John. 

What  are  the  forces  whose  resultant  is  this  indi- 
viduality ?  In  so  far  as  I  can  analyze  them,  they  are : 

1.  The  youthf ulness  of  the  national  life.     From 
this  youthfulness  comes,  naturally  enough,  a  cer- 
tain intensity  and  rush  of  life,  characteristic  of  all 
youth,  which  tends  to  make  us  lacking  in  precision, 
careless  of  detail,  somewhat  superficial  in  reasoning, 
quick  to  grasp  but  weak  to  hold. 

2.  Democracy.     Our  intensely  democratic  feel- 
ing engenders  self-respect  and  self-sufficiency;    a 
breadth,  though  not  a  depth,  of  view ;  independ- 
ence and  disrespect  for  old  institutions  ;  and  a  lack 
of  that  conservatism  which  should  subordinate  the 
warm  heart  to  the  cool  head. 

3.  Heterogeneity.    We  are  a  hybrid  nation,|and 
though  pride  of  birth  is  sometimes  a  correcting  and 
restraining  influence,  the  consciousness  of  our  some- 
what hazy  lineage  tends  to  destroy  prejudice  and 
render  us  cosmopolitan  and  broad. 

4.  Natural  variety.    No  other  people  on  the  face 
of  the  globe  can  see  greater  contrasts  of  scenery, 
greater  extremes  of  climate,  or  greater  varieties  of 
products,  than  those  who  dwell  between  the  Great 
Lakes  and  the  Rio  Grande,  the  Atlantic  and  the 
Pacific  oceans.     This  engenders  a  bold,  free,  broad 
conception  of  nature,  an  intense  appreciation  of 
her  various  moods,  and  an  expression  of  those 
moods  excelling  that  of  any  other  nation  in  its  un- 
trammelled artlessness.     Here,  nature  is  young,  as 
well  as  we ;  sometimes  she  is  stately  and  grand,  with 
all  the  self-conscious  dignity  of  young  womanhood ; 
sometimes  she  is  impetuous,  effervescent,  sparkling, 
and  free,  with  the  memory  of  her  childhood,  un- 
touched by  human  artificiality,  still  vivid ;  but  in 
whatever  mood  she  be,  we  have  had  and  still  have 
poets  to  appreciate  and  express  her. 

These,  then,  are  the  forces,  these  the  effects, 
observable  in  our  national  character.  If  there  be 
any  other  nation  having  these  same  characteristics, 
and  writers  to  express  them,  distinctively  American 
style  is  an  impossibility.  But  it  needs  no  argu- 
ment to  show  that  no  other  nation  is  the  resultant 
of  such  forces  in  such  proportions.  Wherever,  there- 
fore, we  can  find  within  our  borders  prose  or  poetry 
having  such  characteristics  as  have  been  enumerated, 
we  shall  have  found  a  distinctively  American  style. 
EDMUND  KEMPER  BROADTTS. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

SOME  QUESTIONS  OF  GERMAN  TRANSLATION. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THB  DIAL.) 

In  your  issue  of  July  16,  Mr.  Thomas  Common  of 
Glasgow,  whose  translation  of  Nietzsche's  Works  I  re- 
viewed in  an  earlier  issue,  claims  that  my  criticism  of 
his  translation  is  altogether  unfair;  that  I  dealt  out  my 
blame  of  it  "  in  a  great  hurry  ";  that  the  errors  I  adduce 
are  no  errors  at  all  "  except  in  the  imagination  of  a  per- 
son in  a  flurried  state  of  mind."  It  hence  becomes  my 
unpleasant  duty  to  show  why  I  was  bound  to  regard 
this  translation  as  "  bad  throughout,  and  in  parts  igno- 
minious." 

First,  as  regards  the  four  errors  I  quoted.  I,  for  one, 
am  offended  by  a  construction  like  "  in  his  art  there  is 
mixed  .  .  .  the  things,"  etc.  I  am,  however,  willing  to 
yield  to  higher  authority,  aud  admit  that  on  that  point 
I  was  over-severe.  But  to  translate  "  Die  Romane  Dos- 
toiewsky's  "  (Vol.  VIII.,  p.  48  of  the  German  edition) 
by  "the  romances  of  Dostoiewsky"  shows  a  lack  of 
linguistic  sensitiveness.  Dostoiewsky's  works  are  not 
romances,  they  are  distinctly  novels.  No  one  ever 
spoke  of  Flaubert's  "  Madame  Borary  "  or  Zola's  "  La 
Terre  "  as  "  romances,"  though  he  might  apply  that  term 
to  "  Guy  Mannering "  or  to  Me'rime'e's  "  Colomba." 
Similarly,  to  translate  sick  verbieten  "  (p.  38)  by  "  pro- 
hibit oneself  "  is  awkward.  All  these  translations  are, 
however,  excusable  compared  with  Mr.  Common's  ren- 
dering of  "  ich  weiss  nicht  aus  noch  ein  "  (p.  217)  by  "  I  do 
not  know  out  or  in."  Mr.  Common  naively  calls  this 
"  a  metaphor,"  and  says:  "  I  am  blamed  for  preserving 
a  metaphor  by  translating  it  literally,  though  not  ob- 
scurely. Besides  preserving  the  metaphor,  the  literal 
rendering  seems  best  suited  to  the  context."  "  Ich  weiss 
nicht  aus  noch  ein  "  is  an  idiomatic  phrase  which  every 
German  understands.  "  I  know  not  out  or  in  "  is  no 
English  at  all,  and  is  totally  unintelligible. 

These  last  three  passages  are,  however,  not  the  only 
ones  open  to  criticism.  The  book  is  freckled  with  bits 
of  bad  translation.  I  subjoin  a  list,  which,  for  lack  of 
space,  cannot  lay  claim  to  completeness. 

Page  61.  "I  have  my  readers  everywhere.  .  .  .  / 
have  not  them  in  Germany." 

Page  73.  "  A  God  who  is  quite  specially  a  God  for  the 
sick."  This  to  me  is  an  exceedingly  awkward  rendering 
of  the  German  "  ganz  eigentlich  ein  Gott"  etc. 

Page  73.  "  Understandableness  "  ("  begriffliche  Ver- 
standlichkeit "). 

Page  74.  "Where  Wagner  belongs  to."  (If  that 
phrase  can  be  proved  correct  on  the  authority  of  some 
"  higher  grammar,"  then  we  may  be  justified  in  asking 
"  Where  are  we  AT  ?  ") 

Page  101.  "The  trodden  worm  turns  himself"  (for 
"  writhes  ";  "  krummt  sich  "). 

Page  145.  "  The  distinguished  Germanics "  (the 
original  is  "  die  vornehmen  Germanen"  "  Germanics  " 
signifies  the  study  of  German  language  and  literature, 
but  not  the  people  of  Germany,  and  does  not  correspond 
to  "  Germanen  "  over  against  "  Deutsche  "). 

Page  189.  "Ring  of  the  chain"  for  "link  in  the 
chain  "  («  Ring  der  Kette  "). 

Page  210.  "  The  Siberian  convicts,  in  whose  midst  he 
lived."  Let  us  hope  he  lived  among  them,  and  not  "  in 
their  midst,"  for  that  might  have  injured  them  more 
than  all  the  hardships  of  convict  life.  Of  course,  the 
translator  was  misled  by  the  German  "  in  deren  Mitte." 

Page  350.    "Healthiness."     "Health"  would  have 


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been  the  more  natural  word,  especially  as  it  is  grouped 
with  "beauty." 

These  samples  of  Mr.  Common's  method  of  transla- 
tion will  suffice  to  show  that  he  must  have  worked  care- 
lessly and  in  haste,  and  that  he  lacks  literary  sense. 
Furthermore,  he  seems  not  sufficiently  to  master  German 
to  understand  thoroughly  idiomatic  constructions. 

CAMILLO  VON  KLENZE. 

University  of  Chicago,  Sept.  2,  1897. 


A  JAPANESE  MAGAZINE  OF  FOREIGN 

LANGUAGES. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

I  beg  leave  to  call  your  attention  to  one  more 
manifestation  of  the  broad  spirit  which  now  prevails  in 
this  empire  with  reference  to  the  necessity  of  a  better 
knowledge  of  foreign  things.  Another  magazine  has 
just  been  launched  on  the  crowded  sea  of  journalism  ; 
it  is  called  "  Gwaikoku  Gogaku  Zasshi,"  or  "  Foreign 
Language  Magazine."  Its  object  is  to  assist  students 
to  acquire  English,  French,  German,  Italian,  Spanish, 
Russian,  Chinese,  and  Korean.  The  first  number  con- 
tains exactly  200  pages  in  the  body  of  the  work  ;  the 
table  of  contents,  printed  in  each  of  these  languages, 
occupies  eight  pages  ;  and  there  are  several  pages  of 
advertisements  in  both  Japanese  and  English.  It  is 
published  by  the  Hakubunkwan,  Tokyo,  and  sells  at  25 
sen  a  copy,  or  2.70  yen  per  year.  The  first  edition  of 
6,000  was  exhausted  at  once  ;  and  a  second  edition  is  in 
print.  A  cursory  examination  of  the  English  portion 
reveals  comparatively  few  mistakes  or  misprints,  and 
indicates  that,  in  general,  the  work  has  been  well  done. 

The  English  section  takes  up  more  than  half  the 
issue  ;  the  German  section  occupies  one-fifth ;  the 
French  section  not  quite  one-tenth ;  the  Russian, 
Italian  and  Spanish  sections  four  pages  each  ;  and  the 
Chinese  and  Korean  sections  six  pages  each.  The  con- 
tents include  lessons,  conversations,  letters,  news  items, 
current  events,  extracts  from  literature,  essays,  poems, 
etc.  Each  language  is  taught  under  such  headings  as 
the  following  :  "  Pronunciation,  conversation,  gram- 
mar, composition,  translation,  reading  matter,  current 
notes,  etc."  There  are  also  illustrations,  including  one 
of  Queen  Victoria.  The  editor-in-chief  is  Mr.  S. 
Ohashi,  who  is  assisted  in  each  department  by  a  special- 
ist (a  Japanese)  in  that  language.  The  Spanish  sec- 
tion, however,  is  under  the  supervision  of  Prof.  Emilio 
Binda.  The  publisher's  note  speaks  of  "  the  import- 
ance to  our  people  of  all  these  languages,  whether 
considered  from  political,  educational,  commercial,  or 
any  other  point  of  view " ;  and  also  says  that,  "  as 
mixed  residence  will  soon  be  a  matter  of  reality,"  "  the 
study  of  foreign  languages  is,  therefore,  of  urgent 
necessity."  ERNEST  W.  CLEMENT. 

Tokyo,  August  20,  1897. 


THE  LACK  OF  SCIENTIFIC  WORK  IN  RHETORIC. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.  ) 

The  inadequacy  of  recent  books  on  rhetoric,  and  the 
generally  feeble  and  unscientific  way  in  which  the  sub- 
ject is  at  present  taught  in  our  schools  and  colleges, 
seem  to  me  to  call  for  comment  and  for  protest.  If 
we  may  judge  from  their  writings,  many  authors  of 
text-books  on  this  subject  neither  conceive  the  pos- 
sibility nor  appreciate  the  desirability  of  a  Rhetoric 
having  its  basis  in  definitely  known  psychological 
principles,  studies  of  development  of  language  power 


in  race  and  individual,  and  in  perfected  methods  of 
investigation.  The  science  of  rhetoric  is  fifty  to  a 
hundred  years  behind  economics  and  psychology,  and 
in  many  respects  its  present  condition  is  like  the  ear- 
lier stages  of  these  and  other  sciences.  The  work 
of  each  writer  is  generally  unadvantageously  individ- 
ual in  some  respects  —  each  author  usually  attempt- 
ing to  cover  the  whole  field  of  the  subject.  There 
also  is  much  less  division  of  labor  and  intelligent  co- 
operation than  in  a  highly  developed  science.  Such  is 
the  necessary  result  of  the  comparative  absence  of  scien- 
tific methods  —  methods  capable  of  being  accurately 
described  and  criticised,  thus  rendering  the  results 
verifiable  and  making  it  possible  rationally  to  estimate 
their  value.  The  broader  generalizations  from  which 
each  author  makes  his  deductions,  as  in  the  abstract 
economics  and  the  old  psychology,  are  reached  by  pro- 
cesses of  which  the  authors  themselves  are  not  clearly 
conscious.  Although  philology,  sociology,  and  psycho- 
logy stand  ready  to  make  contributions  of  methods  and 
conclusions,  students  of  rhetoric  have  been  much  slower 
than  students  of  more  progressive  sciences  to  avail  them- 
selves of  such  aid.  How  many  college  text-books  treat 
general  principles  at  all  adequately  ?  In  how  many  pop- 
ular texts  do  we  find  expositions  of  the  real  nature  of 
language  power,  its  relation  to  mental  development  and 
to  ultimate  aims  in  life,  and  of  its  value  to  human 
society  ?  The  broader  ethical,  aesthetic,  and  social  im- 
ports of  the  power  of  verbal  expression  are  generally 
ignored.  An  occasional  reference  to  commercial  utility, 
and  appeals  to  class  pride  or  ambition,  are  frequently 
the  only  references  to  any  rational  aim  in  the  science. 

Notwithstanding  various  merits  of  some  recent  works, 
and  that  some  are  in  part  to  be  excepted  from  these 
criticisms,  there  is  a  very  real  need  of  a  science  of 
rhetoric  employing  the  methods  of  modern  sciences. 

SELDEN  F.  SMYSER. 

Mattoon,  III.,  September  10,  1897. 


«  PATRINS." 

["Patrins"  (the  title  of  Miss  Louise  Imogen  Guiney's  charming 
book)  is  a  word  signifying  the  trails  of  Gypsies,  who  scatter  handfuls 
of  leaves  or  grass  along  their  path  to  show  the  way  to  those  who  follow.] 

This  way  she  went,  with  Iris  for  her  guide, 
Through  beds  of  mint  along  the  meadow-side; 
The  scattered  sprigs,  dropt  idly  from  her  palm, 
With  their  bruised  leaves  fill  all  the  air  with  balm. 

Here  lies  her  track  upon  the  uplands  dun, 
Where  the  wild  berries  ripen  in  the  sun; 
The  brown  bees  follow,  drinking  at  their  will 
From  brimming  cups  that  half  their  nectar  spill. 

This  way  she  passed,  for  at  the  crossing  see 
A  messenger,  new  come  from  Arcady, 
Leading  an  elfin  troop  that  wait  to  dine 
On  cates  and  honey  at  the  thistle's  sign. 

Here  was  her  camp-fire :  from  its  embers  gray 
A  faint  blue  smoke  steals  upwards  and  away; 
Here  with  great  Pan  in  converse  gay  she  stood, 
And  strolled  with  Dian  through  the  scented  wood. 

O  happy  vagrant,  singing  as  you  pass, 
Drop  still  your  trail  of  bloom  across  the  grass; 
Pitch  y9ur  white  tent,  and  in  some  cool  retreat 
Wait  with  a  welcome  for  our  slower  feet. 

EMILY  HUNTINGTON  MILLER. 


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A  PENDANT  TO  BOSWEL.L,.* 

In  the  preface  to  his  edition  of  the  "  Letters 
of  Samuel  Johnson  "  Dr.  George  Birkbeck  Hill 
expresses  the  hope  that  he  may  live  to  complete 
the  main  work  of  his  life  as  a  scholar  by  a  new 
edition  of  the  "  Lives  of  the  Poets."  From 
this  projected  task  he  has  been  turned  aside, 
temporarily,  as  we  trust,  by  a  suggestion  from 
Mr,  Leslie  Stephen  to  edit  all  those  writ- 
ings which  have  long  been  included  under  the 
general  title  of  "  Johnsoniana."  The  fruit  of 
Mr.  Stephen's  happy  proposal  now  lies  before 
us  —  two  beautiful  volumes,  at  all  points  such 
as  the  nice  judgment  of  their  lamented  pro- 
moter would  have  approved  of,  elucidated  and 
enriched  editorially  as  only  Dr.  Birkbeck  Hill 
could  have  done  it.  The  work  contains  nearly 
everything  worth  reading  (outside  of  Boswell) 
that  has  been  written  about,  or  that  is  trust- 
worthily  recorded  as  having  been  said  about, 
the  Sage  of  Bolt  Court  by  people  who  knew 
him  in  life,  besides  certain  matter  of  an  auto- 
biographical character  or  interest  from  the 
hand  of  the  great  man  himself.  Dr.  Hill  has 
not,  of  course,  been  able  to  offer  much  that  is 
new  or  even  tolerably  unfamiliar  in  the  way  of 
Johnsonian  lore  ;  but  he  has  put  the  old  in  the 
best  possible  shape  for  reading  or  for  reference. 
The  main  omission  is  Madame  D'Arblay's 
"  Diary,"  from  which  he  had  at  first  thought 
of  giving  extracts,  but  which,  he  concluded 
after  reflection,  "  is  too  good  a  piece  of  work 
to  be  hacked  in  pieces."  Readers,  therefore, 
who  would  fain  know  "gay  Sam,  agreeable 
Sam,  pleasant  Sam,"  as  contra-distinguished 
from  the  more  familiar  brusque  Sam,  overbear- 
ing Sam,  Sam  of  the  dingy  linen  and  the  sting- 
ing retort  discourteous,  must  still  turn  mainly 
to  "  Burney's  "  sprightly  pages.  Miss  Seward's 
"  Letters  "  have  been  passed  over  by  Dr.  Hill 
as  untrustworthy.  Some  slight  additions  have 
been  made  to  the  hitherto  general  stock  of 
Johnsoniana.  By  collating  the  text  of  "  Prayers 
and  Meditations,"  with  the  original  manuscript 
preserved  at  Pembroke  College,  Dr.  Hill  has 
been  enabled  to  make  some  corrections  and  to 
supply  some  omissions.  Certain  defects  and 
omissions  in  Croker's  edition  of  Miss  Rey- 
nolds's  "  Recollections  of  Dr.  Johnson  "  have 
also  been  rectified  and  supplied,  Dr.  Hill  hav- 

*  JOHNSONIAN  MISCELLANIES.  Arranged  and  edited  by 
George  Birkbeck  Hill,  D.C.L.  In  two  volumes.  New  York : 
Harper  &  Brothers. 


ing  been  entrusted,  to  that  end,  with  the  MSS., 
by  their  present  owner,  Lady  Colomb,  a  de- 
scendant of  Sir  Joshua's  sister,  Mary.  Some 
letters  which  Croker  had  not  seen  or  had  passed 
over  are  now  printed  for  the  first  time,  as  well 
as  the  corrections  made  by  the  Doctor  in 
"  Renny's  "  verses  when  he  "  mended  some  bad 
rhymes."  To  the  rich  collection  of  "Johnson- 
iana "  owned  by  Mr.  Robert  B.  Adam,  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Dr.  Hill  warmly  expresses  his 
indebtedness.  Several  hitherto  unpublished 
letters  to  and  from  Dr.  Johnson  are  added 
through  the  kindness  of  the  owners  of  the 
originals.* 

Dr.  Hill's  opening  volume  is  devoted  to  the 
longer  pieces,  including  the  "Prayers  and 
Meditations,"  printed  with  George  Strahan's 
Preface  to  his  first  edition,  of  1785  ;  Dr.  John- 
son's "  Annals  "  of  his  life  up  to  his  eleventh 
year ;  Mrs.  Piozzi's  "  Anecdotes  ";  and  Arthur 
Murphy's  "  Essays  on  Johnson's  Life  and 
Genius."  Volume  II.  forms  a  rich  storehouse 
of  Johnsonian  miscellany.  There  is  a  great 
array  of  "  Anecdotes,"  and  a  collection  of  let- 
ters most  of  which  are  now  printed  for  the  first 
time  ;  there  are  Apophthegms  from  Hawkins's 
edition  of  Johnson,  Extracts  from  Boswell's 
Letters  to  Malone,  and  the  "  Recollections  "  of 
Miss  Reynolds ;  there  are  Hoole's  and  Wind- 
ham's  narratives  of  Johnson's  closing  days ; 
there  is  the  Biographical  Sketch  by  Tyers ; 
there  are  two  papers  by  Reynolds,  on  Johnson's 
"  Character  "  and  on  his  "  Influence,"  together 
with  the  genial  painter's  two  capital  "  Dia- 
logues in  Imitation  of  Johnson's  Style  of  Con- 
versation." Among  the  letters  given  we  note 
an  interesting  one  (from  the  collection  of  Mr. 
Adam)  setting  forth  Dr.  Johnson's  views  on 
literary  property.  It  is  dated  March  7, 1774, 
and  was  written,  as  Dr.  Hill  surmises,  to 
William  Strahan. 

"  SIR:  I  will  tell  you  in  a  few  words,  what  is,  in  my 
opinion,  the  most  desirable  state  of  Copyright  or  literary 
Property.  The  Authour  has  a  natural  and  peculiar  right 
to  the  profits  of  his  own  work.  But  as  every  Man  who 
claims  the  protection  of  Society,  must  purchase  it  by 
resigning  some  part  of  his  natural  right,  the  authour 
must  recede  from  so  much  of  his  claim  as  shall  be 
deemed  injurious  or  inconvenient  to  Society.  It  is  incon- 
venient to  Society  that  an  useful  book  should  become 
perpetual  and  exclusive  property.  The  Judgement  of 
the  Lords  f  was  therefore  legally  and  politically  right. 
But  the  authour's  enjoyment  of  his  natural  right  might 

*  Messrs.  J.  Pearson  &  Co.,  of  5  Pall  Mall  Place,  London. 

t  Reversing  the  verdict  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  against 
one  Donaldson,  a  Scotch  bookseller,  who,  Boswell  relates, 
"had  for  some  years  opened  a  shop  in  London,  and  sold  his 
cheap  editions  of  the  most  popular  English  books,  in  defiance 
of  the  supposed  common-law  right  of  Literary  Property." 


1897.] 


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without  any  inconvenience  be  protracted  beyond  the 
term  settled  by  the  Statute.  And  it  is,  I  think,  to  be 
desired  (1)  That  an  Authour  should  retain  during  his 
life  the  sole  right  of  printing  and  selling  his  work.  This 
is  agreeable  to  moral  right,  and  not  inconvenient  to  the 
publick,  for  who  will  be  so  diligent  as  the  authour  to 
improve  the  book,  and  who  can  know  so  well  how  to 
improve  it  ?  (2)  That  the  authour  be  allowed,  as  by 
the  present  act  [8th  of  Queen  Anne],  to  alienate  his 
right  only  for  fourteen  years.  A  shorter  time  would 
not  procure  a  sufficient  price,  and  a  longer  would  cut 
off  all  hope  of  future  profit,  and  consequently  all  solici- 
tude for  correction  or  addition.  (3)  That  when  after 
fourteen  years  the  copy  shall  revert  to  the  authour,  he 
be  allowed  to  alienate  it  again  only  for  seven  years  at  a 
time.  After  fourteen  years  the  value  of  the  work  will 
be  known,  and  it  will  be  no  longer  bought  at  hazard. 
Seven  years  of  possession  will  therefore  have  an  assign- 
able price.  It  is  proper  that  the  authour  be  always 
incited  to  polish  and  improve  his  work,  by  that  prospect 
of  accruing  interest  which  those  shorter  periods  of  alien- 
ation will  afford.  (4)  That  after  the  authour's  death 
his  work  should  continue  an  exclusive  property  capable 
of  bequest  and  inheritance,  and  of  conveyance  by  gift 
or  sale  for  thirty  years.  By  these  regulations  a  book 
may  continue  the  property  of  the  authour,  or  of  those 
who  claim  from  him,  about  fifty  years,  a  term  sufficient 
to  reward  the  writer  without  any  loss  to  the  publick.  In 
fifty  years  far  the  greater  number  of  books  are  forgotten 
and  annihilated,  and  it  is  for  the  advantage  of  learning 
that  those  which  fifty  years  have  not  destroyed  should 
become  bona  communia,  to  be  used  by  every  Scholar  as 
he  shall  think  best.  In  fifty  years  every  book  begins  to 
require  notes  either  to  explain  forgotten  allusions  and 
obsolete  words;  or  to  subjoin  those  discoveries  which 
have  been  made  by  the  gradual  advancement  of  knowl- 
edge ;  or  to  correct  those  mistakes  which  time  may  have 
discovered.  Such  Notes  cannot  be  written  to  any  useful 
purpose  without  the  text,  and  the  text  will  frequently 
be  refused  while  it  is  any  man's  property." 

One  of  the  more  unfamiliar  anecdotes,  tell- 
ing of  an  amusing  rencontre  between  the  Doctor 
and  Gilbert  Stuart,  the  American  painter,  at 
that  time  studying  under  Benjamin  West,  is 
taken  from  Stuart's  "  History  of  the  Rise  of 
the  Arts  of  Design  in  the  United  States." 

"  Dr.  Johnson  called  one  morning  on  Mr.  West  to 
converse  with  him  on  American  affairs.  After  some  time 
Mr.  West  said  that  he  had  a  young  American  (Gilbert 
Stuart)  living  with  him,  from  whom  he  might  derive 
some  information,  and  introduced  Stuart.  The  conver- 
sation continued  (Stuart  being  thus  invited  to  take  a 
part  in  it),  when  the  Doctor  observed  to  Mr.  West  that 
the  young  man  spoke  very  good  English;  and  turning 
to  Stuart  rudely  asked  him  where  he  had  learned  it. 
Stuart  very  promptly  replied, «  Sir,  I  can  better  tell  you 
where  I  did  not  learn  it  —  it  was  not  from  your  diction- 
ary.' Johnson  seemed  aware  of  his  own  abruptness,  and 
was  not  offended." 

Dr.  Birkbeck  Hill  has,  as  usual,  enriched  his 
margins  with  a  mass  of  notes  that  are  often  as 
good  reading  as  the  text  and  rarely  fail  to 
requite  the  added  bulk  of  volume  they  entail. 
His  encyclopaedic  knowledge  of  his  theme  is 


mated  with  a  faculty  of  anticipating  reasonable 
doubts  and  queries  and  an  honest  zeal  to  clear 
the  path  of  the  reader.  The  work  is  a  rarely 
rich  and  diversified  one  —  a  book  of  intensest 
human  interest,  that  one  opens  at  random  with 
the  assurance  that  the  eye  will  be  caught  and 
the  attention  fixed  by  some  word,  wise  or  witty 
or  vividly  pictorial.  For  all  considerable  libra- 
ries, it  forms  the  indispensable  pendant  to 
Boswell's  indispensable  book.  E.  G.  j. 


THE  LITERARY  HISTORY  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  REVOLUTION.* 


In  the  work  that  he  originally  entitled  "  The 
History  of  American  Literature,"  Professor 
Moses  Coit  Tyler  undertook  "  to  examine  the 
entire  mass  of  American  writings  during  the 
Colonial  period  so  far  as  they  now  exist  in  the 
public  and  private  libraries  of  the  country," 
even  to  the  extent  of  "  making  an  appropriate 
mention  of  every  one  of  our  early  authors  whose 
writings,  whether  many  or  few,  have  any  appre- 
ciable literary  merit,  or  throw  any  helpful  light 
upon  the  evolution  of  thought  and  style  during 
those  flourishing  and  indispensable  days  ";  and 
to  present  all  the  valuable  fruits  of  his  exami- 
nation in  such  literary  form  as  would  commend 
them  to  the  public  favor.  How  well  he  succeeded 
in  this  arduous  undertaking  is  shown  by  the 
place  that  the  work  has  steadily  held  during 
the  almost  score  of  years  that  have  elapsed 
since  its  publication.  Professor  Tyler,  how- 
ever, did  not  abandon  the  child  of  his  study  at 
its  birth,  but  has  continued  to  watch  over  it, 
remedying  its  defects  as  he  discovered  them  or 
they  were  pointed  out  to  him,  until  he  has  now 
presented  us  with  a  revised  and  improved  edi- 
tion, bearing  a  title  somewhat  changed.  But, 
what  is  more  to  our  present  purpose,  he  also 
gives  us  the  first  volume  of  a  new  work, —  or 
perhaps  it  would  be  better  to  say  an  extension 
of  the  old  one  ;  for  his  original  scheme,  as  he 
first  described  it,  embraced  "the  history  of 
American  literature  from  the  earliest  English 
settlements  in  this  country  down  to  the  present 
time."  The  language  of  this  avowal  suggests 
a  still  greater  literary  scheme,  the  author  of 

*THB  LITERARY  HISTORY  OF  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLU- 
TION, 1763-1783.  By  Moses  Coit  Tyler,  Professor  of  American 
History  in  Cornell  University.  Volume  I.,  1763-1766.  New 
York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

A  HISTORY  OF  AMERICAN  LITERATURE  DURING  THE  COLO- 
NIAL TIME.  Volume  I.,  1607-1776 ;  Volume  II.,  1676-1763. 
By  Moses  Coit  Tyler,  Professor  of  American  History  in  Cornell 
University.  New  York :  Q.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 


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[Sept.  16, 


which  never  lived  to  complete  it ;  but  we  may 
hope  that  to  Professor  Tyler  will  be  accorded 
a  happier  lot. 

In  "  The  Literary  History  of  the  American 
Revolution  "  Professor  Tyler  attempts  a  thing 
before  unattempted,  so  far  as  we  are  aware,  to 
say  nothing  of  performance.  It  will  be  well  to 
let  him  state  the  case  in  his  own  words : 

"  There  would,  perhaps,  be  no  injustice  in  describing 
this  book  as  the  product  of  a  new  method,  at  least  of  a 
method  never  before  so  fully  applied  in  the  critical 
treatment  of  the  American  Revolution.  The  outward 
history  of  that  famous  procedure  has  been  many  times 
written,  and  is  now,  by  a  new  breed  of  American  scholars, 
being  freshly  rewritten  in  the  light  of  larger  evidence, 
and  under  the  direction  of  a  more  disinterested  and  a 
more  judicial  spirit.  In  the  present  work,  for  the  first 
time  in  a  systematic  and  a  fairly  complete  way,  is  set 
forth  the  inward  history  of  our  Revolution  —  the  his- 
tory of  its  ideas,  its  spiritual  moods,  its  motives,  its  pas- 
sions, even  of  its  sportive  caprices  and  its  whims,  as 
these  uttered  themselves  at  the  time,  whether  con- 
sciously or  not,  in  the  various  writings  of  the  two  parties 
of  Americans  who  promoted  or  resisted  that  great 
movement. 

"  The  plan  of  the  author  has  been  to  let  both  parties 
in  the  controversy  —  the  Whigs  and  the  Tories,  the 
Revolutionists  and  the  Loyalists  —  tell  their  own  story 
freely  in  their  own  way,  and  without  either  of  them 
being  liable,  at  our  hands,  to  posthumous  outrage  in  the 
shape  of  partisan  imputations  on  their  sincerity,  their 
magnanimity,  their  patriotism,  or  their  courage.  More- 
over, for  the  purpose  of  historic  interpretation,  the  au- 
thor has  recognized  the  value  of  the  lighter,  as  well  as 
of  the  graver,  forms  of  literature,  and  consequently  has 
here  given  full  room  to  the  lyrical,  the  humorous,  and 
the  satirical  aspects  of  our  Revolutionary  record  —  its 
songs,  ballads,  sarcasms,  its  literary  facetice.  The  entire 
body  of  American  writings,  from  1763  to  1783,  whether 
serious  or  mirthful,  in  prose  or  in  verse,  is  here  deline- 
ated in  its  most  characteristic  examples,  for  the  purpose 
of  exhibiting  the  several  stages  of  thought  and  emotion 
through  which  the  American  people  passed  during  the 
two  decades  of  the  struggle  which  resulted  in  our  na- 
tional Independence." 

The  older  writers  dealt  almost  wholly  with  the 
political  and  military  aspects  of  the  Revolu- 
tion ;  some  of  the  younger  ones  have  widened 
the  view,  taking  in  economical,  social,  and  other 
factors  ;  but  it  remained  for  Professor  Tyler  to 
conceive  and  execute  a  work  that  is  exclusively 
devoted  to  the  subjective  or  spiritual  factors  of 
the  period  as  they  are  expressed  in  literature. 
Professor  Tyler  first  teaches  us  to  "  distin- 
guish between  those  writings  which  were  the  re- 
sult of  certain  general  intellectual  interests  and 
tendencies,  apart  from  the  Revolutionary  move- 
ment ;  and,  secondly,  those  writings  which  were 
the  result  of  intellectual  interests  and  activities 
directly  awakened  and  sustained  by  that  move- 
ment." The  writings  of  the  second  class,  which 
give  the  period  its  character,  he  divides  as  fol- 


lows :  Correspondence,  State  papers,  oral  ad- 
dresses, secular  and  sacred,  political  essays, 
political  satires  in  verse,  popular  lyric  poetry, 
minor  literary  facetice,  dramatic  compositions, 
prose  narratives  of  actual  experiences,  indi- 
vidual or  collective.  This  classification,  how- 
ever, does  not  impose  upon  him  his  method  of 
treatment,  for  he  chiefly  holds  to  historical  se- 
quence, the  very  "  order  of  time  whenever  they 
severally  came  into  life,  and  wrought  their  work 
in  the  world,  —  thus  permitting  the  principal 
members  of  those  different  groups  of  literature 
to  appear  upon  these  pages  and  to  unfold  their 
message  to  us  somewhat  as  they  actually  made 
their  first  appearance  in  the  successive  scenes 
of  that  great  transaction  in  which  they  were  so 
significant  a  part."  Again,  his  purpose  is  not 
so  much  to  call  attention  to  the  independent 
artistic  value  of  these  writings  as  to  their  hu- 
manistic and  historic  value. 

These  are  the  main  lines  of  the  work,  and 
surely  it  is  necessary  only  to  draw  them  to  indi- 
cate at  least  the  great  value  of  a  well-educated 
work  that  should  follow  them  out.  Professor 
Tyler  has  given  us  the  first  volume  of  such  a 
work,  in  more  than  five  hundred  pages,  with  a 
promise  of  a  companion  volume  that  shall  bring 
the  story  down  to  the  close  of  the  war. 

The  new  work  has  the  qualities  of  the  earlier 
one  :  thorough  research,  judicious  handling  of 
materials,  and  a  clear,  vigorous,  pleasing  style, 
dashed  with  plenty  of  the  writer's  personality. 
As  in  the  earlier  work,  it  is  not  always  easy  to 
see  in  a  writer  or  in  a  writing  all  that  Professor 
Tyler  sees  in  it.  But  this  fact  gives  us  no 
offence.  This  is  a  case  where  an  author  is  not 
only  permitted  but  expected  to  imitate  the  good 
bishop  in  magnifying  his  office.  In  other  words, 
an  enthusiasm  born  of  the/acA  is  required  in 
order  to  see  and  write  the  history  of  American 
literature  down  to  1783  as  large  as  Professor 
Tyler  sees  and  writes  it. 

The  work  offers  many  interesting  points  for 
discussion,  and  we  shall  draw  attention  to  one 
of  them.  It  does  full  justice  to  the  Loyalists, 
both  in  the  amount  of  space  that  is  devoted  to 
them  —  five  full  chapters,  to  say  nothing  of 
frequent  occasional  mention, —  and  in  the  view 
that  is  taken  of  their  attitude  toward  the  great 
questions  of  the  period.  At  the  close  of  one  of 
these  chapters  the  writer  corrects  what  he  calls 
"  three  grave  errors  closely  connected  with  the 
whole  subject,  and  still  prevalent  in  popular 
American  expositions  of  it."  These  errors  are 
(1)  "  to  represent  the  Tories  of  the  American 
Revolution  as  a  party  of  mere  negation  and 


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obstruction ";  (2)  to  represent  them  "  as  a 
party  opposed  either  to  any  reform  in  the  rela- 
tions of  the  colonies  with  the  mother  country, 
or  to  the  extension  of  human  rights  and  liber- 
ties here  or  elsewhere  ";  (3)  to  represent  them 
"  as  composed  of  Americans  lacking  in  love  for 
their  native  country,  or  in  zeal  for  its  liberty, 
or  in  unwillingness  to  labor  or  fight,  or  even 
to  die,  for  what  they  conceived  to  be  its  inter- 
ests." While  it  is  impossible  for  any  man 
holding  the  traditionary  view  to  accept  this 
criticism,  historical  investigation  is  neverthe- 
less leading  us  to  it  slowly  but  irresistibly. 
Professor  Tyler  goes  so  far,  as  we  understand 
him,  as  to  yield  the  old  contention  that  the 
course  pursued  by  the  British  Parliament  in 
taxing  America  contravened  the  ancient  prin- 
ciple of  no  taxation  without  representation.  At 
the  same  time,  we  understand  him  to  be  a  good 
American  patriot  and  a  believer  in  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution.  What  is  by  no  means  uni- 
versal now  among  American  scholars  and  his- 
torians, he  maintains  that  the  two  central 
charges  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
were  true,  namely,  that  the  ministerial  policy, 
which  was  the  royal  policy,  evinced  a  design  to 
reduce  the  Americans  under  absolute  despot- 
ism, and  had  as  its  direct  object  the  establish- 
ment of  an  absolute  tyranny  over  them.  In 
fact,  his  view  of  the  Declaration  is  altogether 
more  enthusiastic  than  the  one  we  sometimes 
find  American  historical  scholars  upholding. 
How,  then,  does  Professor  Tyler  reconcile  his 
high  estimate  both  of  the  Loyalists  and  of 
Thomas  Jefferson? 

This  question  brings  us  to  what  we  consider, 
logically  speaking,  the  greatest  defect  of  the 
book.  This  is  the  failure  anywhere  to  present, 
so  far  as  we  have  observed,  a  consistent  general 
statement  of  the  author's  own  theory  of  the 
Revolution.  No  doubt  he  has  such  a  theory. 
Perhaps,  too,  the  well-read  student  will  be  able 
to  extract  this  theory  from  scattered  passages 
in  the  volume ;  but  this  student  should  not 
have  been  put  to  this  labor,  or  the  less  well- 
equipped  reader  exposed  to  the  hazard  of  mis- 
conceiving the  author's  meaning,  as  is  now  the 
case.  Perhaps  Professor  Tyler  holds  in  reserve 
a  statement  of  the  lines  of  argument  on  which 
he  vindicates  the  Revolution.  We  sincerely 
hope  such  is  the  case. 

In  one  view,  the  American  Revolution  was 
one  of  the  tragedies  of  history.  As  though  it 
were  not  enough  to  put  asunder  two  peoples  of 
a  common  origin  that  had  many  reasons  for 
working  out  their  destiny  together,  it  ruthlessly 


divided  the  younger  of  these  peoples  into  two 
not  very  unequal  and  altogether  implacable 
factions,  ending  in  the  complete  suppression 
or  extirpation  of  the  weaker  one.  When  one 
witnesses  the  qualities  of  mind,  culture,  and 
character  that  the  American  Loyalists  show  in 
Professor  Tyler's  History,  and  contemplates  the 
prosperous  communities  they  established  in  the 
great  nation  to  the  north  of  us,  he  recalls  the 
curse  that  William  of  Orange,  as  he  beheld  in 
battle  the  splendid  valor  of  the  Irish  regiments 
in  the  French  army,  pronounced  upon  the 
cruel  fate  that  had  denied  to  him  the  services 
of  such  soldiers.  B  A  HINSDALE. 


NOTHING  BUT  LEAVES.* 


"  Patrins  "  are  bunches  of  leaves  by  which 
Miss  Guiney  shows  the  path  she  has  taken.  On 
the  whole,  however,  it  is  a  pity  that  she  should 
not  have  marked  her  path  with  great  sign- 
boards, so  that  it  might  be  avoided.  It  is  a 
dangerous  path :  Miss  Guiney  may  have  trod- 
den it  in  safety,  but  there  have  been  many  and 
there  will  be  many  who  have  tried  to  follow  it 
without  success.  To  speak  directly,  we  dissent 
from  the  attitude  in  life  commended  by  Miss 
Guiney. 

For  instance,  the  scholar,  to  her  mind,  is  one 
who  knows  already  all  he  wants  to,  and  goes 
about  smilingly  diffusing  the  scorn  of  education, 
"  conversing  consumedly  about  the  weather  "; 
the  "•  out-of-doorling  "  does  not  do  anything  while 
he  is  out-of-doors,  but  "  simply  moves  or  sits  in 
eternal  amalgamation  with  the  eternal."  Now, 
though  everyone  knows  that  there  is  some  sense 
in  the  attitude  which  Miss  Guiney  has  in  mind, 
it  must  also  be  plain  that  for  one  who  can  attain 
a  sensible  state  to  be  humorously  described  as 
above,  there  will  be  a  thousand  Miss  Nancies, 
Willieboys,  and  absolutely  imbecile  chumps, 
who  are  rejoiced  at  such  an  opportunity  for 
mere  blatant  assumption.  And  these  nonenti- 
ties, who  hope  that  they  will  be  thought  some- 
thing of  by  dint  of  doing  nothing,  are  an  awful 
bore  of  which  we  have  already  too  many. 

"  The  oddest  and  choicest  of  social  attitudes," 
says  Miss  Guiney,  is  an  attitude  of  sacred 
indifference.  For  heaven's  sake,  do  n't  strive 
or  cry,  do  n't  think  anything  or  do  anything 
(it 's  so  easy  to  be  commonplace),  keep  your- 

*  PATRINS  :  To  which  is  added  an  Inquirendo  into  the  Wit 
and  Other  Good  Parts  of  His  Late  Majesty  King  Charles  the 
Second.  By  Louise  Imogen  Guiney.  Boston :  Copeland  & 
Day. 


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self  out  of  the  stupid  turmoil  of  life.  It  is  true 
you  must  n't  fall  into  anything  so  foolish  as  the 
"  cheap  indifferentism  so  called ;  the  sickness 
of  sophomores  ":  you  must  be  something  more 
distinguished,  something  like  Lucius  Gary, 
Viscount  Falkland.  Now,  of  course,  there  is 
a  fine  indifference  to  foolish  things,  as  well  as 
a  foolish  indifference  to  fine  things  and  foolish 
things  alike.  And  equally,  of  course,  Miss 
Guiney  has  somewhere  in  mind  the  hope  that 
she  has  really  got  the  right  article.  But,  not 
to  be  personal,  we  do  not  think  she  has.  Her 
essays  not  only  have  no  backbone  and  no  other 
bones,  but  they  have  no  vitals  and  no  breath  of 
life.  It  may  be  more  vulgar,  but  we  should 
prefer  a  man  who,  if  a  scholar,  would  always 
gladly  learn  and  gladly  teach,  and  who  knew 
what  was  worth  learning  and  teaching  and 
what  was  not ;  we  prefer  a  man  who,  if  he  loves 
out-of-doors,  loves  to  do  things  out-of-doors, 
even  if  it  be  to  shoot  deer  or  catch  salmon  ;  we 
prefer  a  man  who  says  something  when  he  opens 
his  mouth,  even  if  it  be  not  always  the  best 
and  choicest  remark  possible,  to  one  who  smiles 
and  can  think  of  nothing  worth  saying.  It 's 
a  good  thing  to  be  willing  to  commit  yourself. 

Miss  Guiney  likes  to  think  of  London  as 
being  a  quiet  place  ;  we  prefer  to  think  of  it  as 
noisy  and  hustling  and  full  of  people,  cads  as 
well  as  others.  Miss  Guiney  likes  to  think  of 
domestic  animals  conquered  by  man  and  curb- 
ing their  great  power  to  the  melancholy  superi- 
ority of  unfeeling  intellect ;  we  prefer  leviathans 
which  we  can't  hook  and  bulls  in  (somebody 
else's)  china-shop.  Miss  Guiney  thinks  that 
art  is  made  of  seemly  abstinences :  some  art 
may  be, —  but  to  an  art  made  of  seemly  absti- 
nences and  nothing  else,  we  prefer  an  art  made 
of  unseemly  affirmations.  At  bottom,  doubt- 
less, it  does  n't  really  matter  what  you  do,  and 
it  doesn't  really  matter  whether  or  not  you  do 
anything ;  but  this  fundamental  principle  must 
be  kept  well  out  of  sight,  unless  you  are  willing 
to  go  still-born  to  the  grave. 

Historically  speaking,  this  indifferentism  is 
partly  a  reaction  against  the  violence  of  Car- 
lyle  and  partly  a  conventional  imitation  of  the 
descendants  of  the  French-romantic  reaction 
against  conventionalism.  It  has  manifested 
itself  in  fine  forms,  and,  more  often,  in  forms 
like  the  present.  We  think,  on  the  whole,  it 
is  a  sort  of  dry-rot  in  art.  We  will  bet  a  big 
red  apple  that  anyone  who  reads  "  Patrins  " 
can  see  what  the  effect  of  such  an  attitude  has 
been  on  Miss  Guiney.  It  has  deprived  her  of 
the  power  of  thought  and  the  power  of  style. 


Each  essay  is  based  on  a  fancy,  not  on  an  idea. 
Each  sentence  is  set  down  with  tender  solici- 
tude as  to  how  it  will  look,  rather  than  with  a 
compelling  desire  that  it  shall  mean  something. 
This  is  a  pity.  Miss  Guiney  could  do  some- 
thing, perhaps,  if  she  would  give  up  the  idea 
that  there  was  nothing  worth  her  doing. 

We  have  spoken  of  Miss  Guiney's  style,  and 
it  is  best  to  be  more  particular  on  the  subject. 
Miss  Guiney's  style  is  a  combination  of  meti- 
culated  Emersonianism  and  effeminate  imita- 
tion of  Stevenson.  It  takes  for  fundamental 
principle  the  theory  that  an  essay  is  a  string  of 
aphorisms,  a  sequence  of  declarative  sentences, 
without  formal  connection.  This  crude  and 
unrhythmical  kind  of  prose  is  adorned  with  an 
enormous  accumulation  of  figures  of  speech  and 
painfully  selected  adverbs  and  adjectives.  To 
what  is  original  is  added  an  equal  amount  of 
quotation.  The  whole  is  stuck  over  with  such 
expressions  as  "  marry  "  and  "  methinks  "  and 
all  the  syntactic  affectations  adopted  by  those 
who  have  rediscovered  the  Elizabethans.  Such 
a  style  we  have  no  hesitation  in  pronouncing 
bad,  no  matter  how  clever. 

For  clever  this  book  of  essays  undoubtedly 
is,  clever  and  "  charming  "  as  well.  But  certain 
things  will  have  been  taken  for  granted  about 
Miss  Guiney's  work,  so  we  have  thought  it 
worth  while  to  allude  to  some  others. 

EDWARD  E.  HALE,  JR. 


LEGENDS  AND  Music  OF  THE  NAVAJOS.* 

Few  native  tribes  of  America  are  more  inter- 
esting than  the  Navajo ;  no  one  is  more  compe- 
tent to  describe  them  or  to  discuss  their  folk-lore 
than  Dr.  Matthews,  who  was  for  many  years, 
as  U.  S.  Army  Surgeon,  located  near  them. 
Dr.  Matthews  is  a  diligent  worker  in  the  field 
of  American  Ethnography.  Years  ago,  his  book 
on  "The  Ethnography  and  Philology  of  the 
Hidatsa  Indians  "  appeared.  Since  then  he  has 
been  stationed  in  the  Southwest,  and  has  pub- 
lished nearly  a  score  of  important  papers  about 
the  Navajo,  among  which  "Navajo  Silver- 
smiths," "Navajo  Weavers,"  and  "  The  Moun- 
tain Chant "  have  most  attracted  popular  atten- 
tion. He  has  also  made  useful  contributions 
to  Physical  Anthropology. 

In  "  Navaho  Legends  "  (when  we  quote  the 
title  we  must  spell  the  name  as  the  author  now 

*  NAVAHO  LEGENDS.  By  Washington  Matthews.  Memoirs 
of  the  American  Folk-Lore  Society,  No.  V.  Boston :  Hough- 
ton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 


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does,  notwithstanding  our  disapproval  of  the 
innovation)  Dr.  Matthews  presents  us,  first,  a 
brief  but  valuable  picture  of  Navajo  ethnog- 
raphy ;  second,  three  interesting  legends,  copi- 
ously annotated;  third,  a  study  of  Navajo 
music  by  Prof.  John  Comfort  Fillmore  of 
Pomona  College.  The  Navajo  are  the  most 
advanced  tribe  of  the  great  Athapascan  family 
of  Indians.  Their  linguistic  relatives  are  usually 
of  the  wilder,  and  in  some  respects  least  attrac- 
tive, tribes  of  the  continent.  The  Apaches, 
Montagnais,  Slaves,  are  among  their  speech 
kindred.  The  people  are  not,  however,  pure  of 
blood,  but  are  much  mixed  with  their  neighbors, 
notably  with  various  Pueblo  and  Shoshonean 
peoples.  They  have  borrowed  much  from  con- 
tact, and,  being  energetic,  they  have  often  im- 
proved their  borrowings.  Possibly  they  learned 
smithing  and  weaving  of  the  Pueblos  ;  but  if 
so,  they  now  surpass  their  teachers.  Their  daily 
life  and  arts,  their  houses  and  industries,  tales 
and  religion,  all  have  been  profoundly  influ- 
enced by  the  arid  environment  in  which  they 
live.  The  ethnographic  sketch  given  by  Dr. 
Matthews  well  prepares  the  reader  for  an  intel- 
ligent study  of  the  legends. 

Three  classes  of  legends  are  preeminent 
among  the  stories  of  our  Indian  tribes  —  the 
origin  or  cosmogonic  legend,  the  migration 
legend,  the  culture-hero  legend.  Sometimes  the 
three  are  clearly  separated ;  sometimes  one  story 
presents  one  element  overshadowing  the  rest ; 
sometimes  the  three  are  inextricably  combined. 
It  is  the  origin  legend  of  the  Navajo  that  occu- 
pies the  chief  place  in  this  book.  In  it  are 
included  elements  of  migration  and  culture-hero 
stories.  The  legend  is  long  and  detailed.  It  is 
subdivided  into  four  sections,  headed  "  The 
story  of  the  Emergence,"  "Early  events  in  the 
Fifth  World,"  "  The  War-Gods,"  «  The  Growth 
of  the  Navajo  Nation."  The  people  have  come 
up  from  one  after  another  of  four  previous 
worlds  into  this  present  stage  of  existence  —  the 
fifth  world.  Each  of  the  worlds  has  its  own 
characteristics ;  in  each,  the  people  had  strange 
experiences.  Nothing  has  happened  without 
significance,  and  the  impress  of  the  past  is  upon 
the  present,  and  the  songs  and  ceremonials  of 
this  time  are  the  result,  and  in  some  cases  the 
dramatization,  of  those  ancient  happenings. 
All  things  around  that  need  explanation  are 
dealt  with  in  this  native  philosophy.  Dr.  Mat- 
thews has  translated  the  legends  simply  and 
with  directness.  On  the  whole,  the  Navajo 
Origin  Legend  appears  more  consistent  and 
definite  than  most  American  Indian  cosmogo- 


nies. One  or  two  passages  taken  quite  at  ran- 
dom will  illustrate  the  style  and  content.  Sec- 
tion 163  describes  the  making  of  First  Man 
and  First  Woman.  «  The  people  "  mentioned 
were  not  truly  human  beings  : 

"  The  gods  laid  one  buckskin  on  the  ground  with  the 
head  to  the  west;  on  this  they  placed  two  ears  of  corn, 
with  their  tips  to  the  east,  and  over  the  corn  they  spread 
the  other  buckskin  with  its  head  to  the  east;  under  the 
white  ear  they  put  the  feather  of  a  white  eagle,  under 
the  yellow  ear  the  feather  of  a  yellow  eagle.  Then  they 
told  the  people  to  stand  at  a  distance  and  allow  the  wind 
to  enter.  The  white  wind  blew  from  the  east,  and  the 
yellow  wind  blew  from  the  west,  between  the  skins. 
While  the  wind  was  blowing,  eight  of  the  Mirage  Peo- 
ple came  and  walked  around  the  objects  on  the  ground 
four  times,  and  as  they  walked  the  eagle  feathers,  whose 
tips  protruded  from  between  the  buckskins,  were  seen 
to  move.  When  the  Mirage  People  had  finished  their 
walk  the  upper  buckskin  was  lifted  —  the  ears  of  corn 
had  disappeared ;  a  man  and  a  woman  lay  there  in  their 
stead." 

Sometimes  the  incidents  narrated  contain  a 
hint  at  real  happenings  in  the  tribal  history. 
Thus,  it  is  likely  that  the  Navajo  first  got  maize, 
or  corn,  from  the  Pueblos  or  Kisdni,  as  is  sug- 
gested by  section  189. 

"  After  this  it  was  told  around  that  the  Kisani,  who 
were  in  camp  at  a  little  distance  from  the  others,  had 
brought  with  them  from  the  lower  world  an  ear  of  corn 
for  seed.  Some  of  the  unruly  ones  proposed  to  go  to 
the  camp  of  the  Eisani  and  take  the  corn  away  from 
them;  but  others,  of  better  counsel,  said  that  this  would 
be  wrong,  that  the  Kisani  had  had  as  much  trouble  as 
the  rest,  and  if  they  had  more  foresight  they  had  a  right 
to  profit  by  it.  In  spite  of  these  words,  some  of  the 
young  men  went  and  demanded  the  corn  of  the  Kisani. 
The  latter  said,  after  some  angry  talk  on  both  sides, 
'  We  will  break  the  ear  in  two  and  give  you  whichever 
half  you  choose.'  The  young  men  agreed  to  this  bar- 
gain, and  the  woman  who  owned  the  ear  broke  it  in  the 
middle  and  laid  the  pieces  down  for  the  others  to  choose. 
The  young  men  looked  at  the  pieces,  and  were  consid- 
ering which  they  would  take,  when  Coyote,  getting 
impatient,  picked  up  the  tip  end  of  the  ear  and  made 
off  with  it.  The  Kisani  kept  the  butt,  and  this  is  the 
reason  the  Pueblo  Indians  have  to-day  better  crops  of 
corn  than  the  Navajos.  But  the  Pueblos  had  become 
alarmed  at  the  threats  and  angry  language  of  their 
neighbors  and  moved  away  from  them,  and  this  is  why 
the  Navajos  and  the  Pueblos  now  live  apart  from  one 
another." 

Throughout  the  legends,  of  course,  are  items 
of  belief,  tribal  practices,  religious  customs, 
either  described  or  incidentally  mentioned.  In 
explanation  of  these,  Dr.  Matthews's  notes  and 
pictures  are  most  valuable. 

Professor  Fillmore's  discussion  of  the  Navajo 
music  is  both  interesting  and  valuable.  It  is 
based  upon  a  considerable  collection  of  phono- 
graphic records.  While  Navajo  music  presents 
perhaps  little  that  is  truly  characteristic,  it 
fairly  represents  American  Indian  music  gen- 


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erally.  In  the  words,  figurative  language  — 
especially  metaphor  and  simile  —  abounds.  Of 
rhetorical  forms,  antithesis,  synecdoche,  and 
climax  are  not  uncommon.  Those  peculiarly 
favorite  devices  among  savage  and  barbarous 
races,  repetition  and  refrain  are  everywhere. 
Rhyme  is  rare.  The  words  of  a  number  of  the 
songs  are  given  with  interlinear  translation  into 
English,  and  the  melodies  of  ten  are  written 
out  in  ordinary  musical  notation. 

All  in  all,  the  volume  is  an  important  con- 
tribution to  American  Ethnography.  It  is  the 
only  one  of  the  later  Memoirs  of  the  American 
Folk-Lore  Society  —  good  as  they  all  are  — 
that  is  really  to  be  placed  alongside  of  No.  I., 
Chatelain's  "  Folk-Tales  of  Angola." 

FREDERICK  STARR. 


FAITH  INSTINCTIVE.* 


We  may  accept  reason  as  our  proper  guide  when- 
ever it  is  present,  but  there  are  many  times  when  it 
does  not  cover  the  ground.  We  are  bringing  reason 
very  freely  to  the  task  of  correcting  religious  belief ; 
and  yet  much  of  that  belief  rests,  and  must  continue 
for  a  long  time  to  rest,  on  instinctive  tendencies, 
and  on  the  force  of  events  only  partially  amenable 
to  reason.  Religion  has  not  arisen  primarily  as  the 
product  of  reason,  but  as  the  result  of  feelings  and 
of  instinctive  influences,  inevitable  in  their  action, 
and  capable  only  of  the  slowest  correction  by  later 
inquiry.  "  The  heart  has  its  reasonings  which  the 
reason  knoweth  nothing  of."  A  hasty  application 
of  reason  results  in  increasing  the  unreason  already 
present  in  these  obscure  fields  of  thought  in  which 
so  many  impulses  contend  with  each  other.  If  one 
explores  a  mountain  range  by  torchlight,  he  may 
reach  a  few  certain  conclusions,  but  there  will  re- 

*  LATER  GLEANINGS.  By  the  Right  Hon.  W.  E.  Gladstone. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

CHRISTIAN  INSTINCTS  AND  MODERN  DOUBT.  By  Rev. 
A.  H.  Crauf urd,  M.A.  New  York :  Thomas  Whittaker. 

THE  PLACE  OF  DEATH  IN  EVOLUTION.  By  Newman  Smyth. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

BASES  OF  RELIGIOUS  BELIEF,  Historic  and  Ideal.  By 
Charles  Mellon  Tyler,  A.M.,  D.D.  New  York :  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons. 

THE  OPEN  MYSTERY.  By  A.  D.  T.  Whitney.  Boston : 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

FORETOKENS  OF  IMMORTALITY.  By  Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 
Chicago :  Fleming  H.  Rev  ell  Co. 

IN  THIS  PRESENT  WORLD.  By  George  Hodges.  New 
York :  Thomas  Whittaker. 

JESUS  CHRIST,  DURING  His  MINISTRY.  By  Edmond 
Staffer.  Translated  by  Louise  Seymour  Houghton.  New 
York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sous. 

CHRISTIAN  WORSHIP.  Ten  Lectures  Delivered  in  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

SOME  ASPECTS  OF  THE  RELIGIOUS  LIFE  OF  NEW  ENGLAND. 
Lectures  before  Hartford  Theological  Seminary.  By  George 
Leon  Walker,  D.D.  New  York :  Silver,  Burdett  &  Co. 


main  a  vast  amount  of  mystery  and  darkness  unre- 
solved. 

The  books  under  criticism  enforce  this  relation 
between  the  clear  and  the  obscure  in  faith.  "  Later 
Gleanings,"  by  Mr.  Gladstone,  occupies  itself  chiefly 
in  putting  limitations  on  the  quick  skepticism  of  our 
time.  It  is  congenial  to  the  mind  of  a  statesman  to 
give  great  force  to  the  familiar  renderings  of  belief, 
to  the  conceptions  which,  over  large  surfaces  and 
for  long  periods,  have  governed  men's  thoughts  and 
actions.  The  volume  is  especially  valuable  as  en- 
countering the  feeling  that  the  old  beliefs  must  give 
way  at  once  to  the  attacks  of  modern  criticism. 
The  work  is  made  up  of  thirteen  essays,  most  of 
them  occupied  with  a  presentation  and  qualified 
defence  of  current  topics  of  religious  discussion. 
Colonel  Ingersoll,  Mrs.  Humphry  Ward,  and  Pro- 
fessor Huxley  come  under  consideration.  The  vol- 
ume also  contains  several  historical  essays  on  the 
early  history  of  the  Church  of  England. 

The  volume  on  "  Christian  Instincts  and  Modern 
Doubt "  contains  five  essays.  The  one  entitled  "  The 
Present  State  of  Religious  Thought  in  Great  Brit- 
ain "  comprises  most  of  the  volume.  The  author 
shows  much  insight.  While  feeling  the  force  of 
current  criticism,  he  is  in  hearty  sympathy  with  the 
faith-tendency  which  idealizes  the  world  and  makes 
it  primarily  the  realm  of  mind.  He  does  not  set 
himself  the  task  of  a  systematic  defence,  but  ex- 
poses sharply  in  many  ways  the  spiritual  barrenness 
of  the  assaults  that  come  from  a  physical  rendering 
of  the  world.  Emerson,  Browning,  and  Martineau 
are  discussed  with  considerable  fulness  and  much 
sympathy.  Among  the  secondary  essays  is  one 
entitled  "The  Unwisdom  of  Secularism."  The 
volume  arises  from  a  sense  of  the  ruling  force  of 
spiritual  intuitions,  and  yet  of  the  many  ways  in 
which  they  still  need  reconciliation  in  our  thoughts 
with  the  facts  and  events  which  envelope  us. 

"  The  Place  of  Death  in  Evolution  "  involves  a 
still  deeper  conviction  of  the  spiritual  thread  of  life 
appearing  but  obscurely  and  slowly  in  the  physical 
history  of  the  world,  and  at  length  separating  itself 
out  in  an  adequate  revelation  of  its  own  higher  nature. 
The  book  is  well  conceived,  but  the  thought  is  atten- 
uated, and  receives  more  emphasis  than  it  will  easily 
bear.  If  the  physical  relations  of  death  had  been 
treated  as  incidental  to  its  moral  relations,  the  pro- 
portion of  parts  would  have  been  better  preserved, 
and  the  resources  of  the  author  been  more  fairly 
dealt  with. 

"  Bases  of  Religious  Belief,  Historic  and  Ideal," 
is  a  work  of  scholarship  and  insight.  It  rests  on 
the  intuitional  philosophy  applied  with  reason  and 
correction.  It  is  made  up  of  two  parts.  The  first 
treats  of  the  religious  questionings  which  have 
arisen  in  connection  with  historic  and  scientific  crit- 
icism ;  and  the  second,  of  the  belief  in  an  imma- 
nent intelligence,  as  urged  on  metaphysical,  ethical, 
aesthetical,  and  spiritual  grounds.  The  author  says 
in  the  preface  that  he  has  aimed  to  give  simply 
a  resume  of  the  conclusions  of  modern  thought. 


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This  is  more  apparent  in  the  first  than  in  the 
second  part.  The  result  is  some  want  of  firm 
direction  in  the  thought.  It  is  neither  definitely 
historical  nor  critical.  In  the  second  part,  the 
author  gives  more  freedom  to  his  own  mind.  The 
result  is  a  well-balanced  and  careful  statement  of 
the  grounds  of  belief.  We  are  disposed  to  criticise 
such  expressions  as  "  the  God-consciousness "  as 
inaccurate  and  misleading,  even  when  the  under- 
lying idea  is  unobjectionable.  The  word,  con- 
sciousness, is  slipping  very  much  away  from  its 
direct  and  needed  use.  Consciousness  can  no  more 
be  made  to  stand  for  the  elements  involved  in 
consciousness  than  the  sunlit,  rippling  surface  of 
the  ocean  for  the  obscure  depths  hidden  under  it. 

"  The  Open  Mystery  "  can  hardly  be  pronounced 
a  successful  volume.  It  is  a  re-cast  of  the  early  his- 
toric parts  of  the  Old  Testament.  The  author 
assigned  herself  a  difficult  task,  and  had  neither  the 
insight  nor  the  critical  power  necessary  to  make  its 
execution  interesting  to  the  well-informed  reader. 

4<  Foretokens  of  Immortality  "  is  not  an  unpleas- 
ing  rendering  of  the  familiar  convictions  on  immor- 
tality. It  will  soothe  and  assure  the  thoughts  of 
those  predisposed  to  belief.  It  is  doubtless  a  result 
of  the  shifting  farm  of  religious  beliefs  that  so 
many  are  turning  to  the  doctrine  of  immortality, 
struggling  to  give  it  a  firmer  and  more  vital  hold. 
An  exhortation  to  courage  quickens  the  courageous, 
but  makes  slight  appeal  to  the  timid.  So  is  it  with 
the  proofs  of  a  future  life. 

"  In  this  Present  World  "  is  a  volume  of  sermons 
of  a  plain,  practical,  and  somewhat  penetrative 
order.  It  is  a  good  specimen  of  the  prolific  species 
to  which  it  belongs. 

"  Jesus  Christ  During  His  Ministry  "  is  an  inter- 
mediate volume  between  two  others, — "  Jesus  Christ 
Before  His  Ministry,"  and  "  The  Death  and  Resur- 
rection of  Jesus  Christ,"  which  is  to  follow.  The 
author  expresses  his  aims  in  these  words  :  "  I  pro- 
pose, in  fact,  to  speak  above  all  things  of  Jesus 
himself,  to  ask  what  he  thought,  what  he  proposed 
to  do,  what  he  professed  to  be,  and,  as  my  general 
title  says,  what  he  said  of  his  person,  what  authority 
he  claimed,  and  what  work  he  desired  to  do."  The 
book  deserves  warm  commendation.  The  thought 
is  clear,  penetrative,  and  free  from  prolixity.  It 
helps  to  a  more  realistic  grasp  of  the  life  and  char- 
acter of  Christ,  and  of  the  circumstances  of  his 
ministry. 

"  Christian  Worship  "  is  composed  of  a  series  of 
lectures,  given  in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  on 
Liturgies,  by  leading  men  of  different  forms  of  faith. 
The  introductory  lecture,  'by  Dr.  Charles  Cuthbert 
Hall,  is  on  "  The  Principles  of  Christian  Worship  "; 
the  closing  lecture,  by  Dr.  Thomas  S.  Hastings,  is 
on  "The  Ideal  of  Christian  Worship."  The  eight 
intervening  lectures  present  Primitive  Christian 
Liturgies,  The  Greek  Liturgies,  Roman  Liturgies, 
Lutheran  Liturgies,  The  Liturgies  of  the  Reformed 
Church,  The  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  The  Book 
of  Common  Order,  Worship  in  Non-Liturgical 


Churches.  The  reader  is  thus  put  in  pretty  full 
possession  of  what  is  current  in  forms  of  Worship, 
and  of  the  feeling  which  underlies  liturgical  worship. 
"  Some  Aspects  of  the  Religious  Life  of  New 
England  "  is  a  book  quite  in  order,  and  interesting. 
The  purpose  of  the  author  is  to  give  "  the  religious 
life  itself  —  its  dominating  motives,  its  characteriz- 
ing experiences,  its  manifestations  of  spiritual  power 
in  the  careers  of  the  men  and  women  of  the  nine 
generations  that  have  dwelt  upon  New  England  soil 
since  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims."  This  task  he 
has  accomplished  with  insight,  fairness,  and  con- 
siderable fulness.  The  volume  serves  to  emphasize 
in  still  another  way  the  force  of  events  in  determin- 
ing the  current  tendency  of  religious  thought.  The 
reason  busies  itself  narrowly  with  the  particular 
phase  of  work  the  circumstances  assign  it.  The 
chapter  on  the  present  period  is  especially  interest- 
ing ;  a  period  in  which  the  sense  of  sin  is  widening 
out  into  that  of  ethical  law,  in  which  doctrine  is 
displaced  by  social  theory,  and  the  general  welfare 
is  substituted  for  personal  piety.  Religious  devel- 
opment is  cyclic,  with  actions  and  reactions ;  a 
thorough  recognition  of  the  fact  makes  us  at  once 
more  charitable,  more  peaceful,  and  more  useful. 

JOHN  BASCOM. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


A  volume  of  ^n  one  °^  ms  recently-published  let- 

essays  by  ters,  the  late  Master  of  Balliol  wrote 

Prof essor  James.     ag    f  OHOW8 :     «I    feel    very  deeply 

that  one  cannot  live  without  religion,  and  that 
in  proportion  as  we  believe  less,  that  little,  if  it 
be  only  an  aweful  feeling  about  existence,  must  be 
more  constantly  present  with  us;  as  faith  loses 
in  extent  it  must  gain  in  intensity,  if  we  do  not 
mean  to  shipwreck  altogether."  This  passage 
would  serve  very  well  as  a  text  for  the  "  Essays  in 
Popular  Philosophy"  (Longmans)  that  Professor 
William  James  has  brought  together  into  a  volume 
made  up  from  his  occasional  addresses  and  con- 
tributions to  periodicals  during  the  past  score  of 
years.  This  choice  of  a  text  is  chiefly  justified  by 
the  first  four  of  the  essays,  "  which  are  largely  con- 
cerned with  defending  the  legitimacy  of  religious 
faith."  The  essential  position  of  the  author  might 
almost  be  illustrated  by  Shelley's  "  Prometheus," 
wherein  we  are  exhorted 

"  To  hope  till  hope  creates 
From  its  own  wreck  the  thing  it  contemplates." 
There  are  cases,  says  Professor  James,  "  where  a 
fact  cannot  come  at  all  unless  a  preliminary  faith 
exists  in  its  coming."  Now  while  this  is  unde- 
niable as  a  general  proposition,  it  is  a  dangerous 
principle  to  be  taken  as  a  guide  by  the  untrained 
seeker  after  religious  and  philosophical  truth.  It 
is  doubtless  sometimes  true,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
mountain-climber  who  can  save  his  life  only  by  a 
dangerous  and  terrible  leap,  that  "faith  before- 


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hand  in  an  uncertified  result  is  the  only  thing  that 
makes  the  result  come  true,"  hut  this  is  not  quite 
the  same  thing  as  saying  that  faith  in  the  cardinal 
doctrines  of  religion  is  the  condition  upon  which 
their  realization  depends  in  any  other  than  a  sub- 
jective sense.  Professor  James  might  retort  that 
this  is,  after  all,  only  an  ingenious  way  of  begging 
the  question,  and  that  the  subjective  sense  is  the 
one  most  important  to  be  considered  in  these  high 
matters.  But  the  defense  that  he  actually  does 
bring  forward  is  made  from  a  very  different  point 
of  vantage,  being  substantially  that  his  book  is  not 
addressed  to  a  popular  audience,  exposed  to  the 
dangers  of  over-credulity,  but  rather  to  an  aca- 
demic audience  suffering  from  a  "  mental  weakness 
brought  about  by  the  notion,  carefully  instilled, 
that  there  is  something  called  scientific  evidence 
by  waiting  upon  which  they  shall  escape  all  danger 
of  shipwreck  in  regard  to  death."  There  is  some- 
thing in  this,  to  be  sure,  but  not  quite  as  much  as 
the  author  would  have  us  think,  and  the  opposed 
view  of  such  men  as  Clifford,  for  example,  seems 
to  us  supported  by  a  closer-knit  logical  cogency. 
It  is  all  a  question  of  degree,  and  the  author's 
chapter  on  "  Psychical  Research  "  affords  evidence 
that  he  carries  his  own  principle  of  believing  the 
things  that  we  want  to  believe  a  little  farther  than 
most  clear-sighted  thinkers  are  willing  to  carry  it. 
But  there  is  no  escaping  the  fascination  of  the 
author's  exposition  of  his  characteristic  views,  and 
the  reader  is  ready  to  say  more  than  once:  "Al- 
most thou  persuadest  me  to  set  in  abeyance  the 
thinking  part  of  myself,  and  to  let  the  heart  dictate 
where  the  reason  has  held  sway  hitherto."  The 
felicity  of  expression,  the  charm  of  manner,  and 
the  sympathetic  hold  upon  life  that  are  so  richly 
displayed  in  these  pages,  make  them  remarkable 
among  recent  contributions  to  philosophical  thought. 
Were  the  reader  to  reject  in  toto  the  fundamental 
teachings  of  this  book,  he  still  could  not  fail  to 
profit  by  it,  for  it  is  the  product  of  a  rich  and  acute 
mind,  which  adorns  every  subject  that  it  touches. 

The  uncrowned  monarch  of  the  seven- 
teenth  century  is  in  this  latter  age 
beginning  to  stand  forth  in  all  his 
moral  and  political  grandeur.  Dr.  R.  F.  Horton 
has  made  a  study  of  him  as  a  religionist,  and  has 
embodied  his  results  in  "  Oliver  Cromwell :  a  Study 
in  Personal  Religion"  (Thomas  Whittaker).  The 
trend  of  his  study  is  shown  in  his  portrayal  of  the 
staunch,  unbending,  constant,  moral  and  religious 
force  of  the  almost  invincible  Cromwell.  This  re- 
ligion was  not  a  side  issue  of  the  great  hero,  but  it 
was  the  hero  himself.  In  each  civil  strife,  in  his 
clashes  with  monarchy,  in  his  appeals  for  the  people, 
sturdy,  eternal,  and  uncompromising  religious  prin- 
ciples controlled  his  action.  His  devotion  to  the 
cause  of  humanity  is  but  the  fruit  of  an  inward  life 
divinely  planted  and  nourished.  To  exhibit  these 
traits  the  author  recites  many  of  the  pivotal  points 
in  his  active  career,  but  does  it  with  such  a  sincere 


and  devoted  purpose  as  to  allay  all  differences  be- 
tween him  and  those  who  may  not  agree  with  him. 
Young  men,  and  older  ones,  too,  will  receive  a  gen- 
uine inspiration  to  nobler  action  in  the  reading  of 
this  book.  —  Dr.  S.  R.  Gardiner  delivered  six  lec- 
tures at  the  University  of  Oxford  on  "  Oliver  Crom- 
well's Place  in  History  "  which  now  form  a  neat 
little  volume  of  120  pages  (Longmans).  These 
discourses  do  not  deal  with  the  biography  of  the 
hero,  but  "  estimate  his  relation  to  the  political  and 
ecclesiastical  movements  of  his  time."  Dr.  Gardiner 
embodies  his  lectures  in  a  wonderfully  lucid,  clear, 
clean-cut,  and  forcible  tongue.  His  estimate  of 
Cromwell  is  well-balanced,  and  eminently  just, 
though  not  identical  with  some  other  writers.  Crom- 
well, he  says,  "  was  for  that  which  has  been  the 
characteristic  feature  in  English  political  history, 
the  policy  of  bit-by-bit  reform  "  (p.  41).  Cromwell's 
settlement  of  Ireland  was  simply  the  beating  down 
of  everything  opposed  to  British  supremacy,  while 
the  constructive  work  was  left  to  others  (p.  57). 
Cromwell  was  not  constructive,  he  was  rather  a 
mediator,  a  moderator  (p.  81),  embodying  within 
himself  elements  "  of  championship  for  liberty,  of  a 
crusher  of  free  institutions,  of  a  defender  of  op- 
pressed peoples,  and  of  an  asserter  of  the  country's 
right  to  dominion  "  (p.  114).  "  It  is  time  for  us  to 
regard  him  as  he  really  was,  with  all  his  physical 
and  moral  audacity,  with  all  his  tenderness  and 
spiritual  yearnings,  in  the  world  of  action  what 
Shakespeare  was  in  the  world  of  thought,  the  great- 
est, because  the  most  typical,  Englishman.  This,  in 
the  most  enduring  sense,  is  Cromwell's  place  in  his- 
tory "  (p.  116).  

General  James  Grant  Wilson,  in 
General  Grant.  his  study  of  General  Grant  in  the 

"Great  Commanders  Series"  (D. 
Appleton  &  Co.),  necessarily  devotes  most  of  his 
attention  to  the  period  of  the  Civil  War.  A  brief 
sketch  is  given  of  the  points  of  interest  in  the  life 
of  Grant  both  before  and  after  that  period,  but  it 
is  for  the  most  part  written  in  a  perfunctory  man- 
ner. On  the  other  hand,  the  story  of  the  great 
campaigns  is  told  with  enthusiasm  and  with  clear- 
ness, though  it  is  possible  that,  to  a  non-military 
reader,  the  detailed  accounts  of  the  movements  of 
this  or  that  brigade  or  regiment  may  be  somewhat 
confusing.  These  details  will,  no  doubt,  be  of  great 
interest  to  the  old  soldier  who  took  part  in  the 
battles  described,  or  to  one  who  desires  to  make  a 
careful  study  of  them.  But  the  majority  of  the 
readers  of  this  book  will  not  have  had  any  military 
training,  and  therefore  will  not  be  able  to  estimate, 
from  mere  detailed  battle  accounts,  the  genius  of 
the  man  who  commanded  in  battle.  What  is  needed 
is  either  broader  and  less  technical  descriptions  of 
battles  and  campaigns,  with  more  of  the  personality 
of  Grant  thrown  into  and  illuminating  them,  or 
explanatory  notes  to  indicate  wherein  such  and  such 
a  movement  or  march  gave  evidence  of  great  mili- 
tary ability.  In  fact,  after  having  followed  Grant, 


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in  this  book,  from  his  first  command  in  Illinois  to 
his  final  victory  over  Lee  in  Virginia,  the  impres- 
sion is  left  upon  the  mind  of  the  reader  that  all 
that  has  been  learned  about  General  Grant's  great 
genius  in  war  is  that  he  was  aggressive,  courageous, 
and  always  confident  of  the  ultimate  success  of  his 
cause.  By  far  the  most  interesting  portion  of  the 
work  is  to  be  found  in  the  letters  to  the  Hon.  E. 
B.  Washburne,  for  in  these  General  Grant  revealed 
to  his  friend  sentiments  and  opinions  not  often 
shown  even  to  his  intimates.  The  concluding  chap- 
ter, also,  upon  Grant's  last  days  and  death,  is  writ- 
ten with  a  delicacy  and  an  affection  which  evince 
the  author's  love  for  his  hero. 


That  labyrinthian  crystal  palace  of 
inside  of  Kentucky,  concealed  from  the  light 

Mammoth  Cave.  ...  .  -, 

of  the  sun,  is  attracting  more  and 
more  the  attention  of  the  scientific,  the  literary,  and 
the  travelling  public.  Messrs.  Hovey  and  Call  have 
now  put  themselves  on  record,  in  a  small  manual 
(John  P.  Morton  &  Co.,  Louisville),  as  explorers 
and  guides  to  that  great  net-work  of  caverns  called 
Mammoth  Cave.  They  present  a  history  of  its  dis- 
coveries from  Hutchins's  legendary  Bear  chase, 
down  to  the  last  map  whose  cavernous  contortions 
almost  bewilder  the  innocent  reader  sitting  in  his 
easy  study  chair.  After  a  somewhat  elaborate  sketch 
of  that  section  of  Kentucky,  the  guides  lead  off  to 
the  route  of  pits  and  domes.  Such  exquisite  forma- 
tions !  Such  splendid  palatial  domes,  and  awful 
pits !  Adjectives  lose  their  force  and  the  visitor 
stands  or  moves  about,  lost  in  wonder  and  in  praise. 
"  The  chief  city  and  fairy  grotto,"  then  "  the  river 
route "  follow  in  order.  Many  questions  of  the 
visitor  are  answered  by  the  well-prepared  chapter 
on  "  the  natural  history  of  the  cavern."  The  book- 
let is  illustrated  by  a  large  number  of  beautiful  half- 
tone cuts  of  some  of  the  most  pleasing  and  startling 
views  in  the  cavern.  The  reading  of  this  manual  is 
a  good  preparation  for  a  visit  to  that  underground 
art-gallery  of  nature. 

A  little  book  of  145  pages  entitled 
The  baptem  of  „  Th  Baptism  of  Roger  Williams  " 

Roger  Williams.  r  D  T*         j    n    \ 

(Providence :  Preston  &  Hounds  Co.) 
is  one  link  in  a  chain  of  controversy,  begun,  as  far 
back  as  1880,  by  some  articles  published  anony- 
mously in  "  The  Independent."  In  1893,  President 
Whitsitt  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Sem- 
inary published  two  articles  in  "  Johnson's  Universal 
Cyclopaedia  "  on  "  Anabaptists  "  and  "  Baptists  "  in 
which  he  held  that  the  evidence  at  hand  does  not 
warrant  one  in  asserting  that  the  English  Baptists 
practised  immersion  as  baptism  prior  to  1641.  In 
the  Cyclop»dia  Dr.  Whitsitt  says  regarding  the 
baptism  of  Roger  Williams :  "  The  ceremony  was 
most  likely  performed  by  sprinkling ;  the  Baptists 
of  England  had  not  yet  adopted  immersion,  and 
there  is  no  reason  which  renders  it  probable  that 
Williams  was  in  advance  of  them  in  that  regard." 
The  venerable  pastor,  Dr.  H.  M.  King,  of  the  First 


Baptist  Church  of  Providence,  Williams's  stamping 
ground,  promptly  calls  down  the  Southern  Seminary 
President,  and,  if  argument  and  evidence  settle  the 
case,  states  and  makes  his  point  with  clearness  and 
precision,  that  Roger  Williams  was  baptised  by 
immersion. 


Organic 
Education. 


For  several  years  Miss  Hattie  M. 
Scott  has  been  trying  an  educational 
experiment  in  one  of  the  ward 
schools  of  Detroit  which  is  full  of  suggestion  and 
instruction.  The  results  of  this  experiment,  and 
the  theory  which  directed  the  teachers,  are  now 
presented  in  a  book  of  289  pages,  which  deserves 
the  attention  of  teachers.  Part  I.  "  Embodies  the 
philosophical  interpretation  of  the  plan.  It  pre- 
sents not  the  starting  point  —  for  that  was  purely 
practical  —  but  the  apparent  meaning  of  that  which 
has  been  done.  Part  II.  is  a  detailed  statement  of 
the  methods  actually  pursued  and  of  the  materials 
actually  employed."  Some  of  the  features  of  Pro- 
fessor Dewey's  remarkable  school  in  Chicago  are 
found  in  Miss  Scott's  book.  The  volume  is  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  J.  V.  Sheehan  &  Co.,  Ann  Arbor. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 

Happy  is  the  library  that  can  undertake  the  publica- 
tion of  such  costly  bibliographical  works  as  the  one 
recently  sent  us  from  the  Boston  Athenaeum.  It  is  a 
"  Catalogue  of  the  Washington  Collection  "  in  that  insti- 
tution, compiled  and  annotated  by  Mr.  Appleton  P.  C. 
Griffin,  and  provided  with  an  important  Appendix  by 
Mr.  William  C.  Lane.  It  makes  a  sumptuous  volume 
of  nearly  six  hundred  pages,  illustrated  by  facsimile 
title-pages,  a  vignette  of  the  interior  of  the  Athenseum, 
and  an  engraving  of  the  Stuart  portrait.  The  Wash- 
ington collection  of  books  was  begun  in  1848,  when  a 
number  of  citizens  subscribed  to  a  fund  for  the  purchase 
of  books  from  the  Mount  Vernon  library  of  George 
Washington.  The  present  catalogue  includes  all  of  the 
books  then  purchased,  besides  many  others  relating  to 
Washington  in  various  ways.  It  is  a  bibliographical 
work  of  the  highest  value,  as  well  as  an  interesting 
memorial  of  the  first  President  of  the  Republic. 

The  latest  text-books  for  teachers  of  the  modern 
languages  include  the  following:  Part  Third  of  "  The 
Study  and  Practice  of  French  in  School,"  by  Miss  Louise 
C.  Boname  (Philadelphia:  The  Author);  "L'Abbe* 
Constantin"  (the  comedy),  edited  by  Mr.  V.  E.  Francois 
(American  Book  Co.);  "L'Oncle  et  le  Neveu,"  by 
About,  edited  by  Mr.  G.  Castegnier  (Jenkins);  "  Fra  le 
Corde  di  un  Contrabasso,"  a  story  by  Signer  S.  Farina, 
edited  by  Professor  T.  E.  Comba  (Jenkins). 

Dr.  Albert  F.  Blaisdell  is  the  author  of  "  A  Practical 
Physiology"  (Ginn)  for  high  schools,  which  is  well- 
arranged,  and  provided  with  the  sort  of  helps  that 
young  students  most  need.  Our  main  criticism  upon 
the  work  is  that  it  makes  too  great  concessions  to  the 
"temperance"  and  anti-tobacco  extremists  who  have 
succeeded  in  getting  a  good  deal  of  pernicious  educa- 
tional legislation  adopted  in  the  several  States.  Al- 
cohol has  thirty-three  entries  in  the  index,  and  tobacco 
twelve,  thus  leading  all  the  other  subjects. 


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ANNOUNCEMENTS  OP  FALL,  BOOKS. 


THE  DIAL'S  list  of  books  announced  for  Fall  issue  by 
American  publishers,  which  has  become  an  important 
annual  feature  of  the  paper,  is  this  year  very  much  the 
largest  ever  given.  It  contains  over  1100  titles,  against 
900  last  year ;  and  represents  sixty  houses,  —  nine 
more  than  last  year.  The  feeling  of  encouragement 
and  general  improvement  that  marks  the  business 
world  at  present  has  evidently  reached  the  publishers, 
and  the  showing  made  by  them  in  the  following  List 
reflects  the  greatest  credit  on  their  activity  and  energy. 
The  outlook  for  a  prosperous  season  is  certainly  good, 
and  the  American  publishing  trade  is  to  be  congratulated 
on  its  alertness  to  take  advantage  of  the  "  turn  in  the 
tide."  The  classification  of  the  books  into  departments 
adds  greatly  to  the  usefulness  and  interest  of  the  List, 
and  furnishes  the  basis  of  some  analysis  and  comment 
in  the  leading  editorial  article  of  this  issue.  The 
department  of  Juveniles  is  deferred  until  our  next 
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IjITERARY  NOTES. 


A  complete  set  of  the  Kelmscott  publications  num- 
bers forty-nine  volumes,  and  is  now  priced  at  £650. 

"  Sir  Walter  Ralegh,"  by  Mr.  John  Buchan,  being 
the  Stanhope  Essay  for  1897,  is  published  by  Mr.  B.  H. 
Blackwell,  of  Oxford. 

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the  "  Magnalia  Christi  Americana." 

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D.  E.  Smith. 

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issued  by  the  Open  Court  Publishing  Co. 

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of  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  Westminster  Abbey  last  May  has 
been  issued  in  pamphlet  form  by  Mr.  John  Lane.  The 
pamphlet  has  but  nine  pages  of  text:  but  a  fine  reproduc- 


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tion  of  the  bust,  which  serves  as  frontispiece,  together 
with  binding  of  unusual  simplicity  as  well  as  elegance, 
combine  to  make  a  most  dainty  souvenir  of  an  inter- 
esting occasion. 

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edited  a  small  volume  of  "  Fragments  of  Roman  Satire 
from  Ennius  to  Apuleius,"  and  the  work  is  published 
by  the  American  Book  Co. 

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that  has  appeared  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  years,"  is 
issued  by  the  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co. 

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made  a  translation  of  Silvio  Pellico's  "  Francesca  da 
Rimini,"  and  provided  the  tragedy  with  a  critical  preface 
and  historical  introduction.  The  book  is  published  by 
Mr.  C.  W.  Sever,  of  Cambridge. 

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"  Natural  Elementary  Geography  "  prepared  for  them 
by  the  eminent  geographer,  Mr.  Jacques  W.  Redway, 
in  accordance  with  the  most  advanced  ideas  of  scientific 
pedagogy. 

All  the  published  works  of  Mr.  Austin  Dobson, 
including  the  half-dozen  volumes  that  have  appeared 
from  1873  to  the  present  time,  are  to  be  brought  out 
this  fall  in  a  one-volume  edition,  revised  and  arranged 
by  the  author. 

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1889,  has  now  collected  over  six  thousand  books  and 
pamphlets.  Contributions  of  suitable  material,  such 
as  reports,  educational  catalogues,  and  old  newspapers, 
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by  Professor  Ellwood  W.  Kemp.  It  is  intended  as 
a  text-book  for  students  in  normal  schools  and  for 
teachers  of  history. 

Mr.  James  Schouler,  having  finished  the  manuscript 
of  his  "  Constitutional  Studies,"  has  begun  the  long- 
promised  sixth  and  concluding  volume  of  his  "  History 
of  the  United  States,"  embracing  the  period  of  the  civil 
war.  It  is  hoped  that  this  will  be  ready  next  year. 

Number  5  of  Mr.  G.  P.  Humphrey's  "  American 
•Colonial  Tracts  "  is  "  an  account  showing  the  progress 
of  the  colony  of  Georgia,  in  America,  from  its  first 
establishment."  The  original  was  printed  in  London, 
in  1741,  and  reprinted  the  following  year  in  Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

We  have  received  from  Messrs.  L.  C.  Page  &  Co. 
"  The  Court  of  the  Tuileries,"  in  two  volumes,  com- 
pleting the  fourteen- volume  reprint  of  Lady  Jackson's 
works.  The  present  edition  is  well  illustrated,  and 
far  more  convenient  to  handle  than  the  earlier  ones, 
besides  being  less  expensive. 

"The  Liver  of  Dyspeptics,  and  Particularly  the 
Cirrhosis  Produced  by  Auto-Intoxication  of  Gastro- 
intestinal Origin,"  is  the  cheerful  title  of  a  work 
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CONTENTS. 


A  LITERARY  ANNIVERSARY 173 

LITERARY  VALUES.    Charles  Leonard  Moore     .    .  175 

COMMUNICATION      177 

"  An  Inquirendo  into  the  Wit  and  Other  Good  Parts  " 
of  Certain  Writers.    Emily  Huntington  Miller. 

"  THE  INCOMMUNICABLE  TREES."  (Poem.)  John 

Vance  Cheney 178 

SIR  HARRY  JOHNSTON  IN  BRITISH  CENTRAL 

AFRICA.    E.G.J. 178 

ART  AND  LIFE.    Edward  E.  Rale,  Jr 181 

RECENT  POETRY.  William  Morion  Payne  .  .  .183 
Van  Dyke's  The  Builders.  —  Gilder's  For  the 
Country. —Selections  from  the  Poems  of  Timothy 
Otis  Paine. —  Piatt's  Odes  in  Ohio.  —  Bnckhara's  The 
Heart  of  Life.  — Urmy's  A  Vintage  of  Song.— Stock- 
ard's  Fugitive  Lines.—  Chambers's  With  the  Band. 

—  M ifllin's  At  the  Gates  of  Song.  —  Hay's  Trumpets 
and  Shawms.  —  Leaser's  Echoes  of  Halcyon  Days. — 
Mrs.  Spofford's   In   Titian's   Garden.  —  Miss  Law- 
rence's Colonial  Verses. —Thomson's  Estabelle. — 
Poyen-Bellisle's   Journe'es   d1  Avril.  —  Watts- Dun- 
ton's  Jubilee  Greeting  at  Spithead.  —  Thompson's 
New  Poems.  —  Watson's  The  Year  of   Shame.  — 
Housnian's    A  Shropshire    Lad.  —  Benson's    Lord 
Vyet.  —  Belloc's  Verses  and  Sonnets.— Fletcher's 
Ballads  of  Revolt. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 189 

AD  Englishman's  instructive  studies  of  America.  — 
The  Waldenses.  —  Books  on  Dickens  and  his  work. 

—  A  manual  of  our  common  wild  flowers.  —  Road- 
side sketches  with  pen  and  pencil.  —  The  Dungeons 
of  Old  Paris. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 191 

LITERARY  NOTES 191 

THE  SEASON'S  BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG  ...  192 
LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS   .  .  194 


A  LITERARY  ANNIVERSARY. 

The  October  number  of  "  The  Atlantic 
Monthly,"  which  celebrates  the  fortieth  anni- 
versary of  that  periodical,  is  as  noteworthy  an 
issue  of  a  magazine  as  has  ever  appeared  in 
this  country,  and  is  at  the  same  time  sugges- 
tive of  a  good  many  reflections  concerning  the 
history  of  American  literature,  both  periodical 
and  general.  In  this  case,  indeed,  the  ordi- 
nary distinction  between  these  two  kinds  of 
literature,  together  with  the  implied  notion 
that  one  is  inferior  to  the  other,  very  nearly 
vanishes,  so  closely  have  the  interests  of  the 


"  Atlantic  "  always  been  bound  up  with  those 
of  literature  in  the  best  sense.     Not  only  has  a 
large  part  of  what  we  all  recognize  as  the  per- 
manent literature  of  the  nation  first  seen  the 
light  in  the  pages  of  this  magazine,  but  it  has 
also  occupied  from  the  start,  and  with  no  lapse 
from  its  high  aims,  the  unique  position  ex- 
pressed by  its  constant  purpose  "  to  hold  liter- 
ature above  all  other  human  interests,  and  to 
suffer  no  confusion  of  its  ideals."     In  describ- 
ing the  position  of  the  "Atlantic"  as  unique, 
we  have  no  intention  of  disparaging  the  work 
done  by  the  illustrated  monthlies,  which  have 
placed  so   much  wholesome   and    instructive 
reading  in  the  hands  of  the  public,  which  have 
contributed  so  notably  to  the  development  of 
popular  artistic  taste,  and  which  have  offered 
so  generous  an  encouragement  to  the  profes- 
sion of  letters  by  providing  a  satisfactory  mar- 
ket for  all  sorts  of  good  work.     But  the  fact 
remains  that  the  great  success  of  the  "  Atlan- 
tic "  has  been  achieved  and  maintained  without 
the  adventitious  aid  of  pictures,  that  the  time- 
liness of  a  theme  or  the  notoriety  of  a  writer 
have  never  alone  been  sufficient  to  secure  ad- 
mission to  its  pages,  and  that  it  has  not  been 
willing  to  attack  the  social  and  political  abuses 
of  the  time  unless  it  might  enlist  the  grace  of 
literary  form  as  an  efficient  ally  in  the  crusade. 
The  temptation  to  pursue  ideals  somewhat 
less  severe  than  these  must  sometimes  have  been 
very  great.     The   illustrated    monthlies  have 
grown  up  and  flourished  like  green  bay  trees 
(although  we  would  not  have  the  simile  of  the 
Psalmist  carried  to  its  logical  conclusion  in  all 
their  cases),  while  the  "Atlantic"  has  enjoyed 
its  modest  prosperity  in  unenvious  self-respect. 
It  has  seen  some  of  its  contemporaries  broaden 
their  circulation  to  an  extent  tenfold  that  of  its 
own  without  swerving  from  the  lines  which  it 
originally  marked  out.    It  has  viewed  with  equa- 
nimity their  successful  exploitation  of  one  popu 
lar  theme  after  another,  and  has  refrained  from 
following  their  example,  so  alluring  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  counting-room,  because  their 
methods  savored  necessarily  of  journalism.     It 
has  stood  calmly  aside  while  the  lions  of  the 
hour  have  been  captured  and  placed  on  exhib- 
ition by  other  magazines,  because  its  editors 
have  always  demanded  something  more  than 
the  ephemeral  interest  that  attaches  to  men 
and  subjects  that  are  but  the  fashion  of  the 


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day.  It  has  eschewed  the  pictorial  appeal  to 
popularity  because  of  its  abiding  faith  in  the 
virtue  of  a  singleness  of  aim,  and  because  it  has 
recognized  the  fact  that  illustrations  cannot  be 
associated  with  literature  without  some  lower- 
ing of  the  technical  standards  of  the  latter  art. 
And  for  the  exercise  of  this  threefold  restraint, 
if  it  has  fallen  behind  in  the  race  for  commer- 
cial success,  it  has  won  the  respect  and  the 
loyalty  of  all  who  can  fitly  appreciate  a  fine 
ideal  constantly  pursued,  of  all  for  whom  the 
dignity  of  the  literary  calling  is  a  matter  of 
deep  personal  concern.  "  Holding  fast  to  the 
faith  of  its  founders,"  such  is  its  proud  and  well- 
warranted  boast,  "that  literature  is  one  of  the 
most  serious  concerns  of  men,  and  that  the  high- 
est service  to  our  national  life  is  the  encour- 
agement and  the  production  of  literature,  the 
'Atlantic'  has  never  had  owner  or  editor  who 
was  tempted  to  change  its  steadfast  course  by 
reason  of  any  changing  fashion." 

The  names  of  the  owners  and  editors  who 
have  thus  handed  down  the  magazine  whose 
record  is  so  enviable  are  inscribed  upon  a  roll 
of  honor  in  the  minds  of  the  generation  that 
has  grown  up  with  the  life  of  the  "  Atlantic." 
Of  the  publishers  there  are  Phillips,  Sampson 
&  Co.,  Ticknor  and  Fields,  and  the  successors 
of  the  latter  down  to  the  present  firm  of  Messrs. 
Hough  ton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  Of  the  editors  there 
are  Lowell,  (1859-61),  Fields  (1861-71),  Mr. 
Howells  (1871-80),  Mr.  Aldrich  (1880  90), 
and  Mr.  Scudder  (1 890-97).  Nor  must  we  omit 
the  name  of  Mr.  Walter  H.  Page,  who  became 
associated  with  Mr.  Scudder  in  1895,  and 
whose  vigorous  editorial  policy  has  given  new 
life  and  strength  to  the  magazine  during  the 
past  two  years.  Some  of  the  recent  numbers, 
indeed,  have  contained  groups  of  articles  so 
solid  in  content  and  so  dignified  in  form  as  to 
challenge  a  favorable  comparison  with  the  best 
issues  of  the  old  days,  when  the  contributors  to 
the  magazine  included  the  half  dozen  greatest 
men  in  American  literature. 

A  list  of  the  famous  productions  that  first 
saw  the  light  in  the  "  Atlantic  "  would  be  too 
lengthy  to  find  a  place  in  these  notes,  and  only 
a  few  may  be  even  mentioned.  At  the  very 
start,  Lowell  insisted  "that  Dr.  Holmes  should 
be  engaged  as  the  first  contributor,"  and  to 
that  insistence  we  owe  the  fact  that  the  first 
number  contained  the  beginning  of  the  "  Auto- 
crat "  papers.  Emerson's  "  Brahma  "  also  ap- 
peared in  that  first  number,  and  proved  "caviare 
to  the  general."  There  were  a  dozen  other  prin- 
cipal contributors  besides  these  two,  and  three 


of  them  are  living  to-day.  A  few  of  the  famous 
poems  written  for  the  "  Atlantic  "  are  "  Paul 
Revere's  Ride,"  "The  Wonderful  One-Hoss 
Shay,"  "The  Chambered  Nautilus,"  "  Barbara 
Frietchie,"  "The  Commemoration  Ode,"  "Friar 
Jerome's  Beautiful  Book,"  "The  Fool's  Prayer," 
and  "  Prospice."  We  name  only  poems  so  gen- 
erally familiar  that  the  names  of  their  authors 
come  to  the  mind  at  once.  In  fiction,  besides 
the  many  serials,  there  are  such  stories  as 
"  Marjorie  Daw  "  and  "  The  Man  Without  a 
Country."  In  sober  scholarship  there  are  such 
writings  as  Clarke's  "  Ten  Great  Religions," 
and  the  scientific  papers  of  Agassiz.  In  short, 
there  is  no  department  of  American  literature, 
whether  creative  or  scholarly,  that  would  not 
be  much  the  poorer  were  it  without  the  works 
that  have  represented  it  in  the  "  Atlantic 
Monthly." 

For  forty  years,  then,  this  magazine  has  been 
devoted  to  "  literature,  science,  art,  and  politics  " 
(so  runs  the  cover- title),  and  "literature"  has 
rarely  been  missing  even  from  the  treatment  of 
the  other  major  themes.  The  editor  draws  a 
parallel  between  the  contents  of  the  magazine 
for  its  first  and  its  fortieth  years  which  well 
shows  how  steadfastly  the  same  intellectual  aims 
have  been  pursued.  Rather  than  repeat  this 
comparison,  we  prefer  to  suggest  certain  con- 
trasts between  the  contents  of  the  anniversary 
issue  now  before  us  and  any  possible  issue  of 
the  magazine  forty  years  ago.  The  proverb 
that  men  and  their  interests  change  with  the 
changing  times  could  not  receive  a  better  illus- 
tration. Mr.  James  Lane  Allen's  "  Two  Prin- 
ciples in  Recent  American  Fiction  "  requires 
for  its  inductions  a  literature  of  some  matur- 
ity, and  such  a  paper  could  hardly  have  been 
written  in  1857.  M.  Brunetiere's  contribution 
stands  for  our  modern  cosmopolitanism,  and 
an  essay  by  a  foreign  critic  would  have  been 
a  strange  phenomenon  indeed  in  the  provin- 
cial days  of  the  "  Atlantic."  Almost  equally 
strange  would  have  been  an  essay  upon  a  young 
contemporary  Italian  novelist,  and  such  a  nov- 
elist—  could  he  have  been  discovered  —  as  Sig- 
nor  d'Annunzio.  "  A  Russian  Experiment  in 
Self-Government,"  by  Mr.  Kennan,  embodies  a 
whole  range  of  ideas  that  forty  years  ago  had 
hardly  found  their  way  into  the  consciousness 
of  writers  upon  political  and  sociological  prob- 
lems. In  fact,  there  was  no  "sociology"  in 
those  days,  and  political  science  scorned  those 
studies  in  primitive  organization  that  are  now 
its  very  life-blood.  "The  Old  View  of  Child- 
hood and  the  New"  presents  a  contrast  that 


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could  hardly  have  been  imagined  at  a  time 
when  all  views  of  childhood  were  indistin- 
guishably  old,  and  when  pedagogy  had  not  yet 
reared  its  head  among  the  arts.  As  for  a  story 
of  "  Twenty-five  Years'  Progress  in  Equatorial 
Africa,"  if  told  at  all  in  1857,  it  would  have 
been  either  like  the  story  of  "a  cycle  of 
Cathay,"  or  a  bold  essay  in  romantic  fiction. 
At  that  time  there  were  no  "  Recent  Discov- 
eries Respecting  the  Origin  of  the  Universe," 
for  the  instrument  was  unknown  that  should 
first  make  such  discoveries  possible ;  and  there 
could  not  have  been  any  discussion  of  "The 
Upward  Movement  in  Chicago,"  for  there  was 
no  Chicago  worth  viewing  from  such  a  stand- 
point. Finally,  we  may  remark  that  the  very 
interesting  article  entitled  "  Forty  Years  of  the 
Atlantic  Monthly "  could  hardly  have  had  a 
prototype  even  of  the  prospective  sort,  in  the 
first  year  of  the  magazine's  history,  for  no 
prophetic  vision  could  have  foreseen  that  the 
problem  offered  by  the  material  subduing  of 
a  new  continent  was  to  be  succeeded  by  the 
infinitely  more  difficult  problem  of  subduing 
its  rapidly  expanding  population  to  the  decen- 
cies and  the  amenities  of  civilized  life,  or  that 
the  "Atlantic  Monthly"  would  become  so  po- 
tent an  agency  in  the  performance  of  that  latter 
gigantic  task. 


LITERARY  VAL UES. 

A  few  years  ago  it  was  widely  conceded  that 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson  had  invented  style,  that 
Tolstoi  had  discovered  human  nature,  and  that 
Herbert  Spencer  had  said  the  last  word  about  the 
problem  of  the  universe.  Dissentients  there  were, 
indeed,  who  held  that  Flaubert  was  really  the  first 
writer  who  had  ever  properly  expressed  himself,  that 
the  Goncourts  had  dug  up  those  "  human  documents" 
we  have  heard  so  much  about,  and  that  Renan  had 
given  the  final  thrust  to  theology  and  philosophy 
with  his  dagger  of  ironical  condescension. 

It  has  always  been  so,  I  suppose.  In  the  forties 
they  were  wondering  where  Macaulay  "  got  that 
style,"  and  had  little  doubt  that  Dickens  had  super- 
seded Shakespeare.  It  is  with  literature  as  with 
the  weather  —  our  memories  are  short,  and  every 
season  is  the  hottest  or  the  wettest  we  have  known. 
Now,  however,  that  we  are  nearing  our  century's 
end,  there  is  noticeable  a  pause,  a  lull  in  our  lauda- 
tion of  ourselves.  We  are  beginning  to  wonder 
how  our  time  will  appear  at  the  roll-call  of  the  ages. 
Modernity  in  literature  is  a  taking  bait.  People 
have  a  natural  prejudice  for  reading  about  them- 
selves and  their  sons-in-law.  They  like  to  see  in 
print  familiar  names  and  places.  But  after  all,  the 
main  things  we  have  to  write  about  are  the  perma- 


nent facts  of  nature,  and  the  emotions,  thoughts,  and 
actions  of  our  unchanging  humanity.  An  author 
who  tries  to  create  a  literature  out  of  his  own  head 
may  be  modern,  but  he  is  not  like  to  become  immor- 
tal. Even  the  decalogue  promises  long  life  to  those 
who  honor  their  fathers  and  their  mothers. 

There  are  authors  like  Spinoza  and  Kant,  who 
have,  of  course,  no  concern  with  the  concrete  mani- 
festations of  character,  and  who  might  as  well  ex- 
press themselves  in  algebraic  symbols  as  in  common 
language  for  all  they  have  to  do  with  style,  yet  who, 
nevertheless,  have  that  in  their  thought  which  lifts 
their  works  out  of  the  category  of  the  mere  litera- 
ture of  knowledge,  the  dull  domain  of  facts,  and 
places  them  among  the  proud  imaginations  of  man- 
kind. There  are  authors,  like  Le  Sage  and  Dumas 
and  Jane  Austen,  who  have  hardly  an  idea  to  their 
backs,  and  no  more  style  than  is  needed  to  tell  a 
story  rapidly  and  plainly,  yet  whose  creative  force 

—  power  over  essential  human  nature  —  is  so  pro- 
digious that  "  Gil  Bias  "  and  "  The  Three  Guards- 
men "  and  "  Pride  and  Prejudice  "  are  like  to  last 
as  long  as  men  read.     And  of  course  there  are  au- 
thors, like  Gray,  who  coin  the  commonplaces  of  the 
world  into  words  of  gold. 

Style  is  not  single  but  complex.  It  is  hard  to 
catch  it  in  the  act,  to  fix  this  Cynthnia  of  the  min- 
ute in  any  one  toilet.  As  far  as  prose  is  concerned, 
style  seems  to  be  a  vivid  realization  of  all  that  can 
be  said  on  a  subject  and  an  apt  selection  of  the  most 
telling  points.  It  certainly  does  not  consist  in  hunt- 
ing for  fine  words.  Mr.  Pater,  in  his  essay  on 
Style,  concentrates  his  attention  on  a  single  writer 

—  Gustave  Flaubert ;  and  lovingly  describes  his 
agonies  of  composition.    A  greater  master  of  ex- 
pression than  Flaubert,  John  Keats,  says  of  poetry 
that  if  it  did  not  come  easily  it  had  better  not  come 
at  all.     Keats,  in    the  old  phrase,  corrected   his 
verses  with  care,  but  he  made  no  fuss  about  it.  We 
do  not  correct  our  verse  or  prose  to-day ;  we  strive 
for  the  "  ultimate  word,"  the  "  chiseled  phrase,"  the 
"  enamelled  expression,"  and  record  our  struggles 
with  complacency,    as  if   the  contortions   of   the 
Sybil  were  of  more  importance  than  the  oracle  she 
has  to  utter.     Still  speaking  of  prose,  the  more  we 
regard  style  the  more  it  resolves  itself  into  mental 
endowments,  thought,  imagination  and  so  forth.    I 
open  a  story  of  Mr.  Stevenson's  —  who,  if  not  the 
first  of  writers,  is  a  very  good  one  —  I  open  "  Mark- 
heim  "  or  "  The  Pavilion  on  the  Links,"  and  what 
do  I  find  ?    An  original  and  audacious  way  of  look- 
ing at  things,  and  much  richness  of  experience  and 
imagination.     He  has  plenty  of  the  bank-notes  of 
thought  in  his  pocket,  and  does  not  have  to  make 
one  idea  do  the  work  of  ten.     Mere  terseness  and 
happiness  of  language  follow  as  naturally  as  the  day 
the  sun.     A  great  deal  of  modern  prose,  however, 
is  given  up  to  the  attempt  to  do  more  than  exhibit 
what  the  author  has  inside  him.    It  tries  to  rival 
painting  in  rendering  nature,  and  music  in  repro- 
ducing sound,  and  is  so  delicate  of  scent  that,  as 
Catullus  says,  you  wish  you  were  all  one  nose. 


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Marini  and  Gongora  and  the  Pre'cieuses  of  Moliere 
are  re-born  in  every  generation.  There  are  styles  to- 
day which  can  only  be  understood  through  the  pores. 

Poetry  is  on  quite  another  footing  in  regard  to 
style.  It  is  a  formal  art.  Something  sensuous  is 
added  to  the  idea.  It  is  its  business  to  be  beautiful, 
its  right  to  be  adorned.  Prose  ought  to  go  straight 
to  the  mark ;  it  is  the  paradox  of  poetry  that  in  it 
a  curved  line  is  the  shortest  distance  between  two 
points.  Perhaps  every  poem  which  has  got  itself 
remembered  has  a  certain  movement  which  dis- 
tinguishes it  from  all  other  verse.  It  is  in  this 
matter  that  poetry  has  its  triumph  over  prose. 
Prose  may  be,  though  it  seldom  is,  as  concentrated 
as  verse;  thought  and  creative  force  may  express 
themselves  as  well  in  one  as  in  the  other,  —  but  the 
returns,  the  correspondences,  the  accelerations,  the 
retardations,  the  discords,  and  the  harmonies  of 
verse  give  it  a  power  to  express  life  itself.  It  is 
motion  made  apparent. 

Both  in  poetry  and  prose,  style  seems  to  demand 
an  indescribable  union  of  personality  and  the  past. 
One  must  be  individual,  or  as  a  stylist  one  does  not 
exist ;  one  must  be  universal,  or  as  a  stylist  one  dies. 
Many  can  model  themselves  on  the  masters,  but 
they  will  fail  of  style  for  a  lack  of  that  freedom  and 
freshness  which  can  only  come  from  some  inward 
fount.  Many  may  have  a  native  daring,  strength, 
and  originality,  yet  fail  of  style  for  want  of  mod- 
eration and  measure.  It  is  necessary  to  fight  for 
one's  own  hand,  yet  to  follow  a  flag  which  has  led 
the  generations.  Dr.  Johnson,  in  the  mass  of  his 
work,  tried  to  write  Latin  prose  in  English,  and 
achieved  no  style.  Carlyle,  in  "Sartor  Resartus," 
threw  aside  all  reasonable  restraints  of  language, 
and  achieved  no  style.  It  is  a  narrow  bridge  to 
walk,  and  there  is  an  abyss  on  either  hand. 

To  have  style  is  to  be  of  equal  validity  with  nat- 
ural things,  to  be  as  strong  as  winds  and  tides  and 
sunbeams  ;  to  have  creative  power  is  to  be  as  a  god. 
It  is  an  uncalculable  thing  to  create  a  real  human 
being,  and  to  create  a  world  is  more  than  to  con- 
quer one.  An  appearance  of  the  gift  is  common 
enough.  Mimicry  and  observation  will  do  the  trick. 
Readers  are  quite  ready  to  make  believe ;  and  as 
children  christen  a  stick  or  a  rag,  and  read  into  it 
all  the  qualities  of  a  living  baby,  so  grown  folk 
accept  from  their  novelists  or  their  historians — who 
are  only  novelists  who  plagiarize  their  plots  and  do 
not  have  to  invent  names  for  their  characters  — 
labelled  dummies,  and  for  the  instant  think  that 
they  are  alive.  But  a  genuine  creation  is  a  different 
thing.  It  is  a  magnet  of  tremendous  strength,  and 
tends  to  draw  all  minds  to  it  and  make  them  like 
itself.  Achilles  created  Greece  in  his  own  image, 
and  Hamlet  has  almost  absorbed  Germany. 

There  are  many  bad  ways  of  creating  character. 
Our  contemporary  trick  of  dialect  and  local  color 
must  have  been  the  invention  of  a  lazy  writer  who 
wished  to  make  other  people  write  his  books  for 
him.  The  exploitation  of  what  is  called  a  "  type  " 
is  another  feeble  method.  The  moment  an  author 


looks  upon  another  human  being  from  a  superior 
point  of  view,  and  hails  him  as  a  "  type,"  he  ceases 
to  have  any  power  over  him.  The  old  method  of 
"  humors  "  practiced  by  Ben  Johnson  had  a  better 
reason  in  it,  though  of  course  it  was  quite  false. 
Of  all  the  amazing  methods  of  creation,  however, 
that  produced  by  Victor  Hugo  was  the  queerest. 
He  went  by  recipe — so  many  ingredients  to  such  a 
result.  Some  of  his  explanations  as  to  how  he  made 
his  characters  read  like  directions  for  compounding 
an  omelette  or  a  sauce !  Character  in  analysis  is 
the  last  infirmity  of  minds  which  are  almost  genu- 
inely creative.  It  is  so  near  life,  it  betrays  as  a  rule 
such  knowledge  of  human  nature,  that  one  is  tempted 
to  take  it  for  what  it  seems.  But  in  the  main  it  is 
a  puzzle  put  together  only  to  be  taken  apart. 

Invention  is  not  enough,  observation  is  not 
enough.  Great  as  Hawthorne  is,  there  is  a  quality 
of  cold  curiosity  in  his  dealings  with  some  of  his 
creatures  which  is  as  repellant  in  effect  as  a  surgical 
operation.  Enthusiasm  and  admiration  are  neces- 
sary even  in  satire.  One  half  of  Dryden's  charac- 
ters of  Rochester  and  Shaftesbury,  and  of  Pope's 
Addison  and  Villiers,  are  superb  and  unmeasured 
eulogy.  What  the  poet  or  novelist  needs  to  do  is 
to  draw  his  creation  into  his  soul — live  in  it — and 
feel  for  it  the  love  that  mothers  bear  for  their  chil- 
dren, whether  they  are  good  or  evil.  This  method 
has  the  one  disadvantage  that  it  stamps  something 
of  the  creator's  personality  upon  the  creation,  so 
that  all  Shakespeare's  men  are  poets  and  all  Mo- 
liere's  wits.  The  fact  that  an  author  has  enjoyed 
a  character  is  one  test  of  its  reality.  Jane  Austen 
evidently  delighted  in  her  curates,  whereas  Char- 
lotte BrontS  half  hated  and  wholly  dispised  hers. 
The  difference  is  felt.  There  is  hardly  anyone  in 
Shakespeare's  world  —  villains,  criminals,  or  fools 
included  —  whom  he  did  not  evidently  love,  hardly 
any  one  against  whom  he  would  have  been  willing 
to  draw  an  indictment. 

It  is  curious,  indeed,  that  wickedness  and  weak- 
ness force  themselves  to  the  front  as  the  protago- 
nists of  almost  every  drama.  Great  literature  is  the 
biography  of  criminals  and  fools.  Average  moral- 
ity and  average  intelligence  are  not  the  stuff  out  of 
which  to  create  characters  that  will  interest.  Evil, 
indeed,  seems  to  be  the  energetic  force  of  the  uni- 
verse, and  is  the  cause  of  the  obstacles  and  collis- 
ions from  which  events  spring.  Every  great  cre- 
ative poet  is  a  Manichaean.  In  spite  of  himself, 
Milton  was  forced  to  make  the  devil  his  hero ;  and 
Richardson  was  shocked  to  discover  that  his  Love- 
lace was  a  most  attractive  monster.  The  populace 
are  willing  to  pay  for  crime.  Nothing  sells  a  news- 
paper like  a  murder.  Even  in  the  natural  world, 
those  lurid  villians  of  nature's  melodrama,  the  light- 
ning and  the  storm,  get  infinitely  more  spectators 
than  the  milder  and  beneficent  agencies  of  sunlight 
and  dew.  Goethe  said  that  he  had  learned  from  Poly- 
gnotus  that  our  business  on  this  earth  was  to  enact 
hell.  Except  Poe  and  Hawthorne,  no  American 
writer  has  ever  had  any  suspicion  of  this  fact.  Ever 


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since  that  adventure  in  Boston  Harbor,  there  has 
been  a  flavor  of  tea  in  all  New  England  literature. 

One  test  of  a  creation  is  to  note  whether  it  is  per- 
fectly clear  and  understandable.  If  it  is,  it  prob- 
ably is  a  bad  piece  of  work,  a  puppet  moved  by 
wheels  and  pulleys,  and  warranted  to  do  the  same 
thing  whenever  wound  up.  About  the  greatest  fig- 
ures in  fiction,  there  is  something  of  mystery,  some 
possibilities  of  the  unexpected.  We  do  not  under- 
stand them  thoroughly,  any  more  than  we  under- 
stand our  neighbors  or  ourselves.  Goethe's  Hamlet 
is  the  real  one, — but  so  is  Coleridge's,  and  Hazlitt's, 
and  Kean's,  and  Booth's,  and  Irving's,  and  yours 
and  mine.  However  diverse  and  contradictory  these 
different  impressions  are,  they  are  all  aspects  of  the 
one  mighty  and  mysterious  figure  which  is  forever 
veiled  from  full  view. 

Thought  and  thinkers  have  gone  a  good  deal  out 
of  favor  of  late.  We  have  acquired  a  practical 
turn  of  mind,  and  our  crowned  contemporaries  are 
not  metaphysicians  or  preachers,  but  electricians 
and  the  like.  Foe,  who  was  a  great  critic  in  his 
own  lines,  conducted  a  life-long  polemic  against 
didacticism  and  metaphysics.  It  is  curious  to  note, 
though,  that  he  is  perhaps  the  most  metaphysical 
poet  in  the  whole  range  of  literature.  The  concepts 
of  Time  and  Space,  Birth  and  Decay,  Being  and 
Non-Being,  wander  up  and  down  his  works  like 
ghosts  in  a  deserted  house.  Herein  lies  his  superi- 
ority to  Hawthorne,  whose  speculations  were  theo- 
logical, and  exercised  mainly  on  the  question  of  sin 
and  redemption,  hardly  touching  the  wider  prob- 
lem of  Evil.  However  it  has  come  about,  the  pro- 
found subjects  that  have  engaged  literature  for  all 
ages  are  tabooed  to  it,  and  writers  are  bidden  to 
seek  lighter  and  more  objective  themes.  And  why  ? 
The  abstract  is  not  the  didactic.  To  think  in  poetry 
does  not  imply  that  you  are  going  to  turn  Adam 
Smith  into  rhyme.  Abstractions  lie  at  the  root  of 
life,  and  we  cannot  produce  the  flower  without 
planting  the  slip  in  the  ground.  Man  must  think, 
or  sink  to  the  level  of  the  animals.  He  is  fighting 
in  the  dark,  thrusting  and  parrying  against  an  ob- 
scure opponent,  and  he  does  not  know  whether  it  is 
named  Annihilation  or  Immortality.  Granted  that 
the  problems  that  rise  about  us  are  insoluable  by 
any  system  of  speculation,  yet  by  facing  them  man 
will  at  least  realize  his  soul,  which  by  forgetting 
them  will  die  out  of  him. 

Arnold,  in  his  essay  on  Wordsworth,  condemns 
the  poetry  of  revolt.  But  what  great  literature  is 
there  which  is  not  the  literature  of  revolt?  Ideal 
poetry  and  satire  spring  alike  from  one  root  —  a  pro- 
found dissatisfaction  with  ordinary  life.  Job  com- 
plains, and  Achilles  sulks  in  anger,  and  Prometheus 
rebels,  and  Faust  makes  pact  with  the  Enemy,  and 
Alceste  in  proud  honesty  wishes  to  leave  the  world, 
and  Don  Juan,  with  indomitable  will,  wishes  to  ruin 
it.  Everywhere  there  is  revolt  and  upheaval.  What 
is  the  secret  of  those  proud  and  melancholy  souls, 
the  great  poets,  which  so  embitters  them  with  life? 
Is  it  not  that  they  carry  within  them  a  standard  of 


perfection  and  greatness,  measured  by  which  the 
world  stands  condemned?  The  world  knows  very 
well  how  to  protect  itself  from  its  disgusted  great 
men.  Homer  and  Dante  were  compelled  to  be  little 
better  than  tramps ;  Shakespeare  and  Moliere  were, 
by  the  law  of  the  land,  vagabonds,  and  in  a  day 
when  they  hanged  that  sort  of  people  —  in  order,  I 
suppose,  to  give  them  some  visible  means  of  support. 
But  the  ideal  and  standard  of  the  poet  always  ends 
in  prevailing,  in  being  accepted  —  though  never  in 
being  realized.  CHARLES  LEONARD  MOORE. 


COMMUNICA  TION. 

"AN  INQUIRENDO  INTO  THE  WIT  AND  OTHER 

GOOD  PARTS"  OF  CERTAIN  WRITERS. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THB  DIAL.) 

Is  it  too  late  for  another  word  about  "  Patrins  "  ?  Mr. 
Hale,  in  his  article  on  the  book  and  its  author  in  THE 
DIAL  of  September  16,  seems  to  agree  with  Wetherell's 
criticism  of  the  Inquirendo:  "  It  is — well,  lopsided ;  and 
so  mortal  serious  you  know,"  but  may  we  not  quite  fairly 
add  his  conclusion:  "Not  that  it  isn't  great  fun,  too. 
You  will  carry  the  audience." 

Mr.  William  Dean  Howells  argues  quite  convincingly 
that  it  is  not  within  the  province  of  the  critic  to  decide 
whether  a  story  is  worth  telling,  but  whether  it  is  well 
told  :  he  is  to  say  whether  it  is  good  of  its  kind,  not 
whether  the  kind  is  to  his  personal  liking.  Therefore, 
if  a  man  deliberately  announces,  "  I  go  a-gypseying," 
we  need  not  apply  strictly  commercial  tests  to  his 
gleanings,  or  insist  that  he  bring  back  with  him  a  bag 
of  wheat,  threshed  and  winnowed  of  chaff.  Bather 
does  not  the  declaration  stir  something  within  us  to 
respond,  "  We  also  go  with  thee,"  as  when  your  favorite 
playmate  used  to  say,  "  C  'm  on  :  le  's  go  somewhere." 
Life  has  other  staples  than  wheat,  and  there  is  both 
value  and  delight  in  mint  and  bramble-berries,  and  that 
nondescript  plunder  with  which  Nature  entices  her  chil- 
dren into  the  "Great  Playground." 

We  never  outgrow  the  idyllic  delights  of  sauntering, 
of  simply  going  somewhere  outside  of  beaten  paths;  cut- 
ting switches  for  the  pleasant  feel  of  the  smooth  bark; 
watching  the  minnows  at  the  footbridge,  and  leaning 
with  delicious  tremors  over  the  deep  hole  by  the  hem- 
lock ;  turning  aside  for  sweet-flag  and  choke-cherries, 
browsing  on  spicy  birch  twigs,  sprouting  beech-mast, 
slippery-elm  bark,  or  whatever  wild  delicacy  may  be  in 
season.  Does  any  man  grow  up  properly  who  never 
filled  a  torn  hat  with  small,  russetty  sugar-sweetings  and 
lay  blissfully  in  the  warm  stubble  to  munch  them  and 
fling  the  cores  at  a  grey  spot  on  the  gnarled  trunk  ? 
"Going  somewhere,"  with  no  thought  of  arriving;  "do- 
ing nothing  out  of  doors  "  but  healthily  busy  in  fellow- 
ship with  the  great  universe  of  things  that  are  leisurely 
ripening,  and  soaking  full  of  sweetness  and  sunshine. 
There  is  need  of  plowing  and  sowing  and  gathering  into 
barns,  but  this  is  the  legitimate  "  return  of  the  native  " 
to  the  patrimony  inherited  from  Eden  before  the  trouble- 
some specification  about  "  the  sweat  of  thy  brow,"  was 
inserted  in  the  title-deeds. 

Miss  Guiney  is  at  her  best  when  she  invites  us  to 
these  excursions,  discoursing  meanwhile  in  such  whim- 
sical fashion  that  the  veriest  plodder  must  smile 


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indulgently  as  he  turns  from  his  task  to  listen,  even 
though  she  mocks  at  his  ambition  and  reviles  his 
assumptions.  He  need  not  take  her  altogether  in  earn- 
est or  insist  that  the  stone  she  throws  at  pretentious 
learning  is  really  aimed  at  kindly  wisdom,  insensibly 
diffusing  its  atmosphere  of  peace.  To  be  able  to  carry 
the  "  patrimony  of  liberal  education  along  with  one  as 
a  sure  and  inseparable  treasure,"  without  "  feeling  it 
any  burden  or  incumbrance  " —  this  surely  is  not  to  turn 
traitor  to  one's  opportunities  or  be  disqualified  for  good 
citizenship,  and  if  we  confess  that  Miss  Guiney's  "  lib- 
eral education "  in  the  wit  and  wisdom  of  the  Eliza- 
bethans is  sometimes  an  incumbrance  to  her  talk,  we 
need  not  deny  her  the  "  power  of  thought  and  the  power 
of  style."  Is  this  really  a  trifling  age  in  which  men  are 
in  danger  of  turning  aside  at  every  tempting  stile  to 
stroll  in  flowery  meadows  when  they  should  be  girding 
up  their  loins  and  addressing  themselves  seriously  to 
their  journey  ?  Are  there  not  more  than  enough  serious 
books,  considering  that  we  ourselves  do  not  wish  to 
read  them,  but  only  feel  that  their  perusal  would  benefit 
our  neighbors  ?  "  The  Great  Playground  "  never  seemed 
so  attractive ;  the  "  Harmless  Scholar  "  is  infinitely  fas- 
cinating, and  we  feel  sure  it  was  he  who,  in  some  happy 
moment,  dreamed  out  the  true  "  Ethics  of  Descent." 
Is  "  Quiet  London  "  a  misnomer  ?  But  who  knows  Lon- 
don if  not  Mr.  Henry  James,  and  has  he  not  declared 
that  in  London  alone  one  may  find  a  typical  and  abso- 
lutely perfect  rural  walk,  over  such  velvet  turf,  under 
such  majestic  trees,  that  he  longs  to  be  a  department 
clerk,  compelled  to  traverse  its  delightful  way  morning 
and  evening. 

"  Puppy  "  and  "  A  Fine  Gentleman  "  are  improving 
acquaintances,  worthy  to  be  named  in  the  same  category 
with  many  a  literary  politician;  certainly  they  do  not 
discredit  "  His  Late  Majesty "  by  their  manners  or 
morals.  We  even  prefer  their  companionship  to  that 
of  royalty,  and  could  wish  that  Miss  Guiney  in  her  gyp- 
seying  had  gone  oftener  afield  through  the  green  lanes 
frequented  by  such  nnpatented  nobility,  leaving  King 
Charles  to  his  parks  and  pleasure  grounds,  but  even  so 
we  feel  she  is  quite  sure  to  "  carry  the  audience." 

EMILY  HUNTINGTOX  MILLER. 

Evanston,  III.,  September  24,  1897. 


«  THE  INCOMMUNICABLE  TREES.' 


We  hear  the  ocean's  open  roar, 

The  burdened  surging;  aye  the  sea 

Uplifts  his  passion,  mightily 

It  wakes,  the  round  of  his  great  shore. 

The  loud  sky  shouts  her  secrecy, 

The  hill  makes  moan,  rock-ribbed  and  hoar; 

Sea,  sky,  and  hill  —  far  forth  these  three 

Pour  out  their  souls  forevermore. 

With  us,  with  us,  it  is  not  so. 

To  brooding  music  move  our  leaves, 

In  purl  and  murmur  on  and  on 

Flow  subtile  numbers,  lulling,  low, 

Half- heard,  scarce  come  ere  they  are  gone; 

A  mystic  stir  forever  weaves, 

The  Presence  passes  to  and  fro, 

The  yearning  stillness  joys  and  grieves; 

But  our  high  calm  strive  not  to  hear, 

This  our  deep  peace  hope  not  to  know. 

JOHN  VANCE  CHENEY. 


SIR  HARRY  JOHNSTON  IN  BRITISH 
CJCNTRAL,  AFRICA.* 

The  region  somewhat  pretentiously  styled 
British  Central  Africa  lies  north  of  the  Zambesi 
and  in  the  South  Central  part  of  the  continent^ 
and  is  bounded  on  the  north  by  Lake  Tangan- 
yika and  the  Congo  Free  State,  on  the  north- 
east by  German  East  Africa,  and  on  the  east, 
south-east,  and  west  by  Portuguese  posses- 
sions. Politically  the  country  is  divided  into 
Sphere  of  Influence  and  Protectorate  —  the 
former  division  being  administered  under  the 
charter  of  the  British  South  Africa  Company, 
the  latter  under  the  Imperial  Government  di- 
rectly. The  Sphere  of  Influence  is  much 
larger  than  the  actual  Protectorate,  which  ia 
chiefly  confined  to  the  districts  bordering  on 
Lake  Nyasa  and  on  the  river  Shire.  The  chief 
agent  in  bringing  this  region  under  British 
control  was  Sir  Harry  H.  Johnston,  the  accom- 
plished and  versatile  author  of  the  volume  now 
before  us.  The  ambitious  title  "  British  Cen- 
tral Africa"  was,  it  seems,  prospectively  (and, 
as  it  turned  out,  prematurely)  conferred  by  Sir 
Harry,  who  hoped  at  the  time  that  it  would 
cover  a  larger  and,  politically,  a  much  more  im- 
portant district  than  it  now  does.  As  he  says  : 

"  On  the  principle  that  it  is  disastrous  to  a  dog's  in- 
terest to  give  him  a  bad  name,  it  should  be  equally  true 
that  much  is  gained  at  the  outset  of  any  enterprise  by 
bestowing  on  it  a  promising  title.  I  therefore  chose 
that  of  '  British  Central  Africa '  because  I  hoped  the 
new  sphere  of  British  influence  might  include  much  of 
Central  Africa  where,  at  the  time  these  deeds  were  done, 
the  territories  of  foreign  powers  were  in  a  state  of  flux, 
no  hard  and  fast  boundaries  having  been  determined  j 
therefore  by  fair  means  Great  Britain's  share  north  of 
the  Zambesi  might  be  made  to  connect  her  Protectorate 
on  the  Upper  Nile  with  her  Empire  south  of  the  Zam- 
besi." 

Eventually,  however,  the  well-laid  schemes 
of  the  author  and  his  political  chiefs  looking  to 
continuity  of  British  possessions  went u  a-gley," 
the  boundaries  of  German  East  Africa  and  of 
the  Congo  Free  State  becoming  conterminous 
in  the  district  north  of  Tanganyika,  an  arrange- 
ment which  interposed  a  strip  of  foreign  terri- 
tory between  British  Central  Africa  and  the 
English  Protectorate  to  the  north  of  it.  En- 
gland secured  from  Germany  a  right  of  way 
across  the  intervening  strip  —  a  mere  easement 

*  BRITISH  CENTRAL  AFRICA  :  An  Attempt  to  Give  Some  Ac- 
count of  a  Portion  of  the  Territories  under  British  Influence 
North  of  the  Zambezi.  By  bir  Harry  H.  Johnston,  K.C.B. 
Illustrated  in  photogravure,  etc.  New  York :  Edward  Arnold.. 


1897.] 


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granted  by  the  terms  of  the  Anglo-German 
Convention.  Similarly  the  Belgian  agents  were 
able  to  establish  their  claims  to  the  country 
west  and  southwest  of  Tanganyika ;  so  that 
British  Central  Africa,  so  far  from  attaining 
the  territorial  limits  and  relations  to  which  its 
founder  originally  aspired,  is  now  a  compara- 
tively isolated  inland  country  having  free  ac- 
cess to  the  sea  only  by  a  navigable  river  under 
international  control,  and  forming  a  nearly 
exact  geographical  parallel  to  the  State  of  Para- 
guay in  South  America. 

The  present  work  deals  only  with  that  east- 
ern portion  of  British  Central  Africa  which 
came  within  the  author's  personal  experience, 
that  is  to  say  it  is  mainly  confined  to  the  reg- 
ions bordering  on  Lakes  Tanganyika  and  the 
Shire  river.  Of  these  comparatively  little 
known  regions  it  gives  by  far  the  fullest,  weight- 
iest, and  most  entertaining  account  that  has  yet 
appeared.  The  narrative  and  descriptive  por- 
tions of  the  work  are  as  a  whole  admirably 
done  —  they  are  so  well  done,  indeed,  that  one 
regrets  the  more  a  certain  rather  trifling  or 
flippant  note  that  crops  out  in  them  occasion- 
ally, and  tends  to  lower  the  tone  of  a  scholarly 
and  in  some  respects  even  brilliant  book.  It 
will  prove  something  of  a  shock,  for  instance, 
to  the  serious  reader  to  find  an  eminent  natur- 
alist and  geographer  suddenly  dropping  the 
thread  of  his  recital  to  refresh  himself  with  a 
quite  irrelevant  scrap  of  doggerel,  such  as  this  : 
"  There  are  all  sorts  of  girls,  there  is  every  kind  of  girl, 
There  are  some  that  are  foolish,  and  many  that  are  wise ; 
You  can  trust  them  all.  no  doubt,  but  be  careful  to  look  out 
For  the  harmless  little  girlie  with  the  downcast  eyes." 
No  book  is  the  worse  for  humor ;  but  humor, 
like  Sir  Harry  Johnston's  "  girls,"  has  its  sorts 
and  kinds. 

The  author  has  treated  his  theme  with  ency- 
clopaedic fulness,  as  a  glance  at  the  table  of 
contents  indicates.  Chapter  I.  tells  us,  by 
means  of  a  vividly  picturesque  series  of  typical 
set  scenes  and  panoramas,  "  What  the  Country 
Looks  Like."  The  succeeding  eleven  chapters 
discuss  severally  the  "  Physical  Geography  of 
the  Country  "  ;  its  "  History  "  (which  really 
begins  with  Livingstone,  though  the  author 
hazards  some  interesting  conjectures  as  to  its 
remote  past,  based  on  researches  into  language, 
examination  of  racial  types,  traditions,  etc.);  the 
"  Slave  Trade  ";  "  European  Settlers  ";  "  Mis- 
sionaries ";  "  Botany  ";  •»  Zoology  ";  "  The  Na- 
tives ";  "  Languages."  Much  detailed  infor- 
mation, mainly  scientific,  is  contained  in  the 
Appendices  to  the  several  chapters.  The  au- 
thor's turn  for  scientific  pursuits  and  political 


enterprises  is  coupled  with  an  artist's  sense  of 
the  beauties  of  nature  and  an  artist's  delight 
in  depicting  them.  This  dualism  of  tempera- 
ment, if  we  may  so  style  it,  lends  his  book  its  pe- 
culiar character.  The  volume  reveals  by  turns 
the  man  of  sensibility,  and  the  man  of  hard 
facts.  It  seems  as  if  Sir  Harry  were  possessed 
alternately  of  the  spirit  of  Michelet,  and  the 
spirit  of  "  Mr.  Gradgrind."  Of  his  pictorial 
style  a  set  scene  or  two  from  his  opening  pano- 
rama of  Central  African  scenery  may  serve  as 
examples. 

"  A  steadily  flowing  river.  In  the  middle  of  the 
stream  an  islet  of  very  green  grass,  so  lush  and  90  thick 

that  there  are  no  bright   lights  or  sharp  shadows 

simply  a  great  splodge  of  rich  green  in  the  middle  of 
the  shining  water  which  reflects  principally  the  whitish- 
blue  of  the  sky  ;  though  this  general  tint  becomes  opal- 
ine and  lovely  as  mother-of-pearl,  owing  to  the  swirling 
of  the  current  and  the  red-gold  color  of  the  concealed 
sand-banks  which  in  shallow  places  permeates  the  reflec- 
tions. Near  to  the  right  side  of  the  grass  islet  separ- 
ated only  by  a  narrow  mauve-tinted  band  of  water  is  a 
sand- bank  that  has  been  uncovered,  and  on  this  stands  a 
flock  of  perhaps  three  dozen  small  white  egrets  closely 
packed,  momentarily  immoveable,  and  all  stiffly  regard- 
ant of  the  approaching  steamer,  each  bird  with  a  gen- 
eral similarity  of  outline  almost  Egyptian  in  its  monot- 
onous repetition.  The  steamer  approaches  a  little 
nearer,  and  the  birds  rise  from  the  sand-bank  with  a 
loose  flapping  flight  and  strew  themselves  over  the  land- 
scape like  a  shower  of  large  white  petals.  .  .  .  The 
afternoon  is  well  advanced,  and  in  the  eastern  sky,  which 
is  a  warm  pinkish  blue,  the  full  moon  has  already  risen 
and  hangs  there  a  yellow- white  shield  with  no  radiance. 
On  the  opposite  bank  of  the  river  to  the  palm  trees  is  a 
clump  of  tropical  forest  of  the  richest  greeu  with  purple 
shadows,  lovely  and  seductive  in  its  warm  tints  under 
the  rays  of  the  late  afternoon  sun.  .  .  .  Tiny  king- 
fishers of  purple- blue  and  chestnut-orange  flit  through 
the  dark  net-work  of  gnarled  trunks,  and  deep  in  this 
recess  of  shade  small  night-herons  and  bitterns  stand 
bolt  upright,  so  confident  of  their  invisibility  against  a 
back-ground  of  brown  and  grey  that  they  do  not  move 
even  when  the  steamer  passes  so  close  by  them  as  to 
brush  against  the  tangle  of  convolvulus  and  knock  down 
sycamore  figs  from  the  glossy-leaved,  many-rooted  fig 
trees." 

The  following  transports  us  to  the  moon-lit 
depths  of  a  Hyphasne  palm  forest. 

"...  Each  palm  is  surmounted  by  a  graceful  crown 
of  fan-shaped  leaves  in  an  almost  symmetrical  oval 
mass,  radiating  from  the  summit  as  from  a  centre.  The 
fruit  which  is  clustered  thickly  on  racemes  is  —  seen  by 
daylight  —  a  bright  chestnut  brown  and  the  size  of  a 
Jaffa  orange.  This  brown  husk  covering  an  ivory  nut 
is  faintly  sweet  to  the  taste  and  is  adored  by  elephants. 
It  is  on  that  account  that  I  have  brought  you  here  to 
see  with  the  eye  of  the  spirit  a  herd  of  these  survivors 
of  past  geological  epochs.  Somehow  or  other  it  seems 
more  fitting  that  we  should  see  the  wild  elephant  by 
moonlight  —  at  this  present  day.  He  is  like  a  ghost 
revisiting  the  glimpses  of  the  moon  —  this  huge  grey 
bulk,  wrinkled  even  in  babyhood,  with  his  monstrous 
nose,  his  monstrous  ears  and  his  extravagant  incisor 


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teeth.  .  .  .  Now  you  hear  the  noise  they  make  —  an 
occasional  reverberating  rattle  through  the  proboscis  as 
they  examine  objects  on  the  ground  half  seriously,  half 
playfully  ;  and  the  swishing  they  make  as  they  pass 
through  the  herbage  ;  or  the  rustle  of  branches  which 
are  being  plucked  to  be  eaten.  But  they  are  chiefly  bent 
on  the  ginger-bread  nuts  of  the  palms  and  to  attain 
these,  where  they  hang  out  of  reach,  they  will  pause 
occasionally  to  butt  the  palm  trees  with  their  flattened 
foreheads.  The  dried  stems  and  the  dead  fronds  crash 
down  before  this  jarring  blow.  The  elephants  pause 
every  now  and  then  in  their  feasting,  the  mothers  to 
suckle  their  little  ones,  a  huge  bull  to  caress  a  young 
female  with  his  twining  trunk,  or  the  childless  cows  to 
make  semblance  of  fighting,  and  the  half-grown  young 
to  chase  each  other  with  shrill  trumpetings.  Before  the 
first  pale  pink  light  of  early  dawn  the  moonlight  seems 
an  unreality.  In  a  few  minutes  the  moon  is  no  more 
luminous  than  a  round  of  dirty  paper  and  with  the  yel- 
low radiance  of  day  the  elephants  cease  their  gambol- 
lings  and  feasting,  form  into  line,  and  swing  into  one  of 
those  long  marches  which  will  carry  them  over  sixty 
miles  of  forest,  plain  and  mountain  to  the  next  halting- 
place  in  their  seeming-purposeful  journey." 

British  Central  Africa  is  a  well-wooded  coun- 
try, especially  in  the  Nyasa  province,  though 
here  and  there  on  the  line  of  water  parting 
between  the  river  systems  there  are  compara- 
tively barren  spots,  where  the  trees  are  poor 
and  scrubby  and  the  plants  grow  in  scattered 
tufts.  There  is  nowhere  any  large  unbroken 
area  of  the  dense  tropical  forest  characteristic 
of  Western  Africa ;  but  in  the  moister  districts 
there  are  occasional  patches  of  woodland  quite 
West-African  in  character,  and  containing, 
moreover,  certain  trees,  birds,  and  mammals 
hitherto  believed  to  be  peculiar  to  that  region. 
From  this  and  other  facts  the  author  is  led  to 
surmise  that  "the  whole  of  Africa  was  once 
covered  with  more  or  less  dense  forest,  but  that 
the  climate  in  the  eastern  half  being  drier  than 
in  the  west,  the  ravages  of  the  bush  fires  started 
by  man  have  made  greater  headway  than  the 
reparatory  influence  of  nature."  The  geology 
of  the  country  seems  to  be  relatively  simple. 
The  commonest  formation  is  a  mixture  of  met- 
amorphic  rocks,  grauwacke,  clay- slates,  gneiss 
and  schists.  The  principal  mountain  ranges 
are  mostly  granite.  In  the  stream  valleys  and 
depressions,  especially  in  the  Nyasaland  prov- 
inces, is  found  the  black  "cotton"  soil  (a 
deposit  of  the  shells  of  molluscs  mixed  with 
black  vegetable  earth),  so  highly  valued  in 
India,  and  which  is  usually  extremely  rich  for 
cultivation.  In  the  sandstone  formation  of  the 
West  Shire  district  and  round  the  northern 
half  of  Nyasa,  coal  is  found  —  a  little  shaley 
on  the  surface,  but  probably  overlying  good 
combustible  coal.  As  to  gold,  to  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  adventurer  driven  by  the  auri  sacra 


fames,  British  Central  Africa  appears  to  hold 
out  (as  yet)  no  especially  glittering  bait. 

"In  the  Marimba  and  Central  Angoniland  districts, 
also  in  the  mountains  of  the  West  Nyasa  coast  region, 
and  in  parts  of  the  Shire  Highlands,  a  gold-beariug 
quartz  exists.  Alluvial  gold  is  reported  to  exist  on  the 
Northern  Angoni  plateau,  in  the  West  Nyasa  district, 
and  at  the  head-waters  of  the  River  Bua,  just  within 
the  Protectorate.  In  the  valleys  of  the  rivers  flowing 
south  to  the  Zambesi  (in  Mpezeni's  country)  gold  really 
does  exist,  and  was  worked  at  Misale  by  the  half-caste 
Portugese  in  the  last,  and  in  part  of  the  present  cent- 
ury. Although  there  are  many  reports  that  payable 
gold  has  been  found  in  the  rock,  which  only  needs  the 
requisite  machinery  to  crush  out,  at  anything  from  10 
dwts.  to  1  oz.  per  ton,  no  conclusive  evidence  has  yet 
been  offered  to  support  these  statements  by  specimens 
which  can  be  submitted  to  analysis." 

In  the  interesting  chapter  on  "  Missionaries" 
the  author  discusses  in  a  very  candid,  and,  as  he 
claims,  impartial  way  the  character  and  value 
of  missionary  work  in  Central  Africa.  Im- 
primis he  declares  that  "  No  person  who  desires 
to  make  a  truthful  statement  would  deny  the 
great  good  effected  by  missionary  enterprise  " 
in  that  country.  This  good  appears  to  him, 
as  we  gather,  to  be  mainly  of  the  secular  and 
practical  kind  —  the  essentially  religious  re- 
sults of  missionary  labor  (as  indicated  by  the 
numbers  of  real  converts  made)  being  rela- 
tively small.  Hence,  it  seems  probable  to  Sir 
Harry  that  when  the  history  of  the  great  Afri- 
can states  of  the  future  comes  to  be  written 
the  early  missionary  will  figure  therein  prim- 
arily as  the  temporal,  rather  than  the  spiritual, 
guide  of  the  natives,  and  as  the  bearer  of  use- 
ful European  arts  and  handicrafts  to  a  be- 
nighted continent.  All  of  which,  one  may 
suggest  in  passing,  will  depend  largely  upon 
the  mental  attitude  of  the  future  historian  and 
his  generation  toward  the  general  question  in- 
volved. Says  the  author : 

"  The  pioneering  propagandist  will  assume  [in  fu- 
ture history]  somewhat  of  the  character  of  a  Quetzal- 
coatl  —  one  of  those  strange  half-mythical  personal- 
ities which  figure  in  the  legends  of  old  American 
empires;  the  beneficent  being  who  introduced  arts  and 
manufactures,  implements  of  husbandry,  edible  fruits, 
medical  drugs,  cereals,  domestic  animals.  ...  It  is 
they  (the  missionaries)  too  who  in  many  cases  have  first 
taught  the  natives  carpentry,  joinery,  masonry,  tailor- 
ing, cobbling,  engineering,  bookkeeping,  printing,  and 
European  cookery ;  to  say  nothing  of  reading,  writing, 
arithmetic,  and  a  smattering  of  general  knowledge.  .  .  . 
At  the  Government  press  at  Zomba  there  is  but  one 
European  superintendent  —  all  the  other  printers  being 
mission-trained  natives.  Most  of  the  telegraph  stations 
are  entirely  worked  by  negro  telegraph  clerks  also  de- 
rived from  the  missions." 

We  are  to  conclude,  then,  that  the  verdict 
of  the  impartial  observer  of  missionary  work 


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in  Central  Africa  must  be  almost  wholly  in  its 
favor.  The  author  finds,  nevertheless,  that 
there  exists  in  some  quarters  a  bitter  prejudice 
against  the  missionaries,  and  a  tendency  to  deny 
or  to  disparage  their  services.  The  causes  of 
this  feeling,  he  concludes,  are  two  : 

"  (1)  The  Cant  which,  by  some  unaccountable  fatal- 
ity, seems  to  be  inseparably  connected  with  missionary 
work,  and  (2)  the  arrogant  demeanor  often  assumed 
by  missionaries  toward  men  who  are  not  of  their  man- 
ner of  thought  and  practice,  though  not  necessarily  men 
of  evil  life." 

Sir  Harry's  charges  as  to  "  cant  "  and  "  ar- 
rogant demeanor  "  are  doubtless  not  altogether 
ill-founded  in  a  certain  proportion  of  individual 
cases  ;  but  it  will  probably  be  objected  that 
in  thus  broadly  explaining  the  existence  of  the 
prejudice  in  question  he  takes  account  only  of 
the  ways  and  character  of  those  who  are  the 
objects  of  it,  without  at  all  troubling  himself 
to  look  into  the  ways  and  character  of  those 
who  harbor  it ;  and  that  an  explanation  thus 
grounded  is  at  best  only  half  an  explanation. 
To  fully  understand  why  the  Central  African 
missionaries  are  disliked  "  in  some  quarters," 
and  to  decide  fairly  just  how  much  or  how 
little  they  are  themselves  to  blame  for  it,  we 
must  first  know  who  it  is  that  dislikes  them. 
Certain  incidental  admissions  of  our  author's 
seem  to  throw  a  little  light  on  this  point.  He 
remarks,  apropos  of  the  alleged  "  arrogant  de- 
meanor "  of  the  missionaries,  that  the  average 
European  (lay)  pioneers  are  not  "  very  credit- 
able specimens  of  mankind. 

"  They  are  aggressively  ungodly,  they  put  no  check 
on  their  lusts;  released  from  the  restraints  of  civiliza- 
tion and  the  terror  of  '  what  people  may  say,'  they  are 
capable  of  almost  any  degree  of  wickedness." 

Such  being  the  character  of  a  large  contin- 
gent of  the  white  population  of  British  Central 
Africa,  the  prejudice  there  against  missionaries 
seems  explicable  on  other  grounds  than  those 
given  by  Sir  Harry.  The  missionary  is  not 
likely  to  be  a  universally  popular  man  in  a 
community  largely  made  up  of  "  aggressively 
ungodly  "  people,  to  whom  his  presence  is  a 
restraint  and  his  ways  are  a  rebuke  —  and  to 
whom,  moreover,  all  profession  of  piety  is 
"  cant,"  and  who  would  naturally  resent  a  decent 
attitude  of  official  aloofness  from  loose  ways 
and  loose  company  as  savoring  of  "  arrogant 
demeanor "  and  the  spiritual  conceit  of  the 
"  unco  guid."  In  point  of  fact,  there  is,  as  it 
seems  to  us,  a  fundamental  rivalry  between  the 
African  missionaries  and  the  army  of  self-seek- 
ing or  merely  nomadic  adventurers  now  stream- 
ing thither  in  the  wake  of  the  Rhodeses,  Jame- 


sons, and  Barnatos.  What  dreams  of  future 
theocratic  states  in  Africa  the  more  ambitious 
missionaries  may  not  unreasonably  have  cher- 
ished before  the  tide  of  European  invasion  set 
in,  we  do  not  know  ;  but  there  is  evidently  still 
a  clash  of  aims  and  ideals  between  the  mis- 
sionaries and  the  political  agents  who  are 
wrangling  over  and  parcelling  out  the  land  — 
and,  incidentally,  shoving  aside  or  shooting 
down  the  original  holders  of  it.  Even  the 
godly  Boer,  trusting  in  providence  and  his  rifle, 
treats  the  black  man  as  a  mere  beast  of  burden. 
In  fine,  to  the  missionary  Africa  is  primarily 
the  Lord's  vineyard  where  the  Lord's  work 
is  to  be  done ;  to  almost  everybody  else  who 
goes  out  there  it  is  a  vast  field  for  political  and 
commercial  exploitation,  where  a  good  deal  of 
even  devil's  work  may  be  done,  if  only  the  use- 
ful end  is  likely  to  be  secured  thereby.  The 
African  must,  and  should,  give  way  before  the 
"  Africander."  But  it  is  in  the  meantime 
rather  hard  for  the  missionary  to  see  his  once 
special  province  overrun  and  his  pious  toil 
among  the  heathen  threatened  with  undoing 
by  industrial  civilization's  advance  guard  of 
largely  graceless  adventurers,  who  have  little  of 
civilization  to  bestow  upon  the  black  man  save 
the  contagion  of  its  vices. 

The  volume  is  an  exceptionally  handsome 
one,  profusely  and  beautifully  illustrated  from 
drawings  by  the  author  and  from  photographs. 
Sir  Harry's  experiences  of  things  African  is 
perhaps  more  thorough  and  many-sided  than 
that  of  any  other  living  authority ;  and  the 
reader  who  is  interested  in  things  African  is 
not  likely  to  find  a  dull  or  an  uninstructive 
page  in  his  book. 


E.  G.  J. 


ART  AND  LIFE.* 


The  relation  of  literature  to  life  —  or,  one 
might  as  well  say,  of  art  to  life  —  is  a  very 
important  question.  A  question  it  has  been 
since  Aristotle,  and  a  question  it  will  remain 
until  someone  has  either  genius  enough  to 
divine  the  adequate  answer  or  scholarship 
enough  to  work  the  answer  out.  And  it  is 
important,  because  nowadays  art  is  becoming 
a  very  great  possibility  in  life,  a  possibility 
which  if  rightly  used  may  amount  to  much. 

As  the  young  American  grows  up,  one  of 

*THK  RELATION  OF  LITERATURE  TO  LIFE.  By  Charles 
Dudley  Warner.  New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

BOOK  AND  HEART  :  ESSAYS  ON  LITERATURE  AND  LIFE. 
By  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson.  New  York :  Harper  & 
Brothers. 


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the  great  circumstances  which  comes  some- 
how to  his  notice  is  infallibly  Art.  Religion, 
Learning,  Science,  Politics,  Society,  Work, 
Athletics,  each  one  of  these,  of  varying  kind 
and  in  varying  degree,  is  one  of  the  things  that 
go  to  make  up  the  surrounding  of  circumstance 
wherein  he  developes.  Each  may  help  him  to 
make  of  himself  what  he  does  make  of  himself. 
Art  of  some  kind  is  as  universal  as  these  other 
circumstances,  and  is  said  by  many  to  be  as 
useful,  if  one  can  avail  oneself  of  it.  An  enor- 
mous literature  is  at  everybody's  command  ; 
the  theatre  is  open  to  very  many  ;  music  is  only 
a  little  less  accessible,  and  in  some  forms  is 
even  more  accessible ;  pictures  are  not  so  uni- 
versal, but  still  are  not  uncommon ;  statues 
may  be  found  by  the  earnest  seeker,  and  here 
and  there  one  sees  architecture.  Nobody  can 
entirely  avoid  art,  and  nobody  tries  to  do  so. 
Everybody  has  some  dealings  with  art.  How 
many  make  it  a  thing  of  real  good  to  them  ? 
How  many  are  really  influenced  by  it? 

The  novel  is  at  present  the  most  omnipresent 
form  of  literature.  It  is  a  prevalent  opinion 
that  novel-reading  may  have  bad  results.  But 
except  in  one  direction,  few  seem  to  imagine 
that  novel-reading  may  have  good  results. 
That  one  direction  points  toward  direct  teach- 
ing conveyed  by  fiction.  Without  discussing 
the  real  value  of  novels  with  a  purpose,  we 
may  ask,  Are  there  many  novel-readers  who 
are  aware  that  they  may  be  influenced,  if  they 
choose,  by  the  novel  as  literature? 

There  are  in  our  country  numerous  literary 
clubs.  In  how  many  of  them  is  literature  re- 
garded as  a  moulding  power,  and  in  how  many 
is  it  conceived  as  a  repository  of  facts  ?  Some 
literary  clubs  make  literature  a  much  more 
interesting  and  amusing  thing  than  it  was  be- 
fore ;  some  show  that  it  will  reward  the  earnest 
student  with  a  delightful  form  of  mental  exer- 
cise ;  and  we  hope  that  there  are  some  that 
give  their  members  the  idea  that  literature 
may,  if  they  choose,  be  a  matter  of  vital  and 
eternal  service  to  them. 

Our  colleges  and  universities,  without  ex- 
ception, maintain  professors  of  literature. 
Some  of  these  professors  have  succeeded  in 
making  it  clear  that  modern  literature  contains 
as  many  matters  which  may  be  made  the  sub- 
ject of  scholarly  research  as  do  the  classics. 
Others  have  succeeded  in  arousing  in  their 
students  a  sort  of  high-pitched  idealism  which 
is  fascinating  in  college,  although  sometimes 
forgotten  when  once  out  of  it.  Is  there  more 
than  one,  most  unacademic  of  professors  that 


he  is,  whose  students  cannot  escape  from  the 
consciousness  that  literature  may  be  the  breath 
of  life  to  the  spirit? 

We  think  that  Americans  are,  as  a  people, 
practical  enough  to  make  some  use  of  litera- 
ture, if  they  see  that  it  can  be  of  use  in  the 
everyday  solutions  of  the  problems  of  living. 
We  think  that  literature  is  nothing  to  them 
because  they  have  no  idea  of  what  it  may  be. 
We  think  it  the  duty  of  our  chief  literary 
critics  to  tell  them  the  truth  on  this  subject. 

The  three  great  English  critics  of  our  gen- 
eration, Matthew  Arnold,  Walter  Pater,  John 
luiskin,  had  each  his  theory  on  this  matter, 
definite  enough  to  be  understood  without  great 
difficulty.  Even  the  critics  of  secondary  rank, 
John  Addington  Symonds,  Vernon  Lee,  Fred- 
eric Harrison,  are  continually  revolving  the 
question.  Being  men  of  letters  and  not  scien- 
tists, they  do  not  always  go  about  the  business 
in  the  most  direct  and  systematic  manner  ;  still, 
they  go  about  it  seriously  in  ways  of  their  own. 

It  is  a  fault  of  American  criticism  that  it 
has  not  as  yet  had  very  much  to  say  upon  the 
subject.  But  now  we  have  two  volumes  by  two 
of  our  best-known  essayists,  which  at  first  sight 
would  seem  to  deal  with  the  matter. 

It  may  be  hypercritical  to  remark,  first,  that 
neither  of  the  books  does  deal  very  fully  with 
the  matter.  Mr.  Warner's  volume  is  a  collec- 
tion of  essays  named  from  the  first  essay  :  the 
others  "  have  been  selected  for  their  general 
relation  to  the  theme  of  the  title  essay,  that  is 
to  say,  the  connection  between  our  literary,  edu- 
cational, and  social  progress."  Colonel  Hig- 
ginson's  collection  is  not  a  collection  of  "  Essays 
on  Literature  and  Life,"  but  of  some  essays  on 
literature  and  other  essays  on  life  or  some  as- 
pect of  it. 

"The  Relation  of  Literature  to  Life," 
although  we  have  spoken  of  it  as  a  question,  is 
really  a  very  vague  matter,  and  may  include 
almost  anything.  Literature  may  be  an  effect 
of  Life :  so  Taine  regarded  it.  It  may  also  be 
regarded  as  a  cause,  or  an  influence :  that  is 
the  view  that  we  have  spoken  of  above,  and 
that  is  the  point  Mr.  Warner  considers  in  his 
first  essay  and  elsewhere.  His  conclusion 
hardly  satisfies  us.  Literature,  he  points  out, 
is  wrongly  regarded  by  the  multitude  as  a 
thing  apart  from  life  (p.  19)  ;  it  is  really,  how- 
ever (p.  22),  a  thing  of  immense  value  to 
everyone.  So  far,  there  is  nothing  to  dispute  ; 
but  why  is  poetry,  literature,  art,  of  value  to 
everyone?  Because,  says  Mr.  Warner,  it  is 
"  not  merely  the  comfort  of  the  refined  and 


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the  delight  of  the  educated  ;  it  is  the  alleviator 
of  poverty,  the  pleasure-ground  of  the  igno- 
rant, the  bright  spot  in  the  most  dreary  pil- 
grimage "  (p.  28)  :  it  is  a  matter  "  of  present 
enjoyment "  (p.  49)  or  of  future,  its  main  ob- 
ject is  to  entertain  (p.  151),  to  lift  the  burdens 
of  life  by  taking  us  for  a  time  out  of  our  hum- 
drum and  perhaps  sordid  condition  :  it  is  the 
help  and  solace  of  the  many  (p.  117).  This 
seems  to  be  Mr.  Warner's  main  opinion :  as 
will  be  noticed,  it  is  expressed  in  several  places. 
We  regard  it  as  rather  a  commonplace  idea ; 
it  has  long  been  familiar,  and  it  does  not  in 
itself  settle  anything.  For  the  fact  is  that 
some  people  enjoy  good  literature  and  more 
enjoy  bad  literature.  What  is  really  needed  is 
something  that  will  show  why  good  literature 
is  a  better  solace  than  bad.  But  if  art  be  a 
solace  in  the  hardships  of  life,  how  can  we  be 
satisfied  to  say  that  the  value  of  any  genuine 
piece  of  literature  is  in  "  the  enlargement  of 
the  mind  to  a  conception  of  the  life  and  devel- 
opment of  the  race  "  (p.  293)  ?  Is  "  enlarge- 
ment of  the  mind "  necessarily  "  a  solace " 
amid  the  hardships  of  life  ?  Is  it  not  the  next 
step  which  is  the  step  really  worth  while  ?  Why 
not  get  at  the  real  difficulty  ?  Why  content 
oneself  with  illustrating  views  that  have  already 
been  often  illustrated  ?  We  do  not  think  that 
Mr.  Warner  solves  the  question  when  he  ad- 
vises that  a  taste  for  good  literature  be  incul- 
cated in  the  common  schools.  The  trouble  is 
that  the  youthful  mind  does  not  always  take 
naturally  to  good  literature,  and  the  average 
common-school  teacher  is  not  always  able  to 
show  that  good  literature  is  something  really  to 
be  desired.  Take  it  all  in  all,  although  we 
have  only  touched  the  central  point,  Mr.  War- 
ner does  not  do  much  toward  making  clear 
what  part  literature  must  have  in  life :  what  he 
says  has  been  said  before,  and  does  not  touch 
the  really  difficult  point. 

Colonel  Higginson  does  not  give  us  even  as 
much  help  as  Mr.  Warner,  the  reason  being,  as 
we  have  indicated,  that  he  has  not  anywhere 
made  any  effort  to  deal  with  the  subject  indi- 
cated by  the  title  of  his  book.  He  has  merely 
collected  a  number  of  his  recent  essays  and 
given  them  a  title  which  seemed  to  include 
them  all,  —  as  it  would  include  almost  every- 
thing else.  The  essays  are  rather  like  good 
mellow  winter  apples ;  and  we  have  enjoyed 
them.  We  disagree  with  Colonel  Higginson's 
apparent  view  that  literature  is  chiefly  valuable 
as  a  mine  of  unfamiliar  quotations ;  but  that  is 
a  minor  detail.  We  think  that  everybody  will 


like  to  read  the  book,  and  that  no  one  will  gain 
from  it  many  ideas  on  the  connection  between 
literature  and  life. 

It  is  a  pity,  but  neither  of  these  books  really 
addresses  itself  to  what  is  an  important  matter, 
and  a  matter  which  they  seem  to  affect  to  deal 
with.  They  bring  us  no  farther  on  the  way. 
They  will  be  read  with  interest,  and  soon  for- 
gotten ;  for  though  each  is  the  work  of  a  man 
of  great  talent,  neither  is  a  book  to  be  taken 
seriously.  Being  lightly  written,  they  will  be 
lightly  read.  EDWARD  E.  HALE,  JR. 


RECENT  POETRY.* 

A  shelf  of  somewhat  ample  dimensions,  groan- 
ing beneath  the  weight  of  recent  song,  reminds  us 
that  it  is  several  months  since  THE  DIAL  made  its 
last  survey  of  the  poetical  product  of  England  and 
America.  Of  the  numerous  volumes  that  have 

*THE  BUILDERS,  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  By  Henry  Van 
Dyke.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

FOB  THE  COUNTRY.  By  Richard  Watson  Gilder.  New 
York :  The  Century  Co. 

SELECTIONS  FROM  THE  POEMS  OF  TIMOTHY  OTIS  PAINE. 
New  York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

ODES  IN  OHIO  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  By  John  James  Piatt. 
Cincinnati :  The  Robert  Clarke  Co. 

THE  HEART  OF  LIFE.  By  James  Buckham.  Boston: 
Copeland  &  Day. 

A  VINTAGE  OF  VERSE.  By  Clarence  Urmy.  San  Fran- 
cisco :  William  Doxey. 

FUGITIVE  LINES.  By  Henry  Jerome  Stockard.  New 
York :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

WITH  THE  BAND.  By  Robert  W.  Chambers.  New  York : 
Stone  &  Kin i bull. 

AT  THE  GATES  OF  SONG.  Sonnets  by  Lloyd  Mifflin. 
Boston :  Estes  &  Lauriat. 

TRUMPETS  AND  SHAWMS.  By  Henry  Hanby  Hay.  Phila- 
delphia :  Arnold  &  Co. 

ECHOES  OF  HALCYON  DAYS.  By  Maximus  A.  Lesser. 
Hartford :  T.  J.  Spencer. 

IN  TITIAN'S  GARDEN,  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  By  Harriet 
Prescott  Spofford.  Boston :  Copeland  &  Day. 

COLONIAL  VERSES  (Mount  Vernon).  By  Ruth  Lawrence. 
New  York :  Brentano's. 

ESTABELLE,  AND  OTHER  VERSE.  By  John  Stuart  Thom- 
son.  Toronto :  William  Briggs. 

JOURNEES  D'  AVRIL.  Poe'sies  par  Rene"  de  Poyen-Bellisle, 
Ph.D.  Baltimore :  Cie  Friedenwald. 

JUBILEE  GREETING  AT  SPITHEAD  TO  THE  MEN  OF 
GREATER  BRITAIN.  By  Theodore  Watts- Dunton.  New 
York :  John  Lane. 

NEW  POEMS.  By  Francis  Thompson.  Boston :  Copeland 
&Day. 

THE  YEAR  OF  SHAME.  By  William  Watson.  New  York : 
John  Lane. 

A  SHROPSHIRE  LAD.  By  A.  E.  Housman.  New  York : 
John  Lane. 

LORD  VYET,  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  By  Arthur  Christopher 
Benson.  New  York  :  John  Lane. 

VERSES  AND  SONNETS.  By  Hilaire  Belloc.  London: 
Ward  &  Downey. 

BALLADS  OF  REVOLT.  By  J.  S.  Fletcher.  New  York : 
John  Lane. 


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since  accumulated,  many  must  be  passed  over  with- 
out mention,  but  there  remain  a  score  or  more  that 
shall  receive  some  attention.  By  virtue  of  both 
its  subject  and  its  excellence,  "The  Builders  and 
Other  Poems,"  by  the  Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  is 
entitled  to  the  first  place  in  the  American  section 
of  the  present  survey.  Mr.  Van  Dyke  can  lay  no 
claim  to  great  distinction  among  the  host  of  our 
minor  poets,  but  a  great  occasion  sometimes  lifts  a 
man  above  his  natural  height,  and  the  sesquicen- 
tennial  celebration  of  Princeton  University  proved 
such  an  occasion  for  this  sincere  and  large-souled 
divine.  The  "  Ode  "  which  he  recited  upon  that 
occasion  is  a  fine  example  of  this  academic  sort  of 
composition,  and  has  a  considerable  inherent  value. 
One  of  its  noblest  passages  is  the  following : 

"Softly,  my  harp,  and  let  me  lay  the  touch 
Of  silence  on  these  rudely  clanging  strings ; 

For  he  who  sings 
Even  of  noble  conflicts  overmuch. 
Loses  the  inward  sense  of  better  things ; 

And  he  who  makes  a  boast 

Of  knowledge,  darkens  that  which  counts  the  most, — 
The  insight  of  a  wise  humility 
That  reverently  adores  what  none  can  see. 

The  glory  of  our  life  below 
Comes  not  from  what  we  do,  or  what  we  know, 
But  dwells  forevermore  in  what  we  are. 
There  is  an  architecture  grander  far 
Than  all  the  fortresses  of  war, 
More  inextinguishably  bright 
Than  learning's  lonely  towers  of  light, 
Framing  its  walls  of  faith  and  hope  and  love 
In  deathless  souls  of  men,  it  lifts  above 
The  frailty  of  our  earthly  home 

An  everlasting  dome ; 
The  sanctuary  of  the  human  host, 
The  living  triumph  of  the  Holy  Ghost." 

The  publication  of  this  poem  has  given  the  author 
occasion  also  to  collect  some  half-hundred  pages 
of  random  verse,  obviously  written  with  no  set  pur- 
pose of  becoming  a  poet,  but  merely  as  the  expres- 
sion of  some  insistent  mood  or  striking  phase  of 
natural  beauty.  It  is  all  very  pleasing  and  in  perfect 
good  taste,  although  it  never  becomes  particularly 
impressive.  It  is  such  verse  as  almost  any  cultured 
thinker  of  sincere  life  and  high  ideals  may  pro- 
duce from  time  to  time,  and  for  which  life  is  at 
least  none  the  worse,  either  for  the  writer  or  his 
audience. 

Mr.  Gilder's  new  volume  is  entitled  "  For  the 
Country,"  and  includes  poems  (some  old  and  some 
new)  written  for  patriotic  occasions  and  in  memory 
of  our  great  soldiers.  It  "is  devoted  to  the  idea 
of  a  vital  nationality,  and  a  citizenship  as  self- 
sacrificing  and  courageous  in  peace  as  in  war." 
The  American  public  knows  well  how  unflinchingly 
Mr.  Gilder  has  stood  for  these  civic  ideals,  and  his 
verse  is  the  refined  expression  of  a  life  that  has 
been  in  the  best  sense  one  of  service.  We  some- 
times wish  that  Mr.  Gilder's  metres  were  less  un- 
tamed, and  that  he  would  not  try  so  many  experi- 
ments in  stanzaic  form,  but  he  always  has  some- 
thing to  say,  and  his  voice  is  urged  by  a  genuine 
lyrical  impulse.  That  when  far  from  home  he  is  not 


forgetful  of  his  native  land  is  evidenced  by  these 
verses  from  "  A  Winter  Twilight  in  Provence,"  a 
poem  written  at  the  beginning  of  last  year. 

"  Dear  country  mine !  far  in  that  viewless  west, 
And  ocean-warded,  strife  thou  too  hast  known  ; 
But  may  thy  sun  hereafter  bloodless  shine, 
And  may  thy  way  be  onward  without  wrath, 
And  upward  on  no  carcase  of  the  slain ; 
And  if  thou  smitest,  let  it  be  for  peace 
And  justice  — not  in  hate,  or  pride,  or  lust 
Of  empire.    Mayst  thou  ever  be,  O  land ! 
Noble  and  pure  as  thou  art  free  and  strong : 
So  shalt  thon  lift  a  light  for  all  the  world 
And  for  all  time,  and  bring  the  Age  of  Peace." 

It  is  not  difficult  to  read  between  the  lines  of  this 
poem  dated  just  at  the  time  of  the  amazing  out- 
burst of  jingoism  that  seemed  for  a  moment  to 
threaten  a  fratricidal  war  between  the  two  nations 
that,  of  all  nations  in  the  world,  have  the  deepest 
reasons  for  living  in  amity  and  in  the  common 
possession  of  a  great  historical  past. 

The  widow  of  the  late  Timothy  Otis  Paine  has 
published   a  thin   volume   of    selections   from   his 
poems  which,  by  their  unaffected  simplicity  and 
their  closeness  to  the  heart  of  nature,  at  once  dis- 
arm criticism  and  make  to  their  readers  an  appeal 
of  which  more  elaborate  verse  often  fails.     There 
is  something  very  winsome  about  this  description 
of  "The  Evening  Primrose,"  for  example. 
"The  primrose  blooms  at  eventide. 
And,  where  I  go,  the  highway  side 
It  lights  up  with  its  yellow  blow  : 
What  else  it  does  I  do  not  know,  — 
Except,  all  day,  and,  until  blowed, 
The  bud  is  gray,  with  slight  perfume, 
Till  eve  unfold  a  clean  sweet  bloom." 

That  keenness  of  observation  which,  as  the  prefa- 
tory memoir  tells  us,  "  caught  the  reflection  of  a 
violet  in  the  clear  eyes  of  a  grazing  cow,"  is  re- 
vealed in  many  a  pretty  versicle  of  this  collection. 
We  are  sometimes  reminded  of  Emily  Dickinson, 
as  in  the  two  quatrains  called  "  Good  Work." 

"  Who  praised  when  sun,  moon,  star, 
Great  earth,  and  sea  spread  far 
Were  made  ?    But  yet  what  worth 
From  laboring  sun,  sea,  earth  ! 

"  Put  work  enough  in  all 
Thon  doest,  great  or  small, 
And  let  the  ages  tell 
How  much  thou  didst,  and  well." 

Still  more  frequent  are  the  suggestions  of  Emer- 
son, with  whom  the  author  had  no  slight  spiritual 
kinship  on  the  mystical  or  "transcendental"  side. 
His  life  was  that  of  a  Swedenborgian  minister  and 
a  scholar  in  the  ancient  tongues.  The  study  of 
Solomon's  Temple  and  the  Egyptian  "  Book  of  the 
Dead"  were  to  him  more  serious  preoccupations 
than  the  phenomena  of  modern  life  could  afford, 
and  he  once  wrote  that  if  he  knew  anything,  it  was 
'  Ezekiel's  heart."  He  was  born  in  1824,  lived  his 
adult  life  as  a  pastor  in  East  Bridgewater,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  died  a  year  or  two  ago. 

Mr.  John  James  Piatt's  volume  of  verse,  mostly 
occasional,  has  for  its  leading  features  two  odes, 


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one  for  the  Cleveland  Centennial,  the  other  for  the 
dedication  of  the  Cincinnati  Music  Hall.  We  make 
an  extract  from  the  latter  : 

"  Look,  what  high  guests  attend  our  happy  rite, 
With  earth-woven  wreaths  but  sphere-enchanted  faces,  — 
The  Masters  of  Delight !  — 

First  he,  of  the  elder  days, 

Whom  the  great  organ  owns 

With  its  vast-bosomed,  earth  shaking,  heaven-reaching  tones 
(Let  the  proud  servant  throb  his  loftiest  praise !). 
Next  he,  who  built  the  mighty  symphonies, 
One  for  each  muse,  who,  chaunting  joy  and  peace, 
Thrills  us  with  awe  and  yearning  infinite, 
Picturing  divine  repose,  love's  world- embracing  height ! 

Then  he,  whose  noblest  strain 
Brings  Orpheus  back  to  quicken  earth  again, 
To  conquer  darkness  and  the  dread  under-powers, 
Charming  lost  love  from  the  deep  doors  of  hell, 
And  lo,  the  choral  master,  highest  in  fame 
( A  thousand  voices  lift  to  greet  him  well), 
Who  breathes  sure  faith  through  these  frail  hearts  of  ours ! 

And  many  another  well- beloved  name, 

Ay,  many  another,  comes  with  these, 

Star-like,  with  spheral  harmonies :  — 
Welcome  each  and  all, 
To  our  festal  Hall, 

Long  be  its  music- lifted  dome 
For  their  abiding  souls  the  transient  home." 

Mr.  Buckham's  "  The  Heart  of  Life  "  is  a  volume 
of  the  tasteful  "  Oaten  Stops  "  series.  It  is  a  collec- 
tion of  simple  lyrics  of  nature,  and  of  the  everyday 
moods  of  life,  pretty  and  facile,  but  not  striking. 
The  following  is  a  favorable  example : 

"  Out  of  the  bosom  of  God  comes  the  day, — 
Flood  of  the  tenderness  nothing  can  stay  ; 
Love  that  up-springing  sets  the  world  singing, 
Steeples  a- shine  and  the  silver  bells  ringing. 
Infinite  motion  of  infinite  ocean, 
Light  but  the  symbol  that  broadens  for  aye, 
Out  of  the  bosom  of  God  comes  the  day." 

The  above  remarks  may  be  repeated  in  the  case 

of  Mr.  Urmy's  "  Vintage  of  Verse,"  except  that  his 

nature-lyrics  are  given  the  local  coloring  of  the 

Pacific  coast.    One  stanza  will  do  as  well  as  a  score. 

"  The  sun  has  set,  and  evening  skies 

Begin,  like  rosebuds,  to  unfold, 
While  on  the  distant  mountain-tops 

Still  linger  faint,  stray  gleams  of  gold, 
Like  kisses  pressed  by  angel  lips 
Or  touches  of  God's  finger-tips." 

There  is  no  offense  in  such  verse,  and  likewise  no 
strength.  It  is  merely  the  echo  of  a  great  voice 
reflected  a  hundred  times  or  more. 

There  is  some  measure  of  strength,  albeit  fitfully 
displayed,  and  some  command  of  the  deeper  harmo- 
nies of  rythmical  utterance  in  the  poems  modestly 
entitled  "  Fugitive  Lines,"  by  Mr.  Henry  Jerome 
Stockard.  The  finer  qualities  of  his  verse  are  dis- 
played in  the  sonnets,  as  well  as  in  such  a  lyric  as 
"  Fallida  Mors,"  from  which  we  quote  a  stanza. 

"  For  thon  dost  come  a  friend, 

Or  if  thou  shudder  in  with  cerements  stoled, 
Or  sweep  swart  as  a  Memphian  King,  or  bend 

An  angel  fair  as  Titian  e'er  did  feign, — 
For  thou  dost  come  a  friend,  since  thou  wilt  hold 

Nepenthe  for  life's  pain 
Unto  my  lips,  and  round  me  fold, 

Like  some  rich  garment,  peace  that  shall  not  end, 
While  days  and  months  and  years  be  onward  rolled." 


Mr.  Robert  W.  Chambers  has  written  some  rol- 
licking songs  "  With  the  Band,"  so  suggestive  of 
Mr.  Kipling's  barrack-room  echoes  that  the  reader 
did  not  need  to  be  reminded  of  the  source  of  inspi- 
ration by  a  piece  directly  inscribed  to  the  English 
poet.  Since  this  piece  is  one  of  the  best  in  the 
volume,  we  must  quote  from  it. 

"  May  that  blessed  day  come  early, 

Tommy  A., 

When  the  British  nation  learns 
That  it's  silly  to  be  surly. 
Not  a  Boy  in  Blue  but  yearns, 

Tommy  A., 

Tommy  A., 

For  the  good  old  family  fashion,  — 
Arm  in  arm,  for  all  in  age ; 
And  if  others  want  a  thrashin', 
Why  we  'd  never  say  'em  nay  ;  — 
With  our  helmets  on  our  head, 
An'  our  tunics,  blue  or  red, 
An'  our  jolly  bugles  playin' 
All  the  way  from  New  York  bay  to  Bombay !  — 

So  — 
Go  it !  you  are  game. 

Tommy  A., 

Tommy  A., 
For  our  pride  is  in  your  fame, 

Tommy  A. 

Half  a  million  Boys  in  Blue 
Drink  a  health,  my  lad,  to  you, 
An'  they  '11  cheer  you  from  Bombay  to  Mandelay, 

Tommy  A. 

Half  a  million  Boys  in  Bine 
Stand  to  back  you  through  and  through, 
An'  perhaps  they  '11  prove  it  too, 
If  there  ever  comes  a  day 

When  a  brother  needs  a  brother  for  to  help  him  on  his  way, 
Anywhere  betwixt  Berlin  an'  Mandelay, 

Tommy  A." 

Other  pieces  are  more  suggestive  of  Mr.  Bret  Harte 
(from  whom  Mr.  Kipling  himself  really  derives), 
and  the  famous  ballad  of  the  "  Heathen  Chinee  "  is 
provided  with  a  not  unworthy  counterpart  in  the  tale 
of  "  A  Man  from  Noo  York,"  who  was  about  as 
guileless  as  Ah  Sin. 
"  Sa-ay, 

He  said  that  he  did  n't  know  poker, 
An'  he  swore  that  he  did  n't  drink  rum ; 
Which,  stranger,  I  '11  state  I'm  no  soaker,— 
Leastways,  I  'in  no  all-around-bum. 
An'  he  said  that  he  did  n't  like  ladies, 
Yet  I  seen  him  smile  twice  at  my  Anne ; 
He  was  young  —  so  he  said  —  and  afraid  his 
Simplicity  shocked  me  !  —  Oh,  damn  1 
An'  he  feared  some  nefarious  man 
Might  play  him  a  game  of  flim-flam, 
If  be  pushed  the  door, 
An'  walked  on  the  floor, 
Where  the  wicked  men  rush  the  can." 

The  rest  of  this  moving  tale  may  easily  be  imagined. 
We  should  like  to  quote  from  u  The  Texas  Rangers," 
which  is  in  the  same  vein,  but  space  forbids.  "  The 
Visit  to  West  Point "  gives  a  barrack-room  view  of 
the  meddlesome  legislator  much  like  the  inside  views 
of  Parliamentary  commissions  which  Mr.  Kipling 
has  given  us  with  such  telling  effect.  A  second  sec- 
tion of  this  volume  is  more  serious,  and  has  touches 
of  an  art  not  unlike  Mr.  Dobson's.  Its  prevailing 
note,  however,  is  less  restrained,  being  well  illus- 
trated by  the  stanzas  entitled  "The  Worm  Turns." 


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"While  I  'ra  tugging  my  mustache, 
Leaning  on  the  window-sash, 
In  the  garden,  you,  below, 
Decked  in  ribbon,  lace,  and  bow, 
Promenade,  —  six  men  in  tow. 

"  Men  who  hang  upon  your  lips, 
Bend  above  your  finger-tips ; 
Each  his  humble  tribute  pays, 
Litts  to  you  his  ardent  gaze, 
Turning  your  small  head  with  praise. 

"  You  are  pleased  to  treat  with  scorn 
Men,  as  though  beneath  you  born. 
You  believe  it  when  we  say : 

'  Man  is  born  but  to  obey ! 
You  are  made  of  finer  clay.' 

"  '  Man  is  built  from  common  dirt, 
Scarcely  fit  to  touch  your  skirt ! 
Woman  is  his  better  half, 
Better  angel !  —  queen  !  —  his  staff ! '  — 
Pray  excuse  me  while  I  laugh. 

"If  we  call  you  'angel,'  'queen,' 
Take  it  simply  that  we  mean 
WE  are  KINGS !    Oh,  do  n't  yon  know, 
You  're  not  really  angels  though, 
Till  Saint  Peter  tells  you  so?  " 

"At  the  Gates  of  Song,"  by  Mr.  Lloyd  Mifflin, 
is  a  collection  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  sonnets, 
selected,  so  the  author  tells  us,  from  about  twice 
that  number.  Mr.  Mifflin  is  evidently  a  facile  ver- 
sifier, for  the  present  volume  is  accompanied  by  a 
notice  of  three  other  books  of  poems  "  now  in  course 
of  publication."  Although  these  sonnets  bear  a 
modest  title,  it  is  evident  that  their  author  takes 
himself  very  seriously.  He  presents  the  public  with 
his  portrait  as  well  as  his  poems,  and,  after  remark- 
ing upon  the  difficulties  of  the  sonnet-form,  adds 
that  "  he  is  proud  in  the  consciousness  that  if  he  has 
added  nothing  to  the  lustre  of  that  narrow  and 
intricate  domain  of  literature,  at  least  he  has  not 
tarnished  it  with  anything  indecorous  and  unseemly." 
Both  of  the  foregoing  claims  may  well  enough  be 
allowed,  for  the  sonnets  (except  for  an  occasional 
liberty  taken  of  set  purpose  with  the  structure)  are 
conspicuously  correct  in  form,  well-balanced,  smooth- 
sounding,  and  each  the  expression  of  a  definite 
thought.  But  with  all  this  technical  correctness, 
they  are  somehow  lacking  in  the  power  to  thrill  or 
even  deeply  to  stir  the  reader.  A  good  typical  ex- 
ample is  "  Build  Thou  Thy  Temples." 
"  Reward  lies  in  the  work,  not  in  the  eye 

Nor  voice  of  critic.     Whether  in  the  mart, 
Or  on  the  Heliconian  hills  apart. 
Toil  at  thy  temples  builded  in  the  sky. 
Dreams  are,  in  sooth,  the  only  verity. 
The  world  with  scorn  may  lacerate  thy  heart  — 
Insult  with  praise  too  late.  .  .  .  Delve  at  thine  Art : 
Beauty  shall  never  unremembered  die. 
"The  sculptor,  unillustrious  and  alone, 
Pent  in  the  still  seclusion  of  his  room, 
Carves,  through  the  vexed  vicissitude  of  years, 
Some  marvel  in  Carrara,  but  the  stone 

Men  heed  not  till  it  stand  above  his  tomb  — 
The  cold  commemoration  of  his  tears." 

One  may  find  no  fault  with  such  work  as  this.  It 
is  truly  noble  in  sentiment,  and  excellently  put. 
Only  —  and  this  is  the  feeling  with  which  we  have 
read  Mr.  Mifllin's  work  throughout  —  it  lacks  the 


imaginative  vision  ;  its  ideas  have  long  been  stereo- 
typed ;  and  its  phrasing  rarely  escapes  from  the 
conventional  mould. 

Mr.  Henry  Hanby  Hay,  whose  "  Created  Gold," 
published  some  time  ago,  we  were  able  to  greet  with 
a  qualified  kind  of  praise,  now  approaches  the 
public  with  a  new  volume, "  Trumpets  and  Shawms." 
Trumpets  we  know,  but  we  are  a  little  uncertain 
about  shawms.  The  author  calls  them  "  dulcet," 
and  compares  them  with  gentle  bells  and  tinkling 
rills.  We  have  not  found  much  that  is  dulcet  in 
the  volume,  but  the  blaring  quality  is  very  evident. 
Mr.  Hay  is  a  Manxman,  it  seems,  and  has  persuaded 
that  other  Manxman,  Mr.  Hall  Caine,  to  write  an 
introduction  for  the  volume.  We  are  told  that  the 
poet  "  has  given  us  the  very  color  and  scent  of  our 
lovely  and  beloved  little  island."  A  judgment 
passed  by  so  competent  an  authority  must  be  allowed, 
although  the  Manx  influence  is  less  noticeable  than 
the  influence  of  the  man  Robert  Browning,  who  has 
evidently  been  Mr.  Hay's  model.  Sometimes  he 
succeeds  in  giving  us  a  very  fair  imitation  of  the 
sort  of  dramatic  idyl  or  monologue  that  Browning 
produced  so  readily.  "The  Court  Awards  It," 
being  Shylock's  soliloquy  the  day  after  the  trial,  is 
a  case  in  point. 

"Oh,  dog!  the  opportunity  was  thine 
To  face  the  crowd,  which,  though  it  hated,  feared ; 
And  take  the  guilty  flesh  with  even  hand, 
And  show  their  justice  what  their  justice  is ! 
Wail  not  for  that,  but  rather  tell  thyself 
The  cavilling  court  had  birthed  one  cavil  more, 
A  hundred  hands  had  plucked  away  thy  steel ; 
Thou  might'st  not.    Never  Jew  found  Christian  just. 
Oh,  had  I  dared  to  dash  the  court  aside. 
Under  the  fifth  rib  strike,  and  end  it  all ! 
And  do  as  they  do, —  say  the  man  was  cursed, 
And  then  proceed  to  execute  the  curse." 

Mr.  Hay's  qualities,  and  their  defects,  may  be  well 
illustrated  by  the  closing  lines  of  "  A  Vestal."  The 
climax  of  the  gladiatorial  combat  has  been  reached, 
and, 

"  Dread  stillness  the  horror  entrances, 
All  pause  for  the  signal  of  death, 
While  a  Vestal,  with  dead,  pallid  glances 

Looks  down  and  indraws  her  calm  breath : 
Death  broods  o'er  the  ebony  ocean, 

Men  gazing  and  fearing,  but  dumb ; 
Till  the  Vestal,  sans  warmth  or  emotion, 

Points  down  to  the  earth  with  her  thumb. 
All  are  gone  (and  the  carcass  is  somewhere), 

The  Csesar  to  revel  and  shame, 
While  the  Virgin,  slow  pallid  and  dumb  fair, 
Preserves  the  perpetual  flame." 

Mr.  Lessor's  "  Echoes  of  Halcyon  Days,"  we 
learn,  date  from  ten  or  more  years  ago,  when  the 
author,  too,  dwelt  in  Arcadia.  Their  belated  pub- 
lication is  influenced  "  partly  by  the  promptings  of 
perhaps  over-zealous  friends,  partly  by  the  author's 
parental  desire  to  congregate  the  mental  offspring 
of  a  period  antedating  his  embarkation  on  the 
'  bubble,  toil,  and  trouble  '  of  a  professional  career." 
That  career,  he  takes  pains  to  inform  us,  has  borne 
"  literary  fruit  in  the  form  of  a  treatise  on  '  The 
Historical  Development  of  the  Jury  System.'  "  We 


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do  not  know  that  treatise,  but  we  trust  that  it  is 
lucid  and  worthy  of  its  high  theme.  The  "  Echoes," 
however,  have  been  wafted  to  our  ears,  and  the 
author's  confession  of  "  long  addiction  to  the  philos- 
ophy of  stoicism  "  emboldens  us  to  say  that  they 
are  not  remarkable.  We  quote  from  the  touching 
and  tragic  tale  of  "  Lucian  and  Lydia." 

"  As  his  blood  was  ebbing  fast  and  faster, 

Lucian  oped  his  glazing:  eyes  once  more, 
Turned  a  mute  curse  on  the  cruel  master 

Angels  to  the  seat  of  judgment  bore :  — 
Then  one  long  look  on  his  loving  maiden  — 

Of  eternal  hope  that  one  look  said : 
And  his  soul,  of  earthly  woes  unladen, 

From  his  mangled  body  upward  fled." 

If  any  more  "  echoes  of  halcyon  days  "  yet  linger 
in  Mr.  Lessor's  memory,  we  trust  that  he  will  sup- 
press them.  The  law  is  an  excellent  profession, 
and,  without  knowing  anything  of  Mr.  Lessor's 
professional  career,  we  have  no  hesitation  in  saying 
that  his  chances  of  shining  as  a  legal  luminary  are 
considerably  greater  than  his  chances  of  success  in 
wooing  the  fickle  muse. 

We  get  back  into  the  domain  of  true  poetry  when 
we  turn  to  the  exquisite  volume  which  bears  the 
honored  name  of  Mrs.  Harriet  Prescott  Spofford. 
Here  is  imagination  and  to  spare;  here  also  are 
chastened  thought  and  melodious  utterance.  We 
should  like  to  quote  at  length  from  the  varied  con- 
tents of  this  collection,  but  must  remain  content 
with  a  single  sonnet. 

"  When  in  the  dark  of  some  despairing  dream 
Sorrow  has  all  her  will  with  me,  and  ease 
Is  full  forgotten,  through  her  dear  degrees 
Steals  Music,  beckoning  with  a  hand  supreme 
For  me  to  follow.    Straight  I  see  the  gleam 
Where  the  winds  dip  them  in  the  far  bright  seas 
That  roll  and  break  about  the  Hebrides, 
See  white  wings  flash  and  hear  the  sea-birds  scream. 

"  Or  it  may  be  in  palace  gardens  falls 

The  moonlight  on  white  roses,  where  the  swell 
Of  one  great  lover's  heart  in  passion  calls 

To  deeps  in  other  hearts.    And,  listening,  well 
I  know,  while  sink  my  slow  dissolving  walls, 
So  Music  lured  Eurydice  from  hell." 

This  poem  is  peculiarly  typical  of  Mrs.  Spofford's 
work,  because  it  is  one  of  several  that  show  her  to 
be  no  stranger  to  the  message  that  music  bears  to 
the  soul.  Her  apprehension  of  the  divinest  of  the 
arts  is  something  deeper  than  the  merely  conven- 
tional appreciation  of  most  poets.  They  use  musical 
terminology  as  a  rhetorical  adornment  merely ;  the 
present  writer  seeks  to  give  it  a  real  verbal  inter- 
pretation. 

Miss  Ruth  Lawrence's  sheaf  of  "  Colonial 
Verses  "  consists  of  short  poems  written  to  accom- 
pany a  series  of  photographs  taken  at  Mount  Ver- 
non.  The  verses  are  correct  and  pretty,  embodying 
a  graceful  sentiment,  but  in  no  way  remarkable. 
"  Beneath  the  Trees  "  is  a  good  example. 

"  Beneath  the  trees  at  even-glow 
I  wander,  meditative,  slow, 
Where  courtiers  brave  with  gold  and  lace 
Befitting  well  the  stately  place, 
Once  gayly  sauntered  to  and  fro. 


"  On  velvet  turf  by  green  hedge-row 
I  picture  statesman,  scholar,  beau, 
And  dainty  damsel  fair  of  face, 
Beneath  the  trees. 

' '  The  rays  upon  the  dial  show 
How  swift  the  deepening  shadows  grow. 
The  noble  fathers  of  our  race 
Are  gone,  with  all  their  wit  and  grace, 
They  laid  their  ashes  long  ago 
Beneath  the  trees." 

In  Mr.  John  Stuart  Thomson,  we  must  welcome 
a  worthy  accession  to  the  growing  choir  of  Cana- 
dian singers.    His  "  Estabelle  and  Other  Verse  "  is 
a  noteworthy  production,  and  gives  him   an  un- 
doubted right  to  a  place  in  the  group  of  poets  headed 
by  Professor  Roberts,  Mr.   Lampmann,  and   Mr. 
W.  W.  Campbell.  Our  extract  may  be  no  more  than 
a  single  stanza  —  the  closing  one  — from  the  long 
and  beautiful  *'  Ode  Written  in  Autumn." 
"  Strange  suns  begin  to  light  the  shorter  days ; 
The  Indian  summer  and  the  harvest  moon 
Give  way  before  the  banks  of  purple  haze ; 

Cicadas  pipe  at  eve  their  shrilly  tune, 
Bucolics  of  the  melancholy  time ;  — 

The  mower  now  surveys  the  low-laid  grain, 
And  picks  a  last  belated  berry  red  ; 

The  corn-ricks'  shadows  lengthen  on  the  plain ; 
Soft  on  the  breeze  I  hear  a  distant  chime 
Tolling  a  requiem  for  th'  untimely  dead." 

It  is  remarkable  how  close  to  the  heart  of  nature 
these  young  Canadian  poets  contrive  to  keep. 
They  have  the  faculty  of  observation  —  minute, 
accurate,  and  at  the  same  time  sympathetic  — in  a 
degree  quite  extraordinary  even  to-day,  and  almost 
unknown  in  English  poetry  before  Tennyson  opened 
our  eyes.  Mr.  Thomson's  poems  are  nearly  all  lyrics 
of  nature,  and  many  of  them  strike  a  note  of  pure 
and  singular  beauty. 

By  way  of  interlude  between  the  American  and 
the  English  section  of  this  survey,  we  may  at  this 
point  say  a  word  about  a  modest  booklet  of  French 
verse,  written  by  M.  Rene*  de  Poyen-Bellisle,  of  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and  entitled  "Journe'es 
d'  Avril. '  „  Je  n,^cris  plua  de  vergi>» 
says  the  author, 

"  Ce  sont  mes  peche's  de  jeunesse, 
Que  pour  rechauffer  mes  hivers 
En  vieux  grandpere  je  caresse." 

We  take  the  liberty  of  doubting  the  exact  truth  of 
this  observation,  and  hope  to  read  many  more 
verses  by  M.  de  Poyen-Bellisle  before  he  reaches 
grandfatherly  years.  There  are  some  charming 
things  in  the  present  collection,  cameos  in  the  man- 
ner of  Gautier,  musings  in  the  manner  of  Musset, 
and  sonnets  of  skilful  construction.  One  of  the 
shorter  pieces  is  this  "  Enigme." 

"  II  avait  dpuise"  tout  le  possible  humain ; 

Les  Empires  s'e'taient  e'branle's  sons  sa  main, 

L' Art  s'dtait  enrichi  de  ses  efforts  utiles ; 

Gi  See  a  lui  les  deserts  4taient  beaux  et  fertiles ; 

Mais  il  restait  toujonrs  petit  et  me'content ; 

Et  sans  pouvoir  trouver,  cherchait ;  sombre,  haletant ! 

Puis  Un  jour  il  comprit !  et  courbant  bas  la  tSte, 

Joyeux  il  murmura :  '  Ta  volonte"  soit  faite ' !  " 

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the  really  remarkable  translation  of  Shakespeare's 
"  When  in  disgrace  with  fortune  and  men's  eyes." 
The  closing  verses  are  as  follows  : 

"Soudain  je  pense  a  toi ;  tout  rit  dans  ma  pense°e 
Et  coimne  1'alouette  au  ciel  bleu  s'^langant 
Chante  un  hyrune  d'amour  avec  le  jour  naissant ; 
J'ai  bientot  oublie  ma  misere  passe*e, 
C'est  que,  je  t'ainie  tant,  que  quand  je  pense  a  toi 
Je  ne  changerai  pas  mon  sort  avec  un  roi !  " 

Of  all  the  verse  evoked  by  the  jubilee  of  Queen 
Victoria,  Mr.  Kipling's ''  Recessional "  has  made  the 
deepest  impression,  and  best  deserves  to  be  long 
remembered.  Probably  next  in  importance  to  that 
noble  poem  is  the  "  Jubilee  Greeting  at  Spithead  to 
the  Men  of  Greater  Britain,"  written  by  Mr.  Theo- 
dore Watts-Dunton.  This  work,  albeit  only  a  thin 
pamphlet,  is  also  noteworthy  as  being  the  first  pub- 
lication of  its  author  in  anything  that  may  be  called 
book  form.  The  foremost  of  living  English  critics, 
and  one  of  the  most  notable  of  living  English  poets, 
Mr.  Watts-Dunton  has  thus  far  been  content  with 
the  suffrages  of  the  few  who  have  found  him  out, 
who  have  learned  to  detect  his  personality  in  un- 
signed pages  of  "The  Athenaeum,"  or  who  have 
treasured  up  in  scrap-book  his  furtively-appearing 
sonnets.  A  volume  of  his  "  Poems  "  has  now  been 
promised  us  for  more  than  two  years  past,  but  we 
shall  not  believe  in  it  until  it  actually  lies  upon  our 
table.  The  "  Jubilee  Greeting  "  now  published  is  a 
poem  in  twenty-two  stanzas,  one  of  which  we  have 
selected,  not  without  difficulty,  as  representative  of 
the  whole. 

"  They  fought  with  England  long  ago  ; 
They  strove  with  her  whose  gate  the  billows  keep ; 

On  Channel  chalk  they  sleep  below  — 
In  caverns  of  the  great  North  Sea  they  sleep. 

'  Thus  soldier,  priest,  and  mariner,' 
He  said, —  our  guardian  angel  said, — 'shall  perish ; 
My  deeps  have  still  a  sepulchre 
For  all  whom  envy  or  hate  shall  stir 
To  strike  across  them  —  strike  at  England,  her 
The  billows  cherish.'  " 

The  grave  austere  note  of  the  above  excerpt  char- 
acterizes this  fine  poem  throughout.  The  work  is 
fittingly  dedicated  "  to  our  great  contemporary 
writer  of  patriotic  poetry,  Algernon  Charles  Swin- 
burne." 

Mr.  Francis  Thompson's  volume  of  "  New  Poems  " 
is,  like  its  two  predecessors,  a  very  Klondike  for 
the  gold-hunters  of  song,  and  its  treasures  are  almost 
as  difficult  of  access.  The  public  is  fairly  well 
informed  by  this  time  of  Mr.  Thompson's  distressing 
mannerisms,  verbal  perversities,  and  wanton  obscu- 
rities of  thought.  It  knows  also  that  whoever  is 
prepared  to  brave  hardships  in  the  quest  of  beauty 
may  often  find  it,  imbedded  nugget-like  in  the  rough 
matrix  of  Mr.  Thompson's  verse.  Here,  for  exam- 
ple, is  treasure-trove  such  as  shall  reward  the  dili- 
gent seeker. 

"  Happiness  is  the  shadow  of  things  past, 
Which  fools  still  take  for  that  which  is  to  be  I 
And  not  all  foolishly : 
For  all  the  past,  read  true,  is  prophecy, 
And  all  the  firsts  are  hauntings  of  some  Last, 


And  all  the  springs  are  flash-lights  of  one  Spring. 

Then  leaf,  and  flower,  and  falless  fruit 

Shall  hang  together  on  the  unyellowing  bough  ; 

And  silence  shall  be  Music  mute 

For  her  surcharged  heart." 

But  to  reach  this  passage  he  must  make  his  way 
through  a  "  discinct  nature,"  and  over  "  coerule 
pampas  of  the  heavens,"  where  "  reel  the  swift 
spheres  intemperably,"  besides  witnessing  many 
other  strange  sights  and  sounds. 

Mr.  Watson's  "  The  Year  of  Shame  "  has  been 
on  our  shelves  so  long  that  it  has  lost  something  of 
its  timeliness.  It  consists  mainly  of  sonnets  on  the 
Armenian  question,  including  those  previously  pub- 
lished in  "  The  Purple  East."  The  Bishop  of  Here- 
ford contributes  an  introduction,  in  which  he  assures 
us  that  "  it  is  the  spirit  of  Isaiah  that  is  represented 
in  this  book  of  poems."  This  is  flattering  to  Mr. 
Watson,  if  not  to  the  prophet.  But  the  poet  has  suf- 
fered before  this  from  the  praises  of  his  injudicious 
admirers.  There  is  real  fire  in  his  work,  although 
it  blazes  up  with  too  furious  a  rhetoric  to  produce 
the  deepest  impression.  For  example,  he  calls  the 
Sultan  "  Abdul  the  Damned."  Most  poets  would 
have  let  it  go  at  that,  but  Mr.  Watson's  wrath  is 
unsatisfied,  and  he  continues : 

"  In  a  world  where  cruel  deeds  abound, 
The  merely  damned  are  legion  :  with  such  souls 
Is  not  each  hollow  and  cranny  of  Tophet  crammed  ? 
Thou  with  the  brightest  of  hell's  aureoles 
Dost  shine  supreme,  incomparably  crowned, 
Immortally,  beyond  all  mortals,  damned." 

This  is  the  mere  impotence  of  wrath.  Compare 
these  "  Dirffl "  with  those  of  Mr.  Swinburne,  for 
example,  and  one  gets  the  difference  between  froth 
and  freshet,  between  fire  and  flame.  "  So  soon  is 
dead  indifference  come?"  asks  Mr.  Watson.  Yes, 
and  with  indifference  to  the  theme  of  his  out- 
pourings a  greatly  abated  interest  in  the  sonnets 
themselves.  Vehemence  is  one  thing,  and  deep- 
seated  indignation  another.  Mr.  Watson  may  have 
had  the  latter,  but  he  has  put  only  the  former  into 
his  verse.  He  has  written  neither  Swinburnian 
"  Dirse  "  nor  "  Chatiments  "  after  the  manner  of 
Hugo,  but  merely  a  set  of  turgid  and  overwrought 
sonnets.  We  should  not  speak  so  severely  were 
Mr.  Watson  a  poet  of  less  pretensions,  but  he  has 
been  so  clamorously  belauded  that  it  becomes  the 
evident  duty  of  criticism  to  speak  the  exact  truth 
about  his  work.  He  must  be  measured  by  higher 
standards  than  those  usually  set  for  minor  poets, 
since  comparison  with  the  greatest  has  been  chal- 
lenged, if  not  by  him,  at  least  for  him  by  his  friends 
and  admirers. 

"  A  Shropshire  Lad,"  by  Mr.  A.  E.  Housman,  is 
a  collection  of  short  poems,  extremely  simple  in 
diction,  which  strike  a  thin  but  pure  lyric  note. 
Here  is  one  of  them  : 

"  From  far,  from  eve  and  morning 

And  yon  twelve-winded  sky, 
The  stuif  of  life  to  knit  me 
Blew  hither :  here  am  I. 


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"  Now  —  for  a  breath  I  tarry 

Nor  yet  disperse  apart. 
Take  my  hand  quick  and  tell  me, 

What  have  you  in  your  heart. 
"Speak  now,  and  I  will  answer ; 

How  shall  I  help  you,  say  ; 
Ere  to  the  wind's  twelve  quarters 
I  take  my  endless  way." 

Almost  equally  simple,  but  now  more  animated, 
now  informed  with  a  deeper  passion,  are  the  poems 
contained  in  Mr.  A.  C.  Benson's  new  volume.  Here 
the  author  shall  be  his  own  critic,  and  a  part  of  his 
"  Envoi "  at  once  illustrate  and  describe  his  verse. 
"  I  cannot  sing:  as  sings  the  nightingale 

Frenzied  with  rapture,  big  with  rich  delight, 
Till  lovers  lean  together,  passion-pale, 

And  chide  the  awestruck  silence  of  the  night. 
"I  cannot  sing  as  sings  the  brooding  dove, 

At  windless  noon,  in  her  high  towers  of  green, 
A  song  of  deep  content,  untroubled  love, 

With  many  a  meditative  pause  between. 
"  But  I  can  sing  as  sings  the  prudent  bee, 

As  hour  by  patient  hour  he  goes  and  comes, 
Bearing  the  golden  dust  from  tree  to  tree, 
Labours  in  hope,  and  as  he  labours,  hums." 

Mr.  Benson's  poetry  is  very  genuine,  and  impresses 
the  reader  with  its  sincerity  and  artistic  restraint. 

Mr.  Hilaire  Belloc's  "  Verses  and  Sonnets  "  are 
by  turns  quaint,  musical,  and  passionate.  The  son- 
nets exhibit  his  best  work,  although  some  of  them 
take  great  liberties  with  the  form.  We  quote  the 
sestet  from  "  The  Poor  of  London,"  an  invocation 
to  the  justice  of  God. 

"  The  Poor  of  Jesus  Christ  whom  no  man  hears 

Have  called  upon  your  vengeance  much  too  long. 

Wipe  out  not  tears  but  blood  —  our  eyes  bleed  tears : 
Come,  smite  our  damned  sophistries  so  strong, 

That  thy  rude  hammer  battering  this  rude  wrong 
Ring  down  the  abyss  of  twice  ten  thousand  years." 

Mr.  J.  S.  Fletcher's  "  Ballads  of  Revolt  "  are  six 
in  number,  and  make  up  a  very  small  book  indeed. 
They  mark  with  deep  irony  the  contrast  between 
what  life  really  is  and  what  the  idealist  would  have 
it   to  be,  between   the   mechanical  observance  of 
religion    and   its  innermost  spirit.     Perhaps   the 
most  impressive  of  the  ballads  is  "  The  Scapegoat," 
which  has  for  its  theme  the  life  of  Christ. 
"  Then  woke  the  world  with  sudden  stir, 
(Whence  came  this  power  our  hearts  to  draw  ? 
Call  ye  this  man  a  carpenter  ? 
He  is  a  God ! )  they  cried  in  awe. 
"  Ah  me,  it  was  no  god  they  hailed, 
No  arbiter  of  life  and  death, 
But  a  poor  man  who  dared  and  failed, 
A  carpenter  of  Nazareth. 
"  Failed  ?    Aye,  for  still  the  nations  bend 
To  their  false  gods  a  servile  knee, 
And  still  the  scapegoat  finds  his  end 
On  the  dark  heights  of  Calvary. 
"  But  here  and  there  upon  the  sun 
Some  man  still  fixes  dauntless  eyes, 
And  says  '  Amen !    It  is  begun ; 
Let  the  new  life  in  me  arise ! '  " 

The  similarity  of  this  work  to  that  of  Mr.  John 
Davidson  is  obvious,  and  it  may  be  said  that  Mr. 
Fletcher  does  not  suffer  in  the  comparison. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

An  Englishman's  We  nave  ™*>&  Mr.  G.  W.  Steevens's 
instructive  studies  little  book  entitled  "  The  Land  of 
the  Dollar"  (Dodd)  with  pleasure 
and,  we  trust,  some  profit.  The  author  is  a  wide- 
awake, open-minded  Englishman  who  visited  our 
shores  during  the  progress  of  the  recent  president- 
ial campaign,  and  his  book  is  a  reprint  of  letters 
written  by  him  while  on  the  wing  through  the 
States,  to  the  London  "  Daily  Mail."  The  mental 
attitude  of  the  average  English  traveller  to  America 
is  one  of  amused  curiosity.  He  comes  to  America 
predisposed  first  of  all  to  laugh ;  and  he  usually 
laughs  his  fill — at  least  so  long  as  he  remains  on 
this  side  of  the  line  that  divides  us  from  Canada. 
Mr.  Steevens  brought  to  our  shores  an  abundant 
stock  of  curiosity,  and  a  sense  of  humor  by  no  means 
deficient.  But  as  a  traveller  he  is  not  primarily 
the  man  who  laughs.  His  liking  for  "  Max  0  'Rell " 
is  evident ;  but  he  can  hardly  be  said  to  have  taken 
the  Frenchman  as  his  model.  He  came  to  this 
country  chiefly  to  study  us  at  close  range  during 
the  bustle  of  an  exciting  political  campaign.  To 
this  end  he  attended  conventions,  large  and  small, 
local  and  general;  he  watched  miles  upon  miles  of 
political  parades,  and  endured  hours  upon  hours  of 
political  oratory ;  he  heard  both  candidates  speak ; 
he  saw  the  arrival  at  Canton  of  one  of  those  aston- 
ishing "delegations"  —  this  time  one  from  Portage 
County,  "  the  finest  county  in  the  country,"  as  Mr. 
McKinley  took  care  to  point  out  with  great  force  in 
his  address;  he  witnessed  the  placarding  of  the 
returns,  and  the  subsequent  frenzied  jubilation  of 
the  victors.  Mr.  Steevens  describes  all  this  with 
some  humor,  but  with  an  ever-present  sense  of  the 
real  gravity  and  dignity  of  the  main  situation.  He 
endeavors  to  outline  clearly  for  the  benefit  of  his 
English  readers  the  trend  of  the  looming  political, 
social,  and  economical  issues  which  must  from  now 
on,  even  at  the  best  of  times,  haunt  the  consciousness 
of  the  people  of  this  country,  and  which  it  only  needs 
a  period  of  "hard  times  "  like  the  one  now  waning 
to  bring  to  light  with  startling  distinctness.  "  Good 
times  "  are  now  setting  in ;  and  we  shall  probably 
go  on  in  the  old  way  for  another  decade  or  so  mak- 
ing hay  prosperously  while  the  sun  shines  and 
taking  little  or  no  thought  for  the  morrow.  But 
"hard  times"  will  recur;  discontent  will  recur;  the 
cry  for  change  will  recur.  There  will  again  be 
(who  can  doubt  it?)  the  ominous  confrontation  at 
the  polls  of  candidates  representing  respectively 
the  class  whose  interest  it  is  to  conserve,  and  the 
class  whose  only  seeming  chance  of  salvation  it  is 
to  pull  down.  The  crisis  may  again  be  tided  over ; 
but,  speaking  in  the  light  of  current  indications, 
one  may  fairly  say  that  he  would  be  an  optimistic 
prophet  indeed  who  should  predict  that  it  will  be 
averted  or  its  asperities  softened  by  the  wise  antic- 
ipatory reforms  and  concessions  of  those  now  in  a 
position  to  make  them.  Mr.  Steevens  is  no  such 
prophet,  nor  indeed  does  he  venture  much  into 


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[Oct.  1, 


direct  vaticination.  His  view  of  our  national  future 
is  not  on  the  whole  a  sombre  one  —  that  is,  of  our 
ultimate  luture.  If  there  are  storms  ahead  for  us, 
they  will  at  least  purify  the  air.  Growing  class  an- 
tagonisms, and  a  widespread  conviction  that  to  get 
dollars  is  the  one  end  of  life  —  these,  Mr.  Steevens 
concludes,  are  the  twin  sources  of  our  national  peril. 
The  lighter  topics  usually  touched  upon  by  the 
tourist  are  not  neglected  in  the  volume,  which  is, 
all  in  all,  much  the  best  of  its  kind  that  has  come 
to  our  notice  of  late. 


Sophia  V.  Bompiani's  brief  "  His- 
The  Waldentet.  tory  of  the  Waldenses "  (A..  S. 

Barnes  &  Co.)  is  an  excellent  essay 
upon  the  characteristics,  chief  personages,  and 
events  in  the  history  of  that  most  ancient  body  of 
religious  reformers  whose  descendants  to-day  oc- 
cupy a  small  part,  not  more  than  three  hundred 
square  miles,  of  the  Cottian  Alps.  Historians  have 
usually  ascribed  the  organization  and  faith  of  the 
Waldenses  to  Peter  Waldo,  a  distinguished  preach- 
er of  the  twelfth  century,  but  the  author  accepts 
rather  the  traditions  of  the  people  themselves, 
quoting  many  authorities  in  support  of  a  much 
earlier  origin.  It  is  shown  that  when  the  Paul- 
icians  of  Armenia,  fleeing  from  the  persecutions 
of  the  eastern  emperors,  emigrated  to  France  in 
the  eighth  century,  and  there  established  the  sect 
known  as  the  Albigenses,  they  found  in  the  Wal- 
denses, just  across  the  Italian  border,  a  people  of 
similar  religious  beliefs.  The  traditions  of  the 
Waldenses  assert  that  they  were  driven  from 
southern  Italy,  in  the  time  of  the  second  and 
third  centuries,  to  the  Alpine  valleys,  where  they 
have  since  lived.  About  one-third  of  the  book  is 
devoted  to  this  contention  for  the  antiquity  of  the 
people,  while  the  remainder,  written  with  unfailing 
interest,  treats  of  their  innumerable  persecutions 
by  the  Papacy,  their  ministers,  their  heroes,  their 
martyrs,  and  their  final  attainment  of  religious 
freedom  in  1848. 

In  '*  The  Novels  of  Charles  Dickens," 
recently  issued  in  the  "  Book- Lover's 
Library "  (Armstrong),  Mr.  Fred- 
eric G.  Kitton  has  collected  a  fund  of  interesting 
and  valuable  information  concerning  the  works  of 
a  writer  whose  wonderful  popularity  seems  ever  on 
the  increase.  The  growth  and  development  of  each 
of  the  great  novels,  the  circumstances  under  which 
it  was  produced,  the  terms  of  publication,  facts  re- 
lating to  the  illustrators  and  to  famous  prototypes 
of  characters  in  the  novels,  present  whereabouts 
of  the  original  MSS.,  present  value  of  fii>t  editions, 
—  all  this  and  much  more  is  here  set  forth  in  a  f  re-h 
and  entertaining  way.  The  work  is  interesting  alike 
to  the  book-collector  and  to  the  lover  of  Dickens--, 
and  forms  a  welcome  addition  to  Mr.  Kitton's  nu- 
merous volumes  of  Diekensiana.  —  "  My  Father  as  I 
Recall  Him,"  by  Miss  Mamie  Dickens  (Westmin- 
ster, England :  The  Roxburghe  Press),  is  a  simple 


and  unpretentious  account  of  the  home  life  of  the 
great  novelist,  written  by  his  youngest  daughter. 
No  attempt  is  made  at  an  elaborate  or  connected 
biography,  and  little  that  is  not  already  known  may 
be  found  in  the  volume.  But  these  few  slight 
sketches  give  us  such  a  charming  and  intimate  pic- 
ture of  Dickens  the  man  that  the  lover  of  his  works 
who  does  not  read  the  little  book  will  have  missed 
a  distinct  pleasure. 


A  manual  of 
our  common 

wild  flowers. 


To  those  who  wish  to  become  ac- 
quainted with  our  common  flowers 
by  an  easier  method  than  that  pre- 
sented in  the  ordinary  text-books  of  botany,  the  vol- 
ume by  Mrs.  Caroline  A.  Creevy,  entitled  "  Flowers 
of  Field,  Hill,  and  Swamp"  (Harpers),  may  be  cor- 
dially commended.  The  author  is  an  adept  in  the 
science  she  illustrates,  and  while  devising  a  simple 
way  by  which  lovers  of  wild  flowers  may  learn  their 
names  and  relationships,  she  has  not  neglected  to 
dignify  her  work  with  an  array  of  curious  and  well- 
digested  information.  The  plants  are  classed  in 
groups  according  to  their  habitat  in  low  meadows, 
dry  fields,  cool  woods,  or  in  and  near  the  water. 
About  a  thousand  species  belonging  to  the  Atlantic 
States  from  New  England  to  Florida,  and  for  the 
most  part  to  the  Middle  States  also,  are  described. 
The  volume  is  a  pleasant  supplement  to  the  man- 
uals of  Grey,  Bessey,  and  others  of  their  rank. 

Roadside  .ketches  Mr;  F-  Schuyler  Mathews's  «  Fa- 
withpen  miliar  Features  of  the  Roadside  " 

andpenai.  (Appleton)  is  a  volume  made  doubly 

attractive  by  its  wealth  of  illustrations,  the  work  of 
the  author's  clever  hand.  The  chapters  describe 
the  varied  wild  life  to  be  met  with  in  tramps  along 
a  country  road,  including  flowers,  birds,  insects,  and 
amphibious.  The  author  appears  to  be  interested 
in  the  different  tribes  alike,  and  to  be  equally  appre- 
ciative of  their  respective  traits.  In  treating  the 
birds,  he  makes  an  attempt  to  reduce  their  songs 
within  the  limits  of  our  musical  scale.  Such  at- 
tempts are  interesting,  but  as  a  rule  not  entirely 
satisfactory.  As  each  bird  has  some  peculiar  fashion 
in  the  delivery  of  his  song,  so  each  listener  seems 
to  have  a  peculiar  experience  in  hearing  it.  For 
example,  on  page  119  Mr.  Mathews  states  that  the 
phoabe's  strain  comprises  only  two  notes,  and  he 
writes  them  with  a  falling  inflection.  Every  phoabe 
which  we  have  ever  heard  lisped  his  several  notes 
with  both  rising  and  falling  inflection,  and  his  song 
is  so  described  by  most  authorities. 


Tfie  Dungeons 
of  Old  Paris. 


Mr.  Tighe  Hopkins  has  given  us,  in 
a  presentably  made  volume  of  265 
pages,  a  rather  interesting  account, 
interspersed  with  more  or  less  familiar  historical 
episodes  in  point,  of  "The  Dungeons  of  Old 
Paris  "  (Putnam).  His  endeavor  has  been  to  restore 
to  such  storied  edifices  as  the  Prison  d'Etat,  the 
Conciergerie,  the  Maison  de  Justice,  etc.,  their 
special  and  distinctive  character  at  the  most  import- 


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ant  dates  in  their  respective  careers,  and  thus  to 
bring  home  to  the  reader  the  full  force  and  signifi- 
cance of  the  old  French  proverb,  "  Triste  comme 
les  portes  d  'une  prison"  The  author  seems  to  be 
somewhat  of  an  enthusiast  on  his  dismal  subject  — 
an  amateur  of  historic  prisons,  as  it  were;  and  he 
goes  into  the  harrowing  details  of  the  architecture 
of  his  favorite  edifices  with  evident  zest  and  no 
little  learning.  "  I  have  undone,"  he  assures  us, 
"  the  bolts  of  nearly  all  the  more  celebrated  pris- 
ons of  historic  Paris,  few  of  which  are  standing  at 
this  day."  Vincennes,  the  Temple,  the  Concier- 
gerie,  the  Abbaye,  Sainte-Pelagie,  the  Bastille  — 
these  are  certainly  names  around  which  cluster 
memories  of  dramatic  scenes  and  striking  figures. 
Of  the  narrative  and  romantic  possibilities  of  his 
theme  Mr.  Hopkins  makes  fair  use.  The  book  is 
liberally  sprinkled  with  illustrations,  some  of  them 
after  curious  old  plates. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


The  seventh  edition  of  Mr.  George  Haven  Putnam 's 
"Authors  and  Publishers"  presents  a  revised  text  and 
considerable  additional  material.  For  those  not  already 
familiar  with  this  useful  book,  we  quote  from  the  title- 
page  a  description  of  the  contents  of  this  "  manual  of 
suggestions  for  beginners  in  literature."  The  work 
comprises,  in  brief,  "a  description  of  publishing  meth- 
ods and  arrangements,  directions  for  the  prepara- 
tion of  MSS.  for  the  press,  explanations  of  the  details 
of  book-manufacturing,  instructions  for  proof-reading, 
specimens  of  typography,  the  text  of  the  United  States 
copyright  law,  and  information  concerning  interna- 
tional copyrights,  together  with  general  bints  for  au- 
thors." This  handsomely  printed  volume  is  published 
by  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sous. 

Among  the  many  attractive  editions  of  standard 
English  literature  published  this  season  by  Messrs. 
T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  we  note  with  particular  approval 
the  reprints  of  Matthew  Arnold  s  poems  and  Brown- 
ing 's  "  The  Ring  and  the  Book."  The  Arnold  volume 
includes  a  number  of  early  poems  hitherto  uncollected, 
and  has  an  introduction  by  Mr.  Nathan  Haskell  Dole. 
But  why,  oh  why,  does  Mr.  Dole  say  that  Arnold  con- 
demned the  American  people  as  a  race  that  knew  not 
Obermann,  "  as  a  knowledge  of  Obermann  was  in  his 
eyes  a  test  of  civilization  "  ?  The  special  features  of  the 
Browning  volume  are  the  biography,  introduction,  and 
explanatory  notes  contributed  by  the  editors,  Miss  Char- 
lotte Porter  and  Miss  Hi-len  A.  Clarke,  whose  zeal  for 
their  chosen  poet  is  well  known  to  readers  of  "  Poet- 
Lore,"  and  whose  fitness  for  the  present  task  no  one 
may  question. 

"The  Works  of  Francois  Rabelais,"  in  the  famous 
old  translation  of  Urqtihart  and  Motteux,  are  republished 
in  a  tasteful  five-volume  edition  by  Messrs.  Gibbings 
&  Co.  of  London.  The  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.  are  the 
American  agents  for  this  work.  Mr.  Alfred  Wallis 
has  revised  the  text  and  provided  an  introduction,  and 
the  volumes  are  charmingly  illustrated  by  photogravure 
reproductions  of  the  plates  in  Picart's  Amsterdam 
edition  of  1741. 


LITERARY  NOTES. 


Gautier's  ever-delightful  "  Captain  Fracasse,"  trans- 
lated by  Miss  Ellen  Murray  Beam,  is  published  in  an 
attractive  illustrated  edition  by  Messrs.  L.  C.  Page  &  Co. 

Mr.  Henri  Pene  du  Bois  has  made  a  translation  of 
Prosper  MerimeVs  "  Letters  to  an  Unknown,"  and  the 
work  is  published  by  the  Messrs.  Brentano  in  very 
tasteful  and  pleasing  form. 

The  1897  volume  of  "  The  Pageant,"  a  literary  and 
art  annual,  will  be  published  shortly  by  Mr.  M.  F.  Mans- 
field of  New  York,  and  will  contain  contributions  from 
many  of  the  best-known  writers  and  artists  of  the  day. 

A  translation  of  Diderot's  immortal  "  Rameau's 
Nephew,"  made  by  Miss  Sylvia  Margaret  Hill,  is  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co.  The  trans- 
lation is  from  the  autographic  text  of  the  author,  undis- 
covered until  1890. 

A  new  edition  of  the  Waverley  novels,  in  forty-eight 
volumes,  and  similar  in  form  and  make-up  to  the  popu- 
lar "  Temple  Classics,"  will  be  published  in  this  country 
by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  in  connection  with 
Messrs.  J.  M.  Dent  &  Co.  of  London. 

"Clever  Tales,"  selected  and  edited  by  Miss  Char- 
lotte Porter  and  Miss  Helen  A.  Clarke,  is  a  volume  of 
translations  from  Villiers  de  1'Isle  Adam,  Strindberg, 
Hale*vy,  Garshin,  Kielland,  and  Arbes,  most  if  not  all  of 
the  tales  having  previously  appeared  in  "  Poet-Lore." 
Messrs.  Copeland  &  Day  are  the  publishers. 

"  A  Manual  of  Physical  Drill,"  by  Lieut.  Edmund  L. 
Butts,  is  published  by  Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  The 
object  of  the  work  is  to  systematize  physical  training  in 
the  army,  and  to  furnish  a  practical  guide  that  will  en- 
able any  officer  to  give  regular  and  beneficial  instruction 
to  his  command.  The  volume  is  well  illustrated  with 
reproductions  of  photographs. 

The  Doubleday  &  McClure  Co.,  a  new  publishing  firm, 
have  sent  us  some  interesting  announcements  which 
reached  us  too  late  for  inclusion  in  the  "  List  of  Fall 
Announcements  "  in  our  last  issue.  Among  the  title* 
on  their  list  may  be  mentioned  Mark  Twain's  new  book, 
"  Following  the  Equator";  "The  Open  Boat,  and  Other 
Tales  of  Adventure,"  by  Mr.  Stephen  Crane ;  an  eighteen- 
volume  edition  of  Shakespeare,  edited  by  Prof.  Henry 
Morley;  "Tales  from  McClure's,"  in  three  volumes; 
"Bird  Neighbors,"  with  fifty  colored  illustrations;  a 
volume  by  Colonel  Waring,  of  the  New  York  street- 
cleaning  department;  and  a  half-dozen  other  equally 
interesting  books. 

Mr.  Richard  Holt  Button,  who  died  on  the  10th  of 
September,  was  best  known  to  the  world  as  the  editor 
of  the  "Spectator."  His  personality  was  so  merged 
in  that  review  that  he  found  little  opportunity  for  out- 
side literary  work,  and  the  list  of  his  books  is  a  brief 
one,  including  only  the  "  Scott "  in  the  "  English  Men 
of  Letters"  and  a  few  volumes  of  miscellaneous  essays 
in  criticism.  He  was  a  strong  and  serious  writer  (if 
anything  over-serious),  and  the  chief  bent  of  his  mind 
was  in  the  direction  of  religious  and  philosophical  prob- 
lems. His  temper  was  conservative,  the  concession* 
to  liberalism  that  he  could  not  help  making  in  this  age 
of  the  world  were  made  grudgingly,  and  he  did  not 
always  display  the  candor  that  we  had  the  right  to  ex- 
pect of  a  writer  occupying  his  position.  His  best  crit- 
ical writing  is  probably  to  be  found  in  his  essays  on. 
Arnold  and  Newman. 


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Fire.  As  far  as  one,  at  least,  of  the  four  libra- 
ries of  Chicago  is  concerned,  promise  has 
become  fulfilment,  and  the  student  may  enter 
into  his  long-awaited  heritage  of  opportunity. 
Within  the  walls  of  this  building  there  are  now 
gathered  a  quarter  of  a  million  volumes,  repre- 
senting all  the  departments  of  literature ;  and 
every  conceivable  means  for  the  facilitation  of 
their  use,  whether  by  the  casual  reader  or  the 
serious  student,  has  been  provided  by  the  lib- 
erality of  a  City  Council  which,  whatever  its 
shortcomings,  has  nearly  always  been  willing 
to  make  appropriations  commensurate  with  the 
needs  of  the  institution,  and  may  be  trusted 
to  provide  as  adequate  support  in  the  future 
as  it  has  provided  in  the  past.  Chicago  has 
nothing  more  entirely  creditable  to  show  the 
stranger  than  this  Library,  and  may  point  to 
it  with  just  pride  as  an  evidence  that  the 
higher  needs  of  civilization  have  not  been  lost 
sight  of  amid  all  the  jostling  material  interests 
of  the  community. 

The  Chicago  building  is  one  of  the  three 
costliest  structures  devoted  to  library  purposes 
in  the  United  States.  The  two  millions  of 
dollars  expended  upon  it  have  brought  their 
full  architectural  and  decorative  equivalent, 
and  if  the  buildings  at  Washington  and  Boston 
have  cost  more  money  it  may  safely  be  said  that 
neither  of  them  represents  an  expenditure  as 
judicious,  or  applied  as  closely  to  the  special 
purposes  for  which  a  library  building  should  be 
designed.  When  such  a  building  is  to  be 
erected,  there  is  always  a  conflict  between  two 
theories.  One  of  these  theories  is  held  by 
architects  ;  the  other  by  professional  librarians. 
It  is  unnecessary  to  say  which  of  these  theories 
is  right,  and  which  wrong,  and  it  is  pleasant  to 
state  that  the  right  theory  has  prevailed  in  the 
plans  of  the  Chicago  edifice.  In  consequence 
of  the  above  fact,  this  latest  of  great  library 
buildings  is  not  a  pile  of  masonry  built  for 
external  show,  nor  is  it  a  gallery  for  the  exhi- 
bition of  pictured  and  sculptured  masterpieces. 
It  is  simply  a  dignified  structure,  somewhat 
severe  in  design,  provided  with  decorative 
adornments  that  please  the  eye  but  do  not  tend 
to  attract  gaping  throngs  of  visitors  who  care 
nothing  for  books  and  only  get  in  the  way  of 
the  quiet  student.  The  theory  that  library 
buildings  should  be  planned  for  library  pur- 
poses never  had  a  stouter  champion  than  the 


late  Dr.  Poole,  and  it  is  a  happy  eventuation 
that  has  made  the  Library  which  he  organized 
the  best  existing  exemplification  of  the  ideas 
for  which  he  so  insistently  contended. 

The  history  of  this  Library  is  familiar  to  all 
who  are  Chicagoans,  and  to  many  who  are  not. 
We  need  not  retell  at  any  length  how  it  sprang 
from  the  ruins  of  the  burned  city,  how  the  grace- 
ful act  of  Thomas  Hughes  provided  a  nucleus 
for  the  collection,  how  the  books  were  for  a 
time  stored  in  a  disused  water-tank,  how  an 
emergency  law  for  the  establishment  of  public 
libraries  was  passed  by  the  Illinois  Legisla- 
ture, how  the  services  of  the  greatest  of  Amer- 
ican librarians  were  secured,  how  the  books 
grew  in  number  and  have  sojourned  in  three 
sets  of  temporary  quarters  before  finding  their 
permanent  home,  or  how  the  support  of  the 
public,  at  first  somewhat  grudgingly  given  to 
the  enterprise,  has  grown  steadily  more  and 
more  cordial  and  generous,  until  there  is  at  last 
upon  all  hands  abundant  evidence  that  the  city 
—  not  of  the  few,  but  of  the  masses  —  is  thor- 
oughly in  sympathy  with  the  aims  of  the  insti- 
tution, and  determined  to  keep  it  in  the  front 
rank  of  public  collections  of  books.  All  of 
these  things  are  an  old  story ;  but  what  is  per- 
haps not  generally  understood  outside  of  Chi- 
cago is  the  wise  policy  by  which  the  directors  of 
the  institution  have  kept  it  all  the  time  in  close 
touch  with  all  ages  and  conditions  of  readers. 
While  it  has  never  catered  to  the  tastes  of  de- 
praved or  vicious  persons,  it  has  to  a  consid- 
erable extent  supplied  the  public  with  what  it 
wants  rather  than  what  in  the  minds  of  superior 
persons  it  ought  to  want.  This  delicate  ques- 
tion is  necessarily  one  of  degree.  The  aim  of 
a  library  should  be,  first,  to  attract  readers, 
because  the  reading  habit  is  a  good  thing  in 
itself,  and,  second,  to  improve  the  tastes  of 
readers,  not  by  forcing  culture  upon  them,  but 
by  leading  them  in  the  direction  of  culture 
without  their  being  conscious  of  the  guidance. 
The  extent  to  which  this  aim  has  been  realized 
is  best  shown  by  the  simple  statement  that  the 
percentage  of  fiction  among  the  books  read  is 
only  about  one-half  what  it  was  in  the  early 
days  of  the  Library.  And  it  must  be  remem- 
bered that  this  statement  concerns  the  institu- 
tion which  has  a  larger  home  circulation  than 
any  other  public  library  in  the  world.  So 
remarkable  a  degree  of  practical  usefulness  is 
accounted  for  by  the  system  of  delivery  stations 
scattered  all  over  the  city,  which  bring  the  books 
within  easy  reach  of  every  household.  It  is  by 
such  methods  and  policies  that  the  Chicago 


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Public  Library  has  won  its  place  in  the  affec- 
tions of  a  vast  community,  and  has  set  an  ex- 
ample that  the  rest  of  the  country  may  profit- 
ably follow.  We  may  almost  say  that  it  has 
followed  the  example,  for  the  Illinois  Library 
Act  has  furnished  a  model  for  similar  legisla- 
tion in  many  other  States,  and  the  city  which 
chiefly  illustrates  the  direct  operation  of  that 
act  has  long  been  one  of  the  principal  foci  of 
ideas  about  library  management  —  made  so  in 
large  degree  by  the  fact  that  it  was  for  twenty 
years  the  home  of  William  Frederick  Poole. 


WEEN  DOCTORS  DISAGREE. 

"  Now  who  shall  arbitrate  ? 
Ten  men  love  what  I  hate, 
Shun  what  I  follow,  slight  what  I  receive  ; 
Ten,  who  in  ears  and  eyes 
Match  me :  we  all  surmise, 
They  this  thing,  and  I  that :  whom  shall  my 
soul  believe?" 

Well  may  the  general  student  ask  this  same 
pertinent  question  when  he  finds  himself,  as  he  cer- 
tainly will  if  he  reads  the  critics,  fairly  in  confusion 
amid  the  various  opposing  dicta  on  current  expres- 
sion in  thought  and  literature.  The  poet  finds  an 
answer  to  his  searching  inquiry  in  the  suggestion, 
"Let  age  speak  the  truth  and  give  us  peace  at 
last !  "  To  be  sure,  it  is  within  the  realm  of  ethics 
and  psychology  that  Rabbi  Ben  Ezra  leads  the 
young  disciple  thus  afield;  but  is  it  any  the  less 
true  that  in  the  domain  of  logic  and  aesthetics  the 
same  theory  should  be  applied,  the  same  principle 
be  dominant?  A  series  of  articles  appearing  in 
a  prominent  magazine,  which,  under  the  general 
title  "  Revaluations  of  Literature,"  open  afresh  the 
discussion  of  reputations  and  estimates  commonly 
looked  upon  as  established  and  unimpeachable,  sug- 
gests the  necessity  of  a  general  verification  of  our 
positions  concerning  the  classics  of  a  generation 
ago,  with  the  entire  propriety  of  an  occasional  "re- 
valuation "  of  the  sages  and  prophets  of  the  imme- 
diate past.  Concerning  the  fallibility  of  contem- 
porary judgment,  all  remark  is  trite ;  we  long  ago 
admitted  that  age  is  the  only  certain  test  — although 
there  is  a  natural  impatience  of  the  event.  Very 
good,  —  meanwhile  let  those  who  assume  authority 
speak:  amid  the  various  voices  the  tones  of  truth 
will  eventually  be  recognized ;  criticism  is  progres- 
sive, and  literary  discussions  supply  the  process  by 
which  the  world's  judgment  will  finally  be  evolved. 
Contemporary  criticism  may  be  correct,  it  may  be 
wrong ;  but  age  will  speak  the  truth,  posterity  will 
know. 

Debate,  discussion,  controversy,  —  such  has  been 
the  habit  of  human  thought,  and  thus  have  the  great 
institutions  of  humanity  been  developed.  There  is 
blasting  in  the  quarry  before  the  granite  blocks  can 
be  piled  up  to  build  the  capitol.  In  rolling-mills 


and  foundries  there  is  melting  with  fervent  heat, 
and  thunder  of  ponderous  hammers,  before  steel 
plates  can  be  riveted  or  iron  girders  be  trussed  into 
place.  With  heat  and  explosion  has  man  wrought 
his  way  through  the  perplexities  of  speculation  and 
science :  is  it  not  to  be  expected  that  in  literary 
criticism  his  judgments  will  evolve  as  they  have 
already  evolved  in  philosophy  and  dogma?  Let 
literary  partisans  have  their  say,  and  let  no  one  in 
the  court  be  shocked  that  counsel  grows  emphatic. 
The  jury  is  intelligent,  albeit  slow ;  the  judge  is 
qualified  to  try  the  case ;  in  the  end,  verdict  and 
judgment  will  be  found  in  accordance  with  the  law ; 
there  will  be  no  exceptions  and  no  appeal. 

In  plain  words,  why  shun  controversy  ?  —  is  there 
any  disposition  so  to  do?  Oh,  yes,  Mr.  Mealy- 
mouth  dreads  discussion.  He  is  so  modest  that  he 
jumps  if  someone  contradicts  him,  and  straightway 
sees  the  object  in  his  vision  from  his  opponent's 
view-point.  Rarely  does  he  hazard  a  downright 
affirmation :  "  I  think,"  or  "  it  seems  to  me,"  or 
"  me  judice"  or  "  now  possibly  this  is  so."  There 
are  some  who  repeat  the  same  expressions,  not 
because  of  diffidence,  but  because  of  affectation. 
Neither  they  nor  Mr.  Mealymouth  can  be  accounted 
helpers  of  mankind.  The  cry  is  for  authority, 
which  means  knowledge,  more  of  knowledge  than 
the  general ;  not  absolute,  but  approximating,  ap- 
proaching the  truth.  What  the  world  demands  of 
the  scholar  is,  not  what  he  thinks  he  thinks,  but 
what  he  thinks  he  knows.  Gradually,  honestly, 
inevitably,  the  world  ponders,  weighs  his  dictum. 
The  thinking  world  will  fix  its  value  —  in  time. 

There  is,  however,  an  old  distinction  not  yet  to 
be  ignored :  the  distinction  between  opinion  and 
conviction.  The  scientists  discriminate  better  than 
the  critics ;  perhaps  in  the  nature  of  materials  it  is 
easier  for  the  former  so  to  do.  "  What  is  your 
opinion  with  reference  to  thought  transference?" 
asked  an  inquirer  of  Doctor  Bose,  the  Hindoo  scien- 
tist. "  I  must  decline  to  express  it.  There  is  no 
experimental  basis  upon  which  to  make  a  satisfac- 
tory statement,"  was  the  reply.  Signer  Marconi, 
the  electrician,  was  asked  if  he  believed  that  in  a 
certain  experiment  waves  of  energy  were  actually 
sent  through  a  hill.  "  That  is  my  present  belief, 
but  I  do  not  wish  to  state  it  as  a  fact.  I  am  not 
certain,"  was  his  answer.  Which  might  lead  one 
to  assert  that  the  scholar's  attitude  is  that  of  learner 
as  well  as  teacher,  always ;  and,  furthermore,  that 
because  the  scholar  thinks  a  thing  is  so,  his  thought 
does  not  make  it  so  ;  nor  will  his  wish  that  a  certain 
thing  be  true,  of  itself  make  his  theory  a  fact. 

The  literary  world  has  made  some  progress  in  its 
ability  to  deal  with  candor  and  to  reason  temper- 
ately on  differences  of  moment.  "  What  an  over- 
worn and  bed-ridden  argument  is  this !  the  last 
refuge  ever  of  old  falsehood  .  .  .  this  was  the  plea 
of  Judaism  and  idolatry  against  Christ  and  his 
Apostles  .  .  .  these  rotten  principles,"  etc.  Thus 
John  Milton,  in  one  of  those  mild  confutations  and 
animadversions  wherein  seventeenth-century  schol- 


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arship  delighted.  And  yet,  in  that  age  of  intoler- 
ance, as  in  other  ages  when  the  fires  have  burned 
more  fiercely,  it  is  not  difficult  now  to  see  that  the 
fiery  tongues  that  shot  out  and  over  and  around 
were  but  the  writhings  of  a  single  blaze,  tongues  of 
one  great  surging  flame,  of  that  purifying  fire  that 
tries  the  truth.  They  leaped  a  myriad  ways,  they 
divided,  they  flashed,  they  stung ;  yet  out  of  the 
flame  walked  Truth,  unharmed,  triumphant. 

Of  course,  to-day  such  burnings  are  incongruous 
and  ought  to  be  impossible ;  yet  there  are  occasions 
when  the  literary  controversialist  needs  to  be  re- 
minded sharply  that  tolerance  and  calmness  are  not 
so  much  virtues  as  evidences  of  common  sense ;  and 
that  gentlemen  in  debate  allow  intelligence  and 
some  freedom  in  deduction,  even,  to  honorable 
opponents  who  have  had  the  floor.  Because  he 
knows,  or  thinks  he  knows,  the  scholar  need  not 
expect  everyone  else  to  know  in  the  self-same  way ; 
still  less  need  he  expect  praise  from  all  quarters 
because  he  has  published  his  knowledge  to  the  world. 
The  scholar,  then,  must  keep  his  heart  sweet  and 
happy ;  this  is  the  great  lesson,  the  hardest  lesson 
of  all.  To  be  right,  and  not  to  lose  one's  temper ; 
to  teach  truth,  and  not  turn  cynic  when  the  world 
does  n't  see  it  that  way.  Ruskin  said  of  Albert 
Diirer,  that  someone  found  fault  with  his  engraving. 
The  artist  replied,  "  It  can 't  be  better  done  "  — 
"  but,"  adds  Ruskin,  "  he  did  n't  get  huffy  !  "  We 
wish  the  same  statement  might  be  true,  by  the  way, 
concerning  our  vigorous  and  autocratic  essayist 
himself.  Who  can  read  without  amusement  the 
trenchant  footnotes  with  which  Ruskin  has  peppered 
the  pages  of  his  earlier  writings  in  the  Brantwood 
edition  of  his  works !  Here  is  a  good  example  of 
modern  testiness,  somewhat  in  the  old  Miltonic  style, 
which  we  find  attached  to  a  paragraph  in  "  Stones 
of  Venice,"  with  reference  to  the  architecture  of 
Verona :  "  Alas,  the  noblest  example  of  it,  Fra 
Giocondo's  exquisite  loggia,  has  been  daubed  and 
damned,  by  the  modern  restorer,  into  a  caricature 
worse  than  a  Christmas  clown's.  The  exquisite 
colors  of  the  Renaissance  fresco,  pure  as  rose-leaves 
and  dark  laurel  —  the  modern  Italian  decorator 
thinks  'sporco,'  and  replaces  by  buff-color  of  oil- 
cloth, and  Prussian  green  —  spluttering  his  gold 
about  wherever  the  devil  prompts  him,  to  enrich  the 
whole."  Yet  this  is  not  so  much  humor  as  irasci- 
bility, and  would  hardly  do,  even  for  John  Ruskin, 
did  we  not  consider  the  sensitiveness  and  impatience 
of  old  age.  Since  the  days  of  the  great  essayists 
and  reviewers  —  who,  by  the  way,  won  their  title 
because  of  something  more  than  mere  arrogance  of 
style  —  an  "  intelligent  public  "  has  not  cared  much 
for  that  sort  of  thing.  The  critic  is  clearly  right  in 
giving  forcible  expression  to  his  mind ;  but  it  is  quite 
essential  that  he  have  a  mind  of  some  weight  to  ex- 
press, and  that  he  utter  his  convictions  with  becom- 
ing respect  for  the  convictions  of  those  who  differ. 
In  the  pages  of  "  The  Ettrick  Shepherd  "  one  may 
find  this  happy  picture  of  the  scholar  asserting  his 
own  authority  —  all  the  more  admirable  as  coming 


from  one  who  had  submitted  to  extreme  tests  in  the 
school  of  experience  and  adversity.  "  Gin  I  thocht 
Papistry  a  fause  thing,  which  I  do,  I  wadna  scruple 
to  say  sae  in  sic  terms  as  were  consistent  wi'  gude 
manners,  and  wi'  charity  and  humility  of  heart.  But 
I  wad  ca'  nae  man  a  leear !  "  If  such  amenity  can 
be  conceived  as  tempering  theological  debate,  is  it 
too  much  to  hope  for  human  nature  that  this  genial 
spirit  may  pervade  the  field  of  criticism  ? 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  SIMONDS. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

MR.  GRANT  ALLEN  AND  COLLEGE  EDUCATION. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

The  "  Cosmopolitan "  for  October  prosecutes  Mr. 
Walker's  holy  war  against  existing  educational  methods 
and  ideals,  in  somewhat  bewildering  fashion.  It  is  not 
very  hazardous  to  predict  that  many  thoughtful  readers 
of  Mr.  Grant  Allen's  article  will  draw  from  Mr.  Allen's 
facts  conclusions  by  no  means  identical  with  his.  Mr. 
Allen  is  eager  to  see  boys  dispatched  to  foreign  lands, 
to  seek  their  education  in  travel,  and  gives  a  glowing 
account  of  the  stimulus  he  himself  received  from  such 
an  experience.  Just  such  an  educational  experiment  as 
Mr.  Allen  suggests  occurs  to  me;  and  it  will  illustrate 
Mr.  Allen's  theory  perhaps  quite  as  well  as  his  own 
experience  does.  The  subject  of  it,  a  young  man  of 
eighteen,  informed  me  in  our  second  talk  that  he  had 
spent  much  of  the  previous  year  at  a  small  place  in  Italy, 
adding,  with  evident  reluctance  at  its  obscurity,  that  it 
was  called  Verona:  he  supposed  I  had  never  heard  of  it. 
Perhaps  this  will  be  thought  an  extreme  case  to  cite 
against  Mr.  Allen's  theory  of  the  educational  sufficiency 
of  travel;  but  it  seems  much  more  in  point  for  the  article 
in  question  than  Mr.  Allen's  own  experience,  which  is 
there  cited.  Mr.  Allen  came  to  his  travels,  as  he  him- 
self says,  after  years  of  bondage  to  the  existing  educa- 
tional system,  and  found  historic  scenes  inexpressibly 
rich  in  significance  and  interest,  and  full  of  delightful 
stimulus.  Are  we  therefore  to  conclude  with  Mr.  Allen 
that  his  early  servitude  to  Latin  and  Greek  was  a  lament- 
able blunder  ?  Does  not  Mr.  Allen's  story  rather  seem 
a  telling  vindication  of  the  value  of  just  such  studies, 
while  his  testimony  is  not  less  noteworthy  for  being 
unintentional  ? 

We  should  doubtless  strive  to  view  the  attitude  —  or 
may  we  say  the  pose  ?  —  of  the  "  Cosmopolitan  "  as  the 
iconoclast  in  education,  unprejudiced  by  other  phases  of 
its  work.  Yet  it  seems  hardly  accidental  that  the  mag- 
azine which  sometimes  is  on  the  verge  of  advocating 
educational  nihilism  is  the  one  which  lately  outraged 
its  readers  by  thrusting  before  them  photographic  repre- 
sentations of  the  distorted  corpses  of  a  battlefield,  and 
which  just  now  illustrates  its  superiority  to  traditional 
methods  by  spelling  the  divine  immanence  without  an  a. 
EDGAR  JOHNSON  GOODSPEED. 

University  of  Chicago,  Oct.  5,  1897. 


SCIENTIFIC  WORK  IN  RHETORIC. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

The  communication  entitled  "  The  Lack  of  Scientific 
Work  in  Rhetoric,"  which  appeared  in  THE  DIAL  for 
September  16,  left  unsaid,  it  seems  to  me,  some  things 


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that  are  pertinent  to  the  subject  under  discussion. 
There  are,  doubtless,  few  who  would  take  exception  to 
your  contributor's  arraignment  of  much  that  passes  cur- 
rent in  our  schools  and  colleges  as  the  science  of  rhetoric, 
—  the  lifeless  and  deadening  applications  of  an  outworn 
philosophy,  formulas  whose  chief  virtue  is,  perhaps,  that 
they  are  furthest  removed  from  anything  that  could  be 
called  "  rhetorical  "  in  an  objectionable  sense;  or,  on  the 
other  hand,  the  more  or  less  unpremeditated  effusions 
that  rest  on  no  conscious  philosophy  at  all.  There  can 
be  no  question  as  to  the  present  vital  need  of  a  rhetoric 
whose  methods  shall  be  the  methods  of  modern  scientific 
investigation,  and  whose  relations  to  the  kindred  social 
and  psychological  sciences  shall  be  made  explicit.  But 
it  does  behoove  us,  when  we  have  arrived  at  this  view 
of  the  situation,  to  look  about  us  with  some  concern  to 
see  whether  there  are  any  tendencies  at  work  pressing 
forward  in  the  right  direction  and  only  waiting  for  due 
encouragement. 

If  the  colleges  are  largely  responsible  for  the  unfruit- 
ful condition  of  rhetoric  to-day  —  and  this  seems  to  be 

the  charge  of  the  writer  of  the  communication it  is 

surely  to  them  that  we  must  look  for  aid,  provided  it  is 
not  unwarrantable  to  assume  that  they  are  endowed 
with  a  sense  of  moral  responsibility.     Upon  them  rests 
the  obligation  of  answering  for  the  kind  of  rhetoric  they 
have  been  teaching  and  are  teaching,  when  called  to 
account.     And  the  obligation  is  already  being  faced  in 
the  graduate  departments  of  some  of  the  larger  univer- 
sities in  a  scientific  way,  as  in  the  case  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  the  first  to  offer  graduate  courses  in  rhe- 
toric, where  for  some  years  past  graduate  research 
work  has  been  carried  on  with  reference  to  various 
problems  in  rhetoric,  involving  the  social  sciences  on  the 
one  side,  and  the  laboratory  methods  of  experimental 
psychology  on  the  other.    Just  how  far  such  researches 
as  these  have  gone  toward  making  for  a  truly  scientific 
theory  of  rhetoric,  it  is  difficult  to  say,  because  of  the 
absence  of  any  organ  of  communication  between  groups 
of  investigators.     It  is  one  of  the  paradoxes  of  history 
that  the  science  which  is  concerned  primarily  with  com- 
munication, with  the  economics  of  the  exchange  and 
transportation  of  spiritual  commodities,  should  have  no 
organ  of  communication  itself,  no  common  carrier.    This 
lack  of  a  suitable  medium  of  publication  is  enough  to 
make  one  think  that  "  the  science  of  rhetoric  is  fifty  to 
a  hundred  years  behind  economics  and  psychology."    It 
explains,  in  a  measure,  why  "  the  work  of  each  writer 
is  generally  unadvantageously  individual  in  some  re- 
spects —  each  author  usually  attempting  to  cover  the 
whole  field  of  the  subject";  for  such  a  state  of  affairs 
as  this  is  due  not  merely  to  "  the  comparative  absence 
of  scientific  methods,"  but  also,  and  perhaps  first  of  all, 
to  the  absence  of  an  opportunity  for  comparing  results 
attained,  and  so  furthering  "  division  of  labor  and  intel- 
ligent cooperation."     Some  attempts  have  been  made, 
I  believe,  toward  satisfying  this  need  of  an  organ  of 
communication,  as,  for  example,  the  publication,  in  con- 
nection with  the  courses  already  referred  to,  of  the 
series  entitled  "  Contributions  to  Rhetorical  Theory." 
It  will  be  through  the  encouragement  of  such  attempts 
as  these  that  a  very  immediate  and  practical  rhetorical 
problem  will  be  solved. 

If  in  working  to  bring  about  any  reform,  it  is  wisest 
to  league  with  those  elements  that  have  begun,  spon- 
taneously it  may  seem,  to  right  the  wrong  and  bring 
order  out  of  lawlessness,  so  in  the  case  of  the  present 
chaotic,  and  at  the  same  time  scholastic,  condition  of 


rhetorical  theory,  it  may  be  well  to  seek  out  and  try 
to  further  those  tendencies  which  have  begun  to  shape 
things  anew  for  the  better.          WILLARD  C.  GORE. 
Riverside,  III.,  Oct.  2,  1897. 

A  TEXT  FROM  TEXT-BOOKS. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THB  DIAL.) 

It  has  been  my  fortune,  as  a  teacher  in  a  secondary 
school  of  some  prominence,  to  receive  from  a  dozen  or 
more  competing  publishers  a  variety  of  editions  of  the 
English  classics  that  are  now  required  for  admission  to 
most  American  colleges.  As  fast  as  I  have  received 
these  books  I  have  placed  them  side  by  side  in  my 
library,  until  they  now  fill  two  or  three  shelves.  In 
their  motley  array  they  present  anything  but  a  uniform 
appearance.  They  are  bound  in  all  sorts  of  colors, 
printed  on  all  sorts  of  paper,  and  their  original  portions 
written  in  all  sorts  of  styles,  —  that  is,  when  they  are 
written  at  all,  for  some  of  them  do  not  seem  even  to 
have  been  written,  but  simply  put  together.  And  while 
the  ways  of  their  editors  are  as  varied  as  the  colors  in 
which  the  books  themselves  are  bound,  in  one  respect 
they  are  very  much  alike.  Nearly  all  of  them  have  a 
remarkable  tendency  (which  they  in  nowise  overcome) 
to  fill  their  books  with  masses  of  unassimilated  material 
—  with  introductions  which  do  not  introduce,  with  notes 
which  do  not  explain,  and  with  suggestions  which  do 
not  suggest.  On  the  whole,  these  books,  while  they 
evidence  the  general  awakening  of  interest  in  the  study 
of  English,  appear  also  to  emphasise  the  maze  of  meth- 
ods in  which  we  are  just  now  floundering. 

It  has  seemed  to  me  that  many  of  the  sins  commit- 
ted in  these  books  may  be  laid  to  the  fact  that  most  of 
them  are  edited  by  men  who  have  had  no  actual  con- 
tact with  secondary  school  work.  Having  taught  in  both 
college  and  high  school,  I  maintain  that  it  is  not  a  suffi- 
cient qualification  for  a  text- book  editor  merely  to  have 
observed  "  carefully  the  needs  of  students  who  present 
themselves  for  admission  to  college,"  as  one  prospectus 
puts  it,  but  that  some  teaching  experience  in  either  the 
high  school  or  the  academy  is  essential  to  an  apprecia- 
tion of  the  real  needs  of  the  secondary  school  student. 
I  am  further  convinced  of  this  when  I  observe  one  col- 
lege editor  quoting  in  the  introduction  to  his  book  some- 
thing like  fifty  pages  of  critical  comment  on  his  author 
and  work,  the  most  of  which  is  bound  to  prove  dry  and 
hard  reading  for  the  average  high-school  student,  and 
another  printing  more  than  one  hundred  pages  of  notes 
to  less  than  half  that  number  of  text.  A  third,  who 
crowds  his  pages  with  a  multitude  of  questions  that 
would  occur  at  once  to  any  live  teacher,  is  no  better. 

Is  not  the  cause  worthy  of  something  better  ?  May 
we  not  have  an  edition  of  the  English  classics  which 
will  be  the  result  of  the  united  efforts  of  such  of  the 
secondary  school  teachers  of  the  country  as  combine  the 
necessary  scholarship  with  some  degree  of  literary  abil- 
ity, —  sufficient,  at  any  rate,  to  eliminate  the  unessen- 
tials  which  overload  the  books  we  now  have,  and  to 
arrange  the  material  used  with  a  view  to  artistic  effect  ? 

TULEY  FRANCIS  HUNTINGTON. 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  Oct.  7,  1897. 


A  NEW  weekly  review,  entitled  "  Literature,"  with 
Mr.  H.  D.  Traill  ("  that  demon  Traill,"  as  Matthew 
Arnold  once  called  him)  as  editor,  is  announced  for  early 
appearance  in  London  and  New  York.  Messrs.  Har- 
per &  Brothers  will  be  the  publishers  for  this  country- 


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Cbe  lefo  100ks. 


THE  TEXNYSOX  MEMOIRS.* 


"  Old  ghosts  whose  day  was  done  ere  mine  began, 
If  earth  be  seen  from  your  conjectured  heaven, 
Ye  know  that  History  is  half-dream  —  ay  even 
The  man's  life  in  the  letters  of  the  man. 
There  lies  the  letter,  but  it  is  not  he 
As  he  retires  into  himself  and  is : 
Sender  and  sent-to  go  to  make  up  this, 
Their  offspring  of  this  union.    And  on  me 
Frown  not  old  ghosts,  if  I  be  one  of  those 
Who  make  you  utter  things  you  did  not  say, 
And  mould  you  all  awry  and  mar  your  worth  ; 
For  whatsoever  knows  us  truly,  knows 
That  none  can  truly  write  his  single  day, 
And  none  can  write  it  for  him  upon  earth."  f 

In  the  foregoing  Sonnet  (written  originally 
as  a  preface  to  "  Becket,"  and  first  published 
in  the  work  now  before  us)  the  late  Lord 
Tennyson  expressed  incidentally  his  conviction 
of  the  essential  insufficiency  of  all  biography. 
Letters  the  most  intimate,  being  unavoidably 
tinged  by  the  personality  of  "  sent-to  "  as  well 
as  "sender,"  but  partially  or  fitfully  reveal 
the  writer  "as  he  retires  into  himself  and  is  " ; 
while  if  it  is  given  to  no  man  to  "  truly  write 
his  single  day,"  then  surely  "  none  can  write 
it  for  him  upon  earth."  Lord  Tennyson,  as 
we  learn,  disliked  the  notion  of  a  long,  formal 
biography.  For  those  who  cared  to  know  the 
spiritual  side  of  his  literary  history,  he  wrote 
"Merlin  and  the  Gleam."  That  figurative 
account  of  his  poetic  progress  he  seems  to  have 
thought  "would  probably  be  enough  of  bio- 
graphy for  those  friends  who  urged  him  to 
write  about  himself."  But  however  modest  his 
estimate  of  the  biographical  demands  of  these 
friends,  he  can  scarcely  have  thought  for  a  mo- 
ment that  the  veiled,  mystical  intimations  of 
"  Merlin,"  dim  adumbrations  of  spiritual  pro- 
cesses which  the  poet  himself  but  imperfectly 
divined,  would  satisfy  the  curiosity  of  the  gen- 
eral public,  or  indeed  meet  the  questions  which 
that  public  would  be  most  likly  to  ask.  Most 
men  look  to  biography  solely  for  the  sort  of 
personal  information  in  which  the  prince  of 
biographers,  James  Boswell,  chiefly  dealt ;  and 
a  biography  of  the  Boswellian  type,  Lord  Ten- 
nyson must  have  known  was  inevitable.  From 
the  disclosures  of  such  a  biography,  were  it  ever 
so  candid,  he  had  little  reason  to  shrink.  Here, 
the  unflinching  pen  of  a  Froude  could  point  out 
no  jarring  discrepancies  between  the  man  and 
bis  work.  What  Tennyson  seemed  to  be  to  the 

*  ALFRED  LORD  TENNYSON  :  A  Memoir.  By  his  Son.  Two 
volumes,  illustrated.   New  York :  The  Macmillan  Company, 
t  Copyright  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  1897. 


multitude,  who  viewed  him  solely  through  the 
transfiguring  medium  of  his  verse,  he  really  was, 
to  a  quite  exceptional  degree.  His  life  and  his 
message  were  nobly  of  a  piece. 

As  we  have  already  said,  Tennyson  disliked 
the  idea  of  a  long,  formal  biography.  But  as 
his  life  must  inevitably  be  written,  he  was 
anxious  that  it  be  written  once  and  for  all — 
that  it  be  so  written  as  to  preclude  the  chance 
of  further  and  unauthentic  biographies.  His 
wish  in  this  regard  seems  to  us  to  be  met,  as 
fully  as  it  was  possible  to  meet  it,  in  the  noble 
volumes  now  before  us,  the  pious  work  of  his 
son,  the  present  Lord  Tennyson.  Some  future 
aftermath  of  Tennysonian  memories  there  will 
probably  be ;  but  Lord  Tennyson  has  given 
us  what  must  remain  for  all  time  the  one  full 
and  authoritative  Life  of  his  father.  Touching 
his  method,  Lord  Tennyson  says  : 

"According  to  my  father's  wish,  throughout  the 
memoir  my  hand  will  be  as  seldom  seen  as  may  be,  and 
this  accounts  for  the  occasionally  fragmentary  charac- 
ter of  my  work.  The  anecdotes  and  sayings  here 
related  have  been  mostly  taken  down  as  soon  as  spoken, 
and  are  hence,  I  trust,  not  marred  or  mended  by  mem- 
ory, which,  judging  from  some  anecdotes  of  him 
recently  published,  is  wont  to  be  a  register  not  wholly 
accurate." 

The  foregoing  paragraph  fairly  indicates 
the  general  form  and  character  of  the  work, 
which  is  essentially  a  rich  storehouse  of  Tenny- 
soniana,  to  which  the  best  minds  in  England 
have  lavishly  contributed,  rather  than  an 
attempt  at  a  set  recital  and  formal  biography 
of  the  sort  the  poet  himself  would  have  disap- 
proved of.  Regular  narrative  is  not,  of  course, 
wholly  wanting.  Such  facts  as  people  natur- 
ally wish  to  know  concerning  the  poet's  ances- 
try, birth,  homes,  schools,  college  life,  friend- 
ships, travels,  etc.,  are  given  in  order.  As  to 
manuscripts  left  by  his  father,  Lord  Tenny- 
son says : 

"  The  most  interesting  to  me  are  my  father's  unpub- 
lished poems  and  letters,  and  notes  on  his  own  life  and 
work  left  me  for  publication  after  his  death,  Arthur 
Hallam's  letters,  Edward  Fitzgerald's  private  MS.  notes, 
and  the  journal  of  our  home  life." 

As  to  the  "  unpublished  poems,"  it  is 
pleasant  to  say  that  the  volumes  are  enriched 
with  them  to  a  degree  more  likely  to  surpass 
than  to  fall  short  of  the  hopes  of  the  most  san- 
guine Tennysonian.  Lavish  quotation  of  these 
belated  treasures  of  song  would  be  obviously 
unfair ;  but  we  may  venture  on  an  extract  or 
two,  with  the  certainty  of  whetting,  rather  than 
appeasing,  the  reader's  appetite.  The  follow- 
ing stanzas,  entitled-  "  The  Mother's  Ghost," 
belong  to  the  period  1832-35. 


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"  Not  a  whisper  stirs  the  gloom, 

It  will  be  the  dawning  soon, 
We  may  glide  from  room  to  room, 

In  the  glimmer  of  the  moon : 
Every  heart  is  lain  to  rest, 

All  the  house  is  fast  in  sleep, 
Were  I  not  a  spirit  blest, 

Sisters,  I  could  almost  weep ! 

"  In  that  cradle  sleeps  my  child, 

She  whose  birth  brought  on  my  bliss  ; 
On  her  forehead  undefiled 

I  will  print  an  airy  kiss : 
See,  she  dreameth  happy  dreams, 

Her  hands  are  folded  quietly, 
Like  to  one  of  us  she  seems, 

One  of  us  my  child  will  be."  * 

Of  a  later  date  than  the  foregoing  verses  are 
the  indignant  lines,  written  in  the  poet's  under- 
graduate days,  on  "  Cambridge  of  1830  "  — 
the  narrow  and  lethargic  Cambridge  of  which 
Macaulay  said  :  "  We  see  men  of  four  and  five 
and  twenty,  loaded  with  academical  honors  and 
rewards  —  scholarships,  fellowships,  whole  cab- 
inets of  medals,  whole  shelves  of  prize-books, 
enter  into  life  with  their  education  still  to 
begin  ;  unacquainted  with  the  first  principles  of 
the  laws  under  which  they  live,  unacquainted 
with  the  very  rudiments  of  moral  and  political 
science."  Cambridge  was,  in  the  eyes  of  the 
more  practical  and  progressive,  then  an  insti- 
tution consecrated  by  prejudice  and  immemorial 
usage  to  the  business  of  launching  upon  the 
world  a  yearly  batch  of  mediaeval-minded  young 
gentlemen,  who,  so  far  as  the  training  of  their 
Venerable  Mother  went,  were  about  as  well 
fitted  as  so  many  Kaspar  Hausers  to  grapple 
with  the  realities  of  practical  life.  The  young 
Tennyson  expressed  his  opinion  of  the  prevail- 
ing regime  in  a  sonnet  which  is  perhaps  more 
vigorous  and  biographically  suggestive  than 
poetic. 

"  Therefore  your  Halls,  your  ancient  Colleges, 
Your  portals  statued  with  old  kings  and  queens, 
Your  gardens,  myriad-volumed  libraries, 
Wax-lighted  chapels,  and  rich-carven  screens, 
Your  doctors,  and  your  proctors,  and  your  deans, 
Shall  not  avail  you  when  the  Day-beam  sports 
New-risen  o'er  awakened  Albion.    No  ! 
Nor  yet  your  organ-pipes  that  blow 
Melodious  thunders  thro'  your  vacant  courts 
At  noon  and  eve,  because  your  manner  sorts 
Not  with  this  age  wherefrom  ye  stand  apart, 
Because  the  lips  of  little  children  preach 
Against  you,  you  that  do  profess  to  teach 
And  teach  us  nothing,  feeding  not  the  heart."  * 

The  voices  of  the  new  age,  indeed,  early 
awakened  a  responsive  echo  in  the  spirit  of 
Tennyson.  To  the  political  issues  that  stirred 
England  in  his  youth  he  was  keenly  alive.  It 
is  pleasantly  related  that  when  the  news  of  the 
passing  of  the  Reform  Bill  for  England  and 
Wales  reached  Somersby,  the  young  Tenny- 

*  Copyright  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  1897. 


sons,  headed  by  the  poet,  rushed  out  into  the 
darkness  to  the  neighboring  church,  and  rang 
the  bells  as  madly  as  the  "  inspired  tinker  " 
himself  might  have  rung  them  in  the  days  of 
his  unregenerate  youth.  Whereat,  says  the 
author  of  the  Memoir, — 

"  The  new  parson,  horrified  at  hearing  his  bells  rung, 
and  not  merely  rung  but  furiously  clashed,  without  his 
leave,  came  rushing  into  his  church,  and  in  the  pitch 
blackness  laid  hold  of  the  first  thing  which  he  could 
clap  hand  to,  and  this  happened  to  be  my  aunt  Cecilia's 
little  dog  —  which  forthwith  tried  to  bite.  The  Tenny- 
sons  then  disclosed  themselves  amid  much  laughter; 
and  the  parson,  who  I  suppose  was  a  Tory  of  the  old 
school,  was  with  difficulty  pacified.  More  than  once 
my  father  thought  of  turning  this  scene  into  verse  as  an 
interesting  picture  of  the  times." 

An  extremely  interesting  and  valuable  fea- 
ture of  the  work  are  the  letters  to  and  from 
Tennyson,  with  which  both  volumes  are  thickly 
studded.  One  of  the  earlier  ones,  from  John 
Sterling,  hits  pleasantly  at  Carlyle. 

"Carlyle  was  here  yesterday  evening,  growled  at 
having  missed  you,  and  said  more  in  your  praise  than 
in  anyone's  except  Cromwell  and  an  American  back- 
woodsman who  has  killed  thirty  or  forty  people  with  a 
bowie-knife  and  since  run  away  to  Texas." 

A  letter  to  Dean  Bradley  (1855)  acknowl- 
edges the  receipt  of  a  volume  of  Matthew 
Arnold. 

"  Many  thanks  for  the  Arnold :  nobody  can  deny  that 
he  is  a  poet.  '  The  Merman '  was  an  old  favorite  of 
mine,  and  I  like  him  as  well  as  ever.  '  The  Scholar 
Gipsy  '  is  quite  new  to  me,  and  I  have  an  affection  for 
him,  which  I  think  will  increase." 

Apropos  of  the  foregoing  letter,  it  may  be 
noted  that  the  author  was  entrusted  years  later 
by  his  father  with  the  following  message  for 
Mr.  Arnold  :  "  Tell  Mat  not  to  write  any  more 
of  those  prose  things  like  '  Literature  and 
Dogma,'  but  to  give  us  something  like  his 
'Thyrsis,'  'Scholar  Gipsy,'  or  'Forsaken 
Merman.' "  Mr.  Arnold  naturally  took  the 
monition  in  good  part,  and  told  the  story  glee- 
fully "  all  over  London." 

In  a  note  from  Mr.  Herbert  Spencer,  the 
reader  may  possibly  discern  a  tinge  of  uncon- 
scious humor. 

"  I  happened  recently  to  be  re-reading  your  Poem 
'  The  Two  Voices,'  and  coming  to  the  verse  — 
'  Or  if  thro'  lower  lives  I  came  — 
Tho'  all  experience  past  became 
Consolidate  in  mind  and  frame  — ' 

it  occurred  to  me  that  you  might  like  to  glance  through 
a  book  which  applies  to  the  elucidation  of  mental 
science  the  hypothesis  to  which  you  refer.  I  therefore 
beg  your  acceptance  of  '  Psychology,'  which  I  send  by 
this  post." 

Whether  or  no  the  laureate  "  glanced  through  " 
Mr.  Spencer's  formidable  chef-d'oeuvre  is  not 


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recorded.  Touching  the  philosophical  content 
of  Tennyson's  work,  Professor  Jowett  (a,  fre- 
quently recurring  name  in  the  "  Life  ")  once 
observed : 

"  Your  poetry  has  an  element  of  philosophy  more  to  be 
considered  than  any  regular  philosophy  in  England.  It 
is  almost  too  much  impregnated  with  philosophy,  yet 
this  to  some  minds  will  be  its  greatest  charm.  I 
believe  that  your  '  In  Memoriam '  and  '  Crossing  the 
Bar '  will  live  forever  in  men's  hearts." 

One  may  venture  to  suggest  here,  in  all  defer- 
ence, that  Tennyson's  poetry,  especially  the 
pieces  cited  by  the  Master  of  Balliol,  may  be 
said  to  be  impregnated  with  the  "  breath  and 
finer  spirit "  of  the  current  "  regular  phil- 
osophy in  England,"  rather  than  to  be  remark- 
able for  any  such  element  of  their  own  distinct 
from  that  philosophy.  Do  not,  for  instance, 
the  groups  of  stanzas  in  "  In  Memoriam " 
numbered  LIV.,  LV.,  and  LVL,  really  sum 
up  and  nobly  transfigure  what  may  be  termed 
the  "  Gospel  of  Modern  Thought "  ?  Having 
cited  Professor  Jowett,  we  may  fitly  quote 
here  from  a  letter  by  him  to  Lady  Tennyson 
(1858),  in  which  he  incidentally  appraises 
criticism  as  a  form  of  literature. 

"You  asked  me  whether  I  could  suggest  any  sub- 
jects for  poetry.  I  have  been  so  presumptuous  as  to 
think  of  some.  I  don't  believe  that  poetical  feelings 
and  imagery  can  ever  be  exhausted.  That  is  only  a 
fancy  which  comes  over  us  when  our  minds  are  dry  or 
in  moments  of  depression.  This  generation  is  certainly 
more  poetical  and  imaginative  than  the  last,  and  per- 
haps, in  spite  of  the  critics,  the  next  may  be  more  poet- 
ical than  our  own.  And  as  to  the  critics,  their  power 
is  not  really  great.  Wagon-loads  of  them  are  lighting 
fires  every  week  or  on  their  way  to  the  grocers.  I  often 
fancy  that  the  critical  form  of  modern  literature  is  like 
the  rhetorical  one  which  overlaid  ancient  literature,  and 
will  be  regarded  as  that  is,  at  its  true  worth  in  after 
times.  One  drop  of  natural  feeling  in  poetry  or  the 
true  statement  of  a  single  new  fact  is  already  felt  to  be 
of  more  value  than  all  the  critics  put  together." 

Tennyson's  allusions  to  America  and  Amer- 
icans are  throughout  generally  in  a  kindly 
spirit  enough  —  though  we  find  him,  in  a  letter 
to  Mr.  Gladstone  (1872),  threatening  that  "If 
you  let  those  Yankees  get  anything  like  their 
way  of  you  in  the  Alabama  claims,  I  wont  pay 
my  '  ship-money '  any  more  than  old  Hamp- 
den."  A  letter  of  later  date,  however  (to  Dr. 
Van  Dyke),  contains  the  assurance  that  "  The 
report  (which  you  quote)  that  I  dislike  Amer- 
icans is  wholly  without  foundation,  though  it  is 
true  that  I  have  protested  against  the  manner 
in  which  some  of  the  American  publishers  have 
pilfered  my  work." 

Lord  Tennyson,  of  course,  had  the  penalties 
as  well  as  the  rewards  of  his  popularity  on  this 


side  the  water.  He  was  long  one  of  the  stock 
"  objects  of  interest  "  for  the  transatlantic 
tourist.  It  is  recorded  that  one  misguided  en- 
thusiast descended  upon  Aldworth  with  the 
staggering  announcement  that  he  had  worked 
his  way  across  the  Atlantic  in  a  cattle  ship, 
solely  in  order  to  recite  "  Maud  "  to  its  author 
—  which  he  forthwith  proceeded  to  do.  "  Hav- 
ing pity  on  the  man,"  says  the  narrator,  "  my 
father  allowed  him  to  do  so,  but  suffered  from 
the  recitation.  We  paid  the  reciter's  passage 
back  to  America,  but  never  heard  of  him 
again." 

Lord  Tennyson's  Life  of  his  father  is  un- 
unquestionably  a  book  that  permanently  and 
appreciably  enriches  English  literature.  It  is 
hardly  possible  to  conceive  of  a  generation  to 
come  that  it  will  not  deeply  interest,  contain- 
ing as  it  does  the  best  and  truest  that  could  be 
said  of  Alfred  Lord  Tennyson,  as  man  and  as 
poet,  by  those  of  his  contemporaries  who  were 
best  qualified  to  speak  of  him.  It  is  a  book 
eloquent  of  pious  toil,  of  modest  self-repres- 
sion, of  filial  solicitude  lest  the  bounds  of  a 
somewhat  difficult  prescribed  standard  be  over- 
stepped, of  anxiety  to  leave  no  source  untried 
whence  a  ray  of  real  biographical  light  was  to 
be  looked  for.  Lord  Tennyson  has  been 
liberally  and  directly  assisted  in  his  work  by 
his  father's  more  intimate  and  eminent  friends. 
Tennyson's  letters  to  and  from  the  Queen  are 
piously  enshrined  by  his  son  in  a  separate 
chapter.  The  opening  volume  is  prefixed  by  a 
Chronology  of  the  Books  of  Poems ;  and  the 
Index,  we  are  glad  to  say,  is  a  notably  full  and 
helpful  one.  In  their  material  features  the 
volumes  are  impeccable.  The  superb  series 
of  portraits  fitly  crowns  a  work  which  is  a 
veritable  literary  feast  from  cover  to  cover. 
One  more  example  of  the  generous  aftermath 
of  Tennysonian  song  we  shall  venture  to  give 
in  closing  —  an  unpublished  version  of  "  Sweet 
and  Low." 

"  Bright  is  the  moon  on  the  deep, 
Bright  are  the  cliffs  in  her  beam, 
Sleep,  my  little  one,  sleep ! 
Look,  he  smiles  and  opens  his  hands, 
He  sees  his  father  in  distant  lands, 
And  kisses  him  there  in  a  dream, 
Sleep,  sleep. 

"  Father  is  over  the  deep, 
Father  will  come  to  thee  soon, 
Sleep  my  pretty  one,  sleep ! 
Father  will  come  to  his  babe  in  the  nest, 
Silver  sails  all  out  of  the  west, 
Under  the  silver  moon, 
Sleep,  sleep!"* 

E.  G.  J. 

*  Copyright  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  1897. 


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THE  FOUNDATIONS  OF  KNOWLEDGE.* 
Somewhat  more  than  two  hundred  years  ago, 
a  company  of  gentlemen  were  engaged  in  the 
discussion  of  a  problem  of  metaphysics.  The 
longer  they  considered  the  question,  the  more 
completely  they  found  themselves  at  sea. 
Finally  it  occurred  to  one  of  their  number,  a 
Mr.  John  Locke,  that  their  difficulties  were 
caused  by  their  failure  to  raise  a  fundamental 
question,  namely,  What  are  the  powers  of  the 
human  mind ;  how  much  can  we  know,  and 
how  much  from  the  very  nature  of  our  faculties 
must  remain  forever  unknown  ?  Locke  under- 
took to  jot  down  a  few  thoughts  on  this  subject 
for  the  benefit  of  his  friends,  and  out  of  these 
detached  notes  grew  the  famous  "  Essay  Con- 
cerning Human  Understanding."  Thus  was 
launched  a  new  science,  which  to-day  is  known 
by  the  name  of  epistemology,  or  theory  of 
knowledge.  Not  that  Locke  is  entitled  to  be 
considered  its  founder,  in  any  other  sense  than 
that  in  which  Stevenson  may  be  called  the 
inventor  of  the  locomotive.  What  he  did  was 
to  so  demonstrate  the  utility  of  this  new  discip- 
line by  his  own  contributions  as  to  assure  it  a 
permanent  place  in  the  world  of  philosophic 
thought. 

It  cannot  be  truthfully  said  that  epistemology 
has  always  enjoyed  a  great  share  of  popular 
favor.  Its  problems  seem  at  first  sight  too 
remote  from  the  interests  of  every-day  life  to 
be  worth  the  effort  and  time  necessary  for  their 
study.  But  the  past  generation  has  witnessed 
something  of  a  revolution  in  this  respect.  The 
term  agnosticism,  introduced  into  the  language 
by  Professor  Huxley,  has  called  the  attention 
of  the  public  to  a  theory  which  if  true  is  felt 
to  be  of  the  greatest  importance  to  every  human 
being.  Following  Hume,  whose  interpreter 
he  has  made  himself,  Huxley  declares  that  our 
only  source  of  knowledge  of  the  world  without 
us  is  sensation.  But  all  sensations,  even  those 
of  sight  and  touch,  are  mere  feelings  which  tell 
us  nothing  of  the  real  nature  of  anything  out- 
side of  ourselves.  Hence  it  is  concluded  that 
the  world  conceived  to  lie  behind  these  sub- 
jective phenomena  as  their  cause  is  absolutely 
inaccessible  to  human  reason ;  wherefore  the 
theologian  and  the  metaphysician,  since  they 
attempt  to  penetrate  into  this  region,  are  on 
the  same  intellectual  plane  as  the  would-be 
inventor  of  the  perpetual-motion  machine. 


*  THE  THEORY  OF  KNOWLEDGE.  A  Contribution  to  some 
Problems  of  Logic  and  Metaphysics.  By  L.  T.  Hobhouse, 
Fellow  and  Assistant-Tutor  at  Corpus  Christi  College,  Oxford. 
New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


Within  very  recent  years,  Mr.  Balfour  has 
given  new  life  to  the  popular  discussion  of  epis- 
temological  questions.  He  has  striven  to  show 
that  there  is  evidence  for  the  existence  of  God, 
the  immortality  of  the  soul,  and  the  ultimate 
triumph  of  right  over  wrong,  of  equal  validity 
with  that  for  the  accepted  results  of  physical 
science.  Scientific  theories  are  never  matters 
of  experience  in  the  strict  sense  of  the  term. 
They  simply  represent  the  way  in  which  cer- 
tain observed  facts  must  be  put  together  if 
any  explanation  for  them  exists.  Thus  at  the 
foundation  of  science  lies  the  faith  that  all 
experience  is  ultimately  explainable ;  and  the 
sole  warrant  for  this  faith,  it  is  claimed,  is 
the  felt  need  of  such  explanation.  But  if  this 
craving  carries  with  it  its  own  warrant  of  satis- 
faction, the  same  claim  may  be  urged  for  all 
the  other  deeper  cravings  of  our  nature.  If 
this  be  true,  our  belief  in  the  existence  of 
Providence  may  have  exactly  the  same  foun- 
dation as  that  in  the  uniformity  of  nature  which 
is  the  basis  of  all  generalization  in  science. 
Most  readers  will  be  familiar  with  the  form 
which  Browning  has  given  to  this  doctrine. 
Other  thinkers  —  as,  notably,  Coleridge,  Car- 
lyle,  and  Emerson  —  have  sought  a  different 
way  out  of  agnosticism.  They  maintained  the 
existence  of  certain  intuitions  which  give  us  a 
direct  knowledge  of  the  invisible  world,  and 
acquaint  us  with  those  truths  which  are  of 
most  concern  to  our  deeper  life.  Sometimes 
these  intuitions  are  described  as  if  they  were 
revelations  vouchsafed  by  a  higher  power  to 
those  whose  lives  render  them  worthy  recip- 
ients of  the  message.  Others  have  assimilated 
them  to  mathematical  axioms,  the  truth  of 
which  the  mind  perceives  as  soon  as  they  are 
presented.  In  one  form  or  another,  the  doc- 
trine that  what  is  non-existent  for  sense  may 
thus  be  clear  to  the  eye  of  reason,  has  been  a 
favorite  tenet  from  the  time  of  Plato  to  the 
present  day. 

It  is  the  office  of  epistemology  to  examine 
these  various  conflicting  contentions.  It  en- 
quires what  we  may  know,  how  we  gain  our 
knowledge,  and  by  what  touchstone  we  may 
distinguish  false  beliefs  from  true.  Its  prov- 
ince is  not  confined  to  the  question  of  the  pos- 
sibility of  knowing  the  supersensible  world, 
but  extends  to  all  branches  of  human  inquiry. 
It  investigates,  among  other  things,  the  condi- 
tions of  that  great  body  of  knowledge  upon 
which  our  so-called  practical  activity  depends, 
and  the  grounds  and  justification  of  our  gen- 
eralizations from  what  has  happened  in  the 


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past  to  what  will  happen  in  the  future  ;  it  asks 
what  is  to  be  understood  by  the  terms  sub- 
stance, cause,  and  many  others  which  we  use 
confidently  enough  in  daily  life  with  but  vague 
notions  of  their  exact  significance.  No  de- 
partment of  the  subject  lies  remote  from  the 
stir  and  hum  of  modern  intellectual  life.  The 
nature  of  the  relation  of  mind  and  body,  for 
instance,  can  be  discussed  intelligently  only 
when  we  understand  the  meaning  of  the  word 
cause  ;  while  the  controversy  which  Professor 
Ostwald  has  recently  started  *  proves  that  the 
final  interpretation  of  the  facts  brought  to  light 
by  chemistry  and  physics  requires  an  answer 
to  the  previous  question,  What  is  matter,  and 
where  do  we  get  the  evidence  of  its  existence  ? 
Of  the  treatises  dealing  with  the  theory  of 
knowledge,  that  which  Mr.  Hobhouse  has  re- 
cently given  us  is  the  most  complete,  as  it  is 
one  of  the  ablest  and  most  satisfactory,  in  the 
English  language.  No  other  English  work 
covers  the  field  so  thoroughly.  This  fact,  taken 
in  connection  with  the  keenness  of  analysis, 
sanity  of  judgment,  and  clearness  of  exposition 
exhibited  throughout,  make  the  work  indispen- 
sable to  the  specialist,  and  at  the  same  time 
admirably  suited  to  the  needs  of  the  beginner. 
In  his  doctrine  of  matter,  the  author  shows 
himself  quite  out  of  sympathy  with  the  views 
held  by  the  great  majority  of  students  of  the 
subject,  and  the  arguments  advanced  in  sup- 
port of  his  position  will  probably  strike  most 
readers  as  more  ingenious  than  convincing  ;  but 
even  here  the  hall-mark  of  a  great  work  is  not 
wanting  —  we  learn  as  much  from  a  chapter 
whose  final  conclusions  we  reject  as  from  one 
whose  reasoning  carries  with  it  complete  con- 
viction. In  general  we  seem  to  be  reading  a 
book  which  Locke  might  have  written  after  the 
work  of  Hume  and  Kant,  Mill  and  Green. 

The  ultimate  source  of  all  the  knowledge  we 
as  yet,  at  any  rate,  possess,  is,  we  are  told,  the 
direct  experience  of  a  given  content  of  con- 
sciousness. This  represents  the  same  thought 
which  Locke  intended  to  express  when  he  laid 
down  his  famous  proposition  that  the  source  of 
all  knowledge  is  experience,  as  given  in  sensa- 
tion on  the  one  hand,  and  the  consciousness  of 
the  operations  of  our  own  minds  on  the  other. 
These  contents  may  be  remembered  and  ana- 
lyzed ;  they  may  be  subjected  to  the  process  of 
construction  (or  synthesis)  by  which  wholes 
arise  which  have  never  before  been  given  in 
their  entirety  (one  example  of  this  is  the  work 
of  the  imagination)  ;  and,  finally,  under  certain 
*See  "  Popular  Science  Monthly,"  March,  1896. 


conditions  which  it  is  the  office  of  inductive 
logic  to  point  out,  the  relations  which  obtain 
between  the  different  elements  of  a  content  of 
consciousness  may  be  generalized,  so  that  we 
may  affirm  that  what  is  perceived  to  be  con- 
joined here  and  now  will  be  found  together 
everywhere  and  always.  The  axioms  of  mathe- 
matics are  shown  to  be  special  cases  under  this 
principle,  and  so  by  implication  the  existence 
of  a  separate  faculty  to  account  for  them  is 
denied. 

Such,  according  to  Mr.  Hobhouse,  are  the 
processes  by  which  knowledge  is  gained.  But 
now,  what  grounds  have  we  for  supposing  that 
they  terminate  in  truth?  Of  course,  we  all 
know  how  one  judgment  may  be  corrected  by 
comparison  with  another,  and  one  observation 
by  others  more  carefully  conducted  ;  but  the 
question  is,  what  right  have  we  to  believe  that 
our  faculties,  even  when  working  in  their  per- 
fection, lead  us  to  truth  at  all  ?  The  reply  is 
that  when  the  deliverances  of  our  various  "fac- 
ulties "  form  a  completely  consistent  system  — 
one  from  which  all  contradictions  have  been 
eliminated  —  no  motive  and  no  rational  justifi- 
cation remain  for  distrusting  them.  We  begin, 
and  we  must  end,  with  assuming  that  the  work- 
ings of  the  mind  are  such  that  where  har- 
monious they  reveal  to  us  reality.  Any  other 
assurance  it  would  be  senseless  to  demand.  We 
thus  find  our  questions  answered  as  follows : 
We  may  know  whatever  is  given  in  immediate 
experience,  or  is  remembered,  or  may  be  in- 
ferred from  the  data  supplied  by  experience  ; 
the  conditions  of  knowledge  are  the  working  of 
the  processes  already  enumerated ;  the  justifica- 
tion for  any  confidence  we  may  feel  in  them  is 
the  fact  that  their  reports  are  consistent  and 
mutually  support  each  other. 

With  reference  to  Mr.  Balfour's  contention, 
Mr.  Hobhouse  admits  that  the  wants  and  crav- 
ings of  our  ethical  and  religious  nature  are 
capable  of  creating  their  own  beliefs,  or  at 
least  of  influencing  us  in  the  selection  of  our 
creeds.  Moreover,  he  thinks  this  procedure 
may  ultimately  be  able  to  justify  itself  before 
the  bar  of  reason.  But,  as  against  Mr.  Balfour, 
he  urges  that  as  yet  there  is  no  agreement  as 
to  just  what  these  needs  are,  and  what  is  neces- 
sary for  their  satisfaction.  Until  the  partisans 
of  this  view  are  at  one  on  these  points,  he  re- 
gards their  claims  as  not  worth  the  considera- 
tion of  a  serious  thinker.  In  this  attenuated 
form,  the  doctrine  that  you  may  believe  what 
you  very  much  want  to  believe  (for,  notwith- 
standing all  disclaimers,  this  is  what  it  comes 


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to)  will  probably  do  no  harm.  Of  course,  the 
possession  of  truth  ordinarily  yields  a  satis- 
faction of  its  own,  and  is  often  pursued  for 
the  sake  of  this  satisfaction.  But  the  "  logical 
Pharisee  "  can  point  out  that  there  must  be, 
and  is,  other  justification  for  the  trust  in  our 
intellectual  processes  beyond  the  satisfaction 
they  yield ;  and  if  so,  the  entire  argument  of 
Mr.  Balfour  falls  to  the  ground.  This  by  no 
means  cuts  us  off  from  all  access  to  the  world 
of  ultimate  reality.  The  complete  explanation 
of  experience  compels  us  to  transcend  expe- 
rience, as  even  agnosticism  will  be  found  to 
admit.  Here,  then,  is  a  legitimate  sphere  for 
a  scientific  metaphysics,  permanent  contribu- 
tions to  which  may  be  found  in  the  works  of  all 
the  great  masters  of  philosophy. 

FRANK  CHAPMAN  SHARP. 


THE  STUDY  OF  ENGLISH  WORDS.* 

The  growing  interest  in  the  study  of  En- 
glish in  our  universities  and  secondary  schools 
is  especially  encouraging  to  those  who  realize 
how  absolutely  human  progress  is  dependent  on 
the  ability  to  record  and  to  communicate  facts 
and  ideas.  The  impatience  of  "  practical  peo- 
ple "  with  the  study  of  language  would  be  an 
insoluble  puzzle  to  the  thoughtful  observer,  if 
the  ungrateful  tendency  of  human  nature  to 
take  for  granted  the  most  important  elements  in 
well-being  were  not  too  familiar  to  need  more 
than  a  passing  mention.  "  Practical  people  " 
above  all  others  ought  to  recognize  the  value  of 
words.  The  idealist  may  imagine,  in  some 
vague  way,  that  thought  can  communicate  itself 
without  expression ;  but  to  those  who  deal  with 
the  visible  and  tangible,  the  embodiment  of  the 
thought  should  be  scarcely  less  important  than 
the  thought  itself.  That  its  importance  is  not 
more  generally  realized  is  due  to  the  fact  that 
a  fit  medium  of  expression  is,  like  air  and  sun- 
shine, usually  taken  for  granted.  When  the 
public  can  be  made  to  understand  that  discrim- 
ination is  as  necessary  in  the  choice  of  words 
as  in  the  selection  of  materials  for  a  bicycle  or 
a  bridge  or  for  a  durable  garment,  a  great  step 
will  have  been  taken  in  popular  education. 

In  these  democratic  days  the  educational  ten- 
dency is,  as  has  been  often  pointed  out,  to  level 
down  rather  than  to  level  up.  The  humanities 
are  sacrificed  to  the  sciences ;  studies  that  ele- 
vate and  refine  are  subordinated  to  the  so-called 

*A  STUDY  OF  ENGLISH  WORDS.  By  Jessie  Macmillan 
Anderson.  New  York  and  Chicago :  The  American  Book  Co. 


utilities  of  life.  Under  these  circumstances, 
those  who  believe  that  "  man  does  not  live  by 
bread  alone  "  find  ample  ground  for  encourage- 
ment in  the  rapidly  growing  interest  in  that 
great  English  literature  which,  in  addition  to 
its  native  vigor,  has  shown  a  remarkable  power 
of  absorbing  what  is  best  in  other  literatures. 
The  study  of  English  as  language  has  not 
hitherto  kept  pace  with  the  study  of  English 
as  literature ;  yet  the  appreciation  of  English 
as  literature  is  inevitably  dependent  on  the 
understanding  of  English  as  language,  —  an 
axiomatic  truth  that  is  obscured  by  the  habit 
of  taking  the  understanding  of  English  for 
granted.  Every  other  art  must  be  taught;  but 
one  of  the  most  difficult  and  most  vitally  im- 
portant of  all  the  arts,  the  art  of  expression, 
is  supposed  to  be  acquired  instinctively.  It  is 
acquired,  to  a  certain  extent,  not  instinctively, 
but  unconsciously,  by  a  few  highly-favored  in- 
dividuals —  those  who  are  born  into  families 
where  words  are  carefully  chosen,  where  nice 
distinctions  are  made,  where  books  of  the  high- 
est type  are  intimate  companions ;  yet  in  order 
that  the  choice  of  words  may  be  intelligent, 
these  unconscious  influences  must  be,  and  in 
such  families  generally  are,  supplemented  by 
systematic  training.  The  old  custom  of  teach- 
ing children  Latin  at  an  early  age,  and  the  con- 
sequent discovery,  in  childhood,  that  ideas  do 
not  necessarily  arise  with  the  words  to  fit  them, 
and  that  the  selection  of  the  right  word  is  a 
matter  requiring  care  and  thought,  gave  the 
needed  stimulus  to  the  sense  of  discrimination. 
Now  that  the  study  of  Latin  is  postponed  to  a 
later  period  in  school  life,  or  more  frequently 
omitted  altogether,  while  teachers  in  the  grade 
schools  are  often  familiar  with  no  language  but 
their  own,  and  in  many  cases  not  intelligently 
familiar  with  that,  indications  that  the  scientific 
study  of  English  is  working  down  from  the  uni- 
versities to  the  secondary  schools,  with  a  conse- 
quent improvement  in  the  methods  of  the  pri- 
mary schools,  cannot  be  too  heartily  welcomed. 
In  connection  with  these  indications,  the 
appearance  of  a  text-book  of  English  words, 
that  is  written  on  scientific  principles,  is  of 
peculiar  interest  to  all  who  believe  that  an  in- 
telligent use  and  understanding  of  the  English 
language  is  the  fundamental  requisite  of  a 
good  education  ;  and  that,  in  the  last  analysis, 
that  use  and  understanding  must  be  conditioned 
on  a  keen  sense  of  the  value  of  words.  "  A 
Study  of  English  Words,"  by  Miss  Jessie  Mac- 
millan Anderson,  is  evidently  the  work  of  one 
who  combines  with  an  unusual  appreciation  of 


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the  English  language,  and  a  scientific  training 
in  its  principles,  a  rare  power  of  imparting  her 
own  interest  and  knowledge  to  the  untrained 
and  unscientific  mind.  Many  valuable  books 
have  been  written  to  give  information  on  this 
subject  to  those  already  interested  in  it ;  this 
little  book  is  one  to  awaken  an  interest  where 
none  has  yet  been  felt.  The  ideal  method  of 
teaching  English  is  undoubtedly  by  means  of 
good  literature  in  the  hands  of  a  competent 
teacher;  but  competent  teachers  of  English 
are  scarce  in  the  places  where  they  are  most 
needed.  A  careful  study  of  such  a  book  as 
this  in  our  grammar  schools  would  do  much  to 
prepare  those  who  in  a  few  years  will  be  the 
teachers  in  our  grade  schools  to  guide  their 
pupils  into  an  intelligent  interest  in  words  and 
language. 

Perhaps  Miss  Anderson's  book  may  be  best 
described  by  saying  that  it  is  organic,  not 
mechanical,  as  most  books  are  that  deal  with 
stems  and  prefixes  and  suffixes  for  school  use. 
Her  method  insures  for  words  and  language 
the  same  vital  interest  that  school  children  feel 
in  natural  history  and  botany  when  properly 
taught.  Beginning  with  language  as  a  living, 
growing  thing,  having  its  periods  of  childhood, 
youth,  maturity,  and  old  age,  with  its  family 
relationships  and  family  resemblances,  and 
going  on  to  trace  specifically  the  growth  of  the 
English  language,  with  its  various  possibilities 
of  combination  and  modification  and  their  ac- 
tual outcome,  the  reader  is  brought  to  the 
difficult  and  technical  matter  of  roots  and 
stems  with  a  sufficiently  living  interest  to  vivify 
even  those  dry  bones ;  much  as  the  student  of 
botany,  in  tracing  processes  of  plant  life  and 
growth,  becomes  sufficiently  enthusiastic  to 
carry  over  his  enthusiasm  into  the  pursuit  of 
botanical  names.  Following  the  study  of  deri- 
vations, which  embodies  the  results  of  the  lat- 
est linguistic  research,  are  chapters  on  the 
growth  and  change  in  the  meaning  of  words, 
on  the  relative  merits  of  Saxon  and  Latin 
English,  on  the  artist's  and  scientist's  use  of 
words,  on  synonyms  and  on  prose  rhythms, 
which  will  be  welcomed  by  those  teachers  who 
believe,  with  Miss  Anderson,  that  the  best 
methods  are  not  too  good  for  our  boys  and 
girls,  and  that  the  unconscious  choice  of  one 
word  rather  than  another  should  be  developed 
at  the  earliest  possible  age  into  intelligent  se- 
lection. The  result  is  that  while  the  book  is 
precisely  what  is  needed  to  supplement  the  in- 
dividual work  of  teachers,  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
many  educated  men  and  women  would  find  in 


it  much  to  heighten  their  appreciation  of  the 
literature  that  they  now  read  with  pleasure  and 
profit,  without  knowing  why.  Nowhere  else 
can  we  find,  in  as  convenient  a  form,  so  much 
that  we  all  ought  to  know,  but  that  few  of  us, 
except  special  students,  do  know,  about  our 
language.  And  it  is  all  told  with  a  freshness 
of  treatment  that  will  attract  the  student,  and 
at  the  same  time  with  a  vividness  and  sympa- 
thetic appeal  that  will  awaken  and  hold  the 
interest  of  any  intelligent  school  boy  or  girl. 
Miss  Anderson  evidently  remembers  what  too 
many  writers  for  young  people  forget, —  that  a 
great  many  books  that  we  call  classics  are  the 
favorite  books  of  boys  and  girls.  Her  "  hope 
that  this  elementary  work  may  help  toward  the 
time  when  our  boys  and  girls  shall  know  more 
of  their  English  tongue,  and  shall  feel  increas- 
ingly the  charm  and  worth  of  their  language 
inheritance,"  will  be  echoed  with  firm  assurance 
by  those  who  see  clearly  just  where  this  book 
would  have  helped  them  in  their  own  school 
days.  The  important  thing  in  education  is, 
not  to  be  carried  along,  but  to  be  started  on  the 
right  track ;  and  this  interesting  and  sugges- 
tive book  is  admirably  planned  to  start  boys 
and  girls,  as  well  as  older  persons,  on  the  right 
track  in  the  study  of  words  and  literature. 
MARGARET  COOPER  McGiFFERT. 


ESSAYS  ON  MAN  AND  DESTINY.* 

One  of  the  striking  features  of  Mr.  Karl 
Pearson's  new  volume  of  "  Studies  in  Evolu- 
tion "  is  the  varied  character  of  the  "  stud- 
ies." It  is  not  lessened  by  reading  the  author's 
preface.  In  it  he  says  :  "  To  some  readers  a 
few  words  of  explanation  on  the  apparent  want 
of  unity  in  the  contents  of  this  book  may  seem 
desirable."  The  unity  which  he  himself  be- 
lieves exists  in  them  is,  "  the  endeavour  to  see 
all  phenomena,  physical  and  social,  as  a  con- 
nected growth,  and  describe  them  as  such  in 
the  briefest  formula  possible."  Fully  recog- 
nizing this,  and  being  in  hearty  sympathy  with 
the  author,  we  still  find  his  matter  extremely 
varied. 

Of  a  certain  series  of  these  essays,  mathe- 
matical in  character,  "  The  Chances  of  Death  " 
may  be  selected  as  typical.  It  is  a  study  of 
the  mathematical  curve  of  mortality.  In  an 
ingenious  and  remarkably  readable  way,  Mr. 

*THE  CHANCES  OF  DEATH,  AND  OTHER  STUDIES  IN  EVO- 
LUTION. By  Karl  Pearson.  In  two  volumes.  New  York : 
Edward  Arnold. 


1897.] 


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Pearson  calls  attention  to  the  peculiarities  and 
components  of  this  curve.  It  is  really  a  com- 
pound, the  resultant  of  several  simple  curves, 
each  with  its  influence.  The  mortality  from 
birth  to  death  does  not  tell  the  whole  story : 
the  curve  extends  back  of  the  point  of  birth, 
taking  in  pre-natal  death.  The  famous  me- 
diaeval "  dance  of  death  "  is  inexact. 

"  Artistically  we  no  longer  think  of  death  as  striking 
chaotically:  we  regard  his  aim  as  perfectly  regular 
in  the  mass,  if  unpredicable  in  the  individual  instance. 
It  is  no  longer  the  Dance  of  Death  which  pictures  for  us 
Death  carrying  off  indiscriminately  the  old  and  the 
young,  the  rich  and  the  poor,  the  toiler  and  the  idler, 
the  babe  and  its  grandsire.  We  see  something  quite 
different:  the  cohort  of  a  thousand  tiny  mites  starting 
across  the  Bridge  of  Life,  and  growing  in  stature  as 
they  advance,  till  at  the  far  end  of  the  bridge  we  see 
only  the  graybeard  and  the  '  lean  and  slippered  panta- 
loon.' As  they  pass  along  the  causeway  the  throng  is 
more  and  more  thinned.  Five  Deaths  are  posted  at 
different  stages  of  the  route  alongside  the  bridge,  and, 
with  different  skewness  of  aim  and  different  weapons  of 
precision,  they  fire  at  the  human  target,  till  none  remain 
to  reach  the  end  of  the  causeway —  the  limit  of  life." 

To  illustrate  his  conception,  the  author  has 
caused  a  quaint  and  striking  picture  of  the 
bridge  of  life  to  be  drawn. 

Of  the  other  purely  mathematical  essays, 
"Variation  in  Man  and  Woman"  is  most 
valuable.  It  is  commonly  stated  in  anthropo- 
logical writings  that  man  is  more  variable  than 
woman.  Mr.  Havelock  Ellis,  in  "Man  and 
Woman,"  makes  the  statement  direct  and  un- 
qualified, and  considers  it  a  matter  of  prime 
importance.  Mr.  Pearson  "  lays  the  axe  to  the 
root  of  this  pseudo-scientific  superstition."  He 
presents  the  most  carefully  treated  mass  of 
data  ever  dealt  with,  and  outlines  a  proper 
mode  of  examining  it.  Seventeen  anthropo- 
logical characters  are  investigated,  and  in 
eleven  of  these  woman  appears  to  present 
the  greater  variation.  In  the  important  mat- 
ters of  weight,  stature,  girth,  grip,  and  skull 
capacity,  woman  is  the  more  variable.  This 
greater  variability  of  woman  is  attributed  to 
"  her  relatively  less  severe  struggle  for  exist- 
ence." In  his  final  conclusion  the  author 
makes  a  fairly  vigorous  thrust  at  Mr.  Ellis, 
saying  :  "  Those  writers  who  find  in  this  prin- 
ciple [man's  greater  variability],  not  only 
'  social  and  practical  consequences  of  the  wid- 
est significance,'  but  also  an  explanation  of  the 
peculiar  characteristics  'of  the  whole  of  our 
human  civilization,'  are  scarcely  to  be  trusted 
when  they  deal  with  the  problems  of  sex." 
Whatever  the  final  verdict  of  science  in  the 
matter  —  for  our  author  does  not  consider  his 
paper  exhaustive, —  the  essay  is  one  of  the  most 


important  that  has,  for  a  long  time  past,  ap- 
peared in  physical  anthropology. 

The  rigid  application  of  mathematics  to  the 
theory  of  natural  selection  in  society  and  the 
important  discussions  of  the  present  anti-science 
drift  of  thought,  while  both  interesting  and 
important,  may  not  detain  us.  The  clever 
studies  in  the  second  volume,  "  Woman  as 
Witch,"  "  Ashiepattle,  or  Hans  Seeks  His 
Luck,"  "Kindred  Group  Marriages,"  "The 
German  Passion  Play,"  demand  notice.  They 
deal  more  or  less  directly  with  the  marvellously 
instructive  mediaevalism  of  Europe.  The  first 
three  are  studies  in  customs  and  words  to  se- 
cure survival  data  of  the  old  "  mother-right." 
The  last  is  a  study  of  the  matter,  spirit,  and 
significance  of  the  great  religious  drama,  "  A 
Study  in  the  Evolution  of  Western  Christian- 
ity." In  them  all  the  author  shows  a  wealth 
of  accumulated  material  and  marked  originality 
in  treatment.  His  style  is  terse,  clear,  and 
vigorous :  himself  a  radical,  a  materialist,  a 
socialist,  his  work  is  always  candid,  his  treat- 
ment sympathetic.  His  application  of  mathe- 
matics in  some  fields  where  it  has  hitherto  been 
omitted  is  bound  to  stop  much  loose  thinking 
and  indefinite  statement.  His  work,  curious 
and  interesting  in  its  range  and  varied  char- 
acter, must  stimulate  workers,  for  it  bears  the 
stamp  of  honesty  and  independence. 

FREDERICK  STARR. 


RECENT  STUDIES  IN  EDUCATION.* 

One  of  the  most  interesting  and  important  books 
in  recent  pedagogical  literature  is  Mrs.  Mary  R. 
Ailing- Aber's  "  An  Experiment  in  Education."  The 
experiment  described  in  this  book  was  made  in  a 
primary  department  in  Boston,  in  1881,  and  the 
aim  of  the  experiment  was  "  to  see  if  the  child  may 
not  be  introduced  at  once  to  the  foundations  of  all 
learning — the  natural  and  physical  sciences,  mathe- 
matics, literature  including  language,  and  history  — 
and  at  the  same  time  be  given  a  mastery  of  such 
elements  of  reading,  writing,  and  number  as  usually 
constitute  primary  education."  On  another  page 

*  AN  EXPERIMENT  IN  EDUCATION.  Also,  The  Ideas  which 
Inspired  it  and  Were  Inspired  by  it.  By  Mary  R.  Ailing- Aber. 
New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

FBOEBEL'S  EDUCATIONAL  LAWS  FOR  ALL  TEACHERS.  By 
James  L.  Hughes.  New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

SCHOOL  MANAGEMENT  AND  SCHOOL  METHODS.  By  Joseph 
Baldwin,  M.A.,  LL.D.  New  York:  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

SOME  OBSERVATIONS  OF  A  FOSTER  PARENT.  By  John 
Charles  Tarver.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

COLLEGE  TRAINING  FOR  WOMEN.  By  Kate  Holliday 
Claghorn,  Ph.D.  (Yale).  New  York:  Thomas  Y.  Crowell 
&Co. 


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the  similar  experiment  at  Englewood,  Illinois,  is 
briefly  set  forth.  Bat  the  bulk  of  the  book  is  given 
up  to  general  ideas  which  these  experiments  sug- 
gested, and  to  remarks  on  their  special  application 
to  the  teaching  of  science,  history,  literature,  and  so 
forth.  The  writer  believes  in  giving  to  children 
two  years  old  and  upward  the  same  mental  nourish- 
ment as  to  adults,  and  in  doing  this  "  fearlessly  "; 
and  her  observations  and  reflections  on  this  matter 
are  of  great  interest.  The  special  value  of  the  book 
is  that  it  brings  out  the  new  ideas  on  education 
clearly  and  definitely  on  the  basis  of  actual  experi- 
ment; but  the  work  would  have  been  doubly  valu- 
able if  it  had  been  more  fully  illustrated  by  example 
and  incident.  We  commend  this  very  original, 
sound,  and  suggestive  little  book  to  all  teachers,  and 
especially  to  all  those  in  kindergarten  and  primary 
grades. 

Another  book  which  ought  to  be  very  useful  to 
teachers  in  every  department  is  "  FroebeFs  Educa- 
tional Laws  for  all  Teachers,"  by  Mr.  James  L. 
Hughes.  The  main  object  of  this  book  is  to  show 
that  Froebel's  ideas  and  methods  are  significant  for 
the  whole  scheme  of  education  from  kindergarten  to 
university.  This  work  consists  of  quotations  from 
Froebel  giving  his  general  ideas  on  education,  with 
a  running  exposition  and  comment  partly  original 
with  Mr.  Hughes  and  partly  selected.  There  are 
interesting  chapters  on  Unity,  Self-Activity,  Play, 
Apperception,  Evolution,  and  so  forth.  The  work 
is  uncritical,  and  perhaps  over-eulogistic.  Though 
very  enthusiastic,  it  is  always  sane.  While  Mr. 
Hughes  has  given  a  serviceable  and  careful  presen- 
tation of  the  subject,  the  book  is  too  scrappy  and 
general ;  and  there  is  still  need  of  a  very  simple 
work  which  from  abundant  examples  shall  set  forth 
clearly,  without  any  manifold  quotations,  the  Froe- 
belian  principles. 

"  School  Management  and  School  Methods,"  by 
Professor  Joseph  Baldwin,  is  an  outline  manual 
designed  especially  for  classes  of  teachers.  It  em- 
phasises the  direct  teaching  of  morals  and  religion, 
and  is  opposed  to  "  rewards,  per-cent  marking, 
formal  examinations,  and  corporal  punishment !  " 
The  author  discusses  educational  conditions,  facili- 
ties, school-government,  class  management,  school 
and  college  organization,  and  methods  of  teaching. 
In  the  main  it  is  up  to  date,  though  under  the  ac- 
count of  school  libraries  we  do  not  find  any  descrip- 
tion of  the  traveling-library  scheme.  The  style  is 
oral,  and  very  jerky  in  its  repetition  of  short,  abrupt 
sentences.  The  tone  is  very  enthusiastic,  but  rather 
crudely  so.  While  as  a  syllabus  the  book  has  some 
merit,  yet  there  is  so  much  vague  and  general  treat- 
ment that  it  will  hardly  be  of  the  highest  value  to 
teachers.  Further,  for  such  a  work  the  references 
to  the  literature  of  the  subject  should  be  far  more 
full  and  explicit  than  we  find  here. 

In  Mr.  J.  C.  Tarver's  "  Observations  of  a  Foster 
Parent "  we  have  a  pleasantly  written  book  whose 
object  is  the  very  praiseworthy  one  of  mediating 
between  the  parent  and  the  foster  parent  or  teacher, 


of  making  their  relation  more  intelligent  and  sym- 
pathetic. Mr.  Tarver  avows  that  he  has  written  this 
book  "  chiefly  for  the  sake  of  earnest  and  anxious 
persons  who  have  no  means  of  knowing  what  is  the 
best  thing  to  do  for  their  children,  or  of  measuring 
what  is  being  done  for  them  by  others."  To  this 
end  he  has  put  together  some  thirty  short  discursive 
chapters  on  studies,  methods,  pupil's  mind  and  char- 
acter, schools,  etc.  The  book  is  very  readable,  and 
contains  some  shrewd  observations.  But  the  point 
of  view  is  ultra-English  and  conservative,  and  it 
would  hardly  be  of  much  use  to  the  American 
reader.  There  is  certainly  room  for  a  first- rate 
book  which  shall  address  the  American  parent  from 
the  most  advanced  point  of  American  educational 
progress. 

A  book  which  fulfils  this  aim  in  one  way  with 
reference  to  young  women  is  Mrs.  Kate  Holliday 
Claghorn's  "  College  Training  for  Women."  This 
book,  by  a  college  woman,  on  collegiate  instruction 
for  women,  will  be  of  especial  service  to  parents  and 
intending  students,  but  will  also  have  a  considerable 
interest  for  the  public  at  large.  There  is  sound  dis- 
cussion and  advice  on  such  subjects  as  "  Choosing  a 
College,"  «  Life  at  College,"  "  The  Graduate  Stu- 
dent," "The  College-Trained  Mother,"  "The  Col- 
lege-Woman as  a  Social  Influence"  and  "College 
Training  for  the  Wage-Earner."  While  not  very 
mature  in  thought  or  expression,  the  writer  is  intel- 
ligent, earnest,  and  enthusiastic,  and  her  little  book 
will  be  of  real  service  in  its  field.  Though  she  does 
not  discuss  directly  the  problem  of  co-education, 
her  remarks  apply  both  to  colleges  exclusively  for 
women  and  to  co-educational  institutions. 

HIRAM  M.  STANLEY. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


English  history 
down  to  date. 


Mr.  Justin  McCarthy  has  become  his 
own  continuator ;  and  to  his  "  His- 
tory of  Our  Own  Times,"  published 
in  1878,  he  has  added  a  concluding  volume  (Har- 
per), bringing  the  narrative  down  to  the  Diamond 
Jubilee.  It  is  a  delightful  book,  even  if  it  is  not 
history.  As  might  be  expected,  it  is  chiefly  made 
up  of  Mr.  McCarthy's  recollections  and  reflections. 
A  man  who  has  been  a  large  part  of  the  events  he 
describes  can  hardly  be  asked  to  encumber  himself 
with  the  paraphernalia  of  the  scientific  historian 
when  he  means  to  write  a  good-humored  description 
of  the  recent  past.  If  one  wishes  to  make  oneself 
conversant  with  English  affairs  of  the  day,  there 
can  be  no  pleasanter  method  than  the  reading  of  so 
charming  a  book.  Perhaps  upon  occasion  one  might 
desire  a  little  more  boldness  in  putting  in  the  darker 
lines  of  the  picture.  For  example,  Mr.  McCarthy, 
in  describing  the  Queen's  Jubilee  of  1887,  is  com- 
pelled to  record  the  fact  that  Ireland  had  no  share 
in  the  festivities.  There  is  a  note  of  hesitancy  and 
apology  in  each  succeeding  sentence,  as  if  he  desired 


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to  minimize  the  effect  of  what  he  is  obliged  to  say. 
Finally,  however,  his  opinion  appears,  when  to  the 
statement  that  O'Connell  aroused  much  enthusiasm 
for  the  young  Queen,  he  adds :  "  The  enthusiasm 
inspired  by  O'Connell  soon  began  to  chill  and  die. 
To  Ireland,  the  Sovereign  became  a  mere  name  or 
a  mere  myth,  for  the  Crown  was  only  represented 
by  a  partisan  viceroy,  who  was  changed  with  each 
succeeding  change  of  partisan  government."  The 
story  of  the  schism  in  the  Nationalist  party  after 
Mr.  Parnell  was  dragged  into  the  divorce  court 
is  managed  with  equal  delicacy  —  or  deftness, — 
and  this  is  not  a  little  significant,  since  Mr.  Mc- 
Carthy himself  was  the  leader  of  the  men  opposed 
to  Mr.  Parnell.  He  speaks  of  the  quarrel  only  in- 
cidentally, in  stating  the  time  of  Mr.  Parnell's 
death,  and  does  not  mention  his  own  connection 
with  the  matter ;  he  merely  says  :  "  The  great  ma- 
jority elected  a  new  chairman."  This  same  quality 
of  charitableness  Mr.  McCarthy  carries  into  the 
discussion  of  England's  foreign  entanglements  in 
Egypt,  in  the  Transvaal,  and  with  the  United  States 
about  the  Venezuela  boundary  line.  He  intimates 
that  "  we  cannot  know  what  was  the  real  occasion, 
or  inspiration,  or  purpose  of  President  Cleveland's 
sudden  burst  of  aggressive  eloquence."  But  the 
"eloquence"  was  soon  over,  and  Mr.  Cleveland 
became  "  cool,  sensible,  and  conciliatory."  Quite 
characteristic  of  Mr.  McCarthy's  volume  are  the 
quiet  pauses  in  the  narrative  to  comment  upon 
poets,  orators,  scientists,  and  statesmen,  dead  since 
1878.  The  estimates  are  unusually  discriminating. 
They  are  written  in  the  spirit  of  one  to  whom  his 
own  life  seems  a  completed  work,  completed  in  the 
days  when  these  men  were  the  companions  of  his 
thoughts  and  his  actions.  Such  a  writer  is  not  a 
historian :  he  has  an  advantage  over  the  historian. 
Each  fact  is  not  something  the  relations  of  which 
he  is  professionally  bound  to  elucidate :  each  fact 
is  a  part  of  his  own  life.  And  yet,  unlike  the  man 
with  an  autobiography  on  his  mind,  he  is  able  to 
ignore  himself  and  to  pass  through  his  life  again 
incognito.  

A  continuation  of  Th.e  second  volume  of  Prof.  Moses 
the  literary  history  Coit  Tyler's  ' '  Literary  History  of  the 
of  the  Revolution.  American  Revolution"  (Putnam) 
has  quickly  followed  the  first  one.  The  whole  work 
covers  the  period  1763-1783,  the  dividing  line  be- 
tween the  two  volumes  falling  in  1776.  "  The  chief 
aim  of  the  first  volume,"  says  the  author,  "  is  to 
trace  the  development  of  political  discontent  in  the 
Anglo- American  colonies  from  about  the  year  1763 
until  the  year  when  that  discontent  culminated  in  the 
resolve  for  American  Independence  ;  while  the  chief 
aim  of  the  second  volume  is  to  trace  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Revolutionary  struggle  under  the  altered 
conditions  produced  by  this  change  in  its  object  and 
in  its  character,  and  to  go  on  with  the  tale  until  the 
year  when  American  Independence  was  formally 
acknowledged  by  the  British  government."  The 
first  period  is  longer  than  the  second  one,  and  is 


more  abundant  in  matter;  and  the  first  volume, 
upon  the  whole,  is  more  interesting  than  the  second. 
Still,  the  author  has  not  rigidly  observed  the  line  of 
bisection.  In  the  treatment  of  a  few  great  topics, 
he  has  given  himself,  as  he  explains,  larger  room 
and  freer  movement  than  would  be  possible  under 
a  rigorous  conformity  to  the  time  limits  imposed  by 
his  general  plan.  Sometimes,  no  doubt,  there  are 
advantages  in  departing  from  the  rule,  as  in  the 
cases  of  Samuel  Adams  and  Dr.  Franklin  ;  but  there 
is  no  apparent  reason  why  Thomas  Paine  should  be 
bisected,  especially  as  he  did  not  appear  on  the  scene 
until  1774.  Professor  Tyler  still  treats  the  Loyalists 
liberally,  both  in  space  and  judgment.  We  miss  the 
compendious  statement  of  his  view  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, which  we  did  not  find  in  the  first  volume,  and 
which  we  hoped  to  find  in  the  present  one.  We  still 
regard  its  absence  as  a  defect  in  the  work.  While 
the  new  volume  is  inferior  in  interest,  as  a  whole,  to 
the  first  one,  it  still  deals  with  some  of  the  foremost 
writers  of  the  time,  as  Samuel  Adams,  Dr.  Franklin, 
John  Dickinson,  Thomas  Paine,  and  others.  The 
chapter  on  Franklin  is  particularly  satisfactory. 
The  author  discovers  a  likeness  between  the  Amer- 
ican philosopher  and  Socrates,  which  he  insists  is 
more  than  superficial.  "  Besides  the  plebeian  origin 
of  both,  and  some  trace  of  plebeian  manners  which 
clung  to  both,  and  the  strain  of  animal  coarseness 
from  which  neither  was  ever  entirely  purified,  they 
both  had  an  amazing  insight  into  human  nature  in 
all  its  grades  and  phases,  they  were  both  indifferent 
to  literary  fame,  they  were  both  humorists,  they 
both  applied  their  great  intellectual  gifts  in  a  dis- 
ciplinary but  genial  way  to  the  improvement  of  their 
fellow-men,  and  in  dealing  controversially  with  the 
opinions  of  others  they  both  understood  and  prac- 
ticed the  strategy  of  coolness,  playfulness,  an  unas- 
suming manner,  moderation  of  statement,  the  log- 
ical parallel,  and  irony."  The  carefully  prepared 
bibliography  found  in  the  present  volume  fills  fifty- 
five  pages  and  contains  six  hundred  titles.  It  is 
intended  to  be  exhaustive  of  the  printed  materials 
cited  in  the  course  of  the  whole  work.  There  is 
also  a  good  index,  while  the  mechanical  execution 
of  the  two  volumes  is  worthy  of  the  scholarship  and 
literary  merit  of  their  contents. 

The  second  volume  of  Mr.  W.  J.Court- 
oetry  and  h       >g  „  History  of  English  Poetry  " 

houht.  *"  *  •    j  t 

(Macmillan)  covers  the  period  from 
Wyatt  to  Marlowe.  It  deepens  the  impression 
made  by  the  earlier  volume,  for  it  is  equally  a 
work  of  much  industry,  learning,  and  philosophical 
grasp.  In  his  endeavor  "  to  trace  the  course  of 
our  Poetry  rather  by  the  stream  of  the  national 
thought  and  imagination  than  by  that  of  the 
national  language,"  the  author  has  dragged  in  a 
great  deal  of  matter  that  seems  at  first  sight  en- 
tirely extraneous,  and  that  even  reflection  cannot 
force  into  any  very  direct  relation  with  literary  his- 
tory. Before  taking  up  the  thread  of  the  history 
proper,  it  is  found  necessary  to  discuss  such  subjects 


English  thought. 


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as  the  Diet  of  Augsburg,  the  decay  of  chivalry,  the 
"  Prince  "  of  Machiavelli,  and  the  "  Colloquies  "  of 
Erasmus.  These  matters,  and  the  extensive  quo- 
tations everywhere  introduced,  make  a  very  stout 
volume,  although  a  period  of  only  about  seventy- 
five  years  is  covered.  Upon  such  a  scale  as  this, 
the  work  should  require  eight  or  ten  more  volumes 
for  its  completion.  We  regret  to  say  that  Mr. 
Courthope  is  more  solid  than  readable.  Whether 
it  be  from  native  defect,  or  from  professionalism 
prepense,  his  work  is  lacking  in  animation,  and  re- 
mains, for  the  most  part,  upon  a  rather  low  level  of 
expression.  Occasionally,  however,  the  reader  is 
rewarded  by  such  a  bit  of  impassioned  rhetoric  as 
we  find  in  the  following  noble  passage :  "  The  his- 
tory of  ideas  has  in  it  something  of  the  solemnity 
of  tragic  action.  As  the  chant  of  the  monks  on  the 
Capitol  called  up  in  the  imagination  of  the  historian 
the  long  drama  of  the  Decline  and  Fall  of  the 
Roman  Empire,  so  the  monuments  of  architecture, 
painting,  sculpture,  and  poetry  record  the  dynastic 
revolutions  in  the  march  of  human  thought.  Hu- 
miliating in  many  respects  to  our  pride  is  the  scene 
of  waste,  change,  and  decay  that  such  a  retrospect 
discloses.  Conceits  and  affectations  elevated  into 
the  chief  aims  of  poetry ;  the  idols  of  beauty  con- 
founded with  its  true  forms ;  experiments  in  lan- 
guage conducted  at  the  expense  of  thought ;  vain 
though  noble  attempts  made  to  reanimate  exhausted 
ideals ;  admiration  lavished  on  the  shadows  rather 
than  the  substance  of  art  —  such  are  the  ruins  that 
will  encounter  us  in  this  period  of  our  history,  like 
the  fallen  temples,  tombs,  and  aqueducts  that  sad- 
den the  memories  of  the  traveller  in  the  Roman 
Campagna."  

The  literature  of  criminology  rap- 

Studies  of  crime        .11     •  .    i«..i     i       11     c 

and  criminal*.  ldl7  increases.  A  little  book  before 
us,  "Crime  and  Criminals,"  by  Dr. 
J.  Sanderson  Christison  (Chicago :  W.  T.  Keener 
Co.),  is  composed,  as  we  are  told  in  the  preface, 
largely  of  a  series  of  articles  contributed  to  the 
"Chicago  Tribune"  under  the  caption  of  "Jail 
Types."  The  literary  style  of  the  book  is  that  of 
the  daily  newspaper.  The  author's  design  seems 
to  be  to  present  the  criminal  in  the  light  of  study 
and  modern  science.  A  number  of  cases,  repre- 
senting a  wide  range  of  criminal  types,  are  briefly 
described  and  illustrated  by  portraits  reproduced 
from  photographs.  It  is  frequently  assumed  that 
the  reader  is  fully  informed  regarding  the  crime 
and  criminal  discussed,  and  thus  the  description 
given  is  too  incomplete  and  scrappy  to  be  of  value. 
The  author's  wording  is  often  obscure  and  some- 
times incorrect.  It  is  not  clear  that  he  plainly  un- 
derstands the  use  of  the  words — so  fundamental — 
heredity,  degeneration,  environment.  It  is  certain 
that  he  does  not  understand  the  use  of  the  word 
specie.  The  real  value  of  the  book  lies  in  the 
fact  that  it  presents  cases  of  Chicago  criminals,  of 
many  or  most  of  whom  the  local  public  has  heard. 
A  scientific  verdict  upon  these  cases  cannot  fail  to 


be  suggestive  to  thinking  men.  Dr.  Christison  has 
apparently  collected  a  good  deal  of  material ;  it  is 
a  pity  that  he  has  not  more  carefully  presented  it. 
Apart  from  the  portraits,  the  illustrations  in  the 
book  have  no  great  value.  Thus,  the  plates  of  jaw 
forms  recognized  by  Dr.  Talbot,  of  brains  —  brutes, 
normal  human  beings,  and  criminals  —  and  of  the 
degenerate  ear,  would  have  value  if  they  had  been 
adequately  discussed  and  described.  Readers  are 
of  two  classes :  they  are  beginners  who  need  first 
principles,  or  more  advanced  students  who  have  al- 
ready gained  them.  To  the  former  these  plates  are 
worthless  because  not  discussed ;  to  the  latter  they 
are  unnecessary  because  already  known. 

According  to  Mr.  Charles  Dudley 
*  Warner,  more  insight  into  Shakes- 

peare's  plays  is  to  be  gained  by 
studying  the  England  of  Shakespeare's  day  than 
from  the  whole  race  of  commentators  and  critics  of 
the  text.  In  the  light  of  contemporary  English  life, 
—  its  visions  of  empire,  its  spirit  of  adventure,  its 
piracy,  exploration,  and  warlike  turmoil,  its  credu- 
lity and  superstitions,  its  wonder  at  natural  phe- 
nomena, its  implicit  belief  in  the  supernatural,  its 
faith,  its  daring,  its  coarseness  of  speech,  bluntness 
of  manner,  luxury  of  apparel,  and  ostentation  of 
wealth,  the  mobility  of  its  shifting  society, —  in  such 
a  light  the  dramas  glow  with  a  new  meaning,  and 
awaken  a  profounder  admiration  of  the  poet's 
knowledge  of  human  life.  To  these  matters,  there- 
fore, Mr.  Warner  devotes  his  little  book  on  "  The 
People  for  Whom  Shakespeare  Wrote"  (Harper). 
His  authorities  are  such  old  and  not  commonly 
available  writers  as  Harrison,  Stubbes,  Stowe,  and 
Holinshed ;  and  it  must  be  granted  that  he  has  used 
their  musty  pages  to  great  advantage  in  making  his 
breezy  and  picturesque  summary.  The  reproduc- 
tions of  such  quaint  old  pictures  as  "  A  Puritan 
Family,"  "A  Supper  Party,"  "A  Family  Group," 
and  "  William  Kemp  Dancing  "  add  not  a  little  to 
the  charm  of  the  narrative.  A  drawing  of  the 
Swan  Theatre,  made  in  1596,  gives  one  an  exact 
idea  of  the  places  where  our  ancestors  contrived  to 
spend  so  much  of  their  time,  on  various  pretexts. 
Not  only  was  it  their  resort  for  pleasure,  but  also 
their  resource  in  sorrow.  As  the  Italians  sleep 
away  grief,  the  French  sing,  and  the  Germans 
drink,  so  the  English  of  the  sixteenth  century  went 
to  plays  to  be  rid  of  it.  If  only  this  play-going 
crowd  had  had  the  foresight  to  leave  us  some  au- 
thentic account  of  their  greatest  playwright,  how 
much  guess-work  we  should  have  been  spared  ! 

The  right  kind  of  Miss  Margaret  Warner  Morley  has 
Nature-studies  presented  to  child-students  some  de- 
for  children.  Hghtful  studies  of  "  A  Few  Familiar 

Flowers  "  (Ginn).  There  are  only  five  of  the  flow- 
ers —  the  morning-glory,  jewel  weed,  nasturtium, 
geranium,  and  hyacinth.  We  all  presume  that  we 
have  known  these  everyday  flowers  for  a  lifetime. 
Many  of  us  have  gone  through  the  botanies  in  our 


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school-days  and  analyzed  hundreds  of  wild  flowers, 
dried  them  perhaps,  and  mounted  them  in  the 
herbarium.  Yet  there  are  curious  facts  in  the 
structure  of  these  "  familiar  flowers  "  culled  by  Miss 
Morley  which  few  of  us  have  ever  dreamed  of. 
She  takes  her  little  people  to  the  spot  where  the 
flower  grows,  and  teaches  them  how  to  look  at  it, 
how  to  view  it  in  all  its  aspects,  and  how  to  search 
for  the  meaning  and  the  cause  of  each  peculiarity. 
When  they  have  finished  their  study,  they  know 
their  plant  in  every  external  feature ;  and,  more 
than  that,  they  have  acquired  the  art  of  clear  and 
accurate  observation.  Miss  Morley  has  a  charming 
gift  for  talking  with  children,  in  language  apt  and 
elegant,  yet  simple  and  natural  as  that  of  the  child 
she  addresses. —  In  "  Flowers  and  Their  Friends  " 
(Ginn)  Miss  Morley  continues  the  study  of  plant- 
life  along  the  same  lines  pursued  in  the  work  above 
mentioned.  The  same  flowers  are  treated,  with 
added  information  regarding  their  peculiar  features. 
In  a  second  division  of  the  book,  under  the  head  of 
"  Stories  about  all  Sorts  of  Things,"  a  simple  ac- 
count is  given  of  the  structure  and  uses  of  cells, 
pollen,  nectar,  and  other  vital  parts  of  the  flower. 
In  all  Miss  Morley's  books  the  illustrations  are  a 
notable  attraction,  the  graceful  way  in  which  they 
are  thrown  around  and  across  the  text  arresting  the 
eye  with  pleasing  effects. 

When  two  writers  of  marked  ability 

in  both  to6™*"™  and  natural  his- 
tory unite  to  produce  a  work  giving 
scope  to  their  special  talents,  the  public  has  reason 
to  expect  a  masterpiece  of  its  kind.  In  the  "  Citi- 
zen Bird"  (Macmillan),  by  Mrs.  Mabel  Osgood 
Wright  and  Dr.  Elliott  Coues,  this  expectation  is  real- 
ized. Seldom  is  the  plan  of  a  book  so  admirably 
conceived  and  in  every  detail  so  excellently  ful- 
filled. The  volume  is  designed  to  win  young 
people  to  a  love  of  the  birds,  and  presents  its  mat- 
ter in  the  form  of  a  story,  which  from  beginning  to 
end  never  falters  in  interest.  One  knows  not 
whether  most  to  applaud  the  ingenuity  manifest  in 
the  varied  scenes,  the  wit  that  enlivens  them  all,  or 
the  enticing  manner  in  which  information  of  a 
solid  character  is  inserted  in  the  narrative.  Over 
a  hundred  birds  are  introduced,  and  their  portraits 
are  given  in  black  and  white  by  Mr.  Louis  Agassiz 
Fuertes,  a  young  artist  whose  original  and  striking 
transcripts  of  bird-life  are  exciting  mingled  wonder 
and  delight  among  ornithologists. 


The  Spanish 
Mission*  of 
California. 


Catching  a  glimpse  of  a  book  with 
the  title  "  The  Missions  of  California : 
Their  Establishment,  Progress,  and 
Decay"  (William  Doxey,  San  Francisco),  the  re- 
viewer who  knows  anything  of  the  possibilities  of 
that  subject  is  apt  to  drop  everything  else  and  reach 
out  after  that  book,  with  the  thought  that  the  one 
long  waited  for  has  come  at  last.  For  full  justice 
has  never  yet  been  done  to  the  religious  settlements 
along  the  Pacific  coast,  which  colonized  and  evan- 


gelized that  portion  of  our  land  while  furnishing  a 
barrier  to  the  inroads  of  foreigners  from  the  west, 
and  which  grafted  some  Spanish  institutions  upon 
our  Anglo-Saxon  civilization.  The  author  of  the 
small  book  before  us,  Miss  Laura  Bride  Powers, 
had  access  to  the  materials  for  such  a  history, 
"manuscripts,  including  diaries,  mission  registers, 
and  personal  letters  ";  and  there  can  be  no  doubt 
of  her  sympathy  with  the  subject  —  a  sympathy 
rising,  in  fact,  to  an  enthusiasm.  We  are  debarred 
from  feeling  disappointment  that  she  has  not  given 
us  just  the  book  we  want,  by  her  motives  in  writing 
what  she  has  written.  This  book  "  might  well  have 
gone  forth  to  its  destiny  known  as  '  A  Plea  for  the 
Missions,1  "  so  says  the  preface  ;  and  the  author  lias 
told  the  tale  of  their  ascendancy  and  ruin,  "  hoping 
thereby  to  enlist  sympathy  in  the  cause  of  their 
restoration  and  preservation."  The  book  contains 
very  brief  accounts  of  the  several  Missions,  is  beau- 
tifully printed,  admirably  illustrated  with  half-tone 
views,  and  is  appropriately  bound ;  and  we  hope  it 
may  result,  as  its  author  so  fondly  trusts,  in  awaken- 
ing an  increased  interest  in  those  monuments  along 
our  western  coast  that  mark  one  of  the  most  pictur- 
esque phases  of  the  colonization  of  our  land. 

The  study  of  "English  Lyric  Poetry,  1500-1700," 
English  lyric  edited  by  Dr.  Frederick  Ives  Car- 
P°etry-  penter,  is  the  latest  volume  in  the 
"Warwick  Library"  (Scribner),  and  the  only  vol- 
ume thus  far  contributed  to  the  series  by  an  Amer- 
ican scholar.  Dr.  Carpenter's  introduction  of  nearly 
fifty  pages  traces  the  development  of  the  English 
lyric  from  the  earliest  times  to  the  close  of  the 
Restoration  period,  and  is  a  study  both  subtle  and 
scholarly.  The  selections,  which  run  from  Skelton 
to  Dryden,  are  made  with  unfailing  taste ;  the  edi- 
tor has  ransacked  the  abundant  modern  literature 
of  the  subject,  and  set  side  by  side  with  the  familiar 
songs  many  unfamiliar  but  almost  equally  beautiful 
pieces.  We  can  never  agree  with  him  in  attributing 
"  Roses,  their  sharp  spines  being  gone"  to  Fletcher, 
but  this  is  our  only  quarrel  with  an  editor  whose 
taste  and  whose  thorough  knowledge  of  the  subject 
alike  command  respect.  Dr.  Carpenter  has  also 
published,  at  the  University  of  Chicago  Press,  an 
"Outline  Guide  to  the  Study  of  English  Lyric 
Poetry,"  which  every  teacher  of  English  literature 
will  be  glad  to  have.  It  covers  the  entire  history 
of  the  subject,  and  provides  thousands  of  references 
for  the  student,  besides  a  helpful  body  of  sugges- 
tions for  the  use  of  the  instructor.  Dr.  Carpenter 
has  made  the  subject  of  the  English  lyric  peculiarly 
his  own,  and  his  work  is  a  distinct  credit  to  Ameri- 
can scholarship.  

It  is  rather  remarkable  that  such  a 
Hannibal  a*  the  8ub^ect  as  «  Hannibal "  in  the  "  He- 

hero  of  a  nation.  J  .  . 

roes  of  the  Nations  series  (Putnam) 
should  have  been  given  to  an  author  who  does  not  read 
German,  yet  Mr.  William  O'Connor  Morris,  in  his 
preface,  frankly  states  this  to  be  the  case.  German 


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scholars  have  contributed  so  much  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  Roman  history  that  not  to  know  German 
would  seem,  in  this  instance,  to  indicate  ignorance 
of  the  principal  authorities  on  the  subject  of  the 
essay.  The  many  and  accurate  references  to  Latin, 
French,  and  English  authorities  show,  however,  that 
the  author  has  written  with  scholarly  care.  A  fine 
presentation  of  conditions  existing  in  Rome  and  in 
Carthage,  just  previous  to  Hannibal's  campaigns, 
is  followed  by  a  clear  account  of  the  various  battles 
and  military  movements,  so  far  as  it  is  possible  to 
know  them.  The  author's  language  is  well  chosen, 
and  were  it  not  for  the  repetition  of  certain  forms 
of  expression  the  descriptive  bits  of  writing  would 
be  very  good  reading.  The  book  has  a  good  index 
and  is  well  supplied  with  maps. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Mr.  John  Henry  Comstock's  volume  entitled  "  Insect 
Life  "  (Appleton)  is  a  manual  for  the  use  of  teachers 
and  students  in  the  elementary  department  of  ento- 
mology. Its  plan  embraces  field  and  class  work,  both 
arranged  with  a  view  to  combining  the  attractive  fea- 
tures of  the  study  and  an  exact  and  thorough  pursuit  of 
it.  The  text  is  written  in  a  simple  though  serious  style, 
and  is  accompanied  with  a  multitude  of  engravings, 
many  of  them  original,  and  all  examples  of  the  finest 
workmanship. 

"  Physics:  An  Elementary  Text-Book  for  University 
Classes,"  by  Mr.  C.  G.  Knott,  is  published  by  the  J.  B. 
Lippincott  Co.  It  is  a  stout  volume  of  three  hundred 
and  fifty  pages.  A  book  that  is  elementary  in  a  far 
more  literal  sense  is  Mr.  C.  L.  Harrington's  "  Physics 
for  Grammar  Schools,"  issued  by  the  American  Book 
Co.  In  this  connection  we  may  also  mention  Professor 
A.  E.  Dolbear's  "Modes  of  Motion,"  published  by 
Messrs.  Lee  &  Shepard,  and  the  "  Elements  of  Chem- 
istry," by  Mr.  Rufus  P.  Williams,  published  by  Messrs. 
Ginn  &  Co. 

"  A  First  Book  in  Writing  English  "  (Macmillan),  by 
Dr.  Edwin  Herbert  Lewis,  is  an  elementary  text-book 
of  rhetoric  and  composition,  the  direct  outcome  of  prac- 
tical teaching  in  the  class-room.  The  author  states  that 
he  has  "tried  to  present  a  large  number  of  definite 
situations  to  be  faced  for  constructive  practice  both  in 
organization  and  in  diction  ;  and  to  give  in  simple,  even 
colloquial  language,  all  the  larger  generalizations  which 
a  boy  presenting  himself  at  college  might  reasonably  be 
expected  to  have  been  using  for  two  or  three  years  as 
touchstones  of  his  own  work."  The  book  is  one  of  the 
best  for  high-school  use  that  we  have  seen,  clear  in  its 
statements,  logical  in  its  arrangement  of  material,  and 
provided  with  great  numbers  of  practical  exercises  and 
apt  illustrative  quotations. 

"  The  Age  of  Milton,"  by  the  Rev.  J.  Howard  B. 
Masterman  (Macmillan),  is  the  fourth  volume  thus  far 
published  in  the  series  of  "  Handbooks  of  English  Lit- 
erature "  edited  by  Professor  J.  W.  Hales.  The  period 
covered  is  that  from  1632  to  the  Restoration,  although 
in  the  case  of  a  few  writers  the  history  is  projected  into 
the  period  already  covered  by  Dr.  Garnett's  "  Age  of 
Dryden."  Milton  alone  fills  about  one-third  of  the 
book,  Browne  and  Fuller  being  the  only  other  writers  to 
have  whole  chapters  to  themselves. 


LITERARY  NOTES. 


Moser's  "  Der  Bibliothekar,"  edited  by  Professor  B. 
W.  Wells,  is  published  by  Messrs.  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co. 

Messrs.  Truslove  and  Comba,  of  New  York,  publish 
a  "  Compendium  of  Italian  Pronunciation,"  by  Mr.  T.  E. 
Comba. 

M.  Zola's  "  Lourdes  "  is  issued  by  the  Maemillan  Co. 
in  a  neat  two-volume  edition,  uniform  with  the  author's 
«  Rome." 

A  second  edition,  considerably  enlarged,  of  "  Chris- 
tianity and  Idealism,"  by  Dr.  John  Watson,  of  Kingston, 
Canada,  is  published  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  publish  a  new  edition  of 
"  Georgia  Scenes,"  by  "  a  native  Georgian,"  a  work  that 
made  its  first  appearance  as  long  ago  as  1840. 

Professor  J.  S.  Kingsley,  of  Tufts  College,  is  the 
author  of  the  "  Elements  of  Comparative  Zoology," 
just  published  by  Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

A  volume  of  "  Studies  in  Literature  and  Composi- 
tion," by  Superintendent  W.  H.  Skinner,  of  Nebraska 
City,  is  published  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Miller,  Lincoln, 
Nebraska. 

"  Bright  Threads,"  by  Miss  Julia  H.  Johnston,  and 
"  Daily  Light  and  Strength,"  a  diary  of  devotional  se- 
lections, are  two  recent  publications  of  Messrs.  T.  Y. 
Crowell  &  Co. 

A  «  Third  Year  in  French,"  by  Mr.  L.  C.  Syms,  is 
published  by  the  American  Book  Co?,  and  completes 
the  course  in  French  prepared  by  the  author  for  pre- 
paratory school  use. 

The  latest  of  Mr.  G.  P.  Humphrey's  "  American 
Colonial  Tracts  "  is  a  reprint  of  "  Nova  Britannia," 
dated  1609,  and  "offering  most  excellent  fruits  by 
planting  in  Virginia." 

Messrs.  Herbert  S.  Stone  &  Co.  are  the  publishers 
of  "  Maude,"  a  juvenile  production  of  that  precocious 
child  of  genius,  Christina  Rossetti.  It  was  written  in 
1850,  before  the  author  was  twenty  years  of  age. 

Mr.  S.  E.  Cassino,  of  Boston,  is  to  publish  "  Little 
Folks,"  a  new  magazine  for  children.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Stuart  Pratt  are  to  be  the  editors,  and  the 
periodical  will  make  its  first  appearance  some  time 
during  this  month. 

"  The  Librarian  of  the  Sunday  School,"  by  Miss 
Elizabeth  Louise  Foote  (Eaton  &  Mains)  is  a  small 
manual  of  library  practice  as  it  relates  to  Sunday-school 
work,  and  may  be  commended  as  both  sensible  and 
helpful  in  its  suggestions. 

Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  have  published  a  hand- 
some library  edition  of  "John  Halifax,  Gentleman," 
with  illustrations  by  Miss  Alice  Barber  Stephens,  at  a 
moderate  price.  The  book  would  make  an  appropriate 
and  inexpensive  holiday  gift. 

Recent  text-books  published  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 
are  a  "  French  Practical  Course,"  by  M.  Jules  Magne- 
nat;  an  "  Analytic  Geometry  for  Technical  Schools  and 
Colleges,"  by  Mr.  P.  A.  Lambert;  and  the  "Outlines 
of  Elementary  Economics,"  by  Mr.  Herbert  J.  Daven- 
port. 

Messrs.  Maynard,  Merrill  &  Co.  publish  "  The  Young 
American,"  a  "  civic  reader,"  by  Professor  Harry  Pratt 
Judson.  It  is  an  elementary  survey  of  American  his- 
tory and  politics,  interspersed  with  selections  in  verse 
and  prose,  and  illustrated  with  a  number  of  gaudy 
colored  plates.  The  same  publishers  send  us  a  volume 


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of  selections  from  the  "  Viri  Roma? "  and  Cornelius 
Xepos,  edited  by  Messrs.  John  T.  Buchanan  and  It.  A. 
Minckwitz. 

The  recent  educational  publications  of  Messrs.  Ginn 
&  Co.  includes  "Eight  Books  of  Homer's  Odyssey," 
edited  by  Professors  Perrin  and  Seymour,  of  Yale 
University;  "  The  Second  Book  of  Caesar's  Gallic  War," 
edited  by  Mr.  William  C.  Collar  ;  and  "  Flowers  and 
Their  Friends,"  a  book  for  children,  by  Miss  Margaret 
W.  Morley. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  of  the  lists  of  autumn 
announcements  sent  out  by  the  English  publishers  is 
that  of  Mr.  T.  Fisher  Unwin  of  London.  In  addition 
to  the  many  books  on  his  list  that  will  be  re-published 
in  this  country  by  various  houses,  and  the  purely  Am- 
erican works  that  he  will  handle  in  England,  Mr. 
Unwin's  most  important  announcements  include  "  My 
Life  in  Two  Hemispheres,"  by  Sir  Charles  Gavan 
Duffy  ;  "  Letters  of  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti  to  William 
Allingham,  1854-1870,"  edited  by  G.  Birkbeck  Hill, 
D.C.L. ;  «  The  Private  Papers  of  William  Wilberforce  "; 
"  Tourgue'neff  and  his  French  Circle,"  a  series  of  let- 
ters, edited  by  H.  Halpe'rine-Kaminsky  ;  "  The  Life  and 
Adventures  of  Mr.  Endymion  Porter,"  by  Dorothea 
Townshend  ;  "  Greece  in  the  Nineteenth  Century,"  by 
Lewis  Sergeant ;  "  The  Welsh  People,"  edited  by  John 
Rhys  and  David  Brynmor  Jones  ;  "  Communism  in 
Middle  Europe  in  the  Time  of  the  Reformation,"  by 
Karl  Kautsky  ;  "  Lives  of  Great  Italians,"  by  Frank 
Horridge  ;  and  "  A  Selection  from  the  Poems  of  Ma- 
thilde  Blind,"  edited  by  Arthur  Symons.  All  of  Mr. 
Unwin's  publications  that  are  not  regularly  issued  in 
this  country  may  be  obtained  from  Messrs.  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons  of  New  York. 


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[The  following  list,  containing  158  titles,   includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

BIOGRAPHY  AND  MEMOIRS. 

Alfred  Lord  Tennyson :  A  Memoir.  By  his  son.  In  2  vols., 
large  8vo,  illus.  in  photogravure,  etc.,  gilt  tops,  nncut. 
Macmillan  Co.  $10. 

Recollections  of  Aubrey  De  Vere.  With  portrait,  large 
8vo,  uncut,  pp.  374.  Edward  Arnold.  $4. 

Verdi,  Man  and  Musician :  His  Biography  with  Especial  Ref- 
erence to  His  English  Experiences.  By  Frederick  J.  Crow- 
est.  With  portraits,  8vo,  uncut,  pp.  306.  Chas.  Scribner's 
Sons.  $2.50. 

Sir  Walter  Scott.  By  George  Saintsbury.  12mo,  pp.  158. 
"Famous  Scots."  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  75  cts. 

The  Brontes :  Fact  and  Fiction.  By  Angus  M.  McKay,  B. A. 

<• ,    12mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  187.   Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.   $1.50. 

Phillip  II.  of  Spain.  By  Martin  A.  S.  Hume.  12mo,  pp.  267. 
"  Foreign  Statesmen."  Macmillan  Co.  75  cts. 

HISTORY. 

The  History  of  Mankind.  By  Professor  Friedrich  Ratzel ; 
trans,  from  the  second  German  edition  by  A.  J.  Butler, 
M.A.;  with  Introduction  by  E.  B.  Tylor,  D.C.L.  Vol.  II.; 
illus.  in  colors,  etc.,  4to,  gilt  top,  pp.  562.  Macmillan  Co.  $4. 

The  Battle  of  Franklin,  Tennessee,  November  30,  1864 :  A 
Monograph.  By  Jacob  D.  Cox.  With  maps,  8vo,  pp.  351. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $2. 

Historical  Memorials  of  Ely  Cathedral :  In  Two  Lectures. 
By  Charles  William  Stubbs,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Ely.  Illus., 
8vo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  166.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
$2.50. 

Life  in  Early  Britain:  Being  an  Account  of  the  Early  In- 
habitants of  this  Island  and  the  Memorials  which  They 
Have  Left  behind  Them.  By  Bertram  C.  A.  Windle,  D.Sc. 
Illus.,  12mo,  uncut,  pp.  244.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $1.25. 


Social  Transformations  of  the  Victorian  Age:  A  Survey 
of  Court  and  Country.  By  T.  H.  S.  Escott.  8vo,  nncut, 
pp.  450.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $2. 

Contemporary  American  Opinion  of  the  French  Revo- 
lution. By  Charles  Downer  Hagen,  Ph.D.  8vo,  uncut, 
pp.315.  "Johns  Hopkins  University  Studies."  $2. 

GENERAL  LITERATURE. 

The  Boston  Browning  Society  Papers.  Selected  to  Rep- 
resent the  Work  of  the  Society  from  1886-1897.  Large 
8vo,  pp.  503.  Macmillan  Co.  $3.  net. 

The  Scholar  and  the  State,  and  Other  Orations  and  Ad- 
dresses. By  Henry  Codman  Potter,  D.D.  8vo,  gilt  top, 
nncut,  pp.  335.  Century  Co.  $2. 

The  Literary  History  of  the  American  Revolution,  1763- 
1783.  By  Moses  Coit  Tyler.  Vol.  II.,  1776-1783.  8vo, 
gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  527.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $3. 

English  Lands,  Letters,  and  Kings.  By  Donald  G. 
Mitchell.  Vol.  IV.,  The  Later  Georges  to  Victoria.  12mo, 
gilt  top,  pp.  294.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $1.50. 

Varia.  By  Agnes  Repplier.  12mo,  pp.  232.  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.  $1.25. 

Gleanings  in  Buddha-Fields :  Studies  of  Hand  and  Soul  in 
the  Far  East.  By  Lafcadio  Hearn.  12mo,  gilt  top,  pp. 
296.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  $1.25. 

The  Confessions  of  a  Collector.  By  William  Carew  Haz- 
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The  Occasional  Address:  Its  Composition  and  Literature. 
By  Lorenzo  Sears,  L.H.D.  12mo,  pp.  343.  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons.  $1.25. 

In  Indian  Tents :  Stories  Told  by  Penobscot,  Passamaquoddy, 
and  Mieniac  Indians  to  Auby  L.  Alger.  12mo,  uncut, 
pp.  139.  Roberts  Bros.  $1. 

Bon-Mots  of  the  Eighteenth  Century.  Edited  by  Walter 
Jerrold.  Illus.,  24mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  195.  Macmillan 
Co.  75  cts. 

The  Ministry  of  Art.  By  Frank  Milton  Bristol.  Illus., 
16mo,  pp.  272.  Curts  &  Jennings.  90  cts. 

NEW  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

Spenser's  Faerie  Queene.  Pictured  and  Decorated  by 
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Hales,  M.A.  In  2  vols.,  large  8vo,  gilt  tops,  uncut. 
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"Centenary"  Edition  of  Carlyle's  Works.  New  vols.: 
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Sterling ;  and  Past  and  Present.  Each  with  portraits,  8vo, 
nncut.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  Per  vol.,  $1.25. 

Dombey  and  Son.  By  Charles  Dickens.  "  Gadshill "  edi- 
tion, edited  by  Andrew  Lang.  In  2  vols.,  illus.,  8vo,  gilt 
tops,  uncut.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  $3. 

Rameau's  Nephew.  A  Translation  from  Diderot's  auto- 
graphic text  by  Sylvia  Margaret  Hill.  12mo,  uncut,  pp.  176. 
Longmans,  Green,  &  Co.  $1.25. 

The  Rivals.  By  Richard  Brinsley  Sheridan;  edited  by 
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POETRY. 

Selected  Poems.     By  George  Meredith.    With  portrait, 

12mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  249.    Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

$1.75. 
Amphr<5essa:  A  Legend  of  Argolis,  and  Other  Poems.    By 

George  Horton.    16mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  91.    London : 

T.  Fisher  Unwin. 
The  House  of  the  Heart.    By  Irving  Browne.    16mo,  gilt 

top,  uncut,  pp.  156.    Peter  Paul  Book  Co. 
Whisperings  of  a  Wind-Harp.    By  Anne  Throop.    12mo, 

pp.  26.    New  York :  The  Author.    Paper,  $1. 

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American  Nobility.  By  Pierre  de  Coulevain.  12mo,  pp.  498. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons.    $1.50. 
The  Story  of  an  Untold  Love.    By  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 

12mo,  pp.  348.    Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    $1.25. 
The  Secret  Rose.    By  W.  B.  Yeats ;  illus.  by  J.  B.  Yeats. 

12mo,  uncut,  pp.  265.    Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.    $2. 
Eat  Not  Thy  Heart.    By  Julien  Gordon.    16mo,  gilt  top, 

uncut,  pp.  318.    H.  S.  Stone  &  Co.    $1.25. 
Kallistratus :  An  Autobiography.    By  A.  H.  Gilkes.    Illus., 

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$1.50. 
The  Federal  Judge.    By  Charles  K.  Lush.    16mo,  pp.  355. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.25. 


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A  Soldier  of  Manhattan,  and  his  Adventures  at  Ticonderoga 

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Lourdes.    By  Emile  Zola ;  trans,  by  Ernest  A.  Vizetelly. 

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A  Child  in  the  Temple.   By  Frank  Mathew.    12mo,  uncut, 

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The  Man  of  the  Family.  By  Christian  Reid.   12mo,pp.  336. 

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TRAVEL  AND  DESCRIPTION. 
The  New  Africa:  A  Record  of  Exploration  and  Sport  on  a 

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By  Aurel  Schulz,  M.D.,  and  August  Hammar,  C.E.  Illus., 

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White  Man's  Africa.    By  Poultney  Bigelow.    Illus.,  8vo, 

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The  Ayrshire  Homes  and  Haunts  of  Burns.    By  Henry 

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THEOLOGY  AND  RELIGION. 

A  History  of  Christianity  in  the  Apostolic  Age.  By 
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national Theological  Library."  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
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The  Holy  Land  in  Geography  and  in  History.  By  Town- 
send  MacCoun,  A.M.  In  2  vols.,  with  maps,  16mo.  New 
York :  The  Author.  $2  net. 

Christianity  and  Idealism.  By  John  Watson,  LL.D.  New 
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The  Epistles  to  the  Philippians  and  to  Philemon.  By 
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A  History  of  American  Christianity.  By  Leonard  Wool- 
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Testaments  on  the  Religion  of  Mohammed :  Being  the  Ely 

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12mo,  pp.  319.     Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     $1.50. 
The  Christ  of  God:  The  Rationale  of  the  Deity  of  Jesus 

Christ.    By  Charles  H.  Mann.    16mo,  gilt  top,  pp.  120. 

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The  Greater  Gospel.    By  John  M.  Bamford.    18mo,  gilt 

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The  Talmud.     By  Arse"ne  Dannesteter;  trans,  from  the 

French  by  Henrietta  Szold.    12mo,  pp.  97.    Jewish  Pub'n 

Society  of  America.    30  cts. 

PHILOSOPHY  AND  PSYCHOLOGY. 

The  Conception  of  God:  A  Philosophical  Discussion.  By 
Jpsiah  Royce,  Joseph  Le  Conte,  G.  H.  Howison,  and 
Sidney  Edward  Mezes.  12mo,  uncut,  pp.  354.  Macmillan 
Co.  $1.75  net. 

The  Psychology  of  the  Emotions.  By  Th.  Ribot.  12mo, 
pp.  455.  "  Contemporary  Science  Series."  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.  $1.25. 

Studies  in  Psychical  Research.  By  Frank  Podmore,  M.  A. 
8vo,  pp.  458.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $2. 

The  New  Psychology.  By  E.  W.  Scripture,  Ph.D.  Illus., 
12mo,  pp.  500.  "  Contemporary  Science  Series."  Charles 
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An  Outline  Introductory  to  Kant's  "  Critique  of  Pure 
Reason."  16mo,  pp.  95.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.  75  cts. 

SCIENCE  AND  NATURE. 

Volcanoes  of  North  America:  A  Reading  Lesson  for 
Students  of  Geography  and  Geology.  By  Israel  C.  Russell. 
Illus.,  large  8vo,  uncut,  pp.  346.  Macmillan  Co.  $4. 

The  Dawn  of  Astronomy :  A  Study  of  the  Temple- Worship 
and  Mythology  of  the  Ancient  Egyptians.  By  J.  Norman 
Lockyer.  Illus.,  large  8vo,  uncut,  pp.  432.  Macmillan 
Co.  $3. 

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CONTENTS. 


THE  YERKES  OBSERVATORY 
MAGIC  LINES.     8.  It.  Elliott    . 


PAGE 

.  237 


239 


OUT  OF  A  THOUSAND.    (Poem.)   Edith  M.  Thomas  241 

COMMUNICATIONS 241 

The  Crerar  Library.     T.V.V. 
"  Art  and  Life."    F.  L.  Thompson. 

RICHARD    WAGNER    AND    THE     BAYREUTH 

IDEA.     William  Morton  Payne 242 

THE  VICTORIAN  DRAMA.  Tuley  Francis  Huntington  247 

MR.    AUBREY    DE    VERB'S    RECOLLECTIONS. 

Louis  J.  Block 248 

PRINCE    BISMARCK    AND    THE    GERMAN 

EMPIRE.     Charles  H.  Cooper 250 

STUDIES   IN   THE   NEW   TESTAMENT.    Shailer 

Mathews 251 

Gilbert's  The  Student's  Life  of  Jesus.  —  Bruce's 
With  Open  Face.  —  Pluranier's  Commentary  on  the 
Gospel  according  to  Luke.  —  Vincent's  Commentary 
on  the  Epistles  to  the  Philippians.  —  McGiffert's 
Christianity  in  the  Apostolic  Age. 

BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS 253 

An  index  to  prose  fiction.  —  Papers  of  a  Browning 
Society.  —  The  religion  of  the  ancient  Egyptians.  — 
Problems  of  public  finance.  —  Development  of  life  in 
the  laboratory. — How  wealth  is  distributed  in  the 
United  States.  —  The  passing  of  the  cowboy. — A 
student's  handbook  of  literary  art.  —  Lectures  on  the 
Fathers.  —  The  French  Revolution  as  it  seemed  to 
Americans.  —  Another  Jubilee  book.  —  A  new  vol- 
ume from  "Ik  Marvel."  —  Some  resurrected  pot- 
boiling  work  of  Carlyle. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 256 

LITERARY  NOTES 257 

TOPICS  IN  LEADING  PERIODICALS 258 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS   .  .  258 


THE  YERKES  OBSERVATORY. 

The  characteristic  ambition  of  Chicago  to  do 
whatever  it  attempts  upon  a  bigger  scale  than 
it  has  ever  been  done  before  has  just  been  grati- 
fied in  a  very  conspicuous  way.  That  ambition 
has  often  been  ignoble  enough  as  to  its  aims, 
and  accompanied  by  self-laudation  of  an  amount 
and  a  quality  calculated  to  excite  the  derision 
rather  than  the  respect  of  the  outside  world. 
When,  through  the  medium  of  its  blatant  news- 
paper press  or  the  windy  outpourings  of  its 
public  speakers,  it  has  cackled  over  such  things 
as  its  Great  Fire,  or  the  number  of  square  miles 
covered  by  its  territory,  or  the  census  of  its 
inhabitants,  or  the  millions  of  its  slaughtered 
hogs,  its  more  judicious  citizens  have  hung 
their  heads,  and  felt  that  such  things  should 
rather  be  taken  for  granted  than  expressed,  and 
that  the  consciousness  of  their  truth  were  most 
fitly  accompanied  by  an  eloquent  silence.  But 
when  the  chorus  of  self-congratulation  has  for 
its  theme  the  largest  library  circulation  in  the 
world  or  the  most  generous  American  expendi- 
ture for  public  schools,  the  richest  of  university 
endowments  or  the  most  magnificent  of  interna- 
tional exhibitions,  something  may  be  pardoned 
the  effusiveness  which  is  so  eager  to  proclaim 
these  facts  to  the  rest  of  mankind,  and  the 
worthiness  of  the  aims  thus  realized  may  partly 
justify  the  spirit  in  which  they  are  heralded. 
Certainly,  if  Chicago  ever  had  adequate  cause 
for  blowing  its  own  trumpet  in  the  old  ear- 
piercing  fashion,  such  cause  is  provided  by 
the  superb  astronomical  observatory,  equipped 
with  the  largest  refracting  telescope  thus  far 
made,  and  manned  by  a  corps  of  the  most  bril- 
liant investigators  in  the  country,  which  has 
been  given  to  the  University  of  Chicago  by  the 
munificence  of  Mr.  Charles  T.  Yerkes,  and 
which  was  dedicated  to  the  uses  of  research  by 
the  elaborate  ceremonies  of  week  before  last. 
Few  such  gatherings  of  distinguished  men  of 
science  as  then  assembled  at  Chicago  and  Lake 
Geneva  have  ever  been  brought  together  in  this 
country,  and  none  has  ever  taken  part  in  the 
inauguration  of  a  more  auspicious  scientific 
enterprise. 

The  great  telescope  which  was  the  real  hero 
of  this  occasion  represents  several  years  of  the 


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most  expert  mechanical  workmanship.  At  the 
World's  Fair  of  1893,  the  giant  tube,  tempo- 
rarily mounted,  was  one  of  the  most  conspicu- 
ous of  the  exhibits,  while  the  lenses  had  already 
been  cast  and  were  being  ground  in  the  Alvan 
Clark  establishment  whence  have  issued  most 
of  the  objectives  for  the  great  telescopes  of  the 
world.  During  the  past  two  or  three  years  the 
Romanesque  observatory  with  its  imposing 
dome,  the  design  of  Mr.  Henry  Ives  Cobb,  has 
been  rearing  its  massive  walls  upon  the  hilly 
shore  of  the  picturesque  Wisconsin  lake.  Sit- 
uated within  a  two- hours'  railway  journey  from 
the  city,  the  Yerkes  Observatory  is  now  an 
integral  part  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  and 
has  entered  upon  its  career  as  a  factor  in  as- 
tronomical research.  A  quarter  of  a  century 
ago,  the  old  Chicago  University  owned  the 
largest  telescope  objective  that  had  then  been 
produced  —  the  eighteen  and  one-half  inch 
Clark  lens  of  the  Dearborn  Observatory.  Since 
then,  the  scale  of  achievement  in  this  delicate 
field  of  the  art  mechanical  has  risen,  almost 
inch  by  inch,  until  a  new  landmark  of  progress 
has  been  set  by  the  clear  forty  inches  of  aper- 
ture disclosed  by  the  new  instrument.  As  com- 
pared with  the  thirty-six  inch  lens  of  the  Lick 
instrument,  the  Yerkes  telescope  has  a  light- 
gathering  power  nearly  twenty-five  per  cent 
greater,  while  the  astronomers  in  charge  make 
the  gratifying  statement  that  the  site  proves 
better  than  had  been  anticipated.  This  highly 
important  consideration  is  stated  by  President 
Harper  in  the  following  terms : 

"  The  atmospheric  conditions  at  night  are  frequently 
very  fine  indeed.  The  best  seeing  here  is  not  surpassed 
by  the  best  seeing  at  the  Lick  Observatory,  though  in 
the  course  of  a  year  there  would  be  more  good  nights 
at  Mount  Hamilton.  The  atmospheric  conditions  dur- 
ing the  day  are  much  superior  to  those  of  the  Lick 
Observatory.  The  conditions  for  solar  work,  consider- 
ing both  instruments  and  atmosphere,  are  probably 
much  better  than  those  enjoyed  by  any  other  observa- 
tory." 

At  the  new  observatory,  then,  all  the  essen- 
tial conditions  for  investigation  of  the  most 
fruitful  kind  seem  to  be  met.  But  the  wonder- 
loving  public  cannot  be  too  frequently  warned 
that  no  discoveries  of  a  sensational  character 
are  to  be  expected  even  from  such  an  astro- 
nomical equipment  as  that  now  provided.  Ele- 
phants in  the  moon  will  be  seen  in  the  future, 
as  in  the  past,  by  the  eyes  of  humorous  poets 
alone,  and  the  doings  of  the  Martians  will  still 
remain  to  be  chronicled  exclusively  by  the  ro- 
mancers. As  a  member  of  the  staff  remarked 
the  other  day,  science  does  not  take  kindly  to 


that  sort  of  thing.  What  the  observatory  shall 
accomplish  will  fall  within  certain  well-defined 
lines  of  research,  and  its  work  will  be  uninspir- 
ing save  to  those  in  close  touch  with  the  pro- 
gress of  astronomical  science.  There  will  be 
many  additions  to  the  catalogue  of  double  stars, 
many  new  companions  of  familiar  luminaries 
detected,  many  delicate  micrometrical  measure- 
ments recorded,  and  many  spectra  photographed 
for  examination.  It  is  possible  that  one  or  two 
new  satellites  may  be  found  somewhere  at  the 
outposts  of  our  planetary  system,  that  certain 
vexatious  problems  of  rotation  may  be  solved, 
and  that  we  may  considerably  increase  our 
knowledge  of  the  sun's  physical  constitution. 
The  accumulation  of  these  kinds  of  facts  does 
not  appeal  to  the  popular  imagination,  but,  on 
the  other  hand,  such  facts  appeal  with  the 
greatest  force  to  the  trained  astronomer,  be- 
cause it  is  by  their  means  that  he  hopes,  at 
some  time  in  the  dim  future,  to  arrive  at  some 
sort  of  solution  of  the  vastest  of  all  scientific 
problems  —  that  of  the  constitution  of  the 
physical  universe. 

Truth  is,  that  the  real  astronomy  of  to-day 
is  so  unlike  the  notion  of  astronomy  as  it  exists 
in  the  popular  consciousness  that  the  layman 
and  the  professional  hardly  speak  the  same 
language,  and  that  conversation  between  them 
upon  the  subject  is  largely  a  game  of  cross- 
purposes.  The  older  astronomy,  as  popular- 
ized by  such  men  as  Mitchell  and  Proctor,  is 
well-nigh  a  closed  chapter  in  the  history  of  the 
science,  and  with  it  the  modern  observatory  has 
little  concern.  In  the  old  observatory  the  tele- 
scope was  everything ;  in  the  new,  the  spectro- 
scope and  the  photographic  camera  are  at  least 
its  rivals.  But  it  was  the  old  astronomy  that 
made  possible  the  new,  and  that  in  more  ways 
than  the  obvious  one  of  providing  the  science 
with  its  framework  of  gross  facts.  The  appeal 
of  the  old  astronomy  to  the  popular  imagina- 
tion was,  and  continues  to  be,  very  great,  and 
it  is  precisely  through  the  force  of  that  appeal 
that  national  observatories  have  been  estab- 
lished and  private  endowments  like  that  which 
now  engages  our  attention  have  been  made. 
In  this  respect,  indeed,  astronomy  has  been  the 
favored  child  in  the  household  of  the  sciences. 
And  if  its  returns  to  knowledge  have  not  been 
in  the  kind  for  which  its  benefactors  have 
vaguely  hoped,  they  have  been  of  a  value  far 
exceeding  anything  that  could  have  been  antici- 
pated a  generation  ago. 

In  the  fine  address  with  which  Professor 
Simon  Newcomb  closed  the  ceremonies  of  the 


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week  devoted  to  the  dedication  of  the  Yerkes 
Observatory,  he  said,  among  other  things : 

"  Gentlemen  of  the  trustees,  allow  me  to  commend 
to  your  fostering  care  the  men  at  the  end  of  the  tele- 
scope. The  constitution  of  the  astronomer  shows  curious 
and  interesting  features.  If  he  is  destined  to  advance 
the  science  of  works  of  real  genius  he  must,  like  the 
poet,  be  born,  not  made.  The  born  astronomer,  when 
placed  in  command  of  a  telescope,  goes  about  using  it 
as  naturally  and  effectively  as  the  babe  avails  itself  of 
its  mother's  breast.  He  sees  intuitively  what  less  gifted 
men  have  to  learn  by  long  study  and  tedious  experi- 
ment. He  is  moved  to  celestial  knowledge  by  a  passion 
which  dominates  his  nature.  He  can  no  more  avoid 
doing  astronomical  work,  whether  in  the  line  of  obser- 
vations or  research,  than  the  poet  can  chain  his  Pegasus 
to  earth.  I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  education  and 
training  will  be  of  no  use  to  him.  They  will  certainly 
accelerate  his  early  progress.  If  he  is  to  become  great 
on  the  mathematical  side,  not  only  must  his  genius 
have  a  bend  in  that  direction,  but  he  must  have  the 
means  of  pursuing  his  studies.  And  yet  I  have  seen  so 
many  failures  of  men  who  had  the  best  instruction,  and 
so  many  successes  of  men  who  scarcely  learned  anything 
of  their  teachers,  that  I  sometimes  ask  whether  the 
great  American  celestial  mechanician  of  the  twentieth 
century  will  be  a  graduate  of  a  university  or  of  the 
backwoods." 

These  remarks  have  a  peculiar  fitness  upon  the 
present  occasion,  for  the  three  men  at  the  head 
of  the  new  observatory  are  born  astronomers, 
if  such  there  ever  were.  Professor  Barnard, 
when  at  Mount  Hamilton,  showed  how  "  natur- 
ally and  effectively  "  he  could  use  a  great  tele- 
scope, and  his  discovery  of  the  fifth  satellite  of 
Jupiter  made  his  fame  secure  for  the  coming 
centuries.  Professor  Hale  was  "  moved  to 
celestial  knowledge  by  a  passion  which  domi- 
nates his  nature,"  for  he  was  hardly  more  than 
a  boy  when,  in  his  own  private  observatory,  he 
made  discoveries  and  perfected  methods  that 
attracted  the  attention  of  astrophysicists  all 
over  the  world.  And  Professor  Burn  ham  is  a 
shining  example  of  the  "  successes  of  men  who 
scarcely  learned  anything  of  their  teachers," 
for,  with  no  other  means  of  investigation  than 
a  modest  six- inch  glass,  and  no  other  time  than 
the  hours  left  him  from  his  duties  as  a  law 
reporter,  he  made  for  himself  a  score  of  years 
ago  an  international  reputation  in  his  chosen 
field  of  work  —  the  investigation  of  double 
stars.  The  observatory  that  has  at  its  com- 
mand the  services  of  three  such  men  as  these 
may  well  face  the  future  with  hopeful  eyes. 
And  when  to  the  men  the  equipment  is  added, 
the  prospects  of  the  institution  are  indeed  en- 
viable, and  justify  the  eagerness  with  which 
astronomers  everywhere  are  awaiting  the  re- 
ports that  the  coming  years  are  to  bring  from 
the  shores  of  the  Wisconsin  lake. 


MAGIC  LINES. 

Among  the  uncollected  curiosities  of  our  national 
literature  might  be  found  a  fragment  by  an  un- 
printed  poet  of  our  vanished  Bohemia.     As  nearly 
as  I  can  remember,  the  effusion  was  as  follows : 
"Oh,  I'd  weave  some  mystic,  magic  line  of  scriven, 
Whose  meaning,  when  unriven, 
Would  be  like  words  from  Heaven  — 
A  clue  to  millions  driven 
In  this  tangled  maze  of  woe. 
Ah,  would  I  might  do  this,  before  I  go !  " 

And  a  brother  Bohemian — of  Pfaff's  —  exclaimed  : 
"  Scriven  ?  —  What 's  scriven  ?  "  I  shall  not  be  so 
fastidious  as  regards  my  poet's  diction,  for  I  hold 
myself  indebted  to  him  for  a  text ;  and  I  think  the 
entire  race  of  verse-makers  owes  him  an  obligation 
for  voicing  the  pathetic  ambition  of  their  guild  — 
to  leave  behind  at  least  one  "  mystic  magic  "  line 
that  the  world  cannot  forget,  even  if  its  meaning  be 
never  wholly  unriven. 

I  wish  here  to  refer  briefly  to  sundry  famous 
lines,  in  our  own  language  chiefly,  whose  signifi- 
cance to  the  world  at  large  would  seem  to  transcend 
the  author's  conscious  intention.  The  poet  Camp- 
bell, in  a  burst  of  confidential  candor,  assures  us, 
while  lauding  another  art,  that 

"  111  can  poetry  express 
Fall  many  a  tone  of  thought  sublime." 
I  am  inclined  to  think  he  builded  better  than  he 
knew,  in  making  this  admission,  since  in  the  order 
of  verse  under  consideration  there  is  imparted  to 
expressions,  apparently  simple  in  themselves,  a  gla- 
mour as  potent,  as  inexplicable,  as  that  implied  by 
him  who  asks 

"  Hast  thou  a  charm  to  stay  the  morning  star  ?  " 
There  are  lines  like  the  one  just  quoted,  whose  effect 
is  not  to  be  accounted  for  by  any  known  laws  of 
construction. 

Not  only  does  poetry  ill  express  certain  tones  of 
thought,  but  in  many  instances  it  does  not  express 
them  at  all :  it  merely  suggests  a  state  of  mind, 
which,  on  being  induced,  weaves  a  sorcerer's  web  of 
mystery,  all  the  more  sensible  because  it  is  invisible. 
We  are,  as  it  were,  spirited  away  to  Milton's  realm, 
"  Of  forests  and  enchantments  drear, 

Where  more  is  meant  than  meets  the  ear." 
But  the  few  lines  imbued  with  this  ultra  significance 
come  so  seldom  in  the  course  of  ordinary  reading,  that 
one  would  be  tempted  to  attribute  them  to  accident, 
were  it  not  that  it  is  the  privilege  of  poetry  to  claim 
for  itself  a  scheme  of  predestination, —  a  true  poet 
resenting  the  mastership  of  chance  as  utterly  as  does 
the  theologian.  And  yet  we  are  in  many  cases  left 
to  conjecture  whether  the  author  himself  was  aware 
of  the  wizard  quality  of  his  own  work,  especially  as 
these  magic  utterances  are  seldom  found  ornament- 
ing a  production  of  transcendent  merit  or  one  that 
evinces  great  ambition  on  the  part  of  the  author. 
Such,  and  thus  undistinguished  by  position,  are  the 
following  "  mystic  magic  lines  of  scriven  ": 
"  The  desire  of  the  moth  for  the  star, 
Of  the  night  for  the  morrow." 


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These  form  part  of  a  fugitive  poem  which  but  for 
them  would  pass  unnoticed.  Indeed,  Shelley  may  be 
considered  the  arch-seer  of  such  lyric  necromancy, 
and  more  than  once  has  his  muse  veiled  herself  in 
a  garment  of  woven  wind,  like  the  lady  in  "  Alastor," 
and  more  than  once  hath  his  Pegasus  "  trod  the  dim 
winds."  The  latter  phrase  has  always  seemed  to 
me  to  induce  this  feeling  of  glamour,  to  which  all 
Shelley's  translucent  metaphors,  in  more  or  less 
degree,  lend  themselves.  It  is  as  though  in  some 
other  life  we  should  attain  to  such  exquisiteness  of 
vision  and  sensibility,  that  the  air,  which  to  our  mortal 
perception  is  invisible,  should  be  merely  "  dim." 
Take  another  instance, — the  line  from  Wordsworth: 

"  The  light  that  never  was  on  sea  or  land." 
This  collection  of  words  hints  to  us  vaguely  of  some- 
thing whereof  we  know  but  vaguely — to  wit,  genius. 
Yet  this  beautiful  line,  which  has  sunk  into  the 
hearts  of  millions,  and  which  is  quoted  as  one  of  the 
evidences  of  that  factor  which  it  hesitates  to  define, 
occurs  in  a  sonnet  "  On  a  Picture  of  Peel  Castle  in 
a  Storm," —  neither  the  subject,  the  artist's  treat- 
ment, nor  the  occasion,  having  been  regarded  as  of 
especial  consequence. 

Mr.  Swinburne  has  contributed  his  quota  of  magic 
lines ;  but  they,  though  just  as  mysterious  as  those 
of  Shelley,  are  less  veiled  in  tender  imagery.  What 
nameless  splendors  of  the  illimitable  and  the  un- 
known are  conjured  up  by  the  opening  line  of 
"  Hesperia  ": 

"  Out  of  the  golden,  remote,  wild  West,  where  the  sea  without 
shore  is." 

What  sense  of  the  deadly  mystery  of  fate  is  em- 
bodied in  that  other  line : 

"  Who  swims  in  sight  of  the  great  ninth  wave,  which  never  a 
swimmer  shall  cross  or  climb." 

A  strong  line,  even  though  it  were  mere  words  carry- 
ing no  clear-cut  significance  to  the  mind.  Again, 
how  rich  in  mysterious  suggestion  the  passage  de- 
scriptive of  Proserpina : 

"Pale,  beyond  porch  and  portal, 
Crowned  with  calm  leaves  she  stands." 

After  deducting  all  the  influence  of  alliteration,  and 
allowing  for  the  sombre  grandeur  of  movement,  how 
much  that  is  wholly  inexplicable  in  magic  effect 
remains ! 

Of  an  order  less  vast  and  comprehensive,  yet  still 
gloomily  picturesque,  may  be  cited  the  lines  from 
Campbell : 

"And  heard  across  the  wave's  tumultuous  roar, 
The  wolf's  long  howl  from  Oonalaska's  shore." 

Lockhart  says  of  this  couplet,  that  many  of  the 
music-lovers  of  his  day  were  wont  to  repeat  these 
lines  often,  just  to  fill  the  ear  with  the  mere  mel- 
ody thereof;  but  we  contend  that  there  is  in  the 
effect  of  these  verses  something  more  than  music, — 
something  more  than  picture, —  some  magic  of  the 
supersense. 

There  is  now  and  then  found,  among  the  occa- 
sional verse  of  the  day,  a  stray  lyric  possessing  no 
plan  or  purpose  commensurate  with  the  effect  pro- 
duced, which  is  one  of  weird  fascination.  The  whole 


poem  might  be  considered  as  a  continuous  "magic 
line."  One  such  has  become  widely  known  and  is  fre- 
quently copied, — Bourdillon's  enchanting  fragment, 

"The  night  has  a  thousand  eyes." 

A  yet  more  eminent  example  in  the  same  line  is 
Tennyson's  "  Break,  break,  break  ";  constructed  of 
the  commonest  words,  embodying  a  common  senti- 
ment, all  thrown  loosely  together  like  the  storm- 
tossed  rocks  the  poet  describes, —  yet  the  total  effect 
is  one  of  infinite  tenderness  and  vague  regret, —  a 
very  mirage  of  the  soul.  There  is  heard  in  it  the 
wail  of  the  deep  sea,  such  as  ages  ago  Sophocles 
heard  in  the  .ZEgean,  and  later  was  heard  on  Dover 
Beach  by  Matthew  Arnold. 

There  are  many  of  us  who  know  nothing  of  some 
foreign  language  save  one  masterly  phrase  or  line 
which  filters  into  our  consciousness  half  unaware, 
and  conveys  to  us  some  hint  of  the  miracle  of  Pen- 
tecost (with  all  reverence  be  it  said)  —  whereby  the 
gift  of  alien  tongues  avails  for  a  single  instance. 
A  very  scant  knowledge  of  German  suffices  to  fill 
the  mind  with  a  sense  of  weird  revery,  on  reading 
such  poems  as,  say,  "The  Lorelei"  of  Heine,  or  that 
darker  measure,  "  The  Erl  King  "  of  Goethe.  Of 
the  latter  poem,  the  force  of  the  last  four  syl- 
lables, "  Das  Kind  war  todt,"  is  as  of  four  magic 
words  used  as  an  incantation.  It  is  a  trick  of  some 
German  reciters  to  drop  these  four  words  with  a 
solemn  death-like  emphasis ;  and  this  effect  was 
more  than  reproduced  by  the  conjurer's  forefinger 
of  Rubinstein,  in  playing  the  music.  Take  one 
more  instance  —  the  sorrowful  burden  of  poor 
Gretchen's  lament,  "  Nimmer  mehr.''  The  spell  of 
immortal  melancholy,  cast  by  this  haunting  refrain, 
meets  us  again  in  Shelley's  "  No  more,  oh  never- 
more !  "  in  Byron's 

"  No  more,  no  more,  oh  nevermore  on  me 

The  freshness  of  the  heart  can  fall  like  dew," 
and  again  in  "  The  Raven  "  of  Poe. 

Turning  to  the  poetry  of  the  ancients,  that  classic 
period  just  preceding  the  Christian  era,  we  find  one  of 
the  most  celebrated  passages  in  all  literature  —  the 
reference  to  Marcellus  in  the  ".3Cneid"  of  Virgil: 

"Manibus  date  lilia  plenis, 
Purpnreos  spargam  flores, " 

Wet  with  the  dew  of  a  pitying  heaven  and  a  mourn- 
ing maternity,  the  odor  of  those  purpureos  flores  has 
passed  down  the  centuries,  and  the  source  of  its 
weird  intoxication  has  never  been  divined.  But, 
notwithstanding  many  passages  of  exquisite  beauty, 
the  Latin  tongue  does  lend  itself  rather  to  the  clear- 
cut  definiteness  of  epigram  than  to  lines  of  illusive 
magic.  The  Greek,  however,  abounds  in  instances 
illustrative  of  our  subject.  For  nearly  thirty  cen- 
turies there  have  dwelt  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of 
men  a  few  lines  from  the  surviving  work  of  Sappho. 
During  all  those  centuries  her  poetry  has  been  ac- 
cepted without  question  or  comment  save  of  delight 
and  wonder.  We  need  only  refer  to  the  Hesperus  : 
for  sweet  as  is  the  hour  she  celebrates,  never,  in  all 
the  years  since,  have  the  wistful  witcheries  of  sound 
and  the  yearning  penumbra  of  sight  been  so  brought 


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home  to  the  sensitive  soul.     Yet  who  can  say  how 
this  is  accomplished? 

Anyone  familiar  with  the  theory  of  isomeric 
compounds  will  have  noted  the  extraordinary  fact 
that  many  substances  exactly  identical  in  chemical 
composition  display,  in  their  effect,  results  the  most 
dissimilar.  Take  the  most  exquisite  of  all  perfumes, 
—  that  which  has  given  poetry  to  Araby  the  Blest, — 
the  atar-gul  of  Turkey :  the  attar  of  roses.  Careful 
analysis  shows  this  substance  to  be  precisely  iden- 
tical with  turpentine.  The  cause  of  the  difference 
in  result  remains  one  of  the  mysteries  of  science. 
If  accounted  for  at  all,  it  is  by  methods  as  fantastic 
as  the  assumption  of  unlikeness  in  the  adjustment 
of  molecular  atoms.  Turpentine  is  one  of  the 
cheapest  and  most  abundant  of  substances  known 
to  the  manufacturer,  attar  of  rose  one  of  the  most 
costly  and  difficult  to  obtain  of  all  merchandise. 
Could  some  second-sight  espy  the  cause  of  difference 
between  the  two  substances,  the  happy  discoverer 
would  master  a  transmutation  more  profitable  than 
was  ever  dreamed  of  by  alembic.  And  the  same 
might  be  said  of  word-magic,  as  compared  with  mere 

words-  S.  R.  ELLIOTT. 


OUT  OF  A   THOUSAND. 


As  at  Cremona,  home  of  chorded  sound, 
Some  master-workman,  plying  his  loved  trade, 
When  he  a  thousand  violins  hath  made, 
Makes  one  that  shall  be  heard  the  world  around: 
Nor  knows  he  how  his  wonted  toil  was  crowned; 
For  if  that  wizard  instrument  be  weighed, — 
By  every  test  of  sight  and  touch  assayed  — 
Not  other  than  its  congeners  't  is  found. 

So  is  it  with  the  work  that  thou  dost  frame, 
O  Bard!     Among  ten  thousand  fading  lines, 
Thou  shalt,  perchance  (but  not  through  studious  zeal, 
Nor  lust  for  current  praise  or  future  fame) 
Achieve  a  single  peerless  verse  that  shines 
Emblazoned  with  a  translunary  seal ! 

EDITH  M.  THOMAS. 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 


THE   CRERAR   LIBRARY. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

As  a  former  resident  of  Chicago,  I  desire  to  express 
my  appreciation  of  your  tribute  to  the  Chicago  Public 
Library  in  your  issue  of  October  16.  It  is  eminently 
just  and  well  deserved. 

Your  remarks  in  the  same  article  concerning  the 
other  libraries  of  Chicago  also  seem  to  me  to  be  most 
discriminating.  Your  incidental  mention,  however,  of 
the  fact  that  the  Crerar  Library  is  now  "  of  interest 
only  to  students  of  science  "  suggests  a  point  in  that 
connection  that  concerns  many  of  your  readers  and  the 
people  of  Chicago  generally.  It  is  that  Mr.  Crerar 
unquestionably  intended  that  the  contents  of  the  library 
should  consist  mainly  and  primarily  of  literature  spe- 
cially fitted  to  create  and  sustain  high  moral  sentiment 


in  the  community,  to  diffuse  an  atmosphere  of  refine- 
ment, and  to  build  up  character.  No  intelligent  and 
unbiased  person  reading  the  provisions  of  Mr.  Crerar's 
will  on  that  point,  as  on  record  and  published,  can  escape 
that  conclusion.  His  declarations  and  directions  to  that 
effect  are  clear  and  unmistakable. 

Now,  unless  it  can  be  shown  that  a  library  of  purely 
scientific  literature  is  better  calculated  than  any  other 
to  impart  this  moral  and  aesthetic  culture,  and  build  up 
character,  it  must  be  acknowledged  that  to  establish 
such  a  library  exclusively  on  the  Crerar  foundation 
would  be  to  proceed  directly  contrary  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  instrument  from  which  every  atom  of  au- 
thority to  act  in  the  matter  is  derived.  No  attempt,  so 
far  as  the  writer  knows,  has  ever  been  made  to  show 
that  an  exclusively  scientific  library  will  in  this  case  best 
accomplish  the  objects  mentioned.  Such  an  attempt 
would  be,  at  least,  interesting  to  observe. 

But,  whether  such  endeavor  be  made  or  not,  I  think 
that  most  persons  who  are  fitted  to  judge  will  continue 
to  believe  that  the  proper  material  with  which  to  pro- 
duce the  results  desired  by  Mr.  Crerar  is  literature  of 
the  highest  and  best  kind;  "the  best  that  has  been 
thought  and  said  in  the  world";  such  literature  as 
refines  and  elevates  the  taste,  holds  lofty  ideals  before 
the  imagination,  and  fires  the  heart  with  high  enthu- 
siasms; "the  literature  of  power"  rather  than  the 
"  literature  of  information "  which  seeks  merely  to 
communicate  bare  cold  facts. 

May  it  not  be  hoped  that  the  trustees  of  the  Crerar 
Library  will  yet  decide  to  add  to  the  library  a  good 
proportion  of  literature  of  this  kind  sooner  or  later  ? 

T.  V.  V. 

Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  October  20,  1897. 

[At  the  time  when  the  plans  of  the  Crerar  Library- 
were  under  discussion,  we  were  of  the  opinion 
expressed  in  the  above  communication,  and  urged 
that  opinion  upon  the  trustees.  But  while  we  con- 
sider their  decision  to  have  been  an  unfortunate 
one,  we  have  no  doubt  that  they  acted  conscien- 
tiously, taking  into  account  both  what  they  believed 
to  be  the  best  interests  of  the  public  and  what  they 
thought  were  the  intentions  of  the  testator.  The- 
situation  was,  moreover,  made  more  complex  than 
it  would  otherwise  have  been  by  the  existence  of 
two  other  large  public  libraries,  and  the  consequent 
importance  of  such  a  division  of  the  field  of  activity 
as  should  reduce  duplication  and  waste  of  effort  to 
a  minimum.  At  any  rate  the  question  is  no  longer 
open  for  discussion,  since  the  Crerar  Library  has 
already  gone  so  far  in  its  chosen  direction  as  to  make 
reconsideration  impossible.  —  EDB.  THE  DIAL.] 


"  ART  AND  LIFE." 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Mr.  Hale  touches  an  all-important  question  in  THE 
DIAL  of  October  1,  but  except  for  the  hint  in  the  phrase 
"  that  literature  may  be  the  breath  of  life  to  the  spirit," 
does  not  answer  it  —  let  us  hope,  because  he  intends  to 
do  so  elsewhere. 

It  will  be  worth  while  to  turn  to  page  177  of  the  same 
number  of  THE  DIAL,  and  consider  these  words  from 
the  pen  of  Mr.  Charles  Leonard  Moore,  making  no 
mental  change  except  to  amplify  the  word  "  think  "  by 
the  phrase  "think  and  absorb": 


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[Nov.  1, 


"  Man  must  think,  or  sink  to  the  level  of  the  animals.  .  .  . 
Granted  that  the  problems  that  rise  about  us  are  insolvable  by 
any  system  of  speculation,  yet  by  facing  them  man  will  at 
least  realize  his  soul,  which  by  forgetting  them  will  die  out  of 
him." 

This,  when  read  in  the  light  of  Professor  L.  A.  Sher- 
man's definition  of  literature,  "  Anything  deemed  worth 
thinking  again,  or  experiencing  again,  and  preserved,  no 
matter  how,  with  such  intention  or  expectation,"  suggests 
a  theory  of  "the  relation  of  art  to  life";  for  it  must 
have  been  a  character  so  shaped  that  Ben  Jonson  had 
in  mind  when  he  wrote: 

"  I  judge  him  of  a  rectified  spirit, 
By  many  revolutions  of  discourse 
(In  his  bright  reason's  influence)  refined 
From  all  the  tartarous  moods  of  common  men ; 
Bearing  the  nature  and  similitude 
Of  a  right  heavenly  bodie ;  most  severe 
In  fashion  and  collection  of  himself e, 
And  then  as  cleare  and  confident  as  Jove." 
An  old  farmer,  broken  down  by  rheumatism,  once 
said  to  me:    "  The  only  reading  a  young  man  needs  is 
the  reading  of  his  Bible  on  Sundays,  after  working  hard 
from  daybreak  to  dark  six  days  in  the  week."    Extreme 
and  exceptional,  no  doubt;  but  the  spirit  is  not.    "  Faith, 
attainment,  realization,"  or  "  Success,  the  measure  of 
achievement,"  —  these  are  the  cries,  according  as  one 
is  exclusively  religious  or  exclusively  worldly.     Being 
a  positive  people,  we  are  generally  either  one  or  the 
other.     The  latter  position  needs  no  discussion  here. 
For  an  illustration  of  the  former,  turn  again  to  the  same 
number  of  THE  DIAL,  page  187,  the  last  poetical  quo- 
tation.    Absolute  faith  being  so  commonly  held  up  as 
the  ideal,  it  is  not  strange  that  things  called  by  other 
names,  though  they  constitute  the  soul  itself,  should  be 
considered  of  secondary  worth.     Not  that  the  quotation 
does  not  contain  a  truth;  but  ninety-nine  out  of  every 
hundred  will  read  into  it  the  moral  "  Tu  volont^  soit 
faite,"  before,  instead  of  after, "  le  possible  humain,"and 
will  rejoice  to  look  down  upon  "  L'Art  .  .  .  enrichi  de 
ses  efforts  utiles," —  in  other  words,  will  view  with  con- 
tempt the  bridge  that  enables  them  to  cross  the  stream. 
It  is  equally  necessary  to  accompany  the  souls  of 
former  days  through  The  City  of  Dreadful  Night  and 
The  Realm  of  Glorious  Day;  otherwise  we  may,  for 
lack  of  preparation,  be  overwhelmed  when  the  shadows 
come,  as  come  they  will,  or  when  the  horizon  is  widened 
or  narrowed  in  spite  of  the  inclination.    Faith  with  eyes 
open  is  to  be  opposed  to  faith  with  eyes  closed.     What 
else  will  strengthen  us  so  to  do  but  art,  with  its  moral 
truth  and  human  passion  "  touched  with  a  certain  large- 
ness, sanity,  and  attraction  of  form  "  ?  The  problem  of  its 
relation  to  life  disappears  when  we  realize  that  art  is  life 
itself,  merely  concentrated;  none  the  less  true  because 

"  Calm  pleasures  there  abide,  majestic  pains ; 

.  .  .  more  pellucid  streams, 
An  ampler  ether,  a  diviner  air, 
And  fields  invested  with  purpureal  gleams," 

or  because  at  times  it  presents 

"  Shadows  and  shoals  that  edge  eternity," — 

"Loco  d'ogni  luce  muto, 
Che  mngghia  come  fa  mar  per  tempesta 
Se  da  contrarii  venti  e  combattuto,"; 

for  these  things  constitute  our  living,  when  we  look 
beyond  the  intervening  periods  of  apathy. 

So  far  as  may  be,  art  is  the  sole  substitute  for  per- 
sonal experience,  making  up  in  largeness  and  depth  what 
it  lacks  in  peculiar  application.        j1   L.  THOMPSON. 
Montrose,  Colorado,  Oct.  20,  1897. 


Cre 


RICHARD  WAGNER  AND  THE  BAYRETJTH 
IDEA.* 


"  With  the  exception  of  two  or  three  smaller 
works,  every  complete  and  thoroughly  trust- 
worthy treatise  on  Wagner  —  from  whatever 
standpoint  it  may  have  been  written  —  has  been 
the  work  of  a  non-musician."  This  quotation 
from  the  important  work  which  we  are  about  to 
review  is  the  statement  of  a  fact  striking  in  itself, 
and  of  the  deepest  significance  as  regards  the 
position  of  Richard  Wagner  in  the  history  of  cul- 
ture. Its  interpretation  must  be  that  the  art  of 
the  composer  is  so  great,  its  bearings  upon  the 
spiritual  life  of  mankind  so  varied,  that  it  may 
not  be  measured  or  appraised  by  the  technical 
standards  of  the  musician.  Exemplifying  as  it 
does  an  aesthetic,  a  philosophical  theory,  and  a 
social  ideal  of  its  own,  it  demands  for  its  compre- 
hension the  widest  knowledge  and  the  highest 
analytical  power.  To  estimate  such  a  genius 
in  the  terms  of  musical  art  alone  is  as  impos- 
sible as  it  would  be  to  estimate  Shakespeare  in 
the  terms  of  stage  technology.  In  other  words, 
the  intellectual  and  emotional  power  of  such 
men  as  Shakespeare  and  Wagner  so  transcends 
the  limitations  of  the  arts  in  which  they  respec- 
tively wrought  their  creative  work  that  the  mere 
study  of  their  technique  is  relegated  to  a  sub- 
ordinate place,  and  the  real  problem  presented 
by  them  is  that  of  an  interpretation  which  shall 
bring  their  work  into  relation  with  the  deepest 
currents  of  human  thought  and  feeling.  Fur- 
thermore, if  in  the  consideration  of  the  phe- 
nomenon presented  by  the  life  of  Wagner  the 
critic  who  is  a  musician  and  nothing  more  must 
stand  aside,  so  also  the  German  has  hardly  a 
stronger  claim  upon  that  great  personality  than 
has  the  Frenchman  or  the  Englishman. 

"Shakespeare  is  not  our  poet,  but  the  world's," 

says  Landor  ;  and  we  may  likewise  say  of  Wag- 
ner that  in  his  strenuous  endeavor  to  create  for 
Germany  a  strictly  national  art  he  builded  bet- 
ter than  he  knew,  and  that  the  art  which  he 
fashioned  grew  to  a  thing  of  beauty  world-wide 
in  its  power,  and  destined  to  do  as  much  for 
the  spiritual  life  of  other  nations  as  it  accom- 
plished for  his  own. 

It  is  not  surprising,  then,  that,  in  the  first 
place,  the  most  important  books  that  have  been 
written  about  Wagner  have  not  come  from 

*  RICHARD  WAGNER.  By  Houston  Stewart  Chamberlain. 
Translated  from  the  German  by  G.  Ainslie  Hight,  and  Revised 
by  the  Author.  Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 


1897.] 


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musicians,  and,  in  the  second  place,  that  his 
fellow-countrymen  are  not  the  only  ones  who 
have  worthily  attempted  to  portray  his  life  and 
work.  Although  it  has  been  left  for  a  German, 
Herr  Glasenapp,  to  produce  the  most  minute 
and  laborious  biography  of  the  composer,  it  has 
been  to  a  Frenchman,  M.  Jullien,  that  we  have 
hitherto  been  indebted  for  the  most  attractive 
illustrated  work  upon  Wagner's  art ;  and  it  is 
now  to  an  Englishman,  Mr.  Houston  Stewart 
Chamberlain,  that  our  thanks  are  due  for  a 
publication  even  more  sumptuous  in  execution, 
and  far  more  sympathetic  and  penetrating  as  a 
work  of  interpretation  and  exposition.  Mr. 
Chamberlain  has  long  been  known  as  a  Wag- 
nerian  of  the  most  painstaking  accuracy,  and 
some  such  work  as  the  present  has  been  ex- 
pected from  him.  His  little  treatise  "Das 
Drama  Richard  Wagner's,"  published  five 
years  ago,  promised  the  larger  work  which  has 
now  appeared,  although  it  has  not  taken  exactly 
the  form  then  anticipated.  What  we  have  is  a 
stout  quarto  of  some  four  hundred  pages,  orig- 
inally written  in  German,  and  translated  into 
English,  under  the  author's  supervision,  by  Mr. 
G.  Ainslie  Hight.  Considered  mechanically, 
the  work,  which  bears  the  London  imprint  of 
the  Messrs.  Dent,  is  a  beautiful  example  of 
book-making.  The  covers,  the  paper,  the  pro- 
portions, and  the  typography,  are  all  in  excel- 
lent taste,  while  the  illustrations  are  simply 
superb.  They  include,  in  addition  to  some- 
thing like  a  hundred  pictures  imbedded  in  the 
text,  nearly  forty  full-page  plates.  Some  of 
these  plates  are  facsimiles  of  manuscript,  but 
most  of  them  are  either  portraits  or  reproduc- 
tions of  original  paintings  made  for  the  work 
by  Herr  Hendrich.  There  are  five  of  these 
paintings,  having  for  their  subjects  "  Der  Flie- 
gende  Hollander,"  "  Siegfried  und  Fafner," 
"  Briinnhilde's  Rock,"  "Siegfried's  Death," 
and  the  "  Funeral  Procession  with  Siegfried's 
Body."  The  artist,  in  Mr.  Chamberlain's  words, 
41  is  one  of  the  few  painters  whose  imagination 
is  not  misled  by  the  picture  on  the  stage,  who 
are  able  to  grasp  the  central  poetic  idea,  and 
to  reproduce  it  freely  in  accordance  with  the 
character  of  their  own  art."  These  statements 
are  certainly  justified  by  the  character  of  Herr 
Hendrich's  work  —  as  is  evident  enough  from 
the  monochrome  reproductions  here  given  — 
and  we  must  add  that  the  designs  display  imag- 
ination of  a  very  high  sort,  the  "  Briinnhilde's 
Rock,"  for  example,  which  would  be  utterly 
impossible  as  a  stage  picture,  being  one  of  the 
most  striking  things  we  have  ever  seen.  It 


needs  for  a  text  some  such  verses  as  may  be 
found  in  Mr.  Swinburne's  "  Ave  atque  Vale  " 

"  Her  fair  vast  head, 
The  deep  division  of  prodigious  breasts, 
The  solemn  slope  of  mighty  limbs  asleep, 
The  weight  of  awful  tresses  that  still  keep 
The  savour  and  shade  of  old-world  pine-forests 
Where  the  wet  hill-winds  weep." 

As  for  the  portraits  in  this  volume,  they  in- 
clude no  less  than  ten  of  Wagner  himself 
(among  them  three  by  Lenbach  and  the  Her- 
komer  gouache),  and  ten  of  other  persons  in 
some  way  associated  with  the  composer.  No- 
ticeable among  them  are  Waldmiiller's  Beet- 
hoven and  Lenbach's  Schopenhauer,  the  latter 
one  of  the  most  extraordinary  portraits  ever 
painted.  The  reproductions  of  these  works 
are  in  photogravure  and  collotype. 

We  have  now  cleared  the  way  for  a  dis- 
cussion of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  text.  What  he 
has  aimed  to  do  is  set  forth  in  the  following 
passages,  which  stand  well  in  the  forefront  of 
the  volume.  "  Here  I  have  been  led,  from 
first  to  last,  by  the  wish  to  view  Wagner  from 
within,  to  represent  him  and  the  world  as  he 
saw  them  both.  ...  I  have  been  guided  rather 
by  a  desire  to  bring  the  character  and  whole 
personality  of  the  hero  of  my  book,  Richard 
Wagner,  gradually  nearer  to  [the  reader],  than 
by  any  notion  of  assisting  him  to  understand 
the  dramas,  which  are  much  better  able  to 
speak  for  themselves."  The  plan  of  the  book 
is  simple  and  symmetrical.  There  is  a  "  Gen- 
eral Introduction,"  and  then  there  are  four 
main  sections,  or  chapters,  each  provided  with 
an  appendix.  These  chapters  are  concerned, 
respectively,  with  the  life  of  the  composer,  his 
writings,  his  music-dramas,  and  with  "  the 
Bayreuth  idea,"  which  finally  united  the  three 
threads  of  his  career,  "the  struggle,  the  thought, 
the  art." 

We  cannot  do  better  than  follow  Mr.  Cham- 
berlain in  the  arrangement  of  his  material.  His 
biographical  chapter  aims  to  present  "  not  as 
many,  but  as  few  facts  as  possible,"  and  thus 
becomes  little  more  than  a  skeleton  life.  The 
primary  source  of  information  is  the  body  of 
Wagner's  own  writings,  which  are  made  pecu- 
liarly available  by  his  "  absolute  and  uncom- 
promising love  of  truth."  The  author  lays 
much  stress  upon  this  fact.  "  Nobody  can 
doubt  the  extraordinary  tenacity  of  Wagner's 
memory ;  no  person  competent  to  form  an 
opinion  would  question  his  unswerving  integ- 
rity." The  secondary  source  of  information  is 
principally  in  the  testimony  of  five  men  :  Liszt, 
the  loyal  champion  and  friend ;  Stein,  the 


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young  poet  and  aesthetic  philosopher,  whose 
untimely  death  was  a  serious  loss  to  German 
literature  and  thought ;  Herr  Glasenapp,  the 
industrious  biographer ;  Herr  von  Wolzogen, 
the  devoted  commentator  ;  and  Herr  Nietzsche, 
who  must  be  judged  by  his  classical  "  Richard 
Wagner  in  Bayreuth,"  which  was  "written 
shortly  before  the  first  signs  appeared  of  the 
fearful  malady  which  shattered  this  splendid 
intellect,"  rather  than  by  "  the  silly  pamphlets, 
full  of  nauseous  trivialities,  published  later,"  in 
which  evidence  of  the  breaking-up  of  a  great 
mind  is  all  too  evident.  Mr.  Chamberlain  out- 
lines Wagner's  life  in  about  seventy-five  pages 
of  biography,  noting  particularly  that  the  scrip- 
tural seventy  years  of  its  duration  is  broken 
into  two  almost  exactly  equal  parts  by  the  Revo- 
lution of  1849,  which  made  the  composer  an 
exile,  and  threw  him  upon  the  resources  of  his 
own  spirit.  "  Outlawed  and  persecuted,  I  was 
now  bound  by  no  ties  to  any  sort  of  lie," 
Wagner  wrote  of  this  event,  which  may  justly 
be  regarded  as  epochal  for  his  career.  The 
other  event  upon  which  stress  is  placed  is  that 
of  Wagner's  becoming  acquainted  with  the 
philosophy  of  Schopenhauer  in  1854  —  for 
nothing  less  than  an  event  it  was,  the  most 
important  of  his  whole  life,  thinks  Mr.  Cham- 
berlain. "  He  has  come  to  me  in  my  solitude 
like  a  gift  from  Heaven,"  Wagner  wrote  to 
Liszt,  and  no  account  of  his  intellectual  de- 
velopment can  ignore  the  deep  influence  ex- 
erted upon  him  by  "  Die  Welt  als  Wille  und 
Vorstellung."  In  accordance  with  the  author's 
purpose  to  present  only  the  essential  facts,  this 
sketch  of  Wagner's  life  omits  altogether  many 
matters  that  fill  a  large  space  in  other  biog- 
raphies, thus  concentrating  the  attention  upon 
what  is  really  significant  or  decisive  in  his 
career. 

The  chapter  devoted  to  Wagner's  writings  is 
about  one  hundred  pages  in  length,  discusses 
successively  the  three  topics,  politics,  philoso- 
phy, and  regeneration,  and  closes  with  a  section 
on  "  art  teaching,"  which  "  embraces  equally 
all  writings  and  all  periods  of  Wagner's  life, 
for  with  Wagner  art  is  as  the  sun  :  from  it  all 
light  is  radiated  ;  round  it  every  star  revolves." 
The  author  rightly  conceives  that  Wagner's 
creative  work  needs  for  its  comprehension  a 
thorough  study  of  his  mental  make-up  as  re- 
vealed by  his  voluminous  prose  writings,  for, 
as  Goethe  says : 

"  Die  Kunst  bleibt  Kunst !    Wer  sie  nicht  durchgedaeht 
Der  darf  sich  keinen  Kiinstler  nennen." 

Wagner's  political  ideas  were  far  removed  from 


those  which  men  of  the  world  regard  as  "prac- 
tical." It  is  true  that  he  took  an  active  part 
in  the  Revolution  of  1849,  that  he  all  but  re- 
ceived the  baptism  of  fire  upon  that  occasion, 
and  that  his  generous  devotion  entailed  upon 
him  many  years  of  exile,  with  all  their  attend- 
ant hardships.  But  he  soon  reached  a  stage  in 
which  politics  of  the  ordinary  sort  seemed  to 
him  "quite  fruitless,"  in  which  he  aspired  to- 
ward a  far  more  fundamental  reconstruction  of 
society  than  was  to  be  accomplished  by  any  sub- 
stitution of  one  kind  of  machinery  for  another. 
Dr.  Ibsen's  ideas  underwent  a  similar  develop- 
ment at  about  the  same  age,  and  he  wrote  in 
1870—1 :  "  Our  concepts  call  for  new  meanings 
and  new  explanations.  .  .  .  Men  still  call  for 
special  revolutions  —  for  revolutions  in  politics, 
in  externals.  But  all  that  sort  of  thing  is  trum- 
pery. It  is  the  human  soul  that  must  revolt. 
.  .  .  The  state  is  the  curse  of  the  individual. 
How  has  the  strength  of  Prussia  been  bought? 
By  the  sacrifice  of  the  individual  to  the  politi- 
cal and  geographical  idea.  The  Kdlner  is  the 
best  soldier.  The  state  must  away !  That  rev- 
olution shall  find  me  on  its  side.  Undermine 
the  conception  of  the  state  ;  proclaim  free  will 
and  spiritual  kinship  as  the  leading  elements 
in  the  final  settlement,  and  we  shall  be  on  the 
way  to  a  freedom  that  will  be  worth  something." 
Taking  the  term  "state"  in  its  modern  sense  of 
constitutional  monarchy,  or  of  democracy  sup- 
porting the  divine  right  of  majorities  to  do  what 
they  please,  these  words  of  the  great  Norwegian 
are  the  exact  embodiment  of  at  least  a  part  of 
Wagner's  thought.  But  the  latter  still  cher- 
ished the  notion  that  the  state,  in  the  sense  of 
a  racial  aggregation  and  an  absolute  monarchy, 
might  prove  compatible  with  the  most  insistent 
individualism.  This  paradoxical  idea,  which 
may  also  take  the  reverse  form  of  "  free  sover- 
eign —  absolute  people,"  may  be  taken  as  the 
kernel  of  Wagner's  speculative  thought  in  the 
political  field.  Recurring  for  a  moment  to  the 
comparison  with  the  Norwegian  individualist,  it 
is  instructive  to  note  the  later  divergence  of 
their  respective  methods.  Dr.  Ibsen,  after 
presenting  to  the  world  "  Brand  "  and  "  Peer 
Gynt,"  those  superb  products  of  the  positive 
ethical  imagination,  declined  to  the  merely  neg- 
ative task  of  putting  his  finger  upon  the  sore 
places  of  modern  society,  and  saying  :  thou  ail- 
est  here  and  here.  Wagner,  on  the  other  hand, 
pursued  to  the  end  his  passionate  positive  ideal 
of  a  society  to  be  regenerated  by  self-sacrifice 
and  sympathy  and  art,  an  ideal  which  united 
in  its  service  the  noblest  aspirations  of  both 


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the  religious  and  the  artistic  consciousness. 
Still,  it  must  be  said  of  both  these  men  that 
their  political  ideas  were  never  really  thought 
out,  that  when  scrutinized  with  the  lens  of 
largest  light-gathering  capacity  they  remain  in 
considerable  part  nebulous. 

Wagner's  philosophical  development  offers  a 
curiously  interesting  study.  "It  is  the  mark 
of  the  poet,"  he  says,  "to  be  riper  in  the  inner 
perception  of  things  than  in  conscious  abstract 
knowledge."  Kant  could  not  satisfy  a  nature 
thus  constituted,  and  to  it  the  Hegelian  dialectic 
was  the  abomination  of  desolation.  The  phil- 
osophy of  the  latter  "  succeeded  in  making  the 
minds  of  the  Germans  so  completely  incapable 
of  apprehending  the  problem  of  philosophy, 
that  ever  since  it  has  been  considered  the  only 
true  philosophy  to  have  no  philosophy  at  all." 
It  was  in  Feuerbach  that  Wagner  first  found 
the  help  that  he  needed  for  the  classification  of 
his  philosophical  concepts,  but  that  essentially 
shallow  thinker  provided  only  a  temporary  ref- 
uge for  his  restless  mind.  It  was  Schopenhauer, 
as  has  already  been  stated,  who  removed  the 
scales  from  his  eyes,  and  provided  him  with  a 
philosophy  that  satisfied  the  deep  inner  cravings 
of  his  nature.  We  should  say  that  Wagner  did 
not  assimilate  or  even  understand  the  whole  of 
Schopenhauer's  thought,  and  it  is  probable 
that  the  philosopher  would  have  looked  much 
askance  at  the  later  music-dramas  if  told  that 
they  were  the  outcome  and  embodiment  of  his 
theory  of  art,  but  his  influence  upon  the  com- 
poser remains  nevertheless  unquestionable.  Mr. 
Chamberlain  admits  that  "the  personal  equation 
may  have  to  be  applied,"  that "  between  Wagner 
and  Schopenhauer  were  incisive  divergences," 
and  then  goes  on  to  speak  as  follows :  "  He  who 
builds  upon  Schopenhauer  builds  upon  a  rock ; 
that  Wagner  clearly  saw,  and  remained  true  to 
him  from  1854  until  his  death.  Feuerbach  was 
a  passing  episode,  the  last  echo  of  the  dumme 
Streiche  of  the  revolution.  The  acquaintance 
with  Schopenhauer  'the  most  genial  of  man- 
kind,' as  Graf  Leo  Tolstoi  calls  him,  is  the 
most  important  event  in  Wagner's  whole  life. 
Now  for  the  first  time  his  metaphysical  yearning 
was  provided  with  an  efficient  receptacle  in  this 
all-embracing  view  of  the  world ;  now  at  last 
the  marvellously  ramified  elements  of  his  own 
being,  as  thinker  and  poet,  were  united  again 
in  his  breast  to  a  harmonious  personality,  con- 
scious in  every  detail  —  the  thinker  meditated 
more  deeply,  the  artist  gained  strength,  the 
views  of  the  politician  became  clearer,  the 
Christian  spirit,  that  of  sympathy,  of  longing 


for  redemption,  of  steadfastness  till  death,  of 
resignation  to  the  will  of  a  higher  Power,  re- 
turned to  the  heart,  from  which  many  years  be- 
fore had  issued  'Tannhauser,'  'Lohengrin,'  and 
'Der  Hollander.'  Over  the  Meister's work-table 
there  hung  only  the  picture  of  the  great  seer, 
and  in  1868  he  wrote  to  Lenbach,  the  painter 
of  the  magnificent  portrait :  '  I  have  one  hope 
for  German  culture,  that  the  time  will  come 
when  Schopenhauer  will  be  the  law-giver  for  all 
our  thought  and  cognition.'  "  Many  others  be- 
sides Wagner  have  been  similarly  influenced  by 
Schopenhauer,  even  while  rejecting  much  of  his 
doctrine.  The  secret  of  that  influence  seems 
to  be,  in  the  words  of  Professor  Caldwell,  the 
philosopher's  latest  commentator,  that  he  com- 
bined "  to  a  more  wonderful  extent  than  any 
other  man  who  ever  lived  the  power  for  abstract 
speculation  with  an  enormous  vitality  of  force 
and  feeling,"  and  that  "  a  clear  and  pure  and 
direct  intuition  into  life,  a  whole  sense  for 
reality,  always  weighed  with  Schopenhauer  far 
more  than  the  greatest  power  of  abstract 
thought."  Much  the  most  interesting  part  of 
Mr.  Chamberlain's  chapter  upon  this  subject 
is  found  in  the  pages  which  show,  by  quotations 
from  the  writings  published  before  Wagner  had 
even  heard  the  name  of  Schopenhauer,  how  the 
mind  of  the  artist  was  ripe  for  contact  with  the 
thought  of  the  philosopher,  how  curiously  the 
one  had  anticipated  some  of  the  most  charac- 
teristic thoughts  and  expressions  that  he  was 
afterwards  to  find  in  the  pages  of  the  other. 

Wagner's  departure  from  the  teaching  of 
the  philosopher  by  whom  he  was  so  deeply  in- 
fluenced is  most  distinctly  marked  in  what  may 
be  called  his  doctrine  of  regeneration.  It  cer- 
tainly gives  "  a  surprising  turn  "  to  the  phil- 
osophy of  Schopenhauer  to  recommend  it  as 
the  only  one  from  which  we  may  "  set  out  in- 
dependently on  the  paths  of  true  hope."  Yet 
Wagner  did  nothing  less  than  this,  and  in  a 
very  pregnant  passage  asserts  that  the  Scho- 
penhauerian  negation  of  the  will  to  live,  how- 
ever brought  about,  "  must  always  appear  as  the 
highest  energy  of  the  will  itself."  It  is  through 
the  influence  of  art  that  regeneration  must  be 
sought;  and  art  then,  which  Schopenhauer 
thought  to  offer  but  a  temporary  escape  from 
the  misery  of  existence,  seemed  to  Wagner  to 
promise  a  way  out  of  pessimism  altogether. 
Now  regeneration  implies  degeneration,  and 
long  before  Dr.  Nordau's  superficial  and  sen- 
sational discussion  of  degeneration  it  had  been 
recognized  by  Wagner  in  a  far  deeper  sense. 
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wisdom,  for  "  the  will's  assurance  of  victory  is 
achieved  by  the  recognition  of  the  decadence." 
The  chief  causes  of  this  degeneration,  which 
Wagner  believed  to  be  the  condition  of  all 
modern  civilization,  are  to  be  found  in  the  in- 
stitution of  inherited  property,  the  deteriora- 
tion of  blood  resulting  from  animal  food,  the 
weakening  of  racial  stocks  through  intermar- 
riage with  inferior  peoples,  and  the  moral  in- 
fluence of  Judaism.  The  statement  of  this 
latter  cause  may  provoke  a  smile,  but  Wagner 
took  the  subject  very  seriously,  and  it  may  be 
added  that  the  spirit  in  which  he  considers  it 
is  as  far  removed  from  the  spirit  of  the  Juden- 
Jietze  as  it  is  from  the  spirit  of  personal  jeal- 
ousy by  which  small  minds  have  sought  to 
account  for  that  extraordinary  book,  "  Das 
Judenthum  in  der  Musik."  As  for  the  work 
of  regeneration,  it  has  three  aspects,  "  the 
empiric  and  historical,  the  abstract  philosophi- 
cal, and  the  religious."  But  it  is  in  art  alone 
that  these  "  three  worlds  become  conscious  of 
their  oneness,"  for  art  "  possesses  the  magic 
power  of  showing  man  to  himself,  and  herewith 
pointing  out  the  way  to  regeneration."  This 
is  a  hard  saying  for  those  who  regard  art  as  an 
elevated  form  of  amusement,  or  as  the  provider 
of  delicate  sensuous  gratifications,  but  it  must 
be  grasped  in  its  full  meaning  before  anyone 
may  hope  to  penetrate  the  inner  significance  of 
the  work  of  Richard  Wagner. 

If  we  have  devoted  a  disproportionate  amount 
of  attention  to  the  ideas  of  the  composer  as 
distinguished  from  his  art-works,  it  is  because 
few,  even  among  the  most  devoted  students  of 
his  music,  know  very  much  about  the  philo- 
sophical theories  upon  which  that  music  is 
based,  or  of  the  social  ideals  to  which  dramatic 
embodiment  is  given  :  it  must  be  remembered 
that  Wagner  was  a  man  of  scholarship  and 
culture  as  few,  if  any,  of  his  predecessors  had 
been,  and  that  with  him  the  creative  instinct 
was  under  the  most  complete  control  of  the  in- 
telligence. Mr.  Chamberlain's  discussion  of 
the  art-works,  therefore,  while  of  great  value, 
demands  less  of  our  attention  than  what  he  has 
to  say  about  their  underlying  system  of  thought. 
A  few  remarks  should  be  made,  however,  on 
the  subject  of  Wagner's  poetic  powers.  Most 
Wagnerian  enthusiasts  (and  the  author  offers 
no  exception)  try  to  claim  for  the  Master  the 
title  of  poet  to  a  degree  unwarranted  by  the 
facts  and  unnecessary  for  his  fame.  It  is  mere 
juggling  with  words  to  call  Wagner  a  great 
poet  simply  because  he  created  certain  great 
dramatic  figures  "  which  belong  henceforward 


and  for  all  time  as  completely  and  inalienably 
to  the  living  consciousness  of  the  entire  human 
race  as  an  Achilleus,  an  QEdipus,  a  Hamlet,  or 
a  Faust."  We  may  admit  all  this  —  and  we 
firmly  believe  it  to  be  true  —  without  thinking 
it  necessary  to  call  the  creator  of  these  figures 
a  great  poet.  The  simple  truth  is  that  Wagner 
was  enough  of  a  poet  for  the  purposes  of  the 
complex  art  for  which  he  stands.  It  is  not  the 
greatness  of  his  texts,  considered  as  literature, 
that  compels  our  admiration,  but  their  absolute 
adequacy.  Poetry  that  is  great  on  its  own 
account  would  be  out  of  place  in  such  works  as 
"  Siegfried  "  and  "  Parsifal  "  because  it  would 
demand  too  large  a  share  of  the  attention.  It 
is  absolutely  necessary  that  the  poetry  em- 
ployed for  such  a  purpose  should  be  reduced 
to  its  lowest  terms,  so  to  speak,  a  fact  which 
Wagner's  own  artistic  instincts  led  him  to  real- 
ize, but  which  few  of  his  followers  have  been 
willing  to  admit.  What  Wagner  accomplished 
was  to  fulfil  the  prophecy  of  Herder,  who 
looked  for  the  advent  of  the  man  who  should 
"  upset  the  whole  abode  of  scrappy  operatic 
sing-song,  and  erect  an  Odeum,  a  complete 
lyric  building,  in  which  poetry,  music,  action, 
and  scenery  are  one." 

The  Odeum  of  this  prophecy  was  erected  in 
1876,  set  upon  a  hill,  and  for  more  than  twenty 
years  now  have  pilgrims  from  all  parts  of  the 
world  sought  it  out.  What  they  have  found 
there  is  more  than  words  have  yet  availed  to 
say.  There  are  thousands  of  persons  now  living 
for  whom  the  tone-poems  of  Wagner  have  been 
an  influence  profoundly  shaping  both  thought 
and  character,  and  a  century  from  now  they 
will  be  numbered  by  hundreds  of  thousands. 
Yet  these  very  persons,  although  they  know 
what  the  influence  has  been,  find  it  utterly  in- 
explicable in  terms  of  the  intellect.  They  can 
tell  just  how  and  why  they  have  been  influenced 
by  Plato,  or  Shakespeare,  or  Goethe,  but  they 
cannot  thus  explain  the  power  of  Bach,  or 
Beethoven,  or  Wagner.  Mr.  Chamberlain 
comes  as  near  as  anyone  else  to  offering  such 
an  explanation,  but  after  all  his  reasoning,  we 
are  left  with  a  feeling  that  the  secret  is  still 
uncommunicated  and  is  probably  incommuni- 
cable. Perhaps  we  may  hope  to  do  nothing 
more  than  take  for  our  final  stand  the  position 
of  Schopenhauer,  who  held  that,  whereas  the 
other  arts  represent  to  the  intelligence  the 
various  ideal  objectifications  of  the  world-will, 
the  art  of  music  is  the  immediate  expression 
of  the  will  itself,  and  as  such  incapable  of  in- 
terpretation because  in  need  of  none.  The 


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more  deeply  we  consider  the  subject,  the  more 
are  we  forced  to  the  opinion  that  all  explana- 
tions of  the  appeal  of  music  to  the  conscious- 
ness are  but  rhetorical  devices  to  veil  the  real 
problem  in  a  network  of  figurative  speech  and 
more  or  less  fanciful  analogy.  ;. .,, 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


THE  VICTORIAN  DRAMA.* 

A  French  writer,  M.  Augustin  Filon,  has 
given  us  a  very  readable  account  of  the  Victo- 
rian drama,  with  the  avowed  object  of  proving 
that  there  exists  at  this  time  a  living  English 
drama, —  that  is  to  say,  a  drama  expressing 
"  the  ideas  and  passions  of  the  time  "  and  re- 
producing "  a  complete  synthesis  of  all  the 
elements  of  the  national  character."  Such  a 
drama,  the  author  thinks,  did  not  exist  thirty 
years  ago.  Then  there  were  various  forces  at 
work  which  prevented  it  from  being  developed 
along  original  lines.  Among  these  forces  were 
"  the  timidity  resulting  from  excessive  severity 
of  manners,"  "  the  dramatist's  lack  of  oppor- 
tunity for  the  study  of  social  life,"  and  "  the 
Shakespeare  cult,  which  paralyzed  the  imagina- 
tion by  offering  it  a  model  that  was  too  big  for 
it,  and  forms  that  had  become  antiquated." 
One  after  another  these  forces  have  been  dis- 
sipated ;  and  along  with  them  has  gone  much 
of  the  English  playwrights'  dependence  on 
French  dramatists  of  the  Sardou  stamp, —  a 
dependence  which  M.  Filon  confesses  was  alto- 
gether harmful  to  the  English  stage.  Now  that 
these  clouds  have  blown  over,  he  is  of  the  opinion 
that  to-morrow  will  be  even  brighter  than  to- 
day, and  in  a  concluding  paragraph  he  goes  so 
far  as  to  suggest  the  probable  trend  of  the 
present  movement. 

"  What  the  English  drama  is  in  search  of,  what  it  is 
about  to  create,  ...  is  a  new  form  in  which  to  repro- 
duce that  dualism  which  has  struck  and  disconcerted 
every  observer,  native  or  foreign,  Matthew  Arnold, 
Emerson,  Taine.  ...  A  race  of  heroes  who  are  also 
buccaneers,  a  race  of  poets  and  shopkeepers,  a  race  fear- 
less of  death  and  devoted  to  money,  calculating  but 
passionate,  dreamers  yet  men  of  action,  capable  of  the 
charges  of  Balaklava  and  the  deal  in  the  Suez  shares, 
cannot  possibly  find  its  literary  expression  either  in  pure 
idealism  or  in  realism  undiluted.  The  'bleeding  slice  of 
life  '  awakes  in  it  no  appetite ;  '  Art  for  art's  sake  ' 
leaves  it  wonderfully  indifferent;  of  moralising,  it  is 
tired  for  the  time  being:  it  is  passing  through  a  stage 
of  sensuous  torpor  which  is  not  without  charm,  and  it 

*  THE  ENGLISH  STAGE  :  Being  an  Account  of  the  Victorian 
Drama.  By  Augustin  Filon.  Translated  from  the  French  by 
Frederic  Whyte ;  with  Introduction  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones. 
New  York:  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 


waits,  open-eyed  and,  as  it  were,  hesitatingly,  before  the 
labour  of  creating  society  afresh,  of  building  up  a  new 
civilization.  It  does  not  wish,  and  is  not  able,  to  forget 
those  problems  —  that  terrible  To-morrow  —  by  which 
we  are  everywhere  threatened.  Hence  its  sensuousness 
is  tempered,  refined,  saddened  by  philosophy.  And  in 
this  mood,  what  it  asks  of  the  drama  is,  not  to  be  amused, 
or  to  be  excited,  but  to  be  made  to  think." 

It  may  be  that  not  all,  or  even  a  majority, 
of  M.  Filon's  readers  will  adopt  this  thesis,  or 
accept  the  extremely  hopeful  view  he  takes  of 
the  present  dramatic  movement  in  England ; 
but  none  will  deny  that  he  has  written  an  en- 
tertaining and  instructive  account  of  a  literary 
type  and  period  which  have  heretofore  wanted 
an  impartial  historian.  In  his  treatment  of 
this  period,  M.  Filon  has  attempted  to  trace 
the  origin  of  the  Victorian  drama  ;  he  has  dis- 
cussed the  influences  from  within  and  from 
without  which  have  helped  to  mould  and  shape 
its  course ;  and  he  has  analyzed  its  most  rep- 
resentative plays.  He  has  also  considered  such 
salient  features  of  acting  and  dramatic  criticism 
as  seemed  most  noteworthy.  He  has  thus 
worked  out  a  threefold  treatment  of  a  period 
which  extends,  roughly  speaking,  all  the  way 
from  Sheridan  Knowles  to  Grundy,  Jones,  and 
Pinero ;  from  Edmund  Kean  to  Sir  Henry 
Irving ;  and  from  Leigh  Hunt  to  Edmund 
Gosse  and  William  Archer.  In  this  moving 
throng  of  dramatists,  actors,  and  dramatic 
critics,  precedence  is  always  given  to  the  dra 
matist ;  and  by  this  means  the  author  has  been 
able  to  secure  variety  by  scattering  through  his 
pages  anecdotes  about  players,  scraps  from 
published  and  unpublished  plays,  little  pastels 
of  dramatists  living  and  dead,  stray  bits  of 
reminiscence,  and  so  on,  without  materially 
marring,  in  either  conception  or  treatment,  the 
essential  unity  of  his  work. 

One  does  not  have  to  go  far  in  this  book  to 
find  pictures  which  recall  vividly  old-life  scenes. 
One  of  the  best  of  these  is  that  of  the  strolling 
player  whose  custom  it  was  to  go  on  circuit 
through  the  country  towns  of  England. 

"  Just  as  the  English  judges  make  the  round  at  cer- 
tain dates  of  all  the  important  towns  within  a  certain 
district,  holding  assizes  at  each,  and  accompanied  by  an 
army  of  barristers,  solicitors,  and  legal  officials  of  all 
kinds,  so  the  travelling  companies  of  actors  would  cater 
for  a  whole  county,  or  group  of  counties,  giving  a  series 
of  performances  in  the  theatre  of  every  town  at  certain 
fixed  dates,  in  addition  to  fete-days  and  market-days. 
Communication  was  slow  and  costly  in  those  days,  and 
trips  to  London  infinitely  rarer  than  they  are  now.  The 
country  folk  had  to  look  to  their  travelling  company  to 
keep  them  in  touch  with  the  success  of  the  moment. 

"  On  arriving  in  a  new  town,  the  manager's  wife 
would  go  about  soliciting  respectfully  the  patronage  of 
the  ladies  of  the  place.  The  manager  busied  himself 


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over  everything,  played  minor  roles,  presided  over  the 
box-office,  undertook  the  scene  painting,  and  would  even 
take  off  his  coat  and  turn  up  his  sleeves  and  lend  a  hand 
to  the  machinist.  His  life,  and  the  life  of  all  his  com- 
pany, was  half  bourgois,  half  Bohemian;  always  en  route, 
but  always  on  the  same  beat,  always  coming  upon  familiar 
and  friendly  faces,  —  a  beat  on  which  his  father  and 
grandfather  before  him  had  followed  the  same  career. 
He  had  friends  living  in  every  city,  dead  friends  in 
every  churchyard.  Children  were  born  to  him  on  his 
travels,  and  when  four  or  five  years  old  made  their 
appearance  upon  the  stage.  These  comings  and  goings, 
the  journeyings  over  green  fields,  the  stoppages  and 
ample  breakfastings  at  little  hillside  inns,  while  the 
horses  browsed  at  large  along  the  hedges,  —  the  fresh- 
ness and  peaceful  rusticity  of  all  these  things,  alternating 
with  the  tinsel  of  the  theatre  and  the  applause  of  the 
audiences,  with  the  artificiality  and  feverishness  of 
theatrical  life,  —  must  have  been  a  constant  entertain- 
ment to  the  little  actors  and  actresses  of  eight  or  nine. 
For  the  adults,  however,  the  life  was  a  hard  one,  and 
only  too  often  their  roman  comique  was  a  roman  tragique 
in  reality." 

Here  is  an  account  of  a  pilgrimage  which 
M.  Filon  made  to  a  deserted  theatre : 

"  I  took  it  into  my  head  not  long  ago  to  pay  a  visit 
to  the  little  theatre  in  which  Fre'de'ric  Lemaitre  ap- 
peared, in  which  Napoleon  and  Count  d'Orsay  rubbed 
shoulders  with  Dickens  and  Thackeray,  in  which  there 
was  difficulty  once  in  finding  a  seat  for  Gladstone,  and 
in  which  Beaconsfield  received  a  memorable  ovation. 
The  Salvationists  have  succeeded  to  the  comedians,  and, 
whether  or  not  it  be  that  their  trumpets  have  the  virtue 
of  those  of  Jericho,  these  historic  walls  are  crumbling 
to  ruin.  The  place  is  empty,  cold,  and  desolate.  It 
was  on  an  evening  of  last  winter  that  I  stood  pensively 
under  the  porch  —  the  porch  through  which  had  flowed 
like  a  stream  all  the  elegance  and  talent  of  a  whole 
generation.  The  light  of  a  gas  jet  shone  mournfully  on 
the  notice,  mouldy  already, « To  be  let  or  sold ';  and  the 
rain  trickled  down  on  me  from  a  gaping  hole  whence 
the  electric  light  used  once  to  glare  upon  pretty  women 
issuing  in  all  their  finery  from  their  carriages." 

As  almost  two-thirds  of  M.  Filon's  book  is 
concerned  with  the  generation  still  living,  and 
as  contemporary  criticism  must  ever  be  more 
or  less  modified  by  time,  many  of  the  individual 
judgments  expressed  here  will  not  be  those  of 
twenty-five,  or  even  ten,  years  hence.  Nearness 
to  the  period  criticised  has  in  some  cases  de- 
prived the  author  of  that  independence  of  judg- 
ment so  essential  to  enduring  criticism.  An 
example  of  this  is  his  attempt  to  compromise 
between  the  two  schools  of  dramatic  criticism 
now  at  odds  in  England, —  an  attempt  that 
reminds  us  more  than  anything  else  of  the 
endeavors  of  George  Eliot's  conciliatory  land- 
lord in  "  Silas  Marner,"  or  of  the  worthy  old 
umbrella-maker  in  the  double  chin  whom  Irving 
humorously  describes  in  "  Little  Britain." 
Much  of  M.  Filon's  criticism,  however,  has 
lasting  merit ;  of  this  sort  is  nearly  all  that  he 
has  to  say  of  Bulwer  Lytton,  Irving,  Tennyson, 


and  Ibsen's  influence  on  the  English  drama. 
That  easy,  familiar  style,  so  characteristic  of 
French  men  of  letters,  has  not  been  lost  in  the 
translation.  And,  in  concluding,  it  may  be 
added  that  Mr.  Henry  Arthur  Jones,  under  the 
guise  of  introducing  M.  Filon  to  his  English 
readers,  has  some  good,  and  many  bad,  things 
to  say  about  a  dramatic  movement  in  which  his 
own  works  have  exerted  no  inconsiderable  in- 
fluence. TULEY  FRANCIS  HUNTINGTON. 


MR.  AUBREY  DE  VERB'S  RECOLLECTIONS.* 


In  his  preface  to  his  "  Recollections  "  Mr. 
De  Vere  makes  a  distinction  between  "  Recollec- 
tions "  and  "  Autobiographies."  "  This  book," 
he  says,  "  belongs  to  the  former  class,  not  to 
the  latter.  We  have  seen  persons  and  places 
which  have  amused  or  interested  us,  and  it 
occurs  to  us  that  if  accurately  described  they 
might  amuse  or  interest  others  also ;  but  this 
is  a  very  different  thing  from  writing  one's 
biography,  with  which  the  world  has  little  con- 
cern." The  book  before  us  is  itself  a  refuta- 
tion of  this  modest  theory ;  with  its  notable 
men  and  their  own  interpretations  of  their  lives 
the  world  has  a  large  and  serious  concern,  and 
a  memory  whose  limits  are  practically  those  of 
the  Victorian  Era  can  do  us  no  better  service 
than  to  render  up  its  important  and  accumu- 
lated treasures. 

We  remember  the  distaste  which  Hawthorne 
and  Tennyson  had  for  biographies,  and  the 
appalling  disclosures  which  so  many  writers  of 
them  have  deemed  a  necessary  part  of  the  task 
which  had  been  set  for  them  ;  but  now  that  the 
Tennyson  memoirs  have  been  written,  and  we 
have  learned  from  them  once  more  how  a  bio- 
graphical work  should  be  done,  we  may  con- 
sider ourselves  recovered  from  the  dismay  with 
which  some  exemplars  filled  us. 

Mr.  De  Vere's  Recollections  date  back  to  the 
earlier  years  of  the  century.  In  an  Irish  home 
of  wealth  and  refinement  he  enjoyed  those  op- 
portunities which  a  mind  like  his  needs  for  the 
due  unfolding  of  its  powers.  He  has,  however, 
some  curious  anecdotes  to  relate  of  a  grand- 
father who  was  a  typical  man  of  the  place  and 
period.  He  was  early  brought  into  relation 
with  the  varied  life  of  the  time,  and  his  inter- 
ests always  have  been  far-reaching  and  many- 
sided.  Religion  and  politics  have  occupied  his 
attention  as  well  as  literature,  and  the  struggle 

*  RECOLLECTIONS  OF  AUBREY  DE  VERB.  With  portrait. 
New  York :  Edward  Arnold. 


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of  his  country  for  genuine  subsistence  and 
recognition  has  been,  as  was  right,  a  master 
influence  in  his  career. 

Authors  are  very  apt  to  narrow  their  inter- 
ests to  the  subjects  with  which  they  are  specially 
occupied.  The  maker  of  verses  is  very  prone 
to  believe  that  the  production  of  a  new  lyric  is 
the  end  toward  which  the  forces  of  the  century 
have  been  toiling.  Literature  is  no  doubt  a 
great  field  which  requires  assiduous  tillage,  but 
there  are  others  in  which  the  laborers  reap 
abundant  harvests  and  manifold  honors.  Mr. 
De  Vere's  intimacies  with  the  important  men 
in  diverse  regions  of  intellectual  activity  give 
to  his  book  a  value  which  no  merely  literary 
preoccupation  could  possess.  The  figures  that 
cross  these  pages  are  as  differenced  as  the  labors 
of  the  period, —  Wordsworth,  Sir  William  R. 
Hamilton  the  mathematician,  O'Connell,  Car- 
dinals Newman  and  Manning.  Some  anec- 
dotes of  Sir  William  Rowan  Hamilton  may  be 
repeated  here. 

"  Sir  W.  R.  Hamilton  kept  a  headstrong  horse,  to 
which  he  had  given  the  name  of  '  Comet,'  and  used  to 
gallop  it  in  circles,  or  perhaps  in  ellipses,  around  the 
lawn.  On  one  occasion  he  mounted  him  in  Dublin,  just 
after  a  curious  mathematical  problem  had  suggested 
itself  to  him.  The  horse  took  a  mean  advantage  of  his 
abstraction,  and  ran  away.  « When  I  found  it  impossible 
to  stop  him,'  he  said, « I  gave  him  his  head  and  returned 
to  the  problem.  He  ran  for  four  miles,  and  stood  still 
at  my  gate  —  just  as  the  problem  was  solved.' " 

"  The  Royal  Astronomer  [Hamilton]  did  not  look 
through  his  telescope  more  than  once  or  twice  a  year! 
He  used  to  say, '  That  is  my  deputy's  business.  The  stars 
move  all  night;  but  what  interests  me  is  the  high 
mathesis  that  accounts  for  their  movements.'  " 

The  observation  sounds  strange  in  this  day  of 
the  accumulation  of  data  and  so-called  facts. 

Mr.  Aubrey  De  Vere  began  to  write  poetry 
when  he  was  about  eighteen  years  old,  although 
without  thought  of  publication.  It  was  to  his 
father  that  he  owed  his  introduction  to  Words- 
worth, the  influence  that  was  to  dominate  so 
much  of  his  thought  and  aspiration. 

"  I  had  happened  to  say  to  my  father,  « I  suppose 
everyone  knows  that  Byron  is  the  greatest  modern  poet.' 
He  answered,  very  quietly,  '  I  do  not  know  it.'  « Then 
who  is  ?  '  He  replied,  « I  should  say  Wordsworth.' 
•'  And,  pray,  what  are  his  chief  merits  ? '  He  answered, 
'  I  should  say,  majesty  and  pathos,  as  for  instance  in 
"  Laodamia."  '  I  read  '  Laodamia '  standing,  to  the  last 
line,  and  was  converted.  I  seemed  to  have  got  upon  a 
new  and  larger  planet,  with 

'  An  ampler  ether,  a  diviner  air, 
And  fields  invested  with  purpureal  gleams.'  " 

In  1841  our  author  passed  several  days  under 
Wordsworth's  roof,  which  he  considers  the 
greatest  honor  of  his  life.  The  old  poet  took 
him  out  walking. 


"  He  showed  me  the  scenes  to  which  he  was  most 
attached,  and  recorded  many  incidents  connected  with 
them.  In  the  presence  of  Nature  he  seemed  to  be 
always  either  conversing  with  her  as  a  friend,  and  watch- 
ing her  changeful  moods,  or  sometimes  rapt,  like  a 
prophet,  in  mystic  attention  to  her  oracles.  It  was  by  no 
means  the  picturesque  aspects  of  Nature  which  affected 
him  most  —  it  was  something  far  more  serious  and 
absorbing.  For  him  it  was  in  her  deeper  meanings  that 
the  inspiring  influences  of  Nature  chiefly  resided.  If  one 
had  demanded  of  him  what  were  those  deeper  meanings, 
it  would  have  been  as  if  one  had  demanded  of  Beethoven 
what  were  the  deeper  meanings  of  his  grandest  sym- 
phonies, which  are  often  his  obscurest." 

In  1843-4  he  travelled  in  Italy  with  Sir 
Henry  Taylor.  The  friendship  with  the  author 
of  "  Philip  Van  Artevelde  "  extended  over  a 
period  of  forty  years.  The  tribute  which  he 
pays  to  Sir  Henry  Taylor  is  extreme.  It  may 
perhaps  be  said  of  the  Wordsworthians  that 
they  have  dwelt  too  close  to  the  splendor  of 
their  chief.  The  poetry  of  Sir  Henry  Taylor, 
and  of  Mr.  De  Vere  himself,  would  have  had 
better  chances  of  the  recognition  which  was 
undeniably  their  due  if  they  had  moved  out  of 
the  charmed  circle  in  which  they  seemed  con- 
tent to  remain.  There  could  be  but  one  Words- 
worth, and  emancipation  from  him  was  a  simple 
necessity. 

While  travelling  to  England  in  the  spring  of 
1841,  Mr.  De  Vere  met  O'Connell.  They  went 
together  from  Liverpool  to  London.  The  potent 
eye,  the  large  and  crafty  mouth,  the  broad 
strong  forehead,  the  confident  bearing  of  the 
"  Liberator,"  made  their  due  impression.  As 
was  intimated  before,  what  may  be  called  the 
political  recollections  of  the  author  make  a  fair 
share  of  his  volume,  and  the  chapters  devoted 
to  them  have  a  value  proportioned  to  the  impor- 
tance of  their  subjects.  There  is  a  long  account 
of  the  great  Irish  Famine  (1846-50),  with  the 
various  forms  of  attempted  amelioration.  It  is 
a  dark  interlude  in  a  book  which  is  full  of  sun- 
shine, simple  humor,  generous  hopefulness  of 
all  kinds. 

An  account  of  the  "  Recollections  "  which 
omitted  the  reminiscences  of  Cardinal  New- 
man and  Cardinal  Manning  would  indeed  be 
incomplete.  Those  portions  would  no  doubt 
be  regarded  of  prime  value  by  the  author,  and 
in  them  there  is  a  subdued  enthusiasm  which 
does  not  so  fully  appear  elsewhere.  Newman 
and  Wordsworth  are  the  two  men  for  whom 
Mr.  De  Vere  has  the  deepest  admiration,  and 
he  has  in  himself  an  abundance  of  the  material 
from  which  hero-worshippers  are  made.  His 
admirations,  however,  are  invariably  reasoned 
ones ;  they  are  not  expressed  without  the 


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grounds  on  which  they  are  based.  Indeed,  the 
chapters  dealing  with  Newman  and  Manning 
are  rather  portraits  than  recollections,  and  have 
the  vividness  which  comes  from  personal  friend- 
ship. It  will  interest  the  reader  to  learn  that 
the  "  Dream  of  Gerontius  "  on  the  information 
of  Newman  "  owed  its  preservation  to  an  acci- 
dent. Newman  had  written  it  on  a  sudden 
impulse,  put  it  aside,  and  forgotten  it.  The 
editor  of  a  magazine  wrote  to  him  asking  for  a 
contribution.  He  looked  into  all  his  pigeon- 
holes, and  found  nothing  theological ;  but,  in 
answering  his  correspondent,  he  added  that  he 
had  come  upon  some  verses,  which,  if  as  editor 
he  cared  to  have,  were  at  his  command.  The 
wise  editor  did  care,  and  they  were  published 
at  once.  I  well  remember  the  delight  with 
which  many  of  them  were  read  aloud  by  the 
Bishop  of  Gibraltar,  Dr.  Charles  Harris,  who 
was  then  on  a  visit  with  us,  and  the  ardor  with 
which  we  all  shared  his  enjoyment." 

So  these  memories  take  their  course,  the 
records  of  a  life  devoted  to  noble  purposes  and 
accomplishing  high  results.  We  are  admitted 
into  intimacy  with  those  who  played  great  parts 
in  the  drama  of  Victorian  life ;  we  see  them  in 
their  habit  as  they  moved,  and  learn  much  of 
their  thought  from  a  listener  who  was  generous 
and  sympathetic  ;  and  above  all  we  carry  away 
with  us  a  picture  of  the  poet  and  thinker  and 
toiler  for  whom  we  can  only  have  much  of  that 
admiration  which  he  so  freely  lavishes  on 
others. 

The  publisher  of  the  work  has  done  his  part 
of  the  task  well ;  the  volume  is  a  pleasure  to 
the  eye,  as  its  contents  are  to  the  mind  and 
heart  of  the  reader.  Lomg  j  BLOCK. 


PRINCE  BISMARCK  AND  THE  GERMAN 
EMPIRE.* 

In  the  new  volume  of  his  great  work  on 
"  The  Founding  of  the  German  Empire,"  Pro- 
fessor von  Sybel  carries  along  the  story  only  a 
little  more  than  a  year,  but  it  is  so  important 
a  year  that  it  is  well  worth  the  careful  atten- 
tion that  is  bestowed  upon  it.  With  the  vic- 
tory of  Prussia  over  Austria,  the  exclusion  of 
the  latter  power  from  the  new  Germany,  and 
the  consequent  dissolution  of  the  old  Confeder- 
ation, a  general  readjustment  of  both  internal 
and  foreign  relations  was  made  necessary  ;  and 

*  THE  FOUNDING  OF  THE  GERMAN  EMPIRE  BY  WILL- 
IAM I.  By  Heinrich  von  Sybel.  Volume  VI.  New  York  : 
T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co. 


this  was  accomplished  during  the  year  1867. 
A  new  national  spirit  had  been  growing  up  in 
Germany  as  in  the  other  parts  of  Europe  dur- 
ing the  middle  part  of  the  century,  had  reached 
the  stage  of  enthusiasm  in  1848,  and  after  the 
inevitable  reaction  following  that  excitement 
had  become  solidified  into  a  practical  working 
principle.  Prussia's  victory  gave  it  its  oppor- 
tunity, and  now  a  real  state  was  to  be  created 
to  replace  the  shadowy  affair  that  had  repre- 
sented German  particularism.  This  same  year 
was  also  a  preparation  for  the  struggle  that  was 
inevitable  before  a  jealous  France  could  be  in- 
duced to  accept  the  changes  in  the  map  of 
Europe  and  the  fancied  humiliation  of  being 
shoved  aside  from  her  position  as  the  self- 
constituted  arbiter  of  Europe.  This  volume 
describes  the  irritation  in  France  at  Prussia'* 
successes,  and  the  efforts,  constantly  becoming 
more  frantic,  to  win  from  Prussia  some  com- 
pensation for  the  latter's  increase  of  power  that 
would  salve  the  wounded  vanity  of  Frenchmen 
and  restore  the  declining  prestige  of  the  Empire ; 
and  how  each  of  these  efforts  was  thwarted  by 
an  outburst  of  national  feeling  in  Germany  and 
by  the  shrewdness  of  Bismarck's  management. 
But  Professor  von  Sybel  shows  that  Bismarck 
did  not  thwart  poor  Napoleon's  schemes  with 
malignant  satisfaction,  as  many  writers  have 
declared,  but  that  he  was  ready  to  make  con- 
cessions that  might  have  prevented  the  war  of 
1870,  had  he  not  been  held  in  check  by  the 
military  party  or  by  these  patriotic  outburst* 
that  he  did  not  dare  to  disregard.  The  outcome 
of  this  international  game  is  left  for  a  later 
volume. 

These  things,  however,  are  almost  incidental 
to  the  main  matter  of  the  volume,  which  is 
taken  up  with  a  description  of  the  political 
struggles  incident  to  the  formation  of  the  new 
constitution,  and  to  the  establishment  of  definite 
relations  with  the  South  German  states.  The 
reader  is  forcibly  reminded  of  the  struggles  of 
our  own  Critical  Period  and  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1787.  There  was  the  same  nar- 
row particularism,  the  same  jealousy  of  state 
against  state,  the  same  unpractical  idealism. 
But  in  the  German  Reichstag  the  national 
spirit  was  reinforced  by  the  overwhelming  in- 
fluence of  Prussia  and  her  great  statesman,  by 
the  powerful  Customs-Union  upon  which  the 
material  prosperity  of  the  smaller  states  de- 
pended, and  by  the  pressure  of  outside  nations. 
On  the  other  hand,  German  idealism  tended 
naturally  to  increase  the  difficulty  of  reaching 
a  satisfactory  result  as  against  the  practical 


1897.] 


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Anglo-Saxon  tendencies  of  our  Fathers.  With 
due  pressure  judiciously  applied  by  Bismarck 
at  critical  times,  a  good  working  constitution 
was  framed  and  promptly  ratified. 

The  matter  of  the  relations  of  the  South 
German  States  to  the  new  German  nation  was 
difficult  to  handle,  but  was  handled  with  con- 
summate shrewdness.  Their  accession  to  the 
Confederation  in  time  was  inevitable,  for  they 
could  not  stand  alone,  they  could  not  go  back 
to  Austria,  and  they  could  not  be  dependent 
upon  France,  —  the  German  national  spirit 
would  work  out  the  union  in  due  time.  But 
Bismarck  recognized  that  to  hurry  the  process 
would  be  to  retard  it,  and  so,  to  the  astonish- 
ment of  the  surrounding  nations,  who  could 
hardly  understand  such  self-restraint,  he  dis- 
couraged all  premature  attempts  to  bring  them 
in.  Their  relations  to  the  Confederation  were 
fixed  on  a  comfortable  working  basis,  they 
entered  the  reorganized  Customs-Union,  they 
bound  themselves  to  the  Confederation  by  close 
alliances,  and  then  were  left  to  themselves. 
Later  events  showed  how  thoroughly  German 
they  were  at  heart,  and  how  readily  they  would 
join  their  northern  brothers  when  a  common 
patriotic  endeavor  should  break  down  the  tra- 
ditional barriers  between  them. 

The  author  states  in  his  preface  that  after 
Prince  Bismarck's  retirement  he  was  refused 
access  to  the  documents  of  the  Foreign  Office, 
and  for  a  time  gave  up  his  project.  But  being 
pushed  by  his  publisher  to  continue  the  work 
and  fulfil  his  contract,  he  found  that  the  litera- 
ture already  in  print,  written  records  made  at 
the  time,  diaries,  journals,  and  correspondence, 
and  his  own  recollections  as  a  leading  actor  in 
the  parliamentary  life  that  he  describes,  would 
in  a  measure  supply  the  place  of  official  docu- 
ments. "  The  documents  denied  me  would 
probably  have  afforded  a  greater  knowledge 
of  detail,  but  in  so  far  as  a  correct  conception 
of  the  essential  course  of  events  is  concerned, 
their  place  was  fully  supplied." 

CHARLES  H.  COOPER. 


WITH  the  death  of  Newton  Bateman,  of  Galesburg,  an 
interesting  figure  disappears  from  educational  Illinois. 
Dr.  Bateman  was  for  fourteen  years  superintendent  of 
the  public  schools  of  the  State,  and  for  nearly  twenty 
years  following  was  President  of  Knox  College.  He 
belonged  to  the  generation  of  Mann  and  Barnard,  and 
his  influence  as  a  public  educator  was  at  least  compar- 
able with  theirs.  Of  late  he  has  been  engaged  in  editing, 
together  with  Mr.  Paul  Selby,  a  "  Historical  Encyclo- 
pedia of  Illinois,"  and  the  work  is  practically  ready  for 
publication.  Dr.  Bateman  died  October  21,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-five. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT.* 

The  interest  shown  by  New  Testament  scholars 
in  the  life  of  Jesus  is  repeatedly  evidenced  in  pub- 
lishers' lists.  Here,  quite  as  much  as  in  any  biblical 
works,  the  historical  spirit  is  capable  of  producing 
studies  in  which  doctrine  is  treated  so  objectively 
as  to  lose  much  of  the  metaphysical  character  from 
which  it  has  so  long  suffered. 

In  his  "  Student's  Life  of  Jesus,"  Professor  Gil- 
bert has  given  teachers  an  excellent  help  for  the 
conduct  of  both  seminary  and  college  classes.  It  is 
written  in  simple  style,  and  with  considerable  criti- 
cal liberality.  Now  biographers  who  deal  with  the 
Gospels  in  anything  like  a  conservative  spirit  are 
altogether  too  prone  to  regard  as  separate  episodes 
any  accounts  which  are  not  strikingly  similar,  ob- 
livious of  the  fact  that  the  same  event  may  appear 
in  very  different  guise  in  different  families  of 
sources.  In  the  case  of  the  three  gospels,  it  is  alto- 
gether probable  that  this  is  true  of  several  accounts 
in  which  details  are  variant.  Professor  Gilbert  has 
recognized  this  to  a  considerable  extent,  and  has 
not  fallen  into  the  common  fault  of  over-identifica- 
tion. Another  excellence  of  the  book  is  its  Intro- 
duction, in  which,  despite  the  author's  rejection  of 
what  seems  to  most  authorities  the  most  probable 
explanation  of  the  origin  of  the  Synoptics,  he  has 
given  sufficient  data  to  enable  the  student  to  get  a 
very  fair  general  conception  of  the  synoptic  prob- 
lems. And  this  is  no  small  service.  One  may  per- 
haps not  always  agree  with  some  of  the  author's 
conclusions,  and  at  times  it  is  disappointing  to  find 
hesitancy  in  the  treatment  of  questions  ;  but,  after 
all,  the  book  is  admirably  adapted  for  use  by  those 
persons  who  really  want  to  begin  the  study  of  the 
life  of  Jesus  according  to  modern  methods. 

Very  similar  is  the  work  of  Professor  Bruce. 
Though  a  sort  of  by-product  of  the  study,  it  is  written 
with  soberness,  and  its  conclusions,  if  not  novel,  are 
at  least  so  simply  stated  as  to  give  it  a  certain  inde- 
pendent value.  Here  we  find  the  critical  spirit  pro- 

*THE  STUDENT'  s  LIFE  OF  JESUS.  By  George  Holley  Gilbert, 
Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Professor  of  New  Testament  Literature  and  In- 
terpretation in  Chicago  Theological  Seminary.  Press  of  Chi- 
cago Theological  Seminary. 

WITH  OPEN  FACE  ;  or,  Jesus  Mirrored  in  Matthew,  Mark, 
and  Luke.  By  Alexander  Balmain  Bruce,  D.D.,  Professor  of 
New  Testament  Exegesis  in  the  Free  Church  College,  Glasgow. 
New  York :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

A  CRITICAL  AND  EXEGETICAL  COMMENTABT  ON  THE  GOS- 
PEL ACCORDING  TO  LUKE  ( International  Critical  Commentary 
Series).  By  the  Rev.  Alfred  Plummer,  D.D.,  Master  of 
University  College,  Durham.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons. 

A  CRITICAL  AND  EXEGETICAL  COMMENTARY  on  the  Epis- 
tles to  the  Philippians  and  to  Philemon  (International  Critical 
Commentary  Series).  By  Rev.  Marvin  R.  Vincent,  D.D., 
Baldwin  Professor  of  Sacred  Literature  in  Union  Theological 
Seminary.  New  York:  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

A  HISTORY  OF  CHRISTIANITY  IN  THE  APOSTOLIC  AGE. 
By  Arthur  Cushman  McGiffert,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Washburn  Pro- 
fessor of  Church  History  in  Union  Theological  Seminary. 
"  International  Theological  Library."  New  York :  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons. 


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[Nov.  1, 


ducing  something  more  than  conjecture  and  destruc- 
tion. Professor  Bruce,  in  popularizing  the  positive 
conclusions  of  a  life  of  scholarship,  has  rendered  no 
small  service  to  the  great  number  of  intelligent  men 
who  do  not  care  for  processes,  hut  wish  to  study  the 
character  and  teachings  of  Jesus  in  the  same  spirit 
as  that  with  which  they  approach  other  men.  As 
an  elementary  study  of  the  chief  peculiarities  of  each 
of  the  three  synoptists  it  will  be  found  of  great  aid 
by  those  who  care  more  for  rapid  description  than 
for  the  minutiae  of  criticism.  Perhaps  the  most 
striking  —  certainly  the  most  novel  —  portion  of  the 
work  is  the  addition  of  a  catechism  by  the  use  of  which 
it  is  hoped  that  young  minds  may  be  early  indoctri- 
nated with  the  proper  conceptions  of  Jesus.  It  is 
to  be  feared  that  few  except  Scotchmen  will  feel 
deeply  the  need  of  such  an  instrument,  but  none  the 
less  is  it  suggestive  and  valuable  as  a  sort  of  epitome 
of  Professor  Bruce's  own  position. 

There  has  been  a  great  lack  of  good  commentaries 
upon  the  Third  Gospel,  and  for  this  reason,  if  for 
no  other,  the  new  volume  by  Professor  Plummer  is 
welcome.  As  a  book  to  be  used,  it  has  the  excellence 
of  the  other  volumes  of  the  "  International  Critical 
Commentary  Series  "  —  admirable  paragraphing, 
suggestive  variation  in  style,  clear  analyses.  It  is 
evidently  the  fruit  of  great  reading  and  study.  The 
Introduction  contains  an  exhaustive  treatment  of  the 
literary  peculiarities  of  Luke,  as  well  as  an  admir- 
able discussion  of  his  point  of  view.  Professor 
Plummer  rejects  the  allegation  that  Luke  wrote 
under  Ebinistic  influences,  and  has  admirably 
summed  up  the  whole  susceptibility  of  Luke  to  social 
problems  in  declaring  that  he  is  opposed  to  worldli- 
ness  but  not  to  wealth.  As  to  the  sources  whence 
Luke  drew  his  materials,  the  author  seems  to  hold, 
though  with  some  hesitation,  the  current  view  of 
two  main  and  several  supplementary  groups  of 
material.  He  does  not,  however,  very  often  make 
use  of  such  a  critical  position  as  a  means  of  solving 
some  of  the  questions  suggested  by  a  comparison  of 
Luke  and  Matthew,  but  seems  to  prefer  to  regard 
Jesus  as  having  repeated  many  of  his  sayings  —  a 
position  that  becomes  somewhat  difficult  when 
applied  to  the  relations  of  the  "  Sermon  on  the 
Plain  "  and  the  "  Sermon  on  the  Mount."  Indeed, 
one  cannot  escape  a  feeling  of  disappointment  in 
seeing  how  little  bearing  the  whole  critical  position 
of  the  Introduction  has  upon  the  main  portion  of  the 
Commentary.  English  (not  Scotch)  scholar  ship  seems 
far  more  conservative — one  is  tempted  to  say  cautious 
— than  American  in  grappling  with  the  critical  ques- 
tions of  the  New  Testament.  The  exegesis  (despite 
the  absence  of  word-studies  and  the  preference  of  a 
known  Cremer  and  Trench  to  an  unknown  Vincent 
and  Thayer)  is  sober  and  scholarly.  It  is  most  satis- 
factory to  see  Jesus  freed  of  the  amiable  prodigality  in 
charity  given  him  by  the  Authorized  Version  through 
the  mistranslation  of  the  Greek.  Altogether,  the  work 
bears  out  the  promise  given  by  the  volume  of  Sanday 
and  Headlam  on  Romans,  and  is  easily  the  best  com- 
mentary on  Luke  produced  in  English. 


The  latest  addition  to  the  same  series  is  much 
smaller  in  compass,  and  deals  with  matters  of  much 
less  difficulty.  Yet  among  the  numerous  commen- 
taries in  Phillippians,  this  of  Professor  Vincent  is 
bound  to  be  ranked  more  highly  than  his  Preface 
modestly  hopes.  The  work  is  characterized  by  the 
same  thoroughness  that  one  has  learned  to  expect 
from  its  author,  and  although  we  shall  be  slow  to 
forget  the  work  of  Lightfoot,  it  will  be  difficult  to 
find  as  equally  compact  and  complete  an  Introduc- 
tion as  that  furnished  in  the  present  volume.  Very 
sensibly  Professor  Vincent  has  not  attempted  to  pad 
his  volume  up  to  a  regulation  number  of  pages,  but 
has  been  content  to  explain  that  alone  that  needed 
explanation.  Yet  on  the  great  doctrinal  passage, 
2:6-10,  he  has  given  a  most  exhaustive  study  of 
the  words  employed.  Other  special  studies,  though 
naturally  not  as  numerous  as  those  in  some  of  the 
other  volumes  of  the  series,  are  equally  good.  It  is 
also  gratifying  to  see  that  in  the  discussion  of  these 
strongly  rhetorical  passages,  Professor  Vincent  holds 
fast  to  his  conception  of  the  informal,  untheological 
character  of  the  letter  as  a  whole.  His  discussion 
of  Philemon  is  marked  by  sympathy  and  apprecia- 
tion, and  his  full  discussion  of  the  relations  of  Paul- 
ine Christianity  to  slavery  are  interesting,  both  his- 
torically and  sociologically. 

It  is  perhaps  not  altogether  without  significance 
that  the  most  notable  contributions  during  the  past 
few  months  to  New  Testament  study  have  been 
made  in  connection  with  the  two  series  in  each  of 
which  Professor  Briggs  is  co-editor,  for  such  results 
point  to  the  increasing  fruitf ulness  of  the  critical 
method  of  which  he  has  become  one  of  the  chief 
representatives.  Of  them  all  we  are  tempted  to 
regard  the  work  of  Professor  McGiffert  as  on  the 
whole  worthy  of  the  most  consideration,  both  for 
the  sweep  of  its  treatment  and  use  of  historical 
criticism.  Persons  familiar  only  with  the  older 
English  and  American  literature  on  the  Apostolic 
Age  will  be  especially  impressed  with  this  radical 
departure  in  method,  and  will  perhaps  also  be  dis- 
appointed to  find  that  the  neutral  attitude  of  the 
historian  has  so  largely  replaced  religious  sympathy 
and  fervor.  But  at  the  same  time  they  will  be  com- 
pelled to  admit  the  book's  worth.  Professor  Mc- 
Giffert's  positions  on  the  chief  questions  at  present 
undergoing  investigation  are  in  most  instances  revo- 
lutionary, not  only  of  a  received  chronology  of  the 
Apostolic  Age,  but  also  in  one  instance  at  least  (the 
date  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Galatians)  of  the  current 
order  of  the  events  in  Paul's  life.  To  discuss  these 
questions  is  here  impossible,  but  one  cannot  alto- 
gether agree  with  (1)  the  identification  of  Paul's 
visits  to  Jerusalem,  mentioned  Acts  11,  15,  and 
Galatians  2:1-10;  (2)  with  the  date  of  Galatians; 
(3)  with  the  date  of  the  accession  of  Felix,  although 
in  the  latter  case  the  author's  position  —  or  one 
approximating  it  —  can  claim  the  support  of  such 
names  as  Harnack  and  Oskar  Holtzmann.  Professor 
McGiffert's  discussion  of  the  Pastoral  Epistles  — 
which,  as  they  stand,  he  regards  as  not  written  by 


1897.] 


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Paul,  though  based  upon  and  comprising  genuine 
letters  of  the  Apostle  —  is  especially  strong.  The 
other  epistles  of  Paul,  in  common  with  the  present 
semi-conservative  tendency  of  criticism  he  regards 
as  genuine.  1  Peter  he  ingeniously  suggests  was 
written  by  Barnabas,  2  Peter  being  the  single  pseu- 
donymous letter  of  the  canon.  In  his  criticism  of 
Acts,  Professor  McGiffert,  although  giving  no  com- 
prehensive statement  as  to  his  position,  is  yet  con- 
sistent, although  at  times  his  omission  to  set  forth 
fully  his  critical  position  makes  his  decisions  appear 
arbitrary.  But  taking  the  volume  as  a  whole,  we 
are  impressed  with  its  importance  as  a  contribution 
to  the  literature  of  its  subject,  and  may  well  con- 
gratulate American  scholarship  that  it  has  produced 
a  work  conceived  in  the  modern  spirit,  which,  though 
perhaps  less  original  than  that  work,  cannot  unfairly 
be  classed  with  that  of  Weizsacker. 

SHAILER  MATHEWS. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 

"  The  Comprehensive  Subject-Index 
to  Universal  Prose  Fiction,"  by  Mrs. 
Zella  Allen  Dixson  (Dodd),  is  a 
bibliographical  work  for  the  guidance  of  novel- 
readers  who  wish  to  derive  something  more  than 
amusement  from  works  of  fiction.  "  Only  novels 
with  a  purpose,  those  which  are  sent  out  into  the 
world  with  a  definite  lesson  to  teach  mankind,"  are 
included  in  this  list.  The  idea  is  an  excellent  one, 
and  has  before  been  embodied  in  the  annotated 
catalogues  of  some  of  our  larger  public  libraries,  as 
well  as  in  the  special  lists  published  from  time  to 
time  by  Mr.  W.  M.  Griswold.  The  present  volume 
is  the  most  ambitious  attempt  that  has  yet  been  made 
in  this  direction,  and  gives  the  titles  of  many 
thousands  of  books,  including  novels  in  the  chief 
continental  languages.  It  would,  perhaps,  be  a  little 
unfair  to  criticise  such  a  compilation  for  its  omis- 
sions, which  are  many,  or  even  for  the  fact  that  it 
includes  a  vast  amount  of  rubbishy  literature  whose 
"  definite  lesson  to  teach  mankind "  is  at  least 
questionable.  But  the  positive  inaccuracies  of  the 
work  are  so  glaring  that  they  cannot  be  allowed  to 
pass  unnoticed.  On  the  very  first  page  the  subject 
of  Abbeys  appears,  and  the  classification  runs  after 
this  fashion :  MELBOSE.  Monastery.  Sir  Walter 
Scott.  NIGHTMARE.  Nightmare  Abbey.  Thomas 
Love  Peacock.  NORTHANGER.  Northanger  Abbey. 
Jane  Austen.  It  makes  a  queer  sort  of  catalogue, 
but  stranger  things  are  to  follow.  When  we  find 
Boyesen's  "  Gunnar  "  under  the  head  of  "  Vikings," 
and  Franzos's  "Ein  Kampf  urn's  Recht"  under 
"  Galicia,  Spain,"  we  rub  our  eyes,  but  the  climax 
is  reached  when  we  find  Mr.  Kenneth  Grahame's 
"  Golden  Age  "  catalogued  under  "  Lives  of  Christ." 
A  book  is  frequently  entered  under  several  heads, 
as  is  proper,  but  it  was  hardly  necessary,  for  the  sake 
of  Mr.  Hall  Caine,  to  provide  lists  under  both 


"  Isle  of  Man  "  and  "  Manx  Life."  And  lest  no 
searcher  for  instruction  in  the  guise  of  fiction  should 
miss  M.  Zola's  "  Lourdes,"  we  find  that  work  classi- 
fied under  "  Christian  Science,"  "  Ghost  Stories," 
and  "  Medical  Novels."  As  for  the  minor  inaccu- 
racies, they  are  legion.  It  took  us  only  about  five 
minutes  to  spot  the  following :  "  Civil  War,  England, 
1625  "  ;  "  Meimhold,"  for  the  author  of  "  Die  Bern- 
steinhexe  "  ;  "  Naulahke,"  for  Mr.  Kipling's  novel ; 
"  Valentius,"  f  or  Mr.  Astor's  "Valentino";  "Tollo," 
for  "  Tolla  "  ;  «  J<Su  Thoroddsen,"  for  Jon  of  that 
ilk  ;  and  "  Olaf  Trygg  Veson,"  for  the  famous  Norse 
King. 

A  few  years  ago,  when  Browning 
£rowninfg  Society.  Societies  were  something  new  under 

the  sun,  they  were  characterized  as 
"  fads,"  and  described  as  "  adult  parsing  societies 
for  the  working  out  of  literary  conundrums,  puz- 
zles, and  rebuses."  How  far  these  statements  fail 
of  the  truth,  in  some  cases,  is  shown  by  the  con- 
tinued existence  of  the  Boston  Browning  Society 
after  twelve  years,  and  by  the  publication  of  twenty- 
four  of  its  papers  as  representative  of  its  work  dur- 
ing that  time.  The  fact  is  that  there  are  here  no 
evidences  of  the  verbal  interpretation  and  gram- 
matical quibbling  sometimes  supposed  to  make  up 
the  proceedings  of  a  Browning  Club.  On  the  con- 
trary, the  papers  deal  with  such  themes  as  Brown- 
ing's thought,  art,  and  philosophy,  in  a  manner  at 
once  so  sympathetic  and  so  judicial  that  all  lovers  of 
good  literary  criticism,  whether  Browning  students 
or  not,  must  delight  in  them.  Long  ago  somebody 
dubbed  Browning  "  the  poet  of  the  opaques,"  and  in 
the  popular  mind  this  has  served  to  account  for  the 
clubs  devoted  to  the  study  of  his  writings.  But  the 
popular  mind  mistakes.  Browning  societies  were 
started,  as  Shakespeare  societies  are  started,  in  order 
to  read  and  re-read,  to  study  and  to  know,  a  great 
poet,  and  in  the  belief  that  Browning,  like  every 
other,  would  be  better  enjoyed  by  repeated  reading, 
more  appreciated  in  proportion  as  better  known. 
The  work  of  the  Boston  Browning  Society  has  been 
conducted  in  this  spirit,  and,  numbering  in  its  mem- 
bership such  thinkers  and  writers  as  Col.  Thomas 
Wentworth  Higginson,  Mr.  Josiah  Royce,  Mr. 
George  Willis  Cooke,  Dr.  William  J.  Rolfe,  Mr. 
Charles  Carroll  Everett,  Miss  Vida  D.  Scudder,  and 
many  others  as  able,  though  perhaps  less  known  to 
fame,  the  result  reflects  no  small  glory  upon  con- 
temporary literary  criticism  in  America.  In  this 
praise  it  is  only  fair  to  include  the  admirable  and 
full  Index  made  by  Miss  Dame,  and  the  handsome 
setting  given  the  volume  by  the  Macmillan  Company. 

The  elaborate  religious  rituals  of  the 
The  Religion  of  the  ancient  Egyptians  have  attracted  the 

Ancient  Egyptian*.  °Jf  r       ,  ,  . 

attention  of  students  of  comparative 
religion  for  the  last  twenty  years.  One  good  fea- 
ture of  the  study  is  the  fact  that  we  have  a  half- 
dozen  works  written  by  Egyptian  scholars,  who  have 
translated  the  original  texts  for  themselves.  Dr. 
Wiedemann,  the  author  of  the  work  before  us, 


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"  The  Religion  of  the  Ancient  Egyptians  "  (Put- 
nam), a  Professor  in  the  University  of  Bonn,  Ger- 
many, now  gives  us  his  translations  and  interpre- 
tation of  the  religious  texts  of  Egypt.  Though 
containing  much  that  is  technical,  the  book  is  ad- 
mirably adapted  for  the  popular,  if  somewhat 
scholarly,  thinker  and  reader.  The  chapters  of  the 
book  are  discussions  of  these  among  other  topics : 
Sun  worship,  solar  myths,  the  passage  of  the  sun 
through  the  under  world,  chief  deities,  foreign 
deities,  worship  of  animals,  Osiris  and  his  cycle,  the 
Osirian  doctrine  of  immortality,  magic  and  sorcery, 
and  amulets.  By  means  of  translations  of  the  texts 
and  of  seventy-three  illustrations,  the  author  puts 
his  theme  in  a  clear-cut,  concise,  and  attractive 
form.  The  point  of  view  of  Dr.  Wiedemann  is  not 
always  in  agreement  with  that  of  his  co-workers  in 
the  field  of  Egyptian  lore,  but  he  wisely  presents, 
without  wearisome  and  long-drawn-out  discussion, 
the  view  most  acceptable  to  his  own  mind.  One  of 
the  chief  points  where  universal  agreement  has  not 
been  reached  is  wisely  handled  by  him  in  the  fol- 
lowing statement  (pp.  109,  110):  "It  is  vain  to 
draw  far-reaching  conclusions  as  to  the  fundamen- 
tal ideas  of  the  ancient  Egyptian  religion.  ...  It 
cannot  be  proved  from  the  inscriptions  that  no  such 
conception  [as  monotheism]  existed  in  Ancient 
Egypt.  In  view  of  the  repeated  attempts  to  bring 
the  Egyptian  religion  forward  in  evidence,  now  on 
the  one  side  and  now  on  the  other,  in  the  discussion 
concerning  an  early  monotheism,  the  fact  must  be 
emphasized  again  and  again  that  no  trustworthy 
evidence  whatever  is  as  yet  afforded  to  either  side 
by  our  knowledge  of  that  religion.  Among  the 
chapters  of  the  volume  there  is  none  of  more  inter- 
est than  that  on  "  The  Osirian  Doctrine  of  Immor- 
tality," also  that  on  "  The  Worship  of  Animals." 
The  whole  volume  presents  many  correctives  of  cur- 
rent erroneous  views  of  Egyptian  worship  and  de- 
serves the  most  careful  consideration  of  every  stu- 
dent of  comparative  religion. 

In  Professor  Carl  C.  Plehn's  "  Intro- 
ductf<>n  t°  Pablic  Finance"  (Mac- 
millan),  we  welcome  the  first  Ameri- 
can work  which  attempts  to  treat  the  entire  subject. 
We  have  many  valuable  monographs  by  American 
authors,  covering  different  phases,  but  until  the  ap- 
pearance of  this  little  treatise  we  were  obliged  to 
seek  for  scientific  treatment  of  the  whole  field  in 
other  countries  than  ours.  The  attempt  has  here 
been  made  to  present  the  fundamental  principles  of 
the  science  in  a  condensed  form  suitable  for  class- 
room use.  The  author  gives  in  his  preface  the 
purpose  of  the  book.  "  There  can  be  no  doubt  that 
the  most  pressing  reforms  of  the  close  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  are  tax  reforms.  The  rapid  exten- 
sion of  governmental  functions,  —  the  invasion  by 
the  government  of  fields  of  activity  that  lie  near  to 
the  welfare  of  the  people,  —  has  given  rise  to  great 
interest  in  the  financial  side  of  these  activities.  It 
is  hoped  that  this  work  may  be  helpful  in  the  accom- 


plishment of  these  needed  reforms."  Public  expen- 
ditures, public  revenues,  public  indebtedness,  and 
financial  administration,  are  the  main  divisions  of 
the  subject.  The  author  endeavors  to  remedy  de- 
fects in  previous  treatises  on  the  subject,  and  to  es- 
tablish a  uniformity  of  classification  which  shall 
hold  through  his  entire  work.  The  method  adopted 
is  that  suggested  by  Professor  Cohn  for  all  public 
charges,  the  relation  of  contributions  demanded  to 
benefits  conferred.  The  author  follows  his  classifi- 
cation consistently,  though  laboring  under  evident 
difficulty  at  times  in  making  his  topic  fit  the  classi- 
fication. The  comparative  study  of  financial  systems 
is  carried  only  so  far  as  to  include  those  of  the 
United  States,  Germany,  France,  and  England. 
We  can  hardly  look  for  exhaustive  treatment  of  any 
phase  of  the  subject  in  a  book  of  this  size,  —  the 
sections  devoted  to  the  various  kinds  of  taxes  are 
especially  disappointing.  Yet  the  book  fills  an 
urgent  want,  and  is  admirable  for  its  intended 
purpose.  

An  analysis  of  the  forces  controlling 
the  growth  a nd  *he  differentiation  of 
the  developing  organism,  and  of  the 
laws  under  which  they  operate,  has  been  sought  by 
the  method  of  experiment  upon  the  living  egg.  The 
salient  achievements  of  this  rising  science  of  experi- 
mental embryology  are  set  forth  in  Professor  T.  H. 
Morgan's  "  The  Development  of  the  Frog's  Egg  " 
(Macmillan).  A  full  outline  of  the  normal  devel- 
opment is  given,  from  the  formation  of  the  sex-cells 
to  the  hatching  of  the  tadpole.  The  main  emphasis 
of  the  work  is  laid,  however,  upon  those  alterations 
in  the  usual  course  of  development  which  attend 
the  introduction  of  new  factors  into  the  environ- 
ment of  the  egg.  Rotation  in  a  centrifugal  ma- 
chine, pressure,  inversion,  mutilation,  a  weak  salt 
solution,  all  result  in  characteristic  abnormalities. 
Even  the  individuality  of  the  organism  is  a  toy  in 
the  hands  of  the  experimenter ;  from  half-eggs 
half-embryos  can  be  produced,  but  if  the  half-egg 
be  inverted  a  whole  embryo  of  half-size  results. 
Subdivision  of  the  egg  (of  the  sea-urchin)  gives 
several  embryos,  where  normal  development  would 
have  produced  but  one.  A  suggestive  discussion  of 
the  results  thus  far  attained  is  placed  before  the 
intending  student,  but  he  must  still  look  to  the  orig- 
inal sources  for  an  adequate  account  of  the  methods 
employed.  

HOW  wealth  is  Dr-  Spahr's  recent  work  entitled  "An 
distributed  in  the  Essay  on  the  Present  Distribution 
United  states.  of  Wealth  in  the  United  States" 
(Crowell)  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  study  of  ex- 
isting society,  and  is  suggestive  and  stimulating  in  its 
clear  and  forceful  presentation  of  facts  and  figures. 
Statistical  and  dry  are  not  synonymous  terms  as  far 
as  this  volume  is  concerned.  The  subject  is  treated 
under  the  three  heads  of  Distribution  of  Property, 
Distribution  of  Incomes,  and  Distribution  of  Taxes. 
It  begins  with  a  retrospect  of  English  conditions 
since  the  Middle  Ages,  and  reaches  the  startling 


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•conclusion  "  that  less  than  2  per  cent  of  the  families 
of  the  United  Kingdom  hold  about  as  much  private 
property  as  all  the  remainder,  and  that  93  per  cent 
of  the  people  hold  less  than  8  per  cent  of  the  accu- 
mulated wealth."  In  the  United  States,  the  line  of 
cleavage  on  questions  of  property  is  not  between 
East  and  "West,  as  is  usually  thought,  but  between 
city  and  country,  the  natural  result  of  the  rapid  in- 
dustrial concentration  in  business  centres.  Here, 
again,  1  per  cent  of  the  families  of  the  United 
States  receive  one-quarter  of  its  entire  income.  The 
author's  conclusions  lead  naturally  to  a  consideration 
of  our  much-deplored  system  of  taxation,  with  its 
inequalities  and  consequent  injustices.  A  remedy 
is  not  to  be  found,  the  author  insists,  in  equal  taxa- 
tion of  property,  even  could  that  be  secured.  The 
public  will  demand,  as  a  cure  for  its  ills,  a  progres- 
sive property  tax.  "  The  public  welfare  is  the 
supreme  law,  and  the  heart  and  conscience  of  the 
nation  are  bound  to  give  effect  to  measures  which 
shall  make  the  wealth  of  the  nation  synonymous 
with  the  national  well-being." 

To  the  story  of  the  Indian  and  of  the 

MIne' in  the "  Story of  the  West" 

series  (Appleton),  Mr.  E.  Hough  has 
added  the  "  Story  of  the  Cowboy."  In  the  rapidly 
passing  panorama  of  the  development  of  the  great 
West,  the  cowboy  has  always  stood  for  the  extreme 
of  picturesqueness.  Mr.  Hough  has  not  shorn  him 
of  any  glamour  or  romance,  but  in  addition  gives  a 
realization  of  the  extent  of  his  kingdom,  the  magni- 
tude of  the  interests  entrusted  to  him,  and  the 
courage  and  hardihood  necessary  to  his  daily  work. 
The  reader  of  this  most  interesting  book  is  brought 
into  vivid  touch  with  daily  life  on  the  plains, — 
participates  in  "  round-ups,"  chases  the  predatory 
41  rustler,"  and  anathematizes  "  strays  "  and  "  Maver- 
icks." The  last  chapter  is  a  plea  for  the  cowboy  to 
be  regarded  in  history,  not  as  an  eccentric  driver  of 
horned  cattle,  but  as  a  man  suited  to  the  times.  He 
disappeared  because  of  the  small  landholder,  the 
sheep-herder,  the  fence-builder,  and  especially  the 
irrigator.  The  mind's  eye  is  aided  in  forming  these 
pictures  of  the  past  by  the  page  illustrations  in  the 
book  from  the  brush  of  Mr.  Russell,  himself  a 
dweller  on  a  Montana  ranch. 


A  students  conception  of  literature  as  a  fit 

handbook  of  subject  for  systematic  study  in  the 

literary  art.  schools  is  comparatively  so  new  that 

each  person,  student  or  teacher,  has  been  obliged 
largely  to  form  his  own  methods  of  examining  its 
contents  and  of  defining  the  principles  of  its  art. 
Neither  the  rhetorics  nor  the  outlines  of  the  his- 
tory of  literature  have  thrown  much  light  upon 
the  principles  which  each  critic  must  apply,  at  one 
point  or  another,  whenever  he  writes  a  review,  or 
in  any  way  discusses  a  written  composition.  Miss 
Harriet  Noble,  in  offering  "  A  Handbook  for  the 
Study  of  Literary  Art"  (Inland  Publishing  Co.), 
has  done  a  real  service  to  students,  whether  in  school 


or  out.  The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  lead  the  stu- 
dent to  recognize  literary  work  as  art ;  to  collect 
and  define  all  the  more  essential  properties  of  this 
art  connectedly,  and  to  exemplify  their  application 
in  systematic  analysis.  Schedules  are  presented 
intended  to  cover  the  essential  characteristics  of 
the  three  great  classes  of  writing  —  poems,  dramas, 
novels.  Themes,  plans,  amplification,  versification, 
style,  are  the  subjects  of  chapters  containing  much 
direct  and  suggestive  material  for  the  inexperienced 
lover  of  good  literature.  The  concluding  chapter, 
"  Final  Verdicts,"  is  an  up-to-date  discussion  of  such 
modern  literary  forms  as  the  compound  tale,  made 
up  of  a  number  of  single  poems,  after  the  manner 
of  Tennyson  ;  the  dramatic  monologue,  Browning's 
favorite  form ;  symbolism,  as  practised  by  Ibsen, 
Maeterlinck,  William  Sharp,  and  others.  The  book 
is  to  be  highly  commended  for  doing  well  something 
that  much  needed  doing. 

When  the  Dean  of  Norwich  projected 

Lectures  on  *   i  i_       j   i  •  j 

the  Fathers.  a  course  °*  lectures  to  be  delivered 

in  Norwich  Cathedral,  presumably  in 
1895  or  1896,  and  with  the  evident  intention  of 
having  the  lectures  subsequently  published  in  book 
form,  he  selected  for  the  general  subject  "The 
Fathers."  It  is  somewhat  curious  to  find  these  lec- 
tures now  collected  and  published  under  the  title 
"  Lectures  on  Ecclesiastical  History "  (Thomas 
Whittaker).  It  is  also  curious  to  find  sandwiched 
in  between  a  lecture  on  the  life  and  times  of  St. 
Ambrose  and  one  on  Jerome,  an  essay  (evidently 
not  a  lecture)  on  the  Church  in  the  Catacombs. 
Books  thus  prepared  are  more  apt  to  exhibit  a 
variety  of  literary  styles  than  any  other  character- 
istic. And  books  on  Church  history  thus  produced 
are  apt  to  present  divergent  views  on  some  subjects 
of  minor  importance.  This  has  been  avoided  in  the 
present  case  by  the  care  exercised  by  the  Dean  to 
select  his  lectures  among  Churchmen  of  the  grade 
established  by  Dean  Farrar,  who  delivered  the  first 
lecture  in  the  course,  upon  Ignatius  and  Polycarp. 

The  French,  Every  attempt  to  trace  the  real  birth 

Revolution  .          T.«      i  ,•        •       .1        TT    -j.   j 

as  it  seemed  °*   political   parties  in  the  United 

to  Americans.  States  must  end  at  the  varying  in- 
fluence of  the  French  Revolution  on  the  citizens  of 
this  youthful  republic.  Jefferson  and  Hamilton 
were  but  captains  in  the  great  line-up  of  sympathy 
or  condemnation,  —  the  old  against  the  new,  the 
tried  against  the  visionary.  Students  have  there- 
fore gone  constantly  to  every  source  which  would 
indicate  contemporary  feeling  on  this  subject,  and 
especially  to  Gouverneur  Morris,  Thomas  Jefferson, 
and  James  Monroe,  who  were  capable  eye-witnesses 
to  many  scenes  of  that  great  drama.  But  pressure 
upon  the  time  of  the  student  and  reader  has  caused 
a  compilation  to  be  made,  not  alone  of  the  sources 
indicated  above,  but  of  all  "  Contemporary  Ameri- 
can Opinion  of  the  French  Revolution,"  by  Professor 
Hazen  of  Smith  College.  It  is  scarcely  just  to  speak 
of  the  work  as  a  compilation,  since  the  author  has, 


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especially  in  the  opinion  of  contemporaries  at  home, 
traced  a  connecting  line  and  formed  a  concluding 
opinion  which  enables  him  to  present  his  own  views. 
But  as  a  short  cut  to  scattered  matter  the  work  will 
prove  most  useful.  It  comes  as  an  "  extra  volume  " 
in  the  "  Johns  Hopkins  University  Studies." 


Another 
Jubilee  Boole. 


One  of  the  more  noteworthy  of  the 
hundred  and  one  books  about  the 
Queen  and  her  reign,  brought  out  on 
the  occasion  of  her  Diamond  Jubilee,  is  "  The  Pri- 
vate Life  of  the  Queen,  by  a  Member  of  the  Royal 
Household,"  published  in  this  country  by  the  Messrs. 
Appleton.  The  book  is  sufficiently  characterized 
by  one  sentence  in  the  author's  preface :  "  My  con- 
cern is  merely  with  the  petty  personal  details  of  the 
greatest  woman  of  her  time.  .  .  ."  The  writer  is 
evidently  a  woman,  and,  we  conjecture,  a  former 
maid-of-honor.  The  minuteness  of  her  information 
will  give  pleasure  to  the  curious,  while  her  refuta- 
tion of  a  number  of  false  reports  and  correction  of 
wrong  impressions  concerning  her  sovereign  will 
gratify  the  latter 's  admirers.  Eleven  good  half- 
tone illustrations  enliven  the  text.  But  why  could 
not  the  author  have  eulogized  the  Queen  without 
murdering  the  Queen's  English?  Too  frequent  for 
the  entire  enjoyment  of  the  reader  are  such  inele- 
gant constructions  as  the  following :  "  To  the  right 
are  a  magnificent  line  of  fourteen  vineries,  broken 
only  in  the  centre  by  Mr.  Owen  Thomas's,  the  head 
gardener,  picturesque  house." 

The  fourth  volume  of  Mr.  Donald  G. 
,el  „  Mitchell's  "  English  Lands,  Letters, 

and  Kings"  (Scribner)  deals  with 
the  period  of  the  Later  Georges  to  Victoria.  It 
opens  upon  that  always  delightful  country  of  hills 
and  waters  known  as  the  Lake  District  of  England, 
and  pictures  the  interesting  lives  of  its  illustrious 
brotherhood  of  poets  and  essayists,  passes  on  to  Scott 
at  Abbotsford,  to  Edinboro'  and  its  famous  "  Re- 
view," full  of  power  and  pyrotechnics,  to  London 
and  Walter  Savage  Landor,  "  master  of  classicism, 
master  of  language,  but  never  quite  master  of  him- 
self," and  so  on  to  the  great  names  of  the  beginning 
of  the  century, —  Byron,  Shelley,  Keats.  Only  the 
very  early  days  of  Victoria's  reign  come  into  view, 
and  thus  we  may  look  forward  to  at  least  one  more 
volume  in  this  delightful  series  —  the  sooner  the 
better,  for  these  little  books  have  a  certain  charm 
distinct  from  any  others,  one  which  age  cannot  wither 
nor  custom  stale  for  those  who  read  and  loved  "  Ik 
Marvel "  when  both  they  and  he  were  young. 

Some  resurrected  Between  the  years  1820  and  1823, 
pot-Miing  work  Thomas  Carlyle  did  much  "pot- 
oj  Carlyle.  boiling  "  work  for  "  Brewster's  Ed- 

inburgh Encyclopaedia,"  in  the  shape  of  biograph- 
ical essays.  "  Wretched  lives,"  he  himself  called 
them  in  his  atrabiliary  moments ;  at  other  times, 
he  confessed  that  he  was  seldom  happier  than  when 
writing  them.  Brief  as  most  of  these  writings  are, 


and  hardly  to  be  ranked  with  his  greater  efforts,, 
they  are  yet  fragments  of  honest,  clear-lined  work- 
manship, and  certainly  worth  rescuing  from  the 
densely  piled,  double-columned  debris  of  the  ency- 
clopaedia. There  are  seventeen  of  these  sketches  in 
all;  and  being  prefaced  by  a  sympathetic  intro- 
duction from  the  author's  fellow-Scotsman,  Mr.  S.  R. 
Crockett,  and  given  a  handsome  dress  by  the  pub- 
lishers (Lippincott),  the  book,  which  bears  the  title 
"Montaigne  and  Other  Essays,"  will  be  welcomed 
by  all  lovers  of  Carlyle. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Professor  L.  Oscar  Kuhns  is  the  author  of  a  little 
treatise  on  "  The  Treatment  of  Nature  in  Dante's 
'  Divine  Comedy  ' "  (Arnold),  which  proves  to  be  a  very 
creditable  piece  of  work.  "  Nature  "  is,  of  course, 
taken  in  the  modern  sense  of  the  term,  rather  than  the 
metaphysical  sense  in  which  Dante  himself  used  it. 
The  quotations  and  parallel  passages  of  which  the  book 
largely  consists  are  grouped  under  such  heads  as  Italy, 
the  Flora,  the  Fauna,  Atmospheric  Phenomena,  and  the 
Heavenly  Bodies.  Professor  Kuhns  has  also  published 
(Crowell)  an  edition  of  Gary's  translation  of  the  "  Divine 
Comedy,"  together  with  Rossetti's  translation  of  "  The 
New  Life."  Some  of  Gary's  notes  are  retained,  others 
are  provided  by  the  editor,  and  a  good  introduction 
prefaces  the  text.  It  remains  to  be  said  that  the  volume 
is  a  handsome  one,  and  illustrated  by  an  extensive  series 
of  well-chosen  photographs. 

The  volumes  in  the  Dent-Macmillan  series  of  "Temple 
Classics  "  and  "  Temple  Dramatists  "  continue  to  multi- 
ply. In  the  first-named  series  the  latest  to  reach  us  are 
Vols.  II.  and  III.  of  Boswell's  Johnson,  and  Vols.  IV. 
and  V.  of  Montaigne's  essays  (both  works  to  be  com- 
pleted in  six  volumes)  ;  and  Chapman's  translation  of 
the  "  Odyssey "  in  two  volumes.  In  the  series  of 
"  Dramatists "  we  have  lately  had  four  new  volumes, 
comprising  :  "  Edward  III.,"  edited  by  Mr.  G.  C.  Moore 
Smith  ;  Sheridan's  "  The  Rivals  "  and  «  The  Critic," 
both  edited  by  Mr.  G.  A.  Aitken  ;  and  Fletcher's  «  The 
Faithful  Shepherdess,"  edited  by  Mr.  F.  W.  Moorman. 
— From  the  same  publishers  we  have  received  "  Bon- 
Mots  of  the  Eighteenth  Century,"  issued  in  their  dainty 
series  of  "  Bon-Mots,"  of  which  Mr.  Walter  Jerrold  is 
the  editor.  Miss  Alice  B.  Woodward's  numerous  little 
"  grotesques "  scattered  throughout  this  volume  add 
greatly  to  its  attractiveness. 

"  The  Story  of  Jean  Valjean  "  (Ginn),  edited  by  Miss 
Sara  E.  Wiltse,  is  a  volume  in  the  series  of  "  Classics 
for  Children."  It  amounts  to  a  translation  of  "Les 
Mise*rables,"  without  some  of  the  digressions  of  the 
original.  As  there  are  over  a  thousand  pages  in  this 
version,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  excisions  are  not  con- 
siderable. 

The  famous  "  Confessions  "  of  Jean  Jacques  Rous- 
seau, in  the  English  translation  published  anonymously 
a  century  ago,  comes  to  us  in  the  prettiest  of  reprints, 
with  an  introduction  by  Mr.  S.  W.  Orson.  There  are 
four  volumes,  with  illustrations  after  the  designs  made 
by  M.  Maurice  Leloir.  The  imprint  is  that  of  Messrs. 
Gibbings  &  Co.,  London,  and  the  work  is  sold  in  this 
country  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 


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LITERARY  NOTES. 


The  Century  Co.  has  just  published  a  new  edition  of 
Mr.  John  La  Farge's  "  An  Artist's  Letters  from  Japan." 

"Seraphita,"  "The  Seamy  Side  of  History,"  and 
"  Cousin  Betty,"  are  three  new  volumes  in  the  Dent- 
Macmillau  edition  of  Balzac. 

"  Tom  Moore  in  Bermuda  "  is  the  title  of  a  brochure 
written  and  published  by  Mr.  J.  C.  Lawrence  Clark,  of 
Lancaster,  Mass.  It  is  "  a  bit  of  literary  gossip,"  attract- 
ively written  and  illustrated. 

"  How  to  Build  a  Home  "  is  the  title  of  an  excellent 
little  book  of  Mr.  Francis  C.  Moore,  just  published  by 
the  Doubleday  &  McClure  Co. 

«  The  Story  of  Germ  Life,"  by  Professor  H.  W.  Conn, 
is  published  by  the  Messrs.  Appleton  in  their  series  of 
little  books  of  popular  science  called  "  The  Library  of 
Useful  Stories." 

Volume  IV.  of  "  Cromwell,"  the  life  of  Sterling,  and 
"  Past  and  Present,"  are  the  three  latest  volumes  in  the 
"  Centenary  "  edition  of  Carlyle,  published  by  Messrs. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

We  are  pleased  to  hear  that  Dr.  H.  H.  Furness  has 
finished  editing  "  A  Winter's  Tale,"  which  will  soon 
appear  as  a  new  volume  of  the  "  Variorum  "  Shakes- 
peare, published  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co. 

It  is  interesting  to  know  that  the  Oxford  University 
Press,  in  establishing  an  American  branch,  has  incor- 
porated it  under  the  laws  of  New  York,  its  business 
being  carried  on  by  a  staff  of  American  citizens,  with 
Mr.  Henry  Frowde  as  president. 

"  Tales  of  Humor,"  "  Romance,"  and  "  Little  Master- 
pieces "  are  the  titles  of  three  small  volumes  of  short 
stories  just  issued  by  the  new  publishing  house,  the 
Doubleday  &  McClure  Co.  The  latter  of  the  three 
contains  tales  from  Poe,  edited  by  Mr.  Bliss  Perry. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  are  the  publishers  of  a 
"  Natural  History,"  the  work  of  Mr.  R.  Lydekker  and 
other  specialists,  which  provides,  in  a  compact  volume 
of  nearly  eight  hundred  pages,  a  trustworthy  survey  of 
the  animal  kingdom  as  at  present  known  to  science. 

"  The  Dictionary  of  the  Bible,"  planned  by  Robertson 
Smith,  and  since  his  death  carried  on  by  Professor 
Cheyne  and  Dr.  Sutherland  Black,  is  making  steady 
progress,  and  five-sixths  of  the  whole  material  is  now 
in  the  editors'  hands.  The  work  will  form  a  single  very 
large  volume,  and  be  published  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

One  would  hardly  look  for  "literature"  in  the 
annual  "  Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education," 
but  the  first  volume  of  that  valuable  work  for  1895-96 
contains  at  least  one  paper  of  high  literary  value.  It 
is  the  account  of  "  Early  Educational  Life  in  Middle 
Georgia,"  prepared  for  the  Bureau  of  Education  by 
Colonel  Richard  Malcolm  Johnston,  and  quite  as  enter- 
taining as  the  fiction  of  that  genial  writer. 

A  volume  of  "Selected  Masterpieces  of  Biblical 
Literature  "  has  been  edited  by  Professor  R.  G.  Moulton 
for  «  The  Modern  Reader's  Bible,"  and  is  published  by 
the  Macmillan  Co.  From  the  same  publishers  we  have, 
in  their  series  of  "  Economic  Classics,"  a  reprint  of 
Augustin  Cournot's  "  Researches  into  the  Mathematical 
Principles  of  the  Theory  of  Wealth,"  which  appeared 
in  1838.  The  translation  of  the  latter  work  is  by  Mr. 
Nathaniel  T.  Bacon. 

Francis  Turner  Palgrave,  known  to  all  readers  as  the 
editor  of  the  best  anthology  of  English  lyrics  ever  com- 


piled, died  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  October,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-three.  A  student  of  Balliol,  a  fellow  of 
Exeter,  and  Professor  of  Poetry  to  the  University,  Pal- 
grave  was  all  his  life  long  an  Oxford  man  and  little  else. 
He  was  an  original  poet  of  considerable  merit,  and  a 
critic  of  no  mean  achievement,  but  it  is  as  the  editor  of 
"  The  Golden  Treasury  "  that  he  will  be  best  remem- 
bered. 

Justin  Winsor,  for  many  years  Librarian  of  Harvard 
University,  died  at  his  home  in  Cambridge  on  the 
twenty-second  of  last  month.  He  was  born  in  Boston, 
January  2,  1831,  and  obtained  his  education  first  at 
Harvard,  then  in  Heidelberg  and  Paris.  In  1868,  he 
became  Superintendent  of  the  Boston  Public  Library, 
leaving  that  institution  for  Harvard  in  1877.  Besides 
being  one  of  the  leaders  in  his  profession  for  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  he  was  one  of  the  foremost  of  American 
historians.  His  ungraceful  style  will  always  debar  him 
from  taking  rank  with  Parkman  and  Motley  in  popular 
favor,  but  his  work  has  qualities  of  solid  scholarship 
that  insure  it  the  esteem  of  them  that  know.  His 
most  important  works  are  the  "  Memorial  History  of 
Boston  "  and  the  "  Life  of  Christopher  Columbus,"  while 
the  great  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America  " 
was  edited  by  him  with  such  discerning  judgment  and 
range  of  scholarship  that  his  fame  will  rest  upon  that 
work  quite  as  much  as  upon  his  original  contributions 
to  historical  and  cartographical  knowledge. 

The  death  of  Charles  Anderson  Dana,  on  the  seven- 
teenth of  October,  removed  from  American  journalism 
one  of  its  most  conspicuous  figures.  Mr.  Dana  was 
born  August  8, 1819,  in  New  Hampshire,  and  spent  his 
boyhood  in  Buffalo.  He  entered  Harvard  in  1839,  but 
was  compelled  by  defective  eyesight  to  give  up  his 
studies  for  the  time,  and  soon  thereafter  attached  him- 
self for  a  brief  period  to  the  Brook  Farm  community, 
which  accident,  rather  than  serious  significance,  has 
made  so  famous  an  episode  in  New  England  history. 
After  a  few  years  of  miscellaneous  journalism,  he  became 
managing  editor  of  the  New  York  "  Tribune,"  retaining 
that  connection  until  1862.  He  was  then  employed  by 
the  War  department  at  Washington  for  several  years, 
then  embarked  upon  a  short-lived  newspaper  enterprise 
in  Chicago,  and  finally,  in  1867,  became  the  proprietor 
and  editor  of  the  New  York  "  Sun."  It  is  as  the  editor 
of  that  journal  that  he  is  best  known,  although  he  did 
a  certain  amount  of  fairly  creditable  literary  work.  In 
spite  of  its  excellence  in  make-up,  in  the  use  of  language, 
and  in  the  collection  of  news  (or  rather,  perhaps,  because 
of  those  qualities,  so  admirable  in  themselves),  the 
"  Sun  "  has  exercised  a  deeply  demoralizing  effect  upon 
American  journalism,  and  the  remarkable  abilities  of 
its  editor  have  usually  been  put  to  the  worst  possible 
use.  There  has  hardly  been  a  scoundrel  in  public  life 
during  the  past  generation  whom  the  "  Sun "  has  not 
championed,  hardly  a  vicious  measure  of  government 
that  it  has  not  espoused.  On  the  other  hand,  it  has 
waged  persistent  warfare  upon  men  whom  the  nation 
has  delighted  to  honor,  and  upon  reforms  that  have 
enlisted  in  their  behalf  the  best  elements  of  the  entire 
community, —  and  all  this  with  a  malignity,  a  vindictive- 
ness,  and  an  unscrupulous  mendacity  that  have  rarely 
been  approached  even  in  American  journalism.  In  thus 
outraging  both  the  intelligence  and  the  moral  sentiment 
of  the  public,  the  paper  has  gone  so  far  as  to  defeat  its 
own  purposes,  and  in  this  fact  must  be  sought  whatever 
compensation  there  is  for  the  degradation  of  its  thirty 
years'  presence  among  us. 


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Banquets  of  the  Olden  Time.    F.  J.  Ziegler.    Lippincott. 
Bihle  Study.    John  W.  Hall.    Educational  Review. 
Biology,  Century's  Progress  in.    H.  S.  Williams.    Harper. 
Bismarck  and  the  German  Empire.    G.  H.  Cooper.    Dial. 
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California's  Climate,  Oddities  of.  F.  H.  Dewey.  Lippincott. 
Cameron,  Mrs.,  Friends  of.    V.  C.  S.  O'Connor.     Century. 
Child-Study  for  Teachers.    Q.  W.  A.  Luckey.    EducatH  Rev. 
Chitral,  Story  of.    Charles  Lowe.     Century. 
Cities,  Great,  Growth  of.    Roger  S.  Tracy.     Century. 
"  Constitution,"  The  Frigate.    Ira  N.  Hollis.    Atlantic. 
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A  NEW  IDEAL  IN  AMERICAN  FICTION. 

Margaret  Steele  Anderson 269 

TEACHING  ENGLISH  FOR  A  LIVELIHOOD. 

George  Beardsley .  270 

COMMUNICATIONS 272 

Crerar  Library  and  the  wishes  of  its  Founder.  G.  H. 
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INSPIRATION.    (Poem.)    Charlotte  Mellen  Packard  .  273 

THE    LETTERS    OF    ELIZABETH    BARRETT 

BROWNING.    Louis  J.  Block 274 

FRANCE  PREPARING  FOR  THE  REVOLUTION. 

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THE  SCHOLAR  AND  THE  STATE.    John  J.  Halsey  279 
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RECENT  FICTION.  William  Morton  Payne  .  .  .282 
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of  the  Civil  War. — The  story  of  a  vanquished  people. 

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— Western  New  York  a  century  ago. 

BRIEFER  MENTION 290 

LITERARY  NOTES 290 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .  .  291 


A  NEW  IDEAL  IN  AMERICAN  FICTION. 

No  student  of  American  life  and  literature, 
however  slight  his  claim  to  the  title,  can  have 
failed  to  observe  that  in  the  past  few  years  a 
marked  if  not  vital  change  has  come  over 
American  fiction.  As  the  century  draws  to  a 
close,  it  becomes  evident  that  the  fiction  of  its 
last  decade  is  to  be  chronicled  as  presenting 
almost  a  contrast  to  that  of  the  decade  preced- 
ing it,  —  and  this  even  more  in  the  radical 
matters  of  spirit  and  choice  of  subject  than  in 
the  matter  of  art. 

In  the  eighties,  the  American  ideal  of  fiction 
was  summed  up  in  the  magical  and  much- 
abused  word  "  realism," — by  which  was  meant, 
sometimes  the  analysis  of  character,  sometimes 
the  delicate  and  subtle  setting  forth  of  episode, 
and  sometimes  the  portrayal  of  life  as  it  ap- 
pears on  the  surface,  with  only  floating  hints 
as  to  its  great  undercurrents  of  motive  and 
passion.  It  was  generally  thought  that  "  in 
some  way  or  other,  the  stories  had  all  been 
told";  and  it  was  thought,  too,  that  the  history 
of  a  soul,  to  be  artistically  rendered,  should 
be  written  as  by  one  who  stood  without  and 
guessed,  rather  than  as  by  one  who  stood  within 
and  knew.  Life,  it  was  argued,  has  such  and 
such  an  appearance  —  therefore,  paint  it  so, 
and  leave  the  picture  to  be  interpreted  as  it 
may  be ;  in  like  manner,  the  greater  passions 
and  emotions  are  generally  hidden  under  a 
mask  of  conventionality,  and  the  artist  should 
show  the  mask,  letting  the  secret  things  be 
guessed  at. 

That  this  ideal  has  been  followed  by  some 
of  our  rarest  talent,  and  that  the  work  it 
necessitated  was  often  of  great  artistic  beauty, 
is  not  to  be  denied ;  and  we  remember,  also, 
that  its  followers  have  at  times  overstepped 
their  own  prescribed  bounds,  to  deal  with  the 
openly  sublime,  magnificent,  or  beautiful.  But 
it  was  too  limited  an  ideal  to  compel  any  long 
period  of  service,  save  from  a  scattered  few ; 
it  was  not  realism  in  the  larger  sense,  but  only 
a  phase  of  it ;  and  as  a  popular  ideal  of  fiction 
(one  says  "  popular  "  with  an  inward  surety  of 
contradiction)  it  has  given  way  to  another, 
limited  itself,  but  of  greater  stature  and  richer 
life-blood. 

But  while  the  fiction  of  the  former  ideal 


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gave  us  life  highly  individualized,  and  falls 
therefore  into  the  realm  of  realistic  art,  the 
fiction  of  the  present  day  does  not  belong  en- 
tirely to  the  realm  of  ideal  art;  it  strives,  indeed, 
to  give  "  life  essential,"  but  it  would  also  pre- 
sent the  individual  life.  It  differs  from  the 
other  insomuch  as  its  tendency  is  toward  the 
typical  rather  than  the  single ;  insomuch  as  it 
is  apt  to  show  the  growth  of  a  soul  rather  than 
to  analyze  a  given  character ;  insomuch  as  it 
chooses,  not  the  commonplace,  in  which  realism 
found  its  best  material,  but  the  high,  the  heroic, 
the  confessedly  great  or  tragic  or  pathetic  ele- 
ments of  human  life.  We  are  reading  —  as 
in  "  Hugh  Wynne  "  —  stories  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, where,  not  so  many  years  ago,  we  read 
analyses  of  modern  society ;  we  are  reading  — 
as  in  the  work  of  Mr.  Gilbert  Parker  and  Mrs. 
Catherwood  —  of  men  who,  in  peril  and  daring 
and  conquest,  renew  for  us  the  youth  of  our 
race ;  we  are  reading  —  as  in  "  The  Choir 
Invisible  " — of  great  spirits,  fighting  their  way 
upward  to  peace  through  the  hardships  and 
mistakes  of  earth. 

We  speak  of  this  fiction  as  belonging  to  the 
present  decade ;  but  immediately  comes  the 
correction  that  the  new  note  was  at  least  set 
vibrating  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighties,  by 
such  pieces  of  fiction  as  "  Marse  Chan,"  "  The 
White  Cowl,"  and  "  The  Romance  of  Dollard," 
—  stories  that  seized  upon  naked  pathos,  pas- 
sion, and  splendor,  and  presented  them  with  no 
affectation  of  indifference.  But  these  and  a 
few  like  them  were  only  the  heralds  of  the 
changed  order.  At  this  time  American  fiction 
is  almost  entirely  occupied  with  the  heroic 
affairs  of  life  —  with  bold  self-sacrifices,  with 
magnificent  fidelities,  with  the  signal  passions 
of  love  and  hate  and  war,  with  man's  sin  and 
penitence  and  expiation.  Even  our  short 
stories  deal  with  these  high  matters ;  and  the 
writer  who  has  won  the  most  immediate  popu- 
larity of  his  day,  and  has  set  a  style  for  the 
emulation  of  others,  is  a  young  man  who  dared 
to  take  a  youth  of  New  York  fashion-dom,  put 
a  forsaken  child  in  his  arms,  and  send  him  out 
at  midnight  to  deliver  a  speech  of  quiet  but 
intense  appeal  to  the  child's  unloving  father. 
The  public  —  critical  and  uncritical,  sensitive 
and  dull  —  was  ready  at  that  very  time  for  such 
expressions  of  feeling  ;  so  ready  that  it  would 
accept  even  sentimentalities  from  one  who  had 
proved  his  power  over  genuine  emotion. 

That  this  fiction  should  be  considered  "  ro- 
mantic "  is  not  at  all  strange ;  and  if  by 
*  romanticism"  is  meant  the  revival  of  wonder 


at  the  mystery  and  the  greatness  of  life,  the 
adjective  is  well  applied.  There  has  been  such 
a  revival,  the  second  in  our  century,  and  it  has 
struck  out  two  broad  avenues  of  expression  — 
the  one,  fiction ;  the  other,  the  historical  essay. 
Our  interest  in  our  own  history,  in  the  splendid 
makings  of  our  nation,  in  those  stirring  scenes 
of  which  our  near  fathers  were  the  protagonists, 
is  as  much  a  part  of  this  romanticism  as  our 
most  romantic  fiction  —  which,  indeed,  is  fath- 
ered by  historical  research.  And  the  argument 
from  all  this  is  greatly  in  our  favor.  Despite  the 
mock-heroics  and  sentimentalities  which  are 
foisted  on  us  in  its  name,  despite  the  invitation 
which  it  extends  to  a  lower  order  of  talent,  to 
a  weak  or  flamboyant  art,  it  is  a  movement 
which  "  means  intensely  and  means  good." 
When  it  takes  the  form  of  history,  it  signifies 
a  deepening  of  our  national  consciousness  and 
a  desire  to  be  worthy  of  the  courage  from  which 
we  sprang ;  when  it  takes  the  form  of  fiction, 
it  is  a  sign  that  we  are  thinking  of  the  majestic 
proportions  of  humanity,  of  the  nobler  possi- 
bilities of  our  nature.  It  is  well  for  us,  both 
as  public  and  as  individuals,  to  have  a  day  of 
such  great  things  ;  their  effect  upon  us  is,  in 
some  measure,  the  effect  of  the  sublime  epics 
of  the  world,  —  of  the  beautiful  sculpture  and 
painting  and  architecture  and  music,  under  the 
spell  of  which  our  pettiness  falls  away  from  us 
like  a  garment,  and  we  are  raptured  by  the 
glory  of  life.  This  new  fiction  has  faults  and 
shortcomings,  but  at  its  best  it  can  stir  the 
blood,  it  can  rouse  the  larger  emotions,  it  can 
cheer  the  soul.  For  it  is  based  on  this  truth : 
that,  though  our  more  ordinary  affairs  may 
furnish  a  great  part  of  the  gamut  of  tragedy 
and  comedy,  the  things  which  appeal  to  all 
men  as  great  or  brave  or  lovely  or  pathetic  are 
also,  and  as  deeply,  the  verities  of  our  existence. 
MARGARET  STEELE  ANDERSON. 


TEACHING  ENGLISH  FOR  A  LIVE- 
LIHOOD. 

One  factor  in  the  recent  notable  and  somewhat 
unwieldy  development  of  the  English  Department 
in  our  American  universities  has  been,  probably,  the 
necessity  for  a  livelihood  for  college  men.  The 
field  was  attractive,  but  offered  accommodations  for 
few.  The  influx  of  settlers  necessitated  the  staking 
of  new  claims.  English  teachers  in  ten  years  have 
multiplied  like  a  Klondike  census  ;  English  courses 
like  mining  enterprises  in  Alaska.  Prospecting  has 
crossed  all  bounds  and  got  clear  out  of  touch  from 


1897.] 


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reason  and  tradition.  Under  the  name  of  English 
go  on  all  manner  of  destructive  practices,  and  soon 
we  shall  not  recognize  our  classics  under  the  rubbish- 
heaps  of  the  new  camps. 

The  ranks  of  all  professions  contain  those  who 
have  had  (as  it  is  said  in  the  case  of  the  ministry) 
no  "  call ";  who  have  entered  where  the  least  resist- 
ance was.  The  English  teaching  profession,  as 
everyone  knows,  is  no  exception.  We  can  all  count 
the  "  uncalled  "  of  our  professional  acquaintance  in 
multiples  of  the  "  called  ";  and  if  in  the  end  we  are 
all  found  somewhere  in  the  first  list,  we  may  wink 
at  the  joke  and  still  be  very  sure  that  the  difference 
is  there  with  the  distinction,  nevertheless. 

The  new  impetus  given  to  the  study  a  dozen  years 
ago  affected  at  first  only  the  writing  side  of  English. 
The  reforms,  once  started,  soon  ran  headlong. 
From  increased  attention  to  writing  we  went  on  to 
enlarge  the  field  of  literary  study.  Colleges  that 
had  employed  one  man  to  teach  the  entire  subject 
began  to  appoint  instructors  for  particular  subdi- 
visions of  the  work.  Literature  and  linguistics  were 
early  drawn  apart,  the  chair  in  the  larger  universities 
being  divided  into  two.  Rhetoric  and  composition 
were  set  off  as  a  third  chair.  This  line  of  division 
complete,  a  new  tack  was  taken.  Literature  was 
divided,  and  we  got  in  some  cases  a  chair  of  Ameri- 
can Literature.  This  was  not  enough,  and  soon  we 
saw  chairs  of  the  history  of  English  literature  and 
of  mere  literature,  of  Elizabethan  literature  and  of 
Restoration  literature,  of  Eighteenth  Century  and  of 
Nineteenth  Century  literature.  And  where  separate 
departments  were  not  thus  created,  the  work  of  in- 
struction was  distributed  to  assistants  specially  pre- 
pared in  the  respective  subdivisions.  But  the  end 
was  not  yet.  Each  teacher  must  offer  many  courses. 
Periods  were  subdivided  indefinitely,  and  individual 
authors  began  to  receive  microscopic  attention. 
Entire  courses  in  a  single  writer  became  the  vogue, 
and  almost  any  literary  figure,  irrespective  of  his 
importance,  was  put  down  in  one  announcement  or 
another  as  the  subject  of  a  semester's  work.  So 
minute  is  this  subdivision  of  the  subject  at  last,  that 
twenty  representative  American  universities  average 
twenty  courses  each.  Some  offer  fifty  courses  and 
have  half  as  many  instructors.* 

This  multitude  of  courses  in  English  that  has 
come  to  string  out  our  university  catalogues,  to  allure 
the  "  snap  "-seeking  student,  and  to  keep  busy  a 
surplusage  of  instructors,  is  in  itself  evidence  that 
something  has  overreached  itself.  For  the  most 
part,  the  abuses  resulting  from  the  attempt  to  make 
too  much  of  one  author  are  so  familiar  as  to  require 
only  passing  reference.  To  this  class  belongs  the 
sort  of  course  that  attempts  to  blend  literary  with 
philological  study,  with  the  invariable  result  that  the 
literary  is  swamped  by  the  philological  from  the 
start.  A  favorite  victim  for  this  sacrifice  is  Chaucer. 
If  as  much  as  twelve  weeks  be  allotted  to  this  poet 
in  a  reading  course,  one  is  obliged  to  resort  to  linguis- 

*See  "English  in  American  Universities." 


tics  to  fill  out  the  time.  The  result  always,  by  a 
kind  of  Gresham's  Law,  is  that  the  technical  drives 
out  the  aesthetic.  "  The  Canterbury  Tales  "  in  most 
universities  is  a  word-chasing  course  of  the  worst 
type ;  students  get  no  notion  of  Chaucer's  charm, 
nor  often  any  notion  at  all  about  him  save  that  he 
is  a  great  bore  and  a  fine  fellow  to  cut. 

The  drawing  out  of  poetical  studies  by  drills  in 
versification,  and  of  prose  studies  by  mechanical 
examination  of  the  rhetoric ;  the  still  inextinct  bar- 
barism of  attending  more  to  the  man  or  to  what 
criticism  has  to  say  of  him  than  to  the  man's  work, 
—  one  hurries  over  these  to  notice  the  most  curious 
perversion  of  all.  This  is  the  "  counting  "  fad.  It 
is  research  work,  and  prevails  chiefly  in  graduate 
schools.  A  subject  is  chosen  for  investigation,  say 
a  certain  poet's  "  use  of  color."  The  student  goes 
to  work  with  notebook  and  pencil,  rather  with  many 
notebooks  and  many  pencils,  to  get  up  statistics  that 
will  show  what  colors  and  shades  the  poet  mentions 
most  and  least.  The  process  is  simple  :  all  the  reds, 
oranges,  yellows,  and  so  forth,  are  counted ;  in  the 
end,  totals  are  compared,  and  Whittier,  let  us  say, 
is  declared  to  incline  to  green,  blue,  indigo,  or  vio- 
let, or  to  bright  tints  rather  than  sombre ;  or  perhaps 
Whittier  makes  very  little  or  very  great  use  of  color 
in  general.  This  color  study  is  a  popular  one  among 
student  specialists  in  English,  and,  sad  to  say,  it  is 
not  undertaken  by  women  alone.  The  men,  how- 
ever, mainly  attack  topics  seemingly  less  mild.  A 
poet's  "  treatment  of  nature  "  is  often  the  subject  of 
investigation.  Here,  as  before,  we  get  columns  of 
figures,  only  more  of  them.  The  counting  is  given 
a  wider  scope.  The  animals  and  vegetables  (even 
the  minerals  sometimes)  are  listed  and  carefully 
assorted,  the  wild  species  being  separated  from  the 
domestic.  Again,  a  poet's  use  of  figures  of  speech 
is  the  subject.  A  friend  spent  the  whole  of  last 
winter  counting  the  metaphors  and  similes,  and  cases 
of  personification  and  Natur-beseelung  in  Keats, 
with  the  view  of  determining  if  there  were  more  of 
one  than  of  another.  Other  friends  in  other  universi- 
ties are  spending  best  years  counting  —  Browning ! 
Wordsworth's  employment  of  the  pathetic  fallacy 
has  been  reduced  to  a  mathematical  statement,  and 
no  great  poet  is  permitted  to  rest  in  peace.  The 
"  cahtter  about  Shelley  "  has  been  succeeded  by  a 
very  perfect  analysis  and  census  in  detail  of  Shel- 
ley's poetical  anatomy.  And  this  sort  of  thing  is 
spreading.  If  we  could  overhear  it,  there  is  in  too 
many  colleges  the  statistical  and  the  chemical  talk 
about  books ;  and  even  in  high-schools  one  may  hear 
to  a  fine  point  of  Spenser's  greens  and  Tennyson's 
grays,  till  one  knows  not  but  he  has  got  into  a  dye- 
house  by  mistake. 

"  There  is  a  way  of  killing  truth  by  truths :  under 
the  pretense  that  we  want  to  study  it  more  in  detail, 
we  pulverize  the  statue."  Amiel  might  almost  have 
had  some  of  the  current  methods  in  English  imme- 
diately in  mind.  The  pretense  is  usually  present  in 
these  labored  studies.  The  color  census  finds  its 
origin  and  a  modicum  of  justification  in  the  desire 


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to  verify  or  correct,  for  example,  a  quite  general 
impression  that  Shelley  employs  many  blues  and 
akyey  effects,  or  Swinburne  sea  effects  and  greens. 
But  it  has  yet  to  be  announced  if  such  efforts  have 
brought  to  light  any  worthy  facts  unapparent  to 
observing  readers  on  the  surface.  The  effect  of  the 
October  meadow  yonder  is  brown :  you  need  not 
count  me  the  brown  spears  of  grass  to  prove  it ;  the 
driving  wind  and  the  flakes  in  the  face  are  proof 
enough  of  the  blizzard :  you  may  spare  to  measure 
us  the  snow-drifts.  To  be  sure,  there  is  one  ex- 
tremely practical  final  cause  of  the  counting,  namely, 
the  making  of  a  thesis  and  the  achievement  of  an 
advanced  degree.  If  "  Paradise  Lost "  is  taken 
apart  beyond  possibility  of  ever  being  put  together 
again,  yea,  and  ground  up  past  recognition  into  very 
powder,  there  is  at  least  this  to  show  for  it :  the 
particles  make  quite  effective  ammunition  for  the 
loading  of  masters'  and  doctors'  theses.  The  papers 
on  Milton  that  look  like  census  tables  may  strike  us 
as  doubtful  reading,  but  we  may  be  very  sure  they 
are  all  "  good  stuff  "  for  degrees.  Aside  from  this, 
there  is  no  excuse  for  much  that  is  done  in  the  name 
of  English.  It  is  scholasticism  pure  and  simple;  it 
is  the  attempt  to  make  something  out  of  nothing. 

The  fact  is,  many  American  universities,  perhaps 
American  universities  as  a  class,  are  trying  to  get 
too  much  out  of  literature.  "  Well,"  one  says,  "  we 
are  only  trying  to  get  out  of  it  what  there  is  in  it."* 
But  it  is  hard  to  believe  that  we  get  so  much  more 
out  of  English  literature  than  the  English  universi- 
ties themselves,  and  the  Scottish  and  the  Irish. 
Professor  Dowden  is  thought  to  be  enough  to  teach 
all  the  English  at  Dublin,  Professor  Gollancz  at 
Cambridge,  Saintsbury  at  Edinburgh,  Bradley  at 
Glasgow,  Andrew  Lang  at  Aberdeen.  And,  an  ex- 
ception in  this  country,  Professor  Gorson  continues 
to  constitute  a  pretty  good  department  by  himself 
at  Cornell.  These  are  all  men  of  proved  literary 
ability,  of  actual  literary  achievement.  English  teach- 
ing should  stimulate  to  production.  The  method, 
if  method  there  must  be,  should  cry  with  Carlyle, 
Produce !  produce !  in  God's  name,  produce  !  By 
the  British  plan,  immediate  contact  with  a  successful 
man  of  letters  insures  this  stimulation.  Professor 
Saintsbury  passing  the  examination  hour  working 
on  his  next  book  is  an  object-lesson  that  teaches  as 
no  "  method  "  has  ever  taught. 

English  Literature,  above  all  the  other  Humani- 
ties, is  a  subject  that  demands  the  services  of  the 
illuminated  man  of  Thomas  a  Kempis,  as  against 
those  of  the  learned  and  studious  scholar.  Ten  of 
the  latter  will  not  cover  the  lack  of  the  one.  We 
have  gone  too  far  in  our  so-called  "  modern  "  En- 
glish teaching,  and  it  will  be  well  when  we  reverse 
the  lever  and  allow  play  to  a  healthy  reaction  that 
will  reduce  the  number  while  scrutinizing  the  fitness 
of  both  courses  and  men. 

GEORGE  BEABDSLET. 

*  An  apter  reply,  to  be  sure,  than  that  of  another  assiduous 
counter :  We  must  do  something  ! 


COMMUNICA  TIONS. 

THE  CRERAR  LIBRARY  AND  THE  WISHES 

OP  ITS  FOUNDER. 
(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

I  knew  the  late  John  Crerar  well,  and  I  think  the 
point  made  by  T.V.V.  in  his  letter  printed  in  your  last 
issue  is  properly  taken.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  use  of 
the  Crerar  Bequest  for  the  formation  of  an  "  exclusively 
scientific  library  "  is  a  violation  of  a  sacred  memorial 
trust. 

When  I  first  knew  Mr.  Crerar  he  was  the  president 
of  a  Library  Association  in  New  York  City,  and  I  was 
an  assistant  in  the  library.  Some  years  after,  when  I 
had  become  the  librarian  of  another  institution,  whose 
library  had  been  formed  by  me,  he  called  upon  me  and 
was  much  interested  in  my  work  and  plans.  He  was  a 
reticent  man,  and  he  told  me  nothing  of  his  intentions, 
but  I  somehow  formed  a  notion  that  he  intended  to  found 
a  great  library,  and  I  felt  at  the  time  that  I  should  like, 
above  all  things,  to  be  in  a  library  of  which  he  was  the 
founder.  We  talked,  among  other  matters,  at  this  last 
meeting  that  I  had  with  him,  of  the  relative  importance 
of  history  and  literature  and  of  science  as  means  of  the 
highest  culture  and  of  human  improvement.  I  remem- 
ber showing  him  some  opinions  of  eminent  men  in  regard 
to  the  subject  of  our  conversation.  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson 
was  one  of  these  writers  in  whose  views  Mr.  Crerar  was 
particularly  interested. 

It  is  extraordinary  that  a  sacred  public  trust,  like  that 
founded  by  John  Crerar,  established,  or  intended  by  him 
to  be  established,  for  a  specified  beneficent  purpose,  to 
benefit  a  certain  community,  can  be  used  for  a  purpose 
widely  different  from  that  clearly  set  forth  in  the  testa- 
tor's will  and  in  conversations  with  his  friends.  Books 
relating  to  engineering,  chemistry,  medical  science,  and 
all  useful  arts,  would  properly  form  part  of  a  great 
library  such  as  the  Crerar  Library  was  designed  to  be  ; 
but  Mr.  Crerar  was  strenuously  desirous  that  his  library 
should  be  composed  largely,  if  not  mainly,  of  books  re- 
lating to  religious  and  moral  subjects,  the  literature  and 
history  of  all  nations,  with  "  examples  that  embody  truth 
and  prove  by  events  the  reasonableness  of  opinions." 
Human  life  and  the  formation  of  character  were  matters 
of  far  more  importance,  in  Mr.  Crerar's  judgment,  than 
the  history  of  plants  and  animals, —  though  incidentally 
these  might  be  proper  objects  of  interest,  but  only  in  a 
very  subordinate  degree  to  the  study  of  human  history 
and  of  literature. 

It  is  deplorable  that  boards  of  trustees,  at  their  pleas- 
ure or  discretion,  can  violate  the  terms  of  beneficent 
public  trusts.  The  Crerar  Library  of  Chicago  and  the 
Lenox  Library  of  New  York  are  conspicuous  instances  of 
such  violations;  and  the  communities  most  concerned 
should  have  the  power  to  prevent  such  misuse  of  funds 
generously  bequeathed  for  specific  and  wise  purposes. 

G.  H. 

New  York,  November  2,  1897. 


PROFESSOR  FISKE  AND  FRANCIS  BACON. 

(To  the  Editor  of  THE  DIAL.) 

Professor  John  Fiske,  in  an  interesting  article  in  the 
November  "  Atlantic,"  opens  his  discussion  of  the  Bacon- 
Shakespeare  question  with  the  "knock-down"  argument 
that  the  whole  matter  is  "  the  silliest  mare's  nest  ever 
devised  by  human  dulness."  But  in  the  zeal  of  his 
contest  with  this  "windmill,"  he  goes  further,  and  assails 


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Bacon  directly,  both  in  regard  to  his  abilities  and  his 
services  in  the  cause  of  science.  He  pronounces  Bacon 
"  one  of  the  most  overrated  men  of  modern  times," 
deprecates  the  current  opinion  that  he  "  inaugurated  a 
most  beneficial  revolution  in  the  aims  and  methods  of 
scientific  inquiry,"  and  places  him  "  among  intellects  of 
the  second  order."  He  cites  Whewell  and  Mr.  Jevons 
as  his  authorities  for  this  conclusion. 

In  my  "  Francis  Bacon  and  his  Shakespeare  "  (1895), 
the  original  inquiry,  in  its  deeper  significance,  broadens 
out  into  the  vastly  more  important  subject  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Baconian  spirit  in  Literature  and  Art.  In 
outlining  the  essential  antagonism  and  the  struggle 
between  the  Platonic  and  the  Baconian  spirit  —  tending 
also  to  a  clearer  comprehension  of  Bacon's  services  to 
mankind, —  I  touch  upon  the  point  now  in  question  ;  and, 
in  defense  of  Bacon,  it  is  perhaps  permissible  to  quote 
here  the  following  passage,  which  seems  pertinent: 

"  And  finally,  he  put  this  Induction  to  a  crucial  test,  in  the 
discovery  of  the  then  unknown  nature  of  Heat, —  a  discovery 
so  true,  so  far  in  advance  of  his  age,  that  it  has  given  rise  to 
one  of  the  profound  misconceptions  regarding  Bacon  which 
this  generation  has  inherited.  Some  of  us  doubtless  remember 
studying  in  our  youth  Professor  Comstock's  *  Natural  Philos- 
ophy,' where  we  were  taught  that  '  Heat  is  an  imponderable 
substance  called  caloric.'  And  while  the  scientific  world  was 
under  the  sway  of  such  a  philosophy,  Bacon's  conclusion  could 
only  be  regarded  as  visionary  and  preposterous.  Whewell,  in 
his  'Philosophy  of  the  Inductive  Sciences,'  [1840],  says  : 

"  '  But  we  cannot  be  surprised,  that  in  attempting  to  exem- 
plify the  method  which  he  recommended,  he  should  have 
failed.  For  the  method  could  be  exemplified  only  by  some 
important  discovery  in  physical  science ;  and  great  discoveries, 
even  with  the  most  perfect  methods,  do  not  come  at  command. 
.  .  .  Accordingly,  Bacon's  '  Inquisition  into  the  Nature  of 
Heat,'  which  is  given  in  the  Second  Book  of  the  '  Novum 
Organum'  as  an  example  of  the  mode  of  interrogating  na- 
ture, cannot  be  looked  upon  otherwise  than  as  a  complete 
failure.' 

"  Devey  and  Spedding,  editors  of  Bacon's  works,  take  the 
same  view.  And  as  late  as  1886,  Richard  A.  Proctor,  the 
eminent  astronomer,  accepting  the  traditional  opinion,  in  a 
letter  published  in  the '  Arena '  of  Nov.,  1893,  speaks  of  Bacon 
as  '  failing  egregiously  in  his  attempt  on  the  sole  detail  to 
which  he  applied  his  own  method.' 

"  But  was  it  an  egregious  failure  ?  Turning  to  his  '  Novum 
Organum,'  we  find  that  Bacon,  at  the  end  of  his  orderly  In- 
duction, arrives  at  this  conclusion  : 

"  '  From  a  survey  of  the  instances,  all  and  each,  the  nature 
of  which  heat  is  a  particular  case,  appears  to  be  Motion.  .  .  . 
When  I  say  of  Motion  that  it  is  the  genus  of  which  heat  is  a 
species,  I  would  be  understood  to  mean,  not  that  heat  gener- 
ates motion  or  that  motion  generates  heat  ( thongh  both  are 
true  in  certain  cases) ,  but  that  Heat  itself,  its  essence  and  quid- 
dity, is  Motion  and  nothing  else.  .  .  .  Heat  is  an  expansive 
motion,  whereby  a  body  strives  to  dilate  and  stretch  itself  to  a 
larger  sphere  or  dimension  than  it  had  previously  occupied  .  .  . 
that  heat  is  a  motion  of  expansion,  not  uniformly  of  the  whole 
body  together,  but  in  the  smaller  parts  of  it ;  and  at  the  same 
time  checked,  repelled,  and  beaten  back,  so  that  the  body 
acquires  a  motion  alternative,  perpetually  quivering,  striving 
and  struggling,  and  irritated  by  repercussion,  whence  springs 
the  fury  of  fire  and  heat.  .  .  .  Now  from  this  our  First  Vintage 
it  follows  that  the  Form  or  true  definition  of  heat  (heat,  that 
is,  in  relation  to  the  universe,  not  simply  in  its  relation  to  man ) 
is  in  few  words  as  follows  :  Heat  is  a  motion,  expansive,  re- 
strained, and  acting  in  its  strife  upon  the  smaller  particles  of 
bodies,1  ( Bacon's  italics. ) 

"  Professor  George  F.  Barker,  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, in  his  able  work  on  '  Physics,'  recently  published, 
states  the  present  view  of  the  nature  of  heat  in  these  words : 

" '  Heat  the  Energy  of  Molecular  Motion. —  Is  heat-energy  in 
the  kinetic  or  in  the  potential  form  ?  Davy  said  in  1812 : 


"  The  immediate  cause  of  the  phenomenon  of  heat,  then,  is 
motion;  and  the  laws  of  its  communication  are  precisely  the 
same  as  the  laws  of  the  communication  of  motion."  This 
in  modern  language  is  equivalent  to  the  statement  that  heat  is 
kinetic  energy  ;  not  evidently  of  the  mass,  since  the  hot  body 
may  be  at  rest ;  but  of  the  molecules.  We  know  that  one 
of  the  ways  in  which  a  hot  body  cools  is  by  transferring  its 
energy  to  another  and  a  colder  body  not  in  contact  with  it ; 
and  we  shall  study  later  the  mechanism  of  this  radiating  pro- 
cess. One  thing  about  it  is  certain,  however,  and  that  is  that 
it  consists  in  a  motion  of  the  intervening  medium.  The  hot 
body  communicates  motion  to  the  medium,  and  the  cold  body 
receives  motion  from  this  medium.  We  conclude,  therefore, 
that  the  surface  of  a  hot  body  must  be  in  motion ;  and  because 
radiation  may  take  place  as  well  from  the  interior  of  a  body 
as  from  its  exterior,  we  also  conclude  that  the  body  must  be 
in  motion  throughout  its  entire  mass.  This  view  of  the  case 
is  in  entire  accord  with  the  kinetic  theory  of  matter  already 
discussed,  which  supposes  the  molecules  of  matter  to  be 
actively  in  motion.  The  motion  to  which  heat- energy  is  due 
must  therefore  be  a  motion  of  parts  too  small  to  be  observed 
separately ;  the  motions  of  different  parts  at  the  same  instant 
must  be  in  different  directions ;  and  the  motion  of  any  one 
part  must,  at  least  in  solid  bodies,  be  such  that  however  fast 
it  moves  it  never  reaches  a  sensible  distance  from  the  point 
from  which  it  started.  (Maxwell.)  ' 

"  As  we  carefully  compare  the  foregoing  statements,  we  can 
hardly  realize  that  the  one  is  a  conclusion  put  forth  three 
centuries  ago,  when  there  were  comparatively  no  science  or 
scientific  instruments,  and  wrought  out  from  the  necessarily 
crude  observations  of  the  unaided  senses ;  and  that  the  other 
is  the  expression  of  the  latest  conclusion  of  science,  the  pro- 
duct of  a  century  of  special  research,  conducted  with  the 
most  delicate  instruments,  and  by  the  brightest  men  of  the 
time." 

In  1874,  Mr.  W.  Stanley  Jevons,  in  the  same  para- 
graph from  which  Professor  Fiske  quotes,  also  wrote : 

"  Francis  Bacon  held  that  science  should  be  founded  on  ex- 
perience, but  he  mistook  the  true  mode  of  using  experience, 
and  in  attempting  to  apply  his  method  ludicrously  failed.11 

Such  was  the  discriminating  power  of  the  writer  by 
whom  Bacon's  scientific  reputation  was  "  completely  ex- 
ploded." Indeed,  it  is  doubtful  if  Professor  Fiske  can 
cite  a  single  adverse  critic  who  has  even  suspected  that 
Bacon's  own  avowed  test  of  his  Induction  was  other  than 
a  "  complete,"  "  egregious  "  and  "  ludicrous  "  failure. 
Limits  forbid  a  discussion  of  the  oft  mooted  question  of 
the  precise  range  and  extent  of  Bacon's  services  to  sci- 
ence; but  it  is  apparent,  from  the  foregoing,  that  his 
intellectual  powers,  instead  of  being  "  overrated,"  have, 
in  reality,  been  appreciably  undervalued,  and  that 
Macaulay's  estimate,  which  Professor  Fiske  quotes 
almost  contemptuously,  will  yet  continue  to  command 
our  respect.  THERON  S.  E.  DIXOK. 

Chicago,  Nov.  10,  1897. 


INSPIRATION. 


Song  is  for  him  who  knows  not  whence  it  comes, 
A  gift  of  the  Immortals,  —  welling  through 

His  spirit,  as  the  rills  from  mountain  homes 
Bathe  arid  channels  with  their  healing  dew. 

Oft  the  soul-country  lies  more  desert  bare, 
Thirsty  and  fainting,  till  some  heavenly  sign 

Unlocks  the  currents  held  in  darkness  there 

And  song  sweeps  through  with  cadences  divine! 

CHARLOTTE  MELLEN  PACKARD. 


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THE  LETTERS  OF  ELIZABETH  BARRETT 
BROWNING.* 

Mr.  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman,  who  has 
just  been  delighting  his  readers  with  his  vol- 
ume of  "  Poems  now  first  Collected,"  in  his 
"  Victorian  Poets  "  speaks  of  Elizabeth  Barrett 
Browning  as  "  the  most  inspired  woman,  so  far 
as  known,  of  all  who  have  composed  in  ancient 
or  modern  tongues,  or  flourished  in  any  land  or 
time."  Further  on  he  quotes  the  well-known 
passage  in  which  she  gives  expression  to  her 
feeling  about  poets  and  poetry.  To  her,  poets 
were 

"  The  only  truth- tellers  now  left  to  God ; 
The  only  speakers  of  essential  truth, 
Opposed  to  relative,  comparative, 
And  temporal  truths." 

The  significance  of  poetry  has  never  received 
finer  expression ;  the  value  of  its  idealizing 
tendencies  has  never  been  more  certainly 
insisted  on.  The  devotion  of  a  lifetime  to  lit- 
erature could  only  be  justified  by  the  great 
good  which  would  thereby  accrue  to  mankind  ; 
otherwise  one  ran  the  risk  of  losing  oneself  in 
empty  frivolities  or  vain  vagaries  or  rhetorical 
insincerities.  The  circumstances  of  her  life 
emphasized  for  Mrs.  Browning  her  deep  appre- 
ciation of  the  real  meaning  of  a  literary  career. 
Shut  out  by  long-continued  ill-health  from  the 
usual  communications  with  the  world,  she  was 
thrown  back  upon  her  own  thought  and  the  writ- 
ten record  of  the  thought  of  others.  Shielded 
as  far  as  possible  from  every  conflict  which 
might  do  violence  to  her  susceptibilities,  she 
was  saved  from  those  depressing  defeats  which 
so  often  lame  effort  and  dull  enthusiasm.  If 
thus  some  of  her  evident  faults  suffered  exag- 
geration, yet  ample  room  was  given  for  the  free 
development  of  her  powers  and  the  undimmed 
maintenance  of  the  largeness  of  the  work  she 
felt  called  to  do.  When,  later,  she  was  brought 
into  active  connection  with  men  and  things,  her 
mind  was  already  matured,  her  art  securely  on 
its  way,  her  determinations  fixed. 

We  already  have  the  record  of  some  phases 
of  this  unique  life  in  poetical  form ;  for  the 
Letters  give  renewed  assurance  to  the  auto- 
biographical character  of  "  Aurora  Leigh."  In 
them,  however,  the  self-revelation  has  that 
familiarity  which  belongs  among  friends,  and  it 
will  not  be  easy  to  find  an  autobiography  which 

*THE  LETTERS  OF  ELIZABETH  BARRETT  BROWNING. 
Edited  by  Frederic  G.  Kenyon.  In  two  vols.  With  portraits, 
and  a  view  of  Casa  Guidi.  New  York  :  The  Macmillan  Co. 


matches  this  collection  of  intimate  outpourings 
of  thought  and  sentiment.  These  are  letters, 
indeed,  written  under  the  pressure  of  the  mo- 
ment, and  vital  with  the  need  or  purpose  of  the 
day  and  hour.  They  cover  the  entire  period  of 
her  life  from  her  young  womanhood  to  her 
latest  years,  and  the  editor  has  left  them  most 
judiciously  to  tell  their  own  tale. 

Mr.  Frederic  G.  Kenyon  has  brought  to  his 
task  qualities  which,  unfortunately,  not  all  ed- 
itors possess :  a  simple  style,  a  profound  sym- 
pathy for  his  subject,  an  unerring  capacity  for 
discerning  where  his  explanatory  introductions 
and  notes  and  paragraphs  are  necessary.  His 
share  of  the  work  deserves  the  praise  and  thanks 
of  the  reader,  and  he  renews  the  generous  rela- 
tions in  which  the  Kenyons  have  always  stood 
to  the  Brownings.  One  passage  from  his  inter- 
esting and  sensible  preface  should  properly  be 
reproduced  here. 

"  The  duties  of  the  editor  have  been  mainly  those  of 
selection  and  arrangement.  With  regard  to  the  former 
task  one  word  is  necessary.  It  may  be  thought  that  the 
almost  entire  absence  of  bitterness  (except  on  certain 
political  topics),  of  controversy,  of  personal  ill-feeling  of 
any  kind,  is  due  to  editorial  excisions.  This  is  not  the 
case.  The  number  of  passages  that  have  been  removed 
for  fear  of  hurting  the  feelings  of  persons  still  living  is 
almost  infinitesimal;  and  in  these  the  cause  of  offence  is 
always  something  inherent  in  the  facts  recorded,  not  in 
the  spirit  in  which  they  are  mentioned.  No  person  had 
less  animosity  than  Mrs.  Browning ;  it  seems  as  though  she 
could  hardly  bring  herself  to  speak  harshly  of  anyone." 

We  have  here,  therefore,  a  singularly  com- 
plete reproduction  of  the  life  of  Mrs.  Browning, 
made  by  her  own  hand,  and  frequently  supple- 
menting the  utterances  which  we  find  in  her 
poems.  We  follow  her  throughout  her  career, 
and  listen  to  the  comments  which  she  makes 
upon  the  events  into  contact  with  which  her 
widening  and  varying  experiences  bring  her. 
The  frail  recluse  is  brought  from  her  sick 
chamber,  and  it  is  not  long  before  the  whole 
world  reverberates  in  her  thought  and  words. 
Her  interests  constantly  deepen  and  enlarge  ; 
the  realm  of  books  releases  its  occupant  into 
the  realm  of  deeds ;  the  figures,  great  and  small, 
who  cross  the  scene,  are  the  ones  who  fashion 
history  as  well  as  literature  ;  statesmen  as  well 
as  poets,  humanitarians  as  well  as  novelists. 
Poetry  is  seen  to  be  only  great  when  it  so 
touches  life  that  it  becomes  the  voice  of  large 
intents  and  uplifting  purposes. 

The  early  years  of  Mrs.  Browning's  life  were 
spent  in  the  country  amid  the  sights  and  sounds 
which  are  so  dear  to  the  poet's  heart.  In  a 
letter  written  to  Mr.  R.  H.  Home,  the  author 
of  the  epic  "  Orion,"  for  which  Edgar  Allan 


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Poe  had  so  pronounced  an  admiration,  she  gives 
an  account  of  these  youthful  days. 

"  All  this  time,  and  indeed  the  greater  part  of  my  life, 
we  lived  at  Hope  End,  a  few  miles  from  Malvern,  in  a 
retirement  scarcely  broken  to  me  except  by  books  and 
my  own  thoughts;  and  it  is  a  beautiful  country,  and  was 
a  retirement  happy  in  many  ways,  although  the  very 
peace  of  it  troubles  the  heart  as  it  looks  back.  There  I 
had  my  fits  of  Pope,  and  Byron,  and  Coleridge,  and  read 
Greek  as  hard  under  the  trees  as  some  of  your  Oxonians 
in  the  Bodleian;  gathered  visions  from  Plato  and  the 
dramatists,  and  ate  and  drank  Greek  and  made  my  head 
ache  with  it.  Do  you  know  the  Malvern  Hills  ?  The 
hills  of  Piers  Plowman's  Visions  ?  They  seem  to  me  my 
native  hills;  for,  although  I  was  born  in  the  county  of 
Durham,  I  was  an  infant  when  I  went  first  into  their 
neighborhood,  and  lived  there  until  I  had  passed  twenty 
by  several  years.  Beautiful,  beautiful  hills  they  are  ! 
And  yet,  not  for  the  whole  world's  beauty  would  I  stand 
in  the  sunshine  and  the  shadow  of  them  any  more.  It 
would  be  a  mockery,  like  the  taking  back  of  a  broken 
flower  to  its  stalk." 

The  translation  of  this  passage  into  elaborate 
verse  may  be  read  in  "  Aurora  Leigh."  She 
studied  Greek  assiduously,  and  read  the  Greek 
Christian  Fathers  with  the  blind  scholar,  Hugh 
Stuart  Boyd,  whose  friendship  she  commemo- 
rates in  her  poem,  "  Wine  of  Cyprus."  The 
poems  published  during  this  period  were  purely 
tentative,  and  received  scant  recognition  from 
her  in  her  after  years.  Of  her  translation  of 
the  "Prometheus,"  published  in  1832,  she  says 
that  it  was  written  "  in  twelve  days  —  and 
should  have  been  thrown  into  the  fire  after- 
wards —  the  only  means  of  giving  it  a  little 
warmth."  The  translation  to  be  found  in  her 
works  is  a  later  and  more  mature  version. 

In  1835  the  family  moved  to  London,  and 
although  the  health  of  the  poetess  was  at  first 
extremely  precarious,  and  the  London  atmos- 
phere was  never  favorable  to  her  physical  well- 
being,  yet  the  genuine  career  of  Mrs.  Browning 
dates  from  this  time.  Her  life-long  friendship 
with  Mr.  John  Kenyon  and  Miss  Mitford  of 
41  Our  Village  "  and  "  Rienzi "  fame  begins  ;  her 
poems  appear  in  the  magazines,  her  debut  being 
made  with  the  "  Romaunt  of  Margaret  "  in  the 
"New  Monthly  Magazine,"  then  edited  by  Bul- 
wer  Lytton  ;  and  she  is  preparing  for  the  pub- 
lication of  her  first  important  volume.  She  is 
brought  into  relation  with  the  distinguished  men 
and  women  of  the  day.  Here  is  her  account  of 
her  meeting  with  Wordsworth : 

"  No  !  I  was  not  at  all  disappointed  in  Wordsworth, 
although  perhaps  I  should  not  have  singled  him  from 
the  multitude  as  a  great  man.  There  is  a  reserve  even 
in  his  countenance,  which  does  not  lighten  as  Landor's 
does,  whom  I  saw  the  same  evening.  His  eyes  have 
more  meekness  than  brilliancy;  and  in  his  slow  even 
articulation  there  is  rather  the  solemnity  and  calmness 


of  truth  itself,  than  the  animation  and  energy  of  those 
who  seek  for  it.  As  to  my  being  quite  at  my  ease  when 
I  spoke  to  him,  why,  how  could  you  ask  such  a  question  ? 
I  trembled  both  in  my  soul  and  body." 

At  length  her  volume,  "  The  Seraphim  and 
other  Poems,"  appears.  Its  reception  did  credit 
to  its  own  merits  and  the  critics  who  reviewed 
it.  The  charges  of  obscurity,  mysticism,  and 
affectation  were  brought  against  her,  and  in  one 
of  her  letters  to  Miss  Mitford  is  found  the  fol- 
lowing allusion  to  them : 

"  But  don't  believe  him  —  no!  — don't  believe  even 
Mr.  Kenyon  —  whenever  he  says  that  I  am  perversely 
obscure.  Unfortunately  obscure,  not  perversely  —  that 
is  quite  a  wrong  word.  And  the  last  time  he  used  it  to 
me  (and  then,  I  assure  you,  another  word  still  worse 
was  with  it)  I  begged  him  to  confine  them  for  the 
future  to  his  jesting  moods.  Because,  indeed,  I  am  not 
in  the  very  least  degree  perverse  in  this  fault  of  mine, 
which  is  my  destiny  rather  than  my  choice,  and  comes 
upon  me,  I  think,  just  where  I  would  eschew  it  most. 
So  little  has  perversity  to  do  with  its  occurrence,  that 
my  fear  of  it  makes  me  sometimes  feel  quite  nervous 
and  thought-tied  in  composition.  .  .  ." 

During  the  immediately  succeeding  years, 
her  creative  faculty  is  greatly  stimulated,  and 
some  of  her  noblest  poems  are  produced.  Her 
papers  on  the  Greek  Christian  poets  and  En- 
glish poets  saw  the  light  in  the  "  Athena3um." 
Then  in  1844  came  her  two  volumes  of  "Poems" 
and  her  place  among  the  foremost  of  living 
writers  was  assured.  Tennyson  had  already 
published  the  best  of  his  earlier  poems  ;  Brown- 
ing had  issued  his  "  Bells  and  Pomegranates  "; 
a  new  generation  of  poets  had  fairly  won  their 
recognition  and  right  to  be  heard.  "  Lady 
Geraldine's  Courtship "  proved  the  popular 
poem  in  these  volumes.  Of  it  Mrs.  Browning 
says: 

"  Oh,  and  I  think  I  told  you,  when  giving  you  the 
history  of  '  Lady  Geraldine's  Courtship,'  that  I  wrote 
the  thirteen  last  pages  of  it  in  one  day.  I  ought  to  have 
said  nineteen  pages  instead.  But  don't  tell  anybody; 
only  keep  the  circumstance  in  your  mind  when  you  read 
it  and  see  the  faults." 

It  is  now  also  that  the  friendship  with  Mrs. 
Jameson  commences. 

There  is  little  need  of  repeating  the  circum- 
stances attendant  upon  the  acquaintance  of 
Robert  Browning  with  the  woman  who  subse- 
quently took  her  destiny  into  her  own  hands 
and  became  his  wife.  The  father  of  Mrs. 
Browning  could  not,  it  appears,  contemplate 
with  equanimity  auy  separation  from  his  chil- 
dren, and  he  objected  as  strenuously  to  the  later 
marriages  of  Mrs.  Browning's  sister  and  brother 
as  he  did  to  her  own.  Mrs.  Browning's  health, 
however,  imperatively  called  for  a  change  of 
climate,  and  the  journey  to  Italy  proceeded,. 


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and  the  residence  in  Florence  began.  The 
change  for  Mrs.  Browning  meant  everything, 
release  from  nunlike  seclusion,  renewed  physi- 
cal health,  incomparable  companionship,  mix- 
ture with  the  great  life  of  the  world.  Her 
mind  and  heart  take  on  a  more  healthful  tone  ; 
her  mysticism,  while  never  relinquishing  its 
elevation,  becomes  a  deep  sympathy  with  the 
struggle  for  liberty  which  she  beholds  around 
her ;  her  poetry  gains  in  breadth,  in  simplicity, 
in  humanity.  In  the  letters  of  this  time  we 
find  the  prose  version  of  the  "  Sonnets  from 
the  Portuguese." 

It  is  five  years  before  the  Brownings  see 
England  again.  In  the  meantime  Casa  Guidi 
becomes  a  place  to  which  visitors  look  with 
eager  eyes.  It  was  there  that  the  son  was  born 
who  made  a  new  light  in  his  mother's  eyes. 
The  letters  are  full  of  accounts  of  guests  from 
England,  from  France,  from  America.  Mrs. 
Browning  is  drawn  to  Margaret  Fuller,  already 
the  Countess  D'Ossoli.  America  and  the 
Brownings  recognized  their  kinship  from  the 
first.  Powers,  Story,  Ware,  Hillard,  Harriet 
Hosmer,  Hawthorne,  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe, 
belong  of  right  to  this  circle. 

In  1851  they  are  back  in  Paris.  Mr.  Brown- 
ing's view  of  Louis  Napoleon  we  have  in  his 
full-length  portrait  of  "  Prince  Hohenstheil- 
Schwangau  ";  Mrs.  Browning's  we  know  from 
her  resounding  ode,  "  Napoleon  III.  in  Italy." 
The  comment  of  Mr.  Swinburne  in  one  of  his 
poems  may  be  remembered : 

"  How  shall  the  spirit  be  loyal 

To  the  shell  of  a  spiritless  thing? 
Erred  once  in  only  a  word, 
The  sweet  great  song  that  we  heard 
Poured  npon  Tuscany,  erred, 
Galling  a  crowned  man  royal 

That  was  no  more  than  a  King." 

She  had  not  as  yet  placed  Napoleon  III.  on 
the  pinnacle  to  which  she  afterwards  raised 
him,  but  she  always  put  a  favorable  construc- 
tion upon  his  actions.  Thus,  she  says  of  the 
coup  d'etat: 

"  For  my  own  part  I  have  not  only  more  hope  in  the 
situation  but  more  faith  in  the  French  people  than  is 
ordinary  among  the  English,  who  really  try  to  exceed 
one  another  in  discoloration  and  distortion  of  the  cir- 
cumstances. The  government  was  in  a  dead  lock  — 
what  was  to  be  done  ?  Yes,  all  parties  cried  out, 
'  What  was  to  be  done  ?  '  and  felt  that  we  were  waist 
deep  a  fortnight  ago  in  a  state  of  crisis.  In  throwing 
back  the  sovereignty  from  a  '  representative  assembly ' 
which  had  virtually  ceased  to  represent,  into  the  hands 
of  the  people,  I  think  that  Louis  Napoleon  did  well. 
The  talk  about  '  military  despotism '  is  absolute  non- 
sense." 

Here  is  an   account  of  her  meeting  with 


George  Sand.  The  account  is  too  long  to  be 
given  entire,  and  we  have  room  only  for  a  few 
sentences. 

"  She  received  us  very  kindly,  with  hand  stretched  out, 
which  I,  with  a  natural  emotion  (I  assure  you),  stooped 
and  kissed,  when  she  said  quickly,  "  Mais  non,  je  ne  veux 
pas,"  and  kissed  my  lips.  She  is  large  for  her  height  — 
not  tall.  .  .  .  There  is  no  sweetness  in  the  face,  but 
great  moral  as  well  as  intellectual  capacities  —  only  it 
never  could  have  been  a  beautiful  face,  which  a  good  deal 
surprised  me.  .  .  .  She  seemed  to  be,  in  fact,  the  man 
in  that  company,  and  the  profound  respect  with  which 
she  was  listened  to  a  good  deal  impressed  me." 

This  is  what  she  says  of  Carlyle  : 
"  Carlyle,  for  instance,  I  liked  infinitely  more  in  his 
personality  than  I  expected  to  like  him,  and  I  saw  a 
great  deal  of  him,  for  he  travelled  with  us  to  Paris  and 
spent  several  evenings  with  us,  we  three  together.  He 
is  one  of  the  most  interesting  men  I  could  imagine  even, 
deeply  interesting  to  me;  and  you  come  to  understand 
perfectly,  when  you  know  him,  that  his  bitterness  is  only 
melancholy,  and  his  scorn  sensibility.  Highly  pictur- 
esque too  he  is  in  conversation.  The  talk  of  writing  men 
is  very  seldom  as  good." 

The  circle  of  her  life  constantly  widens  and 
deepens  ;  the  interest  in  the  European  ferment 
intensifies.  The  letters  reflect  it  all :  her  burn- 
ing sympathies  with  those  whom  she  feels  to  be 
wronged  ;  her  hopes  and  aspirations  ;  her  en- 
larging intimacies.  All  Europe  is  represented : 
Lamartine,  Cavour,  Mazzini,  D'Azeglio,  De 
Musset,  Kingsley,  Landor,  George  Eliot,  Rus- 
kin,  the  catalogue  can  be  indefinitely  extended. 

As  early  as  the  publication  of  the  volume  con- 
taining "  Lady  Geraldine's  Courtship"  she  had 
been  contemplating  the  writing  of  what  she 
called  a  "  novel  in  verse."  She  considered  the 
"  Courtship  "  an  effort  of  that  kind.  At  length 
in  the  maturity  of  her  powers  she  accomplished 
her  self-ordained  task  and  gives  to  the  world  her 
"  Aurora  Leigh."  With  much  of  that  book 
these  letters  should  be  read  :  the  poetry  and  the 
prose  of  her  life  may  be  set  side  by  side ;  and 
sometimes  the  latter  exceeds  the  former. 

The  last  years  added  little  to  the  poems  pre- 
viously published.  The  roar  of  our  Civil  Con- 
flict came  to  her  across  the  waters  ;  she  heard 
it  with  dismay,  but  hoped  for  the  best.  The 
frail  strand  of  her  life  had  been  growing  thinner 
and  thinner  ;  it  parted,  and  the  end  came.  We 
gave  near  the  beginning  of  this  article  a  quota- 
tion from  "  Aurora  Leigh  "  relating  to  poetry; 
we  close  with  another  on  a  kindred  theme  taken 
from  a  letter  to  Mr.  Chorley :  "Art  is  not 
either  all  beauty  or  all  use,  it  is  essential  truth 
which  makes  its  way  through  beauty  into  use." 
It  was  in  the  light  of  this  conception  that  the 
days  of  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning  were  passed, 
and  that  her  work  was  done. 


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The  publishers  as  well  as  the  editor  are  to  be 
congratulated  on  these  notable  volumes  ;  in  the 
matter  of  illustration  and  general  make-up  they 
have  done  their  share  in  alluring  the  reader  and 
holding  him  bound  with  a  legitimate  fascination. 

Louis  J.  BLOCK. 


FRANCE  PREPARING  FOR  THE 
REVOLUTION.* 


The  most  striking  fact  in  the  history  of 
France  in  the  eighteenth  century  is  the  antag- 
onism that  existed  between  the  institutions  of 
the  Ancient  Regime  and  new  ideas ;  although 
nothing  was  essentially  changed  from  1715  to 
1789.  The  crown  owed  its  force  not  to  any 
constitution  or  contract  with  the  nation,  but  to 
the  survival  of  Roman  ideas  and  a  long  series 
of  encroachments.  It  was  absolute  in  law, 
though  practically  hampered  by  privilege  and 
custom.  The  administrative  confusion  was 
prodigious,  the  administrative  organization 
being  derived  from  three  different  sources  :  the 
feudal  epoch,  of  which  a  heterogeneous  array 
of  institutions  remained ;  the  fifteenth  and 
sixteenth  centuries,  in  which  period  the  great 
offices  were  created  ;  the  seventeenth  century, 
which  saw  the  formation  of  a  vast  bureau- 
cracy of  ministers  and  agents.  These  three 
regimes,  instead  of  succeeding  each  other,  had 
been  superimposed.  As  a  result,  the  system 
was  a  complex  crisscross  of  conflicting  and 
concurrent  jurisdictions,  ecclesiastical,  feudal, 
royal.  At  the  head  of  the  government  were 
the  councils,  dating  from  the  time  of  Louis 
XIV.;  the  chancellor,  the  contrbtteur- general, 
and  four  secretaries  of  state,  each  of  whom  had 
charge  not  only  of  the  special  matters  of  his 
office  but  also  had  general  supervision  of  cer- 
tain provinces.  Thus  the  minister  of  war  con- 
trolled Dauphine ;  the  minister  of  foreign  affairs 
regulated  pensions.  The  oldest  administrative 
divisions  were  those  of  the  Church.  Over  these 
had  developed  the  grand  historic  provinces  like 
Burgundy  and  Anjou,  which  were  divided  into 
two  sorts  — pays  d'etat,  provinces  that  retained 
a  measure  of  local  life  and  pays  Selection 
provinces  that  were  at  the  mercy  of  the  crown. 
Then  there  were  thirty-eight  military  govern- 
ments, besides  those  of  Lorraine  and  Corsica, 
and  four  generalites  under  intendants  ;  thirty- 
four  recruiting  districts,  and  numerous  judicial 
districts.  All  this  complicated  machinery  looked 

*  FRANCE  UNDER  Louis  XV.    By  James  Breck  Perkins. 
In  two  volumes.    Boston :  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Go. 


to  the  central  government  for  its  mechanical 
direction,  with  the  result  that  local  life  was 
stifled.    The  third  estate  bore  almost  the  whole 
expense  of  the  government.    Direct  taxes  were 
levied,  but  the  wealthy  and  noble  evaded  them. 
The  taille,  a  direct  tax,  fell  upon  the  masses  of 
the  people.    Both  clergy  and  nobles  evaded  the 
capitation  tax,  which  was  permanent  after  1701. 
The  most  hated  indirect  tax  was  that  upon  salt. 
Certain  others,  like  the  corvee,  did  not  involve 
the  privileged  classes.     The  system  of  collec- 
tion was  the  old  and  detestable  Roman  system 
of  farming  the  taxes.     In  spite  of  the  great 
effort  at  codification  during  the  reign  of  Louis 
XIV.,  the  variety  of  law  was  very  great.    The 
mediaeval  distinction  between  the  written  or 
Roman  Law  and  customary  law  still  prevailed. 
The  penal  code  was  very  rigorous,  the  procedure 
complicated  and  costly ;  individual  liberty  was 
continually  menaced    by  arbitrary  imprison- 
ment.   The  social  inequality,  probably  inevita- 
ble with  every  highly  civilized  people,  in  France 
was  excessive.    The  privileged  classes  were  the 
clergy  and  the  nobility.    The  clergy  were  pos- 
sessed of  immense  wealth,  and  its  high  repre- 
sentatives, archbishops  and  bishops,  were  veri- 
table princes  in  the  cloth.    On  the  other  hand, 
the  lesser  clergy,  like  the  country  cures,  were 
extremely  miserable ;  and  it  is  not  surprising 
that  the  Revolution  enjoyed  the  support  of  this 
class.  The  nobles  were  second  only  to  the  clergy 
in  point  of  wealth,  and  surpassed  them  in  the 
possession  of  sinecures.     Instead  of  forming  in 
the  centre  of  the  state  an  enlightened  aristocracy 
like  the  English  nobility,  they  were  completely 
useless.  The  third  estate  was  practically  divided 
into  two  classes,  the  wealthy  bourgeois  of  the 
cities  and  the  peasant  of  the  fields.   The  former 
by  commerce  and  industry  had  raised  them- 
selves to  place  if  not  to  privilege,  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  they  had  to  pay  exorbitant  taxes 
and  that  commerce  was  impaired  by  special 
duties  and  internal  tariffs,  and  industry  was 
embarrassed  by  the  guild  system,  an  organiza- 
tion which,  while  good  and  useful  in  the  middle 
age,  was  in  the  eighteenth  century  a  positive 
detriment  to  free  production.     But  the  vast 
mass  of  the  people  were  far  below  this  more 
fortunate  few.  The  peasants  were  overwhelmed 
by  taxes  of  the  government,  the  church,  and 
the  noble. 

It  was  this  condition  of  France  that  led 
Michelet  to  declare  that  the  absolute  monarchy 
of  France,  which  supplanted  the  violence  and 
private  war  of  the  feudal  epoch,  was  attended 
with  more  injury  to  humanity  than  the  feudal 


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regime  itself,  but  a  more  modern  scholarship 
has  learned  to  avoid  such  generalizations  and 
to  distrust  absolute  values  in  history.  Mr. 
James  Breck  Perkins's  latest  work,  "  France 
under  Louis  XV.,"  is  an  example  of  this  cau- 
tious, scholarly  spirit.  Carlyle's  Louis  XV., 
"  whose  whole  existence  seems  one  hideous  abor- 
tion and  mistake  of  nature,"  when  reduced  even 
to  his  lowest  terms,  appears  not  as  an  error  of 
nature,  but  as  the  product  of  a  wrong  civiliza- 
tion. Louis  XV.  was  originally  a  man  of  easy 
temperament  and  naturally  good  judgment,  but 
he  was  indolent  and  weak-willed,  a  fact  that 
led  him  to  follow  the  line  of  least  resistance. 
Birth  and  training  made  him  unable  to  distin- 
guish between  will  and  self-will,  between  the 
right  of  his  wishes  and  the  privilege  of  another. 
Indolence  made  him  indifferent  to  the  vice  of  a 
highly-wrought  and  artificial  civilization,  and 
created  an  eager  craving  for  new  sensations  which 
led  him  into  depths  of  vileness  that  parallelled 
the  declining  days  of  the  Roman  Empire.  The 
end  of  the  reign  of  Louis  XIV.  seemed  the  utter 
prostration  of  France ;  and  yet  industry  and 
commerce  under  his  successor  experienced  a 
revival.  The  latter,  in  spite  of  absurd  regula- 
tions, was  prosperous  down  to  the  Revolution. 
The  peasant,  however,  remained  very  miserable. 
The  barriers  to  the  free  circulation  of  grain, 
which  Turgot  attempted  in  vain  to  break  down, 
stifled  agriculture  and  produced  famine.  Never- 
theless France  managed  to  live,  and  even  to 
improve,  in  the  time  of  Louis  XV.  Under 
Fleury,  there  was  actually  a  surplus  of  fifteen 
millions.  Mr.  Perkins  has  warm  words  of 
praise  for  Fleury,  whose  real  work  for  France 
seems  to  have  been  lost  sight  of  in  the  splendor 
of  Versailles. 

"  The  improved  condition  of  the  national  finances 
under  Fleury  had  a  beneficial  effect  on  business,  but  the 
country  owed  to  him  a  still  greater  boon.  The  coinage 
was  at  last  established  on  an  immovable  basis,  and  this 
measure  did  more  to  accelerate  the  increase  of  wealth 
and  the  development  of  industry  than  all  the  commercial 
codes  at  which  Colbert  so  earnestly  labored.  For  the 
first  time  in  French  history,  the  country  enjoyed  during 
a  long  period  an  unchanged  standard  of  value.  As  it 
had  been  fixed,  so  it  remained.  .  .  .  By  the  end  of 
Fleury's  long  administration,  the  financial  principles 
adopted  by  him  had  taken  root.  Business  had  improved 
and  national  income  increased.  .  .  .  Freed  from  the 
uncertainties  which  had  threatened  them,  French  trade 
and  commerce  developed  with  greater  rapidity  than  at 
any  time  in  the  history  of  the  past."  (Vol.  I.,  pp.  91-3.) 

Just  at  this  point  comes  in  the  exceeding 
value  of  Mr.  Perkins's  work.  The  occasion 
of  the  French  Revolution,  it  is  admitted,  was 
the  great  and  ever  increasing  deficit ;  but  the 
cause  of  that  increase  Mr.  Perkins  attributes 


not  so  much  to  the  drain  of  the  court,  as  Taine 
would  have  us  believe,  but  to  the  enormous 
treasure  expended  in  unsuccessful  war,  which 
ruined  the  state  and  diminished  its  prestige. 
In  the  two  years  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Austrian 
Succession  there  was  an  annual  surplus  of 
fifteen  millions,  "  a  phenomenon  which  was  not 
again  witnessed  under  the  old  regime"  (p.  91). 
Mr.  Perkins  looks  at  facts  with  level  eyes ;  and 
his  judgment  of  conditions  that  prevailed  in 
France  under  the  old  regime,  as  compared  with 
contemporary  history,  will  arrest  attention. 

"  The  embarrassed  condition  of  the  national  finances 
was  not  altogether  due  to  excessive  expenditure.  Cer- 
tainly there  was  great  opportunity  for  retrenchment,  yet 
the  expenses  of  the  government  under  the  old  re'gime 
were  not  greater  than  the  country  was  able  to  bear  ;  it 
is  doubtful  whether  the  monarchical  establishment  was 
any  more  costly  than  the  democratic  institutions  by  which 
it  has  been  succeeded.  Wars  were  more  frequent  in  the 
last  century  than  in  this,  but  while  they  lasted  longer 
they  cost  less,  and  the  expense  of  the  army  in  times  of 
peace  was  small  in  comparison  with  the  sums  now  ex- 
pended by  most  European  nations.  Two  million  livres 
a  year  would  perhaps  represent  the  sums  annually  paid 
in  pensions  to  the  aristocracy.  .  .  .  Such  extravagance 
can  justly  be  condemned,  yet  it  is  equaled  by  the  salaries 
of  an  excessive  number  of  minor  officials  in  the  present 
French  government  and  is  far  exceeded  by  the  pension 
list  of  the  United  States.*  It  may,  indeed,  be  said  that 
the  sums  thus  expended  in  our  own  day  benefit  larger 
numbers,  while  those  paid  out  under  the  old  re'gime 
profited  only  a  small  class  ;  and  yet,  considered  as  a 
burden  on  the  national  wealth,  it  is  questionable  if  the 
cost  of  government  absorbed  any  larger  proportion  of 
the  resources  of  the  government."  (Vol.  L,  pp.  32-3, 
cf.  p.  41.) 

The  truth  is  that  the  conditions  that  pre- 
vailed in  France  in  the  eighteenth  century  were 
not  so  hard  as  those  in  other  states  of  Europe. 
How,  then,  is  the  revolutionary  tendency  that 
was  so  strong  in  France  to  be  explained? 
French  intellect  then  led  Europe.  In  the 
eighteenth  century  France  was  the  centre  of 
thought.  But  its  literature  had  experienced  a 
change.  The  transition  from  the  classic  liter- 
ature of  Louis  XIV.'s  time  to  the  philosophic 
literature  of  Louis  XV. 's  time  was  fraught 
with  significance  for  France.  This  philosophic 
thought  became  especially  vital  after  the  junc- 
tion of  the  French  and  English  intellects.  The 
principles  of  tolerance  and  political  liberty  de- 
rived from  England  were  made  known  to  the 
French  with  marvellous  clearness  by  Voltaire 
and  Montesquieu,  who  were,  however,  reformers, 
and  not  revolutionists  like  Rousseau.  At  the 
same  time,  the  economists  demanded  liberty  for 
labor  and  the  abolition  of  the  guilds.  These 
ideas  penetrated  all  classes.  They  were  taken 

*  The  high-water  mark  of  the  U.  S.  pension  list  is  $161,774,- 
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up  with  applause  by  a  society  highly  wrought, 
sentimental,  and  seeking  excitement.  Their 
seed  took  root  in  the  breasts  of  the  third  estate, 
where  they  were  nourished  by  the  wrongs  under 
which  they  suffered,  to  become  at  last  the  symp- 
toms of  a  revolution  unique  in  history.  For  the 
enthusiasm  of  the  reformers  was  parallelled  only 
by  the  unpractical  character  of  their  teachings. 
Moreover,  the  bent  of  thought  in  the  eighteenth 
century  was  wholly  negative.  At  first  directed 
against  the  church,  about  1750  its  point  of 
attack  changed  to  the  state.  Absolutism  was 
reaping  its  reward.  Since  the  government 
monopolized  all  rights,  it  was  held  responsible 
for  everything,  and  every  opposition  to  the 
government  was  considered  laudable.  This 
negative  character  ultimately  penetrated  into 
purely  scientific  thought  as  well.  Condillac 
deduced  pure  sensationalism  in  mental  philoso- 
phy ;  Helvetius  followed  the  idea  into  the  moral 
sphere  and  denied  immortality  to  the  soul  and 
belief  in  God. 

But  Mr.  Perkins  has  not  confined  his  re- 
searches entirely  to  a  study  of  the  structure  and 
character  of  the  old  regime,  but  has  endeav- 
ored to  unravel  the  tangled  thread  of  European 
politics  in  the  eighteenth  century.  The  following 
of  that  thread,  however,  is  a  matter  of  greater 
interest  to  the  professional  historian  than  to  the 
casual  reader.  Mr.  Perkins's  volumes  are  the 
most  authoritative  attempt  yet  made  to  present  to 
English  readers  the  history  of  the  reign  of  Louis 
XV.  and  the  Pompadour.  In  matter  of  style, 
some  of  the  author's  sentences  are  cameo-like  in 
definiteness  and  precision.  Take  this  sentence, 
illustrating  the  distinction  between  the  great 
and  the  small  nobility  : 

"  The  country  gentlemen  were  embarrassed  because 
their  receipts  were  so  small,  and  the  great  nobles  were 
bankrupt  because  their  expenditures  were  so  large." 

And  could  any  antithesis  be  more  pointed  than 
this  ?  — 

"  Louis  XIV.  never  abandoned  the  endeavor  to  rule 
his  kingdom  himself;  but  Louis  XV.  did  not  even  make 
the  attempt." 

No  reader  agrees  with  his  author  in  every 
opinion,  and  one  is  inclined  to  take  exception 
to  the  statement  that  "  It  neeeded  no  prophet 
to  discern  that  institutions  which  seemed  as 
firmly  rooted  as  those  of  theMedes  and  Persians 
when  Louis  XIV.  was  proclaimed  the  Great, 
were  nearing  their  end  when  Louis  XV.  lay  on 
his  death-bed  "  (Vol.  I.,  p.  1), — since  even  so 
keen  a  statesman  as  Frederick  the  Great,  who 
died  in  1786,  did  not  foresee  the  Revolution. 
And  parenthetically,  apropos  of  the  oriental 


illusion  in  the  quotation  above,  may  we  not  pro- 
test against  a  whole  procession  of  ancient  and 
oriental  dynasties  ?  Is  there  a  cumulative  force 
in  comparing  the  French  Monarchy  to  that  of 
the  Medes  and  Persians,  the  czar  of  Russia,  the 
sultan  of  Morocco,  "  Assyrian  and  Babylonian 
kings,"  and  "  an  Assyrian  or  Egyptian  sove- 
reign,"—  all  in  the  space  of  nine  pages  ?  Else- 
where Mr.  Perkins,  in  speaking  of  the  fact  that 
the  French  have  never  succeeded  in  giving 
coincident  and  due  expression  to  central  and 
local  constitutional  forces,  says  of  the  provincial 
states  prior  to  '89  : 

"  They  might  have  furnished  a  nucleus  for  the  develop- 
ment of  legislative  bodies,  somewhat  akin  to  the  legisla- 
tures of  the  American  States,  but  the  tendency  of  politi- 
cal change  in  France  was  not  in  that  direction;  in  the 
discussions  of  the  eighteenth  century  there  was  little 
demand  for  any  local  subdivision  of  political  action;  the 
most  ardent  republican  of  the  Convention  was  as  eager 
an  advocate  of  centralization  as  Richelieu  or  Louis  XlV." 
(Vol.  I.,  p.  21.) 

The  statement  is  too  strong.  The  reform  ideas 
of  Turgot  looked  to  the  development  of  local 
life ;  exaggerated  local  power  in  the  hands  of 
44,000  communes  was  one  of  the  defects  of  the 
constitution  of  1791 ;  moreover,  Brissot,  who 
had  been  in  America,  and  his  following  in  the 
Girondist  party,  were  French  federalists. 

Finally,  however,  be  it  said  of  Mr.  Perkins 
that  few  writers  could  so  successfully  have 
avoided  the  errors  and  pitfalls  for  the  historian 
of  so  complex  politics  and  civilization  as  that  of 
France  in  the  eighteenth  century,  or  carried 
the  work  to  such  successful  completion. 

JAMES  WESTFALL  THOMPSON. 


THE  SCHOLAR  AND  THE  STATE.* 

One  of  the  most  marked  features  of  the  pro- 
gress of  the  last  twenty  years  has  been  the  socializ- 
ing of  the  Christian  ministry.  A  generation  ago 
the  normal  clergyman  was  not  more  noticeable 
by  reason  of  his  garb  and  his  phraseology  than 
by  reason  of  his  peculiar  outlook  upon  the 
affairs  of  the  society  in  which  he  lived.  His 
teaching  was  theological  and  doctrinal ;  his 
atmosphere  was  traditional  and  conservative ; 
and  his  exegesis  was  largely  by  way  of  com- 
mentary on  what  had  already  been  said  by 
fathers,  reformers,  and  more  recent  divines. 
Authority  to  him  was  paramount,  and  his  City 
of  God  stood,  like  the  ark  of  Noah,  somewhat 

*  THE  SCHOLAR  AND  THE  STATE,  and  Other  Orations  and 
Addresses.  By  Henry  Codman  Potter,  Bishop  of  New  York. 
New  York :  The  Century  Co. 


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apart  from  the  larger  world  of  struggling  mor- 
tals. He  did  not  mix  himself  up  with  the  secu- 
lar questions  of  the  day,  and  if  he  did  cast  his 
vote  at  elections  he  had  at  any  rate  forgotten 
that  his  ecclesiastical  ancestors  a  hundred  years 
earlier  preached  election  sermons  and  shaped 
affairs  of  state. 

The  present  generation  has  seen  this  clerical 
character  move  into  a  larger  field  in  two  direc- 
tions. On  the  one  hand  he  has  broken  some- 
what with  the  authority  that  he  once  held  to  be 
an  adequate  reason,  and  with  "  Ian  Maclaren  " 
has  harked  back  to  "  the  Mind  of  the  Master." 
The  famous  "  Scotch  Sermons  of  1880  "  showed 
that  he  had  awakened  to  his  own  individuality. 
Dr.  Newman  Smyth  had  the  year  before  re- 
vealed to  him  "  Old  Faiths  in  New  Lights." 
On  the  other  hand,  in  1889  that  noblest  prelate 
of  the  most  unprogressive  church  in  Christen- 
dom, Cardinal  Gibbons,  had  set  a  grand  example 
in  that  great  work  on  "  Our  Christian  Herit- 
age "  which  breathes  not  one  word  of  denomi- 
national teaching,  but  only  the  spirit  of  Christ 
the  Savior  of  society ;  and  about  the  same  time 
his  suffragan  bishop  of  our  own  state  —  Bishop 
Spalding  of  Peoria  —  had  brought  together  as 
co-workers  for  humanity  "  Culture  and  the 
Higher  Life." 

The  enfranchisement  of  clerical  thought  from 
the  too  dominant  rule  of  pure  dogmatic  and 
polemic  was  thus  begun,  and  the  social  duty  of 
the  ministry  was  reemphasized  ;  and  just  now 
we  have  had  along  the  one  line  Dr.  Watson's 
"  Mind  of  the  Master,"  Dr.  Amory  H.  Brad- 
ford's "  The  Growing  Revelation,"  and  Presi- 
dent Hyde's  "  Social  Theology."  In  the  other 
line  we  place  the  book  which  is  the  subject 
of  this  review  —  "  The  Scholar  and  the  State," 
by  the  Episcopalian  bishop  of  New  York.  Dr. 
Potter  has  been  a  man  of  affairs,  and  has 
shown  himself  to  be  imbued  with  the  largest  and 
most  generous  statesmanship  for  many  years. 
He  has  done  well  to  collect  under  one  cover 
these  essays  and  orations  of  the  past  ten  years, 
through  all  of  which  runs  the  thought  of  the 
responsibility  of  Christian  and  educated  man- 
hood to  our  country  and  our  people.  A  bishop 
was  intended  to  be  "  an  overlooker "  for  the 
lives  and  souls  of  men ;  and  the  author  of  these 
papers  has  not  come  short  of  his  calling,  either 
in  his  life  or  in  his  utterances.  In  his  essays 
concerning  the  scholar  and  the  Christian  in  his 
relation  to  the  state,  to  service,  to  the  criminal,  to 
statesmanship,  to  American  life,  the  keynote  of 
his  thought  is  insight  and  illumination  rather 
than  knowledge  and  mere  culture  as  the  goal  of 


all  acquisition.  Learning,  attainment,  accom- 
plishment, riches,  material  and  mental,  are  a 
trust  for  the  society  which  has  made  all  acqui- 
sition possible,  and  which  needs  its  upper 
classes  of  mind  and  of  capital  as  much  as  it 
needs  its  humbler  workers. 

In  the  discussion  of  "  Christianity  and  the 
Criminal,"  "  A  Phase  of  Social  Science,"  and 
"The  Gospel  for  Wealth,"  Bishop  Potter  speaks 
strong  words  on  the  failure  of  our  Christian 
society  to  do  its  duty  by  the  delinquent  and  de- 
fective classes,  swinging  as  it  does  from  namby- 
pamby  sentimentalism  to  unconscious,  but  none 
the  less  pagan,  brutality.  The  absurdity,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  inhumanity,  of  our  apology 
for  a  corrective  system  is  not  more  severely 
characterized  than  is  the  immorality  of  our 
ostrich-like  method  of  obliterating  suffering  by 
bribing  it  to  take  its  countenance  away  from 
our  doorstep,  or  the  anti-Christian  attitude  of 
a  civilization  that  turns  its  back  and  shuts  its 
door  forever  upon  a  woman  who  has  fallen  — 
fallen  by  the  grace  of  man. 

In  "The  Higher  Uses  of  an  Exposition," 
published  in  "  The  Forum "  just  before  the 
opening  of  our  World's  Fair,  a  fearless  word 
is  spoken  for  the  beneficent  and  refining  and 
sanctifying  influences  of  art  and  of  all  the 
products  of  man's  genius,  and  a  solid  middle 
ground  is  taken  between  the  extremists  who 
would  that  all  others  might  be  made  to  do  as 
they  do  on  the  one  hand,  and  those  on  the  other 
who  would  run  a  wide-open  Sunday  for  the 
benefit  of  all  the  sins  of  the  flesh.  Along  the 
same  line  of  the  educative  value  of  the  beautiful 
is  the  plea  for  the  symbolism  of  religion  in 
"The  Significance  of  the  American  Cathedral," 
and  the  protest  against  that  growing  conception 
of  the  Church  as  consisting  "  mainly  of  a  huge 
auditorium  with  a  platform  and  a  more  or  less 
dramatic  performer  and  a  congregational  par- 
lor, and  a  parish  kitchen."  For  it  is  well  to 
recognize  "  that  religion  has  never  survived 
anywhere  without  the  due  recognition  and  con- 
servation of  the  instinct  of  worship."  Finally, 
in  the  memorial  sermon  occasioned  by  the  death 
of  Phillips  Brooks,  entitled  "  The  Life-Giving 
Word,"  is  summed  up  the  character  of  man 
that  must  make  the  life  which  the  Master  re- 
vealed eighteen  hundred  years  ago  the  basis  of 
modern  society." 

"  There  is  a  life  nobler  and  diviner  than  any  that 
we  have  dreamed  of.  To  the  poorest  and  meanest  of  us, 
as  to  the  best  and  most  richly  dowered,  it  is  alike  open. 
To  turn  toward  it,  to  long  for  it,  to  reach  up  after  it, 
to  believe  in  its  ever-recurring  nearness,  and  to  glorify 
God  in  attaining  it,  this  is  the  calling  of  a  human  soul ! 


1897.] 


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"  A  most  gifted  and  sympathetic  observer  of  our 
departed  brother's  character  and  influence  has  said  of 
him,  contrasting  him  with  the  power  of  institutions: 
1  His  life  will  always  suggest  the  importance  of  the 
influence  of  the  individual  man  as  compared  with  insti- 
tutional Christianity.'  In  one  sense  undoubtedly  this 
is  true  :  but  I  should  prefer  to  say  that  his  life-work 
will  always  show  the  large  and  helpful  influence  of  a 
great  soul  upon  institutional  Christianity." 

The  thoughtful  words  in  this  volume,  from 
a  man  who  has  largely  taken  his  place  as  a 
social  force,  will  come  in  welcome  form  to  those 
who  have  heard  or  read  them  before,  and  are 
hoping  for  the  complete  socializing  of  the 
Christian  Church  both  in  the  pulpit  and  in  the 

Pews-  JOHN  J.  HALSEY. 


NIPPTJR,  AXD  ITS  OLD  BRICKS.* 

The  large-hearted  and  benevolent  members 
of  the  Archaeological  Association  of  Philadel- 
phia have  won  the  gratitude  and  admiration  of 
the  scientific  world.  Their  inspiration  and 
offerings  have  opened  the  treasure-tombs  of 
Babylonia  and  transferred  to  the  museums  of 
oriental  antiquities  some  of  the  choicest  relics 
of  primitive  civilizations.  Under  the  auspices 
of  this  Association,  Dr.  Peters  organized  and 
prosecuted,  in  the  face  of  untold  difficulties, 
two  campaigns  into  the  heart  of  old  Babylonia. 
In  June  of  1888  he  set  out  on  his  first  expedi- 
tion with  a  staff  of  helpers,  assyriologists,  inter- 
preter, surveyor,  etc.,  to  search  for  remains  of 
old  Babylonian  empires.  He  paints  in  vivid 
colors  the  extreme  annoyances  and  embarrass- 
ments faced  in  the  organization  of  the  expedi- 
tion, in  the  securing  of  a  firman  from  the 
Turkish  authorities,  and  after  being  granted 
the  concession,  the  continuous  and  perplexing 
and  treacherous  chicanery  of  the  local  author- 
ities in  trying  to  thwart  his  plans.  Some 
months  of  time  were  lost  in  the  aggravating 
delays  caused  by  the  Sultan's  too-well-trained 
officials.  On  December  1,  1888,  about  six 
months  after  leaving  New  York,  the  Director 
left  Constantinople.  The  members  of  the  ex- 
pedition soon  met,  and  proceeded,  almost  as  an 
ancient  oriental  caravan,  across  Syria  to  the 
Euphrates,  thence  down  that  old  stream  to 
Baghdad.  Aside  from  a  few  mishaps,  the  only 
notable  discovery  was  what  the  Director  calls 

*  NIPPUR,  OK  EXPLORATIONS  AND  ADVENTURES  ON  THE 
EUPHRATES  :  The  Narrative  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
Expedition  to  Babylonia  in  the  years  1888-90.  By  John  Pun- 
nett  Peters,  Ph.D.,  Sc.D.,  Director  of  the  Expedition.  In  two 
volumes.  With  Illustrations  and  Maps.  New  York  :  6.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons. 


"Tiphsah"  (Chapter  IV.).  From  Baghdad 
through  devious  ways  they  wend  their  march  to 
Nippur,  the  site  which  had  been  selected  for 
excavation.  This  mound  is  located  about  one 
hundred  miles  east  of  south  from  Baghdad,  and 
is  adjacent  to  the  bed  of  the  old  Shatt-en-Nil 
canal.  Only  the  most  refined  patience  and  the 
best-trained  self-control  could  have  endured 
the  contemptible  parasitic  demands  of  local 
officials  and  their  subalterns. 

On  February  1,  the  expedition  began  to  erect 
a  permanent  camp  on  the  summit  of  Nippur. 
About  thirty  diggers  were  soon  set  to  work, 
and  these  gradually  increased,  through  the  de- 
mand of  local  sheikhs,  to  a  hundred  and  fifty. 
Trenches  were  cut  in  several  places,  and  work 
was  carried  on  simultaneously  in  the  different 
localities.  There  was  anything,  however,  but 
peace  in  the  camp.  Bands  of  wandering  Arabs 
loitered  about,  begged,  stole,  and  kept  the  camp 
in  a  sort  of  smoking-volcano  condition.  The 
antiquities  discovered  were  meagre,  some  of 
them  of  great  value  for  their  age,  others  of 
slight  importance  for  their  modernness.  Enough 
had  been  done  to  demonstrate  that  the  mound 
covered  old  and  valuable  ruins.  But  the  jar- 
ring and  jangling  and  thieving  of  the  Arabs 
grew  more  and  more  daring  and  violent,  until 
at  2  A.  M.  of  Monday,  April  15, 1889,  the  bomb 
was  lighted  by  a  guard  shooting  a  thief.  This 
aroused  tribe  after  tribe  for  blood  revenge, 
until  by  Thursday,  April  18,  as  the  expedition 
was  preparing  to  retreat,  treachery  set  fire  to 
their  camp,  and  in  five  minutes  it  lay  in  ruins, 
including  three  fine  horses.  Many  small  val- 
uables, including  a  bag  of  gold,  had  been  pur- 
loined by  the  omnipresent  thieves.  Only  by 
shrewdness  and  agility  were  the  members  of  the 
expedition  able  to  escape  to  boats  which  carried 
them  to  Hillah,  thence  to  Baghdad.  The  Direc- 
tor at  this  point  says  (p.  288)  : 

"  Our  first  year  at  Nippur  had  ended  in  failure  and 
disaster.  I  had  failed  to  win  the  confidence  of  my  com- 
rades. None  of  them  agreed  with  me  in  my  belief  in 
the  importance  of  Nippur,  and  the  desirability  of  exca- 
vating down  to  the  foundations.  The  Arabs  had  proved 
treacherous.  The  Turkish  authorities  disbelieved  our 
story  of  Arab  treachery,  and  suspected  us  of  plotting 
with  our  Turkish  commissioner  to  carry  away  antiqui- 
ties. I  was  sick  and  nervous,  having  suffered  for  two 
months  almost  incessantly  from  severe  facial  neuralgia 
and  consequent  sleeplessness." 

To  add  another  weight  to  the  scale,  all  the  mem- 
bers of  the  expedition  resigned  before  Baghdad 
was  reached.  Thus  apparently  the  first  cam- 
paign terminated  in  a  disaster  and  a  catastrophe. 
The  second  volume  describes  the  campaign 


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of  1889-90,  which  was  conducted  with  fewer 
experts,  under  less  difficulties,  and  with  the 
benefit  of  the  varied  experiences  of  the  first 
year.  The  superstition  of  the  natives  was  used 
by  the  Director  to  a  fine  advantage  in  showing 
them  that  their  (the  natives')  ill  fate  in  the  face 
of  the  late  cholera  scourge  was  due  to  their  ill 
treatment  of  the  first  campaign.  This  secured 
almost  unmolested  continuity  in  carrying  on 
excavations.  Three-quarters  of  this  volume 
sets  forth  the  marvellous  areha3ological  signifi- 
cance of  this  campaign.  Instead  of  four  boxes 
of  antiquities  secured  in  1889,  this  campaign 
packed  and  shipped  thirty-six,  besides  a  coffin 
and  a  half-dozen  door  sockets.  These  boxes 
contained  eight  to  ten  thousand  inscribed  tablets 
or  fragments  of  tablets,  and  several  hundred 
inscribed  stones  and  stone  fragments,  among 
which  were  the  oldest  inscriptions  theretofore 
discovered  in  Babylonia.  The  foundations  of 
what  they  termed  "  the  oldest  temple  in  the 
world "  were  laid  bare.  The  complete  plan 
and  character  of  this  is  fully  described,  and  the 
inscriptions  found  in  and  about  its  walls  tell  us 
that  it  was  a  powerful  institution  at  about 
4000  B.C.  The  bricks  of  Ur-Gur  and  Bur-Sin 
2800  B.C.  were  found  in  its  upper  walls.  The 
court  of  columns  was  another  precious  archi- 
tectural find,  where  they  discovered  round  col- 
umns resting  on  square  bases.  Many  important 
inscriptions  from  the  Gossan  dynasty  of  the 
thirteenth  century  B.C.  were  brought  to  light. 
In  fact,  the  entire  campaign  seems  to  have  been 
conducted  on  a  shrewd,  wise  basis,  and  to  have 
yielded  large  results  for  times  antedating 
Abraham  by  1,500  to  2,000  years. 

The  story  is  told  in  a  simple,  clear,  and  vivid 
manner,  much  of  it  giving  us  the  day  and  often 
the  hour  of  the  occurrence  of  the  events.  The 
volumes  are  admirably  illustrated  with  half- 
tones of  the  monuments,  of  mounds,  and  of 
personages  connected  with  the  campaigns.  The 
vividness  of  delineation  is  greatly  enhanced 
by  detailed  plans  of  the  hill  Nippur,  and  of  the 
foundations  which  were  uncovered.  Volume  I. 
has  a  valuable  appendix  from  Dr.  William 
Hayes  Ward's  diary  of  the  Wolfe  expedition 
in  1885  ;  and  Volume  II.  has  another  of  twelve 
plates  of  objects  found,  which  will  be  of  unusual 
interest  to  scholars. 

The  Director  of  the  expedition  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated on  the  persistency  and  pluck  with 
which  he  has  executed  his  plans,  and  on  the 
issuance  of  these  beautiful  and  valuable  vol- 
umes. They  are  gems  of  the  bookmaker's  art. 

IRA  M.  PRICE. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 


Of  the  two  works  of  fiction  left  unfinished  at  the 
death  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  "  Weir  of  Her- 
miston  "  is  the  more  remarkable  for  its  sheer  crea- 
tive strength,  its  delineation  of  character,  and  what- 
ever other  features  belong  to  fiction  of  the  more 
enduring  sort ;  while  "  St.  Ives  "  bears  the  palm  as 

*  ST.  IVES.  Being  the  Adventures  of  a  French  Prisoner  in 
England.  By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.  New  York :  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons. 

THE  CHRISTIAN.  By  Hall  Caine.  New  York :  D.  Appleton 
&Co. 

THE  CHEVALIER  D'AURIAC.  By  S.  Levett  Yeats.  New 
York :  Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 

THE  FALL  OF  A  STAR.  A  Novel.  By  Sir  William  Magnay, 
Bart.  New  York :  The  Macinillan  Co. 

IK  THE  DAYS  OF  DRAKE.  By  J.  S.  Fletcher.  Chicago : 
Rand,  McNally  &  Co. 

His  MAJESTY'S  GREATEST  SUBJECT.  By  S.  S.  Thorburn. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

AN  OPEN-EYED  CONSPIRACY.  An  Idyl  of  Saratoga.  By 
W.  D.  Howells.  New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

THREE  PARTNERS  ;  or,  The  Big  Strike  on  Heavy-Tree  Hill. 
By  Bret  Harte.  Boston :  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

JOHN  MARMADUKE.  A  Romance  of  the  English  Invasion 
of  Ireland  in  1749.  By  Samuel  Harden  Church.  New  York : 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

THE  STAND-BY.  By  Edmund  P.  Dole.  New  York :  The 
Century  Co. 

CORLEONE.  A  Tale  of  Sicily.  By  F.  Marion  Crawford. 
In  two  volumes.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  STORY  OF  AN  UNTOLD  LOVE.  By  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 
Boston :  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

PONTIAC,  CHIEF  OF  THE  OTTAWAS.  A  Tale  of  the  Siege 
of  Detroit.  By  Colonel  H.  R.  Gordon.  New  York :  E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co. 

BEYOND  THE  CITY  GATES.  A  Romance  of  Old  New  York. 
By  Augusta  Campbell  Watson.  New  York :  E.  P.  Dutton 
&Co. 

A  SOLDIER  OF  MANHATTAN,  and  his  Adventures  at  Ticon- 
deroga  and  Quebec.  By  Joseph  A.  Altsheler.  New  York : 
D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

IN  BUFF  AND  BLUE.  By  George  Brydges  Rodney.  Boston : 
Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 

A  COLONIAL  FREE  LANCE.  By  Chauncey  C.  Hotchkiss. 
New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

HUGH  WYNNE,  FREE  QUAKER.  By  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.D. 
In  two  volumes.  New  York :  The  Century  Co. 

CAPTAIN  SHAYS,  A  POPULIST  OF  1786.  By  George  R.  R. 
Rivers.  Boston :  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 

A  LOYAL  TRAITOR.  A  Story  of  the  War  of  1812.  By 
James  Barnes.  New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

BOLANYO.  A  Novel.  By  Opie  Read.  Chicago :  Way  & 
Williams. 

THE  VICE  OF  FOOLS.  By  H.  C.  Chatfield-Taylor.  Chicago : 
H.  S.  Stone  &  Co. 

ARNAUD'S  MASTERPIECE.  A  Romance  of  the  Pyrenees. 
By  Walter  Cranston  Larned.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons. 

CONSTANTINE.  A  Tale  of  Greece  under  King  Otho.  By 
George  Horton.  Chicago :  Way  &  Williams. 

SUSAN'S  ESCORT  AND  OTHERS.  By  Edward  Everett  Hale. 
New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

OLD  TIMES  IN  MIDDLE  GEORGIA.  By  Richard  Malcolm 
Johnston.  New  York :  The  Macmillan  Co. 

THE  CRIME  OF  THE  BOULEVARD.  By  Jules  Claretie. 
Translated  by  Mrs.  Carlton  A.  Kingsbury.  New  York : 
R.  F.  Fenno  &  Co. 

BRICHANTEAU,  ACTOR.  Translated  from  the  French  of 
Jules  Claretie.  Boston :  Little,  Brown,  &  Co. 


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a  mere  narrative  of  exciting  adventure.  In  point 
of  style,  both  fragments  are  in  the  rich  manner  of 
the  author's  later  years,  and  each  of  them  may  be 
read  with  lingering  delight.  "  St.  Ives,"  moreover, 
turns  out  to  be  much  more  of  a  book  than  we  had 
expected,  for  Stevenson's  work  does  not  break  off 
until  the  three-hundredth  page  is  well  passed,  and 
the  pattern  of  the  whole  so  well  marked  out  that 
one  might  imagine  most  of  what  was  left  untold, 
without  the  friendly  offices  of  Mr.  Quiller-Couch, 
who  has  undertaken  the  delicate  task  of  supplying 
the  closing  six  chapters.  The  romance  is  of  thrill- 
ing interest,  combining,  as  it  does,  the  adventures 
of  a  French  prisoner  escaped  from  the  Castle  of 
Edinburgh  with  a  highly  satisfactory  sort  of  love- 
story.  Those  who  are  fanatical  in  their  devotion 
to  Stevenson's  memory  will  probably  resent  the  in- 
trusion of  an  alien  hand  at  the  close,  but  for  our 
part,  we  must  express  our  gratitude  to  the  distin- 
guished writer  upon  whom  has  devolved  the  some- 
what thankless  labor  of  working  out  the  author's 
conception.  Mr.  Quiller-Couch  has  a  very  pretty 
style  of  his  own,  and  if  he  indulge  at  times  in  a 
certain  extravagance  or  whimsicality  of  invention, 
he  has  on  the  whole  done  his  work  admirably,  and 
we  have  no  quarrel  with  him  for  having  failed  to 
attain  the  impossible. 

One  approaches  "  The  Christian  "  with  a  certain 
prejudice  against  it,  based  partly  upon  the  self- 
advertising  methods  of  its  author,  and  partly  upon 
the  morbid  sentimentalism  and  tawdry  rhetoric  that 
are  sure  to  be  found  in  his  work.  It  is  something 
of  a  relief,  then,  to  discover  that  the  book  is  not 
nearly  as  bad  as  might  have  been  expected,  and  that 
its  very  obvious  defects  do  not  deprive  it  of  the 
power  both  to  interest  and  to  stir  its  readers.  This 
power  belongs  to  the  theme  quite  as  much  as  to  the 
execution,  for  the  professional  moralist,  whether  in 
orders  or  not,  can  always  make  an  effective  appeal 
to  his  hearers  by  contrasting  the  Christianity  of 
the  New  Testament  with  the  parody  that  mostly 
takes  its  place  in  modern  society.  Now  Mr.  Caine 
writes  primarily  as  a  moralist,  and  there  is  no  mis- 
taking the  fervor  of  his  conviction  that  modern 
society  is  rotten  to  the  core.  The  unfortunate  thing 
about  his  performance  is  that  it  knows  not  the  virtue 
of  restraint ;  that  it  becomes  vehement  and  even 
hysterical,  and  thus  half  defeats  its  purpose.  Think 
of  Dr.  Ibsen's  Brand,  from  which  all  such  figures 
as  Mr.  Caine's  Christian  derive,  and  the  difference 
between  art  and  journeyman-work  becomes  apparent 
enough.  And  then  Mr.  Caine's  hero  is  only  a  Brand 
manqu6,  which  makes  another  big  difference.  But 
in  spite  of  his  vacillation,  he  interests  us,  and  we 
follow  his  tempestuous  career  with  a  certain  amount 
of  sympathy,  although  not  as  much  as  the  author 
would  evidently  have  us  accord  the  subject.  To  run 
amuck  through  society,  as  John  Storm  sees  fit  to  do, 
is  not  likely  to  result  in  reforming  the  world,  and 
the  way  of  Erasmus  is  usually  better  than  the  way 
of  Luther.  As  for  Glory,  the  heroine,  she  would 
be  a  nice  girl  if  she  had  another  name,  and  could 


have  cultivated  a  less  affected  style  of  letter-writing. 

Books  in  the  new-old  fashion  of  romantic  histor- 
ical fiction  are  so  much  of  a  piece  that  when  we 
have  stated  the  period  and  the  chief  historical  char- 
acters with  which  such  a  work  is  concerned  there 
seems  little  or  nothing  more  to  say,  as  the  machinery 
and  the  trappings  may  easily  be  left  for  granted. 
Mr.  S.  Levett  Yeats,  in  "  The  Chevalier  d'Auriac," 
writes  of  the  last  stand  of  the  League,  of  Henry  of 
Navarre,  and  the  Duke  of  Sully.  He  has  a  love 
story  of  the  approved  conventional  type,  a  series  of 
desperate  adventures  and  escapes,  and  the  usual 
swaggering  hero.  In  the  authorship  of  such  a  ro- 
mance there  is  hardly  a  trace  of  individuality.  It  is 
all  done  to  pattern,  and  the  name  on  the  titlepage 
might  be  that  of  Mr.  Weyman,  or  Dr.  Doyle,  just 
about  as  well  as  the  name  that  we  actually  find  there. 

"  The  Fall  of  a  Star  "  is  the  story  of  a  crime,  of 
the  criminal's  ingenious  efforts  for  concealment,  and 
of  the  clever  way  in  which  it  is  brought  home  to 
him  by  a  couple  of  amateur  detectives.  The  hero 
is  a  very  wicked  villain  indeed,  who  is  also  a  rising 
English  statesman,  the  hope  of  a  great  party.  He  is 
both  a  Jekyll  and  a  Hyde,  although  the  two  char- 
acters are  blended  (except  in  one  scene)  instead  of 
being  sharply  differentiated.  The  story  is  not  ex- 
actly brilliant,  although  not  without  entertaining 
qualities  and  reasonably  exciting  chapters. 

"In  the  Days  of  Drake"  is  a  short  historical 
novel  by  Mr.  J.  S.  Fletcher,  who  has  done  good 
work  in  this  field  before,  and  who  has  a  very  pleas- 
ant way  of  telling  his  tales.  The  hero  is  an  English 
lad,  kidnapped  by  a  Spaniard,  taken  to  Mexico,  and 
given  into  the  tender  hands  of  the  Inquisition.  He 
is  condemned  to  the  galleys,  and  lives  in  a  floating 
hell  until  rescued  by  an  English  ship,  which  proves 
to  be  no  other  than  that  in  which  Drake  is  making 
the  first  circumnavigation  of  the  globe.  Thus  our 
youth  becomes  a  part  of  that  glorious  emprise,  and 
when  he  returns  to  the  home  that  had  long  mourned 
him  for  dead,  soon  sets  matters  to  right,  both  with 
his  sweetheart  and  with  the  villain  who  had  sought 
to  compass  his  destruction. 

"  His  Majesty's  Greatest  Subject "  is  a  historical 
romance  of  the  future  instead  of  the  past.  It  pre- 
tends to  be  the  story,  revealed  after  his  death,  of 
the  man  who,  early  in  the  twentieth  century,  saves 
a  revolted  British  India  to  the  Empire.  He  does 
it  by  taking  the  place  and  character  of  his  twin- 
brother  the  Viceroy  (who  has  died  suddenly),  cut- 
ting off  cable  communication  with  the  rest  of  the 
world,  and  then  proceeding  to  suppress  the  revolt 
in  his  own  way,  at  the  same  time  pacifying  the  na- 
tives by  a  series  of  administrative  reforms.  The 
story  has  a  real  lesson  for  the  English  statesman, 
the  lesson  that  Mr.  Kipling  has  done  so  much  to 
emphasize.  It  is  that  the  government  of  India 
should  be  left  to  deal  with  its  own  problems  in  its 
own  way,  unhampered  by  cabinets  and  parliament- 
ary commissions.  And  the  merit  of  the  book  lies 
in  the  force  with  which  this  message  is  conveyed, 
and  the  evident  wide  acquaintance  of  the  author 


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with  Indian  affairs.  The  book  is  hardly  literature 
in  the  most  catholic  sense  of  that  term,  and  the 
puerilities  of  its  sentimental  passages  are  such  as  to 
excite  the  derision  of  even  the  uncritical. 

Mr.  Howells  has  appeared  to  much  better  advan- 
tage of  late  in  his  shorter  stories  than  in  his  more 
pretentious  novels.  There  is  so  much  sameness  in 
his  minutely  photographic  descriptions  of  our  con- 
temporary society,  that,  in  spite  of  their  shrewd 
humor  and  sure  sympathy,  they  become  wearisome 
after  the  first  hundred  pages  or  so.  But  an  "  idyl " 
having  the  dimensions  of  "  An  Open- Eyed  Conspi- 
racy," which  may  be  read  at  one  short  sitting, 
affords  the  pleasantest  of  entertainment,  and,  despite 
the  fact  that  even  when  treated  within  such  limits 
the  material  for  the  sketch  seems  scanty,  the  reader 
is  on  the  whole  well  rewarded  for  his  attention. 
This  story  of  Saratoga  is  a  very  pretty  piece  of  work, 
and  we  are  glad  that  it  has  been  added  to  the  author's 
studies  of  commonplace  humanity. 

Mr.  Bret  Harte's  new  novel  does  not  offer  any- 
thing strikingly  new  either  in  character  or  incident. 
He  has  often  entertained  us  with  stories  of  "strikes  " 
in  mining-camps,  and  frontier  ruffians  of  various 
types,  and  belles  of  the  village  developed  into  fine 
(and  faithless)  ladies.  Jack  Hamlin,  too,  is  nearly 
always  with  us  in  Mr.  Harte's  pages,  and  we  are 
seldom  deprived  of  some  striking  contrast  between 
the  early  privations  and  the  later  opulence  of  the 
principal  characters.  All  these  cliches,  and  others 
equally  familiar,  reappear  in  the  "  form  "  of  "  Three 
Partners,"  and  we  find  them  all  welcome  and  of 
perennial  interest.  The  plot  of  this  novel  is  exceed- 
ingly complicated,  and  the  reader  grows  breathless 
in  his  attempt  to  keep  up  with  the  development  of 
the  narrative ;  but  the  author  must  be  accepted 
upon  his  own  terms,  and,  with  all  his  obvious  faults, 
he  remains  as  fascinating  as  of  old. 

Mr.  Samuel  Harden  Church,  the  author  of  a 
popular  biography  of  Cromwell,  has  essayed  to  bring 
his  hero  into  a  work  of  fiction,  and  has  produced  a 
very  readable  historical  romance  of  the  invasion  of 
Ireland  by  the  Parliamentary  army  in  1649.  The 
incidents  are  all  of  the  stereotyped  sort ;  the  hero 
falls  in  love  with  a  fair  enemy,  achieves  the  difficult 
task  of  protecting  her  without  failing  in  his  duty 
to  the  Parliamentary  cause,  wins  her  love  and  is 
duly  united  to  her  in  wedlock,  suffers  disgrace  in 
the  eyes  of  his  General  and  regains  favor  by  an  act 
of  bravery,  finally  passing  through  the  wars  un- 
scathed and  settling  down  to  his  hardly  won  happi- 
ness. We  have  read  it  all  many  times  before,  and 
expect  to  read  it  many  times  again  with  the  same 
unflagging  interest.  The  author  is  a  staunch  be- 
liever in  Cromwell,  and  stoutly  defends  the  Irish 
campaign  and  the  horrors  of  Drogheda  as  justified 
by  the  circumstances  of  the  war.  He  is  clearly  in 
full  sympathy  with  his  hero  when  he  represents  him 
as  speaking  in  these  terms  :  "  Men  are  already  call- 
ing this  campaign  the  Curse  of  Cromwell.  We  shall 
have  much  abuse  on  that  score.  The  day  may  come 
when  academic  statesmen  in  England  will  refer 


to  this  policy  as  a  blunder  and  a  crime.  But  the 
Lord  commanded  His  captains  of  old  to  smite  His 
enemies  and  to  slay  whole  nations  ;  and  verily  now, 
even  now,  Jehovah  hath  directed  our  progress  to 
the  castigation  of  this  people,  that  they  may  be  re- 
claimed from  their  errors  and  their  fair  land  res- 
cued from  its  disorders." 

The  theme  of  "  The  Stand-By  "  is  a  fine  one,  but 
the  author  has  elected  to  treat  of  it  in  a  spirit  which 
goes  far  to  repel  sympathy.  That  the  law  should 
be  both  respected  and  enforced,  and  that  even  a  bad 
law  demands  no  less  consideration  than  a  good  law, 
are  general  propositions  to  which  every  candid  and 
intelligent  mind  must  assent.  But  when,  as  in  the 
case  of  the  present  novel,  an  attempt  is  made  to 
enlist  our  sympathies  in  behalf  of  the  sanctity  of 
law,  it  is  surely  a  wanton  sacrifice  of  effectiveness 
to  make  the  conflict  between  law  and  lawlessness 
centre  about  a  piece  of  legislation  that  is  offensive 
to  all  healthy  political  and  social  instincts.  What 
Mr.  Dole  has  really  done  in  this  novel  is  to  merge 
his  defence  of  a  great  principle  into  a  mere  brief 
for  the  prohibitionist,  and  our  admiration  for  the 
fine  fighting  qualities  of  his  hero  has  all  the  time  to 
contend  with  a  feeling  that  he  might  have  found  a 
far  worthier  employment  for  his  energies  than  to 
enlist  them  on  the  side  of  the  fanaticism  that  usually 
characterizes  what  are  oddly  enough  known  as 
"temperance"  movements.  The  narrow  attitude 
of  the  author,  in  spite  of  his  show  of  fairness  in 
argumentation,  is  revealed  when  we  find  him  de- 
fending, not  only  the  enforcement  of  a  bad  law  (in 
which  his  position  is  impregnable),  but  also  the 
retention  of  the  law  upon  the  statute-book.  We 
believe  firmly  in  what  the  surprised  New  Yorkers  of 
a  year  or  two  ago  learned  to  call  "  Eooseveltism," 
but  we  believe  also  that  the  true  mission  of  "  Roose- 
veltism  "  is  to  open  men's  eyes  to  the  ill-advised  and 
reckless  character  of  a  great  deal  of  our  meddle- 
some law-making. 

The  fabrication  of  a  novel  has  come  to  be  a  very 
easy  task  for  Mr.  Marion  Crawford.  By  long  years 
of  practice  at  the  art,  he  has  provided  himself  with 
a  collection  of  puppets,  characteristically  labelled 
and  costumed,  and  standing  in  orderly  array  upon 
the  shelves  of  his  private  cabinet.  To  produce  a 
new  book,  all  that  he  has  to  do  is  to  make  a  judicious 
selection  from  these  figures,  touch  them  up  a  little, 
perhaps  hastily  shaping  two  or  three  others  of  the 
same  general  sort,  and  arrange  the  group  in  some 
pleasing  new  combination.  The  result  is  such  a 
book  as  "  Corleone,"  now  before  us,  or  any  of  the 
other  books  that  are  sure  to  follow  as  long  as  the 
industry  of  the  craftsman  and  the  patience  of  his 
public  hold  out.  We  have  always  thought  Mr. 
Crawford's  "  Saracinesca "  books  the  best  of  his 
entire  output,  for,  while  their  characters  may  hardly 
be  called  creations,  they  are  faithful  studies  of  an 
interesting  series  of  types,  and,  what  is  more  to  the 
point,  of  types  which  no  one  before  Mr.  Crawford 
has  presented  with  so  much  skill,  sympathy,  and 
inventive  resource.  The  hero  of  this  new  book  is  a 


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Saracinesca,  the  oldest  son  of  Corona  and  Sant' 
Ilario,  and  its  theme  is  the  story  of  his  love  for  a 
Sicilian  girl,  who  is  supposed,  until  the  very  end  of 
the  novel,  to  have  come  from  the  Corleone  stock  — 
"  the  worst  blood  in  all  Italy,"  as  we  are  told  with 
somewhat  wearisome  iteration.  It  is  all  the  time 
difficult  to  believe  that  so  pure-souled  a  heroine 
should  have  sprung  from  so  corrupt  a  race,  although 
water-lilies  do  blossom  upon  the  bosom  of  the 
swamp,  and  we  learn  with  much  relief  that  she  had 
been  stolen  in  infancy,  and  that  her  real  family  is 
above  reproach.  The  story  is  surprisingly  interesting 
in  its  main  episodes,  and  even  the  hackneyed  tale  of 
the  priest  accused  of  murder,  and  unable  to  defend 
himself  because  the  confessional  seals  his  lips,  is 
treated  in  a  fashion  at  once  fresh  and  dramatic. 
Finally,  if  one  would  know  the  real  meaning  of  the 
sinister  word  mafia,  we  cannot  do  better  than  refer 
him  to  this  book  by  a  writer  who  knows  the  Sicilian 
character  as  intimately  as  if  to  the  manner  born. 

The  surprising  versatility  of  Mr.  Paul  Leicester 
Ford  is  once  more  illustrated  by  his  "  Story  of  an 
Untold  Love,"  which  surely  has  nothing  about  it  to 
suggest  his  story  of  "  The  Great  K.  and  A.  Eob- 
bery  "  or  his  learned  edition  of  "  The  New  England 
Primer,"  and  little  to  suggest "  The  Honorable  Peter 
Stirling."  It  proves  to  be  a  very  charming  and 
delicate  piece  of  fiction,  in  the  form  of  a  diary  pri- 
vately kept  by  the  hero,  and  triumphing  so  com- 
pletely over  the  difficulties  inherent  in  that  form 
that  its  choice  is  amply  justified.  We  cannot,  how- 
ever, accept  as  a  probability  the  central  situation  of 
the  book,  for  it  is  impossible  to  believe  that  the 
heroine,  who  had  known  her  lover  so  intimately  in 
childhood,  could  have  failed  to  recognize  him  when 
their  intercourse  was  renewed  later  in  life.  But 
without  this  assumption,  the  story  could  not  have 
existed,  so  we  must  be  content  to  take  the  exception, 
and  think  no  more  about  it.  A  more  serious  prob- 
lem is  offered  by  the  conduct  of  the  hero  in  lending 
his  literary  talents  to  his  employer,  and  thereby 
deceiving  his  friends  and  the  public.  The  fact 
that  this  is  done  for  the  praiseworthy  purpose  of 
obtaining  money  for  the  payment  of  a  debt  of  honor 
makes  the  question  one  of  a  delicate  casuistry,  but 
we  cannot  hold  the  hero  quite  blameless.  Nothing 
remains  to  be  said  except  that  the  diary  in  which 
these  things  are  set  forth  falls  by  accident  into  the 
hands  of  the  heroine,  and  that  the  untold  love  is 
thus  all  told  at  last,  receiving  its  due  reward. 

Several  novels  dealing  with  the  history  of  the 
colonial  and  revolutionary  periods  have  recently 
been  published,  affording  a  pleasant  indication  that 
our  writers  of  fiction  are  becoming  more  and  more 
cognizant  of  the  fact  that  they  need  not  leave  home 
in  search  of  effective  themes.  While  these  books 
(with  a  single  exception)  are  not  remarkable,  they 
provide  agreeable  reading,  and  should  not  go  un- 
mentioned  in  such  a  summary  as  the  present.  Colonel 
H.  E.  Gordon's  "  Pontiac,  Chief  of  the  Ottawas,"  is 
a  tale  of  the  siege  of  Detroit  by  that  famous  leader 
in  the  year  1763.  It  is  a  story  of  the  sort  that 


Cooper  loved  to  tell,  and  has  all  the  incidents  and 
characters  —  the  scout,  the  captive  maiden,  the 
ambush,  and  the  rescue  —  that  so  appealed  to  our 
youth.  While  a  story  of  a  somewhat  amateurish 
sort,  it  is  not  without  both  interest  and  excitement. 

Miss  Augusta  Campbell  Watson's  "  Beyond  the 
City  Gates  "  has  also  something  of  the  amateurish 
quality,  although  the  writer  has  set  her  name  to 
several  earlier  books.  It  is  a  romance  of  New  York 
in  the  last  days  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when 
the  English  government  had  just  replaced  the  Dutch, 
and  Captain  Kidd  was  the  terror  of  the  worthy 
burghers.  The  redoubtable  pirate,  although  he  does 
not  make  a  personal  appearance  in  these  pages,  has 
a  good  deal  of  indirect  influence  upon  the  plot, 
which  concerns  a  pretty  Dutch  maiden  and  her  two 
lovers  —  the  one  a  dissolute  associate  of  buccaneers 
and  cutthroats,  the  other  a  worthy  young  giant  of 
sober  mercantile  pursuits.  The  story  is  a  pretty  one, 
and  virtue  properly  triumphs  in  the  end,  although 
the  heroine  has  some  dark  hours  before  the  clouds 
roll  away  from  her  life. 

"  A  Soldier  of  Manhattan  "  is  a  romance  of  the 
war  which  ended  in  the  capture  of  Quebec  and  the 
triumph  of  England  in  the  New  World.  Its  chief 
excellence  is  in  its  depiction  of  the  feelings  of  rivalry 
between  the  colonial  and  British  forces,  a  rivalry 
which,  although  it  did  not  prevent  them  from  fight- 
ing side  by  side  in  opposition  to  the  common  enemy, 
foreshadowed  clearly  enough  the  time  when  they 
should  be  arrayed  against  one  another.  This  par- 
ticular aspect  of  the  temper  of  the  time  seems  to  be 
presented  more  clearly  than  we  have  hitherto  viewed 
it  in  the  romantic  fiction  dealing  with  the  period  in 
question.  The  book  is  full  of  exciting  adventure, 
tolerably  good  fighting,  and  fairly  acceptable  ro- 
mantic sentiment.  But  the  author  has  not  risen  to 
the  occasion  offered  by  the  memorable  exploit  of 
Wolfe,  and  his  description  of  that  epochal  engage- 
ment is  tame  in  comparison  with  what  other  writers 
— notably  Mr.  Gilbert  Parker — have  made  out  of  it. 

"  In  Buff  and  Blue "  is  a  story  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  calls  for  no  further  comment  than 
the  statement  that  it  tells  pleasantly  enough,  but 
with  slight  spirit  or  vividness  of  description,  the 
familiar  story  of  the  operations  about  Philadelphia. 
The  usual  love  story  is  interwoven  with  the  tale  of 
battle,  and  a  happy  conclusion  is  in  due  time  reached. 

"  A  Colonial  Free  Lance  "  is  a  far  better  book 
than  any  of  the  historical  novels  thus  far  discussed, 
and  in  reading  it  we  feel  for  the  first  time  that  the 
trick  of  such  writers  as  Mr.  Stanley  Weyman  and 
their  congeners  has  been  successfully  caught,  and 
its  application  transferred  to  the  field  of  American 
history.  Here  are  indeed  a  spirited  style  (although 
far  from  perfect),  a  variety  of  invention,  a  rapidity  of 
movement,  and  a  general  brilliancy  of  execution  that 
hold  the  reader  from  beginning  to  end,  and  give  him  to 
the  American  revolutionary  struggle  the  same  sort  of 
romantic  interest  that  attaches  to  the  story  of  the 
English  Commonwealth  or  the  Napoleonic  wars. 

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moral,  is  offered  us  in  Dr.  Mitchell's  "  Hugh  Wynne, 
Free  Quaker,"  which  we  are  inclined  to  think  the 
most  important  novel  of  the  American  Revolution 
thus  far  written,  and  which  adds  a  bright  spray  to 
the  author's  already  considerable  collection  of  lau- 
rels. Dr.  Mitchell's  literary  work  always  commands 
respect,  and  this  particular  work  may  claim  a  con- 
siderable measure  of  admiration  as  well.  The  hero 
of  the  book  is  a  young  Philadelphia!!  of  Quaker 
family,  carried  away  by  the  hot  temper  of  the  time 
from  the  restraints  imposed  by  his  training,  and 
finding  in  active  service  for  his  country  a  finer  ideal 
than  could  be  provided  by  the  tradition  of  non- 
resistance.  He  becomes  estranged  from  his  father, 
achieves  for  himself  an  honorable  career  as  a  soldier, 
and  wins  the  woman  of  his  love.  The  historical 
material  imbedded  in  this  romance  embraces  all  the 
important  happenings  from  the  Stamp  Act  to  York- 
town  and  the  treaty  of  peace,  and  is  handled  in  a 
way  that  evinces  both  sound  scholarship  and  the 
artistic  instinct.  Perhaps  the  finest  thing  in  the 
book  is  the  characterization  of  the  hero's  father  — 
a  Quaker  of  stern  and  almost  fanatical  type,  and 
a  creation  of  the  most  unquestionable  vigor  and  vi- 
tality. Although  the  narrative  is  without  exciting 
effects,  and  never  even  verges  upon  the  sensational, 
it  is  possessed  of  absorbing  interest,  and  will  always 
have  an  honorable  place  in  American  fiction. 

The  familiar  statement  that  history  repeats  itself 
is  well  illustrated  by  the  author  of  "  Captain  Shays," 
a  novel  of  the  "  critical  period  "  of  our  history.  In 
styling  the  leader  of  Shays's  Rebellion  "  a  populist 
of  1786,"  Mr.  Rivers  has  emphasized  the  fact  that 
social  discontent  is  much  the  same  thing  in  one  age 
as  in  another,  and  that  the  demagogue  uses  in  about 
the  same  way  the  opportunity  offered  him  by  a  pe- 
riod of  "  hard  times."  As  he  remarks,  "  the  spirit 
of  Daniel  Shays  still  lives  in  the  hearts  of  some  of 
those  leaders  who  are  showing  the  farmers  the  wrong 
path,  and  who  have  nothing  in  view  but  their  own 
selfish  ends." 

Last  in  this  group  of  historical  novels  comes  "  A 
Loyal  Traitor,"  which  is  a  sea  story  of  the  War  of 
1812.  The  surprising  adventures  of  the  hero  will 
appeal  to  boys  of  all  ages,  and,  if  our  credulity  is 
sometimes  taxed  overmuch,  we  are  hardly  allowed 
to  realize  the  fact,  so  swiftly  does  the  narrative  move 
from  excitement  to  excitement.  The  element  of  fem- 
inine interest  is  lacking,  although  the  author  works 
in  a  commonplace  young  woman  upon  two  or  three 
occasions,  and  pretends  that  she  is  the  heroine.  This 
is  merely  a  concession  to  a  conventional  demand, 
and  must  not  be  taken  seriously.  The  book  would 
be  no  whit  less  interesting  were  the  fair  Mary  left 
entirely  out  of  its  pages.  The  author  can  tell  a  capital 
story  of  naval  adventure,  but  there  is  no  sentiment 
in  him,  and  he  bungles  the  love-story  sadly. 

A  group  of  novels  by  Chicago  writers  calls  for  a 
few  words  of  comment,  perhaps  the  most  noticeable 
thing  about  these  books  being  the  fact  that  no  one 
of  them  is  concerned  with  the  city  with  which  its 
author  is  identified.  Mr.  Opie  Read  takes  us  to 


Mississippi  for  a  scene  and  Mr.  Chatfield-Taylor  to 
Washington,  while  Mr.  Larned  is  satisfied  with 
nothing  less  remote  than  the  Pyrenees,  and  Mr. 
Horton  bids  his  readers  set  sail  for  "  the  isles  of 
Greece."  Mr.  Read's  "  Bolanyo  "  is  the  story  of 
an  actor,  landed  in  a  Mississippi  town  as  the  result 
of  an  explosion  in  a  river  steamer,  cared  for  by  the 
leading  politician  of  those  parts,  persuaded  to  under- 
take the  management  of  a  local  playhouse,  and 
nearly  lynched  as  the  result  of  an  unfortunate  mis- 
understanding. The  real  interest  of  the  book  is 
supplied  by  neither  the  hero  nor  the  story  of  his 
love  for  Senator  Talcom's  married  daughter,  but 
rather  by  the  picturesque  figure  of  the  Senator  him- 
self, who  is  a  distinct  type,  delineated  with  consider- 
able skill.  In  spite  of  a  certain  stiffness  of  dialogue 
and  a  lack  of  the  finer  graces  of  literary  art,  the 
story  is  an  entertaining  one,  and  exhibits  construc- 
tive talent  in  a  marked  degree. 

Pride,  according  to  Pope  and  Mr.  Chatfield-Tay- 
lor, is  "  The  Vice  of  Fools  "  which  pointed  a  moral 
for  the  former  and  provided  the  latter  with  a  title. 
Mr.  Chatfield-Taylor  has  been  cultivating  the  epi- 
gram more  assiduously  than  ever,  and  his  novel 
fairly  bristles  with  the  shafts  of  wit  and  wisdom 
that  go  to  make  up  the  preternaturally  clever  con- 
versation of  his  characters.  The  thing  is  neatly 
done,  but  it  does  not  seem  altogether  worth  doing. 
Strip  the  book  of  these  verbal  trappings,  and  nothing 
worth  considering  remains.  The  author  has  here- 
tofore shown  some  ability  to  deal  effectively  with 
life,  yet  he  now  gives  us  nothing  but  the  chatter  of 
a  few  puppets,  and  would  have  it  pass  for  a  picture 
of  Washington  society.  Even  so  impossible  a  volte- 
face  as  is  executed  by  his  General  Lloyd  in  the 
closing  chapters  does  not  arouse  a  protest,  for  there 
is  nothing  real  about  the  General  anyway  —  except 
his  clothes  and  his  manners  —  or  about  any  other 
figure  in  the  book.  And  all  the  while  the  nerves 
are  being  rasped  by  an  endless  string  of  epigrams 
that  make  one  long  for  relief  in  the  form  of  some 
display  of  genuine  human  feeling. 

Mr.  Larned,  in  his  "  Arnaud's  Masterpiece,"  can 
hardly  be  credited  with  a  hold  upon  life,  any  more 
than  can  the  author  of  the  book  just  before  men- 
tioned, but  he  gives  us  at  least  tender  sentiment  and 
the  vision  of  beauty  in  nature  and  in  art.  His 
charming  tale  is  of  the  simplest  in  theme  and  dic- 
tion. It  has  caught  something  of  the  spirit  of  me- 
diaeval romance,  and  suggests  to  the  reader,  now 
the  story  of  Aucassin  and  his  love,  now  the  wonder- 
imaginings  of  William  Morris.  While  the  author 
has  not  succeeded  altogether  in  excluding  modern 
modes  of  feeling  from  his  work,  he  has  nevertheless 
woven  a  web  of  delicate  and  graceful  fancy  about 
his  painter-hero  and  the  two  maidens  whose  fates 
are  entangled  with  his  own. 

Mr.  George  Horton,  although  he  has  been  serving 
his  country  in  the  Athenian  consulate  for  several 
years  past,  may  be  reckoned  a  Chicagoan,  and  his 
"  Constantino  "  given  a  place  in  this  section  of  our 
review.  The  book  gives  us  some  interesting  bits  of 


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description,  and  a  considerable  quantity  of  quaint 
Greek  ceremonial  and  folk-lore.  Incidentally,  it 
tells  a  moderately  interesting  story  of  the  reign  of 
King  Otho,  a  story  not  very  well  constructed,  but 
saved  by  its  pretty  style  and  somewhat  novel  ma- 
terial. The  tragic  outcome  rather  jars  upon  the 
reader  in  view  of  the  cheerful  tenor  of  what  has 
gone  before,  although  fair  warning  of  what  may  be 
expected  is  provided  in  the  opening  chapter. 

The  young  writers  of  the  hour  who  affect  "  style  " 
and  write  story  after  story  without  having  anything 
worth  relating  would  probably  dismiss  with  a  very 
superior  sort  of  sneer  such  a  collection  of  tales  as 
"  Susan's  Escort  and  Others,"  recently  brought  to- 
gether from  various  periodicals  by  Dr.  Edward 
Everett  Hale.  But  the  larger-minded  critics  who, 
while  appreciative  of  the  virtue  of  literary  form, 
think  a  story  none  the  worse  for  displaying  some 
inventive  skill,  or  for  reflecting  a  wholesome  and 
genial  personality,  will  not  be  disposed  to  scorn  the 
entertainment  offered  by  such  a  volume  as  this. 
There  are  nearly  a  score  of  pieces  altogether,  some 
based  upon  very  slender  conceits,  others  elaborating 
a  more  substantial  idea,  and  all  attractive  in  more 
ways  than  one.  Their  homeliness  makes  no  demand 
upon  high-wrought  emotions,  and  their  whimsicality 
keeps  the  reader  alert  for  the  fresh  surprises  that 
await  him  at  every  turn.  We  are  frequently  re- 
minded of  the  odd  fancies  of  Mr.  Stockton,  but  with 
the  difference  that  the  matter-of-fact  manner  is  here 
not  assumed  as  a  literary  device,  but  is  rather  the 
most  natural  form  of  the  author's  expression. 

Colonel  Johnston's  new  volume,  "  Old  Times  in 
Middle  Georgia,"  is  a  collection  of  a  dozen  or  more 
tales  and  sketches  of  life  in  the  State  which  he 
knows  so  well,  and  of  the  bygone  period  of  which 
he  retains  so  mellow  yet  vivid  a  memory.  It  is  a 
phase  of  life  which  we  should  hardly  know  at  all  if 
it  were  not  for  this  writer's  happy  and  genial  tran- 
scriptions from  the  book  of  his  recollections.  The 
stories  are  largely  in  dialect,  but  it  is  both  accurate 
and  inevitable,  and  our  old  quarrel  with  dialect 
writing  does  not  extend  to  such  a  case  as  this. 
Colonel  Johnston  is  facile  princeps  among  the  story- 
tellers who  have  kept  alive  in  literature  the  memory 
of  the  old  South ;  his  sketches  have  a  tenderness  of 
sentiment  and  a  persuasive  charm  that  bring  his 
books  close  to  our  affections,  for  there  somehow 
shines  through  them  the  light  of  a  gracious  and  large- 
hearted  personality,  and  reading  them  we  learn  to 
know  the  writer  almost  as  well  as  we  do  the  people 
who  inhabit  the  old  time  world  that  he  restores  for  us. 

The  name  of  M.  Jules  Claretie  is  one  that  does 
not  suggest  the  writer  of  fiction,  yet  the  brilliant 
«ritic  and  playwright  has  recently  made  two  ventures 
in  the  field  of  romance,  and  both  of  them  have  found 
English  translators.  "  The  Crime  of  the  Boulevard  " 
might,  indeed,  have  found  a  better  one,  for  the 
version  in  which  it  is  offered  to  the  English-reading 
public  is  very  slovenly,  the  work  of  a  person  who  has 
neither  accurate  knowledge  nor  the  least  sense  of 
style.  The  book  is  a  detective  novel  of  considerable 


ingenuity,  although  its  denouement  is  made  to  result 
from  an  utterly  impossible  occurrence — the  retention 
of  a  photographic  image  upon  the  retina  of  a  dead 
man's  eye.  The  detective  methods  by  which  the 
murderer  is  tracked  and  trapped  differ  from  those 
of  Sherlock  Holmes  and  Monsieur  Lecocq  in  their 
reliance  upon  what  we  may  call  psychological  indi- 
cations, the  start  of  the  guilty  person  at  the  artfully 
contrived  speech,  the  unconscious  admission  made  in 
the  unguarded  moment.  The  book  has  a  vein  of  senti- 
ment which  relieves  the  grewsomeness  of  its  theme, 
and  brings  it  into  touch  with  ordinary  human  life. 
The  sentimental  element  is  even  more  marked  in 
"  Brichanteau,  Actor,"  M.  Claretie's  other  book, 
which  has  the  good  fortune  to  be  translated  into 
graceful  and  idiomatic  English.  We  may  hardly 
call  it  a  novel,  for  it  tells  no  connected  narrative, 
but  is  rather  an  autobiographical  series  of  episodes 
in  the  life  of  a  professional  comedian.  If  delinea- 
tion of  character  be  the  chief  test  of  excellence  in  a 
work  of  fiction,  this  book  must  be  given  a  high  rank. 
The  character  of  Brichanteau  is  thoroughly  genuine, 
in  its  drawing  so  shaded  as  to  bring  out  the  most 
delicate  nuance ;  he  compels  both  our  admiration 
as  an  artistic  creation  and  our  affection  as  a  fellow- 
creature.  M.  Sarcey,  in  a  cordial  introduction  to 
the  volume,  describes  its  hero  as  "  the  actor  en- 
amoured of  his  art,  but  who,  for  one  reason  or 
another,  has  not  achieved  success  ...  a  failure 
without  melancholy  or  envy,  an  optimist  failure. 
.  .  .  Brichanteau  is  charming  because  he  is  always 
treading  the  boards,  because  he  believes  in  good 
faith  that  his  life  is  a  drama  in  which  he  plays  the 
principal  part."  M.  Claretie  has  described  with 
delightful  irony  this  ridiculous  side  of  the  character 
of  his  hero,  "  who  wears  in  ordinary  life  the  nod- 
ding plumes  of  the  stage."  We  need  say  no  more 
to  show  that  Brichanteau  is  a  charming  companion, 
and  that  M.  Claretie's  book  is  a  human  document  of 
the  most  genial  and  enjoyable  kind. 

WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


BRIEFS  ON  NEW  BOOKS. 


Ma  sand  ^r*  Townsend  MacCoun,  as  author 

sketches  of  the  and  publisher  of  "The  Holy  Land 
Holy  Land.  jn  Geography  and  History,"  has  ren- 

dered a  lasting  service  to  teachers  in  the  Sunday 
School  as  well  as  to  students  of  Palestinian  history. 
In  these  two  handy  little  volumes,  which  may  be 
slipped  within  the  pocket,  he  has  given  the  results 
of  three  years'  labor.  The  first  volume  contains 
over  fifty  geological  and  topographical  maps  —  a 
superb  presentation  of  the  physical  characteristics 
of  the  land,  based  upon  the  researches  of  the  Pales- 
tine Exploration  Fund.  These  are  accompanied  by 
a  descriptive  text.  The  second  volume  contains 
some  sixty  general  historical  maps,  and  upwards  of 
thirty  plans  of  towns  and  environs.  This  volume 
gives  an  excellent  sketch  of  Palestinian  history  from 
the  earliest  days  to  the  close  of  the  Crusades  in  the 


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thirteenth  century.  While  the  author  in  this  sketch 
has  assumed  the  integrity  of  the  Biblical  account  as 
against  the  school  of  destructive  criticism,  he  has 
availed  himself  of  the  whole  literature  of  his  sub- 
ject, from  Ewald  to  Edersheim,  Graetz  to  Hilprecht 
and  Fetrie,  and  has  made  a  most  satisfactory  sum- 
mary. The  large  collection  of  maps  is  an  admir- 
able feature,  in  which  every  device  of  the  engraver 
and  the  colorist  has  been  employed  to  enable  the 
student  to  realize  the  land  of  the  Bible.  A  few 
points  are  open  to  criticism.  It  would  have  been 
better,  in  citing  the  authorities,  to  give  volume  and 
page.  In  two  of  the  maps  —  Nos.  59  and  94  — 
Alexandria  and  Persepolis  are  allowed  to  appear 
long  before  they  were  founded.  In  all  other  cases 
modern  names  and  places  are  italicized,  or  else  are 
distinguished  by  different  coloring.  The  map  of  the 
beginning  of  the  fifth  century  should  divide  Phoe- 
nicia into  Maritima  and  Libanensis,  as  is  done  on 
the  map  following ;  and  Syria  in  both  maps  should 
be  divided  into  Prima  and  Secunda.  On  the  first 
of  these  maps  Scythopolis  (not  Scythapolis)  is  placed 
too  far  from  the  Jordan.  Schtirer  is  frequently 
spelled  without  the  umlaut  mark ;  and  we  note  in 
one  case  Lenormand  for  Lenormant.  These  are, 
however,  but  small  flaws  in  a  work  so  generally 
commendable.  

New  guesses  at  Jt  ***  Goethe  who  said,  «  All  my 
the  meaning  of  writings  are  fragments  of  a  great 
Shakespeare,  confession,"  and  the  critics,  as  a  rule, 
have  assumed  the  same  thing  of  Shakespeare,  espe- 
cially of  his  Sonnets.  But  so  great  has  been  the 
divergence  of  opinion  with  respect  to  the  nature  of 
this  confession  that  the  controversy  gathering  about 
them  has  become  one  of  the  most  voluminous  in 
all  literature.  The  latest  addition  is  by  Mr.  Edwin 
James  Dunning  in  "  The  Genesis  of  Shakespeare's 
Art "  (Lee  &  Shepard)  ;  and  it  must  be  granted 
that  he  has  made  a  new  furrow  in  this  much- 
ploughed  field.  Mr.  Dunning  believes  the  Sonnets 
to  be  autobiographical,  but  in  a  less  material  sense 
than  is  commonly  supposed.  The  supreme  expres- 
sions of  devoted  love  in  the  first  series  are  not  ad- 
dressed to  William  Herbert  or  any  other,  but  refer 
symbolically  to  his  own  Muse  or  guiding  genius ;  his 
admonitions  to  the  youth  to  marry  express  the  poet's 
desire  to  spur  his  own  fancy  to  invention.  In  the 
series  expressing  his  jealousy  of  others,  especially 
of  some  rival  poet,  he  confesses  his  early  dependence 
upon  models,  his  imitation  of  the  "  fine  filed  phrase  " 
of  earlier  poets.  The  "  dark  lady  "  is  not  Mary 
Fitton  or  any  other  person  in  the  flesh,  but  under 
this  figure  Shakespeare  records  his  own  struggles 
between  idealistic  art,  false  in  its  very  perfectness, 
toward  a  more  realistic  art,  ugly  of  aspect  but  in- 
wardly alluring.  Thus,  in  Mr.  Dunning's  opinion, 
the  Sonnets  as  a  whole  are  the  outpouring  of  Shakes- 
peare's art-consciousness,  and  the  record  of  his 
growth  in  finish,  understanding  and  power  as  an 
artist.  This  is  something  quite  new  in  the  aesthetic 
interpretation  of  these  poems,  and  makes  of  them  a 


A  decisive 
battle  of  the 
Civil  War. 


self-revealing  sequence  in  a  more  exalted  sense  than 
any  previous  critic  has  suggested.  It  will  not,  of 
course,  appeal  with  equal  force  to  all  readers  ;  many 
have  already  come  to  conclusions  too  fixed  for  change ; 
yet  every  new  theory  tends  to  increase  the  never- 
abated  interest  of  three  hundred  years  in  these 
wonderful  poems  of  "  infinite  variety,"  charm,  and 
mystery.  

General  Jacob  D.  Cox,  once  com- 
mander of  the  twenty-third  army 
corps,  has  already  given  proof  of  his 
ability  as  a  military  historian  in  his  two  books  for 
the  "  Campaigns  of  the  Civil  War  "  series,  on  "  The 
Campaign  of  Atlanta"  and  "  The  March  to  the  Sea," 
published  some  fifteen  years  ago.  He  has  now  taken 
up  his  pen  again  to  give  a  more  detailed  account  of 
a  portion  of  the  subject  of  his  second  work  in  a  new 
book  entitled  "  The  Battle  of  Franklin  "  (Scribner). 
He  says,  in  his  justification,  that  "  when  a  battle 
proves  to  be  a  turning-point  in  a  decisive  campaign, 
—  when  it  marks  the  beginning  of  the  end  in  such 
a  contest  as  our  Civil  War, —  when  it  justifies  the 
strategy  of  such  a  leader  as  Sherman  in  his  division 
of  his  forces  in  Georgia  and  making  the  March  to 
the  Sea, —  when  in  addition  to  this  the  combat  may 
be  fairly  said  to  be  a  crucial  experiment  in  the  prob- 
lem of  attack  and  defence  of  fieldworks  in  an  open 
country, —  we  can  hardly  place  a  limit  to  the  desira- 
bility of  detailed  knowledge."  The  author  has  had 
the  advantage  of  the  completed  publication  of  the 
"Official  Records  of  the  Union  and  Confederate 
Armies,"  and  it  is  the  completion  of  this  great  record 
which  has  induced  General  Cox  to  tell  again  the  oft- 
told  tale  of  the  battle  of  Franklin.  His  work  is  a 
valuable  contribution  to  our  military  history,  and  the 
narrative  is  told  in  a  style  that  combines  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  warrior  with  the  skill  of  the  literary 
artist.  The  value  of  the  book  is  enhanced  by  several 
maps  from  the  official  records.  The  work  is  thor- 
oughly well  done,  and  will  hardly  require  to  be  done 
again,  despite  the  little  controversy  as  to  leadership 
between  Generals  Cox  and  Stanley,  which  is  a  side- 


issue. 


To  see  one's  people  yield  before  the 
invader;  to  see  one's  ancestral  cus- 
toms  supplanted  by  those  of  the  hated 
conqueror ;  to  see  one's  religion  replaced  by  a  for- 
eign creed, —  these  things  are  hard  to  bear.  Yet 
these  things  have  been  borne  all  through  our  own 
land,  through  Mexico,  and  through  Central  America. 
The  native  populations  have  been  reduced,  their 
whole  mode  of  life  has  been  changed,  their  religions 
have  been  replaced.  Few  of  the  stories  of  these 
changes  have  been  preserved ;  all  would  be  of  thrill- 
ing, though  sad,  interest.  Sometimes  the  Indian 
turned,  in  a  vain  effort  to  resist  the  new-comer.  The 
story  of  one  of  these  fruitless  resistances  is  told  in 
dramatic  form,  by  Dr.  D.  G.  Brinton,  in  the  little 
book  entitled  "  Maria  Candelaria  "  (David  McKay). 
The  Tzentals  lived  in  Chiapas,  now  the  southern- 
most state  of  Mexico.  In  culture  they  were  the 


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equals  of  almost  any  people  in  the  Isthmian  region. 
Reduced  by  the  Spaniards  in  1523  or  1524,  they 
revolted  in  1528,  but  were  quickly  resubjugated. 
They  remained  under  Spanish  control  quietly  until 
1712,  when  a  stroke  for  freedom  was  made  under 
the  leadership  of  an  Indian  girl  —  Maria  Candelaria. 
An  attempt  was  made  to  restore  the  old  government, 
revive  the  ancient  customs,  and  rethrone  the  ances- 
tral religion.  For  a  time  everything  seemed  to  be 
in  her  favor  ;  but  troubles  arose,  misunderstandings 
and  treachery  appeared,  and  the  cause  was  lost.  It 
is  the  closing  scenes  in  this  insurrection  that  Dr. 
Brinton  dramatises.  His  book  is  at  once  interesting 
and  a  study,  which  reveals  Indian  thought  and  life 
with  considerable  probable  accuracy. 


A  pretty  book  which  anticipates  the 
^^Y  *»<»on  "  that  on  «  Ely  Ca- 
thedral," by  the  Dean  of  Ely  (im- 
ported by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons).  One 
of  the  most  beautiful  of  English  minsters  is  here 
chronicled  by  one  who  is  able  to  speak  with  author- 
ity, and  full  justice  is  done  to  the  matchless  octagon 
tower,  and  its  noble  artist  Alan  de  Walsingham. 
Here  are  most  interesting  details  as  to  the  construc- 
tion of  this  famous  octagon.  Wonderful  oak  timber 
Old  England  produced  in  the  fourteenth  century  ! 
The  angle  posts  are  each  53  feet  long  and  3  feet  4 
inches  by  2  feet  8  inches  in  their  other  dimensions. 
Alan  took  much  trouble  to  find  trees  sufficiently 
large  and  sound,  "  searching  far  and  wide,  and  with 
the  greatest  difficulty  finding  them  at  last,  paying  a 
great  price  for  them,  and  by  land  and  sea  trans- 
porting them  to  Ely."  While  the  book  is  in  sub- 
stance made  up  of  two  "  Extension  "  lectures  deliv- 
ered by  the  Dean,  and  is  therefore  popular  in  treat- 
ment, lovers  of  old  Ely  and  its  shrine  will  here  find 
much  to  stir  their  recollection  pleasantly,  and  the 
scholar  may  find  in  the  appended  notes  valuable 
contributions  on  "  Liber  Elieusis  "  and  the  monas- 
tery rolls.  _ 

Two  charming  volumes  fresh  from  the 

Hamilton  Gibson's  <•  •»*•  TT  0    T»      ^i 

farewell  volumes.  Press  of  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 
bear  the  name  of  William  Hamilton 
Gibson.  They  are  a  parting  gift  from  a  hand  stilled 
in  death  ;  and  it  is  with  a  sense  of  personal  bereave- 
ment one  turns  over  their  fascinating  pages.  Facing 
the  title-page  of  "  Eye  Spy,"  a  portrait  of  the  author 
is  presented  in  a  characteristic  attitude,  gazing  in- 
tently into  the  heart  of  a  flower  to  read  some  ex- 
quisite mystery  folded  away  from  the  view  of  the 
casual  observer.  In  "  My  Studio  Neighbors  "  he 
is  seen  again  in  the  secluded  spot  where  he  painted 
his  pictures  and  wrote  his  pen-sketches,  or  found 
inspiration  for  both  in  the  myriad  phases  of  ani- 
mate or  inanimate  nature  surrounding  him.  It  is, 
perhaps,  our  farewell  interview  with  one  who  never 
failed  to  delight  and  instruct  with  his  ingenious  and 
picturesque  portrayal  of  the  wonders  he  discovered 
in  the  structure  and  behavior  of  bird  and  insect  and 
their  near  allies  in  the  floral  world.  Both  volumes 


are  made  up  of  short  papers,  each  an  interesting 
and  valuable  story  illustrated  with  drawings  of  deli- 
cate beauty.  The  instinct  of  the  poet  and  the  sin- 
cere feeling  of  the  nature-student  are  apparent  in 
every  bit  of  work  that  bore  the  signature  of  this 
lamented  author. 

The  nature-lover'*  "Nature's  Diary  "  (Houghton),  com- 
caiendar  and  piled  by  Mr.  Francis  H.  Allen,  will 
attract  the  eye  by  its  tasteful  exterior. 
It  is  done  up  in  green,  the  cover  and  the  smooth- 
cut  edges  of  the  leaves  wearing  the  pleasing  tints 
of  earth's  drapery  in  the  summer  season.  The  right- 
hand  pages  of  the  volume  are  left  vacant  for  notes 
by  the  reader ;  those  on  the  left  contain  extracts 
arranged  in  the  order  of  a  calendar,  one  or  two  for 
each  day  in  the  year.  All  speak  of  some  aspect  of 
nature,  chiefly  of  the  landscape  in  the  varying  sea- 
sons. Nearly  three  hundred  of  the  selections  are 
from  Thoreau ;  the  remainder  are  taken  from  a 
dozen  well-known  authors.  A  sameness  results 
from  this  narrow  range,  which  detracts  from  the 
interest  of  the  compilation.  Thoreau  has  written 
upon  nature  with  fervor  and  beauty;  but  many 
others  have  equalled  or  surpassed  him  in  imagery 
and  diction,  as,  for  example,  Mrs.  Celia  Thaxter  and 
Col.  T.  W.  Higginson,  both  of  whom  the  compiler 
has  wholly  left  out  of  his  account. 

Popular  lecture*  Mr-  Bertram  C.  A.  Windle's  handy 
on  English  little  book  entitled  "  Life  in  Early 

archeology.  Britain"  (Putnam),  covering  in  a 

popular  way  the  whole  field  of  English  Archaeology, 
has  grown  out  of  a  series  of  familiar  lectures.  The 
style  is  attractive  throughout ;  the  material  and  its 
treatment  are  variable.  Some  chapters  are  capital, 
others  are  poor.  The  worst  is  that  dealing  with  the 
Palaeolithic  Period,  in  which  the  subject  is  poorly 
presented  and  the  British  material  sadly  neglected. 
The  work  deserves  on  the  whole  high  praise.  It 
will  be  a  great  help  to  the  traveller.  A  brief  out- 
line history  of  the  succession  of  peoples  on  Britain's 
soil — such  as  this  is — will  render  much  that  is  seen 
in  museums  comprehensible  and  interesting.  Not 
the  least  valuable  part  of  the  book  is  an  appendix 
wherein  is  a  list  of  places,  geographically  arranged, 
where  British  antiquities  may  be  studied  either  in 
the  field  or  in  museums. 


John  Lincklaen,  of  Amsterdam,  jour- 

nered  to  America  in  1790' and  Pen- 

etrated  the  woods  and  swamps  of 
western  New  York  for  the  purpose  of  studying  the 
"  Mapple  Sugar  "  industry  as  an  investment.  Back 
of  the  material  interest  was  the  philanthropic  motive 
of  competing  with  the  slave  labor  of  the  sugar- 
producing  South.  Although  the  venture  was  not 
successful,  and  Mr.  Lincklaen  soon  assumed  the 
surer  remuneration  attaching  to  the  agency  of  the 
Holland  Land  Company,  he  left  a  legacy  to  all  pos- 
terity in  the  "  Journals  "  which  he  kept  of  his  jour- 
neys in  the  backwoods.  While  devoid  of  political 


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interest,  these  journals  give  a  vivid  realization 
of  pioneer  life  and  early  geography.  They  are 
brought  out  by  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  with 
accompanying  notes  and  maps,  thus  constituting  a 
real  addition  to  the  library  of  the  student  of  early 
New  York  and  Vermont  history. 


BRIEFER  MENTION. 


Mr.  John  Morley's  Rede  lecture  on  "  Machiavelli," 
published  by  the  Macmillan  Co.  in  a  thin  volume,  revives 
the  old  regret  that  the  author  should  have  found  so  lit- 
tle time  of  recent  years  for  literary  production.  Were 
it  not  for  politics,  we  might  have  had  a  long  series  of 
just  such  essays  as  this  —  graceful,  ripe,  scholarly  pro- 
ductions —  and  English  literature  would  have  been  so 
much  the  richer.  How  happy  was  the  writer's  choice 
of  a  subject  in  the  present  instance  is  shown  by  the 
amount  of  discussion  that  has  been  provoked  by  the 
essay.  Most  of  our  modern  statesmen  have  gone  to 
Machiavelli's  school,  and  some  of  them  have  bettered 
the  instruction  ;  nothing  could  well  be  more  timely, 
then,  than  an  analysis  of  the  Machiavellian  theory  of 
government,  made  by  a  man  who  has  himself  for  many 
years  been  in  the  thick  of  modern  political  life. 

"The  Yersin  Phono-Rhythmic  Method  of  French 
Pronunciation,  Accent,  and  Diction "  (Lippincott)  is 
the  work  of  two  young  women,  Miles.  M.  and  J.  Yersin, 
who  have  had  much  practical  experience  as  teachers  of 
the  French  language,  and  who  have  now  sought  to  im- 
part (as  far  as  it  is  possible  for  the  printed  page  to  do 
so)  the  method  by  which  they  instruct  their  pupils  in 
French  phonetics.  The  work  is  eminently  practical, 
and  is  provided  with  a  very  sensible  introduction.  Two 
other  text-books  in  this  language  are  the  "  first  year  " 
of  Mr.  C.  F.  Kroeh's  "  Three- Year  Preparatory  Course 
in  French"  (Macmillan),  and  Mr.  Francis  Tarver's 
"  French  Stumbling  -  Blocks  and  English  Stepping- 
Stones  "  (Appleton),  a  helpful  book  for  beginners. 

Recent  texts  for  teachers  of  English  include  the  fol- 
lowing :  "  Cymbeline,"  edited  by  Mr.  A.  J.  Wyatt, 
and  "  The  Tempest,"  edited  by  Mr.  F.  S.  Boas,  both 
published  in  "  Heath's  English  Classics  ";  also,  issued 
by  the  same  publishers, "  The  Ancient  Mariner,"  edited 
by  Mr.  A.  J.  George;  "The  Flight  of  a  Tartar  Tribe," 
edited  by  Mr.  G.  A.Wauchope;  and" Enoch  Arden"  with 
the  two  "  Locksley  Hall "  poems,  edited  by  Mr.  Calvin 
S.  Brown.  From  Messrs.  Silver,  Burdett  &  Co.  we  have 
"The  Revolt  of  the  Tartars,"  edited  by  Mr.  A.  S. 
Twombly;  and  a  thin  volume  of  "Reading  Courses  in 
American  Literature,"  by  Mr.  Fred  L.  Pattee.  "  The 
Expository  Paragraph  and  Sentence  "  is  an  elementary 
manual  of  composition  by  Mr.  Charles  Sears  Baldwin 
(Longmans). 

The  inventor  of  "  Love's  Messages  "  (Crowell)  has 
added  a  new  terror  to  life.  This  publication  takes  the 
form  of  a  cheque-book,  and  upon  each  leaf  are  printed 
a  text  and  a  stanza  of  pious  verse.  The  purchaser  of 
the  booklet  is  supposed  to  detach  the  cheques  and  send 
them  to  his  friends,  recording  upon  the  stubs  the  names 
of  the  victims  of  his  impertinence.  It  would  not  be  so 
bad  if  only  the  verses  chosen  had  any  poetical  value, 
but  with  the  exception  of  a  (misquoted)  stanza  from 
Christine  Rossetti  and  one  or  two  other  selections,  they 
are  of  the  most  commonplace  and  uninspiring  character. 


IiITERARY  NOTES. 


The  Whitaker  &  Ray  Co.  of  San  Francisco  announce 
for  early  publication  a  one-volume  edition  of  the  com- 
plete poetical  works  of  Mr.  Joaquin  Miller. 

The  Macmillan  Co.  now  publish  in  a  single  volume 
the  two  parts  (which  have  hitherto  appeared  separately) 
of  Mr.  Ernest  Arthur  Gardner's  "  Handbook  of  Greek 
Sculpture." 

A  fifth  edition  of  Mr.  Saintsbury's  "  Short  History  of 
French  Literature,"  with  the  section  on  the  nineteenth 
century  practically  rewritten,  is  about  to  issue  from  the 
Clarendon  Press. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke's  "  Little  Rivers  "  and 
"  The  Poetry  of  Tennyson  "  are  two  new  volumes  of  the 
charming  "  Cameo  Edition  "  of  favorite  books,  published 
by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Volume  V.  of  Miss  Wormeley's  translation  of  Molie're, 
just  published  by  Messrs.  Roberts  Brothers,  includes 
three  plays  —  "  L'Ecole  des  Femmes,"  "  L'Ecole  des. 
Maris,"  and  "  Monsieur  de  Pourceaugnac." 

"  Rome,"  by  Miss  Mary  Ford ;  "  France,"  by  Miss 
Mary  C.  Rowsell;  and  "Old  Tales  from  Greece,"  by 
Miss  Alice  Zimmern,  are  three  history  books  for  chil- 
dren just  published  by  Mr.  Thomas  Whittaker. 

"Voices  of  Doubt  and  Trust"  (Brentano's)  is  a  com- 
pilation of  selections  (mostly  good  ones)  in  prose  and 
verse  from  a  wide  range  of  modern  writers  who  have 
touched  upon  the  fundamental  problem  of  religious 
belief.  Mr.  Volney  Streamer  is  the  editor,  and  his 
book  is  pleasant  to  handle  and  to  read. 

Colonel  F.  R.  Wiugate's  translation  of  Slatin  Pasha's 
"  Fire  and  Sword  in  the  Soudan  "  has  just  been  reissued 
in  a  popular  edition  by  Mr.  Edward  Arnold.  The  book 
has  been  shortened  for  the  present  purpose,  and  made 
more  strictly  personal  than  before,  and  the  illustrations 
are  retained. 

We  have  received  from  the  Art  Association  of  Port- 
land, Oregon,  a  neat  "  Catalogue  of  the  Corbett  Collec- 
tion of  Casts  from  Greek  and  Roman  Sculpture " 
owned  by  that  institution.  The  book  is  a  compilation 
from  the  similar  catalogue  of  the  Boston  Museum,  with 
some  additional  matter  contributed  by  Mr.  Richard 
Norton. 

Dr.  Fridtjof  Nansen  is  to  be  given  a  reception  by  the 
Twentieth  Century  Club  on  the  afternoon  of  November 
17,  and  will  deliver  his  first  public  lecture  in  Chicago  on 
the  evening  of  that  day.  The  next  reception  of  the  club 
is  set  for  December  6,  upon  which  occasion  Mr.  Anthony 
Hope  Hawkins  will  discourse  on  the  subject  of  "  Ro- 
mance." 

Bulwer-Lytton's  "The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii"  and 
Lever's  "  Charles  O'Malley "  have  been  issued  in  the 
"  Illustrated  English  Library,"  of  which  Messrs.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons  are  the  American  importers.  In  regard 
to  illustrations,  mechanical  make-up,  and  cheapness  of 
price,  this  series  compares  favorably  with  any  other  line 
of  reprints  of  standard  fiction  now  on  the  market. 

Recently  published  text-books  in  science  include  the 
following  works :  "  Practical  Electrics "  (Spon  and 
Chamberlain),  "  a  universal  handy-book  of  everyday 
electrical  matters,"  now  in  its  fifth  edition;  "Popular 
Readings  in  Science "  (Longmans)  by  Messrs.  John 
Gall  and  David  Robertson,  now  in  its  third  edition; 
"  Laboratory  Directions  in  General  Biology  "  (Holt), 
by  Dr.  Harriet  Randolph;  "  An  Introductory  Course  in 
Quantitative  Chemical  Analysis  "  (Ginn),  by  Dr.  Percy 


1897.] 


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Norton  Evans;  "Physical  Experiments"  (Ginn),  a 
manual  and  note  book,  by  Dr.  Alfred  P.  Gage;  and 
"Physics:  The  Student's  Manual  for  the  Study  Room 
and  Laboratory  "  (American  Book  Co.),  by  Dr.  LeRoy 
C.  Cooley. 

The  beautiful  "  Gadshill "  edition  of  Dickens,  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  Chapman  &  Hall  and  imported  in 
this  country  by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  is  now 
about  half  completed,  the  latest  addition  being  "Dom- 
bey  and  Son  "  in  two  volumes.  The  illustrations  and 
elegant  typography,  together  with  Mr.  Lang's  prefaces, 
should  make  this  edition  the  standard  one  for  the  library. 

The  Alumni  Association  of  Franklin  and  Marshall 
College  have  begun  the  publication  of  an  "  Obituary 
Record "  for  that  century-old  institution.  The  first 
number,  a  volume  of  nearly  two  hundred  and  fifty 
pages,  brings  the  record  up  to  the  present  year,  and 
hereafter  annual  supplements  are  promised.  One  may 
become  a  life  subscriber  to  this  publication  for  the  sum 
of  two  dollars. 

"  The  Students'  American  History,"  by  Mr.  D.  H. 
Montgomery  (Ginn),  is  a  more  extensive  work  than 
the  author's  "  Leading  Facts  of  American  History," 
and  designed  for  students  of  somewhat  maturer  growth. 
It  is  an  admirable  text-book,  the  product  of  wide  ex- 
perience in  both  teaching  and  writing,  amply  illustrated 
with  the  right  sort  of  material,  supplied  with  helps  for 
further  study,  and  altogether  deserving  of  the  highest 
commendation. 

Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  are  the  publishers  of  the  following 
text-books:  "The  Study  of  Mediaeval  History  by  the 
Library  Method  for  High  Schools,"  by  Mr.  M.  S.  Get- 
chell;  "  Exercises  in  Greek  Composition,"  based  on 
Xenophon,  by  Mr.  Edwin  H.  Higley;  "Maldon  and 
Brunnanburh,"  edited  by  Dr.  Charles  Langley  Crow; 
and  "  The  Science  of  Discourse,"  a  rhetoric  for  high 
schools  and  colleges,  by  Mr.  Arnold  Tompkins.  The 
latter  is  a  new  edition  of  a  work  first  published  eight 
years  ago. 

The  following  mathematical  text-books  have  just  been 
received  by  us:  "A  Brief  Introduction  to  the  Infinite- 
simal Calculus"  (Macmillan),  by  Dr.  Irving  Fisher; 
"The  Elements  of  Geometry"  (Holt),  by  Mr.  Henry 
W.  Keigwin;  "Elements  of  Constructive  Geometry" 
(Silver,  Burdett  &  Co.),  from  the  German  of  Herr  K.  H. 
Stocker  by  Mr.  William  Noetling;  "Famous  Problems 
of  Elementary  Geometry  "  (Ginn),  from  the  German  of 
Dr.  F.  Klein  by  Messrs.  W.  W.  Beman  and  D.  E.  Smith; 
and  an  "  American  Comprehensive  Arithmetic  "  (Amer- 
ican Book  Co.),  by  Mr.  M.  A.  Bailey. 

Mr.  John  Osborne  Austin,  of  Providence,  has  com- 
piled a  "  Roger  Williams  Calendar,"  in  the  form  of  a 
substantial  volume  of  366  pages.  Each  day  of  the  year 
has  a  pithy  extract  from  the  great  apostle  of  liberty  of 
conscience,  and  a  satisfactory  index  is  added.  It  will 
be  news  to  many  that  Roger  Williams  now  and  then 
dropped  into  poetry,  and  the  following  is  one  of  several 
curious  examples: 

"  If  nature's  sons,  both  wild  and  tame, 

Humane  and  courteous  be, 
How  ill  becomes  it  sons  of  God 
To  want  humanity." 

Precisely  what  the  Stanhope  Essay  is,  or  how  it 
originated,  we  do  not  at  present  remember  ;  but  that 
essay  for  1897  is  furnished  by  Mr.  John  Buchan,  Exhib- 
itioner of  Brasenose  College,  and  its  subject  is  Sir  Wal- 
ter Ralegh.  It  is  published  in  Oxford  (R.  H.  Blackwell) 


in  a  duodecimo  of  seventy-eight  pages.  It  is  not  a  bio- 
graphy, but,  as  its  name  implies,  an  essay  ;  and  it  seeks 
to  sketch  Sir  Walter's  character  "  roughly  and  crudely  ; 
to  trace  the  war  of  motives  which  at  all  times  beset 
him  ;  to  find,  in  short,  in  his  temper  and  talents  some 
explanation  of  the  cruel  circumstances  of  his  fate." 
And  it  does  all  this  in  a  manner  with  which  the  reader 
can  find  no  fault. 


ILIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS. 

[The  following  list,  containing  ISO  titles,   includes  books 
received  by  THE  DIAL  since  its  last  issue.] 

GENERAL  LITERATUEE. 

Annals  of  a  Publishing  House:  William  Blackwopd  and 
his  Sons,  their  Magazine  and  Friends.  By  Mrs.  Oliphant. 
In  2  vols.,  with  portraits,  large  8vo,  uncut.  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.  $10.50. 

The  Diary  of  Master  William  Silence :  A  Study  of  Shakes- 
peare and  of  Elizabethan  Sport.  By  the  Right  Hon.  D.  H. 
Madden.  8vo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  386.  Longmans.  Green, 
&Co.  $4. 

The  Golden  Treasury  of  Songs  and  Lyrics,  Second  Series. 
Selected,  with  Notes,  by  Francis  T.  Palgrave.  With  vig- 
nette, 16mo,  uncut,  pp.  275.  Macmillan  Co.  $1. 

The  Early  Life  of  William  Wordsworth,  1770-1798  :  A 
Study  of  "  The  Prelude."  By  Emile  Legouis  ;  trans,  by 
J.  W.  Matthews ;  with  Prefatory  Note  by  Leslie  Stephen. 
With  portrait,  large  8vo,  uncut,  pp.  477.  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.  $3. 

King  Arthur  and  the  Table  Round :  Tales  Chiefly  after  the 
Old  French  of  Crestien  of  Troyes.  With  an  account  of 
Arthurian  romance,  and  Notes,  by  William  Wells  Newell. 
In  2  vols.,  8vo,  gilt  tops,  uncut.  Hough  ton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
Boxed,  $4. 

American  Ideals,  and  Other  Essays,  Social  and  Political.  By 
Theodore  Roosevelt.  12mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  354.  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  $1.50. 

A  History  of  French  Literature.  By  Edward  Dowden, 
D.Litt.  12mo,  pp.  444.  "Literatures  of  the  World." 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.  $1.50. 

A  Correspondence  between  John  Sterling  and  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson.  With  a  sketch  of  Sterling's  life  by 
Edward  Waldo  Emerson.  12mo,  gilt  top,  uncut,  pp.  96. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  $1. 

Literary  Statesmen  and  Others :  Essays  on  Men  Seen  from 
a  Distance.  By  Norman  Hapgood.  12mo,  gilt  top,  uncut, 
pp.  208.  H.  S.  Stone  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Little  Rivers,  and  The  Poetry  of  Tennyson.  By  Henry 
Van  Dyke.  "  Cameo  "  editions ;  each  with  etched  frontis- 
piece, 18mo,  gilt  top.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  Per  vol., 
$1.25. 

The  Charm,  and  Other  Drawing  Room  Plays.  By  Walter 
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F.  A.  Stokes  Co.  $1. 

The  Beauties  of  Marie  Corelli.  Selected  and  arranged, 
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Maldon  and  Brunnanburgh :  Two  Old  English  Songs  of 
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Practical  Hints  for  Young  Writers,  Readers,  and  Book 
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Self-Cultivation  in  English.  By  George  Herbert  Palmer, 
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NEW  EDITIONS  OF  STANDARD  LITERATURE. 

Prose  and  Poetical  Works  of  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich. 
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The  Spectator.  Edited  and  annotated  by  G.  Gregory  Smith ; 
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The  Works  of  Moliere.  Translated  by  Katharine  Prescott 
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Brothers.  $1.50. 


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Temple  Dramatists.  New  vols.:  Sheridan's  The  Critic, 
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The  Growth  of  the  French  Nation.  By  George  Burton 
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The  Story  of  an  Irish  Sept:  Their  Character  and  Struggle 
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dard's  The  Red  Patriot.  —  Barnes's  Commodore 
Bainbridge.  —  Shelton's  The  Last  Three  Soldiers.  — • 
Henderson's  The  Last  Cruise  of  the  Mohawk.  — 
Norton's  Midshipman  Jack.  —  Stoddard's  The  Lost 
Gold  of  the  Montezumas.  —  Mrs.  Smith's  The  Young 
Puritans  of  Old  Hadley.  —  Butterworth's  True  to  his 


CONTENTS  —  Books  for  the  Young  —  Continued. 

PAO» 

Home.  —  Church's  Lords  of  the  World.  —  Henty's 
With  Frederick  the  Great.  —  Leighton's  The  Golden 
Galleon.  —  Frost's  The  Knights  of  the  Round  Table. 

—  Rideing's  The  Boyhood  of   Famous  Authors.  — 
Miss  Clark's  Will  Shakespeare's  Little  Lad.  —  Ben- 
nett's Master  Skylark.  —  Harris's  Aaron  in  the  Wild- 
woods.  —  Kipling's  Captains  Courageous.  —  Warner's 
Being  a  Boy.  —  Miss  Murfree's  The  Young  Moun- 
taineers. —  Butterworth's  Over  the  Andes.  —  Clover's 
Paul  Travers's  Adventures.  —  Drysdale's  The  Beach 
Patrol.  —  Munroe's  The  Painted  Desert.  —  Cargill's 
The  Big-Horn  Treasure.  —  Saunders's  The  King  of 
the  Park.  —  Miss  Bonvet's  A  Little  House  in  Pimlico. 

—  Otis's  The  Wreck  of  the  Circus.  —  Mrs.  Champ- 
ney's  Pierre  and  his  Poodle.  —  Miss  Yechton's  Derick. 

—  St.  Leger's  The  "Rover's"  Quest.  —  Abbott's 
Rollo  at  Work,  and  Rollo  at  Play,  new  editions.  — 
De  Amicis's  The  Heart  of  a  Boy,  new  edition.  — 
Winfield's  Poor  but  Plucky,  and  Schooldays  of  Fred 
Harley.  —  Bonehill's    Gun    and    Sled.  —  "  Oliver 
Optic's  "  At  the  Front,  and  Pacific  Shores.  —  Banks's 
An  Oregon  Boyhood.  —  "  Hearthstone  Series." 

LITERARY  NOTES 346 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .  .  34T 


A  PHILISTINE  WATCHWORD. 

Readers  of  "  The  International  Journal  of 
Ethics  "  must  have  rubbed  their  eyes  when  they 
received  the  last  number  of  that  earnest  and 
valuable  review,  and  found  its  first  score  of 
pages  devoted  to  the  great  achievement  of  Dr. 
Nansen  in  Arctic  exploration.  What  has  such 
a  matter  to  do  with  ethics  ?  they  may  well  have 
asked,  and  why  should  our  attention  be  diverted 
to  the  deeds  of  this  hardy  Norseman  when  all 
our  intellectual  energies  are  needed  for  the 
examination  of  such  engaging  subjects  as  "  the 
relation  of  pessimism  to  ultimate  philosophy," 
and  "  our  social  and  ethical  solidarity,"  and 
"  the  history  and  spirit  of  Chinese  ethics,"  to 
instance  a  few  of  the  themes  discussed  within 
the  same  covers.  The  fact  that  Mr.  Leslie 
Stephen  was  responsible  for  this  diversion  gave 
promise,  indeed,  of  a  high  degree  of  intellectual 
entertainment ;  but  one  had  to  get  well  along 
into  the  essay  before  discovering  what  Dr. 
Nansen  was  really  doing  in  this  galley.  The 
name  of  the  writer  was,  of  course,  sufficient  to 
warrant  the  conclusion  that  the  choice  of  sub- 
ject would  prove  to  be  justified,  even  for  the 
purposes  of  a  "  journal  of  ethics ";  and  the 
event  showed  that  some  of  the  deepest  matters 
underlying  the  general  problem  of  conduct 
might  be  involved  in  the  story  of  the  explorer 
and  the  stanch  ship  that  drifted  with  the 


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northern  ice-cap  across  the  circumpolar  seas. 

There  is,  to  put  it  bluntly,  no  ethical  prob- 
lem of  greater  importance  than  that  which 
emerges  from  the  consideration  of  just  such 
activities  as  were  so  magnificently  displayed 
by  the  expedition  of  Dr.  Nansen.  It  is  the 
fundamental  problem  of  utilitarianism,  and  the 
most  searching  analysis  is  needed  before  we 
can  hope  to  straighten  it  out.  Into  all  discus- 
sions of  this  problem  the  philistine  shibboleth 
of  the  "practical"  forces  its  way,  and  puts  such 
questions  as  these  :  "  Is  it  not  wrong  to  admire 
men  whose  fine  qualities  run  more  or  less  to 
waste ;  or,  if  that  cannot  be  said,  that  might 
have  been  applied  to  some  purpose  of  more 
importance  to  the  welfare  of  mankind?  To 
admire  simplicity,  daring,  vigor,  and  good  com- 
radeship, is  of  course  right ;  but  ought  we  not, 
it  may  be  asked,  to  regret  all  the  more  their 
devotion  of  these  virtues  to  inadequate  ends?" 

Mr.  Stephen  finds  no  difficulty  in  answer- 
ing these  questions  to  the  confutation  of  their 
philistine  proponent.  "  You  admit,"  he  says 
to  the  short-sighted  utilitarian  who  can  see 
nothing  beyond  the  immediate  consequences  of 
a  given  display  of  effort,  "  you  admit  in  some 
sense  that  the  main  end  of  conduct  should  be 
to  promote  the  greatest  happiness  of  the  great- 
est number ;  and  yet  the  precepts  which  you 
deduce  from  your  principles  seem  to  imply  a 
colorless  monotony  and  a  life  uncheered  by  any 
pursuits  enjoyable  in  themselves."  Grouping 
the  work  of  Arctic  expeditions  with  other  sci- 
entific work,  and  with  art  and  literature,  as  con- 
stituting all  together  a  sort  of  "play,"  he  says: 
"  The  justification  for  play,  if  we  may  call  that 
play  which  involves  most  strenuous  labor,  must 
take  a  different  ground.  One  ground  is  that 
the  energy  which  has  had  no  directly  utilitarian 
aim  has  been  of  most  essential  service  to  man- 
kind ;  that,  if  the  world  has  improved  even  in 
the  sense  of  being  able  to  support  a  larger  popu- 
lation in  moderate  comfort,  the  improvement 
has  been  owing  not  simply  nor  perhaps  chiefly 
to  those  who  have  consciously  labored  to  redress 
grievances  and  remove  causes  of  misery,  but  to 
men  who  have  pursued  intellectual  aims,  scien- 
tific or  artistic,  for  the  pure  love  of  art  or 
science."  And  he  concludes  by  saying  that 
"  the  true  doctrine  seems  to  be  that  it  is  an 
imperative  duty  for  a  man  to  devote  his  intel- 
lect to  those  purposes,  whatever  they  may  be, 
to  which  it  is  most  fitted." 

The  spokesmen  of  the  "  practical "  have 
done  so  much  in  all  ages,  and  are  still  doing 
so  much,  to  chill  enthusiasms  and  to  narrow 


the  scope  of  life,  that  we  make  no  apology  for 
recurring  to  this  well-worn  theme,  and  pointing 
out  once  more  the  essential  misconception  of 
those  well-intentioned  but  purblind  persons. 
"  Why  was  this  waste  of  the  ointment  made?" 
is  a  question  that  we  hear  repeated,  in  vari- 
ous disguises,  every  day  of  our  lives.  Now 
there  are  two  satisfactory  answers  to  the  ques- 
tion in  all  of  its  forms :  one  of  them  faces  the 
utilitarian  critic  upon  his  own  plane  and  leaves 
him  no  ground  upon  which  to  stand,  while  the 
other  makes  the  radical  demand  that  he  broaden 
his  conception  of  utility  and  rearrange  his  no- 
tions of  conduct  in  accordance  with  a  far  finer 
envisagement  of  the  purpose  of  human  life. 

The  first  answer  is  the  one  more  commonly 
made.  Mr.  Stephen,  for  example,  makes  it  in 
these  words :  "  Knowledge  can  scarcely  be  ad- 
vanced in  any  direction  without  throwing  light 
upon  knowledge  in  general ;  and  the  devotion 
of  some  men  of  great  powers  to  minute  and 
apparently  remote  interests  is  really  to  be  ad- 
mired because  it  constantly  leads  to  unforeseen 
and  important  results."  The  history  of  science 
is  so  filled  with  illustrations  of  this  truth  that 
we  hardly  know  where  to  begin  in  making  a 
selection.  Take  almost  any  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  applied  science  and  trace  the  under- 
lying ideas  back  to  their  genesis  in  the  brain 
of  some  devoted  investigator,  or,  reversing  the 
process,  take  from  the  annals  of  the  history  of 
science  any  idea  that  has  proved  fertile  and 
show  what  extremely  practical  results  have 
grown  out  of  it,  and,  in  whichever  way  we 
construct  the  genealogy  of  our  chosen  idea,  we 
shall  be  filled  with  wonder  at  its  consequences, 
and  made  to  realize  that  such  consequences 
must,  in  the  very  nature  of  things,  be  largely 
or  wholly  unforeseen  when  the  idea  first  springs 
to  birth.  How  useless,  to  all  seeming,  were 
the  early  studies  of  micro-organisms,  —  and 
yet  these  studies  laid  the  foundation  for  the 
vast  benefactions  of  Pasteur  and  made  a  reality 
of  the  long-cherished  dream  of  a  rational  theory 
of  disease.  Or  how  could  Oersted,  or  the  most 
keen-sighted  of  his  contemporaries,  have  fore- 
seen that  his  discovery  of  the  deflection  of  the 
magnetic  needle  by  the  galvanic  current  was 
to  make  possible  all  the  countless  applications 
of  electricity  to  our  modern  life  ?  In  view  of 
such  facts  as  these,  how  childish  it  is  to  ask  of 
every  new  contribution  to  knowledge  that  it  at 
once  justify  its  existence  by  doing  something 
for  man's  material  comfort,  and  how  benighted 
must  be  his  mental  condition  who  scorns  every 
new  scientific  truth  that  may  not  at  once  be  put 


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to  some  practical  use.  And,  to  return  to  the 
immediate  theme  of  this  discourse,  the  man 
stands  intellectually  self-condemned  who  is  rash 
enough  to  assert  that  the  deep-sea  soundings  or 
the  magnetic  and  meteorological  observations 
made  by  the  Nansen  expedition  may  not  in  the 
future  prove  to  have  furnished  a  necessary  link 
in  the  chain  of  reasoning  whereby  some  vast 
new  gift  shall  be  bestowed  by  science  upon 
human  life. 

Strong  as  appears,  however,  the  argument 
above  outlined,  and  amply  sufficient  as  it  is  to 
answer  the  cui  bono  ?  of  the  philistine  critic, 
we  are  not  content  to  rest  upon  it  the  case  for 
science.     For  there  always  underlies  the  dis- 
cussion of  this  subject  a  source  of  misunder- 
standing that  is  rarely  probed.  The  respective 
champions  of  science  and  of  utilitarianism  may 
be  using  the  same  words,  but  they  are  not  speak- 
ing the  same  language.  In  employing  the  terms 
which  they  bandy  about  so  freely—  such  terms, 
for  example,  as  «  use,"  "  benefit,"  and  «  practical 
value" — they  are  nearly  always  playing  at 
<3ross-purposes,  and  the  one  seldom  understands 
what  the  other  really  means.     Why  is  one 
thing  more  practical  than  another  ?     The  only 
possible  answer   is  that   it   contributes  more 
directly  to  the  satisfaction  of  some  desire.  But 
how  great  is  the  arrogance  of  those  who  single 
out  certain  desires  of  a  sort  relating  almost 
wholly  to   matters  of  material   comfort,  and 
assume  that  those  desires  alone  are  worthy  of 
being  gratified  at  the  cost  of  any  effort.     Is  a 
desire  to  be  scorned  because  it  does  not  happen 
to  be  entertained  by  the  majority  of  unthinking 
people,  and  is  the  quality  of  a  desire  to  count 
for  nothing  in  this  calculus  of  ethical  values  ? 
And  if  we  take  quality  into  the  reckoning,  does 
not  the  advancement  of  knowledge  minister  to 
the  best  of  all  desires  ?  The  search  after  truth 
is  an  end  in  itself,  and  nothing  can  be  more 
practical,  in  any  sense  of  the  term  worth  con- 
sidering, than  the  prosecution   of  that  high 
quest.     To  think   God's  thoughts  seemed  to 
Kepler  a  worthy  employment  for  his  best  in- 
tellectual energies,  and 

"  To  follow  knowledge  like  a  sinking  star 
Beyond  the  utmost  bound  of  human  thought," 

seemed  to  the  master-singer  of  our  own  age  the 
noblest  of  all  aims.  It  is  by  just  the  extent  to 
which  man  is  capable  of  entertaining  such  ideal 
ambitions  that  he  is  lifted  above  the  beast  of 
the  fields,  and  the  humanity  is  in  pitiable  case 
that  can  scorn  any  sincere  effort  to  strengthen 
the  foundations  of  the  temple  of  human  knowl- 
edge or  bear  its  dome  still  further  skyward. 


THE  ANXALS  OF  A  FAMOUS  PUBLISHING 
HOUSE.* 

Mrs.  Oliphant's  delightful  book,  «  The  An- 
nals of  a  Publishing  House  "  (a  posthumous 
book,  alas),  embodies  a  favorite  scheme  of  the 
late  John  Blackwood,  a  son  of  the  founder  of 
the  famous  Edinburgh  house,  so  long  and  hon- 
orably known  to  the  world  of  letters.     It  had 
been  the  intention  of  Mr.  Blackwood,  as  we 
learn  in  his  nephew's  prefatory  note,  to  utilize 
the  firm's  copious  records  in  the  preparation  of 
a  work  that  should  serve  as  a  memorial  of  his 
father  and  brothers,  and  as  a  history  of  the 
firm  and  the  magazine  that  William  Blackwood 
founded,  and  which  should  at  the  same  time 
furnish  some  account  of  the  brilliant  band  of 
writers  whom  the  energy,  discrimination,  and 
very  genuine  love  of  letters  of  the  first  Black- 
wood,  as  we  may  venture  to  style  him,  rallied 
to  his  support.     John  Blackwood  died  without 
setting  his  scheme  on  foot.     But  his  idea  bore 
fruit  in  a  subsequent  proposal  to  Mrs.  Oli- 
phant to  carry  out  his  project  and  to  become 
the  historian  of  the  firm  in  whose  service  she 
was  an  honored  veteran.     Mrs.  Oliphant  ac- 
cepted the  trust  with  the  ready  zeal  of  a  loyal 
retainer,  but  with  the  pathetic  prescience  that 
the  projected  work  was  destined  to  mark  the 
termination  of  her  long  and  strenuous  literary 
career.     This  prevision,  as  we  know,  proved 
true,  and  in  a  sense  even  overtrue,  two  volumes 
of  the  intended  three  being  all  that  this  gifted 
and  amiable  writer  lived  to  complete.     It  is 
grateful  to  add  that  these  valedictory  volumes 
betray  no  symptom  of  flagging  powers  or  cool- 
ing sympathies,  no  abatement  of  that  even  and 
ample  flow  of  thought  characteristic  of  the 
writer.     All  in  all,  we  have  had  no  more  de- 
lightful book  from  Mrs.  Oliphant  than  this, 
her  last.     It  was  clearly,  with  her,  something 
of  a  labor  of  love  to  render  justice  to  the  ster- 
ling character  of  the  founder  of  the  house  with 
which  her  own  relations  had  been  so  cordial, 
and  she  found  a  congenial  theme  in  the  humors 
of  the  somewhat  Shandean   circle  of  writers 
who  aided  the  rise,  spread  the  fame,  and  too 
often  sorely  taxed  the  purse  and  patience,  of 
kind  and  sensible  William  Blackwood.    To  the 
racy  story  of  his  dealings  with  those  dashing 
condottieri  of  the  pen,  Lockhart, Wilson,  Hogg, 


*  ANNALS  OF  A  PUBLISHING  HOUSE  :  William  Blackwood 
and  his  Sons,  their  Magazine  and  Friends.  By  Mrs.  Oliphant. 
In  two  volumes,  with  portraits.  New  York :  Imported  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 


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Maginn,  Gait,  and  so  on,  her  opening  volume 
is  largely  devoted. 

In  beginning  her  history  of  the  house  of 
Blackwood,  Mrs.  Oliphant  spares  the  grateful 
reader  the  usual  Scotch  "  ell  of  genealogy."  For 
us, William  Blackwood  is  large  enough  to  stand 
as  first  of  his  line  and  father  of  his  own  for- 
tunes, —  though  doubtless  with  him,  as  with 
most  Scotchmen,  research  would  disclose  an 
"  ancestor  "  or  so,  were  it  only  some  sixpenny 
laird  of  a  kailyard  or  notable  Highland  cattle- 
thief.  It  was  in  1804  that  this  first  Blackwood, 
after  a  fourteen  years'  novitiate  at  Edinburgh, 
Glasgow,  and  London,  returned  finally  to  Edin- 
burgh and  "  set  up  for  himself  "  as  bookseller 
and  possible  publisher  on  the  South  Bridge. 
The  business  throve  apace.  In  1811  was 
formed  the  important  connection  with  John 
Murray  of  London,  who  threw  over  the  Ballan- 
tynes  on  their  failure  to  offer  him  a  share  in 
the  publication  of  "  The  Lady  of  the  Lake." 
Mr.  Blackwood's  first  notably  successful  publi- 
cation was  Dr.  McCrie's  "  Life  of  John  Knox." 
In  1816  he  secured,  through  Ballantyne  and 
jointly  with  Murray,  Scott's  "Tales  of  My 
Landlord."  The  squabble  (if  we  may  call  it 
so)  which  marked  this  transaction,  and  which 
perhaps  led  up  eventually  to  Scott's  ill-starred 
return  to  Constable,  has  been  variously  stated. 
Mrs.  Oliphant  tries  to  show  that  Murray,  more 
than  Blackwood,  was  at  fault;  but  it  is  pretty 
plain  that  the  latter,  too,  "  put  his  foot  in  it." 
It  seems  that  after  long  negotiations  with  the 
agent  of  the  still  unknown  author  of  "Waver- 
ley,"  the  first  instalment  of  the  "  Tales  "  was 
submitted  to  the  publishers.  Murray  showed 
the  manuscript  to  Gifford,  who  sagely  suggested 
some  "  improvements  "  which  were  approved  by 
Mr.  Blackwood,  who  in  his  turn  forwarded  the 
suggestions  and  strictures  through  Ballantyne 
to  the  author.  Scott,  stung  at  the  presumption 
of  the  trio  of  wiseacres,  flamed  into  wrath,  and 
wrote  to  Ballautyne  in  the  vein  of  one  of  his 
own  moss-troopers: 

"Dear  James:  I  have  received  Blackwood's  impu- 
dent letter.  G —  d —  his  soul!  Tell  him  and  his 
coadjutor  that  I  belong  to  the  Black  Hussars  of  Litera- 
ture, who  neither  give  nor  receive  criticism.  I  '11  be 
cursed  but  this  is  the  most  impudent  proposal  that  ever 
was  made." 

Plausible  James,  more  suo,  sent  a  sugared  ver- 
sion of  this  robust  missive  to  Blackwood;  but 
the  offense  was  given,  as  the  sequel  seems  to 
show;  and  it  only  remained  for  the  chagrined 
men  of  business  to  settle  the  balance  of  account- 
ability between  them.  Probably  they  joined 
forces  in  rating  the  sagacious  Gifford. 


At  this  period,  Edinburgh  was  at  the  zenith 
of  its  fame  as  a  mart  and  centre  of  letters.  The 
blaze  of  more  than  one  great  reputation  gilded 
the  haze  of  "auld  Reekie"  with  sunrise  splen- 
dors ;  and  the  conditions  in  the  publishing  world 
were  such  as  to  greatly  invite  and  stimulate  lit- 
erary activity.  The  marvellous  success  of  the 
books  of  Scott  and  Byron  disclosed  a  new  El- 
dorado; and  the  dazzled  publisher,  south  as 
well  as  north  of  Tweed,  was  delightfully  pre- 
disposed to  see  in  each  strange  young  gentle- 
man who  came  to  him  with  a  manuscript  in  his 
pocket  a  possible  rival  of  those  popular  bards. 
Speculation  was  rife ;  and  a  strange  spirit  of 
equity,  even  liberality,  warmed  the  hearts  and 
loosened  the  purse-strings  of  the  Bacons  and 
Bungays  of  the  trade.  Authorship,  even  of  the 
Grub  Street  sort,  suddenly  lifted  its  head,  and 
claimed  kindred  with  the  liberal  professions. 
The  days  when  Otways  and  Chattertons  starved 
in  garrets,  and  scholarly  Boyces  were  reduced 
in  winter  to  composing  in  bed,  with  the  pen 
hand  thrust  through  a  slit  in  the  blankets,  were 
gone  indeed.  Manuscripts  from  obscure  sources 
were  usually  acknowledged  courteously,  and  even 
deferentially ;  and  when  rejected,  it  was  in  terms 
that  carried  balm  to  the  soul  of  the  sender. 
Beautiful  day,  when  the  haughtiest  publisher 
recognized  between  himself  and  the  humblest 
brother  of  the  craft  by  which  he  too  lived,  the 
bond  of  a  common  humanity!  As  for  the 
prices  paid,  they  were  sometimes  simply  fabu- 
lous. Lord  Cockburn  says  of  Constable — "  the 
crafty"  Constable: 

"  Abandoning  the  old  timid  and  grudging  system,  he 
stood  out  as  the  general  patron  and  payer  of  all  promis- 
ing publications,  and  confounded  not  only  his  rivals  in 
trade  but  his  very  authors  by  his  unheard  of  pieces. 
Ten,  even  twenty  guineas  a  sheet  for  a  review,  £2000 
or  £3000  for  a  single  poem,  and  £1000  for  two  philo- 
sophical dissertations,  drew  authors  out  of  their  dens, 
and  made  Edinburgh  a  literary  market  famous  with 
strangers,  and  the  pride  of  its  own  citizens." 

The  fate  of  this  open-handed  publisher  the 
world  knows  ;  but  such  was  not  always  the  re- 
ward of  the  more  prodigal  members  of  the 
trade.  Some  of  them  (we  rejoice  to  know) 
perversely  grew  rich,  in  spite  of  Adam  Smith 
and  the  penny-wisdom  of  their  faint-hearted 
competitors.  Murray  too,  for  instance,  was  a 
publisher  in  the  grand  style,  as  the  following 
letter  shows: 

"  Lord  Byron  is  a  curious  man.  He  gave  me,  as  I 
told  you,  the  copyright  of  his  two  new  poems,  to  be 
printed  only  in  his  works.  I  was  so  delighted  with  it 
that  even  as  I  read  it  I  sent  him  a  draught  for  1000 
guineas.  .  .  .  But  he  returned  the  draught,  saying  it 
was  very  liberal  —  much  more  than  they  were  worth  ; 


1897.] 


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that  I  was  perfectly  welcome  to  both  poems  to  print  in 
his  (collected)  works  without  cost  or  expectation,  but 
that  he  did  not  think  them  equal  to  what  they  ought  to 
be.  I  went  yesterday,  and  he  was  rallying  me  upon  my 
folly  in  offering  so  much,  that  he  dared  to  say  I  thought 
now  I  had  a  most  lucky  escape.  « To  prove  how  much 
I  think  so,  my  lord,'  said  I,  « do  me  the  favor  to  accept 
this  pocket-book  ' —  in  which  I  had  brought  with  me  my 
draught  changed  into  two  bank-notes  of  £1000  and 
£50;  but  he  would  not  take  it." 

Could  anything  be  finer  or  more  magnanimous 
than  that?  The  publisher's  almost  pathetic 
anxiety  to  part  with  his  money ;  the  author's 
firm,  though  playful,  refusal  to  take  it;  the 
resolution  of  each  not  to  be  outdone  by  the 
other  in  indifference  to  pelf ;  the  fine  Castilian 
flavor  of  the  whole  transaction.  Shade  of  Ja- 
cob Tonson  !  Nor  was  William  Blackwood  a 
whit  behind  his  regal  London  correspondent  as 
a  patron  of  letters.  His  reply,  in  1817,  to  an 
unknown  writer  who  had  timidly  sent  him  a 
specimen,  is  a  magnificent  thing.  Let  the 
reader  note  that  in  it  Mr.  Blackwood  lauds  to 
the  skies  a  production  which  he  clearly  in- 
tended to  buy — actually  puffs  it  in  advance,  to 
his  own  manifest  loss  and  diminution  of  profit. 
Could  there  possibly  be  a  more  undiplomatic, 
a  more  hopelessly  unbusinesslike,  letter  than 
this? 

"Mr.  Blackwood  now  returns  to  the  author  the  en- 
closed manuscript,  which  he  has  perused  oftener  than 
once  with  the  highest  delight.  He  feels  not  a  little 
proud  that  such  a  writer  should  express  a  wish  to  re- 
ceive any  suggestion  from  him.  The  whole  construction 
and  execution  of  the  work  appear  to  him  so  admirable 
that  it  would  almost  be  presumption  in  anyone  to  offer 
corrections  to  such  a  writer.  .  .  .  Mr.  B.  will  not  allow 
himself  to  think  for  one  moment  that  there  can  be  any 
uncertainty  as  to  the  work  being  completed.  Not  to 
mention  his  own  deep  disappointment,  Mr.  B.  would 
almost  consider  it  a  crime  if  a  work  possessing  so  much 
interest  and  instruction  were  not  given  to  the  world." 

The  unknown  writer  proved  to  be  Miss  Susan 
Ferrier,  and  the  book  under  discussion  her  suc- 
cessful novel,  "  Marriage,"  issued  by  Black- 
wood  in  1818. 

It  need  not  be  inferred,  however,  that  so 
shrewd  a  judge  of  what  he  dealt  in  as  was 
William  Blackwood  could  not  say  "  no  "  to  the 
literary  aspirant  whose  wares  were  not  to  his 
taste.  He  does  not  seem  to  have  troubled 
himself  to  say  even  that  much  to  poor  Bran- 
well  Bronte,  whose  frantic  appeals  to  his  judg- 
ment, and  even  his  mercy,  would  be  ridiculous 
enough  were  they  not  so  grimly  pathetic.  Per- 
haps he  thought  the  petitioner  crazy.  In  one 
letter  the  poor  fellow  ("who  aspired  to  admis- 
sion to  the  staff  of  "  Maga ")  declares  that 
the  idea  of  writing  for  any  other  periodical  is 
"  horribly  repulsive  "  to  him.  He  goes  on  to 


say  —  to  a  publisher  who,  it  seems,  had  never 
even  replied  to  his  effusions: 

"My  resolution  is  to  devote  my  ability  to  you;  and 
for  God's  sake,  till  you  see  whether  or  not  I  can  serve 
you,  do  not  coldly  refuse  my  aid.  All,  sir,  that  I  de- 
sire of  you  is :  that  in  answer  to  this  letter  you  would 
request  a  specimen  or  specimens  of  my  writing,  and  I  even 
wish  that  you  would  name  the  subject  on  which  you  would 
wish  me  to  write.  ...  I  know  that  I  am  not  one 
of  the  wretched  writers  of  the  day.  .  .  .  Now, 
sir,  do  not  act  like  a  commonplace  person,  but  like  a 
man  willing  to  examine  for  himself.  Do  not  turn  from 
the  native  truth  of  my  letters,  but  prove  me;  and  if  I 
do  not  stand  the  proof  I  will  not  further  press  myself 
on  you.  If  I  do  stand  it  —  why  —  you  have  lost  an 
able  writer  in  James  Hogg,  and  God  grant  you  may  get 
PATRICK  BRANWELL  BRONTE." 


one  111 


That  this  appeal  also  elicited  no  reply  appears 
from  the  fact  that  there  is  a  letter  dated  four 
months  later,  endorsed,  in  very  large  printed 
characters,  '*  SIR,  READ  NOW  AT  LAST."  It  en- 
closed a  poem  (entitled  "Misery,  Scene  1st"!) 
and  ends  with : 

"  I  send  it  because  it  is  soon  read  and  comes  from 
the  heart.  If  it  goes  to  yours,  print  it,  and  write  to 
me  on  the  subject  of  contribution.  Then  I  will  send 
prose.  But  if  what  I  now  send  is  worthless,  what  I 
have  said  has  only  been  conceit  and  folly.  Yet  CON- 
DEMN NOT  UNHEARD." 

The  last  letter  quoted  from  this  writer  begs 
for  an  interview,  and  hints  temptingly  at  some- 
thing (in  the  prose  way)  in  the  writer's  pos- 
session, "  the  design  of  which,  whatever  might 
be  its  execution,  would  be  superior  to  that  of 
any  series  of  articles  which  has  yet  appeared 
in  '  Blackwood's  Magazine.'  '  "  Now,  sir," 
concludes  this  unhappy  foil  of  his  brilliant 
sisters,  "  is  the  trouble  of  writing  a  single  line 
to  outweigh  the  certainty  of  doing  good  to  a 
fellow-creature  and  the  possibility  of  doing 
good  to  yourself?  Is  it  pride  which  actuates 
you  —  or  custom  —  or  prejudice  ?  Be  a  Man, 
sir!  "  etc.,  etc.  Poor  Bran  well !  no  leaf  of  the 
Bronte  laurels  grew  for  him. 

The  crowning  achievement  of  William  Black- 
wood's  earlier  career  was,  of  course,  the  starting 
of  "  Blackwood's  Magazine."  Of  this  event, 
as  of  the  corps  of  clever  scribblers  (we  had  al- 
most said  scamps)  who  rallied  to  "  Maga"  and 
gleefully  proceeded  to  run  amuck  at  all  Edin- 
burgh and  half  London,  Mrs.  Oliphant  gives  a 
lively  account.  The  initial  "  Blackwood  "  scored 
a  tremendous  success.  Why  ?  Chiefly,  so  far  as 
we  can  perceive,  by  reason  of  its  scurrillity. 
We  rejoice  to  think  that  a  publisher  who 
should  father  such  a  thing  nowadays  would  be 
a  lost  man.  We  would  no  more  tolerate  him 
than  we  would  tolerate  Theodore  Hook — that 
precious  "  wit "  who  used  to  pour  melted  butter 


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into  people's  coat-pockets,  and  distribute  medi- 
cated sweets  at  evening  parties.  But  tastes 
and  standards  were  otherwise  in  Mr.  Black- 
wood's  days  ;  and  "  Auld  Reekie  "  rose  to  the 
new  magazine  with  joyful  plaudits.  Mingled 
ominously,  however,  with  the  roar  of  Homeric 
laughter  came  a  deepening  wail  of  angry  dis- 
content from  the  victims.  Those  who  were 
hardest  hit  or  thinnest  skinned  talked  of  the 
law ;  and  presently  writs  and  threats  of  writs 
fell  in  at  the  Princes  Street  office  like  leaves 
in  Vallombrosa.  Wilson  and  Lockhart  fled  to 
the  lakes  ;  and  the  owner  of  "  Ebony  "  stayed 
to  brave  the  storm.  The  most  generally  offend- 
ing (though  not  the  most  offensive)  paper  in 
the  magazine  was  of  course  the  "  Chaldee 
Manuscript."  Everybody  has  heard  of  this 
jeu  d*  esprit ;  few  of  our  own  day  have  read  it. 
Those  who  do  read  it  will  marvel  at  the  tempest 
it  raised  in  the  Edinburgh  teapot.  Compared 
with  the  airy  raillery  of  a  moquer  of  genius 
like  Heine,  it  seems  a  rather  Boeotian  perform- 
ance— a  piece  of  literary  horse- play  that  old 
Burton  might  have  relished  as  he  relished  the 
banter  of  the  Oxford  bargees.  Briefly  de- 
scribed, it  was  a  local  satire,  bristling  with 
thinly-veiled  personalities,  some  of  them  merely 
playful,  others  malicious  enough,  and  couched 
in  Biblical  language.  Mrs.  Oliphant  furnishes 
some  specimens  of  it  (presumably  favorable 
ones),  one  of  which,  an  elegant  "  drive  "  at  Sir 
John  G.  Dalyell,  we  subjoin  : 

"  Now  the  other  beast  [Sir  John]  was  a  beast  that  he 
[Constable]  loved  not :  a  beast  of  burden  which  he  had 
in  his  courts  to  hew  wood  and  to  draw  water  and  to  do 
all  manner  of  unclean  things.  His  face  was  like  unto 
the  face  of  an  ape,  and  he  chattered  continually,  and 
his  nether  parts  were  uncomely.  Nevertheless  his  thighs 
were  hairy,  and  the  hair  was  as  the  shining  of  a  satin 
raiment,  and  he  skipped  with  the  branch  of  a  tree  in  his 
hand,  and  he  chewed  a  snail  between  his  teeth.  ...  If 
thou  lookest  upon  him  and  observest  his  ways,  behold 
he  was  born  of  his  mother  before  the  months  were  ful- 
filled, and  the  substance  of  a  living  thing  is  not  in  him, 
and  his  horns  are  like  the  potsherd  which  is  broken 
against  any  tree." 

But  we  must  now  take  leave  of  Mrs.  Oli- 
phant's  sprightly  book — one  of  the  best,  we 
repeat,  that  she  has  given  us.  The  second  vol- 
ume deals  largely  with  celebrities  of  a  some- 
what later  date  than  that  of  those  we  have  men- 
tioned, and  whets  the  appetite  for  a  third  and 
final  volume,  from  another  hand,  which  Mr. 
William  Blackwood  in  his  prefatory  note  en- 
courages us  to  look  for.  The  work  is  hand- 
somely printed  by  Messrs.  William  Blackwood 
&  Sons,  and  contains  portraits  of  the  successive 
chiefs  of  that  sterling  house.  E.  G.  J. 


A  GLIMPSE  OF  PURITAN  NEW  ENGLAND.* 

If  one  should  open  at  random  the  diary  of 
Samuel  Sewall,  recently  published  in  three  large 
volumes  by  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 
his  eye  would  be  very  likely  to  fall  on  some 
such  passage  as  the  following,  under  date  of 
Nov.  6,  1692  : 

"  Joseph  threw  a  knob  of  brass  and  hit  his  little  sister 
Betty  on  the  forehead  so  as  to  make  it  bleed  and  swell; 
upon  which  and  for  playing  at  prayer-time  and  eating 
when  return  thanks  I  whipped  him  pretty  smartly. 
When  I  first  went  in  (called  by  his  grandmother)  he 
sought  to  shadow  and  hide  himself  from  me  behind  the 
head  of  the  cradle;  which  gave  me  the  sorrowful  re- 
membrance of  Adam's  carriage." 

Inferior  in  literary  merit  to  Evelyn  and 
Pepys,  Sewall  may  yet  be  classed  with  his  two 
contemporary  diarists  ;  resembling  the  former 
in  the  piety  which  tinges  his  journal,  and  the 
latter  in  the  variety  of  his  scope  and  the  per- 
sonal, even  trivial,  nature  of  much  that  he 
records.  The  author  of  "  Samuel  Sewall  and 
the  World  He  Lived  In,"  with  an  enthusiasm 
for  his  theme  without  which,  indeed,  his  book 
would  not  be  the  very  readable  book  it  is,  claims 
that "  with  these  two  Englishmen,  in  due  time, 
by  a  well-weighed  and  just  verdict,  Samuel 
Sewall  will  be  associated  in  the  same  lasting 
fame." 

Sewall's  life,  mostly  spent  in  or  near  Boston, 
and  chiefly  in  the  public  capacities  of  judge  and 
of  chief  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Massa- 
chusetts, cannot  fail,  when  carefully  recorded, 
to  be  of  interest ;  and  when  the  record  is  based 
largely  on  his  voluminous  diary,  which  covers 
the  period  from  1673  to  1729,  it  must  needs 
give  us  many  a  peep  into  Puritan  family,  social, 
and  public  life,  through  the  eyes  of  one  who 
saw  them  in  person.  Letters  and  writings  of 
the  Winthrops  and  the  Mathers,  with  other 
sources  of  information,  are  freely  drawn  upon, 
and  the  whole  has  been  compiled  with  such 
scholarly  care  and  loving  zeal  that  one  more  is 
now  added  to  the  useful  series  of  studies  in 
Puritan  life  and  history  which  have,  in  recent 
years,  appeared  from  the  pens  of  Dr.  George 
E.  Ellis,  Mrs.  Alice  Morse  Earle,  Mr.  Frank 
Samuel  Child,  Mr.  Douglas  Campbell,  and 
other  workers  in  this  ever-fruitful  field.  In 
passing,  it  is  worth  while  to  note  the  totally 
different  point  of  view  and  conclusions  of  Mr. 
Chamberlain's  book  and  the  once  much-lauded 
"  Puritan  in  Holland,  England,  and  America." 

An  introductory  sketch  of  life  in  the  mother 


*  SAMUEL  SEWALL  AND  THE  WOULD  HB  LIVED  IN.    By 
Rev.  N.  H.  Chamberlain.    Boston :  De  Wolfe,  Fiske  &  Co. 


1897.] 


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country  at  the  time  of  the  Puritan  exodus  con- 
tains many  a  quaint  and  curious  touch.  A  poor 
widow,  asking  the  parish  clerk  the  price  of  a 
funeral  sermon  for  her  husband,  is  told  that 
some  are  10s.,  and  one  is  as  low  as  7s.  6^., 
which  last,  however,  no  one  would  ever  know 
to  be  a  funeral  sermon ;  but  that  if  she  pays 
for  one  of  the  guinea  sermons,  there  will  not  be 
a  dry  eye  in  the  house.  In  those  good  old  days 
of  abundant  leisure  the  post  coach  would  some- 
times agree  with  its  passengers  beforehand  to 
stop  over  at  any  town  on  the  way  where  a  cock- 
fight was  in  progress.  It  was  nineteen  days 
after  Cromwell  had  been  made  Protector  before 
the  bells  were  rung  in  Bridgewater.  Trades- 
men from  the  Provinces  commonly  made  their 
wills  before  going  up  to  London,  and  then  often 
walked  the  entire  distance  in  that  same  solemn 
frame  of  mind  in  which  Sewall  describes  him- 
self as  returning  through  vivid  perils  from  a 
trip  to  Cambridge  or  Roxbury  Neck,  noting  his 
safe  home-coming  with  a  devout  "  Laus  Deo  " 
in  his  diary. 

Chapters  on  "  The  Puritan  Exodus,"  "  Sewall 
and  the  Puritan  Church,"  and  "  Sewall  and 
the  Commonwealth,"  are  followed  by  one  on 
"  Sewall  as  a  Business  Man,"  which  shows 
him  to  have  been  shrewd  and  cautious  in  all 
commercial  dealings.  His  education  at  Har- 
vard naturally  marked  him  for  the  ministry, 
and  he  did  preach  a  few  times,  on  one  occasion 
delivering  a  sermon  of  two  and  one-half  hours' 
duration  —  good  measure  even  for  those  times. 

The  pictures  of  Indian  warfare  disclose  many 
harrowing  scenes.  Mrs.  Rowlandson,  wife  of 
the  minister  of  Lancaster,  shows  us  what  man- 
ner of  men  they  were  who  settled  New  England, 
when  she  speaks  of  some  little  children  who, 
on  being  captured  with  their  mother  by  the 
•  Indians,  "  did  not  shed  one  tear,  but  prayed  all 
the  while  when  their  mother  was  killed  and 
burnt  before  them."  In  his  views  on  the  treat- 
ment of  both  Indians  and  negroes,  Judge 
Sewall  was  far  in  advance  of  his  times,  and 
many  of  his  words  of  warning  ring  with  a  singu- 
larly prophetic  note.  The  author,  by  a  curious 
argument  in  the  appendix,  claims  that  "  neither 
the  Puritans  of  New  England  nor  their  descend- 
ants are  responsible  for  the  gradual  extinction 
of  the  New  England  Indians."  The  introduc- 
tion of  disease,  "  the  importation  of  civilized 
microbes  into  heathen  lands,"  is  made  to  bear 
the  blame  :  for  further  particulars  see  Darwin's 
"  Voyage  of  the  Beagle  "  and  Koch's  researches 
on  microbes.  And  yet  it  will  not  be  at  once 
admitted  that  the  importation  of  gunpowder 


and  whiskey  did  not  play  a  large  part  in  the 
extermination  of  Poor  Lo.  It  would  be  inter- 
esting, if  space  permitted,  to  compare  the  totally 
different  methods  and  degrees  of  success  of 
the  Puritan  missionary  movement  among  the 
Indians  and  that  of  the  French  Jesuits,  both 
representing  the  same  great  church.  The  Jesuit 
fathers  shared  the  life  and  hardships  of  their 
converts,  living  in  the  same  wigwams,  eating 
the  same  coarse  fare,  and  paddling  in  the  same 
canoes  with  them  ;  but  even  so  generous  a  soul 
as  the  apostle  Eliot,  when  he  spent  the  Sabbath 
in  Natick,  took  with  him  food  prepared  by  his 
wife  and  dwelt  apart  in  a  chamber  fitted  up  in 
his  meeting-house. 

The  chapter  on  the  Salem  Witchcraft  shows 
Sewall  in  an  unfavorable  light,  although  he 
afterward  sorrowfully  acknowledged  his  error 
in  subscribing  to  a  foolish  superstition. 

In  reading  those  portions  of  the  work  devoted 
to  the  Puritan  domestic  and  social  life,  with  all 
its  dreary  asceticism,  one  is  reminded  of  Macau- 
lay's  well-known  utterance  to  the  effect  that 
the  Puritans  "  hated  bear-baiting,  not  because 
it  gave  pain  to  the  bear,  but  because  it  gave 
pleasure  to  the  spectators."  Dancing,  cards, 
music,  were  all  forbidden ;  while  their  few  books 
were  so  dull  that  conversation  with  a  cow  would 
have  been  a  refreshing  stimulant  in  comparison. 

But  in  the  chapter  on  "  Betty  Sewall  and 
Puritan  Marriages,"  human  nature  —  or  at 
least  woman  nature —  is  seen  to  have  been  much 
the  same  then  as  now ;  while  the  account,  as 
taken  from  his  diary,  of  Se wall's  flirtations, 
marriages,  and  other  amatory  escapades,  after 
the  death  of  his  first  wife  in  1717  — when  he 
himself  was  sixty- five  years  old  —  demonstrates 
the  traditional  superiority  of  an  old  fool's  folly 
over  that  of  a  young  one.  Like  many  people 
who  have  launched  into  autobiography,  this 
aged  charmer  does  not  know  when  to  close  his 
diary,  and  his  biographer  thinks  it  only  right 
to  punish  him  for  his  indiscretion  by  giving  to 
the  world  some  of  his  later  entries  along  with 
the  rest.  Shall  we  regard  his  autumnal  frivol- 
ity as  one  more  proof  that  human  nature  will 
not  be  denied  its  rights,  and,  if  forced  to  con- 
form to  a  strait-laced  Puritanism  in  its  spring- 
time, will  kick  up  its  heels  in  old  age? 

The  book  is  well  illustrated  with  portraits 
and  other  cuts,  and  provided  with  an  appendix 
of  interesting  matter,  but  has  no  index,  which 
is  really  demanded  by  its  319  pages  of  miscel- 
laneous material,  nor  any  list  of  authorities, 
which  would  have  been  welcome  to  the  student. 
PERCY  FAVOR  BICKNELL. 


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TRAVEL.S  VARIOUS.* 

In  the  middle  Orient  lies  idyllic  and  pictur- 
esque Burma,  a  paradisaic  land,  where  winter 
and  want  never  invade.  Thus  we  may  sum- 
marize the  impression  we  gain  from  the  sumpt- 
uous volume  by  Mrs.  Ernest  Hart,  entitled  "  Pic- 
turesque Burma."  This  is  the  first  general  work 
of  importance  on  Burma  since  Scott's  "  Burma 
as  it  Was,  Is,  and  Will  Be  "  (1886),  a  useful 
book,  though  not  quoted  in  Mrs.  Hart's  rather 
meagre  list  of  authorities.  "  Picturesque  Bur- 
ma "  gives  a  clear  summary  account  of  the  coun- 
try and  the  people,  their  customs,  religion,  and 
history.  Mrs.  Hart's  travels  were  not  exten- 
sive, and  in  her  description  of  the  country,  as 
elsewhere,  she  relies  much  on  Yule  and  other 
writers.  She  describes  from  report,  but  in 
apparent  good  faith,  "the  deadly  pangu  spider  " 
as  striking  "  the  serpent  with  its  poison  fang, 
and  outvenoming  the  most  venomous  in  hate," 
sucking  "  the  brains  of  its  victim."  As  a 
sample  of  the  book,  we  quote  Mrs.  Hart's  ac- 
count of  Burmese  women. 

"  Women  in  Burma  are  probably  freer  and  happier 
than  they  are  anywhere  else  in  the  world.  Though 
Burma  is  bordered  on  one  side  by  China,  where  women 
are  held  in  contempt,  and  on  the  other  by  India,  where 
they  are  kept  in  the  strictest  seclusion,  Burmese  women 
have  achieved  for  themselves  and  have  been  permitted 
by  their  men  to  attain  a  freedom  of  life  and  action  that 
has  no  parallel  among  Oriental  peoples.  The  secret 
lies,  perhaps,  in  the  fact  that  the  Burmese  woman  is 
active  and  industrious,  while  the  Burmese  man  is  indo- 
lent and  often  a  recluse.  Becoming,  therefore,  both 
by  taste  and  by  habit  the  money-earner,  the  bargainer 
and  the  financier  of  the  household,  she  has  asserted  and 
obtained  for  herself  the  right  to  hold  what  she  wins  and 
the  respect  due  to  one  who  can  and  does  direct  and  con- 
trol. Things  are  strangely  reversed  in  Burma,  for  here 
we  see  man  as  the  religious  soul  of  the  nation  and 
woman  its  brain.  Burmese  women  are  born  traders, 
and  it  is  more  often  the  wife  than  the  husband  who 

*  PICTURESQUE  BURMA,  PAST  AND  PRESENT.  By  Mrs. 
Ernest  Hart.  Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company. 

THE  NEW  AFRICA.  By  Aurel  Schulz  and  August  Hammar. 
Illustrated.  New  York:  Imported  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons. 

IMPRESSIONS  OF  SOUTH  AFRICA.  By  James  Bryce.  Illus- 
trated. New  York :  The  Century  Company. 

WHITE  MAN'S  AFRICA.  By  Poultney  Bigelow.  Illustrated. 
New  York :  Harper  &  Brothers. 

IMPRESSIONS  OF  TURKEY.  By  W.  M.  Ramsay,  D.C.L., 
LL.D.  Illustrated.  New  York  :  Q.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

JOURNEYS  THROUGH  FRANCE.  By  H.  A.  Taine,  D.C.L. 
Illustrated.  New  York :  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

THE  ITALIANS  OF  TO-DAY.  By  Rene1  Bazin.  Translated 
by  William  Marchant.  New  York :  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

JAVA  :  THE  GARDEN  OF  THE  EAST.  By  Eliza  Ruhamah 
Scidmore.  Illustrated.  New  York :  The  Century  Co. 

IN  JOURNEYINGS  OFT.  By  Georgiana  Baucus.  Illustrated. 
Cincinnati :  Curts  &  Jennings. 

WITH  A  PESSIMIST  IN  SPAIN.  By  Mary  F.  Nixon.  Illus- 
trated. Chicago :  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 


drives  the  bargain  with  the  English  buyer  for  the  paddy 
harvest,  or,  at  any  rate,  she  is  present  on  the  occasion 
and  helps  her  easy-going  husband  to  stand  firm.  So 
highly  is  trading  esteemed,  that  a  daughter  of  well-to- 
do  parents,  and  even  a  young  married  woman,  will  set 
up  a  booth  in  the  bazaar,  and,  dressed  in  a  bright  silk 
tamein  (skirt)  and  white  jacket,  with  a  flower  jauntily 
stuck  into  her  coiled  black  tresses,  she  will  start  every 
morning  with  a  tray  of  sweetmeats,  fruit,  or  toys  on 
her  head,  and,  with  a  gaiety  and  grace  born  of  the  sun- 
shine and  the  bounteousness  of  the  land,  will  push  a 
brisk  trade  all  through  the  short  and  sunny  day.  The 
earnings  thus  made  are  the  woman's  own,  and  cannot 
be  touched  by  her  husband." 

The  author  concludes  her  very  optimistic  book 
with  these  remarks : 

"  The  long  independence  of  the  Burmese  nation,  the 
absence  of  caste,  the  free  position  of  the  women,  the 
ethical  and  non-idolatrous  character  of  the  Buddhist 
religion,  the  freedom  from  the  thraldom  of  a  priest- 
hood, have  combined  to  make  Burma  as  distinctive  in 
character  from  Hindu  nationalities  as  is  Japan.  To  be 
passed  under  the  rule  of  the  English,  to  be  freed  from 
tyranny,  to  be  taught  good  government,  is  a  happy  fate 
for  Burma.  As  the  country  improves  in  population,  in 
wealth,  and  in  education,  it  may  in  the  far  future  re- 
cover its  lost  nationality,  and,  freed  from  ancient  Bur- 
mese tyranny  and  cruelty,  give  the  world  the  example 
of  a  people  who  know  how  to  be  happy  without  caring 
incessantly  to  toil,  and  to  be  joyous  without  desiring 
insatiably  to  possess." 

But  it  will  certainly  occur  to  many  readers 
of  even  this  book  that  the  Burmese  are  so  weak 
a  people  that  they  are  destined  to  be  absorbed 
and  obliterated  lay  the  Chinese  and  English. 
Mrs.  Hart  does  not  regard  missionary  work 
with  great  favor,  though  the  work  of  the 
American  Baptists  among  the  Karens  is  highly 
praised.  On  the  whole  Mrs.  Hart's  work  can 
be  commended  as  a  popular  and  pleasant  sketch, 
although  she  gives  little  that  is  really  new,  and 
her  treatment  is  not  very  thorough.  The  book 
is  provided  with  good  maps  and  illustrated  with 
excellent  photogravures  and  woodcuts. 

"  The  New  Africa  "  is  the  ambitious  title  of 
the  next  volume  on  our  list  of  travels.  How- 
ever, the  really  new  Africa  explored  by  the 
writers,  Messrs.  Aurel  Schulz  and  August  Ham- 
mar,  was  only  a  small  section  of  the  Chobe  and 
Okovanga  rivers  in  the  central  part  of  South 
Africa  ;  and  the  real  interest  in  this  work  does 
not  lie  in  its  rather  meagre  scientific  results,  but 
rather  in  its  excellence  as  a  narrative  of  adven- 
ture and  sport.  The  authors'  many  adventures 
with  savage  beasts  and  men  are  detailed  in  a 
simple,  direct,  unassuming  way,  without  any  pre- 
tentious and  strained  literary  art,  and  yet  with 
a  natural  spontaneous  vividness  which  is  very 
attractive.  Mr.  Schulz  fell  in  with  a  tribe  of 
giants  where  he  had  "  the  most  novel  experi- 
ence "  of  being  "  a  small  man  in  a  crowd,  as  the 


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six  foot  two  inches  I  stand  in  my  socks  generally 
reverses  the  position  in  other  society."  The 
men  of  this  tribe  were  all  nearly  seven  feet 
tall.  Again,  he  describes  the  very  strange  and 
amusing  method  by  which  some  naked  savages 
keep  warm. 

"  They  build  themselves  little  oblong  frameworks  of 
green  wood,  sixteen  inches  high,  on  top  of  which  they 
made  fires.  Sleeping  under  this  for  warmth,  the  burn- 
ing embers  often  fell  through  the  framework  on  their 
naked  skins,  raising  blisters,  which,  when  healed,  left  the 
affected  part  white  or  grey.  It  is  from  this  circum- 
stance, widely  spread  in  South  Africa,  that  the  Boers 
have  humorously  nicknamed  the  tribes  living  west  of  the 
Transvaal  '  Vaalpense,'  or  '  grey  bellies.'  " 

The  authors  give  a  very  interesting  account 
of  Victoria  Falls,  which  has  "  at  least  four  times 
the  volume  of  water  and  over  three  times  the 
height  "  of  Niagara,  and  which  "  burst  on  one's 
sensibilities  immediately  with  appalling  grand- 
eur." Altogether,  despite  some  inelegancies  of 
style,  this  work  is  quite  the  best  book  of  adven- 
ture and  sport  we  have  met  for  some  time.  The 
volume  contains  a  route  map,  which  will  mean 
little  to  general  readers,  and  should  be  supple- 
mented by  a  complete  map  of  South  Africa. 
The  illustrations  are  for  the  most  part  fairly 
good.  One  illustration  with  accompanying  re- 
marks, and  also  some  later  remarks  on  a  mal- 
formation, are  more  suited  to  a  medical  work 
than  to  one  intended  for  popular  circulation. 

Another  book  on  South  Africa,  but  of  quite 
a  different  order,  is  Mr.  James  Bryce's  "  Im- 
pressions of  South  Africa,"  of  which  the  readers 
of  the  "  Century  Magazine  "  have  already  had 
a  taste.  This  book  is  of  the  same  kind  as  the 
author's  famous  "  American  Commonwealth," 
though  on  a  much  smaller  scale,  and  shows  the 
same  acuteness  and  care,  the  same  judicious 
temper  and  comprehensiveness  of  view,  the 
same  clear  and  luminous  style.  The  work  on 
South  Africa  consists  of  a  short  account  of  the 
country  and  people,  a  historical  summary,  and 
some  notes  of  travel,  the  whole  forming  much 
the  most  reliable  and  useful  general  account 
that  has  yet  appeared.  Mr.  Bryce  finds  in 
the  mining  and  ranch  country  a  frontier  life 
which  he  contrasts  favorably  with  frontier  life 
in  the  United  States,  and  he  looks  in  the  near 
future  to  great  prosperity  for  a  South  African 
Confederation  under  the  suzerainty  of  Great 
Britain.  Mr.  Bryce's  studies  were  made  in 
1895,  but  the  book  has  been  brought  down  to 
date.  The  maps,  physical  and  political,  are 
very  useful  features. 

Mr.  Poultney  Bigelow's  "White  Man's 
Africa  "  is  made  up  of  papers  that  have  ap- 


peared in  "  Harper's  Magazine,"  and  gives  in 
pleasant  form  the  result  of  the  author's  personal 
observations  in  a  brief  trip  through  English, 
Portuguese,  and  Boer  South  Africa.  The  Boer 
question  is  treated  at  some  length.  Mr.  Bige- 
low  made  the  acquaintance  of  President  Kruger, 
whom  he  characterizes  thus  : 

"  Kruger  is  the  incarnation  of  local  self-government 
in  its  purest  form.  He  is  president  among  his  burghers 
by  the  same  title  that  he  is  elder  in  his  church.  He 
makes  no  pretention  to  rule  them  by  invoking  the  law, 
but  he  does  rule  them  by  reasoning  with  them  until  they 
yield  to  his  superiority  in  argument.  He  rules  among 
free  burghers  because  he  knows  them  well  and  they 
know  him  well.  He  knows  no  red-tape  nor  pigeon-holes. 
His  door  is  open  to  every  comer;  his  memory  recalls 
every  face;  he  listens  to  every  complaint,  and  sits  in 
patriarchal  court  from  six  o'clock  in  the  morning  until 
bedtime.  He  is  a  magnificent  anachronism.  He  alone 
is  equal  to  the  task  of  holding  his  singular  country  to- 
gether in  its  present  state.  His  life  is  the  history  of 
that  state.  Already  we  hear  the  rumblings  that  indicate 
for  the  Transvaal  an  earthquake  of  some  sort.  We  pray 
they  may  not  disturb  the  declining  years  of  that  coun- 
try's hero  —  the  patient,  courageous,  forgiving,  loyal, 
and  sagacious  Paul  Kruger." 

Mr.  Bigelow  speaks  severely  of  Portuguese 
misgovernment,  but  he  has  much  praise  for 
Orange  Free  State,  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  for 
Natal,  "the  Colonial  Paradise."  The  book  con- 
tains historical  matter  of  value,  and  two  folk- 
lore stories  that  will  interest  the  anthropologist. 
The  chief  criticism  that  we  have  to  offer  is  that 
the  book  is  too  obviously  a  rather  hasty  "write- 
up,"  and  too  journalistic  in  quality.  The 
numerous  illustrations  are  well  drawn  and  very 
interesting. 

The  well-known  English  archaeologist,  Mr. 
W.  M.  Ramsay,  modestly  entitles  his  latest  vol- 
ume "  Impressions  of  Turkey ";  but,  as  a  m  atter  of 
fact,  we  find  here,  not  what  many  readers  might 
expect,  superficial  and  rapid  notes,  but  close  and 
careful  studies  of  Turkish  life  and  character, 
which  are  the  fruit  of  twelve  years  of  observa- 
tion in  manifold  wanderings  through  Asia 
Minor.  In  a  suggestive,  thoughtful,  impartial, 
yet  sympathetic  way,  he  describes  and  discusses 
the  Turk  and  other  Mohammedan  races,  the 
Armenian,  the  Greek,  and  the  American  mis- 
sionary and  his  adherents.  As  to  the  latter,  we 
may  well  quote  a  sentence  or  two  from  the  pre- 
face to  the  American  edition  of  Mr.  Ramsay's 
work : 

"  My  hope  is  that  this  book  may  do  something  to  pro- 
duce in  America  an  adequate  conception  of  the  great 
educational  organization  which  the  American  mission- 
aries have  built  up  in  Turkey  with  admirable  foresight 
and  skill.  Beginning  with  a  prejudice  against  their 
work,  I  was  driven  by  the  force  of  facts  and  experience 
to  the  opinion  that  the  mission  has  been  the  strongest, 


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as  well  as  the  most  beneficent,  influence  in  causing  the 
movement  toward  civilization  which  has  been  percept- 
ible in  varying  degrees  among  all  the  peoples  of  Turkey, 
but  which  has  been  zealously  opposed  and  almost  arrested 
by  the  present  Sultan  with  the  support  of  the  Six  Euro- 
pean Powers." 

As  to  the  Armenian  massacres,  Mr.  Ramsay 
writes : 

"  There  has  been  no  exaggeration  in  the  worst  ac- 
counts of  the  horrors  of  Armenia.  A  writer  with  the 
vivid  imagination 'of  Dumas,  and  the  knowledge  of  evil 
that  Zola  possesses,  could  not  attain,  by  any  description, 
the  effect  that  the  sight  of  one  massacre  in  the  Kurdish 
part  of  Armenia  would  produce  on  any  spectator.  The 
Kurdish  part  of  Armenia  is  the  '  black  country.'  It  has 
been  a  charnal  house.  One  dare  not  enter  it.  One  can- 
not think  about  it.  One  knows  not  how  many  maimed, 
mutilated,  outraged  Armenians  are  still  starving  there." 

Mr.  Ramsay's  book  is  clearly  and  pleasantly 
written.  He  is  a  man  of  very  careful  and 
catholic  observation  and  judgment,  and  he 
comes,  perhaps,  nearer  than  any  recent  writer 
to  the  truth  about  Turkey. 

The  American  publishers  of  Taine's  works, 
Messrs.  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  have  issued,  in  uni- 
form style  with  their  previous  edition,  a  volume 
by  him  entitled  "Journeys  through  France." 
This  book  consists  of  notes  evidently  made  by 
M.  Taine,  while  on  his  journeys  as  examiner 
in  law  for  the  provinces.  Such  provincial  cities 
as  Douai,  Rennes,  Bourdeaux,  Toulouse,  Mar- 
seilles, are  sharply  and  clearly  characterized 
from  the  Tainesque  point  of  view,  —  that  is,  as 
influenced  by  environment.  Thus  on  Douai 
and  its  vicinity  he  remarks:  "  These  are  verita- 
ble low  countries,  and  that  implies  everything, 
morally  and  physically."  Among  many  acute 
and  suggestive  remarks  on  art  we  quote  this : 

"  Nowadays,  painters  recognize  the  violent,  strange, 
or  poetic  side  of  nature;  but  their  peasants  are  no  more 
than  physiological  studies.  The  future  in  every  art  is 
for  such  as  select  or  meet  with  subjects  which  all  suc- 
ceeding generations  will  approve.  Happiness  is  one  of 
these  themes,  but  nervous  disorders  and  psychological 
peculiarities  are  not  amongst  them.  I  could  not  perceive 
the  beauty  of  happiness  until  I  was  well  advanced  in  life. 
In  the  early  days  this  did  not  come  home  to  me,  or  I 
thought  it  stale." 

While  this  book  is  not  one  of  Taine's  best, 
yet  it  is  of  considerable  interest  as  a  series  of 
literary  etchings  of  French  provincialism.  Yet 
in  this  work,  as  in  others  by  him,  we  often  feel 
that  he  is  over  analytic  and  over  reflective  in 
his  positive  type  of  mind ;  and  yet  again  we 
often  feel  that  he  is  only  a  high  type  of  dilet- 
tante, seeking  experience  for  its  own  sake,  and 
revelling  in  a  soft  and  sad  sensuousness.  The 
woodcuts  in  this  volume  are  of  the  old-fashioned 
picturesque  style,  and  in  some  cases,  as  that  of 
Rennes,  scarcely  illustrate  the  text. 


M.  Rene  Bazin,  a  French  litterateur  of  note, 
has  written  an  agreeable  and  instructive  little 
book  on  "The  Italians  of  To-day."  These 
notes  show  a  Frenchman's  keenness  of  percep- 
tion and  clearness  of  expression,  touching 
luminously  and  freshly  on  the  condition  of  in- 
dustry, politics,  literature,  and  art,  in  various 
parts  of  Italy.  M.  Bazin's  sympathetic  sociality 
and  urbanity,  and  his  artistic  appreciation,  are 
everywhere  apparent.  A  delicate  impressionism 
and  graceful  sentimentality  abound  ;  though 
sometimes  the  former  is  too  sketchy,  and  the 
latter  too  effusive.  And  yet  the  author  is  quite 
able  to  deal  with  plain  facts  in  a  prosaic  and 
scientific  way,  as  we  see,  for  instance,  in  his 
account  of  Italian  taxation.  Perhaps  the  best 
thing  in  the  book  is  the  quite  full  and  interesting 
description  of  the  little-visited  Roman  Cam- 
pagna,  from  which  we  extract  this  pretty  etch- 
ing as  a  sample  of  the  author's  description : 

"  On  my  way  back  to  the  city  I  saw  a  splendid  sight. 
In  a  field  which  was  axe-shaped,  broadening  in  the  dis- 
tance, fifteen  pair  of  gray  oxen  were  ploughing  in  line. 
The  fifteen  ploughs  were  exactly  aligned,  opening  and 
throwing  out  earth  which  was  a  reddish-purple  color. 
These  are  the  same  implements  of  husbandry  that  Ver- 
gil saw,  —  an  iron  wedge,  two  wooden  wings  in  front  of 
a  joist,  a  round  platform  behind,  traversed  by  an  upright 
stick.  On  the  platform  stands  the  laborer,  with  one 
hand  holding  by  the  upright,  with  the  other  using  the 
goad.  And  these  beautiful,  primitive  forms  of  labor, — 
the  immense  oxen,  the  small  plough,  the  man,  motion- 
less and  stately, —  were  moving  slowly  forward,  leaving 
half  the  field  furrowed  and  steaming  behind  them." 

While  this  book  does  not  pretend  to  a  com- 
plete discussion  of  its  subject,  it  will  yet  be  of 
service,  and  by  reason  of  its  style  it  cannot  fail 
to  amuse  and  interest. 

Miss  Eliza  Scidmore,  in  "  Java,  the  Garden 
of  the  East,"  the  contents  of  which  have  in  part 
appeared  in  the  "  Century  Magazine,"  gives  a 
facile  and  agreeable  though  not  especially  note- 
worthy sketch  of  the  Java  of  to-day.  Her  travel 
was  confined  to  a  trip  over  the  line  of  railway 
which  the  Dutch  have  constructed  through  the 
center  of  Java,  and  much  of  the  volume  is  of 
the  guide-book  order — a  general  description 
with  little  personal  flavor.  However,  her  pic- 
ture of  Java  is  clear,  and  seems  correct  as  far 
as  it  goes.  The  island  is  about  the  size  of  the 
state  of  New  York,  and  yet  contains  24,000,000 
inhabitants,  who  have  made  its  whole  country 
a  veritable  garden.  "  All  Java  is  in  a  way  as 
finished  as  little  Holland  itself,  the  whole  island 
cultivated  from  edge  to  edge  like  a  tulip-garden, 
and  connected  throughout  its  length  with  post- 
roads  smooth  and  perfect  as  park  drives,  all 
arched  with  waringen,  kanari,  tamarind,  or  teak 


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trees.  The  rank  and  tangled  jungle  is  invisible, 
save  by  long  journeys  ;  and  great  snakes,  wild 
tigers,  and  rhinoceroses  are  almost  unknown 
now.  One  must  go  to  Borneo  and  the  farther 
islands  to  see  them,  too."  In  short  we  see  "  the 
tropics  tamed,  combed,  and  curbed,  hitched  to 
the  cart  of  commerce  and  made  mart's  abject 
servant."  Miss  Scidmore's  descriptions  of  the 
ruins  at  Boro  Boeder  and  Brambanam  are  per- 
haps the  most  valuable  portion  of  the  book. 
The  photographic  illustrations  are  quite  suc- 
sessful. 

The  volume  called  "  In  Journeyings  Oft " 
is  distinctly  a  missionary  book,  recording  the 
travels,  in  1894,  of  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Nind,  as  an 
officer  of  the  Woman's  Methodist  Missionary 
Society,  visiting  mission  stations  in  Japan, 
China,  Burma,  and  India.  It  is  well  written 
and  illustrated,  and  will  be  of  special  service 
to  missionary  societies.  The  book  is  introduced 
to  the  public  by  Mrs.  Nind's  kinsman  the  well- 
known  Bishop  Nind. 

"  With  a  Pessimist  in  Spain  "  is  the  playful 
title,  referring  to  a  companion  in  a  tour  through 
Spain,  which  Miss  Mary  F.  Nixon  has  chosen 
for  a  brief  and  agreeable  book  of  travels.  The 
story  of  a  commonplace  tour  is  told  in  a  famil- 
iar, humorous  vein,  and  in  a  brisk  conversa- 
tional form,  whereby  the  author  adroitly  pops 
instructive  pills  from  the  guide-book  into  the 
unsuspecting  reader's  mind.  Bright,  pleasant, 
lively  as  it  is,  we  feel  sometimes  that  it  is  too 
strenuously  entertaining.  The  style  is  some- 
times a  bit  careless  in  a  feminine  way,  as  when 
she  informs  us  that  "  the  Pessimist  is  a  dear, 
but  she  is  not  built  for  dignity."  The  illus- 
trations are  good,  and  the  book  as  a  whole  will 
serve  as  a  popular  account  of  the  regions  visited. 
HIRAM  M.  STANLEY. 


A  MONUMENTAL,  BIRD  BOOK.* 


The  past  two  or  three  years  have  been  pro- 
lific of  works  on  Ornithology  meriting  unre- 
served approval.  The  student  in  this  branch  of 
natural  history  need  have  no  future  difficulty 
in  selecting  a  treatise  suited  to  his  needs.  From 
a  varied  and  admirable  series,  the  novice  and 
the  expert  may  now  make  his  choice. 

At  the  head  of  the  list,  for  purposes  of  refer- 
ence, stands  the  recently  completed  "  Diction- 

*  A  DICTIONARY  OF  BIRDS.  By  Alfred  Newton,  assisted  by 
Hans  Qadow.  With  contributions  from  Richard  Lydekker, 
Charles  S.  Roy,  and  Robert  W.  Shufeldt,  M.D.  New  York  : 
The  Macmillan  Co. 


ary  of  Birds,"  by  Dr.  Alfred  Newton,  Professor 
of  Zoology  and  Biology  in  Magdalene  College, 
Cambridge.  The  work  has  been  in  process  of 
publication  at  the  press  of  Messrs.  Adam  and 
Charles  Black  of  Edinburgh,  since  1889,  four 
several  parts  being  issued  at  varying  intervals, 
the  final  one  bearing  the  date  of  1897.  In  its 
completed  form,  the  book,  a  large  octavo,  com- 
prises nearly  1100  pages.  The  Introduction, 
extending  through  120  pages,  is  in  itself  worth 
the  price  of  the  volume, —  presenting  as  it  does 
a  detailed  account  of  the  growth  of  ornithology 
from  its  obscure  beginnings  in  the  time  of  Aris- 
totle to  its  present  stage  of  active  development. 
The  reader  is  impressed  by  the  author's  firm 
grasp  of  his  subject,  and  by  the  calm  and  im- 
partial judgment  manifest  in  handling  it.  No 
point  is  left  untouched  in  the  delineation,  and 
in  each  instance  due  acknowledgment  is  made 
of  the  services  of  the  contributor  who  has  lent 
appreciable  aid  to  the  advance  of  the  science. 
This  masterly  Introduction  compresses  into  a 
clear  and  comprehensive  view  the  whole  history 
of  ornithology  down  to  the  latest  date. 

The  body  of  the  dictionary  is  composed 
mainly  of  the  articles  prepared  by  Professor 
Newton  originally  for  the  British  Encyclopedia. 
These  have  been,  where  necessary,  enlarged  and 
re-shaped  to  admit  the  latest  facts  and  conclu- 
sions pertaining  to  their  respective  topics.  The 
special  department  of  ornithic  anatomy  has  been 
given  into  the  hands  of  Dr.  Hans  Gadow,  whose 
name  certifies  to  the  ability  with  which  it  has 
been  managed.  Other  collaborators  who  have 
added  value  and  variety  of  interest  to  the  work 
are  Mr.  Lydekker  and  Professor  Ray,  —  the 
one  a  pupil,  the  other  a  colleague  of  Professor 
Newton,  —  and  Dr.  Shufeldt,  formerly  of  the 
United  States  Army.  The  articles,  arranged 
in  alphabetical  order,  are  uniformly  concise, 
crowding  into  the  smallest  space  the  largest 
amount  of  information  allowed  by  the  dimen- 
sions of  the  work.  It  is  fair  to  say  that  not  a 
bird  which  may  reasonably  claim  mention  has 
been  omitted  from  the  catalogue  of  definitions, 
while  the  myriad  names  used  early  or  late  in 
the  classification  of  species  will  be  found  each 
in  its  proper  place.  The  extent  of  the  infor- 
mation conveyed  may  be  inferred  without  fur- 
ther detail.  A  map  accompanying  the  long 
and  able  essay  on  the  geographical  distribution 
of  birds,  and  a  considerable  number  of  engrav- 
ings interspersed  through  the  text,  complete 
the  usefulness  of  what  may  be  justly  denomi- 
nated a  monumental  work. 

SARA  A.  HUBBARD. 


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THE  TOUCHSTONE  OF  FACT  IN  MATTERS  OF 
STYLE.* 

Like  the  contests  of  Homeric  heroes  are  the 
word-battles  of  Dr.  Fitzedward  Hall  and  Mr.  R. 
O.  Williams.  Ordinary  persons  stand  amazed 
as  they  lightly  handle  weapons  which  ten  com- 
mon men  could  hardly  lift,  and  sustain  the 
most  brain-stunning  shocks  with  result  only  of 
the  most  annihilating  ripostes.  We  think  of 
no  equals  to  them  since  the  days  of  Dr.  John- 
son and  Home  Tooke,  or  perhaps  we  should 
go  back  to  Socrates  and  Cratylus,  and  even  of 
these  we  must  gain  a  notion  at  second-hand 
from  the  photographs  of  Landor  and  Plato. 
Our  modern  method  is  to  preserve  such  en- 
counters in  the  kinetoscope ;  Mr.  Williams's 
publication  of  some  of  his  letters,  with  Dr. 
Hall's  replies,  makes  us  absolute  spectators. 

The  range  of  this  interesting  book  is  not  very 
great :  some  half  a  dozen  questions  only  are 
exploited,  and  these  are  of  a  minor  character. 
Known  to,  none  but  they,  the  imperfect  passive, 
in  or  at  with  place  names,  to  part  with,  every  and 
each, — these,  and  "  the  American  dialect,"  are 
the  chief  topics.  Knowledge  on  them  is  pleas- 
ant, but  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  we  could 
live,  write,  and  speak  happily  without  discom- 
forting ourselves  very  much  on  their  account. 

But,  actually,  a  book  like  this  has  a  far 
greater  import  than  might  appear  at  first  sight. 
It  marks  a  point  well  worth  noting  in  the 
speaking  and  writing  of  correct  English.  Some 
nations  have  definite  authorities  that  can  be 
appealed  to  in  disputed  cases ;  we  have  none. 
Our  principle  of  leaving  to  private  enterprise 
all  that  government  is  not  compelled  to  assume 
as  a  charge,  has  left  the  regulating  our  speech 
to  the  private  effort  of  grammarians  and  lexi- 
cographers, and  no  one  of  these  powers  being, 
as  such,  of  any  especial  authority  (despite  the 
most  vigorous  advertisement  and  commenda- 
tion), one  and  all  take  their  stand  on  the  rock 
of  "  good  usage."  Other  considerations  may 
enter  into  discussion,  but  this  is  the  great 
foundation  stone,  or,  more  accurately,  touch- 
stone. Hence  the  importance  in  any  given 
case  of  knowing  what  good  usage  is.  In  many 
cases  the  fact  (carefully  hidden  from  sight)  is 
that  "good  usage"  is  a  kind  of  Mrs.  Harris: 
"  there's  no  sich  person."  But  often  it  would 
seem  that  there  is  a  sort  of  instinct  among 
good  writers  which  leads  them  in  any  particu- 
lar case  to  follow  one  mode  of  expression 

*  SOME  QUESTIONS  OF  GOOD  ENGLISH.     By  Ralph  Olm- 
sted  Williams.    New  York:  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 


rather  than  another.  Now,  curiously  enough, 
in  disputed  cases,  not  only  are  the  disputants 
very  often  ignorant  of  what  good  usage  is,  but 
they  usually  make  no  serious  effort  to  find  it 
out.  This,  however,  is  just  what  Mr.  Williams 
and  Dr.  Hall  do,  in  as  many  cases  as  a  good 
God  gives  them  strength  to  compass.  Mr. 
Williams  gives  twenty-four  citations  from  as 
many  authors  to  show  the  use  of  each,  thirty- 
three  citations  to  illustrate  misplacement  of 
only.  Dr.  Hall  mentions  fifty-nine  respecta- 
ble writers  since  1820,  in  discussing  the  imper- 
fect passive.  Such  work  certainly  gives  an 
example  of  thoroughness.  It  shows  how  men 
ought  to  read  if  they  would  know  how  good 
writers  express  themselves ;  it  shows  the  basis 
upon  which  opinions  as  to  correct  diction 
should  rest;  it  shows  what  "good  usage" 
ought  to  mean.  We  are  far  too  apt  to  fancy 
that  two  or  three  examples  will  settle  the  mat- 
ter enough  for  our  purposes. 

From  this  point  of  view  Mr.  Williams's  book 
is  valuable.  Interesting  it  is,  too,  and  often 
amusing*  (neither  of  these  gladiators  is  with- 
out a  sense  of  humor),  and  certainly  a  book 
that  one  likes  to  have.  But  beyond  this,  it  is 
a  noteworthy  book,  for  it  gives  a  better  idea 
than  the  average  reader  has  of  what  is  meant, 
or  should  be  meant,  by  "  good  usage." 
EDWARD  E.  HALE,  JR. 

*  Most  amusing,  perhaps,  is  the  entry  s.v.  Hall  in  the  Index 
of  Words  and  Phrases. 


HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS. 

i. 

Herr  Sienkiewicz's  highly  successful  novel  "  Quo 
Vadis "  comes  to  us  from  Messrs.  Little,  Brown, 
&  Co.  in  two  shapely  octavo  volumes  resplendent 
in  the  Holiday  pomp  of  rich  purple-and-gold  bind- 
ings, and  liberally  strewn  with  full-page  illustra- 
tions in  photogravure.  The  artists  are  Messrs. 
Howard  Pyle,  E.  H.  Garrett,  and  Evert  Van  Muy- 
den.  Of  these  gentlemen  the  one  last  named  seems 
to  us  to  have  done  the  best  work.  His  drawings 
have  a  strength  which  Mr.  Garrett's  nearly  always 
lack,  and  they  are  superior  to  Mr.  Pyle's  as  pic- 
torial efforts  of  the  historic  imagination.  Old  Rome 
seems  to  live  again  in  such  plates  of  Mr.  Van  Muy- 
den's  as  "The  Rescue  of  Lygia"  and  "Nero's 
Chained  Lions  and  Tigers."  Mr.  Garrett's  draw- 
ings are  pretty  and  graceful,  as  they  usually  are, 
and  Mr.  Pyle's  show  a  lively,  if  not  at  all  times  a 
sound,  fancy.  Some  of  Mr.  Pyle's  work  is  so  good 
that  one  is  impelled  to  wonder  the  more  at  such 
aberrations,  for  example,  as  the  central  figure  of  his 
"The  Conversion  of  Chilo."  Besides  the  drawings 
of  the  artists  just  named  there  are  several  plates 


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from  photographs  of  ancient  busts  and  edifices, 
famous  historical  paintings,  etc.  The  pictorial  aver- 
age is  good,  and  we  are  glad  to  note  the  inclusion 
of  several  maps  and  architectural  plans  that  will 
greatly  assist  intelligent  reading.  Altogether  the 
edition  is  a  very  attractive  and  tasteful  one,  and 
should  prove  one  of  the  successes  of  the  season. 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  issue  in  a  fine  tall 
folio  volume  entitled  "All  Hands,"  the  series  of 
pictures  of  life  in  the  United  States  Navy,  hy  Mr. 
R.  F.  Zogbaum,  which  have  during  the  past  year 
or  so  formed  a  striking  feature  of  some  of  the  firm's 
serial  publications.  Everybody  is  more  or  less  fa- 
miliar with  Mr.  Zogbaum's  realistic  and  spirited 
work,  which  is  as  distinctly  sui  generis  and  as  easily 
recognizable  as  is  that  of  Mr.  Remington  or  Mr. 
Gibson.  It  is  evident  throughout  the  present  series 
of  plates  that  the  artist  has  a  very  warm  place  in- 
deed in  his  heart  for  "  Jack  "  —  who  is,  he  thinks, 
despite  the  fact  that  he  goes  down  to  sea  nowadays, 
not  in  ships,  but  in  floating  forts  or  colossal  tanks 
("tea-kettles,"  Farragut  called  them),  very  much 
the  same  sort  of  jovial,  free-handed  chap  that  he 
was  "  in  Rodney's  day."  We  should  say  that  "  Jack  " 
of  to-day  is  much  more  of  a  mechanic  and  rather 
less  of  a  sailor  than  were  the  pig-tailed  "  Tom  Bowl- 
ings "  and  "  long  Tom  Coffins  "  of  yore.  But  if  he 
can't  "  reef,  furl,  and  handle,"  and  "  sailorize  "  gen- 
erally, as  well  as  his  salter  predecessors  could,  he 
hasn't  forgotten  the  art  of  "  splicing  the  main-brace," 
as  some  of  Mr.  Zogbaum's  pictures  indicate.  The 
series  is  both  instructive  and  entertaining.  It  deals 
with  every  phase  of  life  aboard  the  modern  man-of- 
war,  ranging  from  grave  to  gay,  from  peace  to  war, 
from  cabin  to  forecastle.  It  shows  us  Jack  afloat 
and  Jack  ashore ;  Jack  at  work  and  Jack  at  play ; 
Jack  "sky-larking"  in  the  Dog  Watch,  and  Jack 
standing  at  the  gangway  beside  the  bier  of  a  mess- 
mate who  has  slipped  his  cable  for  the  other  world ; 
it  shows  us  Jack  dining,  bathing,  boat-racing,  hig- 
gling with  the  "bumboat  women,"  and  what  not. 
There  is  no  text  save  a  brief  general  introduction 
on  the  modern  battle-ship  and  the  American  naval 
question  in  general.  Mr.  Zogbaum  is  naturally  of 
opinion  that  if  we  are  going  to  have  a  navy  at  all, 
we  ought  to  have  an  effective  one  —  one  in  fact  as 
well  as  in  name,  and  one  to  be  proud  of  rather  than 
ashamed  of.  A  cheap  navy  breeds  contempt  and 
insult  in  time  of  peace,  and  disaster  in  time  of  war. 
Washington's  maxim,  "To  be  prepared  for  war  is 
the  most  effectual  means  to  promote  peace,"  is 
worth  weighing ;  and  the  greatly  improved  condi- 
tion of  our  navy  to-day  ought  to  be  a  source  of  satis- 
faction to  every  American.  Mr.  Zogbaum's  lively 
pictures  afford  us  an  excellent  means  of  studying 
the  life  on  board  of  "Uncle  Sam's"  new  ironclads, 
and  the  publishers  have  grouped  them  conveniently 
in  one  of  the  season's  handsomest  gift-books. 

In  his  preface  to  "  Drawings  by  Frederic  Rem- 
ington" (R.  H.  Russell),  Mr.  Owen  Wister  tries  to 
analyze  the  charm  of  the  far  West.  It  eludes  him, 
as  he  knew  it  would,  except  so  much  as  he  expresses 


in  the  phrase,  "  escaped  back  to  nature."  "  The 
silence  of  that  world,"  he  says,  "  seems  to  have 
come  unbroken  from  behind  Genesis,  to  have  been 
earlier  than  the  beginning,  to  make  one  with  the 
planets,  to  have  known  mysteries  that  dwindle  Rome 
to  a  show."  It  is  perhaps  only  to  the  initiated  that 
such  phrases  are  not  hyperbole ;  one  must  have 
been  thrilled  by  the  plains  themselves  to  realize 
their  profound  significance.  But  those  who  have 
known  the  life  of  the  ranches  are  always  com- 
rades, as  Mr.  Wister  points  out ;  and  to  them  this 
book  of  Mr.  Remington's  will  appeal  with  peculiar 
force.  Interest  in  it  may  be  languid  for  others,  but 
not  for  them.  And  they  know  that  the  artist,  also, 
has  felt  "the  nameless  magic  of  the  plains." 
There  is  something  more  than  realism  in  many  of 
these  pictures ;  there  is  an  imaginative  grasp  of  the 
situation.  Behind  the  poverty  and  loneliness,  the 
activity  and  daring  of  this  life,  Mr.  Remington  sees 
its  color,  its  poetry.  Upon  him,  too,  "  the  wilder- 
ness has  set  its  spell."  In  such  drawings  as  "  The 
Pony  War-Dance  "  and  "  The  Coming  Storm  "  he 
expresses  something  of  the  mystery,  the  primitive 
Titanic  grandeur,  of  the  race  that  is  passing  away. 
In  these,  and  in  "  Hostiles  Watching  the  Column  " 
and  "  The  Missionary  and  the  Medicine  Man,"  he 
unites  man  with  the  elements,  and  he  seems  to 
bring  the  pitiful  solitude  into  conjunction  with  the 
rest  of  the  world.  Yet  there  are  other  drawings  in 
which  the  realism  is  almost  photographic,  and  it  is 
not  in  them  that  we  find  the  many  evidences  of 
growth.  Mr.  Remington  has  done  much,  also,  for 
the  ranchman  and  the  soldier,  and  in  both  he  gives 
us  the  real  thing.  These  are  no  play  cowboys, 
prettily  decked  out  in  sombreros  and  chaparreros. 
Like  the  soldiers,  they  have  seen  hard  service,  and 
one  feels  absolute  confidence  in  their  ability  to  rope 
a  steer  or  break  a  broncho.  When  all  this  wild  pic- 
turesque life  shall  have  passed  away,  this  record  of 
Mr.  Remington's  will  have  enormous  historical  value. 
Professor  W.  M.  Sloane's  elaborately  mounted 
"  Life  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte "  (Century  Co.) 
comes  to  an  end  with  Volume  IV.,  now  before  us. 
With  the  general  style  and  quality  of  the  work  our 
readers  are  doubtless  already  tolerably  familiar. 
Without  displaying  any  marked  force  or  grace  of 
narration,  it  maintains  a  respectable  level  of  literary 
merit  throughout.  The  chief  value  of  the  work 
springs  from  the  author's  intimate  knowledge  of  his 
theme  in  all  its  details.  He  tells  his  story  directly, 
without  rhetorical  flourish,  and  with  a  constant  view 
to  the  tastes  and  capacities  of  the  average  magazine 
reader.  The  Life  is,  therefore,  an  excellent  one  for 
popular  reading ;  and  as  such  we  cordially  recom- 
mend it.  Its  sumptuous  setting  makes  it  a  desirable 
gift-book  of  the  more  expensive  sort.  Professor 
Sloane's  conception  of  Napoleon  is  rational  and  im- 
partial, he  having  plainly  divested  his  mind  of  the 
stock  exaggerations  of  the  Napoleonic  legend.  The 
present  volume,  opening  with  the  retreat  from  Mos- 
cow and  closing  with  the  final  scene  at  St.  Helena, 
treats  in  full  detail  such  events  as  the  crossing  of 


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the  Beresina,  the  rise  of  the  nations,  the  end  of  the 
Grand  Army,  the  invasion  of  France,  the  fall  of 
Paris,  Elba,  Ligny,  Quatre  Bras,  Waterloo.  A  list 
of  historical  sources  is  appended.  The  illustrations 
comprise  nineteen  full-page  plates  in  color  after  his- 
torical paintings  by  Orchardson,  Flameng,  Geri- 
cault,  Berne-Bellecour,  Vernet,  Meissohier,  etc.,  to- 
gether with  plates  prepared  especially  for  the  work 
by  Myrbach.  The  volume  is  well  supplied  with 
maps.  While  the  pictures  (serving  the  end  of  em- 
bellishment rather  than  instruction)  do  not  exactly 
meet  our  views  of  the  proper  illustration  of  history, 
they  are  generally  beautiful  and  striking  in  them- 
selves, and  lend  the  work  a  distinct  character  and 
attractiveness  as  a  Holiday  publication.  Messrs. 
McDonnell  Bros.,  of  Chicago,  are  the  general  agents 
for  the  work. 

Among  the  many  well-known  works  that  appear 
this  season  in  a  holiday  edition,  Irving's  "  Astoria  " 
is  given  a  conspicuous  place.  It  is  presented  in  the 
elaborate  style  of  decoration  and  embellishment 
adopted  by  its  publishers  (Putnam)  for  their  an- 
nual holiday  selection  from  Irving's  works,  the  num- 
ber for  this  year  being  appropriately  called  the  "  Ta- 
•coma  "  edition.  It  is  published  in  two  volumes,  with 
a  good  cover  in  red  brown  and  gold  on  white,  and 
is  illustrated  with  numerous  photogravures  based 
chiefly  on  photographs  and  representing  the  work 
of  Messrs.  Church,  Beard,  Zogbaum,  Eaton,  and 
other  artists.  Each  page  of  text  is  framed  in  a  col- 
ored decorative  border,  the  work  of  Miss  Margaret 
Armstrong.  The  result  is  a  striking  presentation  of 
the  famous  "  anecdotes  of  an  enterprise  beyond  the 
Rocky  Mountains." 

Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  chosen  for 
their  leading  holiday  work  this  year  Mr.  Cable's 
"Old  Creole  Days."  The  volume  is  clearly  and 
tastefully  printed,  and  is  given  an  effective  cover 
in  grays.  Its  greatest  charm,  however,  is  in  the 
drawings,  by  Mr.  Albert  Herter,  which  have  marked 
individuality  and  character.  Except  in  the  frontis- 
piece, the  rich  beauty  of  the  Creole  type  almost 
eludes  the  artist.  His  drawings  are  delightful,  but  they 
might  represent  the  North  as  well  as  the  South.  The 
delicacy  of  the  author's  differentiation  is  not  quite 
«aught.  In  spite  of  this,  however,  the  work  is  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  and  satisfactory  of  the  holiday 
books  of  the  year. 

Thoreau's  "  Walden  "  is  republished  by  Messrs. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  in  two  volumes,  with  an 
introduction  by  Mr.  Bradford  Torrey,  himself  a 
familiar  of  the  woods.  He  proclaims  at  the  begin- 
ning that  in  spite  of  itself  the  world  likes  eccentric 
people.  "  Its  Wisdom  is  prudence,"  he  says.  "  Its 
rule  of  life  is  to  keep  on  the  safe  side.  Follow  the 
path,  it  says ;  take  no  risks.  Yet  it  admires  au- 
dacity, independence,  originality,  and,  after  the 
event,  applauds  nothing  so  much  as  a  violation  of 
its  own  maxims."  In  a  spirit  of  sympathy  and  ad- 
miration Mr.  Torrey  writes  of  Thoreau  and  his  work, 
defending  him,  unnecessarily  perhaps,  from  un- 
worthy attacks,  but  feeling  that  "  Time,  the  ultimate 


critic,  has  taken  his  part,  and  is  very  unlikely  to 
forget  him  in  the  day  of  final  award."  The  books 
are  well  printed,  and  illustrated  with  many  good 
photogravures,  —  portraits  of  Thoreau  and  his 
friends,  their  homes  and  his,  and  landscapes  show- 
ing the  places  he  loved  and  made  the  world  love. 

A  new  edition  of  "  The  Critical  Period  of  Amer- 
ican History,  1783-1789  "  (Houghton),  by  Profes- 
sor John  Fiske,  is  enriched  with  numerous  illustra- 
tions and  maps.  The  text  has  been  carefully  revised, 
and  the  illustrations  selected  by  the  author  with 
special  regard  to  their  historical  value.  There  are 
many  portraits,  some  of  which,  like  the  very  indi- 
vidual one  of  James  Madison,  are  quite  unfamiliar; 
and  many  interesting  facsimiles  of  early  documents 
and  engravings.  In  addition  to  these,  Mr.  Fiske 
has  resurrected  some  curious  old  caricatures,  which 
are  eloquent  of  popular  feeling  at  the  time.  The 
book  is  very  well  printed  and  bound,  and  the 
illustrations  add  greatly  to  the  value  of  a  work 
which  without  them  had  no  rival. 

Mrs.  Maud  Wilder  Goodwin's  historical  stories, 
"The  Head  of  a  Hundred"  and  "White  Aprons," 
come  to  us  boxed  together  as  a  set  and  in  dainty 
Holiday  dress,  under  the  joint  title  "Romances  of 
Colonial  Virginia"  (Little,  Brown,  &  Co.).  We 
have  had  occasion  before  to  praise  these  wholesome 
and  tenderly  imaginative  tales  of  the  Old  Dominion. 
Mrs.  Goodwin  has  done  well  to  turn  her  serious  his- 
torical studies,  directly  embodied  in  her  capital  little 
study  of  "  The  Colonial  Cavalier,"  to  artistic  account. 
The  action  of  the  stories  is  well  thought  out,  the  sit- 
uations are  effective,  and  the  love-scenes  duly  tender 
and  genuine.  The  dialogue  is  fairly  animated,  and 
just  touched  with  a  due  degree  of  archaism  — 
though  here,  it  must  be  noted,  Mrs.  Goodwin's 
little  fishes  do  incline  at  times  to  talk  like  whales 
and  just  a  trifle  in  the  style  of  the  superfine  heroes 
and  heroines  of  the  eighteenth-century  novel.  But 
where  the  whole  is  so  good,  critical  flaw-picking  is 
ungracious ;  and  we  gladly  welcome  Mrs.  Good- 
win's popular  tales  in  their  new  and  seasonable  set- 
ting. The  volumes  are  tastily  bound  in  light-green 
ornately  stamped  in  gilt,  and'  each  contains  five 
photogravure  plates,  together  with  decorative  head- 
ings and  an  ornamental  title-page.  Altogether  the 
little  set  is  most  enticing,  and  should  find  its  way 
to  many  a  Holiday  table  this  season. 

Of  the  making  of  books  on  themes  colonial  there 
seems  now  to  be  no  end.  The  latest  writer  to  ex- 
ploit this  prolific  field  is  "  Marion  Harland,"  and 
her  book,  "Some  Colonial  Homesteads  and  their 
Stories"  (Putnam),  is  in  form  and  content  one  of 
the  most  attractive  of  its  kind.  The  more  or  less 
romantic  stories  that  cluster  like  ancestral  ivy  round 
the  picturesque  old  houses  described  by  Mrs.  Ter- 
hune  are  told  by  her  with  evident  gusto  and  a  cer- 
tain old-fashioned  preciosity  of  style  that  is  appro- 
priate enough  and  not  at  all  unpleasant.  The  tales 
were  gathered  during  the  narrator's  visits  at  the 
houses  described  ("historical  shrines,"  she  calls 
them) ;  and  she  testifies  to  the  "  gracious  readiness  " 


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of  the  present  representatives  of  the  ancient  Van 
Cortlandts,  Morrises,  Schuylers,  Smiths,  and  so  on, 
to  place  their  ancestral  parchments  and  muniments 
of  nobility  at  her  disposal  —  even,  we  presume,  with 
the  full  knowledge  that  not  only  was  she  "  amang  " 
them  with  the  express  purpose  of  "  takin'  notes," 
but  that,  like  Captain  Grose,  she  was  eke  going  to 
"prent  it."  Family  records,  manuscript  letters,  old 
portraits,  were  freely  turned  over  for  her  inspection  ; 
and  she  is  even  able  to  gratify  her  readers  with  an 
occasional  peep  at  an  interesting  ancestral  family 
skeleton, —  in  itself  no  bad  title  to  social  distinction ; 
the  next  best  thing  socially,  as  we  know,  to  having 
a  particularly  good  ancestor  to  point  to,  being  to 
have  a  particularly  bad  one.  Though  the  historical 
interest  of  the  book  is  of  course  rather  slight,  Mrs. 
Terhune  makes  good  her  claim  to  the  due  degree 
of  historical  accuracy  in  the  framework  of  recorded 
fact  that  surrounds  her  sketches.  Among  the  co- 
lonial homesteads  described  are  the  Virginian  seats 
of  Brandon,  Westover,  Shirley,  etc.,  the  Morris 
House  at  Germantown,  the  Schuyler  and  Colfax 
Houses  of  New  Jersey,  the  New  York  manor  houses 
of  the  Van  Cortlandts,  Livingstones,  Philipses,  the 
Jumel  Mansion,  the  Pierce  House  and  the  "  Parson 
Williams"  House  of  Massachusetts,  and  the  Smith 
House  of  Connecticut.  The  illustrations  comprise 
a  great  number  of  views  of  historic  sites  and  homes, 
architectural  details,  coats-of-arms,  portraits,  etc. 
The  volume  is  clearly  printed  on  lightly  glazed  paper, 
and  forms  a  dainty  and  acceptable  gift-book. 

A  book  about  our  own  country,  which  Mr.  Edmund 
H.  Garrett  has  written  and  illustrated,  bears  the 
rather  ponderous  title  of  "  Romance  and  Reality 
of  the  Puritan  Coast  "  (Little,  Brown,  &  Co.).  It 
was  written  avowedly  around  the  pictures,  which  are 
certainly  the  charm  of  the  book  ;  but  it  describes  in 
the  idlest  fashion  the  "  north  shore  "  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts coast,  and  encourages  the  art  of  "  strolling 
a-wheel."  A  little  history  and  a  little  romance  are 
mixed  up  with  the  modern  wheeling  and  bathing  and 
yachting,  and  there  are  occasional  delightful  pictures 
of  the  dames  and  squires  of  other  days.  The  text 
is  very  light  and  very  rambling,  but  it  forms  an 
appropriate  setting  for  the  pretty  pictures. 

"Historic  New  York"  (Putnam)  is  amore  serious 
treatment  of  the  lives  of  our  ancestors.  It  is  edited 
by  Mrs.  Maud  Wilder  Goodwin,  Mrs.  Alice  Car- 
rington  Royce,  and  Miss  Ruth  Putnam,  and  contains 
essays  by  several  other  writers  who  have  studied  the 
subject.  An  effort  has  been  made  to  give  an  accurate 
and  vivid  picture  of  the  city  of  New  Amsterdam  and 
its  people.  The  idea  is  an  excellent  one,  and  it  is 
carried  out  by  the  essayists  with  knowledge  and 
skill.  There  are  papers  on  the  State-House,  by  Mrs. 
Alice  Morse  Earle  ;  on  the  "  Early  History  of  Wall 
Street,"  by  Mr.  Oswald  Garrison  Villard ;  on  "  Old 
Greenwich,"  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Bisland  ;  on  "  The 
Fourteen  Miles  Round,"  by  Mr.  Alfred  B.  Mason 
and  Mrs.  Mary  Murdoch  Mason  ;  and  on  the  Bowery, 
King's  College  (now  Columbia),  Governor's  Island, 
and  several  other  subjects  of  interest.  The  book  is 


a  useful  and  timely  one,  for  we  are  in  danger  of  for- 
getting our  Dutch  ancestry  in  our  absorption  in  the 
omniverous  Puritan. 

Modestly  ornate  in  form  and  freshly  sweet  in 
content  are  the  brace  of  twin  duodecimos  severally 
entitled  "  Travels  in  a  Tree-Top  "  and  "  The  Free- 
dom of  the  Fields,"  and  boxed  together  under  the 
joint  style,  "  Fireside  and  Forest  Library  "  (Lip- 
pincott).  The  author  is  Mr.  Charles  C.  Abbott,  a 
pleasant  writer  of  the  Thoreau-Jefferies-Burroughs 
school,  and  the  volumes  contain  respectively  seven- 
teen and  fifteen  crisp  little  papers,  largely  on  sylvan 
scenes  and  pleasures.  Mr.  Abbott  is  by  no  means 
a  mere  echo  of  his  perhaps  more  widely  read  co- 
laborers,  his  work  having  a  distinct  savor  of  its 
own,  a  tang,  as  it  were,  like  that  of  wild  fruit.  To 
read  him  is  to  retrace  in  fancy,  and  with  sharpened 
zest  and  eyesight,  the  half-remembered  delicious  path 
of  many  a  bygone  summer  or  springtide  ramble, — 
no  bad  occupation  for  a  winter's  night,  when  the 
lamp  is  alit  and  the  fire  glowing,  and  the  driving 
sleet  is  drumming  at  the  window-pane,  like  Winter 
tapping  for  admission.  The  volumes  are  made  up 
in  the  best  of  taste,  and  each  contains  four  accept- 
able illustrations  by  Mrs.  Alice  Barber  Stephens. 

Redolent  throughout  of  the  true  spirit  and  signifi- 
cance of  the  great  Christian  festival  is  Dr.  Henry 
Van  Dyke's  sweet  and  tender  old-time  story  of  "  The 
First  Christmas-Tree  "  (Scribner).  It  opens  with 
the  day  before  Christmas,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
722  ;  and  is  divided  into  four  main  scenes  or  phases : 
«  The  Call  of  the  Woodsman,"  "  The  Trail  of  the 
Forest,"  "The  Shadow  of  the  Thunder  -  Oak," 
"  The  Felling  of  the  Tree."  In  the  first  scene  we 
are  shown  the  peaceful  cloister  of  Pfalzel,  on  the 
banks  of  the  Moselle.  .  It  is  Christmas-eve  ;  and  the 
pious  nuns  are  making  holiday,  and  awaiting  with 
fluttered  anticipation  a  famous  visitor  —  Winif ried 
of  England,  called  Boniface,  the  Apostle  of  Ger- 
many. The  chapter  closes  with  the  resolve  of  young 
Prince  Gregor,  a  visitor  at  the  convent  and  the  son 
of  the  royal  Abbess  of  Pfalzel,  to  quit  the  princely 
pomps  and  vanities  of  the  life  then  opening  out 
before  him,  and  to  share  the  lonely  apostolate  of 
Winifried  among  the  heathen  Germans.  In  the 
final  chapter  Winifried  and  Gregor  in  the  forest  fall 
in  with  a  heathen  tribe  who  are  about  to  sacrifice 
(on  Christmas-eve)  the  son  of  their  chief  to  Thor 
at  the  foot  of  the  mystic  thunder-oak.  The  arm  of 
the  Apostle  interposes  to  stay  the  sacrificial  axe  in 
its  descent ;  the  boy  is  saved  ;  the  thunder-oak  is 
felled  by  the  missionaries  ;  the  chief  and  his  follow- 
ers accept  the  sign  ;  a  stately  fir  is  felled  at  the  bid- 
ding of  Winifried  and  borne  in  triumph  to  the  great 
hall,  where  it  is  raised  all  glittering  with  tapers  to 
serve  as  "  The  First  Christmas-Tree,"  while  Gregor 
and  his  companions  chant  their  Christmas  hymn : 
"  All  glory  be  to  God  on  high, 
And  to  the  earth  be  peace  ! 
Good-will  henceforth  from  heaven  to  man 
Begin  and  never  cease." 
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from  designs  by  Mr.  Howard  Pyle,  which  are  among 
the  best  things  we  remember  to  have  seen  from  his 
pencil.  The  volume  is  prettily  bound  and  well 
printed,  and  the  scroll  of  oak-leaves  and  acorns  en- 
closing the  text  on  each  page  has  a  good  effect. 

The  special  features  of  Messrs.  Fords,  Howard 
&  Hulbert's  pretty  Holiday  edition  of  Tennyson's 
"In  Memoriam"  are  Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke's  criti- 
cal and  descriptive  preface  and  the  profuse  deco- 
rative and  illustrative  drawings  by  Mr.  Harry  Fenn. 
The  poem  lends  itself  fairly  well  to  illustration, 
and  Mr.  Fenn  has  acquitted  himself  creditably, 
especially  in  the  bits  of  landscape  thrown  in  here 
and  there  in  accordance  with  the  suggestions  of  the 
text.  The  merely  decorative  drawings,  initial  letters, 
tail-pieces,  and  so  on,  are  perhaps  a  little  stiff,  and 
hint  sometimes  at  a  jaded  or  a  spurred  fancy;  but 
the  effect  of  the  ensemble  is  pleasing  enough,  and 
the  edition  may  be  commended  to  readers  whose 
enjoyment  of  "  In  Memoriam  "  can  be  enhanced  by 
pictorial  aids.  Dr.  Van  Dyke's  preface  gives  a  brief 
analysis  of  the  poem  in  its  broader  aspects,  and  re- 
counts the  touching  story  of  its  origin.  The  text  is 
fairly  printed  on  lightly  glazed  paper,  and  the  bind- 
ing is  dainty  and  suggestive  of  the  gift-book. 

Two  new  and  sumptuous  editions  of  "  The  Faerie 
Queene"  are  encouraging  signs  that  we  are  not  ab- 
sorbed in  the  modern  and  the  eccentric  to  the  entire 
exclusion  of  the  great  poets  of  old.  The  more 
beautiful  of  these  editions  is  illustrated  by  Mr. 
Walter  Crane,  and  published  in  London  by  Mr. 
George  Allen,  and  in  New  York  by  the  Macmillan 
Co.  The  work  is  edited  by  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Wise, 
who  has  attempted  merely  to  furnish  an  accurate 
text.  His  work  has  been  carefully  done,  and  in  his 
preface,  besides  naming  his  authorities,  he  describes 
with  many  valuable  details  the  various  early  editions 
of  the  poem  in  such  a  way  that  collectors  may  easily 
verify  their  copies.  He  prints  also  the  seventeen 
sonnets  which  were  appended  to  the  first  edition, 
together  with  the  five  stanzas  at  the  end  of  the 
twelfth  canto  of  Book  III.,  which  were  suppressed 
in  the  edition  of  1596.  The  title-pages  of  the  early 
editions  are  here  reproduced  in  facsimile.  The 
selection  of  an  illustrator  was  particularly  happy, 
as  Mr.  Crane's  style  is  admirably  adapted  to  the 
presentation  of  Spenser's  thought.  Mr.  Crane  him- 
self seems  the  product  of  another  century  than  ours ; 
there  is  something  primitive  and  archaic  in  his  very 
subtlety.  He  too  has  the  love  of  fairies  and  alle- 
gories and  of  decorative  pageantry,  which  is  requisite 
to  a  true  interpretation.  It  was  a  great  opportunity 
for  an  artist,  and  probably  no  man  living  could  have 
risen  to  it  so  sympathetically  as  Mr.  Crane.  The 
borders  for  his  pictures  are  rich  in  decorative  sym- 
bolism, assisting  and  completing  the  allegory,  and 
forming,  with  their  conventionalized  trees  and  fig- 
ures, an  exquisitely  beautiful  frame.  In  the  designs 
themselves  there  is  great  beauty  of  line  and  an  ad- 
mirable adjustment  of  contrasts  in  the  blacks  and 
whites.  Such  drawings  as  the  Dance  of  the  Graces, 
Diana's  Bath,  and  Nature  and  Mutability,  possess 


also  originality  and  a  rich  imaginative  grace.  They 
are  in  harmony  with  the  lovely  poem  they  ornament ; 
and  if  occasionally  they  seem  too  sophisticated  for 
its  simplicity,  it  is,  after  all,  a  subtlety  appropriate 
to  the  poet's  imagination.  They  are  serious  and 
sincere  in  feeling,  and  exquisitely  decorative  in 
treatment.  The  edition  is  limited  to  one  thousand 
copies  on  unbleached  hand-made  paper,  and  twenty- 
eight  on  Japanese  vellum.  It  has  been  issued  in 
sections,  all  of  which  are  now  out.  —  The  edition  of 
the  same  poem  published  in  London  by  J.  M.  Dent 
&  Co.,  and  imported  by  the  Macmillan  Co.,  is  also 
sumptuous,  but  it  has  not  the  rare  harmonious 
beauty  of  the  other.  The  two  bulky  volumes  are  of 
an  awkward  size,  and  are  yet  too  small  for  decora- 
tions so  elaborate.  The  artist  is  Mr.  Louis  Fairfax 
Muckley  ;  but  his  work  resembles  that  of  William 
Morris,  much  coarsened  and  weakened.  The  books 
from  the  Kelmscott  press  have  a  beauty  of  their 
own,  but  it  will  not  bear  imitation.  Without  sin- 
cerity and  appropriateness,  without  originality  of 
thought  and  fertility  of  invention,  such  work  is  a 
dim  and  meaningless  echo.  The  decorative  use  of 
contrasts,  the  effective  balance  of  light  and  shade, 
are  problems  unsolved  by  this  draftsman.  In  his 
effort  to  be  decorative,  he  is  merely  empty  and 
stilted,  and  his  simplicity  is  not  the  lovely  and  joy- 
ous simplicity  of  Spenser.  There  is  a  blatant  quality 
in  the  work  which  is  foreign  to  the  poet's  sponta- 
neity, which  the  occasional  bad  drawing  and  the 
complicated  decorative  motives  do  not  help  to  con- 
ceal. The  book  is  furnished  with  a  critical  Intro- 
duction, the  English  of  which  is  itself  open  to 
criticism,  by  Mr.  John  W.  Hales,  M.A.,  professor 
of  English  literature  at  King's  College,  London. 
The  edition  is  limited  to  1,350  copies. 

William  Morris  has  much  to  answer  for  in  these 
holiday  books.  Mr.  W.  B.  Macdougall,  the  artist 
who  decorated  "  The  Fall  of  the  Nibelungs  "  (Dent- 
Macmillan),  has  studied  his  work  too  superficially. 
That  kind  of  illustration  is  only  justified  by  being 
done  extremely  well ;  and  no  such  excuse  can  be 
offered  for  the  pictures  in  this  book.  It  seems  as 
though  one  page  of  William  Morris  would  have 
given  a  designer  more  ideas  than  are  displayed  in 
all  these  drawings.  The  fine  old  myths  are  "  done 
into  English  "  by  Miss  Margaret  Armour,  who  calls 
her  work  a  "  plain  prose  rendering."  Nevertheless 
her  prose  is  elaborately  archaic,  her  effort  to  bring 
it  close  to  the  original  resulting  in  much  that  is 
artificial  and  stilted.  Such  English  cannot  be  natural 
to  us  moderns,  and  sincerity  and  simplicity,  even  a 
certain  naivete,  are  its  necessary  ingredients.  A 
rendering  in  modern  English,  if  it  were  written  with 
ability,  with  a  kind  of  poetic  sympathy,  would  be 
much  nearer  the  original  than  these  archaisms.  But 
one  could  forgive  the  writer  if  her  prose  were  beau- 
tiful. It  has  no  music,  no  rhythm.  She  has  used 
Simrock's  arrangement  of  the  text,  and  the  stories 
themselves  are  always  interesting.  They  differ 
much,  however,  from  the  familiar  Wagnerian  ver- 
sion. The  paper  and  print  of  the  book  are  excellent. 


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The  Arthurian  legends,  also,  are  given  a  new 
interpretation.  In  "  King  Arthur  and  the  Table 
Bound  "  (Houghton),  the  tales  are  taken  chiefly  from 
the  old  French  of  Crestien  of  Troyes,  whose  fame 
has  only  recently  been  resurrected.  They  are  trans- 
lated and  edited  with  notes  by  Mr.  William  Wells 
Newell,  who  has  written  also  an  introduction  deal- 
ing with  the  history  of  Arthurian  romance  and  the 
variations  it  has  undergone  in  passing  from  hand  to 
hand.  He  finds  it  to  be,  "  not  only  in  style  and  decora- 
tion, but  also  in  idea  and  outline,"  of  French  con- 
struction. "  Their  virtues,"  he  says,  "  are  nearly 
the  opposites  of  qualities  which  would  have  found 
favor  in  British  antiquity."  To  Crestien  of  Troyes 
he  ascribes  the  merit  of  largely  inventing  these  ro- 
mances and  of  giving  them  color  and  beauty.  In 
comparison  with  his  version,  he  thinks  that  all  others 
have  their  points  of  weakness  and  ineffectiveness. 
He  regrets  that  Tennyson  did  not  have  access  to  it, 
and  shows  where  he  has  altered  the  matter  of  the 
original  legends  and  their  spirit.  One  of  the  most 
conspicuous  changes  was  in  the  character  of  Gawain, 
who  in  the  old  romance  was  the  very  essence  of 
chivalry.  The  end  of  the  story  of  Launcelot  and 
Guinevere  is  also  very  different  in  the  "  Idylls  of  the 
King,"  and  Arthur's  prophetic  knowledge  of  his  fate 
and  his  moralizing  over  it  were  unknown  to  the 
earlier  version.  Tennyson,  however,  made  no  pre- 
tense of  accuracy,  and  any  interpretation  of  such 
stories  is  inevitably  colored  by  the  personality  of  the 
poet.  As  Mr.  Newell  relates  them,  they  are  extremely 
interesting.  His  prose  is  simple  and  dignified,  and, 
except  for  an  occasional  brusqueness,  interprets  the 
beauty  of  the  old  stories  sufficiently  well.  He  uses 
no  flourishes  nor  ornament,  leaving  the  poetry  that 
lies  in  the  structure  of  the  tales  to  speak  for  itself. 
The  two  volumes  are  well  printed  and  effectively 
bound  in  gray  and  white. 

A  third  edition,  embellished  with  twenty-four 
finely  executed  photogravure  illustrations,  of  Herr 
Bernhard  Berenson's  admirable  book  on  "  The 
Venetian  Painters  of  the  Renaissance  "  is  published 
by  Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  Herr  Berenson's 
appreciations  of  the  great  Venetians  and  the  beau- 
ties and  peculiarities  of  their  school  are  luminous 
and  penetrating,  and  altogether  worthy  of  their 
present  sumptuous  setting.  A  useful  feature  is  the 
well  compiled  Index  to  the  paintings  of  the  leading 
Venetian  artists,  wherein,  we  are  glad  to  note,  doubt- 
ful attributions  are  clearly  and  unsparingly  indicated. 
The  text  is  handsomely  printed  on  high-class  paper, 
and  the  work  forms  altogether  one  of  the  most 
elegant  and  substantial  gift-books  on  our  list. 

It  is  nearly  fifty  years  since  Mrs.  Jonathan  Fos- 
ter's translation  of  Vasari's  "  Lives  of  the  Painters  " 
was  published ;  and  though  a  volume  of  notes  was 
added  to  it  by  Dr.  Richter  in  1885,  the  new  edition 
of  the  work  issued  by  Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons  is  the  first  attempt  to  annotate  the  lives  with 
the  results  of  modern  criticism.  The  past  twenty 
years  have  seen  a  remarkable  revival  of  interest  in 
Italian  art,  and  the  many  critics  it  has  evoked  have 


made  important  changes  in  our  knowledge  of  the 
lives  and  works  of  the  artists.  The  editors,  Messrs. 
E.  H.  and  E.  W.  Blashfield  and  A.  A.  Hopkins,  in 
their  admirable  preface,  say  that "  art  literature  has 
passed  through  its  ages  of  faith,  of  personal  inspira- 
tion, and  has  now  entered  into  its  age  of  inquiry." 
Their  summary  of  the  method  and  results  of  mod- 
ern research  is  concise  and  lucid,  showing  the  revo- 
lutionary theories  of  the  "  detective  school "  of 
criticism  and  the  changes  it  has  made  in  the  repu- 
tations of  several  painters.  Nothing  that  Morelli 
has  touched  remains  quite  the  same.  We  may  object 
to  his  intensely  material  system  of  identification, 
but  we  are  obliged  to  accept  its  results  nevertheless. 
This  preface  indicates,  also,  the  mistakes  that  Vasari 
has  been  discovered  to  have  made  in  the  characters 
of  certain  painters,  and  it  shows  especially  how  much 
Filippo  Lippi,  Andrea  del  Sarto  and  Perugino  have 
gained  in  honor  through  the  single-minded,  devoted 
work  of  scholars.  All  of  these  changes  are  empha- 
sized and  elaborated  in  the  copious  and  well-written 
notes,  which  also  identify  some  "  lost "  pictures  and 
give  much  information  in  regard  to  the  present 
location  of  works  of  art  described  by  Vasari.  The 
work  has  been  done  in  the  most  careful  and  thor- 
ough manner  consistent  with  an  untechnical  com- 
mentary upon  the  text.  In  order  that  the  material 
might  be  compressed  into  four  volumes  without 
abbreviating  the  notes,  seventy  of  the  most  interest- 
ing and  important  of  the  biographies  were  selected, 
those  less  valuable  to  the  public,  and  even  to  the 
student,  being  omitted. 

There  are  other  books  for  other  art  enthusiasts. 
"Sunlight  and  Shadow"  (Baker  &  Taylor  Co.)  is 
designed  for  photographers.  Those  who  have  passed 
their  novitiate  and  wish  to  do  serious  work  with  the 
camera  are  expected  to  profit  by  it.  The  editor, 
Mr.  W.  I.  Lincoln  Adams,  has  collected,  from  vari- 
ous journals  of  photography,  papers  on  such  ad- 
vanced subjects  as  lighting,  grouping,  the  choice  of 
subject,  marines,  and  night  pictures.  They  are 
written  by  different  experts,  who  thus  give  the  ama- 
teur the  benefit  of  their  special  experiences.  Beauty 
of  style,  however,  was  not  considered  in  making  the 
selection,  and  photographers  must  be  guiltless  of  a 
sense  of  humor.  It  is  interesting  to  learn,  for  ex- 
ample, that "  the  introduction  of  appropriate  skies  is 
of  prime  importance  in  landscape  ";  and  we  rather 
like  to  be  assured  that  "for  a  rugged  mountain 
scene  we  do  not  want  the  calm  and  serene."  The 
book  is  a  little  too  advanced  for  the  beginner  and 
too  elementary  for  the  expert.  The  artist  will  not 
learn  much  from  suggestions  which  are  either  ob- 
vious or  too  cut-and-dried.  The  technical  informa- 
tion about  the  camera  itself  and  its  relation  to  its 
subject  are  useful;  but  for  anything  beyond  that, 
the  student  should  study  rather  the  great  princi- 
ples of  art.  The  book  is  a  quarto,  illustrated  with 
many  good  photographs,  some  of  which  are  also 
artistic. 

De  la  Motte  Fouqu^'s  "  Undine  "  is  reprinted  by 
the  Macmillan  Co.,  with  illustrations  and  decorative 


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designs  by  Miss  Rosie  M.  M.  Pitman.  They  are  charm- 
ing, these  drawings,  very  decorative  and  very  fanci- 
ful. In  many  of  them  the  artist's  imagination  seems 
to  have  entered  into  that  of  the  writer,  so  sympathet- 
ically does  she  express  the  weird  loveliness  of  the 
story.  Even  in  her  handling  of  line  in  the  exquisite 
little  head-pieces,  one  finds  a  touch  of  the  unearthly. 
There  is  much  symbolism  in  the  pictures, — so  much, 
indeed,  that  the  artist  prints  descriptions  of  them  in 
the  index.  They  are  unnecessary,  however,  for  most 
of  the  drawings  have  a  beauty  of  their  own,  inde- 
pendent of  such  hidden  meaning.  And  symbolism, 
to  be  justified,  should  explain  itself  without  literary 
assistance.  But  the  artist  does  suggest  the  delicate 
beauty  of  the  allegory. 

An  odd  little  book  that  is  likely  to  arrest  the 
attention  of  those  in  quest  of  a  simple  gift  for  a 
young  friend  is  Mr.  H.  J.  Burlingame's  "Herrmann 
the  Magician"  (Laird  &  Lee).  Besides  a  lively 
sketch  of  the  two  Herrmanns,  Carl  and  Alexander, 
and  a  well  written  introductory  chapter  on  the 
"Psychology  of  the  Art  of  Conjuring,"  it  contains 
a  clear  explanation,  with  cuts,  of  the  best  tricks  per- 
formed by  the  Herrmanns  and  some  other  noted 
"wizards."  As  the  author  of  this  portion  of  the 
book  is  himself  an  inventor  and  maker  of  conjuring 
apparatus,  he  may  be  presumed  to  know  intimately 
whereof  he  speaks.  It  may  be  noted  that  while 
some  of  the  feats  described  are  very  difficult  and 
only  to  be  accomplished  with  the  aid  of  expensive 
and  cumbersome  apparatus,  there  are  many  others 
that,  while  astounding  enough  to  spectators,  are 
comparatively  easy  of  execution  and  therefore  suited 
to  parlor  entertainments.  The  explanations  of 
such  famous  stage  illusions  as  the  "  Rabbit  Trick," 
the  "Vanishing  Lady,"  the  "Magi's  Wand,"  the 
"Decapitation  Trick"  and  so  on,  should  prove  in- 
teresting to  the  thousands  who  have  been  mystified 
by  them.  The  sketch  of  the  Herrmanns,  especially 
of  Alexander  Herrmann,  whose  Mephistophelian 
look  greatly  belied  his  genial  and  singularly  chari- 
table heart,  is  very  racy  and  well  leavened  with 
stories  of  the  half-impromptu  tricks  which  the  con- 
jurers were  so  fond  of  playing  off  at  odd  times  and 
places  at  the  expense  of  all  sorts  of  people.  The 
book  is  prettily  bound  in  canary-colored  Holliston 
cloth,  and  contains  a  number  of  plates,  including  a 
late  portrait  of  Alexander  Herrmann. 

In  his  "Gondola  Days"  (Houghton),  Mr.  F. 
Hopkinson  Smith  rhapsodizes  acceptably,  albeit 
much  in  the  old  familar  vein,  about  Venice  and  the 
Venetians.  If  the  somewhat  pass&e  Queen  of  the 
Adriatic  showed  herself  to  Mr.  Smith  precisely  as 
he  depicts  her,  he  is  certainly  an  enviable  travel- 
ler. To  own  a  pair  of  eyes  like  his,  capable  of 
transforming  so  much  squalor  into  splendor,  of  see- 
ing a  worthy  relative  of  the  "tuneful  gondolier" 
of  yore  in  the  swart  tatterdemalion  who  nowadays 
sculls  you  about  in  his  aquatic  hearse,  and  so  on, 
would  be  worth  while.  Mr.  Smith  makes  no  attempt 
to  review  the  glories  of  Venetian  history  or  to  probe 
present  problems.  His  treatment  of  his  theme  is 


picturesque  and  sentimental,  and  there  is  a  due 
leaven  of  humor.  For  one  sojourning  for  a  time 
in  Venice  the  book  would  form  an  entertaining  and 
a  suggestive,  and  in  a  small  way  an  informing,  com- 
panion. There  are  a  dozen  slight  but  effective 
drawings,  and  the  volume  is  neatly  made. 

The  Putnams  issue,  in  attractive  holiday  garb, 
Edmondo  de  Amicis'  lively  and  piquant  account  of 
his  experiences  on  an  Italian  liner,  entitled  "  On  Blue 
Water."  The  volume  contains  some  300  pages,  and 
there  are  60  drawings,  full-page  and  vignette,  of 
good  quality.  In  the  text,  the  witty  and  eloquent 
Italian  traveller  exploits  the  humors  of  his  fellow- 
passengers  on  the  "  Galileo"  in  a  very  amusing  way, 
and  introduces  to  his  American  readers  some  very 
unfamiliar,  not  to  say  grotesque,  types.  The  des- 
criptions are  so  graphic  that  the  reader  begins  to 
feel  after  a  chapter  or  so  quite  as  if  he  were  "  on 
blue  water  "  himself,  and  listening  to  the  chat  of  this 
most  delightful  of  literary  compagnons  du  voyage. 

One  of  the  most  substantial  of  the  season's  books 
is  "  Bird  Neighbors  "  (Doubleday  &  McClure  Co.), 
by  Miss  Neltje  Blanchan.  It  is  furnished  with  an 
introduction  by  Mr.  John  Burroughs,  who  vouches 
for  the  accuracy  of  the  work  in  this  science  in  which 
his  word  is  final.  The  author  has  not  attempted  a 
profound  study  of  the  subject ;  her  object  is  rather 
to  furnish  a  guide  for  the  uninitiated  and  the  ama- 
teur. She  writes  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  of  our 
most  frequent  feathery  visitors,  classifying  them  first 
by  color,  and  describing  clearly  and  briefly  their 
tricks  and  manners.  Her  talk  about  them  has 
vivacity  and  charm,  and  shows  that  she  knows  her 
world  not  only  with  the  head,  but  with  the  heart. 
To  each  little  life  she  gives  character  and  individu- 
ality. The  value  of  the  book  is  greatly  heightened 
by  the  colored  plates,  many  of  which  are  surpris- 
ingly beautiful.  With  their  help  it  would  be  easy  to 
identify  most  of  the  flying  creatures  we  see  about  us. 

To  a  friend  of  pronounced  "bibliomaniacal"  ten- 
dencies, no  Christmas  gift  could  be  more  acceptable 
than  a  copy  of  Mr.  Irving  Browne's  "  In  the  Track 
of  the  Book- Worm,"  published  by  the  Roycroft 
Printing  Shop,  of  East  Aurora,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Browne 
is  a  veteran  book-collector  and  extra-illustrator,  and 
his  pleasantly-written  volume  of  "  thoughts,  fancies, 
and  gentle  gibes  on  collecting  and  collectors  "  makes 
interesting  reading.  The  numerous  verses  on  "book- 
ish" subjects  scattered  throughout  the  volume  are 
especially  good.  Like  all  previous  products  of  the 
Roycroft  Press,  the  volume  is  mechanically  a  beauti- 
ful specimen  of  book-making,  and  we  predict  that 
the  limited  edition  in  which  it  is  issued  will  soon  be 
exhausted. 

A  new  edition  of  "  Irish  Idylls  "  (Dodd)  is  illus- 
trated with  many  reproductions  of  photographs  and 
drawings  by  Mr.  Clifton  Johnson,  which  serve  to 
prove  the  accuracy  of  Miss  Jane  Barlow's  descrip- 
tions of  the  desolate  life  of  the  Connemara  boglands. 
The  pictures  have  some  of  the  quaint  charm  of  the 
stories,  and  they  give  definiteness  to  our  ideas  of  the 
bogs  and  the  villages  —  that  "  forbidding  environ- 


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ment  "  of  an  unhappy  people,  which  has  yet  a  beauty 
of  its  own.  The  cover,  by  Mr.  George  Wharton 
Edwards,  is  good,  though  the  names  of  the  separate 
stories  seem  an  unnecessary  and  unimaginative 
adornment. 

There  is  also  a  well-printed  new  edition  of  "  The 
Maiden  and  Married  Life  of  Mary  Powell  "  (after- 
wards Mistress  Milton),  and  the  sequel  thereto, 
"  Deborah's  Diary  "  (imported  by  Scribner).  The 
volume  is  prettily  illustrated  by  Mr.  John  Jellicoe 
and  Mr.  Herbert  Railton,  and  the  drawings  give 
charming  glimpses  of  the  picturesqueness  of  old 
London.  An  introduction  by  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Hutton, 
B.D.,  tells  something  about  the  personality  of  Miss 
Manning,  who  wrote  the  book,  and  reviews  briefly 
the  historical  facts  upon  which  it  is  based.  Mr. 
Hutton  would  have  been  wiser  to  confine  himself  to 
such  facts,  for  when  he  launches  into  criticism  he 
compares  Milton  as  a  religious  poet,  much  to  his 
disadvantage,  with  Christina  Rossetti.  The  novel 
itself  is  a  plausible  and  charming  explanation  of  the 
vagaries  of  the  poet's  domestic  life. 

Another  attractive  reprint  is  "  Pomona's  Travels  " 
(Scribner),  by  Mr.  Frank  R.  Stockton,  whose  name 
alone  carries  a  laugh  with  it.  There  is  humor,  also, 
in  the  delightful  pictures  by  Mr.  A.  B.  Frost,  which 
have  almost  as  much  character  as  the  story.  The 
cover,  in  buff  and  green,  relieved  with  a  touch  of 
black,  is  very  attractive ;  and  as  the  work  itself  is 
one  of  the  happiest  things  that  even  Mr.  Stockton's 
fancy  has  conceived,  everything  makes  for  its  success. 

A  popular  addition  of  "  The  Adventures  of  Mr. 
Verdant  Green,  an  Oxford  Freshman"  (Little, 
Brown,  &  Co.),  by  Mr.  Cuthbert  Bede,  B.A.,  will 
appeal  to  collegians  of  the  past  and  the  future. 
There  are  innumerable  illustrations  by  the  author, 
badly  drawn  but  clever  and  amusing  nevertheless. 
They  are  colloquial,  like  the  text,  and  very  English. 

Miss  Anna  Fuller's  "  Pratt  Portraits  "  (Putnam) 
is  also  given  a  new  setting.  It  is  characterized  by 
wide  margins,  good  paper  and  print,  a  common- 
place cover,  and  a  series  of  portrait  drawings  by 
Mr.  George  Sloane,  which  show  some  cleverness  and 
much  appreciation  of  the  significance  of  the  text. 

Other  reprints  are  two  in  the  pretty  "  Thumb-Nail 
Series  "  (Century  Co.)  —  Cicero's  "  De  Amicitia," 
translated  by  Benjamin  E.  Smith,  and  Dickens's 
"Christmas  Carol," — each  well  bound  in  stamped 
leather  and  illustrated  with  a  good  frontispiece  in  tint ; 
and  one  of  an  essay  by  Mrs.  Anna  Robertson  Brown, 
—  "  What  is  Worth  While?  "  (Crowell),  effectively 
printed  in  heavy  black  type  on  excellent  paper. 

Music  lovers  and  students  will  be  interested  in 
«  The  Story  of  the  Harp  "  (Lyon  &  Healy,  Chicago), 
which  gives  a  history  of  that  instrument  from  an- 
cient times  to  the  present,  illustrated  with  pictures 
of  the  harp  at  the  various  stages  of  its  development, 
and  with  half-tone  portraits  of  famous  harpists. 

Several  books  of  selections  are  on  the  holiday 
tables,  and  the  finest  of  them  is  emphatically  the 
volume  of  Wordsworth  edited  by  Mr.  Andrew 
Lang  (Longmans).  It  is  neatly  bound  in  blue 


cloth,  stamped  with  a  good  design  in  gold  ;  and  the 
illustrations  and  delicate  initials  by  Mr.  Alfred  Par- 
sons are  charming.  The  selections  are  from  the 
shorter  and  more  familiar  of  the  poems, —  the  most 
spontaneous  and  least  didactic  of  the  poet's  work. 
The  introduction  emphasizes  the  fact  that  "what  is 
truly  great  in  his  poetry  is  independent  of  his  theory, 
and  may  almost  be  called  independent  of  his  con- 
scious reasoning  self."  The  editor's  attitude  is  not 
one  of  sympathy  with  his  author's  theories,  nor  even 
tolerance  of  them,  but  this  does  not  blind  him  to  the 
beauty  of  some  of  his  work. —  "The  Lovers'  Shak- 
spere"  (McClurg),  compiled  by  Mrs.  Chloe  Blake- 
man  Jones,  is  what  the  title  indicates,  a  collection 
of  quotations  pertaining  to  the  various  phases  of 
love.  They  are  carefully  selected,  adroitly  grouped, 
and  daintily  decorated. —  Mrs.  Helen  Kendrick 
Johnson  has  collected  some  "  Short  Sayings  of 
Famous  Men"  and  published  them  in  two  small 
volumes  (Putnam).  The  sayings  are  grouped  in 
a  rather  hap-hazard  fashion  under  various  head- 
ings. The  title  of  one  of  these  sections,  "  Wis- 
dom," is  scarcely  complimentary  to  the  authors  of 
selections  outside  of  it.  —  "  The  Ayrshire  Homes 
and  Haunts  of  Burns"  (Putnam),  by  Mr.  Henry 
C.  Shelley,  is  bound  in  a  charming  thistle-deco- 
rated cover,  and  contains  a  number  of  interesting 
photographic  illustrations. —  There  is  also  the  "Ian 
Maclaren  Year- Book"  (Dodd),  with  a  quotation  for 
each  day  in  the  year,  thus  giving  one  a  fine  oppor- 
tunity to  duly  consider  and  repent  of  any  undue 
fondness  for  this  Scotchman.  —  "  The  Chatelaine  " 
(Peter  Paul  Book  Co.),  by  G.  E.  X.,  is  a  collection 
of  small  observations  upon  large  topics,  printed 
each  upon  a  separate  page;  but  even  in  this  rivulet 
of  text,  words  are  more  plentiful  than  ideas.  One 
feels  too  much  the  struggle  for  an  originality  which 
is  achieved  neither  in  thought  nor  expression. — 
"An  Alphabet"  (R.  H.  Russell),  by  Mr.  William 
Nicholson,  is  too  original  and  too  clever  to  be  given 
up  entirely  to  children,  much  as  they  will  enjoy  it. 
It  is  a  series  of  delightful  character-studies,  drawn 
in  masses  of  black  on  light  brown,  with  an  occasional 
dash  of  color.  The  artist  expresses  a  great  deal 
with  very  few  and  very  broad  strokes  of  the  brush ; 
and  a  grim  sort  of  humor  is  everywhere  evident. 

A  number  of  calendars  have  been  issued  for  the 
coming  year.  The  "  Frederic  Remington  Calendar" 
(Russell)  is  made  up  of  a  few  selections,  less  care- 
fully printed,  from  a  book  already  reviewed. —  "A 
Coon  Calendar"  (Russell)  contains  some  of  Mr. 
Kemble's  clever  drawings  of  pickaninnies,  printed 
in  color.  —  The  "Sports  and  Seasons  Calendar" 
(Russell)  also  printed  in  color,  illustrates  golfing, 
driving,  and  kindred  subjects,  with  a  good  deal  of 
cleverness.  —  In  addition,  we  find  a  "Shakespeare 
Kalendar"  (Dodd),  printed  on  large  sheets  with  a 
quotation  for  every  day,  "Ian  Maclaren  Calen- 
dar" (Dodd)  for  thooe  who  wish  to  be  sentimental 
all  the  year  round,  and  a  pretty  "  Calendar  of 
Purple  Flowers"  (Stokes),  from  designs  by  Paul 
de  Longpre". 


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BOOKS  FOB  THE  YOUNG. 

L 

The  supply  of  children's  books  shows  no  diminution 
from  year  to  year,  and  the  quality  of  them  changes  but 
little.  Occasionally  there  is  an  encouraging  sign  of 
progress  in  the  direction  of  wholesomeness  aiid  vigor, 
but  it  does  not  conceal  the  many  evidences  of  weakness, 
of  snobbishness,  of  the  worship  of  false  gods.  The  fate 
of  the  little  children  who  have  to  walk  through  a  world 
so  commonplace  or  so  perverted  is  enough  to  excite 
sympathy.  The  joy  of  filling  out  the  incomplete  old 
nursery  rhymes,  of  dreaming  over  the  labyrinthine 
paths  to  fairyland,  is  never  theirs.  Out  of  these  scores 
of  books,  barely  half  a  dozen  give  the  imagination  a 
chance  to  grow.  Most  of  them  ignore  the  existence  of 
such  a  quality  of  the  mind.  There  is  a  mad  search  for 
facts,  when  impossibilities,  if  they  have  but  a  spark  of 
humanity  in  them,  are  much  more  beneficial.  Facts,  as 
they  are  dressed  up  for  children,  are  apt  to  be  entirely 
false.  Stories  of  good  little  school-girls  and  bad  little 
boys  who  run  away  and  join  the  Indians  cannot  make  up 
for  the  absence  of  the  good  old  fairy  tales,  which  con- 
tain something  true  and  genuine,  something  which  has 
answered  to  the  needs  of  generations  of  happy  children. 
Mr.  Harry  Thurston  Peck,  in  a  recent  essay,  looks  for- 
ward to  a  "  Renaissance  of  the  Natural,  when  they  will 
no  more  be  fed  with  formulas  and  made  to  learn  so  many 
improving  things."  We  are  not  in  need  of  formulas 
here  in  America;  even  brought  up  as  we  have  been  on 
"  Jack  and  the  Beanstalk,"  and  the  others,  an  excess  of 
fancy  is  not  one  of  our  faults.  So  that  if  we  are  given 
only  practical  commonplaces  to  digest,  the  imagination 
is  in  danger  of  death  from  inanition. 

The  Juvenile  book  of  the  year,  one  of  the  most  original 
and  beautiful  of  many  years,  is  that  in  which  M.  Boutet 
de  Monvel,  in  a  series  of  colored  pictures,  gives  his  con- 
ception of  the  personality  of  "  Joan  of  Arc  "  (Century 
Co.)  The  text  is  a  brief  and  simple  story  of  the  life  of 
this  "  humble  peasant  girl  who  is  the  Patroness  of  France, 
who  is  the  Saint  of  her  country  as  she  was  its  Martyr." 
It  is  told  without  flourishes,  which  could  only  injure 
its  exalted  beauty.  But  the  pictures  are  eloquent  of 
the  child's  simplicity,  her  singleness  of  purpose,  her 
self-sacrificing  devotion  and  loyalty,  and  the  purity  of 
her  exaltation.  With  all  these  qualities  the  artist 
shows  the  most  exquisite  and  tender  sympathy.  From 
the  first  drawing,  where  she  is  merely  the  simple,  ignor- 
ant, industrious  peasant-girl,  to  that  one  where  she 
stands,  clear-sighted  and  ennobled,  the  accuser  of  her 
worldly  judges,  he  understands  her  and  he  makes  us 
understand  her.  The  simplicity  and  spirituality  of  this 
slender  little  creature,  as  we  see  her  in  these  pictures, 
are  never  open  to  question.  Around  her,  the  color  and 
movement  are  shown  with  rare  and  wonderful  art. 
Every  line,  every  harmony  of  tint,  is  made  to  help  in 
the  expression  of  the  emotion  of  the  moment.  The 
color  reaches  its  climax  of  brilliancy  in  the  sumptuous 
scene  of  the  coronation,  and  darkens  into  sombreness 
as  the  tragedy  advances.  There  is  fine  decorative 
feeling  in  the  arrangement  of  line  and  color,  and  the 
characterization  is  admirable.  It  would  be  difficult  to 
say  too  much  in  praise  of  these  beautiful  drawings, 
which  the  artists  at  the  last  Salon  of  the  Champs  de 
Mars  were  wise  enough  to  honor  with  a  separate  room. 

For  this  Christmas,  the  department  of  history  receives 
more  than  the  usual  attention,  and  the  prevailing  res- 
pect for  facts  requires  that  it  be  given  due  consideration. 


Such  stories  are  among  the  most  useful  and  interesting, 
though  the  writers  too  often  confound  fact  with  truth. 
The  composition  of  a  fine  true  story  requires  as  much 
imagination  as  the  writing  of  fiction.  And  in  the  one 
case,  as  in  the  other,  the  real  value  depends  upon  the 
way  it  is  done.  Nevertheless,  an  inferior  historical  tale 
is  more  tolerable  than  a  weak  invented  one.  Among 
these  books,  dealing  more  or  less  directly  with  history, 
there  are  some  very  good  stories.  "  The  Century  Book 
of  the  American  Revolution  "  (Century  Co.),  by  Mr. 
Elbridge  S.  Brooks,  adopts  an  ingenious  method  of  con- 
necting the  events  of  other  days  with  our  own  life.  Mr. 
Brooks  carries  a  party  of  boys  and  girls  over  the  ground 
made  historic  by  the  great  war,  telling  the  noble  story 
of  its  conflicts  almost  entirely  in  dialogue.  It  is  not  an 
easy  task  to  keep  freedom  and  sparkle  and  crispness 
through  such  conversation  between  a  friendly  and  well- 
informed  uncle  and  several  lively  boys  and  girls.  And 
Mr.  Brooks  succeeds  in  it  fairly  well.  Occasionally  the 
talk  is  stiff  and  unnatural,  but  he  manages  to  give  it 
variety  and  light-heartedness  and  to  save  the  uncle  from 
pedantry.  The  plan  enables  him  also  to  tell  many  of  the 
intimate  little  stories  of  the  war,  which  would  come  in 
less  naturally  in  a  more  ambitious  narrative.  And  he 
awakens  a  keen  interest  in  the  places  where  the  battles 
were  fought  and  their  character  and  development.  It 
brings  one  in  touch  a  little  with  the  ideas  and  emotions 
which  served  to  arouse  a  nation.  The  book  is  illustrated 
with  innumerable  drawings  and  photographs  which 
greatly  increase  its  value.  It  is  not  the  only  one  which 
deals  with  the  Revolution.  "  Washington's  Young  Aids  " 
(W.  A.  Wilde  &  Co.),  by  Mr.  Everett  T.  Tomlinson, 
centres  in  the  New  Jersey  campaign.  It  is  the  story  of 
two  boys  who  render  effective  service  as  scouts  and  mes- 
sengers. The  author  tries  to  be  accurate,  but  the  prob- 
abilities are  not  always  considered.  It  is  not  the  brains 
of  his  heroes  which  help  them  out  of  their  adventures. 
It  is  a  tame  recital  of  stirring  events;  and  the  author 
has  so  little  knowledge  of  character  that  one  seems  to  be 
looking  on  at  a  puppet-play — "  The  Boys  of  Fort  Schuy- 
ler  "  (Estes),  by  Mr.  James  Otis,  is  the  same  kind  of 
tale  about  a  different  part  of  the  same  war;  but  the 
workmanship  is  much  better.  Here  too,  however,  the 
situations  are  not  always  convincing,  and  commanders 
seem  to  take  foolish  and  unnecessary  risks.  But  there 
is  some  spirit  in  the  book,  and  the  characters  are  indi- 
vidualized and  differentiated.  The  young  hero  carries 
important  messages  through  the  enemy's  lines  and  issues 
triumphant  from  many  a  dangerous  exploit.  His  is 
courage  in  a  good  cause,  and  will  be  stimulating  to  the 
boys  of  our  quieter  days.  The  pictures  are  mediocre, 
but  the  cover  has  originality. —  The  same  writer  is  res- 
ponsible for  a  story  of  Boston  during  the  siege,  which  is 
called  "  The  Signal  Boys  of  '75  "  (Estes).  In  this  he 
has  a  more  unusual  subject,  and  one  in  which  the  work 
of  boys  seems  more  appropriate.  It  is  a  simple  little 
story  of  terror  and  treachery  contrasted  with  bravery 
and  devotion,  and  the  writer  has  told  it  without  flourishes 
or  unnecessary  ornamentation.  He  makes  one  feel  the 
beauty  of  the  stanch  little  characters.  The  pictures  also 
have  individuality —  More  stirring,  more  full  of  action, 
is  the  contribution  to  the  story  of  the  Revolution  made 
by  Mr.  William  O.  Stoddard,  one  of  the  most  interest- 
ing of  the  writers  for  boys.  Its  title,  "  The  Red  Patriot," 
(Appleton),  indicates  the  important  part  played  by  an 
Indian  in  the  thrilling  drama.  But  the  real  heroes  are, 
nevertheless,  a  boy  and  a  horse.  The  one  is  as  brave  as 
the  other,  and  together  they  do  good  service  for  the 


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great  cause.  Better  than  that,  too,  they  are  both  very 
much  alive;  we  are  made  to  believe  in  them  and  sym- 
pathize with  them.  The  story  moves  and  the  interest  is 
skilfully  maintained.  A  boy  who  carries  important  des- 
patches through  ominous  dangers,  and  yet  abhors  shoes 
and  stockings,  will  not  appeal  in  vain  to  the  heart  of  the 
American  youth. 

Mr.  James  Barnes  carries  one  down  to  the  War  of 
1812,  in  his  latest  book.  Its  hero  is  "  Commodore 
Bainbridge  "  (Appleton),  and  the  author  has  had  special 
opportunities  of  learning  the  facts  of  this  commander's 
successful  career.  He  tells  the  spirited  story  with  dash 
and  brilliancy,  vivifying  the  personality  of  a  vigorous 
and  able  seaman  and  a  born  commander.  His  is  a  suc- 
cess won  by  fearlessness,  readiness,  and  persistence,  — 
a  success  in  which  character  meant  even  more  than 
ability.  The  story  has  variety,  morever,  and  pictur- 
esqueness,  for  the  Commodore's  adventures  are  of  many 
kinds  and  his  ships  sail  in  many  waters. 

The  War  of  the  Rebellion  is  also  given  a  share  of 
attention  by  our  historians  for  the  young.  With  this 
conflict  as  a  basis,  Mr.  William  Henry  Shelton  devises 
a  curious  plot  in  "  The  Last  Three  Soldiers  "  (Century 
Co.).  This  remnant  of  the  great  army  is  a  signal-corps 
stationed  at  the  top  of  a  lonely  mountain.  The  next 
signal-station  is  captured  by  the  Confederates,  who  send 
false  messages  about  the  defeat  of  the  Union  forces. 
Deceived  by  this  information,  the  three  soldiers  volun- 
tarily exile  themselves  in  their  retreat,  and  for  seven 
years  they  remain  in  ignorance  of  the  issue  of  the  war. 
Their  life  is  not  without  incident,  however,  and  bears 
and  precipices  and  buried  gold  are  conspicuous  factors 
in  the  story.  Impossible  situations  are  given  a  certain 
color  of  probability,  but  the  author  goes  far  to  seek  his 
adventure.  He  has  no  imagination  to  give  it  life  and 
charm. —  Mr.  W.  J.  Henderson  shows  rather  more  of 
this  quality  in  "  The  Last  Cruise  of  the  Mohawk " 
(Scribner),  enough  to  give  his  seamen  a  little  individu- 
ality. But  the  school-life  at  the  beginning  is  most  un- 
promising, and  there  is  more  than  a  touch  of  absurdity 
in  the  strained  and  obvious  characterization.  The  vil- 
lains have  a  curious  tendency  to  reform  in  the  last 
chapter.  Some  of  the  descriptions  of  sea-fights  with 
Farragut,  however,  move  swiftly  and  excitedly. —  The 
same  subject  and  period  are  dealt  with  in  "  Midshipman 
Jack  "  (W.  A.  Wilde  &  Co.),  by  Mr.  Charles  Ledyard 
Norton;  and  the  same  battle,  where  Admiral  Farragut 
dauntlessly  led  his  ships  over  the  terrible  torpedo  line, 
forms  the  centre  and  climax  of  the  story.  It  is  told  more 
soberly,  but  more  clearly,  than  the  last.  There  is  less 
fighting  in  this  book  than  in  the  other,  and  it  drags 
more. 

Mr.  William  O.  Stoddard  has  gone  back  to  the  begin- 
ning of  the  conflict  with  Mexico  for  his  war-story,  "  The 
Lost  Gold  of  the  Montezumas"  (Lippincott);  and  he 
could  hardly  find  a  more  picturesque  subject  than  the 
defense  of  the  Alamo.  The  story  has  Davy  Crockett 
and  Colonel  Bowie  for  its  heroes,  and  the  fall  of  the 
Alamo,  so  superbly  defended,  for  its  climax.  The 
writer  does  not  make  the  most  of  his  fine  opportunity; 
he  does  not  make  the  siege  a  real,  living,  vital,  stir- 
ring thing.  But  even  a  part  of  such  a  truth  is  worth 
having. 

Two  other  American  history  books  antedate  the  Revo- 
lution. "  The  Young  Puritans  of  Old  Hadley  "  (Roberts) , 
by  Mrs.  Mary  P.  Wells  Smith,  is  an  attempt  to  describe 
the  life  of  Puritan  children  in  one  of  the  early  Massa- 
chusetts settlements.  The  author  has  studied  her  sub- 


ject carefully,  and  the  picture  of  this  life,  extinct  yet 
still  blood  of  our  blood  and  bone  of  our  bone,  has  un- 
usual interest.  The  work  is  well  done,  with  many  de- 
tails which  increase  its  vividness,  and  it  makes  one  rejoice 
that  the  difficulties  and  fears  of  the  rigid  little  Puritans 
are  not  bothering  the  children  of  to-day. — Mr.  Hezekiah 
Butterworth's  new  book,  "True  to  his  Home"  (Apple- 
ton),  is  also  founded  on  colonial  life.  It  relates 
to  the  boyhood  of  Franklin,  and  carries  on  the  story 
of  his  life  to  the  end.  It  is  a  great  life,  in  its  sim- 
plicity and  sincerity  as  well  as  in  its  achievements,  and 
it  is  a  good  thing  for  the  American  youth  to  know  of 
it.  In  Mr.  Butterworth's  way  of  describing  it,  there  is 
nothing  pedantic  or  labored,  and  the  moralizing  is  not 
too  much  in  evidence.  He  has  made  it  interesting  to 
boys  and  girls,  this  story  which  is  so  much  quieter  and 
so  much  finer  than  that  of  warriors. 

Only  four  of  these  semi-historical  books  deal  with 
other  countries,  which  indicates  the  extent  of  patriotism 
among  our  youth.  Two  of  these  relate  to  England,  one 
to  Germany,  and  the  other  goes  back  to  the  fall  of  Carth- 
age. The  Rev.  Alfred  J.  Church  writes  the  latter,  and 
calls  it  "  Lords  of  the  World  "  (Scribner).  The  author's 
style  is  rather  stiff,  and  the  story  does  not  move  with 
the  swiftness  which  seems  necessary  to  the  subject.  Yet 
it  is  handled  with  dignity  and  with  some  ingenuity,  and 
the  narrative  is  interesting  enough  to  overcome  some 
heaviness  in  the  method.  No  history  is  more  romantic 
than  that  of  Carthage,  and  one  only  wishes  that  the  im- 
agination which  can  resurrect  dead  cities  and  peoples 
could  also  vivify  them.  The  illustrations,  by  Ralph 
Peacock,  are  good. —  The  German  story  is  one  of  Mr. 
Henty's,  and  is  called  "With  Frederick  the  Great" 
(Scribner).  Mr.  Henty  is  the  one  of  these  writers  who 
best  understands  his  world,  and  can  handle  his  material 
in  such  a  way  as  to  keep  the  absorbed  attention  of  his 
boys.  His  descriptions  of  battles  have  spontaneity  and 
dash  about  them,  which  bring  his  readers  into  the  fight- 
ing army.  In  this  book  he  tries  to  give  an  impression 
of  the  course  of  the  Seven  Years'  War,  and  his  youthful 
hero  rises,  through  many  distinguished  exploits,  to  the 
rank  of  colonel  in  the  service  of  Frederick  the  Great. 
— Another  story  of  war  (on  the  sea  this  time,  and  the  sea 
seems  to  be  popular  this  year)  is  "  The  Golden  Gal- 
leon "  (Scribner),  by  Mr.  Robert  Leighton.  In  his  pre- 
face the  author  says  that  he  has  "  tried  to  represent  some 
of  the  conditions  of  life  ashore  and  afloat  in  the  glorious 
days  of  Queen  Elizabeth."  His  historical  basis  is  Lord 
Thomas  Howard's  expedition  against  the  West  Indian 
treasure-ships,  and  upon  it  he  builds  a  lively  and  exciting 
story.  Mr.  Leighton  has  a  good  and  spirited  style,  which 
does  not  allow  the  story  to  grow  tame  or  the  interest  to 
flag.  Drusilla's  letter  is  a  pretty  bit  of  courtly  writing. 
The  other  English  book  deals  with  "  The  Knights  of  the 
Round  Table  "  (Scribner),  a  subject  always  attractive 
and  romantic.  This  version  is  written  by  Mr.  William 
Henry  Frost,  who  professes  himself  an  admirer  of  Ma- 
lory, and  yet  does  not  hesitate  to  reduce  Malory's  tales 
to  dull  prose.  Any  boy  intelligent  enough  to  enjoy  these 
tales  at  all  would  like  them  infinitely  better  as  Malory 
tells  them;  and  the  idea  that  such  stories  must  be  speci- 
ally written  out  in  a  b  c  language  to  suit  the  childish 
taste  is  nonsense.  Children  have  as  much  feeling  for 
the  beauty  of  words  as  their  elders;  and  Malory's  rhyth- 
mic, sonorous  phrases  appeal  to  their  imagination.  Such 
sumptuous  raiment  is  necessary  to  clothe  these  stately 
tales,  and  an  appreciation  of  its  appropriateness  is  not 
reserved  for  us  alone.  We  believe  too  little  in  the  in- 


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telligence  of  children,  and  we  continue  too  long  giving 
them  food  for  babes. 

Those  are  quieter  stories  which  Mr.  W.  H.  Rideing 
has  to  offer  in  the  new  edition  of  "The  Boyhood  of 
Famous  Authors  "  (Crowell).  But  it  must  be  confessed 
that  the  little  he  has  found  to  say  about  the  boyhood  of 
such  men  as  Holmes,  Trowbridge,  Howells  and  Whittier 
makes  rather  dull  reading.  Aldrich  and  Stevenson  have 
told  their  own  stories  with  infinitely  better  effect,  as  Mr. 
Rideing  would  be  the  first  to  recognize.  Stockton  and 
Stedman,  Boyesen  and  Kipling,  furnish  some  picturesque 
material;  but  if  their  entire  lives  were  embraced  in  the 
sketches, even  children  would  find  them  more  interesting. 

Two  good  examples  of  the  happy  use  of  the  historic 
imagination  in  re-creating  the  life  of  a  by-gone  time 
are  Miss  Imogen  Clark's  "  Will  Shakespeare's  Little 
Lad  "  (Scribner)  and  Mr.  John  Bennett's  "  Master  Sky- 
lark "  (Century  Co.).  The  "  little  lad  "  of  Miss  Clark's 
story  is  of  course  Shakespeare's  son  Hamnet,  twin 
brother  of  the  Judith  whose  delightful  picture  has  been 
given  us  by  Mr.  William  Black  in  his  "  Judith  Shakes- 
peare," one  of  the  best  historical  novels  ever  written. 
Although  this  story  of  Hamnet  is  designed  for  younger 
readers,  and  the  author's  art  is  inferior  to  the  older 
writer's,  it  is  nevertheless  a  pleasant "  all  feigned  though 
true "  representation  of  the  home  life  of  the  Arden, 
Hathaway,  and  Shakespeare  families.  Master  Skylark 
of  Mr.  Bennett's  story  is  a  Stratford  boy  of  the  six- 
teenth century,  who,  falling  upon  hard  places  in  London, 
seeks  the  aid  of  bis  fellow-townsman,  and  finds  him 
true  to  Ben  Jonson's  description,  the  "  gentle  Shakes- 
peare." Books  of  this  nature  are  enjoyable  in  propor- 
tion to  previous  knowledge  of  the  atmosphere  and 
situation;  hence  the  elders  of  the  household  will  in 
some  cases  like  them  even  more  than  the  children,  while 
the  illustrations  of  both  volumes  are  artistic  enough  to 
attract  eyes  of  whatever  age. 

Among  the  writers  of  pure  fiction  for  children,  there 
is  one  who  has  only  to  speak  to  be  eagerly  and  affection- 
ately listened  to.  "  Once  the  White-Haired  Master  " 
in  his  latest  book  "said  to  Little  Crochet, « They  all  love 
you  because  you  are  good,  my  son.'  But  Little  Crotchet 
was  quick  to  reply :  « Oh,  no,  father;  it  isn't  that.  It's 
because  I  am  fond  of  them! ' "  And  this  is  also  the  ex- 
planation of  Mr.  Joel  Chandler  Harris's  hold  upon  the 
children.  For  every  living  thing  he  has  a  kindness,  and 
his  sympathy  is  intuitive  and  exquisitely  delicate.  One 
feels  it  from  the  first  page  to  the  last  of  "  Aaron  in  the 
Wildwoods  "  (Houghton), —  this  deep  understanding  of 
life,  and  the  deeper  reverence  for  its  beauty  and  even 
for  its  imperfections.  In  him  the  love  of  things  fine 
and  noble  never  implies  harshness  or  cruelty  to  those 
creatures  that  are  themselves  harsh  and  cruel.  Nothing 
is  uninteresting  to  him;  no  character  is  too  trivial  for 
him  to  illuminate  it.  His  books  are  too  fine  to  be  re- 
served entirely  for  children,  yet  they  are  never  raised 
above  a  child's  intelligence.  It  is  only  that  their  sim- 
plicity is  subtle  and  their  subtlety  is  given  the  color  of 
simplicity.  This  latest  book  tells  us  the  story  of  Aaron 
the  runaway  negro  and  Little  Crochet,  the  cripple  who 
dashes  through  the  woods  and  swamps  on  his  Gray  Pony. 
We  can  afford  to  throw  aside  the  histories  for  a  time 
for  the  sake  of  the  good  honest  truth  and  beauty  which 
lie  deep  in  the  heart  of  such  a  book  as  this. 

In  "  Captains  Courageous  "  (Century  Co.),  Mr.  Rud- 
yard  Kipling  has  written  a  fresh,  breezy,  bracing  sort 
of  story  of  the  Grand  Banks.  Its  hero  is  the  spoiled  and 
conceited  son  of  a  California  millionaire,  who  in  a  sudden 


fit  of  illness  falls  off  the  deck  of  an  ocean  liner.  He  is 
picked  up  by  one  of  the  crew  of  the  fishing  schooner 
"  We're  Here  ";  and  on  that  little  boat  he  receives  his 
first  lessons  in  hard  work  and  in  manliness.  His  stories 
about  his  father's  drags  and  private  cars  are  looked  upon 
as  fairy  tales,  and  for  several  months  during  the  fishing 
on  the  banks  he  is  one  of  the  crew.  He  adjusts  himself 
to  the  situation  with  boyish  alacrity  and  a  boyish  love 
of  novelty,  and  it  gives  him  a  new  attitude  towards  life. 
It  is  easy  to  justify  Mr.  Kipling  in  his  theory  that  such 
a  revolutionary  experience  would  be  a  permanently 
healthful  influence  in  a  boy's  career.  He  fell  in  with  good 
fellows,  he  worked  hard,  and  he  came  into  close  contact 
with  the  elements:  three  things  that  make  for  righteous- 
ness. Yet  the  hero  is  his  least  successful  character, — 
much  less  alive  than  the  fishermen,  whose  life  is  pre- 
sented with  extraordinary  vividness.  The  breath  of 
the  sea  is  in  the  book,  and  the  men  who  live  upon  it  are 
individualized  sharply,  but  on  simple  lines,  without  in- 
tricacy or  subtlety.  We  know  them  through  and  through, 
as  we  listen  with  a  kind  of  amused  unconcern  to  their 
idle  talk.  We  lose  sight  at  once  of  the  author;  he  seems 
to  be  no  part  of  his  book,  so  completely  do  the  characters 
act  out  their  own  story.  It  is  a  remarkable  imagination 
that  can  so  absorb  itself  in  unfamiliar  surroundings. 
Yet  the  story  drags  at  times;  and  at  the  end,  though  the 
author  is  wise  enough  to  keep  the  millionaire  from  act- 
ing as  special  providence  when  he  finds  his  son,  there  is 
rather  too  much  talk  about  money  and  the  things  that 
money  can  do.  If  it  were  not  for  the  latter  defect, 
however,  we  would  miss  the  fine  description  of  the  race 
of  the  "  lightning  special  "  across  the  continent,  and  the 
interesting  commentary  upon  the  American  man  of 
affairs.  This  sketch  indicates  that  Mr.  Kipling  should 
give  us  a  more  serious  and  complete  picture  of  this  type, 
that  "  story  of  the  New  West,  whose  story  is  yet  to  be 
written."  There  are  brilliant,  illuminating  phrases  and 
paragraphs  here  and  there  in  the  book,  but  they  make 
one  wish  that  the  author  would  spend  his  time  upon  less 
transitory  work. 

A  new  edition  of  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner's 
"  Being  a  Boy  "  (Houghton)  is  welcome  for  the  holi- 
days, though  it  is  the  kind  of  book  which  boys  enjoy 
most  after  they  are  grown.  It  is  half  reminiscence  and 
half  biography,  but  it  is  wholly  charming.  It  represents 
the  life  of  the  New  England  boy  before  the  middle  of 
the  century,  his  pleasures  and  troubles  being  very  much 
like  those  of  the  boy  of  to-day.  It  leaves  one  with  the 
impression  that  the  life  of  a  country  boy  is  a  singularly 
happy  one,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  must  "  work  for 
his  independence."  Mr.  Warner  carries  one  into  this 
life  with  a  delightful  sympathy.  He  is  still  a  boy  at 
heart,  and  can  still  chuckle  over  his  natural  shortcom- 
ings and  subterfuges.  He  good-naturedly  lets  one  into 
the  secrets  of  his  life,  but  they  are  not  very  wicked 
secrets,  and  it  might  make  the  sternest  parent  more 
tolerant  to  read  of  them.  This  new  edition  after  twenty 
years  is  illustrated  with  many  charming  realistic  photo- 
graphs by  Mr.  Clifton  Johnson, —  photographs  that 
show  the  real  boy,  wholesome  and  happy,  at  work  and 
at  play. 

In  "  The  Young  Mountaineers "  (Houghton),  by 
Charles  Egbert  Craddock,  there  is  a  good  deal  of  human 
nature.  But  here,  too,  it  is  of  the  kind  that  appeals  to 
adults  rather  than  to  the  young.  The  fact  that  "  Old 
Daddy  "  rode  three  miles  on  a  bad  horse  to  tell  his 
cronies  of  the  great  achievement  of  his  son  in  seeing  a 
"  harnt "  is  delightful  to  us  who  are  more  or  less  sophisti- 


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cated,  but  it  would  have  no  special  charm  for  boys.  And 
the  clever  analysis  of  boy-nature  in  "  Among  the  Cliffs  " 
is  open  to  the  same  criticism.  Yet  this  story  is  so 
original  and  so  amusing  that  one  does  not  care  whether 
the  boys  like  it  or  not.  "  Way  Down  in  Poor  Valley  " 
is  less  convincing,  and  its  hero  seems  unnaturally  and 
too  consciously  heroic.  The  book  has  caught  something 
of  the  spirit  of  the  mountains,  though  some  of  the  de- 
scriptions are  a  little  strident. 

Ground  even  more  unfamiliar  is  covered  by  Mr.  Hez- 
ekiah  Butterworth  in  "  Over  the  Andes  "  (Wilde).  The 
author  takes  two  boys  and  a  girl,  guided  by  the  inevita- 
ble uncle,  to  Buenos  Ayres,  and  then  across  country  and 
over  the  Andes  to  the  western  coast.  It  is  a  fine  oppor- 
tunity to  describe  a  rich  and  beautiful  region,  which,  to 
the  American  youth,  is  much  less  familiar  than  the 
nations  of  Europe.  The  place  is  a  mine  of  romantic 
material,  but  Mr.  Butterworth  only  suggests  its  possi- 
bilities. The  beauty  of  the  region  and  its  poetry  are 
beyond  his  stilted  style.  Yet  there  is  much  information 
that  may  make  the  boys  realize  that  the  great  countries 
to  the  south  of  us  are  not  to  be  ignored.  And  the  nar- 
rative is  given  variety  by  introducing  certain  stories 
connected  with  the  history  and  heroes  of  Brazil  and 
Peru. 

"  Paul  Travers's  Adventures  "  (Way  &  Williams),  by 
Mr.  Sam  T.  Clover,  embrace  even  a  larger  territory. 
In  his  search  for  experience,  the  boy-hero  of  the  story 
starts  off  on  a  journey  around  the  world,  determined  to 
pay  his  way.  It  is  a  story  of  the  kind  of  pluck  that 
is  regarded  as  peculiarly  American,  but  the  boy's  meth- 
ods of  securing  money  and  transportation  do  not  always 
indicate  the  highest  sense  of  honor.  He  is  a  cheery, 
generous  fellow,  however,  and  his  story  is  told  crisply 
and  in  a  vigorous  style.  The  shipwreck,  especially,  is 
well  done. 

There  is  a  similar  scene  in  "  The  Beach  Patrol " 
(Wilde),  by  Mr.  William  Drysdale,  but  it  is  written 
from  the  point  of  view  of  a  boy  in  the  life-saving  ser- 
vice instead  of  one  on  the  wreck.  The  rescue  of  the 
passengers  makes  an  exciting  narrative,  and  gives  one 
an  insight  into  the  dangers  of  the  service  and  the  dar- 
ing required  to  meet  them.  The  story  has  a  dash  and 
swing  that  will  hold  the  attention  of  all  boys  who  love 
courage. 

One  is  not  encouraged  to  read  a  book  for  its  style  on 
learning  in  the  opening  sentence  that  "  one  of  the  most 
wonderful  landscapes  of  the  world  was  outspread  in 
every  direction."  Nevertheless,  a  description  of  "  The 
Painted  Desert "  (Harper)  is  no  easy  thing  to  write, 
and  when  Mr.  Kirk  Munroe  gets  beyond  this  and  fairly 
into  his  story,  his  style  improves.  Todd  Chalmers,  his 
hero,  accompanies  a  scientific  expedition  into  Arizona, 
and  in  the  course  of  a  deer-hunt  loses  his  companions 
and  finds  himself  alone  in  the  Painted  Desert.  His  en- 
counter there  with  some  Quaker  hermits,  and  their 
subsequent  exposure  of  two  swindlers  who  attempt  to 
"  salt "  the  valley  with  diamonds,  form  the  basis  of  a  vig- 
orous and  interesting  story.  The  background,  which  is 
always  kept  in  evidence,  has  a  charm  of  its  own;  and 
Mr.  Lungren's  admirable  drawings  make  it  vivid  where 
Mr.  Munroe's  descriptions  do  not.  We  have  a  glimpse, 
though,  of  curious  Indian  customs,  like  the  snake-dance. 
The  work  is  cleverly  constructed,  and  the  author  is 
ingenious  in  devising  original  and  striking  situations. 

Life  in  the  far  west  attracts  the  authors  of  two  other 
books.  "  The  Big-Horn  Treasure  "  (McClurg),  by  Cap- 
tain John  F.  Cargill,  goes  to  the  Rocky  Mountains  for 


a  story  of  mining.  In  this,  the  hero  (and  it  is  curious 
that  heroes  always  should  be  born  fortunate)  discovers, 
through  the  chance  of  an  accidental  fall,  a  rich  vein  of 
gold.  Like  all  heroes,  he  at  once  appreciates  the  value 
of  his  discovery,  and  knows  how  to  make  the  most  of  it 
and  defend  it  from  his  enemies.  He  ultimately  secures 
his  millions,  travels  around  the  world,  and  lives  happily 
ever  after.  The  constant,  complete,  and  overwhelming 
success  of  heroes  becomes,  however,  a  somewhat  painful 
mystery  after  one  has  read  a  score  or  more  of  children's 
books.  One  begins  to  long  for  an  unlucky  and  improvi- 
dent hero,  and  to  understand  why  boys  should  take  to 
smoke  and  girls  to  tempers  in  order  to  escape  the  deadly 
monotony. 

It  is  rather  a  relief  to  come  upon  the  quieter  adven- 
tures of  "The  King  of  the  Park"  (Crowell),  by  Mr. 
Marshall  Saunders.  The  action  takes  place  in  civilized 
Boston,  and  "  King  Boozy  "  is  a  cat.  The  conspicuous 
place  in  the  story,  however,  is  occupied  by  a  French 
boy,  who  is  an  interesting  little  aristocrat.  The  study 
of  his  character  is  neither  consistent  nor  profound,  but 
it  is  effective  nevertheless,  and  it  has  some  originality. 
Democratic  ideas  are  developed  in  his  obstinate  little 
head  at  last,  but  his  French  notions  produce  some  curi- 
ous situations.  And  the  scene  in  which  he  demands  the 
hand  of  a  playmate  from  her  father  is  amusing  even  if 
it  is  false. 

There  is  a  suggestion  of  Little  Lord  Fauntleroy  about 
the  book  just  named,  as  there  is  also  in  "  A  Little  House 
in  Pimlico"  (McClurg),  by  Miss  Marguerite  Bon  vet. 
But  in  spite  of  this,  the  latter  is  an  attractive  little  story, 
very  daintily  written.  The  characters  are  exaggerated, 
sentimentalized  a  little;  the  mother  and  son  are  almost 
too  good  and  gentle,  and  the  uncle  is  much  too  crotch- 
etty.  But  there  is  a  certain  delicate  grace  in  the  man- 
ner of  telling  the  simple  story,  which  has  its  charm. 
The  leading  character  of  the  book  is  Beckie  the  maid, 
who  has  a  good  deal  of  individuality.  The  pictures,  by 
Miss  Helen  Maitland  Armstrong,  are  excellent. 

The  hero  of  "The  Wreck  of  the  Circus"  (Crowell), 
by  Mr.  James  Otis,  is  not  a  model  of  goodness,  but  he 
is  heavily  punished  for  his  faults.  His  parents,  how- 
ever, are  not  punished  at  all  for  their  inconsiderate 
cruelty  in  ordering  a  healthy  boy  to  stay  at  home  and 
take  care  of  the  baby  on  the  one  day  when  the  circus 
is  in  possession  of  the  town.  His  revolt  is  as  natural 
as  the  terror  which  assails  him  when  he  thinks  the  baby 
crushed  under  the  fallen  tent.  The  narrative  is  well 
bandied,  and  has  a  wholesome  moral  for  boys  and  for  the 
mothers  of  boys. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Champney  has  written  a  delightful 
little  French  story  in  "  Pierre  and  his  Poodle  "  ( Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.).  Its  heroes  are  two  French  poodles,  one 
of  whom  is  an  aristocrat  and  the  other  the  property  of 
a  travelling  show-wagon.  But  love  levels  all  ranks, 
and  the  two  join  forces  and  pass  through  many  interest- 
ing adventures  together.  Incidentally  the  life  of  the 
travelling  showman  is  depicted,  with  many  a  French 
custom,  strange  to  us.  There  is  an  exciting  scene  where 
Pierre  rescues  Popotte  as  they  are  about  to  feed  her  to 
the  serpent,  and  is  himself  almost  killed  in  the  effort. 
Mrs.  Cbampney  has  written  many  children's  stories, 
but  none  so  good  as  this.  She  has  given  individuality 
and  charm  to  her  characters,  including  her  dogs.  The 
pictures,  by  Mr.  F.  D.  Steele,  are  as  clever  as  the 
story. 

"Derick"  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.),  by  Miss  Barbara 
Yechton,  is  a  pretty  story,  —  rather  too  pretty.  It  con- 


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tains  a  good  deal  of  superfluous  talk  about  dress,  and  the 
city  life  it  describes  is  not  particularly  bracing.  But 
Derick's  purchase  of  a  silver  butter-dish  surmounted  by 
a  resplendent  cow,  and  his  presentation  of  it  to  his  rich 
friend,  is  a  clever  bit  of  description. 

It  would  require  a  self-sacrificing  boy  to  withstand 
so  alluring  a  title-page  as  that  of  "  The  Rover's  Quest " 
(Lippincott),  by  Mr.  Hugh  St.  Leger.  It  is  described 
as  "  a  story  of  foam,  fire,  and  fight,"  and  the  author 
does  his  best  to  live  up  to  this  thrilling  characteriza- 
tion. 

A  new  edition  of  two  of  the  perennial  Hollo  books, 
«  Rollo  at  Work  "  and  "  Hollo  at  Play  "  (Crowell),  is 
published,  after  forty  years  since  their  first  appearance, 
and  they  are  supplied  with  a  preface  in  which  parents 
are  informed  that  the  books  will  do  good  service  in 
"cultivating  the  thinking  powers,  in  promoting  the 
progress  of  children,  and  in  cultivating  the  amiable  and 
gentle  qualities  of  the  heart."  With  such  advantages 
it  would  be  a  stony-hearted  parent  who  could  resist 
the  inclination  to  put  these  favorites  of  his  own  youth 
into  the  hands  of  his  boys  and  girls. 

A  new  translation  of  "  Cuore,"  by  Edmondo  de  Ami- 
cis,  is  published  under  the  title  of  "  The  Heart  of  a 
Boy"  (Laird  &  Lee).  The  translation  is  the  work  of 
Prof.  G.  Mantellini,  and  is  well  done  in  spite  of  occa- 
sional roughnesses.  The  book  deserves  to  be  as  well 
known  in  America  as  in  Italy,  for  there  is  nothing 
special  or  exceptional  in  its  application.  It  goes  to  the 
root  of  things,  touching  the  fundamental  emotions  of 
youth.  And  though  it  is  a  quiet  story  of  school-life,  it 
has  an  absorbing  interest,  and  is  in  many  ways  one  of 
the  best  books  that  have  ever  been  written  for  boys. 

Three  new  volumes  in  the  "  Bound  to  Win "  series 
(W.  L.  Allison  Co.)  tell  of  different  kinds  of  adven- 
ture. In  "  Poor  but  Plucky,"  by  Arthur  M.  Winfield, 
the  hero  finds  his  enemies  in  floods  and  robbers  and 
conspirators.  But  he  lives  up  to  the  title  with  remark- 
able and  rather  amusing  consistency — The  same  author's 
"  Schooldays  of  Fred  Harley  "  is  occupied  with  games 
rather  than  with  books,  baseball  being  especially  prom- 
inent. The  nature  of  the  adventures  and  the  way  they 
are  described  are  rather  different  from  the  fine  serenity 
of  de  Amicis'  school-life. — Hunting  is  the  special  fea- 
ture of  "  Gun  and  Sled,"  by  Captain  Ralph  Bonehill, 
and  it  enables  him  to  tell  many  a  hair-raising  story  of 
fights  with  wild-cats  and  wolves,  which  even  a  boy  could 
hardly  take  very  seriously. 

Two  stories  by  "  Oliver  Optic "  are  contributed  to 
the  holiday  pleasures  of  boys.  "At  the  Front"  (Lee 
&  Shepard)  is  the  fifth  of  the  land  series  of  "  The  Blue 
and  the  Gray,"  the  battle  of  Stone  River  being  its  cen- 
tre and  climax — "  Pacific  Shores  "  is  the  last  volume 
of  the  "All-over- the- World  Library  "  (Lee  &  Shepard). 
The  voyage  includes  Japan,  Australia,  New  Zealand, 
and  the  Fiji  Islands,  and  brings  the  boy  traveller  home 
a  "model  hero." 

The  Rev.  Louis  Albert  Banks  in  his  "An  Oregon 
Boyhood  "  (Lee  &  Shepard),  tells  a  story  of  western 
pioneering.  He  does  it  rather  heavily,  but  his  book 
contains  much  interesting  information  regarding  the 
life  of  the  adventurous  men  who  first  crossed  the  conti- 
nent— The  same  publishers  reprint  in  the  small  books 
of  the  "  Hearthstone  series "  three  good  stories  for 
boys,  "The  Man  who  Stole  a  Meeting- House,"  by 
J.  T.  Trowbridge;  "Getting  an  Indorser,"  by  Oliver 
Optic;  and  "Exiled  from  Two  Lands,"  by  E.  T.  Tom- 
linson. 


IjITERARY  NOTES. 


Mrs.  Isabella  Bird  Bishop's  "  Korea  and  Her  Neigh- 
bors," a  work  resulting  from  two  years'  recent  residence 
in  Korea,  is  about  to  be  published  by  the  Fleming  H. 
Revell  Co. 

Two  volumes  of  the  "  University  Tutorial  Series " 
(Hinds  &  Noble)  just  sent  us  are  "  The  Tutorial  Trigo- 
nometry," by  Messrs.  William  Briggs  and  G.  H.  Bryan, 
and  "  Euclid,  Books  I-I V,"  by  Mr.  Rupert  Deakin. 

Texts  of  Plato's  «  Philebus  "  and  »  The  Republic," 
edited  respectively  by  Mr.  Robert  Gregg  Bury  and 
James  Adam,  are  recent  publications  of  the  Cambridge 
University  Press,  and  are  sent  us  by  the  Macmillan  Co. 

Miss  Alice  Longfellow  desires  to  have  "  impressed  on 
the  public  "  the  fact  that  "  He-awa-tha  "  was  the  pro- 
nunciation given  by  her  father  to  the  hero  of  his  Indian 
epic.  The  accented  "  a  "  was  like  the  vowel  sound  in 
"  mar." 

"  The  War  of  the  Theatres,"  by  Professor  Josiah  H. 
Penniman,  is  a  publication  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. It  is  a  study  of  the  group  of  Elizabethan  plays 
associated  with  the  famous  quarrel  between  Jonson  and 
Marston. 

The  Macmillan  Co.  are  the  publishers  of  "  A  History 
of  Rome  for  Beginners,"  by  Mr.  Evelyn  S.  Schuckburgh, 
and  of  an  "  Elementary  Latin-English  Dictionary," 
prepared  by  Mr.  G.  H.  Nail,  and  designed  for  use  in 
secondary  schools. 

"  Un  Drama  Nuevo,"  by  "  Don  Joaquin  Este*banez  " 
(the  pseudonym  of  Don  Manuel  Tamayo  y  Baus),  has 
been  edited  for  school  use  by  Dr.  John  E.  Matzke,  and 
is  published  by  Mr.  W.  R.  Jenkins  as  a  number  of  his 
"  Teatro  Espanol  "  series. 

The  Percy  Turnbull  lectures  for  next  spring  are  to  have 
for  their  subject  "  The  Poetry  of  India,"  and  Professor 
Lanman,  of  Harvard  University,  has  been  invited  to  give 
them.  They  will  constitute  the  seventh  series  of  lec- 
tures upon  the  Turnbull  foundation. 

The  Open  Court  Publishing  Co.  have  issued  a  third 
edition  of  Dr.  Paul  Carus's  little  story  of  early  Budd- 
hism entitled  "  Karma."  This  new  edition  is  an  inter- 
esting and  artistic  bit  of  book-making,  having  been 
printed  and  illustrated  in  Japan,  in  the  native  style. 

Mr.  R.  M.  Wenley,  of  the  University  of  Michigan, 
has  prepared  an  introductory  outline  of  Kant's  "Critique 
of  Pure  Reason,"  designed  to  make  as  easy  as  possible 
the  approach  to  the  study  of  that  great  work.  Messrs. 
Henry  Holt  &  Co.  are  the  publishers  of  this  small 
volume. 

Dr.  William  Edward  Mead  has  edited  a  volume  of 
"  Selections  from  Sir  Thomas  Malory's  Morte  Darthur  " 
for  the  "  Athenaeum  Press  "  series,  and  the  work  is  now 
published  by  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  in  a  volume  of  three 
hundred  and  fifty  pages,  of  which  the  text  constitutes 
about  two-thirds. 

"  The  Epic  of  Sounds  "  (Lippincott),  by  Miss  Freda 
Winworth,  is  described  as  "  an  elementary  interpretation 
of  Wagner's  '  Nibeluugen  Ring.' "  It  provides  a  care- 
ful analysis  of  the  great  tetralogy,  and  gives  the  lead- 
ing motives  in  staff  notation.  It  is  an  admirable  little 
work,  and  has  our  heartiest  commendation. 

The  American  Branch  of  the  Egypt  Exploration  Fund, 
through  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Winslow,  appeals  for  contribu- 
tions to  be  applied  to  the  publication  of  the  Oxyrhyncus 
papyri,  as  well  as  to  conduct  further  explorations.  All 


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will  receive  the  publications  of  the  fund.  Contribu- 
tions should  be  sent  to  Mr.  Francis  C.  Foster,  59  Temple 
street,  Boston. 

Messrs.  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  are  the  American  pub- 
lishers of  "  The  Mathematical  Psychology  of  Gratry  and 
Boole,"  a  "  translation  "  into  the  language  of  elementary 
geometry  of  the  doctrines  stated  in  terms  of  the  calculus 
by  the  great  mathematicians  named  in  the  title.  This 
little  book  is  the  work  of  Mrs.  Mary  Everest  Boole. 

The  Macmillan  Co.  have  published  "The  Torrents 
of  Spring,"  together  with  "  First  Love  "  and  "  Mumu," 
forming  Volume  XI.  in  their  new  edition  of  Tourgue'- 
nieff,  and  "  Captain  Mansana  "  coupled  with  "  Mother's 
Hands,"  forming  Volume  VII.  in  their  edition  of  the 
novels  of  Herr  Bjornsen.  "  Mother's  Hands  "  is  here  for 
the  first  time  translated  into  English. 

Mr.  Albert  A.  Hopkins's  large  and  handsomely  illus- 
trated volume  entitled  "Magic:  Stage  Illusions  and 
Scientific  Diversions,  including  Trick  Photography " 
(Munn  &  Co.)  is  the  most  complete  and  exhaustive 
work  on  the  subjects  which  it  covers  that  has  yet  ap- 
peared. An  historical  Introduction  and  a  full  Biblio- 
graphy add  to  the  value  and  interest  of  the  volume. 

The  Lowell  Memorial,  which  is  to  be  a  portion  of 
the  Elmwood  estate  converted  into  a  public  park,  re- 
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subscriptions  for  the  remainder  are  invited.  The  treas- 
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Bank,  Cambridge,  Mass. 


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uncut.    Little,  Brown,  &  Co.    Boxed,  $6. 
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THE  DIAL 

Journal  of  SLiterarg  Criticism,  Discussion,  anU  Information. 


No.  276.    DECEMBER  16,  1897.  Vol.  xxill. 


CONTENTS. 


THE  ACADEMY  GAME 


PAGE 

381 

ENGLISH  CORRESPONDENCE.  Temple  Scott  .  .  383 
ART  IN  A  SORDID  AGE.  (Poem.)  Ed ith M.  Thomas  384 
LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF  MRS.  STOWE.  E.  J.  G.  384 

AN  EX-PRESIDENT'S  VIEWS  OF  HIS  COUNTRY. 

Harry  Pratt  Judson 386 

MR.  ANDREW  LANG'S  BOUT  WITH  PROF.  MAX 

MULLER.    Frederick  Starr 388 

THE  PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN  DRAMA. 

Albert  H.  Tolman 389 

RECENT  FICTION.     William  Morton  Payne      .    .    .389 
Besant's  A  Fountain  Sealed.  —  Blackmore's  Dariel. 

—  Wells's  The  Invisible  Man.  —  Mason's  Lawrence 
Clavering.  —  Bloundelle  -  Burton's    The    Clash    of 
Arms. — Merriman's  In  Kedar's  Tents.  —  Benhanvs 
The  Fourth  Napoleon.  —  Marchmont's  By  Right  of 
Sword. —  Pembertou's  Queen  of  the  Jesters. — Allen's 
An  African  Millionaire. 

HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS-II. 392 

Vuillier's  A  History  of  Dancing.  —  Gibson's  London. 

—  Longfellow's  Evangeline,  holiday  edition.  —  Spen- 
ser's The  Shepheard's  Calendar,  illus.  by  Crane.  — 
Inman's  The  Santa  F<5  Trail.  — McCarthy's  Life  of 
Gladstone.  —  Miss  Kuril's  The  Madonna  in  Art.  — 
Nicholson's  Almanac  of  Twelve  Sports. — Elliot's 
The  Gallinaceous  Game  Birds  of  North  America.  — 
Parkhurst's  Song  Birds  and  Water  Fowl.  —  Drum- 
mond's  The  Habitant.  —  Williamson's  Portrait  Minia- 
tures. —  Thomas  B.  Mosher's  Publications  for  1897. 

—  Rossetti's   The    White    Ship.— Mrs.    Sherman's 
Dante's  Vision  of  God. — Old  English  Love  Songs, 
illus.  by  Edwards.  —  Hnntington's  A  Note-Book  in 
Northern  Spain.  —  Prang's  New  Christmas  Cards  and 
Calendars.  —  Corbin's  School  Boy  Life  in  England.  — 
Page's  Social  Life  in  Old  Virginia.  —  Miss  Guerber's 
Stories  of  Famous  Operas.  —  Miss  Phillips's  Reminis- 
cences of  William  Wetmore  Story.  —  Life's  Comedy, 
second  series.  —  Flying  Leaves.  —  Hiibbard's  Little 
Journeys  to  the  Homes  of  Famous  Women. —  Atwell's 
Pens^es  of  Joubert,  new  edition.  —  Mrs.  Palmer's 
Oriental  Days. — Shakespeare's  Hamlet,  illus.  by  H.  C. 
Christy.  —  Owen  Meredith's  Lncile,  illus.  by  Made- 
leine Lemaire. —  Sterne's  Sentimental  Journey,  illus. 
by  T.  H.  Robinson. —  Central  Berkshire  Illustrated. 


BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG -II 

Asbjornsen's  Fairy  Tales  from  the  Far  North.  —  Lang's  The 
Pink  Fairy  Book.  —  Sullivan's  The  Flame-Flower.  —  Sullivan's 
Here  They  Are  !  —  Prince  Uno.  —  Munkittrick's  The  81am- 
baugaree.  —  Pyke's  The  Adventures  of  Mabel.  —  Farrow's 
The  Missing  Prince. —The  Cruikshank  Fairy-Book.  —  Haw- 
thorne's Tanglewood  Tales,  and  Tales  from  Hans  Andersen, 
new  editions.  —  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Field's  The  Muses  up  to  Date. 
—  Miss  Chapin's  The  Story  of  the  Rhinegold.  —  Miss  Alger's 
In  Indian  Tents.  —  The  Stevenson  Song-Book.  —  Banner's 
Three  Operettas.  —  Mrs.  Coonley's  Singing  Verses  for  Child- 
ren. —  Sherman's  Little-Folk  Lyrics,  new  edition.  —  Hendry's 
Red  Apple  and  Silver  Bells.  —  Field's  Lullaby-Land .  —  Baum's 
Mother  Goose  in  Prose.  —  Miss  Upton's  The  Vege-Men's  Re- 
venge.—  Paine  and  Mayer's  Autobiography  of  a  Monkey. — The 
Bad  Child's  Book  of  Beasts.  —  More  Beasts  for  Worse  Chil- 


398 


CONTENTS  —  Books  for  the  Young  —  Continued. 

Mtt 

dren.—  Mansfield's  Blown  Away. — Ver-Beck  and  Paine's  The 
Dumpies.  —  Miss  Hall's  Adventures  in  Toyland.  —  Kemble's 
The  Blackberries.  —  Miss  Praeger's  Adventures  of  Three  Bold 
Babes.  —  Miss  Humphrey's  Little  Grown-Ups.  —  Mrs.  Dodge's 
A  New  Baby  World.  —  Miss  Upton's  Little  Hearts.  —Chatter- 
box for  1897.  —  Sunday  Reading  for  the  Young  for  1898.  —  Mrs. 
Pierson's  Among  the  Meadow  People.  —  Mrs.  Brown's  The 
Plant  Baby.  —  Mrs.  Richards's  Three  Margarets.  —  Miss  De- 
land's  Alan  Ransford.  —  Miss  Deland's  A  Successful  Venture. 

—  Miss  Smith's  Ten  Little  Comedies.  —  Miss  Baylor's  Miss 
Nina  Barrow.  —  "Marion  Harland's  "  An  Old-Field  School- 
Girl.  —  Miss  Douglas's  The  Children  at  Sherburne  House.  — 
Miss  Douglas's  Her  Place  in  the  World.  —  Miss  Douglas's 
Hannah  Ann.  —  Mrs.  Molesworth's  Miss  Mouse  and  her  Boys. 

—  Mrs.  Molesworth's  Meg  Langholme. — Miss  Yonge's  Founded 
on  Paper.  —  Mrs.  Champney's  Witch  Winnie  in  Venice.  — 
Miss  Raymond's  The  Little  Red  Schoolhouse.  —  Mrs.  Vaile's 
Sue  Orcutt.  —  Miss  LeBaron's  Queer  Janet.  —  Miss  Webster's 
Rich  Enough.  —  Miss  Plympton's  Wanolasset.  —  Mrs.  Lillie's 
A  Girl's  Ordeal.  —  Miss  Wyllarde's  A  Lonely  Little  Lady.  — 
Mrs.  Everett-Green's  Sister.  —  Mrs.  Ide's  Little  Homespun.  — 
Miss    Blanchard's    A  Dear    Little    Girl.  —  Ingersoll's  Wild 
Neighbors.  —  Miss  Harraden's  Untold  Tales  of  the  Past.  — 
Gomme's  The  King's  Story  Book.  —  Hayens's  An  Emperor's 
Doom.  —  Hayens's  Soldiers  of  the  Legion.  —  Mrs.  Everett- 
Green's  A  Clerk  of  Oxford.  —  Johnson's  The  Exploits  of  Myles 
Standish.  —  Drake's  On  Plymouth  Rock.  —  Miss  Lincoln's  An 
Unwilling    Maid. — Tomlinson's    Guarding    the   Border. — 
Barnes's  Yankee  Ships  and  Yankee  Sailors.  —  Mrs.  Seawell's 
Twelve  Naval  Captains.  —  Burrage's  The  Vanished  Yacht.  — 
Stables's  The  Island  of  Gold.  —  Crockett's  Sir  Toady  Lion.  — 
Lummis's  The  Enchanted  Burro.  —  Lummis's  The  King  of 
the  Broncos. 

LITERARY  NOTES 403 

LIST  OF  NEW  BOOKS  .  .  404 


THE  ACADEMY  GAME. 

When  subjects  of  a  timely  or  sensational 
nature  fail  him,  the  resourceful  literary  editor 
always  has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he 
can  fall  back  upon  a  discussion  of  some  such 
well-worn  subject  as  the  ten  greatest  poems,  or 
the  hundred  best  books,  or  the  forty  living 
writers  most  deserving  of  academic  immortality. 
These  diversions  characterize  the  "  silly  season  " 
of  literary  journalism,  and  always  provide  both 
amusement  and  edification  to  the  philosophical 
student  of  critical  opinion.  The  last  of  the 
subjects  above  mentioned  is  the  one  just  now 
upon  the  tapis,  and  the  ball  of  discussion  has 
been  set  rolling,  with  a  fair  amount  of  impetus, 
by  our  English  contemporary,  "The  Academy," 
in  a  praiseworthy  effort  to  live  up  to  the  obli- 
gations of  its  name. 

The  thing  is  done  in  the  old  familiar  way. 
A  list  of  forty  names  is  printed,  and  the  public 
is  invited  to  take  a  hand  in  the  melee,  while 
participation  is  further  stimulated  by  the  per- 
sonal appeal  of  the  editor  to  as  many  well- 
known  writers  as  he  thinks  are  likely  to  fall 


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THE    DIAL 


[Dec.  16, 


victim  to  his  wiles.     Here  is  the  initial  list 


John  Raskin. 
W.  E.  Gladstone. 
Herbert  Spencer. 
Duke  of  Argyll. 
A.  C.  Swinburne. 
George  Meredith. 
John  Morley. 
Thomas  Hardy. 
James  Bryce. 
Sir  G.  O.  Trevelyan. 
Leslie  Stephen. 
George  Macdonald. 
R.  D.  Blackmore. 
Rudyard  Kipling. 
Aubrey  de  Vere. 
R.  C.  Jebb. 
Dr.  Salmon. 
W.  W.  Skeat. 
Dr.  J.  A.  H.  Murray. 
W.  P.  Ker. 


W.  E.  H.  Leoky. 
S.  R.  Gardiner. 
Bishop  Creighton. 
Bishop  Stubbs. 
Rev.  Aidan  Gasquet. 
W.  E.  Henley. 
Andrew  Lang. 
William  Archer. 
H.  D.  Traill. 
Edmund  Gosse. 
Mrs.  Meynell. 
Mrs.  Humphry  Ward. 
Francis  Thompson. 
W.  B.  Yeats. 
Henry  James. 
Austin  Dobson. 
J.  M.  Barrie. 
A.  W.  Pinero. 
W.  S.  Gilbert. 
"  Lewis  Carroll." 


Furthermore,  to  give  the  discussion  an  air  of 
seriousness,  it  is  proposed  to  "  crown "  two 
"  books  of  signal  merit "  chosen  from  among 
the  publications  of  each  year.  But  this  pre- 
tence of  seriousness  does  not  seem  to  have  im- 
posed upon  anyone  except  Mr.  Swinburne,  who 
comments  upon  the  plan  with  his  customary 
suavity.  "  The  notion  of  an  English  academy 
is  too  seriously  stupid  for  a  farce,  and  too  es- 
sentially vulgar  for  a  comedy,"  he  remarks, 
and  adds:  "It  seems  to  me  that  the  full  and 
proper  definition  of  so  preposterous  an  imper- 
tinence must  be  left  to  others  than  the  bearer 
of  a  name  selected  for  the  adulation  of  such  an 
insult."  Mr.  Swinburne  always  gets  excited 
about  things  that  he  doesn't  like,  and  his  sense 
of  humor,  elsewhere  so  richly  displayed,  deserts 
him  upon  such  occasions.  Most  of  the  con- 
tributors to  the  "Academy"  symposium,  how- 
ever, write  in  a  vein  of  good  humor,  and  their 
opinions,  although  couched  in  sober  terms,  are 
mostly  suggestive  of  a  suppressed  chuckle.  It 
is  only  a  game,  after  all,  and  the  object  of 
games  is  to  provide  entertainment  for  those 
who  participate  in  them.  We  cannot  resist 
the  temptation  to  take  a  hand  ourselves,  and 
trust  that  our  observations,  however  serious  they 
may  seem,  will  not  be  taken  as  expressing  the 
opinion  that  an  English  academy,  thus  created 
de  novo,  is  either  desirable  or  even  possible. 

The  list  presented  is  not  a  bad  one,  as  such 
lists  go,  and  the  names  are  all  of  people  whose 
intellectual  standing  is  such  as  to  justify  their 
consideration  —  all,  that  is,  except  the  Rev. 
Aidan  Gasquet,  of  whose  achievements  we  are 
bound  to  confess  entire  ignorance.  "  Who  is 
the  Rev.  Aidan  Gasquet?"  asks  Mr.  H.  G. 
Wells,  and  we  cannot  refrain  from  adding 


his  other  question :  "  Why  does  the  Duke  of 
Argyll  always  figure  in  this  sort  of  thing?"  It 
is  a  little  puzzling  to  find  Mr.  Henry  James  in 
this  galley,  and  if  his  name  be  not  promptly 
withdrawn  we  shall  insist  upon  making  Mr. 
Rudyard  Kipling  a  member  of  the  American 
academy  as  soon  as  we  get  around  to  the  organ- 
ization of  that  equally-to-be-desired  body.  A 
fair  exchange  is  no  robbery.  And  it  is  surely 
unkind  to  ask,  as  one  correspondent  does,  "  If 
you  admit  an  American  (in  the  person  of  Mr. 
Henry  James),  why  not  admit  Captain  Mahan, 
and  so  exhaust  American  literature  ?  "  Ex- 
haust, indeed !  Such  sayings  do  not  further 
the  great  cause  of  international  amenity.  Have 
we  not  recently  produced  a  "  Library  of  the 
World's  Best  Literature  "  in  which,  upon  our 
own  showing,  there  may  be  found  American 
immortals  to  the  number  of  several  times  the 
beggarly  forty  of  our  English  contemporary  ? 
A  few  of  the  comments  made  upon  the 
"  Academy "  list  are  too  interesting  to  be 
missed.  Sir  Herbert  Maxwell  writes:  "I  have 
no  confidence  whatever  in  Mr.  W.  E.  Glad- 
stone's literary  judgment;  he  is  omnivorous, 
and  writes  as  enthusiastically  about  'The  Chris- 
tian' as  about  'The  Odyssey.'  Greatly  as  I 
admire  his  faculties  in  his  own  sphere,  he  is  no 
more  than  a  peregrine  in  literature."  The  same 
writer  futher  remarks  :  "  I  am  sorry  that  I  can- 
not restrain  a  shudder  at  the  prospect  of  Mr. 
Meredith  having  a  hand  in  moulding  style." 
Perhaps  the  boldest  of  the  correspondents  is  the 
one  who  carps  at  the  two  women  on  the  list ;  but 
his  misogyny  is  counterbalanced  by  the  other 
writer  who  sends  a  list  of  forty  women  proposed 
for  a  parallel  academy  of  the  downtrodden  sex. 
Some  names  included  in  the  "  Academy " 
forty  are  certainly  astonishing,  when  we  consider 
the  names  that  do  not  appear.  Here  are  a  score 
of  candidates  for  the  "  forty-first  armchair." 

James  Martineau.  Henry  Sidgwick. 

Sir  Frederick  Pollock.  Robert  Bridges. 

Lord  Acton.  Professor  Mahaffy. 

Theodore  Watts-Dunton.      J.  H.  Shorthouse. 

Professor  Dowden. 


Edward  Caird. 
William  Watson. 
Stopford  Brooke. 
Lloyd  Morgan. 
Professor  Tyrrell. 
A.  J.  Balfour. 


Sir  Walter  Besant. 
Goldwin  Smith. 
Max  Milller. 
Frederick  Harrison. 
Augustus  Jessopp. 

A  list  that  leaves  out  the  best  of  these,  and  yet 
finds  places  for  Mr.  J.  M.  Barrie,  Mr.  W.  S. 
Gilbert,  Mr.  William  Archer,  and  Mr.  W.  B. 
Yeats,  is  certainly  not  a  list  controlled  by  the 
sort  of  critical  judgment  that  commands  re- 
spect. Take  Mr.  Watts-Dunton,  for  example, 


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of  whom  Dr.  Nicoll  writes  as  follows :  He  k'  is 
undoubtedly  the  first  of  living  critics,  and  per- 
haps the  first  of  all  English  critics.  No  one 
in  our  country  has  handled  books  as  he  has 
done  with  a  knowledge  of  the  literature  of  the 
whole  world."  Hardly  less  glaring  is  the  lack 
of  discernment  which  sets  Sir  G.  O.  Trevelyan 
above  Mr.  Goldwin  Smith,  of  Professor  Ker 
above  Professor  Dowden,  or  Mr.  Francis 
Thompson  above  Mr.  Robert  Bridges,  or  Mr. 
H.  D.  Traill  above  Lord  Acton. 

But  we  are  getting  serious  ourselves,  which 
is  not  at  all  what  we  intended.  So  we  forego 
the  temptation  to  quote  from  Matthew  Arnold 
on  "  The  Literary  Influence  of  Academies," 
'  or  even  from  Mr.  Gosse's  "  An  Election  at  the 
English  Academy,"  and  conclude  with  a  couple 
of  letters  printed  in  "  Punch,"  although  we  do 
not  vouch  for  their  authenticity. 

Care  of  Clio,  Parnassus. 

DEAR  MR.  PUNCH:  I  am  glad  to  observe  my  name 
among  The  Forty.  I  do  not,  however,  altogether  sub- 
scribe to  the  other  thirty-nine  articles.  Yours  skep- 

ticallv'  W.  E.  H.  L-CKY. 

The  Morgue,  Paris. 

SIR  PUNCH,  MISTER:  Hope  deferred  —  as  one  says 
—  makes  the  core  bilious.  Here  they  will  not  have  me 
at  no  price,  try  all  I  will.  But  you,  you  have  the  nose 
fine  for  merit.  Albeit,  in  effect,  not  of  Anglo-Saxon 
provenance,  I  am  traveller.  I  have  made  the  grand 
voyage  of  the  Sleeve.  See  there,  then,  I  speak  the 
English.  O  yes!  Alright.  Agree,  etc. 

EM-L-  Z-L-. 

Our  own  opinion  is  that  M.  Zola  stands  as 
fair  a  chance  as  any  Englishman  mentioned 
of  adorning  a  chair  in  the  proposed  English 
Academy. 


ENGLISH  CORRESPONDENCE. 

LONDON,  Dec.  5,  1897. 

The  rush  and  stress  of  the  publishing  season  of  1897 
is  over,  and  publishers  as  well  as  authors  are  breathing 
a  space,  or  speculating  as  to  how  the  public  will  receive 
the  many  things,  good  and  bad,  which  have  been  pre- 
pared for  it.  Meanwhile,  all  the  work  falls  on  the 
shoulders  of  the  hard-worked  and  ill-paid  bookseller, 
who  is  just  now  groaning  that  he  can't  make  a  "  living 
wage."  Much  has  been  argued,  more  written,  and  more 
will  be  written,  on  this  everlasting  question  —  the  rela- 
tions of  the  publisher,  bookseller,  and  author;  but  of 
this,  another  time. 

Without  a  doubt,  the  success  of  the  season  has  been 
Lord  Tennyson's  "  Life  "  of  his  father.  On  all  sides, 
from  high  and  low,  from  great  and  small,  the  work  has 
been  accorded  a  welcome  quite  unique  in  the  annals  of 
the  past  ten  years  of  literature.  Tbat  it  would  receive 
a  cordial  greeting  was  expected,  for  the  "  Life "  of 
Alfred  Tennyson  suggested  much  that  was  interesting; 


but  what  was  not  anticipated  was  the  unstinted  praise 
it  has  obtained  as  a  piece  of  literary  biography.  Apart 
from  the  subject  matter  of  the  two  volumes,  it  seems 
that  we  must  accept  the  "  Life  of  Tennyson  "  as  among 
the  few  great  biographies  in  our  language;  otherwise, 
the  critics  must  be  wrong.  Of  course,  that  critics  should 
err,  cannot  for  a  moment  be  granted;  since  the  mark  of 
the  modern  critic  is  his  capacity  for  anticipating  the 
verdict  of  posterity.  Fortunately,  however,  for  this 
"  Life,"  it  has  not  been  appraised  by  the  "  common  or 
garden  "  critic;  so  that  we  may  take  the  opinion  passed 
as  the  outcome  of  judicious  thinking  and  scholarly  ap- 
preciation. At  any  rate,  it  has  sold  remarkably  well ;  so 
well,  indeed,  that  the  English  publisher  who  said,  "the 
selling  power  of  a  book  is  in  inverse  ratio  to  its  intrinsic 
value,"  must  surely  now  remodel  bis  law. 

Our  English  critics  have,  for  some  time  now,  been 
having  a  bad  time  of  it.  It  all  began  with  Marie  Corelli, 
when  she  stopped  sending  them  her  novels  for  review, 
and  so  deprived  them  of  a  legitimate  source  of  income. 
In  all  probability,  we  shall  now  hear  of  another  lady 
novelist  emulating  Miss  Corelli  in  this  respect.  The 
reviewer  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Grand's  "The  Beth  Book,"  in 
the  London  "  Daily  Telegraph,"  had  occasion,  after 
praising  the  first  part  of  that  good  dame's  story,  to 
animadvert  on  the  "sexuality  "  of  the  second  part.  The 
animadversion  has  evidently  touched  Mrs.  Grand,  for 
she  writes  the  following  letter  to  the  "  Telegraph."  I 
give  it  in  extenso,  as  illustrating  how  to  write  "in  the 
grand  manner."  The  lady  writes  from  the  Pyrenees. 

"  SIR. —  My  distance  from  home  makes  the  receipt  of  papers 
a  somewhat  fitful  event,  and  this  must  be  my  excuse  for  the 
delay  in  answering  your  delicate  apostrophe  to  me.  That  you 
should  insult  Scott  and  Thackeray  and  Dickens  with  your 
approval  p-tins  me  but  little,  since  they  will  never  hear  of  it ; 
that  you  are  so  much  cleverer  than  I  am  I  must  modestly 
accept  your  word  for ;  that  you  strain  yourself  to  be  facetious 
and  but  prove  yourself  a  dnnce,  I  must  attribute  to  your  acad- 
emic degree,  and  a  course  of  the  blighting  wit  of  the  common- 
room  ;  that  yon  should  attack  me  with  base  misrepresentation, 
I  set  down  to  some  rag  of  chivalry  that  still  clings  to  you ;  that 
you  are  of  ancient  lineage  I  am  willing  to  admit,  since  your 
putting  into  my  mouth  words  and  sentiments  which  are  not 
mine  shows  you  infected  with  the  blood  of  Ananias ;  that  you 
should  take  yourself  as  a  serious  judge  of  art  is  a  crime  for 
which  it  is  painful  to  think  you  must  one  day  settle  between 
yon  and  your  God ;  but  that  you  should  write  yourself  down 
an  admirer  of  mine  is  the  ugliest  blow  that  my  art  has  dealt 
me,  and  I  take  this  opportunity  to  publicly  apologise  for  it. 
— Believe  me,  yours  in  sorrow  for  your  insincerity, 

SARAH  GRAND." 

All  this  does  not  mean  that  the  lady  is  angry ;  quite  the 
contrary.  She  is  just  her  sweetly  angelical  self,  even 
as  one  of  her  heavenly  twins  would  be.  Let  the 
"  Academy  "  note,  and  fail  not  to  give  its  £100  reward 
to  the  fortunate  and  discriminating  judge  who  shall 
choose  Mrs.  Sarah  Grand  as  one  whom  a  possible 
"  Academy "  would  delight  to  honor.  Well  may 
'•  Punch "  make  her  say,  "  I  have  written  the  beth 
book  in  the  world;  I  know  no  better." 

Our  new  great  "  literary  weekly "  is  progressing 
apace.  From  all  that  one  hears,  and  by  all  that  one 
may  judge,  "  Literature  "  is  likely  to  become  an  im- 
portant influence  in  the  development  of  those  conditions 
which  make  literature  possible.  Its  reviews  and  articles 
are  distinguished  by  original  thought  and  scholarly 
treatment.  We  are  hoping,  sincerely,  that  it  may  never 
descend  to  academic  "  dryasdustery,"  and  that  it  will 
give  us  just  a  little  more  for  our  money. 

With  the  new  year,  the  Kelmscott  Press  will  cease 


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to  exist.  Its  last  publication  is  to  be  a  "  Note,"  by  the 
late  Mr.  William  Morris,  on  his  aims  in  starting  the 
Press.  The  type  is  to  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  trus- 
tees "  for  future  use,"  but  the  "  special  ornament  will 
be  discontinued,  and  the  wood-blocks  deposited  in  the 
British  Museum."  This  is  as  it  should  be.  However 
excellently  well  intentioned  the  trustees  and  their  help- 
ers may  have  been,  it  must,  long  ago,  have  been  made 
evident  to  them  that  the  Press  without  Mr.  Morris 
was,  after  all,  not  the  same  thing  as  the  Press  with  Mr. 
Morris.  Some  day,  this  will  be  better  appreciated,  when 
we  find  collectors  confining  their  purchases  to  those  books 
only  which  had  the  benefit  of  the  supervision  and  orna- 
mentation of  the  printer  himself. 

Much  is  in  the  air  as  to  future  publications.  The  novel- 
ists are  always  busy,  and  we  are  to  have,  next  year, 
stories  by  Mr.  Conan  Doyle,  Mr.  Henry  Seton  Merri- 
man,  Mr.  Stanley  Weyman,  Mr.  Anthony  Hope,  Mr. 
Crockett,  and  Mr.  Grant  Allen,  in  addition  to  a  shoal 
from  the  smaller  fry.  Mr.  Doyle's  book  will  be  issued 
in  February,  and  is  the  story  which  ran  as  a  serial  in 
the  "  Strand  Magazine."  Its  title  is  to  be  "  The  Tragedy 
of  the  Korosko."  I  believe  it  will  be  issued,  in  America, 
by  the  J.  6.  Lippincott  Co.  Mr.  Merrimau's  tale  has 
to  run  a  preliminary  serial  course  in  the  "  Cornhill," 
with  the  title,  "Roden's  Corner";  while  Mr.  Weyman's 
"  Shrewsbury  "  is  already  being  passed  through  the  press 
by  the  house  of  Longmans.  Mr.  Grant  Allen's  story  is 
to  be  called  "  The  Incidental  Bishop,"  and  Mr.  Crockett's 
"  The  Standard  Bearer."  This  last  is  half  way  towards 
completion  in  the  columns  of  a  popular  religious  "  week- 
ly." Mr.  Hope's  book  has,  as  yet,  no  title,  and  it  will 
not  be  ready  before  next  autumn.  Publications  in  other 
departments  of  literature  must  wait  further  develop- 
ments. The  novelist  generally  arranges  his  work  several 
years  ahead,  and  one  hears  of  it  everywhere. 

I  do  not  know  if  you  have  heard  of  the  new  illustrated 
edition-de-luxe  of  the  novels  of  Charles  Lever;  it  is  a 
sumptuous  publication,  and  when  completed  in  its  thirty- 
seven  volumes,  octavo,  should  transfigure  the  walls  of  a 
library.  It  is  printed  by  Messrs.  Constable  &  Co.,  of 
Edinburgh,  on  hand-made  paper,  and  contains  repro- 
ductions of  all  the  original  illustrations  by  "  Phiz " 
and  Cruikshank.  Apparently,  the  publishers,  Messrs. 
Downey  &  Co.,  have  followed  the  style  of  the  "  Edin- 
burgh" Stevenson;  certainly  they  deserve  the  success 
which  attended  that  publication. 

We  have  been  amused  here  by  the  statement  made 
by  the  London  correspondent  of  the  New  York  "  Book 
Buyer  "  that  the  editor  of  the  "  Athenaeum  "  was  Mr. 
Theodore  Watts-Dunton.  Of  course,  as  everyone  knows, 
the  editor  is  Mr.  McColl;  but  the  amusement  comes 
home  to  the  regular  reader  of  the  "  Athenaeum  "  who 
would  be  prepared  to  admit,  from  internal  evidence, 
that  Mr.  Bullock  is  not  far  out.  If  Mr.  Bullock 
intended  a  joke,  he  made  an  excellent  hit. 

TEMPLE  SCOTT. 


ART  IN  A  SORDID  AGE. 

As  one  who  strives  a  pittance  to  amass, 

Vending  some  trifle  that  none  keeps  nor  seeks, 

So  in  a  sordid  age  is  Art,  alas  ! 

And  all  she  wins,  of  veiled  pity  speaks. 

EDITH  M.  THOMAS. 


LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF  MRS.  STOWE.* 

Mrs.  Fields's  succinct  Life  of  Mrs.  Stowe 
contains  so  much  that  came  originally  from  the 
lips  or  the  pen  of  the  heroine  herself  that  it 
may  not  unfairly  be  termed  an  autobiography. 
The  narrative  of  her  early  life  is  given  mainly 
as  she  gave  it  to  her  son  and  biographer,  the 
Rev.  C.  E.  Stowe ;  while  her  full  and  very 
frank  letters  to  her  friends  supply  the  ground- 
work and  substance  of  the  rest  of  the  story. 
Mrs.  Fields's  task  has  thus  been  mainly  edi- 
torial. Her  book  is  essentially  and  professedly 
a  compilation  of  biographical  material,  rather 
than  a  biography  proper ;  but  it  is  a  compact 
and  workmanlike  production,  full  of  pith  and 
guiltless  of  padding ;  and  these  are  no  small 
merits  in  a  day  when  the  mistaken  liberality 
of  most  biographers  insists  upon  giving  us  two 
fat  volumes  when  one  lean  one  would  have 
sufficed. 

It  is  in  the  letters  that  the  interest  of  Mrs. 
Fields's  book  chiefly  lies,  and  it  is  to  them  that 
we  shall  confine  our  quotations.  The  later  ones 
indicate  clearly  how  genuine  and  deep-seated 
was  Mrs.  Stowe's  devotion  to  the  great  cause 
with  which  her  name  is  inseparably  connected. 
The  embers  of  the  old  wrath  against  the  oppres- 
sor smouldered  to  the  last.  In  a  letter  from 
Boston  in  1882  to  her  married  daughter  the 
flame  leaps  up  again. 

"...  It  [the  Diary  of  John  Quincy  Adams]  is  a 
history  of  our  own  country  through  all  the  period  of 
slavery  usurpation  that  led  to  the  war.  The  industry 
of  the  man  in  writing  is  wonderful.  Every  day's  doings 
in  the  House  are  faithfully  daguerreotyped,  —  all  the 
mean  tricks,  contrivances  of  the  slave-power,  and  the 
pusillanimity  of  the  Northern  members  from  day  to 
day  recorded.  Calhoun  was  then  Secretary  of  State. 
Under  bis  connivance  even  the  United  States  census 
was  falsified,  to  prove  that  freedom  was  bad  for  negroes. 
Records  of  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind,  and  insane  colored 
people,  were  distributed  in  the  Northern  States,  and  in 
places  where  John  Quincy  Adams  had  means  of  proving 
there  were  no  negroes.  When  he  found  that  these  fal- 
sified figures  had  been  used  with  the  English  ambassador 
as  reasons  for  admitting  Texas  as  a  slave  State,  the  old 
man  called  on  Calboun,  and  showed  him  the  indus- 
triously collected  proofs  of  the  falsity  of  this  census. 
He  says:  'He  writhed  like  a  trodden  rattlesnake,  but 
said  the  census  was  full  of  mistakes;  but  one  part  bal- 
anced another  —  it  was  not  worth  while  to  correct  them.' 
His  whole  life  was  an  incessant  warfare  with  the  rapidly 
advancing  spirit  of  slavery,  that  was  coiling  like  a  ser- 
pent around  everything.  ...  I  cannot  but  love  the 

*  THE  LIFE  AND  LETTERS  OF  HARRIET  BEECHER  STOWE. 
Edited  by  Annie  Fields.  With  portrait.  Boston :  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co. 


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old  man.  He  died  without  even  seeing  the  dawn  of 
liberty  which  God  has  brought;  but  oh  !  I  am  sure  he 
sees  it  from  above.  He  died  in  the  Capitol,  in  the 
midst  of  his  labors,  and  the  last  words  he  said  were, 
<This  is  the  last  of  earth;  I  am  content.'  And  now,  I 
trust,  he  is  with  God.  .  .  .  All,  all  are  gone.  All  that 
raged;  all  that  threatened;  all  the  cowards  that  yielded; 
truckled,  sold  their  country  for  a  mess  of  pottage;  all 
the  men  that  stood  and  bore  infamy  and  scorn  for  the 
truth;  all  are  silent  in  dust;  the  fight  is  over,  but  eter- 
nity will  never  efface  from  their  souls  whether  they  did 
well  or  ill —  whether  they,  fought  bravely  or  failed  like 
cowards.  In  a  sense,  our  lives  are  irreparable.  If  we 
shrink,  if  we  fail,  if  we  choose  the  fleeting  instead  of 
the  eternal,  God  may  forgive  us;  but  there  must  be  an 
eternal  regret!  This  man  lived  for  humanity  when 
hardest  bestead;  for  truth  when  truth  was  unpopular; 
for  Christ  when  Christ  stood  chained  and  scourged  in 
the  person  of  the  slave." 

A  letter  to  Dr.  Holmes  in  1876  gives  us  an 
inkling  of  Mrs.  Stowe's  later  views  on  spiritual- 
ism —  a  subject  upon  which,  as  her  closer 
friends  knew,  she  had  at  one  time  bestowed 
much  thought. 

"...  I  remember  a  remark  you  once  made  on 
spiritualism.  I  cannot  recall  the  words,  but  you  spoke 
of  it  as  modifying  the  sharp  angles  of  Calvinistic  belief, 
as  a  fog  does  those  of  a  landscape.  I  would  like  to  talk 
with  you  some  time  on  spiritualism,  and  show  you  a  col- 
lection of  very  curious  facts  that  I  have  acquired  through 
mediums  not  professional.  I  have  long  since  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  the  marvels  of  spiritualism  are  natural, 
and  not  supernatural,  phenomena, — an  uncommon  work- 
ing of  natural  laws.  I  believe  that  the  door  between 
those  in  the  body  and  those  out  has  never  in  any  age 
been  entirely  closed,  and  that  occasional  perceptions 
within  the  veil  are  a  part  of  the  course  of  nature,  and 
therefore  not  miraculous." 

A  letter  to  Dr.  Holmes  of  earlier  date  than 
the  foregoing  one  refers  interestingly  to  "Elsie 
Venner,"  which  was  then  running  its  course  in 
the  "  Atlantic." 

"...  I  know  not  what  others  may  think  of  it,  since 
I  have  seen  nobody  since  my  return;  but  to  me  it  is  of 
deeper  and  broader  interest  than  anything  you  have  done 
yet,  and  I  feel  an  intense  curiosity  concerning  that 
underworld  of  thought  from  which  like  bubbles  your 
incidents  and  remarks  often  seem  to  burst  up.  The 
foundations  of  moral  responsibility,  the  interlacing  laws 
of  nature  and  spirit,  and  their  relation  to  us  here  and  here- 
after, are  topics  which  I  ponder  more  and  more,  and  on 
which  only  one  medically  educated  can  write  well" 

A  letter  of  Mrs.  Stowe's  to  George  Eliot,  in 
which  she  seems  to  have  expressed  some  mis- 
givings as  to  the  reception  of  "  Oldtown  Folks  " 
in  England,  elicited  the  following  reply  : 

"  I  have  good  hopes  that  your  fears  are  groundless 
as  to  the  obstacles  your  new  book  may  find  here  from 
its  thorough  American  character.  Most  readers  who  are 
likely  to  be  really  influenced  by  writing  above  the  com- 
mon order  will  find  that  special  aspect  an  added  reason 
for  interest  and  study;  and  I  dare  say  you  have  long 
seen,  as  I  am  beginning  to  see  with  new  clearness,  that 
if  a  book  which  has  any  sort  of  exquisiteness  happens 


also  to  be  a  popular,  widely  circulated  book,  the  power 
over  the  social  mind  for  any  good  is,  after  all,  due  to  its 
reception  by  a  few  appreciative  natures,  and  is  the  slow 
result  of  radiation  from  that  narrow  circle.  I  mean  that 
you  can  affect  a  few  souls,  and  that  each  of  these  in  turn 
may  affect  a  few  more,  but  that  no  exquisite  book  tells 
properly  and  directly  on  a  multitude,  however  largely  it 
may  be  spread  by  type  and  paper.  Witness  the  things  the 
multitude  will  say  about  it,  if  one  is  so  unhappy  as  to  be 
obliged  to  hear  their  sayings.  I  do  not  write  this  cyn- 
ically, but  in  pure  sadness  and  pity.  Both  travelling 
abroad  and  staying  at  home  among  our  English  sights 
and  sports,  one  must  continually  feel  how  slowly  the 
centuries  work  toward  the  moral  good  of  man,  and  that 
thought  lies  very  close  to  what  you  say  concerning  my 
religious  point  of  view.  I  believe  that  religion,  too,  has 
to  be  modified  according  to  the  dominant  phases;  that 
a  religion  more  perfect  than  any  yet  prevalent  must 
express  less  care  of  personal  consolation,  and  the  more 
deeply  awing  sense  of  responsibility  to  man  springing 
from  sympathy  with  that  which  of  all  things  is  most  cer- 
tainly known  to  us,  —  the  difficulty  of  the  human  lot." 

An  amusing  note  to  George  Eliot  from  Mrs. 
Stowe,  in  1872,  contains  a  veiled  personal  allu- 
sion that  may  set  the  reader  a-guessing. 

"...  Yesterday  we  were  both  out  of  our  senses  with 
mingled  pity  and  indignation  at  that  dreadful  stick  of  a 
Casaubon,  —  and  think  of  poor  Dorothea  dashing  like  a 
warm,  sunny  wave  against  so  cold  and  repulsive  a  rock! 
He  is  a  little  too  dreadful  for  anything;  there  does  not 
seem  to  be  a  drop  of  warm  blood  in  him,  and  so,  as  it 
is  his  misfortune  and  not  his  fault  to  be  cold-blooded, 
one  must  not  get  angry  with  him.  It  is  the  scene  in  the 
garden,  after  the  interview  with  the  doctor,  that  rests 
on  our  mind  at  this  present.  There  was  such  a  man  as 
he  over  in  Boston,  high  in  literary  circles,  but  I  fancy 
his  wife  was  n't  like  Dorothea,  and  a  vastly  proper  time 
they  had  of  it,  treating  each  other  with  mutual  rever- 
ence, like  two  Chinese  mandarins." 

James  Russell  Lowell's  ardent  admiration  of 
Mrs.  Stowe's  work  is  eloquently  expressed  in  a 
letter  to  her  in  regard  to  "  The  Minister's  Woo- 

ing": 

"...  Let  your  moral  take  care  of  itself,  and  remem- 
ber that  an  author's  writing-desk  is  something  infinitely 
higher  than  a  pulpit.  What  I  call  « care  of  itself '  is 
shown  in  that  noble  passage  in  the  February  number 
about  the  ladder  up  to  heaven.  That  is  grand  preach- 
ing and  in  the  right  way.  I  am  sure  that '  The  Minister's 
Wooing '  is  going  to  be  the  best  of  your  products  hith- 
erto, and  I  am  sure  of  it  because  you  show  so  thorough 
a  mastery  of  your  material,  so  true  a  perception  of  re- 
alities, without  which  the  ideality  is  impossible.  .  .  . 
Woman  charms  a  higher  faculty  in  us  than  reason,  God 
be  praised,  and  nothing  has  delighted  me  more  in  your 
new  story  than  the  happy  instinct  with  which  you  develop 
this  incapacity  of  the  lover's  logic  in  your  female  char- 
acters. Go  on  just  as  you  have  begun,  and  make  it  ap- 
pear in  as  many  ways  as  you  like  that,  whatever  creed 
may  be  true,  it  is  not  true,  and  never  will  be,  that  man 
can  be  saved  by  machinery.  I  can  speak  with  some 
chance  of  being  right,  for  I  confess  a  deep  sympathy 
with  many  parts  of  Calvanistic  theology,  and,  .  .  .  for 
one  thing  believe  in  hell  with  all  my  might,  and  in  the 
goodness  of  God  for  all  that  ...  1  have  not  said  any- 
thing. What  could  I  say  ?  One  might  as  well  advise 


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a  mother  about  the  child  she  still  bears  under  her  heart, 
and  say,  Give  it  these  and  those  qualities,  as  an  author 
about  a  work  yet  in  her  brain.  Only  this  I  will  say, 
that  I  am  honestly  delighted  with  '  The  Minister's  Woo- 
ing'; that  reading  it  has  been  one  of  my  few  editorial 
pleasures;  that  no  one  appreciates  your  genius  more 
highly  than  I,  or  hopes  more  fervently  that  you  will  let 
yourself  go  without  regard  to  this,  that,  or  t'other. 
Do  n't  read  any  criticisms  on  your  story ;  believe  that 
you  know  better  than  any  of  us,  and  be  sure  that  every- 
body likes  it.  That  I  know.  There  is  not,  and  never 
was,  anybody  so  competent  to  write  a  true  New  England 
poem  as  yourself,  and  have  no  doubt  that  you  are  doing 
it.  The  native  sod  sends  up  the  best  inspiration  to  the 
brain,  and  you  are  as  sure  of  immortality  as  we  all  are 
of  dying,  —  if  you  only  go  on  with  entire  faith  in  your- 
self." 

Mrs.  Fields's  little  book  is  brimful  of  good 
reading,  and  we  earnestly  recommend  it  to  the 
younger  generation  especially,  to  whom  the  au- 
thor of  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  is  already  an  his- 
toric figure  and  fading  into  the  shadow-land 
of  the  nation's  storied  past.  It  contains  the 
essence  of  a  life- story  that  every  American 
should  be  familiar  with ;  for  the  name  of  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe  is  writ  large  and  bright  on  that 
page  of  our  history  of  which  we  as  a  nation  have 
the  clearest  reason  to  be  proud.  In  our  gratitude 
to  the  statesmen  and  soldiers  of  that  great  day 
let  us  not  forget  the  part  this  fragile  New  En- 
gland woman  bore  in  erasing  from  our  national 
scutcheon  its  chief  blot.  Of  all  the  moral  forces 
that  made  for  the  right  when  the  issue  of  slav- 
ery or  no  slavery  was  still  a  living  one,  there 
was  certainly  none  more  potent  than  her  great 
book  —  great  in  that  it  so  marvellously  wrung 
the  heart  and  stung  the  conscience  of  a  genera- 
tion grown  apathetic  in  the  sight  of  wrong,  and 
because  it  carried  with  it  from  our  shores  a  tidal 
wave  of  human  feeling  and  loving-kindness,  of 
sympathy  with  the  oppressed  and  wrath  against 
the  oppressor,  that  rolled  around  the  world.  Har- 
riet Beecher  Stowe  was  indubitably  of  the  stuff 
of  which  the  world's  moral  heroes  are  made.  She 
loved  the  truth  for  its  own  sake,  and  clung  to  it 
the  more  when  she  found  it  unpopular;  she  pro- 
claimed it  to  all  the  world  from  the  house- tops,  at 
a  time  when  even  to  whisper  it  in  secret  places 
meant  obloquy.  It  is  related  that  when  Mrs. 
Stowe  first  called  upon  President  Lincoln,  in 
1862,  he  seized  her  hand,  saying,  "  Is  this  the 
little  woman  who  made  this  great  war?"  That 
was,  of  course,  a  kindly  and  half- playful  exag- 
geration of  the  truth.  Mrs.  Stowe  did  not 
make  the  war;  the  social  wrong  it  righted  and 
the  constitutional  question  it  settled  made  it, 
and  it  must  have  come  in  the  fulness  of  time 
had  her  book  never  been  written.  But  that  it 
came  the  sooner,  and  was  the  more  welcome  to 


those  who  waged  it  for  humanity's  sake,  because 
of  that  book,  there  is  no  doubt.  Through  its 
winged  words  and  moving  pictures  it  keyed 
men's  minds  up  to  the  heroic  pitch  and  steeled 
the  long-faltering  heart  of  the  North  for  the 
irrepressible  conflict.  As  long  as  the  history 
of  our  country  continues  to  be  read,  the  name 
of  the  author  of  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  will  re- 
main one  that  all  high  spirits  delight  to  honor. 

Mrs.  Stowe's  life  was  not  lacking  in  the 
elements  of  storm  and  stress,  and  at  one  period 
of  it  she  had  more  than  a  passing  acquaintance 
with  something  very  like  poverty.  But  the 
end  was  tranquil —  a  serene  and  slowly  waning 
eventide  of  rest,  after  the  toil  and  bustle  of  the 
day.  Her  pen,  once  so  restlessly  busy,  was 
laid  aside  latterly,  save  for  a  brief,  exceptional 
note  to  her  closer  friends.  These  missives  are 
often  tinged  with  a  pathetic  consciousness  of 
failing  powers  and  fading  interests.  Toward 
the  end  she  wrote  to  Mrs.  Howard : 

"...  My  mind  wanders  like  a  running  brook,  and 
I  do  not  think  of  my  friends  as  I  used  to,  unless  they 
recall  themselves  to  me  by  some  kind  action.  ...  I 
think  I  am  in  something  of  the  condition  of  the  silk- 
worm who  has  spun  out  all  his  silk,  and  can  spin  no 
more,  unless  he  has  some  fresh  mulberry  leaves.  When 
I  reach  '  the  golden  shores '  where  grow  the  trees  of 
life,  there  I  may  be  able  to  renew  the  happy  friendships 
with  those  who  have  gone  before  and  may  come  after 
me  to  that  happy  land.  .  .  .  My  sun  has  set.  The  time 
of  work  for  me  is  over.  I  have  written  all  my  words 
and  thought  all  my  thoughts,  and  now  I  rest  me  in  the 
flickering  light  of  the  dying  embers,  in  a  rest  so  profound 
that  the  voice  of  an  old  friend  arouses  me  but  momen- 
tarily, and  I  drop  back  again  into  repose." 

Mrs.  Fields  has  not  thought  fit  to  weave  into 
the  narrative  much  in  the  way  of  historical  fact 
or  comment,  or  of  literary  exposition  and  ap- 
preciation. She  has  given  us  a  delightful  and 
inspiring  book,  rich  in  biographical  essentials, 
and  it  is  likely  to  hold  its  place  as  the  standard 
"  Life  "  of  Mrs.  Stowe,  until  the  time  comes 
when  a  really  critical  and  definitive  one  can  be 
written.  E.  G.  J. 


EX-PRESIDENT'S  VIEWS  or  HIS 
COUNTRY.* 

It  is  interesting  to  learn  what  it  is  that  an 
ex-president  of  the  United  States  regards  as 
"  This  Country  of  Ours."  An  inspection  of 
Mr.  Harrison's  volume  bearing  that  title  shows 
that  he  considers  it  to  be  substantially  the 
Executive  branch  of  the  Federal  Government. 
He  devotes  16  pages  to  the  Constitution,  51 


*THIS  COUNTRY  OF  OCRS.  By  Benjamin  Harrison.  Ex- 
President  of  the  United  States.  New  York :  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons. 


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pages  to  Congress,  232  pages  to  the  Executive, 
31  pages  to  the  Judiciary,  and  no  pages  to 
state  or  municipal  institutions. 

Of  course  this  is  hardly  a  balanced  scheme, 
or  one  that  gives  an  adequate  view  of  the  polit- 
ical life  of  the  Republic.  Congress  and  the 
courts  play  a  larger  part  in  the  national  drama 
than  would  appear  from  Mr.  Harrison's  sketch. 
Under  our  dual  system  of  government,  no  ac- 
count is  complete  which  omits  the  States.  With 
the  present  tendencies  of  social  development, 
any  treatment  is  defective  which  omits  muni- 
cipal structure  and  problems.  So  "  This  Coun- 
try of  Ours "  turns  out  to  be  a  fragment. 
Perhaps  an  instructive  collaboration  would 
combine  Ex-President  Harrison,  Speaker  Reed, 
Justice  Field,  Ex-Governor  Grover  Cleveland, 
and  Ex-Mayor  Seth  Low.  Each  of  these  could 
speak  from  wide  knowledge,  large  views  of 
things,  unquestioned  patriotism,  and  profound 
public  confidence.  A  book  which  they  would 
make  would  be  a  most  unique  and  valuable 
contribution  to  political  science. 

But  if  Mr.  Harrison's  little  book  is  a  frag- 
ment, nevertheless  it  is  an  interesting  one. 
Besides  being  clear  and  accurate  in  its  presen- 
tation of  facts,  it  is  interspersed  with  striking 
comments  on  the  actual  workings  of  govern- 
ment —  comments  especially  worthy  of  atten- 
tion as  coming  from  one  who  knows,  and  whose 
judgment  is  so  sane  as  is  that  of  Mr.  Harrison. 
A  few  of  these  comments  may  as  well  be  quoted 
bodily. 

"  The  close  of  the  Congress  and  the  beginning  of  the 
President's  term  should  be  changed  to  May  4.  This 
would  make  the  '  short  session  '  available  for  something 
besides  the  appropriation  bills,  would  diminish  the 
chances  of  a  Vice- Presidential  succession,  and  save  many 
useful  lives  —  for  I  do  not  doubt  that  the  exposure  and 
suffering  endured  by  the  parading  organizations  and  by 
the  spectators  in  1881,  1889,  and  1893,  carried  many 
people  to  premature  graves  "  (page  94). 

This  suggestion  has  been  frequently  made.  It 
would  seem  eminently  sensible  and  unobjec- 
tionable. SenatoB  Mason  of  Illinois  is  inter- 
ested in  the  reform  of  Senate  procedure.  Will 
he  undertake  this  reform  also  ? 

The  Ex-President's  comments  on  the  ap- 
pointing power  are  worthy  of  note. 

"  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  participation  of  the 
Senate  in  the  matter  of  appointments  is  larger  than  the 
Constitution  contemplates.  But  as  the  President  can, 
in  the  nature  of  things,  know  but  little  about  the  appli- 
cants for  local  offices,  and  must  depend  upon  someone 
better  informed  than  he  to  give  him  the  necessary  in- 
formation, it  is  quite  natural  that  he  should  give  weight 
to  the  advice  of  the  Senator  or  Representative.  It 
ought,  however,  to  be  admitted  that  as  the  responsibility 
rests  upon  the  President  he  must  be  satisfied  of  the 


fitness  of  the  appointment.  That  being  satisfactorily 
established,  the  public  interests  are  saved,  for  the  choice 
between  fit  men  is  not  very  important.  If  there  is  any 
objection  to  the  appointment,  growing  out  of  the  char- 
acter or  habits  of  the  applicant,  it  is  pretty  sure  to  be 
brought  out;  and  on  the  whole,  considering  the  number 
of  appointments  the  President  is  required  to  make  with- 
out any  personal  knowledge  of  the  appointees,  the  public 
service  is  well  and  honestly  conducted. 

"  The  Civil  Service  Law  has  removed  a  large  number 
of  minor  offices  in  the  departments  at  Washington,  and 
in  the  postal  and  other  services,  from  the  scramble  of 
politics,  and  has  given  the  President,  the  Cabinet  officers, 
and  the  Members  of  Congress  great  relief;  but  it  still 
remains  true  that  in  the  power  of  appointment  to  office 
the  President  finds  the  most  exacting,  unrelenting,  and 
distracting  of  his  duties.  In  the  nature  of  things  he 
begins  to  make  enemies  from  the  start,  and  has  no  way 
of  escape  —  it  is  fate ;  and  to  a  sensitive  man  involves 
much  distress  of  mind.  His  only  support  is  in  the  good 
opinion  of  those  who  chiefly  care  that  the  public  busi- 
ness shall  be  well  done,  and  are  not  disturbed  by  the 
consideration  whether  this  man  or  that  man  is  doing  it; 
but  he  hears  very  little  directly  from  this  class.  No 
President  can  conduct  a  successful  administration  with- 
out the  support  of  Congress,  and  this  matter  of  appoint- 
ments, do  what  he  will,  often  weakens  that  support.  It 
is  for  him  always  a  sort  of  compromise  between  his 
ideal  and  the  best  attainable  thing"  (pp.  109  sqq.~). 

It  is  clear  that  the  independence  of  depart- 
ments, which  was  the  dream  of  the  framers, 
does  not  exist  while  the  appointing  power  is 
in  practice  joint  and  not  exclusive.  There 
have  been  times  when  the  President  has  been 
able  to  use  his  appointments  as  a  strong  lever 
for  good  legislation,  as  was  the  case  in  the  extra 
session  of  1893.  Indeed,  the  prevailing  ten- 
dency on  the  part  of  the  people  to  trust  the 
President  more  than  the  Congress,  seems  per- 
haps a  sufficient  reason  for  the  fact  that  there 
is  any  substantial  opposition  to  civil  service 
reform.  Many  who  have  no  liking  for  the 
spoils  system  are  yet  reluctant  to  deprive  the 
President  of  an  important  means  of  control. 

On  page  32,  Mr.  Harrison  calls  attention  to 
another  defect  in  the  Federal  Constitution, 
whereby  the  President  is  unable  to  veto  items 
in  an  appropriation  bill.  Should  such  power 
be  given,  as  has  been  done  in  several  States, 
legislative  log-rolling  would  at  onee  disappear. 
It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  a  reform  like  this 
could  be  carried  easily.  It  is  the  converse  of 
the  President's  means  of  controlling  Congress- 
men by  means  of  the  appointing  power,  and 
Congress  would  not  readily  abandon  it.  But 
the  Constitution  ought  to  be  amended  in  this 
sense. 

A  very  suggestive  remark  is  made  on  page 
226.     Our  means  of  national  defense  have 
been  discussed.     Mr.  Harrison  then  adds : 
"  All  these  preparations  and  conditions  will  promote 


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arbitration,  and,  better  still,  the  direct  adjustment  of 
international  differences.  What  is  won  in  a  lawsuit  is 
neither  given  with  grace  nor  accepted  with  gratitude. 
A  voluntary  surrender  of  the  brutal  privilege  of  killing 
pregnant  and  nursing  seals  for  their  skins  would  be  a 
better  evidence  of  good-will  than  the  most  touching 
banquet  utterances." 

The  remark  is  commended  to  Great  Britain. 

Mr.  Harrison's  book  does  not  rank  with  that 
of  Mr.  James  Bryce  —  it  is  much  simpler  in 
scope.  But  it  is  a  useful  discussion,  in  a  brief 
way,  of  matters  which  are  worth  discussing  in 
many  ways  and  from  many  points  of  view. 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON. 


MR.  ANDREW  LANG'S  BOUT  WITH 
PROF.  MAX  MTJLLER.* 

In  Professor  Max  Miiller's  "  Contributions 
to  the  Science  of  Mythology"  (reviewed  in 
THE  DIAL  for  June  1,  1897),  the  great  Ox- 
ford scholar  made  defense  of  the  Etymologi- 
cal school  of  study,  and  battled  against  the 
Ethnopsychical  or  Anthropological  school. 
While  keeping  his  temper  fairly  well,  the  old 
man  eloquent  was  polemic  in  attitude  and  made 
many  thrusts  at  his  enemies.  His  book  has 
drawn  out  a  reply  in  the  volume  before  us  — 
"  Modern  Mythology,"  by  Mr.  Andrew  Lang. 

Mr.  Lang  himself  says  of  his  book  that  it 
is  "wandering  and  desultory,"  for  Mr.  Max 
Miiller's  "  attack  is  of  a  skirmishing  character. 
Through  more  than  eight  hundred  pages  the 
learned  author  keeps  up  an  irregular  fire  at 
the  ideas  and  methods  of  the  Anthropological 
school  of  mythologists.  The  reply  must  follow 
the  lines  of  attack."  The  attitude  of  the  An- 
thropological school  is  well  known.  It  studies 
the  mythologies  of  modern  peoples,  either  lower 
races  or  the  peasantry  in  higher  peoples,  in 
order  to  understand  by  comparison  the  myth- 
ology of  ancient  nations.  In  a  sense,  we  find 
mythology  in  the  making,  among  savages,  bar- 
barians, and  peasants.  Customs  and  survivals 
may  cast  much  light  upon  the  past.  Mr.  Lang 
brings  forth  a  good  deal  of  argument  in  favor 
of  the  material,  methods,  and  conclusions  of 
the  Anthropological  school.  It  is  incoherent 
to  a  degree,  because  the  book  is  a  "reply." 
The  plan  pursued  is  to  select  those  passages  of 
his  opponent  wherein  direct  assault  is  made,  to 
present  them,  and  then  to  answer  them.  Not 
content  with  a  simple  defense,  Mr.  Lang  him- 

*  MODERN  MYTHOLOGY.    By  Andrew  Lang.    New  York : 
Longmans,  Green,  &  Co. 


self  makes  an  occasional  attack.    Thus,  in  the 
Introduction,  he  says: 

"In  agreement  with  Curtiusand  many  other  scholars, 
we  very  sincerely  doubt  almost  all  etymologies  of  old 
proper  names,  even  in  Greek  or  Sanskrit.  We  find 
among  philologists,  as  a  rule,  the  widest  discrepancies 
of  interpretation.  Moreover,  every  name  must  mean 
something.  Now,  whatever  the  meaning  of  a  name  (sup- 
posing it  to  be  really  ascertained),  very  little  ingenuity 
is  needed  to  make  it  indicate  one  or  other  aspect  of 
Dawn  or  Night,  of  Lightning  or  Storm,  just  as  the 
philologist  pleases.  Then  he  explains  the  divine  or 
heroic  being  denoted  by  the  name — as  Dawn  or  Storm, 
or  Fire  or  Night,  or  Twilight  or  Wind  —  in  accordance 
with  his  private  taste,  easily  accommodating  the  facts 
of  the  myth,  whatever  they  may  be,  to  his  favorite 
solution.  We  rebel  against  this  kind  of  logic,  and  per- 
sist in  studying  the  myth  in  itself  and  in  comparison 
with  analogous  myths  in  every  accessible  language." 

The  topics  of  our  author's  chapters  are  nat- 
urally diverse.  "Recent  Mythology,"  "The 
Story  of  Daphne,"  "  The  Question  of  Allies," 
"Mannhardt,"  "Philology  and  Demeter  Erin- 
nys,"  "  Totemism,"  "  The  Validity  of  Anthro- 
pological Evidence,"  "The  Philological  Method 
in  Anthropology,"  "  Criticism  of  Fetichism," 
"  The  Eiddle  Theory,"  "Artemis,"  —  these  are 
all  directed  to  meet  Professor  Miiller's  criti- 
cisms and  arguments.  They  take  up,  and  in 
most  cases  satisfactorily  deal  with,  the  objec- 
tions. Two  other  chapters  —  "  The  Fire  Walk  " 
and  "Origin  of  Death"  —  are  apparently  in- 
serted as  illustrations  of  the  Anthropological 
method.  Both  have  appeared,  at  least  in  part, 
as  essays  in  reviews.  "  The  Fire  Walk  "  pre- 
sents some  particularly  interesting  material, 
though  the  treatment  leads  to  no  definite  or 
clear  result.  The  fire  rite  of  the  Hirpi  on 
Mount  Soracte  is  described.  Striking  parallels 
to  it  are  found  in  Fiji,  Malabar,  New  Zealand, 
Bulgaria,  Trinidad,  and  in  India.  These  also 
are  described  with  some  detail.  In  all  these 
cases,  human  beings  deliberately  walk  through 
fire,  unharmed,  usually  with  the  purpose  of  se- 
curing some  desired  result.  Curiously,  Mr. 
Lang  has  overlooked  one  of  the  clearest  and 
most  striking  cases  of  the  "Fire  Walk  —  as  it 
occurs  in  Japan,  admirably  described  by  Mr. 
Percival  Lowell.  FREDERICK  STARR. 


Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  have  just  issued 
"  The  Complete  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Burns  "  in  a 
single  "  Cambridge  "  volume,  uniform  with  the  Long- 
fellow, Whittier,  Holmes,  Lowell,  and  Browning  vol- 
umes heretofore  published  in  that  extremely  compact 
and  satisfactory  edition.  It  is  practically  the  "  Cen- 
tenary "  Burns  of  Messrs.  Henley  and  Henderson,  boiled 
down  into  a  single  volume,  but  retaining  the  whole  of 
Mr.  Henley's  introductory  essay,  and  as  many  of  the 
notes  as  possible. 


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THE  PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN  DRAMA.* 

Perhaps  the  most  important  literary  monu- 
ments of  mediaeval  England,  outside  of  Chau- 
cer, are  the  ballads  and  the  religious  and  moral 
plays.  Professor  Gummere's  admirable  vol- 
ume of  "  Old  English  Ballads,"  in  the  "Athen- 
aeum Press  Series,"  is  by  far  the  best  handbook 
for  the  study  of  the  ballads ;  though  one  might 
wish  that  the  Appendices  had  been  made  into 
an  Introduction  and  the  present  learned  Intro- 
duction into  an  Appendix.  The  existing  manual 
for  the  study  of  the  English  religious  drama, 
Professor  Pollard's  "  English  Miracle  Plays," 
was  not  a  satisfactory  book  when  it  first  ap- 
peared, in  spite  of  its  valuable  prefatory  essay  ; 
while  the  work  of  a  number  of  investigators 
during  the  past  seven  years,  and  especially  the 
publication  of  Band  I.  of  Creizenach's  "Ges- 
chichte  des  Neueren  Dramas  "  (Halle,  1893), 
have  made  a  more  adequate  survey  of  the  older 
English  drama  a  necessity. 

The  "  Specimens  of  the  Pre-Shaksperean 
Drama,"  edited  by  Professor  John  M.  Manly, 
of  Brown  University,  Volumes  I.  and  II.  of 
which  have  just  appeared  in  the  "  Athenaum 
Press  Series,"  will  therefore  have  no  rival  as  a 
guide  to  the  study  of  the  early  English  drama. 
The  general  Introduction  and  the  Notes  and 
Glossary  are  reserved  for  Volume  III.;  but  no 
one  can  note  the  wise  system  that  has  governed 
the  selection  of  the  texts  in  the  present  volumes, 
and  read  Professor  Manly's  careful  Preface, 
without  feeling  convinced  that  the  work  is  to  be 
a  most  scholarly  and  an  adequate  presentation 
and  interpretation  of  the  beginnings  of  the  En- 
glish drama.  "  The  Introduction  will  trace  the 
history  of  the  drama  on  the  Continent  as  well 
as  in  England  from  the  beginning  of  the  tenth 
century  to  the  formation  of  the  Scripture  cy- 
cles, and  then  in  England  alone  from  that  time 
to  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century." 

Volume  I.,  which  contains  about  650  pages, 
begins  with  certain  liturgical  plays  in  Latin. 
These  were  presented  in  English  churches  dur- 
ing the  tenth  century,  although  the  accepted 
text- books  are  ignorant  of  the  fact.  With  these 
are  associated  some  fragments  in  English,  with 
occasional  bits  of  Latin,  first  published  by  Pro- 
fessor Skeat  in  1890.  That  scholar  conjectured 
that  these  scraps  are  a  part  of  the  lost  Beverley 
cycle  of  biblical  plays  ;  but  Professor  Manly  is 
the  first  person  to  declare  that  they  are  some- 
thing far  more  precious :  he  believes  them  to  be 

*  SPECIMENS  OF  THE  PKE  -  SHAKSPEREAN  DRAMA.  By 
John  Matthews  Manly.  Volumes  I.  and  II.  (The  Athenaeum 
Press  Series).  Boston :  Ginn  &  Co. 


the  only  traces  that  have  been  found  of  the  ver- 
nacular liturgical  plays  which  existed  within  the 
churches  in  England  while  the  Scripture  cycles 
of  the  guilds  flourished  without.  A  miniature 
cycle  of  these  guild  plays  is  given  by  combining 
specimen  scenes  from  all  the  extant  cycles  and 
the  best  of  the  isolated  plays.  This  is  a  wise 
device.  It  is  to  be  regretted,  however,  since  it 
is  so  important  in  medieval  religious  thought, 
that  "  The  Harrowing  of  Hell "  has  been  en- 
tirely omitted.  One  play  here  given,  the 
"Morality  of  Mankind,"  has  never  before  been 
printed  ;  and  several  others  have  been  either 
little  known  or  practically  inaccessible.  Stu- 
dents will  feel  especially  grateful  for  "The 
Play  of  the  Sacrament." 

Volume  I.  ends  with  "  The  Four  P's,"  by 
John  Heywood,  and  Bale's  "  King  John."  Vol- 
ume II.  contains  "Roister  Doister,"  "  Gorbo- 
duc,"  and  some  later  predecessors  of  the  plays 
of  Shakespeare.  The  editor  prefers  to  discuss 
emendations  in  foot-notes,  and  not  to  admit 
them  into  the  text ;  and  he  never  looks  upon 
himself  as  a  "  literary  adviser  to  the  authors." 
All  who  are  interested  in  the  early  history  of 
the  English  drama  will  hope  for  the  speedy 
appearance  of  Volume  III. 

ALBERT  H.  TOLMAN. 


RECENT  FICTION.* 


"  If  you  write  about  love,  talk  little  of  other 
matters.  Let  your  discourse  be  always  of  love. 
Speak  not  of  affairs  of  State  :  keep  the  lover  always 
before  your  readers.  Let  them  have  the  voice  of 
love  and  see  the  eyes  of  love.  Do  not  dwell  at 
length  upon  your  previous  history  or  your  later  his- 
tory, or  anything  except  what  is  necessary  to  show 
how  he  fell  in  love  with  you,  and  why."  Thus  runs 
the  advice  given  to  the  heroine  of  "  A  Fountain 

*  A  FOUNTAIN  SEALED.  A  Novel.  By  Sir  Walter  Besant. 
New  York :  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co. 

DARIEL.  A  Romance  of  Surrey.  By  R.  D.  Blackmore. 
New  York :  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

THE  INVISIBLE  MAN.  A  Grotesque  Romance.  By  H.  G. 
Wells.  New  York  :  Edward  Arnold. 

LAWRENCE  CLAVERING.  By  A.  E.  W.  Mason.  New  York : 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

THE  CLASH  OF  ARMS.  A  Romance.  By  John  Bloundelle- 
Burton.  New  York :  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

IN  KEBAB'S  TENTS.  By  Henry  Seton  Merriman.  New 
York :  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

THE  FOURTH  NAPOLEON.  A  Romance.  By  Charles  Ben- 
ham.  Chicago :  Herbert  S.  Stone  &  Co. 

BY  RIGHT  OF  SWORD.  By  Arthnr  W.  Marchmont.  New 
York :  New  Amsterdam  Book  Co. 

QUEEN  OF  THE  JESTERS,  and  Her  Strange  Adventures  in 
Old  Paris.  By  Max  Pemberton.  New  York :  Dodd,  Mead 
&Co. 

AN  AFRICAN  MILLIONAIRE.  By  Grant  Allen.  New  York: 
Edward  Arnold. 


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Sealed  "  in  the  prologue  which  introduces  the  story. 
The  advice  is  accepted,  and  the  heroine  proceeds  to 
tell  her  story,  all  in  the  first  person,  and  a  story  of 
strange  and  absorbing  interest  it  turns  out  to  be  — 
one  of  the  best,  in  fact,  that  Sir  Walter  Besant  has 
ever  given  us.  Viewed  in  the  retrospect  of  twenty 
years,  the  story  of  the  heroine's  life  —  or  rather  of 
the  few  weeks  of  happiness  that  seem  to  her  the 
whole  of  her  life  —  loses  something  of  its  tragic 
aspect  in  the  soft  embrace  of  a  memory  that  has 
kept  the  tenderness  rather  than  the  pity  of  it  all. 
For  she  tells  us,  speaking  in  the  year  1780,  how 
twenty  years  before  she  had  been  wooed  and  won 
by  a  youth  who  was  all  gentleness  and  devotion, 
and  how  the  cup  of  happiness  was  snatched  from 
her  on  the  wedding  morn.  For  the  youth  was  no 
other  than  the  Prince  of  Wales  (albeit  his  rank  had 
remained  unknown  to  her),  and  the  death  of  his 
grandfather  called  him  to  a  throne  that  he  would 
gladly  have  renounced  for  her  sake,  had  it  been 
possible.  To  accept  this  story  at  all,  we  must,  of 
course,  accept  all  the  necessary  attendant  improba- 
bilities. That  the  lover  should  have  concealed  his 
rank  from  his  sweetheart  when  it  was  known  to  all 
the  world  about  her,  and  that  George  III.  was  ever 
such  a  youth  as  is  here  depicted,  are  things  that 
strain  the  credulity,  and  will  doubtless  make  earnest 
realists  sniff  with  indignation.  But  the  true  lover 
of  romance  cares  little  for  such  considerations,  and 
will  be  satisfied  to  find  the  story  sweet  in  sentiment 
and  skilfully  contrived  to  sustain  his  interest.  And 
then  there  undoubtedly  is  a  certain  amount  of  realism 
of  the  best  sort  in  the  book  (for  Sir  Walter  knows 
his  eighteenth  century  England  as  few  others  know 
it),  and  there  is  much  verisimiltude  in  the  details 
of  the  narrative,  however  improbable  be  the  central 
situation. 

Mr.  Blackmore's  new  novel  is  described  as  "  a 
romance  of  Surrey,"  but  a  just  sense  of  proportion 
would  have  made  the  description  run  <4  a  romance 
of  Surrey  and  Daghestan."  For  the  author  has 
introduced  into  the  peaceful  vales  of  the  English 
county  an  exiled  Caucasian  chieftain  and  his  train 
(including  one  fair  daughter),  and  about  half  the 
book  is  an  account  of  the  intrigues  and  blood-feuds 
of  these  wild  tribesmen  of  the  Caucasus,  whether 
carried  on  in  England  or  in  their  native  mountains. 
We  do  not  think  that  Mr.  Blackmore  has  been  well- 
advised  in  his  choice  of  so  fantastic  a  motive  for 
his  story,  and  have  no  idea  that  he  really  knows 
anything  about  Daghestan  and  its  inhabitants. 
Neither  the  old  chieftain  nor  his  daughter  is  pre- 
sented with  anything  like  convincing  art,  and  the 
honest  English  squire  who  falls  in  love  with  Dariel 
seems  much  out  of  place  in  that  galley.  In  the 
delineation  of  his  English  figures,  of  course,  and  in 
his  descriptions  of  English  country  life,  Mr.  Black- 
more  is  here,  as  always,  unsurpassable  for  shrewd- 
ness and  accuracy  of  observation,  while  it  need 
hardly  be  added  that  his  style  has  a  "  body  "  which 
is  grateful  to  the  educated  literary  palate,  for  it  is 
both  rich  and  distinctive. 


The  peculiar  vain  of  fantastic  romance  based 
upon  scientific  conceptions,  which  has  been  cultiva- 
ted of  late  so  successfully  by  Mr.  H.  G.  Wells, 
reaches  what  is  perhaps  a  climax  of  daring  in  his 
story  of  "  The  Invisible  Man."  The  idea  of  the 
story  is  by  no  means  new,  but  the  treatment  is  dis- 
tinctly novel,  for  Mr.  Wells's  hero  is  no  magician 
with  the  gift  of  fernseed,  but  a  practical  student  of 
physics  and  physiology,  who  has  hit  upon  a  course 
of  treatment  whereby  the  refractive  index  of  the 
human  tissues  may  be  equalized  with  that  of  the 
atmosphere,  thus  making  the  body  invisible,  just  as 
certain  jelly-fishes  are  practically  invisible  in  the 
medium  which  they  inhabit.  Mr.  Wells  has  not 
hesitated  to  think  out  his  problem,  and  to  face 
squarely  all  the  minor  details  incident  to  this  fan- 
tastic conception,  which  makes  his  treatment  totally 
different  from  the  hazy  method  of  his  predecessors 
who  have  attempted  the  same  subject.  For  example, 
his  invisible  man  must  eat,  and  the  food  remains 
grotesquely  visible  until  it  is  assimilated,  thus  neces- 
sitating his  retirement  from  the  neighborhood  of  men 
for  some  hours  after  a  meal.  Again,  his  blood, 
although  invisible  when  in  vital  circulation,  turns 
red  when  it  is  spilt  and  allowed  to  coagulate,  as  his 
entire  body  becomes  visible  at  the  end  after  he  has 
been  hunted  down  and  killed.  For  the  hero  of  this 
story  is  a  monster  as  devoid  of  moral  sentiment 
as  the  one  created  by  Frankenstein,  and  he  robs 
and  slays  without  compunction  until  his  career  is 
rudely  brought  to  an  end.  The  whole  thing  is  ex- 
tremely well  managed,  and  all  the  probability 
possible  is  given  to  a  situation  which  is  inherently 
impossible. 

Mr.  A.  E.  W.  Mason,  having  recently  made  a 
rather  unsuccessful  venture  in  the  fiction  of  modern 
English  society,  in  "  Lawrence  Clavering  "  returns 
to  the  historical  romance  of  his  first  love.  The 
element  of  historical  fact  is  somewhat  slighter  in 
this  book  than  in  most  of  its  class,  but  we  have 
sketches,  such  as  they  are,  of  such  men  as  the  Old 
Pretender,  Bolingbroke,  and  Lord  Derwentwater, 
for  the  story  is  of  the  year  1715,  that  witnessed  the 
Stuart  rising  in  England  and  the  death  of  the  Great 
Monarch  in  France.  When,  however,  the  author 
reaches  the  one  historical  occurrence  that  belongs  to 
the  immediate  scheme  of  his  narrative,  the  battle  of 
Preston,  he  balks  at  the  description,  and  leaves  his 
readers  to  furbish  it  up  for  themselves.  His  story 
has  a  most  adorable  heroine,  but  a  hero  who  takes 
so  morbid  and  unnatural  a  view  of  his  own  conduct 
that  he  belongs  rather  to  the  introspective  modern 
age  than  to  the  stirring  period  of  Jacobite  plot  and 
intrigue  in  which  he  is  set.  Indeed,  the  "  sin  "  for 
which  he  suffers  such  remorse  and  makes  so  great  a 
sacrifice  exists  so  wholly  in  his  own  imagination 
that  the  reader  is  a  good  deal  puzzled  to  understand 
what  all  the  fuss  is  about,  and  the  bewilderment 
remains  to  the  end  of  the  novel. 

The  by-ways  of  history  afford  so  many  oppor- 
tunities for  the  practitioner  of  historical  romance 
that  we  are  surprised  to  find  so  much  attention  con- 


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centrated  upon  a  few  favorite  themes.  Mr.  Bloun- 
delle- Burton,  at  least,  in  his  new  novel,  "  The  Clash 
of  Arms,"  has  got  so  far  away  from  the  beaten 
track  as  to  write  of  the  early  campaigns  of  Marl- 
borough  and  Turenne  and  of  the  French  conquest 
of  Lorraine.  The  romance  is  one  of  sustained 
and  singular  interest,  ingeniously  planned,  and  well- 
proportioned  in  all  its  parts.  It  is  one  of  the  best 
books  of  its  sort  that  we  have  read  of  recent  years, 
and  should  do  much  to  help  its  writer  to  the  kind  of 
popularity  enjoyed  by  Mr.  Stanley  Weyman  and  Dr. 
Conan  Doyle. 

There  is  something  suggestive  of  good  cabinet 
workmanship  in  the  novels  of  Mr.  Henry  Seton 
Merriman.  The  nice  adjustment  of  their  parts,  and 
the  general  polish  of  the  works  as  wholes,  are  praise- 
worthy qualities,  and  go  far  to  atone  for  the  lack 
of  anything  like  deep  feeling  or  the  vital  delineation 
of  character.  These  novels  have,  moreover,  as  a 
basis  some  carefully  studied  phase  of  recent  history 
or  social  development  that  contributes  considerably 
to  their  interest.  "In  Kedar's  Tents,"  for  example, 
has  for  its  main  theme  the  first  Carlist  rebellion  in 
Spain,  and  incidentally,  and  by  way  of  prologue,  the 
Chartist  agitation  in  England.  It  is  a  story  that 
holds  the  attention,  and  is  worked  out  to  a  satisfac- 
tory conclusion,  although  the  exigencies  of  a  pre- 
liminary serial  publication  forced  a  certain  jerkiness 
into  its  development. 

Some  time  ago  we  reviewed  a  story  of  an  imagin- 
ary fourth  French  empire,  by  a  writer  who  evidently 
supposed  that  France  had  already  lived  through 
three  actual  empires.  A  variation  upon  this  theme 
is  now  provided  by  Mr.  Charles  Benham's  bulky 
and  prolix  romance  entitled  "The  Fourth  Napo- 
leon." We  approached  this  book  with  pleasurable 
anticipations.  It  seemed  attractive  in  appearance 
and  theme,  besides  being  of  soul-satisfying  length. 
But  it  turned  out  a  very  dull  story  after  all,  writ- 
ten in  execrable  English  and  with  hardly  a  trace 
of  the  verisimilitude  that  must  be  the  first  and 
the  last  thing  demanded  of  any  such  prospective 
exercise  of  the  historical  imagination.  Besides,  we 
have  a  right  to  expect  a  "  fourth  Napoleon "  to 
accomplish  stirring  things  and  be  a  good  deal  of  a 
hero  in  a  cheap  melodramatic  way,  instead  of  being 
the  unspeakable  cad  and  incredibly  abject  coward 
here  presented  to  us.  One  might  imagine  a  really 
thrilling  story  of  the  coup  d'etat  of  some  imperialist 
pretender,  and  of  a  war  for  the  restoration  of  the 
lost  French  provinces,  but  Mr.  Benham's  story  is 
incapable  of  producing  a  thrill,  and  meanders  from 
episode  to  episode  without  display  of  dramatic  en- 
ergy or  grasp  of  any  of  the  brilliant  possibilities  in- 
volved in  such  a  plot  as  he  has  framed. 

"  By  Right  of  Sword  "  is  just  a  story.  It  has  no 
psychology,  no  pretence  of  delineative  art,  no  waste 
of  rhetoric  upon  descriptive  setting,  no  subtlety  of 
repartee,  and  hardly  a  tincture  of  historical  basis. 
It  is  a  story  about  Nihilist  intrigue,  but  beyond  the 
fact  that  it  includes  the  assassination  of  a  chief  of 
police  and  an  attempt  upon  the  life  of  the  Tsar, 


there  is  nothing  in  it  that  ever  happened  or  would 
be  likely  to  happen  to  anybody.  It  is,  moreover,  a 
piece  of  sensational  melodrama,  with  the  crudest  of 
coloring,  and  founded  upon  an  impersonation  so 
utterly  impossible  that  such  stories  as  "  The  Pris- 
oner of  Zenda"  become  absolutely  convincing  in 
the  comparison.  It  is  just  a  story,  designed  to  en- 
tertain and  not  to  instruct,  and  it  accomplishes  its 
purpose  with  more  than  reasonable  completeness. 

"Queen  of  the  Jesters  "  is  the  title  given  by  Mr. 
Max  Pernberton  to  a  collection  of  eight  imaginary 
episodes  in  the  career  of  one  Mademoiselle  de  Mon- 
tesson,  described  as  "  a  famous  figure  in  the  Paris 
of  Louis  XV."  She  was,  we  are  told,  a  beautiful 
and  accomplished  woman  who  "  established  herself 
in  an  old  house  in  Hue  St.  Paul,  and  there,  sur- 
rounded by  a  little  band  of  wits,  scientists,  and  ad- 
venturers, she  made  it  her  ambition  to  become 
acquainted  with  the  dens  of  the  city.  To  which  end 
she  practised  a  generous  charity,  and  rescued  more 
than  one  notorious  rogue  from  the  gibbet."  Mr. 
Pemberton's  stories  introduce  to  our  acquaintance 
a  number  of  most  engaging  scoundrels,  but  they 
take  us  so  very  far  into  the  region  of  the  extrava- 
gant that  they  lose  almost  all  semblance  of  contact 
with  actual  life,  and  prove  but  mildly  exciting  after 
all. 

Ingenuity  is  the  most  striking  characteristic  of 
Mr.  Grant  Allen's  "An  African  Millionaire,"  which 
might  almost  be  described  as  an  inverted  series  of 
Sherlock  Holmes  stories.  In  other  words,  the  in- 
genuity in  this  case  is  that  displayed  by  a  scamp 
who  devises  various  ways  of  swindling  a  wealthy 
English  speculator,  instead  of  being  the  detective 
ingenuity  displayed  by  the  professional  tracker  of 
criminals.  In  consequence,  the  several  episodes  of 
this  narration,  although  distinct  stories,  derive  a 
certain  unity  from  the  rascal  who  figures  in  every 
one  of  them,  just  as  the  Sherlock  Holmes  episodes 
derived  their  unity  from  their  detective  hero.  The 
Colonel  Clay  of  this  sheaf  of  stories  is  certainly  a 
most  attractive  swindler,  although  it  taxes  the  imag- 
ination to  accept  the  various  disguises  in  which  he 
operates,  and  although  the  probabilities  are  severely 
strained  in  more  ways  than  one.  What  we  should 
like  to  read  now  would  be  a  story  in  which  Colonel 
Clay  should  be  pitted  against  Sherlock  Holmes  in 
a  desperate  struggle  of  wits,  and  we  confess  that 
we  do  not  know  which  of  the  two  would  come  out 
ahead,  which  is  perhaps  the  best  tribute  we  can  pay 
to  the  entertaining  qualities  of  Mr.  Allen's  book. 
WILLIAM  MORTON  PAYNE. 


A  selection  of  "Poems  by  William  Wordsworth," 
edited  by  Professor  Edward  Dowden,  is  one  of  the 
latest  issues  of  the  "  Athenaeum  Press  "  series,  published 
by  Messrs.  Ginn  &  Co.  The  volume  is  a  substantial 
one,  containing  one  hundred  pages  of  introduction, 
three  hundred  and  fifty  of  text,  and  over  one  hundred 
and  fifty  of  notes.  The  text  used  is  that  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Hutchinson,  "  the  most  learned  and  accurate  of  Words- 
worth scholars." 


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HOLIDAY  PUBLICATIONS. 

n. 

From  the  novelty  of  its  subject  and  its  genuine 
importance  to  the  experience  of  the  race,  "  A  His- 
tory of  Dancing  "  (Appleton),  is  the  most  notable  of 
our  Holiday  books ;  as,  from  its  mechanical  form  and 
the  variety  and  beauty  of  its  illustrations,  it  is  the 
most  sumptuous.  The  text  is  translated  from  the 
French  of  Gaston  Vuillier,  and  covers  the  subject 
from  the  earliest  ages  to  the  present  moment.  It 
begins  with  the  dances  of  the  Egyptians  and  Hebrews, 
illustrating  them  from  old  reliefs  and  the  conceptions 
of  modern  painters,  and  ends  with  Loie  Fuller  and 
the  modern  ballet.  In  the  Greek  and  Roman  vases, 
reliefs,  and  figurines,  and  in  the  comments  of  con- 
temporaneous writers,  the  author  finds  ample  mate- 
rial for  his  descriptions.  It  is  a  history  of  grace 
which  we  follow,  and  the  variety  and  charm  of  its 
manifestations  increase  as  the  book  proceeds.  The 
Middle  Ages  and  the  Renaissance  were  prolific  of 
ingenious  devices  to  enhance  the  beauty  of  the  dance, 
and  many  old  manuscripts  and  engravings  are 
drawn  upon.  There  are  descriptions  of  the  Volte, 
the  Parane,  and  the  grand  ballets  in  which  Louis 
XIV.  himself  took  part ;  and  these  too  are  copiously 
and  admirably  illustrated.  It  is  France  that  is  con- 
sidered most  carefully  ;  although  the  pastoral  dances 
take  one  often  to  the  land  of  Teniers,  and  the  im- 
portance and  influence  of  the  Spanish  dances  is 
readily  acknowledged.  A  chapter  is  given  to  these 
fascinating,  langorous,  seductive  figures  of  Spain, 
—  a  chapter  epitomized  in  the  reproduction  of  Sar- 
gent's commanding  and  irresistible  "  Carmencita." 
Modern  Greek  dances,  the  Italian  Tarantella,  and 
the  movement  of  the  Bayaderes,  are  each  described 
in  turn.  The  American  Indian,  even,  is  not  entirely 
neglected,  though  little  is  made  of  his  curious  rites. 
But  the  dances  of  civilization  are  primarily  the 
theme  of  the  book.  The  modern  dances  of  society 
and  of  the  theatre  occupy  much  space,  and  are  illus- 
trated in  the  most  alluring  manner  by  such  men  as 
Whistler,  Degas,  Carrier- Bellense,  Renouard,  and 
Che'ret.  In  addition  to  those  mentioned,  there  are 
plates  in  the  book  after  Carpeaux,  Aime',  Morot, 
Watteau,  Roybet,  Stewart,  and  others;  and  near  the 
beginning  it  is  pleasant  to  find  the  little  MacMonnies 
Bacchante.  The  volume  as  a  whole  has  infinite 
variety  and  inexhaustible  charm. 

The  large  oblong  folio  volume  entitled  "  London 
as  Seen  by  Charles  Dana  Gibson  "  (Scribner)  strikes 
us  as  in  one  respect  a  little  disappointing.  A  Lon- 
don flavor  the  book  certainly  has,  but  not  a  very 
pronounced  one.  Perhaps  Mr.  Gibson  was  not 
long  enough  within  the  sound  of  Bow  Bells  to  quite 
catch  the  true  note  either  of  "  Mayf  air "  or  the 
purlieus  ;  perhaps  his  peculiar  manner  has  so  fixed 
and  stereotyped  itself  that  he  cannot  vary  it  mate- 
rially. At  any  rate,  his  London  "  types  "  show  no 
marked  departure  from  his  familiar  American  ones. 
His  London  "  swell  "  is  his  New  York  one,  save  for 
a  slight  Du  Maurieresque  touch  superadded ;  while 


his  street  characters  have,  in  the  same  way,  a  differ- 
entiating savor  of  Phil  May.  But  his  pictures  are 
nevertheless  as  delightful  and  entertaining  as  ever, 
and  show  that  Mr.  Gibson  has  lost  none  of  his 
peculiar  charm  and  verve.  They  are  classified 
under  such  heads  as  "  London  Streets,"  "  Parks," 
"  Audiences,"  "  Salons  "  and  so  on  ;  and  they  show 
us  in  a  very  graphic  and  spirited  way  at  least  the 
artist's  impressions  and  fancies  of  contemporary 
life  —  let  us  say  London  life  "  Gibsonized."  And 
that  is  all  that  the  title  of  the  book  warrants  us  in 
expecting.  The  volume  is  well  made,  and  is  easily 
one  of  the  most  striking  of  the  season's  publications. 

The  fiftieth  year  of  Longfellow's  "  Evangeline  " 
is  fitly  signalized  by  the  appearance  of  an  extremely 
pretty  and  attractive  edition  of  the  poem  (Hough- 
ton),  with  an  introduction  by  Miss  Alice  Longfellow, 
and  pictures  and  decorations  by  Miss  Jessie  Wilcox 
Smith  and  Miss  Violet  Oakley.  One  wishes  the 
poet  himself  could  see  this  captivating  little  volume, 
than  which  there  is  no  more  dainty  or  artistic  gift- 
book  on  our  list.  The  illustrations  comprise  ten 
full-page  drawings  in  color,  and  a  generous  number 
of  quaintly  fancied  headpieces  in  red  and  black. 
The  artists  are  pupils  of  Mr.  Howard  Pyle,  who 
has  good  reason  to  plume  himself  on  their  work, 
and  does  so  in  a  brief  introductory  note.  It  is  a 
long  time  since  we  have  seen  anything  prettier  in 
its  way  than  Miss  Smith's  drawing  of  Evangeline, 
in  the  frontispiece  illustrative  of  the  line,  "  Fair  in 
sooth  was  the  maiden."  The  delicate  face  suggests 
a  miniature  on  ivory,  and  the  very  slightly  conven- 
tionalized landscape  has  a  pleasingly  poetical  effect. 
No  less  meritorious  artistically  is  the  final  plate 
showing  Evangeline  as  a  Sister  of  Mercy  kneeling 
at  the  bedside  of  the  dying  Gabriel.  The  entire 
pictorial  series  leaves  an  agreeable  impression  of 
feminine  delicacy  and  refinement,  and  one  does  not 
regret  the  absence  of  realism  or  the  striving  after 
the  literal  fact  in  the  treatment.  Mr.  Longfellow's 
Evangeline  and  Gabriel  are  certainly  not  French- 
Canadian  rustics  or  "  Habitant "  farm-folks  as  we 
know  them  ;  and  we  see  no  good  reason  why  his 
illustrators  should  give  us  plain  prose  where  he  has 
given  us  poetry.  Miss  Oakley's  headpieces  are 
nicely  done,  and  are  unmistakably  in  the  manner 
of  Mr.  Pyle  without  being  mere  imitations.  In  her 
foreword,  Miss  Longfellow  sketches  the  history  of 
the  poem,  and  chats  pleasantly  of  her  father.  The 
cover  is  in  dark-green  and  gold  —  scarcely  delicate 
enough  in  design,  we  think,  to  match  harmoniously 
the  pictorial  ensemble. 

Mr.  Walter  Crane's  graceful  pencil  has  been  em- 
ployed to  advantage  in  the  lavish  decoration  of 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers'  dainty  Holiday  edition 
of  Spenser's  "The  Shepheard's  Calender."  There 
are  twelve  quaint  full-page  plates,  one  to  each  "  Aeg- 
logue  ";  and  the  text  on  each  page  is  set  in  a  frame 
of  conventionalized  vines  and  foliage  gracefully  in- 
tertwined. Besides  the  Eclogues,  the  volume  con- 
tains E.  K.'s  Epistle  to  Gabriel  Harvey,  the  "Gen- 
eral Argument,"  two  pages  of  Notes,  and  a  Glossary. 


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The  text  is  printed  on  rather  thick  hand-made  paper 
just  touched  with  a  creamy  parchment  tint  that 
strengthens  the  pleasantly  archaic  impression  of  the 
whole.  The  cover  is  of  sea-green  linen  stamped 
with  a  charming  design  in  colors,  that  shows  us  some 
"vacant  shepherd  of  the  dale"  piping  to  his  flock, 
while  his  dog  stands  at  his  side  and  a  pair  of  white 
doves  are  cooing  and  courting  in  the  branches  over- 
head. Mr.  Crane's  designs  are  instinct  with  the 
spirit  of  the  sweet  and  quaint  old  verses,  and  his 
"  Cuddies  "  and  "  Perigots  "  and  "  Colin  Clouts  "  are 
true  shepherds  of  the  ancient  pastoral,  and  such  as 
old  Spenser  himself  might  have  conceived.  The  little 
volume  is  in  flawless  taste  throughout,  and  has  all  the 
essentials  of  the  specific  gift-book. 

In  a  handsome  volume  of  490  pages,  Colonel 
Henry  Inman,  a  veteran  officer  of  our  Regular 
Army,  tells  the  story  of  "  The  Old  Santa  Fe"  Trail " 
(Macmillan).  It  can  scarcely  fail  to  occur  to  the 
thoughtful  reader  of  this  engrossing  book  that  the 
current  conception  of  American  history,  as  gained 
from  the  text-books  and  manuals  in  common  use, 
is  singularly  narrow  and  one-sided.  The  story  of 
the  magnificent  pioneering  exploits  of  the  Spaniards, 
and  of  our  own  subsequent  conquest  and  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  Western  and  Southwestern  territory 
which  they  were  the  first  to  enter  and  to  settle,  has 
been  curiously  neglected.  There  is  no  chapter  in 
this  story  that  is  richer  in  the  essential  elements  of 
romance,  or  of  greater  and  more  absorbing  interest 
to  the  American  reader,  than  the  one  contained  in 
Colonel  Inman's  book.  The  Old  Santa  F<5  Trail 
was  once  the  great  highway  from  the  lower  Mis- 
souri River  to  New  Mexico.  The  first  European 
to  traverse  it  was  De  Vaca,  a  Spanish  explorer  of 
the  sixteenth  century.  De  Vaca  was  the  precursor 
of  the  later  caravans  of  pack-mules  and  "  prairie- 
schooners,"  which  in  their  turn  gave  way  to  the  swift 
trains  of  the  great  Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe* 
Railway,  which  now  spans  the  continent,  and  for 
nigh  a  thousand  miles  of  its  romantic  course  par- 
allels and  often  coincides  with  the  Old  Trail.  Thus 
the  tourist  who  is  whirled  in  a  palace  car  over  this 
route  is  traversing  storied  ground,  where  nearly 
every  stream  and  hill  and  dale  has  its  tale  of  peril 
or  adventure.  The  thrilling  story  of  the  Old  Trail 
and  its  doughty  heroes,  "  Kit  "  Carson,  Beckwourth, 
Wooton,  Maxwell,  etc.,  is  told  sympathetically  and 
in  full  detail  by  Colonel  Inman.  His  book  has  a 
distinct  historical  value,  and  it  is  as  readable  as  a 
romance  of  Scott  or  Stevenson.  It  is  a  book  wherein 
American  patriotism  and  national  pride  may  find 
true  nourishment ;  and  therefore  it  is  a  book  that 
every  American  youth  ought  to  read.  Print  and 
paper  are  notably  good,  and  the  eight  full-page 
photogravure  plates  from  drawings  by  Mr.  Frederick 
Remington  are  in  some  respects  the  best  work  that 
we  have  seen  from  his  truth-telling  pencil.  Besides 
these  plates  there  are  many  illustrative  initials  and 
tail-pieces  by  Mr.  Thomson  Willing.  A  good  map 
of  the  Old  Trail  greatly  aids  the  imagination  of  the 
reader.  We  heartily  commend  this  book  as  a  speci- 


ally useful  and  acceptable  gift  to  a  well-grown  boy. 
We  venture  to  say  that  he  will  read  it  and  re-read 
it,  and  acquire  thereby  an  indelible  impression  of 
an  important  phase  of  his  country's  history. 

The  rich  exterior,  liberal  pictorial  attractions, 
and  universally  engaging  theme  of  Mr.  Justin  Mc- 
Carthy's "Life  of  Gladstone"  (Macmillan)  have 
led  us  to  include  it  in  the  present  category,  though 
it  calls  for  much  fuller  treatment  than  can  be  ac- 
corded it  here.  To  our  thinking,  Mr.  McCarthy's 
facile  pen  has  never  been  employed  better  than  in 
this  engaging  volume.  The  theme  was  eminently 
one  to  his  taste,  and  one  that  he  was  in  some  respects 
exceptionally  qualified  to  handle.  He  had  studied 
Mr.  Gladstone's  career  as  it  progressed,  step  by  step, 
ever  since  he  was  old  enough  to  take  an  interest  in 
public  affairs  ;  he  had  sat  by  his  side  in  the  House 
of  Commons  for  many  years;  he  had  borne  an  active 
part  in  some  of  the  great  parliamentary  battles  with 
which  Mr.  Gladstone's  name  is  most  intimately  asso- 
ciated; he  had  advised  with  him  frequently,  and 
been  admitted  to  his  friendship.  To  those  who  have 
read  Mr.  McCarthy's  histories  of  our  own  times,  we 
may  say  that  his  life  of  Gladstone  is  very  similar 
in  treatment  to  those  pleasantly  informing  books. 
There  is  the  same  rapid  yet  discriminating  touch, 
the  same  reminiscential,  almost  chatty,  tone.  The 
book  is  rich  in  brief  and  pithy  characterizations  of 
men  and  measures,  and  abounds  in  those  striking 
turns  of  thought  and  phrase  that  fix  the  attention 
and  stamp  themselves  on  the  memory.  We  heartily 
commend  this  spirited  account  of  the  greatest  En- 
glish statesman  —  perhaps  one  may  say  Englishman 
—  of  Victorian  times  to  those  in  quest  of  a  gift- 
book  of  the  more  substantial  sort.  There  are  a 
great  variety  of  portraits  and  other  illustrations, 
full-page  and  vignette. 

"  The  Madonna  in  Art"  (L.  C.  Page  &  Co.),  by 
Miss  Estelle  M.  Hurll,  is  a  condensed  review  of  the 
varying  methods  of  treating  this  enduring  subject. 
The  work  does  not  pretend  to  be  either  critical  or 
technical ;  it  is  merely  a  popular  treatise  on  a  pop- 
ular subject.  The  material  is  interesting  and  the 
author  is  well-informed,  —  these  are  the  merits  of 
the  book ;  but  if  she  had  the  courage  of  her  opin- 
ions it  would  have  more  individuality.  In  a  way, 
everything  is  reduced  to  a  level ;  and  the  conven- 
tional and  traditional  judgments  are  the  ones  usually 
expressed.  It  is  not  a  subject  which  easily  calls 
forth  originality,  yet  it  has  been  so  profoundly 
studied  that  a  new  consideration  of  it  needs  to  be 
justified  by  a  very  personal  point  of  view.  The 
author's  classification  of  the  pictures  is  curious  and 
a  little  distracting.  Instead  of  grouping  them  by 
periods  or  by  schools,  she  divides  them  by  certain 
characteristics  of  the  pictures  themselves,  devoting 
one  chapter  to  the  Madonna  enthroned,  another  to 
the  pastoral  Madonna,  and  grouping  the  others  by 
similar  schemes.  In  the  second  part  of  the  book, 
the  classification  is  a  little  more  spiritual.  But  it 
is  a  confusing  system,  which  leaves  one  with  no  very 
definite  impression  of  anything.  The  book  is  not  a 


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study,  it  is  familiar  description;  and  some  of  it  is 
well  written.  It  is  illustrated  with  many  inferior 
reproductions  of  masterpieces,  and  adorned  with  a 
cover  in  the  Virgin's  colors. 

Mr.  William  Nicholson  is  to  the  fore  this  year, 
following  up  rapidly  the  great  success  of  his  jubilee 
portrait  of  the  Queen.  In  addition  to  his  clever 
"  Alphabet "  mentioned  in  our  last  issue,  he  pub- 
lishes "An  Almanac  "  (Russell),  with  words  by  Mr. 
Rudyard  Kipling.  The  twelve  drawings  are  bril- 
liantly individual,  for  Mr.  Nicholson's  style  is  all 
his  own  ;  the  character  in  his  figures  is  expressed 
as  no  one  else  would  express  it.  They  are  drawn 
in  broad  sweeps  of  the  brush,  with  a  bit  of  color  to 
enliven  the  blacks  and  browns,  but  with  few  lines, 
and  those  very  expressive.  The  personality  is  be- 
fore one,  convincingly,  vividly,  —  the  impression  of 
it,  within  as  well  as  without.  You  are  made  to 
understand  what  manner  of  man  is  before  you. 
There  is  action  in  the  figures,  or  the  repose  after 
action,  and  the  dogs  and  horses  are  alive  and  in 
full  cry.  The  originality  of  the  work  is  extraordi- 
nary and  delightful.  Mr.  Kipling's  verses  are, 
most  of  them,  pleasant  nonsense,  but  the  one  on 
"  Boxing  "  goes  deeper. 

"  Read  here  the  Moral  roundly  writ 

For  him  that  into  battle  goes — 
Each  soul  that,  hitting  hard  and  hit, 

Encounters  gross  or  ghostly  foes :  — 

Prince,  blown  by  many  overthrows 
Half  blind  with  shame,  half  choked  with  dirt 

Man  cannot  tell  but  Allah  knows 
How  much  the  other  side  was  hurt !  " 

A  fitting  gift-book  for  a  friend  of  sportsmanlike 
proclivities  may  be  found  in  "  The  Gallinaceous 
Game  Birds  of  North  America  "  (Francis  P.  Har- 
per). Forty-four  species  are  included,  beginning 
with  "  Bob  White  "  and  ending  with  the  wild  turkey; 
and  each  is  illustrated  in  an  admirable  engraving 
executed  by  Mr.  Edwin  Sheppard.  A  color-chart 
and  a  key  for  the  identification  of  the  species  are 
also  given.  The  text  is  by  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Elliot,  and 
is  all  that  we  might  expect  from  the  hand  of  one 
distinguished  by  a  lifetime  of  wide  and  careful  re- 
search in  various  departments  of  ornithology.  It 
is  intended  primarily  for  the  advantage  of  the 
sportsman,  and  the  author  writes  with  keen  enthu- 
siasm of  the  qualities  that  constitute  a  noble  game- 
bird.  Chiefly  on  account  of  the  traits  which  give 
zest  to  the  pastime  of  the  hunter,  Dr.  Elliot  assigns 
to  the  gallinaceous  birds  the  first  and  most  import- 
ant place  among  the  feathered  tribes.  None  can 
dispute  their  value  in  the  history  of  mankind.  Dr. 
Coues  lends  credence  to  the  statement  that  "  the 
total  output  of  the  poultry  industry,  in  the  shape  of 
hens'  eggs  alone,  exceeds  annually  that  of  all  the 
mines  of  gold,  silver,  and  other  precious  metals." 
The  annual  crop  of  feathers  derived  from  the  gal- 
linaceous birds  forms  no  inconsiderable  item  in  the 
commerce  of  the  world.  The  race  can  boast  like- 
wise of  varied  and  extreme  beauty  of  attire,  and  of 
many  intelligent  and  attractive  characteristics ;  and 
yet  the  genuine  lover  of  the  "tribes  of  burning- 


plumage  and  of  choral  voice,"  who  is  content  to 
follow  them  with  an  opera-glass  instead  of  a  fowling- 
piece,  will  experience  a  shock  of  surprise  that  one 
who  has  known  them  long  and  intimately  can  pre- 
fer such  a  fall  before  the  gun  to  those  that  delight  the 
artistic  sense  alone  with  their  grace  of  bearing  and 
charm  of  song.  Dr.  Elliot  treats  his  theme  in  an 
easy,  masterful  manner,  keeping  it  at  every  point 
within  the  comprehension  of  the  average  reader. 

Eight  full-page  drawings  by  Mr.  Louis  Agassiz 
Fuertes,  the  artist  who  seems  to  be  a  genuine  suc- 
cessor to  Audubon  in  the  use  of  the  pencil,  embel- 
lish the  series  of  studies  made  by  Mr.  H.  E.  Park- 
hurst  of  "Song  Birds  and  Water  Fowl"  (Scribner). 
The  author  has  been  a  persistent  and  keen  observer 
of  bird-life,  as  this  work  and  his  "  Birds'  Calendar," 
produced  several  years  ago,  attest.  Several  chap- 
ters in  the  present  work  are  devoted  to  water  birds; 
one  is  occupied  with  birds'  nests,  another  with  "  Mis- 
tress Cuckoo,"  and  one  with  a  big  "bouquet  of  song 
birds." 

Fresh  and  racy  in  flavor,  and  deftly  rhymed,  are 
the  verses  in  the  pretty  book  entitled  "The  Habit- 
ant, and  Other  French-Canadian  Poems"  (Putnam), 
by  Dr.  Henry  Drummond.  Our  readers  are  not 
unfamiliar  with  the  pleasant  qualities  of  Dr.  Drum- 
mond's  verse  and  the  selections  in  the  present  vol- 
ume show  him  at  his  best.  The  queer  French- 
Canadian  dialect  is  capitally  reproduced,  with  an 
effect  sometimes  comic  and  sometimes  extremely 
pleasing  and  poetical,  owing  mainly,  perhaps,  to  the 
frequent  use  of  pretty  French  words  in  place  of 
their  harsher  English  equivalents.  The  following 
stanzas,  descriptive  of  Spring,  may  serve  as  samples 
of  Dr.  Drummond's  verse,  and  of  "  English  as  she 
is  spoke"  by  the  "  Habitants  "  in  the  lower  Province : 

"  Dat  's  very  nice  tarn  for  wake  upon  de  morning 
An'  lissen  de  rossignol  sing  ev  'ry  place, 
Fal  sout'  win'  a-blowin'  see  clover  a-growin' 
An'  all  de  worl'  laughin'  itself  on  de  face. 

"  Mos'  ev'ry  raf '  it  is  pass  on  de  rapide 
De  voyageurs  singin'  some  ole  chanson 

'  Bout  girl  down  de  reever  —  too  bad  dey  mus'  leave  her, 
But  comiu'  back  soon  wit'  beaucoup  d'argent." 

The  volume  contains  an  Introduction  by  Mr.  Louis 
Frechette,  the  French- Canadian  poet-laureate ;  and 
the  eleven  full-page  plates  in  photogravure  and 
illustrative  vignettes,  one  for  each  poem,  serve  to 
rank  it  well  up  among  the  prettier  gift-books  of  the 
season. 

A  careful  work  upon  "Portrait  Miniatures" 
(Macmillan)  is  written  by  Mr.  George  C.  William- 
son, Litt.D.  The  subject  is  studied  from  the  time 
of  Holbein,  1531,  to  that  of  Sir  William  Ross,  1860. 
Yet  the  author  does  not  pretend  to  compete  with 
Dr.  Propert's  work  on  the  same  subject,  but  appeals 
to  a  class  for  which  the  latter  is  too  sumptuous  to 
be  accessible.  Without  pretending  to  be  final  or 
infallible,  he  has  prepared  his  treatise  carefully  on 
a  basis  of  sound  knowledge  and  wide  experience. 
It  is  addressed  to  the  collector  who  is  still  something 
of  a  novice,  and  it  contains  much  special  and  even 
technical  information  which  he  would  find  invalua- 


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ble.  It  has  an  attraction,  too,  even  for  the  indif- 
ferent, and  the  unwary  may  be  led  into  temptation 
by  a  perusal  of  its  absorbing  pages,  in  which  nothing 
is  of  so  much  importance  as  the  correct  identifica- 
tion of  a  miniature.  It  is  largely  a  history  of  English 
miniaturists,  only  one  brief  chapter  being  devoted  to 
continental  painters.  But  the  author's  researches 
have  been  so  extensive  that  some  new  material  has 
been  brought  to  light,  and  he  is  able  to  give  in- 
teresting descriptions  of  the  careers  of  the  early 
painters.  We  find  that  the  successful  miniaturist  of 
the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries  was  a  man 
of  mark  who  held  his  own  with,  the  distinguished 
men  of  the  day.  Not  only  the  great  ladies  of  the 
land,  but  the  courtiers  and  statesmen,  sat  for  Rich- 
ard Cosway  and  Andrew  Plimer.  Their  studios 
were  filled  with  the  importunate  great,  and  the  for- 
tunes they  gained  enabled  them  to  live  in  luxury. 
Cosway,  however,  in  spite  of  his  success,  was  much 
ridiculed  by  the  wits  of  the  day  because  of  "  his 
luxurious  habits,  his  dandified  and  elaborate  costume, 
and  his  fondness  for  wearing  a  sword."  Mr.  Wil- 
liamson tells  these  stories  gaily,  and  his  clear  simple 
style  is  excellent.  The  work  of  the  different  paint- 
ers is  differentiated  with  lucidity  and  justice.  We 
feel  that  he  knows  his  subject  and  is  impatient  of 
any  degradation.  The  book  is  illustrated  with  in- 
numerable reproductions  of  miniatures  in  the  most 
famous  collections, — a  still  more  tangible  suggestion 
of  the  beauty  and  delicacy  of  this  exquisite  art. 

There  are  doubtless  more  sumptuous  books  for 
the  holidays  than  those  published  by  Mr.  Thomas 
B.  Mosher,  of  Portland,  but  assuredly  there  are  none 
that  are  in  the  strictest  sense  more  choice,  more 
satisfactory  to  the  instincts  of  refined  lovers  of  books, 
or  more  ideally  adapted  for  use  as  Christmas  remem- 
brances. Mr.  Mosher's  list  for  the  present  season 
includes  ten  new  numbers.  The  "  Old  World  "  series 
is  represented  by  the  sonnets  of  Michael  Angelo,  in  the 
translation  of  the  late  John  Addington  Symonds ; 
Mr.  Andrew  Lang's  "  Helen  of  Troy,"  including  the 
author's  essay  on  the  myth  of  Helen,  omitted  from 
the  earlier  American  reprint;  Mr.  Swinburne's 
"  Atalanta  in  Calydon,"  which  needs  no  word  of 
comment  or  praise ;  and  the  "  Sonnets  from  the 
Portuguese,"  of  which  we  cannot  have  too  many 
editions.  Mr.  Gosse's  essay,  reprinted  from  "  Critical 
Kit-Kats,"  serves  a&  a  preface  to  this  edition  of  Mrs. 
Browning's  sonnets. —  To  the  "  Bibelot "  series,  two 
additions  are  made.  One  of  them  is  the  "  Long 
Ago  "  of  the  two  ladies  who  write  under  the  name  of 
"  Michael  Field."  This  exquisite  book,  heretofore 
printed  in  an  edition  limited  to  one  hundred  copies, 
is  an  attempt  to  extend  the  Sapphic  fragments  into 
complete  lyrics :  a  bold  undertaking,  certainly,  but 
not  without  a  certain  measure  of  relative  success  in 
the  performance.  The  other  "  Bibelot "  is  "  An 
Italian  Garden,"  a  book  of  lyrics  by  Madame  James 
Darmesteter  (A.  Mary  F.  Robinson). —  In  the 
"  Brocade "  series,  we  have  three  new  booklets 
printed  on  Japan  vellum.  The  first  is  Walter  Pater's 
version  of  the  Cupid  and  Psyche  story  from  Apuleius, 


known  to  all  readers  of  "  Marius  the  Epicurean," 
and  particularly  deserving  of  this  detachment  from 
its  setting.  The  second  is  "  The  Story  without  an 
End,"  translated  from  the  German  of  F.  W.  Carove 
by  Sarah  Austin,  and  first  published  in  London  in 
1834.  The  third  is  a  translation,  by  Miss  Lucie 
Page,  of  the  two  famous  prose  poems,  "  The 
Centaur  "  and  "  The  Bacchante,"  by  Maurice  de 
Gue"rin. —  The  last  of  Mr.  Mosher's  publications  to 
be  mentioned  is  the  most  important  of  all.  It  begins 
a  new  series  called  "  Reprints  of  Privately  Printed 
Books,"  and  gives  us  the  nine  essays  in  literary 
criticism  contributed  anonymously  by  Walter  Pater 
to  "  The  Guardian."  These  were  rescued  about  a 
year  ago  from  the  files  of  the  periodical  for  which  they 
were  written,  and,  at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Gosse,  were 
printed  in  a  private  edition  of  one  hundred  copies. 
Mr.  Mosher's  present  reprint  of  the  book  is  as  close 
a  facsimile  as  it  is  possible  to  produce  without  the 
aid  of  photography.  It  is  an  exquisite  book,  and 
will  be  cherished  by  all  who  are  fortunate  enough 
to  secure  it. 

Mr.  W.  G.  Colesworthy,  a  Boston  publisher,  has 
followed  rather  closely  the  example  set  by  Mr. 
Mosher,  and  put  forth  a  very  pretty  volume  of 
poems  by  Rossetti.  "  The  White  Ship :  A  Little 
Book  of  Poems  "  is  the  title  of  this  charming  pub- 
lication, which  is  printed  in  italic  type  on  hand- 
made paper,  and  bound  in  boards  with  white  back 
and  blue  sides.  The  margins  are  wider  than  those 
affected  by  Mr.  Mosher,  but  the  book  is  otherwise 
very  similar  to  the  familiar  "  Bibelot "  and  "  Old 
World  "  publications. 

What  could  be  more  appropriate  for  a  Christmas 
book  than  a  study  of  the  great  epic  of  the  Christian 
life?  Such  a  study  is  offered  us  in  "  Dante's  Vision 
of  God"  (Scott,  Foresman  &  Co.),  an  essay  by  Mrs. 
Caroline  K.  Sherman,  published  in  a  pretty  brochure, 
with  an  exquisitely  designed  rose  for  adornment  of 
the  board  cover.  Mrs.  Sherman's  paper  is  a  sym- 
pathetic and  gracefully-written  interpretative  study 
of  that  revelation  of  the  divine  which  Dante  clothed 
with  such  splendor  of  imaginative  and  harmonious 
diction,  and  which  is  essentially  one  with  the  ulti- 
mate message  of  all  the  great  philosophers,  from 
Plato  to  Spinoza.  "  Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart 
for  they  shall  see  God,"  so  runs  the  deepest  of  the 
Beatitudes,  and  the  "Paradiso"  shows  us  what  the 
promise  meant  to  that  poet  whose  intensity  of  spir- 
itual vision  has  never  been  equalled  in  literature. 
From  the  consideration  of  this  *'  vision,"  the  writer 
is  led,  in  conclusion,  to  a  fine  statement  of  the  mes- 
sage which  Dante  has  for  all  ages,  and  most  of  all 
for  our  own.  "  It  is  the  message  of  an  age,  poor 
in  science,  but  wonderfully  rich  in  spiritual  worth, 
to  an  age  rich  in  science,  but  too  often  forgetful  of 
the  fact  that  material  good  has  its  highest  value  only 
as  it  is  transmuted  into  spiritual  power."  The  illus- 
trative extracts  included  in  this  booklet  are  taken 
from  Gary  and  Longfellow,  and  (for  the  original) 
from  what  is  essentially  the  text  of  the  Oxford 
Dante.  Our  only  quarrel  is  with  the  essayist's  spell- 


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[Dec.  16, 


ing  of  Virgil  with  an  "  e,"  a  vagary  against  which 
we  always  feel  bound  to  protest.  There  are  a  few 
vexatious  misprints  in  the  Italian  text. 

"  A  Book  of  Old  English  Love  Songs  "  (Mac- 
millan)  is  one  of  the  more  artistic  and  charming  of 
the  holiday  gift-books.  It  is  enriched  with  an 
ornate  gilt  cover  and  many  decorative  drawings  by 
Mr.  George  Wharton  Edwards.  They  have  grace 
and  beauty,  these  designs,  and  they  adjust  them- 
selves admirably  to  the  rich  and  exquisite  loveliness 
of  the  fine  old  songs.  The  familiar  ones  are  printed 
from  Shakespeare,  Jonson,  Waller,  Herrick,  and 
others,  and  they  are  the  more  welcome  because  we 
know  them.  The  list  includes  also  some  songs  less 
familiar,  but  too  fine  to  merit  our  forgetfulness. 
Mr.  Hamilton  Wright  Mabie  has  written  a  grace- 
ful introduction. 

The  elegantly  ornate  setting  bestowed  by  its  pub- 
lishers on  Mr.  Archer  M.  Huntington's  "A  Note- 
Book  in  Northern  Spain"  (Putnam)  seems  to  war- 
rant the  inclusion  of  the  work  in  the  present  cate- 
gory. Mr.  Huntington  is  a  good  observer,  and  his 
book  rises  in  style  as  well  as  substance  above  the 
average  of  its  class.  His  view  of  Spain  is  tinged 
with  sentiment,  and  is  rather  favorable  on  the  whole. 
Her  decline  from  her  ancient  high  estate  to  her  pres- 
sent  low  rating  among  European  nations  he  attrib- 
utes to  her  lack  of  the  trading  spirit.  For  seven 
centuries  she  was  a  battlefield,  employing  the  flower 
of  her  manhood  and  draining  her  resources  in  bar- 
ring the  gate  of  the  Christian  fold  against  the  Mo- 
hammedan wolf.  While  she  was  fighting,  the  more 
fortunately  situated  nations  to  the  north  of  her  were 
trading  and  intermingling  and  gradually  evolving 
the  modern  form  of  industrial  civilization,  with  its 
corollaries,  political  freedom,  tolerance,  a  recogni- 
tion of  the  dignity  and  worth  of  labor.  Spain  fell 
far  behind  in  the  race  of  national  development ;  and 
she  stands  to-day  a  belated  mediaeval  figure  strangely 
tricked  out  in  certain  ill-worn  odds  and  ends  of  mod- 
ern political  bravery,  rich  in  nothing  save  in  that 
inextinguishable  pride 

" which  she  to  all  the  earth 

May  largely  give,  nor  fear  herself  a  dearth." 

Up  to  the  beginning  of  the  present  Cuban  war,  as 
Mr.  Huntington  thinks,  a  somewhat  better  condition 
of  things  seemed  likely  to  prevail.  A  tendency  to 
develope  on  certain  modern  lines  was  growingly 
manifest ;  and  even  now,  in  perhaps  the  darkest  hour 
that  Spain  has  known,  there  is  that  in  the  essential 
character  of  her  people  that  fosters  a  faith  in  her 
ultimate  progress.  The  volume  is  clearly  printed 
on  calendered  paper,  and  contains  one  hundred  illus- 
trations of  good  quality. 

One  of  the  interesting  features  of  the  Holiday 
publishing  season  for  many  years  has  been  the  an- 
nual selection  of  Christmas  cards  and  calendars 
issued  by  Messrs.  L.  Prang  &  Co.  of  Boston.  Their 
productions  for  this  season  are  even  more  attractive 
than  usual,  consisting  of  about  a  score  of  new  Christ- 
mas cards,  each  with  appropriate  floral  design  in 
colors,  and  an  equal  number  of  artistic  calendars. 


Among  the  latter  may  be  mentioned,  as  especially 
pleasing,  "  Dream  Roses,"  designed  by  Miss  Laura 
C.  Hills  ;  "  Daisies  Dear,"  "  Dream  Pansies,"  and 
"Forget-me-not,"  by  Miss  Bessie  Gray;  and  "  Queenly 
Roses,"  "  The  Sea  Shore  Calendar,"  and  "  My  Lady 
Pansy,"  by  various  other  artists.  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  all  of  Messrs.  Prang  &  Co.'s  publica- 
tions are  designed,  lithographed,  and  printed  in  this 
country. 

Mr.  John  Corbin's  articles  in  "  Harper's  Round 
Table  "  on  "  School  Boy  Life  in  England  "  are  now 
issued  by  the  same  firm  in  book  form.  Mr.  Corbin 
describes  in  an  interesting  way  life  at  the  great  public 
schools  of  Winchester,  Eton,  and  Rugby,  and  draws 
some  instructive  comparisons  between  the  English 
system  and  our  own.  A  public  school  in  England 
is  not,  of  course,  as  with  us,  a  school  to  which  any- 
one is  free  to  go  without  paying.  Such  a  school  is 
there  termed  a  national  school,  our  own  nearest 
equivalent  to  the  English  public  school  being  the  big 
preparatory  school,  such  as  Andover,  Exeter,  St. 
Paul's,  Groton,  etc.  Mr.  Corbin  prepared  himself 
for  his  task  by  going  to  live  for  a  short  period  at 
Winchester,  Eton,  and  Rugby,  where  he  lost  no 
opportunity  of  associating  and  conversing  with  the 
masters  and  boys  and  of  getting  as  near  to  their 
actual  life  as  possible.  The  book  deals  less  with  the 
strictly  scholastic  than  with  the  social  side  of  this 
life ;  and  we  need  scarcely  say  that  the  formative 
influence  of  the  latter  side  upon  the  character  of  the 
English  public-school  boy  is  as  potent  as  that  of  the 
former.  Dr.  Arnold  of  Rugby  saw  this  fact  very 
clearly ;  and  it  was  in  the  "  houses  "  and  on  the 
playground,  even  more  than  in  the  class-room,  that 
his  gracious  and  elevating  influence  was  felt.  Besides 
giving  us  the  fruit  of  his  own  observations,  Mr. 
Corbin  has  consulted  the  authorities ;  and  he  has 
revised  and  somewhat  enlarged  his  "  Round  Table  " 
articles  to  fit  them  for  book  form.  His  treat- 
ment is  critical  as  well  as  descriptive ;  and  his  little 
book  should  interest  and  amuse  young  readers  as 
well  as  adults.  It  is  tastefully  gotten  up,  and  the 
eighteen  photographic  plates  are  well  chosen  and 
well  made. 

In  "  Social  Life  in  Old  Virginia  "  (Scribner), 
Mr.  Thomas  Nelson  Page  has  tried  to  give  a  picture 
of  the  lovely  side  of  the  Southern  civilization  before 
the  War.  His  preface  deplores  the  fact  that  so 
much  of  our  conception  of  the  South  at  that  time 
is  derived  from  Mrs.  Stowe ;  and  the  descriptions 
that  follow  are  naturally  far  more  genial.  It  is 
well  to  have  this  plantation  life  which  has  passed 
away  —  the  most  picturesque  and  courtly  that  our 
country  has  ever  known  —  thus  portrayed  for  us 
by  one  who  was  born  to  its  traditions.  The  illus- 
trations, by  the  Misses  Cowles,  admirably  suggest 
the  grace  and  beauty  of  the  Southern  life  and  its 
strange  contrasts. 

Miss  H.  A.  Guerber,  author  of  the  popular  little 
book  on  the  "Stories  of  the  Wagner  Opera,"  now 
offers  a  kindred  one  entitled  "Stories  of  Famous 
Operas"  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.),  briefly  outlining  the 


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plots  of  the  favorite  French,  German,  and  Italian 
operas.  The  narratives  are  taken  from  the  orig- 
inal librettos,  and  are  so  written  as  to  enable  the 
reader  to  follow  in  fancy  the  action  of  the  piece  in 
all  its  details  precisely  as  it  is  given  on  the  stage. 
The  titles  comprise  Faust,  Carmen,  A'ida,  The 
Huguenots,  Don  Giovanni,  Fidelio,  Mignon,  Le 
Cid,  Martha,  Norma,  Cavalleria  Busticana,  etc. 
Besides  outlining  the  dramatic  action,  the  author 
gives  a  few  leading  facts  as  to  composers.  The 
publishers  have  mounted  the  book  attractively,  the 
illustrations  comprising  portraits,  striking  dramatic 
scenes,  views  of  famous  theatres,  etc.  The  volume 
is  pleasantly  written,  and  its  uses  are  obvious. 

Miss  Mary  E.  Phillips  has  prepared  a  volume  of 
"  Reminiscences  of  William  Wetmore  Story  "  (Rand, 
McNally  &  Co.)  which,  without  pretending  to  be  a 
biography,  provides  an  outline  sketch  of  the  life  of 
the  famous  sculptor  and  man  of  letters.  "  Incidents 
and  anecdotes  chronologically  arranged,"  is  the 
author's  modest  description  of  her  work.  The  let- 
ters and  reminiscences  of  Story's  contemporaries, 
both  published  and  unpublished,  have  been  liberally 
drawn  upon  for  material,  and  both  Browning  and 
Lowell  figure  conspicuously  among  the  friends  upon 
whom  tribute  is  levied.  The  book  is  handsomely 
illustrated,  and  made  attractive  both  by  its  mechan- 
ical execution  and  the  loyalty  of  friendship  that 
informs  its  contents. 

We  have  testified  more  than  once  to  the  merits 
of  New  York's  sprightly  little  periodical,  "  Life," 
which  is,  in  this  country  certainly,  without  a  rival 
in  its  peculiar  field.  Its  pictures  are  artistic,  and 
often  charming  ;  its  tone  is  refined ;  it  bubbles  over 
with  fun  that  is  never  coarse  or  offensive ;  in  short, 
it  is  a  paper  that  ladies  and  gentlemen  may  read, 
and  no  one  need  shun.  It  bears  much  the  same  rela- 
tion to  its  respectable  London  prototype,  "  Punch," 
that  a  glass  of  champagne  does  to  a  pot  of  rather 
flat  porter.  The  Scribners  now  issue  a  "  second 
series"  of  selected  pictures  from  "Life,"  under  the 
title  "  Life's  Comedy."  There  are  150  pictures  in 
all,  and  they  are  divided  into  four  groups, —  "  Belles 
and  Beaux,"  "  In  Cupid's  Realm,"  "  Fads  and  Fan- 
cies," "  Out  of  Doors."  They  are  worthy  of  their 
new  setting;  and  the  comely  volume  containing 
them  forms  a  capital  means  of  enlivening  an  even- 
ing and  diverting  a  group  of  one's  friends. 

"Flying  Leaves"  (E.  R.  Herrick  &  Co.)  is  the 
title  of  a  thin  oblong  quarto  volume  containing  char- 
acteristic selections  from  that  sometimes  really  artist- 
ic and  usually  excruciatingly  funny  German  weekly, 
"  Fliegende  JBlaetter."  The  specimens  given  are 
fairly  representative  ones,  but  they  are  rather  coarse- 
ly reproduced.  The  volume  will  form  an  acceptable 
present  for  those  who  enjoy  the  humorous  side  of 
things. 

Mr.  Elbert  Hubbard's  "  Little  Journeys  to  the 
Homes  of  Famous  Women"  (Putnam)  give  some 
interesting  accounts  of  the  homes  of  Mrs.  Brown- 
ing, Jane  Austen,  Miss  Martineau,  Mary  Lamb, 
Christina  Rossetti,  Madame  de  Stae*!,  Empress 


Josephine,  and  other  famous  women ;  and  to  each 
paper  is  prefixed  a  portrait  of  its  heroine.  These 
portraits  are  well  made  and  interesting — especially 
those  in  the  quaint  plate  showing  Charles  and  Mary 
Lamb.  Besides  the  local  descriptions,  the  papers 
contain  much  pleasant  biographical  chat  and  anec- 
dote, and  literary  and  general  criticisms. 

The  Stokes  Company  publish  a  second  and 
modified  edition  of  Professor  AtwelFs  selected 
"  Pensees  of  Joubert."  This  time  the  original 
French  is  omitted,  and  the  volume  is  reduced  in 
size  to  a  pocketable  booklet  of  135  tiny  pages,  ex- 
clusive of  the  brief  biographical  and  appreciative 
Introduction.  It  has  a  portrait  and  an  index.  The 
dainty  pages  fairly  sparkle  with  felicities  of  thought 
and  diction,  and  amply  warrant  the  saying  of  Mr. 
Ludlow,  who  introduced  the  author  to  English  read- 
ers, that  "  to  glance  over  Joubert's  Pensbes  is  like 
uncovering  a  tray  of  diamonds." 

Mrs.  Lucia  A.  Palmer's  "Oriental  Days  "  (Baker 
and  Taylor  Co.)  is  a  book  of  travels  in  Egypt  and 
the  Holy  Land,  wherein  the  writer  recounts  her 
own  rather  slender  experiences,  and  ekes  out  the 
recital  with  Various  remnants  of  information,  histor- 
ical, political,  and  archaeological,  culled  from  various 
authorities.  The  volume  is  a  royal  octavo,  well 
printed  and  ornately  bound,  and  enriched  with  full- 
page  photographic  plates. 

Mr.  H.  C.  Christy  has  been  ambitious  enough  to 
illustrate  "Hamlet"  (Dodd),  but  he  has  nothing 
new  to  say  upon  the  subject.  The  drawings  are 
not  without  cleverness,  but  they  are  not  Hamlet. 
And  one  shrinks  from  the  touch  of  any  but  the 
greatest  hands  upon  that  masterpiece.  The  Ophelia 
of  this  artist  is  almost  ludicrous,  and  the  Prince 
nearly  as  bad.  It  is  much  better  to  imagine  them. 
The  King,  in  the  frontispiece  and  on  page  149,  is 
conceived  much  more  effectively. 

It  was  a  happy  idea  to  have  Madeleine  Lemaire 
illustrate  " Lucile "  (Stokes),  —  if  the  idea  of  re- 
printing the  poem  can  be  said  to  be  happy,  —  for 
her  pretty  sentimentality  is  well  adapted  to  the 
false  emotions  and  sing-song  rhythm  of  Owen 
Meredith's  great  effort.  The  water-colors  are  well 
reproduced  in  color,  and  the  drawings  in  black-and- 
white,  by  Mr.  C.  McCormick  Rogers,  are  fairly 
good. 

Anew  edition  of  Sterne's  "  Sentimental  Journey  " 
(Longmans)  is  decorated  with  many  clever  designs 
by  Mr.  T.  H.  Robinson,  which  are  almost  as  charm- 
ingly beguiling  as  the  text.  This  edition  will  doubt- 
less prove  a  favorite  with  the  lovers  of  this  genial 
classic.  It  is  fastidiously  printed,  and  has  the 
bibliographical  merit  of  being  an  exact  reprint  of 
the  first  edition  (that  of  1768,  in  two  volumes),  the 
only  changes  or  alterations  being  the  correction  of  a 
few  obvious  errors  of  the  printer. 

A  book  of  photographic  views  of  "  Central  Berk- 
shire" (Pittsfield:  George  Blatchford)  gives  an 
idea  of  the  beauty  of  these  Massachusetts  hills  and 
villages.  The  pictures  are  admirably  taken,  and 
suggest  the  peaceful  loveliness  of  that  rare  country. 


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BOOKS  FOR  THE  YOUNG. 

u. 

The  fairies  are  sadly  neglected  by  this  year's  writers, 
who  should  therefore  live  in  fear  of  their  revenge.  For 
the  fairies  can  endure  neglect  much  better  than  the 
writers  can;  they  are  perennial,  they  are  eternally  lov- 
able, while  the  poor  author  is  but  the  creature  of  a  day. 
If  he  wishes  to  lengthen  his  short  span  of  life,  he  must 
invoke  their  aid,  he  must  ingratiate  himself  with  them. 
Yet  only  a  few  out  of  the  crowd  have  been  wise  enough 
to  appreciate  this  truth.  The  real  thing  reaches  us  this 
year  from  the  far  north,  as  it  did  once  before  when 
Andersen  led  the  enchanted  children  into  a  beautiful 
new  country.  These  "  Fairy  Tales  from  the  Far  North  " 
(A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son)  were  written  by  P.  C.  Asbjorn- 
sen,  and  translated  from  the  Norwegian  by  Mr.  H.  L. 
Brakstad,  who  has  given  us  other  folk-stories  by  this 
writer.  The  original  illustrations  by  Sinding  and  Weren- 
skiold  are  reproduced,  and  they  translate  the  spirit  of 
the  stories  much  more  sympathetically  than  foreigners 
could  have  done.  The  ever-present  troll  would  have 
been  a  difficult  subject  to  one  who  was  not  familiar  with 
him  from  childhood.  The  author's  invention  never  flags; 
his  plots  are  extraordinarily  rich  in  incident,  too  varied 
sometimes,  too  abrupt  in  their  changes.  Yet  they  do 
not  allow  one's  interest  to  abate,  and  they  are  told  with 
unusual  vivacity.  Though  they  have  some  of  the  delight- 
ful old  characters  common  to  all  folk-lore,  they  are  in- 
tensely, almost  aggressively,  original.  Children  would  be 
continually  diverted  by  their  surprises.  Their  directness 
is  sometimes  harsh  and  their  simplicity  curt,  yet  it  is 
extraordinary  work.  We  know  of  nothing  quite  like  it. 
There  is  much  humor,  sometimes  rather  grim,  in  the 
tales,  but  they  have  not  the  tenderness  of  Andersen's, 
nor  his  occasional  sentimentality,  nor  his  large-hearted 
human  sympathy. 

"  The  Pink  Fairy  Book  "  (Longmans),  edited  by  the 
indefatigable  Mr.  Andrew  Lang,  has  a  pretty  cover,  and 
excellent  illustrations  by  Mr.  H.  J.  Ford.  The  Japanese 
stories  in  the  book  are  a  new  and  pleasant  element,  and 
there  are  many  Sicilian  tales  and  some  from  the  Spanish, 
the  Danish,  and  the  French.  Mr.  Lang  draws  also  upon 
Andersen  and  the  brothers  Grimm;  and  he  makes  a  very 
readable  book. 

"The  Flame-Flower,  and  other  Stories"  (Dent-Lip- 
pincott)  is  attractive  at  first  glance,  because  of  the  orig- 
inality, the  humor,  and  the  decorative  ingenuity  of  the 
illustrations.  And  as  the  artist,  Mr.  James  F.  Sullivan,  is 
also  the  writer,  one  looks  for  the  same  qualities  in  the 
stories  —  and  finds  them.  Their  presence  makes  the 
strange  tales  even  more  interesting  to  adults  than  to 
children,  but  there  is  much  in  them  also  to  appeal  to 
the  latter.  Even  though  it  would  be  difficult  to  make 
the  story  of  "  Bob  Robinson's  Baby  "  as  clever  as  its 
illustrations,  it  will  delight  them.  The  parody  of  Mr. 
H.  G.  Wells  will  be  funny  only  to  maturer  children,  per- 
haps, but  everyone  can  appreciate  the  cleverness  of  "  The 
Lost  Idea," if  not  its  delicate  satire. —  "  Here  They  Are!" 
(Longmans),  by  the  same  author,  is  less  captivating,  but 
no  less  ingenious.  The  story  of  "  The  Blue  Thing  with 
White  Dots,"  from  Noah's  Ark,  is  particularly  funny  in 
its  description  of  the  wooden  Noah's  perplexity  in  re- 
gard to  his  own  identity.  And  the  history  of  "  Snit,"  the 
mouse,  together  with  the  drawings  for  it,  is  delightful. 

In  "  Prince  Uno  "  (Doubleday  &  McClure),  Uncle 
Frank,  who  is  only  an  ordinary  mortal,  takes  a  journey 
into  Fairyland.  The  things  he  sees  there,  the  people  he 


meets,  the  adventures  in  which  he  participates,  are  de- 
scribed simply  and  gracefully ;  and  it  is  a  pleasant,  happy, 
gay  little  place  he  makes  of  it.  The  story  was  told  orig- 
inally to  help  a  small  boy  through  the  critical  stage  of 
an  illness,  and  one  follows  it  with  a  kind  of  eager  inter- 
est in  its  power  of  diverting  the  invalid.  This  makes 
one  impatient  when  it  drags,  and  happy  when  it  is  gay 
and  entertaining.  The  cover  and  illustrations,  by  Mr. 
W.  D.  Stevens,  are  daintily  pretty. 

The  first  story  in  "  The  Slambangaree  and  Other 
Stories  "  (Russell)  is  literally  a  nightmare,  for  it  relates 
the  experiences  of  a  little  boy  who  ate  too  much  plum- 
pudding  and  saw  strange  things  in  consequence.  It  is 
written  by  Mr.  R.  K.  Munkittrick,  who  has  a  lively 
fancy  and  a  quaint  sense  of  humor.  The  other  stories 
are  much  less  terrifying,  as  they  have  no  connection  with 
plum-pudding;  and  they  contain  a  good  deal  of  human 
nature,  pleasantly  disguised  as  impossibility.  The  in- 
genuity of  the  plots  is  as  extraordinary  as  the  delight- 
fully direct  manner  in  which  they  are  elaborated.  "  The 
Peasant  King  "  is  an  artistic  tale,  but  it  is  not  the  only 
charming  one  in  the  clever  little  book. 

"The  Adventures  of  Mabel  "  (Dodd),  by  Mr.  Raf- 
ford  Pyke,  are  chiefly  with  animals.  The  green  lizard 
gives  her  a  charm  with  which  she  can  intimidate  the 
fiercest  wild  creature  and  make  him  her  friend.  The 
originality  lies  in  Mabel's  oddly  familiar  intercourse 
with  beasts  and  giants  that  would  make  other  little 
girls  tremble.  The  pictures  by  Miss  M.  E.  Norton  are 
in  broad  masses  of  blacks  and  white,  and  have  a  good 
deal  of  character. 

Mr.  G.  E.  Farrow,  the  author  of  "  The  Wallypug  of 
Why,"  published  last  year,  is  less  fortunate  in  the  title 
of  this  year's  book,  though  anything  would  seem  com- 
monplace after  such  an  inspiration.  "  The  Missing 
Prince"  (Dodd)  begins  with  a  toy  wedding  and  ends 
with  an  experiment  in  flying;  and  there  are  all  sorts  of 
idiosyncracies  in  between.  One  of  the  drollest  charac- 
ters is  the  Advertiser-General,  whose  original  ideas  in 
his  profession  may  be  commended  to  those  who  are  in- 
terested. There  is  plenty  of  fun,  too,  in  the  verses  of 
the  Public  Rhymster;  and  the  entire  book  shows  a  large 
fund  of  ingenuity  and  humor.  The  drawings,  by  Mr. 
Harry  Furniss,  fully  carry  out  the  drollery  of  the 
story. 

"  The  Cruikshank  Fairy-Book  "  (Putnam)  ought  to 
be  one  of  the  most  popular  of  the  year,  for  it  contains 
four  of  the  good  old  stories  told  in  the  good  old  way. 
"  Puss  in  Boots,"  "  Jack  and  the  Beanstalk,"  "  Hop-o'- 
my-Thumb,"  and  "Cinderella"  are  always  new;  and 
when  the  fine  old  Cruikshank  illustrations  are  printed 
with  them,  they  become  irresistible.  The  drawings 
have  a  delightful  amount  of  action  and  character,  and 
yet  they  are  adroitly  kept  in  harmony  with  the  tales. 
This  is  much  the  most  important  of  the  year's  reprints. 
—  Two  others  are  Hawthorne's  "  Tanglewood  Tales  " 
and  "  Tales  from  Hans  Andersen  "  (Crowell),  each  with 
a  colored  frontispiece  and  several  illustrations. 

"  The  Muses  up  to  Date  "  (Way  &  Williams),  a  series 
of  whimsical  and  actable  plays  for  children  by  Mrs. 
Henrietta  Dexter  Field  and  Mr.  Roswell  Martin  Field, 
might  also  be  called  a  fairy-book.  The  plays  are  written 
partly  in  verse,  and  are  designed  to  afford  many  oppor- 
tunities for  artistic  effects  in  costuming  and  grouping. 
Tableaux  and  dances  are  frequently  introduced,  and 
some  of  the  situations  would  require  very  dexterous 
management.  In  the  first  play  the  Muses,  discontented 
over  the  neglect  of  mortals,  descend  to  earth  and  be- 


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come  desperately  modern,  too  vulgarly  modern,  in  fact. 
The  talk  is  slangy  and  very  ridiculous,  but  except  for 
the  originality  of  the  situation,  its  gay  airiness  is  not 
particularly  clever.  The  other  plays  are  more  interest- 
ing. The  story  of  Cinderella  is  made  into  a  charming 
drama,  and  later  the  same  story  is  turned  topsy  turvy 
in  an  absurd  little  way,  and  our  dear  lady  of  the  cinders 
made  most  disagreeable.  There  are  clever  things  in 
"  Trouble  in  the  Garden,"  which  would  make  a  pretty 
series  of  pictures.  The  book  is  well  printed  and  rejoices 
in  a  charming  cover  by  Mrs.  Alice  Kellogg  Tyler. 

There  are  two  books  still  which  have  some  connec- 
tion with  fairyland.  "  The  Story  of  the  Rhinegold  " 
(Harper)  is  told  for  young  people  by  Miss  Anna  Alice 
Chapin.  It  is  Wagner's  version  which  she  narrates,  and 
she  connects  it  directly  with  the  operas  by  printing  the 
chief  musical  motifs.  The  style  is  good,  and  though 
the  story  is  a  little  intricate  for  very  young  children,  it 
is  admirably  adapted  for  the  initiation  of  older  ones  into 
•  the  Wagnerian  mysteries.  The  cover  and  illustrations 
have  a  dignity  in  keeping  with  the  majesty  of  the  stories. 
— "In  Indian  Tents"  (Roberts)  contains  stories  collected 
by  Miss  Abby  L.  Alger,  from  the  Penobscot,  Passama- 
quoddy,  and  Micmac  Indians.  As  stories  they  will  in- 
terest children,  and  as  folk-lore  they  will  delight  adults. 
They  have  peculiar  quaintness  and  originality  and  direct- 
ness. They  have  even  a  certain  majesty.  There  is 
something  superbly  elemental  about  "  The  Creation," 
and  in  all  of  them  we  go  back  to  nature  and  to  the 
emotions  common  to  all  humanity. 

Many  good  picture-books  will  enliven  the  holiday 
tables  this  year;  and  of  these,  three  are  musical.  "  The 
Stevenson  Song-Book  "  (Scribner)  is  a  little  outside  of 
that  category,  as  it  is  decorated  with  pretty  convention- 
alized designs  in  black  and  white,  and  a  charming  cover 
in  delicate  colors.  The  poems  are  selected  from  the 
"  Child's  Garden  of  Verses,"  and  the  music  is  written  by 
such  well-known  composers  as  Mr.  G.  W.  Chadwick, 
Mr.  Arthur  Foote,  Mr.  Reginald  de  Koven,  Mr.  W.  W. 
Gilchrist,  and  Dr.  C.  Villiers  Stanford.  The  simple 
lyrical  verses  are  the  most  charming  things  that  ever  a 
child  could  sing. 

The  late  H.  C.  Bunner's  "  Three  Operettas  "  (Harper) 
contains  gay  little  musical  plays,  designed  to  be  acted 
and  sung  by  children.  "  The  Three  Little  Kittens  of 
the  Land  of  Pie  "  relates  ingeniously  the  adventures  of 
those  unfortunate  pussies  who  lost  their  mittens  and 
therefore  could  have  no  pie.  It  is  bright  and  amusing 
and  would  be  pretty  in  action.  The  plot  is  absurd,  but 
not  too  absurd  to  be  diverting.  And  the  verses  in  this, 
as  in  the  others,  have  a  decided  swing  to  them.  The  little 
songs  are  gay  and  catchy.  "  Bobby  Shaftoe  "  is  the 
centre  of  one  of  the  operettas,  and  the  third  weaves  an 
ingenious  plot  around  "  The  Seven  Old  Ladies  of  Laven- 
der Town."  The  music  is  by  Mr.  Oscar  Weil,  and  the 
illustrations  are  drawn  by  Mr.  C.  D.  Weldon  and  Mr. 
C.  J.  Taylor.  The  cover  is  strikingly  clever. 

"  Singing  Verses  for  Children  "  (Macmillan)  is  a 
product  of  Chicago,  as  the  simple  pretty  verses  were 
written  by  Mrs.  Lydia  Avery  Coonley,  the  music  by  Miss 
Eleanor  Smith,  Miss  Jessie  L.  Gaynor,  Mr.  Frederic  W. 
Root,  and  Mr.  Frank  H.  Atkinson,  Jr. ;  and  the  illustra- 
tions are  the  work  of  Mrs.  Alice  Kellogg  Tyler.  It 
is  easy  to  see  that  the  entire  book  is  made  by  lovers 
of  children,  so  gentle  and  sweet  is  the  conception,  so 
tenderly  sympathetic  the  execution.  Some  of  the  verses 
are  charmingly  naive,  and  the  composers  have  tried  to 
maintain  the  spirit  of  fresh  simplicity.  But  the  most 


delightful  thing  about  the  book  is  Mrs.  Tyler's  decora- 
tion in  color.  The  pictures  are  simple,  but  they  are  also 
imaginative,  and  they  show  an  exquisite  understanding 
of  child  life.  In  addition,  they  are  the  work  of  an 
artist,  so  that  in  color  and  design  they  are  admirable. 
The  decorative  borders  for  the  music  are  even  lovelier 
than  the  pictures.  The  designs  for  the  sunshine,  wind, 
and  dancing  songs,  for  "  My  Pegasus  "  and  "  Clouds," 
are  particularly  happy.  And  there  is  character  in  all  of 
them,  and  beauty. 

Mr.  Frank  Dempster  Sherman's  "  Little-Folk  Lyrics  " 
(Houghton)  are  not  set  to  music,  though  some  of  them 
sing  themselves  naturally.  The  ."Lullaby,"  with  its 
pretty  refrain,  is  exquisitely  musical,  and  others  besides 
this  have  a  pleasant  lilt  and  melody.  A  delicate  fancy 
has  woven  pretty  conceits  in  their  meshes,  yet  they 
rarely  have  the  simplicity  and  spontaneity  necessary  to 
an  effective  appeal  to  childhood.  "The  Shadows," 
«  Wizard  Frost,"  "  Clouds,"  «  The  Dewdrop,"  and  "  In 
the  Orchard  "  are  the  most  charming  in  the  imaginative 
freshness  of  their  ideas.  The  present  edition  is  decor- 
ated with  drawings  by  Misses  Maude  and  Genevieve 
Cowles,  which  greatly  enrich  it.  They  are  both  original 
and  artistic,  and  have  a  delightful  imaginative  grace. 
Some  of  the  drawings,  like  the  fine  frontispiece,  show  a 
rare  tenderness. 

The  verses  in  "  Red  Apple  and  Silver  Bells  "  (Put- 
nam), by  Mr.  Hamish  Hendry,  are  more  childish;  they 
have  a  more  spontaneous  naivete.  Children  might  have 
conceived  them ;  they  might  almost  have  written  them. 
Yet  their  conceits  are  often  forced,  and  sometimes  bad 
grammar  is  made  to  take  the  place  of  inspiration.  A  bit 
of  genuine  truth  is  dropped  down  into  some  of  them,  as 
in  the  verses  called  "Friendship";  and  others,  like 
u  White  Horses,"  are  richly  imaginative.  Many  of  them 
have  a  lyrical  swing,  and  their  ideas  are  of  the  kind  that 
children  like.  The  illustrations,  by  Miss  Alice  B.  Wood- 
ward, are  thoroughly  charming, —  as  fresh  and  fanciful 
as  the  poems,  and  more  artistic. 

It  is  odd  to  have  a  book  of  Eugene  Field's  come  to  us 
from  England.  But  the  selections  for  "  Lullaby- Land  " 
(Scribner)  were  made  by  Mr.  Kenneth  Grahame  and 
the  pictures  by  Mr.  Charles  Robinson.  Mr.  Grahame 
writes  also,  in  his  exquisite  imaginative  way,  an  appre- 
ciative preface.  The  illustrations,  except  in  the  case  of 
"Little  Boy  Blue,"  are  also  sympathetic.  They  are  charm- 
ing, often  decorative,  often  cleverly  pictorial.  And  the 
diminutive  figures  which  serve  as  head  and  tail  pieces 
are  delightful.  The  poems  themselves  are  above  our 
approbation.  They  are  the  real  thing,  they  belong  to 
the  great  company.  This  poet  is  one  of  the  few  to  whom 
Nonsense-Land  is  true  and  visible.  "  As  soon  as  he  set 
himself  to  narrate  the  goings-on  there,"  says  Mr.  Gra- 
hame, and  no  one  knows  this  country  better  than  he, 
"  those  of  us  who  had  been  tourists  in  by-gone  days,  but 
had  lost  our  return-tickets,  pricked  up  our  ears,  and 
listened,  and  remembered,  and  knew.  The  Dinkey-Bird, 
we  recollected  at  once,  had  been  singing  the  day  we  left, 
in  the  amf alula- tree;  and  there,  of  course,  he  must  have 
been  singing  ever  since,  only  we  had  forgotten  the  way 
to  listen.  Eugene  Field  gently  reminded  us,  and  the 
Dinkey-Bird  was  vocal  once  more,  to  be  silent  never 
again." 

Perhaps  the  most  alluring  of  the  picture-books,  one 
that  will  go  to  the  very  heart  of  the  children,  is  "  Mother 
Goose  in  Prose  "  (Way  &  Williams),  by  Mr.  L.  Frank 
Baum.  Here  they  will  find  the  old  familiar  favorites 
set  forth  in  new  and  diverting  guise ;  here  they  can  f ol- 


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low  the  author  in  weaving  strange  fancies  into  the  old 
rhymes,  or  the  artist  in  imagining  new  figures  to  fit  the 
immortal  descriptions.  The  pictures,  by  Mr.  Maxfield 
Parrisb,  are  brilliant  in  their  originality,  their  fitness, 
their  expressiveness,  and  their  decorative  adjustment  of 
lines  and  masses.  They  are  intensely  individual,  the 
expression  of  a  peculiar  personality ;  yet  they  are  adapted 
with  sympathetic  art  to  the  subject  in  hand.  From  a 
decorative  standpoint  the  most  successful  drawings  are 
for  Little  Boy  Blue,  the  Black  Sheep,  Humpty  Dumpty, 
and  Tom  the  Piper's  Son.  In  these  and  in  some  others 
Mr.  Parrish  artfully  leads  the  imagination  down  wind- 
ing paths  and  trailing  into  fascinating  villages  and  such 
turretted  castles  as  the  fancy  yearns  to  play  about.  In 
this  he  shows  that  he  understands  children  and  can  fol- 
low them  to  the  enchanted  lands  they  love.  Some  of 
the  same  comprehension  is  shown  by  the  author,  who 
makes  charming  stories  out  of  the  old  lines.  He  is  not 
too  definite  nor  too  exact,  and  he  does  not  prevent  the 
child  from  spinning  his  own  tales.  He  uses  the  verses 
merely  as  a  text  for  delightful  little  stories,  and  he 
would  be  a  very  practical  and  stony-hearted  child  indeed 
who  could  not  enjoy  them. 

Several  of  the  picture-books  take  to  poetry  this  year. 
In  "  The  Vege-Men's  Revenge  "  (Longmans)  the  verses 
are  written  by  Miss  Bertha  Upton,  and  form  a  non- 
sensical but  rather  heavy  accompaniment  to  the  pictures 
by  Miss  Florence  K.  Upton.  They  are  printed  in  color, 
and  give  character  and  varied  emotions  to  a  number  of 
our  commonest  and  least  sensitive  vegetables.  Potatoes, 
tomatoes,  and  carrots  take  on  a  new  interest  and  excite 
a.  new  sympathy.  The  work  is  therefore  cleverly  done. 
—  "  The  Autobiography  of  a  Monkey  "  (Russell)  tells 
in  fluent  verse,  by  Mr.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine,  the  story 
of  a  beast  who  passes  from  the  jungle  to  the  hands  of 
an  organ-grinder  and  through  many  subsequent  adven- 
tures in  the  role  of  a  man.  He  returns  at  last  to  the 
jungle  to  teach  his  race  that  "  man  did  not  spring  from 
the  monkey,  but  monkey  descended  from  man! "  The 
pictures,  by  Mr.  Hy.  Mayer,  are  clever  and  amusing, 
and  combine  the  characters  of  monkey  and  man  with 
grim  adroitness — For  unadulterated  fun  one  must  turn 
to  «  The  Bad  Child's  Book  of  Beasts  "  (Arnold),  with 
verses  by  H.  B.  and  pictures  by  B.  T.  B.  Author  and 
artist  have  happily  combined  to  make  a  book  of  de- 
lightful nonsense.  One  comes  upon  such  unexpected 
rhymes  as  this: 

"  The  Whale  that  wanders  round  the  pole 

Is  not  a  table  fish. 
You  cannot  bake  or  boil  him  whole, 

Nor  serve  him  in  a  dish." 

And  the  pictures  contain  as  many  surprises  as  the  text. 
The  amount  of  character  which  the  artist  manages  to 
put  into  the  learned  fish,  the  elephant,  and  even  the 
callous  hippopotamus  will  please  children  of  all  ages. — 
The  same  authors  publish  "  More  Beasts  for  Worse 
Children  "  (Arnold),  but  they  make  it  much  less  quaintly 
diverting  than  the  smaller  book.  It  has  its  points 
though,  and  its  surprises. 

A  good  book  of  nonsense  is  as  difficult  to  write  as  it 
is  delightful  to  read.  And  «  Blown  Away  "  (L.  C.  Page 
&  Co.)  is  a  veritable  triumph  which  Mr.  Richard  Mans- 
field has  achieved  in  a  new  art.  It  is  pure  nonsense, 
absurdly  inconsequent  nonsense,  but  it  will  provoke 
more  laughter  than  any  amount  of  rhyme  or  reason. 
The  author  rattles  on,  jumping  in  the  most  surprising 
way  from  one  subject  to  another,  and  never  for  a 
moment  losing  his  hold  upon  his  audience.  The  book 


is  infinite  variety,  and  the  variety  is  infinitely  diverting. 
As  the  author  says  in  his  preface,  "  it  relates  no  story. 
It  has  no  point,  policy,  or  purpose."  It  is  merely  fun, 
unadulterated  fun,  and  the  man  who  could  read  a  page 
of  it  without  laughing  would  be  hardened  indeed.  It  is 
the  most  delicious  thing  of  the  kind  that  has  been 
printed  since  "  Alice  in  Wonderland."  The  illustrations 
are  also  delightful,  those  by  Miss  Margaret  Jones  being 
very  pretty,  and  those  by  the  author  extremely  ludicrous. 
The  cover  is  unfortunately  so  bad  as  to  be  prejudicial 
to  the  book's  success. 

"  The  Dumpies  "  (Russell)  were  discovered  by  Mr. 
Frank  Ver-Beek,  and  their  strange  history  is  now  nar- 
rated by  Mr.  Albert  Bigelow  Paine.  They  are  very 
short  and  fat,  the  Dumpies,  and  King  Dumpling  is  the 
shortest  and  fattest  of  them  all ;  and  all  the  beasts  of  the 
field  who  inhabit  their  country  become  like  unto  them. 
Their  history  is  nonsense,  rather  prolonged  and  dry,  but 
their  pictures  are  clever  and  will  captivate  the  little 
people  who  like  little  things. — Miss  Alice  B.  Woodward 
has  illustrated  "  Adventures  in  Toyland  "  (Scribner),  by 
Miss  Edith  King  Hall;  and  the  toys  become  animated 
and  emotional  without  in  the  least  losing  their  character 
as  toys.  The  drawings  are  very  ingenious,  and  the 
stories  told  by  a  marionette  are  cleverly  contrived  to 
show  that  the  lives  of  these  apparently  quiet  toys  are 

really  full  of  exciting  incident The  story  of  "  The 

Blackberries  and  their  Adventures"  (Russell)  is  told 
and  pictured  by  Mr.  E.  W.  Kemble,  who  makes  his 
amusing  pickaninnies  indulge  in  various  sports. —  Miss 
S.  Rosamond  Praeger  is  both  author  and  illustrator 
of  "The  Adventures  of  the  Three  Bold  Babes" 
(Longmans).  It  is  an  absurd  little  story,  which,  with 
the  aid  of  its  absurd  big  pictures,  may  amuse  very  lit- 
tle people.  But  it  is  decidedly  a  book  of  an  hour  only. 
—  Miss  Maud  Humphrey's  sentimental,  over-dressed 
"  Little  Grown-Ups  "  (Stokes)  will  be  popular  doubt- 
less, as  this  particular  doll-like  prettiness  finds  too  ready 
a  welcome.  The  decorative  borders,  by  Miss  E.  S. 
Tucker,  are  better,  but  the  text  has  as  little  character 
as  the  colored  pictures — "A  New  Baby  World  "  (Century 
Co.)  is  a  collection  of  stories,  rhymes,  and  pictures  for 
little  folks,  compiled  from  the  pages  of  "  St.  Nicholas  " 
by  Mrs.  Mary  Mapes  Dodge.  They  are  of  all  kinds, 
from  gay  to  pathetic,  and  any  child's  mood  might  be 
satisfied  here.  The  cover  is  charming  in  color. — 
"  Little  Hearts  "  (Routledge)  appeals  to  the  same  au- 
dience. The  verses,  by  Miss  Bertha  Upton,  are  rather 
insipid,  but  the  pictures,  by  Miss  Florence  K.  Upton, 
have  a  good  deal  of  character. —  "  Chatterbox  "  (Estes) 
makes  its  annual  appearance,  but  both  pictures  and  text 
are  pretty  far  behind  the  times. — The  same  thing  might 
be  said  of  "  Sunday  Reading  for  the  Young  "  (Young), 
though  some  of  the  pictures  here  are  much  better. 

Two  nature  books  are  in  the  children's  list.  And 
the  stories  in  "  Among  the  Meadow  People  "  (Dutton), 
by  Mrs.  Clara  Dillingham  Pierson,  are  as  fascinating 
as  fairy-tales.  They  are  fairy-tales,  in  fact,  for  the 
insects  talk  to  the  flowers  of  the  field  and  the  flowers 
graciously  reply.  They  are  prettily  told,  with  the  de- 
sign of  fixing  the  habits  of  these  little  creatures  in  the 
child's  memory  ;  and  to  that  end  the  writer  gives  them 
life  and  individuality.  The  drawings,  by  Mr.  F.  C. 
Gordon,  help  to  make  this  one  of  the  most  useful  and 
delightful  books  of  the  year.  —  "The  Plant  Baby  and 
its  Friends"  (Silver,  Burdett,  &  Co.),  by  Mrs.  Kate 
Louise  Brown,  is  iu  the  form  of  a  reader  for  small 
children.  It  aims  to  teach  the  first  principles  of  botany 


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in  a  gay  and  attractive  story-telling  manner.  But  the 
dialogue  is  often  forced  and  the  stories  are  not  imag- 
inative enough.  The  illustrations  are  good. 

Fortunately  for  the  girls  of  the  present  generation, 
they  do  not  confine  themselves  to  the  books  ostensibly 
written  for  them,  for  if  they  did  we  might  rear  a  weak 
and  flabby  set  of  women.  Of  the  least  of  the  boys' 
books  a  certain  vigor  is  required,  which  raises  them 
above  inanity.  And  it  is  much  easier  to  endure  their 
defects  than  the  species  of  snobbishness  and  sentiment- 
ality so  familiar  in  the  books  for  girls.  There  are  only 
a  few  which  escape  these  snags;  there  are  only  a  few, 
in  fact,  which  try  to  escape  them.  But,  happily,  the 
girl  of  the  present  day  is  fast  growing  away  from  such 
reading;  her  out-of-door  games  make  her  too  healthy 
in  body  and  mind  to  care  for  trash. 

"  Three  Margarets "  (Estes),  by  Mrs.  Laura  E. 
Richards,  is  conceived  on  a  new  plan.  The  Margarets 
are  three  cousins  of  the  same  name, — one  from  the  East, 
«ne  from  a  ranch  in  the  West,  and  one  from  a  Cuban 
plantation,  —  who  come  together  for  a  summer's  visit  to 
an  uncle  whom  they  have  never  seen.  There  is  here 
an  opportunity  for  contrast  in  character,  which  Mrs. 
Richards  skilfully,  but  somewhat  melodramatically,  im- 
proves. It  is  on  the  whole  a  charming  little  story, 
with  a  good  deal  of  human  nature  in  it;  but  it  has  not 
the  beauty  which  the  author  herself  achieved  in  "  Cap- 
tain January."  The  pictures,  by  Miss  Ethelred  B. 
Barry,  are  pretty,  though  a  trifle  insipid,  and  the  cover 
is  clever. 

Two  books  by  Miss  Ellen  Douglas  Deland  appear  in 
the  holiday  list.  In  spite  of  its  masculine  title,  "  Alan 
Ransford "  (Harper)  is  distinctly  of  the  type  called 
feminine.  It  has  more  cleverness  and  virility  than 
most  of  the  books  of  its  kind,  but  a  love-story  with  an 
excess  of  sentiment  in  it  is  not  the  most  healthful  read- 
ing for  growing  girls.  For  that  kind  of  thing,  however, 
it  is  exceptionally  well  done — "  A  Successful  Venture  " 
(W.  A.  Wilde  &  Co.)  is  more  sane,  but  this  also  is 
marred  by  premature  and  ill-timed  love-makings.  It 
is  the  story  of  a  family  of  girls,  who,  to  avoid  living 
with  an  aunt  they  do  not  like,  start  in  to  make  their 
own  way  in  the  world.  They  succeed  in  spite  of  dis- 
appointments, and  have  a  good  deal  of  pleasure  in  the 
process.  Miss  Deland's  style  is  good,  and  her  dialogue 
is  generally  free  and  natural.  The  pictures,  by  Mrs. 
Alice  Barber  Stephens,  are  excellent. 

The  "  Ten  Little  Comedies  "  (Little,  Brown,  &  Co.), 
by  Miss  Gertrude  Smith,  author  of  the  "  Arabella  and 
Aramiuta  Stories,"  are  not  written  in  the  form  of  come- 
dies. They  are  described  as  "  tales  of  the  troubles  of 
ten  little  girls  whose  tears  were  turned  into  smiles"; 
and  they  are  pretty,  healthful,  graceful  little  stories  of 
the  sorrows  and  joys  which  are  so  important  in  the 
lives  of  children.  There  is  no  eccentricity  in  them,  but 
they  have  some  character  and  a  good  deal  of  human 
nature.  The  moral  tone  is  excellent,  though  the  lessons 
are  not  all  one  way,  and  the  author's  heart  is  obviously 
with  the  children.  The  plots  have  originality,  and  they 
are  handled  with  a  kind  of  delicate  tact. 

There  is  moral  enough  and  to  spare  in  the  story  of 
"  Miss  Nina  Barrow  "  (Century  Co.),  by  Miss  Frances 
Conrtenay  Baylor.  The  girl  who  is  its  centre  and  cir- 
cumference is  a  disagreeable,  spoiled,  self-willed  child, 
who  is  supposed  to  be  entirely  changed  by  the  influence 
of  a  thoughtful  cousin  and  contact  with  a  well-regulated 
English  family  where  the  children  are  not  tyrants.  The 
reform  is  a  rather  tedious  one,  and  a  little  difficult  to 


believe  in.  And  the  moral  lectures  and  good  examples 
are  too  obvious  and  extended  to  be  interesting  to  the 
normal  girl. 

"  Marion  Harland "  has  written  an  attractive  and 
human  story  of  the  life  of  a  girl  fifty  years  ago,  when 
the  schoolmaster  had  the  power  to  be  a  master  indeed. 
As  set  forth  in  "  An  Old-Field  School-Girl "  (Scribner), 
Flea's  experience  with  such  an  instructor  is  a  particularly 
unhappy  one.  But  it  is  told  vigorously  and  sympatheti- 
cally, and  without  sentimentality.  The  girl  is  very 
much  alive,  and  she  has  intelligence  and  spirit,  qualities 
in  which  the  characters  in  girls'  books  are  too  often 
conspicuously  lacking.  There  is  a  charm,  too,  about  the 
Virginia  life  of  the  middle-century,  and  the  pictures, 
partly  from  photographs,  help  to  make  it  vivid. 

Miss  Amanda  M.  Douglas  has  been  industrious 
enough  to  write  three  girls'  books  this  season.  The  first 
of  them,  "  The  Children  at  Sherburne  House  "  (Dodd), 
continues  the  series  familiar  to  her  readers.  The  story 
is  very  mature,  and  ends,  in  the  approved  fashion,  with 
wedding-bells.  The  girl  who  is  old  enough  to  read  it  is 

old  enough  to  read  something  much  better Upon 

"  Her  Place  in  the  World  "  (Lee  &  Shepard),  it  is  neces- 
sary to  make  the  same  comment,  for  the  sort  of  love- 
making  it  contains  is  not  particularly  edifying — "  Han- 
nah Ann  "  (Dodd)  is  a  sequel  to  "  A  Little  Girl  in  Old 
New  York"  and  begins  in  1846.  Its  subject  therefore 
has  an  interest  of  its  own  in  the  contrast  in  manners 
and  customs.  Miss  Douglas's  style  is  flexible,  and  her 
stories  are  sweet  and  unaffected. 

In  reading  "  Miss  Mouse  and  her  Boys  "  (Macmillan), 
one  can  understand  the  perennial  charm  which  Mrs. 
Molesworth  has  for  the  young,  and  rejoice  that  it  is  a 
wholesome  one.  Her  gentleness,  her  sympathy,  her 
real  knowledge  of  child-life,  are  all  in  evidence,  and 
there  is  quiet  forcefulness  in  the  book  which  is  pleasant 
to  encounter.  The  illustrations,  by  Miss  L.  Leslie 
Brooke,  are  clever.  —  The  charm  is  much  less  evident 
in  this  author's  book  for  older  girls,  "  Meg  Langholme  " 
(Lippincott).  Here  the  style  grows  stilted  and  takes 
on  the  faults  which  young  women  are  supposed  to  ad- 
mire. Still,  there  is  heartiness  in  the  descriptions,  and 
a  certain  vigor  in  the  exciting  but  unnatural  situations. 

Miss  Yonge's  girls'  book  for  the  season  is  called 
"  Founded  on  Paper  "  (Thomas  Whittaker),  and  begins 
with  one  of  Queen  Victoria's  jubilees,  and  ends  with 
the  other.  It  contains  a  little  excitement  and  a  good 
deal  of  preaching,  which  would  be  more  effective  if  it 
were  more  condensed.  It  is  a  rather  goody-goody  little 
book,  but  Miss  Yonge's  admirers  know  what  to  expect. 

Mrs.  Champney's  "  Witch  Winnie  in  Venice  "  (Dodd) 
is  quite  different  from  her  charming  story  of  "  Pierre 
and  his  Poodle."  It  is  too  instructive  to  be  artistic, 
but  it  contains  a  large  amount  of  information  put  up  in 
sugar.  Mrs.  Champney  writes  briskly  and  well,  and  she 
mixes  history  and  biography  and  romance  in  a  bright  and 
effective  way.  Many  photographs  illustrate  the  book. 

Miss  Evelyn  Raymond  presents  a  study  of  country 
schools  and  country  boys  and  girls  in  "  The  Little  Red 
Schoolhouse  "  (Roberts) .  She  has  done  it  cleverly,  too, 
and  has  given  an  interesting  picture  of  school-boy  pranks 
and  failures  and  successes.  And  there  is  a  touch  of 
school-boy  devotion  and  self-sacrifice  and  heroism.  The 
points  are  occasionally  strained,  but  they  have  some 
human  nature  in  them,  nevertheless.  The  pictures  are 
wooden. 

It  is  hardly  possible  to  do  much  more  than  enumerate 
the  remaining  girls'  books  upon  our  table.  "  Sue  Orcutt " 


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cutt"  (Wilde),  by  Mrs.  Charlotte  M.  Vaile,  is  a  sequel 
to  "  The  Orcutt  Girls."  It  carries  Sue  on  through  the 
training  she  had  so  ardently  desired,  and  shows  how, 
after  the  academy  was  left  behind,  she  worked  her  way 
through  college. — "  Queer  Janet  "  (Lee  &  Shepard) 
has  for  its  heroine  a  girl  who  has  the  commoner  fault 
(in  books)  of  being  too  good.  Miss  Grace  Le  Baron  is 

the  author "  Rich  Enough  "  (Roberts),  by  Miss  Leigh 

Webster,  is  a  story  for  older  girls.  Its  theme  is  found 
in  the  removal  to  the  country  of  a  family  which  is  too 
poor  to  maintain  its  social  position  in  town.  The  change 
proves  fortunate,  and  everything  winds  up  in  happiness. 
—  In  "  Wanolasset,  The  Little-One- Who-Laughs  " 
(Roberts),  Miss  A.  G.  Plympton  goes  back  to  Puritan 
days.  The  story  has  a  sweet  and  gentle  flavor;  it  is 
prettily  written,  and  prettily  illustrated  by  the  author. 
— "A  Girl's  Ordeal"  (Coates),  by  Mrs.  Lucy  C.  Lillie, 
is  of  the  nature  of  a  novel,  and  much  too  sensational  for 
either  young  or  old —  The  "  Hearthstone  Series  "  (Lee 
&  Shepard)  contains  a  story  by  Miss  Sophie  May  called 
"  The  Campion  Diamonds,"  and  one  by  Ellen  H.  Cooley 
called  "  The  Boom  of  a  Western  City." —  Miss  Martha 
Finlay  continues  the  "  Elsie  books  "  (Dodd)  with  "  Elsie 
At  Home";  and  "Penn  Shirley"  adds  "The  Happy 
Six"  to  the  "Silver  Gate  Series"  (Lee  &  Shepard).— 
"  Three  Pretty  Maids  "  (Lippincott),  by  Miss  Amy  E. 
Blanchard,  contains  some  good  illustrations  by  Alice 
Barber  Stephens. — "  A  Lonely  Little  Lady"  (Dodd),  by 
Miss  Dolf  Wyllarde,  is  also  enriched  with  clever  draw- 
ings. But  in  addition  it  is  enriched  too  much  with  fine 

feathers  and  love-making  to  be  wholesome Miss  E. 

Everett-Green  makes  a  contribution  to  girls'  literature 
in  "  Sister  "  (Nelson).  This  too  is  rather  sentimental 

for  young  readers,  and  rather  old  and  complicated A 

pretty,  graceful  tale,  with  a  bit  of  the  negro  element 
in  it,  is  "Little  Homespun"  (Stokes),  by  Ruth  Ogden 
(Mrs.  Charles  W.  Ide).  It  is  a  sequel  to  "Courage," 
which  has  already  achieved  some  popularity. — "  A  Dear 
Little  Girl"  (Jacobs),  written  and  illustrated  by  Miss 
Amy  E.  Blanchard,  is  a  pleasant  little  story  for  pleasant 
little  girls. 

We  hail  it  as  a  healthy  sign  that  so  many  popular 
books  on  outdoor  subjects  are  now  appearing.  Certainly 
one  of  the  best  of  these  is  "Wild  Neighbors  "  (Macmillan), 
by  the  well-known  writer,  Ernest  Ingersoll.  This 
book  consists  of  very  pleasantly  written  sketches  of  such 
common  American  mammals  as  the  woodchuck,  porcu- 
pine, raccoon,  gray  squirrel,  and  skunk,  and  also  chap- 
ters on  the  puma,  the  coyote,  the  badger,  and  on  animal 
intelligence.  The  homelier  the  theme,  the  happier  seems 
to  be  the  author's  vein ;  and  the  masterpiece  of  the  vol- 
ume is  the  chapter  entitled  "  The  Skunk  Calmly  Con- 
sidered," which  is  an  extremely  pleasant  and  interesting 
account  of  that  mephitic  being.  While  his  work  is 
mainly  a  skilful  compilation  from  such  writers  as 
Thoreau,  Burroughs,  Abbott,  and  others,  Mr.  Ingersoll 
yet  records  many  of  his  own  observations  and  conclusions. 
Some  of  these  latter  the  reader  may  well  question,  as 
that  the  gray  squirrel  smells  nuts  hidden  under  several 
feet  of  snow.  The  illustrations  in  this  book  are  not  well 
selected  nor  of  a  high  order  of  merit.  The  numerous 
pictures  of  bones  have  little  meaning  in  a  work  of  this 
kind.  But  the  volume  as  a  whole  is  a  capital  one  for 
boys,  and  for  all  of  larger  growth  who  have  or  should 
have  a  real  interest  in  animals. 

Several  historical  books  must  be  added  to  the  long 
list  given  in  our  last  number.  Miss  Beatrice  Harraden 
contributes  one  called  "  Untold  Tales  of  the  Past " 


(Dodd).  They  are  slight,  forgotten  episodes  which  she 
describes  and  elaborates.  She  does  it  prettily  but  with 
a  certain  air  of  condescension,  writing  down  unnecessa- 
rily to  the  children's  level.  Joan  of  Arc,  Caxton,  Csesar, 
and  Phidias  are  some  of  the  heroes  who  form  the  centres 
of  these  stories,  which  show  them  always  iu  contact 
with  the  young.  There  is  a  tendency  to  sentimentality 
in  the  author's  method.  The  drawings  by  Mr.  H.  R. 
Millar  are  variable,  but  some  of  them  are  excellent.  — 
"The  King's  Story  Book"  (Longmans)  is  constructed 
after  an  entirely  new  pattern  by  Mr.  George  Laurence 
Gomme.  It  contains  a  series  of  historical  studies  deal- 
ing with  English  kings  from  the  Conquest  to  the  reign 
of  William  IV.;  but  these  are  extracted  entirely  from 
romantic  literature.  Shakespeare  furnishes  the  accounts 
of  John,  Henry  IV.,  Prince  Hal,  and  Edward  V.;  Sir 
Walter  Scott  those  of  Henry  II.,  Richard  of  the  Lion 
Heart,  Edward  I.,  James  I.,  Charles  I.,  and  the  Com- 
monwealth; Thackeray  supplies  those  of  Anne  and 
George  IV.;  Dickens  that  of  George  III.;  and  Lord 
Lytton,  Charlotte  Bront^,  and  Leigh  Hunt  are  among 
the  others  drawn  upon.  It  will  readily  be  seen  that  the 
book  is  readable  for  young  and  old.  The  drawings  by 
Harrison  Miller  are  only  tolerable.  —  The  title  of  "  An 
Emperor's  Doom  "  (Nelson),  by  Mr.  Herbert  Hayens, 
refers  to  Maximilian  of  Mexico.  His  is  a  tragic  story, 
but  well  worth  the  telling,  and  the  book  gives  one  some 
idea  of  the  mistakes  that  were  made  and  the  pitif  ulness 
of  it  all.  The  author's  style  is  good,  and  the  story 
moves  swiftly  and  excitedly.  The  cover  and  illustra- 
tions are  excellent.  —  The  same  author  is  responsible  for 
"  Soldiers  of  the  Legion "  (Nelson).  This  too  is  a 
story  of  conspiracy  and  war,  but  the  scene  is  changed  to 
Spain,  and  the  Carlists  are  the  principal  actors.  There 
is  a  briskness  about  Mr.  Hayens's  style  which  will  appeal 

to  boys Mrs.  E.  Everett-Green  writes  of  "  A  Clerk  of 

Oxford "  (Nelson)  and  tells  of  his  adventures  in  the 
Barons'  War.  The  archaic  English  of  the  dialogue  is 
rather  forced,  and  the  style  throughout  the  book  a  little 
heavy,  so  that  the  long  and  complicated  story  is  not 
carried  off  with  spirit. 

America  is  treated  bountifully  this  year,  as  several 
additional  books  will  testify.  "  The  Exploits  of  Myles 
Standish"  (Appleton)  are  narrated  by  Mr.  Henry 
Johnson  (Muirhead  Robertson).  His  material  for  the 
first  thirty-six  years  is  avowedly  imaginary,  but  after 
the  Mayflower  set  sail  the  story  is  based  upon  the  records. 
It  is  vigorously  told,  but  the  author  cannot  make  his 
characters  live.  And  the  description  of  the  famous 
Staudish  courtship  is  stiff  and  unconvincing.  —  The  same 
period,  picturesque  in  contrasts,  in  character  and  cour- 
age, is  treated  in  "  On  Plymouth  Rock "  (Lee  & 
Shepard),  by  Mr.  Samuel  Adams  Drake.  His  is  a  sim- 
ple, straightforward  account,  written  primarily  for 
schools,  of  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  early  Puri- 
tans. The  style  is  good  and  the  little  book  is  interest- 
ing and  valuable.  —  The  Revolution,  however,  is  still  in 
the  lead,  for  the  most  charming  of  these  books  is  "  An 
Unwilling  Maid"  (Houghton),  in  which  Miss  Jeanie 
Gould  Lincoln  tells  a  graceful  story  in  a  graceful  way. 
There  is  something  refreshingly  attractive  about  the 
book,  and  the  characters  have  individuality  and  charm. 
Betty  is  human  and  alive,  and  her  little  sister  Moppet 

is  a  true  child  and  delightful Dr.  Everett  T.  Tomlinson 

contributes  another  book  to  the  story  of  1812.  The 
scene  of  action  in  "Guarding  the  Border"  (Lee  & 
Shepard)  is  largely  the  Great  Lakes,  and  the  author 
gives  an  idea  of  the  task  of  building  a  navy  and  learn- 


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ing  to  make  it  effective.  General  Scott  makes  an  ap- 
pearance in  this  book.  —  Mr.  James  Barnes  also  makes 
another  contribution  to  the  history  of  this  war  in  "  Yan- 
kee Ships  and  Yankee  Sailors "  (Macmillan).  Mr. 
Barnes's  style  is  admirable,  and  the  stories  he  has  taken 
from  history  and  tradition  are  stirring  narratives  of 
valiant  deeds.  Many  of  them  are  of  the  kind  which 
the  new  navy  and  the  new  system  of  warfare  have  made 
impossible,  and  it  is  well  to  preserve  thus  the  memory 
of  them  to  our  boys  and  girls.  The  illustrations  by 
Zogbaum  and  Chapman  are  excellent.  —  Mrs.  Molly 
Elliot  Seawell  also  deals  with  the  water  in  "  Twelve 
Naval  Captains  "  (Scribner).  Her  style  is  more  care- 
less than  were  her  investigations,  for  she  gives  accurate 
and  interesting  biographies  of  the  most  important  of  our 
early  commanders.  The  book  is  illustrated  with  repro- 
ductions of  old  portraits. 

In  taking  up  "  The  Vanished  Yacht  "  (Nelson),  one 
leaves  the  region  of  history,  but  remains  with  the  sea. 
*Mr.  E.  Harcourt  Burrage  has  written  a  spirited  and 
exciting  tale  with  a  most  unusual  plot,  and  he  makes  the 
extraordinary  incidents  seem  real.  Its  theme  is  the 
chase  of  a  yacht  stolen  by  a  Spanish  adventurer,  and 
its  capture  after  many  difficulties  are  surmounted.  The 
illustrations  are  good,  and  the  style  of  the  narrative  is 

well  calculated  to  sustain  interest "  The  Island  of 

Gold  "  (Nelson)  is  another  "  sailor's  yarn,"  written  this 
time  by  Dr.  Gordon  Stables  of  the  Royal  Navy.  It  des- 
cribes many  dangers,  but  always  some  miraculous  release 
from  them.  The  improbabilities  are  rather  too  numer- 
ous even  for  a  boy's  insatiable  appetite,  and  the  men 
and  women  who  figure  in  them  have  no  independent  life. 
A  few  good  illustrations  are  by  Allan  Stewart.  —  Mr. 
S.  R.  Crockett  appears  as  the  narrator  of  "  The  Surpris- 
ing Adventures  of  Sir  Toady  Lion  "  (Stokes),  and  de- 
scribes it  as  "  an  improving  history  for  old  boys,  young 
boys,  good  boys,  bad  boys,  big  boys,  little  boys,  cow-boys, 
and  torn-boys."  The  story  is  charming,  thoroughly 
fresh  and  childish  and  natural,  and  enlivened  with 
a  whimsical,  delightful  humor.  There  is  a  bit  of 
sentiment  in  it,  but  it  is  not  unwholesome  sentiment. 
Mr.  Gordon  Browne's  pictures  are  a  fit  accompaniment, 
for  they  have  character,  too.  —  "  The  Enchanted  Burro  " 
(Way  &  Williams)  and  "  The  King  of  the  Broncos  " 
(Scribner),  both  by  Mr.  Charles  F.  Lummis,  are  not  ex- 
clusively books  for  boys,  yet  they  will  derive  much  instruc- 
tion and  entertainment  from  them.  They  contain  stories 
of  New  Mexico  and  South  America,  countries  too  little 
known  to  our  youth,  written  by  a  man  who  is  familiar 
with  every  foot  of  the  ground.  His  style,  too,  pictur- 
esquely suits  his  subject,  and  reveals  some  of  the  charm 
of  the  Spanish  and  Indian  mixture  of  races.  There  are 
rather  too  many  Spanish  phrases,  with  superfluous  expla- 
nations of  them  in  the  notes,  but  it  is  not  these  which 
gives  us  the  spirit  of  this  strange  civilization.  In  the 
first-mentioned  book  the  pictures  by  Charles  Abel  Corwin 
are  capital,  and  the  very  original  cover  suggests  the 
mystery  of  the  Southwestern  plains. 

It  should  be  possible  to  satisfy  the  most  exacting 
child  from  this  long  list,  for  though  the  struggle  for 
novelty  is  often  too  evident  and  many  fall  by  the  way- 
side, some  of  these  writers  understand  their  world  and 
can  adjust  the  desirable  to  the  acceptable.  Their  books 
will  last  longer  than  the  season,  for  children  are  quick 
to  know  their  friends;  but  one  wonders  where  the  bad 
books  go  to, —  whether  there  is  a  special  heaven  and 
hell  for  the  hundreds  of  volumes  that  die  before  the 
year  is  out. 


LITERARY  NOTES. 

Mr.  W.  R.  Jenkins  has  just  published  "  A  Brief 
Italian  Grammar  with  Exercises,"  the  work  of  Dr. 
Hjalmar  Edgren,  favorably  known  as  the  author  of 
elementary  French  and  Spanish  grammars. 

The  tenth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Economic 
Association  will  be  held  December  29-31,  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio.  Professors  F.  H.  Giddings,  Carroll  D.  Wright, 
Arthur  T.  Hadley,  Richmond  Mayo-Smith,  F.  W.  Taus- 
sig,  and  J.  L.  Laughlin,  and  Secretary  Gage  are  among 
the  speakers  announced. 

Mrs.  Alice  Wellington  Rollins,  a  member  of  the  little 
colony  of  artists  and  literary  folk  who  live  in  Lawrence 
Park,  Bronxville,  a  few  miles  out  of  New  York,  died  on 
the  fifth  of  this  month.  She  was  born  in  Boston  about 
fifty  years  ago,  and  was  well  known  as  a  writer  of  poetry, 
criticism,  and  sketches  of  travel. 

We  have  received  the  first  numbers  of  "  L'Echo  de  la 
Semaine,"  a  weekly  "  revue  litte'raire  et  mondaine  " 
published  in  Boston.  It  is  an  eight-page  sheet,  agree- 
ably diversified  in  contents,  and  promises,  among  other 
things,  to  reprint  M.  Brunetiere's  impressions  of  America 
au  fur  et  a  mesure  qu'elles  paralront, 

The  Central  Division  of  the  Modern  Language  Asso- 
ciation of  America  will  hold  its  third  annual  meeting  at 
the  Northwestern  University,  Evanston,  Illinois,  the 
last  two  days  of  this  year  and  the  first  of  the  next. 
Papers  are  announced  by  many  well-known  philologists, 
among  them  being  Professors  D.  K.  Dodge,  Julius 
Goebel,  C.  F.  McClumpha,  J.  E.  Matzke,  Georg  Hempl, 
J.  T.  Hatfield,  and  Ewald  Fluegel. 

Messrs.  Scott,  Foresman  &  Co.  are  the  publishers  of 
"  Principles  of  Vocal  Expression,"  by  Messrs.  W.  B. 
Chamberlain  and  S.  H.  Clark.  It  is  a  practical  treatise, 
the  outcome  of  classroom  work,  upon  "  the  rhetoric  of 
vocal  expression  "  and  "  mental  technique  and  literary 
interpretation."  The  same  publishers  send  us  Dr.  W.  L. 
Burdick's  "  Topical  Outlines  of  Roman  History,"  a 
small  book  for  preparatory  students. 

A  proposition  to  levy  tribute  upon  authors  and  pub- 
lishers for  the  benefit  of  libraries  wouliseem  too  absurd 
to  be  treated  seriously,  and  yet  we  are  advised  that  a 
bill  for  this  purpose  is  actually  to  be  introduced  into  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States,  the  doubtful  honor  falling 
to  Senator  Perkins  of  California,  in  which  State  the 
movement  appears  to  have  originated.  By  this  bill, 
four  copies  of  "  the  best  edition  "  of  every  copyright 
book  published  in  the  United  States  (in  addition  to  the 
two  copies  required  to  be  sent  to  the  Librarian  of  Con- 
gress) are  to  be  distributed  among  certain  libraries 
designated,  at  San  Francisco,  Denver,  Chicago,  and 
New  Orleans.  Publishers  of  "  every  subsequent  edition  " 
having  "  any  substantial  changes  "  are  to  be  similarly 
mulcted.  It  is  urged,  by  the  Committee  of  California 
Librarians  having  the  plan  in  charge,  that  "  there  is  a 
widespread  feeling  that  copies  of  copyrighted  works 
should  be  available,  so  far  as  possible,  for  general 
reference,"  and  that  this  applies  especially  to  residents 
of  the  Pacific  Coast.  But  why  not  buy  the  books  that 
are  so  much  to  be  desired  ?  Or,  if  they  can  be  got 
without  buying,  simply  by  Act  of  Congress,  why  limit 
the  number  of  involuntary  donations  to  four  copies  ? 
Why  not  make  it  fourteen,  or  forty,  copies,  and  thus 
extend  the  benefits  of  the  act  to  other  deserving  regions 
where  there  is  a  widespread  feeling  that  books  "  should 
be  available  for  general  reference  "  ? 


404 


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[Dec.  16, 


OF  NEW  BOOKS. 

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Forty-six  Years  in  the  Army.     By  Lieutenant-General 

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St.  Francis  of  Assisi:  His  Times,  Life,  and  Work.    By 

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